Food Customizer

Seeing Lu Yongliang sitting on Su Chen's old boss chair, Su Chen felt more and more that letting the old man work on the 19th floor was the right choice.

First of all, the workload is very small, and I only cook one meal at most every day.

Furthermore, the 19th floor is different from other floors. In addition to craftsmanship, making dishes also requires wisdom. The work will not be monotonous if it is not repeated.

Just like now, Lu Yongliang is sitting there wearing reading glasses and mumbling something.

"Technician No. 2? Then who is Technician No. 1?"

Seeing Su Chen lying on the comfortable recliner, Lu Yongliang suddenly realized, "Is your kid No. 1? No, I like 88. This number is auspicious. You can change my number later."

Su Chen:? ? ?

The name "technician" is already very easy to confuse people. Do you want No. 88?

"It's delicious, delicious, a meal for four, five dishes, and the budget is 10,000 yuan? You can do it!"

Su Chen rested his hands on his head and looked at the ceiling, "You don't know the price here, ten thousand is a lot, right?"

“It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s also quite a lot!”

Lu Yongliang thought secretly, at least it would be more expensive than the dishes Cui Yufen cooked, so that would be fine. Thinking of this, he raised his head and asked, "You have already sent someone to register the company, why don't you also come with yourself?" Have you registered? Let’s see what level of membership you can get.”

Su Chen sat up and took a sip of tea, "Old man, do you think I am the kind of person who loves fame, wealth, and vanity? Apart from anything else, just the comment that you have to compete with others if you want to make progress is annoying. I'm too lazy to do it. ”

"But you can also not compete and wait for the monthly evaluation update?"

Su Chen felt that the old man didn't quite understand what he meant.

"Except for cooking delicious food and sleeping, I have no interest in anything else. As for the previous competition, if your apprentice hadn't been crying and begging me for help, I wouldn't have bothered to go."

"Tsk." Lao Lu's eyes fell on Su Chen with a hint of joking, "You are so young, and your life is more boring than a person like me who is seventy or eighty years old. Can I take you fishing later?"

Su Chen thought for a while, "That's okay!"

Fishing, it seems like I have never done it before. I didn’t have time before, but now I don’t really understand it.

"You just lie down, I'll continue studying the dishes."

Lu Yongliang pushed up his reading glasses, thought for a moment, and wrote down five dishes in his notebook.

They are: spring fish egg pineapple, poached meatballs, swan eggs, vegetarian chicken drumsticks with tomato sauce, and white fungus soup.

After writing down the five dishes, Lao Lu immersed himself in listing the ingredients.

Su Chen lay there and watched Lu Yongliang writing furiously. He couldn't help but be curious, got up and walked behind Lu Yongliang.

"These five dishes."

Just looking at the name of the dish, Su Chen couldn't help but feel a little shocked.

Because I had seen the recipes for these five dishes before, but I didn’t take them seriously at all. I only knew roughly how to make them, but I really didn’t know the specific taste.

But just looking at the menu, it includes five dishes: aquatic products, meat, poultry, vegetarian dishes, desserts, and beets are also a soup.

‘Is this the experience of a state banquet chef? ’

Although Su Chen also roughly knows the details and combinations of meals, many times, in order to show off his skills, or to provide better dishes, there is a certain conflict in the types of certain dishes.

It's just that Su Chen's cooking has always been too delicious, which actually covers up this shortcoming.

If you really meet a particular person, you will still feel a little uncomfortable eating.

This is just a choice of types of dishes. These five dishes are made in different ways.

‘If I could follow the old man for a while and watch him cook, I believe my level would be greatly improved! ’

Lu Yongliang was also writing down the ingredients very quickly. He felt someone behind him, turned his head and looked at it, and said with a smile, "What? Do you think these dishes of mine are okay?"

After all, in Lao Lu's heart, Su Chen was a stronger being than he and Cui Yufen.

In fact, only Su Chen knows best.

If we talk about one dish alone, with the existence of a practice room, I can indeed make it much better than these masters.

But when it comes to such customized dishes, Lu Yongliang is really better than himself in the selection and production of dishes!

Others make decisions directly without thinking, but I need to think hard and work hard all night in the practice room. This is not the same level at all.

"Okay, of course! These dishes of yours contain a variety of cooking techniques. I was thinking just now that this customer who was eating said that they were all delicious and delicious. I'm afraid he is not an ordinary customer, but a customer who knows a little bit. "

It's like taking an exam.

Propositional essays are easy to write, but open-ended essays are difficult to write.

Customers who can give this kind of open customization can eat whatever they want, just look at it.

"I think so too." Lao Lu capped his pen, "The cooking of Hubei cuisine focuses on steaming, simmering, frying, and stir-frying. This is why every Hubei chef must master the skill. These dishes are all done in this way. , and it covers three local flavors of Wuhan, Jingzhou, and Huangzhou. No matter who comes, as long as they are not picky, these dishes are enough to cope with it! ”

After listening to Lao Lu's statement, Su Chen couldn't help but take a deep breath.

He is worthy of being a master of state banquets!

In previous contacts, Lu Yongliang would only cook a dish every time. Su Chen only thought that this old man's skills were good, but they were far inferior to his own cheats.

Now I finally understand that a true state banquet chef is not just about having good skills. Just cooking delicious dishes is far from enough!

"Have you written this ingredient list?" Su Chen asked.

Lu Yongliang tore off the paper, "Okay, you can take it to buy things."

"No, I'll just take a photo."

Su Chen took a photo of the ingredient list and sent it to Ling Shuyu.

Now that Liu Shengnan is not here, I can only leave the matter of purchasing ingredients to her, but it is not really necessary for Ling Shuyu to purchase them personally.

I just need to communicate with Fang Chang first. Only when Fang Meat Industry cannot get the ingredients, Ling Shuyu himself needs to get it.

After receiving the other party's reply, Su Chen put away his phone, "Grandpa, I made a dish in the Northeast these few days, can you check it?"

"What dish?"

"Three-color prawns."

Lu Yongliang's eyes widened, "Huh! You are good, you can play with this dish? If you can, just do it here?"

Su Chen nodded and took Old Lu into the kitchen.

The 19th floor has less food stock when there is no business, and there are almost no shrimp dishes on the second and third floors, so they can only choose frozen shrimp as a second choice.

Although the taste and flavor are affected to a certain extent, Su Chen feels that it is not a big problem, at least it can reach A level.

He called Bai Xiaobo to send some steamed buns to the 19th floor, and Su Chen started to make it.

This is an S-level dish that was accidentally discovered during the banquet, or it can be said that it is a very simple S-level dish to make.

The more difficult part is the oil temperature, which can be solved by a kitchen thermometer.

Another thing is the processing of prawns.

You need to cut every knife but not cut to the bottom, which must be done through long-term knife skills, but this is not a problem for chefs who come from delicious food.

The most important thing is that almost all the ingredients of this thing can be prepared in advance, which is very suitable for sales.

Su Chen made it very quickly, and soon more than a dozen tri-color prawns were fished out of the oil pan.

"A Shandong-style dish, some say it's a Guangdong-style dish, but its origin is unknown." Lu Yongliang picked up a piece of prawn with his hands, looked at it for a moment, and took a bite.

The steamed bread slices were fried golden and crispy, and the prawns that were cut into almost fine pieces were fried and eaten. At first, they were crispy, but they were very tender and smooth when tasted carefully. Then there were the three ingredients on the prawns.

Each has its own flavor, the ham is slightly salty, the mushrooms are very fresh, and the green spinach is fragrant. The three ingredients are mixed and matched to create a complex fragrance.

"This dish is okay, what do you mean?" Lu Yongliang asked.

"I'm thinking, this dish is not difficult to make, and it tastes so good, see if it can be sold on the third floor."

Old Lu frowned and thought, "The third floor is not suitable."

"Oh?" Su Chen knew that this kind of thing still needs to be consulted by the predecessors.

In the operation of the restaurant, Lu Yongliang has seen too much in his life, and he knows how to sell it appropriately and how to sell it well.

"Your third floor is home-cooked food, and the price of dishes rarely exceeds 88. This tri-color prawn, the cost of just one prawn is not small."

If this is the seaside, it's okay, but this is the north, seafood itself is expensive, and it's this super big prawn!

"Then there's this steamed bun. As far as I know, this dish was originally made with bread slices. Why did you use steamed bun slices?"

Su Chen scratched his head awkwardly, "At that time, there were no bread slices for the big banquet."

"Why don't you try with bread slices?"

Su Chen saw that Lao Lu only ate one slice, so he also tasted it himself.

Sure enough, this time because of the use of frozen shrimp, the decline in taste and flavor directly lowered the dish by more than one level, and it was barely hovering on the edge of A and B.

But what does this have to do with bread slices?

But since Lao Lu brought it up, Su Chen could only nod his head and didn't let Bai Xiaobo do it this time.

He directly called Fang Chang and asked him to bring two pounds of live shrimp when he came over.

While waiting for the ingredients, Lao Lu started to study Su Chen's question.

"This dish is expensive. You can't sell it on the third floor at a high price and you can't make money."

"What do you mean?"

You can't sell it on the second floor, because that place is now the employee cafeteria of Xinghui. Basically, it's not realistic to cook for children, because their monthly food expenses are there.

"Isn't the fourth floor going to open soon? Why sell it as a dish? Look at this shrimp, it's big and fragrant, and this steamed bun is crispy and yellow."

Damn!

Su Chen suddenly woke up, and it turned out that the old ginger is still spicy!

That's right.

Why do you have to make it into a dish to sell? Wouldn't it be better to take it to the fourth floor and sell it as a snack?

There is a super big shrimp on a piece of bread, and there are three kinds of vegetables, which are fried into a dish.

It's not too much to sell this thing for 15 yuan?

After all, now a few fish balls with some sauce can be sold for more than ten yuan.

"That makes sense. You are the one who made it!" Su Chen gave a thumbs up, and the snack recipe was +1.

After Fang Chang came over, Su Chen made it again with bread slices.

As expected, after the dish had fresh live prawns, the evaluation immediately returned to the S level. Moreover, because the steamed bread slices were replaced with bread slices, it added a little sweetness during the eating process, and the taste was better!

This time, Lao Lu was not polite. He fried a total of ten prawns, and he enjoyed five of them alone!

Su Chen and Fang Chang shared five.

"I knew that every time I send you ingredients at a time other than mealtime, there must be something good!" Fang Chang was so happy eating.

He had eaten one of these when he was in the Northeast, and after he came back, he was still thinking about how to ask Boss Su to make it again. Unexpectedly, he ate it now, and it was so delicious.

"Don't worry, this dish will be on the fourth floor soon."

"Damn! My wallet is going to be empty again!"

Of course, Fang Chang was joking.

Boss Fang's wallet is now bulging.

But Fang Chang finally packed up all the prawns that Su Chen had made before, saying that he would take them back to his wife.

Su Chen could only hope that this guy didn't eat them all on the way home.

After solving this matter, Su Chen had no urgent matters for the time being, and now he was waiting for a reply from Beijing.

Fang Chang was still very efficient, and he prepared all the ingredients when it was almost evening.

Fortunately, there was no need to purchase any ingredients from the place of origin this time, and most of them were things that could be bought in the market.

As soon as the ingredients were delivered, Lu Yongliang rushed to the kitchen to start processing them, and Su Chen naturally couldn't sit idle.

"I'll help you!"

Although he said he was helping, Su Chen actually wanted to learn from him. There were not many opportunities to watch the chefs of state banquets cook on site. He was lucky, at least he could watch them for a while.

This is beautiful.

The first thing Old Lu processed was a kind of small dried fish, which was slightly thinner than the small yellow croaker.

"What is this?"

"This is spring fish." Lu Yongliang soaked the dried spring fish in a bowl of warm water, and said carefully as if he was teaching an apprentice, "Spring fish is a specialty of Yangxin County, Hubei Province. Its small size, yellow color and fresh taste are its characteristics. This kind of fish is usually processed and dried after being caught, so that the original flavor can be basically kept unchanged."

Seeing Su Chen listening carefully, Lu Yongliang couldn't help but say, "You are still young now. In fact, in addition to improving your cooking skills, it is also important for chefs to understand and identify ingredients. No one can know all the ingredients. You'd better focus on something."

This is really a heartfelt statement. If it weren't for the good relationship, Lu Yongliang wouldn't say such a thing.

After all, people have limited energy. There are so many things to eat in the world. How can you understand each one so carefully and carefully?

Su Chen knew that Lao Lu was doing it for his own good, so he smiled and nodded without saying anything.

Yes, others may not be able to do it, but I can!

I not only have a practice room, but also a general history of world cuisine, and even a fragment of a famous Chinese recipe. This is Su Chen's trump card.

In addition to the production method, there are also very detailed explanations of various ingredients.

After soaking the spring fish, remove impurities, drain the water and wrap it in plastic wrap for preservation.

Then it is the processing of some other side dishes. Lu Yongliang cut all the vegetables into various knife shapes according to his habit, and finally preserved them.

One of the dishes is more troublesome to handle the ingredients.

Swan holding eggs!

In order to make the taste and flavor of the dishes reach the best, Lu Yongliang chose to use live ducklings, which were slaughtered directly on the spot!

"I heard that when you were in the Northeast, you killed a pig alone?"

Uh.

Su Chen touched his nose embarrassedly, thinking who is so wicked, can such a thing be said casually?

"Don't pretend, I've watched the video, you are very strong."

That was a pig of nearly 400 kilograms. It was difficult for four or five men to hold it down directly. Su Chen alone pressed it down with one leg.

How much strength does it take?

It's hard to imagine.

After all, Su Chen did not continue to take up this topic, but instead raised a new question.

"Does this swan holding eggs have to be made into a swan?"

Lao Lu said while plucking feathers, "Swan is just a beautified adjective. If you really want to make it into a swan, why not just use a farmed swan?"

Seeing Su Chen's ignorant look.

Lao Lu did not feel impatient at all, because when Liu Abao was learning to cook, he only knew to ask himself how to control the oil temperature and how to use the knife, and rarely asked questions like Su Chen asked.

"When we cook, we can't just consider the color, aroma and taste of the dishes. After all, color, aroma and taste are just the basic skills of a chef."

Su Chen thought about this and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it.

Color, aroma and taste represent the appearance and taste of the dishes. If you can't even master these, you can't be called a qualified chef.

"You also have to consider another thing, aesthetics! Why do dishes have to be presented on the plate? It's for beauty, but the purpose of beauty is not to look good, but to reflect another thing."

"What is it?" Su Chen felt that he had vaguely realized something.

"Culture!"

After saying that, Old Lu also prepared the duck.

Then he heated up the oil in a pan, fried five eggs that had been cooked before, and soaked them in cold water to make five tiger skin eggs.

"We should put our culture into our dishes, not only the culture in color, fragrance and taste, but also the culture in aesthetics."

Seeing Su Chen frowning and thinking, Lu Yongliang felt secretly happy.

Damn, I finally got it right this time!

"You are like that god of sushi, who said that sushi should be pinched back and forth in the hands for a few seconds and must be eaten after a few seconds, otherwise the temperature of the hands will affect the taste of the sushi. Isn't this nonsense? Let me tell you, doesn't he go to the toilet? It's so disgusting."

Poof!

Su Chen was just thinking about the aesthetics, and suddenly he almost vomited.

"I think so too!"

The father and son looked at each other for a second, and then burst into laughter.

Aunt Fang outside the door was puzzled, why are these two people laughing while cooking?

All the ingredients were processed in advance, and Lu Yongliang also rested early. He wanted to conserve his energy and fight his first battle in joining Delicious!

This is not just a simple food customization, but also a key battle that determines whether Lu Yongliang can surpass Cui Yufen after re-evaluation. Old Lu is definitely very concerned about this meal.

As for Su Chen, he is still thinking about the aesthetics.

Back in the office, Su Chen did not choose a comfortable recliner this time, but sat on the desk.

"Aesthetics, culture."

"To highlight our culture in the dishes, is this what a state banquet chef needs to have?"

Thinking about this question, Su Chen gradually fell asleep in the boss chair.

The next day, Jingzhou Airport.

Sui Po arrived in Jingzhou half a day in advance, accompanied by three staff members, nominally his assistants.

In fact, these three people were responsible for filming, video editing, and business processing.

This is a very simple store exploration anchor team. If Su Chen was there, he must know the ins and outs of it.

"Master Sui, why don't we go to Delicious in advance? Just have lunch, open an hourly room in their hotel in the afternoon, and continue to eat in the evening!"

Sui Po shook his head, "This is not appropriate. Since we have booked dinner at 6 pm, we should go on time at 6 pm. It is not appropriate to go early, and it is not polite to go late. Just find a hotel near the airport to rest for a while. If you are hungry, just eat something first."

After returning to the hotel, Sui Po closed the door and began to browse the recent trends on the Internet.

The last video he posted had over 300,000 likes!

This is an exaggerated number of likes for store exploration content.

He habitually opened the comment section of his own video. As a store exploration blogger, generally speaking, he only needs to pay more attention to the popular comments.

"Lao Sui is only level 6? Judging from your performance at Lao Fangu, it seems that you are not inferior to those people at all. Why is it only level 6? I see that there are many level 5s there. Is there something fishy going on?"

Seeing this comment, it actually got quite a lot of likes.

Sui Po sighed. This is pure provocation. Don't worry about it.

"Haha, this time it's really like a mule is pulled out by a horse. At least our Master Sui dares to register. I see that several restaurant bloggers have avoided this incident. I'm afraid they just made it a joke by making it a level eight."

"Registering as a member is so interesting. I want to ask when Lao Sui will return to the hotel? I'll see you eating when you return, and give you a good review then! Of course, the premise is that the food is delicious, hahaha!"

"The most awesome chefs at present are those in Beijing, all of them are level five! And they are in the capital, backed by a big hotel, which is awesome! Each of them is a top state banquet chef. When can Lao Sui catch up with them?"

Sui shook his head and smiled.

It's obviously a bit unrealistic to catch up with the level five members. I don't have any big problems in terms of skills, popularity and assets, but I have a big problem in evaluation!

Because my main business now is restaurant exploration, I rarely go back to the hotel to work, which leads to the fact that not many people have eaten my food now.

Very embarrassing!

If you want to catch up with the level, you have to go back to the hotel to work.

But if I go back to work at the restaurant, my career is on the rise now, and Sui Po doesn't want to give up this job of exploring stores.

Difficult!

After browsing other content, Sui Po came to a conclusion.

Now the registered membership system of this cooking association is becoming increasingly popular on the Internet.

Some food lovers, including tourists who have traveled to various places.

Originally, they were looking for local food on software such as Dianping.com, but now they directly log in to the official website of the association and then look for high-level chefs from local registered companies!

Whoever has a high-level chef, then go to that person's house for dinner. I dare not say how delicious it is, but at least it won't be a thunderbolt!

What's more exaggerated is that because of the emergence of registered members, a new type of anchor has emerged.

It's still exploring stores, but the stores explored are those of members of all levels. There are a few anchors who originally have a lot of fans, and they transformed directly overnight, and they are quite successful?

"If that's the case."

Old Sui turned on the computer and logged into the official website of the association. As expected, he actually found Delicious Lai Company directly in Jingzhou!

Looking at the registration time, it was yesterday.

What surprised Old Sui was that there was already someone on the list of members of Delicious Come Company!

Click on the relevant information.

"Fuck! Lu Yongliang?"

Sui Po touched his forehead, "The technician I ordered is Lu Yongliang, is he really a state banquet chef? Then where is Boss Su?"

Some people were unconvinced and searched for a long time, but did not find the second chef in Delicious Come Company, which made him wonder.

Immediately, Sui Po wrote a few words in his little notebook.

The title of this store visit is not to reveal the truth, but to change it to: Just a casual visit, the seventh-level state banquet!

The original taste remains unchanged, and there is one more gimmick.

Others transform, so we integrate!

The whole afternoon was spent in busyness and anticipation. At five o'clock, Sui Po took the team members to take a taxi in time. It took about an hour from the airport to the development zone.

When the sun set, when Sui Po's team stood under the delicious building, Lao Sui looked at the building and smiled, "When I came here two months ago, I had to climb from the third floor to the nineteenth floor. This time, I won't let people climb the stairs, right?"

Fortunately, there is no need to climb the stairs.

Several people took the elevator directly to the nineteenth floor. Before entering the door, they habitually looked at the photo wall.

"Fuck?"

Sui Po found that since coming to Jingzhou, he has been swearing more and more. There is no way. Who made Boss Su so crazy?

When did even the presidents of Sichuan and Hunan come here to eat and take photos together?

Those two are both serious level five members. At present, this is the highest level of members known. It's outrageous.

I couldn't wait to get into the 19th floor.

"Here you are? Teacher Sui?" Zhang Li circled around Sui Po, "It's you! You're here again, please come in!"

What do you mean by coming again.

Sui Po nodded embarrassedly, looking a little shy, standing at the door of the cafeteria and quickly adjusting his state, pretending to be very relaxed.

"Just take a look, the seventh-level state banquet! It's been two months since I left Jingzhou, and this time I'm back to Delicious, but the one who cooks today is not Boss Su, but the only registered member of Delicious, and a state banquet master! Let's go inside and take a look."

The advantage of making videos is that you don't have to be tense all the time.

After finishing the opening remarks, Sui Po and his team followed Zhang Li into the cafeteria, "Let's have a big table today?"

"I think it's okay, a round table is good, it feels very comfortable."

The four of them sat casually in four directions, and all the filming equipment was ready. Zhang Li asked, "Can the dishes be served?"

"Serve." Sui Po was concise.

He has been waiting for this meal for two months!

Although it was not made by Boss Su himself, since it came from the hands of a state banquet master, it must not be bad.

While waiting for the dishes to be served, Old Sui said a few simple words to the camera.

Some of them were what he knew, and some of them were learned from the introduction of registered members.

"The chef of today's dinner is a real state banquet master, who is mainly responsible for the preparation of Hubei cuisine. He is one of the top ten chefs in China! I didn't expect to taste Master Lu's dishes at Delicious Come, it's worth it!"

There was no need to say it clearly.

Sui Po had already guessed why Lu Yongliang appeared at Delicious Come. There was no need to think about it. It must be to improve his membership level.

He has been retired for many years. Now, in addition to being the president of the Hubei Provincial Cooking Association, he is also a professor at a university.

With this background, according to the current evaluation system of the General Association, his level is really not high enough.

‘Delicious has a good reputation, but can its scale really help Lu Yongliang improve his level? ’

Sui Po is not sure about this.

Capital verification is not to verify assets, but to verify the influence of the restaurant in the industry. The reason why it is called capital verification is mostly because in everyone’s cognition, the larger the asset scale of the restaurant, the more famous it is, and the greater its influence.

While thinking about it, the girl’s voice sounded in my ears.

“The first dish.”

Zhang Li held a large plate and did not announce the name of the dish. It should be against the rules, but the boss just told her to do so, so she did it.

In the white jade plate, a pile of gold velvet swirled into a cone, dotted with green leaves.

"Oh! Egg floss? Is this dish difficult or simple? Let's try it first."

Chef Sui moved his chopsticks slightly and took a small bite. In fact, he was a little disappointed.

He spent 10,000 yuan on a gourmet customization and specially selected technician No. 2. As a result, the first dish was egg floss. This is a bit unreasonable.

So he took the dish with a small amplitude, just a little egg floss on the top of the dish. As the camera zoomed in, Lao Sui began to explain.

"The golden egg floss, each strand is like a hair, which shows that the chef has put in a lot of effort."

Still not in a hurry to eat, according to Lao Sui's habit, he still likes to talk about how these dishes are made in the video.

"If you are at home, you can just use a strainer to drain the egg floss into the hot oil, but we usually use a beverage bottle to make holes, so you have to pass it through a strainer."

"After frying at high temperature, take it out to control the oil, then use oil-absorbing paper to clean all the grease inside, and tear it with your hands until it looks like what you see."

At this point, the male assistant suddenly said, "I think I ate it when I was a child. My mother sprinkled some white sugar on it, and it was so delicious!"

Sui Po nodded and said, "That's right, sprinkling white sugar on egg floss is a very homely and delicious method. Everyone can try it. Let's try the egg floss made by the state banquet chef now."

Sui Po leaned over slightly and put a small mouthful of egg floss into his mouth very gentlemanly.

In fact, before tasting this dish, he had already thought about how to evaluate it. The texture of the egg floss is nothing more than crispy and soft, and the taste is nothing more than the fragrance of eggs, supplemented by the cooking taste. There is not much to say.

When chewing the egg floss and preparing to speak.

Sui Po was suddenly stunned.

No, this taste.

He looked at the dish in front of him and thrust his chopsticks straight at the egg floss on top.

It felt a little soft, but it was a little loose.

He pulled the golden egg floss out, revealing what was inside.

Sure enough, something was wrong!

He almost got cheated!