The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 136 What is this man doing (two chapters in one)

Xiawan Night Market?
Xia An nodded and said that these matters could be left to the local Cultural and Tourism Bureau to plan.

This is how it works to set up a stall. As a night market stall owner, he only needs to set up the stall normally on the front line, but there are many things to consider in terms of logistics.

"Then let's speed up the filming of the promotional video for tonight's stall."

Lu Jiaxin called everyone in the team and rushed into the kitchen.

Xia An let them take pictures while he did his own thing.

Didi!

Weixin's phone rang.

When Xia An saw it, he couldn't help but smile and answered the call.

"Moses Moses?"

Alice's playful voice came out:

"Master, are you listening?"

Xia An: "I'm listening."

The girl then converted the voice call into a video call, and Xia An agreed to her request.

"Master, next Monday, our Totsuki Autumn Trials will begin the quarterfinals."

A girl with white hair and red eyes appeared on the mobile phone screen. She was wearing a very youthful and beautiful high school girl's uniform.

At this moment, Alice is apparently in her private kitchen, with many molecular gastronomy equipment in the background.

"Next Monday?"

Xia An's heart moved: "Who will be your first opponent?"

Alice said:

"It's a guy named Misaku Subaru."

"I looked him up a little."

"This person is called the "Complete Tracker"!"

Xia An was slightly stunned.

It’s actually Subaru Misaki?

He remembered that in the original work, Alice's first round opponent was the "Medicine King Protagonist" Soma Yukihira.

Obviously, Hojo Miyoko changed her fate and made it into the top eight of the qualifiers, just like butterfly wings that changed the world line.

"Who is Midori's opponent?"

"Master, it has not been decided yet. Once my group's duel is over, we will randomly draw lots to determine the opponent list!"

“Even the themes are randomly chosen!”

Xia An had a strong premonition that this year's Totsuki Autumn Trials would deviate greatly from the trajectory of the original work.

Place your phone on the stand.

Xia An continued to do his work.

Before Lu Jiaxin knocked on the door to report.

He had already kneaded a piece of dough.

At this point, the first resting of the dough is completed, which takes ten minutes.

In the camera of the team cameraman, Xia An peeled off the plastic wrap, placed the dough on a clean chopping board, and kneaded it for the second time.

"Hey, second wake-up?"

Alice said strangely during the video call:
"Master, I've seen you make so many noodles, but this is the first time you've used 'second resting'!"

Xia An said slowly:

"Because the noodles we are going to make before only need to rest once, they will be chewy enough."

As he spoke, Xia An pressed his hands.

The dough is kneaded into long strips.

Then, it is rolled up and pinched into a block, and then kneaded into dough again little by little. The process is very layered.

soon.

From a visual point of view, the dough kneaded for the second time is obviously smoother and more moist than before.

The second resting time also takes about ten minutes.

Wake up.

Xia An pressed gently a few times to test the toughness of the dough, then nodded and said to himself, "It's done."

Done.

Roll the dough into a long shape and hold it in your left hand.

And at the same time.

His right hand pulled out a kitchen knife with an exquisite sheath that had been specially placed on the shelf.

"Shh-"

Holding the ancient handle, he pulled out this long and narrow kitchen blade.

The sudden flash of cold light made Alice Nakiri, who was far away in the cooking room of the neon campus, seem to be able to feel the threatening edge through the screen.

Alice's expression froze for a moment:
"Master, this knife is..."

The girl's words stopped abruptly.

Because Xia An had already swung the knife, the dense knife light was cutting the long strip of dough to the left, then to the right, and each subsequent cut was close to the edge of the previous cut.

And the speed was visibly increasing. At the beginning, Alice could still see clearly where Xia An swung the knife. After a few seconds, there was only a bright silver edge left on the video screen.

Not even a moment.

The long strip of dough after the second proofing.

It turned into strips of "knife-cut noodles" in a stainless steel basin.

Lu Jiaxin and her team are shooting promotional video materials.

Seeing this, Lu Jiaxin waved to the cameraman and asked him to turn the camera to the "knife-cut noodles" in the stainless steel basin:
“Close-up!”

The cameraman suddenly woke up from his dream and came back to his senses from his boss' amazing knife skills.

So, a close-up shot of the material.

The details of these "knife-cut noodles" are presented.

It really gave the camera guy a headache.

Lu Jiaxin had already stepped forward and pointed at the "sliced ​​noodles" in the bowl with astonishment:
"Boss Xia, your knife skills are so precise and elegant. Why haven't I seen you use them before?"

Xia An smiled but said nothing.

In fact, this was one of his several attempts to use the [Seven Star Breaking Army Swift Cutting Technique] after he opened the [Seven Star Breaking Army Knife] in a specific kitchenware treasure chest yesterday.

To put it simply, he was still familiarizing himself with the Broken Army Blade and trying to master the Seven-Star Broken Army Swift Cutting Technique to a small degree.

After these several attempts, Xia An gradually gained his own insights.

"If I use this broken saber as a carving knife..."

He narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at the knife-cut noodles in the bowl, his eyes flickering.

Zhou's food carving technique is not only a unique skill in knife skills, but also contains the artistic cells of plating.

And both are equally important.

Therefore, Zhou’s food carving technique is basically a prerequisite for recreating the ancient dish “Ganges Fried Noodles”.

After all, the 108 kinds of noodles and the complicated carving techniques can only be deciphered by Zhou's food carving technique.

This way.

Use the broken military knife as a carving knife.

This ancient kitchen utensil will naturally bestow the [Seven Stars Breaking Army Swift Cutting Technique] on the "carved" noodles when holding the knife...

Wouldn’t that be incredibly efficient?
To know!
The secret of [Seven Stars Breaking Army Swift Cutting Technique] is to help the chef process all ingredients at an incredible speed.

Yi Zhang Qing Xiang En, in the Lou Lin ship chapter, used this technique to extract sturgeon eggs from the body of a sturgeon alive.

After the sturgeon returned to the pond, it continued to swim freely, as if its life had never been exhausted.

This is almost reaching a certain extreme ability to kill alive.

Xia An is very capable.

It is absolutely impossible for Xiaocheng to achieve the quick cutting technique.

"Try?"

I thought of using the broken military knife as a carving knife.

Xia An was really watching the video call from the perspective of Lu Jiaxin, the team's camera, and the Neon Girl disciples on the mobile phone stand.

Continue carving the "knife-cut noodles" in the basin.

Seeing the narrow blade, Xia An was unusually flexible and light in his hand. On the sliced ​​noodles.

A clearly visible food carving texture or pattern.

The kitchen had become dead silent without anyone noticing.

No one dared to speak out and disrupt the atmosphere of such exquisite artistic processing.

……

About half an hour later.

Lu Jiaxin called everyone in the team and tiptoed out of the kitchen.

"boom!"

Lu Jiaxin seemed relieved after closing the door.

“What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and edit the short video. It will be released soon!” Lu Jiaxin couldn’t help but laugh and scold when she saw that everyone in the team looked like they had lost their souls.

"Oh, oh!"

The crowd dispersed like birds and beasts.

Just as Lu Jiaxin was about to go to supervise the work, she saw Meng Yulu coming towards her with a smile on her face.

"Aunt Meng, Boss Xia is busy developing new dishes, please don't disturb him." Lu Jiaxin stepped aside to stop him.

Meng Yulu's smile had a dangerous aura: "How many times have I corrected you, Aunt Meng?"

This time, Lu Jiaxin refused to give in and held her head high:
"Sister Meng, are you done? Go away, don't disturb our boss."

Meng Yulu put away her dangerous smile and replaced it with a look of deep inquiry:
"You look so protective of him, it seems like he is secretly researching something important?"

Lu Jiaxin's mouth curled up slightly:
"Curious? Then Sister Meng, you can watch the latest short video on our Douyin official account and you will know some answers."

Seeing that she was determined to be the door god today, Meng Yulu would never let her in.

He sighed, shook his head and left.

In the next hour.

Liu Shimeng, Wen Chaoqing and others also tried to visit the kitchen, but were all driven away by Lu Jiaxin who brought a small stool to block the door.

Soon after, the team had a group chat.

Worker Su Yan: "@Lu Jiaxin, the short video is ready, shall we publish it now?"

Lu Jiaxin: "I've read it and it's ok, publish it!"

So, at about three o'clock in the afternoon.

The latest short video was uploaded and released by the operator of Xia An’s Douyin official account.

"Arrived at Zhuhai Station to set up a stall at the night market, but what is this man doing?"

The short video begins with a shot of Xia Anyan walking through the gate of the Yangquan Restaurant Park courtyard and boarding a luxury bus.

In the car, Liu Shimeng, Wen Chaoqing, Tang Jinghan and Lu Zuguang all appeared.

Even Meng Yulu, the chef at Yangquan Restaurant, waved to the camera.

The barrage was quite explosive.

"Oh my god, these four days of talent from all over the country are accompanying you?"

"This is the first time I've felt Boss Xia's influence so directly. The four little ones from F4 are accompanying me like good kids!"

"It is rumored that Boss Xia and Wen Chaoqing had a private food battle yesterday. From this perspective..."

"A sophomore from Yangquan Restaurant revealed a little secret. In fact, Boss Xia won easily."

“??? But didn’t Wen Chaoqing get promoted to the special grade half a year ago, while Boss Xia is still only a nine-star!”

"Once it shines, who can compete with it?"

Then, the video shows Xia An arriving in Zhuhai and staying at the hotel.

Xia An was the first to go to the kitchen and display his mysterious knife skills to turn the dough into strips of knife-cut noodles, and then Xia An performed further carving on these knife-cut noodles.

During this period, the barrage of question marks never stopped.

The hotel's tea area.

Liu Shimeng, Wen Chaoqing, Tang Jinghan and Lu Zuguang were either browsing their phones or frowning as they recorded some cooking experiences in their notebooks while holding a black water-based pen.

Tang Jinghan, who saw the new video, suddenly jumped up from the sofa in shock:

"What did I see??"

This genius with Tang syndrome looked as if he had seen a ghost.

"What are you yelling about?" Liu Shimeng, who was watching TV series while waiting for the stall to open in the evening, looked up and said unhappily.

Wen Chaoqing and Lu Zuguang taking notes.

He was also staring at Tang Jinghan.

"Look for yourselves. Boss Xia's official Douyin account just released a short video." Tang Jinghan said without further explanation, then lowered his head and stared closely at the short video that was being replayed.

He murmured:

“This knife.”

“This quick-cutting knife technique.”

"Isn't it the Seven Stars Breaking Army Swift Cutting Technique mentioned in the records?"

The other three also watched the video one after another and watched it many times.

The four of them looked at each other.

Wen Chaoqing coughed and asked Liu Shimeng and Lu Zuguang solemnly:

"You two have been in contact with Boss Xia for the longest time and are most familiar with him."

"Tell me, why didn't Boss Xia show off this unique skill of hand-knife kung fu before?"

Neither Liu Shimeng nor Lu Zuguang could answer.

Tang Jinghan chuckled twice to ease the awkward and heavy atmosphere:

"Why do I feel like Boss Xia's special skills pool and ancient dishes pool are like Doraemon's treasure bag, which can always pull out new things?"

the other side.

Meng Yulu naturally saw this short video as soon as possible.

"Broken Army Knife?" Compared to the special skill of quick cutting, Meng Yulu was more concerned about the ancient and famous knife in Xia An's hand in the video, "Is this the real thing?"

But Meng Yulu immediately rejected this speculation.

In the history of food.

There are only two complete sets of Seven-Star Swords, and their owners are Ryan and Xiang En respectively.

These two people later disappeared from the Chinese food world, carrying a set of seven-star knives, and no one has ever heard of their graves being excavated in any province or place.

"It looks like a replica, deliberately made to look old."

Thinking of the old Tianxiong flame chain on Xia An, Meng Yulu felt that this speculation was closer to the truth.

……

In the afternoon, around five o'clock.

It seems that it has become a routine for the Cultural and Tourism Bureau to arrange dining cars.

Although the ancient dish to be performed and sold at Zhuhai Station Night Market is "Tianxiong Grilled Green Fish", it requires a very large venue and cannot be cooked in a dining car.

A group of people boarded a double-decker bus that had been converted into a dining car and headed towards Xiawan Road in Gongbei District.

Xiawan Night Market can be said to embody the most mundane and intimate atmosphere of Zhuhai.

As early as the beginning of the century, there were many vendors setting up roadside stalls on Xiawan Road. Some sold sweet soups, and some sold braised food. They were called "walking ghosts" and they had to fight for positions and engage in guerrilla warfare with the urban management. In short, they lived an unstable life.

Later, Xiawan Night Market Snack Street was officially established, and the "ghost stalls" were brought under the unified management of the snack street. The old street also became neat and clean.

As the environment became better and better, more and more customers came to the snack street, and business became more and more prosperous.

In recent years, the old street that was once dirty and messy has transformed into today's well-known Internet celebrity night market.

Summer Bay Shopping Market.

The three-way intersection nearby has been under control since 5 o'clock this afternoon.

One small truck after another came, carrying loads of firewood, charcoal and other fuels.

They were piled high in the small square next to it.

The cultural and tourism department even coordinated the military and police to maintain order, and a fire truck was parked on standby at the intersection of the night market street.

Of course, these measures are necessary. After the Zhuhai Culture and Tourism Bureau issued an announcement on the specific locations of the stalls, it can be said that Xiawan Road has been squeezed by the surging crowds so that there is no standing space at all.

Tourists come from all directions, and locals are even a minority. After all, Zhuhai Station opens several days later than Guangzhou Station, so tourists from other places and provinces also have time to arrange their travels, and many tourists heading north have also flocked to Hong Kong and Macao next door.

When the double-decker food truck, the signature of the stall event, arrived at the streets of Gongbei District, cheers broke out from both sides of the road:
"Boss Xia, can you fight until dawn at Zhuhai Station this time? We will fight with you!"

"Boss Xia, I heard that the ancient dish at Zhuhai Station is the Tianxiong Grilled Herring!"

"Boss Xia..."

(End of this chapter)