Chapter 200: Impetuous Junior Sister
Fan Xiuqin, who had just arrived in Hong Kong, found everything new. Various signs were densely hung on the exterior walls of shops on the street, and street stalls were next to each other, with hawking sounds coming one after another.
"Ade." The uncle who was buying clothes called Lu Peide. This group of cooks from the mainland all loved to buy clothes from the uncle. They were neighbors, and after a long time, everyone became familiar with each other.
"Uncle." Lu Peide nodded in response. He and Shoubo had both come here to buy clothes. The clothes at the uncle's store were of good quality, and there was no need to bargain. The prices given were very favorable. People like Lu Peide who could only half understand Cantonese were most afraid of bargaining with uncles and aunts in Hong Kong.
"I'm late today." said the uncle.
"I'm taking a day off today. My sister just came from Beijing, so I brought her here for dinner." Shou Bo acted as an interpreter.
"Amei is so pretty, do you want to buy some clothes?" the uncle asked. Seeing Xiuqin staring at the dresses hanging, Lu Peide said, "Okay, we'll come over after dinner. Please pick out some for her."
"good."
At this time, they came to the middle of the two Baohua buildings. It was lunchtime, and the chairs on both sides were full of people, waiting in line for food. Fan Xiuqin looked at the door curiously, where two young men with big tattoos were competing in push-ups, and someone was counting for them: "Twenty-eight, twenty-nine..."
"Hey, are juggling still popular here?" Fan Xiuqin asked with great interest. Wu Zhihai also found it interesting: "Are you afraid that the guests will wait for a long time, so you hire someone to perform?"
"No, they insisted on acting." Speaking of this, Lu Peide also looked helpless.
Fan Xiuqin ran over curiously and saw that there was a sign next to the two brothers who were competing. It read: "There is no fighting in a civilized society. If you lose, you will go to the hospital, and if you win, you will go to jail. If you want to challenge, try push-ups first. If you lose, you can't beat the little chef, isn't it embarrassing? If you win, how glorious would it be if you are better than the little chef?"
One of the tattooed women collapsed after reaching 33, and the other couldn't do it after reaching 41. People in the queue and watching the fun said, "They still can't beat Ningning."
“How many people can compare to him?”
Fan Xiuqin didn't understand what he was saying, let alone what he was seeing, so she asked, "Brother, what's so good about this? Who can't do this?"
There were also people from the mainland in the crowd. When they heard Fan Xiuqin say this, they told her in Mandarin: "Girl, more than 40 is not something that everyone can do."
When Fan Xiuqin heard this, she laughed disapprovingly: "When my grandfather and my father were performing on the flyover, they would perform the act of breaking rocks with their chests."
"Your grandfather, your father, not you."
Fan Xiuqin's family were all street performers. After liberation, her father became an acrobat, and her family made her practice martial arts since she was young. Later, because of her good family background, the state assigned her to a good unit, and she changed to learn cooking, but her basic skills were still there.
Fan Xiuqin said to the brother with tattoos on his arms who was still gasping for breath, "Brother, please move aside." The brother with tattoos on his arms didn't know what she was going to do, so he moved aside.
Fan Xiuqin got ready for push-ups. Everyone thought she was going to challenge the two men with tattoos, so they started counting for her: "One, two, three..."
After counting to three, the girl put one arm behind her back and started to support herself with one hand. Everyone couldn't help but exclaim. The last time such a surprising scene appeared was when Yue Ning first arrived at Baohua Building.
Sister Hua came out and saw Lu Peide and the girl who was supporting herself with one hand on the ground. She whispered to Lu Peide, "Who is this?" Lu Peide half listened and half guessed, and said helplessly, "My junior sister."
Sister Hua murmured, "Are all girls in the mainland so amazing?"
Fan Xiuqin counted to twenty and stopped, then stood up, clasped her fists and said, "Thank you, young and old, gentlemen, aunts and sisters!"
Lu Peide reached out and patted the girl on the head: "Go in and eat."
Fan Xiuqin aroused everyone's interest, and someone asked in Mandarin: "Chef Lu, who is this?"
Fan Xiuqin understood and immediately introduced herself: "I am Fan Xiuqin, Lu Peide's junior sister. I will be a cook at Ningyan and Baohualou in the future. My specialties are steamed buns, meat dragons, dumplings, fire-baked bread and noodles with soybean paste. Everyone is welcome to come!"
After someone translated it, someone asked, "How come you only know how to cook staple food?"
"I can do other things, but not as well as my senior brother. My master said that I'm just a girl, why should I learn those things? So I came to Gangcheng to learn how to cook from my senior brother. I want to tell him, what's wrong with being a girl? Who says that girls can't be chefs? In this new society, women can hold up half the sky." Fan Xiuqin argued.
"Here comes another Yue Ning." Someone said with a smile.
Lu Peide said, "Everyone, I'm taking her in for dinner."
He pulled his junior sister towards the door and said, "Can we perform again in a few days?"
The four of them walked into Baohua Building, where a chef introduction was hung in the most conspicuous place. Fan Xiuqin pointed at Lu Peide's photo and said, "Brother, you are so awesome!"
She looked down and said, "Brother, that's not right! Why is your company still favoring boys over girls? I came to Hong Kong City because I couldn't stand my master asking me to find a partner all day long."
"What's wrong?"
"Look, there are so many chefs, but only one female chef."
"What should we do? There are not many girls who are cooks. It takes at least seven or eight years, and at most more than ten years, for a cook to go from being an apprentice to becoming a master. Even fewer girls are willing to learn to cook. But now you're here! You should spend less time 'performing' and more time learning skills in the kitchen so that you can make the list as soon as possible." For a moment, Lu Peide was not sure whether it was right or wrong to call his junior sister over.
Lu Peide took them to sit down, ordered his colleagues' signature dishes, and said to Shou Bo, "Shou Bo, please sit for a while. I will take Mr. Wu and Xiuqin to the kitchen to have a look."
"good."
The three men came to the door of the kitchen, which was busy. Ah Bang saw them and asked, "Ade, why are you here?"
"My junior sister Fan Xiuqin has just arrived in Hong Kong. Brothers, please take good care of her." Lu Peide turned to look at Wu Zhihai and said, "This is Chef Wu Zhihai, the new Taiwanese chef who joined us."
Everyone greeted them.
"I've been talking about this for a long time, and my sister is finally here." Abang said as he served the dishes, "Ningning also called and said that a new chef has arrived. I originally thought I would see him tomorrow!"
Fan Xiuqin smelled the smell. Because she was not wearing work clothes or a hat, she did not dare to step into the kitchen. She could only smell the smell and sigh: "It smells so good! Brother Abang, I want to learn how to cook from you."
He Yunbang looked at her and said, "Of course you can, but cooking requires speed and strength. Can you do it?"
Hearing this, Wu Zhihai couldn't help laughing. He Yunbang didn't understand, and Lu Peide laughed: "You can ask Sister Hua later and we'll go out first."
The three of them went out and sat down together. Wu Zhihai had a question: "Chef Lu, you haven't told me what's going on outside?"
Lu Peide picked up the teapot and poured them some cold tea. He said, "I don't know what's going on in Taiwan, but there's a mix of good and bad people in Hong Kong, and it's even more so in Mong Kok. From time to time, people with underworld backgrounds come to eat. Ningning has the Qiao and Cai families behind her, so they certainly won't cause trouble on purpose. But this group of people are impulsive and hot-tempered, and they'll fight if they don't agree on something."
Lu Peide drank a sip of tea and began to talk about what happened a few days ago. People from both gangs were eating here, and they got drunk and started arguing, and even picked up beer bottles. Seeing that a fight was about to break out, naturally someone went to tell Yue Ning who was cooking in the kitchen.
Yue Ning came over, carried the most ferocious and violent one out, and threw him onto the street, where he fell flat on his face.
She wrote a sign herself: "There is no fighting in a civilized society. If you lose a fight, you go to the hospital. If you win, you go to jail."
But this brother is still a big boss in their gang, so he is really embarrassed. However, not to mention Yue Ning's relationship with the Qiao and Cai families, Yue Ning's generous temper also suits the appetite of many underworld bosses, and he has friendships with all kinds of people.
Naturally, this brother would not cause trouble to her, but for the sake of face, he had to compete with her to a certain extent.
Yue Ning couldn't convince this "idiot" no matter what he did. He could only persuade him that fighting with words was worse than fighting with fists, and then he asked him to compete in push-ups.
Yue Ning and that guy competed to see who could do more push-ups in one minute. In the end, Yue Ning did 78, while that guy didn't even reach 50. There were too many reporters lying in ambush here, and it was revealed that night: Yue Ning swung the spatula to play with her muscles and did push-ups.
After that, some fools took Baohua Building as a holy place to challenge and came to their door to compete in push-ups. Yue Ning really had no way to deal with them, so he could only add those two sentences under the sign, but it was still useless!
"What you did today will be on TV and things will be even more exciting." Lu Peide said to his junior sister.
Fan Xiuqin was full of excitement: "Can I be on TV?"
At this time, the roast duck was served. Lu Peide said unhappily: "Try it. This is Ningning's glass-crusted roast duck, which is made with reference to our Beijing roast duck."
Fan Xiuqin picked up a piece of duck skin and said, "It's delicious. The skin is so crispy and crispy." Lu Peide picked up some food for Shou Bo and said to her, "Try the duck meat below too."
Fan Xiuqin took a bite and said, "The duck meat is very juicy and tasty. I think we should let Uncle Meng come and have some discussion. He always thinks he is the best in the world."
"Uncle Meng's roast duck has even been praised by foreign heads of state."
Wu Zhihai also ate the duck. In Taipei, there is a Peking cuisine master who went to Taiwan with Chen Dexiang. His roast duck is the best in Taiwan, and he uses Taiwanese Muscovy ducks. The master's crispy skin water is a top secret, and no one can learn it. It is said that the crispy skin water is applied several times, and then it is dried for eight hours, and finally roasted with fruit wood. That restaurant will slice the crispiest part of the duck, and use the method of separating the skin and meat when slicing the duck. The roast duck skin is crispy but not greasy at all. It is a kind of enjoyment to eat the two pieces of duck breast skin dipped in white sugar. The duck at Baohualou tastes just as good as that Peking cuisine. As they say, the duck meat is salty and fresh.
The fish soup was served. Lu Peide first poured a bowl for Shou Bo, then asked Fan Xiuqin: "Do you want to eat it? This is made from silver carp, not carp."
"Silver carp tastes okay, but it has too many bones and I don't like it," said Fan Xiuqin.
"There are no thorns in it." Lu Peide poured her a bowl and took the salt shaker to add a few grains of salt: "I added a little more salt, stir it."
Lu Peide wanted to help Wu Zhihai make soup, but Wu Zhihai quickly said, "I can do it myself."
"This soup is so delicious. I want to learn how to make it," said Fan Xiuqin.
Lu Peide smiled and said, "This soup tastes boneless. Do you know who removed the fish bones?"
Fan Xiuqin looked down at the soup, then at Lu Peide. Lu Peide smiled and said, "Come in and remove the fishbone for three months first."
"Three months?" Fan Xiuqin exclaimed in a low voice.
Wu Zhihai said with a smile: "To learn cooking, is three months of removing fish bones a lot? Three years is not a lot! Everyone has gone through this."
Lu Peide turned to Wu Zhihai and said, "Tease her! Ningning has improved this dish so that it is very convenient to remove fish bones. There is a story behind this fish bone removal."
"What's the story?"
Lu Peide talked about Baohua Building and Shenghua Building.
After Wu Zhihai came to Hong Kong, he also tried every means to find out about Yue Ning, but he couldn't communicate in the same language, so he could only wait at the door of Ningyan. It was not easy for him to find out that Yue Ning might not come to Ningyan every day, but she would definitely go for a morning run every day. He was afraid of missing her and waited on the road with an umbrella for the past two days. Today, he successfully entered Baohua Building and received a salary that he had never dared to think about when he was in Taipei. Everything was too smooth, so smooth that he couldn't believe it.
Now it seems that Baohualou is indeed very different from Dexiang Hotel. Now that someone is telling him about this, he naturally wants to know more. He asked while eating, until a dish of dry fried beef noodles was served, Wu Zhihai instantly smelled the strong aroma.
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