Chapter 326 Tan Family Cuisine

Zhou Ling guessed correctly, Nanzhi wanted to make Tan family cuisine.

Tan family cuisine is the most famous official cuisine, and it is equally famous as Confucius family cuisine, Dongpo cuisine, Duan family cuisine, etc.

But no one’s cuisine can compare to Tan’s.

As a representative of official cuisine, Tan's cuisine is known for its lightness and refinement. Its cooking methods mainly include roasting, stewing, simmering, roasting and steaming. The restaurant is good at processing dried goods, and is particularly good at making precious ingredients such as bird's nests and shark's fins.

Tan’s dishes are laborious to prepare and often require simmering for hours.

With such dedication and focus, Nanzhi feels that nothing is more worthy of her efforts than her family.

Zhou Ling was stunned and immediately checked the time: "It's only 5 or 6 hours until dinner starts. Zhizhi, are you sure you can make it in time?"

The soup stock is essential for Tan's cuisine. It takes more than 12 hours to make the soup! Nanzhi said calmly: "I heard that the kitchen always has soup stock. I checked it out. Although it's not quite there, it can be used after some preparation."

Since Nanzhi was so sure, Zhou Ling no longer had any doubts, and her mouth was watering! Tan's cuisine! That was the pinnacle of cooking! Not long ago, they went to a famous Tan's cuisine restaurant to shoot a documentary, and the one who cooked for them was the descendant of this generation of Tan's cuisine.

The taste of the food certainly wasn't bad, but it was far from the description Zhou Ling and the others had read in the book.

You know, there was a folk saying that "In the opera world, everyone learns from Tan, and in the food world, everyone praises Tan."

The painter Zhang Daqian once said that Tan’s cuisine is “the best of delicacies”, while the famous gourmet Tang Lusun simply said that Tan’s cuisine is “divine”, which shows how popular Tan’s cuisine is.

Expectations are raised infinitely high, and if the final product is not as good as expected, it is natural to be disappointed.

However, Director Zhong Yu and Chief Consultant Mr. Zhu Jin said that it was because the chef's skills were not up to par.

Later, they took Zhou Ling and others to taste the cooking skills of Master Peng, the retired successor of the previous generation of Tan's cuisine, and only then did they know what it meant to reach the pinnacle and amaze the tongue! Of course, Nanzhi's age and experience are not as good as Master Peng, so they cannot be directly compared.

But for some reason, Zhou Ling had a vague feeling that Nanzhi would not lose to Master Peng.

Could it be because Nanzhi had shocked her too much before?

The more you are in the industry and the more you understand food, the more you can feel how high and unfathomable Nanzhi’s level is.

Even home-cooked dishes can be cooked to taste like the delicious food of the gods, let alone top-notch dishes like Tan's dishes? Zhou Ling had the highest expectations and persuaded himself not to put pressure on Zhizhi. His soul seemed to be split in two, as if water and fire were incompatible, and he was both tormented and excited.

No one else in the family has the same professional attitude as Zhou Ling.

Like Qingsi, she was only worried about whether Nanzhi "whether she would be tired".

"Actually, you don't have to be responsible for everything from start to finish. Zhizhi, if you're interested, just cook one or two dishes."

Qingsi didn't want Nanzhi to be tired, so he persuaded her from the bottom of his heart.

Zhou Ling seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Fortunately, Nanzhi did not easily overturn her plan and shook her head and said it was okay.

Then he set off for home.

Nanzhi didn't even enter the room and ran straight to the kitchen.

The Qing family’s old house is very large and has a professional team of chefs.

The chef’s surname is Zhou, and everyone calls him Lao Zhou.

I heard that he used to work in a big restaurant and was ambitious to open his own restaurant. Unfortunately, he suffered a setback later and completely gave up his ambition. He accepted the invitation from the Qing family and came here to be a private chef.

There are not many members of the Qing family. Only the old couple live here permanently. The others all have their own residences and only come back occasionally.

Therefore, for chefs like Lao Zhou, the workload is not heavy, the salary is high, and there are generous employee benefits. There is no job more suitable for retirement than this.

For example, Lao Zhou once joked that he had entered the retirement state early.

In fact, Lao Zhou is only in his 40s this year, which is the peak period for a chef.

Qingqing had informed the kitchen in advance, so everything was already prepared.

As soon as Nanzhi stepped into the kitchen, she saw Lao Zhou coming towards her with a smile.

"Hello, Miss Four."

Nanzhi was stunned, a little uncomfortable with this title.

She waved her hand: "You don't have to call me that. Just call me 'Nanzhi' or Master Nan."

Old Zhou still smiled and neither agreed nor refused.

Nanzhi didn't insist either.

She first walked around the kitchen, observing the layout and environment.

As she moved around, the others in the kitchen were watching her—

In the Qing family's kitchen, in addition to the head chef Lao Zhou, there are four chefs under him, two of whom are Lao Zhou's assistants, and the other two are, one in charge of white dishes and the other in charge of Western pastries.

In addition, there are people who do odd jobs and manage the warehouse, etc. At first glance, it looks like the kitchen of a medium-sized restaurant, which is very complete.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Nanzhi glanced at the kitchen layout and thought of what Lao Zhou said about "wanting to retire". How could this look like he wanted to retire? He was clearly preparing for battle at any time!

However, Nanzhi didn't say much. After watching it, she only said that she wanted to see Gao Tang's condition.

——Lao Zhou is too professional as a private chef. He always prepares a pot of soup stock for use at any time, just like the kitchen in a restaurant. It is really incredible.

Old Zhou responded with a smile.

However, the two assistant chefs behind him were particularly silent.

There is no doubt that he was afraid that Miss Nanzhi would ruin the broth that Old Zhou had worked so hard to make all day.

After all, not everyone understands the entertainment industry, and Nanzhi's fame has not yet reached the point where everyone knows her.

They simply regarded Lao Zhou as their own master, and naturally they felt sorry for him.

Looking at Nanzhi, I feel that she is a young lady who acts on impulse and can make her subordinates run around for a living just by thinking of something.

Nanzhi saw the emotions of the people behind him and was not surprised.

In the kitchen, nothing is more convincing than strength.

And strength cannot be diluted.

She was just a little curious. It seemed that Mr. Zhou had a bit too good a temper.

He did not resist her request at all. Instead, he took the initiative to take a small bowl and a soup spoon and scooped some broth for Nanzhi to taste.

"How about it?"

Behind Lao Zhou's good temper lies a firm self-confidence.

This shows that he was very confident in his skill in making the soup stock and never thought that Nanzhi would give him a shaking head evaluation.

However, Nanzhi just shook his head.

“Not quite.”

Old Zhou was still relatively calm, but the faces of several young chefs behind him changed slightly.

Nanzhi rolled up his sleeves slowly, ignoring those emotions, and continued to comment:

"The broth is fine, but it's not outstanding either. I want to make a top-notch clear soup dish, so this kind of broth alone won't do."