Abnormal Food Article

Chapter 166 Good Tongue

After Qin Huai finished eating the crab roe shaomai, he realized that he might have underestimated this dim sum.

I saw him silently eating two of the three crab roe shaomai, leaving one for Huang Anyao who was begging for help, and then said:

"Master Zheng, can you demonstrate it to me again?"

"No problem!" Zheng Da was delighted.

He was not very good at speaking in the first place. The combination of superb skills and lack of language would make his production process, which did not seem to be very powerful in the first place, even more ordinary. Qin Huai could have this awareness and just didn't ask whether Zheng Da was happy or not, and immediately prepared Get the materials together to start the demonstration.

The same process as before, peel the live shrimp, remove the meat, and chop into pieces.

Crab meat.

Pour in Shaoxing wine, salt and other seasonings, stir well.

While Zheng Da was mixing the filling, Qin Huai asked: "Master Zheng, how do you control the seasoning of this filling?"

Qin Huai knew that Zheng Da would most likely not be able to explain, because Qin Congwen had asked him this question before when he was making snacks at Qin's breakfast shop, and he couldn't understand either.

Qin Huai knows that preparing stuffing is a process that relies heavily on feeling. Just like traditional Chinese recipes, the description of the dosage of each seasoning is basically a small spoon, a little, and an appropriate amount. It is not as precise as the recipes found online today. Gram, these little and appropriate amounts are actually feelings.

In an ordinary family, if one day a child suddenly wants to learn how to cook and asks his parents how much salt to put in braised pork, the parents will definitely say half a spoon.

As for whether this small half spoon is 1/3 spoon or 1/4 spoon, or other precise amounts, it depends on your own performance.

The taste of cooking comes from testing.

Some people have no talent in this area, and they may have to try many times before they can feel what the magic is. But some people are naturally very keen. They only need to taste it once with their tongues, and they can probably judge whether there is too much or too little of a certain condiment. They can adjust it themselves the next time they make it. As time goes by, You will adjust your own stable taste.

There are actually only a few masters like Huang Shengli who can explain things clearly and analyze them in detail to pinpoint the problem.

There are not many famous teachers these days.

Of course, there are very few masters like Zheng Da who can't understand it at all.

Although most normal teachers may not understand what they say, they can still explain something.

But Qin Huai said before that he could actually understand Zheng Da's teaching model, especially the sentence "You can feel it, you know this feeling."

Qin Huai didn't know whether the third person watching could feel it, but he could really feel it anyway.

Zheng Da's answer was not what Qin Huai expected.

"This is...yes...actually, this depends on...how to control the seasoning...the seasoning is actually...let's put it this way...actually..."

It can be heard that Zheng Da really wants to provide some precise guidance in language, but his ability is limited and this track is not suitable for him.

After hemming and hawing for a long time, Zheng Da finally chose to answer in the way he was most familiar with.

"You have to find the feeling."

"It's normal to be confused when you first make it. There's no way to teach you about this kind of very detailed seasoning. You can only roughly tell the amount within a standard range. Once you start making it yourself, you'll know the flavor after steaming the siu mai. Understand what the problem is.”

"Usually, the simpler the ingredients and the fewer types of seasonings, the more difficult it is to season them. As long as there is a slight problem with any of the seasonings, it will affect the final taste. At this time, the chef needs to have a sensitive tongue. "

After Zheng Da finished giving his standard answer, he still said something useful. These useful words encouraged him, and Zheng Da went on happily without even waiting for Qin Huai's reaction.

"Alas, Xiao Qin, you are still delayed."

"Just now you asked me what my master taught me and my senior brother. I mentioned a little bit but didn't finish. The most important thing for a chef is not strength and understanding. The most important thing is actually the tongue."

"If you are not strong enough, you can practice it. If your understanding is not good, you can put it bluntly. If you don't understand this thing, you can't explain it. Even if your brain is enlightened one day, there will be times when an extremely smart person is stuck by an inexplicable bottleneck. But the tongue is really very important. , If a chef does not have a sensitive tongue and a good taste of food, it will be difficult for him to make further progress. ”

"Don't look at my stupid mouth when I tell you problems. Sometimes it's not that I don't understand, but that these things are difficult to explain clearly."

“Many things are not learned by talking, but by tasting.”

"The reason why my master accepted me and my senior brother as apprentices was because we both had a good tongue. You can't even imagine how my master conducted the audition. Among the ten plates of boiled shrimps, one was not boiled and had a little bit added. It’s a condiment that’s hard for normal people to taste.”

"Eat one plate after another, you can drink water in between, and tell which plate has the condiments added to it."

"The second round is the sauce for boiled shrimp. There are 10 sauces. The recipe of one sauce is different from the other 9, but the difference is not big. Everyone can only taste each portion twice, and the one who is right will be promoted."

"This is the threshold screening. You can't imagine how exciting it was back then. Alas, times are different. If there were a similar cooking competition now, each chef would be given a taste in the first round, and all the chefs with weak tongues would be eliminated. . Then we will compete in other basic skills, knife skills, and various categories, and finally determine the chef with the strongest overall strength. It will be exciting!"

Zheng Da spoke happily. Although the topic became more and more biased, Qin Huai listened with interest.

"Then what are the criteria for judging a good tongue?" Qin Huai asked curiously.

"There are no standards." Zheng Da said, "A good tongue is a good tongue. If you give him a dish, he will be able to eat it without saying anything."

"Nowadays, there are many types of condiments. In the early years, and a few decades ago, some people would deliberately mix the condiments and crush them in order not to disclose their unique secret recipes. But this kind of situation can only prevent ordinary competition. Opponent, a good chef will know what's in the dish after just one taste, and he can even guess the proportions after eating it a few times."

"I remember my master told us back then that the real secret recipe is not the combination of ingredients, but the technique and cooking skills. That is the secret that no one else can steal."

"How about my tongue?" Qin Huai asked.

"Nothing to say." Zheng Da said bluntly.

"You must have a good tongue."

Yeah?

Qin Huai still has some doubts. According to the game system rating, his food taste is advanced.

Qin Huai knew that senior level was already a very good level. His high-grade seasoning is enough to handle most dim sum, even some difficult dim sum, but this is not the highest rating.

There is also a master level above the advanced level. Upgrading to the master level requires one million experience points. If upgrades are allowed, it means that there are other levels above the master level.

If you look at it this way, it seems that high-end is not that high-end.

Seeing that Qin Huai didn't seem to believe what he said, Zheng Da smiled and said nothing.

Zheng Da didn't have much contact with Qin Huai. In terms of frequency and time, his relationship with Qin Huai was far inferior to Zheng Siyuan and Huang Shengli. But Zheng Da thinks he knows Qin Huai better, and has always supported Huang Shengli's idea of ​​bringing Qin Huai to the world and letting the world see Qin Huai at the same time.

Zheng Da felt that Qin Huai, as a genius, was really not a genius.

Zheng Da has been a self-aware genius since he was a child.

He is very talented in cooking and does well in business. It was because he knew so well that he was a genius that he was arrogant. That was why he was not recognized as a white chef in a state-owned hotel, and Huang Shengli was allowed to be a master chef, but when he was not allowed to be a master chef, he resigned in anger and went into business.

A normal genius, not only looking at people with his nostrils turned upward, must at least be used to being surrounded by stars, and be far ahead of his peers.

Qin Huai is just the opposite.

He is obviously a genius, and even among geniuses, he is considered to be a very rare type of genius. He has always been a top performer since he was a child, and he has been praised by all the stars, but he seems to have no self-awareness.

Some children are naturally sensitive and have low self-esteem. Due to the environment in which they were raised, they always anticipate the worst. Although they are very capable, they still feel that they are not good enough. They often give up on things before they even start.

But Qin Huai's character is not like this.

Huang Shengli didn't understand, but Zheng Da understood a little bit.

There was a time when he was like this. When he first worked in a state-owned hotel, he found that even if his level was far higher than that of his peers, he could not reach the level of his master.

At that time, he was very frightened, very uneasy, even internally conflicted, anxious, and self-blaming. He felt that he was nothing more than that, not a genius, just an ordinary mediocre person.

Zheng Da felt that Qin Huai's situation was a little different from his at that time. He had always thought that he was very good, but suddenly he encountered an obstacle that was difficult to overcome. He couldn't accept it for a while, so he had a brief emotional breakdown.

Qin Huai's mentality and state were obviously much better than he was at that time. It was as if Qin Huai had already encountered an insurmountable hurdle before he discovered that he was a genius. He was unable to cross it for many years. He had become accustomed to having a mountain in front of him, so he had a very wrong understanding of himself.

Zheng Da really wanted to ask Qin Huai, do you secretly have a master behind my back?

Who is that master? Tell me his name and I'll go find him to fight. How do you teach a disciple? There is no way to undermine a disciple's self-confidence like this. Isn't this misleading?

Do you know how to teach disciples? If you don’t know how to substitute, let me teach you, I understand!

Zheng Da talked about some interesting nonsense while making crab roe siomai.

When Zheng Da was making crab roe shaomai, Qin Huai ate the one left for Huang Anyao.

A little hungry.

Qin Huai feels that watching the production process and tasting the results is more helpful for learning.

And if Huang Anyao can catch up with the second batch, he no longer sends WeChat messages everywhere to beg for help. Instead, he sends WeChat messages to repeatedly confirm when the crab roe shaomai will be released and whether he can catch the most palatable one.

After two batches of crab roe siomai were finished, the afternoon teaching came to an end.

Qin Huai didn't have time to try it out himself. Since he was making crab roe siu mai, the entire preparation process had to be done by the chef himself. Qin Huai doesn't make shrimp-filled snacks often, and crab meat and crab roe are even more knowledge blind spots for him. If you are not familiar with the ingredients, you should have more contact with them.

In a long list of nonsense, Zheng Da repeatedly emphasized that the content related to teaching is that when making crab roe shaomai, the chef must prepare all the ingredients by himself.

The preparation process is not troublesome, it is nothing more than getting shrimp meat, crab meat and crab roe.

Only by preparing the ingredients by hand can we become familiar with the ingredients in the shortest possible time, establish a connection, and season them better.

Qin Huai felt that what Zheng Da said was very reasonable.

I even think Zheng Da’s teaching level is acceptable.

The personal level of the teacher lies here. Whether the teacher can teach is a matter of the teacher, and whether the student can learn is a matter of the student.

Huang Shengli's textbook explains it in detail, while Zheng Da's textbook doesn't explain it in detail. They are both textbooks, and students can learn them as long as they have enough understanding.

"Thank you, Master Zheng, for your hard work today. I would also like to ask you to come early tomorrow afternoon. I will go back today to get it all together, and I will start making crab roe shaomai after lunch tomorrow. If there is anything wrong during the cooking process, I still need to trouble you. You pointed it out in time." Qin Huai delivered his post-class remarks.

"No trouble, no trouble." Zheng Da said cheerfully, "If you have anything you don't understand when you go back, feel free to ask me. If you feel uncomfortable living in the house, feel free to tell me. Next time you are short of furniture, don't tell Gong Liang. Just tell me. I rented this house and I will furnish it for you.”

Qin Huai got off work happily. Although he didn't do anything at all in the afternoon and ate 6 crab roe shaomai, it was still hard work for him.

Qin Huai went to the bone-setting shop for routine bone-setting after get off work, and then went home to rest.

While Qin Huai was setting his bones, Gong Liang received the news that Zheng Da had made two batches of crab roe shaomai this afternoon for Qin Huai's teaching.

Gong Liang felt that the sky was falling.

The longevity noodles in the morning made him beam with joy and relax his vigilance. He thought that if he ate it in the morning, he would get a big one, but he didn't expect that there would be an even bigger one in the afternoon.

What a mistake!

Zheng Da’s heart is so dirty!

Go east and attack in the west, play tactics with him, play art of war with him!

Aren't you getting smaller? Not an angel investor? Everyone in Huangji's kitchen basically got it, but as the original shareholder of Huangji, he didn't get it!

He hasn't eaten crab roe shaomai for a whole year!

Zheng Da is really not a thing. He clearly knows that he likes to eat crab roe shaomai the most, but it is rare for him to start cooking and he doesn't call himself.

Gong Liang wanted to contact Qin Huai, and made some insinuations, explicitly hinting at the fact that he had not eaten crab roe shaomai for a whole year.

By the way, he revealed his glorious record of eating Crab Roe Shaomai made by Master Yiyijing, proving that he is the most authoritative taster of Crab Roe Shaomai. No one knows Crab Roe Shaomai better than him.

No one!

If Qin Huai needs a gourmet who can sit at the door of the kitchen to help him with his teachings and eat some of the crab roe shaomai made by Zheng Da, he, Gong Liang, must be the best candidate.

Although he can't speak or write.

But he will eat.

He can tell if it tastes good or not as soon as he tastes it!

Gong Liang wanted to send a message to Qin Huai.

But I thought about it and held it back.

As a gold medal salesman, Gong Liang knows how to give up when things go well, not to be too persistent, and to do different things in different relationships.

His relationship with Qin Huai has not reached the point where they can become obsessed with each other.

Master Xiao Qin is already a very nice person. He even lets him sit in front of the kitchen and eat longevity noodles. Such a good relationship cannot be ruined by his eagerness for quick success, so bear with it.

Gong Liang felt that based on his understanding of Zheng Da, he would definitely not make so many crab roe siomai tomorrow.

He underestimated the enemy if he didn't eat it this time. Next time he must sit in front of the kitchen door to eat it!

Then Gong Liang got the news on the afternoon of the second day that Qin Huai made a batch of crab roe shaomai, and Zheng Da made another batch of crab roe shaomai.

According to people familiar with the matter, Qinhuai's crab roe shaomai has overturned to a certain extent, which is normal. If Qin Huai succeeded in learning crab roe Shaomai without overturning, Gong Liang would have to consider whether to buy the house next door that Qin Huai rented and move in there.

But Zheng Da’s crab roe siomai performed normally.

Everyone who tasted it said it was good.

This news made Gong Liang a little bit unable to sit still.

No, why didn’t Zheng Da follow the routine?

I don’t care who you are, please don’t get off Zheng Da and cook crab roe shaomai for another two days, okay?

On the third day, Gong Liang didn't leave after lunch at Huang Ji. When all the guests had left, he moved a small bench and sat consciously at the door of the kitchen.

Huang Jiren:…

The day finally came.

It's not just a matter of carrying a small bench and sitting in the back kitchen.

Today, Qin Huai did it first, and Zheng Da did it next.

After yesterday's overturn, Qin Huai had a better understanding of the difficulty of seasoning crab roe shaomai.

He was not an ordinary driver yesterday.

It's a huge rollover.

Let's put it this way, if Qin Luo eats the crab roe shaomai made yesterday, Qin Luo will definitely open his eyes and ask loudly who made it? !

This is definitely not my brother's craftsmanship. Who is slandering my brother's reputation? Come forward and I, Qin Luo, will fight him to the death!

Fortunately, the crab roe shaomai was not made at Yunzhong Canteen, otherwise it would be really embarrassing.

Qin Huai finally understood why most chefs would rather use the second method, which is several times more troublesome, to make crab roe shaomai than the first method.

It's too difficult.

This car flipped really hard.

That's not Shaomai for human consumption.

When Qin Huai was eating the Shaomai he made yesterday, he even came up with the idea of ​​adding some pepper if it didn't work.

Although it is lazy and opportunistic, and it will also mask the true taste of shrimp and crab meat, adding a little pepper will at least not taste so bad.

Spices are really great inventions.

Qin Huai also deeply realized why Zheng Da said that he must have a good tongue.

A good tongue indeed.

One bite caused at least 10 minor problems and 8 major problems.

Then what you eat is not Shaomai? What you eat is the problem at all.

What I ate was the wrong question book.

Qin Huai quietly glanced at the task target at the kitchen door.

Why is Gong Liang here?

Why did he come at such a critical moment?

I will make crab roe siomai later. If it turns out to be as bad as yesterday, Gong Liang will definitely have his favorability level cleared after taking one bite of crab roe siomai.

The death of Master Xiao Qin.

Qin Huai took a deep breath.

You must go all out today.

Set a small goal.

This time I can only deal with 6 small problems and 5 big problems, okay?

Tomorrow my friends and I are going to travel around the world, and there is a high probability that we won’t be able to do that. And then we have to go out later today, so we don’t have time to write tomorrow’s update.

Ask for leave first.

(End of chapter)