The story of a cook

Chapter 122

At any time, people have to adapt to the environment, don't let the environment adapt to you.

If you can't adapt to the environment, you can only be eliminated by the environment.

Working at a kebab shop is also fun.I couldn’t understand Sister Ma and Sister Wang when they spoke in Korean, but their voices were nice, and the endings of each sentence were quite long, which was the same as the intonation of the actors when watching Korean dramas on TV. A little chattering.I also learned a few words of Korean language with them, which felt very taxing, so I didn’t learn it, but I remembered some raw materials of Korean language, and I could speak it, mainly because they always said these words every day, and they couldn’t listen to them. I'll hear you.

It's been a lot of fun working with them.I feel that I am very clean, and they are even more clean. I have a rag in my hand, and I will go there and wipe it if it is not clean.Suffice it to say, it's rare to see dirty spots in a rotisserie kitchen, not even a speck of grease.Sometimes when I am tired after cooking, as long as one of them is idle, they will come and help me clean up the stove and stand at attention, which is cleaner than what I cleaned up by myself.I hardly need to wash my work clothes by myself. They wash their work clothes every day before they get off work, and they wash my work clothes together. In their words, there are no men who wash clothes, and we freshmen don’t wash them. Clothes, laundry is a woman's work, and should be done by women.At that time, I thought to myself, if I marry a girl from the Xian ethnic group as my daughter-in-law, I will not be happy.

Sometimes Sister Ma would tease me and say, "Master Tan, let me find you a Xian woman as your wife. Look at how good our Xian women are. They can do all kinds of work and come out to make money. Our Xian women Most of the people are women who come out to work to earn money, and men stay at home."

I said: "Let's talk about it when the country allows a man to marry two wives. It's not possible now, and they have already been taken over."

Sister Ma said: "Aren't you married yet? What are you afraid of if you're not married? Find someone from our Xian nationality. If you think it's better than yours, marry our Xian nationality."

I asked her, "Sister Ma, have any of your Xian people married Han people?"

Sister Ma said, "There are also, but very few."

I asked: "Why?"

Sister Ma said: "I don't know, there are quite a few. Generally, we of the Xian nationality look for the freshmen when looking for a partner, and very few of us look for the Han nationality."

I said, "Is it because of different ethnic groups and different lifestyles?"

She said: "Maybe, like we can't do without spicy cabbage and miso soup every meal. When we have guests at home, we eat barbecue. It's different when you Han people are willing to eat stews, such as Chinese cabbage pork belly stewed with tofu, How unpalatable, such a good pork belly is stewed, it is not better to eat it roasted than stewed."

I just laughed and said, "How can you get married if you can't even eat a piece of food? I still won't look for you Xian people."

Sister Ma said: "Still looking for it? Duplicity, you Han men looking for young ladies like our Xian women, you can go to West Tower and see."

I said, "I rarely go to that place."

As if I shouldn't find a fresh woman as my wife, Sister Ma still strongly recommends it.

"We Xian women can drink, and can sing after drinking. If you can drink so much, you should find a Xian woman." Sister Ma said.

I said, "Sister, if you don't tell me about a Korean daughter-in-law, you won't stop."

Sister Ma said, "Let me find you a Xian nationality daughter-in-law? You said that our Xian nationality woman is your wife, but that's what you said, and I didn't say that."

I laughed, knowing that she was talking about Sister Jin.In a situation like this, the best way is to just go to work without saying anything.

I turned around and left, and Sister Ma said behind me, "I'm sorry, it's okay, your sister Jin agrees, she said that she is willing to be your wife, even if you don't marry her, she is willing to follow you."

I went to help the boss’s younger sister, Cui Jie, to make cold noodles. Cui Jie divided the soaked cold noodles into portions, and I divided them for her. In this way, the cold noodles are convenient to take, and there will be no phenomenon of large quantities and small quantities.Sister Cui is always smiling all day long. She has a baby face, plus she is smiling all day long. She looks like she is in her early forties, not 50 years old at all.In addition, women of the Xian nationality love makeup and can dress themselves up, making them appear younger.

Sister Cui said, "Your sister Ma is going to tease you again."

I said: "Yeah."

Sister Cui just laughed and said, "Your sister Ma just likes to joke around, and has always been like that. She was crazy when she was a girl at home."

I asked, "Sister Cui, are your families together?"

Sister Cui said: "Yes, we are all together." Then she said: "Your aunt came out of her hometown early and worked early. Your aunt can endure hardship. At that time, she took the train to the provincial capital to carry goji treasures mixed with pickles and sell them. I picked it up a bit, now that I can do it, I bought two storefronts in West Tower, one for the boy and one for the girl, and I still have these two stores, both of which make money."

I said, "Auntie and the older couple are very good, really good, even better than young people."

Sister Cui said: "Then what are you talking about, do you know what your aunt does?"

I asked: "What are you doing?"

"Your aunt is the vice-chairman of the Ethnic Catering Association in our provincial capital, she's amazing." Sister Cui said.

This is really the first time I've heard of this. I didn't expect that the old lady is also the vice chairman of the Ethnic Dietary Association. It is impressive, but considering the strength of the old lady, it should be.

After cooking the dishes that day, I went outside to smoke a cigarette, and when I saw Master Huang walking towards me, I hurried up to say hello.

Seeing that it was me, Master Huang asked, "Aren't you working in Rose?"

I said, "The Rose Hotel is rented out, and I have been here for two months."

Master Huang asked, "Why are you still renting it out?"

I said, "Huang Ping is too busy, so I will rent it out first."

Master Huang said: "I don't know, I haven't been there recently, so I don't know yet."

I asked, "Have you not gone fishing recently?"

Master Huang said: "No, the last two days were busy with the girl's marriage, so I didn't have time to fish."

I asked, "Is your girl married?"

Master Huang said: "Yes, I only got married when I was 26, and I don't want children after I get married."

I smiled and said, "No one wants children now."

Master Huang said: "My girl is a flight attendant. She said she wants to fly for a few more years, and then have children when she becomes the team leader. It is not easy to be a team leader if she has children now."

Master Huang looked proud and proud when he spoke.

I asked, "Master Huang, is your daughter a flight attendant?"

Master Huang said: "Well, I have been a flight attendant since I graduated, and I have been flying for several years."

I really don’t know that Master Huang’s daughter is a flight attendant. Looking at Master Huang, Master Huang looks very energetic. He was also a standard handsome guy when he was young. I guess his daughter is also pretty, otherwise he would not be able to be a flight attendant.

Master Huang asked: "Tanzi, are you cooking at his house?"

I said, "Well, it's been here since the rose came down."

Master Huang said: "His family has a good business. The old lady is the vice-chairman of the Ethnic Dietary Association, and she is good at mixing vegetables. Her family is in the same neighborhood as mine, and it is in the back building of my house."

I said, "Really, you know her aunt?"

Master Huang said: "It's just a community, I haven't talked to her, but this old lady is amazing, she looks inconspicuous, but she is the richest man on Taishan Road, and her family is rich."

I said, "Yes, I heard that he is quite rich."

Master Huang said: "He opened a restaurant early. How many years have he been doing this? He opened a restaurant when I was young. His cold noodles are delicious, and my girl loves his cold noodles. Every time I come back, I will eat them." Go to his house and have a bowl."

I said, "Yes, his cold noodles are really delicious. The cold noodle soup is made with sugar, not cyclamate."

Master Huang said: "Yes, white sugar must be added to the cold noodle soup, and sodium cyclamate is cheap, but the cold noodle soup produced by mixing it is not that good. It is not good for people to eat too much, and the restaurant has to be genuine. It is not okay to cut corners. .”

I chatted with Master Huang for a few more words, and Master Huang said: "Don't talk anymore, go pay the electricity bill, go to get off work late, and talk again when you have time."

Then Master Huang left.Looking at the back of Master Huang, I feel that Master Huang is either a well-known chef or a father at this time.

Turning around and preparing to enter the store, she saw that Sister Ma was picking up the mop hanging outside, and Sister Ma asked, "Do you know that person?"

I said, "Master Huang, I know you."

Sister Ma said: "I heard that he is also a chef, quite famous."

I said, "Yes, it's good for stir-frying, and it's quite famous."

Sister Ma said: "I live in the same neighborhood as him. We live in the opposite building. His girl is a stewardess. She is very pretty. We got married a few days ago."

I said, "Really, I haven't heard you say that."

Sister Ma said, "I don't know you guys know each other, what's wrong? I told you to go and follow the ceremony."

I said, "That's a must."

Sister Ma said: "Hey! Master Tan, I invite you to drink tonight."

I said, "Bring me a drink? No, stop drinking."

Sister Ma said: "I have given up drinking, what the hell, look down on me, please drink and not go."

I said, "I really quit drinking."

"You just pretend." He told me when he was about to enter the house: "It's agreed, go drink after get off work."

As soon as I walked to the door, I heard someone shouting: "It's on fire—"

The shouting changed a bit, and then a person ran out from the door, it was Sister Jin, after that was Sister Wang, and behind Sister Wang was Sister Cui.

Don't even think about it, the kitchen is on fire. They ran out, and I ran in quickly, fearing that the stove I was cooking on was on fire.I bumped into a waiter who was running out, almost knocked the waiter down, and ran into the kitchen regardless of what happened.

There was no one in the kitchen.The advanced one is my cooking room. Seeing that there was no fire, I hurried into the operating room where Sister Cui cooked cold noodles. I went in and saw that the gas hose of the cold noodle stove was lying on the ground like a snake. Swinging around, spouting fire in front.He hurriedly ran to the gas room to shut off the large gas tank, then went to the electric switch to pull down the main electric switch, and then ran into the cold noodle room, hiding from the tongue of flames swinging like a snake.It's not easy to hide, after all, there is still pressure in the gas pipe.The tongue of flame flicked to the left for a while, then to the right for a while, and kept swinging up and down.

Fortunately, it is a newly renovated kitchen, hygienic and clean, without any oil stains, and there is no residual oil left on the stove for a long time. Otherwise, it would have to burn like the fire in the Rose Hotel kitchen.Now it's just the gas hose blowing fire, nothing is burning.Finally, I grabbed the gas hose and squeezed it hard in the middle. Soon, the burning flame began to weaken, gradually became smaller, and finally went out.That didn't dare to let go.

A waiter came in with a fire extinguisher, saw that I was holding the gas hose, the fire was gone, and asked, "Are you all right, Master Tan?"

I said, "It's okay, you go and push the switch on."

The food handler went to push the switch, and the lights in the entire operation room turned on.

The fire was out and everyone went back to the kitchen.Seeing me holding the gas pipe, Sister Cui asked, "Master Tan, is there still gas in the pipe?"

I said: "Yes, there is still a little bit, you go and open the exhaust."

Sister Cui went over to turn on the exhaust, and I held the gas hose and went under the exhaust hood, lifted the hose to the exhaust outlet, and the remaining gas in the hose was directly discharged.Released the gas hose and checked the hob to see that nothing was wrong.

Sister Wang and Sister Ma came in, and I said to them: "It's okay, you can see what's burning just now, I'll go out to take a breath first." Then I told them: "Remember, don't open the big pot."

After speaking, he left the kitchen and went outside the store, and stood outside to catch his breath.To be honest, just now I was more tired than frying a meal, my spirits were high, and I was fast, and I couldn't mess it up, it was like fighting a war.But this time there is no fear, no trembling legs, I feel fine, just a little nervous, just smoke a cigarette slowly.

At this time, the old lady and the old man also came from home and asked what was going on. I said, "The gas pipe is fine. It's fine. It should be because the buckle is loose and it broke."

The old man said: "I can't, I twisted it all, it can't be loosened."

The old lady yelled at the old man: "With your strength, can you still tighten it?"

The old man didn't say anything, he went into the kitchen to check. The old lady looked at me and asked, "Xiao Tanzi, are you okay?"

I said, "It's okay."

The old lady said: "It's a good thing you're here. It's not like they ran out in fright. If all the kitchen staff ran away today, the store would be gone."

Then he patted me with his hand, and I smiled.I have experienced the fire in the kitchen of the Rose Hotel. I have experience and know how to deal with such a situation, otherwise I would not have put out the fire so quickly.In addition, I have to say that the kitchen of the Xian family is clean and there is no oil stain. If there are so many oil stains like the kitchen of the Rose Hotel, the fire will probably start to burn when I enter the house, and it may not be extinguished.

It seems that kitchen sanitation is very important. Cleaning up sanitation and removing oil stains is not only for cleanliness and beauty, but also for fire safety.Since then, I have very high requirements for kitchen hygiene standards, which must be done properly, which is related to personal safety.

The old lady was still strong, and in less than an hour, she found a professional from the gas company to replace all the gas hoses in the kitchen with high-pressure hoses and special buckles. This time it was much safer .Unless the gas pressure is too high and the high-pressure hose bursts, otherwise the tripping situation like today will not happen.

The old lady yelled at the old man for a long time. The old man had a good temper. He just listened there without saying a word. When the old lady finished yelling and left, the old man also walked away slowly.

(End of this chapter)