Chapter 358 You Are Right
After Lu Hongwen resumed takeout after school started, and the fried food and braised pork head became popular, the store's already popular popularity grew day by day.
By eleven o'clock, more than half of the store was already full of people waiting for the official opening. People were lining up in the windows selling fried food and braised pork heads from Geng Mingyan and Hou Guihua's shops, and the broadcasting machine in the kitchen was non-stop. Not to mention that Wen Jin's studio had also returned to its working mode before the New Year and had started taking a fixed order of thirty-three meals per meal.
While serving rice and arranging dishes, Su Yuchen had to tear off the orders and divide them into two batches: dine-in and take-out. Ouyang Yidan was also assigned to the kitchen, where she kept packing and bagging the two orders and distributing them to the four chefs according to the dishes while Lu Hongwen was delivering the take-out.
Fortunately, the three new employees got started quickly, and with sufficient manpower, the turnover rate became very high. Although the store was unprecedentedly busy, the workload was evenly distributed and well organized, and it was busy but not chaotic.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, everyone had finished get off work and the four chefs returned to the kitchen.
After Zhao Xiaojing assigned Wan Yuyue ten servings of spicy and sour potato shreds and Yun Yongyuan ten servings of stir-fried pork with chili peppers, she turned around and started cooking the duck herself.
As for Nie Xiuqi, he was originally going to make fish soup, but after hearing Zhao Xiaojing ask Yun Yongyuan to make stir-fried pork with chili peppers, he suddenly raised his head and glanced at Yun Yongyuan.
"How about Senior Brother Nie, you watch Senior Brother Yun make stir-fried pork with chili peppers? Or Senior Brother Nie, you can practice too?" After spending a day and a half together, Zhao Xiaojing felt that she seemed to be able to read Nie Xiuqi's micro-expressions.
"Can I...see?" Nie Xiuqi looked at Zhao Xiaojing, then at Yun Yongyuan.
"Okay, I don't mind. Junior sister's stir-fried pork with peppers is indeed delicious." Yun Yongyuan nodded, turned around and took Nie Xiuqi to cut vegetables together. While cutting, he also told him the key points that Zhao Xiaojing usually explained.
Although Nie Xiuqi didn't say anything, he kept his head down and looked without blinking, obviously listening very attentively.
Zhao Xiaojing smiled and immediately understood that Nie Xiuqi was suffering from the aftereffects of eating her fried pork with chili at noon. Yun Yongyuan and Wan Yuyue had also been like this when they had eaten it for the first time, and they couldn't wait to learn and practice.
"What are you going to do?" Zhao Xiaojing was putting the duck into the pot and adding the ingredients when Wan Yuyue came over.
"Fairy Duck, this is a new dish I saw recently and I want to try it." Zhao Xiaojing said with a little guilt.
I've been cooking a lot of famous dishes lately. I can still clearly explain the origins of the pot-roasted pork elbow and lychee meat, but this amazing duck dish was a system lottery drop, so I'm really hard to explain...
"Great! Call me when it's done." Wan Yuyue gave a thumbs up with admiration, not seeming surprised at all. She even turned her head to look at her pot, and hurried away when she saw the water was boiling.
That's it? You don't even need to ask how she could cook this kind of dish. Is she really that adaptable?
Zhao Xiaojing stood there in a very messy state.
After the duck was cooked, Zhao Xiaojing took it out of the soup pot. Yun Yongyuan had already started to fry the fourth plate of stir-fried pork with peppers. After watching it three times, Nie Xiuqi also fried a plate by himself and placed it on the operating table together with Yun Yongyuan's, frowning and thinking hard.
Zhao Xiaojing put the duck aside to cool, turned around and saw several dishes on the workbench. Without saying a word, she picked up her chopsticks and tasted them all.
Yun Yongyuan's fourth set was not yet ready. Zhao Xiaojing put the previous three sets aside and did not comment. She looked at Nie Xiuqi who looked thoughtful.
"Brother Nie, do you think there's something wrong?"
"My stir-fried pork with chili peppers seems to have nothing wrong with it, yet it also seems to have nothing wrong with it."
Zhao Xiaojing followed Nie Xiuqi's gaze and looked at the fourth dish of stir-fried pork with chili peppers, which was obviously different in style and taste from the previous ones. She discovered the same problem when she took the first bite of this dish of stir-fried pork with chili peppers.
"Because Senior Brother Nie's stir-fried pork with chili peppers is cooked according to Senior Brother Yun's method and in his own style."
Nie Xiuqi and Yun Yongyuan are different from Wan Yuyue. Yun Yongyuan and Wan Yuyue both came to the restaurant as apprentices. It can be said that they were learning from Zhao Xiaojing while working as chefs. They had their own styles and techniques, and everything was blank. Therefore, many habits and details would strictly follow Zhao Xiaojing's style, and were more similar to Zhao Xiaojing's style.
Nie Xiuqi has been a chef for a long time and has his own preferences and understanding of cooking. He is not a blank slate. Learning a dish that he already knows how to make will inevitably feel a bit ambiguous, or even awkward, like a strong man wearing dancing shoes.
"For example, Brother Nie is used to adding oil when stir-frying chili peppers and frying them until they are a little burnt, but he follows Brother Yun's method of stir-frying them dry, and after stir-frying them he unconsciously stir-fries them in his own way; Brother Yun uses medium heat when stir-frying fatty meat and low heat when stir-frying lean meat, but Brother Nie is used to using medium or low heat throughout the process to stir-fry both the fat and lean meat, and after stir-frying the fatty meat according to Brother Yun's method, he habitually does not adjust the heat when stir-frying the lean meat. Also, there are the amount of fermented black beans to use, the timing of adding the chili peppers, and so on." Zhao Xiaojing turned on the quality inspection module, looking at the shortcomings while recalling and summarizing them.
"But it doesn't matter. Every chef has different styles and habits. As long as it tastes good, it's right. Brother Nie is also right to cook it his way. If you want to learn this way, forget your previous habits and slowly grasp the details step by step to get closer."
Nie Xiuqi nodded and listened in silence. Just when Zhao Xiaojing thought he would remain silent and was about to go over to watch Wan Yuyue cook, Nie Xiuqi suddenly spoke, "Boss... could you please just talk to me the same way you talk to them..."
"What do you mean? About them? Who?"
"It means that they did something wrong and we need them to redo it..." Nie Xiuqi glanced in Wan Yuyue's direction.
Zhao Xiaojing turned her head and took a look, then she understood what he meant. "Are you referring to the problems with the cooking that you usually give to Senior Brother Yun and Senior Sister Wan?"
"Yes." Nie Xiuqi's eyes began to drift away again, not daring to meet anyone's gaze.
"I thought you didn't like people saying..."
"No...that's what they said is wrong...you are right."
"Ah? Oh, okay." Zhao Xiaojing nodded blankly. She thought to herself that when Zhou Chuyan used to criticize others, she would always say, "You're right." But now, hearing this sentence, it felt like she was scolding her, and she didn't even react...
"Junior sister, try it! This dish of mine is simply perfect! If you can find any faults, I'll cook ten more!" Wan Yuyue ran over excitedly with the latest dish of shredded potatoes.
Zhao Xiaojing took a look but didn't taste it first. Instead, she subconsciously looked towards the waste vegetable area in the direction of Wan Yuyue's stove.
"Only one of the five plates of shredded potatoes is perfect, and you don't even dare to bring the others over. How dare you say that? Fry ten more plates!" Zhao Xiaojing's face immediately turned black and she scolded Wan Yuyue.
"oh."
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