I work as a chef in the university cafeteria

Chapter 218 Stewed Fish with Tomatoes, Why No Fish?

"Guess who I am?"

Xie Siqi was petite, standing in front of the tall Jiang Yu with her hips crossed, like a mischievous child, she said proudly,

"If you guess right, I will, I will give you a meeting gift!"

After Jiang Yu entered the box before, Xie Siqi wanted to jump out to say hello to him, but when she saw the frowning Liu Xining and the other three dull and silent assistants beside her, she knew that she couldn't be too evasive. Otherwise, it would be too heartless.

Therefore, when Jiang Yu was talking to Liu Xining in the private room, she just sat there obediently without saying a word. When Jiang Yu went out, she quickly found a reason to follow her.

After she came out, she couldn't bear it anymore, and chased after him in a few steps, and jumped in front of Jiang Yu in no time.

"..."

Xie Siqi sat there wearing sunglasses and a mask and didn't speak. Naturally, Jiang Yu couldn't guess who it was, but now that Jiang Yu heard this voice, how could he not know who it was?

This quirky, playful voice is so recognizable!
What's more, there is only one person around Liu Xining who knows him and calls him "junior"!
Jiang Yu paused, looked at the "face-covered monster" standing in front of him, and smiled helplessly,

"Miss Xie, long time no see! You don't need to give the gift, and I'm not your junior brother..."

"Huh? I'm dressed like this, and you can still recognize it? It's so boring!"

Xie Siqi looked very depressed, she stomped her feet lightly, and said with a confident face,

"Sister Ning and I are good sisters, and you are sister Ning's younger brother, so aren't you my younger brother?"

"..."

Jiang Yu was speechless, he was too lazy to argue with Xie Siqi on this boring question, so he quickly changed the subject,
"By the way, what kind of food is Miss Xie planning to eat? I remember you can't eat spicy food, right?"

"Wow! It's been so long, Junior Brother, you still remember my taste? There are not many boys who are as careful as Junior Brother!"

Xie Siqi's big eyes were full of smiles, but her attention was finally attracted by the delicious food. After pondering for a moment, she hesitated and said,

"I want to eat... stewed raw, salted Duxian, chrysanthemum eggplant, um, enough!"

"I can't cook stewed raw meat. There are no rice field eels in the kitchen today. I'll make it for you next time."

Jiang Yu pondered for a while. These dishes are from the local cuisine of Shanghai, and the method is not difficult. He has cooked salted Duxian more than once. He said with a smile,

"How about a sweet and sour short rib instead?"

"Okay, okay! I really like this dish!"

Xie Siqi was so happy that her eyes narrowed. While talking, she took out a delicate small box from her bag, handed it to Jiang Yu, and said with a proud face,

"Here, this is a meeting gift for you. I came too hastily last time and didn't prepare, so I'll make it up for you this time.

Brother, take it quickly! "

Jiang Yu was taken aback, is this really a gift?

He quickly waved his hand and said with a smile: "Miss Xie, I didn't even give you a meeting gift, how could I have the nerve to accept your gift?"

"Last time you worked so hard to make so many delicious food for us, which is much more valuable than a meeting gift! I gave it to you, so you just take it. Why are you so polite?"

Xie Siqi forced the small box into Jiang Yu's hand, then clapped her little hands, and said with a smile,
"Then I'll go back and wait for the delicious food, so go back and cook!"

After saying that, she put her hands behind her back and bounced back to the box. It could be seen that she seemed very happy.

Jiang Yu turned around and watched her disappear into the box, then looked down at the "meeting gift" in his hand, and couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

This is really unexpected. The first gift I received from a girl in my life was forced by someone else...

Shaking his head, he raised his feet and walked quickly to the kitchen.

There are still several tables of guests waiting to be served, and he has no time to think about these things now.

……

He was busy in the kitchen until after nine o'clock at night, and Jiang Yu was busy with everything.

At this moment, in the private room of the "Chun" brand, all the dishes on the table were "mopped up", and even the vegetable soup was drunk.

Even Liu Xining, who was worried and dignified before, couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food. After tasting a few mouthfuls of boiled fish fillets, Maoxuewang and Artemisia annua fried bacon that Jiang Yu specially made for her, she was always in a low mood , as if being ignited by the hot taste, it rose instantly.

The many negative emotions accumulated in Pan Jingchen's heart due to Pan Jingchen's illness during this period of time seemed to have found an outlet at this moment. With the continuous oozing of sweat from his forehead, they gradually disintegrated, and the whole person seemed to be relieved of a heavy burden. Immediately felt a lot easier.

This kind of refreshing feeling made Liu Xining, who was always reserved and calm, almost couldn't help crying out.

As for Xie Siqi, it was even worse. She had already ordered three non-spicy dishes: sweet and sour short ribs, pickled Duxian, and chrysanthemum eggplant. She, who has always kept chili peppers at arm’s length, had to stick her chopsticks into the water as if to die. Spicy dishes such as boiled fish fillet, Maoxuewang and fried bacon with Artemisia quinoa.

As a result, as soon as she took two bites, she was so hot that her face was flushed, and even her lips were red and swollen. But how can the word "spicy" be able to resist this kind of delicacy?

Ever since, Xie Siqi, who has always been eccentric, could only hold a napkin and kept wiping her tears, while crying and stretching out her hand to put food in her mouth, and kept saying:

"55555! It's so spicy, it's killing me! But, this dish is so delicious, I can't stop it!"

This scene made Liu Xining, who had been unable to laugh for several days, couldn't help laughing. If she hadn't considered that Pan Jingchen's assistant was still here, she would really have laughed out loud.

This girl Xie Siqi is really good at playing tricks!
As for the three assistants, they didn't say a word after the dishes were served, and each of them seemed to have been hungry for several days, and they ate so happily.

If it weren't for the concern that Liu Xining and Xie Siqi were still there, they would have picked up the dishes and poured them into their mouths.

When Jiang Yu came to the "Chun" private box, Liu Xining and Xie Siqi were already so stretched that they couldn't walk, and they were all slumped on the chairs to digest.

"Senior Sister, are you all enjoying your meal?"

Jiang Yu walked into the box and saw several people leaning on the chairs without any image, chatting while rubbing their stomachs, and raised his hand embarrassingly to touch the tip of his nose, feeling as if he came at a bad time .

Seeing Jiang Yu coming, Liu Xining quickly sat up straight. She was also a little embarrassed, and nodded with a blushing face:
"Well, thank you for your hard work, Xiao Jiang, everyone had a good meal."

"Junior brother, the dishes you cook are so delicious, who would be unhappy after eating them?"

Seeing that Liu Xining's mood has improved a lot, Xie Siqi no longer hides it. She looked at Jiang Yu with a resentful face, and said with a small mouth,

"But the dishes you cook are too spicy. Look, my mouth is swollen! Tell me, did you do it on purpose?"

"..."

Jiang Yu was speechless, he wanted to eat spicy food even though he couldn't eat it, he was really good at food and loves to play.

He glanced at Xie Siqi, curled his lips and said,

"It's not my fault. I didn't put chili in the sweet and sour short ribs and pickled bamboo shoots."

Xie Siqi saw that Jiang Yu didn't accept the move, so she turned her head and hugged Liu Xining's arm, "crying" and said: "Sister Ning, look, my junior brother bullied me!"

"Okay, don't make trouble."

Liu Xining raised his hand and patted Xie Siqi's head lightly, and said,

"It's getting late, Chenchen is still in the hotel, I don't know if she's awake, she hasn't eaten all day, let's bring some food home quickly, if she wakes up, let her eat some .”

Saying this, her brows that had loosened up slightly frowned again.

Seeing her like this, Xie Siqi sighed secretly, let go of Liu Xining's hand quietly, sat quietly on the side, and stopped messing around.

Hearing what she said, Jiang Yu asked:
"Senior sister, what does Ms. Pan usually like to eat? How about I go to the kitchen and make some, and you can take it home to see if she wants to eat it?"

"Chenchen is from Sanjin Province. Her favorite food is all kinds of pasta. She often eats noodles, stewed noodles, and ramen noodles."

Liu Xining frowned and thought for a while, then said,
"However, every time she finishes eating the noodles, she complains that the noodles are not delicious at all, and they are not as delicious as the ones she ate when she was a child.

I remember she seemed to tell me that her favorite food was the stewed fish with tomatoes that her grandma made for her when she was a child..."

As she spoke, she raised her head and looked at Jiang Yu expectantly, "Braised fish with tomatoes, Xiao Jiang, can you do it?"

Jiang Yu pondered for a while, then nodded, and said with a smile: "I will do it, then senior sister, wait a moment, I will make a copy now."

Liu Xining stood up from his seat, and said gratefully, "Xiao Jiang, I'm sorry to trouble you, thank you!"

"Senior Sister, you are too polite."

Jiang Yu smiled and waved his hands, turned around and left the box.

As soon as she walked out of the box, Xie Siqi followed her out again, and smiled at Jiang Yu:
"Junior brother, it's so late now, the kitchen shouldn't be busy, right? I'll follow you to see how you cook, okay?"

"..."

Jiang Yu glanced at her speechlessly, what's so interesting about cooking?

Shaking his head, he didn't know why, but he suddenly thought of teasing her, so he said jokingly,

"There's so much oily fumes in the kitchen, aren't you afraid of damaging your skin? I heard that oily fumes can make your skin dull and accelerate skin aging."

"I'm not afraid. I don't stay in the kitchen every day."

Xie Siqi shook her head, and said with a nonchalant expression, "Besides, you are still a chef, and I haven't seen your skin get worse!"

The two of them came to the kitchen without chatting a few words.

It was past nine o'clock in the evening, and the guests had already filled their stomachs and left. Not only Du Guangning, Pei Guofu and others, but even the waiters had already packed up the boxes and went back.

At this moment, the kitchen was quiet and there was no one there.

Jiang Yu opened the kitchen door and turned on the light, and it was as bright as day inside, and the wiped clean operating table and range hood shone dazzlingly under the light.

"This kitchen is so clean!"

Xie Siqi looked around and couldn't help being amazed,
"Junior brother, you really put your heart into it. Even if the food you cook is not so delicious, everyone is willing to come to eat with you when they see such a clean kitchen!"

What worries you the most about eating out?It's not that the taste of the food is not to your liking, but it's not clean!

No matter how delicious the food you cook, but as long as the guests find out that your kitchen is full of oil, cockroaches and mice are running around, and flies are flying around... It is estimated that most people will be so disgusted that they would rather be hungry. Come to your house for dinner.

The kitchen is as dirty as a trash can, who can believe that the food you cook is clean?
"It's okay, this is a new kitchen, and it won't be so clean after a while."

Jiang Yu said with a smile while washing the selected ingredients,

"However, the basic sanitation in the kitchen still needs to be done well, and it's more comfortable to stay here by myself."

Xie Siqi saw that Jiang Yu was busy and didn't want to disturb him, so she nodded and said:
"Well, just go about your business, don't worry about me, I'll take a look by myself."

As she spoke, she put her little hands behind her back, like a curious cat, looking here and there, interested in everything.

Seeing this, Jiang Yu ignored her and started to concentrate on his work.

Stewed fish with tomatoes is a classic pasta made with coarse grains by the people in Jinzhong, Luliang, Shanbei, and XZ areas of Sanjin Province.

"Yuyu" is not a fish, but a smooth shape like a "small fish" made of dough.

Just like fish-flavored shredded pork without fish, this stewed fish with tomato also has no fish.

Stewed fish with tomatoes is not complicated. You [yóu] noodles are scalded with boiling water and kneaded into a dough. Then cut the dough into small cubes, put them on the chopping board and knead them into a small fish shape about the length of a finger, thick in the middle and pointed at both ends. Dough, and then put the ready-made oatmeal fish on the steamer, steam for five to six minutes on high heat and set aside.

Then heat the oil in a pan. When the oil is heated to seven maturity, add leek flowers, green onions, and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Then put diced tomatoes, diced potatoes, and diced tofu into the pan, and pour in appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence. , soy sauce and other seasonings, stir-fry until the tomatoes are pulped, then add water and boil.

Finally, put the kneaded oatmeal fish into the pot and simmer for a few minutes, sprinkle with some chopped green onion, and it's ready to be served.

When Jiang Yu finished kneading the dough and was busy making small noodles, Xie Siqi suddenly came up, looked at the thin and long thin noodles on the plate, and asked curiously:

"Hey, Junior Brother, didn't Sister Ning say that Chenchen likes to eat stewed fish with tomatoes? You, you, why are you rubbing this little noodle stick?"

While busy with his work, Jiang Yu explained: "It's not fish stewed with tomatoes, it's fish stewed with tomatoes, and fish fish is not the fish we eat. In Ms. Pan's hometown, fish fish refers to this noodle dish .”

"Oh, I'm so dazed by you."

Xie Siqi waved her little hand, and said with an interested expression, "However, the way you knead the dough looks very fun, and I want to play too!"

Jiang Yu: "..."

Am I just playing?I'm cooking seriously!
Although he was a little speechless, it was not easy for Jiang Yu to refuse directly. After all, he had just received a gift from someone before, and it was nothing more than a matter of dough.

He smiled and said to Xie Siqi, "If you want to do it, wash your hands first."

"okay!"

When Xie Siqi heard this, she happily ran to wash her hands.

When she came back after washing her hands, Jiang Yu had given her a small piece of dough to "play with". Dough dough, then put it on the chopping board and rub it with the palm of your hand.

After she finished rubbing, she raised her hand to take a look, and couldn't hold back a "poof" laugh. Jiang Yu turned his head to look, and couldn't help but laugh.

The Xiaomian Yuyu he rubbed was smooth on the surface, thick in the middle and pointed at both ends, like an elongated date pit; Xie Siqi rubbed it for a long time, but it was like a rotten grass rope, with one section thick and the other thin, and the middle was still It broke.

"Oh, how come my rubbing is different from yours?"

Xie Siqi frowned, pouted her lips and said, "Junior Brother, you didn't teach me, you even laughed at me!"

"No, no, how can I laugh at you?"

Jiang Yu managed to hold back his laughter and said to her,
"Don't rub it on the chopping board, put it in the palm of your hand, then put your hands together, relax your palm a little, and rub it slowly."

As he spoke, he grabbed a small piece of dough and put it in his palm to demonstrate it to Xie Siqi.

Xie Siqi slowly tried a few times according to Jiang Yu's appearance, and the more she rubbed it, the more it looked like that. She was so happy that she narrowed her eyes:
"Oh, I didn't expect it, so my culinary talent is also very good. If I learn how to cook, the food I cook will definitely be delicious!"

After a pause, she said to Jiang Yu again, "Junior brother, can I eat what I make later?"

"Okay, I'll do a little more in a while."

Jiang Yu smiled at her, there was something to do anyway, and it wouldn't be troublesome to do more.

After making the noodles, Jiang Yu saw that Xie Siqi hadn't finished making them, so he helped her knead all the small balls of noodles, and then divided them into two parts and steamed them in the steamer.

After finishing two servings of stewed fish with tomatoes and putting them into two insulated lunch boxes, Liu Xining and others were ready to go back.

After the group walked to the entrance of the cafeteria, Liu Xining turned around and said to Jiang Yu gratefully:

"Xiao Jiang, thank you today, I don't know what to say if I have to cook for us so late."

"Senior sister, I have already said you are welcome."

Jiang Yu waved his hand and said with a smile,

"If I need to trouble you in the future, you will definitely help me, right?

So, don't thank each other for thanking each other between friends, it seems to be a division. "

"Okay, then I won't talk about it in the future."

Liu Xining smiled and said, "Then let's go back first and come back tomorrow morning."

Jiang Yu smiled and nodded: "Okay, see you tomorrow."

Xie Siqi, who was standing aside, was beaming, and raised her hand to say goodbye to him:

"See you tomorrow, junior brother, I had a lot of fun today!"

After standing at the door and watching them leave, Jiang Yu turned around and walked towards the kitchen on the first floor of the cafeteria.

The air in the kitchen was filled with the aroma of lo mei, which was refreshing. Lu Shuwu and Jia Zhibin were sitting in front of the operating table, kneading the dough and making the stuffing, chatting from time to time.

Seeing Jiang Yu coming, Lu Shuwu smiled and asked, "Boss, why are you here so late today? Those big stars upstairs are gone?"

Jiang Yu looked surprised: "Did you see them?"

"They saw it when they came in. Besides, it's not like they haven't been here last year. They have seen it once. How can they forget it so quickly?"

Lu Shuwu asked with a smile while stirring the stuffing with long chopsticks,
"What do they want to come here this time? Are they greedy for your food?"

As he said that, he couldn't help but shook his head again, and said with an unbelievable look on his face,
"They can bear it. It took half a year before they couldn't help running over. I think that when I ate soup dumplings for the first time, I couldn't bear it the next day. It cost 100 yuan to wait in line. I bought a seat in line with a boy for [-] yuan!"

"How can they be as idle as you, son, who can go wherever they want?"

Jiang Yu pulled a chair and sat down, pouted and said,

"My daily itinerary is planned, and it's too late to run the notice. How can I have time to travel so far for a bite?"

"You're quite right."

Lu Shuwu nodded and sighed again,
"These celebrities look beautiful, but they actually work very hard. Hey, what is the use of earning so much money? Not only do they have no freedom, they also have no privacy, and they have no time to spend the money."

"Come on, you, hurry up and do your work."

Jiang Yu glanced at him, and said angrily, "You earn money from selling cabbage, but you still want to sell white powder!"

Jia Zhibin beside him couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud.

"..."

Lu Shuwu was speechless, he turned to Jia Zhibin and said,
"Xiao Jia, go and see if the hot stew is cooked through, and turn off the fire when it's done."

"Oh."

Jia Zhibin responded, and quickly got up and went to the stove.

There are big bosses here, if you can't provoke them, it's better to stay away!

When Jia Zhibin was far away, Lu Shuwu said, "At dinner today, that Teacher Xiong came to see you again."

"is it?"

Jiang Yu took out his mobile phone and looked at it, with a puzzled look on his face, "He didn't call me, did he say he can find me for something?"

"I told him that you were on the second floor and asked him to either go up to find you or call you."

Lu Shuwu shrugged and said,

"But he said that you must be busy, so I won't bother you. Let me tell you that in two days, there will be a delegation from some foreign university visiting the school. There are about 30 people. The idea of ​​the school leaders is We plan to let our Seventh Canteen be responsible for the reception.

It is said that the school leaders mean that the Seventh Canteen is also a food culture business card of our school, and it should be displayed to the public when appropriate, so as to reflect the profoundness of our Chinese food culture.

Mr. Xiong asked you to call him back tomorrow morning. If it is really difficult to receive him here, he should ask the school leaders as soon as possible to re-arrange the reception place. "

(End of this chapter)