Su Qingluan stared at Shopkeeper Liang with increasingly sharp eyes: "Uncle Liang! Aren't you just looking for trouble?! Doesn't your conscience hurt?"
Of course, Liang Youdao said that he is now a black-hearted businessman, and black-hearted businessmen don’t need conscience. That thing can be chewed and eaten.
For him, as a hotel owner, it is natural for him to see that the skills of his chefs are as high as possible - although Su Qingluan is not strictly speaking his chef, she has signed a contract with him - so that they can create more delicious and attractive dishes for diners.
In this way, it won’t be long before more people will travel thousands of miles to this small town just to taste this rare delicacy.
Having run a restaurant for so many years, Shopkeeper Liang knew all too well the lengths to which gourmets would go for a bite of food. Of course, more importantly, these gourmets had no worries about money and didn't have to worry about food and clothing. So, all they could pursue was pleasure and the satisfaction of their appetites.
It is precisely because of this that the rarer the delicacy, the more likely it is to attract these gourmets to come and taste it. And if these gourmets favor a particular delicacy, they will become its artificial publicity channel, thereby attracting more diners and even ordinary people who are just watching the fun.
So for Shopkeeper Liang, it doesn’t matter who wins or loses between Su Qingluan and Xu Yuanwei. What matters is that both of them can make delicious food.
To be honest, he had already seen Xu Yuanwei's skills, and they had yielded good results over the past two weeks. Shopkeeper Liang was still looking forward to what kind of "surprises" Su Qingluan would bring.
The Hongfulou restaurant has been open for some years, so there are several small vendors selling fresh food at low prices and good quality around the restaurant. They are there to serve as a source of supply if Hongfulou occasionally runs out of ingredients.
Over time, these familiar vendors have specialized in preparing ingredients that are uncommon but useful in restaurants.
It was also because of this that the young man who was sent by Manager Liang to run errands for Su Qingluan did not take too long to buy back a basket of peaches and a net bag of mandarin fish.
This mandarin fish also fully demonstrated the ferocious and strong character of this species. Even though it had been out of the water for a long time, it did not give up and kept flapping back and forth in the net bag, refusing to accept its fate.
The young man was of a thin build and didn't look too old, probably only about seventeen or eighteen years old, so he was tormented by the jumping mandarin fish along the way.
Seeing this, Su Qingluan recalled the scene yesterday when she was covered in mandarin fish and felt a little amused. She walked over and took the basket of peaches and said with a smile, "Little brother, put the mandarin fish somewhere that's not too conspicuous. I'll prepare it later."
Then he turned around to deal with the peaches.
The peaches of this era are not treated with any pesticides or chemical fertilizers. If it weren't for some dust and dirt, you probably wouldn't even need to wash them.
Su Qingluan washed the peaches and picked out a few fruits with light, medium and dark red colors, and asked Manager Liang for a bowl of water.
When Shopkeeper Liang was a little curious about what Su Qingluan was up to, Su Qingluan had already called over the young chefs who were looking at her curiously.
As for Xu Yuanwei, when he saw Su Qingluan start to work, he also began to select the best tendons and started cutting.
Su Qingluan looked at the group of young chefs who were gathered around her. Most of them were familiar faces to her, but there were also two or three newcomers.
However, she had discussed this with Manager Liang before. Anyone who could come to help in the kitchen had to sign a confidentiality agreement, and breach of the agreement would result in a very high price.
What's more, Manager Liang said that he naturally had a way to prevent these young kitchen helpers from going out and talking nonsense.
Su Qingluan understood that although Shopkeeper Liang was always cheerful and friendly to her, like a good-natured uncle next door, anyone who could survive in the brutal business world and become a leader in the catering industry, even if it was a small place, was definitely not just a nice guy.
Su Qingluan believed in Manager Liang's skills and naturally would not ask too many related details.
She then held up the peaches that had popped out and said, "As everyone knows, although fruit is often used as an appetizer or before a meal, and is often sweetened with a large amount of honey to make it a sweet treat, if used properly, it can also be used as a seasoning."
Some people, not quite accustomed to using fruit as a condiment, subconsciously frowned, expressing their disapproval. But no one objected. After all, the person making the comment was Su Qingluan, who had demonstrated her culinary prowess more than once before.
So regardless of whether they agreed or not, the chefs did not interrupt and listened to Su Qingluan continue speaking.
Su Qingluan picked up a peach with the lightest color and said, "Compared to rice vinegar and aged vinegar, the natural sweetness and sourness of the fruit is softer and richer in the special aroma of the fruit. However, the degree of sweetness and sourness and the taste of the flesh of different maturity levels and different types of fruit are slightly different. Even the same fruit will taste different when eaten raw and when fully ripe."
"Because of this, when fruits are used as seasonings, they can create a variety of different flavors."
Su Qingluan said this as she put the peach in her hand into her mouth and chewed it gently - not to pretend to be polite, but according to her experience, fruits with too light colors usually represent...
As expected, the next moment, the shock to her taste buds that was no less than the previous "sour hook" swept through her entire mouth, instantly making Su Qingluan's hair stand on end.
However, because Su Qingluan had been "prepared" in advance, she was only bitten very lightly, so the extent of the attack was not serious, and she just frowned slightly.
After taking a bite of the peach, Su Qingluan looked around again: "So in order to determine the sourness and sweetness of the fruit, you can try it yourself first, and then decide how much pulp to put in, and how to season it later to make it softer and more harmonious."
After she finished speaking, she rinsed her mouth with the bowl of water she had asked for and spit it out, adding, "Every time you taste a piece of fruit, remember to rinse your mouth to prevent the flavors of different fruits from blending and interfering with each other in your mouth."
At this time, someone asked, "If it's the same kind of fruit, do we need to rinse our mouths?"
Su Qingluan nodded and looked in the direction of the voice: "Of course you need to rinse your mouth, because even the same kind of fruit has different levels of sourness and sweetness. They will interfere with each other to a certain extent."
Shopkeeper Liang was also "listening" to Su Qingluan's lecture with great interest. He looked up at Xu Yuanwei, who was alone at the other end of the kitchen, cutting tendons. He couldn't help but jokingly said, "Master Xu, do you want to listen to how Qingluan teaches these young chefs? You have such a fierce face. Aren't you afraid that your apprentices will be snatched away?"
Su Qingluan: "..." Ever since she became more familiar with Manager Liang, she always wondered if this Uncle Liang had some evil taste of wanting the world to be in chaos?
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