The story of a cook

Chapter 290 Convincing People With Vegetables
In the evening, eight hot dishes, two cold dishes, and two staple foods were arranged.

Don't worry about the cold dishes and staple food, the second child and Sister Huang have already made it up to standard.I personally cook the eight hot dishes, which are the same as the eight dishes prepared by Master Hou and Master Wang yesterday. made in one form.

After making all the dishes, go out to smoke a cigarette, and then come to the private room where Mr. Wang and the others eat.

There are a total of ten people in the private room, including the three who came yesterday, Mr. Wang and Mr. Yu, and the remaining four are new faces.

Seeing me come in, Mr. Wang greeted me to sit down.

I looked at the dishes on the table, and the effect was much better than yesterday.Take for example the "Small Stir-fry" cooked by Master Hou yesterday. Yesterday, the guests hardly ate much, but today they have already eaten two-thirds.

Mr. Wang asked: "Master Tan, today's dishes are much better than yesterday's. From my point of view, they are all qualified and suitable for our family's business."

She had a happy expression on her face when she said it.

"That's fine, as long as the leaders are satisfied with eating." I said.

Wang Lao pointed to the "Small Stir-fry in the Villa" and said: "This dish is much more delicious than yesterday, and it looks good. Is it a green vegetable? You have to stir-fry it for this heat to be delicious."

"Mr. Wang is over-rewarded."

Mr. Yu pointed to a dish with meatballs, tofu, potherb and eggs in a casserole and asked, "Master Tan, what's the name of this dish?"

I said: "This dish is the 'Snow Lihong Stewed Tofu' that you ate yesterday. I will improve it again today. How do you like it?"

"It's delicious. It's much more delicious than yesterday. I'll eat this dish." Mr. Yu said.

I said: "Let me tell everyone, the outstanding feature of this dish is that it is full of farm flavor. You should eat this dish without MSG and soy sauce, just salt, right?"

I ask everyone.

Wang Lao said: "Hey, by the way, I eat it without MSG, and it tastes very good."

Mr. Wang said: "I didn't eat it, but the tofu I ate was very delicious. It wasn't cut with a knife, it seemed to be broken by hand."

"Well, it's true that it's not cut with a knife, but it's not broken by hand, it's dug with a hand spoon." I said, "The biggest highlight of this dish is on the meatballs. I can guarantee that it's for people who don't like meat." Take a bite of this meatball, and you have to say it is delicious, just like the meatballs our mother made for us when we were young."

I just finished talking about a friend of Mr. Wang who said: "Yes, I ate one just now. It is full of fragrance, but it is not greasy at all. It is delicious."

As soon as he finished speaking, people began to pick up the meatballs, and as soon as they ate them, they all began to say that they were delicious.

"I just ate tofu, and I haven't tasted meatballs yet, so I'll try one too," Mr. Wang said.

There was only one ball left in the casserole, and Mr. Wang put it in his mouth and ate it. After eating, he looked at the casserole and said, "It's delicious, it's gone, it's too little." Then he looked at me and said, "Master Tan , this meatball is well done, I don’t like meat, but today this meatball is really delicious, I want to eat another one, you are too picky, just make a few.”

I laughed and said: "Deliciousness is rare, and this is also based on the proportion. Meatballs are delicious, but if you eat too much and eat other dishes, they will not taste good. You just finished eating meatballs. If I am not wrong, Now the smell of meatballs is lingering in your mouth, isn't it?"

The person who just ate the meatballs pursed his lips and nodded.

"Is it fragrant? It's quite fragrant. It won't be fragrant if you eat other dishes at this time. It will take 2 minutes to eat other dishes to feel delicious." I said.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"There is one dish for today, and that's it—" I pointed to a very ordinary plate of "Fried Vermicelli with Minced Pork and Celery" and said to everyone: "Now you might as well try this Fried Vermicelli with Celery. Does it feel the same as before? different?"

Everyone began to taste fried vermicelli with minced meat and celery.

"It's different, it's not the same at all. I've never felt that celery is so delicious."

"It's the same taste as my mother's. It's delicious!"

"The vermicelli didn't stick at all, and it's quite chewy."

"---"

I said: "All the dishes today do not contain MSG or sugar, so they taste delicious. The original taste is home-made. I think everyone likes it."

"I said why today's dishes are different from the ones I ate before. It really doesn't taste like vegetarian food when I taste them carefully now." Mr. Wang said.

"By the way, now restaurants are putting so much vegetarian food into their dishes. Once you eat a savory taste, you can't taste the taste of stir-fried dishes in the past." Wang Lao said: "This is the dish, and it tastes delicious. Authentic."

Mr. Wang asked: "Master Tan, can our dishes not contain MSG?"

I said: "This is not up to the mark yet. Some cold dishes still have to add seasoning. Now I can achieve no seasoning in hot dishes. Master Hou and Master Wang have to get used to it for a while. If you suddenly call him If you don’t put MSG in the two stir-fried dishes, then neither of them will know how to stir-fry. You have to take your time. Stir-fry is like this. You can stir-fry to the extent you understand it. The habit you have formed cannot be changed overnight. .”

"What I cook today is the dishes they made yesterday. Today's dishes are better than yesterday. It's not that I'm better at cooking than them, but that they've been cooking in restaurants all the time, so I asked them to cook home-cooked dishes all of a sudden. Stir-fried farm dishes started to be a bit awkward. There has to be an adaptation period, and after the two of them get used to it in another two days, the dishes will have a taste."

Mr. Wang nodded and didn't speak immediately.

Mr. Wang said: "Xiao Tanzi is right, just like me. He has mixed health wine for a lifetime. I know how to play health wine. If I am asked to mix cocktails now, I will be confused."

"But according to what Master Tan just said, what I look at is not the food, but the character. What do you think, Mr. Wang." Mr. Wang said to Mr. Wang.

Mr. Wang said to me: "How should I put it, Master Tan, thank you, not only did the food cook well today, but you also gave me a lot of face. I know how to cook it. Don't worry, in the kitchen, you will follow what Master Tan says. It’s not easy for others to speak.”

"It's not easy. No one looks for a job just to get laid off. They all hope that the restaurant business is good. Only when the restaurant business is good can we make money. If the restaurant business is not good, no one can make money. It's useless to be a chef. .” I said, “On the contrary, it’s all the responsibility of the head chef.”

"Okay, well said." Wang Lao said: "Xiao Tanzi, our villa lacks a talent like you. You are magnanimous and well-organized. You should really promise Mr. Zhang that day."

"Old Wang was joking. If I had agreed to Mr. Zhang at that time, you would look down on me now, and I wouldn't sit here and drink your old-fashioned health wine."

After speaking, Mr. Wang and Mr. Wang and I laughed.

Seeing us laughing, Mr. Yu said unnaturally: "Old Wang, you can poach Master Tan away now."

"You are less than, don't think you are older than Xiao Tan, sometimes you really have to learn from Xiao Tan." Wang Lao said: "Some people leave without digging, and some people can't dig away. If you dig, maybe he will now quit."

"Old Wang, it's not that serious. I'm also an eye-opener for money, haha."

I joked.

I chatted with everyone for a while and drank some wine. I wanted to stop drinking, but I drank yesterday, and I have to drink today, and I have to be disciplined again when I go home.

Just drink it, quit drinking is difficult, not easy to quit, if you can't quit drinking, you have to wait to be punished, you have to fight at both ends.

After trying the dishes, I talked to Master Wang and Master Hou about the dishes the next day.

It is estimated that Mr. Wang approached them before I asked them to talk about the dishes. Their attitudes changed a lot and they began to accept what I said.Then let the two of them try out their own dishes one by one for everyone to taste, keep the ones that pass, and reject the ones that fail.

The dishes that are creative but not well done are kept, improved and upgraded, and turned into manageable dishes.

After Master Hou and Master Wang are done, even if the hot dish kitchen is done, the dishes are almost ready.

The stews sent by the villa, Master Xu has four stews, the stews are already very good and do not need any improvement.

I am very relieved that the second child is in charge of the cold dishes. His products can be guaranteed. At the same time, the second child has become a good master of cold dishes after years of training.

Sister Huang did a good job at the pastry, and the staple food she made was unanimously approved by Mr. Wang and other leaders.

It would be a lie to say that there is no pressure to take over Laohan Villa. After all, it is the first branch in the country.The Laohan Villa in Santaizi is the first one in the whole country. At the same time, the headquarters are talking about Changchun and Harbin, as well as those in the south. They are all waiting for the opening of Laohan Villa in Santaizi to see how it works.

The renovation was still very slow. Mr. Wang would quarrel with Mr. Yu every day, and he didn't know what the two of them were arguing about, so they hurriedly finished the renovation.

Mr. Wang stays in his office every day, drinks tea and reads newspapers, leisurely and leisurely, just like the medicine box in TV dramas, he is not in a hurry or panic.

All the staff in the kitchen are in place. Apart from cooking, testing dishes, and cleaning, the rest of the time is training.At that time, I was not yet professional in training, I just talked about some kitchen rules and regulations and dish production.Most of the time is talking about dishes.He is good at lecturing, and everyone loves to listen. At the beginning, Master Wang and Master Hou didn't listen very much, but later they did.This is something I am happy about, and it proves that what I said is still a little bit reasonable.

There are five or six waiters recruited at the front desk, which is not enough. No matter what, fifteen waiters are enough, and we have to continue to recruit.The manager was never found, and neither was the foreman.Mr. Yu is in charge of the front desk, and he is also unable to recruit, and he is also a little anxious to get angry.

When he started recruiting, he thought that as long as the brand of Laohan Villa was put out, people would apply for the job. I told him that people like to watch Liu Laohan’s TV series, but they may not necessarily approve of Laohan Villa. These are two different things.He didn't believe it, and said that as soon as the sign of Laohan Villa was put out, someone would apply for the job.

I don't know where his confidence comes from.

(End of this chapter)