Siheyuan: Master of the Fire, Eating Watermelons Online

Chapter 117: Show off your skills and conquer the kitchen of the steel mill

Soon, Wang Weiguo, accompanied by Li Huaide, came to the canteen of the steel rolling mill.

On the way, Wang Weiguo also learned that the next people to be entertained were the leaders who came down from above to inspect today.

The reason is naturally the big assessment of the steel rolling mill today.

"Weiguo, take a look and see what ingredients you need next. I'll have someone arrange them right away."

With Li Huaide's deliberate approach and Wang Weiguo's lack of resistance, the two quickly became closer, and the way Li Huaide addressed Wang Weiguo also changed.

A 19-year-old level 5 cook is obviously worthy of Li Huaide's current efforts to win over and invest in him.

Wang Weiguo is still young. As long as nothing unexpected happens, it will not be a problem for him to become a state banquet-level chef like his master Sun Maofeng.

Even now, as long as we have established good relationships, we can use it if there is a situation like today.

In their steel rolling mill, there are no level 5 cooks, let alone level 6 or 7 cooks.

Moreover, the highest-level cooks at level eight can only cook big pots. It is no problem to cook for workers, but it is difficult for them to cook for leaders.

For some chefs, cooking small meals and cooking big pots are two completely different tracks.

"Director Li, I'd like to ask where are the leaders here today from? Do they have any dietary restrictions? Or do they have favorite flavors and dishes?"

Wang Weiguo did not rush to decide on the menu and order ingredients, but first asked Li Huaide for information.

"Do you know other cuisines?"

Li Huaide could understand the elegant meaning of the music. He obviously understood the purpose of Wang Weiguo's questions just now, and immediately looked at Wang Weiguo with some surprise.

When talking about Fengze Garden, almost everyone thinks of Shandong cuisine first, and Wang Weiguo's master, Sun Maofeng, is a master chef of Shandong cuisine. Li Huaide naturally classified Wang Weiguo, as his last disciple, into this category and never thought of anything else.

Wang Weiguo replied with a smile: "Although my family mainly cooks Shandong cuisine, I like to study it and I also know some other cuisines."

The intermediate cooking skills purchased by the system cover not only Shandong cuisine, but almost all cuisines.

At the current level, it is not an exaggeration to say that Wang Weiguo is an all-round master.

The ten thousand dollars spent on eating the melon was not wasted.

However, if it is said like this, it will be hard for people to believe it. According to Wang Weiguo's teacher-student relationship and learning experience, it is necessary to downplay other things.

Even so, Li Huaide was still a little hesitant.

Because what he values ​​most is Wang Weiguo's skills in cooking Shandong cuisine.

As for the level of Wang Weiguo's other cuisines, in Li Huaide's opinion, they are far inferior to Shandong cuisine.

Maybe, but probably not accurately.

Today's lunch reception is very important to the steel rolling mill, and Li Huaide dare not take any risks.

But Wang Weiguo had just said that, and he didn’t want to offend Wang Weiguo.

Wang Weiguo saw Li Huaide's embarrassment and didn't care. He smiled and suggested, "How about this! Director Li, you haven't tasted my cooking skills. How about you order two dishes and I'll cook them for you to comment on. Any cuisine is fine."

"Whatever?"

Seeing Wang Weiguo speak so confidently, Li Huaide was a little stunned.

"I can't say how good it is, but it's definitely worthy of the title of a Level 5 cook."

Wang Weiguo didn't dare to say too much.

After all, although his current level is not low, there is still a gap compared with his two senior brothers in the government agency, especially his master.

"Okay! Since you said so, I will really order it."

Li Huaide was somewhat expectant and couldn't help but try out how capable Wang Weiguo was.

To be honest, from the time he met Wang Weiguo yesterday until now, Li Huaide has not tasted his cooking.

The reason why they looked for Wang Weiguo was simply because of his reputation as the last disciple of Fengzeyuan and Sun Maofeng, as well as recommendations from others. In addition, Wang Weiguo's reputation as a level five cook directly stunned him on the spot yesterday.

"Please order!"

Since he dared to spread the word, Wang Weiguo was not afraid of the test.

It is still necessary to show off muscles outside, so that Li Huaide will feel that he has invited the right person.

Li Huaide thought for a moment and said, "Then give me some Kung Pao Chicken and Braised Shredded Chicken."

One is from Sichuan and the other is from Shandong. It just so happens that among the important leaders who came today, one is from Sichuan Province.

Especially the braised shredded chicken, which is a Shandong cuisine taught by Master Wang Weiguo. If you can't even make this well, then there's no point in talking about anything else.

"Okay, Director Li, please help me prepare the ingredients..."

"Hold on!"

In order to prepare for today's reception, Li Huaide naturally made a lot of preparations in advance. There was no shortage of ingredients, and he quickly arranged for someone to get them.

The conversation between the two people naturally attracted the attention of other people in the cafeteria.

In fact, they heard early in the morning that Li Huaide had specially invited a chef from Fengze Garden to entertain the leaders who came to inspect today, and they had just discussed it.

But they didn't expect that the chef of Fengze Garden was actually a young man younger than them.

In their canteen, he would definitely be an apprentice in the kitchen who had just joined the factory.

Upon discovering this situation, some of them naturally felt dissatisfied, especially the chef who was a level 8 cook.

I originally thought that since the chef who usually cooked for the factory was injured and couldn't come, I had to take charge of the factory's reception today. I could take advantage of this opportunity when the leaders came to inspect and perform well in front of the factory leaders and superiors. I didn't expect Li Huaide to be so disrespectful and directly look for external aid, and he found it from Fengze Garden.

Isn’t this a dimensionality reduction attack?

Who hasn’t heard of Fengze Garden?

These three words alone are enough to make them give up the idea of ​​comparison.

but now……

They found that there was still a chance.

"Director Li, this is the chef of Fengze Garden? So young?"

The factory chef who was a level 8 cook in the cafeteria stepped forward and asked with a contemptuous and questioning tone: "My little brother, I wonder who your master is. Have you passed the level 10 cook?"

Facing the other party's slightly provocative behavior, Wang Weiguo ignored him and looked at Li Huaide, pretending to be puzzled and asked: "Director Li, who is this?"

"Luo Dachuan, don't you have a job? Why are you here to cause trouble?"

"Everyone else is busy with their own work, but you have too much to do."

"Ma Youfu, look at how you are doing as the canteen director. You can't manage the people under you."

"Director Li, I'm sorry, I didn't manage it well..."

"Luo Dachuan, why don't you get back to work? Don't you see that everyone is busy washing vegetables and preparing food? Today is a big assessment in the factory. If anything goes wrong, I will hold you accountable."

"..."

As a government official, Li Huaide could see what Luo Dachuan was thinking. He immediately got angry and also scolded Ma Youfu, the canteen director who had just greeted Wang Weiguo at the factory gate.

He was the one who invited Wang Weiguo. Luo Dachuan's actions just now were not only a provocation to Wang Weiguo, but also a slap in his face.

Before I even suspected Wang Weiguo, he was the first to question him.

Luo Dachuan didn't expect that he just went up to say a few words, but the logistics director Li Huaide and the canteen director Ma Youfu didn't give him face, and were so rude in front of so many people in the kitchen. He was upset, but Li Huaide and Ma Youfu were both leaders, so he could only endure it.

Ma Youfu is fine, but Li Huaide is someone you really can't afford to offend.

The people in the cafeteria who originally wanted to watch the fun, when they saw Luo Dachuan being scolded, quickly lowered their heads and continued doing what they were doing.

As Luo Dachuan left in disgrace, Li Huaide said to Wang Weiguo helplessly, "My subordinates are ignorant. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."

Li Huaide usually treats his subordinates in a friendly manner and rarely gets angry or takes his anger out on them, but Luo Dachuan's behavior just now made him feel somewhat ashamed.

It's a disgrace to the outside world.

If you don’t know, you might think he can no longer manage his subordinates.

The main reason is that Luo Dachuan has been responsible for all the recent special treatment, which made him mistakenly think that he is capable and become a little inflated.

To be honest, Luo Dachuan is good at cooking big pot dishes, but his small cooking is just average, far worse than the original level 10 cook.

If there is no more suitable candidate, there will be no need to force the candidate.

As for Wang Weiguo, he didn't take this seriously at all.

It's not that just because any Tom or Dick comes up and jumps around a few times, you have to compete with him or her.

He was not interested in wasting time on boring pretense and face-slapping.

This kind of thing should be handled directly by Li Huaide.

He was invited by Li Huaide, and he was only responsible for doing his job well.

Not a moment later.

The people below brought the ingredients that Wang Weiguo needed.

At this point in time, it was still early for noon and the people in the cafeteria were still washing and preparing vegetables, so there was plenty of space on the stove.

Wang Weiguo directly found one and started working.

This action naturally attracted the attention of everyone in the cafeteria.

Li Huaide was right next to them, and after learning from Luo Dachuan's lesson just now, they were just being too obvious, secretly glancing over here while working.

There is no suspense.

Even before the dishes were ready, Wang Weiguo's smooth knife skills and stirring of the wok, coupled with the aroma wafting from the cooking, quickly won the praise of Li Huaide and everyone in the cafeteria.

"Stewed shredded chicken, Director Li, please try it."

When the first dish came out of the pot, Wang Weiguo didn't even pay attention to Li Huaide's reaction, and directly started preparing the next Sichuan specialty, Kung Pao Chicken.

Li Huaide didn't hesitate to pick up the chopsticks and tasted it, then he couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

He was not shocked. After all, he worked with his father-in-law and had tasted state banquet-quality dishes. He had also been to Fengze Garden before.

But to be honest, Wang Weiguo's craftsmanship is impeccable.

At least he deserves the title of a fifth-level cook. He has not damaged the reputation of Fengze Garden, and he is still the last disciple of Shandong cuisine master Sun Maofeng.

Apart from anything else, Wang Weiguo's cooking skills of Shandong cuisine are really top notch.

This made him look forward to what the next dish, Kung Pao Chicken, would be like.

This is another cuisine.

Soon, the Kung Pao Chicken was freshly baked.

After just one bite, Li Huaide was surprised.

It is completely on par with the stewed shredded chicken dish we just had.

Originally, in Li Huaide's opinion, Wang Weiguo might be able to cook dishes of other cuisines, but he would definitely not be able to reach the level of his Shandong cuisine.

But now, he found that he was still thinking too simply.

"Are your other cuisines also at this level?"

The two dishes prepared by Wang Weiguo clearly proved that he was not bragging. Li Huaide already believed it, but still couldn't help but ask.

"almost."

This time Wang Weiguo was not modest.

Seeing is believing. Since Li Huaide has already experienced it, there is no need to be modest anymore.

"Amazing!"

Li Huaide was convinced.

This was even more shocking than when he found out yesterday that Wang Weiguo was a level five cook.

There are differences between different cuisines, but many things in cooking are actually common.

A chef who is proficient in one cuisine will usually be good at cooking other cuisines. However, it is not easy to cook as well as the cuisine he is good at.

But Wang Weiguo did it.

The key point is that Wang Weiguo himself said that there are more than just one or two cuisines.

With the verification just now, Li Huaide no longer had any doubts about what he said.

"Everyone, please stop what you are doing and try these two dishes."

After tasting and truly understanding Wang Weiguo's cooking skills, Li Huaide directly called all the staff in the cafeteria's kitchen over.

Because of Wang Weiguo's age, Li Huaide naturally noticed the doubts that everyone in the cafeteria had before, otherwise Luo Dachuan would not have jumped out just now.

Although Wang Weiguo had conquered some people by cooking just now, in order to go a step further, Li Huaide obviously wanted them to try the two dishes made by Wang Weiguo.

This is not only to clear Wang Weiguo's name, but also to consolidate his own authority and prove that his decision to hire people was extremely correct.

It was a rare occasion that Li Huaide spoke, and the crowd, whose appetites had already been aroused by the two dishes, naturally would not refuse. They rushed over with chopsticks in hand, fighting for the food.

"good to eat!"

"too delicious."

"As expected of a chef invited by Fengze Garden."

"You can't judge a person by his appearance. He is so amazing at such a young age."

"Impressed!"

“I’ve never eaten anything so delicious in my life.”

"..."

Hearing everyone's praises, Luo Dachuan, who had just wanted to challenge Wang Weiguo, was originally proud of his status and wanted to be a little reserved, but in the end he couldn't help but come over with chopsticks, wanting to see if he was as good as everyone said.

As soon as I got there, I found that these two dishes had been snatched up by others.

There was no room for him at all and they just ate it all up.

Luo Dachuan couldn't help but look upset as he didn't even have the chance to taste it.

But no one paid any attention to him. After tasting the food, everyone was still unsatisfied, but went back to work with some satisfaction. Wang Weiguo and Li Huaide had already started discussing the dishes for the lunch reception and the ingredients that would be needed next.

(End of this chapter)