Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 372 Happy Birthday (☆Night Breeze☆)
"Could it be that I went to war in my dream yesterday, and I didn't sleep well all night." Brother Liu joked with a smile.

Chen Nianxin said that he did not fight a war, but he did go back to ancient times.

And it’s not a big deal to go back to ancient times. I was forced to do at least 300 hours of professional questions and high-level math questions, but fortunately, I haven’t let myself do experiments yet.

"Oh, don't talk about it, I almost passed the exam in my dream yesterday." Chen Nian talked about his unbearable memories.

Brother Liu also nodded in agreement: "Who said no, the thing I didn't like the most at that time was the exam. Every exam was counting down. It's really not the kind of study material, so I didn't go to school after junior high school. , came out to work, now that I think about it, even if I could go to a technical secondary school at that time, it would be great."

As he spoke, he suddenly thought of Chen Nian's academic qualifications, and said enviously, "But Xiao Chen, you are different. The top students in prestigious schools are better than us."

"How strong is it?" Chen Nian waved his hand, "It's not like opening a restaurant now, spending all day in the kitchen fume."

But Brother Liu disagreed with this very much: "What's the point? Just a restaurant like yours doesn't earn more than those college students who go to work? Even small bosses in ordinary companies have less money left in their hands after a year Not necessarily as much as you."

"Let me tell you, don't regret that it took you so long to go to school. No matter what, going to school is better than going out to work early. Others make money five years earlier than you, and you can catch up when you come out and work for two years. If you work for another three to five years, he won't be able to compare with you.

And I often see those who study computer on the Internet, and they earn 30 to [-] a year after graduation, which is very impressive. "

Chen Nian naturally knew that Brother Liu was referring to the programmers who entered the big factories, so he said with a smile: "They all have to pay 996, work overtime every day is very serious, and they are easy to get sick, and they may be fired when they get old. .”

"Work overtime? Then do you think we do this overtime? Get up earlier than them, go to bed later than them, and do more work than them every day, but they are sitting in the office anyway, without the wind and sun, doing all kinds of things. It’s the same in business, it’s not easy to make money, I hope one day everyone doesn’t have to work so hard, everyone can eat food, live in a building, raise children, and see a doctor.” Brother Liu said Then he began to sigh.

"I didn't expect Brother Liu that you still have the world in your heart." Chen Nian said with a smile, "But that is probably impossible, unless the family has money, or just lie flat and pass by. Now that housing prices are so expensive, you have to work hard to buy a house , even if they can’t afford a house, there are still many people who will fight for this goal.”

"Yeah, fortunately I bought a house early, and now this house is too expensive."

The two chatted like this while moving the dishes into the kitchen.

After moving all the things, Brother Liu drove away, while Chen Nian started making breakfast in the shop.

Most of the items that entered Dreamland Middle School this time were dim sum and sour plum soup, but since there were no ingredients prepared in the store, there was no way to make sour plum soup today.

I can only wait until the afternoon to go out and see if I can find a stable, cheap and good supplier.

Because most of the materials used for aging are medicinal, you have to go to a special medicinal material wholesale market to buy them.

If you wholesale for a long time, the price will be cheaper.

There is a market for Chinese herbal medicines in the International Trade City, and there are many merchants in it that specialize in selling them.

"It's really time to come up with some tricks."

When it was past six o'clock, customers came to have breakfast one after another, and everyone in the store also arrived one after another.

Chen Nian thought to himself as he watched the guests eating breakfast outside through the glass in the kitchen.

Although there are tofu nao, fried dough sticks, scallion noodles and soy milk in the store now, some customers still come here to eat with Xiaolongbao, steamed buns or wontons bought from other places.

Of course, when I come here to eat, I will also order some other breakfasts in Honghong Hotel to match.

And if they come with bags, Honghong Hotel will also provide them with bowls, but seeing such a scene every day makes Chen Nian feel a little uncomfortable. Doesn’t this mean letting others earn money? ?
So Chen Nian thought about making some new dishes, first of all, noodles and Chaoshou, which are still very popular in the hearts of CD citizens, and they are all pasta, and he himself has a foundation in this regard.

As for the powder, Chen Nian plans to wait for the next batch to add.

The second is to choose one of several old ones to consider, and add it to the breakfast.

Xiaolongbao

Leek box
Oil cake
Bun
But we still need to ask for everyone's opinions on what vintage to choose, or do a questionnaire survey on the customers who come to the store for breakfast to see their opinions.

With a preliminary direction, then I can practice making noodles every night.

There is a certain difference between small noodles and scallion noodles, mainly because a certain amount of edible alkali needs to be added to the noodles when mixing them.

And in addition to noodles, there are also a variety of toppings.

For example, there are pea toppings, fat sausage toppings, beef toppings, hot and sour chicken offal toppings, fried sauce toppings, etc...

So if you want to do it well, you still need to study carefully.

As for copying hands, it's not that difficult, the toppings can be shared, and mothers can do things like outflanking hands, or there are very few people their age who can't.

More importantly, if small noodles and Chaoshou are made, they can be sold not only in the morning, but also at noon and evening.

After making a good plan, Chen Nian started today's work, but at the same time, he was also full of expectations for the new things to be studied in the evening.

Today's Honghong Hotel is no different from yesterday, the number of people is still so large, and the number of guests queuing outside at noon has remained at around six or seven tables.

The people in the store are still so busy.

The only difference is that the song played in the store has added a red bean rouge goose breast.

But this small change is hardly noticed by anyone, except for those who like it, when they hear this song, they will raise their heads in surprise and sing along softly, but they have not found that this song is Aging is specially added.

In the morning and afternoon, people saw the recruitment notice posted at the door and came in to inquire about the application, but after Chen Nian asked a few questions, he felt that the other party was not suitable, so he suggested that they go to another place to have a look.

Although the recruits were only for vegetable chopping and lotus processing, Chen Nian didn't want to find someone who would do nothing.

Chen Nian can pay enough wages, but the other party must also satisfy Chen Nian in terms of work attitude and ability.

And this time it was not as easy as the previous two times when they brought Xie Yu and He Hai back.

Advertisements have been posted for several days, and there is no one that makes Chen Nian look satisfied.

Chen Nian even wanted to call He Sen several times to ask him if he has been doing undercover investigation recently, and if he is free recently, he can come back to undercover for another month or two.

But in the end, Chen Nian still didn't call.

He was worried that if the other party was inconvenient to answer the phone now, if he called him like this, he might get the other party in dire straits.

"Forget it, let's wait."

After noon, Chen Nian went to the medicinal materials wholesale market to buy medicinal materials. There are many kinds of medicinal materials here, and most of the medicinal materials that Chen Nian needs to buy are some common medicinal materials, so after visiting more than a dozen of them, he confirmed that the quality and price of the medicinal materials of one family are all the same. It was more suitable, so I ordered some first.

On the way back, Chen Nian passed by the dim sum shop, and suddenly remembered his experience in the dream, so he bought a lot of dim sum and went back.

As a result, after returning home, he realized that he had bought too much, and everyone couldn't finish eating.

"Unfortunately, I should buy less next time."

It was almost evening when everyone in the store went home from get off work. Chen Nian took out the flour and the meat that had been thawed before, and planned to try to make a bowl of noodles first.

For the sake of convenience, Chen Nian plans to use the topping of fried sauce to make noodles first, and wait until the noodles are ready for aging before starting to study other toppings.

The first choice of Zhajiang is because Chen Nian still has some experience in making Zhajiang. When he was a child, his favorite food was Zhajiang noodles made by his father. The steps of making Zhajiang are not difficult. Those food stores also have them, so it is the easiest and most convenient to use this.

But just when Chen Nian was about to do it, a figure suddenly appeared at the door. The man had short hair, earrings on his ears, a loose T-shirt and cropped jeans with holes. At first glance, he looked very neutral and handsome. .

Leaf maple.

Chen Nian remembered the other party, the last time the other party came, he asked for a mapo tofu, and he insisted on it at first, but then he couldn't help but asked for a bowl of rice and a bottle of cold beer.

And although the other party looks more neutral, she is a very handsome girl, and she also likes girls.

I didn't expect the other party to come here again.

According to Chen Nian's understanding of these guests, those who usually come out to eat at this hour are either because they have something on their minds or because they are too busy with work.

Or it’s just pure laziness or something else. Basically, when you are hungry at the beginning, you use your body to carry it, and when your body can’t carry it, you use your spirit to carry it. Use your phone to order takeaway.

"Is the boss still open?"

Ye Feng stood at the door poking his head and asked.

Since he is a regular customer, there is no need to refuse directly, so Chen Nian looked at the other party with a smile and said, "It depends on what you eat."

Ye Feng heard that Chen Nian did not explicitly say that it was closed, so he walked in and looked at Chen Nian at the window: "Boss, I actually celebrate my birthday today."

"Birthday?" Chen Nian looked behind him, "Where's your friend?"

"All of my friends have been quarantined, some are volunteers, some are on business trips, and some can't come back. I can only live this year, but it's boring to be at home, so I thought about coming to see Look."

"Okay, what do you want to eat?" Chen Nian shrugged.

"I want a piece of noodles, boss, can you still do it?"

Chen Nian looked at the other party, and then at the flour he had just poured out.

Raise the hands of our flour: "Is this a coincidence? I was just going to make noodles, but what kind of noodles do you want? Longevity noodles?"

"Forget about longevity noodles. I'm still young. Just give me a portion of whatever noodles you were planning to eat. I won't choose."

"Then we can only use mapo tofu noodles." Chen Nian said helplessly.

"Hiss—this is okay?" Ye Feng was a little shocked.

"Haha, just kidding, miscellaneous sauce noodles are okay? Red oil ones."

"Okay, thank you boss." Ye Feng's face burst into a smile, revealing his white teeth, sunny and handsome, Chen Nian thought that if it was a man, the little girls would chase after him like crazy.

But even if the other party is a girl now, it is estimated that there are quite a few people chasing her.
"It's fine, but I wish you a happy birthday." Chen Nian said with blessings.

"thank you boss."

"You're welcome, then find a place to sit first, you may have to wait a little longer, after all, you see I haven't met yet."

"It's okay. Anyway, I don't have much to do when I go back tonight. It's my birthday and I don't want to play games. It's not bad to spend my time waiting for the food."

Watching Ye Feng find a place to sit down, then Chen Nian started meeting again.

About one catty of high-gluten flour, a little salt, and a little edible alkali. After stirring evenly, pour in an appropriate amount of water, first beat it into flour flocs, and then knead it into a dough.

It's just that because the water added in the old age is not much, the dough kneaded at this moment is a little hard, but this is the desired effect of the old age.

After finding the plastic wrap to cover it, you need to wait for about half an hour.

Wait until the dough is fermented, which is the same wake-up noodles as the scallion noodles.

In the remaining half an hour, Chen Nian plans to make some meat fried sauce.

The pork has been taken out of the previous aging, and this piece of pork, which is about seven taels, is thrown into the meat grinder and crushed.

Then turn on the pot and wait for the pot to heat up, pour some soybean oil into it, go in and wait until the oil in the pot is hot, pour all the stirred meat stuffing into the pot, and then start to stir fry.

While frying the diced meat, I shook the pot from time to time, and the tiny diced meat flew up with the inertia, like stars in the sky full of meaty fragrance.

Stirring like this, the aroma of the meat began to slowly come out, and rushed into the nose.

It’s just that there is a difference between fried meat when making fried meat and mapo tofu. You don’t need to fry the fried meat so dry. You just need to wait until the pork has changed color and is broken, and then add the chopped green onion and ginger.

On the one hand, it is to enhance the flavor, and on the other hand, it is also to remove the fishy smell.

And Chen Nian knows that most people don't like to eat green onions and ginger in the dishes, so when cooking, the general chef should cut these two seasoning ingredients relatively large, which is more obvious, so that customers can pick them out, or just cut them The ones are very small, so small that you don't mind even if you eat them in your mouth along with other meat and vegetables.

Among the miscellaneous sauces, the old cut ones are relatively small.

After aging, add appropriate amount of rice wine, Pixian watercress, sweet noodle sauce, dark soy sauce, white pepper, chicken essence, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings to stir fry.

During the stir-frying process, the oil in the meat also slowly precipitated, and these oils gradually mixed with the soybean oil that was put in before, regardless of each other.

At the end of the aging process, put some broth into it, cover the pot and start to simmer slowly.

And when it was brewing, there was nothing to do in the old age, and when I turned around, I saw the dim sum that I hadn't finished before, and thought about it, there seemed to be a small box of cream in the refrigerator.

But this cream was put in a long time ago, and I don't know if it has expired.

Afterwards, the old man took out a box of cream, looked at the production date and then looked at the expiration date.

There is still one month to expire, which means it can still be used.

It is easier to make ready-made cream. Chen Nian found a clean mineral water bottle and poured 1/3 into it, and then began to shake vigorously.

Shaking until the whipped cream inside turned creamy, Chen Nian stopped and found a pair of scissors to cut it open.

I found another square cake and spread it evenly on it.

Because in the dream, Chen Nian was already very handy in making cakes, so Chen Nian quickly made a classic cake.

But it was only at this time that Chen Nian realized that there seemed to be no jam in the store, so he couldn't write.

If you use soy sauce, red rice koji, etc., you can write it, but it makes people resist when you think about it.

Looking around in the kitchen, Chen Nian saw that there seemed to be some fruits in the kitchen, so his heart moved.

After a while, Chen Nian walked out of the kitchen with the birthday cake he had prepared.

There are some fruits on it. The words "Happy Birthday" are carved from watermelon and placed on the cake. The cake as a whole is placed on a white plate. Overall, it is a bit crude, but Ye Feng was shocked when he saw this scene. up.

"This"

Aging puts the cake on the table.

Laughing at each other.

"Happy birthday."

　Happy birthday to Ye Feng~

　　[There is also a friend in the group who was admitted to graduate school. There are six changes in the first and second exams, and I will add it later]

　　
　
(End of this chapter)