funbook-pk Chapter 358 You Are Right
Chapter 358 You Are Right
After Lu Hongwen resumed takeout after school started, and the fried food and braised pork head became popular, the store's already popular popularity continued to rise day by day.
By eleven o'clock, more than half of the people were already sitting in the store, waiting for the official opening. People had already started lining up at the fried food and braised pork head display windows of Geng Mingyan and Hou Guihua, and the broadcasting machine in the kitchen was non-stop. Not to mention that Wen Jin's studio had also resumed its working mode before the New Year and started taking a fixed order of thirty-three meals per meal.
While Su Yuchen was serving rice and arranging dishes, he also had to tear off the orders and divide them into two batches: dine-in and take-out. Ouyang Yidan was also sent to the kitchen, where she kept packing and bagging the two orders and dividing them into batches according to the dishes while Lv Hongwen was delivering the take-out.
Fortunately, the three new employees got the hang of things quickly, and with sufficient manpower, the turnover rate became very high. Although the store was unprecedentedly busy, the workload was evenly distributed and well organized, and it was busy but not chaotic.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, everyone had gone off work and the four chefs returned to the kitchen.
After Zhao Xiaojing assigned Wan Yuyue ten servings of spicy and sour potato shreds and Yun Yongyuan ten servings of stir-fried pork with chili peppers, she turned around and started cooking the duck herself.
As for Nie Xiuqi, he was originally going to make fish soup, but after hearing Zhao Xiaojing asking Yun Yongyuan to make stir-fried pork with peppers, he suddenly raised his head and glanced at Yun Yongyuan.
"How about Senior Brother Nie, you watch Senior Brother Yun make fried pork with peppers? Or Senior Brother Nie, you can also practice?" After spending a day and a half together, Zhao Xiaojing felt that she seemed to be able to understand Nie Xiuqi's micro-expressions.
“Can I... see it?” Nie Xiuqi looked at Zhao Xiaojing, then at Yun Yongyuan.
"Okay, I don't mind. Junior sister's fried pork with peppers is really delicious." Yun Yongyuan nodded, turned around and started cutting vegetables with Nie Xiuqi. While cutting, he told him the key points that Zhao Xiaojing usually explained.
Although Nie Xiuqi didn't say anything, he kept his head down and looked without blinking, obviously listening very attentively.
Zhao Xiaojing smiled, and immediately understood that Nie Xiuqi was suffering from the aftereffects of eating her fried pork with peppers at noon. Yun Yongyuan and Wan Yuyue had the same reaction when they ate it for the first time, and they couldn't wait to learn and practice.
"What are you going to do?" Zhao Xiaojing was putting the duck into the pot when Wan Yuyue came over.
"Fairy Duck, this is a new dish I saw recently and I want to try it." Zhao Xiaojing said with a little guilt.
I've been cooking a lot of famous dishes lately. I can still tell where the pot-roasted pork elbow and lychee meat came from, but this divine duck dish was dropped by the system through a lottery, so I can't really explain it...
"Great! Call me when it's done." Wan Yuyue gave a thumbs up with admiration, not seeming surprised at all. She even turned her head to look at her pot, and hurried away when she saw the water was boiling.
That's it? There's no need to ask how she could cook this kind of dish? Is she so adaptable?
Zhao Xiaojing stood there in a very messy state.
When the duck was cooked, Zhao Xiaojing took it out of the soup pot. Yun Yongyuan had already started to fry the fourth dish of stir-fried pork with peppers. After watching it three times, Nie Xiuqi also fried a dish himself and placed it on the operating table together with Yun Yongyuan's, frowning and thinking hard.
Zhao Xiaojing put the duck aside to cool, turned around and saw several dishes on the workbench. Without saying a word, she picked up her chopsticks and tasted them all.
Yun Yongyuan's fourth dish had not yet been served. Zhao Xiaojing put the previous three dishes aside and did not comment. She looked at Nie Xiuqi who looked thoughtful.
"Brother Nie, do you think there's something wrong?"
"My stir-fried pork with chili peppers seems to be just fine, but also seems to be totally wrong."
Zhao Xiaojing followed Nie Xiuqi's gaze and looked at the fourth dish of stir-fried pork with peppers, which was obviously different in style and taste from the previous ones. She found the same problem with this dish of stir-fried pork with peppers when she took the first bite.
"Because Senior Brother Nie's stir-fried pork with peppers is cooked according to Senior Brother Yun's method and in his own style."
Nie Xiuqi and Yun Yongyuan are different from Wan Yuyue. Yun Yongyuan and Wan Yuyue both came to the restaurant as apprentices. It can be said that they worked as chefs while learning from Zhao Xiaojing. Their own styles and techniques were all blank. Therefore, many of their habits and details were strictly similar to Zhao Xiaojing's style, and more like Zhao Xiaojing's.
Nie Xiuqi has been a chef for a long time and has his own preferences and understanding of cooking. He is not a blank slate. If he tries to learn a dish that he already knows how to cook, it will inevitably feel a bit ambiguous, or even awkward, like a strong man wearing dancing shoes.
"For example, Brother Nie is used to adding oil when stir-frying chili peppers, and stir-frying them until they are a little burnt, but he follows Brother Yun's method of stir-frying them dry, and after stir-frying he unconsciously uses his own method to stir-fry again; Brother Yun uses medium heat when stir-frying fatty meat and low heat when stir-frying lean meat, but Brother Nie is used to using medium or low heat throughout the process to stir-fry both fat and lean meat, and after stir-frying the fatty meat according to Brother Yun's method, he habitually does not adjust the heat when stir-frying the lean meat. Also, the amount of fermented black beans to be used, the time to add the chili peppers, and so on." Zhao Xiaojing turned on the quality inspection module, looking at the shortcomings while recalling and summarizing them.
"But it doesn't matter. Every chef has different styles and habits. As long as it tastes good, it's fine. Brother Nie is right to cook it his way. If you want to learn this way, forget your previous habits and slowly get closer to it by grasping the details step by step."
Nie Xiuqi nodded and listened in silence. Just when Zhao Xiaojing thought he would remain silent and was about to go over to see Wan Yuyue cooking, Nie Xiuqi suddenly spoke, "Boss... can you please talk to me the same way you talk to them..."
"What do you mean? Them? Who?"
"It means that they did something wrong and we want them to redo it..." Nie Xiuqi glanced in Wan Yuyue's direction.
Zhao Xiaojing turned her head and took a look. Only then did she understand what he meant. "Are you talking about giving suggestions to Senior Brother Yun and Senior Sister Wan about their cooking problems?"
"Yes." Nie Xiuqi's eyes began to drift away again, not daring to meet anyone's gaze.
"I thought you didn't like people saying..."
"No... that's what they said is wrong... everything you said is right."
"Ah? Oh, okay." Zhao Xiaojing nodded blankly. She thought that when Zhou Chuyan used to scold people, she would always say "You are right". But now when she heard this sentence, it felt like she was scolding her. She didn't even react...
"Junior sister, try it! This dish of mine is simply perfect! If you can find any faults, I'll cook ten more!" Wan Yuyue ran over excitedly with the latest dish of shredded potatoes.
Zhao Xiaojing took a look but didn't taste it first, but subconsciously looked towards the waste vegetable area in the direction of Wan Yuyue's stove.
"Only one of the five plates of shredded potatoes is perfect, and you don't even dare to bring the others. How dare you talk like that? Fry ten more plates!" Zhao Xiaojing's face immediately turned black and she scolded Wan Yuyue.
"Oh."