There is a bar in Houhai

Chapter 592 Chef Shen

The ups and downs of several days in a row made Qin Mohan a little dizzy, she almost forgot that there were flying guests coming.

On the morning of the sixth day, Zhang Liang and Yu Xiaotong took a vacation with missions. In addition to inspecting local delicacies on the island, they were also responsible for picking up the flying guest Gu Xuan in Ta Lat Province in the afternoon.

Qin Mohan arranged for Tang Yixin and Jin Mengjia to follow the taxi to the restaurant to clean up, and then he and Shen Fang went to the vegetable market and supermarket to purchase ingredients.

In the past few days, the fruits and drinks that Qin Mohan is responsible for buying here are all the supermarkets she goes to. This is really the first time for her to visit a local vegetable market in Thailand.Holding Shen Fang's arm, he looked around curiously.

In China, since her fame has risen in the past two years, there are crowds of people watching wherever she goes, and it is rare for her to go to the vegetable market to buy ingredients without being disturbed like this.This also makes her not without regrets. It is such a pleasant thing to go to buy some fresh vegetables with her beloved ones and cook a table of gourmet food after returning home.

This wish came true in Thailand. The two wandered together, and the photographer followed them not far away.Shen Fang and Zhang Liang came to purchase for several days in a row, and the vegetable sellers in the vegetable market were no strangers to it, even talking to the camera, although most of them didn't know what they were talking about.

Although they are in a tropical area, most of the vegetables in Thailand's vegetable market are similar to those in China. The two bought some according to the predetermined recipe. Some local special vegetables, although they couldn't name them, Shen Fang also bought a lot under Qin Mohan's instigation. few.At worst, ask Ajie what these are, and then think about how to cook them with Chinese food.

After buying vegetables and fruits, they bought some fresh sea fish, shrimps and crabs at the seafood market, and then went to the supermarket to buy pork belly and lean meat before they returned to the restaurant.

Seeing the two people coming in, Mocha, who was playing with Jin Mengjia and Tang Yixin on the beach, flew over directly, and the wet sand on his feet left footprints on the floor they had just cleaned.

"Mocha!" Hearing Tang Yixin's cry, Mocha was taken aback, then hid behind Qin Mohan and watched them secretly.

The store was busy the first two days, so I didn't have time to tease it. The next two days, business was bad, and I didn't have the mood to tease it. Today, the few people regained their mood, and they just happened to be able to tease it.

After they cleaned up the vegetables, Shen Fang didn't ask a few girls to help, but asked them to have fun with Mocha on the beach, and left the rest of the work to himself.But Qin Mohan explained to the two of them, and he accompanied Shen Fang to busy in the kitchen.She knew that Shen Fang didn't like handling ingredients, what he liked was the cooking process.

I didn't prepare any big dishes today, just some stir-fried dishes and simple cooking.Although it is simple, the ingredients must be processed first. It is impossible to open a restaurant like at home and spend two or three hours slowly just to cook a dish.

Let’s make the lion’s head first. The English translation is Large Meatball (big meatball). Although many foreigners don’t understand what it has to do with lions, it doesn’t hinder their love for this food.

Shen Fang is going to prepare dishes according to ten tables. He needs to make minced meat first. Shen Fang doesn't like to use ready-made minced meat because it has no strength.He first peeled the pork belly he bought, then cut the meat into dices, and then chopped them into meat fillings.

Qin Mohan helped him clean the horseshoes and mushrooms, and then cut them into cubes.Shen Fang doesn't like to make pure meat lion's head, he likes to add some horseshoes in it, which will have a crispy taste.

Add diced water chestnuts, diced mushrooms, minced green onion and ginger, and continue to chop them before putting them into a stainless steel basin.Add a small amount of egg white, salt, monosodium glutamate, cornstarch.At this time, it is necessary to beat them until the meat is glued.Qin Mohan rolled up his sleeves to help him make minced meat, but Shen Fang held her back and kissed her on the face: "I'll do this, don't mess with your hands."

After Shen Fang finished speaking, he washed his hands, beat the meat, and stirred it vigorously in the stainless steel basin.Qin Mohan cleaned the fruits to make juice, and stuffed the processed mangoes, watermelons, pineapples, and mangosteens into Shen Fang's mouth from time to time.Tang Yixin, who originally wanted to come to help, was far away from the loving performance of the two, so she saved herself from eating dog food here.

After finishing the meat filling, Shen Fang asked Qin Mohan to help set up the frying pan.The two cooperated well, Shen Fang formed them into meatballs of the same size and put them in the oil pan, while Qin Mohan scooped them up, drained the oil and let them cool under Shen Fang's command.Then put it on the dinner plate covered with oil-absorbing paper, and when the guests order it, just braise it in brown sauce.

Shen Fang also specially fried some small meatballs for the three of them as snacks. Although they told me to lose weight, Jin Mengjia and the others still ate them under Mocha's salivating eyes.

"It's delicious, why don't you make more, let's make a meatball soup."

Qin Mohan's proposal made Shen Fang roll his eyes at her: "I'll make it tomorrow when Zhang Liang is the chef. The meat stuffing I bought today is not enough."

"Cut~" The other two made expressions of disdain under Qin Mohan's leadership.

The lion's head is ready to start processing the meat for cooking.

"I'll do this!" Qin Mohan volunteered to cut the tenderloin, and today he will roll out shredded pork with Beijing sauce. Although Qin Mohan's knife skills are not satisfactory, I believe these foreigners will not hold a spoon to compare the length and thickness of the shredded pork.

Most seafood today is steamed or fried, which is relatively simple to handle.Steaming should keep its umami taste, just add a little scallion, ginger and shredded fish sauce when it comes out of the pan to enhance the freshness. Pan-fried one needs to be marinated in advance, but it doesn’t have to be processed too much. He will prepare dishes for at most ten tables of guests this morning.

After everything was dealt with, it was eleven o'clock.Shen Fang signaled that the lunch can officially start, and Jin Mengjia took the small blackboard of "Chef's Recommendation" written by Shen Fang yesterday to the gate.

Qin Mohan played Han Xiao's recently released album through the stereo.At present, this girl is more famous overseas than both Shen Fang and Qin Mohan.

"Hello it's me
I was wondering if after all these years you''d like to meet
......"

Hearing Han Xiao's magnetic voice resounding in the shop, Jin Mengjia couldn't help asking Qin Mohan at the bar: "Sister Mohan, when is Han Xiao coming to be the flying guest?"

Qin Mohan thought for a while: "It should be around NO.12. She just had her summer vacation these two days and is following Tang Yuan to make announcements. Some announcements have been waiting for her for a long time."

Sitting on the high stool in front of the bar, Jin Mengjia said to Qin Mohan, "I really admire her. She is one year younger than me, and she can sink like this."

"Hehe, you can tell her directly when she comes. How about arranging you to share a room with her then?"

Jin Mengjia's heart was moved by Qin Mohan's proposal. She will take the route of entertainment host in the future. How to become an important host requires personal connections.This is also one of the reasons why she worked hard to get closer to Qin Mohan.

"It's time for lunch." Due to the nature of the restaurant's business, the lunch time is relatively early, and only when you are full can you work hard.Lunch starts at [-] o'clock every day, and then dinner at [-] o'clock in the afternoon. After the business closes, if you feel hungry, you can have a midnight snack.

"You actually made a serving of lion's head?" Qin Mohan couldn't help complaining, seeing the two plates of fried rice served by Shen Fang and one serving of steamed lion's head: "I made ten servings of lion's head myself, and we ate one Servings, isn't there a chef's special dish missing by then?"

Shen Fang stretched out his hand and tapped her on the head: "It's over, Qin Mohan, you really regard me as the chef. Seeing that you like eating small meatballs, I kindly made you a taste, and you dare to complain."

"I'm sorry, I was wrong." Qin Mohan looked at him and wanted to knock himself, and hurriedly hid behind the bar.

Shen Fang pulled her out, gave her more than half of one of the lion heads, and gave the other to Tang Yixin and Jin Mengjia to share equally.The meat is firm and tender, and the taste with mushrooms and water chestnut is more crisp and mellow.

"How about it, 400 baht for this lion head is not expensive."

"It's not expensive. It's only 80 yuan, which is not worthy of our Chef Shen's hard work."

When he was still thinking that the price of 400 yuan was worth the money, when he heard that Tang Yixin was only 80 yuan when converted into RMB, Shen Fang lost all interest.It seems that the price is still cheap, and the price must be raised next time.

After the staff meal was over, the three of them didn't let Shen Fang do anything, and just cleaned up neatly.At this time, it was also time for lunch. Han Xiao's singing was transmitted to the outdoors through the hall, and to the ears of customers passing by on the beach. Seeing the recommendation of the new store manager at the entrance of the store, these tourists became interested in trying.

"Shopkeeper Shen, a guest is here."

"Table No. [-], one serving of shredded pork with Beijing sauce and one serving of big meatballs."

"Sister Mohan, table number four needs an extra serving of rice."

……

As Shen Fang expected, a total of ten tables were entertained, with a total of 25 guests. The last two guests from Spain were declined, and they had to leave regretfully.

It was relatively easy for four people to greet more than [-] guests in two hours. As the chef, Shen Fang had spare time to go to the bar to make himself a glass of wine as a condiment.

"Shop manager, how much is your income at noon today?" Jin Mengjia couldn't help asking Qin Mohan when he was seeing off the last table of guests.

"Two hundred yuan for 8000 yuan. The cost of buying vegetables this morning is 3000 yuan, plus the condiments and drinks that have been spread out, it should be around 5000 yuan. We made a profit of [-] yuan this morning."

"Ouye!" Jin Mengjia and Tang Yixin congratulated with excitement.After two days of losses, they finally started to make profits again today, and the hard work of several people finally paid off.

Only Shen Fang was calmer: "Keep calm and don't be moved by external things. From now on, we will cook ten tables of dishes for each meal. We won't be able to eat this meal. Please come early for the next meal. Individual visitors can be received, but we must To control the quantity, we need to carry out hunger marketing appropriately. Otherwise, you will have fifteen tables today, twenty tables tomorrow, and maybe ten tables the day after tomorrow. It’s not easy to prepare dishes like this, and I’m still half dead from exhaustion.”

"Sister Mo Han, I think shopkeeper Shen's words are reasonable. We can't determine the number of customers here. Why don't we make a ration according to our dishes."

Tang Yixin also echoed: "Ten tables of guests, we can at most turn over the table once, and don't have to take the time to wash the dishes by hand. It's a lot easier."

"It's just a little reconciled. We see the guests coming in, but we have to drive them out. I feel sorry for them."

(End of this chapter)