Chapter 1: Street Shops
"Brother, I'm going to school! You're going to make me something to eat when I come back next week!
Fang Shi looked at his own small shop and waved goodbye to himself while saying goodbye to his sister who wanted to eat a little big, he ushered in his little sister when he was 7 years old, but at the age of 9 his parents died in a car accident, he and his sister were pulled by his grandparents to grow up, two years ago grandparents also died one after another, fortunately, he relied on the skills he learned from his grandfather since he was a child, opened a small restaurant, and his sister was successfully admitted to the university, with his own skills, there is no one who does not know the Fang family restaurant within a radius of 10 kilometers, and it is more than enough to support himself and his sisterγ
"Go ahead, go on, how old a child is, and you still know how to eat and eat every day, fortunately, you are admitted to the local school in the magic capital, otherwise you can starve to death in school!" Fang Shi glanced at his sister Fang Wen and said
Fang Wen stopped and turned around and smiled at Fang Shi's bared teeth: "Brother, why don't you think that I didn't apply for a school outside the Demon Capital!"
"Go, go, I don't know what virtues you have, I'm your brother, I know what you think every day! Hurry up to school, be careful of being late and being disciplined, I'm going to prepare to open a store." Fang Shi looked disgusted, but looked at Fang Wen with a smile and said
"Okay, brother, I'm leaving" Fang Shi watched Fang Wen get into the taxi, turned around and entered his small shop, and began to process the ingredients needed for today's day
A mandarin fish, a piece of fat and thin pork belly, and a small basket of mushrooms and a fat old hen, Fang's restaurant only cooks one meal a day, one dinner, according to the number of people to set the number of dishes, according to Fangshi's own mood to arrange what dish is today, need to order a week to half a month in advance, Sunday is not open, no matter how much each dish, a meal is 8000, not two prices, but it is such a strange regulation that attracts many gourmets to come to Fang's restaurant to eat.
"Wow~" The door of Fang's small restaurant was pushed open, and an old man with white hair stood at the door, "I said, Xiao Fang, you don't know how to repair the road at your door, every time it's a deep foot and a shallow foot, it's uncomfortable to death"
Fang Shi didn't look up, still dealing with the mandarin fish in his hand, "Old Li, you say so every time you come, but you will order my dish every time, and come rain or shine every time, if you really dislike this road, it is estimated that you will not make a special flight from the imperial capital every month to eat my meal." β
Li Lao watched Fang Shi handle the mandarin fish in his hand like a cloud, remove the scales, disembowel, remove the ring, clean the internal organs, change the knife, put it in the steamer, put in the ingredients, and cover the pot, "Xiao Fang, just watching you cook is enough for me to fly over from the imperial capital every month, and you have studied with Master Fang for so many years, many imperial chefs in the imperial capital are not as good as yours, if you didn't guard your small restaurant and don't want to go out, I really want to pull you to the imperial capital to cook for me." β
"Elder Li, don't think about this matter for me to pull to the imperial capital to cook for you, okay, you said this thing when you came to me for your first meal three years ago, you have said it no less than 24 times in the past three years, every time I refuse, don't do any more useless work, okay" Fang Shi raised his head and glanced at Li Lao, "I said, you, a person who eats imperial kitchen every day, why are you running to me if you have nothing to do, can't you give others a chance???
Li Lao smiled, "Don't say it, I really haven't thought about giving other people a chance, you have a meal of 8000, and so many rules, in the eyes of others, you are nothing, in the eyes of gluttons like us, you are a big baby, and it is a priceless kind, the kind that I can't wait to tie you home"
Fang Shi replied angrily, "Hurry up and kidnap it, it's better to eat and live, otherwise I will at least be annoyed to death by your little old man."
Li Lao came to the Fang family restaurant inadvertently 3 years ago, and every month he would come to the Fang family restaurant at a fixed time to order a meal, although Li Lao did not reveal his identity, but Fang Shi also vaguely saw from the battle behind Li Lao that Li Lao was not an ordinary person, after all, it was not who came to have a meal followed by more than a dozen big men, and the radius of one kilometer was full of people in black, and Li Lao once inadvertently said that he was from the imperial capital, Fang Shi had guessed whether Li Lao was the top wave of people in the Celestial Empire, although he was a little curious, but Fang Shi, who had been in the society since he was a child, still did not ask, and I was a diner when he entered my store, regardless of identity.
Fang Shi did not let Li Lao wait for a long time, the first dish was served in front of Li Lao, "The old hen stewed mushroom soup, originally wanted to make you a chicken stewed mushroom, but the chick that had just been slaughtered during this time was a little wilted, so he took a two-year-old hen, the hen at this time is fat enough, chewy, and not firewood, the eldest son of the old Zhang family next door is a fungus picker who just came back from outside yesterday, picking morels and matsutake mushrooms for only 48 hours, morels contain at least 8 vitamins: carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, Vitamin B12, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin, folic acid, etc. The nutrients of morel mushrooms can be equivalent to milk, meat and fish meal, morel mushrooms are rich in selenium is a component of human red blood cell glutathione peroxidase, on the other hand, it can strengthen the antioxidant effect of vitamin E, and matsutake mushroom is the most basic to improve immunity, delay aging, but also help to warm and benefit the stomach, these I don't say you should also know, taste it first, wait for steamed mandarin fish and pork belly, drink a bowl of soup to warm your stomach, and wait for the remaining two dishes to serve you rice"
Li Lao nodded, picked up the soup spoon and put a bowl into the bowl, took a sip without saying anything, and saw Li Lao close his eyes, and seemed to reminisce about the taste of the chicken soup he had just swallowed, "Hmm~ Xiao Fang, your craftsmanship is really getting better and better, fragrant, fresh! I can't find any other words to describe your bowl of chicken soup except these two words."
Fang Shi supported his chin with one hand, "Old Li, you can't do it, but you are also a person who often eats state banquets, why do I have a mouthful of chicken soup, you are running out of words???"
", it's not like you kid hasn't eaten a state banquet, when your grandfather was alive, he was in charge of the state banquet, you kid don't say much, your grandfather has also learned eight or nine times out of ten, Master Fang, this can be regarded as a successor" Li Lao looked at Fang Shi and became angry, when Li Lao first came to the Fang family's small restaurant, he was looking for Fang Shi's grandfather Fang Jiangchen
Fang Shi's grandfather Fang Jiangchen is considered to be the first batch of generals who founded the country, and he fought hard in the mountains and blood, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the first chief intended to make Fang Jiangchen the first founding marshal, but Fang Jiangchen refused, Fang Jiangchen, who was born in a family of chefs, resolutely devoted himself to the development of dishes, became the first imperial chef of the Celestial Empire, responsible for the preparation of the state banquet, and resigned as the imperial chef after the unexpected death of Fang Shi's parents, and returned to the magic capital to raise Fang Shi and Fang Wen to grow up, and cut off all contact with the imperial capital
"Well, I can't afford to mess with you, I'm going to get fish and meat for you now, don't be angry, I didn't know that it was a state banquet" After Fang Shi intentionally or unintentionally revealed what he was familiar with with his grandfather, Fang Shi also slowly learned about his family background, generations of imperial chefs, his ancestors have always been the imperial chefs of the Qing Empire, even after the establishment of the Celestial Empire, his grandfather was also an imperial chef, and running the Fang family's small restaurant by himself can be regarded as inheriting the ancestral business.
"Come, your braised pork and steamed mandarin fish, you can eat slowly" Fang Shi put the mandarin fish and pork belly that had just come out of the pot in front of Li Lao, and turned around to serve a bowl of rice to Li Lao, "You always taste it, what is the difference between my steamed mandarin fish and pork belly and what you ate at the state banquet?" Fang Shi looked at Li Lao as if he were offering a treasure
Li Lao picked up a piece of fat and thin pork belly, put it in a bowl, and wrapped it in his mouth with a mouthful of rice, "Huh?? This pork belly method is so familiar"
"Well, the ancient method, now few people do this, because the process is too cumbersome, now most of them are water, high-pressure cooking, coloring, very simple, I follow the ancient method of this method, except for the trouble, there is nothing left. Fang Shi looked at Li Lao and hurriedly introduced
"Well~~ Yes, your braised pork should be made exactly according to your grandfather's practice, right? I tasted your grandfather's taste," Senior Li slowly swallowed the braised pork in his mouth and nodded and said
Fang Shi nodded, "It's worthy of you, this braised pork and steamed mandarin fish are all improved by me according to my grandfather's recipe, you eat it first, and I'll clean it up for the back kitchen." β
After saying that, Fang Shi left the table, walked to the back kitchen, and began to clean up the wreckage left behind from today's cooking
Li Lao looked at the Fang Shi who was busy in the back kitchen and nodded, but did not speak, and then carried out this disc action on the three dishes in front of him.