"I do it alone, but I can't do much."

Ma Guoqiang shook his head, but the smugness on his face couldn't be hidden, he said with a smile,

"However, the two large trays of white sugar cakes I made were all sold out, especially those girls, who came late and didn't buy them, and they were a little reluctant to leave!"

That's the most important thing he's said in a long time!

The meat buns and vegetable buns that I used to make in the canteen actually tasted pretty good, and when he opened a steamed bun shop in the city, many people came to buy them every day.

It's a pity that compared with the soup dumplings made by Jiang Yu, the buns he made are too ordinary, although they can be sold, but that is also because the soup dumplings are sold out!

Therefore, Ma Guoqiang is still a little unhappy in his heart, and he always feels that he is a mixed character in these seven canteens.

For a man in his fifties, this feeling is indeed not so pleasant.

But now it's different, the white sugar cake he makes, even if it's here in the Seven Canteens, it's also very popular!

You see, this is its own value, isn't that reflected?

At this moment, Ma Guoqiang's face was flushed, as if he had a second spring, and the whole person was a little excited, and he said with a look of eagerness,

"Boss, since the white sugar cake is so popular with the students in the cafeteria, then you think, can you arrange another person to make it with me?"

"Who do you want to do for you?"

Jiang Yu glanced at him and asked with a smile.

The most important thing in making white sugar cake is the process of frying, and as for the preliminary steps of blending glutinous rice dough and making white sugar cake blanks, it can indeed be handed over to others.

"Feng Yueqing, Xiao Feng."

Ma Guoqiang has probably been thinking about this for a long time, and when he heard Jiang Yu ask, he didn't even think about it, and blurted out directly,

"Xiao Feng, a young man, is very diligent in his work, and his brain is relatively flexible, besides, it is not very difficult to make white sugar cake blanks, I teach him a few times, and he should be able to learn it."

Feng Yueqing?

Oh, it's that young man from Jianning City, Xiaoxiang Province!

Jiang Yu immediately remembered that the reason why he was so impressed by an apprentice was that Feng Yueqing usually didn't talk much, but he worked very hard.

I still remember that in order to stay, he rushed to help the part-time staff clean up the canteen without saying a word, which made a group of part-time students a little overwhelmed.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yu couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, as long as he is willing, then you can look at the arrangement."

"I arranged?"

When Ma Guoqiang heard this, he shook his head again and again, "You have to arrange this matter, boss, how can I be the master?"

"Okay, I'll arrange it."

Jiang Yu laughed, raised his hand and beckoned a part-time student to come over, and asked him to help call Feng Yueqing over.

Feng Yueqing didn't know what was going on, but when he heard that the boss was looking for him, he quickly put down the work in his hand and ran over:

"Boss, are you looking for me?"

"Well, Xiao Feng, you've been working in the Seventh Canteen for a while, and you must have come here to learn something, right?"

Jiang Yu didn't go around the bend with him, and said bluntly,

"Now there is a chance, Uncle Ma needs a helper to make white sugar cakes here, would you like to give him a hand?

You can rest assured, as long as you do well, Uncle Ma will definitely be willing to teach you.

I called you here to ask if you would like to learn?"

Ma Guoqiang saw that the boss said so, he also nodded, and said with a smile:

"That's right, if you do a good job, I definitely won't hide it, my pastry making skills, I also need to find someone to pass it on, I can't bring it into the coffin, that would be a pity."

"I, I'm willing to learn!"

Feng Yueqing was stunned for a while before he nodded reluctantly, his face full

It's exciting.

He thought that the boss was looking for him, but he made some mistakes, and he was still a little nervous, but he didn't expect that the boss was planning to find a master for himself!

This, this is simply a great thing that falls into a trap in the sky, and he is about to be stunned!

That's right, he resigned from a big restaurant in Jianning City and traveled thousands of miles to the Seven Canteens, originally hoping to learn stir-fry techniques from Jiang Yu's side one day.

It's a pity that not long after he entered the seventh canteen to work, Jiang Yu opened another high-end restaurant on the second floor of the canteen, and he almost didn't have time to come to the kitchen on the first floor to stir-fry.

In this way, Feng Yueqing's good wish to learn cooking from Jiang Yu and create a world by himself in the future was shattered before it began.

Although he was a little frustrated, Feng Yueqing did not give up easily.

Because he believes that opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, although he is still doing miscellaneous work, but he still does it very seriously and hard, and every time he is busy, he will help wash vegetables, cut vegetables and so on whenever he has time.

Now, isn't that opportunity?

Although what you want to learn is not the stir-fry technique you dream of, nor is it to learn from the boss Jiang Yu, but Feng Yueqing is no longer a fledgling and doesn't understand anything.

What's more, he has also tasted the steamed buns and sugar cakes made by Ma Guoqiang, although they are not as amazing as the meals made by the boss, but compared with the noodles made by those breakfast shops on the street, whether it is the appearance or taste, at least more than one or two grades better!

Such a pastry master is willing to teach himself skills, if he still twists and turns, it will be really stupid!

To put it mildly, even if you really don't have the opportunity to learn Jiang Yu's stir-fry skills in the future, if you learn Ma Guoqiang's pastry skills, you will definitely earn it.

Even if you don't plan to stay in the Seven Canteen in the future, with this ability, going out to open a bun shop, noodle restaurant or something is enough to support yourself!

Feng Yueqing's mind was turning over and over, and he was thinking about what would happen after learning the skill, when he saw Jiang Yu nodding and said to him:

"That's okay, you can follow Uncle Ma to do a good job in the future, use more snacks, don't let Uncle Ma down."

"Well, don't worry, boss, I'll definitely do it with my heart."

Feng Yueqing came back to his senses in an instant, nodded vigorously, he turned around and bowed deeply to Ma Guoqiang, and said with a serious face,

"Uncle Ma, thank you for giving me this opportunity to learn, if I don't do well, you don't have to be polite, even if you beat and scold, I promise that there will be no complaints."

"It's over, Xiao Feng, we're colleagues, there's no need for this."

Ma Guoqiang was stunned when he heard this, then waved his hand and said happily,

"In the future, as long as you work hard, I will definitely teach you if I can teach you, as for whether you can learn it or not, it depends on your own ability."

Having said that, Ma Guoqiang is still very useful in his heart.

This kid has a bit of eyesight, and if you want to learn skills, you have to lower your posture, otherwise, who will teach you the craft of begging?

Of course, even if he said the same thing before, he will definitely teach it, but what to teach and how much to teach depends on Feng Yueqing's own performance.

……

After arranging the manpower that Ma Guoqiang needed, Jiang Yu didn't bother with this matter anymore, he made a cup of tea, and walked out of the kitchen, ready to rest in the "discarded" box on the first floor for a while.

I got up early this morning, and as soon as I got downstairs, I was summoned by a phone call from Pan Jingchen, and then I ran around, busy, and I didn't have time to take a breath until now.

Originally, today was a rest, who would have thought that this rest day would be even more tiring than going to work?

Jiang Yu couldn't laugh or cry, sighed secretly in his heart, and stretched out his hand to push open the door of the box.

As soon as the door opened, he froze

Finish.

Good guy, I was still muttering in my heart before, why didn't I see the little old man Jia Dequan in the kitchen, I thought he went out to bask in the sun again, but I didn't expect him to run to the box to rest!

"Hey, Xiao Jiang, didn't Xiao Wu say you went out? Why did you come back again?"

Jia Dequan did not fall asleep, but leaned back on the sofa and closed his eyes to recuperate, and when he heard the sound of the door opening, he woke up suddenly.

"Well, something happened to a friend in the morning, so I went over."

Jiang Yu nodded, and after closing the door, he sat down on the sofa opposite, took a long breath and said,

"I've been running outside for most of the day, but I'm tired."

Jia Dequan asked with concern, "Is your friend okay?"

"It's all right."

Jiang Yu smiled at him, suddenly remembered something, and said to Jia Dequan,

"By the way, Lao Jia, yesterday afternoon, someone from the Celebrity Chef Committee of the Huaxia Cuisine Association called me, and they really planned to invite me to participate in that performance event."

"Didn't I tell you a long time ago, do you think I'm bluffing you?"

Jia Dequan pursed his lips and said,

"For a show like this, it's common to invite famous chefs, otherwise how can you attract others to watch it? Moreover, there is more than one person who participates in the cooking show.

So, don't think nonsense, the celebrity chef committee will never be dedicated to any activity because of a certain person, in our big Huaxia, there is a lack of everything, just no shortage of chefs!"

"Then I'm not so arrogant, no matter how good the celebrity chef committee is, it is impossible to organize an event for me alone."

Listening to Jia Dequan's words, Jiang Yu couldn't help laughing, and he said tentatively,

"But what you mean, since they're going to invite several chefs to a cooking show, it doesn't really matter if I go or not, right?"

"For the celebrity chef committee, it really doesn't matter, because if you don't go, someone will go, and many people can't go if they want to, after all, this is a great opportunity to show off their cooking skills, maybe they will become famous?"

Jia Dequan glanced at Jiang Yu, and his tone was a little unkind, "What, what do you mean, you don't plan to go?"

"Go, go, go! Why not? You don't say it all, this is a good opportunity to show yourself, maybe you will become famous."

When Jiang Yu saw him like this, where did he dare to tease him, but he quickly put on an embarrassed expression on his face, and said hesitantly,

"But Lao Jia, I want to go, I don't care if I'm famous or not, it's just a big deal to take a trip to Tanzhou, but the problem now is that I don't know how to perform any cooking at all!"

"What's so hard about a cooking show?"

Seeing that Jiang Yu was worried about this, the expression on Jia Dequan's face suddenly relaxed a lot, he waved his hand, and said with a disdainful expression,

"To be honest, I don't really like this stuff, especially those who step on broken glass to chop vegetables and step on stilts to raise ramen, do you need this in the kitchen?

In my opinion, this so-called cooking show is pure nonsense, and it has nothing to do with cooking skills except to attract the attention of others!

So, if we want to play, let's play the real thing, get those bells and whistles, there's a fart!"

When Jiang Yu heard this, he suddenly came to his senses: "What is the real character?"

If you say that, then I'm not sleepy!

"For example, the knife work, which cuts a radish into the shape of a fishing net, haven't you seen it? Another example is the withering work, you have seen the carving of watermelon and radish carving, and the withering of tofu to make the eight immortals across the sea, have you ever seen it?"

Speaking of his profession, Jia Dequan couldn't help but show a trace of pride on his face, what he said was the result of his decades of hard practice, where can ordinary people compare?

He glanced at Jiang Yu, who was sitting opposite, and said with a smug expression,

"As for the rest, there are young and old, if you wish

If you want to learn, make a delicious dish to please me, then I will teach you reluctantly!"

Turnips cut into fishing nets? Tofu withered out of the eight immortals across the sea?

What kind of thing is this, Jiang Yu has never even heard of it, but he doesn't doubt it at all, this is definitely a cooking "unique skill" that can shock the jaws of a group of people!

Yesterday, when he heard Bai Zhentian, director of the Office of the Celebrity Chef Committee, introduce what a cooking show is, Jiang Yu thought of Jia Dequan at that time, and thought that he would come to ask him if he had any suitable cooking performance programs when he had time.

Sure enough, his guess was not wrong at all, Jia Dequan said a few things casually, which Jiang Yu had never even heard of.

At this moment, when he heard that Jia Dequan just asked him to cook for him, he didn't even think about it, and directly responded:

"No problem, just say whatever you want to eat!"

"Really? Then you're welcome!"

Jia Dequan was also very satisfied when he saw Jiang Yu being so "on the road", and after thinking about it, he said directly,

"Okay, then I won't make it difficult for you, I'll leave it to you for dinner today, I only ask for two dishes, one dish is steamed lion's head, and the other is Li Zhuang white meat, as for what you want to eat, then you can watch it yourself."

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Jiang Yu smiled and nodded, "Okay, no problem."

"I can warn you, these two dishes are also very testing of knife skills, if you don't do it right, hum, then I won't teach you those "unique skills"."

Jia Dequan picked up the cup on the coffee table and took a sip of water, "hummed" twice, leaned back on the sofa, and said proudly,

"These two dishes are different from what you eat in those restaurants, and as for how different they are, don't you young people know how to surf the Internet? Check it out on the Internet yourself!"

Jiang Yu: "......"

Hey, little old man! It's actually dragged up!

Forget it, who let you have the real thing in your stomach, I'll bear it!

After resting in the box for a while, chatting with Lao Jia for a while, seeing that the time was almost five o'clock, Jiang Yu got up from the sofa and prepared to go upstairs to cook.

Lao Jia said that these two dishes are different, so there must be something different, and he has to go back and study the recipes in the food system to see what is different.

was about to go out, the mobile phone in his hand suddenly rang, Jiang Yu picked it up and saw that it was Liu Xining calling.

It's almost dinner time at this time, and he doesn't have to think about it to know that Liu Xining is most likely going to come over for dinner with Pan Jingchen.

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Juddquan and asked:

"Lao Jia, the upstairs is not open today, or I'll go upstairs to cook in a while, and we'll eat in the box later, how about it?"

Jia Dequan smiled, "It doesn't matter where you eat, I just need to have something to eat."

"I have two friends coming over, I'll cook a few more dishes, don't you mind eating together?"

As he spoke, Jiang Yu added, "Two girls, their identities are relatively special, and they have to be kept secret."

Jia Dequan was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Jiang Yu with meaningful eyes, and said with a smile:

"Don't mind, don't mind, I can help you check it too!"

「……」

Jiang Yu was speechless, what a check, I'm a serious friend!

He didn't bother to argue with this little old man, this kind of thing, the more he explained, the more inexplicable it became, it was better to save some saliva.

Turning around and leaving the box, Jiang Yu picked up the phone.

Sure enough, as he expected, Liu Xining probably also paid attention to the comic account of "Jiangda Seven Canteen", and knew that the No. 7 dining room was on the "weekend" in the past two days and was not open to the public, so she called to ask how to solve their dinner.

Jiang Yu didn't say much, just asked her to take Pan with her

Jingchen, just go directly to the second floor of the seventh canteen.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yu went to the side dish room of the kitchen on the first floor, selected some ingredients to be used, and found a part-time student, and took all these ingredients to the kitchen upstairs with him.

The second floor is closed today, and not only are there no waiters upstairs, but there are no apprentices to help wash and chop vegetables.

However, just cooking dishes for three or four people, Jiang Yu can easily handle it alone, and it won't seem too busy.

Jiang Yu dealt with it first, naturally Li Zhuang's white meat.

Lizhuang white meat, the full name is "Lizhuang knife mouth garlic white meat", belongs to Sichuan cuisine, is a traditional food in Lizhuang, a famous historical and cultural town in Sichuan and Shu.

Just looking at the name, it seems that there is not much difference from another classic dish in Sichuan cuisine, "garlic white meat", but Jiang Yu found that the difference between the two is big after carefully understanding the method of this dish.

Among them, the biggest difference lies in the exquisite knife work embodied in Li Zhuang's white meat.

Cooked "two-knife meat" requires a slender blade to enter the pork skin into a consistent thickness, and the meat is about 20 cm long, 10 cm wide, and only 1 to 2 mm thick.

When eating, pick up one end of the sliced white meat, shake the fast son gently, the meat will roll into a ball with the fast seed, and then dip it in the adjusted dipping sauce, the entrance suddenly feels fragrant and smooth, fat but not greasy, chewing and slag, and the aftertaste is endless.

To put it bluntly, this is a dish that tests knife skills.

There are also requirements for the ingredients used in Li Zhuang white meat, but it is not just any pork, it must be the "two-knife meat" of pork hind legs.

The so-called "two-knife meat" is the removal of the part of the pork rump after the first cut.

The "two-knife meat" of each pig is only more than three kilograms, and the meat quality of this part is very good, and the fat and thin are evenly proportioned, which is very beautiful.

Jiang Yu cleaned a piece of "two-knife meat" about 20 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide that he had specially selected downstairs before, and put it in a pot of cold water to remove the floating blood foam while cooking, the purpose of which was to remove the fishy smell.

Every time the water in the pot boils, Jiang Yu adds a spoonful of cold water to cool it, so that the water temperature is maintained at about 90 degrees Celsius, so that the meat is heated evenly.

After boiling for about half an hour, Jiang Yu stabbed the meat with a bamboo skewer and found that there was no blood flowing out, which indicated that the meat had been cooked.

He then fished out a whole piece of pork and soaked it in cool boiled water to prevent the pork from "crusting" and affecting the knife work of the subsequent slices of meat.

Next, it's time to show off the real "technology"!

Jiang Yu took a deep breath and took out the large pieces of pork soaked and cooled in the cold boiled water, and put it aside to drain the water first.

Then he brought a clean white towel, spread it flat on the cutting board, and when the water on the meat pieces had dried a little, he placed the meat on the white towel to prevent the meat from slipping.

In addition, the towel has another function, which is to absorb the water that seeps out during the process of slicing meat.

After getting ready, Jiang Yu took the kitchen knife, took a deep breath, and then leaned down, opened the palm of one hand, gently pressed on the pork, and the other hand turned the edge of the kitchen knife inward, holding it horizontally, first from the pigskin surface into the knife, and little by little down into the blade meat.

In this process, Jiang Yu's spirit was so concentrated that he even stopped breathing.

Because this whole piece of meat is too big, after the kitchen blade goes in, it is almost impossible to see how far it has been cut, so it can almost only enter the blade meat by feeling.

In either case, the dish is actually a failure.

Although Jiang Yu had never cooked the dish of Li Zhuang white meat before, his knife skills have always been good, especially now that his cooking skills have reached the level of a technician, things like sliced meat, as long as he has done it a few times, it will only become more and more smooth in the future.

It's just that this is the first time that the slices are so big and so thin, and he still doesn't dare to be careless.

Something ugly

was laughed at by Lao Jia, that is a trivial matter, if this dish is not up to standard, this little old man refuses to teach himself those "unique skills", it is really a big loss!