Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 577 Evening Party (seeking monthly ticket)

Although Chen Nian has full confidence in his roasted sea cucumbers with green onions, he is still a little nervous at the moment.

After all, even good students will still feel uneasy after showing their test papers to the teacher.

Mr. Huo held the plate of sea cucumbers that had just been served with green onions, and first looked at the color.

"That's right, the color is not particularly dark. That's how cooking sea cucumbers with scallions is. I've seen many chefs deliberately make the soup darker in order to make the soup thicker and more flavorful. In fact, that's wrong, because since it needs to be colored, Soy sauce must be used, but soy sauce itself has a salty and soy sauce taste.

Simply adding superfluous things just to look delicious will make the dish fail very badly. "

Mr. Huo said.

"What Mr. Huo said is that my master also said the same when he was teaching me. He said that this color is fine, and now it is only in a small plate. If it is in a large plate, the color will look even better. It's pretty." Chen Nian nodded, quoting what Master Sun said back then.

"What's your master's last name?" Mr. Huo asked curiously.

"My surname is Sun, and my name is Sun Fuquan." Chen Nian said honestly.

As a result, Mr. Huo thought about it, but he couldn't figure out who this Sun Fuquan was. In the end, he gave up. After all, there are many chefs in the world, and he may not have to know every one of them.

Moreover, I have been on the ship for several years, so I don't know much about the outside world.

Then he looked at the bright color of the sea cucumber: "What did you add to make the sea cucumber look so shiny?"

"I added scallion, ginger, and pepper oil. I made those in advance."

Mr. Huo nodded again: "That's right, it smells faintly numb, and the scent of pepper is also very important in it. Generally, it's better to use pepper oil when cooking sea cucumbers with scallions."

As he said that, Mr. Huo moved his chopsticks directly to pick up the sea cucumber placed on top of the green onions and the green onions below.

Send it directly and completely into the mouth, and taste it carefully.

As soon as this sea cucumber entered the mouth, Mr. Huo was shocked and amazed.

The peppery smell just mentioned is not obvious in the mouth at the moment, only a faint numb smell, but this also needs to be carefully felt to be tasted.

And this faint numb scent is just the most inconspicuous flavor among them, the main one is the strong scallion fragrance that reverberates in the mouth.

Full and long.

It is not the kind of onion flavor that can be eaten when you eat it, but after swallowing, the onion flavor will disappear.

As the executive chef on the Platinum Star, Mr. Huo's tongue is also quite sensitive, which was the talent he was most proud of back then.

Therefore, he can taste the quality of many foods as soon as he eats them.

And even the way to do it can be guessed completely, so after this mouthful of sea cucumber, Mr. Huo has fully approved of the aging.

"The scallions are steamed, they are very soft and rotten, and have completely lost their own spicy feeling, leaving only the scallions after being burnt. The taste you have adjusted is also very good, and the sea cucumber is very slippery in the mouth. It tastes delicious. It is also very crispy, and it breaks with a light bite, which means that you have done a good job on the heat.

Many people can’t cook sea cucumbers because they can’t master the heat and time. With this dish alone, you are already qualified to be a red-collar chef. When I was watching here just now, your handling of sea cucumbers It's in place, so it doesn't taste like the sea at all now. "

Hearing Mr. Huo's praise, Chen Nian finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that Master Sun didn't teach him in vain.

If Master Sun could also be here, he would be very pleased to hear what a chef like Mr. Huo said.

"No problem, do it well." Mr. Huo patted Chen Nian's shoulder appreciatively, then turned and left.

Although there is still a dish of lion's head with crab noodles that I haven't tasted after the old age, but Mr. Huo feels that it is no longer necessary.

If you can cook sea cucumbers with scallions to such an extent, you will naturally not overturn your car on the lion's head with crab noodles.

In other words, if you can make this dish of roasted sea cucumber with scallions like this, there is no problem at all in making other banquet-level dishes.

And Chen Nian was still a little proud after receiving the praise, but it didn't show it particularly clearly on his face.

On the contrary, after hearing that Mr. Huo had tasted the aged sea cucumber with scallions, the helpers gave such evaluations, and they were all very proud.

But Chen Nian thought about it, and divided up four more portions, and asked the chefs under his command to taste them as well.

As a result, after the four of them tasted it, they were astonished!

Even Makoto Kudo, who has always been proud and arrogant, with the goal of surpassing old age, and has already set a deadline, can't help but be convinced.

Most people will have high respect for the strong.

So Kudo silently pushed back the time beyond the old age for a few more years.

When the sea cucumbers with scallions were almost ready, Chen Nian began to stop.

Now it feels like it’s about time for the guests to enter the venue. If there is not enough portion of roasted sea cucumbers with scallions outside, add more in the middle of the aging process. If they are served all at once, it is inevitable that the taste of the sea cucumbers with scallions at the back will be greatly reduced.

And this kind of cooking is very hot.

At this time, Chen Nian felt that the lion's head was almost done, so he went to the side to wash his hands, dried it, and came to a large pot, opened the lid directly, and immediately the aroma of meat and crab came to his face.

There are crab meat and lion heads inside, which have been boiled like jelly at the moment, shaking tremblingly in the water.

And the big crab roe on top is the finishing touch.

Yellow-orange-orange dotted on the white-pink lion's head, like a yellow gemstone on a girl with creamy skin.

And the cabbage covered on it was already extremely soft and rotten.

Take out the cabbage and arrange for Dylan to cut it, but only use the leaf part, and discard the cabbage below.

"Come on, give me a hand and pass me the small bowl." Chen Nian ordered.

This dish should be served in a small bowl, because the soup has to be filled in addition to the lion's head.

This dish is not only to eat meat but also to drink soup.

First put a small piece of cabbage leaf on the bottom of the bowl, and then lift the lion's head from the pot.

The wobbly lion head looks full of toughness, as agile and lively as a lion shaking its head.

Put the lion's head into the bowl with the crab roe facing up, and put a spoonful of the soup inside into the bowl.

Not much, just enough to soak two-thirds of the lion's head.

"Okay, take it over there."

Chen Nian arranged.

He is not at ease serving this lion head to other people. After all, it has been stewed for two hours. If there is a little carelessness, the lion head will be broken.

Although the requirement for making a lion head is that the lion head will remain in shape after being made, but that is only a relative term.

Otherwise, if you really want to be so strong and maintain elasticity, you have to follow the Chaoshan beef balls.

When Chaoshan beef balls are used to play table tennis, then this large lion head will have to be used to play tennis.

After taking out the lion heads one by one, Chen Nian moved his shoulders.

Then go to get the steamed fish belly.

As mentioned earlier, steamed fish belly is the simplest among these dishes.

The steps from beginning to end are just to put the fish on the plate, then sprinkle the prepared sauce on it, and then steam it directly in the pot.

Moreover, a small steamer is used to make fish belly in old age, so there is no need to even put it on a plate, just take it out of the steamer.

At that time, the drawer after drawer will look different when placed there.

It's just that there are still 4 cages left in the final vintage.

After all, the dishes were not ready just after they were brought out, so they could rest and eat something.

Anyway, according to Mr. Huo's previous plan, Chen Nian made a lot of spares.

They are now digesting it internally, and there is no problem at all.

Chen Nian's assistant chef is here to savor it carefully.

They are more and more admired for aging.

And in the past few days with Chen Nian, they found that Chen Nian was completely different from the character they followed the chef before.

Chen Nian is the kind of person who is not interested in anything other than cooking.

Not to mention pocketing and profiting from it.

Therefore, the more they look at the age, the more pleasing to the eye, because even if the cook gets rich from it, it has nothing to do with their help cooks, and people who usually do this are not so open-minded.

I always feel that my craft will be stolen.

Suspicious every day.

In addition, he has a bad temper, and beats and scolds these helpers at every turn.

Faced with such a situation, the kitchen assistants generally dare not speak out.

But this situation has completely disappeared since the old age.

Chen Nian and the chefs here eat delicious food and rest.

On the other side, Huang Su was extremely busy, and the few dishes he made were somewhat different from Chen Nian's.

So keep busy.

Just now, he also took the time to look at Chen Nian.

After all, for them, Mr. Huo is the one to curry favor with, he is the one who can decide whether they will stay or not.

Although he was far away and couldn't hear what Mr. Huo said to Chen Nian over there, all he saw from Mr. Huo was gentleness and a smile from the beginning to the end.

Even after eating the aged sea cucumber, he just nodded and left.

This reminded him of when Mr. Huo pointed him out.

At that time, Mr. Huo didn't show mercy at all. He dumped the unqualified dishes he made into the trash can and asked him to redo them.

Although Mr. Huo was also pointing at the side during the redo, his expression was not as relaxed as it is now.

"It's really lucky! Mr. Huo's temper is much better now, but it's a pity that I didn't catch up with the good time." Huang Su sighed in her heart, extremely jealous.

Especially when he thinks that Mr. Huo intends to accept Chen Nian as his disciple, it makes him even more uncomfortable.

Until now, he doesn't think that Chen Nian's dishes are better than his own.

After all, in terms of age, Chen Nian's age is not even half of his own, so how could he be better at cooking than a master chef like himself?

Of course, Chen Nian would not take the initiative to bring his own dishes to Huang Su to taste.

The current flavin is just a target for wool for aging.

Anyway, there are still about 80 days before the end of this voyage on the Platinum Star. If I want to learn some Fujian cuisine, I have to find Xiao Huang.

Although Xiao Huang's cooking can only be regarded as a little above average, his theoretical knowledge is still very solid. If he can't do it well, it's just that his basic skills and understanding of cooking are relatively poor.

If I had to describe it, I would just treat work as work.

less love.

But after not resting for a long time, Chen Nian was told that the crab powder lion head and sea cucumber with green onion were almost ready, so they needed to add more.

Crab powder lion head is easy to say, just take it out of the pot, but sea cucumber with green onion still needs to be cooked again.

So Chen Nian started to get busy again.

In this way, I was busy for more than an hour.

McGrady just came to the kitchen and told them that everyone can stop now.

And everyone has 10 minutes to pack themselves up and go outside in the lobby.

Because of tonight's party, one of the important procedures is to announce the results of the previous dish voting.

Chen Nian, who had been prepared for a long time, directly took off his chef's uniform with his assistant chef.

Then, after taking turns to wash themselves on the faucet, under the wide-eyed eyes of everyone, they each took out a set of brand new chef uniforms from the cabinet and put them on properly.

"Can it still be like this? They are too strong, right?" The other chefs didn't expect this kind of operation.

"It's still young people who will come."

But not everyone thinks this way, some people think that what Chen Nian did is superficial.

Isn't it normal for a cook to have oil stains on him?
What are you pretending to be?

What does he mean by that?
Do you want everyone to be dirty when cooking, and only you to be clean?

But Chen Nian doesn't care about these things, even if he is a chef, his image is still important.

At least let others see that you are clean and feel that the dishes you cook are clean.

On the other hand, if the chef's clothes are full of oil stains, one piece is yellow, and the other is yellow, it will be strange for the guests to feel uncomfortable after seeing it.

In the end, the old five walked out of the kitchen cleanly, forming a stark contrast with most of the people.

All the people were led into the hall by the waiter, and then lined up on both sides as if waiting for a military parade.

Of course, Chen Nian is still not used to this form, after all, he has never engaged in such a formal queue since his university military training.

But he can only obey the arrangement.

These blue-collar chefs stood at the back and were closer to the guests watching outside, while the red-collar chefs stood at the front.

Then Chen Nian discovered that those red-collar chefs were also all dressed cleanly.

Apparently it was already prepared.

I also understand that if a chef wants to get in touch with customers, he must maintain his image.

After scanning around, Chen Nian looked at the guests outside again.

As a result, he saw Vivienne at a glance in the crowd.

And Anna was actually standing beside Vivian.

It seems that the two people still know each other.

Anna's face is not as haggard as before, and her complexion is much better.

After noticing Chen Nian's gaze, Anna also waved her hand in this direction.

It's just that the old age is not good and there is no big move, so I can only smile lightly.

"It's estimated that kid Jie Luo is fine, otherwise Anna wouldn't be in the mood to come to this kind of place."

Chen Nian thought to himself.

While Chen Nian was looking around, Mr. Huo appeared from the side of the stage, and then strode onto the stage.

"Ladies and gentlemen, ladiesandgentlemen, tonight's party is about to enter the next stage. We launched a poll earlier to let everyone vote for their favorite dishes. Today all the chefs are here, and we are about to announce this results of the vote."

(End of this chapter)