The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 586 Drinking with the Kitchen Brothers

The warmest and most unbreakable thing in the world is family affection.

The reckless man Baolitu we are familiar with has become a lama who gives people massage and cures diseases, which makes Suya, who is the older sister, very gratified.Although she didn't want her younger brother to be a lama, she hoped that he would marry a wife and have children to start a family.

But that was the younger brother's choice, and she respected it.She was very happy and proud of her brother, especially when her brother's good reputation of curing diseases spread to Hohhot.

Of course, she is also grateful to Lao Tan, if it weren't for Lao Tan's adults, a large number of brothers are still in prison now.She is not ungrateful, her way of being grateful is simple and straightforward - working hard to the best of her ability.

Lao Tan stayed at the Central Kitchen Store until after get off work, and then went to Zecheng Ice Boiled Lamb with Yang Zhijun.Zhou Xiaomei didn't go. She came back from Baotou this morning, and she hasn't been home for three days to think about her child.

It's like this for catering. There is no day and night, and I can't take care of my family. I feel guilty for my children and lover.

Otherwise, why is the divorce rate in the catering industry so high? It has a lot to do with it.

No way, catering is a special industry, and its particularity is determined by the time to and from get off work.When people go to work, people in the restaurant are still sleeping, and only when people sleep in the restaurant do they leave work.After finally taking a break, I had to have a non-busy time from Monday to Thursday, and I still couldn't get together with my family.

To put it bluntly, if the child goes to school, it's normal not to say a word for a week, and sometimes he can't even see each other. The meeting is also when the child is asleep after get off work.

Although it is exaggerated, it is not far from reality. Almost all catering people are like this.

The head chefs of the five directly-operated stores and two cooperative stores arrived one after another, and when they were all there, they began to serve meals.

In total, Yang Zhijun ordered three catties of lamb and two catties of lamb ribs, plus two catties of hand-cut sun rolls.

A big table with many people, and a big pot. The waiter added two buckets of ice cubes to the pot, and then put the chopped lamb and ribs evenly on the ice cubes, and then added red wine and yogurt. A little onion and celery.

Cover the pot and turn on the fire, and boil the pot after 1 minutes.

The iced water boils, the meat is tender and tender, and the aroma is overflowing. This is the characteristic of ice-boiled sheep, and it is also its charm.

There are allusions to the origin of ice boiled sheep.According to legend, when the Mongolian army was marching westward, it encountered wind and snow and was besieged for several days without cooking and water. So the cooking officer filled the military pot with snow, spread mutton on the snow, and stewed it on the fire.

Many soldiers thought that the mutton would be cooked only after the snow melted and stewed for a while, but the mutton was cooked when the snow melted water was boiled, and it was a hundred times more delicious than the usual stewed ones.

So this practice has been handed down, known as "ice boiled sheep".

Ice-boiled lamb is also a kind of hot-boiled meat. The reason why it is delicious is that it is on ice and the second is the choice of ingredients. It must be lamb meat that was born in the same year. Lamb that is more than two years old is too old to rot, and the effect is not good.

But if you want to boil mutton rolls, the two-year-old lamb is delicious, and it tastes delicious, which is not comparable to lamb rolls.But it must be a pure Mongolian prairie sheep, and it is a waste of fattening in captivity.

The seasoning of ice-boiled lamb is the same as that of shabu-shabu. The best one is wild leek flower, which is enough to taste when dipped in it.

After the meat was finished and the wine was poured, Yang Zhijun stood up and said, "I propose, the first cup is to wish my third brother a good recovery. This is the greatest happy event."

So everyone joined in.

"I wish the boss a recovery!"

"I wish the boss health!"

"May the boss get better and better!"

"---"

Lao Tan toasted happily, and everyone did it together.

The people in the kitchen are drinking and drinking, and the reason for the excitement is that they get off work late, and there are no entertainment activities other than drinking after get off work at this time.The shopping malls are closed, and the parks are not allowed to enter.

Let's go home. It's hard to get off work. Why don't you drink something after a tiring day.Go home and go straight to bed after drinking, it smells good too.

Of course, the words of the young people are full of energy. Getting off work means that the nightlife has just begun and is enriching. They won’t sleep until the middle of the night.

Not long after, the head chef of the old restaurant, Liu Chu, stood up with a glass of wine and said, "Boss, I would like to offer you a toast. Firstly, I wish you good health, and secondly, thank you for helping and taking care of me these years.

To be honest, I have always regarded you as my master. If it weren't for you, I would have been laid off a long time ago, and I am not today.You just drink less because of your illness, so I did it. "

Chef Liu drank up the wine, and Lao Tan did the same.

Chef Liu took the lead and the other head chefs also came to pay respects. The kindness was hard to come by, and Lao Tan reciprocated with half a cup.Although the white wine cup is small, it can't hold the crowd, and after a while, it's already three or two drinks.

It's not good for Lao Tan to put away the previous three or two drinks, it's just a drink to open the way.Not right now, the blood pressure in the stomach happens to be high, so if you can control it, control it, and it is better to drink less.

The wine helped to cheer people up, and with the presence of Lao Tan, the atmosphere of these head chefs became more lively, and one by one refused to accept it and drank it loudly.

The whole private room was uproarious.

Yang Zhijun was sitting next to Lao Tan, and he leaned his head closer and said, "Third brother, now I have a second child, and I want another one."

Old Tan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "One is not enough for you."

"I want another girl."

"Both sons and daughters will be safe."

"hey-hey."

"You have to discuss this with Mulan."

"She also wants a girl, she is a minority, she can have three children." Yang Zhijun said.

"Two is fine, don't have a third child, what will you do to raise it then, with your small physique, you can't be tired out." Old Tan joked.

"Hey, I'm okay. The main thing is that our old Yang family is thin. I'm the only kid in my life. They all point to my prosperity."

"It's not like having a baby piglet, you can have two. Besides, Mulan is past the best age for childbearing. If she becomes pregnant, she will be an older woman, which is dangerous."

"Yes, that's the main concern."

"You decide for yourself, others can't take care of it for you."

"Yes, I'm just talking to you. Hey, third brother, I heard that Sister Yaru's father is gone?" Yang Zhijun asked.

"Well, it's gone, it's just past March [-]th." Old Tan said.

"Hey, she didn't say anything. If she did, she should be polite. It's too late now."

"No --- her father left in a hurry, and she couldn't take it easy for a while, and her mother was left alone, so she won't be back until three or seven."

"Doesn't she have a brother? Her mother will just have to make trouble with her brother."

"That is to say, it is not enough for a son to be a daughter-in-law. Besides, how many people are willing to take care of their elders now? They all try to live a life of peace of mind." Old Tan lit a cigarette and took a puff, and then said:
"Fortunately, her mother is in good health. There is nothing wrong with her. She can take care of herself and live alone first."

"It's not about how to grow up. A person can't do without someone around him when he reaches his age." Yang Zhijun said.

"Hey, if your son is like that, go and have a look. There is no other way, or Yaru will bring her mother here."

"It's also difficult to fix——Third brother, your aunt is pretty good, isn't she?"

"It's pretty good. I'm in better health than me. There's nothing wrong with it, but my eyes are almost a little old. It's an old problem."

"I'm going to celebrate my birthday this year, isn't it coming soon?"

"Let's talk about it at that time. I don't know what the epidemic is like yet. I can't decide now."

Mentioning the epidemic, Yang Zhijun went dark, and muttered with a bit of helplessness: "The colder the weather, the more active the virus is. Birthdays in the twelfth lunar month of winter—moving (frozen) hands (frozen) feet."

(End of this chapter)