After going downstairs, Liu Jia found Liu Lan: "Sister Lan, a customer at Saoxiaxuan ordered a dish of braised cabbage. I told her we don't have it, but she insisted and said she would complain if we didn't make it!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Lan instantly went through the list of dishes that Saoxiaxuan had ordered: Butterfly Love Flower, Sweet and Sour Carp, Pipa Tofu, Imitation Crab, and Stir-fried Pork Kidney.
The fact that two people ordered so many dishes not only shows their wealth and status, but also their expertise in ordering food. They are clearly connoisseurs and should not be offended.
Why do I say that? Because most people who come to Qilige Restaurant don't know that Shandong cuisine also has terms like cold dishes, large dishes, side dishes, and rice dishes.
If you still don't understand, think about how, after French cuisine became popular, restaurants blindly imitated it, with appetizers and main courses all mixed up in a mess...
Of the dishes she ordered, Butterfly Love Flower was a cold dish; Sweet and Sour Carp was a main dish; Pipa Tofu and Imitation Crab were side dishes; and Stir-fried Pork Kidney was a main dish.
As the name suggests, "food and dishes" refers to dishes that accompany rice.
After quickly figuring this out, Liu Lan said to Liu Jia, "You go up first, I'll talk to the kitchen myself."
"..."
In the kitchen, Fatty had just finished making a dish of jade shrimp ordered from the dining area and hadn't even had a sip of tea when Liu Lan lifted the curtain and came in: "Fatty, another job is needed."
What dish?
"The guests at Saoxiaxuan specifically ordered a dish of braised cabbage, saying they would complain if it wasn't made."
The fat man thought he had misheard: "Stewed cabbage? Is this my rival sending someone to mess with me?"
A few "pfft" sounds made everyone in the kitchen laugh.
Liu Lan laughed and patted him on the back: "Stop talking nonsense, this is a big client, hurry up and do it."
The customer requested it, so let's make it.
In the past, resources were scarce, and Stardew Valley's produce couldn't be openly shared. That's why Fatty often made this dish at home.
Because you can add things to it!
Add chicken and it tastes like chicken; add duck and it tastes like duck. Of course, the most delicious way is to add braised pork. After boiling it, add a handful of glass noodles. Yu Li and Chen Yan love it.
Now that conditions are better, everything is being sold openly.
This dish doesn't require much skill, so the fat man called over his young apprentice and said to him, "Let me see if you've improved lately. You'll make this braised cabbage."
The fat man's apprentice was named Gao Xiang, a typical northerner with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but a bit simple-minded...
Last time, Fatty asked him to kill a chicken; this idiot didn't even bother to tie the chicken's wings, he just grabbed it and started brandishing the cleaver at the chicken's neck.
The chicken was terrified, flapping its wings wildly, kicking its claws, and making screams incessantly...
Gao Xiang was originally holding the chicken's two wings with one hand, but now that he was struggling, he found that he didn't have enough hands.
So Gao Xiang called over Lao Wang's apprentice, Pan Ming, and had Pan Ming hold the knife while he simply grabbed the chicken's wings with both hands.
Suddenly, another person appeared, and the chicken felt doubled in its threat, struggling even more fiercely, especially twisting its neck like a pretzel. Pan Ming tried to aim at it several times, but still couldn't get a good shot.
He said to Gao Xiang, "Grab its neck, otherwise I won't be able to do it."
The chicken may have understood, or perhaps its will to survive was too strong. In the midst of its struggle, it suddenly twisted its neck and pecked at Gao Xiang's chin!
Gao Xiang let out a painful scream and, as if by reflex, threw the chicken at Pan Ming.
Caught off guard, Pan Ming instinctively swung his sword!
A handful of chicken feathers flew around in the kitchen, and a trail of bloody footprints followed the path out of the kitchen...
The fat man yelled "My chicken!" while laughing and rubbing his stomach.
The waiter and the security guard were chatting when suddenly a chicken flew out of the kitchen, injured and covered in blood. Yu Li's face turned pale!
After finally catching the chicken, everyone saw the two young apprentices, and some of the more easily amused ones, like Auntie Pang, laughed so hard they slid off to the ground...
They were in such a sorry state—Pan Ming had chicken feathers stuck in his hair; Gao Xiang had a patch of black skin on his chin, that bite must have been really vicious!
Gao Xiang weakly defended himself, saying, "Perhaps it wasn't meant to die."
That's just how silly I am...
Gao Xiang has been learning from the fat man for almost two years now, so making stewed cabbage is a piece of cake for him.
The fat man instructed him from the side: "Cut some pork belly, the fattier kind, and sauté it to render the fat first."
Gao Xiang quickly did as instructed, then sautéed scallions and ginger in oil, and finally added the squeezed-dry cabbage to the pan and stir-fried it until fragrant before adding water and seasoning.
Seeing that every step was done correctly and there was nothing wrong with it, the fat man nodded and turned to busy himself with other things.
The dish was ready in no time. A voice called from the kitchen to call for the food, and Liu Lan hurried in, took it out, handed it to Liu Jia, and returned.
Liu Jia gently pushed open the door, carried in a plate, and placed the stewed cabbage in front of the woman: "Here's your stewed cabbage, please enjoy."
The woman didn't touch her chopsticks; she just stared blankly at the dish.
She looked as if she was reminiscing about the past, perhaps thinking of sweet memories, and a shallow dimple appeared at the corner of her mouth; a moment later, she may have recalled sad things she didn't want to remember, and tears seemed to well up in the corners of her eyes.
The woman suddenly came to her senses, hurriedly wiped her eyes, and said without even touching her chopsticks, "This dish is not right. It wasn't made by your head chef. I just said I wanted your head chef to make it for me personally."
Liu Jia instinctively asked her, "Did you say so?"
"Didn't I say that!"
"..."
Why is this customer so difficult? Liu Jia didn't know if the head chef had made this dish himself. She only remembered that when she first came for training, the fat man taught them the eight-character mantra: "Listen more, talk less; observe more, do less."
He said, "Please wait a moment, I'll go ask."
The woman was assertive: "No need to ask, just take it away. This definitely wasn't made by your head chef."
The woman was prepared to hear what the waitress would say to brush her off; as the saying goes, people from Beijing are slick and sharp-tongued, and those from this region never give an easy answer.
Unexpectedly, Liu Jia actually took the dishes out, leaving the woman stunned on the spot.
Little did she know that the fat man had already given them pre-job training, the first point of which was that food quality and hygiene were of paramount importance, and if customers had any complaints about this, they had to listen to the customers.
Just recently, when Lao Wang was cooking fish, he forgot to remove the tiny scales from the fish's back, resulting in a customer eating a piece of fish scale.
They called the fat guy over and asked him in a sarcastic tone, "Is your chef in a hurry to leave work?"
The fat man was puzzled: "No, we don't get off work until 8 pm."
"What's going on with this fish? Well, I found such a big fish scale in my food!"
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