Chapter Twenty-Three: Foodies with Status
As a chef with advanced cooking skills, when you see rare and excellent ingredients, you will have the urge to try your skills in cooking.
It's just that Lao Tan may be really calm, and after putting the things brought by Wu Dao into the kitchen unceremoniously, he walked to the living room and asked Wu Dao: "I will accept your things, and I will also promise to cook for you next time." But if I'm not mistaken, you just said let me do you a favor.
I want to ask if I need help first, and if it's okay I'll say yes, if it's too difficult, I'm afraid I can't do anything. Therefore, you kid should say the conditions first, otherwise I won't be able to calm down when I cook. ”
This guy is really straightforward!
Wu Dao sighed in his heart and said, "Actually, in addition to sending you these fish today, I really want to ask you for a favor." But before I can help, I would like to ask you a question, how high do you think the price of those wild lake fish I just gave you? ”
Lao Tan thought for a while and said: "Although those lake fish are not the best ingredients, such a large wild lake fish are rarely caught now, and the market price should be about twice as high as the price of farmed lake fish." However, when it comes to high-end hotel sales, the price should be even higher. Why, is it possible that you have this kind of lake fish in your hands? ”
Sure enough, he is worthy of being an old chef, and he guessed the truth of most of the things based on Wu Dao's question, and Wu Dao also said directly: "That's right, I didn't plan to go out when I went back to my hometown this time, and I know what it's like to work outside for a few years."
So I'm going to try a farm at home, this fish is fished from the contracted village fish pond, this size of the lake fish should be close to two or three thousand catties, and there are dozens of grass carp and flower heads weighing thirty or forty catties.
I know that you have a relationship with some high-end hotels in the provincial capital, so I would like to ask you to help introduce a few customers and see if I can sell these fish at a high price. In addition, if the cooperation is pleasant, after my dragon trout is farmed in the future, I also plan to only supply high-end hotels, not retail sales.
After all, I am the only one who can raise this fish at the moment, and if it tastes good, I would like to talk to the people in charge of these hotels about the price. What do you think? Can you help? ”
Thousands of catties of this kind of wild lake fish weighing a few catties and the more rare big lake fish, Lao Tan sighed that Wu Dao's kid was lucky, and at the same time, he also agreed with Wu Dao's sales strategy. After all, if this kind of high-quality good ingredient is not cooked by a good master, it is also a pity for Lao Tan, who loves ingredients.
After listening to Wu Dao's plan, Lao Tan didn't say a word, took out his mobile phone and made a few calls, what he said to the conversation was very simple, probably 'I am Lao Tan, I cook today, and I have time to come over quickly.' He didn't mention Wu Dao's selling of fish to the other party at all, but Wu Dao believed that Lao Tan must have some intentions in doing this. didn't say anything, and chatted with Lao Tan about family life while it was still early.
Maybe it's rare to meet a chat friend, and then Lao Tan also told Wu Dao about his origin. This made Wu Dao sigh that his guess was really good!
Laotan, formerly known as Tan Lao, is the fifth-generation descendant of the famous Tan family's private cuisine, with extraordinary cooking skills, and was once regarded as a famous chef in the provincial capital. Even the chefs of several famous high-end hotels in the provincial capital are now in charge of Lao Tan's apprentices. This is also the reason why after he retired, the executives of those hotels took the trouble to invite him out of the mountain.
This villa was bought for marriage during his career, and his wife left Laotan because of a car accident, so since then Laotan has finished his job as a hotel chef and returned to the county No. 1 Middle School where his wife taught during his lifetime, and opened the current Laotan noodle restaurant. The fried fish noodles are also his wife's favorite noodle during her lifetime.
Regarding the infatuation of this old chef, Wu Dao couldn't help but sigh that this world is really impermanent, why are people who love each other always separated in the end. But Wu Dao didn't know what to say about it, after so many years, the old altar had already seen it, and when he said these things, he was also very calm.
Just when Wu Dao was listening carefully to the story that happened to Lao Tan, the doorbell rang at the gate of the villa, and after looking at the time, Wu Dao knew that the two had been chatting for almost two hours unconsciously. But despite this, Wu Dao felt that the people who came from the provincial capital after receiving a call from Lao Tan were really positive. According to his estimates, it took less than two hours to rush from the province to the county, and the guy who drove the car was fierce enough.
opened the door and walked into a bald man with a shiny face, but this big man who looked a little fierce and mighty said very politely when he saw Lao Tan: "Master Tan, I'm here to disturb you again!" ”
Lao Tan said calmly to the bald head's politeness: "It's okay, you kid must be driving fast again, right?" How many times did you tell you to drive slowly and be careful, you kid just don't remember? ”
The bald head who was reprimanded looked a little shy and said: "I was too excited when I heard the master cook for a treat, but it turned out that the accelerator pedal was faster, so I must pay attention in the future." Hehe! ”
Dare to love this guy in front of him is a foodie?
Just when Wu Dao guessed the identity of the bald head in front of him, Lao Tan introduced him: "Little Taoist, this guy is Ma Gongcheng, the big boss of the Longfeng Hotel in the provincial capital, and he is one of the few friends I have in the provincial capital. But don't look at this fat man's fierce spirit, he is quite sincere, but he is a little greedy. There will be a chance for you to communicate more in the future! ”
Next, Lao Tan naturally inevitably introduced Wu Dao again, and Ma Gongcheng was also very impressed that Wu Dao could be appreciated by Lao Tan. You must know that there are not many people who can be worthy of this Master Tan's recognition, not to mention that people who are worthy of his personal cooking are even rarer.
With the arrival of Ma Gongcheng, several middle-aged people who were also covered in oil came to the inland in the next half hour. Judging from the clothes and temperament of these middle-aged people, all of them are rare successful people in the provincial capital.
It can be said that today's Laotan villa, the top hotel executives in the provincial capital have come. And these people are all coming to cook for Lao Tan, which shows that Lao Tan's cooking skills are really a bit of a well-deserved domineering.
Seeing that the people he had called had arrived, Lao Tan asked Wu Dao and Ma Chenggong to sit down and wait for the other two hotel owners to sit down and wait for the meal, and the other two chefs who had apprenticed with Lao Tan were called into the kitchen by him to prepare a banquet.
Originally, Ma Chenggong and the others wanted to see what ingredients were cooking in Laotan today, but they were all blocked out without exception. only said that today's ingredients were provided by Wu Dao, but as for what ingredients, Lao Tan only had one sentence, 'I'll talk about things after I taste it', so he asked everyone in the hall to wait for the arrival of the delicious food.
Wu Dao, who chatted with three hotel owners who were successful people, did not make the conversation between people too boring because he was born as a business manager. Not long after everyone chatted, Ma Gongcheng, who was the most selective, suddenly stopped talking, and sniffed like radar.
When he smelled the saliva fragrance coming from the kitchen, Ma Gongcheng, who originally wanted to rush into the kitchen to find out, said expectantly: "This smells so good!" I'm looking forward to what kind of delicious food Master Tan has prepared today. ”
As the scent piled up in the living room, the four people who were originally talking stopped chatting and looked at the kitchen separated by glass. Even Wu Dao, who had already tasted the delicacy of dragon trout once, was tempted by the scent of dragon trout that he felt again.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, the glass door of the kitchen was finally opened, and looking at the old altar apprentice who came out with a large fish plate, Ma Gong Cheng asked eagerly: "Brother Wu, what kind of fish is this, why is it so fragrant?" ”
Lao Wu smiled and said: "I have never seen this fish, even if my master has seen this kind of fish for the first time, but he said that this fish was brought by this little brother, what is it called dragon trout." Don't say that you have never felt the fragrance of this fish, even my master said that he has never encountered such a fragrant fish. If it weren't for the fact that we often deal with delicious food, we probably would have eaten this fish in the kitchen just now. Hehe! ”
Dragon trout!
This title made the three bosses who have been engaged in the hotel industry for decades stunned for a moment, but fortunately they knew that this fish came from Wu Dao. For this reason, he immediately turned his attention to Wu Dao, who was also staring at the steamed dragon trout on the plate.
Perhaps feeling the fierce eyes of the three bosses, Wu Daoqiang couldn't help the greed in his heart and said: "Boss Ma, don't look at me like this, this fish was also caught by me unintentionally." I thought it was a little different from the red trout, and I didn't have any trout I've ever seen that color, so I named it dragon trout.
This fish is a cold-water fish, which is usually very rare. However, I already plan to breed this fish, and I hope that the three bosses will wait for the good news when it will be sold. ”
Hearing that this fish was caught by Wu Dao by accident, the three bosses all looked a little disappointed, after all, if they could get this fish to sell, then the reputation of their hotel could naturally be further improved. Fortunately, Wu Dao said that he was preparing to breed this fish, but he had to wait for a while. Although there was some eagerness, the three bosses understood that good things had to stand up to waiting, and they didn't say much about it.
The next two stonefish that were served to the table also made the three well-informed bosses sigh. Such a large stonefish is still wild, and it is estimated that it will be treated as a top delicacy for VIPs when it is brought to their hotel.
But now such a delicacy is about to fall into their mouths, and in addition to sighing, they feel that Wu Dao, this kid, is lucky, and he is willing to take out this kind of good thing without taking a penny, which is enough to prove that he is a person who values love and righteousness. This made the three bosses' perception of Wu Dao undoubtedly improve a lot all of a sudden!
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