Food starts with Mapo Tofu

With the successful conclusion of this competition, it brought a novel experience to the passengers on board, including those tourists who did not get a good ranking and did not complain too much after returning home.

Because this kind of competition itself focuses on participation, and they themselves are not professional, so what they make must be inferior to others.

Chen Nian's composure in this competition was also praised by several other judges, but they had a good impression of Chen Nian itself.

However, to Chen Nian's surprise, at the end of the game, when Chen Nian went to the deck to breathe, he met the old Mr. Qiao Mushi again.

"Young man, you are very good. I have eaten your dishes a few times before, and they are all quite standard."

Hearing the other party's praise, Chen Nian scratched his head and smiled modestly: "Thank you, Mr. Qiao, but I still have a lot to learn."

"It's good for young people to be modest, but in this kind of place where there are foreigners, it's actually nothing to be properly proud. Only when you make them think you're amazing, will they look up to you," Qiao Mushi said.

Chen Nian nodded in agreement: "That's true, but Mr. Qiao, are you also a chef? I feel that your skills are not inferior to these master chefs on our ship."

"That's right, but I haven't done anything for many years." Qiao Mushi nodded.

But Chen Nian continued to ask: "By the way, Mr. Qiao, I heard you said that you came to the United States to find your brother. Is he in San Francisco? Or..."

"He's in San Francisco's Chinatown. I heard that he opened a small restaurant there. It's true if I ask you. His son is the president of the chamber of commerce. If he doesn't want to enjoy his life, he insists on opening some small restaurant. It doesn't make people worry about their age."

Chen Nian was shocked when he heard this.

Chinatown?
Bistro?
Chamber of Commerce president?

Is it possible...

Thinking of this, Chen Nian couldn't calm down. He had guessed this before, but he felt that his guess was impossible. After all, if that was the case, how could there be two selves in the same time and space?

Isn't that messed up?
But now that Mr. Qiao Mushi said this, Chen Nian had to think about that.

"Mr. Qiao, is your elder brother Qiao Heyong?" Chen Nian finally couldn't help asking.

After all, this is one of Chen Nian's masters. If it is really the other party, Chen Nian has to go and see what he says. Even if it is not the same world, Chen Nian can't pretend that he doesn't know anything.

"how do you know?"

Qiao Mushi showed a look of surprise.

Chen Nian was shocked, he didn't expect it to be true!

But if this is the case, will there be another self studying there in this dream?

At this moment, in Chen Nian's mind, the mechanical and emotionless voice of the recipe suddenly came from the long-lost: "This is a parallel time and space, there is no second you, please don't worry."

Chen Nian was taken aback by the appearance of this voice, after all, he hadn't heard this voice for a long time.

But after hearing this explanation, Chen Nian was relieved.

But the world of recipes is messy enough.

Unexpectedly, after going around and going around, he actually returned to this world that he had visited once.

But thinking about it this way, wouldn't it be the time when I was in Kunshan more than 20 years after this point in time?
Wouldn't the next ten years be the time for me to study at Mr. Xie's Double Happiness Hotel?

However, there is some conflict between the time of learning art at Chongqing Double Happiness Hotel and the time of learning art at Chen Mapo Tofu Restaurant.

Maybe this is a parallel world.

Chen Nian can only understand it in this way now.

But in the face of Mr. Qiao Mushi's question, Chen Nian could only explain: "I heard about it on the ship before. After all, this ship often travels between Hong Kong and San Francisco, and there are many Chinese on board, so they have From time to time, it will be discussed like this, saying that the craftsmanship of the restaurant opened by Joe and Mr. Yong in Chinatown is quite good, and some of them will go there to eat once a year after the ship arrives in the United States."

Qiao Mushi nodded, but did not hear any flaws in Chen Nian's words.

"Should I say it or not, my brother's craftsmanship is still very good, much better than mine."

Chen Nian smiled: "No way, your craftsmanship is also very good."

"Young man can really talk, okay, I have to go back, it's windy outside, I just come out to get some breath and relax, you should go back early, don't catch a cold outside."

After speaking, he patted Chen Nian on the shoulder, and walked towards the cabin step by step.

Looking at the back of the other party, Chen Nian couldn't help sighing, no wonder he always felt that this old man was a little familiar before, although he didn't look like him, but the accent sounded more and more like him, it turned out to be his master's younger brother.

And there seemed to be some changes in this parallel time and space. Instead of being an apprentice in the past, Mr. Joe's younger brother came to San Francisco to help.

"Forget it, let's go and sit down after San Francisco, but I don't know if I can meet some acquaintances."

Chen Nian sighed, and returned to his room.

Since he just finished the Yangzhou Fried Rice Competition, Chen Nian didn't go to the kitchen to practice new dishes at night, but read a book in his room.

Sometimes when Tonio comes over, Chen Nian chats with him in Italian.

Now Chen Nian has no problems at all in basic communication in Italian, and even learned some Italian curse words and slang that only natives know from Tonio.

In order to repay the other party, Chen Nian also taught Tonio some swearing dialects from all over China, so that Tonio would not suffer when he quarreled with others in the future.

After all, that's how good friends share with each other.

In the past few days, Chen Nian finished reading all the books that Mr. Huo gave him.

He even took the time to go to Mr. Huo to return the books, and borrow some new ones by the way.

However, Mr. Huo still has some considerations about aging.

After all, sometimes it is another thing to be able to understand after reading it, and another thing to be able to do it even if Chen Nian can come up with some theories.

"Haven't you been learning how to cook Fujian cuisine with Huang Su for more than two months? You will cook a Fujian cuisine in my kitchen tomorrow. You can choose what you want, but I don't want to see those traditional methods, I want To see you make your own stuff, to incorporate everything you've learned from these books."

"it is good."

Chen Nian agreed immediately.

Perhaps this is Mr. Huo's last test for himself. Whether he can satisfy the other party is related to whether he can learn from Mr. Huo to jump over the wall in the future.

If his performance is only average, maybe Master Huo will only regard himself as an ordinary apprentice, and it will be over if he teaches some similar dishes.

After much deliberation, I still plan to make the minced chicken and golden shredded bamboo shoots.

Because this dish is originally a high-end dish, and if it is made according to the traditional method, the appearance of this dish is actually not that high.

Even if it was eaten by the emperor in the past, it is impossible for everyone to buy such a small lump in a restaurant, unless it is a high-end restaurant.

The last time it was aged, this dish had been perfected, but this time even if it needs to be improved to a certain extent, it is no problem for the aged to ask himself.

Because he did learn something from these books.

For example, the arrangement of the plate, such as the matching of colors.

"Have you figured it out yet? What dish do you want? I can have someone prepare the ingredients for you in advance." Mr. Huo asked after a while.

"Think about it, master, I'm going to make minced chicken and golden shredded bamboo shoots, which I only learned recently." Chen Nian said.

After hearing this, Huo Yang was surprised at first, and then quickly reacted, nodded: "Okay, I will ask someone to prepare materials for you, or if you have any additional materials that you want to use, you can also tell me directly .”

"There are no special materials to prepare, Master."

Mr. Huo nodded: "That's okay, I have the ingredients for making minced chicken and golden shredded bamboo shoots here, and there are also soaked dried bamboo shoots. You can use them directly."

Chen Nian couldn't help sighing in his heart, as expected, the master is the master, and everything is prepared.

Then Huo Yang called a waiter from outside the door, and asked him to go downstairs to talk to Master Fu and get a piece of soaked bamboo shoots from him.

In this way, the bubble in Chen Nian's heart burst instantly.

I thought that the master had already figured out that he was going to make this dish, so he prepared it in advance, but he didn't expect that the master was also picking wool from others.

"It's okay, he has a lot of them, and he's the only one on the boat who is using them now, anyway, it's endless, and I don't mind if I take one." Mr. Huo explained.

Not long after, the waiter brought the bamboo shoot from the kitchen on the third floor of the cabin.

And the other old ingredients were also obtained from Mr. Huo's kitchen, so there was no need to go to the warehouse below the deck to pick them up.

"That's great. When I have money, I want to build such a cruise ship. If I don't do anything else, I will specialize in the restaurant, and I also want to build such a kitchen of my own." Chen Nian's envious heart is about to turn black up.

After preparing all the ingredients, Chen Nian began to process them next to each other. Every ingredient was handled very carefully. All the fascia on the chicken breast had to be removed, and there should be no impurities in the fat.

This is an exam, Chen Nian has to work very hard.

On the other hand, Mr. Huo sat on the side in a calm manner, shaking the red wine in his hand with a wine glass, watching Chen Nian cooking here.

Just because it takes a long time to make this dish, Chen Nian also chose to cut the chicken breast with a knife himself.

Two kitchen knives, left and right.

The chicken breast gradually changed from a whole piece to a small piece, and then gradually became minced.

"This master's knife is easy to use, even if you just use the back of the knife, it is much easier."

Mr. Huo's kitchen has far more types of knives than he has in the restaurant below, even more than he has in Honghong Restaurant.

All kinds of knives of different sizes, lengths, and thicknesses are neatly placed on special shelves.

Chen Nian's eyes are so greedy, among all the knives, Chen Nian can't even recognize what each of these knives are for.

But at the moment, these things have nothing to do with aging. The primary goal of aging is to make the dish of minced chicken and golden bamboo shoots.

Still follow the original old steps, in the middle of the process, the old age did not make any tricks.

Just as he was doing it, he had already thought about how to match and embellish it later.

When I made minced chicken by myself, I specially fried egg floss on top to make it perfect, and shredded bamboo shoots under the minced chicken.

In this way, the presentation can already be achieved, but Chen Nian knows that it is definitely not good enough to just make it that way now.

If you want to make a dish into a work of art, you must have both the beauty and the basic three elements of food, which are complete in color, flavor and taste.

So you have to work harder and be more creative.

Just doing it step by step, until the final frying.

Chen Nian was not in a hurry, but put the minced chicken aside for later use.

Because now he is going to do his innovation.

At this time, Chen Nian picked up the egg and loosened the egg in a leisurely manner.

And Mr. Huo also saw this. Although this step made his eyes shine, it was not yet amazing.

Because for a chef of his level, egg pine is not something that can't be done.

But after Chen Nian fried the egg floss, he took it out and put it on a plate. At this time, Mr. Huo suddenly found that the amount of egg floss made by Chen Nian seemed to be a little too much.

If it is just to put the egg pine on top for decoration, there is no need for so much, even as long as 1/8~1/10 of the current amount is enough.

But Chen Nian has no time to care about the puzzled look in Mr. Huo's eyes at this moment, because he has to cook it while it is hot, otherwise the egg will be shaped when it is loose and cool, and it will break when it is pulled, so he started to fiddle with it wearing gloves, Gently pull the silk thread in it.

While pulling, press the middle back slightly.

In this way, the egg pine was gradually made into a disc shape.

It's just that there is a not too deep nest in the middle.

After finally shaping the egg pine, Chen Nian put it aside and let it cool down.

At this time, Chen Nian only went to process the minced chicken, put the minced chicken into the pot and stir fry continuously.

After a while like this, Mr. Huo watched Chen Nian's actions from the sidelines.

"It's almost done." Seeing the current color and state of the minced chicken, Mr. Huo thought in his heart.

At this moment, he saw that Chen Nian suddenly took a few mint leaves from the side and put them into the small nest made with egg pine.

Immediately afterwards, he directly placed the minced chicken that had become an oval shape in the pot on top of the mint leaves.

At this moment, he finally knew what Chen Nian was going to do.

The egg pine made just now is like a bird's nest, and it also serves as a container for minced chicken. The reason why there are a few leaves on it is because the underside of the egg pine is uneven. The texture of the minced chicken itself Soft and tender, it is not a real bird's egg, and the guests will embed minced chicken inside when they cut it with a spoon.

At this time, he stood up again, only to see that Chen Nian had placed the preserved bamboo shoots that had been cut just now under the egg pine, and the color of the dried bamboo shoots was very similar to the color of the branches.

Seeing that Chen Nian was done, Mr. Huo couldn't help applauding.

"Not bad, this idea is quite perfect, and you can even change it to a more artistic name. It seems that your understanding is really high."

Hearing Mr. Huo's praise, Chen Nian couldn't help but smile, this is an idea he just came up with.

But seeing Mr. Huo approaching, Chen Nian also took a thinner spoon and handed it to him.

"Master, use this to taste."