Food starts with noodles

Wei Junming opened the electronic invitation letter on his mobile phone and handed it to the other party, and then got a few hands of cards.

As soon as he entered the door, Xu Zhuo saw Chen Guifang who was wandering around.

"Son, you guys are here too? It's just a matter of time to accompany me up for morning tea. This hotel specially invites a Cantonese chef from the south, and the tea is very authentic."

"You didn't have breakfast, did you?"

Xu Zhuo rubbed his stomach. When they gathered in the morning, they had already had breakfast, especially Jianguo, fearing that they would be hungry during the sparring, so they ate a catty of flatbread and drank two bowls of spicy soup.

Now when I talk about food, I start to burp.

Xu Zhuo didn't eat much, he was used to making breakfast by himself, and eating outside suddenly made him feel no appetite.

Zhou Wen didn't eat much, so she didn't have the habit of eating breakfast.

So in the end Jianguo went for a walk by himself, and Xu Zhuo, Zhou Wen and Chen Guifang went upstairs to drink morning tea.

Morning tea is a social eating custom in the south, which can be divided into Su-style morning tea and Cantonese-style morning tea.

Morning tea is not just about drinking tea, there are also a wide variety of refreshments with different flavors. Xu Zhuo is very familiar with these. He has not played games for the past two years, and only thinks about traveling.

Wherever you go, tasting local delicacies is an essential link.

However, Xu Zhuo was somewhat skeptical that he could have authentic Cantonese morning tea in the Central Plains.

Last year, he had morning tea for three consecutive days in Yangcheng, and he still couldn't forget it after he came back.

I was thinking about finding a restaurant in the provincial capital to try it, but the taste disappointed Mr. Xu.

If the morning tea in this hotel tastes good, then I will come to the provincial capital more often.

"Your father and your grandfather both went to their exchange meeting. I didn't like that kind of meeting, so I didn't go in."

"By the way, what cooking skills will they have after their meeting? Your grandfather is going to let you show off. Do you want to participate?"

Wei Junming told Mr. Xu Zhuo about his plan yesterday, so Boss Xu was not surprised at all when he heard this.

But before making a decision, he had to find out what the old man was doing.

"Why did my grandfather take part in such activities so actively this year? Didn't he hate such things before?"

Taking the elevator to the restaurant on the top floor, the waiter guided the three of them to a seat by the window, and swiped Chen Guifang's hand.

Chen Guifang took a look at the tea products on the first page with the menu, and casually said to the waiter, "We have jasmine tea."

After the waiter left, Chen Guifang said: "Your grandfather wants to hand over the power of the store to your father. This exchange meeting this time is to support your father."

"Handing over the power is equivalent to retiring. He will not interfere with the affairs of the store in the future. Participating in this event can be regarded as a retirement ceremony."

retire?

The old man is in such a strong body, why did he suddenly want to retire?

Holding a pencil, Chen Guifang made a check mark next to the almost food she likes, and said, "Your boy has suddenly become enlightened. Your grandpa plans to come back to you and teach you how to cook."

"Here in the provincial capital, I will leave it to your father to take care of it..."

Chapter 144 Drinking morning tea

Boss Xu was taken aback. He had no objection to the old man's retirement, but why go back to Linping City to teach him.

I don't know what the old man thought.

Ask him later when you are free.

After retirement, enjoy your old age with grandma in the provincial capital.

Playing mahjong to learn square dancing, or raising cats to grow flowers, there is no need to bother.

Boss Xu is relying on the system now, not on hard work and hard work. If the old man is by his side, he must be urging him to practice knife skills every day.

In this case, maybe it will return to the state of two years ago.

Quarreling every day, no one is pleasing to the eye.

And the old man is curious about everything, once he shows a new skill, he starts to question how he learned it.

Boss Xu is not used to lying.

"When will your store be renovated? It is said that the business is very good. If it is to be renovated, it will take at least a month. This loss is not small."

Chen Guifang, who is like a money fan, always thinks about money.

But for the sake of her paying the decoration fee, Boss Xu doesn't want to worry about it so much.

"It will take another three weeks or so. Now the passenger flow is on the rise. If the door is closed for renovation at this moment, the impact will be bad."

"It's hard to open up a market other than the student group, and we have to stabilize the source of customers first. I estimate that in about 20 days, it will be better to announce the decoration after the enthusiasm of the diners subsides."

"This will give them a new sense of expectation. When it opens, they will absolutely be willing to try it and feel the difference between the new store and the past."

Chen Guifang nodded: "Okay, anyway, your shop, you can look at the arrangement yourself."

"Have you thought about what to do during the renovation? Your grandfather plans to let you practice in the restaurant for a while, and stay with the chefs, so that you can learn the skills of managing the back kitchen."

After the renovation, although a group of employees will be recruited, the back kitchen does not need as many chefs as Xu's Restaurant.

And Xu Zhuo didn't want to bother about management, he thought for a while and said, "Let's forget about it, I have to go to Rongcheng during the renovation period, and help my godfather chase my godmother over."

"I don't want to take care of the back kitchen. I plan to let Jianguo learn from my dad for a while when the time comes for the renovation, and I will hand over the back kitchen to him."

"I'm only responsible for cooking with peace of mind, and I don't participate in anything else."

"By the way, you have to find me a front desk foreman later. It should be a better one, and the age should not be too old."

"Because after school starts, the main customers of the noodle shop are still students, and the foreman at the front desk must be able to mingle with students."

"A good chef can also help me find it. I don't want the kind of chef who can do everything but is not proficient in everything."

"It's the ones that have specialty dishes. It doesn't matter if they are a bit partial. Anyway, there won't be many dishes in the store at the beginning, and it has to be added according to the taste of diners."

Chen Guifang nodded: "No problem, I'll look for it later for you. Your grandfather had a lot of apprentices in the early years, maybe you can find one or two out of them."

After she ordered what she wanted to eat, she handed the menu to Xu Zhuo.

Xu Zhuo took a look, ordered a quicksand bun and a chicken feet in soy sauce, and handed them to Zhou Wen.

"Just put a check mark on the back of what you want to eat. Those with a thumb mark are more popular types. You can try more of them."

Zhou Wen has never had Cantonese morning tea, but she has watched too many gourmet shows, so she knows a lot about this kind of tea.

She looked through the menu and ordered shrimp dumpling rice rolls and water chestnut cake.

Just as Xu Zhuo was about to call the waiter over, he suddenly saw a row of casserole not far away, and several chefs were busy in front of the casserole.

He asked Chen Guifang curiously, "What are you doing?"

Chen Guifang said: "That's porridge in a casserole. It's a specialty here. If you want to drink it, you can ask the chef to make it on the spot. Not only can you watch all the steps, but you can also check the quality of the ingredients."

"On the opening day, your dad and I came to taste it, and it tasted very good."

Xu Zhuo waved to the waiter not far away, handed over the menu, and asked at the same time, "How about the porridge casserole? Can I choose the chef?"

The waiter nodded: "Yes, our chefs are divided into three levels, boutique, chef and head chef. Which chef do you choose?"

Boss Xu doesn't need to pay for this meal, so he will naturally not be polite: "Let's just be the head chef."

The waiter asked again: "May I ask what kind of porridge you want to drink, sir? There are seafood porridge, Jidi porridge, and..."

Before she finished speaking, Xu Zhuo said, "Seafood porridge."

Chen Guifang glanced at her silly roe deer: "You can enjoy it quite a bit. This pot of porridge costs several hundred dollars. Take it away when you can't finish it later. Don't waste it on me."

The tea was served quickly, and Xu Zhuo started to eat with chopsticks.

The taste is really good. Although it is a little different from the top restaurants in Yangcheng, it is already very good to be able to do so authentically in the Central Plains.

But because he had eaten breakfast, he lacked appetite at the moment.

Zhou Wen, on the other hand, finds everything delicious.

The porridge cooker came soon, Xu Zhuo held a quicksand bag, got up and walked over, watching the master's preparations for the porridge while eating.

After soaking the rice, drain the water and pour it into a basin, pour a spoonful of oil and start stirring.

To make casserole porridge, this step is indispensable.

Ever since he received a random mission to compete with the chef at Sun Panpan's grandma's house, Xu Zhuo looked up information about casserole porridge on the Internet when he had nothing to do.

Now that I have nothing to do, looking at this master's operation, combined with the knowledge I read on the Internet, Xu Zhuo feels that he should be able to make a pot of it.

Perhaps it was because Xu Zhuo was watching from the sidelines, but the head chef moved very quickly.

Originally, Xu Zhuo was just watching for fun, but now he has a poor appetite, so he happened to be making porridge casserole, so he took a look.

Just looking at the chef's operation, Xu Zhuo didn't think there was anything wrong.

But when compared with the young chef next to him, the gap appeared.

The chef's steps in cooking porridge are very natural. What to do in each step is like a habit for many years.

But the young man next to him was more rigid about what to do and how to operate it.

This shows that he hasn't cooked porridge for a long time. Although he has memorized all the steps, he hasn't formed a habit yet and relies entirely on rote memorization.

Watching the operation of these two people, Xu Zhuo gradually became interested in cooking porridge.

It's not that I want to eat.

It's the process of making porridge, which seems to be very enjoyable.

Just when Boss Xu was fascinated, a system notification suddenly sounded in his mind.

"The host carefully observes, successfully stimulates the skills of [concentrating on learning], and learns the professional skill of cooking porridge - the practice of casserole seafood porridge, congratulations to the host."

Boss Xu:? ? ? ?

Wow, what a huge surprise!

Chapter 145 Xu Beixuan

Xu Zhuo didn't pay attention to it before, and didn't expect to learn this skill so hard that it could be used again.

Two days ago, he also asked Jianguo if there was a noodle restaurant in Linping City, and he would go to learn the art from a teacher after he finished his hard work.

Unexpectedly, I learned how to cook casserole porridge after I was idle and bored watching it.

The previous mission to compete with Sun Panpan's grandma's chef is about to expire, and Xu Zhuo is already planning to go through the motions and admit defeat.

I didn't expect to turn around, and now I have learned this skill.

Although it is only entry-level, it should not be a big problem to convince the chef.

Xu Zhuo didn't know what the entry level was, but it was probably the level of the young chef next to him.

Although he can't compare with the head chef, he cooks porridge every day anyway, and to be able to work in a five-star hotel, he must have two brushes.

Boss Xu was in a good mood, and happily sat back on his seat, waiting for the porridge casserole to be served to taste the taste.

Chen Guifang looked at Xu Zhuo's joyful face, and couldn't help but ask, "Did you pick up the money? Why are you so happy?"

Xu Zhuo smiled mysteriously: "Secret."

After speaking, he took the chopsticks and started eating.

Chen Guifang looked at him suspiciously, and asked uncertainly, "Did you make a video call with Keke just now?"

Xu Zhuo gave her a piece of horseshoe cake: "Why are you so gossip?"

"I can't help it. What happened to the old Zhao's family is vivid in my mind. I don't want this phenomenon to happen in our family."

When talking about the old Zhao's house, Zhou Wen couldn't help being happy.

Everyone in the store already knew about this. The grandson of the old Zhao family brought a boyfriend home, which made the family restless.

Yu Keke even wanted to come to the provincial capital to find out if Zhao Guangming and his boyfriend were still together.