Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 772 The fans are coming (seeking a monthly ticket)

The soup after simmering is thick and thick at the moment, sprinkled evenly on the fish body, making the fish look more radiant, and the bright red soup and color are slightly different, sea pepper, Chaotian Pepper and seven-star pepper are paired with garlic sprouts and scallions, and the color looks distinct at first glance.

And although Chen Nian poured the soup on the fish, the thick part has been left on the petal-by-petal fish that has been modified with a knife.

Therefore, only clear red oil can be seen under the fish plate.

Although the fish has died in the physical sense, in the heart of Chen Nian, the fish did not really live until it became like this.

After it is done, pick out the peppers and scallions, and then put them on the fish one by one.

"Master, what are you doing? Is this dish not finished yet? Do you want to pour some oil on it?" Xie Yu asked curiously as he watched Chen Nian's movements.

Chen Nian raised his head and glanced at his eldest disciple: "The fish is already cooked now, I did this just to put the plate on the plate, there is no other meaning."

Xie Yu suddenly realized and nodded, but after Chen Nian finished setting the plate, he looked left and right and felt that it was not very good.

But he couldn't say exactly what it was like, "Sister Zhao, come and take a look at Master's arrangement."

So he called Qiao Zhaomei, and Qiao Zhaomei took a closer look when she came over.

"Master, to tell you the truth, I don't think your presentation is very good-looking. It's too simple and rude. Although white and red are paired together, and some green garlic sprouts are dotted on the side, the peppers and scallions are very big. , it feels a little awkward to put together."

Qiao Zhaomei said.

"Is there?" Chen Nian looked at the fish. Originally, it was fine if they didn't talk about it, but after Qiao Zhaomei said it, Chen Nian also felt that the more he looked at it, the more awkward it became.It's not that there is any big problem with color matching, the main reason is that it doesn't look good.

Hearing this, Chen Nian couldn't help sighing, and finally changed the style of the plate again.

After it was done, it was served out, and the rest of the dishes were finished by the apprentices. At this stage of aging, there is no need to do everything.

Even if it is placed in other stores, it is still at the level of a master chef.

It didn't take long for them to prepare for dinner, and went to the next door to call their cousin and Gu Cheng over.

Thinking back a few months ago, there were only Chen Nian and his mother eating staff meals in their store, but now there are ten people including my cousin, and there is no room to sit outside, so now they eat staff meals in private rooms every time eat.

Keep the door open during lunch to avoid unexpected guests from outside.

Although it is not business hours if the customers come too early, everyone will come, and generally speaking, those who come early are not willing to wait in line after twelve o'clock, so Chen Nian has to entertain people well, If people are willing to wait, then wait for a while and cook for them after they have finished their lunch. If the guests are unwilling to wait, there is no way.

But no matter what, you must not let the guests come and be unattended.

"I also brought some fruit from home this time during the Chinese New Year. I moved three boxes in total, two of which were at the cake shop, and I brought the other box and put it at the door. I will wait until we finish eating. Eat some fruit." Gu Cheng said.

He has made up his mind, and he feels that there is nothing wrong with working in a cake shop. Although the salary is a bit lower than before, this kind of life is happier.

So during the Chinese New Year period, he also thought about how to pursue Lu Xiao, among which Chen Nian must be the big head, and then the other people in the Red Hotel.

If he can improve the relationship with the people around Lu Xiao, then his chances of success will be much higher.

"Brother Cheng, this is too polite, but I heard from Master that you were a programmer before?" He Hai asked curiously.

Among these people, except for Xiaohua, he was the earliest and the youngest, so he didn't know much about other jobs.

"Yes." Gu Cheng nodded.

"What is the main job of a programmer? Is it writing code every day?" He Hai asked again.

"The main job every day is to write code, but there are also different types of programmers. For example, I do back-end development, but I have worked for such a long time. Now let me adapt to other positions, and I can basically do it." Gu Cheng explained.

"Then what are you mainly developing? Is it the software we use on our mobile phones?" At this time, Qiao Zhaomei couldn't help but feel curious.

"No, we mainly do background programs. Generally, the boss picks up jobs from some government units or schools, and then we develop them. In addition, the official may hold some large-scale activities, which may involve We also do lighting machinery or other things, but it’s more complicated.”

"Forget it, I don't quite understand." He Hai shook his head, "Except for Master, most of us have graduated from high school and stopped studying, and have not yet reached this level. Maybe Master can understand me. Some.

"I don't understand these. After all, the majors are different. If you want to ask me about protein, fat or amino acids, I can tell you. But if you want to ask me about computer development, you might as well go to Baidu."

Chen Nian said with a smile.

But after all, we still have to eat.

Chen Nian looked at the stewed fish dish in the middle.

"Xiao Xie, you have been exposed to this dish before, and I taught you how to make this dish just now, but I forgot to ask you, how much do you know about dry cooking?"

Xie Yu heard that the master was going to test himself again, so after thinking for a while, he finally replied: "Dry cooking is actually the main ingredient after being deep-fried, then adding seasoning ingredients in a pan, and then adding soup to cook. The purpose is to burn the main ingredients over a slow fire so that the soup can enter the main ingredients, and slow evaporation is also a process of collecting juice.

After the water evaporates, the seasoning inside will fall on top of the main ingredients to make it tasty, and the difference between dry-cooked dishes and braised dishes is that if the finished dishes are made with dry-cooked dishes, generally only soy sauce can be seen. No soup in sight.

The few dry-cooked dishes I know besides the dry-cooked carp on our table today include dry-cooked pickled rabbit and dry-cooked spicy shrimp. When making these dishes, they usually add hot sauce and minced meat to increase Fragrant flavor. "

Chen Nian nodded in satisfaction: "Yes, with your current level, you can become a master chef in some restaurants."

Xie Yu smiled embarrassedly: "Master, I'm still far behind, and I only know a little about these theoretical knowledge. If I really let me do it, it's still far behind the requirements and standards of our restaurant. Big cut."

While talking, they also started to pick up their chopsticks and start moving.

Aging has a habit, that is, if you make a new dish, you will usually taste how well the new dish is made at the first bite.

The first chopsticks of the old age caught a piece of fish meat. When frying for the first time, the fish skin here was fried golden and crispy, but the crispy skin also softened during the subsequent drying process.

When the chopsticks were inserted into the body of the fish, Chen Nian felt that the fish itself was slightly elastic, and with just a light pick, the fish fell firmly on the chopsticks.

The front of the cut fish is smooth and neat, which is also the characteristic of fresh fish. Otherwise, if the fish is left stale, the meat itself will become cottony, and even after being cooked, it will not be as elastic as it is now.

Since Chen Nian cut directly to the big bone of the fish when changing the knife, the fish meat is now fully flavored.

The taste is mellow and fragrant, with a strong salty and fresh taste, paired with a hint of spiciness, which constantly stimulates the taste buds.

The meat is full of elasticity between chewing, which is also the taste that the unique muscle tissue of fish itself can bring to people.

On the body of fish, there are countless parallel muscle fibers arranged longitudinally, and there is a layer of muscle fiber membrane outside each muscle fiber, and these muscle fibers are connected by connective tissue and muscle membrane, and combine with each other to form muscle fiber bundles.

It is precisely because of this particularity that fish can be loved by everyone at all times and in all over the world.

Isn't eating fish just eating a tender fish?
No matter whether it is dry-roasted, braised in soy sauce, or even steamed, there are ways to add seasoning, and the original taste of the fish itself is quite good without seasoning.

"Well, this carp has a shortcoming that it has too many spines."

Chen Nian complained while spitting.

As he said that, he also looked up at Qiao Zhaomei. Sure enough, Qiao Zhaomei was able to pick out the thorns flexibly while eating fish as he said before.

Such a practical skill has attracted everyone's envy.

But this kind of thing is not envious. Even if Qiao Zhaomei tried to teach everyone how to do it, they found that their tongue and mouth did not seem to cooperate very well.

So they quickly gave up.

In the end, only the sound of cooking rice was left on the table.

And at a certain moment, the sound of chopsticks colliding sounded one after another. Everyone was holding a bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other hand, pulling rice into their mouths.

Because now there is only 1/3 of the fish left, so eat it slowly after a while, let alone the fish, it is estimated that even the soup will be gone.

Even though there is a lot of oil in the soup below, the ingredients on the top have inevitably fallen on the plate from the gap between the fish and meat knives when the meat is eaten.

"I've finished the first bowl, I'll serve the rice first, who else do you want?"

In the end, Qiao Zhaomei saved a lot of time by relying on her extraordinary skill of eating fish and spitting spines, so he was the first one to finish eating the rice.

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Nian also raised his own bowl: "Give me another bowl."

While the others hadn't finished eating at this time, they shook their heads one by one while working hard to cook.

After eating for about half an hour, the dishes on the table have basically bottomed out. After all, they are chefs themselves, and they also know how much each person eats, so they always control the amount when cooking. Make sure everyone eats.

Even if there is a little left at the end, everyone can share it and eat it.

Chen Nian drank the last sip of sour plum soup, touched his round belly, and let out a long breath.

"Are you full? There is still a lot of rice. If you are not full, I will cook two more dishes for you."

"I'm full." Everyone said.

"That's fine. When you're full, it's time to start working."

Speaking of Chen Nian, he got up and walked out of the private room. Aunt Wen and mother will naturally clean up here later.

It's just that as soon as Chen Nian walked out of the private room, guests came to the door.

……

Song Xiaoya, as the president of An Hongdou Fan Support Club, has also participated in some activities of Hongdou before, including An Hongdou's music festival and local evening parties.

But because she still has a job, every time she goes to participate, she asks for leave. Basically, she has to go back the next day after participating in the same day. Although the cost is not small, for a star chasing girl like her But never tired of it.

In her opinion, this is her own hobby. Spending money on going to the city where An Hongdou is located is essentially the same as playing games to buy skins or krypton gold to draw cards.

Besides, Song Xiaoya also has Chen Nian and An Hongdou's WeChat accounts. Every time An Hongdou attends an event, she will have some free tickets. In addition to asking Chen Nian if she has time to go, she will also ask Song Xiaoya if she has time to come , if she had, she would keep the ticket for Song Xiaoya.

Song Xiaoya had been to Chengdu twice before, but she didn't have time to play, but this time she resigned from her job and came out to play, on the one hand because she knew that An Hongdou was going to settle in Chengdu now, on the other hand because Chen The restaurant opened in [-] is here.

So she wants to come to check in.

It's just that this time she came alone, because her best friend has been busy with the company recently and couldn't ask for leave.

The plane arrived in the morning and arrived in the morning. After arriving, she took the subway to the vicinity, put her luggage in the hotel that had been booked before, then put on makeup, changed her clothes, and walked directly to the navigation. It took about 10 minutes to arrive at Honghong Hotel.

Outside, she saw that the store was empty, and after entering the door, she just saw Chen Nian coming out of a room wiping his mouth.

Isn't this brother-in-law?

Song Xiaoya's eyes lit up, and then she asked cautiously, "Hello, is the business open now?"

Chen Nian also saw the other party, and he was very familiar with Song Xiaoya, because they had added WeChat before, and sometimes Chen Nian could see the other party's updates when he looked at Moments.

And when they called Hongdou at night, they also talked about Song Xiaoya. They always thought that Song Xiaoya was quite good, and even An Hongdou thought about whether to pay Song Xiaoya some salary.

After all, every time I have an event, I will send a midnight snack, and after busy work, I will pay out of my own pocket to make some support materials, such as the lights and banners they will hold at the music festival.

So Chen Nian also recognized the other party at a glance: "It's you, it's open now, find a place to sit first, I'll get the menu, see what you want to eat."

(End of this chapter)