Chapter 81 Group Visit
If Po Ren was the first group of people who used their connections to ask for a seat, then the people from the fifth family were the second group. As time went on, the third, fourth, and fifth groups also appeared one after another.
For a while, all the non-natives on the abandoned planet No. 7 were subjected to similar "harassment" from their relatives and friends, asking them if they knew the young star chef in the human restaurant, and if they could find a way to get a seat for the Clear Sky Banquet, and the price and other things were negotiable.
From people who knew him directly to people who were asked to inquire about him indirectly, Xiao Xingchu's personal terminal was filled with various inquiries about seats. Qi Huan, who was thinking about the menu for the apprenticeship banquet, was overwhelmed by the information and finally set up an automatic reply, [Research and develop the menu in seclusion, contact in three days]
As soon as Qi Huan went into seclusion, the people around him immediately became the hardest hit, and Diwuyuan, who had many friends in various star regions, was the first to be affected. The young master never expected that he was so worried about not being able to sell the seats that he didn't sleep well the night before the live broadcast, and a few nights after the live broadcast, because the seats were selling so well, he was so annoyed that he couldn't sleep unless he turned off the terminal.
Jiufang Yu naturally also received similar "harassment". Even the elders of the Jiufang family who kicked him to the waste star to fend for himself sent him messages with smug faces asking for information.
Jiufang Yu handled this kind of thing with ease, unlike Diwuyuan who was inexperienced at all. When dealing with the elders of Jiufang family, he politely played the victim, saying that he was busy running around for the reconstruction of the base recently, and had very little time to sleep every day. He didn't pay any attention to the food live broadcast and the Clear Sky Banquet. When he woke up late, he would ask someone what was going on, and by the way, urge the progress of the second round of compensation payment from Waste Planet No. 7.
To close friends and family, we sincerely explained that the seats were currently 'oversold' and that the abandoned planet base was in an unsafe situation where star beasts could attack at any time. We suggested that they wait until the situation on the abandoned planet improved slightly before coming to experience it in person, and promised to provide a portion of the original flavor on the shelf for them to 'taste'.
For those partners who came to exchange resources, they were promised to open separate seats in the future depending on the situation, successfully securing a large number of resources and materials for Feixing that were originally difficult to obtain even with money.
Most of the people in the Si family didn't have big appetites, so they basically followed his advice and planned to come over to eat comfortably and safely after the new base was built. Only Si Liang was very greedy, but Jiufang Yan was afraid that his coming would cause trouble, so he refused to allow him to go out on the grounds that the previous one-year ban had not yet been lifted.
Jiufang Yu couldn't bear to see the pitiful look of the little guy, but he didn't want to "disobey" his sister. Finally, he discussed with Qi Huan and decided to give the little guy a one-person VIP live broadcast when setting up a separate banquet for the fifth family, and provide him with the original flavors on the shelves to temporarily "satisfy his cravings".
The starship that Po Zhan and his wife were on arrived at Waste Planet No. 7 at 10:30 am on Monday. Jiu Fangyu made a special trip with his secretary to pick up the ship. Qi Huan was busy preparing a welcoming banquet for the Five Knife Star Chef boss and also his own apprenticeship banquet early in the morning.
Today's menu is Nebula Soup, Golden Chicken, Lotus Duck Recipe, Taishi Tofu, Sunrise at Spring Mountain, Dinghu Vegetarian, Crystal Shrimp Dumplings, and Boiled Gold and Jade.
Taking into account that most people have a poor appetite after a long journey, he did not prepare overly greasy and heavy dishes today. As for the "restaurant" for dining, it was naturally a long table made of waste stones at the new inspection site.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the airship that picked up the two big guys slowly landed next to the starship, and Jiufang Yu, the secretary, and two figures with one white and one gold hair walked out of the airship.
Qi Huan was personally placing the plates for later use at the long table. When he saw the few people arriving, he greeted them with a smile.
Po Zhan was wearing a brown knee-length windbreaker. He had a full forehead, a regular appearance, snow-white hair, and cold and steady eyes. He did not look like a young man, but he did not look old at all.
The woman next to him was wearing a windbreaker of the same color and style. Her blonde hair was casually tied into a fluffy pigtail and placed on her shoulders. When she walked, a few strands of hair fluttered in the wind. Her every move was full of energy. It was hard to imagine that she was old enough to be called a 'grandmother'.
What surprised Qi Huan even more was that although the faces of the two people looked unfamiliar, the postures of their steps were very familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere. After a few seconds, he suddenly remembered that they were the two anchors in the live broadcast room of Wilderness Foodie!
No wonder they knew so much about the combination of various ingredients and flavors in their conversations, it turns out they are well-informed. No wonder they only look for ingredients but never cook them, it turns out they are afraid of exposing their identities.
"Little boy, what are you daydreaming about?" The blonde woman waved her hand in front of Qi Huan, a smile in her lavender eyes.
"Oh, sorry, I was distracted for a moment when I saw that you two seniors looked very much like the host of the live broadcast room who was looking for ingredients that I saw before." Qi Huan hurriedly apologized and bowed respectfully to the two of them.
"Your eyes are quite good." Po Zhan looked Qi Huan up and down several times, with the corners of his eyes slightly lowered, with a hint of intimidating majesty, which was the momentum accumulated from being in a superior position for a long time.
"That's right. We clearly used virtual faces, but you recognized it at once." The woman rolled her eyes at Po Zhan, but when she turned to Qi Huan, the smile in her eyes became even stronger. "Hello, my name is Jiang Huai."
"Senior, are you from the Jiang family?" Qi Huan noticed the tree-like strange pattern on the side of her neck and asked subconsciously.
"Yes, but it's just a side branch." Jiang Huai didn't care about his abruptness and answered with a smile. He took out a thin ring from the bracelet-shaped storage bag on his wrist and handed it to Qi Huan. "Here are some ingredients we found recently. Just consider it a gift for you."
"Thank you, senior." Qi Huan hurriedly thanked him. After receiving Jiu Fangyu's gaze, he quickly led the two of them to the long table, "Seniors, please come this way."
The four of them sat down at the table. Qi Huan served tea to the two seniors and brought each of them a crystal-clear dessert.
The dessert on the plate was about an inch wide, cut neatly, and colorful. The edges were a rich, dark purple, which gradually transitioned to a gorgeous red, warm and flamboyant, and then turned into a light blue, empty and distant. There were curved and bulging lines between the colors, like flowing air lines, flashing a charming gem-like luster in the sun.
Dozens of large and small balls are quietly suspended inside the dessert, the smallest is as small as dust, the largest is no bigger than a soybean. Some are silvery white, some are brown, some have gentle pearl-like sparkles, and some are half red and half white, like half-peeled lychees.
"Could this be Waste Planet No. 7?" Jiang Huai looked at the half-red and half-white ball, with surprise flashing in his eyes. If you look down from the universe, Waste Planet No. 7 looks like this, half white like jade and half bright red like fire.
"That's right. This dessert is called Nebula Soup. I designed it based on the photo of the First Star Region. The outer layer of nebulae of different colors is made of tea jelly mixed with several kinds of fruit pastes, and the planets inside are made of ingredients of different colors and flavors such as chocolate, yogurt, and popping candy." Qi Huan introduced this self-created dessert that was inspired by a bunch of photos.
Po Zhan scooped a piece with a spoon and put it into his mouth. The tea jelly had a blend of sour and sweet tastes, which was refreshing and appetizing, calming and invigorating. When he chewed it into round beads, the sour, sweet, milky, and bitter flavors suddenly exploded between his teeth, like a gorgeous firework blooming on the tip of his tongue, unique and surprising.
Po Zhan nodded reservedly, but Jiang Huai raised his eyebrows towards Qi Huan with great enthusiasm, praising him generously, "Your idea is amazing from the appearance to the taste, especially the popping texture, which is very interesting."
"This dish is called Taishi Tofu. The main ingredients are soybeans, eggs, catfish, square crabs, and animal meat." Qi Huan introduced as he served a plate to everyone.
Taishi Tofu, like Taishi Five Snakes Soup, comes from the Taishi Banquet. It is also a complicated Kung Fu dish. Since it is a banquet for apprenticeship, some difficult dishes must be served.
After nearly a hundred years of inheritance and development, the inherited methods of major restaurants and Taishi’s chefs are different. Qi Huan referred to the techniques of each restaurant and the ingredients available at hand to make this version of Taishi tofu.
First, you need to shave the skin and debone the chicken, then simmer the chicken bones, leg bones and ham over low heat to make a pot of soup. Use a meat hammer to break up the chicken fibers, soak the chicken in the soup, steam it, filter out the chicken and impurities, and you will get fresh chicken soup.
Use half of the chicken soup to soak soybeans, beat into a paste, add egg white, minced catfish, minced crab meat, minced animal meat, etc., pick out the fascia, beat evenly, filter to the most delicate state, steam and shape it into tofu, and then pour the boiled chicken soup on it. It is done.
The tofu in the plate was square in shape, delicate and white in color, with a layer of emerald green sprouts underneath, immersed in light golden soup. When the plate was moved slightly, water shone on it.
It may look ordinary, but it is tender and smooth when you put it in your mouth. The natural sweet taste of fish and crab radiates from the inside out, filling your tongue with flavor. The delicious flavor is absolutely incomparable to that of ordinary tofu.
After the secretary arrived at Waste Star, he had only eaten in the cafeteria for two days. During these two days, the non-natives of Waste Star were disturbed by the issue of seats for the Clear Sky Banquet, and he was no exception. But he was embarrassed to disturb Qi Huan, so he could only use the opportunity of reporting official business to inquire about the seats from Jiufang Yu indirectly. He heard that they had all been sold out, so he gave up.
In addition to the seats, countless people also asked him whether the food Qi Huan cooked was delicious.
It tastes good. But it's not as amazing as what is said on the Star Internet, and it's really not that good. This was the secretary's true evaluation of the dishes in the cafeteria.
Now sitting at the side table, eating the Nebula Soup and the Taishi Tofu in succession, he realized that he was completely wrong. It was delicious, really delicious. No matter the creativity or the taste, it was unique in the entire alliance. No wonder the Clear Sky Banquet was so popular and hard to get a seat.
"Sir, we must keep Star Chef." The secretary immediately thought of the role that Qi Huan would play in boosting the fame and popularity of the entire Waste Star after he became famous in the alliance in the future, and whispered to Jiufang Yu.
"Yeah." Jiufang Yu nodded slightly. It was no surprise that Qi Huan won a new fan with just two dishes.
After tasting it, Po Zhan also showed a satisfied look, "Eating fish but not seeing fish, eating crab but not seeing crab, this dish must have taken a long time to prepare?"
"I get up early to start making soup, and I kept doing it until a lot of my hair fell out." Qi Huan answered half-jokingly and half-seriously, making Jiang Huai laugh.
"This dish is called Golden Chicken, and it can be eaten with dipping sauce." Qi Huan served the third dish to everyone.
The so-called golden chicken is actually white-cut chicken, which originated in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. Lin Hong of the Southern Song Dynasty mentioned it in "Shan Jia Qing Gong". Li Bai also sighed, "There is a lot of green wine in the hall, and a golden chicken on the plate." In the feather family list of Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List" in the Qing Dynasty, it was also listed as the first, called white slice chicken.
Over the past thousand years, this dish has spread to many provinces in China and has become a representative dish in many places. Qi Huan uses the Cantonese method, which emphasizes soaking the chicken. The chicken is lifted and put into the slightly boiling shrimp eye soup "three times up and three times down" to allow the hot soup to evenly soak the chicken body to avoid partial overheating and overcooking. The ingredients used are prepared clear soy sauce, without adding other spicy ingredients.
The chicken in the plate is evenly cut into finger-width slices. The golden chicken skin and the white chicken meat have distinct textures. Between the skin and the meat is a layer of crystal jelly-like chicken jelly, which is shiny, tender and tempting.
The skin is smooth and the meat is tender, fat and chewy. The warm temperature in your mouth melts the jelly, and the juice and clear soy sauce blend together, further highlighting the original tenderness of the chicken.
"It's not greasy or dry, not astringent or woody, and the cooking time is just right." Jiang Huai ate three pieces in a row and couldn't put his chopsticks down.
Jiufang Yu also liked the smooth and tender texture of the golden chicken very much, and silently made a 6 gesture to Qi Huan to praise him.
Qi Huan smiled with his eyebrows curved, and continued to serve the dishes to everyone, "This dish is called Lotus Duck Recipe, and it mainly uses duck skin, shrimp paste and egg white."
In front of everyone were three mahjong-piece-sized duck cubes. The bottom layer was beautiful duck skin like ruby, in the middle was light pink shrimp paste, and on top was a layer of egg white as soft as a cloud. It was as white as snow, with distinct layers.
When you chew it slowly, you will find the egg white is light and dense, the duck skin is crispy and crispy, and the shrimp meat is sweet and juicy. The rich fatty aroma from the duck skin is matched with the juice of the shrimp meat and the soft texture of the egg white, which is gentle, lingering and seamless.
"The cooking time is perfect, and the ingredients are even better." Po Zhan nodded to Qi Huan in appreciation.
"Yes, it's absolutely delicious, especially the top layer which is soft and fluffy, while the bottom layer is so crispy that it melts in your mouth, and the fragrance makes you dizzy." The secretary couldn't help but praise it.
"As long as everyone likes it." When tasting the food, Qi Huan himself liked the taste of this dish very much.
There are different ways to cook lotus duck in Shandong cuisine and Sichuan cuisine. He now draws on the Sichuan cuisine recipe and makes further improvements.
The original method is to slice the bones of the camphor tea duck, take the thin layer of meat at the bottom with the skin as the base, put minced shrimp in the middle, and beat egg white and starch into an egg white paste on the top. Steam it in a pot, then put the duck into the pot with a colander and fry only the lower one-third of the duck meat. This way, you can keep the snow-white color of the egg paste on the top, and make the duck skin on the bottom crispy and fragrant.
Qi Huan abandoned the camphor tea duck and directly made a Peking duck. After the roasting was completed, the two-finger-wide duck skin at the belly was used as the base for the lotus duck. Grandpa Pozhan's tongue was really powerful, and he tasted the exquisiteness of the ingredients in just a few bites.
As for the other parts of the roast duck, they were naturally not wasted. At noon, a roast duck wrap was added to the meal for everyone who stayed on the starship.
Sunrise Spring Mountain is an improvement on Jiangyao Brewed Loofah. The loofah is sliced vertically to make peaks of different distances and heights, and then shredded scallops are spread on the peaks. After being steamed, the shredded scallops turn slightly red, just like the peaks dyed red by the sunlight at sunrise and the spring mountains overflowing with morning light, which is vivid and beautiful.
Dinghu Shangsu uses vegetarian broth, and the ingredients include three mushrooms, six fungi, nine bamboo shoots and one sheng. Qi Huan picked and chose from the ingredients on hand and selected eighteen kinds. The finished product is also elegant in color, fresh and refreshing. In particular, the meatless dish is better than the meaty one, which made Jiang Huai and the secretary marvel.
Considering that everyone was tired from the journey, Qi Huan gave up the heavy staple food and carefully cooked a bowl of porridge for everyone - 煿[bó]金煮玉, paired with crystal shrimp dumplings, as the staple food.
Roasted Gold and Cooked Jade comes from Shan Jia Qing Gong, and is a fresh bamboo shoot porridge with complicated preparation procedures.
"煿金" means coating the tender bamboo shoots with a thin layer of batter and frying them in a frying pan until golden brown, while "卓玉" means slicing the bamboo shoots and boiling them with rice. The cooked bamboo shoots slices are half white and half transparent, and are shiny and smooth when soaked in rice soup, just like mutton-fat white jade.
The fried gold is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fragrant and sweet, while the boiled jade is smooth and delicate. The aroma of rice and the flavor of bamboo shoots complement each other. It is like the sweet and moving taste of spring is introduced into the fireworks of the world, blending together and soothing the heart.
The dishes on this table are delicately matched, and it is obvious that they have been carefully thought out. First, they did not deliberately take shortcuts and simply pile up a bunch of top-quality ingredients, and second, they did not lazily serve those dishes that have become famous in the live broadcast room. Instead, they started from the perspective of the guests, comprehensively considered the other party's taste and physical condition, selected the appropriate ingredients, and then used exquisite and meticulous cooking techniques to carefully prepare them. The details of the heat and seasoning were also properly grasped, and they were meticulous and appropriate. This kind of gentleness, like the silent spring rain, makes people not only eat deliciously, but also eat comfortably.
"Your cooking skills are indeed very good. Some of your creativity even makes me admit defeat. What's more rare is that you have the heart of a star chef." Po Zhan put down the porridge spoon and sighed repeatedly.
Being good at using ingredients and respecting the guests' tasting experience to the greatest extent are the most basic and most important qualities of a star chef.
"You're too kind. In fact, many of our dishes draw on the experience of our predecessors."
Po Zhan wanted to say something else, but Jiang Huai kicked his heel and said, "Stop talking nonsense and take out the token."
Po Zhan looked at his wife helplessly, sighed, and took out a round jade plate from his storage bag. There was a pattern of five knives carved above the plate, and the word "Po" was in the middle.
Jiang Huai snatched it away and handed it to Qi Huan with a smile, "This is his five-sword talisman, which is a symbol of succession. You have two senior brothers with four swords. I will introduce you to them when I have the chance. I will serve you tea and pay my respects later. You will be the old man's official closed disciple."
"Thank you, Master."
Qi Huan bowed to Jiang Huaidi and took the jade token with both hands. He then respectfully poured a cup of tea and handed it to Po Zhan with both hands, "Master, please have some tea."
"Good boy." A smile appeared between Pozhan's brows. He happily took the teacup and drank the tea of apprenticeship.
Inside the starship, Diwuyuan was frowning at the data on the triple screen with a stern face.
Bai Fu's assistant secretary has already contacted the twelve live viewers who filmed the Chief Clear Sky Banquet, asked them to provide specific data of the banquet attendees, and signed relevant service agreements.
The Sky Clearing Banquet was so popular that naturally there were countless people asking for seats to be transferred, and many people offered five or ten times the price. Some people could not resist the temptation of the high price and transferred their seats. Baifu would not pursue the matter, but after signing the agreement, the seats were locked and no changes to the information of the banquet attendees were allowed.
What Qi Huan has now is this locked list of people attending the banquet.
By simply checking the original account address and information, you can determine whether it is the original audience member who took the photo or a seat that was purchased at a high price.
Six people purchased seats through resale.
It includes not only Huai Tong, the poster of the first post "A Genius Who Deceives the World and Steals His Name", and Yang Yuan, the poster of the third post "High-profile Showmanship and Low-profile Money-Making", but also, more surprisingly, Qi Shan, the son of the current acting head of the Qi family.
No wonder Jiufang Yu asked him to pay attention to and investigate the data of every guest who participated in the Qingkong Banquet. Are they really planning to form a group to come and cause trouble?
The young master gritted his teeth silently at the three names on the display.
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