Food starts with Mapo Tofu

After the words fell, some people's eyes began to shine, and they all wanted to stand out.

And now is undoubtedly the best opportunity. If you can show your skills in front of the head chef, Mr. Huo, if you are favored, then you may have a great career in the future.

When Chen Nian heard these words, he couldn't help raising his head, and then turned to look at Tonio beside him.

Both of them saw confidence and firmness in each other's eyes.

Then they both raised their hands at the same time.

And besides the two of them, there were several helpers who also raised their hands one after another.

Mr. Huo looked, there were five people in total, and then nodded.

"Then you guys do it here now, and whoever does it the best will fill this vacancy."

Hearing this, Chen Nian's eyes sparkled. He thought he would have to wait a long time for the result, but he didn't expect such an opportunity to come in less than a week.

Then the five of them were assigned stoves.

"Now all five of you have to use fish to cook. I don't care what you do, and you can choose the ingredients here, but there is only one requirement, and that is to make it delicious."

After the voice fell, the five nodded at the same time, and then began to go down to get the ingredients they needed.

Chen Nian suddenly had the feeling that he had participated in the chef competition back then, but now he felt that the competition was much smaller than it was then.

There are enough ingredients in the kitchen, so there is no situation where I will be useless if you take it.

To be on the safe side, Chen Nian planned to make a squirrel mandarin fish.

Although this is at sea, there are also mandarin fish on board. After all, every guest can pay a lot of money to come to the boat, so the owner of this boat also carefully collected some ingredients from everywhere.

Among them is mandarin fish.

It's just that the mandarin fish used in old age has always been from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the mandarin fish used on this boat is from Guangdong.

When other people saw that Chen Nian actually took the mandarin fish, they couldn't help showing a playful look for a while, because although the mandarin fish was also specially transported to this ship, compared to some other grouper and sea bream, It's still a bit of a bad thing to say.

And those fish are expensive for a reason.

It is very delicious after a simple processing, so it has a natural advantage.

But this expression only exists on the faces of those gray-collar chefs and some blue-collar chefs.

Soon they started to deal with it, starting with cleaning and killing the fish.

From scratching the scales, Chen Nian has maintained a state of high concentration, which is related to whether he can learn the top Buddha Jumping Wall on this ship.

Soon, the voices of discussions around gradually died down, leaving only the sound of scraping fish scales in the kitchen.

After the fish scales are processed, the internal organs are processed again, and then there is the fishy-smelling black film on the outside of the fish and the fishy film on the inside of the fish.

Just at this point, Mr. Huo and those red-collar chefs, who had been watching by the side, had two people who were unqualified and eliminated.

Because they have never handled that kind of high-grade fish in this kitchen before, so they found that it was completely different from the ones they had done before.

But this is only one aspect of it, and another aspect is because their own level is not very good, even if they are only doing the simplest fish handling, which is the most common apprenticeship level.

But Mr. Huo didn't say anything, just let them do it.

When Chen Nian was working, he didn't look at other people at all, and soon he was the first to clean up the whole fish, and then began to prepare to change the knife.

He is going to make a squirrel mandarin fish.

This dish still has a certain ornamental value, and the taste is also sour and sweet.

Therefore, even if it is placed by chefs from other countries, it is more in line with the other party's taste.

In addition, during the whole production process, he can also show his various basic skills.

So this is the purpose of choosing this fish for this dish.

Otherwise, just take a whole piece of salmon, then cut it and dip it in water to serve a plate of salmon sashimi. Although it won't taste too bad, it won't show anything like that.

In the process of cooking the fish afterwards, the only three people left were Chen Nian, Tonio, and another white chef.

Not long after, one of the two people who were destined to be eliminated had already finished his cooking, but he himself didn't know that his ending had already been determined.

What he cooks is a simple salmon sashimi, but it seems that he also knows that his dish is really simple, so he spends most of his time on the plate.

Soon this dish was brought to Mr. Huo.

"You all have a taste too." Mr. Huo looked at the red-collar chefs.

Those red-collar chefs look at me, I look at you, no one wants to start first, because this dish obviously looks problematic, although I haven’t eaten it yet, I don’t know how the dipping sauce tastes, but just look at it The fish meat was cut in different shapes, and some of them could clearly see that the hand that was holding it when cutting it was too hard, and the fish meat was pressed back down.

"No matter how the food is made, if you don't eat it, you will never know what is wrong with it. You are all chefs, and now you are also a judge..."

After Mr. Huo finished speaking, he took a fork from the tray next to him, picked a piece of fish, dipped it in the seasoning, and put it in his mouth.

And other people can only follow suit when they see this. After all, the head chef has already taken the lead, so how can they watch?

But then everyone's brows twisted into twists.

"Not at all!"

"Too bad to eat!"

"Good ingredients are wasted like this!"

Bad reviews poured in, and some people even started cursing in their native language.

Chen Nian didn't understand a word of the jabbering, but he could probably guess some based on the other person's expression and tone.

"You are not qualified." Finally Mr. Huo said so.

And the chef looked a little discouraged, but in the end he just spread his hands and didn't show too much desire to win.

After all, he also knew that his level was really average, so he came out this time just to try his luck.

Immediately following him was another assistant chef who was directly judged to be unqualified when preparing dishes.

It can be seen that his level is slightly higher than the previous one, and the complexity of processing is also slightly higher.

But it's only a little higher.

After processing the fish, he took off the best part, put a layer of vegetable leaves on the bottom of the plate, then put the raw fish pieces on top, and poured a bowl of sauce on the fish. , and finally put it in the pot to steam.

Fish is relatively easy to cook, and just after the first finisher left, his dishes were brought out.

And after it came out, the fish was divided into several small pieces with a dining knife so that it can be tasted.

This time, the red-collar chefs didn't let Mr. Huo do it first, and they took the initiative to taste the dishes. The main reason was that the dishes looked much more normal, and they were steamed in a serious way, except that they seemed to be cooked at the beginning. Other than a few issues, everything else looks fine.

But when they put this piece of fish into their mouths, they realized that they were really wrong.

First of all, there is too much soy sauce in it, and when there is too much soy sauce, too much salt is added, so the saltiness of this piece of fish can be imagined.

The second is that the taste of the fish is not good. The time of steaming in the pot is too long, causing the fish to lose the tenderness and elasticity it should have, and instead become very old.

"It's simply a failure in failure!"

"Do you have the nerve to raise your hand after doing this?"

"Go down! Go down! Don't be ashamed!"

The contestant was also bombarded.

The third one who did well was another Southeast Asian. Chen Nian didn't know why there were so many Southeast Asians on board.

And Chen Nian always feels that they all look the same.

But this one is obviously more reliable than the first two. He chose to stew the fish. The stewed fish is pretty good just from the smell wafting out of the pot. At least it smells fragrant, and there is no Put something weird.

Mr. Huo and the red-collar chefs couldn't help but nodded after tasting it. They obviously felt that the level of cooking skills was not bad. Although there were some small flaws in the middle of cooking, it would be good to pay attention to these things in the future.

If the last two people can't do it, then this person may be able to get the chance to take the top job.

"You go and wait, and see how the last two people are doing."

As soon as the words came out, the man's face immediately showed joy, and such an answer meant that he had a chance!

And the others couldn't help casting envious glances.

The only ones that are still in production are old and tonio.

When choosing fish, Chen Nian chose mandarin fish and Tonio chose mackerel.

After he chose the mackerel, he also chose the tomato like the old one, but the method is different.

He first marinated the mackerel briefly with black pepper and sea salt for a while, and in the process he chopped the onion, garlic, eucalyptus, and chopped the tomato.

After waiting for a while, the fish was almost marinated, so he put it into the pot and started frying it slowly over low heat.

After frying, take it out and put it aside for later use, then put the chopped onion and garlic into the pot again, and put another small spoon of butter into the pot.

Stir frying slowly, and after the aroma wafted out, he put the tomatoes and salt into the pot again.

At this time, Chen Nian happened to be making paste for the fish, so he took the time to glance over here.

But just by looking at it, he knew how Tonio was going to make this dish, and the purpose of adding salt at this time was also to make the tomato soup come out quickly.

Immediately afterwards, a large amount of red pepper powder and tomato paste were added to it to enhance the taste, and then broth and chickpeas were added to stew.

Just like this, the small fire was slowly simmering, and the little smell soon began to waft in the kitchen.

When the waiting chefs saw this scene, their eyes suddenly lit up.

"This looks very good. Although I haven't eaten it yet, I feel that he is better than the third person, and it is obvious that he has done it before, so he has more experience." One of the red-collar chefs was surprised Said.

"Then it should be him this time, right? It would be a waste for such a person to be a helper here." Another red-collar chef also nodded.

But at this moment, Mr. Huo didn't speak, his eyes were on Chen Nian's body at the moment.

Just now when Chen Nian was modifying the fish body, he already knew what kind of dishes Chen Nian was going to cook. To be honest, he didn't pay too much attention to Chen Nian before, but he didn't expect this to be different from his own. Chefs from the same country would choose to cook this dish.

The difficulty of this dish is not low.

"Mr. Huo... I think this Tonio is very good, how about him?" said the red-collar chef who spoke just now.

Only then did Mr. Huo shake his head: "Wait a minute, I want to see another person."

When Mr. Huo spoke like this, other people couldn't help but focus on Chen Nian.

At this time, Chen Nian had just hung the fish with paste.

The oil in the pot has also been burned to the temperature required for aging.

So Chen Nian directly put the fish into the pot, and with the sound of countless dense bubbles rising from the oil pot, the surface of the pot was also covered with countless tiny bubbles.

After being lowered into the oil pan, the fish body also began to discharge excess water at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the shell gradually hardened and began to change slightly towards golden yellow.

It doesn't take too long to fry the squirrel mandarin fish, just wait until the outer shell becomes crisp and the fish inside is cooked.

After frying the body of the fish, the head and tail are fried again.

After all these are fried, Chen Nian will start to arrange the plate. The fins cut off before can be placed on the body as a tail. The head of the fish is slightly separated and it lies on the plate at an obtuse angle. This is the squirrel's head.

The prickly ash that was fried earlier is now placed in the squirrel's eyes as eyes.

Just in the old age, he was preparing the seasoning for cooking the sauce, and Tonio also added a little light cream to the almost boiled tomato thick paste, stirred it evenly, and directly put the previously fried fish into it.

After 5 minutes, Chen Nian poured the ready-made sauce on the fish, and the orange-red sauce was crystal clear under the light, just like the fur of a real squirrel.

If the previous plate arrangement was still like a dead thing, once the sauce was poured on it, the squirrel on the plate seemed to come alive.

At this time, Tonio finally sprinkled the chopped parsley and black pepper in the pot.

Both sides completed the last step at the same moment.

And when the dishes of the two of them were finished, the No.3 chef who was selected before knew that he was out of the game, because the dishes of these two were more complicated than his own in terms of complexity and appearance. Do too much.

And it happened that these two people had just boarded the boat a few days ago.

"Send all their dishes." Mr. Huo said lightly.

Soon the squirrel mandarin fish and pan-fried mackerel in tomato sauce were served in front of them.

Just from the appearance, the shape of the squirrel mandarin fish is more bluffing, and the pan-fried mackerel in tomato sauce next to it looks equally pleasing to the eye.

Several people looked at each other, and then stretched out their chopsticks in unison.