funbook-pk Chapter 192 The Window Paper Between Experts and Masters
Chapter 192 The Window Paper Between Experts and Masters
Zhao Xiaojing stood there thinking for a long time, and decided to deal with the problems one by one, starting with the problem of broken skin.
Although Wang Jiandang and Su Yuchen both said that her bun skin tasted more like soup dumpling skin when she made it according to Hou Guihua's method, when she ate soup dumplings made outside two days ago, she still felt that the skin of the soup dumplings was thinner and softer.
Therefore, when she was making soup dumplings today, she deliberately rolled the dough a little thinner, wanting to replicate the soft and chewy texture of the soup dumplings.
I didn't expect that it was not soft and tough, but instead it was torn and rotten.
Since the leather was so easy to break, Zhao Xiaojing decided to try making it thicker.
There was some dough and fillings left over, and Zhao Xiaojing didn't bother to mark the proportions of the fillings. She just rolled out the dough again, only four pieces this time. Two of them were the same thickness as Hou Guihua's bun wrappers, and two were thicker than Hou Guihua's bun wrappers.
The four buns were steamed again at different times, and new problems arose.
The buns with the thickest skin did not break after steaming for 10 minutes, the filling was cooked, and the soup was still there.
But without talking about whether the filling and the soup are delicious or not, first of all, the bun skin is incredibly hard.
Unless you eat it right out of the pot, it still has that chewy toughness, which is barely acceptable except that it is a bit thick. But once you wait for the surface temperature of the bun skin to drop before eating it, the dough becomes hard and dry, and it feels like chewing the sole of a shoe.
The other two buns with the same thickness as Hou Guihua’s bun skin did not break after being steamed for 8 minutes, but did break after being steamed for 10 minutes.
But the water chestnut that was steamed for 8 minutes had an astringent taste. Although it was crispy, it always felt half-cooked when placed in the meat filling. The astringency covered up the freshness of the pork.
Not to mention that even if the skin is not broken, it still tastes thick, even worse than the ordinary soup dumplings sold outside.
Zhao Xiaojing sighed and thought that she should find a way out.
Some things are very different between different fields. Although she is a chef, when it comes to pastry making, she only has experience in making sweet soup and is not proficient in everything.
Some techniques and experiences are actually very simple when explained, they are just invisible things, but if no one breaks through and no one points them out, you may never understand them.
Just like practicing martial arts in the world of martial arts, there is only a thin layer of window paper between a master and a grandmaster, and the technique to break through the window paper is easier than you can imagine, or even just a difference in the way of thinking, but the results are very different.
Therefore, many masters can learn unique martial arts by watching children playing in the mountains and rivers, because they see different ways of thinking and get different inspirations.
Being able to figure out the moves that ordinary people see but never think of is the secret between experts and masters.
Anyway, there was still plenty of opportunities and time, so Zhao Xiaojing was not discouraged. She exited the virtual space and looked at the time. Only five or six minutes had passed in the real world.
"Hello, is the boss here?"
Just as she picked up the phone, she heard a voice outside the door. Zhao Xiaojing turned her head and saw a tall and fat young man standing at the door. He politely knocked on the open glass door twice and looked into the store with his eyes rolling.
"I'm the boss. How can I help you?" Zhao Xiaojing walked out from the front desk and looked at him puzzledly.
"Hello, boss sister. Are you hiring waiters?" The young man quickly looked up at Zhao Xiaojing and asked rather awkwardly.
"Yes." Zhao Xiaojing nodded, not understanding why.
"Sister, can you look at me?" The young man smiled at Zhao Xiaojing, but because there was too much fat on his face, his eyes were invisible due to smiling.
"Well, come in and chat." Zhao Xiaojing got goosebumps all over her body. She went into the hall, pulled a chair for the young man to sit down, and poured him a glass of water. Then she pulled a chair and sat opposite the burly man who was indistinguishable in age and called her sister.
"What's your name? Do you have experience working in the restaurant industry?"
"Wu Kaile, you can just call me Xiao Wu. I don't have any work experience in this field, but I can learn!" Wu Kaile said hurriedly, his eyes full of expectation. "I'm strong, I work hard, and I learn things quickly!"
Zhao Xiaojing nodded subconsciously, wondering why this guy seemed to want to come to work? Was the work in their store not that good?
"So how old are you? What kind of work did you do before?"
"I'm 21, and I sold insurance for a month..."
21? Insurance? Zhao Xiaojing was stunned, and after thinking for a while, she asked tentatively. "Are you a student?"
"It's half, because I will graduate next year!" Wu Kaile blinked his little eyes and looked at Zhao Xiaojing with an innocent look.
"Then do you know Ouyang Yidan?" After getting the answer, Zhao Xiaojing looked directly into Wu Kaile's eyes and asked.
Wu Kaile subconsciously dodged his gaze, scratched his head and smiled, then nodded slightly, his shy look formed a great contrast with his overall temperament. "We are classmates. I saw her working here. She came to eat twice. The sister who served at the front desk was not my sister."
"..." Zhao Xiaojing looked at the shy expression of the tough guy and it took her a while to realize that the first sister he was talking about was Su Yuchen, and the second one was herself.
"So you want to work here because of Ouyang?" Zhao Xiaojing made a bold assumption and a reasonable guess.
Wu Kaile nodded subconsciously, then shook his head violently.
"Sister, Dandan and I are just classmates, don't let your imagination run wild! I just wanted to work with her from the beginning...
But now it’s not all like that. My sister’s family hired a really good chef. I’ve come here to eat twice. I want to eat here every day! But the food is a little expensive…”
Wu Kaile's voice became lower and lower, and his originally tangled expression on his fleshy face became distorted and somewhat hideous.
Zhao Xiaojing was amused, and she held down the corners of her mouth to calm down for a long time before she stopped laughing.
"Then let me tell you about our treatment here. Our waiters' salary is 3500 yuan a month, including lunch and dinner.
The working hours are from 10 am to 2 pm and from 4:30 pm to 10 pm. Sometimes we get off work later. The catering industry is not so punctual. It depends on whether there are customers on that day. Sometimes we close early and get off work at 9 pm. There is no certainty.
Then there is basically no rest except for the Chinese New Year, but if you have anything, just let us know and we can give you some holiday time.
Generally speaking, it’s very hard work.” Zhao Xiaojing said truthfully.
"It's not hard! If Dandan can do it, I can do it too!" Wu Kaile clenched his fists excitedly. "Sister, can I work at night?"
Wu Kaile was extremely excited. It was the first time that Zhao Xiaojing met someone who was so enthusiastic about work. For a moment, she couldn't tell who was the boss and who was the employee.
"Not tonight. I have to talk to another boss in the store and I'll let you know the result tonight." Zhao Xiaojing blinked and made an excuse.