The story of a cook

Chapter 228 Li Changqing is Here

On the second day after returning from Xiaonantun, Chef Wang asked me to discuss the dishes. I said that I would prepare ten new dishes, some of which are home-cooked, and I will see how it goes when the time comes.He said yes, and he is also preparing to cook some home-cooked seafood dishes, especially kung fu fish.

Serving dishes is not a difficult task for me, but it is more difficult to produce some dishes that can satisfy the guests, because it cannot be fooled, and the dishes produced by fooling cannot be sold or can not satisfy the guests.

Vesley Hotel is close to Santaizi, and the tastes of guests are between Santaizi and the city. It combines the tastes of home-cooked food and farm food, and it should not be too earthy. Guests should be able to accept the local vegetables.

Cuisine is ever-changing. As long as the old dishes are well mastered, the basic taste and cooking techniques are solid, the new dishes are based on the old dishes, and the raw materials are messed up and recombined to make more acceptable to customers. Dishes that meet the taste requirements of the guests.

Old dishes are roots, and new dishes are innovations.

As long as you are flexible, grasp the taste requirements of customers, and adapt measures to local conditions, you can develop popular dishes.If the effort is put in place, the dishes developed will have vitality, rather than a flash in the pan.

The preliminarily determined dishes are: "Scratched tofu", "Spiced belly", "Mom's eggplant", "Hand-caught pork bone", "Steamed pork ribs with beans in iron pot", "Ten tendon roasted topaz ginseng", "Dried pot fat intestines", "Tomatoes Beef stewed with tofu, homemade pot bottom meat, and Kung Pao tenderloin are all home-cooked dishes. In the selection of tableware, high-end tableware is also abandoned, and old-fashioned tableware is used.

If we want to talk about the high-end ones, the "Tendon Roasted Topaz Ginseng" is high-end, and the price is 110 yuan, and the rest are ordinary prices, which are affordable by ordinary people.

In this way, I already have a lot of dishes on my side, and besides the ten new dishes, I also made the old dishes, so it seems very busy.

It's better to be busy than not to be busy, to save time and have nothing to do, either running from room to room chatting nonsense, or just sitting in a daze.It’s better to be busy where you work. The boss is happy and we are happy too. When there is no business, no one is happy. You look at my face, I don’t think you have a good expression, then it’s over. The hotel is not far from Huang Yes, we are not far from being laid off.

Others are concerned about relocation during the Chinese New Year. If they are relocated, they will have to be laid off and find a new job.

It’s a bit early to start researching the Chinese New Year. Others study other people’s. I tinker with my own dishes every day. After finishing the work on the stove, I will help prepare for the National Day. When the dishes come, I will serve them. Cooking dishes in Taiwan, clean up after cooking, continue to study your own dishes after cleaning, and enjoy it.Sometimes I was too busy to cook, so I asked Zhao Gang to come over to help. I like the young man very smart and smart. I thought that if I go to work in other places and take him with me in the future, it will save me a lot of worry.

National Day is not someone who works in this business. He really has no work to do, and he has no money in his pocket. He was forced to work here with me and planned to earn some money to go home for the New Year. If he had money in his pocket, he would say nothing. Would not come here to work.The chopping board Zhang Jun is also very good at his work. The guy is very practical and smart, but he is responsible for serving dishes for Wang Chef. I am sorry to get close to him all the time, but I like him very much in my heart.

At that time, I started to make plans for myself to go out to work in the kitchen in the future, thinking that I must have a few people who can afford to let go, so that I will not be embarrassed when I go out to work.There are a few candidates in mind, like Meng Zhongli, the boy who looks like a young and Dangerous boy in the fourth kitchen, and Zhou Ming, the chopping board of the Rose Restaurant. They are both very good. Of course, if they can take over a relatively large kitchen, the fourth It would be better if both of them go together. It would be best for us to work together. I hope it can be so.

The restaurant business has not improved much. The main reason is that the business was too bad in the past, and it is hard to get back. If you want to do business, you can't change it with a few new dishes. You have to start from the root.

The business has not improved much, but the dishes on my side have not decreased, and I am very busy every day. Chef Wang's side is still the same as before, even more leisurely than before.His "Kung Fu Fish" was abandoned without success in research.Sometimes he would like to cook a few dishes for me when I was busy here. Normally, I would call Zhao Gang over to help me, and help me cook a dish by my side, and I would fry it over there. , Zhao Gang and I are also busy.At the same time, Zhao Gang is also willing to come to help, not only to learn something, but also to increase his own stove experience, which is difficult to obtain in other places.

Zhang Jun was very envious of Zhao Gang being able to help me on the stove, but he had no choice, he was serving dishes for Chef Wang, so he couldn't come over, he could only be jealous of Zhao Gang.Sometimes Chef Wang would ask Zhang Jun to go to the stove to help, but the chances were rare, mainly because there were too few dishes on his side, and he finished cooking before Zhang Jun went up.

Monday is not too busy, and New Year's Day is coming soon, and many guests are waiting for the New Year's Day unit dinner, so they seldom go out to eat at this time, and it is possible to save some money.Master Li Changqing called and said that he would come to see at night.Tell him he has to wait until after nine o'clock in the evening to have time, and he won't be able to leave work if he comes early.He said to come to me at nine o'clock.

When it was nine o'clock, after changing clothes, I asked if I would go out for a drink on the National Day, and the National Day said no, so I went home to sleep.This is good for National Day. I seldom go out to drink at night. In general, I tell him not to go. In his words, drinking is very uncomfortable. If you drink until midnight and can’t get up the next day, it’s better to go home and go to bed early.In fact, he is unwilling to drink with people he doesn't know very well, and because he drinks too little, he can't drink much baijiu. After drinking baijiu, he feels uncomfortable all over, and his body has red spots from allergies, which stings and bleeds to feel comfortable.Drinking is enjoyment for me, but it is suffering for him. If drinking beer is okay, there is only one bottle.

I asked him, "Didn't you also drink before?"

Guoqing said: "Before, I thought about it and practiced to see if I could carry it through. If I didn't think I couldn't resist it, I would have to scratch it when I got home. It was always uncomfortable."

I laughed: "You really can't drink alcohol."

Guo Qing said: "I really can't drink it. I have been insulated from alcohol in this life."

When I came to the hall and was about to open the door to go out, Zhou Xiaomei just finished changing and was about to go to the back bedroom when she saw me and asked, "You go home."

I said, "No, let's have a friend and go out for a meal."

Zhou Xiaomei said, "Hehe, take me one, and I will go too."

I looked at her and thought it would be inconvenient not to take her there. At this time, Guoqing spoke up and said to Zhou Xiaomei: "You have to follow him to order. He has been dishonest these days. Maybe go drink with a woman. You have to give your little one a drink." Auntie is in charge, don't ask him to talk nonsense outside."

From the family's second sister-in-law, Zhou Xiaomei had to call me my uncle and Aunt Lin Yan.

I laughed and said, "You can instigate it from there, or you can go with me to see if there are any girls."

Guo Qing laughed and said, "I won't go, if I can drink, you think I won't go." Then he said to Zhou Xiaomei, "You go on my behalf and watch him."

Zhou Xiaomei said: "I don't represent you, and he doesn't need to watch." Then she said to me: "Take me one."

I said, "Take you, I didn't say not to take you."

Coming out of the hotel, National Day rode his bike home.

Seeing that there is no Li Changqing outside, I guess he hasn't arrived yet, I want to call him, just about to go to the phone booth, a taxi comes and stops at the entrance of the hotel, Li Changqing gets out of the car, and at the same time, Sister Ma, Miss Kim.

I walked over to say hello to the three of them, and then walked to the dumpling restaurant I always went to.

When I arrived at the dumpling restaurant, I found a seat and introduced Zhou Xiaomei to them. Li Changqing's reaction was quite normal. When Sister Jin and Sister Ma reacted a bit, they looked at Zhou Xiaomei with scrutiny, as if they were going to find out something.

I smiled and said, "Don't look at it that way, she is my classmate or my niece, you have to call me uncle."

Zhou Xiaomei said, "Yes, he is my uncle."

Sister Jin said: "I heard you said that you have a niece who came to the provincial capital. I didn't hear you said that you have another niece who is so big and looks so beautiful."

I said: "I am the oldest in my family. I went home last month to attend my nephew's wedding. My nephew is married. How old do you think my nephew is? My eldest niece already has children."

Sister Ma said, "Then you are really old."

"Yes." I pointed to Zhou Xiaomei and said, "It's normal for her to be my niece, isn't it, the way you look at me seems to be lying to you."

Sister Ma said: "No one said that you lied to us, but you still have a ghost in your heart, and you are eager to explain."

I laughed, didn't speak, and started to order.

After ordering, I asked Master Li: "How are you doing there?"

Master Li said: "It's not bad, it's good, and the business is good. His family is the same as Xiaonantun. They all serve farm food."

I said, "I went to Xiaonantun two days ago. It's really good. I fell in love with his "Kung Fu Fish". Do you sell it?"

Master Li said: "We don't sell it. I went to Xiaonantun to learn it a few times. When I went back to work, I didn't do what others did. I didn't go up. It was a joke when I went up. It's better not to go up."

I said, "Yes, it's better not to list nondescript ones. If it's not good enough, you can even sell your own business and advertise for others for free."

Master Li asked, "How are you doing here?"

I said: "It's okay, but it won't last long, and I have to move after the new year."

Master Li smiled and said, "Are you from Fang? When you go to relocate, tell me about you. You went to Rose Rose to pick you up, went to Qingwatai Blue House to pick you up, and wait for the club to pick up now, and you will also pick up after the New Year here. .”

I said, "Don't blame me for this. If you want to blame the Communist Party, if I have that ability, I will be very powerful."

Alcohol is a fun thing and a good medium.

Whether wine is good or bad is inconclusive, and it has been debated endlessly since ancient times.

Alcohol can mess with sex, Buddhists abstain from it; wine can enhance the fun, immortals drink it.

My verdict is that wine is a good thing and drunk in moderation.Because of drinking, I made many friends; also because of drinking, I offended many people.Many things were done at the wine table, and many things were done wrong.To this day I have a love-hate relationship with alcohol.

Wine is like water, clear to the bottom, but also like fire, hot and violent.

Still the same sentence, drink some wine when you are happy to add to the fun, feel good, and feel comfortable. Don't drink when you are angry, and use alcohol to relieve your sorrow.

The amount of alcohol you drink depends on your body's ability to bear it. Drink as much as you can. If you can't drink, don't force it. It is not good for your body. Alcoholic liver is caused by drinking like this.

When drinking, people must exercise self-control, and drink happily to be overwhelmed.Don't persuade people to drink, it's not a good thing to drink others down, and there are never heroes on the wine table.I didn't see any hero who drank from the wine table, but I saw a lot of wine mengzi drinking on the wine table, and even got drunk into the underworld.

Many literati and inkmen have a lot of exaggeration about wine, and this is also the origin of the articles and poems that come out of cigarettes and wine.I don't have a deep understanding of this, but I have a deep understanding of talking loudly after drinking, exaggerating myself, and having conversations that hurt people.Sometimes I have to pay for the irresponsible promises I made after drinking, and I suffer a lot.

Some people said that they didn’t see me vomit when I drank too much, but I also vomited, but I just didn’t talk about it. I was so uncomfortable after drinking too much that I wanted to drop all the wine bottles immediately. I will never drink a drop of wine from now on. After that, I still couldn't resist the temptation of wine, so I drank it anyway.

Well, the scars forget the pain, and I am talking about people like me who have no determination to quit drinking.

It is said that if you want to stop drinking, you can wake up and see drunk people.In fact, the drunk people have seen it, that is, there was a vigilance at that time, and they told themselves that it was like that when they drank too much. , the years in the cup are long.

There are three glasses of wine in the world of mortals, and a pot of tea for great achievements in the future.

(End of this chapter)