The story of a cook

Chapter 114

At the lunch market on the opening day, I prepared [-] sauced pig's trotters and [-] sauced pig's ears, and they were sold out within an hour. I didn't expect it to sell so well.

The old lady asked me to continue cooking in the afternoon, and I said, "Auntie, I have to go shopping."

"I asked the old man to buy it, and you will be picky when you buy it." The old lady said, "The sale is very good. Our family has also sold it before. The sale is not good. We only sell one or two a day. Today I asked The guests said it was delicious."

After speaking, he gave me a thumbs up.In fact, I know that it’s not particularly delicious. The main reason is that it’s just fished out after the sauce is finished, and it’s still steaming. It’s steaming hot, and the color is still attractive maroon. Looking at it, you will have an appetite. Can you not order it? As long as there is the first order, there will be a second one to follow suit, and since it just opened, there are still many customers , sold out in an hour.

In the evening, I sauced another [-] pig’s trotters. This time I added [-] or [-] pig’s ears. Keep the time in mind, just take them out when the guests are served at the dinner table, and set them up. At the beginning, customers ordered, and when I set it up, I sold a lot of them.

On the day of the opening, I can say that my stir-fried vegetables are off to a good start. Not only did the pickles sell well, but also the new stir-fried vegetables sold well. The main reason is that the customers have never eaten it, so even if they try it, they have to try a plate. So they sell a lot, especially fried pollack shreds with spicy cabbage and fried yuba with fungus. They are the best sellers. They are almost a must-order on every table. .

Since I don’t need to prepare these ingredients by myself, there are ready-made ones over there, and I can go to the side to get them when the dishes come. It was okay at first, but then the kitchen manager, Sister Wang, said: “Master Tan, you have to do it yourself Get ready, we have everything ready for you to use."

I said, "It's okay, I will help you prepare in the future, we are all one family, don't divide it so finely."

Sister Wang was a little upset when I said that, and said to me: "You should prepare it yourself, we will use our own."

As soon as I heard this, I became angry and told the front desk directly that the two dishes of fried yuba with fungus and fried pollack with spicy cabbage were no longer for sale.The old lady heard from the waiter that these two dishes were no longer sold, so she came to me and asked what was going on, so I told the old lady about it, and the old lady went to tell Sister Wang that I couldn't understand what she said. They are all in Korean. After a while, the old lady came to me and said: "It's okay, I've finished talking to them, you still use theirs. They see you selling these two dishes, and theirs is "mixing bean curd sticks" And "mixed pollack" and "spicy cabbage" can't sell, I'm angry."

I said: "What is sold is not for sale. The customers can almost eat mixed bean curd sticks, spicy cabbage, and mixed pollack. It's good if we change the way of eating. It's still our specialty. Others don't have it, so we can't learn it. , Really, it pissed me off."

The old lady patted me and said, "Don't be so angry, the restaurant is what I say."

In fact, I am not very angry, but I am a little unwilling to do it. After all, a barbecue restaurant still mainly focuses on barbecue and mixed vegetables. I was too tired, so I didn’t want to do it anymore, so I took advantage of it.

On the day of the opening, I was busy until almost eleven o'clock. I thought I could go home from work. Who knew that the old lady stood at the door of the kitchen and yelled in Korean. Everyone in the kitchen cheered loudly except me. I was a little confused, I didn’t know what was going on, the old man’s younger sister, Cui, saw that I was confused, so she said to me in Chinese: “Master Tan, you didn’t understand, did you?”

I said, "No, it's not that I don't understand, it's that I don't understand at all."

Sister Cui laughed and said, "Just now my sister-in-law said that we will have dinner later, and we will sing after the meal."

I said, "What time is it? We'll have dinner? We'll sing after we're done. We won't be open tomorrow?"

Sister Cui said: "You don't want to sing, how interesting."

I said, "I really don't understand you Koreans, you love singing so much, and you get so excited when you hear it."

Sister Cui said: "We Xian people like to drink and sing, and you can go there later, it's lively and lively."

I said: "The dinner is okay, I'm hungry, I have to eat, I won't go to sing, I have to go home and sleep, tomorrow I have a lot of work here."

A lot of raw materials here are sold out, and I have to come early tomorrow morning to make preparations, so I don’t have the heart to sing with them.

I have to admire the spirit of the Korean people. As long as you drink wine and sing, you don't seem to be tired at all, and then dance, then there is no fatigue at all, and you will be happy.

At dinner, I don't need to cook, but I eat barbecue.When I ate the first piece of meat, I began to admire the skill of the chef who fed the meat. He was the goddaughter of the boss. The original taste of the meat is preserved, that is to say, it has a meaty taste. Once you taste it, you will know that there are no additives like meat tenderizer and food powder in it, and it is directly fed by hand. This is a skill.

Being able to feed meat to this extent can already be called a "master".Sister Jin and Sister Cui of the Rose Hotel can also be fed with meat, but the gap between them and others will appear, and the difference is not at 01:30.I thought that if I had the opportunity in the future, I would definitely learn from others.

The Xian people are really good at drinking, and women can drink it quite well, especially their enthusiasm when drinking, which is really unacceptable for those who have never drank with the Xian people.

The old lady came over with a glass of wine, and I stood up quickly.

The old lady said, "Xiao Tanzi, do you know how much you sell here today?"

I asked, "I don't know, Auntie, how much will it cost?"

The old lady said: "It sold more than 2000, which is more than mixed vegetables. Today you are the champion, and my aunt will drink one with you."

The Xian people are very particular about drinking. The elders drink and the younger should turn their backs to show respect. Sister Jin told me this before.After clinking glasses with the old lady, I turned around and drank it, and then turned around.

The old lady said, "You know etiquette quite well, who did you learn from?"

I said, "Didn't we serve barbecue in our restaurant before, and learned from your fresh vegetable mix masters."

After the old lady left, Miss Wang, the kitchen manager, came over with a glass of wine.She is beer, I am liquor.

Sister Wang said, "Master Tan, I'm a little embarrassed to have a drink with you today."

I said, "It's okay, Miss Wang, just don't blame me, I will obey you from now on."

Sister Wang said: "Don't listen to me, let's discuss it, let's have a glass of wine."

I said: "Sister Wang, you also saw that I just drank a glass of white wine with my aunt, and this time I will just take a sip."

Sister Wang said: "That won't work, we have to do it if we touch each other."

I shook the wine glass in front of Sister Wang and said, "Sister, this is baijiu."

Sister Wang put down the beer, poured a glass of baijiu happily, and said to me, "Master Tan, it's okay this time."

I could only smile wryly and say, "Okay."

I drank a glass of white wine with Sister Wang.

After finishing the drink, the old lady turned to me across the table and said, "Xiao Tanzi, look, we Xian people can drink."

I said, "I can drink it, I have taken it."

After finishing speaking, eat the food quickly, otherwise I will be a little bit overwhelmed by the wine.

This is not over yet, Sister Ma who is mixing vegetables, Sister Cui who is cooking cold noodles, and Sister Jin who is serving food, all came over to drink, and they also changed beer to white wine to have sex with me. In less than an hour, five Drinking a glass of white wine is a catty and a half.Rely on drinking more, or else you have to be knocked down on the spot.

After the opening of Yangchun Barbecue Restaurant, it has become the leader of Korean barbeque on Taishan Road. Many people from far away come here to eat barbeque, and his barbeque is indeed authentic.

At that time, Yangchun Barbecue Restaurant had three specialties: barbecue, sauced pork trotters, and special Korean stir-fry.Later, I reduced the number of stir-fried dishes from thirty to twenty. First, I could concentrate on making high-quality goods, and second, I reduced the reserve of raw materials, which was also an invisible saving.

When opening a restaurant or a restaurant, remember not to make too many recipes and too many dishes. Not only will you not be able to produce high-quality goods, but also because there are too many types of raw materials and too many reserves, there will be a backlog of raw materials, forming a dead corner of raw materials in the refrigerator. In the end, the profit is reduced or even no profit.

Remember: "The thinner the menu, the higher the profit" "The fewer varieties, the more distinctive"

The reason why guests are willing to come to your home is definitely not because of the variety of dishes in your home, but because of the delicious food in your home.

No matter how many dishes you have, there are only a few delicious ones, and the rest are green leaves.Too many green leaves sometimes block the red flowers, so that guests can't see the characteristics of your home.

A restaurant does not make money by selling more vegetables, but only by selling short of raw materials.Selling more vegetables proves more customers, not more money.

After I finish my own preparations in the kitchen, I will go over to help prepare the vegetables.There are a lot of raw materials that need to be prepared for the side dish. Sometimes Sister Wang and Sister Ma are too busy, so I will help prepare it.Usually, I just help clean up ink fountains, squid, or find a small bench, and sit there with a bamboo stick to pick wolfberry.Sister Wang and Sister Ma both stood upright and fast at work, they looked like workers.

Sister Wang is also responsible for the production of several Korean dishes, including "Nine-fold Plate" and "Eight Immortals Stove", and is also responsible for dog meat.Sometimes I also cook dog meat. I am very particular about dog meat. First, soak the cleaned dog meat in clean water overnight. During this period, I have to change the water for the dog meat when I get off work. It will stink and affect the taste of dog meat.Soaking dog meat is mainly to soak the blood water in the dog meat to reduce the fishy smell of dog meat.The soaked dog meat is white and looks very clean.

When cooking dog meat, put it in a pot under cold water, and put a handful of soybeans in it. The soybeans can remove the fishy smell in the dog meat very well and at the same time enhance the fragrance.When cooking dog meat, do not add colored seasonings, such as soy sauce, just use salt.It is better to add a little less high-grade liquor when cooking dog meat.

Dog meat is beneficial to people with weak constitutions, malnutrition, anemia, etc. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, dog meat is sweet and warm in nature, and belongs to the spleen, stomach and kidney meridian. Therefore, eating dog meat has the effect of warming the spleen and stomach, nourishing the kidneys and yang, and boosting energy and blood vessels.It is said that men eat dog meat to strengthen yang, and dog meat has the effect of warming and tonifying kidney yang, but don't eat it every day, because it will have no effect if eaten every day.

To eat dog meat, you have to dip it in dog sauce to taste. The dog sauce is made by the old lady at home, and it can be served directly to the guests.

Sometimes guests want to eat "fried dog skin with sharp pepper" and "fried dog offal". I am responsible for these, and I will fry them.

Every time I eat dog meat, I will think of the dog meat restaurant in front of Fuxin Station, and I will think of Yaru.

Maybe Yaru is married.

If Leng Nian is busy, I will go to help.Help cook cold noodles, boil eggs, and shred cucumbers.Yangchun's cold noodles are delicious, mainly because their cold noodle soup is completely mixed with sugar, without cyclamate. This is why many cold noodle shops can't compare. The price difference between sugar and cyclamate is not 01:30 points, the cost It's much higher.Based on this, I am very impressed with the old lady, she is "managing with integrity".

This is what a restaurant has to do. Genuine materials and honesty are the foundation of a restaurant.

(End of this chapter)