Food starts with Mapo Tofu

This matter has been put down for the time being, and with the leadership work on the ship, everyone has gradually put this matter down.

After all, the murderer has already been arrested, and the ship is also very sincere, has dealt with a large number of logistics personnel, and sent gifts to every guest.

But there are some things that no one said on the surface, but people will still discuss them behind the scenes, especially people like Chen Nian who already know part of the inside story.

Although I said that there seemed to be something wrong with West, there was nothing wrong with West in the past few days. He was still active on the boat every day, and even brought some dishes from him to Anna every day.

Chen Nian felt that the ship would not attack West, maybe this matter really has nothing to do with West, he is just the next poor boy who likes Anna.

So compared to this matter that seems to be getting clearer, Chen Nian still thinks that the food evaluation after a while is more important.

The evaluation this time is based on daily performance. Whoever usually cooks dishes that are liked by the guests can keep their own dishes, otherwise they will have to replace them all.

Most of the chefs on board are already used to the previous model. They only need to cook those few dishes from beginning to end. Naturally, they don’t want to make a fuss, and whose dishes can be ranked in the top ten can fully demonstrate their skills. superb.

More importantly, this honor is paid for.

There are bonuses for being selected in the top ten of each selection, and the bonuses range from No.1 to No.10. After landing at the end, each chef will also get points according to the results of each evaluation, and the one with the highest points can also get Extra bonus.

It is both money and honor. The new rules promulgated fully satisfy some people's competitive spirit, and this move is also to prevent chefs from doing badly.

You can get money if you do well, so why not do it?

Seeing that the days are getting closer, Chen Nian doesn't have any other ideas in his mind. Although he also wants to get some of his dishes to get a relatively high ranking, after all, it has to be chosen by the guests. It is useless to think about it.

Just the day before the competition, Tonio said that he had some personal matters today, so he didn't come, so he came to the deck after the work was over.

At this time, there are still tourists in twos and threes on the deck enjoying the night view here.

Chen Nian couldn't help but looked up, there were no clouds in the sky which was very rare today, and in the dark blue night sky, the sky was filled with stars as if the Milky Way was pouring down everywhere.

"Why don't you go back and rest?"

Suddenly Chen Nian heard a voice behind him.

Turning around to see, it was Mr. Huo.

"Mr. Huo." Chen Nian greeted quickly, "I have nothing to do, and the weather is nice today, so I came out to have a look."

Mr. Huo smiled: "Yes, the weather today is really good. It's rare to have such a clear night sky in this season."

As he said that, he looked at Chen Nian again: "I feel that you are different from other people. I feel that your temperament is not like a chef, but more like a scholar."

Chen Nian couldn't help being a little surprised by Mr. Huo's way of looking at people, but he still said very modestly: "Reading can make people wise. I don't think Mr. Huo looks like a chef. He is a teacher who teaches and educates people."

Mr. Huo laughed loudly after hearing this: "Hahahaha, in fact, I wanted to be a teacher before, but after all, people have to eat enough, so I became a chef."

"Will Mr. Huo consider becoming a teacher again in the future?" Chen Nian asked as he followed Mr. Huo's footsteps.

Soon the two came to the railing. Mr. Huo leaned on the railing and looked at the sparkling sea with countless stars: "Actually, I have achieved this goal now. Teachers teach knowledge, and what I teach is knowledge." It’s also knowledge, but mine is on cooking, but I feel it’s actually the same.”

"It is indeed the same." Chen Nian agreed with this statement.

Mr. Teacher is the current teacher. Although the word teacher has been widely used, anyone can be called a teacher, but the teacher that everyone really recognizes is the kind of teacher who preaches and teaches.

But this preaching and teaching can be knowledge such as Chinese, mathematics, chemistry, and physics, or it can be in fields such as car repair, computer repair, and cooking.

Chen Nian wanted to open his mouth to say something more, but at this moment Mr. Huo suddenly said: "Do you want to be my apprentice?"

As soon as these words came out, Chen Nian froze in place for an instant. He never expected that Mr. Huo would say his goal of coming to this ship.

"Am I already this good now?"

"Among so many people, he fell in love with me at a glance, and invited me to be his apprentice?"

Chen Nian can't help being a little proud.

"I think!" Facing such an opportunity, Chen Nian would never miss it.

Unlike some people who might be hypocritical and pretend to say something else, Chen Nian is too lazy to do this, and he is too lazy to say that.

Because I just want to.

Mr. Huo laughed again when he heard this, and Chen Nian found that Mr. Huo seemed to love to laugh.

"But my apprentice can't be done by everyone. I want to see how far you can go. Don't be obsessed with how many places you get in each competition. Just perform well and prepare every dish with your heart. Wait for this voyage When it's over, I'll come back to you."

After speaking, Mr. Huo turned his head and strode back into the hall.

Chen Nian continued to blow the salty sea breeze here, recalling what Mr. Huo said just now.

"He seems to want to accept me as an apprentice, but he didn't accept me completely. He means to see my performance?" Chen Nian thought repeatedly, but Mr. Huo said that he didn't need to be obsessed with the ranking results every time. He said that he would not be too demanding on himself, but it would definitely not work without requirements.

Thinking of the old age here will understand.

Now there are about [-] days left before the end of the voyage, less than three months, not long, passed in the blink of an eye.

As for aging in this world, I don’t mind staying for a longer period of time. After all, I still have to learn Italian from Tonio. Learning a language is not something that can be learned in a short time.

After going back at night, Chen Nian didn't go to bed right away, but continued to lie on the bed and think about things.

I have been on the boat for so long, and I cook the same dishes every day, but I spend my free time learning Italian with Tonio, and I don’t have time to learn new dishes.

This made Chen Nian really uncomfortable.

In reality and later life, Chen Nian can basically learn a new dish every once in a while. Only by constantly making progress, continuous research and exploration can Chen Nian feel the passion.

As it is now, Chen Nian feels that his passion is about to regress.

"It's time to think about some new dishes, but what to learn next..."

Chen Nian thought that now that he is the cook on board, if he wants to apply to wait until the end of work every day to go to the kitchen to do some exercises, it shouldn't be a big problem.

The big deal is that the money for those materials will be deducted from his salary. Anyway, it’s not much use for the money for old age, as long as some money is left to buy daily necessities every time the ship docks.

After much deliberation and aging, I decided to consider Fujian cuisine.

After all, I have never been in contact with Fujian cuisine. Although some Cantonese cuisine and Fujian cuisine have similarities, a cuisine cannot be simply summarized by similarities.

But among Fujian cuisine, there are not many dishes that Chen Nian knows.

Finally, after tossing and turning, Chen Nian finally decided on the next dish he would try to practice.

"Lychee meat."

Because Chen Nian had eaten this dish when he was in school before, the taste of this dish is actually somewhat similar to sweet and sour pork, but it is a bit different.

It's just that I don't know much about how to age it.

And now it has been many years since then, and if I think about some details, Chen Nian can't remember them.

"By the way, isn't Master Huang from Fujian? Although he has never cooked this dish before, as a chef from Fujian, he must know how to cook lychee meat, right? It's like most chefs in the Northeast know how to cook pot-packed meat. Same."

After Chen Nian made up his mind, he got out of bed and prepared to attack Master Huang at night.

When he came to Huang Su's door, he raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Master Huang, are you asleep?"

There was no sound coming from inside, Chen Nian knew that Master Huang was pretending not to hear inside.

Even if I fell asleep, I should wake up. Even if it is a few words of swearing, it means that the other party was indeed sleeping before.

At this moment, Chen Nian heard the sound of something falling to the ground from inside.

At this time, Chen Nian was even more sure that Master Huang hadn't slept.

"Master Huang, I really have something to tell you." Chen Nian knocked on the door again.

Sure enough, the door opened not long after.

It's just that Huang Su only opened a small gap: "Master Chen, what's the matter?"

Chen Nian put his feet under the door calmly to prevent Huang Su from closing the door, but he still showed a big smile on his face and said: "Where is this what Master Huang said, just call me Xiao Chen, you are Elder, I actually came here this time to sit down with you."

"It's so late at night..." Huang Su showed embarrassment and wanted to refuse.

But at this moment, Chen Nian suddenly said: "When we were on the deck just now, Mr. Huo said that he planned to take me in as an apprentice, and he will accept me after this voyage is over."

As soon as these words came out, Huang Su froze on the spot, and his froze also gave Chen Nian a chance to pretend to be careless, leaning against the door and squeezing the door open.

And Chen Nian also took advantage of the opportunity to enter Huang Su's room.

"I thought to myself that the first person I followed when I came to the boat was Master Huang, so I have to share this good news with you anyway." Chen Nian didn't sit on Huang Su's bed, just stood in the room like this Seriously.

Huang Su has already scolded in her heart, thinking what are you showing off here?Are you showing off to me after becoming Master Huo's apprentice?And it's not done yet, if you really wait until after the voyage is over, then you can't ride on my head and shit?
But even though he thought so in his heart, there was still a smile on his face: "Then congratulations to Master Chen, from now on, he will reach the sky in one step and become a great success!"

"Master Huang, you see that you are still being polite to me. You must never dare to call me Master Chen. How can I be worthy of that?" Chen Nian quickly hugged Huang Su with his hands and raised his hand to congratulate him.

Huang Su broke free calmly, he always felt that Chen Nian was like a weasel.

"In that case, Xiao Chen, you should go back and take a good rest. We've finished talking about this. When you really become Mr. Huo's apprentice, I'll give you a red envelope." Huang Su now just wants Chen Nian hurry up, don't be an eyesore in front of yourself.

But just after he finished talking about the red envelope, he wanted to slap himself.

But Chen Nian did not leave, instead he slapped his head as if he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, look at my brain, this time I come here to tell you the good news, and I want to ask you something .”

"What's the matter? I will help if I can."

"Aren't you from Fujian? I think a master like you can cook a lot of dishes. I'm also very interested in Fujian cuisine, and I happen to be a bit craving for sweet things recently, so I want to ask you about lychee meat." way of doing."

When Huang Su heard it, she thought that it was so, this kid really has no good intentions, he came to learn his skills!

Originally, I couldn't get used to this kid, who usually likes to show off so much, but today he pretended to come to him to show off that he was going to be Mr. Huo's apprentice soon, and finally wanted to learn his own craft, how could he agree?
"To tell you the truth, I really don't cook much of this dish... I mainly prefer seafood..." Huang Su said, it was impossible for Chen Nian to get what he wanted.

And seeing Chen Nian being deflated, he was so happy in his heart, the moment he said this sentence, Huang Su felt that he let out a fierce breath of anger!
"Oh, is that so? Then I can only learn from Mr. Huo in the future. I thought that you had brought me before anyway. I learned a few dishes from you. It will be convenient for me to learn from Mr. Huo when the time comes." Finding an excuse to say a few words for you can be regarded as repaying the original kindness. I didn't expect that you are not very good at this dish, so I can only think of other ways in the future..."

Chen Nian sighed and was about to go to the door: "Master Huang, I'm sorry to disturb your rest at night."

As he said that, his hand was already on the doorknob, but when Huang Su heard this, he was shocked on the spot!
"So this kid has such an idea? Could it be that I misunderstood him?"

"But in case he deliberately tricks me..."

"It shouldn't be possible. It's nothing more than a piece of lychee meat. It shouldn't be possible to bring Mr. Huo out to deceive me. You can ask about this thing casually, so...he really wants to stand in front of Mr. Huo for me. How about some nice words?"

Thinking of this, Huang Su felt that he seemed to have said something wrong before, but as an adult, he knew that if he missed this village, he might not have this store in the future.

And looking at the old age, it doesn't seem like he feels that he is making excuses and doesn't want to teach.

"Oh, Xiao Chen, why are you in such a hurry? I only said earlier that I don't cook much lychee meat, and I mainly cook seafood, but I didn't say that I can't cook this dish. If you want to learn I'll just teach you."

When Chen Nian heard this, he finally took off the hand that had been on the doorknob for a long time.

"Sure enough, Xiao Huang's mind is still very simple, isn't it easy to handle?"