Abnormal Food Article

Chapter 204 The Unfaithful Melon

After finishing the meal, Gong Baozhu and Guo Mingzhu almost turned into waiters in Hainan, frantically pouring water for Qin Huai. He didn't eat two bites of Qinhuai food, and Huang Ji drank a lot of free tea.

After eating, Qin Huai wondered if this was a plan by the mother and daughter to make him eat less.

Huang Shengli cooked a total of 8 dishes, and the portions were not small. There were only 6 people at Qin Huai's table, so naturally they couldn't finish them all.

Adhering to the principle of never wasting anything, the Gong family enthusiastically packed even the vegetable soup. Gong Baozhu and Guo Mingzhu almost turned against each other in order to seize the ownership of Da Zhu Gansi.

After Gong Liang finished eating, he went to the kitchen door to discuss with Huang Shengli in detail the details of tomorrow's three-head banquet. Xiao Liu tried to break up the fight, but unfortunately he was involved in the dish-sharing dispute with the boss's family. Gong Baozhu and Guo Mingzhu asked Xiao Liu to divide the dried shredded noodles fairly and fairly. Xiao Liu panicked and wanted to find Shaodong's family to help, but found that Shaodong's Gong Liye had already slipped away to check out and fled, so he could only bite his teeth and share the dishes.

As for Qinhuai.

After watching this wonderful show, he quietly left, preparing to go back to the kitchen to chat and start cooking.

As a result, he was stopped by Gong Liye in the middle of the journey.

"Qin...Master Qin." Gong Liye secretly stuffed Qin Huai a small can of tea with a little embarrassment, "I just heard from my dad that you started drinking tea recently. This is a good tea I bought some time ago. If you like it, Drink, I still have some over there and I’ll send them to you in a while.”

Qin Huai accepted the tea leaves and looked at Gong Liye, waiting for what he would say next.

Qin Huai and Gong Liye basically had no contact and only met twice. Giving gifts was Gong Liang's job, and now that Gong Liye had taken his father's job away, he must have something to say.

"I have one more favor to ask."

"Can you make white sugar cakes? When I was a child, I often ate the white sugar cakes sold by an old lady who set up a stall in front of the school. When I grew up, I never tasted that kind of cake. I know that you are good at your craftsmanship, so I want to treat you …”

No game alert sounds.

This shows that Gong Liye is most likely a 100% pure person.

"I can make sugar cakes. Add me on WeChat and let me know when you are free. I will make it in advance." Qin Huai agreed immediately.

Gong Liye had forgotten that Qin Huai could also make such simple and everyday pastries.

When Qin Luo was very young, he loved eating simple pastries like white sugar cake. Later, when Qin Luo grew up, he started drooling over palace dramas. The white sugar cake was relegated to the cold palace by Qin Luo. Qin Huai had not made sugar cake for many years. Too bad.

Just take it out and practice.

If it's delicious, I'll arrange it for Xu Cheng tomorrow.

In the past two days, Qin Huai made Xu Cheng the same palace snacks that Qin Luo once loved. They had fancy names and simple looks. It's time to make Xu Cheng some simple snacks with simple names and simple looks.

When Qin Huai returned to the kitchen, he was surprised to find that the six people at Zhiweiju were still working.

Work voluntarily and proactively.

Seeing Qin Huai back, the helper who had been helping Qin Huai all morning poured tea on his own initiative, and then returned to the kitchen table to continue kneading dough.

"What's going on?" Qin Huai asked Dong Shi, who was standing outside the warehouse eavesdropping on Gong Liang and Huang Shengli's speech.

"Mr. Gong wants to eat bigger pig faces." Dong Shi said.

"I'm not asking about this, I'm asking about that." Qin Huai held the teacup in his left hand and pointed at the people working overtime with his right hand.

"Oh, you're talking about Guli and the others, Zhiweiju's are all like this." Dong Shi glanced at the white case area, thought of something at that time, and lowered his voice, "I have a Zhiweiju melon here, but it's not true, do you want to eat it? ?”

"Eat!" Qin Huai said it didn't matter whether it was true or not, he could make his own judgment.

"Gu Li and the others were squeezed out this time." Dong Shi said, "Master Tan has a total of 5 direct disciples. Tan Wei'an is the third senior brother and Gu Li is the junior junior brother."

"Master Tan could no longer cook three or four years before his death. In the last year, he was lying in the hospital. As soon as Master Tan left, his first and second apprentices left Zhiweiju and went to other restaurants. The fourth disciple also left last year, and now only Tan Wei'an and Gu Li are left."

"Actually, this rumor has always been there, and this time it was directly confirmed. Look at the six people who came this time. Except for Gu Li and Tan Wei'an, the others are ordinary apprentices. They don't even have masters. Isn't it certain that they will be excluded?"

"Then why couldn't it be that Tan Weian wanted to help because of the good relationship between Master Zheng and Master Tan, so he took the initiative to invite Miao to help?" Qin Huai asked.

Qin Huai asked Dong Shi directly with this question. Dong Shi thought about it and felt it made sense, so he nodded.

"I also think this possibility is relatively high. Zhiweiju hires so many chefs every year and produces so many chefs. If Master Tan is no longer here, it is normal for his disciples to develop outside."

"Forget about ostracizing Guli. Tan Wei'an is the grandson of Master Tan. How can he exclude Tan Wei'an too? This melon must be a fake melon. I'll talk to the melon-eating group later." Dong Shi said as he was about to take it out. cell phone.

"Why is it okay to exclude Guli? Is Guli often excluded? In fact, I found it very strange in the morning. Logically speaking, Tan Wei'an is the one with the best cooking skills and the highest seniority among the six people, and he is also the grandson of Master Tan. , Theoretically speaking, he should be the most famous, but I feel like a lot of people’s attention is on Guli, and the first thing they see is Guli.”

"What's wrong with Gu Li? Is he famous?" Qin Huai asked.

Only then did Dong Shi realize that Qin Huai, as a pure wild man, did not know many facts generally recognized in the cooking circle and what everyone considered common sense.

Dong Shi immediately started to popularize science.

As Tan Wenyan's last disciple, Gu Li is also Tan Wenyan's most famous disciple. He is famous not because of his talent, but because of his clumsiness.

Speaking of which, Gu Li also comes from a family with culinary skills. His father is the chef of Guanhe Tower, and is also a well-known red case master in Suzhou, ranking 67th in the celebrity chef list. Her mother is a chef from Bai An and has not been listed in the list of famous chefs. However, as a rare female chef, she is also well-known in the Jiangnan area.

Normally, people with this background would get scripts written by young geniuses like Zheng Siyuan, and almost scripts written by young masters like Huang Anyao.

But Guli happened to be a combination of these two people.

He has no talent, but loves cooking and insists on taking the path of Bai An. His parents had no choice but to use their connections to send their son to Zhiweiju through the back door.

In Zhiweiju, a place where even a brick could smash out several well-known criminal geniuses in a certain place, Gu Li, who has a mediocre talent, is directly set off as a super poor student, and he is also a poor student with connections.

It was such a poor student who was spotted by Master Tan Wenyan, who devoted his life to studying ancient dim sum and restoring long-lost dim sum recipes, and accepted him as a closed disciple.

"To be honest, Gu Li's talent is well-known in the cooking circle. Anyone who is a disciple of a famous teacher knows about it, whether he is a red case or a white case. But he just has a poor talent, and you can't throw all the dirt on him. Po, there have been rumors in the past few years that his parents gave him a backdoor, so Master Tan reluctantly accepted him as a closed disciple. "

"Master Tan was unwilling to accept him, so he never taught him techniques and let him lay the foundation. When newbies were learning the foundations, he was laying the foundations. After they finished the foundations and started to learn techniques, he was still practicing. Base."

"This is simply made up out of nothing. Anyone with any brains knows that an apprentice is the face of a master. Especially a master like Master Tan who has been famous for a long time, it is absolutely impossible to accept an apprentice and then delay it for such ridiculous reasons. People.”

"However, it is basically a fact that Gu Li practiced for many years after he was accepted as a disciple by Master Tan. It is basically difficult to find a second person with worse talent than him among the disciples of famous teachers. After a long time, he became famous, and it is not Any good reputation is basically based on laughing at him and looking down on him.”

"Actually, if he could have been born more than ten years earlier, the situation might not be so bad. A year or two after Gu Li finished practicing the basic skills, Master Tan's health was not very good. He didn't learn much. After Master Tan left, he should be Tan Wei'an taught him."

"The way Zhiweiju is, if you have a master, you can learn from the master. If you don't have a master, you can only look here and there and join in. While others are teaching their disciples, they can stand far away and watch and learn."

"Gu Li's situation now is not as good as those without a master. At least he can stand in the corner and watch openly. It would be too embarrassing for him to stand in the corner and watch like an ordinary apprentice, but Master Tan has passed away."

"As far as I know, Tan Wei'an's craftsmanship is only average. The skills taught by my senior brothers are not as good as those of my master. There are many masters in Zhiweiju who are real masters." "If Gu Li is a genius, those masters will definitely I would teach him enthusiastically and proactively, but he just doesn’t.”

Dong Shi said no more.

Qin Huai understood.

Gu Li's current situation is that although he comes from a famous family and is still a direct disciple of a large sect, his master has passed away and he has not learned much about his skills. He has status and seniority but no strength, so he can easily be laughed at behind his back.

This is a perfect template for a counterattack protagonist in a fairy tale!

"Master Tan is right to let him practice the basics for many years." Qin Huai said, "If he is not talented, he can only practice the basic skills as solidly as possible, so that when he practices other snacks in the future, he will be able to master everything. ”

"Is that so?" Dong Shi didn't quite understand, and felt that Qin Huai must be right since he said that.

"Then should I also practice my basic skills? Master always scolds me for not having solid basic skills."

Qin Huai: ...You should first learn to close your mouth when chopping vegetables and not get distracted by chatting.

Dong Shi wanted to say something more. Huang Shengli and Gong Liang had already discussed the details of the three-head banquet in the warehouse. Gong Liang walked out with satisfaction and saw Qin Huai at the door of the warehouse. He said enthusiastically:

"Master Xiao Qin, are you free tonight? I'll visit your house around 7 o'clock and bring you some cans of good tea."

Qin Huai thought that Gong Liang and his son had the same idea of ​​giving gifts, and nodded: "I plan to try making Sixi Rice Balls at home tonight. I will definitely be at home at 7 o'clock."

Gong Liang was moved again on the spot, and even wanted to take back the tea leaves that he gave to Huang Shengli last month and give them to Qin Huai.

"Xiao Qin, you rest for another half an hour. We will start practicing the fire in half an hour." Huang Shengli said with a smile.

"Okay, Master Huang."

After Huang Shengli finished speaking, he went out. Qin Huai guessed that he went to the bone setting shop next door for 20 minutes of light massage.

Dong Shi wanted to talk to Qin Huai about some more gossip, but Qin Huai was more interested in Gu Li, the protagonist of the gossip he just heard, and strolled to Gu Li with a teacup in hand.

Guli is making wishful rolls.

There is a plate on the cooking table that has been finished and is slightly cold, and Gu Li is making the second portion.

Qin Huai took a look at the finished product and felt that the shape of this Ruyi Roll was pretty good-looking, regardless of its taste.

This is a standard fried snack. The egg skin is wrapped with meat filling, and the egg skin is wrapped with flour. It is rolled into a moiré shape, cut into thick slices and deep fried until golden brown.

But it seems that Ruyi rolled into Ruyi shape is a standard dish as its name suggests. When Qin Huai was searching for Sixi Rice Balls and Clipper Flower Palace Lantern Buns in the toilet, he searched for Ruyi Roll and found that this snack was one of Master Tan's signature snacks. It was once a snack served at the Mongolian feudal banquet between the Manchu and Han Dynasties. After being lost for a time, it was restored by Master Tan according to ancient books.

While searching, Qin Huai also saw the Ruyi rolls made by Master Tan posted by netizens. Each piece of meat had clear cloud patterns on its cross section, which was very beautiful.

As for what Guli did in front of him...

Qin Huai looked at it carefully and could only say that the ingredients of the Ruyi rolls were very good. The egg skin was wrapped with meat fillings and fried, so the taste would definitely not be unpleasant.

Qin Huai glanced at Gu Li again.

Guli is chopping vegetables.

Qin Huai discovered in the morning that as a direct disciple of the master who came out of King Juan's training camp, Gu Li worked very slowly. He is slow in all aspects, slow in kneading dough, slow in chopping meat, slow in rolling out noodles, slow in wrapping fresh meat mooncakes, even slow in speaking, nodding, and expressing expressions.

His personality seems to be like this. He has to think about anything for two seconds before doing it.

He works slowly but also very meticulously.

Qin Huai watched Gu Li chopping vegetables for a while and found that his knife skills were also good.

When he laid the foundation, he shouldn't have also laid down the foundation of knife skills. As a white chef, Guli's knife skills are quite good.

At least he was 10 blocks ahead of Qin Huai, a swordsman with a proficiency level of only 179.

After watching for a while, Qin Huai suddenly pointed at Ruyijuan and said, "Can I try this?"

Gu Li stopped chopping meat, raised his head, hesitated for a few seconds, and nodded.

Qin Huai took chopsticks to pick them up.

Once cooled, this snack should be fine fresh out of the pan.

Eat again.

It seems that there was a little too much Shaoxing wine to remove the fishy smell.

Chew again.

The heat of Guli is also good. Fried dim sum is a test of the chef's heat, especially Ruyi rolls, which require crispy outside and tender inside.

"You can eat it with some Sichuan pepper salt." Gu Li silently brought a small stack of Sichuan pepper salt.

Qin Huai dipped some and found that the taste was indeed better.

If I insist on saying there is a problem, it's probably because the noodles are not good enough.

When Qin Huai first saw Guli kneading the dough, he thought the rolls were breaded with meat, but they turned out to be meat wrapped in egg skin, but with a layer of paste on the inside and outside.

There is a thin layer of dough rolled into the egg skin, and a thick layer of batter on the outside. If this is the way to go, what Qin Huai said at noon is actually not quite right. Such a thin layer of skin does need to be very soft.

If he had to rate the Ruyi Juan in front of him, Qin Huai would give it a C-.

Guli's foundation is very good, but it is only a good foundation. He needs to practice more, a lot of practice, to bring his good foundation into full play.

"I made a mistake before. I didn't expect this snack to be like this." Qin Huai said, "If you knead the dough well, you should knead it until it is soft."

Gu Li nodded and said nothing.

"But I still recommend that you use more skill. No matter what kind of dough is required, the effect of kneading the dough in a rigid way will not be very good." Qin Huai pointed to the dough on the side, "In the words of Master Zheng , the dough kneaded like this has no soul.”

"Also, when you added too much Shaoxing wine to the filling of this Ruyi Roll, the **** flavor is a bit too strong."

"Others are pretty good. His knife skills are much better than mine."

The dim sum collection has now been added to the character luxury package

(End of chapter)