I work as a chef in the university cafeteria

Chapter 172 What's the use of having money if you can't even eat?

Dining room No. [-] has not been touched except for the two innermost lounges since the renovation was completed.

The same goes for the various amenities in the kitchenette.

After Jiang Yu went upstairs, he and Yan Tongtong first cleaned up the kitchen inside and out, and then lit the pot.

Yesterday morning, Liu Shurong had notified Jiang Yu in advance and set the time for the dinner tonight.

In fact, Restaurant No. [-] was not ready for opening, and Jiang Yu hadn't even drawn up a menu yet.

In order to avoid the embarrassing scene where the guests didn't know what to eat after they arrived at the table, Jiang Yu told Liu Shurong to order the dishes first so that he could purchase the corresponding ingredients in advance.

"Can you order any dish?"

"You can order whatever you want. If I don't know how to do it, I will tell you in advance."

"I'll just order a few dishes that Lele eats, and you can do the rest."

Liu Shurong thought for a while, and only ordered two dishes of Longjing Shrimp and Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs for herself and her son, leaving Jiang Yu to make the rest.

She looked at Jiang Yu quietly, smiled and said,

"The people I invited are all natives of Jiangzhou. They should all like spicy food. In this regard, you should know better than me."

Liu Shurong just told Jiang Yu that there were 10 people eating, and there were six cold dishes, twelve hot dishes, and one soup would be enough.

As for the staple food, with so many dishes, and some drinks, who else can eat the staple food?

This time, the problem came back to Jiang Yu.

It was the first time for him to make this kind of banquet dishes. Liu Shurong treats guests to thank others for their help. If he didn't choose the right dishes and the guests were unhappy, wouldn't he be doing him a disservice?

Seeing Jiang Yu's troubled face, Liu Shurong comforted him instead:
"Don't be embarrassed, just make whatever you think of, the dishes you cook are so delicious that even anorexia can't stop them, so you don't have to worry about customers not liking them?
You can relax, even if you just make a simple bowl of clear water noodles, everyone can eat it without even soup left! "

After a pause, she added, "By the way, don't worry about whether the ingredients are expensive or not, just let go and do it. Anyway, I will pay the bill in the end, so I can't let you suffer."

These words made Jiang Yu feel ashamed.

After all, I still have no experience, and I still need customers to comfort me...

How can a man with a gourmet system be so shameless?
Doesn't this degrade the prestige of the system? !

Jiang Yu immediately made up his mind that he must devote 666% of his attention to completing this banquet. If the guests don't call "[-]" directly, then I will lose!
Therefore, after Liu Shurong left, Jiang Yu pondered for a whole morning, and finally came up with a menu that he was relatively satisfied with.

As for whether the guests are satisfied or not, we can only know after they have tasted it.

After cleaning the small kitchen, Yan Tongtong was busy cleaning the "Dong" box again. This box is relatively large, and it will be more spacious and comfortable for the guests to sit in.

Yan Tongtong was busy with work, and Jiang Yu was not idle either. After boiling the new frying pan, he was ready to start making cold dishes.

There are six cold dishes, including meat and vegetables, which are garlic and white meat, saliva chicken, smoked chicken feet stuffed fresh squid, tofu with preserved egg, gluttonous hoof flower and cold okra.

Garlic white meat and saliva chicken are common dishes. Jiang Yu is already familiar with it. After processing the pork belly and fresh whole chicken, put them into the pot and stew them separately.

The trotters are washed and chopped into small pieces, put into a pressure cooker, add broth, and then add seasonings such as scallions, ginger slices, salt, and chicken essence, and simmer under high pressure.

After that, he started to cook other cold dishes.

Garlic white meat, saliva chicken, gluttonous hoof flower and cold okra are relatively traditional dishes, but the two cold dishes of smoked chicken feet stuffed fresh squid and preserved egg tofu are creative dishes, which are a little more complicated to prepare .

For example, in this smoked chicken feet stuffed fresh squid, first wash the chilled squid clean, and then soak it in ice water with lemon slices for 1 hour to remove the fishy smell.

Then cook the chicken feet, remove the bones and cut into cubes, cut the mushrooms and ham into cubes, blanch the fresh edamame kernels and peel them, then put these four ingredients into a pot, add minced green onion and ginger, salt, chicken powder, Stir the chicken bone extract, sesame oil, thirteen spices and other seasonings evenly to make the filling.

After the squid is soaked, put the prepared filling into it, seal it with a toothpick, and steam it in a steam box for 45 minutes.

Then, put tea leaves, fragrant leaves, cumin, sugar and rice grains into the pot, put the steamed squid on the smoke rack, and smoke slowly for 10 minutes on low heat to make it color.

After the smoking is completed, wrap the squid with plastic wrap, press for 2 hours to tighten, and then put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

After finishing these, you can change the knife to slice and serve on the plate.

It's not complicated to say, but it takes a lot of time to do it. From soaking the squid to refrigerating it in the refrigerator, four or five hours have passed.

If Jiang Yu didn't make it a little earlier, the guests might wait until their stomachs growled and didn't even have time to eat.

As for the thousand-layer preserved egg tofu, compared with the traditional preserved egg tofu, the method is much more complicated, but it has a higher level in terms of taste and shape.

The made thousand-layer preserved egg tofu is shaped like a cake, with a layer of lactone tofu and a layer of preserved egg jelly. The layers are interlaced and the shape is novel.

In addition, in the production of preserved egg jelly, old chicken stock is also added, which makes this cold dish, the tofu tender and smooth, the preserved egg delicious, taste a mouthful, and the taste is endless.

In addition to these six cold dishes, there are twelve hot dishes, which are fish head with chopped pepper, braised pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, Longjing shrimp, roasted pork belly with old duck, steamed pork with rice flour, spicy small turtle, boiled beef, hot kidney, Flammulina velutipes with scallions, baby cabbage in soup and yam in sweet-scented osmanthus sauce.

As for the soup, Jiang Yu planned to make a sliced ​​mushroom soup.

These hot dishes and soups are definitely too busy for Jiang Yu alone. While he was preparing cold dishes upstairs, Ma Guoqiang, Qian Liwei and others were already busy in the side dish room in the kitchen on the first floor. It's time to chop vegetables for side dishes.

Fortunately, the dishes on the second floor are made in small pots, and the portions are not large. Otherwise, both kitchens would need to help with the dishes, and Ma Guoqiang and the others would be tired and crying.

Jiang Yu was the only one in the small kitchen, and the surroundings seemed extremely quiet, except for the "humming" sound of the range hood and the clinking of spoons and woks when they collided.

While Jiang Yu was alone in the kitchen, busy preparing for the banquet, on the other side, Liu Shurong brought Lele and had already arrived at Jiangzhou University with several guests who wanted to invite.

At this moment, the sun has not yet set, and students in twos and threes are sweating wantonly on the playground, or strolling with their classmates on the campus streets. The golden sunset shines on them, making all these scenes calm and peaceful.

While chatting with the guests, Liu Shurong walked slowly towards the Seventh Canteen, obviously enjoying this rare leisure time.

Among the guests, after chatting with Liu Shurong for a few words, a fat middle-aged man with a leadership style suddenly seemed to have just realized it, and asked in confusion:

"Aren't we going to eat? Why are you walking and running into the campus of Jiang University?"

Several other people were also a little puzzled, but due to Liu Shurong's identity, they were always embarrassed to speak out. Now that Director Liu asked, they all pricked up their ears and looked over.

"It seems that you don't know Director Liu, there is a top chef hidden in this Jiang University!"

Liu Shurong praised Jiang Yu unabashedly, with a slight smile on her face, she continued,

"He opened a No. [-] restaurant here. I brought you here today, just to let everyone taste his dishes."

"Oh, Top Chef?"

Director Liu raised his eyebrows and grinned, "Then I have to taste it!"

Even though he said that, Director Liu felt a little disdainful in his heart.

The Ms. Liu next to her is said to be from the rich family of Qiantang, but her taste is probably just like that.

How high-end can a restaurant opened in a university be?

Also a top chef...

Are you afraid that you don’t even know what a top chef is?
The few people around Director Liu also looked at each other in blank dismay, speechless.

They all sighed in their hearts, this Ms. Liu has a reputation of being a rich man for nothing, and her family's assets are tens of billions, yet she can't tell what is food...

What's the use of having so much money if you can't even eat?

These guests, including Director Liu, although disdainful in their hearts, did not show the slightest expression on their faces. They have all been fighting among human spirits for many years. If there is no such thing in the city, they would have been I ate so much that there was not even a bone left.

A group of people laughed at Yan Yan, with just the right expectation on their faces, and walked forward together with Liu Shurong.

Doesn't Liu Shurong know what they are thinking?

of course I know!

Liu Shurong's daily contacts are no worse than this group of people. She doesn't need to guess what these people are thinking.

It's nothing more than all kinds of disdain and dissatisfaction.

But what these people were thinking, Liu Shurong didn't care at all, because she believed in Jiang Yu's cooking skills, and the delicious food that even her son's anorexia couldn't stop, how could the people around her be able to stop it?
As long as they take a sip, all the dissatisfaction in their hearts will disappear.

At the gate of the Jiang University Library, Liu Shurong and the others received the other guests who were to be invited tonight.

If Jiang Yu was here, he would be able to recognize them at a glance, because these are the leaders of Jiang University, one is the vice president of Jiang University, one is Fan Chuliang, the director of propaganda, and the other is Niu Wenlin, the director of logistics. .

The vice-principal hadn't tasted the food in the No. [-] canteen, so he behaved fairly well. Fan Chuliang and Niu Wenlin were a little different. They didn't know what they were thinking, and they kept swallowing their saliva along the way.

This made the vice principal a little speechless, and looked back at them from time to time:
What about you two?
Isn't it just a meal? !
(End of this chapter)