Chapter 71 Healing Food
He initially started exploring restaurants out of curiosity and passion. At that time, he watched various food bloggers live a carefree and unrestrained life and make money from what they loved. He was extremely envious and felt that was the life he wanted.
So he also began to try to take this path.
He is not short of money. At the beginning, he visited restaurants at his own expense after work, treated friends to meals and took some food photos or store exploration videos.
But for the sake of aesthetics, he followed the example of those bloggers and always waited until all the dishes were served before arranging them on the plates and taking pictures from different angles.
It’s okay if you come across a restaurant that serves food quickly. You can just take a few pictures and your friends won’t say anything.
But in most cases, the restaurant serves a few dishes first, and then serves a few more half an hour later. By the time all the dishes are served, they are cold, not to mention that he has to complete the long pre-casting process of repeatedly arranging the dishes and finding angles to take pictures.
Over time, his friends began to get impatient, and he felt very embarrassed. He took the photos in a hurry and they were very sloppy. When he got home, he was not satisfied with the finished product, and not many people saw it when he posted it online.
So he made up his mind and quit his job after only working for half a year. He spent money to find someone to teach him how to speak, shoot and post-production.
The man also took him to join the current store exploration group. After getting familiar with each other, he started going out with the people in the group.
Only after I went out did I realize the gap between the actual store visit and what I had imagined.
In the store exploration videos posted, there is always a table full of dishes with tempting colors that make people salivate. Then the blogger eats leisurely and shows it to others. The close-up of each bite of food shows that the ingredients are rich, which makes people feel happy at first glance.
But actually visiting a restaurant is completely different from eating in person. Videos have to be shot repeatedly, with the same lines and the same movements of holding dishes, and even the way of taking a bite of food has to be recorded many times.
If someone is talking behind you, you have to do it again; if the lighting of the dish is not good, you have to do it again; if the words are unclear or the tongue slips, you have to do it again.
A table of restaurant visitors gathered around a table full of dishes and first took photos of the overall dish together.
Afterwards, they took turns sitting at the table to record the video, while the others helped with lighting, recording, and finding angles.
After one person finishes taking the photo, he stands up, and another person rearranges the plates, sits down at the table, and starts a new round.
It usually takes more than two hours to visit a restaurant, at least an hour and a half to take turns taking pictures, twenty minutes to arrange the dishes and find the angle, and ten minutes for each of us to quickly finish the food around the table with our bowls in hand.
Reality is always realistic. Gradually, what I thought was a freelance job began to become the same as working.
He still remembers that he was fascinated by the online videos and wanted to visit the store.
He wants to share all the delicacies he likes and explores with ordinary people who are confused, so that they can have a bite after a busy day and get the same feeling as him, to be comforted and healed.
Instead of being like now, where the shooting angles are all the same, filters and color saturation are layered on top of each other, professional copywriting is fixed and routine, and when they take a commercial and go for the first time, they start praising the food before the food is even served.
The reason why he still persists is because he still remembers his original intention and wants to try to become the kind of restaurant blogger he really wants to be, sharing the food he really likes and that heals his heart.
Zhao Xiaojing’s fried skewers are such a delicacy.
It made him forget about the commercial purpose and just enjoy the amazing moment when he put the food in his mouth, so much so that he forgot to take a photo of the food until the end.
Such delicious food should not be because of him, because the hostility of two young people who have just entered the industry disappeared for no reason.
Guo Gaoang regained his spirits, picked up his phone and contacted the blogger who asked him to lead the two newcomers today.
By the way, I will sort out and edit the whole thing and forward it to other bloggers I am close to...
On the other side, Zhao Xiaojing, who was still busy in the cafeteria, was completely unaware of this sudden war of words.
She spends her working hours very fulfillingly every day and hardly ever thinks about looking at her phone.
After get off work at noon, I was busy preparing the fried skewers in advance, including a series of cleaning, marinating, and coating, etc., and then it was time to go to work in the evening.
Every day, she was completely focused on improving her cooking skills. She only checked her phone for messages when she got home from work in the evening, waiting for customers to pick up their orders, or after finishing her basic cooking skills.
Today is no different.
As soon as she finished frying for the second time for dinner, she took the opportunity to find Sun Dehai to continue asking for advice.
"Master Sun, I can now just about flip the sand out of the pot with the big flipping ladle you taught me last time. I can even shake the pot in fancy ways without it leaking out. Can you help me take a look?"
"So fast? Good! Show me!"
Sun Dehai was slightly surprised and laughed out loud.
When he originally taught Zhao Xiaojing to practice flipping the spoon, he told her that she should be able to practice it almost perfectly by the time the construction period was over. In fact, he was exaggerating at the time because he was afraid that the girl would not be able to persist in it for a long time.
He thought that three months would be enough to develop his hand strength, let alone using clever strength to flip and shake the pot.
Who would have thought that over the past month, Zhao Xiaojing would ask him to correct her irregular movements every once in a while. As she taught him, the little girl started by holding the wok with her bare hands, then moved on to pushing the wok with air, then to small wok flips with sand, then to fancy wok shaking, and now even big wok flips...
In the blink of an eye, she had learned all the techniques of flipping the wok.
He was also gradually calming down from being shocked by the rapid progress every day.
Sun Dehai smiled and watched Zhao Xiaojing take out an empty pot on the side, scoop out two spoonfuls of rice, and then began to practice the sequence of flipping the pot, shaking the pot in fancy ways, and flipping the spoon.
At first, Sun Dehai just stood aside with interest, ready to give some instructions, but as he watched, his eyes gradually widened.
Isn’t this progressing too fast?!
Although he was already used to Zhao Xiaojing's high learning efficiency, he had only taught her how to flip the spoon the day before yesterday, right?
Moreover, when pointing out the shortcomings of Zhao Xiaojing's practice of fancy pot shaking, he demonstrated it and talked about it casually!
It's only been two days?
"Xiao Zhao, what did you just say to me? You said you could barely flip the spoon down with your practice? You call that barely?"
Sun Dehai looked at Zhao Xiaojing's almost seamless flipping of the spoon in disbelief.
"Yeah, I feel like I didn't do this 180° turn very smoothly."
As she spoke, Zhao Xiaojing pushed the pot outwards to lift the rice, then quickly pulled it back in, collecting all the tumbling rice into the pot without a single grain falling.
"You've only practiced for two days, how can you expect to be fluent?"
Sun Dehai looked mad.
"Look, in just two days, you've already mastered the techniques of pushing, pulling, lifting, and crushing to perfection. Xiao Zhao, you really are an instant master. You're a natural at this!"
"That's amazing, Xiao Zhao! You've basically mastered flipping the wok. Now it's about pressing the wok in your right hand a little harder, keeping it close to the bottom of the wok. Then practice more and become more fluent. That's when you'll be considered a master!"
Sun Dehai looked at Zhao Xiaojing's confused expression, who didn't know how capable she was, and couldn't stop praising her.
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