No. 7 dining room, in the box with the name "Spring".

Three dishes and one soup have been placed on the round table, the dishes are sweet and sour fish, fried bacon with pear artemisia and shredded yam, and the soup is three fresh mushroom soup, which is a fresh word.

Sweet and sour fish and shredded yam are both traditional specialties in Shandong cuisine, but they are also the "top ten Jin dishes" in the eyes of the Sanjin people, which are quite popular with the locals.

Stir-fried bacon with pear artemisia was specially made by Jiang Yu for Liu Xining.

As a Zhangjiang native who has been wandering outside all the year round, after returning to his hometown, if he doesn't eat a bite of fried bacon with pear artemisia, what is the difference between it and not going home?

In the entire box, there are only two people, Liu Xining and Pan Jingchen, who have these three dishes and one soup, plus two plates of scissor noodles topped with tomatoes and eggs as the staple food, which is already quite rich.

"Chenchen, is this a noodle fish?"

Although Liu Xining also likes to eat pasta, she doesn't eat it often, she knows the common ramen noodles and knife-cut noodles in the noodle restaurant, but these types of noodles unique to Sanjin Province, she is really confused.

She picked up a pair of scissors noodles with a fast child, put it in front of her and looked at it carefully, and said with a smile,

"It seems to be a little different, it's not as round as the noodle fish, and it's not so slender, so what kind of noodle is this?"

"This is scissor noodles, that is, use scissors to cut the kneaded dough into the shape of a small fish little by little, so scissors noodles are also called scissor roe, it is said that there were scissor noodles in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, and there are legends!"

It can be seen that Pan Jingchen seems to like this scissor noodles very much, and even has more words to say, she is holding a fast child to stir the tomato egg marinade and scissor noodles on the plate together, and at the same time giving Liu Xining popular science.

When Liu Xining heard this, he immediately became interested, and urged again and again: "There is still a story about this scissor noodle?" Come on, I'll hear it! ”

"It's just folklore, but it's not necessarily true."

Pan Jingchen couldn't help but purse her lips and laugh when she saw her impatient.

However, having said that, Pan Jingchen still said softly,

According to folk legend, in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin was still studying and practicing martial arts in Taiyuan County, while gathering talents and waiting for the opportunity to start an incident.

One day, Wu Zetian's father, Wu Shi Tong [Yue], came to visit, and it was just noon, so Li Shimin warmly invited Wu Shi Tong to dine in the study.

Because of the suddenness of the incident, the eldest grandson, who was cutting clothes at the time, didn't have time to prepare lunch.

Just when she was at a loss, the eldest grandson inadvertently saw the tailoring scissors placed on the table, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and in a hurry, he hurriedly took the flour and dough, and then used the scissors to cut the noodles carefully to serve the guests.

That's where scissor noodles come in. ”

"Wow! I really didn't expect that this ordinary-looking scissor noodle was actually invented by Queen Changsun! ”

Liu Xining looked surprised, she picked up the fast and quickly stirred the scissor noodles on the plate, and said with a smile,

"Then I have to taste it, whether the scissor noodles invented by the eldest grandson queen are delicious!"

As she spoke, she picked up a pair of scissor noodles from Kuaiko, put them in her mouth and ate them.

Before she chewed a few times, Liu Xining's eyes lit up, and her little head kept clicking like a chicken pecking rice, and said again and again,

"This scissor noodles are really good, strong and smooth, especially this tomato and egg stew is particularly good, sour and appetizing, and the soup is thick and juicy!

Chenchen, what are you waiting for? Hurry up and eat, we still have so many dishes, today is really happy! ”

As she spoke, she stretched out a quick piece of fried bacon with pear and artemisia and put it in her mouth, and her eyes lit up even more when she ate it.

You don't need her to speak, just by looking at the expression on her face, you can know that the taste of this fried bacon with pear artemisia is definitely not bad!

And Pan Jingchen, who was sitting next to her, didn't look at it, her eating appearance was much more elegant than Liu Xining, even if there were no outsiders in this box, she was not in a hurry, took a spoon and scooped up a few scissors noodles into the plate and put them in her mouth, chewing slowly.

This scissor noodles, when she didn't debut in the entertainment industry before, she also often ate them.

My grandmother's family is in the countryside, and her family background is also very ordinary, so it is naturally impossible to buy her delicious food often, but my grandmother's hands are very skillful, and they are also a bowl of noodles, and she can always make a variety of different delicious pasta dishes in different ways.

This scissor noodle, Pan Jingchen originally ate it at her grandmother's house, the strong and smooth taste, coupled with the sour and delicious tomato and egg marinade, often made her forget to eat, and she would not let go of the soup at the bottom of the bowl.

Now sitting in the box on the second floor of Jiang Daqi's canteen, she savored the familiar taste in her mouth, and seemed to return to her childhood again:

She was small and helped to light the fire in front of the stove, black ash painted all over her little face, her bright big eyes were shining, and from time to time she glanced at her grandmother's busy figure in front of the stove......

The pasta made by her grandmother, whether it is fish with noodles or cut fish roe, is the best food in Pan Jingchen's memory, just like the cut fish roe she eats now.

In the small box, it seemed very quiet, except for the enticing fragrance wafting through the air.

Two young and beautiful girls sat next to each other, quietly savoring delicious food, and the scene was as beautiful as a world-famous painting.

……

In the kitchen on the second floor.

Each tasted a small bowl of Sanjin special pasta scissor noodles, Du Guangning, Pei Guofu and others were a little unsatisfied, the amount was too small, like them, foodies who were often enlarged by various delicacies, a small bowl of noodles was just enough to taste.

"Boss, this scissor noodles don't have to be made into lo mein, right? Wouldn't it be delicious to mix with other dishes? ”

Du Guangning saw that Jiang Yu was busy, so he hurriedly stepped forward and licked his lips while helping to start, and asked,

"I still like our Jiangzhou cold mix, does it taste good when mixed with various seasonings of cold mix?"

He has been following Jiang Yu for so long, and the longer he has been in contact, the more self-aware he is, in the field of cooking, even if he practices for a lifetime, he can't compare to Jiang Yu.

Why does this tomato and egg marinated scissor noodles taste so good?

The strength and smoothness of the noodles is one thing, but more importantly, this tomato and egg stew is made by Jiang Yu himself!

Not to mention mixing noodles, even if it's mixed feed, it's so delicious that you can swallow your tongue!

Therefore, even if you make lo mein, it will definitely not be delicious, but if you use scissors noodles instead of fresh rice noodles and mix them with various left ingredients of Jiangzhou cold noodles, the taste will definitely not be much worse......

Thinking of this, Du Guangning couldn't help but swallow his saliva again, as soon as this gluttony came up, he really couldn't suppress it!

It's only five o'clock now, and there is still half an hour before the restaurant opens, and the guests in the box didn't come so early, so Jiang Yu didn't rush to stir-fry, but prepared a few cold dishes first.

Hearing that Du Guangning was still reading the scissors noodles, he turned his head and glanced at him, and said:

"Of course, you can, noodle, whether it's boiled with soup or mixed noodles, you can eat whatever you like!"

"Oh, I got it!"

Du Guangning nodded, and suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but smile "hehe" and asked,

"Boss, next time if you have time, can you teach me one or two more stir-fried dishes?"

"Well, it's not a big deal."

Jiang Yu continued to be busy with the work in his hands, and he didn't raise his head to answer,

"Okay, you hurry up and prepare the food, the guests who have booked the box should come in a while, we have to speed up our actions, don't let people sit in the box and wait too long."

"Hey, I got it!"

Du Guangning answered, and ran to work with a happy face.

After sending Du Guangning to work, Jiang Yu focused his attention on the cold dish he was making—salt-baked sesame fish skin.

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In fact, in the average home kitchen, very few people will take out the fish skin alone to cook.

One is that the price of fish skin is not cheap, and relatively speaking, most people still prefer to eat meat.

A large part of the fishy smell of another fish comes from the fish skin, once it is not handled well, the pungent fishy smell can make people dare not go fast, especially the cold fish skin, it is even more difficult to master.

In other places, few people make cold fish skin, but in Canton Province, cold fish skin is a well-known traditional snack.

The selection of cold fish skin is very important, generally using the skin of dace, grass carp or grass carp, but the fish often has a heavy muddy smell, and it requires great skill and knife skills to deal with it.

Therefore, without two brushes, the average restaurant simply can't control it.

First of all, the fish scales must be cleaned, otherwise it will have a great impact on the taste.

Then the fresh fish skin is taken out with a blade, and the fish skin is blanched in a pot of boiling water, and then immediately put into ice water to chill.

Stirred by the ice water, the skin of the fish naturally curls up and becomes thin strips.

Then, soak the chilled fish skin in edible alkaline water for a while, and then take it out to rinse off the alkaline water flavor.

Then cut the yuba into thin strips, drain it with flying water and pour it into a bowl with fish skin, add salt-baked chicken ingredients, sesame oil and other seasonings and mix well, sprinkle with shredded green onions, and stir white sesame seeds evenly.

Such a cold fish skin not only has no fishy smell in the mouth, but also is full of fresh and crispy flavor, the more you chew, the more fragrant it is, and the service is extremely delicious.

It's complicated to say, in fact, it's not difficult to do, Jiang Yu's hands and feet are nimble, his movements are fast, and it didn't take long for a salt-baked sesame fish skin to be ready.

He had just put this Cantonese specialty cold dish on a plate and put it in the fresh-keeping cabinet, and was about to make the next dish when the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

Jiang Yu frowned slightly, but still picked up a towel to dry his hands, and walked outside the kitchen while taking out his mobile phone from his pocket.

When he came to the rest area outside the kitchen, he picked up his mobile phone and looked at it, the phone number on the caller ID was an unfamiliar landline, and then he looked at the area code, it was from the capital.

Jiang Yu suddenly remembered what Jia Dequan had told him when he was in the box on the first floor before, and a thought flashed through his mind:

Could it be a call from the Chinese Culinary Celebrity Chef Committee?

He didn't have time to think about it, and reached out to answer the phone:

"Hey, hello! I'm Jiang Yu! ”

"Hey, hello, Mr. Jiang!"

In the microphone of the mobile phone, a rather hearty man's voice came, and he said with a smile,

"I'm sorry to interrupt, I'm Bai Zhentian, director of the Office of the Celebrity Chef Committee of the Chinese Cuisine Association, and I called Mr. Jiang this time because I want to inform you of something."

Jiang Yu said politely: "Please speak." ”

"Yes, in August this year, the 'Chinese Young Celebrity Chef Cooking Competition' hosted by our celebrity chef committee will be held in Tanzhou, and at that time, we will invite a group of celebrity chefs to perform cooking performances before the competition."

Bai Zhentian briefly introduced the situation, and then said,

"Mr. Jiang's cooking skills have now resounded all over the country, and the 'old foods' from all over the country have heard the news and moved just to taste the food made by Mr. Jiang, which is really amazing.

It is precisely because of this that after discussion, our celebrity chef committee decided to solemnly invite Mr. Jiang to participate in the cooking performance before the competition during the Young Celebrity Chef Competition in August.

This morning, the official invitation letter of our celebrity chef committee has been sent out by express, and the reason why I am calling Mr. Jiang now is to invite him verbally again to show our importance.

We sincerely hope that we can see Mr. Jiang in Tanzhou before the official start of the Young Celebrity Chef Competition in August this year. ”

"I am really flattered by the invitation of the senior teachers of the Celebrity Chef Committee."

Jiang Yu listened carefully to Bai Zhentian's words, and thought that it was really the incident that Jia Dequan said before.

At the same time, he was also a little surprised, but he didn't expect that the celebrity chef committee seemed to attach great importance to him, in order to invite him to participate in the cooking performance before the young celebrity chef competition, not only also held a special meeting to discuss, but also sent an invitation letter and then called to invite him again.

If it were another chef, I am afraid that he would have been flattered a long time ago, and he would have agreed to come down after being busy, but Jiang Yu's mind was actually what he had told Jia Dequan before, he was actually not too interested in these things, and naturally he would not feel too much.

However, what Jia Dequan said before is indeed true, he does not take the initiative to chase fame and fortune, but he has obtained it with his ability, why should he push it out?

Besides, there is a shiny title on his head, which is equivalent to a shield, although he is not afraid of trouble, but there are many troubles, and it is indeed quite annoying.

It's different with a shield, at least it can block most unnecessary troubles.

Thinking of this, he opened his mouth again and asked,

"But I've never participated in a similar event before, and I really don't know what a cooking show is, can the director briefly introduce what this cooking show activity is?"

"Mr. Jiang, you don't have to worry about this at all, with your cooking skills, this kind of cooking performance is completely a piece of cake."

On the other end of the phone, Bai Zhentian couldn't help laughing, he explained,

"The cooking performance is divided into two parts, one is a stunt display, such as showing superb knife work, generally cutting shredded meat or vegetables on a balloon, and cutting chrysanthemum tofu blindfolded; The pastry process is demonstrated, the pulled noodles can pass through the needle and thread, and then the dough balloon is blown and so on.

Another part is the cooking demonstration, which is to cook your own famous dishes on the spot. ”

"I see, then I probably understand."

Listening to Bai Zhentian give a few examples, Jiang Yu suddenly realized that this was a cooking show, and he seemed to have seen relevant content when he watched TV before.

For example, the chef rides on a wheelbarrow with a piece of dough on his head to perform knife cutting, there are also those who chop vegetables while spinning a hula hoop, and even more, they step barefoot on broken glass ramen......

When he saw this scene at that time, he was still a little crying and laughing, is this a performance of cooking skills? It's obviously performing acrobatics!

What is the use of a chef not studying how to make dishes with more reasonable combinations, more comprehensive nutrition, and better taste and taste, but instead playing this kind of juggling cooking?

You can't improve your cooking skills at all!

However, the examples given by Bai Zhentian are not so exaggerated, ordinary people really can't cut vegetables on balloons, and the ramen noodles made can't pass through the eye of a needle, which is a real skill, and it can't be fake at all.

After thinking about it, he said,

"Mr. Bai, it's only April, and it's too early to say what happened in August, after all, I'm not sure if there will be any other arrangements at that time.

Why don't you think about it first, if I make sure that I happen to be free during the Young Chef Competition, I will contact you at that time, what do you think? ”

"Yes, yes!"

Bai Zhentian agreed, he called this time, and he didn't think about letting Jiang Yu come down directly, after all, it was still too early, he said with a smile,

"I hope that after Mr. Jiang receives the invitation letter, he can think carefully, I am looking forward to meeting Mr. Jiang in Tanzhou, I believe that we will definitely become friends."

"Definitely, definitely!"

Jiang Yu also responded with a smile.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yu couldn't help but let out a long breath.

When he was in the box on the first floor before, he also told Jia Dequan that he had not received any notice from the Celebrity Chef Committee until now, and he didn't know what the situation would be.

This time, I really have to seriously consider whether to go to Tanzhou or not.

If you really want to go, you have to think about it carefully, and when the time comes, in the cooking stunt performance, what should you perform, you can't be like others, and you can also play with a balloon to chop vegetables, right? That's boring!

Of course, throwing a hula hoop and cutting vegetables, even if he is killed, he will not do it in front of so many people, and if he can't be killed, he won't do it, how embarrassing it is!

"It seems that it's better to ask Lao Jia when the time comes, after all, he is a master, well-informed, and there must be a lot of similar unique skills."

Thinking of this, Jiang Yu couldn't help laughing, and suddenly felt that he had made a wise decision to let Jia Dequan stay.

Look, don't you need Lao Jia now?

"There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure", this is true and not wrong at all!

Putting this matter aside for the time being, Jiang Yu hurriedly returned to the kitchen and began to get busy.

……

Jiang Yu was busy cooking in the kitchen.

In the "Spring" box, Liu Xining ate too fast, not only ate the plate of tomatoes and eggs and marinated scissor noodles, but also ate the plate of fried bacon with pear and artemisia specially made for her by Jiang Yu, and also drank a bowl of three fresh mushroom soup, and ate herself at once.

"Chenchen, no, no, I really can't eat it."

Liu Xining drank the last mouthful of soup in the bowl, waved his little hand vigorously, and then covered his lower abdomen and said,

"I ate too much today, I feel like my stomach is going to burst!"

"Are you really not eating?"

Pan Jingchen ate much slower than Liu Xining, and it was precisely because of this that she didn't actually eat too much, at this moment, she sandwiched a piece of golden and translucent silk yam, and pulled out a thin and long crystal sugar silk, which made people very appetizing when they looked at it.

She put the yam in the cold boiled water in front of her and soaked it in the water, and then put it in her mouth, and her eyes suddenly became confused.

This shredded yam is crispy on the outside and glutinous on the inside, sweet and crispy, and when you eat it, it seems that it can make people sweet to the heart, and the sense of happiness comes up all of a sudden.

After eating a piece of yam, she was still unfinished, and stretched out Kuaizi to eat several pieces in a row, then licked her sweet lips, and said to Liu Xining with a smile,

"This shredded yam is delicious, crispy, soft and glutinous, sweet and delicious, if you don't eat it, don't regret it when I eat it all."

"It's like I haven't eaten before."

Liu Xining leaned back in the chair, slowly rubbed his stomach, and pouted and said,

"I can tell you, the sweet and sour fish is also delicious, I tasted it before, wow, the outside is charred and the inside is tender, sweet and sour, and there is no fishy smell at all!

While it's still warm, you should eat it quickly, and when it cools down for a while, it won't taste good. ”

"It's okay, it's delicious when it's cold, if you don't want to eat cold, just heat it up."

Pan Jingchen didn't panic at all, but she still took a quick amount of fish meat, dipped it in the sauce, and then put it in her mouth and chewed it a few times, couldn't help but exhale lightly, and said,

"This junior brother Xiao Jiang, every dish he makes is so delicious, more delicious than what I used to eat in the high-end restaurant in my hometown, it's unbelievable, he's still so young!"

"What's wrong with being young? Chenchen, you can't look down on young people, among young people, there are many capable people. ”

Liu Xining shook his little head and said with some emotion,

"If you look at the rich list announced every year, there are many people who are younger than us, it is really 'the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and a generation of new people is better than the old people'!"

"I don't look down on young people, I just feel a little emotional, you know, the chef profession, you need to accumulate experience, generally speaking, the older the chef, the more exquisite the cooking, after all, it takes a long time to practice."

Pan Jingchen took another piece of plucked yam and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, feeling the sweet taste in his heart, and said slowly,

"If you look at the chefs invited from TV variety shows, which one is not in their forties or fifties? But Senior Brother Xiaojiang is only in his twenties!

I wondered, could he be the one God had arranged to save me? ”