Abnormal Food Article

Chapter 168 Upgrade

Huang Shengli took over the responsibility of teaching after winning the argument and started giving theoretical classes skillfully.

The "Suiyuan Food List" emphasizes the importance of the quality of the ingredients on the instruction sheet. To make a table of delicious dishes, the chef responsible for cooking takes 60% of the credit, and the person who purchases the ingredients takes 40% of the credit. It can be seen that if you want to be an excellent chef, you must first know how to select good ingredients.

Qin Huai had read some "Suiyuan Food List" - Qin Luo bought one when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school.

I bought it at a used bookstall at the back door of the elementary school. It costs three yuan a book, which is two yuan more expensive than the Dim Sum Encyclopedia. Qin Luo thought that "Suiyuan Food List" was the same recipe as "Dim Sum Encyclopedia", and if he opened it, he would find different delicious ones that he could go back and make.

After buying it, I found that it was actually a classical Chinese book with translation. Although Qin Luo was sad that he had spent 3 yuan in vain, he still read "Suiyuan Food List" for the sake of money, and Qin Huai also read it together. A few pages.

After reading the first few pages of the instruction sheet.

Qin Huai was deeply impressed by the last duty instruction.

Its general meaning is that the main cooking methods of Manchu cuisine and Han cuisine are different. The chefs on both sides have been accustomed to their respective dishes since childhood, so they are very good at their respective methods. So when they entertain each other and prepare dishes in the way they are good at, the guests will find it delicious and the chefs will not lose their own characteristics.

But now many chefs have forgotten to maintain their own characteristics and deliberately try to please guests. Not only are they unable to make the characteristics of each other's dishes, but they have also lost their own original intention.

This is like a scholar entering an examination room. If he blindly imitates, if he meets a master, he imitates a master, and if he meets an examiner, he will imitate the examiner. He will only learn superficially and will never pass the exam.

The reason why Qin Huai was deeply impressed by this duty instruction was not because he thought it was written correctly, but because he thought it was nonsense.

What's wrong with imitation? Qin Huai has been making dim sum by reading recipes and learning from other people's recipes since he was a child. He learned from the Dim Sum Encyclopedia when he met him, and he learned from the pastry shop owner when he met the pastry shop owner. He rarely failed and won many praises.

That is to say, the level of contact now is a bit high, and I couldn’t learn from Zheng Da.

After Qin Huai completely imitated Zheng Da's method for the first time and made a big mistake, the instructions for his duty came to his mind.

Could it be that he is now that scholar who can only learn superficially and will never pass the exam?

Qin Huai is still learning how to select crabs from Huang Shengli.

He knows how to pick shrimps, but he is really bad at picking crabs. Unexpectedly, crab is the most important thing in crab roe siomai. Crab roe provides the most overbearing flavor in crab roe siomai, and crab meat that assists crab roe to make it less overbearing are the two star ingredients in this dim sum.

How to select crabs, get the meat, how much meat to get, and how to judge the status of crab roe and crab meat are the most important aspects of the preliminary preparations.

Of course, if Qin Huai is the master chef of the restaurant, he can do this by hand. No master chef will do this kind of preliminary work of handling side dishes, and even Huang Shengli will not do this unless necessary. .

But not doing it doesn't mean that he doesn't know how to do it. Qin Huai must know how to do it now before he is qualified not to do it.

Qin Huai quietly turned his head and glanced at Zheng Da, who had walked to the side of the steamer.

Zheng Da was squatting by the steamer watching the video. He was so focused that Qin Huai could vaguely hear a few key words.

Lectures, methods, expressions, descriptions.

It can be seen that Zheng Da really wants to win the argument.

Zheng Siyuan was practicing his own on the side. He usually didn't come to Huang Ji's kitchen in the afternoon. He heard that Qin Huai turned over a big one yesterday. Today was a rare occasion for Zheng Da and Huang Shengli to gather in the kitchen. Zheng Siyuan came over to join in. Let's take a look at the excitement to see if we need to break up the fight.

Gong Liang is no longer sitting at the door of the kitchen, but he seems to have not left. He went outside to make calls and handle work.

Qin Huai felt that Gong Liang would most likely not be able to eat the crab roe shaomai made by Zheng Da this afternoon. Today, Master Zheng's teaching license was revoked and he was banned from teaching, so Gong Liang's trip was in vain.

Qin Huai planned to open a small stove for Gong Liang tomorrow and make two fruits as a reward, so as not to lose his favorability.

Qin Huai was picking crabs according to the method taught by Huang Shengli. He picked up one and looked at Huang Shengli. He felt relieved when he saw the other's approving eyes.

"Master Huang, I have a question for you." Qin Huai said softly.

"Oh? Tell me." Huang Shengli immediately cheered up.

"I know that in theory, when learning something, you shouldn't blindly imitate it." Qin Huai put the selected crabs into the plastic frame and began to choose the next plump crab he wanted. "But it's hard for me not to imitate."

"I never thought there was anything wrong with imitation before. Even when I was making apple noodles, I was completely imitating Zheng Siyuan."

"But now I am also imitating. I even think that my skill in making stuffing is pretty good, but I end up imitating it like this."

"Is my method wrong from the beginning? This shouldn't be the way to make snacks?"

Huang Shengli did not answer immediately, but smiled and helped Qin Huai pick another crab.

"If Huang Jia asked me that, I would definitely tell him that yes, that's not how dim sum is made."

"Huang Jia is facing the same problem now. I taught him his craft step by step. He taught me by words and deeds from a young age. He is simply a younger version of me. When you eat his food, you can clearly **** style. You will know it as soon as you eat it. This is my apprentice."

"He became famous because of this, and he was trapped because of it. When I was there, he helped me at Huangji. The old diners came here for my cooking and were also willing to try Huang Jia's cooking. But I was not here, and there was no regular meal. Lord, an imitator with poor craftsmanship is not enough to attract so many customers, and Huang Ji’s business will be ruined.”

"This is Huang Jia's dilemma. He has this trouble. He has been thinking about how to get rid of the shadow of my master, how to stop imitating and making his own dishes."

"This is actually the dilemma of most celebrity chef disciples. If they were ordinary celebrity chef disciples, I would definitely tell them that this is wrong and that cooking cannot be imitated blindly."

Qin Huai felt that Huang Shengli's words were limited.

"But you are different." Huang Shengli said, "Do you think Zheng Siyuan's dim sum looks like Zheng Da's?"

"Like." Qin Huai said with certainty. It's more than just like it. As soon as he eats it, he knows that it is a snack made by his father and son who came from the same family.

When the father and son stand together making snacks, they look like they are copying and pasting, with similar techniques and movements.

"Then do you think Siyuan's dim sum is imitating Zheng Da?"

Qin Huai was asked.

It is true that Zheng Da's craftsmanship is better than Zheng Siyuan's, and their dim sum styles, methods, and sects are the same, but when it comes to imitation, it's really not an imitation.

Zheng Siyuan is a dim sum chef with a very personal style.

The dim sum he is good at and the dim sum he is not good at are very obvious and distinct. As long as he eats the dim sum he is good at and eats it a few times, he will be able to taste it the next time he takes a bite and it is made by Zheng Siyuan.

"For ordinary chefs, blind imitation is the threshold that limits them. But for chefs like you and Siyuan, imitation is a way for you to quickly master it."

"This kind of ordinary bottleneck will not restrain you at all. I guess Xiao Qin you are asking me this because the crab roe shaomai is not a good imitation." Huang Shengli said with a smile.

Qin Huai lowered his head in shame. Huang Shengli's words were still too tactful. Not only did he not imitate well, he was simply miserable.

"Don't worry, this is not your problem, it's purely because Zheng Da doesn't know how to teach." Huang Shengli glanced at Zheng Da, who was still immersed in watching the video, "He has a heart that wants to be a master, but he doesn't have the heart to be a good master. Ability. I want to take you flying before you can walk steadily. How can I skip steps like that?”

"Follow me for two days to familiarize yourself with the dishes, establish a connection with the ingredients, and then season them to make crab roe siomai. You don't have to do crab roe siomai for these two days. You can work as a laborer for two days, specializing in handling the ingredients."

Of course Qin Huai doesn't mind handling the ingredients, as long as Huang Ji doesn't mind, he can do anything.

"What about the processed ingredients?" Qin Huai felt that Huang Ji didn't seem to have that many shrimp and crab dishes that needed to be chopped.

"Let Zheng Da make crab roe shaomai. He is idle anyway. You can learn while you are doing it and watching. Doesn't he want to be a master? Being a master also requires you to do your homework in advance." Huang Shengli said, junior brother, please work hard. It's nothing. Junior brother has a good waist and can make snacks.

"It just so happens that I haven't eaten crab roe siomai in a row for several years. If I let him cook it for a while, I can enjoy the taste."

Qin Huai:…

The relationship between you senior brothers is really unpredictable.

In this way, Qin Huai began his life as a dessert chef who directed in the morning, and a vegetable preparer who was directed in the afternoon.

Every day I work hard to pick shrimps, pick crabs, peel shrimps and pick crab meat, chop shrimp meat into pieces, chop crab meat into pieces. Qin Huai soon became a crab man. He smelled of crab wherever he went. People in Huang Ji's kitchen didn't even have to look up. They knew it was Qin Huai just by smelling the smell.

This kind of training method for food preparation workers is really useful. Listening to the theoretical knowledge about shrimp and crab meat 1,000 times is not as useful as actually peeling shrimp and crabs for four or five days.

Real knowledge comes from practice.

For the employees of Huangji Kitchen, these days are also very magical.

During the morning and noon time periods, you will not be able to see Zheng Da and Huang Shengli.

Zheng Da didn't want to get up early unless necessary, and he didn't want to come to the kitchen before noon.

Huang Shengli could get up, but he didn't want to come to the kitchen. He would either drink tea or do physical therapy in the morning.

The pair of apprentice brothers usually have to wait until 2 o'clock in the afternoon to meet at the top of Huangji's kitchen.

Then they started quarreling as soon as they met.

Whoever wins the argument will teach.

Huang Shengli usually has a good personality with a smile, speaks softly and doesn't lose his temper very much, but when it comes to quarreling, he still has very strong skills and has never been at a disadvantage. Huang Shengli won every time, causing Zheng Da to lose his armor and lose his armor.

Zheng Da can only watch videos related to teaching resources for an hour every day to learn how to be a qualified teacher, and then make crab roe shaomai.

The kitchen is wonderful, and the entrance to the kitchen is not bad either.

Gong Liang bought a comfortable chair instead of sitting on a small bench. He brought the chair to the back kitchen door every day and squatted on crab roe Shaomai. Occasionally make a few phone calls to deal with work matters, so that people passing by can't help but ask, are you capitalists with free wealth so free?

It’s not just the bosses in TV dramas who don’t go to work every day and only focus on falling in love. Your middle-aged boss in real life also doesn’t go to work every day and only does snacks.

Is crab roe siomai that delicious?

Well, there is.

If you really don't work, it's still worth staying. Gong Liang has a house in the opposite community and has been living in the opposite community recently. It's very close.

This wonderful life of students working as laborers, masters quarreling, and onlookers bringing their own benches lasted for six days.

It’s not that Qin Huai stopped working as a part-time worker on the seventh day.

He has to continue working as a laborer. Although he has started to try to mix the fillings for the crab roe shaomai, he must be fully responsible for handling the ingredients.

Mainly because a very important thing happened on the 7th day.

Something that has little to do with crab roe siomai, but has a lot to do with many other dim sum.

Qin Huai's attitude escalated.

Advanced dough!

After Qin Huai went to Suzhou and practiced hard for a period of time first on the heat and then on the seasoning, finally God rewarded his hard work and Huang Tian paid off. Thanks to his hard work, Qin Huai was successfully promoted from intermediate to advanced.

Isn't this a kind of progress?

Qin Huai realized that his dough had been upgraded when he was kneading the dough for the last batch of fermented steamed buns.

This feeling of upgrade is mysterious.

The feeling of upgrading from intermediate to advanced is more obvious than that from beginner to intermediate. It is not exaggerated to the point where it feels like you have instantly opened up the second channel of Ren and Du to understand the peerless magical skill, but it does feel better when kneading the dough.

The dough on your hands is more obedient and easier to handle.

There was a major breakthrough in making noodles, and Qin Huai felt that he should celebrate.

But how to celebrate?

He now practices crab roe siomai every afternoon. The most important thing about crab roe siomai is making noodles.

Using high-grade baking dough to knead the skin of crab roe shaomai can even create a feeling that the hero has no place to play.

How about doing something else?

What to do? For whom?

Huang Jiadiao's chicken stock seems pretty good today.

It smelled so good that when Qin Huai just passed by, he couldn't help but drink half a bowl to taste it. Huang Jia thought Qin Huai was hungry because he had eaten less in the morning, so he asked Qin Huai if he would like to temporarily set up a small stove and cook two dishes for Qin Huai.

Qin Huai felt that it was a bit too monotonous for people like Huang Ji to have a big pot of rice for staff lunch every day.

Speaking of which, the waiters in the lobby and private rooms have not eaten the breakfast he made.

Qin Huai's daily breakfast is made according to the number of kitchen staff. Occasionally the foreman comes early and can have a bite, which the ordinary waiters must have never eaten.

It's so inappropriate. We have been colleagues for so long, but we have never tasted our own craftsmanship.

Although Qin Huai didn't remember what the waiters looked like at all, and he couldn't even remember the names of the waiters in his own canteen, but.

He wanted to show off his advanced skills.

The newly upgraded famian is not shown to everyone like a night walk in brocade clothes.

If you don’t eat it, how can I show off in a low-key manner that my craftsmanship has improved?

Qin Huai quickly finished the last batch of fermented steamed buns, silently moved to Huang Jia who had just finished frying a portion of stir-fried three shredded buns, and asked:

"Brother Jia, who is responsible for the staff meal at noon today?"

"Dong Li is in charge. What, are you hungry? Tell me what you want to eat. I have a few more dishes here. I'll cook them for you when I'm free."

"No, no." Qin Huai waved his hands repeatedly, "I want to take responsibility."

Huang Jia paused while looking at the order: "You?"

"Yes!" Qin Huai said sincerely, "To be honest with Brother Jia, I have dealt with too many shrimps and crabs during this period. I really want to make snacks. The fixed amount of snacks every day is simply not enough for me. ”

"And I really want to make noodles. I couldn't make enough with the amount I made in the morning. I want to continue making noodles at noon."

“You guys don’t mind having chicken noodle soup for lunch, right?”

Huang Jia:…

Are you Baikan dim sum chefs a little bit perverted?

He had always thought that it was outrageous for Zheng Siyuan to go back and make snacks after the blind date, but he didn't expect Qin Huai to be the same.

What can Huang Jia say? He also wants to eat chicken noodle soup.

Who can resist a bowl of steaming, chewy and fragrant chicken noodle soup made by Qin Huai himself, with mushrooms and greens as the cooking code?

It would be better if Qin Huai could not cook the noodles himself and let him do it.

"I'll tell Dong Shi," Huang Jiadao said. Seeing Qin Huai turn around and leave in excitement, he couldn't help but stop him.

"Well..." Huang Jia didn't know what to say for a moment, "Qin Huai, don't put too much pressure on yourself."

"The first two crab roe siomai are nothing. Your skills are obvious to all."

Qin Huai still didn't understand why Huang Jia suddenly started to comfort him inexplicably, but since it was comfort, it was a good intention, so he nodded and accepted it.

"I don't have any pressure." Qin Huai said, "I just suddenly wanted to make noodles."

“The kind of pastry that has a heavy proportion of noodles.”

(End of chapter)