What is Food?

There is a common saying among the common people: "When you are hungry, you are full of smell!" For hungry people, a full stomach is beautiful; but for a person who is full of fat stomachs and oily stomachs, no matter how beautiful the food is, it cannot be called beautiful! Therefore, in order to meet the standard of gastronomy, this definition has been infinitely extended, or supplemented by a comfortable and elegant environment, or shown to the rare and curious ingredients, or charged with a ridiculously high price, or flaunted the unbelievable way of making and eating! The meaning of food has become more and more confusing after life is enriched, and after people's thinking becomes chaotic, if you want to ask a thousand people, it is estimated that you will get a thousand different answers!

Jian Fan's current situation is embarrassing here, Jiang Jiuding, Zhang Kai, Secretary He and the hotel's chef are all people in this industry, and taking out sea cucumbers, abalone, bird's nests, and bear's paws may not be able to make people shine, not to mention the radish and cabbage, pig, beef and mutton that can be seen all over the street?

Jiang Jiuding looked for the reason, and attributed the reason to the few pots of old soup in the first pot shop, without that thing, for the people of the Jian family, I am afraid that they will become a rice cook! The two of them and the nutritionist and chef who tasted the dishes on the side of the hotel almost gave Jian Fan a definition: But that's it!

But on the other hand, miracles often happen when people are most inadvertent, and no one even feels that Jian Fan has quietly brought a small miracle to this turbulent Jiuding Hotel.

As soon as the dishes were served the next day, people were a little surprised, the main dishes were still the same, radish, cabbage, soybean sprouts, meat dishes or pork, beef and mutton, there was no change. There is no shortage of ingredients in Jiuding Leisure Hotel, even if you want black fish from Jiangnan, vegetable python from Guangdong, and abalone from Dalian, Jian Fan still chooses the most common ones. And according to Xiangxiang, Jian Fan often steals the opportunity when he is in college, and spends all his summer vacation and spare time in various mid-range restaurants and mingling with the masters, called work-study, which is really delicious to satisfy hunger. But at the end of the day, he still likes the unpolished flavor of the countryside.

Although I was disdainful, I tasted it and taught it.

The cabbage gang fried a plate, the knife is very fine, all cut into half a finger long section, with the bell pepper of Shanbei Province, soaked in a faint meat fragrance, spicy and fragrant, this dish is called choking lotus white, choking the pot with old soup.

There is also a remarkable dish is the fried soybean sprouts with white radish, the white one is snow-white, yellow and tender yellow, supplemented by a slightly fishy mutton soup, which is crisp and refreshing to eat, and the aftertaste is endless after eating. The honey pork ribs are made of crispy bones and soft meat, the honey taste, the chewiness of the lean meat is connected with the fragrance of the fatty meat, and the mouth is full of oil without feeling greasy.

The soup is not much improved, and the apple raw fish soup is also refreshing, but it is not much beyond the level of the chef in Jiuding.

The evaluation of the second meal is OK!

What does it mean? I guess it's just improvise!

On the third day, the newcomer came, Jiang Dijia knew that Jian Fan was in charge of Jiuding, and his brother had eaten for seven days, so he complained for a long time, but the result was to come together to eat fresh.

This meal was made with ingenuity, so that several well-informed diners and chefs secretly gave a thumbs up, especially the soup, which was pork belly powder and intestine soup, and the pork belly was cleaned without leaving a trace of fat, and it was used as a seasoning bag, packed with more than a dozen ingredients such as pepper, large mushrooms, ginger slices, tangerine peel, etc., and simmered for ten hours, and Jiang Jiuding rolled his eyes when he drank a spoonful of thick soup!

Why? It's delicious, but I can't comment on where it's delicious! It was originally a homely taste, but this common taste seems to be a few soups that are often made by restaurant chefs, no matter what, it's comfortable to drink!

Yes, it's comfortable, but it's not too good to say!

That's right, it's a big coincidence, so it doesn't work!

The dish is even more surprising, there is still a plate of Chinese cabbage, and it has become vinegar cabbage, sweet and sweet, sweet and fresh, not greasy, not soft and not firewood, the three ladies who are fragrant, Secretary He and Jiang Dijia, who came to join in the fun, are the most fond of this plate of Chinese cabbage, and they are full of taste.

There is also a dish that I have never seen but is vegetarian fried three-color silk, a plate of red, green, white and purple looks particularly prominent, but a fine taste is just kelp shreds, white bean sprouts, carrots three shreds and fried, three dishes Jiang Jiuding tasted a little taste, this is soaked in soup silk, eating full of flavor.

What makes Jiang Dijia praise while eating is the potato cake, which is also a new trick made of potatoes, mashed potatoes and almonds and peanuts are baked into cakes in a frying pan, golden to the eyes, crispy and fragrant in the mouth, several people squeaked and ate with interest, because of this cake, and knew that Xiangxiang was Jian Fan's girlfriend, and the two became friends and sisters in a blink of an eye, and they had nothing to say.

Interesting things are not necessarily tasteful, Jiuding's nutritionist and the chef in charge of the kitchen evaluate this meal is also delicious, just delicious, they are all dishes that cannot be eaten in the countryside, and they are really impossible to evaluate!

After eating for three days, the people who ate have changed, and Jiang Dijia, who has increased, said that he would join in the excitement and set the next day's meal in advance. And be sure to eat it to the end.

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Jian Fan seems to be going to carry out everyone's surprise to the end, the first dish on the fourth day, is still Chinese cabbage! And took a name called green and tender snow red, also known as strange cabbage, knife work is selected from the cabbage green and white place under the knife, a dish looks at the green and white, red and green full plate, taste carefully to feel special, the front taste is sweet and fresh, the entrance is spicy, the food is smooth, The aftertaste can be full of fragrance, Zhang Kai had a large meal in the kitchen, and only after the introduction did he know that this was choked with beef soup, and the soup was all hidden in the dish, and it would be released after chewing, and the more you eat, the more you taste.

A Chinese cabbage has already turned over a few tricks, and even the chefs of Jiuding are glaring at this point, this guy, say that people can't do it, this thing really can't make it himself; say that he can do it, in a four-star store, you can't get a plate of Chinese cabbage, right? You really can't sell a few plates in a year.

The strange taste of cabbage is just a dish of baba noodles and cucumbers, the noodles are with the new persimmons, the cake is wrapped in broken walnut kernels, the burnt and burnt corn tortillas can chew out four flavors in one bite, fragrant and fragrant eating introduces this practice in Oolong County, but it is not so detailed, and when the introduction is finished, a plate of cakes has already been eaten by the people on the table, this thing is really rare in the city, Jiang Dijia and his brother are rushing to eat.

Braised duck pieces with white radish, fried fresh scallops with corn and fresh celery, shredded chicken bean sprouts, kidney slices snow peas, oyster sauce fried four bacteria seven or eight kinds of fresh stir-fry, Jian Fan finally began to use some ingredients that exceeded the scope of radish and cabbage, as soon as he made a move, he was extraordinary, Jiang Jiuding calculated, this dish should be put on the table of Jiuding guests, and it can basically be equivalent to the current charge.

When the soup came up, it was a black bean round meat and red date soup, which made the three female comrades applaud. Manager Zhang introduced that this soup is said to have the effects of tonifying the kidneys, moisturizing hair, black hair, and nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and the three beauties were happy, and when they were happy, Jiang Dijia suddenly thought of the words he heard in Oolong County, and secretly said in his heart, Isn't this Jian Fan still remembering that incident? If that's the case, he can reluctantly forgive being trained by Teacher Mei, and he hasn't dared to mention it to others until now, and he really wants to find a chance to return this grievance.

Red, green, blue, white and purple, sweet and sour, bitter and spicy, in the four days, he became more and more energetic day by day, and he was more and more surprised day by day, which made Jiang Jiuding secretly convinced.

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On the fifth day, the Chinese cabbage was renovated again, and it became a cabbage roasted belly slices, and the sauce was burned, and a plate was spectacularly golden brown!

The sauce is soaked in fish, and the carp is soaked into a pot and fried with self-adjusting braised sweat, and no more seasonings are put out of the pot to taste the full taste; the sauce roasts the mutton, and it is burned with all five flavors, and it tastes a little more authentic than that in the Xinjiang big plate mutton shop; the soup becomes rape and jade mushroom sauce soup, the soup is heavy and the taste is strong, and the light mushrooms use four kinds of slippery mushrooms, leg mushrooms, oyster mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms, and synthesize a strange fragrance, which is the natural fragrance of sauce and mushrooms, and it is definitely not the taste that can be adjusted out by any seasoning.

Yes, Jiang Jiuding and Zhang Kai can see it, this is a pure sauce tune, these days Zhang Kai stares at the report on time every day, those buckets of soup pots do not go out 24 hours a day, new ingredients are added every day, as several large barrels of soup boil more and more thick, the dishes made, the taste will become more and more mellow! The real magic of Jane's cuisine is in those buckets of soup, all dishes are on the surface, and the soup is the connotation, as long as these things are there, not to mention seven dishes a day, it is seventy tricks that can be turned out.

After eating this day, I went to ask the hotel nutritionist as usual, and the three nutritionists could taste a copy of each dish, and after thinking for a long time, only one of them said a little embarrassed, Mr. Jiang, the dishes in the past few days are basically beyond the scope of the recipe, such as mixing with several strains of bacteria, stir-frying cabbage with patterns, boiling soup with pork belly, and cornmeal with a few dried fruits, which is really hard to say, the nutrition must be rich, but the biggest defect is that it can't be served? It's built, and people have to recognize it?

Jiang Jiuding also smiled, this is indeed the case, and asked with a smile: "Just ask you, is it delicious?"

The three nutritionists, with different qualifications and different ages, nodded and said in unison: It's really delicious!

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It's really delicious, and on the sixth day, it's even better than the fifth!

Another dish of oyster sauce mushroom roasted cabbage, the cabbage was burned into the fresh fragrance of the mushrooms, the three ladies were still discussing whether to have a cabbage today, but they smiled dumbly when they saw the dishes, and they couldn't accept it, this plate of cabbage has become Jian Fan's signature craft, the earliest every day, of course, it is also the earliest, and there is not a lot of dishes that can withstand the non-stop chopsticks of the three vegetarian beauties!

Drunken beef, lamb liver and green beans, bracken stewed duck shreds, orchid fresh shellfish, shrimp razor clams fried cauliflower...... One by one, the dishes that have been seen or plausible are lined up on the table, and several people can't put down the dishes and chopsticks, until the end of the meal, Jiang Dijia, who still looks delicious, looks disappointed, disappointed, the tricks are really a little less.

After eating this meal, Jiang Jiuding sent Xiangxiang and his sister away, but he couldn't hold back, and took Secretary He and Zhang Kaijing to the kitchen on the second floor of the backyard, and stayed for so many days, except for eating, I really didn't see Jian Fan much, I ate so smoothly and refreshingly, the sesame seeds bloomed in six days, and now the more I look at Jian Fan, the more interesting it is.

When the chef's practice is to use chopsticks after the guests have eaten, Jiang Jiuding went, but Jian Fan was already finishing eating and wiping his mouth and cleaning up the tableware, a few large barrels were boiling on the fire, gurgling with steam, in the summer, this place is really not much, and when you enter the door, you will feel the hot air coming to your face. However, he still looked at the neatly arranged kitchen utensils and dishes on the counter with great interest, carrying half a cabbage as if he was inspecting, and asked Jian Fan with a smile: "Jian Fan, I'm curious, why do you love Chinese cabbage so much, every meal?"

"Is that delicious?"

"Well, that's good!"

"Hehe..."Jian Fan looked at the three of them and said: "Isn't that it, until it's delicious!" Cabbage is the king of all kinds of vegetables, after boiling water and hot soup, what kind of taste you make it tastes, stir-frying cabbage is a cook's ability, my dad taught me, stir-frying cabbage is like being a person, you have to do the simplest and most fundamental things well, and other things can be done well!"

"Good...... I don't admire it, it's not enough, the same cabbage has been played so many tricks by you. I have a little request tomorrow, I wonder if Chef Jane will appreciate this face?"

"Say, what's the politeness,"

"That's it, my sister, I'm greedy, I will blow you into a fog after eating for two days, tomorrow my parents, Chairman Chen, Director Yu, and Secretary Zhang, anyway, they are all close friends in the family, there are almost ten people, can you give us ......"

Jiang Jiuding said vaguely, it seems that he wants to add vegetables to feast on diners.

"No problem, how about 24 dishes and three soups?"

"Good...... Greatly appreciated, greatly appreciated......... Hey, by the way, Jian Fan, how do I think, your level is getting higher and higher, are you hiding your secrets? Every day there are new changes in the taste of the dishes. Jiang Jiuding finally said the doubt in his heart.

"It's not...... You are not rare in the delicacies of the mountains and seas, I gave you seven moods, didn't you eat them?" Jian Fan said with a smile, washed his hands, and sat down with a stool, the stool was not enough, and the remaining two could only stand.

"Is there a mood? This is fresh!" Jiang Jiuding looked back at Secretary He and Zhang Kai, the three of them were all surprised, this Jian Fan was often thunderous, but he didn't know what to say.

Sure enough, I saw Jian Fan sitting with a golden knife, and counted it with his fingers: "You recall, the first day, it was bland, after eating, you must feel light, like a common meal, but so! The second day, I was surprised to eat, because the taste of the dishes began to transform; on the third day, you ate with a surprise, and you didn't see it. On the fourth day, you eat happily, and several dishes are mixed with the specialties of the countryside, which are both fresh and fun and delicious; on the fifth day, you eat comfortably, because on this day, the taste of the soup has taken shape, and the sauce is full of deliciousness; on the sixth day, that is, today, the taste of the soup is stronger, and you have eaten comfortably, beef, lamb liver, green beans, bracken, fresh shellfish, shrimp, razor clams, and mushroom and Chinese cabbage, which are the dishes that I am better at and make exquisitely! These are the six moods of the eater, step by step, just like eating grapes, start with the smallest, the most sour first, the bigger and sweeter the more delicious, if I give the best on the first day, will you be so satisfied?......... By the way, I'll let you taste what it tastes like tomorrow!"

Hearing this, Jiang Jiuding thought about it for a while, but he was amused to laugh, even Secretary He and Zhang Kai didn't expect Jian Fan to say such a reason, they were all smiling.

"Okay, the best dish must be at the end, I can't wait...... Ha ha...... Hey, Manager Zhang, did you tell Chef Jian about that?" Jiang Jiuding said with a smile, turning back to ask Zhang Kai, Zhang Kai nodded.

Unexpectedly, Jian Fan immediately looked bitter, but this Zhang Kai said in the morning that he would take Jian Fan to visit Jiuding's kitchen, just one reason, I want to pick the unsatisfactory places, after all, the chef must pick the chef's faults one by one, and his own fault is dark under the lamp, and he can't see it. The three of them all looked at Jian Fan as if they were inquiring, and Jian Fan shook his head unhappily: "Mr. Jiang, isn't this okay? This peer is already a rival, and I will pick a bunch of faults on the head of the rival, which is really not good? Besides, your four-star hotel, I can't pick it out if I want to?"

"Yes? Four-star can't make your kind of taste!? Look, Jian Fan, I think so, you are a five-year-old cook, you have been cooking for almost 20 years, and Ms. Liu said that you have mixed in many restaurants in Dayuan, and each has its own strengths, this is for sure, your vision is the most superb, and you must be well-informed in cooking and kitchen, so I will borrow your magic eye to see the faults, and if there are any, then you will be encouraged! Isn't this a good thing? These people are all trained in the chef school, and they are definitely not as good as you. Jiang Jiuding listed a bunch of reasons and looked at Jian Fan expectantly.

Zhang Kai also helped: "Jian Fan, it would be hypocritical to excuse yourself again? We can be sincere! Haven't you been pursuing perfection?

"Smack, this is faulty, but it's a troublesome thing!"

"With me here, what are you afraid of, who can you mess with? It's okay, this is just an inspection, I don't find fault, I don't fire anyone's squid, what are the problems, what are the omissions, what are the problems, what are the problems, what are the problems, what are you doing?...... Okay, that's it, Secretary He, Manager Zhang, you take Jian Fan with you, if you have any questions, let Secretary He summarize it and report it to me. ”

Jiang Jiuding couldn't say anything, but he got up to leave. Mixed with Zhang Kai, Jian Fan was dragged out of the backyard and went straight into the kitchen through the back door.........

Secretary He looked at Jian Fan with a reluctant look and secretly laughed, this Jiang Jiuding's trick is wonderful, pick out the real fault, that's good, let the hotel's kitchen chef go to the next level; Pick out the fault that is not the fault, it seems that Jian Fan is a lower level; if you don't find fault, you can't explain it. Generally speaking, this matter is done by the people in the unit themselves, and the system itself is relatively well controlled, after all, it is a four-star star! Even if there is a problem, it is also a blind eye! Now Jiang Jiuding has dragged an outsider in, this method is really incurable!

The little chef has been brought in to make a cameo appearance as the big foreman again, yes, there is a drama to watch!