Chapter 141 The Secret of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall
"Senior sister, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall." Just as Zhao Xiaojing was staring at the family photo in a daze, a voice sounded from behind.
Zhao Xiaojing looked back and saw that it was Wan Yuyue, who was assigned to the steaming and baking area, passing by her behind her pushing a basket of killed Australian lobsters.
"I saw you were quite interested yesterday, hehe. Did you see that? The second chef is doing it." Wan Yuyue raised her chin towards the chef in the stewing area.
"Okay, I got it. Go ahead and get busy." Zhao Xiaojing turned her head and smiled at her, then began to pay attention to the master's movements.
Thanks to the constant temperature fryer, she only needs to set the temperature and time, wait for two baskets to be fried, take them out and put two new baskets of ingredients in. Therefore, she can take a break from her busy schedule and have time to watch other chefs cook.
Just now she saw the chef putting something into a big soup bucket. She thought he was cooking some kind of soup, but it turned out that he was making Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
Zhao Xiaojing carefully observed the chef's movements, but after watching for a long time, he just looked at the time and added new ingredients into the bucket from time to time, while also taking care of several stewing soups nearby. He did not make any unnecessary movements until all of Zhao Xiaojing's ingredients were fried and pushed back into the pot.
After returning to the stove, Zhao Xiaojing didn't care about anything else. She took the big iron pot and cooked garlic spare ribs, secret fan ribs, and crispy duck one by one. Then she turned around to wash the pot and stir-fried the vegetables that the cook had brought aside.
By the time the last spoonful of vegetables was scooped out of the pot and pushed away by the cook to be served on a plate, the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall that Zhao Xiaojing had been thinking about had already been portioned out and was being pushed away by the waiter to be served.
Zhao Xiaojing was full of questions. She had heard of this dish many times and knew that the preparation was very complicated and not even small restaurants could make it. However, she didn't see the trick at all. The whole time, she only saw the chef controlling the timing of putting the ingredients into the pot. Could the trick be in the soup?
It was not until the hard work in the kitchen came to an end, all the dishes for the 240 banquet tables were prepared, and several kitchen workers began to clean up that Gu Shanfeng, who was drinking tea from a cup, solved Zhao Xiaojing's mystery.
"Well, you can't tell what the dish is like now, and it's not that good looking.
Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is simply a golden soup with seafood, and the focus is all on the soup. The soup is cooked in advance and contains chicken legs, duck legs, chicken feet, pig's trotters, bones, pig skin, and ham.
Put these things in and stew for at least seven or eight hours. The stewing order of each ingredient is different. After stewing, they all need to be crushed and filtered to allow the essence of the meat and collagen to enter the soup.
Then add pumpkin puree until it reaches a golden, thick and gelatinous state, and the soup is complete.
"This part is all prepared by the chef in advance. By the time you see it at noon, the soup will already be ready. All that's left is to add the seafood and simmer it over low heat. Of course, you won't be able to tell what it's made of, haha." Speaking of the signature dish, Gu Shanfeng excitedly gave Zhao Xiaojing a lecture, his whole person beaming.
Zhao Xiaojing listened in fascination, and then she suddenly realized.
At 1:30 p.m., just as the last table of guests in the hall left, the system prompt sounded.
Ding~
[Random Task: At a banquet you participate in, achieve a clean plate rate of at least 65% for dishes you create as the head chef (excluding leftovers).]
[Disc rate 71.5%, mission completed]
[Congratulations on winning system coins x500 and cash x3000! ]
The mission was completed relatively smoothly, and I did learn a lot from this trip, but it was really tiring.
This was Zhao Xiaojing's first time preparing a banquet with hundreds of tables. With 240 tables, each accommodating 10 people, that's 2,400 people. The workload was incredibly intense. Even with her exceptional physique, she felt a slight pain in her waist after four hours of non-stop work.
After lunch, Gu Shanfeng paid Zhao Xiaojing her wages in cash. 2,000 yuan was directly deposited into her account. Together with the 3,000 yuan given by the system, she earned 5,000 yuan in half a day. She was very happy and felt that the hard work was worth it.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Xiaojing returned to the kitchen.
Su Yuchen was not around and she couldn't handle it all by herself. She had already told the neighbors that the sale of pork trotter rice would be suspended for the next seven days, but the sweet soup still had to be made quickly.
On the 11th, Lu Hongwen did not rest like other students. Instead, he was full of energy and asked Zhao Xiaojing to make more sweet soups. He said that there would be more people at the night market during the Golden Week and he had to seize the time to make money.
After Zhao Xiaojing returned to the kitchen and looked around to see that there was no one around, she used the system shortcut module to process the ingredients with one click.
After that, it was another busy period, making sauce with the fruit pieces processed by the system, and making taro balls, rice balls, pandan powder and other small ingredients.
Fortunately, the quick module really saved a lot of time. When Zhao Xiaojing had finished everything, she heard the sound of the key opening the kitchen door.
Now the sugar water truck no longer needs to be sent to the night market, but Lu Hongwen can pick it up himself.
Some time ago, Zhao Xiaojing and Su Yuchen were often overwhelmed by the pork trotter rice stall, so they gave Lü Hongwen a kitchen key. After making the sweet soup, they would put it directly into the freezer on the sweet soup cart. Lü Hongwen would then come over in the afternoon and ride away on his own. In the evening, Zhao Xiaojing and Su Yuchen would finish their work and go home. Lü Hongwen would then return to put the stall away after selling the sweet soup.
The kitchen happened to be in a suitable location, not far from the school and the night market, and even closer than if Lu Hongwen went directly to the night market, so both parties were happy to save trouble.
Moreover, Lu Hongwen is very careful. Every time he comes to set up the stall at night, he will clean all the small buckets, food boxes, spoons and other tools.
When Lu Hongwen opened the door, he saw the dessert cart at a glance. The full of small condiments made him both surprised and astonished.
"Sister, you have to have 700 servings, right? Didn't Sister Comb go back home? You've been making this in the kitchen all day?
"Oh, I'm asking you to do as much as you can, but don't get too tired. Just enough is enough." Lu Hongwen grinned, looking very embarrassed.
"About 750 copies, enough for you to sell well. We have machines to help us now, don't worry, I won't be tired." Zhao Xiaojing waved her hand and pointed at the processing machine placed aside to hide it from others with a relaxed look.
Today she used the quick module to get the ingredients for 750 servings, just in time for Lu Hongwen to sell out, and then check the module error based on the quantity.
"That's fine, haha. Just don't let my obsession with making money drag you down." Lu Hongwen smiled and scratched his head, then paused and spoke again.
"Sister, I want to discuss something with you."
"Hmm? Go ahead."
"Now that the sales of sugar water are up, I don't think I need to worry about my living expenses. But there have been too many people lately, and I'm a little overwhelmed.
I was thinking, could I hire another part-time job in my own name...
You don't have to pay. I want to hire a student directly, and the salary will be slightly higher than the normal part-time rate. Just come three hours a day, and I will pay you directly when the time comes. You don't have to come forward."
Lu Hongwen felt a little embarrassed and looked at Zhao Xiaojing with a little trepidation.
"You mean you invite me in the name of your boss, and Suozi and I won't show up, so he won't know that you have a boss behind you, right?" Zhao Xiaojing immediately understood what Lu Hongwen meant.
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