The story of a cook

Chapter 465 Just Do It Like This
Coarse Foods reopened a month after the fire, and Xiao Wei continued to be the head chef.

The old man is going to continue to run the store, and at the same time strengthen the management of the hotel, especially the kitchen.Before the fire broke out, I had already contacted Wei Chef's master, and planned to hire Wei Chef's master to come over to be the culinary director of the group and manage the kitchen in a unified way. Therefore, the fire in the coarse grain kitchen was only a symbolic fine of 3000 yuan to Wei Chef. Take it as a warning, and for the sake of his master, continue to ask him to be the head chef.

Chef Wei's master, surnamed Li, is Li Xingtang. He is Dai Lao's apprentice and one of the four famous chefs in Binhai.Managed several large-scale catering kitchens in Binhai, the most famous being Shangri-La Hotel.

The old man treated Chef Wei very well. He was assigned a deputy and a special car, which is considered the highest courtesy.

It's just that I haven't seen this famous chef. I heard that he will come to work after New Year's Day, and he hasn't come down from his previous unit yet.

"It's amazing to have a good master. It's not a big deal to catch fire, so I was fined 3000 yuan. If someone else had already been laid off." Lao Guo said.

After the kitchen caught fire, Lao Guo was secretly happy. He thought that Chef Wei would be laid off this time. If Chef Wei was laid off, he would be the head chef if nothing happened.But the old man only fined 3000 yuan, and asked Xiao Wei to continue to be the chef. Lao Guo's hope fell through, and he couldn't help complaining.

"Looking at your eyes, you also have to be a good master." Master Du hit Lao Guo.

"You said that we worked so hard to do this. We thought about everything for the sake of the hotel, so we almost sold our lives. The old man couldn't see it, but he saw Xiao Wei's lip service all day long. Now I don't have any energy to do it." Lao Guo said.

"Who is not like that, am I not like that now?" Master Du said.

They really do have a bit of a connection.

"Old Tan, do you think this is unfair?" Lao Guo asked me.

I said, "Are you two willing to think about this? Are you tired? Why don't you drink some wine if you have the time?"

Lao Guo said: "Old Tan, you know how to drink, I don't believe you don't want to be the chef?"

"I think, why don't you want to?" I said: "Being a chef is like finding a partner. You have to talk about fate, and it's useless to worry. The guy is amazing, and there are girls chasing after him at any time. The guy is nothing, and he piles up money. It’s not necessarily a daughter-in-law. To put it bluntly, you have to rely on yourself to forge the iron. If you want to be a chef, you need to practice more internal skills. It’s useless to think about anything else.”

"It's useless to practice inner strength. It's better to have a good master." Lao Guo said.

I was a little speechless about his self-pity.Yes, the old man hired Chef Wei's master to be the culinary director. If he didn't hire Chef Wei, he might be laid off because of the fire in the kitchen.The main reason is that if he is laid off, you, Lao Guo, will be able to become the chief chef?I don't think so.

It's useless not wanting to discuss it with them.

Do your job better than anything else.

The old man is talking about a large storefront, which is an independent commercial building. He wants to buy the entire building and open a large and high-end hotel.The entire building is [-] square meters, with five floors in total. The first floor is a retail store. Now there are many small shops rented out for business, most of which sell small home appliances. The second to fifth floors are office rooms, with an occupancy rate of [-]%.

The whole building cost 7000 million.

The old man has been investigating for a long time, and now has entered the stage of substantive negotiations. If the two parties reach an agreement, it is estimated that they can be purchased before the Spring Festival.

I have to say that the old man has great foresight. After buying the whole building, he can just not open a hotel and rent it out, so that the value will increase in the future.Now it is 7000 million, and it will reach [-] million in ten years.

That's why the old man hired Chef Wei to be the culinary director. When the large hotel opens in the future, there must be a good person to manage it. The existing management personnel are not good enough.

If an enterprise wants to develop, it needs capable managers. If there are none, it needs to be reserved and cultivated, so as to plan for a rainy day.

After entering December, the business of the restaurant was mediocre, and it was not very busy every day, which gave me time to study the dishes.I haven't developed new dishes for a long time, and my head is a little stagnant. This won't work, I have to develop and develop.

Communicate well with the old aunt, and go to the market with their purchasing car the next day to see what raw materials are available, and broaden your mind.

"Old Tan, how old are you this year? Why are you called Lao Tan? I think the old man also calls you Lao Tan." The old aunt asked curiously.

"I'm 33 this year." I said.

"You're just 33? I thought you'd be 38 or [-] after all. You look really anxious." The old aunt laughed.

I said, "I'm growing old."

"How old is your child?" the old aunt asked.

"Two and a half years old." I replied.

"It's too late for you to get married."

"Well, I got married late, my family was poor, and no one gave me a daughter-in-law. I only said the last one when I was crying, and I didn't get married until I was thirty." I laughed.

The old aunt smiled and said: "Look at what you said, it won't happen." Then she asked me: "Everyone is the chief chef inspecting the market. Are you called by Lao Chen?"

I said, "I did this voluntarily. I wanted to research a new dish. I went to the market to see what raw materials were available. I couldn't make it even though I was working behind closed doors at home."

"The good dishes that our family sells now are all yours?" the old aunt asked.

"Not all of them. How can we have that ability? There are a few." I said.

"Master Tan is so good. He doesn't participate in anything, just cooking and drinking." The driver said with a smile.

"Old Tan, it is said that you are good at drinking, have you ever drunk the old wine made by our family?" the old aunt asked.

I said, "No, it's quite expensive, and I can't afford it. Both my wine and mine are cheap."

"I'll get you some when I go back, and they all say it's good to drink. It's the recipe that the old man bought for 5000 yuan." The old aunt said.

I said, "Really? Then you have to taste it, it's a good wine."

Qinghua Pavilion has its own old wine, ten yuan a pot, two taels a pot, and I have never drank it.Since I came down from Laohan Villa, I haven't soaked or drank health wine, and it's not time for health.Especially now, I don't even have a woman by my side, and I haven't had a married life for more than three years, who can bear to keep healthy.

I drink alcohol every night, and I have already drunk eight taels at a time. I don’t care if I drink half a catty.

Anesthetize yourself with alcohol to save yourself from thinking about bad things.

I don't know if it's good or not, but I have an alcohol addiction. It seems almost impossible not to drink at dinner every night, and I have to drink some.It is estimated that I can drink myself to waste, and I will not be able to give it to a woman by then.

What would life be like if I really lost that ability?
Nothing will change in life, and I might.

Just think about it.

When I came to the market, I didn’t see any special raw materials in the vegetables hall. They were all potatoes, eggplants, peppers, celery, snow peas, broccoli, cabbage and so on. They were rich, but there were no vegetables in the northbound market of the provincial capital. Complete.

I looked in front of the stall selling dried vegetables. There were fungus, dried day lily, dried cucurbit shreds, dried tea tree mushroom, dried beans, dried eggplant, hazel mushroom, pine mushroom, etc. I saw dried vegetables and thought there was nothing on the vegetable stall. You can study one of the dried vegetables.So I bought dried beans, dried day lily, dried gourd shreds and dried eggplant.Dried eggplants are dried green eggplants, but it would be great if purple eggplants were dried.I saw that there are all kinds of dried bamboo shoots, which are very good, but the bamboo shoots are from the south, and northerners are not used to eating them, and the audience is too small to be suitable for them, so I chose to give up.

The meat stalls are ok.I went to a chicken stall and asked a few bosses if they had any breeder chicken heads and feet, and they all said no.It is estimated that there is indeed no breeder farm in Binhai.There are many raw materials in the chilled meat stall, such as crocodile meat, wild goose legs, venison, venison steak, foie gras, chicken crispy bones, pork crispy bones, etc. I chose a large chicken crispy bone and bought a plate.

I haven’t looked closely at the seafood here. Almost all fresh seafood shops in the market have it. You don’t need to look at the chilled ones. People in Binhai don’t eat chilled ones very much.

After going around the whole market, I feel that the market is not big, not as big as Northbound.It takes two hours to turn around northbound, but it takes an hour here to complete the turn.Except for the relatively complete seafood, the rest of the raw materials are not complete.Binhai is a coastal city, very developed, but still a bit small compared to the provincial capital.

After all, the provincial capital is the provincial capital, an old industrial city in the Northeast. Although the development speed is a bit slow now, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Given the background, Binhai still cannot compare with the provincial capital.

Binhai is a bit extravagant and impetuous, while the provincial capital is thick and stable.

If Binhai is a young man, then the provincial capital is a middle-aged man.

This is an intuitive feeling.

It has been more than half a year since I came to Binhai. To be honest, I have not yet integrated into this city. It gives me a bad feeling.

That's why I don't like going out.

After buying the raw materials, I came back with the shopping cart. After inspecting the goods, I went back to the kitchen to see what I wanted to do with the dried vegetables and chicken bones.After thinking about it for a long time, I still have no ideas. Don’t think about it. Soak the dried beans, dried gourd shreds, dried day lily and dried eggplant in water. Thaw the crispy chicken bones first, and then talk.

After breakfast, the morning regular meeting began. At the regular meeting, Lao Chen said that the old man would come to check the sanitation today, and asked everyone to do a good job of sanitation.Since the coarse grains caught fire, the hygiene of the kitchen has been very strict, and they will be checked every week. Sometimes the old man comes, and sometimes people from the office come.

After returning to the kitchen after the regular meeting, Master Li asked me: "Brother, do you think the old man can come to check?"

"I don't know, I can't come during my meal time." I said.

"Did you buy the chicken crispy bone? What kind of food are you going to serve?" Master Li asked when he saw my thawed chicken crispy bone.

I said: "I went to the market for a walk in the morning. I saw that the crispy chicken bone was very good, so I bought a plate. I haven't thought about what to serve."

"I used to make a 'Spicy Chicken Crispy Bone' which sold very well, but I don't know how it will be in our store," he said.

I also thought about making "spicy chicken crispy bones", but when I thought that "spicy chicken crispy bones" are available in every family, it is a bit ordinary and has no special features, so I gave up.

I asked him, "How do you make your 'Spicy Chicken Crispy Bone'?"

"I make it simple. First marinate the chicken bones, eat it in the bottom mouth, then fry it with custard powder, fry it until golden brown, fry it with red pepper, add spicy and crispy, it's okay to eat, it's delicious Yes," he said.

"What you said is almost done now. There is no competitiveness and no technical content. The customers have eaten it." Speaking of this, look at him, and think that the raw material of chicken crispy bone can be researched by him, so as to save him nothing. So I said to him: "I'll give you the chicken crispy bone. You can study it, as long as you don't make 'spicy chicken crispy bone'."

"Chicken crispy bones can't be used in any other way than to make it spicy," he said.

"Research, otherwise why would I call you research." I said.

He looked at the crispy chicken bone and said, "Then I will study it."

Master Li took away the crispy chicken bones and went to research.

Looking at the four dried vegetables soaked in water, I don't know how to make them.

The best way to make dried beans is "braised pork stewed dried beans". It seems that this dish can't be sold in Binhai, because I have sold dishes made of braised pork before, but they didn't sell well, and customers didn't recognize it.The best way to dry day lily is "beef stewed day lily", but there is already "boiled beef", and I don't want to make "beef stewed day lily", which is a bit of a competition with myself.Cucurbit shreds can be studied. I once ate "fried gourd shredded with minced meat" made by my mother-in-law at my mother-in-law's house. It tastes very good. It is fried with soy sauce and put some red pepper shreds. It is chewy and chewy. head.

Looking at the dried eggplant again, I found that the dried eggplant was a bit black. I fished out a piece with my hand to have a look. It turned out that I was cheated when I bought it.Fortunately, I bought less, two or three, and it would not be a pity to throw them away.But you can't throw it away, put it in a convenience bag with dry water, put it in a fresh-keeping freezer, and ask the purchasing staff to take it back tomorrow.

Standing over there, studying how to make dried beans, dried day lily, and dried gourd shreds, while helping Yu Wenxue to set up a stall, Master Li is marinating the crispy chicken bones.At this time, except for the cutting board and the lotus table, only Master Li and I were in the kitchen. The other masters probably went out to smoke and chat.

Coincidentally, the old man came in.

I didn't know when he came. He was sealing the food with plastic wrap, and at the same time told Cao Ligui whether it would taste good if the dried beans and dried day lily were fried. Cao Ligui said that it would be delicious after frying.

Someone patted me on the shoulder, and when I looked back, it was the old man.

I wondered where he came from and didn't look at it.

"Hi, old man!" I greeted with a smile.

The old man looked at me with a serious expression, and asked, "Just you and Master Li, what about the others?"

I saw that it was not a big deal, the masters were me and Master Li, and no one else was there, and there were four faucets running on the stove, one for Lao Chen, one for the stewed fish master, and one for the stewed fish. The last one is from Master Liu.

I winked at Cao Ligui, and Cao Ligui immediately understood what was going on, and hurried to the stove to turn off the long-running faucet.

I smiled and said to the old man: "The leader inspected the work so early."

The old man didn't say anything, probably someone had tipped off the news, and saw Lao Chen and a group of masters coming in one by one from the back door of the kitchen. No one dared to speak, and quickly walked to his stove and stood there.

Lao Chen was also going to the stove, but the old man stopped him.

"Don't go to the stove first, do you know that the faucet on your stove was running water just now?" The old man asked with a bad expression.

Old Chen was taken aback, and immediately said, "I can't, I turned off the water when I went out."

"What time are you going out? Is this the time to go out?" The old man asked sharply.

Lao Chen didn't speak, and lowered his head.

The old man glanced at him and said, "Just do it like this." Then he walked out of the kitchen.

(End of this chapter)