PFC Chapter 127 Restaurant Food Tasting
Chapter 127 Restaurant Food Tasting
On Saturday, after making the day's pork trotter rice and sweet soup, Zhao Xiaojing found a restaurant in the center of Jiangcheng Jiangliu District according to the address given by Master Gu.
It's about an hour's subway ride from here to where Zhao Xiaojing lives. After getting off the subway, it's another ten minutes' walk to where you're going.
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived. Most of the restaurant employees had gone off work, leaving only two front desk staff.
"Hello, I'm looking for Master Gu." Zhao Xiaojing had just finished talking to the front desk staff when the door of the private room behind her was opened.
"Hello, Xiao Zhao, right? I'm Gu Shanfeng." Master Gu is about the same age as Master Sun, but surprisingly he looks very elegant, with a slightly plump figure and soft, fair facial features. At first glance, he looks gentle, like a scholar, and not like a cook at all.
Zhao Xiaojing hurriedly stepped forward and shook the hand that Gu Shanfeng extended to her. When they looked at each other carefully, they were both surprised.
"I didn't expect you to look younger and prettier in person than in the video I took. The young are formidable, the young are formidable, haha. Sit inside." Master Gu extended his hand and welcomed Zhao Xiaojing into the private room. "Xiaoling, pour some water."
The front desk staff at the door quickly brought up the tea.
Zhao Xiaojing took a look at it with great interest. It was a very elegant set of white porcelain kettle and cups with the same pattern as the restaurant's sign. The restaurant's logo was also printed next to the pattern.
It seems that Master Gu's restaurant pays great attention to details. The toothpick box and tissue box at the front desk have the same pattern and logo. When approaching the lobby, Zhao Xiaojing also noticed that all the stools were stacked up and the floor was very shiny, obviously having just been cleaned.
"Xiao Zhao, I'll tell you the general situation here. The main thing is that we are short of people on the day of the National Day. We only need to cook lunch. The time is 9 o'clock in the morning and the dishes will be served at 12:. As for which part you will do, we will go to the kitchen to discuss it in detail later.
This is our menu for the day. There are too many people on this day, so we have set menus here. Customers can choose from these sets. Take a look." Gu Shanfeng handed a delicate menu to Zhao Xiaojing.
Zhao Xiaojing flipped through the menu. It had only nine pages, with a total of eight banquet categories, and each category had two set meals to choose from.
Each of the eight types of banquets has a nice name, such as the Perfect Couple Banquet, the Golden Boy and Jade Girl Banquet, the Heaven-Sent Marriage Banquet, the Dragon and Phoenix Banquet, etc.
The price of each banquet is different, starting from 2980 and capped at 8880. The two sets of the same type have the same price, but the dishes are different, so you can choose freely.
The cheap banquet dishes were a bit ordinary, the expensive seafood accounted for a larger proportion, and half of the dishes that sounded very high-end were ones Zhao Xiaojing had never seen before.
Of course, Zhao Xiaojing couldn't cook those uncommon dishes, but helping to prepare them was not a problem. Not to mention some other relatively common dishes, Zhao Xiaojing was already quite skilled at making them.
After all, what she practices in the virtual space every day is seasoning and cooking, and every once in a while she will look for different restaurants to project to and practice new dishes based on the different preparation methods of the restaurants.
"Take a look at anything else you want to ask?" Gu Shanfeng asked when he saw Zhao Xiaojing had finished flipping through the menu.
"No. I have never cooked the high-end dishes here, but I can help prepare the dishes as required. I can cook other common dishes. Why don't we go to the kitchen to try the dishes and then discuss other things." Zhao Xiaojing knew that the other party was not fully aware of her level and it was not easy to arrange work for her, so she directly suggested trying the dishes.
"Okay! Let's go over there." Seeing that Zhao Xiaojing was honest and took the initiative to try the dishes, Gu Shanfeng showed admiration in his eyes and led her into the kitchen.
Zhao Xiaojing was amazed as soon as she entered the kitchen.
It is very spacious inside, the kind that can accommodate forty or fifty people standing at the same time and working without being crowded. Each area is carefully divided, such as the cooking area, cold dish area, pastry area, steaming and baking area, etc.
In the cooking area, the atmospheric range hood directly covers the entire countertop, and a row of stoves with appropriate spacing on the countertop can be operated simultaneously.
At the same time, there are a wide variety of kitchen utensils and tableware, all neatly placed, and the washing table, walls, and floors are all wiped clean, and the hygiene and cleanliness can be said to be quite in place.
There is also a duct machine on the top, so you don’t feel hot at all when you stand inside in this weather.
As soon as Master Gu entered the kitchen, he put on a white chef's uniform and chef's hat, and then took a set for Zhao Xiaojing from the side.
After Zhao Xiaojing got dressed, she didn't waste any time. She walked around the kitchen to look at the ingredients and seasonings, and chose three dishes from the wedding menu she had just looked at.
A dish of salt and pepper spareribs, a dish of stir-fried beef, and a dish of refreshing black fungus, one fried, one stir-fried, and one mixed.
The items in Gushanfeng's refrigerator are very complete. They are all sorted and labeled with the type of ingredients and the freezing date. They are also stored in three states: fresh-keeping, soft-frozen, and frozen according to different needs.
Zhao Xiaojing directly took the ribs and beef from the refrigerator that did not need to be thawed.
Soak the black fungus, wash and marinate the ribs with cooking wine and starch, then start making the first dish, stir-fried beef.
The preparation process of stir-fried beef is actually quite simple. The difficult part is to cook it within one minute and keep the meat fresh, tender and refreshing.
First, cut the beef into thin slices against the grain, add a spoonful of oil, light soy sauce, and oyster sauce, mix well and set aside.
Then cut the green pepper, millet pepper, and pickled pepper into small pieces, mince the garlic, cut the coriander into large pieces, and separate the stems and leaves.
Then heat up a pan with oil, add chili peppers and minced garlic after the hot pan cools down, add the beef immediately after it is fragrant, stir-fry quickly over high heat, season the beef quickly after it changes color slightly, and stir-fry frequently to fully blend the spiciness of the chili peppers, the fragrance of the string peppers, and the sourness of the pickled peppers with the beef to release a rich aroma. At this time, add the coriander stalks, continue to stir-fry for about ten seconds, then turn off the heat, add the coriander leaves and stir-fry before serving.
The whole dish takes less than a minute to prepare, and it is done in one go. Although it looks simple, the simpler the dish, the more it tests one’s skills.
I learned how to make this dish when I was chatting with Master Sun in Yangcheng. Although this dish is not cooked in the cafeteria, Master Sun explained it in great detail and clearly. Zhao Xiaojing has always kept it in mind and has even tried it many times in the virtual space in private.
Later, when she was learning the seasoning course, the teacher gave the example of dishes that needed to be seasoned quickly and in one go, and explained it in detail. Only then did Zhao Xiaojing begin to understand it a little. She continued to practice dozens or hundreds of times before she was able to cook it a little better.
Zhao Xiaojing served the stir-fried beef in a small bowl, placed it in front of Gu Shanfeng, and started preparing the second dish.
Gu Shanfeng picked up the chopsticks, held the bowl and looked at it for a long time, then smiled and shook his head, a trace of long-lost nostalgia in his eyes, and then he slowly began to taste it.