Chapter 392 Fanwai (Xing Lu)
He wants to be like those top celebrity chefs, who can make the most delicious dishes with the simplest ingredients in an understatement, and wants to find the most suitable place for the food he is in awe of, so that they can shine as they should.
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Because of his experience working in his father's restaurant, Sun Chen did not feel how hard this job was like Hou Jiang and Li Junjie, but took advantage of the convenience of his position to secretly learn a lot of things.
At least if Sun Chen is asked to cook now, what dishes are served in what color, and what material is used to serve them, he is confident that he can do better than before.
And the communication with Ning Xin after work every day made him understand these more thoroughly.
Before you know it, a month passed quickly, and many students got their first income in their lives. Hou Jiang and Li Junjie are just a full salary of 3,000 yuan, which makes them happy for a long time.
Of course, it was not the first time that Sun Chen and Ning Xin had made money, but they were also very happy, and when they were not working, Sun Chen also took Ning Xin to the gold store and bought a gold necklace for her for three thousand yuan.
It may be that for the currency used in the past, such as gold and silver, and special feelings, Sun Chen not only gave Ning Xin, but even the gift to his mother was a gold necklace.
Because he felt that when he saw the golden light, he felt inexplicably satisfied.
On this day, Sun Chen and the others were suddenly called to a meeting.
Looking at the strange and familiar faces around him, Sun Chen found that they were slightly different from when they first met. A month is not a long time, it is not a short time, it is not a short time, but it has made these stunned young people who have just stepped out of the campus to contact the society have undergone more or less transformation.
"A month has passed, and the performance of the students has generally passed, and a few of them have done a little unsatisfactory, so I will not criticize them by name here. At this meeting, we mainly adjust the position, and the time becomes half a month, so I will announce the specific arrangement! The foreman didn't say anything long-winded, and directly stated the purpose of the meeting.
Compared to the one a month ago, everyone was a little eager to try.
Students who are interested in studying, such as Sun Chen Ningxin, have already seen the intention of the hotel to arrange this way, and want to try it in different positions. And those who are not so interested in learning have found other pleasures in it.
As a colorful star-rated hotel, the story that happens here is even more exciting than the TV series or what is written in it.
Sun Chen and Ning Xin were very fortunate to be assigned together this time, together with a classmate named Liu Haiyang, who was in charge of the hotel's separate porridge stove specially prepared for guests with gastrointestinal problems.
Of course, they can't be sent alone, just to help the chef on the stove.
When Sun Chen and the others arrived, it was half past nine in the morning, and at this time, the guests had already finished breakfast, and it was too early to prepare lunch, just in time to report for duty.
But they didn't expect that a thin figure, dressed in a pure white chef's uniform, was cooking porridge there. The cooktop used to cook porridge is not a large one in a normal kitchen, but a huge rectangular lattice stove with two rows of small stoves.
"Excuse me, are you Ms. Xing Lu in charge of the special diet department? We are ......" Liu Haiyang has a cheerful personality, and he has become familiar with Sun Chen and Ning Xin on the way here, and after learning that they are a couple, he shouted that he was going to change his name to Brother Bulb.
"I'm the only one here, who do you think would be so boring to come here?" Before Liu Haiyang's inquiry was finished, the man had already turned around, although he knew in advance that the person in charge of teaching them was a lady, but Sun Chen didn't expect her to be so young, it looked like she should be less than thirty years old.
"I told Lao Lin that I don't want to send messy people to me, why are there three more today?"
However, looking at the appearance of this young lady, it is clear that they are not welcome.
"Uh......" Sun Chen and the others didn't know what to say to make themselves appear less embarrassed.
"I don't have any work to assign to you here, you can do whatever you want. But let's talk about it first, I don't expect you to help, and you have to try not to mess with me. ”
Are they disgusted? Sun Chen and the three of them glanced at each other and assured in unison, "Got it." ”
No one assigned them to work, and Sun Chen and they didn't really stay there and didn't care about anything, first Ning Xin picked up a rag and wiped it here and there, which didn't make Xing Lu unhappy, Sun Chen and Liu Haiyang saw this, and walked to the stove to see what Xing Lu was doing.
"Do you need to stir it constantly when you boil the porridge? Doesn't it mean that there is still time to watch the heat? After watching it for a full twenty minutes, they didn't see Xing Lu make any other movements, only holding a long-handled spoon there and stirring it constantly. There were twenty or thirty soup cups on the stove being heated at the same time, and Xing Lu alone was really struggling.
However, Sun Chen didn't look at Xing Lu's appearance in a hurry, but gave people a sense of calmness.
"I need to look at the color of the rice so that every grain is evenly heated and has the same taste." Xing Lu's subordinates' movements remained unchanged, and he replied casually.
"Is it that exquisite?" Liu Haiyang complained, "Aren't we here to prepare meals for those guests with gastrointestinal problems?" Wouldn't it be enough to make sure it was light and soft? ”
"A bowl of gruel here, the selling price is sixty-eight yuan, and there is nothing in it, if it is those seafood porridge, shredded chicken porridge and the like, the price is more than 100 yuan, do you think we have a reason to prevaricate them with a perfunctory cooking attitude?" Xing Lu raised the corners of her eyes and glanced at him.
"It's okay to see me work, but don't ask stupid questions like this in the future, and next time, you can leave."
Xing Lu's words made Sun Chen's brows furrow, this woman's personality is too strong, right?
But half an hour later, smelling the porridge, he changed his mind, she did have such qualifications.
It's just an ordinary porridge, and she is so different from what others make.
Xing Lu took out the walkie-talkie, pressed a few numbers on it, and said to it: "The porridge has been boiled, find someone to come and serve it." ”
"I, senior, where to go? I'll deliver it! After working as a vegetable delivery worker for a month, Sun Chen instinctively raised his hand.
"Don't say it's you, even I, if there is no customer who specifically names me, I am not qualified to deliver it." Xing Lu said.
Although she may not have meant anything else when she said this, Sun Chen, who had just volunteered, blushed.
"Don't think about it, I don't mean anything else, the people who ordered this porridge are the guests who live in the presidential suite on the top floor, except for the exclusive butler who is responsible for them, the staff of the entire hotel have no right to go up." Xing Lu's explanation made Sun Chen cast a grateful look at her, otherwise he would have almost shrunk into the corner to draw circles just now.
"There are only four rooms on the entire top floor of the presidential suite in our hotel, and the cheapest night costs 18,888!" Liu Haiyang whispered.
"Wow! So expensive? Ning Xin stuck out her tongue, "Eighteen thousand, it's enough to catch up with the expenses of me and my mother for a year~"
"Therefore, we ordinary people and those rich people are basically people from two worlds. The price of a bowl of porridge for them is almost worth a week's worth of food in my family~"
"Alas, when can I afford to live in such a presidential suite~"
Ren Liu Haiyang felt sorry for himself there, and Sun Chen and Ning Xin looked at each other and smiled.
If Ning Xin was willing, she would be able to live like that right away, right?
"How many things have you memorized at the end of the day?" On the way off work, Ning Xin asked Sun Chen.
"I don't remember much~" Sun Chen shook his head and told Ning Xin the few steps he remembered, "Don't look at Xiaozao, why do I look busier than the lobby on the first floor?" For the whole meal, I was just busy getting the dishes, chopsticks, and spoons. ”
He said that this sentence is not an exaggeration at all, it takes a long time to boil a bowl of porridge, and they don't know what kind of porridge the guests will order at that time, so since ten o'clock, Xing Lu has not been idle, and every porridge on the hotel menu has been cooked and prepared.
There are more than 60 kinds of porridge, each of which prepares three servings, that is, there are almost 200 bowls, and different porridges also need cups of different colors to hold them.
It was also at this time that he realized why it was just a small stove and why it occupied such a large room.
After a brief rest, Sun Chen and the others came to Xing Lu again.
This time they were directly assigned the job.
"Now, pick up this bag of rice for me."
The attitude of Sun Chen and the others should be more sincere than the original group, Xing Lu said in the morning that he would ignore them, and he would start to order them to work in the afternoon.
The three couldn't help but be overjoyed.
They don't feel aggrieved because they are assigned to do a job, because there is an unwritten rule in the chef world that if the other person has a bad impression of you and doesn't want to teach you skills, they won't tell you to do any work. On the contrary, if he wants to instruct you, he will definitely ask you to do some trivial chores, which has a hint of testing.
Taking the rice in his hand, several people looked at it and looked up in unison, "Sister Xing, this rice has been picked clean, right?" ”
This is Thai fragrant rice, the market price is 50 yuan a catty, although it is more expensive than ordinary rice, but after cooking, there is a unique rice fragrance, the grains are distinct, crystal clear, and it is best used to cook porridge.
"I'm talking about asking you to pick out the incomplete grains of rice." Xing Lu said.
“…… All right! "You're a great cook, you're the boss, you have the final say. A few people stopped talking, and honestly lowered their heads to pick rice.
When they first picked the grains of rice, they could see clearly and quickly find the incomplete one. But picking and picking, his eyes were spent, and Sun Chen only felt that there were white flowers in front of him, and he couldn't tell whether the rice grains were complete or incomplete.
"Oops, I can't do it!" Liu Haiyang raised his head and blinked vigorously, "I can't see the rice grains clearly~"
Looking at Xing Lu, who was leisurely drinking tea on the side, he whispered to Sun Chen: "You said that Sister Xing didn't want to play with us, right?" ”
Sun Chen didn't dare to answer this.
The three of them rested for a while, and soon continued to pick rice, and finally after an hour and a half, they finished picking ten catties of rice.
"Pick these red beans again."
"Pick peanuts."
"Shredding the chicken."
"Peel the shrimp, don't spoil it for me!"
"Soak the fungus."
"Soak the white fungus."
"Pit the dates."
“……”
At dinner time, Xing Lu was still busy in front of the stove, but Sun Chen and the three of them didn't even touch the edge of the stove, so they just kept lowering their heads to pick up things and soak things.
finally got to work at the end of the day, Sun Chen only felt that his neck was about to be lifted.
However, Sun Chen also discovered a pattern, what Xing Lu assigned to them was only the processing of some ordinary ingredients, such as sea cucumbers, shark fins, rouge rice, etc., and they didn't even see a shadow.
Sun Chen speculated that Xing Lu should be afraid that they would spoil the ingredients!
"It's good today and it's going to go on tomorrow." Before going out, Xing Lu said with a smile.
What a kind sentence, when Sun Chen and the three of them heard it, they all shuddered, and they came?!
It's a hell of a thing!
On the second day, when several people came to the workshop with the determination to die generously, Xing Lu beckoned: "Come over quickly, I have been waiting for you for a long time." ”
"Oh, huh?" The sound in front is weak, and the word in the back has a sense of surprise.
Doesn't seem like their role is that important? Sister Xing was waiting for them?
"Here, each of you is in charge of four porridge cups, just like I do and keep stirring."
Without further ado, Xing Lu commanded directly.
Several people were flattered, and they picked up the long-handled spoon handed to them by Xing Lu, and stirred it around as Xing Lu usually looked.
"Hey, what did you say Sister Xing said today, yesterday she swore not to give up if she didn't practice a few of us, and today she was so kind to teach us to get started."
"It doesn't matter what she's up with, we just have to do our best." Sun Chen said, "Maybe she thinks we only have half a month to learn from her, feels sorry for us, and wants to teach us more?" ”
"I also think so, Sister Xing is unforgiving, but her heart is excellent." Ning Xin agreed.
"Yes, if you husband and wife sing and harmonize, it will be obvious that my light bulb is a despicable villain!" Liu Haiyang reluctantly ate the dog food thrown by the two people unconsciously, and spread his hands.
Chatting is chatting, and there is no delay in the hands of a few people, after all, there are some cooking skills as the foundation, plus Xing Lu is pointing on the side, and after the porridge is boiled out, it really looks like that.
"Okay, you don't have to do any other work. The rest of your task is to drink all the porridge you have just boiled. ”
"What?" A few people were surprised, they boiled porridge for four people by themselves, so they couldn't drink it all, but they couldn't stand to death?!