"This idea came to me when I saw the boiled pork slices when I was traveling to Sichuan with my master."
While processing the fish, Jia Dongsheng explained: "You also studied Sichuan cuisine. There are actually many dishes in this boiled series."
"You can boil anything, including boiled pork slices, boiled beef, and boiled bullfrog."
"At that time, I wanted to create a new dish by boiling it, and finally I chose fish."
"This boiled fish is actually not that difficult to make, but it is a very oily dish, and you need to pour some hot oil on it at the end. This dish is actually quite suitable for workers."
"Boil other dishes and create a new dish?"
After hearing what Jia Dongsheng said, Sha Zhu muttered to himself.
Speaking of which, Sha Zhu has a very high talent for cooking, but he is also prone to complacency. As long as the dishes he has learned can be made very delicious, he will be very satisfied.
There is no innovative spirit.
But a chef without innovative spirit will just be a chef all his life and will never become a culinary master.
Whether in ancient times or later generations, cooking skills are endless. As long as you are willing to work hard to study, your cooking skills can be continuously improved.
Jia Dongsheng didn't know that his words today had greatly inspired Sha Zhu.
"It seems that when I have time, I also need to go to Sichuan and Shu."
Sha Zhu had an idea in his mind, and then watched Jia Dongsheng continue to work.
After a while, the whole fish was picked up.
“In addition to fish meat, you can also add a lot of side dishes to boiled fish, which is why I say it is suitable for making big pot dishes.
Jia Dongsheng said: "Whether it's cabbage, lettuce, bean sprouts, dried tofu, fungus, mushrooms, etc., you can put them in."
"How can it hold so many dishes?" Liu Ran said in disbelief, "This is almost like a hot pot."
"Master Liu, what you said makes sense. Boiled fish can actually be made into a boiled fish pot. You can cook whatever dishes you want."
Jia Dongsheng said calmly to the vegetable cutter beside him, "Come over here and see if you can clean the fish to this level?"
"No problem, Lao Jia."
Just now, when Jia Dongsheng was slicing the fish, these knife masters were watching him. While watching, they were calculating in their minds. Now is the perfect time for them to try their hand at it.
This was Jia Dongsheng's initiative to teach them, so how could they not learn seriously? It's true that if you don't want to be a chef, then you are not a kitchen person.
"As long as it can be handled, I'll make boiled fish for lunch today."
After handing the fish to the knife master, Jia Dongsheng, Sha Zhu and the other two sat aside, boiled water, made tea, and started chatting.
After a few trips to the bathroom, it was time to make lunch.
"I'll do it first, and you guys can watch."
Before making the boiled fish, Jia Dongsheng's words made everyone excited. There was no way around it, a new dish was very attractive to a chef.
For today’s boiled fish, Jia Dongsheng used four side dishes: cabbage, dried tofu, bean sprouts, and black fungus, and then heated oil in a pan.
The spicy and delicious boiled fish was finally served with Jia Dongsheng's step-by-step instruction.
But after taking the fish out of the pot, Jia Dongsheng shook his head slightly: "It's a bit strange to cook so many fish in one pot."
After all, when I made boiled fish in my previous life, there was less than a whole fish in one pot.
“Is this boiled fish?”
Sha Zhu immediately came forward, with his chopsticks already ready. He picked up a piece of fish and started to taste it.
"Mmm, spicy, fresh and fragrant, in one word, absolutely amazing."
After eating one piece, Sha Zhu couldn't stop eating and took two more pieces of meat. "I think this is even better than boiled pork slices!"
"It depends on your taste. But today, steam more steamed buns. Boiled fish goes well with rice."
"Got it, Lao Jia."
The pastry chef beside him nodded, and while making the two-grain steamed buns, he specially steamed an extra larger pot for the kitchen staff.
After lunch, the workers left work one after another.
Since Jia Dongsheng started working, the reputation of Canteen No. 1 has been getting better and better. Today, more people come to Canteen No. 1 to eat.
"Hey, what's that smell? Why is it so fragrant?"
As soon as you enter the cafeteria, the aroma of boiled fish keeps entering your nose.
"What kind of delicious dish is this? It smells so good."
With doubts, everyone went to the food window to take a look. The red boiled fish, which was placed in a large pot, caught everyone's sight.
"What kind of dish is this? Why have I never seen it before?"
"Yeah, there are so many peppers, and there's a layer of oil floating on them."
"With so much oil, this dish must be delicious."
"See the soup, is it soup?"
"This isn't a soup at all. Why would you need so many ingredients to make soup? I see slices of meat, but I'm not sure if it's pork."
"Meat?"
“This is actually a meat dish?”
As soon as these words were spoken, the workers who were serving food became excited.
The steel rolling mill is a large state-owned factory with tens of thousands of employees, and there is a monthly quota of meat.
At the beginning of every month, the factory's rationed meat would be delivered to the factory, but the government only sent one or two pounds of meat per person, which means that a large factory with tens of thousands of people only had one thousand pounds of meat.
This number seems like a lot, but when it is distributed, it is nothing.
If a thousand kilograms of meat were really given to the workers to eat freely, it would just be a meal, but a thousand kilograms is the monthly quota of the steel rolling mill.
Therefore, the factory will not eat all the meat directly. On the contrary, it will be very frugal, but at the same time ensure that all workers can eat meat.
This means that for a thousand kilograms of meat, the fat is first removed and the animal oil is extracted. Then, every day, a dish is cooked with the animal oil, so that the workers have a dish with oil to eat every day.
Therefore, we can eat oily dishes every day, but if we want to eat real meat dishes, we can only do so a few times a year.
And these times, we still have to rely on the capabilities of the purchasing department. Only when the purchasing department purchases a lot of meat can the canteen prepare meat dishes.
For example, today’s fish is purchased by the canteen and can be cooked directly.
"Everyone line up, the food will be served soon."
Sha Zhu was born for big scenes. Seeing everyone talking, he didn't hesitate and shouted loudly: "This dish is boiled fish. There is only this big pot. First come, first served."
"Boiled fish?"
"It turns out to be fish. I like fish the most."
"And I like fish the most. Don't you like pork?"
"Yes, I like pork the most, so why not?"
"I don't have time to chat with you. I have to queue up for food."
With Sha Zhu's intervention, everyone began to line up quietly, hoping to get two more pieces of fish to eat.
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