First, use 65℃ warm water to start kneading the dough.
After kneading the dough, knead for 10 minutes, let it rest for 10 minutes, then knead for another 10 minutes, and let it rest for another 10 minutes. Repeat this process 4 times!
After that, it's time to roll the noodles!
Yes, it's rolling, not cutting the noodles with a knife.
Sosuke kept rolling, rolling until rope-thick noodles appeared, then coiling them circle by circle into a round plate, brushing them with oil, covering them with a damp cloth, and letting them rest for about half an hour.
Just making the continuous noodles consumed quite a long time.
Therefore, to prevent Gin Dojima and the others from feeling bored, Sosuke took out chilled fruit wine and let them drink to their heart's content!
...
Upon tasting.
There wasn't a strong alcoholic taste.
Instead, the fruity aroma of green plum was very fresh, refreshing to drink, with a sweet aftertaste.
That state of "mildly tipsy, slightly drunk but not harmful" was just right for a woman like Hinata-ko, who isn't good at drinking, without going to her head.
"The taste is good. It's a high-quality green plum wine."
Shinomiya exhaled a mouthful of wine-scented air and praised.
"Shinomiya, are you planning to open a branch of SHINO'S restaurant in a downtown area of Japan?"
Putting down his wine glass, Gin Dojima glanced at Shinomiya Kojiro, whose expression was always cold and indifferent, and asked.
"Yes! During the lodging event, I already realized that pioneering new paths in the foreign culinary world might be too early for me."
"At the same time, to rediscover my original intention of running a restaurant, I need to return to the starting point!"
Shinomiya stared at the wine glass in front of him, which still had half a glass of wine left, and couldn't help but recall the French vegetable terrine dish he faced with Tadokoro Megumi.
"You have your life choices."
"As a senior, it's not my place to give you any advice."
"Bringing you to this Izakaya tonight wasn't just to treat you to a meal."
"It's because the Chef's business philosophy is based on customers ordering whatever they want, which is fundamentally different from your idea of standardizing all dishes!"
"So I think his Izakaya might touch you in some ways, and it might make you change."
"After all, even a cup of green plum wine can be brewed with such a lingering and beautiful aftertaste. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to resist being tempted!"
Gin Dojima continued to sip the green plum wine, sighing slightly.
"Senior, I admit he is indeed very skilled."
With just those kneading and rolling techniques, as long as Shinomiya Kojiro wasn't blind, he wouldn't doubt Sosuke's ability.
But he himself was a stubborn "donkey." How could he easily change his mind just by eating a bowl of Ramen at this Izakaya?
...
For a single noodle, what matters most.
Are the skills of stretching and tossing the noodle, as well as the unique secret seasonings and specific subtle flavors.
Swoosh!
Swoosh!
Swoosh!
Just then.
Sosuke finally picked up the noodles he had just rolled to be like hemp ropes.
As his arms continuously twisted, this noodle, like a flexible white snake dancing in mid-air, wildly displayed its graceful figure.
Gradually, the noodle became longer and longer, and thinner and thinner!
With a "plop," the noodle finally fell into the boiling water with lightning speed.
This series of actions directly stunned all the diners present, including Gin Dojima, Shinomiya Kojiro, Hinata-ko, and others.
Only at this moment did they realize:
The so-called Soul Requiem Noodles, it turned out, was just a single noodle.
"A single noodle?"
"He... he fussed for so long, and all he came up with was just one noodle?"
Hinata-ko covered her mouth in surprise, her eyes filled with disbelief.
"Oh? How interesting."
"How long was that noodle just now?"
Beside her, Fuyumi Mizuhara blinked her bright eyes curiously and asked.
"I don't know, it was too fast."
Guan Shou Ping shook his head.
"I thought he was going to make knife-cut noodles, or hollow noodles, or dried noodles, but I never expected him to make the most difficult single noodle."
After a moment of stunned, Gin Dojima's mouth curved slightly, and he couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh!
Any noodle, although different in ingredients, thickness variations, and taste, actually has a similar texture, all requiring chewiness.
Therefore, the quality of a bowl of noodle dish may not be greatly related to the quality of the noodle itself, but rather to the simmering of the broth, the pairing of ingredients, the control of heat, and so on.
However, there are exceptions to everything.
Among all noodle dishes, the one with the highest requirements for noodle quality is the single noodle.
After all, a truly excellent single noodle dish, even without toppings and gravy, is incredibly delicious!
...
Scoop up the noodles.
Then pour on the special lamb noodle soup and a little gravy.
Just like that, 6 servings of Soul Requiem Noodles, all roughly the same size and continuously steaming, were completed.
Under the faint lamplight, the large bowl of pointed noodles in front, glistening with oil and golden light, made one can't help but exclaim when thinking that the entire bowl contained only a single noodle:
This noodle, it is both long and wide.
Just like this bowl, it is both big and round!
At this moment, picking up the ceramic bowl as large as a bamboo hat and examining it closely, Hinata-ko couldn't help but feel very impressed.
"How amazing!"
"In this day and age, there's still such a pure handmade method."
"And noodles like these in the bowl, which look so smooth and resilient, are rare not only in Japan but also in China!"
"Strange!"
"Could the noodle in the bowl be 2 meters long?"
Fuyumi Mizuhara, who was also observing meticulously, kept pondering the length of this noodle.
"It should be more than 2 meters."
"He chose the low-temperature natural proofing method, which takes a bit longer."
"Although it's time-consuming and laborious, this method ensures that the kneaded noodles have a particularly smooth and chewy texture, and they are not easily broken."
"During this process, oil must be continuously applied to the noodles to prevent them from sticking to each other, which greatly tests the chef's skill."
"In other words."
"After so much preparatory work."
"If the noodles only turned out to be 2 meters long, it would seem very illogical!"
After speaking, Gin Dojima lowered his head slightly, intending to roughly estimate the length of the single noodle in the bowl through visual inspection and mental calculation.
"Don't guess anymore, I'll directly announce the answer."
"The length of the noodles in all of your Soul Requiem Noodles is 8 meters!"
Sosuke stepped forward and said.
...
In the culinary world, no one can stipulate that the length of noodles in a bowl must be within a certain range.
And if the flour used is not strong enough, or the kneading method is different, or the production technique is crude, then even if you want to make noodles several meters long, it will be very difficult to achieve.
At the same time, if the noodles are too long.
It can also easily affect the diner's taste experience.
Therefore, limited by various real-world factors, the length of noodles in most noodle dishes generally seen is within 1 meter!
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