The first paragraph: Canghuan Volume One hundred and seventeen: Wang Laoqi's tofu!
At this time, the kitchen of the City Lord's Mansion seems to be more lively than the New Year, after all, the City Lord's Mansion did not have so many cooks concentrated during the New Year.
Among these people, some are tall, some are thin, some are short, some are fat, and the expressions on their faces are also the same, and some are different.
However, they have one thing in common, that is, they all wear the same white clothes and the same chef's hat!
In the Dongqi Continent, like most of the world, chefs are a profession without danger and enviability, although the status of chefs may not be too high, but their lives are not too good.
Especially in the city's famous buildings, the cooks among them can not only cook good dishes, but also the monthly income is not a decimal.
These people are the leaders of the chef industry in Cloud City, they sit at the top of the city, smiling and watching the rise of the chef industry!
For them, ordinary diners can't invite them to cook privately, even if there are famous consuls in Cloud City, if they want to invite these chefs to cook, they need to invite them themselves!
In order to be able to gather these chefs, Lord Lin Jing wasted a lot of effort, after all, some chefs don't have a good temper, they don't care what your identity is!
But at this time, the chefs are a little unhappy, after all, their peers are enemies, and they are-for-tat in several famous buildings, compared to the craftsmanship of these chefs, after so many years, there is a lot of grievance between the two sides!
What's more, in addition to their head chefs, Lord Lin Jing also invited another part of the cooks, and these cooks are not compared to these chefs, even if they come out with an apprentice, their cooking is much better than those cooks.
Therefore, these chefs were a little dissatisfied with Lin Jing's invitation to those chefs who were not famous, but because of the face of the City Lord's Mansion, although the chefs were a little unkind on their faces, they didn't say it directly.
And Lin Jing City Lord is not worried about this scene at all, after all, a cook is a cook, no matter how dissatisfied he is, he is still a cook, strength in this world is respected, followed by power!
But as the city lord of Yunxiao City, and a monk of the Xuanhai realm, he has strength and power, so he doesn't care about the dissatisfaction of these chefs.
And the reason why he invited these unknown chefs to come here is only one reason, that is, each of these chefs has their own specialty dishes!
They may not be as famous as these chefs, but their specialty dish has its own unique characteristics!
And if you want to receive the young master and lady who have eaten and drunk well in the family for many years, it is not enough to have good wine and food, after all, safflower also needs green leaves to match!
Therefore, this banquet will not only have the chef's best dishes, but also play the small dishes that the chefs are good at!
For example, there is an unknown chef who is staying in the corner, this cook's name is Wang Laoqi, he is just a stall owner, he sells tofu on weekdays, and occasionally uses tofu to make some side dishes, such as this white water tofu that he invented himself.
This white water tofu is generally a dessert, but it is not made with the common brine tofu, although the brine tofu is rich in bean aroma, but the taste is rough and not suitable for tofu.
After Wang Laoqi's own hand-designed tofu scheme, the tofu developed not only has a rich taste, but also the tofu is more delicate and flavorful.
The white water tofu made with such tofu is simply the best for human faces!
On weekdays, Wang Laoqi will only do it once in his spare time when he sells tofu, and some diners will inadvertently find this stall, and they will fall in love with this taste after eating Wang Laoqi's white water tofu!
Some old customers will also persuade Wang Laoqi to make this white water tofu, but Wang Laoqi refused, he just wanted to sell tofu with his daughter!
I don't know where Lin Jing's city lord came from, but he actually invited Wang Laoqi to make this white water tofu at that stall.
When Wang Laoqi saw a group of soldiers walking towards his stall, he was almost so frightened that he peed his pants!
Today's first dish is named by Lin Jing's city lord, Wang Laoqi's white water tofu, as for why it is his own white water tofu, Wang Laoqi can't say, but Lin Jing's city lord is determined, so that this honest man has not been calm since he came.
At this time, a group of soldiers walked out behind Wang Laoqi, and the soldiers pushed a small cart with a large stone on it.
Underneath this large stone, there is also the presence of a wooden frame!
This thing is what Wang Laoqi made tofu, Wang Laoqi was busy until late last night, and finally boiled out a pot of tofu that he could still see.
And the tofu from last night, it happened to be in the most perfect state today, Wang Laoqi used the tofu he made himself, and he will definitely offer a perfect dessert!
The fire in the pot was bubbling, and a cauldron as tall as a man roared, glowing with a new color of steel.
This cauldron has just been plated, and even the outer layer of mud on the pot table has not dried thoroughly, and the reason why a large pot is plated is to make this dish of white water tofu.
So how luxurious the life of these young masters is, even if this is not Lin Yuan's original intention, but he also paid a lot of capital for this white water tofu.
Therefore, even if the five Daoist families are now advocating frugality, how could those high-ranking people in power pay attention to a place like the kitchen, it is estimated that they would never have thought that a seemingly ordinary white water tofu would need to drop fifty taels of silver.
However, even if it was fifty taels of gold, for a family like the Lin family, it was nothing.
Wang Laoqi stood on the pot table tremblingly, for him, this experience was an unforgettable thing in his life, after all, he had been working in the stall for so many years.
The most people who came to eat the stalls were some laborers, and ordinary citizens of Cloud City, how could he ever see such a scene, under the eyes of a group of industry bigwigs, cooking his own good meals.
Wang Laoqi's legs and feet were weak for a while, and his head was dizzy for a while, but fortunately, Wang Laoqi took out his old buddy, that is, the big shovel in Wang Laoqi's hand!
Although Wang Laoqi did not use this shovel after this iron was bought, he used it to make a shovel for boiling soy milk.
For a big pot like them boiling soy milk, it is still easy to use this big shovel.
Last night, Wang Laoqi had washed this shovel back and forth several times, and also used a good wax that he had been reluctant to use!
But he always felt that there was something unclean, after all, he was cooking for those young masters and young ladies from big cities, but this guy of his own was a little out of his hands.
And the onlookers saw Wang Laoqi's cooking guy, with different looks on their faces, they were a little sneering at Wang Laoqi's guy, with some contempt on their faces!
After all, they have been chefs for so many years, and they use a lot of kitchen utensils, but this is the first time they have seen this iron lift.
As a big man in the industry, he has a light idea about new things, but this is normal, after all, human beings will have cognitive boundaries, so it is normal for chefs not to know.
Wang Laoqi held the iron lift in his hand, and the old man who had been with him for many years was a reassuring pill, and when he held the iron lift in his hand, his expression was so focused.
Some chefs looked at Wang Laoqi's focused expression, and they recalled their youthful years, when they were so focused on food, but after a long time, they will know that only money is eternal.
The cooking philosophy they adhere to can't compete with other people's hobbies, no matter how hard you cook the dishes, as long as the customers don't like to eat it, it will be a failure.
In fact, it's not just about cooking, it's also the same in life, their own persistence is far less than the public's like, this era has never been afraid of copying new ideas, they are afraid of independent self!
Wang Laoqi was familiar with stirring the boiling water in the cauldron, and his years of experience made him extremely smooth at this time, and even those chefs looked at Wang Laoqi's face with a trace of surprise.
It seems that this somewhat honest guy really has something that makes them happy.
At the same time, Wang Laoqi had already put the seasoning of his secret juice into it, and a faint floral fragrance began to permeate, which made people feel a little relaxed.
Who would have thought that a rough man would be able to create such a wonderful floral fragrance, which is a special fragrance of the Tao that Wang Laoqi once went up the mountain.
This smell is deeply liked by his current wife and those old acquaintances, although those old acquaintances like it very much, but sometimes they will ridicule Wang Laoqi.
After all, this thing really doesn't match Wang Laoqi's face, whenever this time, Wang Laoqi will always show a sign smile and say honestly: "I don't know what kind of flower this is, I know that this smells good!"
The seasoning has been put in, and all that remains is tofu, Wang Laoqi grabbed the board with one hand and put one end of the board on his neck.
With the other hand, he put his shovel aside, picked up his kitchen knife, and his colleague used the kitchen knife to hold up a piece of his own tofu, and put the award tofu on the board quickly.
Wang Laoqi actually cut the tofu with such a hand, the originally slippery tofu was as if it was growing on the board, although Wang Laoqi's angle was a little tilted, but the tofu was still firm, and there was no trend of falling!
Wang Laoqi's performance is not amazing, even if an ordinary monk who has entered the realm of the body comes, maybe he can't do such a situation, that is, Wang Laoqi has been honed for many years.
He is showing this one now, and he has no intention of showing off the operation, after all, which of the chefs present does not have professional knife skills, even if they are not so tricky, the rest of the chefs' knife skills are also very good!
He showed this hand today solely because, after years of familiarity, only this pose was the most reassuring for him.
The original square tofu cubes were cut into small, square tofu cubes, and the size of each of them seemed to be measured with a ruler, so exquisite!