The story of a cook

Chapter 130 Dog Meat Hot Pot
Life is fair to everyone, regardless of distance, thickness, and equality.

No matter what we have experienced, it is a part of our own life. Now that we have chosen, we must go on without hesitation.

No matter when and where, life needs to be faced with a smile.

It's time to pay the next quarter's rent. Lin Yan said: "Old Tan, Wang Jing said that she hasn't been to work, and Wang Hao has been working alone. They don't have much money now, and they want us to pay all the rent for this quarter." Pay it, and pay it back to us when the two of them have money."

I said, "Okay, you figure it out."

Lin Yan said: "Then we will hand it over."

I said, "Pay it, isn't the money in your hands?"

Lin Yan said: "Wang Jing is the same. She just stays at home and doesn't go out to find a job."

I said: "If you don't want to do it, it must be because the family conditions are good and you have never suffered."

Lin Yan said: "Yes, her family is in good condition and quite rich."

I said, "That's enough, but I think she can dress up quite well, and she doesn't stay at home all day, what is she doing?"

Lin Yan said: "I don't know, who knows what to do, just play, I dare not play, I have no money, and I can't afford it."

I said, "It's not very interesting to go to work, so I would like to go to work. If I just stay there and have nothing to do, I don't know what to do."

Lin Yan gave me a white look and said, "Of course it's interesting for you to go to work, being with a bunch of beauties."

I said, "If you're worried, I won't do it and find another place."

Lin Yan said: "I have nothing to worry about. I just want to say that if you really like a beautiful woman, it doesn't matter if you get along with her. It's best not to let me know. I want to know, hehe! You know as a result of."

I said, "I know, the consequences are serious."

Lin Yan said: "At that time, it will not be leading you."

I was a little puzzled and asked, "If not he leads, who leads?"

Lin Yan said: "Yan Wangye!"

Shrews, utter shrews!

I also discussed with Lin Yan about getting married. Lin Yan said when she would have a house and when she would get married. Hearing what she said, I didn’t discuss further. There was no mortgage at that time. To buy a house in the city, the two of us had to struggle for eight years without food or drink.

I also know that that's what Lin Yan said, but at that time, she felt that she owed something to get married, and she was not in a hurry.

In October, the weather started to get a little cooler, and the business of the barbecue restaurant started to decline a bit, not as hot as in summer.The business of the old store opposite has also begun to decline. After all, it is a cold noodle shop, and the number of people who eat cold noodles decreases when the weather cools down.No matter how delicious the stir-fry is, it is not a Chinese restaurant after all. If customers want to eat stir-fry, they still go to the Chinese restaurant.

Sister Wang and I fished out the dog meat from the pot, and the dog meat was still steaming when it came out.

Looking at the dog meat from Xinyu, I asked, "Sister Wang, you Xian people like to drink dog meat soup, so do you eat dog meat hot pot?"

Sister Wang said: "Dog meat hot pot? I haven't seen many people eat it, but there are people who cook it."

I said: "That's right, dog meat can't be made into mutton rolls like mutton, and it can't be rinsed."

I thought of the stupid chicken hot pot I made at the Rose Hotel, and wondered if dog meat could also be made into hot pot and eaten?Watching TV Cantonese people like to eat dog meat. They stew dog meat in a big casserole and cook vegetables in the casserole at the same time. Watching them eat delicious food on TV, they say that the gods can’t stand still after the dog meat rolls three times.If you can study dog ​​meat hot pot, it is estimated that customers will love it.That's dog meat, big tonic.

That's what I'm good at, I thought about it, I went to the Rose Hotel during the lunch break, borrowed a hot pot from the couple and came back to start research.

Sister Jin saw that I took back a hot pot, and asked, "Master, what do you want to fix?"

I said, "Whole dog meat hot pot."

Sister Jin said: "Dog meat hot pot? My house kills dogs in winter and eats dog meat hot pot."

I hurriedly asked: "Really, what's going on at your house? Tell me."

Sister Jin said: "It is to cook the dog meat, just like the dog meat in our house, tear it into pieces, stew the dried cabbage, then put the dog meat, and eat it like this, it is similar to dog meat soup, just use a soup bowl and a hot pot .”

After hearing what Sister Jin said, I can also imagine that she is talking about dog meat soup. What I want to study is dog meat hot pot, not dog meat soup.

Dog meat is salty, sour, warm, and non-toxic. It can massage the five internal organs, nourish the wounds, nourish the kidneys, and strengthen the yang. At the same time, eating dog meat in winter can also resist cold, strengthen the body, relieve weakness, and enhance immunity.But dog meat is not something everyone can eat. If you have a headache, brain fever, cold and fever, don’t eat it. At the same time, dog meat is a food that warms and nourishes kidney yang. Don’t eat it if you have symptoms of coughing up blood. Pregnant women, infants and young children should not eat it either.Dog meat is a good thing for men, but don't eat too much, everything will be reversed.Dog meat can warm and invigorate the kidney yang. It is good for people with kidney yang deficiency to eat it. If it is not kidney yang deficiency but kidney yin deficiency, then do not eat it.

In addition, all creatures have spirituality, or in other words, they are all life.In particular, dogs understand human nature and are friends of human beings. Dogs are loyal and loyal. If you can’t eat dog meat, don’t eat it. In your heart, you don’t agree with eating dog meat.But being a chef has no choice, you have to do everything, as long as it is not a wild animal, not protected by the state, and can be used for cooking, you have to do it.

I know a little bit about dog meat. My thinking at the time was like this. Shabu-shabu does not necessarily have to be sliced ​​meat, but meat pieces are also acceptable. Like stupid chicken hotpot, it is chicken nuggets, which are also delicious.Most of the vegetables in the hot pot are leaf vegetables, and they can also be dried vegetables. As long as they are delicious, the guests will accept them.

Start researching in this way.Cut the fresh dog meat into small pieces first, and let it cook until it is half mature.Dried cabbage is swollen with water, and it can be bitten if you feel it.Choose mutton with skin and cut it into small pieces, and it is also cooked until it is half mature.I also chose Chinese cabbage and marinated tofu.

It took a little thought to prepare the hot pot dipping ingredients. The traditional hot pot dipping ingredients are sesame paste, fermented bean curd, and chive flowers. The three things are put together in a certain proportion, and it is enough to adjust it.At that time, sand tea sauce was popular as a dipping sauce for fat beef hot pot. I also adjusted this, and it was really delicious.But these two hot pot dipping sauces are not very suitable for dog meat.

I have to research hot pot dips that are good for dog meat.

Hard work pays off, through careful analysis of dog meat sauce and hot pot dipping sauce, two dipping sauces suitable for dog meat are finally prepared.Adjust the hot pot dipping sauce, and start trying to make dog meat hot pot.

Put the hot pot on the barbecue stove and add the reconstituted dog meat soup, which is slightly spicy.Then add half-ripe dog meat and mutton and boil, then add dried cabbage and tofu, and it will be ready to eat in more than ten minutes.

The old lady doesn't eat dog meat, but the old man does.

The old man ate a few pieces of dog meat, and then ate a few pieces of mutton, and said, "It's delicious. It looks like dog meat soup, but it's not. It has another taste, which I can't tell. The mutton doesn't smell bad when you eat it." , very fragrant." Then he said to the old lady: "You also eat some, instead of dog meat, you can eat mutton."

The old lady ate a few pieces of mutton and some dried cabbage with chopsticks.

Then he said, "It's pretty good. The best dipping sauce is the best. It's different from other hot pot restaurants. Tan Zi, what's the matter?"

I said, "It's just an ordinary hot pot dipping sauce. I added a few more seasonings, all of which are suitable for dog meat."

The old lady said to the old man: "I don't eat dog meat, but I think it's okay, what do you think?"

The old man said: "You say it's okay, anyway, I can eat it anyway, if I come, I can order a dog meat pot, it's quite affordable."

Now that the two bosses have eaten well and said yes, they have passed the test, so they began to prepare for a trial sale.

This time, the dog meat hot pot is not a stainless steel hot pot, but a large casserole with high temperature resistance, which looks atmospheric, and the stewed dog meat in the casserole is delicious.I re-adjusted it a few times and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so I started selling it.

Old stores and new stores sell at the same time.At the beginning, I prepared 26 large casserole pots, because there are only 36 tables in the barbecue shop, plus there are [-] tables in the old shop, a total of [-] tables, [-] tables are enough, come on The guests don't necessarily all eat dog meat hot pot, and some eat barbecue.

This is also a very bold attempt for me. At that time, there were no Korean barbecue restaurants in the provincial capital that sold dog meat hot pot. Not only did there not exist Korean barbecue restaurants, but there were no hot pot restaurants either. Can the guest accept it? If the guest accepts it, it proves that his ideas and practices are correct. If the guest does not accept it, it is a failure.

At that time, I thought that if it didn’t work out and the guests really didn’t accept it, it would be fine if I could earn back fifteen casserole money, and I couldn’t let the old lady pay for it.

On the first day of dog meat hot pot, the two shops sold a total of ten, which is not very ideal and a bit angry.

Feedback from customers is that it is delicious. The first time I ate dog meat hot pot was very novel and tasted good. I will eat it again next time, but the vegetables are a little less, and it would be nice to have more.The best response is that the dipping sauce is delicious, dog meat is not fishy when dipped in dog meat, and mutton is not smelly when dipped in mutton. At the end of the meal, it can be eaten with dried cabbage and tofu, and it is even more delicious when mixed with a bowl of rice. .Customers said that there is another highlight of the dog meat hot pot, that is, the mutton in the hot pot can be cut into pieces, which is much more affordable than sliced ​​mutton.

The next day, I added two kinds of green vegetables to the trial sale.

I clearly remember that fifteen hot pots were sold at noon the next day, and twenty at night.The five extra hot pots in the evening are the first
After the guests finished eating, the second wave of customers ordered.

The third day was even better than the second day, forty hot pots were sold.

The sales in the first week were very good, especially on Saturdays and Sundays, when customers waited for a seat.

Dog meat hot pot success!

Seeing that the dog meat hot pot was selling well, the old lady said that she could add a few more casserole dishes, as the guests liked it very much, so she could add more.I didn't agree, and told her not to add too much. After all, it is a barbecue restaurant, so it can't be too far away from the root. Hot pot is seasonal. It's a bit cold now. Customers like to eat continuously heated things. When the weather gets warmer, there will be no more People love to eat, and they have to eat barbecue.The old lady thought about the same thing, so she didn't add it, and it was always fifteen casserole.

In more than ten days, the dog meat hot pot in the barbecue restaurant became famous, and many people took taxis to eat it. Later, most of them called in advance to make an appointment. If they didn’t make an appointment, sometimes they couldn’t eat it if they came late.There are also some Xian nationality restaurants who came to study and imitate after returning home, but they were not too successful, but they indirectly advertised the dog meat hot pot of Yangchun Barbecue Restaurant.

In fact, it is not impossible to imitate. The core technology of dog meat hot pot is in the processing of dog meat and mutton. Dog meat cannot be cooked in the same way as dog meat, and lamb is also the same. It cannot be simply cooked.Only when the dog meat and mutton are processed well and the fire is in place can it be effective.In addition, the soup in the hot pot is also very important. Don't add the old soup of dog meat directly. It will be too fishy to eat. It must be diluted with chicken soup according to the proportion. Only the dog meat and mutton meat that come out will not be smelly or fishy, ​​and it will be light and refreshing.Do not use all the traditional hot pot dipping sauces for hot pot dipping. You can use the traditional dipping sauces as the basis and re-modulate them. The ultimate goal is to be suitable for dog meat.

The research and development of any new dish is inseparable from the old dishes. It is impossible to develop new dishes without the foundation of old dishes. This is a deep understanding.Just like the stupid chicken pot, if the little stupid chicken stewed mushrooms can't be done well, the stupid chicken pot will not be successful.Especially now, Stupid Chicken Pot is not just a hot pot, but has developed into a series and a brand - hearth stew.Stovetop chicken, stovetop fish, and stovetop stewed goose are popular all over the country.The same is true for dog meat pot. If you don't know how to make dog meat soup, you won't develop dog meat pot. If you don't know enough about dog meat and mutton, you won't be able to make it.

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