Hardcore Chef Dad

After eating the last dish of burning mussels with seedlings, Zhuang Daozhong felt that today's trip was worthwhile.

For ordinary diners, when they come to a local restaurant like Suji, they may want to eat some classic dishes that can be named.

Squirrel mandarin fish, lion head, or cherry meat.

But for Zhuang Daozhong, coming to Huai City is to eat some seasonal dishes. In fact, this is also a characteristic of Huaicheng, including Huaiyang cuisine.

Choose seasonal ingredients, and make seasonal ingredients in the most suitable cooking method according to your own taste.

River prawns are fresh when eaten. If they are braised with soy sauce, the freshness will be lost.

It must be stir-fried like fried shrimp. After the oil is raised, stir-fry in a very simple way, so as to highlight the freshness and sweetness of the river shrimp.

Another example is eel, which is cooked with strong garlic, salt, and pepper, and boiled in broth, which can remove some of the miscellaneous flavors of eel while retaining the taste of eel.

Every dish must be based on the different ingredients to make the taste of the ingredients stand out. This is a good cook.

Tonight, Zhuang Daozhong has seen some of Feng Yifan's personal performances on top of Su Ji's inheritance.

Let Zhuang Daozhong feel that the old plaque of Su Ji has not yet fallen. And it is foreseeable that sooner or later that old plaque will still shine in the eyes of the world again.

Since Feng Yifan has been busy in the back kitchen, Zhuang Daozhong didn't have a chance to talk to him after eating tonight's dishes.

So simply, after Zhuang Daozhong finished his dinner, after Feng Ruoruo's children left one after another, he still stayed and waited, apparently deciding to talk to Feng Yifan after the restaurant closed.

The guests of the restaurant came and went, and soon after Feng Ruoruo's children left after dinner, the peak came at about 7:30 in the evening.

When the ten tables in the restaurant were almost full, Zhuang Daozhong sat beside Su Jinrong and watched the scene in the restaurant. He whispered: Jin Rong, I think the internal structure of Su Ji should be changed.

Su Jinrong looked at Zhuang Daozhong: Master, tell me.

Zhuang Daozhong then continued: Now Su Ji, since you are going to go to a boutique private kitchen restaurant, you have ten big tables here, which is a bit cumbersome, leaving only two, or four.

Others are replaced with small square tables, so that the space is larger, and there will be no situation where several people have to sit at a large table.

Hearing what Zhuang Daozhong said, Su Jinrong also nodded, thinking that what the uncle said made sense.

In fact, in the past, most of the time, Su Ji did not divide the tables. Generally, if there were one or two people, they would let others share the table for dinner. This may also be one of the reasons why Su Ji's business gradually deteriorated later.

After all, many young people nowadays are not used to eating at the same table with others, especially a young couple prefers the kind of small table with four sides.

Therefore, before the reconstruction of the surrounding area of ​​the old street started, Suji’s business was always supported by old diners.

But now, many old diners in the surrounding area have moved away due to renovations, and Feng Yifan has gradually attracted some new diners to visit because of Meng Shitong's video.

Suji is not a big restaurant, but there are only ten round tables. It is obviously a bit stretched to deal with it.

Su Jinrong thought about it for a second, the old street was facing reconstruction, and it might not be the right time to renovate the interior of Suji now. He also said to his uncle: The old street needs to be rebuilt, but it still won't be adjusted now.

Zhuang Daozhong nodded and said: Well, that's okay, but my suggestion is that since the business is still open, this aspect still needs to be considered. Even if you change to some folding square tables first, at least you can have more places to entertain guests.

When Lu Cuiling heard this, she couldn't help but said, Dear family, your uncle is right, you can use the folding table first.

It so happened that at this moment, little Feng Ruoruo threw herself into grandma's arms when she came back from delivering the menu. When she heard grandma said that she wanted to use a folding table, the little girl was naturally very curious.

Grandma, what are you doing with a folding table? What is a folding table?

Hearing the little granddaughter's question, Lu Cuiling explained to the little granddaughter, and also told the little granddaughter the benefits of the folding table.

After the little girl Feng Ruoruo heard it, she immediately turned her head and said to her grandpa, Okay, okay, grandpa, let's ask Dad to change it tomorrow, so that we can have many, many guests.

When saying many, many guests, Feng Ruoruo didn't forget to open his arms and make gestures.

For Feng Ruoruo, her idea is very simple, as long as there are more guests, it will be fine.

Su Jinrong laughed when he heard his granddaughter's words: With more guests, Ruoruo's father will work harder.

Zhuang Daozhong went on to say: It's actually quite simple. You can hire some people, such as dishwashers, vegetable cleaners, and cleaners, so that some of the load can be shared. If Jinrong needs you, I can send a few helpers to help you. You help.

Su Jinrong thought for a while after hearing this, but still shook his head: Thank you uncle, don't bother.

Although he rejected Zhuang Daozhong's proposal to send someone to help, Su Jinrong was still thinking in his heart, should he hire someone to help? When changing tables and chairs, add fewer tables and chairs to reduce the workload of the son-in-law.

Looking at the bustling scene in the restaurant, Su Jinrong had indeed made up his mind that he would try to rearrange the tables and chairs.

Zhuang Daozhong didn't mind being rejected, he said with a smile, Jin Rong, you can discuss it, in fact, I think Yifan should be able to handle it, and it might be better to change it to a small table.

Hearing his uncle say small tables are easier to deal with, Su Jinrong was a little surprised at first, but soon he figured out the key point.

Small tables are usually seated in twos and threes, at most four or five people.

There are few people, and there will definitely not be many dishes to order.

And Feng Yifan spent half a day preparing materials from morning to evening, which should be enough for him. So it seems that it is indeed easier to deal with a small table.

The evening rush hour has passed, after 8:30, today Feng Yifan is very resolute and will no longer receive guests from behind.

Sure enough, Feng Yifan resumed his previous closing time today, and he was no longer as busy as on weekends until past ten o'clock.

The business is closed, everyone in the restaurant has not finished their work, and the cleaning is still very hard.

Even Zhuang Zhebin chose to be a deserter, but it's a pity that Zhuang Daozhong's old man understood righteousness and ordered him to go to the back kitchen to help clean up. Zhuang Zhebin also had no way to avoid it, he could only walk towards the back kitchen with a look of death under Feng Ruoruo's smiling gaze.

The number of guests entertained today was not too many. If the ten tables were not counted as Zhuang Daozhong's table, it was actually only 8 tables of guests.

Of course, since it is not a weekend, it is not surprising that there are not so many guests.

If Su Ji didn't close at 9 o'clock and then open until late, maybe there would be some supper customers. But it was obviously impossible for Feng Yifan to do that.

Fortunately, Su Ruoxi said after the calculations that the fried rice and Yifu noodles sold better at noon, which also made up for the lack of customers at night.

After cleaning inside and out, fasten the outside door of the restaurant one by one, and then close the last door. Feng Yifan finally sat down, so he could listen carefully to Zhuang Daozhong's evaluation of his dinner tonight.