The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 59 Short video warm-up

After Xia An's shout, even his daughter Xiaoxi stopped sleeping in. After getting up and washing up, she obediently let Hojo Midori braid her hair.

Lobby on the first floor.

Half an hour later, the Late Night Cooking Association's pickup truck delivered the ingredients Xia An had just purchased.

Xia An began to assign tasks to the female disciples standing in a row:

"Miyoko, you'll be in charge of cutting and mincing the meat."

"Alice, Erina, go and pick out the shrimp threads and shell the shrimp."

After saying that, Xia An took action first and carried two large bags of flour back to the kitchen. Apparently, he planned to be responsible for mixing, kneading and rolling out the dough.

It only took Xia An one day yesterday to get a thorough understanding of the cooking skills of the sisters Erina Nakiri and Alice Nakiri.

Erina deserves the tenth place in this year's "Ten Greatest Totsuki Artists".

He has mastered the four basic skills of heat control, seasoning, pastry making and plating.

Of course, Xiaocheng's plating was Xia An's own inference. Anyway, the way the girl presented the "Italian Shrimp and Cheese Ravioli" was quite artistic, and much more beautiful than what he, the master, paid attention to.

Erina has even mastered both Japanese cuisine and Western fusion cuisine.

In other words.

If she could improve any one of her basic skills to perfection, Erina Nakiri could easily be promoted to a four-star chef.

Compared to her.

Alice has mastered the basic skills of seasoning and plating.

She has also mastered the emerging cuisine of "molecular cuisine".

Overall, Alice's cooking skills are half a star higher than Hojo Miyoko's, but the gap in star level is not that big.

"Boss Xia——"

Lu Jiaxin received the news that Xia An was setting up a stall and hurried over.

She pointed to the young girl next to her and said, "This is the cameraman I just hired for the team. She is also my best friend in the capital. Her name is Su Yan. You can just call her Xiao Su. She is a graduate this year and has very strong professional skills."

Xia An was kneading dough in the kitchen. Hearing the sound, he looked up and smiled at the nervous girl:
"Xiao Su, you can just call me Boss Xia from now on."

The girl named Su Yan was so excited that she stuttered and said with a big tongue: "I didn't expect it was really you, Boss Xia. When Xinxin asked me to join this team, I didn't believe it at first!!"

Then, I saw Xia An kneading dough in the open kitchen, showing off his skillful and fluent craftsmanship.

Su Yan subconsciously asked: "Can I take a photo now, Boss Xia?"

Lu Jiaxin suddenly slammed her palms and said excitedly:

"Boss Xia, I suggest that we use a short video to announce the opening of the stall in the future."

"Condition your cooking process into a short video, and then publish it on our official account. It will definitely set the Internet on fire!"

Xia An nodded. Lu Jiaxin would be his important partner in the future, responsible for operating the Douyin account and promoting these activities.

In short, he doesn't intend to spend too much time thinking about things on the Internet and social platforms, and will leave it all to professionals.

It was just a short video, no big deal, so Xia An started from mixing and kneading the dough, and made the "Flame Dumplings" from beginning to end.

"call--"

"call--"

Finally, a flamethrower is used to roast the dumplings in the frying pan, so that the outer skin of the dumplings is dyed with the color of flames.

"Can this footage be edited and made into a short video?" Xia An looked up, only to meet the hungry gazes of Su Yan and Lu Jiaxin whose appetites had been completely aroused.

……

Su Yan and Lu Jiaxin shared a plate of freshly baked dumplings.

The two of them discussed work in the lobby.

Not long after, a short video was edited and Lu Jiaxin played it for Xia An.

Seeing that he was surprised at the quality of the video, Lu Jiaxin laughed and said:

"Don't doubt my cooking skills, just like I never doubt your cooking skills, Boss Xia." Immediately, she couldn't wait to use the official account to publish this short video with Xia An's consent, and also promoted it to her fan group.

Lu Jiaxin even did not miss Boss Xia’s customer communication group and sent out a powerful short video advertisement.

After doing all this, Lu Jiaxin's face was flushed, and she waved her little fist at Xia An and said:

"Boss Xia, this short video has a nuclear bomb effect. Just wait and see the buzz on the Douyin platform!"

……

Just as Lu Jiaxin boldly predicted, it was exactly the same.

Xia An’s Douyin official account just released the first short video in the account.

As a result, within an hour, the short video appeared on the platform’s hot search list:

#Shock! Another classic ancient dish has appeared! #
Countless netizens flocked to the comment section of this short video:
[Oh my god, this is flaming dumplings, a dish I really want to eat! ]

[Wow, how come after only two days of not seeing you, the magical boss Xia has come up with something new? ]

[Thanks for the invitation. I have already taken a flight to Lijiang City. Let's see if I can kill people in the night market tonight! ]

[I was lucky enough to have the Lie Bing Xian Tai Shan, and I felt that my life was complete, but the Kaihua Guoba and the flame dumplings two days ago made me obsessed again! ]

[Hey~ Boss Xia is ruining my moral integrity again! ]

Lu Jiaxin smiled and showed Xia An the traffic data of the short video.

"Well, I told you, if this short video is released, the entire Douyin will be in an uproar."

In fact, even if Lu Jiaxin didn't take credit for it, Xia An had already experienced the extremely terrifying spread speed of Douyin short videos.

Beep!
His prestige, the news exploded.

Two top masters who I just added as friends yesterday.

Wei Xuelin: "I saw your short video. Let me know where you are setting up your stall tonight?"

Chi Xiaobai: "Tell me the coordinates of the stall, I will be at the battlefield in 30 seconds!"

There are also a group of good friends in the industry.

Lan Qingya: "(wiping sweat) What's wrong with you..."

Nakiri Managi: "How much do you want for me to host another reception and make these flaming dumplings?"

Saibajo Ichiro: "(Thumbs up) Boss Xia, the speed at which your new dishes evolve is really outrageous. Compared with yesterday's flaming dumplings and today's, it's as if they are not the same dish just by looking at the appearance!"

Of course, information about Tong Kun, Liu Hong, Liang Guiqin and others is also indispensable.

Xia An was busy preparing food for tonight's stall, so he didn't have time to reply to everyone, so he posted a notice on WeChat Moments:
[Thank you for your support. Tonight's stall will be at Xingguang Night Market. If you want to eat the flaming dumplings, please come as early as possible. ]

After posting it, I didn’t care about the likes and replies on this circle of friends.

Xia An dropped his phone and checked the panel.

His face looked slightly different.

[Recipe reproduction/completion: 88% → 90%]

That's right!

The flame dumplings that I made from the short video I just shot have reached 90% completion silently!
[The host is currently in the ancient recipe illustration collector mode. ]

[Ding, you have obtained the 90% stage illustration reward, do you want to claim it? ]

Xia An's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

This was the first time he had reproduced and restored a dish from a paleo cookbook, achieving an excellent score of 90%.

What will be the big reward?

He received it.

A selection interface pops up!

(End of this chapter)