Coquettish Rebirth

() Chef Zhang couldn't answer Jia Hongjian's words.He studied cooking as an apprentice for several years. After he graduated from the teacher, he worked as a cook in a state-owned restaurant. With the current craft.Even if he doesn't hide his secrets at all, it's impossible to quickly teach the laid-off workers this skill!Let alone a month or two months, it is impossible to learn it completely even in a year or two. If it is so easy to learn, why are there only so few people in the country who can be chefs in state hotels?

So, this piece of chef really looked at Jia Hongjian for a long time without saying a word.Jia Hongjian saw that something was wrong at this time, he smiled and said, "Master Zhang, I'm sorry, this is me, Meng Lang. I was thinking, can we make this step scientific and streamlined, such as Let’s talk about when to put the vegetables at what temperature the oil should be, what to put first and then what to put, and then what order, how deep-fried and how to add seasonings, these are all places that can be studied. When people cook fast food abroad, for example The KFC McDonald's is all this kind of process. The French fries are fried for how long and how long they are baked in the machine after being coated with seasoning. These are all accurate to the second. That's it, so The taste of each of their stores is similar. Isn’t what we want to do here is to let people with no skills, like workers, mass-produce meals that taste similar to yours?”..

After listening to Jia Hongjian's words, Chef Zhang's eyes suddenly widened after he thought about it for a while. The way he looked at Jia Hongjian was...strange!Jia Hongjian watched the other party's reaction.When I was surprised by what I said, I saw Chef Zhang suddenly stepped forward and grabbed his hand, "Comrade Jia, it turns out that your goal is so ambitious, for our Chinese food... Thank you for your hard work! You Don't worry, my old Zhang knows everything, and I will definitely help you if I can, and I will help you achieve your ideals!"

ha?my ideal?What is my ideal?At that time, Jia Hongjian was confused by the big chef's handshake and what he said just now!What did Jia Hongjian say?Didn't seem to say anything?And looking at the chef's expression and actions, why does it seem that he just said something terrible?

On Jia Hongjian's side, he was at a loss.Just listen to what Chef Zhang said. "Comrade Jia, let's start cooking the second dish now. I was thinking about making meat in a pot. What do you think? It has meat and rice in a pot. What do you think?" Jia Hong Gradually heard here.One side of my mind is still confused.He nodded subconsciously, and then watched the chef start preparing again.

The chef took out a very tender piece of pork tenderloin, and then processed the meat.On the one hand, he explained to Jia Hongjian, "This pot of meat, which used to be called Guo Bao Rou, was made by Zheng Xingwen, a special cook in Daotai Mansion in Heilong Province. This Zheng Xingwen is in the northeast of us, and his nickname is Binjiang Shanzu. , it can be said that he developed the most delicious Northeast dishes. Later, this pot of meat and some Northeast dishes are all special dishes in Daotai Prefecture. Daotai couldn’t learn how to make this, so if you want to eat it, you can only come to our Heilong Province to eat it. Later, after Zhang Xueliang and his family took control of the Northeast, this dish was also controlled, and there was no rumor. Later, Ri himself controlled the Northeast. The control over the Northeast has weakened, and only then did some private dishes in the former Daotai Mansion slowly spread out..."

While talking here, Chef Zhang was cooking, and within a few minutes, a plate of fresh pot-packed meat was ready.After putting the pot of meat on the rice, Jia Hongjian was about to taste it, when Chef Zhang called out "Wait a minute" suddenly, and then watched him find out a few small green vegetables.After he took the small green vegetables that had been washed long ago and put them in the pot, they stir-fried them and put them next to the pot of meat. "It's probably not enough to eat meat alone, so it tastes better with some vegetables on the side." Chef Zhang said.

As soon as Jia Hongjian heard it, he immediately tasted it with chopsticks.This pot of Baorou itself is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and it is sweet and sour. It tastes like an appetizer.Even eating so much meat is really not greasy at all, but after all, these are all meat, and people still need to eat some vegetables.When eating stir-fried vegetables here, Jia Hongjian always felt that the taste of the vegetables seemed to be quite strange, and they did not have the bitter taste of ordinary vegetables.It is normal for this vegetable to have a bitter taste, but this vegetable has no bitter taste at all. What kind of vegetable is this?Is it the vegetables specially provided by the leaders in the special farm?

Seeing the doubts on Jia Hongjian's face, the chef Zhang laughed, "Is this vegetable not bitter after eating it? Hehe, this is a small vegetable from the Yangtze River Delta named Banjiao. Qing, this green vegetable is different from other green vegetables, it has no bitter taste when fried..."

Hey, that's what happened. It's a small green vegetable from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. No wonder Jia Hongjian vaguely felt that he had eaten vegetables that weren't bitter. He used to wonder if it was a matter of the skill of the chef. , Now it seems that this is a problem of the variety of vegetables!

Then, Zhang Chef started to work again.Jia Hongjian couldn't understand what he was going to do next. The chef first took a whole bag of starch, then put all the starch into a large bowl, then added a lot of water, and then Add some salt and a kind of powder similar to salt, then stir well and pour it into the pot to stir fry until the water is almost gone, and there is only one lump left in the pot starch!

Zhang Zhang then took the agglomerated starch out of the pot, and then cut it into pieces with a kitchen knife, which looked like jelly, and then passed cold water twice. After the starch had cooled down, Jia Hongjian carefully Take a look at me!It's white and tender, and there are small pieces one by one. Isn't this the same as jelly?But before he could ask a question, he saw that the master Zhang started to make it again. After seeing that the oil in the hot pot was also hot, the master Zhang put the jelly that had been drained of water into the oil pan and fried it.However, this chef doesn't stir-fry the "bean jelly" very much. After a burst of fragrance comes out, the jelly-like things become almost transparent!

Then I saw Master Zhang take out the "jelly", poured sesame paste, soy sauce, vinegar, salt, some minced garlic and coriander, mixed it, put it in a bowl and brought it in front of Jia Hongjian. "This is a snack in the Northeast of our country. It's called Jianfen or Chaofen. It's fried jelly. I don't have jelly here, so I made some myself..." Jia Hongjian was really eye-opening!That's how jelly is made?He thought jelly must be made with sweet potato flour or something, but he didn't expect that it could be made with household starch!

He took a sip of this fried powder, and it was really refreshing.Mixed with various condiments, this golden sese fried powder, the taste is called a praise.It has the aroma of sesame paste and various seasonings, as well as the refreshing taste of jelly. After eating a few mouthfuls, Jia Hongjian really felt good. At least he thought that if there was such a snack in Shanghai If so, he, Jia Hongjian, would definitely like to eat it, just like cold noodles. How comfortable is this stuff in summer?And this is not cold, it can be eaten in spring and even in winter!Now people in Shanghai eat ice cream in winter!Then people eat iced ones, so it’s okay to eat this fried powder!

While Jia Hongjian was eating here, Master Zhang over there was doing something non-stop.After Jia Hongjian tasted a few mouthfuls, he saw the chef bring another plate.Inside this plate were two slices of gray-brown bread, and I don't know if there was something sandwiched in it.Jia Hongjian was wondering, so he listened to the chef's introduction, "This is the Leba in the northeast of our country, which is the big bread in Russian. This bread is sandwiched with red sausage slices from Heilong Province and It’s really good to eat a little butter and cheese! I thought that foreign fast food has burgers and sandwiches, so I made such a sandwich that combines Chinese and Western.”

Yo, Russian bread?Jia Hongjian hasn't tasted this yet.He picked up this Chinese-Western sandwich and took a bite, only to find that the taste...was really different from the sandwiches sold in convenience stores in Shanghai in the future.For the kind of sandwiches sold in later generations, the bread on the outside is bread made of ordinary wheat flour, which actually has no taste.As for the Russian Leba, it has a sour taste, and it also tastes like hops, but this sour taste is eaten with red sausage and butter cheese slices, although Jia Hongjian is a little unaccustomed to it, but I have to say, this is quite a unique flavor!

"I came up with these dishes on the spur of the moment. I think these are the most convenient ones to make. If there are more dishes to add, there are Xianzu cold noodles, and even dog meat soup. The ingredients need to be prepared in advance, and we don’t have enough ingredients here to make it. Later, Comrade Jia, if you want to develop our Chinese fast food, I think we should be able to mass-produce this ingredient..." The master Zhang said with a shy smile .

Well?When did Jia Hongjian say he wanted to make Chinese fast food?He just wanted to get something like a ramen restaurant or a snack in Shacheng, and he didn't want to get some Chinese fast food like Dongfang Dingbai?Suddenly at this moment Jia Hongjian understood something!No wonder Master Zhang said that he had great ambitions before, and he said a few words to determine the process, which made him think that he wanted to develop Chinese fast food for the Chinese, and that he wanted to make traditional cooking skills into a scientific process. up! (To be continued.)