Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 329 Disadvantages
"Boss, is it true that mutton is not for sale?"

Inside the Honghong Hotel, Chen Mingyu asked.

He came to the restaurant shortly after Xiao Jing left. Originally, he planned to come to eat earlier, but who would have thought that he would happen to meet the internal staff meal of Honghong Hotel.

So he saw the fresh fish and sheep on the table at a glance.

He was very sure that he had never eaten this dish before, and he had no news about it before, but when he inquired, he was told that this dish was not for sale.

"It's not for sale. It's what we eat. If you want to eat it, you can check the recipe on the wall. Recently, there's a pickled pork with pickled vegetables and two vegetarian dishes. You probably haven't tried it before." Chen Nian Said.

"Then boss, can I have lunch with you?" Chen Mingyu asked again.

"Let's have lunch together?" Hearing this, Chen Nian didn't know how to reply to the other party, because the staff meal they made at noon every day was just right.

But Chen Mingyu is not the kind of person who can't wink, just when Chen Nian was about to lose face and was about to agree, he quickly added: "How about this, I'll order another pickled vegetable and pork, and two vegetarian dishes , how about we eat together?"

"Hey, Xiaoyu doesn't need it. Come over and eat together. My son will get a pair of chopsticks after serving the meal." At this moment, Feng Honghong said suddenly.

"Auntie, this is not acceptable. We have to reciprocate. If I eat what you eat, I will treat you as an invitation. If I order food, I will treat you. Auntie, give me face."

"Hahaha, you kid will say, let's do it. It just so happens that there are many people who are lively and lively today." Feng Honghong could only agree when she heard this, mainly because it was meaningless to be hypocritical.

Feng Honghong is like this, unwilling to think so much.

There's no point in being constantly pushing and pulling between people.

"Then I'll go cook!" Hearing this, Xie Yu quickly stood up and was about to walk towards the kitchen.

Pickled meat with pickled vegetables is ready-made, just take it out of the pot.

And he can cook those two vegetarian dishes.

Following Xie Yu's cooking, Chen Mingyu also got his wish and sat at the staff meal table of the Red Hotel.

"Boss, does this dish have a name?" Chen Mingyu asked.

"Fish and sheep stew." Chen Nian said, because he glanced at the recipe after finishing it just now, and the completion rate was only 70.00%.

He didn't want to admit that this dish was fresh fish and sheep.

"Stewed? Northeast cuisine?" Chen Mingyu was taken aback for a moment.

"It's hard to say." Chen Nian said ambiguously.

While talking, Chen Nian also began to greet everyone to start using chopsticks.

Speaking of eating staff meals, at the very beginning, no one moved their chopsticks, just waiting for Feng Honghong and Chen Nian to eat first. After all, they felt that eating here should respect the boss here.

But when Chen Nian discovered this strange division, he told everyone that there is no need for such a distance. Mutual respect between people is not based on this. Move the chopsticks and turn the table for the leader.

But Chen Nian felt that this was unnecessary.

So I tell everyone that you can move your chopsticks at any time, don't be restrained, just treat this place like a home.

Originally, their staff meal today was such a pot of fresh fish and sheep, as well as a scrambled egg with chives and dried peppers, but because of Chen Mingyu's addition, there were two more green vegetables and a portion of pickled pork with preserved vegetables.

As Chen Nian greeted everyone to eat, everyone else started to eat, but Chen Nian first set his sights on the stewed fish and sheep.

Although it is only 70.00% now, the aging must also know where the remaining 30.00% is.

First, I served myself a bowl of soup with a piece of mutton and a piece of fish in it.

After the fish is fried, the soup is white, and after a long time of simmering, the texture of the soup becomes slightly thicker, the mutton is also stewed, and the fish is so soft that it is not good after aging. When I pinched it just now, I didn't dare to use too much force, for fear that a little more force would pinch it to pieces.

But there are also disadvantages.

It's just that the mutton in this soup still looks a little big, and it will definitely be a little difficult to eat.

And the stewed fish was too rotten.

Although it was still possible to add up with skill, there were still many pieces of fish that fell off elsewhere.

This is all separated from the fish.

Some tiny fish bones are exposed outside, and the appearance is also a bit worse.

Picking up the soup bowl, a delicious smell came.

He scooped a spoonful of soup on the top layer with a spoon, blew it lightly and put it in his mouth.

In an instant, the mouth of Chen Nian seemed to have turned into a pool of shallow water, with fish swimming in it, and a lamb was jubilant in the water.

The ancients said: The rich cook the sheep and the poor recommend the fish. These two ingredients are very fresh, but the lamb needs to be raised and costs. Basically, all you need to do is put in the time. Chen Nian now finally understands why fresh and why these two species with completely different living environments are combined together.

Although the aging can clearly feel that there are still many flaws and improvements in the taste.

The jumping lamb seemed to have not been bathed, and although the fish was swimming, they seemed listless and listless.

But I have to admit that the taste of fish and mutton blended together at this moment will not make people feel abrupt, but they complement each other in this pot of soup.

Poor cook cooking is subtraction, the more things you add, the worse the taste.

Good cooks cook by adding, and they will use reasonable means to make the dishes delicious.

But top chefs are doing multiplication when cooking. The addition of each ingredient will greatly improve the taste of the food. Often they choose ingredients that are not in abundance, and will not add them if they are not useful.

Originally, after the aging did not find out the clear source of Yuyangxian, he didn't think much about it.

But at this moment, I started to be more curious.

Because this dish is absolutely impossible to create unintentionally, at least it is the kind of level that Kangxi went to Jiangnan, and the chefs in Jiangnan specially researched it to please Kangxi.

But it is a pity that this dish is not the task of the recipe, so Chen Nian has no chance to explore the story behind this dish.

On the whole, the fresh fish and sheep cooked in the old age this time are only family-grade.

It is enough to eat like this at home.

But in order to achieve the perfect standard version of the recipe, it needs to be studied and studied.

After tasting it, Chen Nian looked up, and the others also poured some soup for themselves after eating two mouthfuls of other dishes.

Everyone drank the soup and ate mutton and fish, and they all felt very good:
"Master, I never thought that fish and lamb could be stewed together. If it weren't for this place, I would definitely think that it must be a dark dish. But after tasting it, I realized that the combination of these two ingredients tastes really delicious. It's really good!" He Hai couldn't help saying.

Others basically agree with this view.

But Chen Mingyu had seen the market after all, he could tell that Chen Nian was not very satisfied with this dish, and he also felt that the taste of this dish was a bit off.

"Boss, what do you think?" But he didn't comment hastily, but asked Chen Nian.

But Chen Nian didn't say anything, but looked at Xie Yu: "Xiao Xie, what do you think?"

Xie Yu also drank soup and ate mutton and fish. Although he also noticed something, he didn't know whether he should say it. After all, it was made by his master. The paranoia on the dish, which is almost abnormal and completely different from the usual personality, can't help hesitating: "Master, can I say something?"

"Of course I can say that this is the first time I have made this dish. Although I feel that there are some flaws in it, I made it myself. It is inevitable that there will be some blind spots. Although we are masters and apprentices, the time you practice Longer than me, you can say whatever you want, don’t worry if I can’t accept it, I’ve always been happy when I’ve heard it.”

"Well, I think the fish is too rotten. Although I have been using a low fire, if too much sediment reaches the bottom of the pot, the water will boil up with other residues below, and then float into the fish and mutton. Inside the gap, it tastes a little bit affected, and what’s more, I always feel that although the fish meat doesn’t taste fishy, ​​it was a bit too much in the previous processing.”

"Too much? Is it because the fish is rotten because of overtreatment?"

"I think so." Xie Yu nodded, "But I didn't cook much fish before, and even if I did, I never cooked crucian carp, so I don't know much about it. Those are just my guesses."

"Understood." Chen Nian nodded.

He felt similarly.

It seems that I still have a lot to learn. I have made squirrel mandarin fish before, but the recipes of these two dishes are different. With a layer of shell, the fish itself is not easy to rot.

And when eating, even if there is a little flaw inside, it will not affect the food actually. After all, the crispy shell on the outside is enough to make people ignore the details that even professional cooks can't detect.

But stewing in a pot is different.

The ingredients themselves need to face the high-temperature boiling water directly, just like driving a car into a test wall, the damage received is definitely much less than the damage received by directly ejecting people.

But when others are doing it, it seems that there is no such problem.

"Sure enough, are they still hiding their secrets!" Chen Nian couldn't help thinking in his heart.

But he thought about it, and speaking of it, he didn't seem to know anyone in the chef circle, and the master chefs he knew were not in this world.

After eating a meal, Chen Nian is full of worries.

However, Chen Mingyu and the others ate to their heart's content. There were a few more dishes, and each of them had a round stomach.

Later, Xie Yu felt that eating mutton like this was not tasty enough, so he specially mixed a dish of oil and dipped it in it.

All the dishes on the last table were eaten.

After eating, Chen Mingyu still wanted to pay, but Feng Honghong refused to let him go, and pushed Chen Mingyu out.

After all, it's just a meal.

The other party is a regular customer again, and he also ate all those dishes.

Who would have thought that Chen Mingyu would just stand at the door, point his phone directly at the taste in the store, tap the screen to zoom in, and scan the QR code for payment from a long distance away.

As the WeChat payment arrived, the sound sounded.

Feng Honghongcai came to the door bitterly, "Oh, Xiaoyu, why did you pay the money again?"

"Auntie, you all regard me as a friend. I can't always take advantage of it. During the most difficult period of my life, it was the one-yuan mapo tofu here that supported me." Chen Mingyu swept a road as he spoke. The shared bicycle on the side: "Auntie, I'm going back, there is still work to do when I go back."

Said that he rode a car and left.

Feng Honghong looked at Chen Mingyu's back and sighed.

"this child"

After eating at noon, Chen Nian has been thinking about how to improve this dish.

Although I have a general idea of ​​aging in terms of taste, I still don’t know what to do with aging in the processing of ingredients. The key lies in the aging’s lack of understanding of fish.

Fish dishes are a very large category, and fish are used in all cuisines.

When people describe the abundance of banquets, they will use chicken, duck, fish, pigs, cattle and sheep to summarize, which also shows that the edible range of fish is still very wide.

While thinking about it and looking up information online, a message popped up on Chen Nian's phone.

"The UP master [Miao Miao Wu] you follow has been updated, come and see"

"Miao Miao Wu?"

"That's right! I can ask Miao Miao Wu! Although she is not a chef, she is a gourmet UP owner. Besides gourmet shop exploration, she usually cooks by herself, and the dishes she cooks are particularly difficult. Yes, although Chen Nian has never eaten it, she has watched every video of Chen Nian before. Miao Miaowu has a lot of tools at home, and has processed various ingredients, and the other side also cooks under the influence of Chen Nian. over fish."

Thinking of this, Chen Nian directly found the other party's WeChat and was about to send the other party a WeChat inquiry.

But after thinking about it, I still think it might be more convenient to call directly.

But Chen Nian thought about it again, it is convenient for him to make a call, in case the other party is eating or taking a nap
In the end, Chen Nian decided to send a WeChat message to ask:
"Are you there?"

After posting it, I felt that it was a bit incomprehensible to say so, so I added another sentence: "I encountered some problems when processing the ingredients, do you have time now?"

Not long after, Chen Nian received a reply from the other party.

"Yes, I just finished eating, did I encounter any problems in handling the ingredients?"

But when Chen Nian received the news and was about to continue explaining the problem, the voice call came directly.

"Boss, I didn't expect you to have problems that couldn't be solved in the kitchen?" Miao Miaowu joked as soon as she got on the phone.

"Sister Miao, I'm a newcomer who has just been in this industry for half a year. Isn't it normal to not understand? That's right. I'm cooking fresh fish and sheep, but the ingredients are not processed very well, and I don't know much about fish. Too much, the outer layer of the fish meat is rotten after it is cooked, and it is very broken, so I want to ask you to see if there is any way to solve it."

"Yuyangxian, has your fish been fried?"

"Fried."

"Is that a little fire?"

"It's a small fire."

"Could it be that there is a problem with the location of the fish, and the temperature is different between the top and bottom."

When Chen Nian heard this, he suddenly felt enlightened.

"I don't seem to have considered this yet! I'll try changing my position later!"

"This is one of the factors, but there are other factors besides this, so when you have time, boss, I will go over and have a look, because the phone may not be clear, and this dish I just I’ve heard about it, but I haven’t done it myself, so it’s better to study it together when the time comes.”

　There is a bit of repetition behind, I have no time to finish writing, and I will replace it in about 5 minutes.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)