The secret that Ruan Chanchan spoke about was red wine, something that she had long poured into an inconspicuous vessel, such that no one would be able to detect anything wrong with the ingredients inside. The red wine was quite useful when it came to making the fishy smell of seafood disappear.
The reason the young ones were refusing to eat the seafood was due to the fishy smell. If she were to get rid of that fishy smell, everything else would be fine. For the sake of making the dish even better, she decided to take out the clarified sea butter she had rendered while cooking earlier as well.
She picked up the shell pot and then placed it on the raging fire. She waited for the shell pan to get hot and once it started to steam, she poured a generous amount of the seabutter in the shell pan. The butter was half solidified to begin with so when it hit the steaming pot, it melted instantly. The delicious aroma spread across the square like a promise.
