Food starts with noodles

Yao Meixiang was a little excited, but also a little looking forward to it.

It really takes courage to leave this place where I have lived for most of my life and live in a completely strange place.

But it's okay to leave, change the environment, at least I won't think about those sad things anymore.

After eating and drinking, Yao Meixiang and Wei Junming shared cakes for everyone.

Xu Zhuo was in charge of cutting with a table knife. With the help of knife skills, he quickly cut all the five-layer cakes into equal-sized pieces, and then packed them piece by piece on disposable dinner plates, inserted small forks, and distributed them to the guests. .

This miraculous knife skill immediately frightened Wei Junming's disciples.

Before, they always thought that Xu Zhuo was just a young man, but they didn't expect him to be so good at knife skills. This must be the result of practicing since childhood.

Sure enough, one cannot be judged by one's appearance, such a handsome young man is so strong in cooking.

If someone can recognize godfather, he really has real skills.

While eating the cake, Li Hao leaned close to Yu Keke and whispered, "Big rich woman, when your man makes that eight-treasure stuffed pear later, can you make more? I want to try it too."

Yu Keke was very satisfied with these words, especially the sentence about you man, which made the little girl smile. She imitated the Sichuan dialect and said, "No problem, let's go home and do it after sending these guests away."

But after the guests sent off, they couldn't go home to make eight-treasure stuffed pears.

Because there are a lot of birthday presents piled up in front of the big screen, a few people are worrying about how to transport them back...

Chapter 218 Ai Sikai bar two?

In the end, it was Wei Junming's apprentice who opened a dried vegetable shop who drove his delivery van to help put these gifts into the car and transport them to Yao Meixiang's home.

Before returning home, Yao Meixiang gave Zhou Wen 5 yuan: "Little girl, you have really worked hard this time. You can take this money and distribute it to everyone. It is my red envelope."

After she finished speaking, she took out another [-] yuan: "This is yours. The video you made is really good. Can you upload it to my phone later? I want to see more."

Zhou Wen didn't take the money: "Auntie, Uncle Wei has already sent us red envelopes, and he took us to play in Rongcheng for two days, and invited us to eat Sichuan cuisine from his own house. Bai, that menu makes my liver tremble..."

Yao Meixiang refused: "His is his, mine is mine, and I won't mix with him. You take it, and when Li Hao sends them away, go home and play here for two more days before going back .”

The people from the Film Association are going back. They have stayed in Rongcheng for more than ten days with their equipment. Now that they have successfully completed the task and ate a lot of delicious food under the leadership of Wei Junming, it is a worthwhile trip.

So once the banquet was over, they took a taxi back to pack their things and catch the high-speed train or plane.

Li Hao took Sun Panpan, Yu Keke and Zhou Wen to see them off. We are all classmates, so there is no need to be too polite to each other.

After bringing home a car full of birthday presents, several people unloaded them for a while before transporting them all to the living room. The originally tidy living room suddenly became like the sales department of a courier company.

Yao Meixiang waved to everyone: "Come, come, help me unpack together, the categories that should be classified, just take whichever you like, you are welcome."

Although this was everyone's wish, Yao Meixiang would definitely not be able to use this mountain of gifts by herself.

Moreover, there are food, clothing, and even cosmetics in these gifts, and she alone can't use them up after the expiration date.

Then Yao Meixiang and Chen Guifang's family surrounded the pile of presents and started unpacking them.

The speed of unpacking is not fast. The main reason is that every time it is unpacked, several people will show it around and then discuss it.

"This is a knitted sweater. It's very beautiful and the color is good. Mom, who would you want with my godmother?"

Chen Guifang looked at it and said with a smile: "I already have one of these clothes, the color is exactly the same, I'll give it to you as a godmother."

Yao Meixiang shook her head: "The color is too bright. I can't wear it at my age. Give it to the little girl named Zhou Wen later. She has been busy these days, and it's hard enough."

After speaking, she opened a package and took out a box containing cosmetics from it.

"Xiao Zhuo, what is the Escalate bar? It seems to be cosmetics, give it to your girlfriend, mothers don't need this thing..."

Ai Sikai bar two?

Xu Zhuo took a look and was immediately delighted. This is SK-2's skin care essence set.

Read SK as Ai Sikai, the godmother is really 666.

He took a look at the box, and he didn't expect that the person who gave the birthday gift would be someone who knew what to buy. This set of skin care essence cost thousands, which is really generous.

But thinking about the people who came today, Xu Zhuo felt relieved.

There were dozens of people who came to give gifts at noon today, including Wei Junming's apprentices, and there were still some who couldn't come to the scene to let them bring gifts.

These apprentices were all brought out by Wei Junming over the years. They have stable jobs, and several of them have even become restaurant owners. Naturally, the gifts they give are not stingy.

Besides them, there are many friends of Wei Junming. These friends are basically the chefs or head chefs of various restaurants, and even the owners of the restaurants. They will not be stingy in giving gifts.

When the class-truancy group of four sent people back, these gifts were considered unpacked and started to be sorted.

These gifts are really varied, and there are all kinds of gifts.

Tea, tea sets, foot baths, various health care products, clothing, accessories, cosmetics... It's as if a small shopping mall has been emptied.

However, there are also relatively novel ones. For example, Zhang Fugui sent a few photos from his collection, all of which were photos of Wei Junming and Yao Meixiang. Compared with those gifts, these few photos satisfied Yao Meixiang.

She handed it to Sun Panpan and asked, "Panpan, can you retake these photos? Lao Zhang is a careless person, and the photos are all bad..."

Sun Panpan took it over and took a look and said, "Yes, it can be repaired."

While searching for presents, Xu Zhuo found several red envelopes, which made him very curious, and felt that there are still people who understand. After opening the presents for two hours, he now feels that giving money is the most correct choice.

As a result, when I opened it, I found that several red envelopes were vouchers for hot pot restaurants.

This operation...

Boss Xu couldn't understand, was this a joke between the two friends?

Xu Zhuo handed it to Yao Meixiang, and she took a look and realized, "It's a gift from my relatives... I'm making you laugh."

Wei Junming quickly smoothed things over: "It's nothing, it's pretty good to get things. When we got married, their family brought a piece of bacon and came over to drink wedding wine. This voucher is much better than bacon..."

Yao Meixiang threw the voucher aside and didn't mention it anymore.

Li Hao picked it up and looked at it, checked the reviews with his mobile phone, and said to everyone: "It should be dark after sorting these things, let's stop cooking at all, go to this hot pot restaurant and have a meal." .”

That's fine, I'm really tired today, so it's fine to have a hot pot and sweat it out.

Xu Zhuo originally planned to make eight-treasure stuffed pears for Yu Keke in the afternoon, but he couldn't take care of it at the moment. He said to Yu Keke apologetically, "I'll make it for you tomorrow. I'm a bit busy today."

Yu Keke naturally has no objection.

After sorting the gifts, Yao Meixiang said: "You can take whatever you like, don't be polite, I'm going to move soon, if you don't want these things, I can only give them to others."

Of course, Yao Meixiang took away all the birthday presents that Xu Zhuo and the others bought for Yao Meixiang.

Firstly, it was the wishes of several people, and secondly, the things they bought were so expensive that Yao Meixiang was reluctant to give them to others.

Xu Zhuo looked around, but there was nothing he liked. These gifts were basically for women, so it was useless for him to look at them.However, he still held the SK-2 in his hand and handed it to Yu Keke.

But Yu Keke didn't ask for it: "I'm not old enough to use this thing, Senior Sister Zhou, let me give it to you, I've worked hard for you these days."

After speaking, Yu Keke gave it to Zhou Wen.

Zhou Wen was not polite and accepted it.

Then, they each chose their favorite food. Xu Zhuo didn't eat very much in the morning, and he had been busy for a long time, so he was a little hungry at the moment.

He took out some chicken feet from the refrigerator, sat on the side and was about to eat when Wei Junming came over.

"You made the chicken feet with pickled peppers?"

Chapter 219 Someone invited me to dinner

Xu Zhuo nodded and continued to eat.

Wei Junming didn't care either, and said with a smile: "It's not easy to cook chicken feet with pickled peppers. There are some tricks in it. If you want to learn, I can help you find a famous Sichuan chef later. Claws are especially famous..."

After speaking, he picked up a piece of chicken feet, put it in his mouth and bit it, the expression on his face suddenly became exciting.

"Who... who taught you this?"

Xu Zhuo was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I searched online, read a lot of tutorials, and then adjusted it according to my understanding of cooking. Is this taste okay?"

I said before that they searched online, and they always wanted to know what website. This time Xu Zhuo simply said that he adjusted it. Now let's see how you still ask.

Wei Junming's face was full of surprise: "It's so good, this taste can be used as a signboard in the store."

After he finished speaking, he turned his face to Xu Wenhai and said, "What am I talking about? This kid's talent is unparalleled. It's unimaginable that he can make such authentic and delicious pickled chicken feet with just a few tutorials on the Internet."

Xu Wenhai was very interested in the chicken feet before, and even asked Xu Zhuo who he learned from.

Unexpectedly, he figured it out by himself. Although there is an element of luck, it is unimaginable that the taste can be so perfect.

Just as he was talking, Li Hao also came over. The few men were not interested in those birthday presents, so they sat together and gnawed chicken feet carefully.

Xu Wenhai and Wei Junming discussed the ingredients while eating.

Tasting and guessing ingredients is a skill that every chef must have.

The two gnawed on the chicken feet, and not only fully guessed the seasoning and ingredients Xu Zhuo used, but also guessed about the steps and methods.

That's the beauty of a master chef.

Maybe he has never cooked this dish, but based on his experience and strong sense of taste, he can still dissect this dish in his own way.

Eating chicken feet, watching a few women busy there, it was already dark before I knew it.

Originally, several people wanted to eat hot pot, but the current boss of Rongcheng Taste called and invited Wei Junming to eat.

When he was holding a banquet there at noon, he was busy with the branch in Mianyang. He came back in the afternoon and found out that there were seven No. 80 chefs gathered at noon to celebrate Wei Junming's wife's birthday.

The boss slapped his thigh in regret.

With so many chefs gathered together, what a great opportunity to poach someone, but he missed it unexpectedly.

And even though the chef in the shop also participated and gave Xu Zhuo a discount, he didn't say anything further.

This made the boss very dissatisfied.

He only knew that there was a young man who booked the banquet hall for three days. At that time, it was just a party from a certain rich family, so he didn't think much about it.

Although Xu Zhuo told the chef that he was Wei Junming's godson and got a [-]% discount when ordering the menu, he didn't say who he invited, let alone that Wei Junming would come.

The boss now just wants to make amends, and grandly invite Wei Junming to dinner.

As long as Wei Junming praises him a little in the circle these days, it will be much easier for him to do anything in the future.

A word from a master of Sichuan cuisine is sometimes more effective than giving money or gifts.

Although this is a society that pays attention to profits, most chefs still value things like inheritance.

At least Wei Junming's apprentices are like this.

Wei Junming actually didn't want to participate in this kind of occasion, but the boss directly said on the phone that he would drive over to pick up the person, so Wei Junming had no choice but to agree without any difficulty.

Li Hao said happily: "Master Wei is really grand, if it were me, I would be so happy that my nose would be bubbling."

Wei Junming smiled: "It's not that simple. If someone wants to invite you to dinner, it must be to get something, but this is my restaurant after all, and I built up the reputation bit by bit."

"He has just opened his business and is not very popular, so it is only natural to say a few good words for him."

After speaking, he looked at Xu Zhuo and asked, "Xiao Zhuo, what do you think of the lunch?"

Although Xu Zhuo ate from beginning to end, he really didn't have much impression of the lunch.

Now looking back and thinking about it carefully, it seems that every dish tastes the same, not bad, but it has no characteristics.

To use a buzzword on the Internet, those dishes have no soul.

After he told Wei Junming about his feelings, Wei Junming nodded: "You're right, today's lunch meal looks like it's made on an assembly line. There are no disadvantages, but there are no advantages either."

"Although the taste is not bad, but there is always something missing."

Xu Wenhai also had the same feeling: "Is the head chef a graduate of a chef school? Generally, students who graduated from a chef school will have this kind of problem. Cooking is too stylized."

People who want to be chefs now have two choices.

The first is to work as an apprentice in a restaurant, starting from serving and washing vegetables, and then step by step to learn side dishes, cutting porridge, and making lotus.Finally, you can go to the stove and learn to cook with the chef.

Those who become chefs through this path know every aspect of the back kitchen, but there will be shortcomings in the dishes. Basically, what the person who taught him to cook is good at is what he is good at.

In addition, it takes seven or eight years to learn to become a chef with this method, which is a long time.