Chapter Forty-Nine: The American Canteen
"What the hell is going on?"
Looking at the dishes that were constantly being returned in front of him, Su Yang's face began to look bad.
"I heard that a very picky guest came to the Chinese restaurant outside, he ordered several signature dishes in our hotel Chinese restaurant, but every dish was devalued by him, even the dishes cooked by the master were very picky, although they were not returned directly like other dishes, but also made the master's face become very ugly. ”
At this moment, Tang Xiaoling came to Su Yang's side and explained.
"Such a person is obviously here to make trouble, how can anyone order so many dishes. Su Yang said with a gloomy face.
"We don't care how many dishes he orders, as long as he cooks his own dishes well. ”
At this moment, Tian Hongmin walked to Su Yang's side and said: "Su Yang, change your clothes immediately, I won't allow you to go back today, you are responsible for all the dishes ordered by this guest this time, this is an experience for you, and it is also the best warm-up game before tomorrow's sword competition, I hope you treat this guest as if you were your own competition, and play your due level." ”
"I know, master. ”
Su Yang didn't say anything more, and came directly to the chopping board.
Since he is in charge of these dishes, he is naturally in charge of everything from cutting vegetables and side dishes to cooking, and there are not many dishes for one guest, plus now his dishes are basically ready, and all the remaining three dishes are all ready.
It's just that in the end, a few plates were returned, and Su Yang had to burn them again, and these returned dishes were all stir-fried, after all, stir-fried dishes are the best way to see a chef's cooking skills.
These dishes are all fried by other chefs, and the taste is indeed a little worse, if the average customer naturally can't eat it, but if the industry master has an in-depth study of food, it is indeed able to eat it.
Some don't even have to taste it to see if the dish is worth tasting.
In general, Su Yang wants to cook a total of five dishes, these five dishes are some home-cooked dishes, and it is precisely because the taste of home-cooked dishes is very popular, there are various flavors, and if you want to distinguish the real deliciousness, it also varies from person to person, but if you can cook a few dishes that shock everyone, it can be regarded as a real delicacy.
Because it is a home-cooked dish, it is natural to use only some more common ingredients, such as crucian carp, potatoes, tofu and so on.
Some of the ingredients are also general ingredients, and there are no so-called imported ingredients, which are very ordinary.
Because it is ordinary, it is very difficult to cook well, and it is quite difficult to take one of the plates of crispy tofu.
As we all know, tofu is divided into old tofu and tender tofu, and the flesh of old tofu is old and hard, and it is not suitable to be destroyed.
Tender tofu is tender and silky, and it will crumble when touched, but the taste is much better than that of old tofu, which melts in the mouth, is smooth and tender, and is the best among tofu.
The crispy tofu is made by using the tofu to wrap a layer of starch on the outside, fry it until golden brown, remove it from the pot, and pour it on top with the seasoned sauce, this crispy tofu is truly completed.
Generally speaking, it is very difficult to wrap starch on tofu, because it is extremely easy to destroy tofu when wrapping starch, and you must start over again if you destroy it.
If it's old tofu, it's naturally very simple, but crispy tofu wants to be tender.
While being tender, the tofu in it is not destroyed, so that the fried tofu is really crispy.
If it were old tofu that didn't have such a taste at all, this crispy tofu wouldn't be so delicious.
So even making this crispy tofu took Su Yang a lot of time.
Su Yang divides the tofu into nine, and the size of each piece is the same, so that the taste of the fried together will be exactly the same, and only Su Yang, who is extremely skilled in knife work, can do this.
Sure enough, this crispy tofu and the previous crispy tofu are not comparable in any aspect, so when the guest tasted this crispy tofu, he didn't return it at all, and even more, he was very satisfied with it, and vaguely was full of expectations for the remaining four dishes, so Su Yang naturally wouldn't let him down.
The next four dishes were mainly stir-fried, which made Su Yang use all his skills to fry them.
He didn't use very exaggerated and shocking pot throwing skills, but just used his knife skills to make the whole dish beautiful, so that the originally ordinary home-cooked dishes made their unique style of Heming Hotel.
When all the dishes were ready, Su Yang and the people in the kitchen exhaled deeply.
He knew that what he could do had already been done, and the rest depended on the attitude of the guest, and to be honest, he was still a little nervous in his heart, after all, this was the most he had ever cooked, and it was hard to imagine how well he had done.
"Okay, you don't have to be so nervous, we have done what we should do, you have to believe in Su Yang's cooking skills, it's not the first time that guests are difficult to do this kind of thing, we just need to do our best." ”
Tian Hongmin came to Su Yang as he spoke, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Su Yang! you have done a good job this time, and I am full of confidence in you for tomorrow's game." ”
"I also have confidence in myself. Su Yang also suddenly laughed at this time.
"You're not modest. At this time, Wang Hai also came over and laughed.
Suddenly, the whole kitchen burst into laughter.
Bang Bang Bang!!
Just as everyone in the kitchen was laughing because of Su Yang's confident words, a round of applause came from the door, and the person who came was none other than their chef Wang Yifeng.
"Su Yang, you come out. Wang Yifeng shouted.
Su Yang couldn't help but feel puzzled, but he still followed Wang Yifeng out of the kitchen.
Su Yang didn't know where Wang Yifeng was taking him, but he guessed a few points, so he followed Wang Yifeng directly to one of the boxes in the Chinese restaurant.
When they entered the box, a middle-aged man appeared in front of Su Yang, obviously the person in front of him who was the difficult guest just now.
For him, Su Yang didn't plan to give any good looks, what about the guests?
But what Su Yang didn't expect was that when he came to this middle-aged man, he stood up directly, handed out a business card and said, "Su Yang, right! ”
Su Yang took the business card and looked at it, and his eyes immediately shrank, because it was written that it was Yang Zhi, the editor-in-chief of the American Canteen.
Mei Canteen is a very popular food magazine in Xiao Ran City, and its influence is very large, even if it has its sub-issues in other surrounding cities, and generally hotel chefs who can enter Mei Canteen will receive very wide attention.
As the only three-star hotel in Xiaoran City, Haiming Hotel is naturally on the list.
But it is more about the report of the western restaurant, but the Chinese restaurant rarely mentions it, and now this Yang Zhi will appear here, obviously wanting to determine the skills of the chef in their Chinese restaurant kitchen, so he is so picky.
But he didn't expect that he was very disappointed at first, but fortunately, Su Yang's appearance was able to turn the tide, so that their Chinese kitchen did not have to be so embarrassed.
"I'm looking forward to your sword competition tomorrow, I think you'll participate!"
With that, Yang Zhi got up directly and left the box, leaving only Su Ran who was speechless with a blank face.