Chapter 38 Becoming a Confidant
Chen Xin made a few more sandwiches cut into small pieces and filled them with three plates, and she felt that it was about the same. Cheng Jie told her before that she was just coping with it today, and when she was after four o'clock in the afternoon, she would take a few friends to eat hot pot with Teacher Song to thank them.
How do you know that Chen Xin was just about to sit down, and she heard one of the men cautiously ask her if she could fry two more portions, he hadn't eaten enough, and he was half-full at this time, which was very uncomfortable.
Hearing the man's words, the others also asked to get something to eat, saying that it was okay if it wasn't so exquisite, just stir-fry it.
She thought about it, and it was not good for Uncle Tie to toss at this time, so it was better for her to fry a curry chicken rice and make an okra meat foam soup.
The chicken breast was prepared a lot, and it was also taken to the refrigerator in advance to thaw. Take it out, cut it into two-centimetre pieces, and marinate it with salt and cooking wine and pepper. On the other side, she also used potatoes and carrots cut into pieces of the same size, boiled in water and set aside.
Because it's fried rice, it can't be simmered like a curry dish, so curry powder is used.
Stir-fry the diced chicken in oil until it changes color, add the diced onion, then pour the drained potatoes and carrots into it and stir-fry together, add some soy sauce to adjust the color after the fragrance comes out, sprinkle a small spoon of sugar to taste, then pour in the rice and stir-fry until the rice particles are loose, then add the curry powder.
Because of the fat in the rice, the curry powder quickly becomes moist when added, enveloping the rice and ingredients. The curry powder is mixed with the rice and the aroma is stir-fried over high heat.
On the other side, the okra meat foam soup cooked by Uncle Tie under the command of Chen Xin is also ready, and the thin starch can be added to increase the viscosity of the soup.
This time, there was more fried rice than before, and it was filled with seven plates, not in the same delicate way as before, but directly scooped into the plate with a spoon. Each plate of rice is accompanied by a plate of sauce radish strips and a bowl of soup, and it also looks decent, not the kind of fried rice that is completely used to make up the numbers.
"Chen Xin's skills are really good, in fact, with her, you don't need to hire a chef anymore. ”
"It's not going to work. Cheng Jie quickly scooped up the food and replied to her friend, "Chen Xin has to go to class, take care of the children, and have other work to do, so I don't have time to spend it in the store all the time." And Chen Xin doesn't have a chef certificate, if someone really cares, we don't bother to argue with others, so the chef must be invited, but it must be a reliable one, like the last ......"
Cheng Jie didn't say anything, she shook her head, her expression already said everything.
"It's not uncommon for people like that. One of the men sighed, "Don't talk about you here, our unit has also encountered such a situation." Obviously, they all said that they were okay, but the person didn't come and didn't call to inform him, and when the time came, he said that he was already working in other places. When asked why he didn't say it in advance, he was justified in saying that he had no obligation to inform. I really want to talk to him. ”
In the end, it is a literati, and when you encounter such a thing, you just want to explain the truth to others, and if you want to meet someone with a bad temper, maybe you will come to the door directly to have a real PK.
Chen Xin didn't think that she would be willing to endure it, but she didn't have a chance yet. When her coffee shop is up and running, sooner or later there will be a chance to get it back.
Chen Xin has never felt that she is a gentleman, she is just a woman, and she is still a woman who loves to hold grudges, usually she will take revenge if she has the opportunity, not to mention that this guy almost made her opening a joke, this kind of revenge is too much for her.
Of course, others suggested that she should become a cook herself, which was also unrealistic. Cheng Jie said on the one hand, on the other hand, Chen Xin herself didn't really want to be tied up in the kitchen. She likes to cook, but she doesn't like to repeat a lot of homogeneous labor.
There were a lot of people who came in to drink coffee, but not many people who ate, and only seven servings were sold, except for their group of friends who came to the party. Of course, it may have something to do with the relatively expensive price, after all, a piece of Indonesian fried rice in their store sells for 18 yuan, while an outside one is only 7 yuan.
Not everyone can think from the perspective of a businessman, the materials used by Chen Xin are all good things, chicken, beef and shrimp are not cheap, and the Indonesian fried rice sold outside is not a little meat foam except for an omelet on top of the rice. The cost is different, and the price is different, but the problem is that many people don't know, they just think that they are all Indonesian fried rice, you sell eighteen people and sell seven yuan, and you make too much money.
Chen Xin didn't think to explain this. If you can accept it, you will naturally accept it, and if you can't accept it, you will explain it, and he will feel that you are arguing.
Cheng Jie also thinks so, so they don't care how much today's meal is sold, they just hope that the guests who ordered the meal can leave a review.
Those who can pay such a sum of money to order a plate of rice are also people who are not bad for money, they have eaten a lot of good things, but there are not many such delicious things. One of them had been to Indonesia, and his impression of Indonesian fried rice didn't seem to taste as good as the one he ate this time.
"Actually, it has something to do with the different tastes of the place. Because I definitely took care of the local tastes when I made it, the sauce I chose was spicy, and the amount of sweet soy sauce was appropriately reduced. So the taste is more suitable for locals. But if it's on the coast, the amount of sauce will be slightly less, and the sauce will be less spicy, and the amount of sweet soy sauce will be increased and some sugar will be added. ”
Speaking of which, Chen Xin became interested and chatted with the customer, who was obviously also a food lover, during which the two also had an extensive but not too in-depth discussion on what was best with various sauces, and what sauces could be used for fried rice.
That's right, that guy has a picky tongue, but he doesn't have a pair of hands that can cook, so he spends most of his time outside to solve the meal, plus his identity is a reporter, so he often travels on business, and he will look for local food everywhere he goes.
But the problem is that this reporter is running financial news.
"What do you do with all that money? Isn't it just to improve your quality of life? It doesn't matter if I'm not good at cooking, anyway, I don't have much time to eat at home, so I want to eat all over the country in my lifetime, and when I'm old, write a memoir about the most distinctive food in various places." ”
This buddy's ambition is very down-to-earth, but it is estimated that there are still more than 30 years before his retirement, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to realize this wish.
"A lot of food and local snacks are hard to see authentic now. For example, the shrimp cake I used to eat in a small town is basically no one knows how to make it now, because the shrimp that kind of shrimp cake needs is river shrimp, and you have to go to a place with cool water to find it. A shrimp cake needs two or three small shrimps, but sometimes you can't catch one or two catties a day. The cost is too high and too uncertain, and this shrimp cake is slowly losing the market. ”
The reporter sighed, but also understood that this is the elimination rule of the market, and those who do not adapt to or cannot meet the market demand can only be eliminated.
"That's right, that's why I want to do my best to find these skills that are about to be lost, not to mention inherit and carry them forward, at least to let everyone know that there was once such a delicacy. ”
"Heroes see the same thing. In this way, let's leave a contact information, and if I encounter such a delicacy in the future, I will tell you, whether you can learn it or not, you have to figure it out yourself. ”
The biggest gain on the first day of opening was not the operating income, but the meeting of bosom friends, Chen Xin felt that it was already very worthwhile.