Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Imperial Dining Room
As the film and television culture market becomes more and more prosperous, and more and more film and television cities are being built, but there are still a few film and television cities with palace halls, and it is not so easy to make an appointment with an attraction in a hurry. In the end, the crew only made an appointment for a time slot two days later in the evening and before nine o'clock in the morning the next day.
There's no way, you have to use it, it's definitely not possible to shoot in the middle of the night - who will shoot in the middle of the night? I can only borrow early in the morning to shoot, and it expires at nine o'clock, which means that I have to finish shooting all the shots at eight o'clock, and then pack up the equipment and leave.
Fortunately, in the summer, the sky dawns early, and the light is basically ready to shoot, but there are two hours of shooting time, and if it goes well, it is basically enough.
So the crew flew to Jiangnan the next day and rented the "Imperial Dining Room" to shoot other scenes.
"You're not really going to light a fire here to cook, are you?" asked the person in charge of the scenic spot.
"Of course, we're a food show, and the focus is on cooking. Director Jin smiled.
"But our imperial dining room has never been used at all, it's all furnishings, and it's a ......," the person in charge said embarrassed.
"It's okay, I've seen it, and it can be used. Lin Yi came over and said.
"You know this, Director Jin, you prop masters are young enough, hehe. "The person in charge.
"Oh, let me introduce you, this is Lin Yi, Mr. Lin, the chief planner, general consultant, screenwriter, starring, and food master of our show, hehe......" Jin Daole said.
Lin Yi's bunch of titles were all sealed by the crew after they came into contact with him during this time. The chief planner, starring actor, and screenwriter are all good to say, but the key is the title of general consultant, but Lin Yi earned it back with his real skills. After all, the show is filmed in ancient times, so there are many local customs, habits, and materials, there are a lot of exquisiteness, from the style of the rice bowl, to the seasoning, whether the ingredients have been transmitted to China at that time, etc., all of which can be made by Lin Yi with one sentence - with Yi Ya's more than 2,000 years of food memories in his head, those experts and scholars have to check the information for a long time and may not be able to verify the problem, which is actually equivalent to a common sense here in Lin Yi.
"Ah, talent, hello, hello......" The person in charge shook hands with Zhuang Qiang and said, "Well, you can cook here if you want, but if the things don't work, you are responsible for yourself." ”
After all, this "imperial dining room" is not a real place to cook, although the stove, the board or something is all there, but it is not built according to the practical two, what chimney does not smoke, the board is too long to dry out and crack, and so on, there are many problems, if you want to use it, all kinds of troubles are indispensable.
Lin Yi and Jin Dao agreed with their mouths, and then began to take people to work. The stove is good to say, there is more than one stove in the imperial dining room, there are more than a dozen large pots and small stoves, and there are always a few that can be used, but the iron pots are all rusty, and they have to be brushed one by one, and then smeared with oil to burn them, which looks a little shiny. The board is also selected to use a few places that can be used nearby, and the others are all soaked in water, so that it looks like it is often used.
After some tidying up, it took most of the day, and the entire imperial dining room immediately looked a little more angry, as if it was cooking every day.
"Okay, let's eat first, and then we'll start filming after eating. Lin Yi said to Director Jin.
"Okay, Xiao Cai, has the lunch box been ordered?" said Director Jin.
"What kind of lunch box to order? Isn't this guarding the kitchen?" Lin Yi said with a smile, "Xiao Cai, you go and ask where there is a vegetable market, just buy some vegetables and come back, let's make it ourselves." Just try to see if this stove fits......"
The crew cooks by themselves while filming, which is fresh, but for the crew of "Food", everyone is looking forward to Lin Yi cooking in person, even if it is Xiao Ai's cooking, it is much better than a box lunch, especially the dish made every day for filming, which is often the object of everyone's scrambling.
So Xiao Cai, the field manager, went to inquire without saying a word, and then sat in the scenic spot with Lin Yi and bought a bunch of all kinds of vegetables and fresh meat, including spinach, tofu and other dishes for filming later.
When filming winter scenes in summer, the biggest problem is not that wearing clothes will heat people to death, and the most critical dishes are not easy to buy.
Nowadays, with the development of science and technology, there are many out-of-season vegetables, but most of them are eaten in winter and summer, but it is difficult to eat winter vegetables in summer. Fortunately, spinach is sold, and it is grown by covering the shade net on a plastic greenhouse, but the taste of this spinach cannot be compared with spinach in winter, especially the leaves are thin and small, and the taste is too bad to eat.
The taste of spinach is almost good, but Chinese cabbage is not available at all in this season, and the so-called summer cabbage will not be on the market until the beginning of autumn. However, Lin Yi found a substitute - Jingchun baby cabbage.
Baby cabbage is mainly produced around the capital, belongs to the hybrid varieties of very early maturing spring Chinese cabbage, generally in May and June, with greenhouses can be earlier. However, the baby cabbage is small, and the vacuum-packed products sold in the supermarket are all peeled to the bottom of the cabbage, and the cabbage is also very tender, but no one is willing to throw it away and not eat it, which is a bit inconsistent with the plot......
In addition, "pearls" are easy to do, and steaming rice in an iron pot is not a problem.
There was also a pile of chopping wood in the imperial dining room, which was originally pretended, but it was wood that could make a fire, so "Zhu Yuanzhang" was responsible for lighting the fire, Director Jin took a few dramas to wash the vegetables, Lin Yi and Xiao Ai stir-fried and cooked, and they were so busy that it was a lively activity.
"Director Yuan, be careful, there's a step here......"
was busy working, the person in charge of the film and television city came over with a few people, and it should be another crew to inspect the scene, and the first person was the famous Director Yuan.
"What smell, so fragrant?" Yuan Dao shouted as soon as he entered the door, sniffing and seeing Lin Yi and the others busy around the pot.
"Well, didn't you say that filming would start in the afternoon, why do you cook now?" shouted the person in charge, "don't tell me, you're going to cook and eat by yourself, right?"
"Hehe, it's mainly to see if this stove can cook, Manager He, Teacher Yuan, do you want to eat some together?"
"Hey, I'm talking about you guys...... This ...... Manager He was so angry that he didn't know what to say, you want to shoot the real food, we agreed, but we didn't agree to let you cook and eat by yourself! This is a scenic spot, you cook here, burn or chop wood, what if it causes some impact? But the taste of this food is so hungry that he can't open his mouth......
"Hey, what kind of dish are you cooking? Director Yuan said suddenly.
"It's nothing, it's just a simple fried sliced meat. Director Jin hurriedly said, "Teacher Yuan, why don't you try it?"
"That's embarrassing, huh. Director Yuan came over happily and said, "By the way, I haven't asked you which crew you are from......?
"We are from the "Food" column group of Jin Haitai, my surname is Jin, and I am in charge of directing. Director Jin smiled, "Mr. Lin, Xiao Ai, get two more dishes, it just so happens that Director Yuan hasn't eaten yet......"
"Okay, it's going to be good right away!" Lin Yi flipped the spoon and copied out a plate of green pepper meat slices from the big iron pot, and the fragrance in the imperial dining room became even stronger for a while......