The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 15 Wu Ding Bao (ask for monthly ticket!)

July 7st, sunny, temperature 1℃-26℃, good air quality, everything goes smoothly, good luck for the start of work.

It was 4 o'clock, the sky was still dark, the crescent moon was still hanging on the top of the tree, and there was silence outside the window, not even the sound of birds or cicadas. Qin Huai, who hadn't gotten up early to steam buns for a while, was awakened by the alarm clock, opened his eyes with difficulty, turned over and climbed out of bed.

It was strange. Obviously, his and Qin Luo's dream was to make enough money to turn their breakfast shop into a dim sum restaurant, so that they would no longer have to get up early and sleep until they woke up naturally. But now that they had made a fortune, why did they get up earlier than before?

Qin Huai sat on the bed and thought about life.

Suddenly, the phone began to vibrate violently. I looked and saw that it was a call from Qin Luo.

After the call was connected, Qin Luo's wailing was heard.

"Hey, brother, are you up yet? I'm so miserable. Mom woke me up at 3:. She and Dad didn't sleep last night and didn't let me sleep. I've cleaned the stainless steel basin in the kitchen until it can be used as a mirror. I've taken the stuffing out of the freezer to thaw it. I've chopped the meat into minced meat and then chopped it into meat sauce. Dad is so free now that he's almost carving radishes. When are you coming?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Your dad and I are used to getting up early." Zhao Rong's voice came.

"Huaihuai, don't listen to Luoluo's nonsense. It's still early, don't rush and take your time. Your dad has already cut the ingredients for you. It's still dark outside, so be careful not to fall when you walk."

Qin Huai smiled helplessly: "Mom, there are lights everywhere in the community, how could it be broken? I'll go over now, wait for me for 10 minutes."

After the phone call, Qin Huai woke up, washed up quickly, and liked the Moments posted by Chen Huihong and Ouyang last night. Then he hurried out and headed to the Yunzhong Canteen near the east gate of the community.

The lights in the Yunzhong Canteen are already on.

Speaking of which, Qin Huai, as the actual boss of Yunzhong Canteen and the only pastry chef in the dim sum area on the first floor, has always been the person who comes to the canteen the least. He only came twice when he first took over, and never came again after the renovation.

Qin Huai has always had a great impression of the canteen. The decoration style follows the style of Ouyang’s previous fish hot pot restaurant, which is more Chinese.

As a huge loser who suffered a net loss of 660 million after opening the store for a year, Ouyang spent a huge amount of money on the decoration. He lost a lot of money, but it was a profit for the person who took over later.

Qin Huai entered through the inner door by scanning his face.

Yunzhong Canteen has two doors, the inner door is exclusively for residents of the Yunzhong community, and they can only enter and exit by facial recognition. The outer door is the normal restaurant door, facing the road.

"Brother, you are finally here. What are we going to eat for breakfast?" Qin Luo, who was slumped on the table playing with his mobile phone, instantly became energetic when he saw Qin Huai coming.

"Eat buns." Qin Huai said concisely.

After saying that, Qin Huai glanced at the first floor and felt that something seemed different, so he asked, "Have the tables on the first floor been changed?"

They are all retro-style wooden tables. Qin Huai remembers that the original tables did not seem to be of this style.

Qin Luo nodded: "Sister Hong said that since we are going to sell snacks on the first floor, the original tables don't match the style. She happened to have a batch of matching ones, so she replaced them for us for free. Brother, don't you know?"

Qin Huai nodded without saying anything. He made a note of it in his mind, went to the locker room to change clothes, and went into the kitchen to start working.

Qin Luo was too lazy to change clothes and couldn't enter the kitchen, so he could only squat at the kitchen door and watch from afar.

Qin Congwen, who had not slept all night, had already prepared all the necessary raw materials. He classified the various processed ingredients into different bowls and pots, and even prepared flour and warm water. He was very thoughtful.

The thoughtful Qin Congwen was not idle either. He moved a small stool and sat in front of the kitchen counter to make dumplings with Zhao Rong.

"Huaihuai, it's the first day of opening. Can we sell all the buns we make?" Qin Congwen was worried as he made the buns. Although he said this, his hands did not slow down at all.

"We can sell them all." Qin Huai said without hesitation.

With 200 popular followers, Qinhuai is confident about today's sales.

"Ouyang has asked someone to distribute flyers for several days. If you show the flyers, you can get 7% off on the buns. We will definitely sell them all." "But Huaihuai, we only sell fresh meat buns and mushroom and vegetable buns in the morning. Isn't that a bit too monotonous? The convenience store across the street sells more varieties of buns than we do, such as curry beef buns, fresh meat buns, vermicelli buns, and red bean paste buns. There are seven or eight kinds. Isn't it too little for us to just buy two kinds?"

"Why don't you let your dad make the dumplings here, and I'll make some wontons. If that doesn't work, frying some dough sticks will be fine." Qin Congwen's worries had just ended, and Zhao Rong started to worry again.

"Mom, don't worry, we sell it cheaper than the convenience store across the street." Qin Huai said, "I'm going to make a few more things here, there are quite a few varieties."

Yunzhong Canteen has no rental costs. If Qinhuai wants to start a price war, he can defeat all the breakfast shops within a ten-mile radius.

Of course, he had no intention of using this tactic that would hurt the enemy by a thousand and his own eight hundred.

It takes money to start a price war, but he doesn't have it.

Qinhuai’s strategy is to focus on quality rather than quantity.

In the morning, I sell two cheap and cost-effective basic steamed buns made by Qin Congwen, and 2-3 expensive but delicious snacks that I make myself, which are suitable for morning consumption.

Snacks such as shortbread, pancakes, crab shell roe, and fried cakes that require an oven and a frying pan are made in the morning.

Traditional pastries such as donkey rolls, pea yellow cakes, Dingsheng cake, and eight-treasure cake will be released in batches at the appropriate time depending on specific sales and circumstances.

After all, there are limited manpower. Unless Qin Huai can grow eight hands like an octopus, it is impossible for him to make so many pastries at the same time by himself.

Qin Huai began to knead the dough.

In order to sleep more, Qin Huai used to prepare the noodles the night before. As long as the steaming time and temperature are controlled, the taste of the dough will not change much overnight. But now is different from the past. Now we are pursuing the boutique route instead of quantity, so naturally the taste of freshly made noodles is better.

After kneading the dough, Qin Huai began to prepare the filling.

Heat oil in a pan, put the diced pork into the pan and stir-fry until it changes color, then add the diced chicken, diced shrimp, diced bamboo shoots and diced sea cucumber in turn and stir-fry, then pour in the chicken broth made the night before, bring to a boil over high heat then simmer over low heat. Soon the whole kitchen will be filled with the aroma of broth.

Qin Luo was so excited that his voice trembled at the door.

"Five...five-dingbao!"

It's no wonder that Qin Luo was so excited. If there is anything precious that can only be obtained during the Chinese New Year, then in the Qin family, besides the New Year's money, it is the Wu Ding Bao.

Wu Ding Bao, the official imperial meal designated by Emperor Qianlong during his trip to the south of the Yangtze River.

Unlike the 3 RMB preserved vegetable cakes and 5 RMB meat-baked buns sold on the streets, which are also claimed to be the same delicacies that Emperor Qianlong enjoyed when he visited the south of the Yangtze River, the Wu Ding Bao is a genuine imperial delicacy.

It is said that when Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, local officials asked what they needed to prepare for breakfast. Emperor Qianlong said: nourishing but not too much, delicious but not too fresh, fragrant but not too greasy, crispy but not too hard, tender but not too soft. The Guangling dim sum chef pondered and finally realized: sea cucumber nourishes, less is not too much; chicken is delicious, less is not too fresh; pork is fragrant, less is not too greasy; winter bamboo shoots are crispy, less is not too hard; shrimp is tender, less is not too soft. So these five ingredients were cut into dices as fillings, and this is how the Wu Ding Bao came into being.

It can be seen that making Wu Ding Bao is very troublesome as you need to heat oil in a pan, stir-fry and stew the filling, and prepare the broth in advance.

After the ingredients in the pot are cooked, add water and starch to thicken the sauce and put it in the refrigerator for a while.

Qin Huai has always felt that if the last step is removed and the dish is served directly out of the pot, it can probably become a dish.

When Qin Huai tried to make Wu Ding Bao at home for the first time, Qin Congwen thought his son had developed an interest in cooking and decided to challenge the difficulty and start with the broth dish.

As for how Qin Huai could make such a difficult imperial meal...

Qin Huai could only say that the best thing he did in elementary school was to spend one dollar to buy the snack encyclopedia at the flea market.

A complete collection of dim sum, really.

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