The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 220 Don’t Say That You Were Taught by Your Master When You Go Out
Ouyang stood at the door of the kitchen, munching on a slightly cool fruit, smacking his lips and looking like he wanted to take a second one, but he suppressed his desire.

The slightly cold fruit is not tasty enough, so I have to go home and heat it in a steamer for a few minutes to make it taste good.

"By the way, has Mr. Xu, who wrote "Knowing Taste", left?" Ouyang asked curiously.

Under normal circumstances, Ouyang would gossip with Qin Huai at home every morning and evening.

But something unexpected happened yesterday. Qin Huai got up late in the morning and made four-happiness dumplings. Qin Huai and Ouyang talked about business instead of gossip. Ouyang was almost in prison at night and was scolded until 1 a.m. before being sent home, and they didn't talk.

Not to mention this morning, Ouyang didn't get up, and he didn't even get to eat the four-happiness dumplings made by Qin Huai. Qin Huai brought Ouyang's portion to the next room.

Just thinking about what happened from yesterday to today, Ouyang wanted to shed tears.

After hearing Ouyang say this, Qin Huai knew it was time for gossip.

Although the occasion was not right, it seemed inappropriate to gossip at the door of Huang Ji's kitchen. But it didn't matter, Huang Ji had Dong Shi, who had unlocked the achievement of gossiping in all places of Huang Ji.

From the kitchen to the warehouse, from the warehouse to the lobby, from every corner of the lobby to the private room on the second floor and even the toilet, Dong Shi could be seen chatting and sniffing out gossip.

Anyway, there are no guests in the lobby at this time, so we can chat anywhere.

"He left." Qin Huai said, "He left the day before the publication of Taste. He said he had some business to deal with in Hong Kong City and went there overnight."

Indeed, as a well-known wealthy man with countless businesses under his name, it is very reasonable for Xu Cheng to rush to Hong Kong City overnight to handle business matters when there are emergencies.

but.

Qin Huai always felt that Xu Cheng didn't want to eat snacks anymore and was looking for an excuse to slip away.

Although Qin Huai had little contact with Xu Cheng these days (basically he could not see him), he heard a lot from Huang Anyao. As a loyal fan of Xu Cheng, Huang Anyao knew every home-cooked dish of every chef in every restaurant Xu Cheng loved to eat. He had no chance to talk about it before, but after Xu Cheng came, he talked about it directly.

If someone said that Huang Anyao was a socially phobic person who was not good at speaking, Qin Huai would definitely rush up with a recording device and play to him the nonsense Huang Anyao had said these days.

Who said Huang Anyao is socially phobic? He is just a chatterbox!

Through Huang Anyao's strong recommendation, Qin Huai also had a certain understanding of Xu Cheng's picky taste.

To put it simply: eat only the best.

If we use the dish ratings given by the game system to score, then B-level dishes can be eaten casually, A-level dishes can be eaten seriously, S-level dishes can be eaten with great enthusiasm, and dishes below B are tasteless.

Qinhuai Club has a lot of dim sum, but not all of them can guarantee grade B quality control.

Xu Cheng wanted to eat different dim sum, and Qinhuai could make them. With six kinds of dim sum every day, the quality control can be guaranteed to be B-level in the first few days. But later on, Qinhuai can only try its best to make the ones it is good at, try not to make mistakes, and ensure that the quality control is above C-level. Whether it can reach B-level depends on its performance.

Xu Cheng ate in Gusu for some time.

By the end of the meal, Qin Huai could clearly feel that Xu Cheng didn't want to eat anymore. He had completely disappeared and only asked his assistant to buy food for him. However, he seemed to want to see how many dim sum Qin Huai could make.

Eat it with gritted teeth.

For Xu Cheng, not eating the A+ grade fruit and eating snacks that were not even B grade was definitely asking for trouble.

So the day before Zhiwei was published, Xu Cheng couldn't stand it anymore and found an excuse to slip away.

If he didn't do it, the loyal readers of "Taste" from all over the world would go to Huangji to eat fruit. What if there were some loyal readers who had a good relationship with Xu Cheng, or even some friends of Xu Cheng, and they found out that Xu Cheng was also in Gusu, and they found out that Xu Cheng didn't eat fruit but ate some random snacks in Gusu, how would Xu Cheng explain it?

He said that he was used to eating delicacies from land and sea and wanted to eat something more down-to-earth.

It can only be said that Xu Cheng had suffered a lot these days in order to test how many kinds of snacks Qin Huai could make.

"Why did you suddenly think of asking this?" Qin Huai asked.

"When I was going downstairs this morning, I ran into Mr. Gong coming upstairs. He said on the phone that there were no more private rooms available for rent, and that the room for next week had been rented by Xu Cheng. I thought Xu Cheng hadn't left and was planning to eat here until next week." Ouyang said, "Sister Hong and Hui Hui are coming soon, so I wanted to borrow the private room from Mr. Gong and treat them to a meal."

"Forget about the private rooms. I'll ask Supervisor Cao to reserve a small table for you in the lobby." Qin Huai broke Ouyang's fantasy. "Huang's VIPs can reserve private rooms up to one week in advance. Now all the available private rooms have been booked."

"I heard that now tables are shared in private rooms. This morning, Dong Shi was in the kitchen saying that the phones of old customers with Huangji VIP cards have been flooded with calls. Some people are paying high prices for seats, ranging from 500 to 1000 per seat. There are also scalpers acting as middlemen to make a profit from the price difference."

"As you know, Huang Ji's VIP card is earned through meal after meal. There are not many regular customers with VIP cards. Some of them are even neighbors in the surrounding area. All their retirement savings have been spent on Huang Ji over the years."

"Some people are short of money, and some are not. After learning about this incident this morning, Supervisor Cao has been thinking about how to deal with it. It is inevitable that the private room will be grouped together, but if there are scalpers involved, it will ruin the reputation of Huang's. In addition, some customers are not well-off and are willing to reserve seats in the private room."

Ouyang was stunned when he heard this and subconsciously took out another fruit from the packing box. After he grabbed it, he realized what he was doing and put the fruit back silently.

Qin Huai saw Ouyang's expression and knew that he would feel uncomfortable if he didn't eat something at this moment. After thinking for a while, he turned around and went into the kitchen to grab a chef from Zhiweiju.

"Any snacks?"

Three minutes later, Ouyang ate the lava bun.

The two people's chat location also changed from the kitchen door to the small table in the corner. Yu Yang, who had a name, also thoughtfully brought a pot of freshly brewed tea and told Qin Huai Gu Li about the progress of mixing the rice cakes.

The stirring has been completed and the rice cake is being steamed. Just stir it again after it is steamed.

Qin Huai:?
Why is it Guli who stirs the rice cake? Isn’t it Tan Weian who stirs the rice cake?

Ouyang was chewing on the quicksand bun and was amazed: "Oh my god, this bun!"

Qin Huai:?
"What a wonderful feeling!" Ouyang rarely gave a serious food review, "So chewy, I have never eaten dough with such a magical taste."

As if to prove what he said was true, Ouyang took another big bite and exclaimed: "Really, I have never eaten a bun skin with such a wonderful taste. Wow, this feeling, this chewy texture, delicious!"

Hearing Ouyang say this, Qin Huai was a little curious. The lava buns were made by Yu Yang. Qin Huai had tasted them and found them to be very ordinary and normal, the same level as the lava buns that every restaurant that sells morning tea in Guangdong Province can make, not very special.

As for the fact that the bun skin is very chewy, it is even more puzzling. Yu Yang's dough kneading skills are very average, and the bun skin of the lava bun he made is soft, so it is impossible for it to be very chewy.

Qin Huai picked up a lava bun and was about to taste it, but he looked closely and then at the half-eaten lava bun in Ouyang's hand.

"You didn't take off the paper you put under it." Qin Huai was speechless for a moment, "When we were practicing, we used a steamed bun with paper under it, and you didn't take it off."

"This bun should have been steamed for more than ten minutes. The paper is stuck to the bun skin. Didn't you notice it?"

"The wonderful taste you mentioned is actually eating paper."

Ouyang:?
Ouyang took a closer look and suddenly realized: "I was wondering why the buns I bought at the convenience store had paper underneath. So this is what they do."

Qin Huai:......

That's not the function!

No buddy, you...

I……

This bun...

Paper……

Forget it, I'm tired, let's destroy it.

Buddy, I just assumed that you just got out of the police station late last night and didn't sleep well, so you're a little dazed.

Qin Huai looked at Ouyang and said, "I now know how you managed to lose 660 million after running a fish hotpot restaurant for a year."

"Listen to me, when your hand-beaten lemon tea shop opens, don't change the recipe yourself. Just follow the recipe for hand-beaten lemon tea in Yunzhong Canteen." "How do you know that I have studied several recipes during this period?" Ouyang was shocked. "If I only sell hand-beaten lemon tea, I think it will be too monotonous. I have drunk a lot of hand-beaten lemon tea in Gusu during this period. I think there is still a lot of room for improvement in hand-beaten lemon tea."

"I think sea salt cheese, sour plum peaches, coconut milk, cola, Sprite, AD calcium milk can all be added to hand-beaten lemon tea."

Qin Huai:......

Qin Huai looked at Ouyang with sincerity in his eyes. At this moment, he and Jiang Weiming empathized with each other.

"When your hand-made lemon tea opens, don't tell them that the original recipe was given to you by me."

"Just say you learned the craft from a master outside."

begging.

Ouyang said he understood: "I understand. Our two restaurants are so close to each other. If I say that you gave me the recipe, I will be criticized for taking advantage of the popularity of Yunzhong Canteen. Don't worry, buddy, I understand this!"

“You have to rely on yourself to start your own business.”

Qin Huai was very pleased and decided to give Ouyang two more fruits tomorrow.

Qin Huai chatted with Ouyang about gossip for another 20 minutes. During this time, Yu Yang added tea and served two batches of snacks. Qin Huai just tasted them briefly and the rest was eaten by Ouyang.

By the way, when Qin Huai was chatting about gossip, he did not forget to review memorials in the circle of friends, praising what was worth praising and commenting what was worth commenting on.

During this period, I saw Bingbingzi's circle of friends. Bingbingzi actually took advantage of the New Year's Day holiday to come to Suzhou with her classmates for two days. They took hard seats to go back and forth, ate and traveled around Suzhou, and checked in at Huangji.

The hardcover circle of friends praised Guoer to the sky.

Qin Huai was very pleased and immediately liked and commented: It looks delicious!
Ouyang was full and ready to go home to continue developing new lemon tea products. He wiped his mouth and sighed, "I didn't expect that Huang's dim sum has so many varieties. I never saw them when I came here to eat some time ago. Is it new?"

"You can try out new products. If you like, come every morning and afternoon. It's all you can eat."

The dim sum skills of the chefs at Zhiweiju vary. Although Tan Weian's skills are nothing compared to Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan, he is already one of the best among the six chefs at Zhiweiju.

Everyone in Huang's kitchen can basically eat Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan's dim sum every day. They have become a bit picky about dim sum during this period and don't really like the dim sum that the people from Zhiweiju tried to make.

Of course, except for the ones that are particularly unpalatable.

For example, the fruit filling is in short supply.

Whenever Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan made a particularly unpalatable minced fruit filling, everyone would rush to buy it. Everyone wanted to try it and see how unpalatable it was, and how it could be even more unpalatable than the last time.

At this time, someone may ask, isn’t there anyone fighting for the fruit filling made by Tan Weian?
The minced fruit filling made by Tan Weian is not bad enough.

If Ouyang were willing to come and try the food, everyone at Zhiweiju would be so happy.

Ouyang's eyes lit up: "There is such a good thing, why didn't you tell me earlier, I will come early tomorrow morning!"

Qin Huai ended his pleasant gossip break and went back to the kitchen to see how the rice cakes were cooking.

Gu Li is stirring the rice cake.

This is how rice cakes are made by hand. They have to be stirred and steamed repeatedly. It's not a big technical challenge, but it's very troublesome.

Of course, it’s not completely without technical content, and the quality of rice cakes made by different people is also different.

As of now, Qin Huai feels that the quality of the rice cakes made by Zheng Siyuan is undoubtedly the best. Whether it is glutinous rice rice cakes or lard rice cakes made by Zheng Siyuan, they are more delicious than those made by himself.

Qin Huai’s skill in making rice cakes is average. He made a lot of glutinous rice rice cakes some time ago, and his skills were slightly better. Now, after not making them for two months, his skills have returned to the same level.

Tan Weian’s skill in making rice cakes is actually not bad. He said he knows how to make rice cakes and he has several recipes for them.

However, in recent years, Tan Weian has basically not made rice cakes by hand like he does now, and has always relied on machines.

Qin Huai doesn't think there is anything wrong with relying on machines. Technology is advancing, and so are kitchen utensils. Making plain dim sum by hand requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Chefs don't have that much energy, so using machines can greatly improve efficiency.

What white pastry dim sum needs is large sales volume. If the dim sum is delicious but only a very limited quantity can be made every day, it is not a good thing.

Qin Huai makes glutinous rice cakes entirely by hand, without using any machines, because Qin Huai discovered that Qu Jing seemed to be able to taste the difference between handmade and machine-made ones, and Qu Jing preferred handmade rice cakes.

Even though such rice cakes may have various problems, Qu Jing likes them. Even if things go wrong occasionally, such as not controlling the production process, time and strength well, resulting in rice cakes that are too soft or too hard, Qu Jing still likes them.

All I can say is that Qu Jing really loves eating rice cakes.

Qin Huai looked at the condition of the rice cake and wanted to sigh.

In a sense, Gu Li is really amazing.

It's obvious that he has good attributes and solid basic skills, but he is always a little worse than others in everything he does. It seems that he is bad in everything and every step is wrong just because he lacks that little bit of understanding.

No wonder Gu Li has become a well-known mediocrity in the chef circle. It is indeed easy for him to become famous when he is so stupid.

"Master Qin, is there something wrong with the rice cakes I made?" Guli asked nervously.

He could feel that there was something wrong with the rice cake he was mixing, but he didn't know why.

"The fire was too high when steaming." Qin Huai said, "When steaming rice cakes, if the ingredients are of inferior quality and the glutinous rice is not pure enough, the rice cakes will collapse and become a mess."

"When I explained it, I said to steam it on high heat for three to five minutes for the first two or three times, and stir the already clumping rice cake into a sticky state for the last time, then steam it into shape, and cover it with a wet cloth and let it rest for 12 hours."

"The time and heat are determined according to the state of the rice cake at that time. You controlled the time but not the heat, so when you stir it now, you feel that the rice cake is hard and not sticky enough."

Gu Li nodded.

"It's like this, it's a failure." Qin Huai concluded, "You haven't made rice cakes much, have you?"

Gu Li nodded honestly: "Very rarely, I helped my senior brother a few years ago."

That is understandable. Gu Li lacks savvy and experience, so it is normal for him to fail.

"Where is Tan Weian?" Qin Huai asked.

If Tan Weian had been there to help watch over him, Gu Li wouldn't have made such a basic mistake.

"When my senior brother went to the warehouse to look for sticky rice, he tore his pants and went back to change his pants."

Qin Huai:......

6.

"There is still time, so I will show you how to make rice cake. You have the sample, so you should be able to understand it better after watching it once. You can continue making the rice cake in your hand, and come to check its status tomorrow, then you will know the difference between the two." Qin Huai said.

It doesn’t matter if there is not enough rest time. Qin Huai is now Master Qin, and there are many unskilled manual jobs that can be done by helpers.

Qin Huai even wanted to call Ouyang back. After eating so many snacks, it was time to do some physical work to digest the food.

Although Ouyang has a unique taste, he really has a natural talent in some things.

Things like stirred rice cakes and hand-beaten lemon tea are all carefully selected by Master Qin.

Everyone who has eaten it says it’s good.

(End of this chapter)