After Dou Jingwei and her family followed Zhao Changsong into the house, they all noticed the smell of food wafting from the kitchen. The smell of food from the kitchen was not particularly strong, but it was very tempting.
Before this, the only information Su Bai had gotten from his senior brother Zhao Changsong was that Dou Jingwei herself had a relatively light taste - Su Bai inferred from this that his sister-in-law and her family's own dietary preferences should all be light, and they should focus on the careful preparation of light food, and pursue light, delicious and healthy home-cooked meals.
Therefore, the dishes he prepared today were all light and pleasant in taste. The only heavy-tasting dish was the braised beef. As the main meat dish, it complemented the other dishes and could be considered the finishing touch to the meal.
Su Bai was busy in the kitchen alone. Because the range hood was on and he was busy preparing food, he didn't notice that his sister-in-law and her family had arrived.
Dou Jingwei already knew in advance that Zhao Changsong's family had called his father's disciples to prepare today's lunch, but Dou Jingwei also knew that her future father-in-law was the sprint coach of the S Province Track and Field Team, so shouldn't her father-in-law's disciples be athletes? So Dou Jingwei originally thought that her father-in-law might have just called a disciple who was good at cooking to help.
However, Dou Jingwei's family knows their own business. Most of her family members are food connoisseurs. The food made by an ordinary person who is good at cooking may not necessarily be praised by her family. But her father-in-law's family specially found disciples to help in entertaining their family. This is how much they value their family. So before going out, Dou Jingwei also specifically told her parents and two brothers to praise other people's cooking when eating.
Dou's parents and two brothers were of course aware of the matter of reciprocity. After all, it was a good thing for the in-laws to value their own children. They had also prepared a plan to praise the cooking skills of their in-laws' apprentices when they had dinner together.
However, after they walked in, Dou's parents and Dou Jingwei's two brothers had forgotten the business compliments they had prepared...
The aroma of rice is so fragrant!
Using those commercial jargons is a desecration of the food and it is absolutely not allowed!
Zhao Heping and Xie Yi did not notice that the Dou family was distracted. When they saw Dou Jingwei's family coming to their house with various gifts, they all had smiles on their faces. They quickly welcomed the entire family into the living room and asked Dou Jingwei and her family to sit down in the spacious living room first.
Zhao Heping also instructed Zhao Changsong to take out the good tea hidden at home, and he personally brewed tea on a wooden tea table, and filled a cup of good tea for each of his in-laws.
Neither the Dou family nor the Zhao family had any intention of deliberately interfering in the dating and marriage of the two children. Both families were very satisfied with each other's children. In addition, the two families had officially met now. Both Zhao Heping and Xie Yi and Dou's parents Dou Zewen and Jiang Caiwen could see the sincerity of each other from their words and actions.
At this point, the atmosphere between the two sides became more relaxed. Eight people from the two families sat in the living room chatting, turning on the TV as background music, and occasionally drinking tea. It can be said that it was very harmonious.
As the link between the two families, Dou Jingwei and Zhao Changsong would also chat with each other when their parents were chatting, making the conversation and communication between the two families smoother.
After the two of them had exchanged pleasantries for a while, Dou Zewen, the father of the Dou family, finally couldn't hold it in any longer. He turned his head and looked towards the kitchen casually, and asked, "Hey, Lao Zhao, who is this person in the kitchen?"
Hearing Dou Zewen mention Su Bai in the kitchen, Zhao Heping keenly discovered that his daughter-in-law and her family were very curious about Su Bai in the kitchen. He also felt proud of showing off his apprentice. He pretended to be calm and said, "Oh, that's my apprentice Su Bai. I have brought him up since he was a child. In my opinion, he is no different from Changsong."
Zhao Heping coughed slightly and said, "Xiaobai is a talented cook. Aren't your family coming over? I'll ask him to cook a meal and introduce himself to Jingwei and the others, so that he won't be unable to recognize his own sister-in-law when he sees her in the future."
Dou Zewen was indeed a little surprised when he heard Zhao Heping admit that the person in the kitchen was really his disciple. After entering the door and smelling the aroma of food, he originally thought that what Zhao Changsong said before was an excuse, and the person in the kitchen might be the chef invited by his in-laws from some high-end private chef. However, his family has basically eaten at all the private chefs in S City, and he also knows all the famous chefs, so he could never figure out who this unfamiliar-looking chef in the kitchen is.
After hearing what Zhao Heping said, it turned out that the person in the kitchen was really his disciple... In other words, the chef was also an athlete? !
Hearing Dou Zewen's question, Zhao Heping shook his head and laughed: "No, no, this guy's athletic talent is average. He has retired before, but he is now the coach of our S Province Track and Field Team in charge of the men's 400m event."
After hearing what Zhao Heping said and smelling the aroma of food in the air, Dou Zewen's family felt that the identity of the young man who was cooking for them in the kitchen was a bit magical.
At this moment, in the kitchen, Su Bai finally stopped what he was doing. He turned around, opened the glass sliding door, and stuck his head out to greet his master.
"Master, Brother Changsong, the food is ready, we can start eating."
After saying that, Su Bai took the lead and brought out a big bowl of soup and walked towards the large round table in the restaurant.
When Zhao Changsong saw that Su Bai was about to come back to continue serving the dishes after he had finished his work, he hurried to the kitchen and held down Su Bai who was about to enter the kitchen, and told him to wash his hands and prepare to eat. He then served the rest of the dishes himself.
At half past eleven, the families of Zhao Heping and Dou Zewen sat down at the large round table in the Zhao family. The table was already filled with delicious dishes and soups carefully prepared by Su Bai.
Placed in the middle of the round table turntable is a large bowl of Wensi tofu soup served in a blue and white porcelain soup bowl. In the soup, fine and silky Wensi tofu is spread out, garnished with equally fine bamboo shoots, shredded chicken, ham, mushrooms, and shredded green vegetable leaves. The whole bowl of soup looks very fresh and elegant in color. If you scoop a spoonful into your mouth, you can also smell the light aroma of chicken soup, along with the melt-in-your-mouth Wensi tofu in the soup and the equally delicately processed side dishes. It can be said to be salty, fresh, and elegant, nourishing the stomach, health, and the body.
After the meal started, Dou Zewen immediately tasted the Wensi Tofu Soup, which required a lot of knife skills, and exclaimed that it was delicious.
Of course, there was more than just that bowl of Wensi tofu soup on the table. In addition to it, Su Bai also made many dishes that he usually makes in the kitchen on the third floor, such as the delicate and soft steamed scallop egg with fresh and fragrant scallops, and the fresh and delicious steamed yellow croaker.
Taking into account the Dou family's preference for light and healthy dishes, Su Bai also prepared stir-fried lilies and yam. The lily petals have a unique sweet and crispy taste after being stir-fried, and paired with the dense and soft yam, they have the same refreshing taste but a slightly different taste. When you take a bite of them, you’ll experience an exceptionally fresh and comfortable feeling.
There were also a series of dishes such as fried shrimp with celery, fried meat with beans, stir-fried chicken, etc., and finally the only dish on the table that looked heavy was the braised beef.
After eating all the dishes on the table except the beef, Dou Zewen stretched out his chopsticks to the braised beef and put it into his mouth in one bite.
The braised beef sauce was of just the right thickness. Not only that, Dou Zewen also tasted that Su Bai added two spoonfuls of rice wine to the braised beef sauce. During the process of braising the beef, the aroma of the two spoonfuls of rice wine had seeped into the beef. The aroma was not particularly prominent, but as long as you put it in your mouth, you will never miss this taste with a hint of intoxication.
The slight aroma of wine diluted the original richness of the sauce. In the end, the beef had both the rich aroma of braised beef and an extra refreshing taste.
What a good idea!
After swallowing the beef that was still tender and fragrant even after being stewed, Dou Zewen, who usually didn't like heavy food, couldn't help but reach out his chopsticks and picked up another piece of meat from the plate of braised beef.
Looking at the braised beef cubes in his hand, Dou Zewen couldn't help but glance at Su Bai who was also sitting at the table and eating quietly - this is really... both ingenuity and skillful hands. In the hands of Su Bai, a whole table of food, every dish is so delicious that people will never forget it.
Dou Zewen really didn't expect that the person who could make such a table of delicious dishes was not the chef of any well-known high-end private chef in S City, but the 400-meter sprint coach of the S Province Track and Field Team.
Is this what they call the experts among the people?
Dou Zewen ate the food in his mouth and then scooped a sip of the delicious soup, feeling very satisfied.
Not only him, but everyone present, except Su Bai himself, was amazed at the food.
Dou Jingwei did not expect that Zhao Changsong's junior fellow had such amazing skills.
Although she doesn't have the best sense of food like her father and two brothers, but having grown up in a family like the Dou family, her ability to appreciate food is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary people.
As the daughter of the Dou family, she certainly knew how picky her father and two brothers were. When Zhao Changsong had approached her indirectly before, she had said that her family didn't eat bad food, and that was the truth.
However, at today's dinner table, there was no need to worry about this. She could see very clearly that her whole family had been completely captivated by Su Bai's cooking skills.
Not only the Dou family, but also Zhao Heping's family, except Zhao Heping who had already tasted Su Bai's cooking in the track and field team canteen, Xie Yi and Zhao Changsong, mother and son, also tasted Su Bai's cooking for the first time, and they both looked amazed while eating.
After everyone had finished eating, Su Bai brought out nine servings of sweet soup from the kitchen so that everyone could sweeten their mouths with the sweet soup and change the taste in their mouths.
When the two families returned to the living room from the dining table, Dou Zewen rubbed his stomach for the first time and said with a smile: "Oh, Lao Zhao, your dinner has really broken my health-preserving habits!"
The Dou family has a light diet and usually sticks to the habit of eating until they are 80% full, so that the body can always be in a relatively comfortable, happy and less burdened state. As a result, during the lunch, not only Dou Zewen, but also his two sons were rubbing their stomachs, apparently they had temporarily forgotten the healthy rule of eating until they were 80% full.
No matter what, today's lunch can be said to be a great success for both the host and the guests. As Zhao Heping's disciple and Zhao Changsong's junior brother, Su Bai also formally greeted his sister-in-law and her family.
The two brothers of the Dou family, who had originally prepared to give Su Bai a commercial flattery at lunch, now looked at Su Bai as if he were a big treasure. They completely forgot about the commercial flattery and praised Su Bai sincerely on the spot.
Among them, the eldest brother Dou Yifei took out his mobile phone without saying a word after Su Bai greeted them, and sincerely invited Su Bai to add their WeChat. He also said to Su Bai with a smile that he hoped they could have a chance to have dinner together in the future - he almost had the words "want to make an appointment with Su Bai for dinner next time" engraved on his face.
However, after thinking about it, Su Bai told them very bluntly that he was the chef in the track and field team's canteen and the head coach of the 400-meter race. He was probably very busy and did not have much time to go out. If the two brothers needed anything, they could come to the track and field team to find him, and he could take time to entertain them in the team's canteen.
It was only at this time that the Dou family realized that Su Bai was not only the head coach of the men's 400 meters of the track and field team, but also the chef in the kitchen - one person holds two positions, and not to mention the coach, just the position of chef is busy enough.
Although Su Bai's proposal was very tempting, the two Dou brothers were embarrassed to actually go to the track and field team and let Su Bai, who was already very busy, entertain them.
That afternoon, a senior food critic on a domestic food forum called Shiseshengxiang posted a new post.
Subject: [Today I went to my future brother-in-law's house for lunch. The whole family was very nice. I was planning to brag about the lunch I prepared for them, but I didn't expect it to be... so delicious. 】
The person who posted this was Dou Yifeng, the second son of the Dou family.
In the Dou family, from Dou Zewen to the two brothers Yifei and Yifeng, they are all well-known in the food circle. The three of them have different styles of evaluating food, but they are equally picky about dishes. If a private chef who has been evaluated by the father and sons can get a passing grade from the three of them, then the chef must have good cooking skills that are worth tasting.
Therefore, in the food forum, there is a group of fans of the three of them. They will follow their accounts separately and speculate on the final quality of the food based on their posts and comments.
After seeing Dou Yifeng's post, people in the forum immediately found the accounts of Dou Zewen and Dou Yifei. Sure enough, after Dou Yifeng posted, his father and brother also posted their own comments one after another.
Among them, Dou Zewen's comments are always more serious, and the title of his post is also very direct: [Masters are among the people, and delicious food is hard to forget - remembering today's lunch at my in-laws' house. 】
In this post, Dou Zewen first listed the meals made by Su Bai one by one, from Wensi tofu soup to steamed egg with scallops, fried shrimp with celery, fried pork with green beans and other lunch dishes, and then scored these dishes one by one, analyzing and commenting on them.
[The Wensi tofu is as thin as a hair, the knife skills are exquisite, and the flavor of the soup is well-balanced and just right. It ranks first among the literary tofu soups I have tasted in recent years. 】
[The steamed egg with scallops is delicate and tender. A little bit of sesame oil seeps into it, which makes people's cheeks and teeth fragrant. The freshness of the scallops is perfectly integrated into the steamed egg. One spoonful of it will make people dazzled. 】
[Celery fried shrimp, the celery is crispy, the shrimp is tender, and it is as refreshing as the wind. It tastes unique when you eat it...]
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Originally, after lunch, Dou Zewen wanted to praise Su Bai, but after Su Bai recognized their generation, he, as an elder, always felt that it was inappropriate to praise him too much, so he held back his praise for the delicious lunch in his heart. After returning home at noon, he quickly praised every dish made by Su Bai one by one.
Friends in the forum were surprised to see Dou Zewen review every dish from beginning to end. What surprised them even more was that the three sons, father and son, who usually had different comment styles, still had their own unique review styles today, but they all praised the meal they had at noon in unison.
Finally, after reading the posts of the father and his two sons, a forum user could not help but reply and question Dou Yifeng's post.
9l: [Is this really the food cooked by your in-laws? What kind of world-famous chef must he be to be praised so highly by you three, father and son? Do your in-laws have a private kitchen at home? Are you advertising for your own in-laws? 】
There are quite a few forum users who have this question, but the reputation of the Dou family father and son has always been good. The forum is full of gourmets who love food. Now that they see the three father and sons praising the food in unison, they all think that even if it is an advertisement, they plan to go and try it to see whether the praise of the father and sons is true.
So some people responded to Dou Yifeng's post, asking for the address of the private chef.
16l: [The advertisement of you three father and son is not up to standard. Can you please tell me the address of your in-laws’ private kitchen? Seeing you guys praising it so highly, I just want to try it and see if it’s really as good as you say. 】
After a long string of +1s were given to the post asking for the address of a private chef by a group of gourmets, Dou Yifeng silently replied to these gourmets.
OP: […To be honest, everyone wants to eat. Actually, I also want to have another meal there, but we are not a private chef and do not serve the public. 】
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After seeing Dou Yifeng’s reply, the gourmets in the forum were even more surprised - wait, not a private chef? So, are these three father and sons really expressing their praise sincerely?
My goodness, if this is really true and makes the father and his two sons praise it like this, then their cooking skills must be amazing, right?
No, thinking about it this way makes me want to eat it even more!
After seeing Dou Yifeng's reply, the gourmets were unwilling to say that they had no chance to taste such delicacy, so some people jokingly replied to Dou Yifeng, asking their family of three to persuade their in-laws, since the cooking skills were so good, to open a private kitchen as soon as possible, which would surely make a fortune.
Of course, some people suspect that this is also an advertising purpose of the father and his two sons, but their comments have indeed aroused the interest of many gourmet diners.
When Dou Yifeng saw these replies, he put himself in their shoes and of course knew what these forum members were thinking, so he simply replied to Su Bai's message.
Author: [Okay, my brother-in-law's family is in the sports business, which has nothing to do with our food circle. This is really not an advertisement. And the person who cooked was not my sister's parents-in-law, but the disciple of my sister's father-in-law. He is a serious track and field coach and has trained a very promising athlete. Who knows, he might strive to become a coach for the national team in the future. How could he open a private chef? 】
Until Dou Yifeng said this, people in the forum really believed what he said. However, this group of gourmets were all very upset about not being able to eat the possible delicacy. They criticized the Dou father and son for being dishonest. It was obviously a delicacy that everyone couldn't eat, but the father and son had to comment on it together, which aroused the appetite of everyone.
Dou Yifeng was also depressed. Su Bai's cooking skills were really good, but not to mention the gourmets in the forum, he himself had no food to eat after this meal. Although he had hooked up with Su Bai at noon and there was a chance to make a dinner date with him in the future, Su Bai's full-time job was a track and field coach after all, and he also had a busy job as a chef in the kitchen. How could he often make appointments with people just for meals?
Thinking of this, Dou Yifeng replied again in the post.
Author of the post: [If you want to eat, it’s not completely impossible. My brother-in-law’s junior fellow who’s in charge of cooking, besides being a coach, is also one of the chefs in the canteen on the third floor of the S Province Track and Field Team. Every day, a small portion of the dishes in their restaurant on the third floor are cooked by him. Although the big pot dishes he cooks are definitely not as good as the carefully prepared lunch we have at noon, but you can still taste the flavor, right? 】
Having said that, Dou Yifeng added: [But I heard that the cafeteria on the 3rd floor is specially used for the training of athletes for their track and field team, so ordinary people may not be able to enter. 】
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After seeing Dou Yifeng’s final reply, the gourmets in the forum were a little confused.
What's the meaning?
It would have been fine if the person who was said to be a good cook was a track and field coach, but it turns out that he also serves as the chef in the track and field team’s cafeteria? From coach to chef, what kind of dual role is this?
Moreover...the gourmets couldn't help but doubt, are the meals cooked by the chefs in the track and field team's canteen really as good as the Dou father and son said?
Just when people were doubting a little, an old gourmet who happened to know Sun Xiangdong, after seeing the keywords "the canteen on the third floor of the S Province Track and Field Team", called Sun Xiangdong directly and asked if there was really such a person there. After the call was connected, the old gourmet listened in a daze as Sun Xiangdong praised Su Bai.
Finally, Lao Tao copied Sun Xiangdong's words praising Su Bai to the forum, and finally said: [Sun Xiangdong is also an experienced chef. He should have a few friends in City S who know him. Since he also praises him so much...]
[Then let's all try our best to see who has the ability to eat the food cooked by Chef Su Bai. 】
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