Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 489
Since the few of them didn't have any taboos, the four of them ordered a total of five dishes, mapo tofu, rouge goose breast, pot-wrapped pork, boiled pork slices, and boiled dried shredded pork.

This is what they prefer.

Soon after the dishes were served, they began to chat while eating.

And it can be seen that the two of them had a very happy conversation, and there were many topics in common when they chatted.

"By the way, do you know that there will be a music festival in Chengdu soon, and the ticket sales seem to be closing soon?" Xu Qiu asked.

Chen Ke and Xu Chunyan looked at each other: "I don't know, we haven't bothered to understand these things for a while, but if there is a music festival, we must go and have a look, after all, we quite like going here In addition, we basically went to the music festivals held in Chengdu a few years ago, and there were many singers we liked.”

"That's just right, otherwise we'll go together, and we haven't bought tickets yet." Luo Ye said in surprise.

Because although she and Xu Qiu are alumni, they are not majors, and they did not join the same clubs at school, but the first time they met was at the music festival.

At that time, the two of them happened to be next to each other. After the music festival started, everyone was bouncing around there. As a result, one of them was left-handed and the other was right-handed. arrive.

And after this kind of performance ended, it was quite difficult to get a taxi. Xu Qiu drove there for more than 40 minutes and finally stopped an empty taxi, only to see Luo Ye not far away.

For Luo Ye, she also saw this car at the same time, and she waved when Xu Qiu waved, but the taxi finally stopped beside Xu Qiu, which made her a little unwilling, so she ran over to think about it. To theory.

But just before arriving in the taxi, I heard the name of my school.

"Are you from this school too?" Luo Ye asked curiously. After getting an affirmative answer, Luo Ye showed joy and forgot what happened just now, "Then we are alumni, why don't we go together?"

"Okay."

In this way, the two of them got into the taxi and both sat in the back row.

There is still a distance from the venue of the music festival to their school, so they chatted in the car, and the driver also joined the topic.

Open your mouth and ask if you two are playing friends?It's so late and you have to go back to school?Should I go outside and find a hotel or hotel for one night?After all, the opportunity is rare.

When Xu Qiuluo and Ye heard this, their faces blushed immediately, like two fine red buttocks, one on the left and the other on the right.

"No, we are a school, but we just met..." The two quickly explained.

But the driver is someone who has been there. Seeing that the two of them have common hobbies, and they are still in the same school, and that one is handsome and the other is beautiful, he can't help but move his mind.

"So do you guys play with friends? Don't you usually come with your partner when you watch a show?"

"I'm single." Luo Ye said.

"Me too." Xu Qiu followed closely behind.

Hearing this, the driver felt relieved: "I think you are a good match, and you both like to go out to watch performances. You are from the same school, and I think you are a good couple..."

The faces of the two of them were so red from what the driver said, and they didn't know what to say for a while, but the driver hit the iron while it was hot: "Look, it's the two of you taking the car now, and the fare is not cheap. You pay your own way. Then I must add a WeChat account."

Hearing this, Xu Qiu quickly said, "It's fine if I leave, it's fine, anyway, I'm going back alone."

"Look at the young man, how gentlemanly he is." The driver added fire.

In the end, Luo Ye naturally couldn't let the other party out. After all, it was the first time for everyone to meet at this moment. Finally, they added WeChat. After arriving at school, Luo Ye transferred the money. Finally, they started chatting on WeChat again. Together.

So after having such a past, they decided that as long as there is a music festival every year, they will go and see it.

Anyway, the conditions of both of their families are good, and they themselves don't have any problems with extravagance. If they are willing, they can save a lot of money after one semester, and it is enough to go to a music festival.

And they just talked about this again, and happened to meet another like-minded couple. If they go together, they can charter a car to go back to the city together, which will be more convenient and save some money.

"Okay, then let's add a WeChat account. Whether it's buying a ticket or chartering a car, we can contact each other on WeChat. It's also more convenient to transfer money no matter who charters the car or who buys the ticket."

"no problem."

So far, the relationship between the two couples has taken a step further.

It is also quite happy to eat.

After eating like this, they counted the money, and A and A finally transferred the money on both sides, and then parted ways at the entrance of the restaurant.

Of course, Chen Nian didn't know this in the kitchen. After all, it was so noisy outside that he couldn't hear what everyone was talking about. He could only guess the conversation and relationship between them in his heart by looking at the expressions on each other's faces.

Sometimes leaders and subordinates, friends and friends, families or couples show differences.

In this way, time passed by every minute and every second, customers kept coming in and leaving, and the dishes on the table changed one after another.

The guests also turned over one after another.

It wasn't until the evening when people had left that the Honghong Hotel didn't finish work.

Today's customers are less than before, and there are no people around 09:30.

Therefore, they were not in a hurry to leave, but first sat outside to rest, chatted for a while, and planned to go back to clean up the kitchen and the outside after a while.

"Oh, there are more and more people in our store now. It's a good thing we just recruited a girl some time ago. Otherwise, we would have been so busy inside and out!" Feng Honghong said, wiping the sweat off her brow.

And Qiao Zhaomei blushed slightly after being praised like this: "It's nothing, I just did some things that I was supposed to do."

"Everyone is better than me here, and I still have a lot to learn.",
But when everyone chatted for a while and planned to go back to the kitchen to tidy up, Qiao Zhaomei suddenly said, "Boss, I have something to tell you..."

Chen Nian stopped in his tracks and turned his head curiously: "What's the matter?"

And Qiao Zhaomei made up her mind, she clenched her fists and said as if confessing: "Boss, I have been working here for a while, and I have chatted with the two of them, and I can watch them every day in the restaurant." I want to cook with you, so I also want to worship you as my master, I don't know if it is possible..."

Chen Nian was also stunned when he heard this, he had never thought about it before, but at this moment when Qiao Zhaomei said this suddenly, he couldn't help muttering in his heart, how could these people who were originally projected by his master come back one by one He worshiped himself as a teacher, but he looked up at Qiao Zhaomei again, the expression on his face at this moment was so old that he couldn't help but move in his heart.

"Okay, then you will be my apprentice from today, but so far I can't teach you what to do, because the store is indeed a little short of manpower, but you can watch when I am doing it, where is there You can also ask me the question afterward," Chen Nian said.

And Qiao Zhaomei felt very guilty after hearing this: "Okay, thank you Master!"

As he spoke, he planned to kowtow to Chen Nian.

When he was in Guangdong before, his hometown was still very particular about these things. After all, learning from a teacher is just like getting married, and it is a major event in life.

Seeing this, Chen Nian hurriedly stepped forward to support the other party: "What are you doing? No need for this, what time is it now, as long as you have me as a master in your heart, you don't need anything else."

After hearing this, Qiao Zhaomei stopped her figure again, and with Chen Nian's support, she stood up in panic.

"Master, don't worry. When I came here, I applied for Dahe, and I will definitely do this again in the future. You don't have to be a cook in the kitchen. I think Dahe is very good, and I am also very good at it." I like this job, but I can also learn from it when you are cooking."

Qiao Zhaomei has her own thoughts in her heart, and he also has a very clear positioning and understanding of himself.

Chen Nian couldn't help but nodded when he heard this: "Alright then, let's go back and tell them about it."

So the two went back and talked about the matter of accepting apprentices again, and everyone's faces showed joy, especially Xie Yu and He Hai, who had another junior brother.

For Feng Honghong, they are willing to worship their son as their master, which means at least they will not leave in a short time.

Otherwise, she was really worried that the applicants would leave after working for a while before recruiting new ones. On the one hand, they would have to re-acquaint themselves with and re-train.

On the other hand, the loss between them is not small, after all, one more person can do one more person's work.

If one person is missing, although the hotel can be transferred, it will be much more busy, and the same result may not be achieved in the end.

"That's good, learn more from him, whether you go back to open a shop by yourself in the future, or something else, at least you can learn something and go back.

Don’t stay here for a while. When you leave, you will still be the same as when you first came. You haven’t learned anything new. The most important purpose of coming out to work is to make money, the second is to learn things, and the third is to meet people and make friends. "Feng Honghong said.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

This is a very realistic thing, and what Feng Honghong said is quite thorough.

The mother and son of the owner of the Honghong Hotel have never painted big cakes for others, they will do what they say, and they will not tell people some silly things, just like Feng Honghong just now, very In fact, what to say.

Similarly, they didn't feel that they had to stay after working here. After all, everyone has their own ideas and pursuits.

Sometimes people can't stay if they want to leave, all they have to do is to let everyone stay here as long as possible.

Finally, everyone left happily.

"Goodbye Yueyue, remember to come and see brother next time after rest." Chen Nian waved to Yueyue and said.

"Bye!" Yueyue also raised her hand and waved.

She also had a very happy stay in the store today. The brothers and aunts in the store are very nice, and anyone who sees them will tease her.

Although everyone is busy and doesn't have much time to play with her, Yueyue can still feel that everyone will cast their gazes over from time to time.

After everyone left, Chen Nian returned to the kitchen.

At the moment the kitchen and the outside have been tidied up, and Chen Nian doesn't plan to rush back because he wants to try to use the current kitchen utensils to cook meat in the evening.

If you can achieve 100%, take it out and put it in the menu.

The main ingredient used to make Bazirou is pork belly. The production of Bazirou has certain similarities with braised pork, but the most obvious difference is that the braised pork should be cut into squares. The sub-meat is to be cut into slices.

Moreover, strictly speaking, the meat should be called five-spice meat. Although spices are added in it, the taste of the spices will not be particularly strong after it is made, but it will play a certain role in enhancing the flavor. Or to highlight the aroma of the meat itself.

The ingredients needed for this dish are currently available in the store.

The meat to be used in the meat is pork belly, but it must be skinned and not too fat.

In addition to meat, other supplementary materials include tofu, eggs, and gluten. Tofu uses brine tofu from the north, while eggs use boiled eggs that have been peeled off their shells. Gluten is the kind of gluten used in hot pot.

Although gluten can be made by yourself, it takes more time to do so, so Chen Nian bought some at a nearby vegetable store in the afternoon.

Although the price is a bit more expensive, the dishes in this kind of vegetable shop are usually quite fresh, and you don't have to travel so far.

In addition to these main and auxiliary materials, there are also seasonings needed to make this dish, green onions and ginger are naturally essential.

But in addition to these two, there are cloves, cumin, pepper, star anise, cinnamon, angelica, fragrant leaves, tangerine peel, ginger, and grass fruit.

After all, it is a restaurant, so all kinds of spices are prepared. At that time, Master Sun said that if ordinary people make it at home, the first five ingredients are actually enough.

I still remember Master Sun's guidance to me at that time: "Use five spices, you have to remember that this thing is better than too much. If it is not enough, you can add more, but if it is too much, it will make people eat more. Come to think of it, many people will smash the table."

Aging feels like making pot-packed meat in the Northeast. Although the method of each family is not necessarily the same, the premise is that it must be delicious.

If you can't even cook this dish well, then this restaurant will not last long.

And in addition to the materials mentioned above, another very important auxiliary material to be used is dried lotus leaves. As the name suggests, dried lotus leaves are dried lotus leaves.

Originally, when I was thinking about this dish at noon, I was not too worried about the various accessories and seasonings, but I was a little worried that the dried lotus leaves would not be available.

Then he sent a WeChat message to Brother Liu, and after sending it, Brother Liu replied quickly: "Fortunately, you said it in time, I still have a few more here, if you want, I will send it to you, and then It might not be any later.”

Later, after Brother Liu sent the dried lotus leaves, Chen Nian learned that there was a restaurant that used lotus leaves to serve rice made with broth, so Brother Liu could get it.

And the dried lotus leaves are not from Brother Liu's shop, after all, he only sells meat there, and the source is a big brother who has a good relationship with Brother Liu in the vegetable market.

The elder brother usually prepares some dried lotus leaves for sale. Apart from the above-mentioned restaurant that features this, there are also some other snacks that use dried lotus leaves, so Chen Nian is really a problem this time. caught.

After taking it out, wash the dried lotus leaves with water, and then soak them in warm water first.

Dried lotus leaves after soaking will have a fragrant taste.

And according to Master Sun, after eating meat, especially fatty meat, it is easy to get angry and produce phlegm, especially for elderly people.

The role of the lotus leaf is to clear away heat and fire to remove phlegm.

Not only in this dish, people in Jinan also often use lotus leaves to cook porridge, which has many uses.

That is to say, it was only after aging that I realized that lotus leaves can still be used in this way.

Before this, Aging only knew that Guangdong would use lotus leaves to wrap glutinous rice chicken and use lotus leaves to steam rice.

But never thought of stewing meat in a pot.

It's just that although there are lotus leaves this time, there is another cattail grass. I asked Brother Liu, and Brother Liu also helped to ask in the vegetable market, but in the end I still couldn't find it, so the old cattail grass can only be replaced by thread.

"It would be great if I had this." Chen Nian sighed and couldn't help muttering.

Cattail catkins are actually the skin of cattail catkins, and cattail catkins are also very useful in Shandong cuisine. Cattail catkins in milk soup and cattail catkins are very famous in Shandong.

After peeling off the outer skin of the cattail and drying it, it becomes a cattail that binds the flesh. When used, it is the same as the lotus leaf. It only needs to be soaked in warm water to restore its own toughness.

Moreover, cattail grass itself has a special fragrance, and it can even be used as medicine in traditional Chinese medicine.

But now there is really no cattail grass, and there is nothing to do with old age.

After all the ingredients are prepared, Chen Nian is ready to start cutting the meat. Put a piece of good fat and thin but with more lean meat on the chopping board, cut it from the middle with a knife, so that it becomes Two pieces of meat about five centimeters in length and width.

Immediately afterwards, the skin of the meat was turned upwards, and the old knife was cut with a distance of about one centimeter.

Don't cut the meat too thin, otherwise it will be easy to rot during stewing. After all, pork belly is different from hind leg meat. If you cut it thinly, the fat part will be easily broken when cooking, and it will be incomplete at that time. .

So it still needs to be cut thicker.

And this kind of meat also has a special name in Shandong cuisine called the back of the knife, because the back of the kitchen knife in ancient times was very thick, and the cut meat must be as wide as the back of the knife.

And the meat cut out in this way is also called big meat.

So big bowls of drinking and big mouthfuls of meat, the boldness of Lu people is undoubtedly displayed in this dish!
(End of this chapter)