To make top-notch tofu, you must first have good tofu. Good ingredients only require the simplest cooking methods to bring out 100% of their deliciousness.
Cut the tofu evenly into slices one centimeter thick and place them on a plate to let them sit. Song Jiayu went to prepare the sauce. Peel the garlic and cut it into minced garlic. Wash the green onions and cut them into chopped green onions. After mixing, add sesame oil, broth concentrate, salt, etc. and mix well.
Evenly spread the sauces on the tofu on the plate, turn on the fire, boil the water, and steam it in a large pot for ten minutes.
Yipintang tofu sounds like a very high-sounding name, but it is actually steamed tofu with sauce.
It can be said that anyone who can cook a dish or roast meat nowadays can say that he or she can make Shandong cuisine. It is not called the first of the Eight Great Cuisine for nothing.
While tofu was being steamed in the pot, Song Jiayu was busy with another dish, spicy and sour potato shreds. The name was simple and it was a very homely dish, but to make it delicious, one really needed to have some cooking skills.
To make spicy and sour potato shreds, first of all, the cutting of shreds depends on the knife skills, the sour and spicy taste depends on the seasoning, and the deliciousness of stir-frying depends on the chef and the heat.
Song Jiayu's skills cannot be compared with Chef Xu's, but they are better than everyone else present. While stir-frying, the sour taste of vinegar, the spicy taste of chili, and the fragrance of the potatoes themselves are completely incomparable to Dafeng, who came out first.
The store manager pulled Chef Xu aside and asked, "Is she really not your apprentice?"
Chef Xu shook his head, a bit bewildered. Comrade Xiao Song looked a bit like him, but could he accept a female apprentice? He shook his head and said, "That can't be the case. You know what my old man is like. He wouldn't let his daughter pass on the Xu family cooking skills, so why would he pass them on to outsiders?"
The store manager who knew about the Xu family's situation had a look of regret on his face. It was such a pity. Even though they were destroying the four olds, the Xu family still insisted on sticking to the ancestral rules. The cooking skills were passed down to males, not females, and were not passed on to outsiders.
"So your family has only one son, Old Xu, and you only have one daughter. Have you ever thought about having a son?"
"Hmph, my wife was injured while giving birth to our daughter. Manager, are you deliberately hurting me?" Chef Xu snorted coldly.
As the first batch of tofu comes out of the pot, two delicious dishes are placed on the table.
Song Jiayu smiled and moved away, "I'm ready, everyone please eat."
The store manager came over first with chopsticks, picked up a piece of shredded potatoes and put it into his mouth. He tasted the flavor when he bit it, and he ate several pieces in a row with a grunt, an expression of enjoyment on his face.
When Liu Dafeng saw this, their hearts sank to the bottom.
Especially Xiao Liu, he also stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of tofu, and before putting it into his mouth, he silently said "it's not delicious" in his heart before putting the tofu into his mouth. The tender tofu was really tender. It melted in his mouth after only two bites. The most important thing is that the sauce is really excellent, very fresh and fragrant.
Xiao Liu looked at Comrade Xiao Song with a strange expression. How could he, at such a young age, cook such delicious dishes? People would have to admit defeat after just one bite.
Someone asked this question, and the store manager, who loved both dishes, said, "Xiao Song, where did you learn to cook?"
Song Jiayu smiled and waved her hands: "I learned it from my mother. My mother is the best cook in our Lushan Village. Whenever anyone has a banquet, they have to ask my mother to be the chef."
(I’m sorry, Master Xu in my dream, I can’t acknowledge you!)
Chef Xu also took a couple of bites of the dish. To him, it was just so-so. His own cooking skills were superb, and the only thing that could impress him was probably his own father’s cooking. Although he couldn’t compare to his own, Xiao Song’s cooking skills were still impressive. So he said, “No wonder you said it made me proud. It turns out you have a good chef at home.”
"No, no." Song Jiayu smiled modestly.
The third person to come on stage was Xiao Liu. He... didn't want to go up at first. After eating the two dishes made by Comrade Xiao Song, he no longer had the ambition to compete for the position of chef.
But the store manager didn't allow it.
The competition was fair, and what's more, maybe Xiao Liu's cooking skills have improved?
They have all been working in the restaurant kitchen for so long, and we cannot let the old employees down.
"Xiao Liu, play well. I'm optimistic about you."
Xiao Liu: ...Manager, you don’t have to keep an eye on me!
after a while.
The manager only took one bite of the two dishes that had just come out of the pot, and then asked everyone to eat together and not waste a single bite.
Xiao Liu was so upset that he could not even cry. It was obvious that the manager wished he could finish Xiao Song's two dishes by himself.
Xiao Liu, the last to perform, finished his performance. After tasting the dishes made by the three, the manager said, "Xiao Liu, Dafeng, and Xiao Song, you three are all great. The kitchen wouldn't be complete without any of you. This time, we've agreed that whoever cooks best will become our second chef. Xiao Song, is it okay for you to be our chef?"
Song Jiayu: "No problem, I'm willing to use my cooking skills to serve you all."
The store manager was very satisfied with Xiao Song's attitude and urged Xiao Liu Dafeng, "There's another chef in the kitchen. You two should keep working hard."
Xiao Liu and Da Feng, who had a bitter face, had to force a smile and said, "We will."
At this point, Song Jiayu was confirmed to join a state-owned hotel and become a chef in the kitchen.
Her monthly salary is currently 25 yuan. Once she passes the chef's certificate exam, she can receive the tenth-level cook's salary, which is 27.5 yuan, along with some receipts, and the rationed grain that she can collect with her grain book after she transfers her household registration to the county town.
Compound No. 14, there is something to talk about today.
Song Jiayu, the new daughter-in-law from the village, actually became a chef in a state-owned restaurant?
When Jiang's mother heard the good news, she happily took out some good things from the cupboard and came to the next door, saying congratulations.
"Jiayu, I didn't expect you to find a job in our county after only being here for half a year. I'm so happy. You should also tell your mother-in-law about this good news so that we can all be happy together."
"Mom, I didn't expect that you would be impressed by my cooking skills. I had a cooking competition with two other people today, and I won, and the manager personally decided on me."
Song Jiayu was also happy. She had a job, a salary, and she was a cook. It was said that a cook would not starve to death even in a three-year famine. She could eat more meat in the system warehouse. Before, she could eat it three or four times a month, but in the future, she would eat it seven or eight times.
In the old Jiang family in the compound next door, the eldest and second Jiang sisters were silent for a long time after hearing the news. Later, when they came to their senses, the second Jiang sister-in-law howled, "God is so unfair."
Mrs. Jiang was jealous, but not as jealous as Mrs. Jiang's second sister-in-law, whose eyes were almost spitting fire. She thought that since the third brother and his wife both had jobs, did they look down on their parents' family background?
Old Lady Yan from the same compound cursed: "He's just a cook, and he thinks he's some big shot. He's not even close to my son!"
Although she said this, she was thinking in her heart that the chef's salary was not low. The young couple's combined monthly salary was more than her son's. It would be great if she could let her daughter-in-law become a chef.
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