The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 151 Thanks to the Middleman

Qin Huai fried two buckets of vegetables in one afternoon.

The quantity was huge. Dong Shi’s face turned green when he looked at the two buckets of vegetables.

Qin Huai felt that he had gained a lot this afternoon.

He has mastered many tips for stir-frying vegetables.

For example, the best time for stir-frying over high heat must be controlled within a few seconds, and a few seconds may be a bit too much. The most perfect and sub-perfect states of vegetables are only in a split second.

The timing of flipping the spoon depends on the specific state of the food in the pot. It is not like steaming dim sum in white pastry, which can be precisely controlled at the next few minutes. Stir-frying in red pastry requires more improvisation and the chef's experience to control the rhythm.

For example, when flipping the food, you cannot just use brute force but must use skill, otherwise the food will easily fall out.

and also……

Of course, reaping the rewards does not necessarily mean achieving the desired result, but Qin Huai feels that the effect is still very good.

Huang Shengli demonstrated to him a nearly perfect way to stir-fry vegetables. He didn't need to change anything and just had to try his best to cook Huang Shengli's dish.

This is the teaching mode he is most familiar with.

"Master Huang, thank you for your hard work." Qin Huai said from the bottom of his heart.

Huang Shengli looked calm and composed, like a master with a friendly smile on his face. He nodded slightly and said, "Of course, we'll continue tomorrow afternoon."

"By the way, Xiao Qin, I heard that you arrived at Huang's at 8 o'clock in the morning. I didn't take your specific situation into consideration. You are used to getting up early, so you must not be used to working so late. How about this, I'll let Huang Jia give you the key, and if you want to come earlier, just come directly."

"Wang Jun is your assistant today, right? Tell him what snacks you want to make tomorrow. I'll ask him to prepare all the ingredients for you in the evening."

"I have to say something about Huang Jia. He's so old, but he's not reliable at all. He didn't even remind you that you had so many snacks on your list. You must have been exhausted at noon?" The concern in Huang Shengli's words was almost overflowing.

Qin Huai quickly said, "No, no, I was thinking of making more of my specialties on the first day, but I didn't expect the guests to be so enthusiastic."

"You don't have to make snacks for the evening. I remember you made something else for lunch, like jujube paste yam cake and mung bean cake, right? Just sell some in the evening. We still have Siyuan's fresh meat mooncakes and Dingsheng cakes."

"I'll also tell Siyuan later that Huang Ji will only sell dim sum at noon and not at night. You can follow your own pace."

"Don't worry about the guests. I'll explain. They'll still have to give me some respect."

"You've been exhausted from cooking vegetables this afternoon. I'll cook you two side dishes. Go back and have a rest early. Get enough rest tomorrow and continue in the afternoon."

Qin Huai wanted to say tactfully and hypocritically, "No, no, why would I trouble you to cook?" But when he thought of the welcoming banquet he had last night, his saliva began to water unconsciously, and he nodded very honestly.

Want to eat, love to eat, like to eat.

He likes the staff meals at Huang Ji Restaurant so much that he wants to work there for two more months!
Huang Shengli went to cook happily.

At this moment, if someone knows Huang Shengli, they will find that Huang Shengli is actually a little distracted while cooking.

Because although he was in front of the stove, his soul had already drifted to other places.

Huang Shengli’s mind was full of how to formulate a new teaching plan when he returned.

Damn, the previous experience of the gold medal teacher is not enough.

I didn’t say a single word today!

How come he, a gold medal teacher, taught for an entire afternoon and ended up becoming Zheng Da?
No, I have to study it carefully when I get back, and let Qin Huai see the style of the gold medal teacher tomorrow!
Qin Huai didn't think much about it. He discussed tomorrow's working time with Zheng Siyuan, happily finished the staff meal, and went back to rest.

He worked intensively from morning to noon. After resting for more than an hour, he started teaching the cooking method again. He fried two large buckets of vegetables. Qin Huai was already exhausted and had no extra energy or mind to think about other things.

After returning, Qin Huai fell asleep immediately and woke up at 2 o'clock the next morning.

Qin Huai:......

Oh, his damn biological clock.

You’re so tired, can’t you just sleep in until 8 o’clock?

Qin Huai got up after waking up. He first checked his Moments for a while and saw the number of likes on the post he posted the day before about his arrival in Suzhou. It was endless.

The comments are also long.

Xu Tuqiang asked with concern whether he was not used to the food in Gusu, and if so, he should come back early.

Grandma Ding said that the scenery in Gusu is beautiful and you can spend three to five days there and come back after the fun.

Uncle Qian sent an emoticon with three thumbs up.

Uncle Wang's comments were quite pertinent. He recommended several Suzhou specialties that he remembered and also reminisced about the past.

Qin Huai suddenly remembered that it was Uncle Wang who contacted Zheng Da through his old colleague in Suzhou. In order to thank Uncle Wang, he made Uncle Wang's favorite crab shell yellow for several days in a row, but he never thanked the old colleague who actually contacted Zheng Da.

This old colleague is also an important person. Without his connection, Qin Huai would never have known Zheng Da, nor would he have known Zheng Siyuan, let alone come to Huang's Restaurant today to exchange ideas and learn.

Now that he has come to Gusu, he has to thank this middleman!
Qin Huai began to send messages to Uncle Wang.

Qin Huai: Uncle Wang, are you there?
Uncle Wang replied immediately.

Wang Gensheng (loves eating crab shell roe): Here!

Qin Huai made a voice call directly and Uncle Wang picked up the call immediately.

After explaining the situation, Uncle Wang readily gave Qin Huai his colleague's WeChat and introduced the situation of this old colleague to Qin Huai.

"Lao Qian was also our factory's accountant before. Later, our factory's performance was not good, so he used his connections to transfer to the cotton mill."

"He should still be living in the same place. I heard that Huang Ji is located nearby. I haven't seen Lao Qian for many years. I only met him once seven or eight years ago when his son got married. But I heard that he is a frequent customer of Huang Ji and basically spends all his monthly pension on it."

"Xiao Qin, it would be great if you are willing to take care of Lao Qian. This will also give me face when I go out. I will say hello to Lao Qian first, and you can add him later."

Qin Huai asked: "Master Wang, do you know Master Qian's taste?"

"He likes fancy and expensive things." Uncle Wang said without hesitation, "When he was young, he liked to follow the fashion trend. He saved money and spent half a year's salary to buy leather shoes. If you want to thank him, you can make him something fancy."

Qin Huai understood what Uncle Wang said and got up to go to Huang's.

On the way to Huangji, Qin Huai added Uncle Qian’s WeChat. His WeChat name was very simple, just his real name.

Qian Zhongheng’s WeChat profile picture is even his own photo.

Qin Huai took a look at the photo and felt that it looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere in the past two days.

Qin Huai walked to the door of Huang Ji. The door was not open, which was normal. It was 7:28 now. Even Zheng Siyuan couldn't come to Huang Ji so early. He lived a little far away from Huang Ji.

Qin Huai took the key to open the door, closed it, and went into the kitchen to knead the dough.

Before leaving yesterday, Qin Huai had already ordered today's menu.

There are only two, fermented glutinous rice steamed buns and dream-fulfilling sesame cakes, nothing more.

Qin Huai left early yesterday, so I don’t know how the remaining dim sum was sold at night. But yesterday’s hot sales taught Qin Huai one thing: a dim sum chef at Huang Ji, a dim sum chef who is above the average level of his peers, cannot make too many kinds of dim sum in one day.

Huang Ji's customers really buy snacks.

The fight even got a little crazy.

Buying snacks can give you a feeling of finally finding a rain after a long drought.

The right choice is to do less like Zheng Siyuan and sell only two items a day.

Qin Huai took some time to select these two dim sum.

First of all, he is very confident in his fermented glutinous rice steamed buns and dream-fulfilling sesame cakes. Fermented glutinous rice steamed buns are a buff dish, but they are only limited to the first three drawers. Excluding the buff feature, fermented glutinous rice steamed buns are also Qin Huai's best snack. Fermented glutinous rice steamed buns are a perfect snack for Qin Huai, which basically does not require heat or fingering. It is one of the few things Qin Huai is good at, and Zheng Siyuan is also good at it, but Qin Huai can beat Zheng Siyuan's snacks.

And he didn’t know if it was Qin Huai’s illusion, but he felt that Huang Shengli seemed to like this snack very much.

Huang Shengli didn't come yesterday, so he didn't get to eat the fermented glutinous rice steamed buns made by Qin Huai. On the first day when Qin Huai was making the fermented glutinous rice steamed buns, he secretly looked at Huang Shengli's expression from a distance. Qin Huai felt that he didn't seem to be eating the steamed buns, but rather eating the past.

Eating the steamed buns gave me the same feeling as drinking tangerine peel tea.

Huang Ji's customers are also very strange. They love fermented glutinous rice steamed buns more than other dim sum.

Are fermented glutinous rice steamed buns delicious? Of course they are!

But when comparing the fermented glutinous rice steamed buns with the four-happiness dumplings, five-spice buns, dream-fulfilling sesame cakes, crab shell yellow and Zheng Siyuan's fresh meat mooncakes, Qin Huai felt that they were not that delicious.

Especially Zheng Siyuan's fresh meat mooncake, which is the signature of Zheng Siyuan's signature. This mooncake alone can beat all the snacks in Qinhuai to the ground.

But yesterday at noon, Zheng Siyuan's mooncake sales were only 70% of Qinhuai's fermented glutinous rice steamed buns. Only 70% because Qinhuai's fermented glutinous rice steamed buns were sold out, there were no more, they were not allowed to be sold, and the chefs quit get off work.

Otherwise, Qin Huai couldn’t even imagine how many fermented rice wine buns he could sell in one lunch hour.

When he was kneading dough for steamed buns yesterday at noon, he even thought about whether it was because Suzhou is in the south and people eat more pastries and snacks, and have not eaten steamed buns much, so everyone bought so many just to try something new.

Otherwise, it is hard to explain why a fermented glutinous rice steamed bun that costs 18 yuan can make customers buy an old-style steamed bun that costs 1 yuan.

Since Huang's customers like it, Qin Huai feels that it's okay to be a little tired, as a way of thanking Huang Shengli for being willing to do it himself despite his bad back. He stayed by his side in the afternoon to guide him on the cooking time, and made more dishes that customers liked and that would sell well, so as to increase the customer flow of Huang's Restaurant.

Another dim sum choice is the Dream-Fulfilling Bun, because an important component of the Dream-Fulfilling Bun is meat filling.

Although the meat fillings of all the Yuanmeng Shaobing sold by Huang Ji at present cannot be fried by Qinhuai.

But Qin Huai felt that this filling could be used as a standard.

When he can make meat fillings of this level, or when his meat fillings and hollow sesame cakes can satisfy Huang Ji's customers, and the meat fillings are no longer a drag, he will have mastered the art.

When stir-frying vegetables yesterday afternoon, Qin Huai realized that it was very important to have a control group.

Only when the control group is excellent and qualified enough will people have goals and directions to strive for.

Otherwise, if you have no idea about anything and have no purpose, you will be messing around like a headless fly and it will be difficult to improve much.

Qin Huai decided on today's menu yesterday, but that doesn't mean he will only make these two dishes.

Coming to Huang Ji so early, he wants to make breakfast first.

This time, the staff meal will not be the regular dishes of Yunzhong Canteen, but dishes that he has rarely practiced but has never forgotten.

Longevity noodles.

Qin Huai kneaded the dough carefully.

If you really look at it, there are actually many tricks to kneading dough. Different dim sum requires different dough, and kneading dough is just like the temperature when cooking. They all seem to be the same, but in fact, only the chef himself knows how to control and distinguish them.

Three lights, perfect.

Qin Huai glanced at his phone and found that Qian Zhongheng had accepted his WeChat friend request.

Send a message and chat.

When Qian Zhongheng heard that Qin Huai was the new pastry chef who joined Huang's yesterday, he was very enthusiastic. He wrote so many enthusiastic words on his phone that he almost kissed Qin Huai on the face.

Qin Huai told Qian Zhongheng that he had prepared a thank-you gift for him and asked him when he would have time to pick it up.

Qian Zhongheng said he was free at any time and planned to come to Huang Ji for lunch.

Qin Huai thought it was quite a coincidence, so he set the approximate time and prepared to steam the dough at that time.

Yes, noodle fruit.

Uncle Wang said that Qian Zhongheng liked fancy things, and Qin Huai's first reaction was noodle fruit.

It is authentic noodle fruit, not the kind with meat filling inside.

Making authentic noodles is indeed time-consuming and laborious, but as long as the quantity is not large, you can make it as a pastime.

Qinhuai now has no problems with the shape and crust of the apple pie, but he is not very good at mixing the filling because he has never mixed it properly.

But it’s not a big problem, just ask Zheng Siyuan to help adjust it.

After replying the message, Qin Huai started kneading the dough.

Longevity noodles are made with one noodle in each bowl. The noodles should not be too thin, and thick noodles should be chewy. The technique may be inferior to that of stretched noodles, but it is also quite difficult.

Qin Huai remembered the approximate number of Huang Ji’s employees and prepared to quantify the amount according to the number of people. Just in case, he made a few more bowls, as there would definitely be people eating them anyway.

When Zheng Siyuan arrived, Qin Huai was kneading noodles seriously.

"Why did you think of making noodles this morning?" Zheng Siyuan was a little surprised.

He always thought that Qin Huai, as a breakfast shop chef, was good at making steamed buns, steamed buns and dumplings, but he didn't expect that he had other skills and could even make noodles.

He is indeed an all-round breakfast chef.

"Mr. Luo, who gave me the recipe for Guo'er, actually also gave me a recipe for egg noodles. I never had time to practice it before. When I was in the Cloud Canteen, I was too busy in the morning, and I had to practice other things in the afternoon, you know."

"Now that I've changed places, I want to practice this new recipe."

Qin Huai felt that Luo Jun was really useful, and all the recipes that could not be explained by the Dim Sum Encyclopedia could be explained by Luo Jun.

Bifang is really comprehensive.

Luo Jun had developed the habit of getting up early because he drank tangerine peel tea. But after getting up, there was no tangerine peel tea to drink. He was watching TV and sneezed in displeasure.

Luo Jun: Who is diss me?
Zheng Siyuan in the Huangji kitchen had no idea that the almighty Mr. Luo in the distant Yunzhong Community was rubbing his nose. He said without thinking too much, "So that's how it is. We can also practice new dim sum by making employee meals. Why didn't I think of that?"

"What did you do this morning?" Qin Huai asked.

"Puff wontons and crepe wontons." Zheng Siyuan said, washing his hands and getting back to work. "I'm used to it. I always feel uncomfortable if I don't make some wontons early in the morning."

Qin Huai, the instigator, continued to knead the dough.

"Oh, by the way." Qin Huai put the kneaded noodles into the bowl, "Do you have time to help me make some apple noodle filling around 10:?"

“Apple noodles?” Zheng Siyuan looked at Qin Huai in disbelief, with an expression that said, “You didn’t learn enough yesterday, so you dare to die today.” “My dad doesn’t even dare to sell apple noodles in Huang Ji.”

"It's the rule set by Master Uncle that as long as Huang's dishes are on the menu, there is no limit on the number of dishes you can buy. There is no limit until they are sold out."

"Master Uncle thinks that guests coming to eat here are giving Huang Ji face. It is their right and freedom to order whatever they want and how much they want. As long as they eat, it is not considered a waste. After all, the prices of Huang Ji's dishes are so high that few people would order a lot of dishes at a high price and take them home without eating."

"It's not on the menu. A friend of mine is coming to Huang Ji for dinner today. I owe him a favor, so I made apple noodles to thank him."

Zheng Siyuan understood and gave him special treatment.

This is what Qin Huai used to do every day in the Yunzhong Canteen.

"How many noodles?"

"6."

Uncle Wang told Qin Huai that there were five people in Qian Zhongheng's family. Qin Huai felt that the number 5 was not a good number, and 6 sounded better. As the introducer, it was not excessive for Qian Zhongheng to have two meals.

"Okay." Zheng Siyuan agreed immediately, "It's just a piece of cake."

I am quite tired today, so I just did a short two-in-one
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(End of this chapter)