“Knock, knock, knock…”
A knock on the door interrupted Fang Zhuo from his thoughts, bringing him back to his senses. At the same time, he suddenly realized something.
He slapped his forehead in frustration and muttered to himself, "How could I be so stupid? How could I make such a huge decision on my own?"
"Director Li or Director Yang has to make this decision. They're really asking for trouble."
After figuring it out, Fang Zhuo revealed a look of relief: "Come in."
As he spoke, the door was pushed open.
Qi Shuang, Sha Zhu and the other seven kitchen supervisors from the other canteens all rushed in.
Jia Dongsheng was speechless. They actually had to gather a team to hold an internal meeting. It was really...
"director."
Everyone who came in greeted each other, and one of them greeted someone differently from the others. This person was Sha Zhu. Others called him Director, but he called him Lao Fang.
In an instant, everyone's eyes, including Jia Dongsheng and Fang Zhuo, turned to Sha Zhu, then all showed a look of "it's you" in their eyes, and then returned to normal.
That’s right, in the cafeteria system, the only person who can be so disrespectful is Sha Zhu.
Everyone else is used to it.
Even Fang Zhuo was used to Sha Zhu's disrespectful behavior.
There is no way. Sha Zhu is a reckless person. What can he do? He is also helpless.
"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's go to my office, have some tea, and talk about tomorrow's dishes and the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Fang Zhuo pointed at Jia Dongsheng and said, "Dongsheng, you preside over the meeting first. I'll report to Director Li first, according to the double calculation."
Having said that, he left without paying any attention to the puzzled looks from others.
Fang Zhuo's unclear departure focused everyone's attention on Jia Dongsheng. What surprised Jia Dongsheng was that Sha Zhu, who was the most familiar and the most open to him, did not speak first, but Qi Shuang spoke first.
"Lao Jia, what's going on? Why did the director just leave like that?"
Noticing Sha Zhu didn't say anything, Jia Dongsheng gave him a strange look before saying, "Director Fang just thought of something and needs to report it to Director Li. It has nothing to do with what we're discussing."
"Our factory has put a lot of effort into preparing for the banquet this time. We've brought back a lot of different kinds of meat. We need to come up with a few dishes that look good and taste good."
“And it has to meet the standards of a big pot dish.”
"Lao Jia, I think this is simple. When the pork was put into storage earlier, I saw a lot of pig offal and pig blood. Let's make some blood sausage this afternoon and have a pig-killing dish tomorrow. How about that?"
Qi Shuang immediately mentioned a dish that would catch people's eyes.
The Northeastern pig-killing dishes are absolutely famous, and they are very suitable for big pot dishes, because the pig-killing dishes are a kind of big pot stew, and the longer they are stewed, the more delicious they are.
"That's fine. Write it down." Jia Dongsheng nodded, took out a pen and paper, and wrote it down. Then he looked at the others: "Anything else?"
"Dongsheng, how many dishes do you need to make in total?"
Sha Zhu was not the kind of person who could keep quiet, but he was always thinking about his father's plan to find Jia Zhang to be his stepmother, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
Although a family meeting was held and no one in the family agreed with He Daqing's approach, Sha Zhu, who knew He Daqing best, knew very well that He Daqing would not give up so easily.
He Daqing has not made any moves these days, but Sha Zhu always feels that He Daqing is looking for an opportunity, which makes him not want to contact Jia Dongsheng, for fear that if they contact him too much, He Daqing will find an opportunity.
What if Jia Dongsheng doesn't stop him and Jia Zhangshi agrees, wouldn't he be dumbfounded?
Do I really have to call Jia Zhang mother?
Whenever he thought of this, Sha Zhu couldn't help but shudder and get goosebumps.
However, discussing dishes is one of the few things that Sha Zhu is proud of. If he keeps silent, he will drive himself crazy.
"It hasn't been decided yet. I thought we could go through the suitable dishes first, and then choose from them once we've confirmed them."
Jia Dongsheng's words made all the kitchen team leaders nod their heads in agreement. They felt convinced. No wonder Director Fang asked Jia Dongsheng to take charge. It really made sense. He was more thoughtful than them.
"In that case, do we need to consider a few semi-meat dishes and vegetarian dishes?" Sha Zhu asked again.
“It’s a must.”
Nodding, Jia Dongsheng said, "It's a banquet. Although we have a limit on the amount of meat we can have, there's no limit on vegetables. We can make a few more dishes. At least we can enjoy the meal!"
"Well, in that case, how about twice-cooked pork?"
Sha Zhu obviously didn't want to fall behind others. Since others had their own specialties, he wanted to have one too.
"Twice-cooked pork?"
Among Sichuan cuisine, twice-cooked pork can be said to be the soul of Sichuan cuisine, but the taste of the dish cooked in a big pot is much inferior to that of the dish cooked in a small stir-fry.
"That's fine. Let's prepare a few more dishes. It's just that twice-cooked pork requires a bit too much meat."
As he spoke, Jia Dongsheng also recorded the twice-cooked pork, and then he said, "What do you think of the lion's head?"
"Lion's head?"
As soon as this dish came out, all the chefs in the room stared at Jia Dongsheng with wide eyes, as if to say, you think twice-cooked pork requires too much meat, so wouldn’t lion’s head require even more meat?
Sha Zhu expressed everyone's thoughts: "Dongsheng, a meatball made from lion's head meat is 80% meat. With so many people in our factory, how many lion's head meatballs do we need, and how much meat do we need?"
"The meat from the lion's head is enough to make two pots of twice-cooked pork. At least there are plenty of side dishes for twice-cooked pork."
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