Actually, she can cook a lot of dishes, but they shouldn't be that difficult. As long as the chef has been cooking for more than seven or eight years, the dishes he makes shouldn't be too bad.
I don't know where Guan Wei found this chef. Not to mention his exceptional skills, but aren't there a lot of ordinary chefs out there...
Hua Shi suppressed the thoughts that popped up in his mind and concentrated on his task.
She took out the two fish she had brought with her, turned the fish on the chopping board upside down, and made them jump around a few times vigorously. The water kicked up by the two fish tails flew high.
Hua Shi's hand slipped and he almost lost the grasp, luckily Xie Mingchi came to help.
The Guan brother and sister stood aside, watching curiously.
Guan Wei, in particular, had a thoughtful and puzzled expression on his face. He asked, "I remember that it would take at least a day and a night to get from Shoushan Village to the town, even at the fastest pace. Your fish must have been in the fish basket for at least two days. How come it's still so lively and energetic when you take it out now?"
As Guan Wei spoke, he recalled the fish he collected from the He family in Shoushan Village around June and July every year. Every time he collected them, many of them had either died or become smelly due to being kept in storage.
To avoid this, he could only find a faster carriage and return to the fish house as soon as possible to release the fish, so as to prevent the fish from suffocating to death in the large fish basket. But even so, it was still unavoidable...
Looking at the two fish that Hua Shi brought, which had been kept in such a narrow fish basket for two days and were still so lively, Guan Wei's thoughts suddenly came to his mind, and he looked at Hua Shi with an undisguised look of doubt.
Hua Shi had anticipated Guan Wei's question, so she said what she had prepared beforehand: "On the way here, I was very careful, opening the lid of the fish basket from time to time to let them breathe. Plus, these two were carefully selected by me. They were well-fed and carefully cared for, so they wouldn't die easily."
In fact, she didn't pay much attention to them at all, but because they were kept in spring water, she didn't need to worry about them dying.
But she couldn't say that in front of outsiders, so she had to make up a story...
Guan Wei nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
If they are well taken care of, they will not die so easily. After all, many of the fish that were brought back before were still alive and well. If the fish are well taken care of, it is not surprising that they are so lively now.
However, Hua Shi's next move opened the eyes of the Guan siblings, and they stared at Hua Shi's skillful technique without blinking...
Hua Shi killed the fish skillfully, cleaned it with water, and then used a knife to separate the two fish into four parts. She planned to make four different parts to verify that what she said at the beginning was true.
Braised fish, boiled fish, steamed fish... let's make sweet and sour fish for the last one...
She finalized this series of ideas in her mind when she saw a bamboo basket in an inconspicuous corner, which was almost full of red peppers.
Who would have thought that the ingredients in the kitchen are so complete... star anise, ginger, garlic, chili peppers... basically everything is there.
I didn't expect that although Chef Li couldn't cook, he had found all the ingredients needed for cooking. It could be considered a coincidence.
"Sizzle—"
The sound of frying oil and boiling water exploded from the pot. Guan Wei's eyes, which were dull at the beginning, became brighter and brighter as time went by.
Especially when the first braised fish came out of the pot, covered with red broth and sprinkled with chopped green onions, the fish was steaming with fragrance, and it went straight into the noses of everyone present...
Guan Wei stepped forward impatiently, and when he looked at Hua Shi, his eyes lit up frighteningly, "This...you did this?!"
He asked in disbelief.
Hua Shi nodded, "Didn't you see it with your own eyes?"
"Yes," Guan Wei also nodded, looking at Hua Shi with a bit more enthusiasm. He said, "Miss, why don't you write recipes for me? You can just be the head chef of our restaurant. Don't worry, I will never treat you unfairly."
Just by smelling the aroma of the braised fish, Guan Wei, who had never tried it before, suddenly changed his mind and said this.
Just by smelling the fragrance, he knew that the young lady in front of him was definitely a master chef...
Hua Shi didn't answer him directly, but said, "Why don't you try it first before you talk?"
Although I am confident in my cooking skills, just in case, it is not too late to make a conclusion after the boss tastes the food.
Besides...
Guan Wei listened, found a pair of chopsticks, picked up a piece of fish and tasted it. It was fragrant and spicy, tender and silky...
"It's delicious! My tongue feels numb when I put it in my mouth." Guan Wei praised and smacked his lips.
His eyes fell on the bamboo basket of red peppers, and he knew that the key lay with this thing.
Guan Wei naturally knew exactly what was in his own kitchen. When he thought about the basket of chili peppers he had bought by accident, he took a bite and found his tongue numb and painful due to the spiciness. He thought he had been cheated and was about to ask someone to take it away, but he didn't expect that the liar Li saw it and begged him to keep it. This is how things happened now.
Hua Shi also knew that he was referring to chili peppers, and she felt a little doubtful, looking at the basket of chili peppers.
When she first looked at the basket of chili peppers, she thought that the use of chili peppers had already spread throughout the town, so she used them directly to make braised fish.
Looking at the expression on Guan Wei's face now, it seems that this is not the case.
It seems that at this time, the use of chili peppers has not spread widely...
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