Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 494 Is it true?I don't believe it (hands out)

Hearing this, Chen Zhixin was even more surprised. He knew that Shen Qing was equally unambiguous about eating. Although he was not as rich as himself, as a company executive, he could still eat whatever he wanted.

"Is this store so powerful?"

"Why don't you come in and have a taste, I'll treat you if it's not tasty, and treat me if it's delicious." Shen Qing said.

Hearing this, Chen Zhixin couldn't help but be convinced.

"Okay."

Afterwards, he followed Shen Qing into the Honghong Hotel.

Although Chen Zhixin and Shen Qing knew each other, they had never been in contact with each other. Chen Zhixin's favorite type was completely different from Shen Qing's, and after knowing each other for a long time, Chen Zhixin also knew that Shen Qing's personality belonged to the kind that he could not control at all, so he always regarded Shen Qing as a friend. identities with each other.

Moreover, between them, Shen Qing was going to be two years older than Chen Zhixin, so he directly called Chen Zhixin Xiao Chen.

After entering the restaurant, Feng Honghong saw the visitor at a glance, and hurriedly went up to greet him warmly: "Xiao Shen, you're here for dinner again, are you busy with work today?"

"Yes, Auntie, I came out early today because I didn't have any work to do. It just so happens that there aren't many people in the store at the moment."

"It's early. We just finished the staff meal. If you come earlier, you can still eat with us." Feng Honghong smiled and greeted the two of them to sit in a seat by the window. Relatively speaking, it is quieter. Even if people come here for a while, they will not feel that there are people coming and going around too noisy.

"Are you bringing friends to eat today?" Feng Honghong asked curiously after the two sat down.

But she didn't directly ask if this was your boyfriend, and she didn't match up blindly. After all, it was a matter between other people's guests. If they were, it would be fine, but if they weren't, saying so would only embarrass them.

"Well, they are friends, but we met at the door just now, so we came in to have some food together." Shen Qing said while re-tying the hair that was originally tied into a ponytail into a ball head, so that when eating later, the hair would not be too tight. will fall down.

"Then what do you want to eat? What we write here are all special dishes. Generally speaking, customers order whatever taste they prefer." Feng Honghong put down the menu and started to memorize it.

"Auntie, I want a mapo tofu first, and then another... Hey, there is a new dish, so I'll have another piece of meat."

Feng Honghong nodded and wrote down the two dishes, but at the same time she still reminded: "If there are two people, these two dishes should be enough, the main reason is that the meat is relatively large, and there are meat and eggs in it. What."

"It's okay, auntie, if I can't finish eating, I'll take it home." Shen Qing explained, after all, there are friends here today, and she also wanted Chen Zhixin to see how the food in this restaurant is.

After all, people always like to get some approval from others on this preference issue.

At the same time, Chen Zhixin was also looking at the menu. He saw that most of the dishes on the menu were home-cooked dishes, but there were also dishes that required skill. Soon I saw Wensi Tofu.

"It happens that there is no soup, so I want a Wensi tofu." Chen Zhixin pointed to Wensi tofu and said, "Now there are two dishes and one soup, so I will order another..."

But he didn't seem to see any interesting dishes: "Boss, are these the only ones on the menu? Are there any others?"

Feng Honghong glanced at the young man, and thought that the young man seemed very picky, but out of politeness, she originally planned to order only these dishes, but at this moment, Chen Nian in the kitchen suddenly shouted: "Mom, you can show him the dishes on the banquet and order some."

Chen Nian said.

He also heard the conversation outside just now, and heard the bet between the two when they were at the door.

As a cook, he naturally didn't want people to think that this restaurant and the dishes he cooked were useless, so he said this after seeing dishes that the other party didn't seem to want to order.

Feng Honghong looked at her son in surprise, but at this moment, Chen Nian just finished his work and came outside.

"You guys came earlier today, and the ingredients in the store are relatively complete. We can also order from the banquet menu." While talking, he took the other two banquet menus and put them on the table. superior.

Chen Zhixin glanced at Chen Nian in surprise: "Is there a hidden menu?"

"It's not considered a hidden menu, but these dishes are usually only served at banquets, otherwise it would take too much time to prepare them in normal times, and the store can't do them, so they are usually only prepared at reserved banquets, so that the ingredients can be bought in advance .” Chen Nian explained.

But at this point, Chen Zhixin was even more puzzled: "Then why did you take it out now?"

Chen Nian smiled when he heard this: "I heard you two made a bet just now. It just so happened that other guests ordered a banquet today, so there are more ingredients."

"Hahaha... I got it, so you two are in the same group, okay, then I'll see how the food here is today, but you don't have to worry, I won't find fault on purpose Yes, if it tastes good, it tastes good, and if it doesn't taste good, it doesn't taste good." Chen Zhixin suddenly laughed when he heard this.

People who like to taste delicious food everywhere and make friends are naturally not hypocritical people.

Of course, such a young chef, although he will not underestimate him, but if he is regarded as those old chefs, there must still be a certain distance.

And because of Shen Qing's face, he felt that it was quite interesting for Chen Nian to do this, and it was more against his temper.

"Okay, let me take a look." Chen Zhixin began to flip through the two menus. Compared with the previous menu, Chen Zhixin found that the difficulty of making these two menus was much higher.

"That's right, these dishes are worth ordering." Chen Zhixin looked around with interest.

He didn't want to waste either, the current dishes were actually enough, but he still wanted to order another dish that was a little more difficult, and finally he set his sights on the Furong Chicken Slices.

"Let's have this one, it's lighter."

"Okay, wait a moment, this dish may be relatively slow, and the price is 49."

"No problem, 49 is not expensive, and the time is okay. You can do it slowly here, and I have nothing to do at night." 49 is nothing to Chen Zhixin. When he goes out, he often orders a dish for several hundred, and some are more high-end. The place even charges a service fee of 10-15% of the dish price.

Chen Nian nodded, and then went back to the kitchen.

And Shen Qing ordered another large cup of sour plum soup.

They were not in a hurry to serve the dishes, because Chen Nian planned to serve the Furong Chicken Slices first, and then serve other dishes one after another after the Furong Chicken Slices were finished.

When I was in Tianjin before, this dish took a lot of effort. Chen Nian insisted on using the back of a knife to chop the chicken into pieces bit by bit.

But when you come back, you don't have to worry about it.

First, add chicken breast, fish, water chestnut, chopped green onion, ginger rice, salt and chicken broth into the molecular cooking machine.

Then the switch was pressed, and the blades inside began to spin rapidly, and the whole piece of chicken inside had turned into minced chicken in just a few seconds.

Pale pink in color, fine and even in texture.

"Sure enough, modern technology is advanced." Chen Nian couldn't help sighing, and at the same time explained this dish to the apprentices in the kitchen, "In the past, this dish was made by the master with two kitchen knives on the chopping board with the back of the knife. Yes, it would take more than an hour to shoot at least to the current level, but it can be done with a button press like it is now."

Hearing this, Xie Yu couldn't help asking: "Master, then I have a question, as you said just now, ancient people used kitchen knives to make it, while modern people use machines to make it, will the taste be different?" Is it different?"

Chen Nian shook his head: "From the perspective of this piece of meat itself, the taste is actually the same, and the current seasoning is actually higher than that in terms of specifications and grades, so I personally feel that it is better on some dishes. In fact, it is not that the ancients will definitely do better than now, after all, the times are developing and technology is advancing.”

"But if the fish at that time were better than now, then I think it is normal, after all, there was not so much industrial pollution at that time."

Chen Nian has personally experienced this.

After putting the prepared minced chicken into the bowl, Chen Nian used a special tool to pour the egg whites of several eggs into the bowl with the minced chicken.

Then pick up the electric egg beater and adjust it to a small file and stir slowly.

"Although you don't have to make this dish now, you still have to be careful not to stir it too fast, or they will form lumps." Chen Nian continued.

After talking about aging, he grabbed some water starch and put it in, still stirring slowly.

The next step is to filter the fascia, seasoning juice, and put it in the pan to hang the chicken slices.

After a total of more than ten minutes of busy work, Chen Nian finally served this dish.

"Master, is this Furong Chicken Slices?"

"Yeah, that's what Furong Chicken Slices look like."

"When I minced the chicken just now, I didn't even think that it would look like sliced ​​chicken in the end, and it looked softer and tender than those made with sliced ​​chicken." Xie Yu exclaimed.

He has seen all the steps just now, aside from what Master said about using a molecular cooking machine to replace manual labor, the other steps alone are cumbersome enough.

"It's no wonder that this dish was selected for the state banquet. It turns out there are so many details." The reason why he said this is because he saw that Chen Nian was careful when making it just now, and he didn't dare to be sloppy at all.

And Chen Nian smiled when he heard this: "Yeah, this dish does have some origins, and the way I do it now seems to be okay, but if it is really made by those masters of the state banquet, it is probably better than me. This is much stronger."

As a result, Feng Honghong just walked in at this time and was about to serve the dishes. When she heard this, she laughed on the spot: "Look at what you said, if you had the ability to still open a restaurant here? If you don’t go to a state banquet, there are plenty of big restaurants out there that invite you to be their chef, isn’t the money you earn more than what you earn from opening a restaurant here?”

"That's true." Chen Nian knew very clearly that he was indeed inferior to others in these aspects.

Afterwards, Feng Honghong walked out with this dish...

In the past ten minutes, Chen Zhixin and Shen Qing have been chatting, but mainly Shen Qing is talking about some advantages of this store and the story of this store that he knows.

Chen Zhixin was listening with interest, but he didn't really take it seriously.

Especially when he was looking at the menu just now, he found that there was actually Mapo Tofu for only one yuan.

At that time, he thought in his heart that there was beef in the authentic mapo tofu, but the mapo tofu here only sold for [-] yuan, not to mention beef, and he might not even be able to buy tofu.

And even if there is no meat, this dish only sells for one yuan, probably it is made with some kind of technology, just like the new industry "prefabricated dishes" that the boss who engaged in campus loans is now re-investing in.

It doesn't take much time and there is no technical difficulty, just pour it into the pot and fry it twice and it will be out of the pot.

Anyway, he would never order this kind of dish when he was away from home. The main reason is that he is worried.

It's just that Shen Qing ordered that dish when he came up, so he couldn't say anything else.

But they chatted like this for more than ten minutes, and then Feng Honghong finally brought the first dish to the table.

"Here we come, Furong Chicken Slices."

Feng Honghong put this dish on the table, and the eyes of the two immediately lit up when they saw it.

Shen Qing also booked a banquet at the Honghong Hotel, and planned to bring the staff to eat during the team building next month, and there was such a dish of hibiscus chicken slices, but when she saw this dish, she still couldn't help but be impressed.

But before she could move her chopsticks, Chen Zhixin who was opposite had already started talking about the difficulty of making this dish.

"This dish was served at a state banquet. When I went to BJ, I ate it in Cuihua Building, one of the eighth buildings. The price of a dish seems to be 49 as well.

You can see that this dish is made of chicken, but the shape of the chicken is not visible. Later, I asked a friend about it. When making this dish, not only chicken, fish, but also horseshoe should be put in it, but you are eating these It is basically impossible to eat it.

Later, I also ate this dish in some restaurants, but they made it very ordinary, and some restaurants even cut the chicken into slices, which is purely fooling people. "

"I didn't expect you to know this."

"That's right, I'm not the kind of vase who only takes girls to high-end restaurants to pretend to be imposing. I really like eating." Chen Zhixin said.

"Then why didn't you become a cook?"

"Hey, look at what you said, if I become a chef, will my dad let me? Whoever I become will have to buy that restaurant and fire me." Chen Zhixin said helplessly.

(End of this chapter)