Chapter 2262: Cat Getan Music Festival (Part 10)

Who knew that after Schiller finished speaking, the Spider-Men had no intention of leaving at all, lingering behind Schiller's chair until Schiller called each of their names, and only then did they sigh and leave dejectedly with their hands hanging down.

Not all Spider-Men came this time; most were those who were more familiar with the Peter from Schiller's universe. They were usually quite distinctive, so they weren't hard to distinguish.

Even so, this was quite amazing patience. Bruce knew that if there were so many Batmen standing in front of Arrogance, he would only collectively call them Batman and tell them to get lost. Of course, they probably wouldn't surround one person at the same time either; that would be a bit too awkward.

More and more dishes were brought up. Today's theme was clearly specialty seafood. It must be mentioned that Cat Getan's food culture is actually quite famous. Even people from Metropolis would say that the best restaurant in Metropolis is in Cat Getan.

In fact, many food critics had risked their lives to come to this city to taste delicious food. The most attractive thing about this place for them is that the food culture among the common people is actually far superior to high-end restaurants.

Perhaps the more miserable people are, the more they can discover various ways of cooking ingredients. The East End is close to the docks. As the poorest place in Cat Getan, seafood was once the only ingredient the poor here could use to fill their stomachs.

"Living off the sea" doesn't just mean that people living by the sea use ingredients from the sea to sustain their survival; it also means they are the best at eating marine life, having far richer seafood cooking experience than inlanders.

Cat Getan is located on the east coast of the United States, and in the northeast, simultaneously affected by the Labrador Cold Current and the North Atlantic Warm Current. As everyone knows, world-famous fishing grounds are at the intersection of ocean currents, and cold-water seafood more affected by cold currents often has a fresher and sweeter taste.

But cold-water seafood also has disadvantages. Because the temperature is too low, they don't grow as fast as warm-water seafood, and they breed slowly. They are often smaller in size and lower in yield, and the larger ones sell for a very high price.

But Cat Getan's seafood doesn't have this trouble. Still the same sentence: the growth of Cat Getan's organisms often doesn't look at the food chain or natural climate. Whether it's the Green or the Red, it doesn't matter; they grow as big as they want.

This has created a unique wonder in the world. The only problem with big, fresh, and sweet cold-water seafood is that eating them requires taking some small risks.

The factors that make them grow so big can of course be called dangerous, but there is no lack of possibility of seafood jumping out of the pot to hit you. Even so, there are still people willing to take the risk to feast, which shows how precious this kind of ingredient is.

But all these dangers are aimed at outsiders. Gothamites have no such trouble, especially the poor in Cat Getan. As the toxin-enriched bodies at the top of the food chain, when seafood enters their stomachs, the toxins come in baring fangs and brandishing claws, and run away crying loudly.

As for being slapped by seafood in the pot, it's not a big deal. If you're not in a hurry, put it back in the pot and stew it for a while; if you're really hungry, blowing it to pieces with a gun also works.

Although Cat Getan's seafood is all big, because of offshore pollution, most fishing boats can only fish in the deep sea. The cost is high and the loss is large, so the ingredients brought back are still very precious. The poor in Cat Getan will try every means to squeeze out every bit of their value.

Like cutting a large piece of meat for sashimi, that's the way the rich in the South District eat. Gothamites like to dry fresh fish into fish jerky. When they want to eat, they use a special grater to shave the fish meat, put it into a grinder to crush it into fish floss, then fry the small fish with internal organs removed until crispy, chop them up, and mix them with egg yolk to make a special seafood egg yolk sauce. Spread the egg yolk sauce on a piece of bread, put the fish floss on another piece of bread, and eat them together.

Of course, there is also the old cliché of rye porridge. Rye is really not a delicious food, and neither is oats, but their price is very low, and their nutritional value is considered relatively rich among staple foods.

Poor-quality rye and oats are really too prickly to the mouth, so they choose to add a little agar when cooking porridge, then fry the fish oil extracted from the fish belly fat with spices and boil it with the porridge, let it cool and solidify, turning it into a special oatmeal fish jelly. It not only avoids the unpleasant texture of rye and oats but is also full of the fragrance of seafood and spices and the fragrance of fat.

Cat Getan's most famous is Cat Getan hot dog. Hot dogs in other places either contain sausages or bacon, but because it's almost impossible to grow pasture, Cat Getan's animal husbandry is a mess. Beef is imported from other places, and by the time it trickles down to the bottom, it becomes expensive and unpalatable.

So people here invented a special hot dog method: hollow out the internal organs of a small cuttlefish. Because it is tubular itself, it is easy to stuff in onions and salmon meat, and then insert a long frozen cheese in the middle to make a unique sausage.

Usually, when not eating, it is frozen. When eating, it is boiled and then fried, and then it can be sandwiched in bread like a normal hot dog, spread with a thick layer of tuna, and sprinkled with some fried onions. One bite has a much richer texture than a sausage hot dog, and the seafood gathers together, with the thick fresh fragrance exploding in the mouth.

Besides these classic local foods that incorporate American elements, the two kings of foreign food in Cat Getan's bottom layer are still Indian food and Chinese food.

French cuisine has too high requirements for ingredients. The best ingredients the poor in the East End can get are the scraps eliminated by high-end restaurants. The completeness and freshness are questionable. There are relatively few French descendants in Cat Getan, and the inheritance of French-style cuisine is not complete enough, so it's good enough to supply high-end restaurants.

Italian cuisine has retained pizza and pasta, but unfortunately, most of the chefs who can make authentic Italian food serve the Twelve Families. These Italian-style foods among the people have basically been changed beyond recognition.

Conversely, the east coast of the United States has always been a popular choice for Chinese and Indian immigrants. There is no other reason; it's mainly because the economy here is developed and money is easy to make.

In this era, almost no one comes here to pursue any dream of freedom. Most people are just here to earn the exchange rate difference. Cat Getan is chaotic, but the black industry is really profitable, so it is also the first choice for many Asian immigrants to work.

Foreign immigrants of course also brought their own food, and didn't care at all about incorporating Cat Getan's local cooking methods, so they also created many unique immigrant delicacies.

A part of Cat Getan's Chinese descendants come from the former Hongmen, which is the Zhigong Party, and a large part comes from Fujian. But no matter where they are from, they are residents of coastal cities and have their own unique techniques for cooking seafood.

They brought the gospel to Cat Getan's slums—all kinds of porridge, noodles, braised food, and mixed vegetables. Stalls appear on every street in the East End, day and night, regardless of the weather.

When the sun just rises, looking down from a higher floor, every wisp of steaming heat rising from a pile of low and messy bungalows in the East End is a totem of victory for Gothamites surviving yesterday. The shouting, with a heavy accent but very loud, is the charge horn for fearlessly surviving today.

The popularity of food brought by the Chinese is also related to the business nature of their restaurants: I come before the sun, I don't leave until the moon, I take orders when criminals kill, and I deliver food when gangs fight.

Day and night, traveling through the stars, they run around in every famous scene in Cat Getan. When the chemical plant explodes, the delivery motorcycle speeds through the fire; when the big ship sinks, the stall owner at the dock just stacks the pots and pans together and puts a towel around his neck.

Their will to survive is even more absurd than this absurd city. They can shoot down giant seagulls and take them home to make soup, or fight with squid monsters and carry a tentacle back to make salt and pepper squid. Many Cat Getan locals have learned a sentence that Chinese bosses always have on their lips: No matter what, people always have to eat.

By comparison, Indian bosses are not so fierce, but their inclusive attitude toward food is even more jaw-dropping. All Indian restaurants in Cat Getan use Cat Getan river water. Even a native Gothamite eating a curry has to gamble on whether they will have diarrhea.

Of course, Indian food has a relatively high recognition in European and American countries, and it is not as worrying in terms of hygiene as it is locally, but they really can stew anything. With enough spices, the main dish of curry is alien-stewed Gundam, and it still tastes fragrant when eaten.

Most Indian restaurants don't deliver and only do dine-in. A row of large basins is placed at the door, all full of curry. You can smell the heavy spice smell from two streets away. This is the best sign to attract customers.

After entering the store, don't ask what kind of curry this is. Take a stainless steel basin, one scoop of red, one scoop of yellow, one scoop of green according to the color, and then scoop two large scoops of rice from the wooden bucket. If the conditions are good, add two fried fish, mix well, and sprinkle some chili powder.

The calories of staple food and spices are enough to perfectly compensate for the consumption brought by heavy physical labor, so it is particularly popular among dock workers. After eating a meal at noon, you can also use a plastic bottle to pack curry, go home and cook some rice and pour it on, which is another delicious meal.

Of course, there are also Turkish food, Belgian food, and some Nordic cuisines here, but either there are only one or two specialty restaurants, or they are expensive, and only well-off families can occasionally eat a meal to satisfy their cravings.

The rich in Cat Getan are also relatively strange. They don't follow the big trend in Europe and America, blindly pursuing the authenticity of certain European cuisines. They prefer local food, with a heavier taste than French and Spanish food, and they never compromise, firmly refusing to eat tasteless food.

This has led to many fusion restaurants in Cat Getan. For over a hundred years, countless excellent chefs have integrated the flavor of Cat Getan local food into various cuisines, and then integrated various cuisines that have common characteristics.

Using their chaotic and genius little brains, they have been unconstrained and exerted extreme imagination, creating some delicacies that can be called stunning in this food desert of the United States.

When dish after dish was brought up, bright in color and strong in aroma, it was as if they had punched people's eyes and noses at the same time.

At this time, the benefits of sitting at separate tables were reflected. The Gothamites at the table began to talk freely about every dish, introducing the ingredients, cooking methods, and flavors.

When everyone at the table had already started preparing to dismantle the curry crab, Bruce finally came back from his daze. He paused and shouted: "Wait, the dishes aren't finished yet." ===== CHAPTER 2263 =====