City People [Rebirth]

Zhang An called Lu Jia and said that he had prepared the dishes and was waiting for Lu Jia to try them.

Lu Jia wants to turn Hungry into a specialty restaurant, so he has very strict requirements on the dishes, and does not need home-cooked, ordinary recipes, either not using common ingredients, or using common ingredients to create new tricks, anyway, every dish has to let Only diners have a deep memory, so when Lu Jia made demands on Zhang An, he seemed particularly harsh.

Since Zhang An reached an agreement with Lu Jia, he has been immersed in trying dishes at home, communicating with Lu Jia from time to time. Lu Jia's idea is that since it is a specialty restaurant, there is no need for many recipes. Thirty dishes are enough for three months. Change once, and before the menu is finalized, Zhang An needs to prepare forty dishes. Lu Jia tastes them one by one and chooses the best.

It may be difficult for others to prepare so many dishes in just one month under high requirements, but it is not for Zhang An.He learned cooking from his father Zhang Guosheng since he was a child, and he has been full of whimsical ideas since he was a child. Although he can only be a well-behaved assistant in the Guobin Hotel, those whimsical ideas are all experimented in the kitchen of his home. When it came out, Zhang Anguang wrote down the test records and improvement notes of these new dishes in ten thick books, and he was very proud. For some reason, there were more than 20 records that were not presented to the public.

Moreover, since the invention and experimentation of new dishes can only be done by Zhang An at his own expense, these styles are selected from inexpensive and easy-to-obtain ingredients, which just meet Lu Jia's requirements for cost control.Zhang An spent a lot of hard work and time on research in order to create tricks from the ingredients that ordinary people can do, and has already extended countless methods. After a month of intense time, he burst out with inspiration , revised the previous unsatisfactory recipes in one go, finally selected forty dishes, and then informed Lu Jia.

Since it was a tasting and there were so many dishes, naturally they couldn't serve them all at once and taste them all at once. Taking this opportunity, Lu Jia simply used this as a treat to invite the first batch of managers who were hungry to participate, and let each other get acquainted with each other. familiar.

The company that Lu Jia entrusted Li Jiajun to set up was named Jijia, and in Lu Jia's vision, the catering brand, Hungry, would be an important sub-brand within the ten-year plan, so for the first batch of managers, he It attaches great importance to.

The venue for entertaining guests is Haoyaxuan. This hotel has a courtyard with its own kitchen and complete facilities.The time was set at 11:[-] noon, and Lu Jia came over with Zhang An ahead of time, watching him and his assistant busy in the kitchen.

After meeting Zhang An, Lu Jia thought about it for a long time, and finally remembered this person's past. It turned out that he knew Zhang An, and it came from the show off of the host at a private banquet.

That private banquet was very successful, and the color and taste were all top-grade. What's rare is that the ingenuity often makes people sigh. It turns out that this thing can be eaten in this way. Even Lu Jia, who was not easy to get along with at that time, couldn't bear it. I ate more during the stay, so when the master showed off, he also listened.

It turned out that this chef also had a wonderful and turbulent opportunity. The chef grew up in his family and set up a private restaurant on his own. Orders were not accepted, and it was purely based on the mood of the chef and the ingredients he purchased, but the appointment could still be delayed until a month later. Later, the chef was poached by a bad restaurant group under the guise of "promoting your culinary skills". Although the salary is high, the dishes and time are limited. However, he found that he was coaxed into signing a contract with high liquidated damages, so he had no choice but to continue to stay, and was ridiculed because the food he made was not as good as before, and he was almost kicked out.

The owner of this private banquet used to love to eat the chef's private restaurant. He was a foodie. After learning about this, he paid liquidated damages for him and invited the chef to come to his house to cook. However, he gave a high degree of freedom and sufficient funds for research. , the chef gradually regained his aura and started to cook amazing food again.

That chef is Zhang An.

Lu Jia was quite narcissistic, and lamented that he had a good vision and could make a decision because of a dish of mushroom meatballs.Since Zhang An's talent has long been proven by "Future", Lu Jia will only allocate funds to him more generously, and even promises Zhang An to find the staff of the kitchen by himself.

Zhang An had his own way, and found all the people smoothly.Lu Jia observed their cooperation, the movements were smooth without needing to nod too much, and he couldn't help nodding. It seemed that although Zhang An was not good at management and easy to be deceived, he still had a dominant aura in the kitchen.Although this aura is still immature, but the attitude that regards cooking as everything is very obvious, and it may become a golden signboard of Hungry one day.

Although Lu Jia is a businessman who does not make money, he even said that he wants chefs to become pure assembly line workers, but he is not so vulgar. He only cares about profit—he can create extremely high-value art , he is the most respected, and for artists and craftsmen, he will also adopt two sets of methods for management.

One after another, the management personnel arrived.As the manager, Du Zhixuan also came to participate.Those who were hungry knew that this was the real proprietress, so they maintained an attitude of familiarity and alienation towards her, and let her sit next to the main seat.

Li Jiajun sat on the other side of Lu Jia.Li Jiajun's nominal position is a secretary, but in the eyes of others, this secretary has extraordinarily great authority, is extremely trusted by the boss, and has a straightforward and aggressive style, so although his time is short, he is respected by other employees.

Everyone came early, and after sitting down, there were less than ten people at a table, basically all young and energetic people in their early twenties.Lu Jia looked around and couldn't help smiling with satisfaction.

Lu Jia really did not intervene in the signboard work that was in charge of by secretary Li Jiajun, but after confirming the candidates, they met one by one and had a brief conversation.Others are not known by Lu Jia, but it is taken for granted that there are very few self-made people.

"The purpose of everyone's gathering today is very simple. One is to try the dishes, and we all jointly choose the dishes that were written on the menu when our restaurant was open. Don't be too polite, we have a lot of girls, so the drink is omitted, let's just have a drink."

Lu Jia was full of smiles, and when he got serious, he also had a hint of gentleness, and the girl who looked at him really had to blush and bow her head.Maybe they thought that Lu Jia was considerate, unlike those wretched men who like to pour girls alcohol, but Zhang An was the only one present who understood why Lu Jia said that.

The forty dishes proposed by Lu Jia are not just dishes, but also have requirements for the classification of them, such as cold dishes, hot dishes, side dishes, etc., and also have requirements for drinks, so the forty dishes prepared by Zhang An, There are also three homemade drinks.

Alcohol can paralyze the tongue and make people dizzy, which will naturally affect the taste of dishes and drinks, which is why Lu Jia proposed not to drink.

"Boss, it's all ready and ready to serve."

After Zhang An finished speaking, Lu Jia nodded.Zhang An made small portions and served them out on small plates like flowing water.

Zhang An only read the names of the dishes one by one. After reading, most people didn't remember who was who, but they were really like ordinary diners, facing the food on the table with unknown taste.Zhang An is based on the level, so there will be no situation where picky eyes don't care. Everyone hesitated for a moment, watched Lu Jia put down the chopsticks, and acted freely according to their own preferences.

When new dishes came up, Zhang An always only read the name of the dish, and everyone gave up remembering it, because like the dishes that are not available in ordinary restaurants, these names cannot be remembered.

Lu Jia glanced at Zhang An, thinking that Zhang An's name was not very good, so in the scoring part of the meeting, one more name should be added.

Drinks also come with it.There are three kinds in total, hawthorn juice, yam juice and homemade sweet glutinous rice wine.The latter has a very low alcohol content, but is sweet and fragrant.

Lu Jia likes sweet and sour taste, so he asked for hawthorn juice, the juice was bright red, just took a sip, and the sweet and sour taste instantly invaded the whole taste buds.The dregs juice was intentionally not completely filtered, and when the lips rolled together, the finely divided pulp rolled between the teeth, and when it entered the stomach from the throat, one couldn't help but sigh, and then gave birth to endless appetite.

It's just that the taste is so strong, will it affect the taste of other dishes?Lu Jia saw a bright red and spicy Flammulina velutipes in front of him, so he stretched out his chopsticks and took a bite of it.

The mellowness of the remaining hawthorn is instantly intertwined with the irritating spiciness. The spiciness is instantly soothing and pure, like a tamed horse. Flammulina velutipes are selected to be the same size, thicker than usual taste, but the taste is not rough, and it is much easier to chew after processing. The last thing that enters the stomach is the hot and sour taste, and the saliva in the mouth is instantly stimulated.

Lu Jia picked up the clear water next to him to rinse his mouth, paused for a moment and picked up the enoki mushroom entrance again.The sweet and sour taste in the mouth has faded to almost nothing, so the spiciness has become more distinct, this time the aggressiveness has been greatly enhanced, and this spiciness is weird, not the same as the pickled enoki mushrooms that Lu Jia has eaten in the past.Lu Jia would not praise a certain dish too much, but secretly decided to keep this cold dish.

Afterwards, the more Lu Jia ate, the more pleasantly surprised he was. Every dish gave him a sense of surprise, as if giving up any dish would be a loss.The most rare thing is that these dishes cooperate tacitly with each other, and no one dish overwhelms or suppresses the taste of any other, and the drinks with different flavors have a different taste.Although there are only three types of beverages, which one to choose can already tell the taste of the person, so even if the taste of the beverage is on the dish, the diners will not feel that the taste is covered, but it will strengthen their favorite taste. It complements each other.

Zhang An is indeed extremely talented.