Chapter 229: Honest Cook
For a few days, Murphy would always ride out in his free time, looking for distinctive restaurants around the food court, and completing special training tasks while eating. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
This kind of special training task is not difficult, and the accuracy rate of Murphy's identification of ingredients has been maintained at more than 95%, and yesterday he tasted five dishes in a row, and each dish reached 100%.
The system was pleased with his performance yesterday and swore that as long as he could maintain 100% accuracy today, it would give Murphy a big enough reward.
Listening to the tone of the system, Mo Fei was quite expectant in his heart, and before nine o'clock, he hurriedly pulled He Xuanxuan, who was off duty, to ride out.
He Xuanxuan sat in the back seat, wrapped his arms around Mo Fei, and pressed his face to his broad back, with a sweet smile.
This act of "abusing dogs" was immediately seen by Chu Luo and Yu Xiaoyu, who were standing at the door. Chu Luo said with a smile: "Xiao Yu'er, you see that our boss is so happy!"
Yu Xiaoyu "snorted", glanced at the "small hill" on his chest, frowned and said, "Sister Luoluo, do men like big ones?"
"What?" Chu Luo didn't react for a while.
Yu Xiaoyu gestured with his hand on his chest and said it again.
Chu Luo's face suddenly turned red, and he said with a smile: "You are a second goods, I don't know what to think about all day!" Then he tilted his head and thought about it, half-covering his mouth and said, "...... Sister Xuan Xuan is really quite big there......"
Mo Fei and the others hadn't gone far yet, He Xuanxuan behind him sneezed loudly, she rubbed her nose and said, "Who hates to talk to me behind my back so much!"
After sneezing, she felt a lot of air through her nose, and at the same time a thin fragrance wafted into her nose.
"Do you smell it?" asked He Xuanxuan.
Mo Fei sniffed vigorously, "I smell it, it's quite fragrant, it seems to have come from the east." ”
"Why don't we go and see?"
"Good!" Murphy turned to the right side of the road and rode east.
After walking for about a mile, I turned a few corners and came to an alley less than three meters wide, and the smell in the alley became stronger and stronger.
Mo Fei turned into the alley, not far away there is a restaurant signboard, written "Hu family stewed dishes" four words, the signboard is extremely simple, the wood is cracked, it seems that it has been many years, even the door of the store is tattered, and there are traces of patching in some places.
A burst of aroma came from a large iron pot at the door, the stove was an earthen stove, it was burning with wood, and the pot was gurgling, and you didn't have to think about it to know that it was stewing a pot of good meat and vegetables.
This kind of original restaurant is difficult to find in the city, and even if there is, it is deliberate, just a gimmick of a farmhouse. And this one in front of me is a real big stove.
There was no one in front of the shop, only three dogs squatting there, all looking in the direction of the iron pot, obviously attracted by the smell of the pot.
Looking at the stupid and cute appearance of the three Chinese pastoral dogs, He Xuanxuan laughed out loud.
"Mo Fei, how do I think we are like those three dogs, all attracted by the scent...... Hahahaha......"
Mo Fei rubbed He Xuanxuan's head dotingly, smiled and knocked on the door a few times, and soon someone in the room responded: "This is coming......"
The door creaked open, and it was a young man of about thirty years old, and before Mo Fei could speak, he said politely: "Are you here to eat? My small shop is only open at noon, so let's come back in an hour after eating." ”
After that, the door is about to close. He Xuanxuan showed his head from behind, "Are you the owner of the shop?"
The man nodded and said, "I am." ”
"We are both chefs, and we were attracted by the smell of your shop just now, can you let us sit down?"
"Since it's a companion, you can sit casually. The man let them into the house and poured a jug of water over them.
"My name is Mo Fei, and she is my girlfriend He Xuanxuan. ”
Mo Fei is already well-known in Canghai City, and he has reported his name, but there are very few chefs who don't know this name. It seemed like the first time the man had heard of it, and he didn't react at all.
"My name is Hu Hai. ”
After taking a sip of water, Mo Fei looked around and asked him, "Boss Hu, your shop is really old." ”
Hu Hai smiled, "Yes, it has been passed down for five generations, and it has been counted for more than a hundred years." ”
Both of them were secretly surprised when they heard it, a century-old store is rare, and what surprised them even more was that this century-old store was obviously a little dilapidated, and it didn't seem that business was too prosperous.
As if seeing the doubts of the two, Hu Hai said: "The customers of the small shop are all neighbors in the neighborhood, and they only cook one pot of vegetables at noon every day, and seal the stove when they are sold out - this is a rule left by my ancestors, and I have to follow it." ”
Curious about the rules, even Mo Fei, who has seen the harsh system, thinks it is strange, not to mention He Xuanxuan, she tilted her head and asked, "Don't you do business when it is sent to the door?"
Hu Hai nodded, "Don't do it." There are so many businesses in the world, and you can't finish it, so you can support your family by cooking one meal a day, so why be busy. ”
He Xuanxuan was dumbfounded, but if he thought about it carefully, what he said made sense, and he couldn't refute it. Some people are ambitious and willing to sacrifice and choose to be a master, and some people are willing to keep a small career and do it happily.
Everyone has their own ambitions, and they can't come reluctantly.
Murphy nodded in approval, but he definitely couldn't learn it, he had a food system on him, and he was destined to step onto the stage of this food world.
At this time, a white cat appeared out of nowhere, and jumped on Hu Hai's lap as if no one was around. Hu Hai hurriedly picked it up, held it in his arms and stroked it gently.
The white cat enjoyed the caress of the shovel officer, and sat paralyzed, his eyes half-squinted, as if he was about to fall asleep.
"What a cute meow!"
He Xuanxuan was about to have a little star in her eyes, this white cat was so cute and cute, she really wanted to hug and touch it.
Before she could wipe off her saliva, a Shiba Inu squatting in front of the big iron pot outside ran in, swaggered to the owner, gently bit the trouser leg, Hu Hai patted its head and said, "I know Ah Huang, go play." ”
Shiba Inu Ah Huang ran away happily, and soon there was a dog barking outside, thinking that the dogs should be running happily to play.
Murphy smiled and asked, "Is the stew in the pot ready?"
Hu Hai opened his drooping eyelids, glanced at him and said, "Yes." ”
He Xuanxuan immediately asked in surprise when he heard this: "Ah! Do those three dogs know the heat of stew?"
Hu Hai continued to meow, "Ah Huang knows that the other two are a little stupid and are pure foodies." ”
He Xuanxuan stuck out his tongue and praised: "What a powerful dog!"
Here Mo Fei sniffed a few deep mouthfuls of fragrance and said: "Boss Hu, the stewed vegetables you stew taste so fragrant, if I guess correctly, the bottom of the pot is pork belly, the meat is covered with a layer of dried beans, and it is also covered with a layer of small potatoes, in addition to adding Hokkaido kelp, four or five Shudi dried red bell peppers, purple skin one-headed garlic, Zhangqiu sweet onions, and small liangjiang in the south......"
As he spoke, He Xuanxuan nodded, and he could see that He Xuanxuan could also smell the essence of ingredients with his sense of smell.
Hu Hai listened to the expression as usual, and was not shocked by Mo Fei's explanation of the ingredients and origin.
After Mo Fei finished speaking, he smiled and said, "Brother Mo Fei, you guessed right, you can see that the two of you are well-known chefs." I won't hide it from you, these are ordinary ingredients, and the key is the choice of pork belly and the preparation of sauces. The pork belly I chose with skin and bottom pork belly has a ratio of 9 to 1, and as for the sauce is an ancestral secret recipe, I can't tell you. ”
After a pause, he continued: "This stewed dish, a thousand chefs have come to make it, and the taste is almost the same, but to add my ancestral sauce secret recipe is like standing out from the crowd. ”
"As you know, there is no trick to stewing vegetables, as long as the stew is done, the aroma will naturally come out. Su Dongpo has a poem that says: When it is ripe, it is not to urge fire, and when the fire is enough, it is beautiful. That's what it means. ”
This time, Mo Fei and He Xuanxuan were completely stunned by Hu Hai's honesty.