The story of a cook

Chapter 289
The decoration of Laohan Villa is progressing slowly. It seems that Mr. Wang is not short of funds. The main reason is that Mr. Yu can’t produce renderings. Everything depends on dictation and on-site instructions. He is not a professional designer and decorator. He said it, and felt that what he said was very clear, and his meaning was expressed clearly. In fact, the decoration staff did not hear clearly, nor did they fully understand his meaning. The result was that the effect was not satisfactory. Take it apart and start over.

It can be seen from this that communication is not what you say, but what the other party hears and understands.

The most important thing in management is communication. If the communication is not in place, the work will not be done in place.Many managers are like this. They talk a lot at regular meetings, thinking that employees have heard and understood, so they ask employees to do it.In fact, employees just listen but don't understand, and as a result, they don't do their job properly.

There are a few points to pay attention to in communication, the first is the purpose of communication; the second is how to achieve this goal; the third is how to arrange the process and inform the standards that need to be met; the fourth is when to complete; the fifth is inspection .

Communication without steps is no communication; steps without standards is invalid work; standards without time is procrastination; time without inspection is verbal work.

Management is no big deal, it's all about the details.

The kitchen staff is basically in place, Mr. Wang's chef friend has come over, surnamed Wang, in his 30s, not tall, fat and big, with a smile on his face.The stew chef sent by the villa is a guy in his 20s, surnamed Xu, from HLJ, very simple and honest.The three chopping boards also came, Sister Huang's younger brother was also in place, and the assistant that the second child was looking for also came, but the stew master Xu said he needed a younger brother, but he has not found one yet.

In the past two days, the recipes are being assembled, mainly based on farm dishes.There can be two hotel dishes, but not too many, too many will go astray.Master Hou and Master Wang had been working in social restaurants before, and had little contact with farm dishes. They talked to Mr. Wang and planned to take them, Sister Huang and the second child out to several farm yards to learn.Mr. Wang readily agreed, took the money to Master Hou, and led everyone to "Xiaonantun" and Li Changqing's farmyard to study.

The business in Xiaonantun is booming, which has touched everyone a lot, and they have a new understanding of farm dishes.When we arrived at Li Changqing's farmyard, the form was the same as that of Xiaonantun, but the dishes were more refined and tasted more unique. They belonged to coarse grains, and vaguely surpassed Xiaonantun. It seemed that Li Changqing had put a lot of effort into the dishes.

I am very happy to see Li Changqing. I have not seen him for a long time, and I feel very cordial.After all, he is a comrade-in-arms in the trenches, and I also found him this job, so I must be polite.But he was thinner than before, his face was yellow, and his voice was not as strong as before.

I asked him: "You don't look too good, what's the matter?"

He said: "I don't know why, but recently I always feel pain in my ribs and forks."

"That's the liver. Has the liver been ruined by drinking too much?" I asked worriedly.

"I don't know, you don't know me, you can't do without wine, but I drink less recently, so I don't dare to drink all the time."

"You'd better go to the hospital for an examination, don't take it seriously, I think your complexion is not very good." I told him.

"Yes, I'm planning to go to the hospital for an examination, and don't really make any mistakes." He said.

I said, "Go check it out. It's best if there's nothing wrong. If there's something wrong, get it treated as soon as possible. Don't take it seriously."

Diseases are like this, early detection and early treatment, don't wait for the disease to develop, then it will be too late.

"Yeah, gotta check it out."

After chatting with him for a while, I asked, "Are you still with Sister Ma?"

He said: "How to say, let's just live."

"Why don't you forget about it. If you have a place, you have a place. If you don't have a place, you don't have a place. What you said is a bit vague." I said half-jokingly.

"I think we are both good enough." He said: "The key point is that she is from the Xian nationality, and I am from the Han nationality. We are quite different in many places, and sometimes we can't chat together when we talk. It goes without saying when we eat. She likes spicy food, but I don't like spicy food, so it's difficult."

The sweet period of the two has passed, and many problems have begun to emerge. Now is the time to test the relationship between the two.

I said: "Get used to it slowly, it will be fine after a long time, if you want to get along with others, you have to get used to it, in fact, Sister Ma is quite a nice person."

He said: "It's pretty good. Aren't we the one who fell in love with him? I'm not in good health recently, and my ribs hurt. She said that she would accompany me to the hospital for two days, take a photo, and see what's going on. Something happened."

I said, "Isn't he caring about you? He still cares about you. If he doesn't care about you, he won't care about you. He should have done what he did."

"Yes, it's quite good for me—" he said, "By the way, Sister Jin is going to ask you to drink."

When I got married, I didn't tell Sister Jin and Sister Ma. Li Changqing came that day. I guess Sister Jin heard that I was married and wanted to drink with me.

"If you have time——" I said, "I don't want to have too much contact with them. After being with women for a long time, I can make troubles if nothing happens. It's best to stay away from them. In addition, the girls of the Korean ethnic group are drinking. It’s because I’m afraid, I dare not drink with them.”

"Last two days, I had dinner with Sister Jin and the others. I told them about your marriage, but you didn't tell them. They were very angry and said you didn't pay attention."

"I didn't tell so many people, as if I was asking for money from them."

He said: "Then how much does it cost? Don't you have to go when they have something to do?"

I said: "That's not good, there's no need, you should drink and drink, I don't want to be like that."

That was the last time I saw Li Changqing. Later, I heard that he had liver disease, which was not cured, so I went there to cook vegetables in advance.

People, don’t get sick if you have anything, don’t have money if you don’t have anything, and have a good body no matter what time it is, the body is the capital of the revolution.

People need to think about it in life, and see it away. If you want to let go of many things that are beyond your ability, you don't have to force it;

After going out to study for a while, everyone had a preliminary impression of the farm food, and the recipes came out relatively smoothly.

After the recipe came out, we began to try and taste the dishes one by one every day.

At the beginning, Master Hou and Master Wang were a bit unacceptable, saying that such a trial production would be a waste of raw materials, that is to say, a waste of money.After all, they are Mr. Wang's friends, so they should think of Mr. Wang.Especially Master Hou, he has cooperated with Mr. Wang when he opened the karaoke hall, and the relationship between the two is relatively good. He is very opposed to my trying every dish.I said that's okay, but the dishes must pass the test. If the dishes are not pass the test, I will replace them.The two didn't say anything after thinking about it, but they were also dissatisfied and a little bit disapproved.

I don't care if they approve it or not, I stipulate that they must make four dishes of their own every day, one dish after another.

On the first day, they each cooked four dishes, and Mr. Wang's friends and family members came to taste them in the evening.As a result, only one dish was approved, and the remaining seven dishes did not pass the test.It was useless, I went to talk to them, Mr. Wang went to them directly and said that the dishes were not good and needed to be improved.The two said that they would study a few new dishes tomorrow, and ask Mr. Wang to taste them after they were finished, to see if they would work.

Mr. Wang didn't say anything directly, just looked at me.

"How about this, I will cook these seven dishes tomorrow." I said, "You have studied these seven dishes very well, but the selection of ingredients and methods are not refined enough, and the technique is a bit lacking, and the fire is not in place." Speaking of this, I looked at the two of them, and they didn't have any objections. I continued, "These seven dishes are all dishes that can eat people. Tomorrow, I will cook these seven dishes. Watch and see what they look like."

I'm going to do it myself tomorrow.

I know that the two of them are a little bit unconvinced to me, because they are older than me and they are friends with the boss, so they don't take me seriously at all.In their cognition, one day I have to leave sooner or later, the head chef belongs to one of them, and now they don't listen to what I say.

Laohan Villa is a relatively large restaurant in Santaizi, and many chefs are planning to become head chefs. After all, Laohan Villa is a big brand, and its window paper is famous for blowing trumpets. Being able to be a chef at Laohan Villa is a great test of its own strength. Recognition also has a certain impact on one's own reputation.

Many people want to be, but I don't really want to be.It's not that we are high-minded, it's just that we don't feel right.

It's normal for them to want to push me away and become their own head chef, and it's normal for anyone else to do the same.

But it’s okay to be proud, but you need to know one thing, and you need confidence to support your pride.

The two of them didn't expect that the dishes they cooked were not recognized, and they were a little shocked.

It doesn’t matter, it’s like working together, when you are not familiar with each other, you will inevitably have mutual suspicion and distrust, and the serious point is to tear things apart, but as a head chef, you should have such mental preparations, and you can’t care about these things.

The two of them are friends of the boss. If they were not friends of the boss, they were recruited from outside alone, so what would happen?They are at least friends with the boss, and they are still active at work.

My mentality is relatively good, and I always tell myself that if there is no room for others, I should not be a chef. What is a chef in the kitchen?To put it nicely, it is a manager, but to put it badly, it is a slop bucket. You have to hold the good ones, and you have to hold the bad ones.

The dishes they researched already have the meaning of farm dishes, and the idea is right, but the details are not in place when making them, and some raw materials are too simple in processing, resulting in the dishes being stylish and tasteless, and tasteless.

Take the "Village Stir-fry" developed by Master Hou as an example. His idea is to combine pumpkins, eggplants, potatoes, peppers, horn melons, and beans from the farm garden to fry a small stir-fry dish, which looks delicious. Rustic.The ingredients are right, the thinking is right, and the frying method is also right, but the handling of the knife and raw materials is too simple and trouble-free, and the stir-fried dishes are not delicious.

He feels that potatoes and eggplants are good to be oiled when making ground three delicacies, so they are also oiled when making this stir-fry, and in order to save trouble when oiling, the pumpkin and horned melon are also oiled. The six raw materials are oiled at the same time, so that potatoes, beans, and eggplants appear, and pumpkins, horned melons, and peppers are soaked in oil.When frying, keep the high temperature and you can’t see anything. After the pumpkin, squash and peppers start to spit out oil, a lot of oil will appear on the bottom of the plate. It looks greasy and leaks when you eat it, so it’s not good. Eat unsuccessfully.

Cooking needs to pay attention to details, and at the same time treat every dish you cook as your own work.

The next day Mr. Wang said that his friends came over for dinner in the evening, and told me not to be the same as yesterday.I said don't worry, no problem, I must be satisfied today.

(End of this chapter)