"Then I'll make this one."
Hua Xiaomai nodded at him and immediately took a piece of beef brisket, thought for a moment, and asked the helper to bring a can of dried fermented black beans and a small bunch of perilla. She then rolled up her sleeves and got to work.
She heated oil with garlic in the wok, quickly seared the whole piece of beef brisket to remove the blood, then started another pot, stir-fried the chili and dried fermented black beans, followed by adding the perilla, and finally, placed the beef brisket back into the pot, sprinkled a little soy sauce, and added clear broth. She only had to wait for the beef brisket to stew until tender before finishing with salt and taking it off the heat. Only at this point, she cut the beef brisket into thumb-sized cubes to serve.
