The story of a cook

Chapter 602
Hunan is the birthplace of Hunan cuisine. Now Hunan cuisine is popular all over the country because it is spicy, dry and appetizing, especially in the Northeast. Restaurants of a certain size serve Hunan cuisine, and the common people like it very much.

Stir-fried yellow beef, chopped pepper fish head, steamed cured meat, Dong'an chicken, Yongzhou blood duck, Xiangxi grandmother's dishes, Mao's braised pork, etc. are representative dishes of Hunan cuisine.Hunan cuisine attaches great importance to the mutual matching of raw materials and the mutual penetration of flavors. At the same time, the cooking skills of Hunan cuisine are superior, almost reaching the point of perfection.

When you come to Changsha, you must try these representative dishes.At the same time, we must also taste the dried pot dishes here, which are now very popular in the Northeast.The next day, I ate at four restaurants non-stop, and truly appreciated the delicacy and charm of Hunan cuisine.

Needless to say, the stir-fried yellow beef, the chopped pepper fish head is really delicious, tender, full of chopped pepper flavor, and has a long aftertaste.Xiangxi grandma's dishes are fried authentically, which is not only a good appetizer for wine, but also a good appetizer for meals.The original flavor of dry pot dishes is spicy and refreshing, with endless aftertaste.It is not so complicated to see people making dry pot dishes. What is important is the heat. With the addition of unique local raw materials, the taste will naturally come up when the skill is in place.

Although I didn't go directly to the kitchen to learn, but when I was eating, I could know that the raw materials, auxiliary materials and seasonings in the dishes were all eight or nine. I went back to study and study, and it would be no problem to do it myself.

After a day of continuous tasting and tasting, I feel that the fish head with chopped pepper, fried yellow beef and dry pot vegetables can be served after returning home.Now the casserole fish head of Qinghua Pavilion is selling very well, and the fish head with chopped pepper can be used as a supplement.There is no problem with stir-fried yellow beef. You need yellow beef to make fresh meat hot pot, and the yellow beef has already been ordered. Just go back and make a trial production.The dry pot dishes are good at first, but after going back, I will add two more dishes and improve the method to achieve the original taste, which should be even better.

I feel that pickled peppers and white dried peppers are not bought enough in the dry seasoning market. These are the basic ingredients for making small fried yellow beef and dry pot dishes. Binhai does not have any, so I called the yellow beef seller and told him to put the yellow beef on the market. Pickled peppers and dried white peppers are distributed at [-] catties each, and [-] pieces of fresh bamboo shoots are distributed at the same time.

After that, I didn't stay any longer, and went back to Binhai directly with Mr. Wang.

After Yan Li got home, she had a fight with her husband.The quarrels are quarrels, and life is still going on. Under her strength, her husband agreed to open a hot pot restaurant alone.Her husband said that she is pregnant now and should rest at home more, it is not suitable for running here and there, and he will take care of the hotel affairs in the future.Yan Li's parents-in-law also meant the same thing, telling Yan Li to stop worrying about the restaurant and rest at home to raise the baby, the child is the most important thing, and let her husband take care of the restaurant.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law spoke, and Yan Li couldn't say anything, but she was worried that her husband would manage the restaurant, fearing that he might not be able to manage it well.He said that he is just pregnant now, so it will not affect his work, and he will not go to the restaurant until the child is four or five months old, and take his husband with him during this time.

Although her husband is a son-in-law, he also graduated from a prestigious university with a master's degree, and his IQ is guaranteed to be not low. The main reason is that his family conditions are good and he has not experienced much experience.When my father didn't come down, he didn't have any sense of crisis or urgency. Now that he's down, he doesn't have any sense of superiority, forcing him to start working hard.

Fortunately, there is a good father-in-law who has given him such a large property. As a man, he needs to shoulder the burden of the family. He doesn't want his wife to struggle outside, so he wants to share some of it.In a way, this is also the case of the prodigal son turning his back on money.

Any marriage has a certain emotional basis. Unlike in the past, there are also arranged marriages and purely political marriages.Although Yan Li and her husband are from official families, and their father was an important local official in the past, they are not without feelings.Because of their parents, the two have known each other since they were young. Although they were not childhood sweethearts who grew up playing together, they are still familiar with each other.

When the old man came down from the officialdom and came to Binhai to develop, Yan Li and her husband were already in their 20s. With the approval of the old people on both sides, the two began to confirm their relationship. Their love should be romantic and rich, compared to others. The young people in China are much better off, and getting married is naturally a matter of course.

It's just that the weather is unpredictable, and people have misfortunes and blessings. If you walk too much at night, you will encounter ghosts sooner or later.No one expected that father-in-law Yan Li’s death would have no effect on Yan Li, who was already able to rely on her own strength. She had no interest in being an official at all. When her father-in-law was in office, she had enough food and clothing. She also has enough food and clothing, on the contrary, she hopes that her father-in-law is not in place, and it will be better without those official contacts and official entertainment.

Her husband didn't think so.What he thinks is that his father's presence is the honor of the family, and at the same time he is his backer, and he also has a sense of superiority in front of his wife, because the father-in-law and uncle have to rely on his father's support to do business.Now that the father has come down, this sense of superiority is gone, and there is a tendency to test the daughter-in-law to eat, so I feel unbalanced.

When the restaurant had no company in the city, she and Yan Li invested in Fisherman’s Wharf with the help of her father. The business was good. He and Yan Li managed it. Although they didn’t care much, most of them were managed by Yan Li. , but also understand some management.Now the whole company is owned by Yan Li, which means it belongs to him.The father is gone, and the wife is still pregnant. He has to take out the responsibilities of being a son and husband, and start to take responsibility.

Yan Li is acknowledging and happy about this, who doesn't want her husband to make a difference?If her husband can really manage the company well, she would rather be the little girl behind the scenes, take care of her husband and children, and serve her in-laws at home.But she knows her husband too well, she has enough IQ, smart enough, capable and thoughtful, and she is also a person who does things.The only and fatal shortcoming is that it is narrow-minded and intolerant.

The two of them started a company before starting Fisherman's Wharf. At that time, the two young people were high-spirited, and with the strength of their respective families, it was not easy to do something.They and two friends co-founded a terminal freight company. It was really good at the beginning, but two years later, her husband was a little narrow-minded, and had disagreements with the partner's friends, and they parted ways.

If you stick to it, the freight company will make more money than the restaurant.Later, Yan Li thought that according to her husband's personality, she could not partner with others, but could only work alone, so that Fisherman's Wharf came into being.

When Fisherman's Wharf and Blue Flower Pavilion joined together to form a company, her husband disagreed, thinking it was unnecessary, and established a company together. It seemed that the momentum was huge and a group was formed. In fact, it was Yan Li who was using influence. Work for my husband.Because of this, Yan Li had quarreled with him.Due to the face of his father-in-law, he chose not to ask.

Now that the father-in-law has given the company to the couple, of course he has to take care of it and participate in the management in person.

So there was a family meeting of Yan Li's family of four after she came back from Fuzhou.At the meeting, Yan Li’s husband made a concession and agreed to invest 300 million to open a high-end hot pot restaurant with hand-cut fresh meat. Yan Li agreed that he should start to intervene in the management of the company. Full-time work, Yan Li will concentrate on raising the baby at home, and the two of them will discuss and solve the problem together.

Yan Li's husband proposed to cultivate his own cronies within the company, the reason being that such a large company cannot live without its own people, especially the position of senior executives.

"Old Tan is in charge of the kitchen now. He has worked in our house for three years, so he can be trusted." Yan Li said.

"Old Tan is very capable. I learned about it. He has recruited three of the four store managers, and most of the kitchen is his staff." Yan Li's husband said.

Yan Li looked at her husband very strangely, and said: "We employ people based on ability, and those who are capable must be employed. Are you afraid that Lao Tan will form a clique?"

"That's probably true. He is the most powerful now, and one third of the company is owned by him."

"I hope that the whole kitchen is owned by him. At that time, I'll just take care of him, so I don't have to worry about it."

"Xiao Li, do you know that excessive trust is indulgence, be careful of the master of high skill."

"If you say others, I'll believe you. Old Tan is not that kind of person."

"Be careful, you have nothing to say, it looks good now, in case there is a conflict someday, take the person away and see how you deal with it."

Yan Li wanted to say a few words about her husband, but at this time her father-in-law coughed, she swallowed the anger in her stomach, knowing that her father-in-law was about to speak, she hadn't reached the point where she dared to stop him, so she just gave her husband a hard look .

Although the father-in-law is no longer in the official position, the official authority is still there, and the aura of being in the top position all his life makes people not want to be presumptuous.

The old man didn't speak immediately after coughing. He habitually looked at his son and daughter-in-law, as if he was waiting for his subordinates to give instructions. He seemed to have regained some familiar majesty and satisfaction. He slowly took a sip from his teacup, and then Put it down, and then said: "I agree with the plans and plans of the two of you, and I agree. Young people, that's how it should be. There must be a breakthrough. It's no problem in terms of strategy, and it's far-sighted. I am I don’t understand, but I can understand after listening to you two.”

"I support Xiaoli's insistence on opening a high-end hot pot restaurant alone. This is a good project with broad prospects. You can't do it strategically, Xiaogang. You have to listen to Xiaoli on this point. The personnel problem you mentioned just now is tactical. It’s easy to deal with the matter if the strategy is set and the tactics are set. Now the company Xiaoli is running very well and is on the right track. It is easy to fight the country and difficult to defend the country. If you want to defend the country, you must pay attention to tactics.”

"Xiao Li's employment is right. We have to trust them. Otherwise, why would they work for us? But Xiaogang's worry is not unreasonable. I have had ups and downs all these years. , now you are all watching at home, and you will suffer from people who are not close to you. If you look at it, it will be fine, and everyone will push you against the wall. Xiaoli, you know what your father is like, otherwise he would not come down."

"Aren't you planning to make high-end hot pot now? You can start from this hot pot restaurant, choose your own people to do it, and see how the effect is. In addition, you should not delegate power excessively in terms of employment, and control what should be controlled. I am just a suggestion , You two decide what to do."

The old man, who used to be in an important official position, slowly got up after finishing speaking, and left with the teapot.

Yan Li heard the same meaning as her husband from her father-in-law's words, and her father-in-law also mentioned her father. This reminds me of a conversation with my father not long ago. My father said that Lao Tan is indeed a talent, but don't give him too much power. He was looking for too many people, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to manage.Because this is a private enterprise, the relationship between the boss and the employees is an employment relationship. To put it bluntly, it is a money relationship. When you don’t pay him a salary one day, no matter how good you were to him before, he will pat his ass and leave. With a feeling.

After hearing what her father said, Yan Li didn't care. She believed that as long as she had the ability, she could use it. She also believed in her own way of employing people, fully believed in her subordinates, and gave them full rights, so that the subordinates would do a better job.

She thinks that Lao Tan is not that kind of person—if he has any conflicts, he will drop the pick and take away all the people he brought.This matter may be done on others, but it cannot be done on Lao Tan.She didn't believe blindly, but felt it intuitively, and at the same time had a firm confidence.

But now that my father-in-law said so, and my old father also reminded me, should I think about it?If the situation they said really happened, it would undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the company, and she couldn't bear the consequences.

The wise woman was silent.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when Mr. Wang and I returned to Binhai. We first went to the office to report to Yan Li. After listening to it, she was very happy and gave a few words of praise.

"Okay, as long as the beef problem is solved, you two have worked hard."

"I don't work hard, Lao Tan works hard." Mr. Wang said with a smile.

"You worked hard too, and Lao Tan even worked harder."

"I won't go out with Lao Tan next time, whoever you like will go with him." Mr. Wang began to complain.

Yan Li smiled and asked, "What's the matter? Lao Tan bullied you?"

Mr. Wang said bitterly: "You don't know, Lao Tan is more addicted to visiting the dry tune market than your girls shopping in the mall. He doesn't know how tired he is at all. If he leaves in front, I have to follow behind. I'm so tired. When I couldn’t walk, he seemed to have nothing to do, but later I couldn’t accompany him anymore, so I told him to go shopping by myself and took a taxi back to the hotel.”

I smiled and said to Mr. Wang: "I didn't see you eat less when you were eating."

After leaving the office, he didn't go to the store, but went straight back to the apartment.I've been quite tired these few days. Going out to investigate is not a good job, it's more tiring than going to work.Went back to the apartment, took a hot shower, lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)