Given the question of the test, the boss paused, and asked with concern: "Did Mr. Yi Xiao bring his own knives?" We have here the knives made by Master Wang Zhongquan and the knives made by Master Li Li. ”

This problem is targeted, chefs generally have their own customary knives, this knife may be with them for a decade or two, often follow the chef from one hotel to another, this kitchen knife is placed in the kitchen, no one can touch it except the chef himself; There are even some chefs who have won any awards or career progress because of a certain knife, and since then they regard this prop as their lucky star, and they will not leave their hands wherever they cook.

But Yi Baitang was all over his body, except for himself standing here in a good manner, he didn't even have an extra cloth bag, and it really didn't look like he had brought a kitchen knife.

"No," Yi Baitang said as expected, "I didn't bring anything, just bring a new kitchen knife." ”

The boss nodded, stopped talking, and naturally a follower next to him handed a new kitchen knife to Yi Baitang.

Yi Baitang took the knife, first took it in his hand and padded it, then dipped it in some water, and cut a piece of tofu casually, so he almost understood the weight and sharpness of this knife.

He turned his gaze to the food preparation area, where all the ingredients needed to make the crab roe lion head this time had already been arranged on separate plates.

When Yi Baitang's eyes wandered on the raw materials, several chefs in the kitchen were also communicating in a whisper.

"What's going on? Why did the boss suddenly ask us to come over and watch a young man cook? ”

"It's only been a few years since he learned to cook, can he do it well?"

"Yes, like our time, when he was at his age, he was either responsible for chopping vegetables on the cutting board, or poured foot washing water for the master, but the times are different, and such a young person already wants to be the head pot and become the head chef." The person who said this paused, and then suddenly smiled, "Oh, no, it's when the special technical guide, when the veteran of Huaiyang cuisine comes." ”

He didn't lower his voice as he said this, and the whole kitchen could hear it.

But neither the boss standing in front of them nor Yi Baitang, who was preparing, glanced more in the direction where the voice came from.

The person who spoke was the second pot of Huaiyang cuisine, he looked at the head chef of Huaiyang cuisine standing beside him, and was about to take the encouragement again and charge into battle, but before he could speak again, he heard his own head pot lower his voice and said: "Don't say it, this young man's background is probably different." Noticed? The boss kept calling him Mr. Yi Xiao just now, very polite, and at the beginning, he said that he was fortunate to eat that person's restaurant twenty years ago. If this 'that' means 'that'...... Remember? That one is best at Huaiyang cuisine. ”

"Hey, when you say that, I thought of it......" The head chef of Sichuan cuisine crossed his arms and smoked his teeth, "It can't be that one, right?" ”

"I think it's probably that one, and it's the right age-" The head chef of Beijing cuisine also frowned and said, "Otherwise, even if this young man can cook flowers, the boss has no reason to know that he can cook flowers when he has never seen or tasted it, it must be a family history, so the boss wants to see if this young man has obtained the true inheritance." ”

The head chef of the local cuisine next to him listened to it for a long time and felt a little incomprehensible: "What are you talking about, there is no big family surnamed Yi in the chef world!" ”

yes, yes! The second chef of Huaiyang cuisine nodded again and again, only to feel that he was completely excluded, especially sad and angry, paralyzed, you all have a family tradition and know that this kind of gossip secret is very remarkable, don't you dare to say something that people can understand!

The head chefs of Huaiyang cuisine, Beijing cuisine, and Sichuan cuisine all glanced at the head chef of this cuisine: "Stupid, there is no big family surnamed Yi in the chef world, but the one who married a family surnamed Yi thirty years ago is okay?" ”

The head chef of this dish suddenly turned around and suddenly realized!

But before he could speak, the boss in front of him coughed lightly and reminded everyone to pay attention to proportion.

Several head chefs hurriedly looked solemn, stopped talking, and looked at Yi Baitang in front of him. Under their leadership, all eyes in the entire kitchen, at this moment, were all focused on the person in front of the cutting board.

It was at this time that Yi Baitang, who rubbed the kitchen knife and looked at the raw materials one by one, finally started.

The practice of crab roe lion head is not complicated.

Choose the best pork belly, according to the ratio of fat and lean that each chef prefers, or five or five in half, or six fat and four lean, or seven fat and three lean, do not frothe, but first slice, then shredded, and then diced.

Finally, the diced meat cubes were put into various condiments and stirred to knead the dough, but at this time, he was not in a hurry to start processing the crabs, but asked, "What about the soup?" ”

The boss standing at the front had not yet spoken, as the head chef of Huaiyang cuisine, the head chef of Huaiyang cuisine stepped forward: "What kind of soup do you want?" ”

"Chicken soup." Yi Baitang said.

The head chef was silent, and went directly to the other end to bring the boiled cauldron.

There were a total of two cauldrons, which were brought to Yi Baitang by the tall and strong head chef.

In a pot is boiling whole chicken, in which boiling water is gurgling and foaming on the surface; There was not a trace of material in the other pot, and the soup was clear and only slightly steaming.

Huaiyang cuisine pays attention to knife work, and the second pays attention to fresh soup.

In the two pots at the moment, the rich soup in the first pot is naturally the chicken soup that is boiling, but there is nothing in the second bite, but after the first pot is boiled, it is boiled with finely chopped chicken breasts to wash away the oil slick and impurities, and finally served as soup to the customer's table.

Yi Baitang took the bowl, prepared water, and tasted both soups respectively.

After tasting it, he will not say anything about the first pot of soup, just take a bowl and hold a part of the soup and ingredients, put the lion's head in it, then cover the lid, and put it in the steamer to steam.

It takes two hours to steam the lion's head.

The chefs present knew this, but instead of immediately leaving to do their own thing, they whispered to each other again:

"Now it's going to be steamed? I see that he has not been cutting for a few minutes now, has the flavor of the ingredients been marinated in the meat? ”

"I've seen it, and it takes fifteen minutes from cutting to marinating, three or four minutes to taste, and less than five minutes."

"It's less than twenty minutes......

The chefs' faces were slightly solemn.

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.

Since Yi Baitang came in and put on the cutting board, there was no special skill in it, such as carving a dragon and a phoenix with tofu or cutting it into thousands of strands of landscape painting, but it only took him twenty minutes to prepare the ingredients into the pot for steaming, which is unusual.

You must know that even the head chef of Huaiyang, who is most familiar with Huaiyang cuisine, takes at least 40 minutes from cutting meat to marinating and flavoring.

The speed is increased by half, is it because young people don't know the height of the sky, and they are steamed in the pot before they have tasted? Or has this Mr. Yi Xiao reached the point where the heavy sword has no edge and is not skillful?

Whether it was the boss of the prosperous world or the head chef standing behind the boss, none of them showed impatience and continued to stare at Yi Baitang steadily.

Yi Baitang didn't care about this after putting the lion's head into the steamer.

He returned to the chopping board, and without hurrying, began to mix the soup.

Originally, the eyelids of several big chefs who thought that Yi Baitang was going to start processing crab roe jumped with it!

Yi Baitang is actually mixing soup?

Yi Baitang actually dared to mix the soup!

They held their breath and condensed, only to see Yi Baitang preparing a small bowl while preparing various accessories in the plate, in fact, there was no particularly strange seasoning, that is, very basic things such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and sugar, and then a big spoon picked up, and poured the boiling soup into a small bowl with a big spoon.

He didn't start with a bowl of tuning.

Rather, it was a series of ten bowls, each of which began to be filled with a different proportion of spices, so fast that it was as if the owner had no brain at all, and acted completely instinctively.

After the ten bowls were finished, they were shaken one by one so that the seasonings that had been put down were completely dissolved in the soup, and Yi Baitang started to taste from the first bowl.

The first bowl, he tasted it, frowned and splashed it.

In the second bowl, he tasted it and frowned again.

At this time, the chefs standing next to them were already a little itchy.

Now that they are all standing in that silent place, they especially want to hear what kind of shocking method the thunder after that is, and they all hate to ask Yi Baitang not to splash the prepared soup, let them also taste it separately, and estimate the level of Mr. Yi Xiao, who is suspected to be the heir of "that".

But Yi Baitang didn't give them a chance at all.

poured two bowls of chicken soup, and when he tasted the third bowl, Yi Baitang's brows relaxed, and then, he didn't even taste the next seven bowls of chicken soup, and they all splashed directly into the pool.

Now, not only the chefs' eyelids are beating wildly, but even the boss who has been smiling and steady like Mount Tai is also twitching, secretly saying that this bastard boy and "that" are simply carved out of the same mold, and there is no companion spirit at all.

But this bit of slander did not show any clues.

Yi Baitang instructed Chef Huaiyang to pour out half of the clear chicken soup, and the other half of the pot was returned to its original position, and then according to the taste of the third bowl of soup just now, various seasonings were added one by one.

Chef Huaiyang was also calm, calmly helping Yi Baitang to prepare the things one by one, and completing this crab roe lion head with a very efficient efficiency.

Seeing this, the boss and the chefs are pleased: it takes two days to boil this pot of chicken soup, regardless of the final blending result, this is also a bit of a city, in case you don't mix well and ruin the whole pot of soup, our hotel will not sit on wax when we turn back to make dishes that need chicken soup.

Of course, such a calm and sophisticated thought completely disappeared from their heads after an hour and a half.

In an hour and a half, Yi Baitang smoothly finished processing the lion's head, chicken soup, and crabs.

An hour and a half later, the boss and the chefs sat down at a round table in the restaurant's private dining room, with only one dish on the table, a crab roe lion's head floating on the head in the chicken broth.

The boss of Shengshi is of course the most qualified to be the first to try it.

The assistant served him a bowl of chicken soup and a lion's head.

He first observed the chicken soup, the color of the soup was clear, and he couldn't smell a little aroma, which did have the meaning of the book that the color was as light as tea, and the soup was as clear as water.

He went to see the crab roe lion head the size of a baby's fist in the soup.

Solid but not scattered, round and cute, it is indeed a successful lion head.

He nodded with a smile, took the spoon and was about to taste it, but suddenly found a clue in the soup!

I saw that the lion's head the size of the baby's fist did not sink to the bottom of the water, but floated heavily in the water, and there was still a finger gap from the bottom of the white porcelain bowl, and I didn't know how the lion's head floated in the chicken soup.

The boss was taken aback, and instantly remembered all the tricks in the table he had eaten with his father twenty years ago.

He restrained the smile on his face, sat up a little more straight, and tasted the soup first, then the meat.

The rest of the chefs looked at the boss with a blank eye.

Taste, taste, what is this taste exactly?

The boss ate it in one bite, and before he could chew two bites, he suddenly raised his hand to cover his mouth and turned around as if he was burned.

The chefs around thought that the boss was burning his tongue, and even if he was anxious to know what the taste was, he still pressed it down and waited quietly.

Only the head chef of Huaiyang, who was sitting closest to the boss, found that after his boss turned his head to cover his mouth, he was pumping hard at him with his other hand under the table, as if calling him over.

Chef Huaiyang was suspicious, and after a while, he stepped forward and asked:

"Boss, is your tongue okay?"

The boss slightly brushed aside the hand covering his mouth and whispered, "The tongue is fine, I just want to ask you something." Just now, you started next to Mr. Yi Xiao and learned how he made soup and meatballs? ”

Chef Huaiyang: "......"

The boss looked anxious: "Didn't learn? You bear thing! I can't even seize such a good opportunity, and there will be no more shops in this village after this village!! ”

Chef Huaiyang: "............"

Bastard, you actually let me steal a teacher, I also have a work ethic, okay?!

Damn, I'm going to eat too, to see what kind of food can be so magical!