The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 316 Crab Crab Sauce

Listening to An Youyou's exaggerated praise, Qin Huai waited until the buns had cooled down a little and picked one up and took a bite.

Yeah, pretty normal vegetable buns.

I'll send two to Zheng Siyuan later.

Zheng Siyuan's plane just landed this morning. He took a short break at noon and came to work in the Yunzhong Canteen in the afternoon. After helping Qin Huai make three-spice dumplings and fermented glutinous rice steamed buns, he went back to rest. He did not work overtime.

He was not interested in Qinhuai making ordinary vegetable buns.

If Qin Huai made double crab buns, Zheng Siyuan might be willing to stay and study together. Zheng Siyuan was already very accustomed to Qin Huai's ideas and his hammer and club.

Not to mention that Qin Huai decided to make vegetable dumplings after going to the toilet, even if Qin Huai said that he would not be a dim sum chef these days, and he would practice cooking hard, especially stir-frying cabbage and meat. Zheng Siyuan would only think that the system that Qin Huai imagined had sent him an inexplicable side quest.

Master Zheng is so tolerant.

Qin Huai took a big bite, and the first thing the tip of his teeth touched was the bun skin.

With his advanced dough, making the bun skins for the daily buns was a piece of cake. With just a few moves, he could defeat all the breakfast shops within a radius of ten miles, forcing the shop owners to raise the white flag and surrender, cursing in their hearts, while sneaking into the Yunzhong Canteen to buy buns.

It is very delicious, chewy and soft at the same time. You can chew it and get the unique wheat aroma and the light carbohydrate flavor of the steamed buns.

The first time you chew it is the skin, the second time you taste the filling.

Very ordinary and simple stuffed cabbage.

Cabbage absorbs oil and tastes bland. The legendary Yin-Yang cabbage soup is a great way to lose weight. No oil or salt is added, only ginger and pepper are added to boil the cabbage in water. The first bite makes people look back on their first half of life, and the second bite makes them start to think about their second half of life. The third bite makes them feel hopeless, and the fourth bite makes them start to think about the meaning of life. If you can finish the whole pot and stick to eating only this for several days in a row, then this person will succeed in everything he does.

The above is a circle of friends that Qin Huai saw when he was reviewing memorials. It was posted by a friend who did not want to reveal his name and opened a lemon tea shop. He gained a lot of weight after drinking the products of his own shop and decided to lose weight.

From this circle of friends, we can see that if the cabbage lacks oil and seasoning during the cooking process, it will be very unpalatable.

The vegetable dumplings Qinhuai made this time only had cabbage, oil and the most basic seasonings.

If this snack does not have a buff, it is just an ordinary vegetable bun that tastes better than a normal vegetable bun. No matter how delicious it is, it is still an ordinary vegetable bun because its grade is only C+.

Yes, C+.

Qin Huai thought that he would have to watch the video tutorial when he got home in the evening. Jiang Weiguo's buns were only C grade because of his poor pastry skills. His pastry skills were much higher than Jiang Weiguo's, but the buns he made were only C+. In addition to not affecting the knife skills of the buns themselves, there must be other things he didn't notice.

Of course, it is also possible that Qin Huai does not make vegetable dumplings very often and is not very skilled at it. If he makes it a few more times, the vegetable dumplings should be able to reach grade B.

With the addition of buffs, C+ grade buns can become a snack that tastes just like B grade buns.

If it's a B-level, even a B-level food bag with buffs...

I don’t dare to think about it, I don’t dare to think about it at all.

Not to mention that this vegetable bun only costs three yuan each.

Before the Sanding Bao is upgraded to A-level, the Cai Bao will become the most popular bun in the entire Yunzhong Canteen.

Qin Huai narrowed his eyes slightly and chewed the bun with great enjoyment.

He thinks the buff of this vegetable bun is really good, doubling the sense of happiness and satisfaction. When people eat carbohydrates, the body's instinct will make them feel happy and satisfied. This vegetable bun doubles the buff, which is really a wonderful feeling.

It's a wonderful feeling when you're starving after losing so much weight that you're almost starving to death and eating a delicious vegetable bun.

The customers who bought the vegetable buns also found the food wonderful.

Aunt Liu, who was the first to buy vegetable buns, originally wanted to take all 1 buns home and share them with her family as the main course for the evening.

But Aunt Liu was a little hungry, and she couldn't resist her greed, so she took the buns and put them in her mouth and took a bite.

After just one bite, Aunt Liu became so angry that she wanted to make a decision that violated the Yunzhong Community Residents' Convention and risked being executed by law by queuing up again to buy 20 buns.

Then Aunt Liu hesitated for a moment, decided to call her husband to come downstairs to buy buns, and then she hurried home.

When someone asks her, she will say that she didn't know her husband also came to buy buns, and they both got the news by chance and forgot to inform each other in their hurry to buy buns. As the saying goes, ignorance is not a crime. Although their family violated the community convention, it is excusable and will not be executed by justice.

There are 20 buns, which can be eaten by five people in their family, so it’s not a waste.

Thinking of this, Aunt Liu happily stuffed another bun into her mouth, feeling full of happiness.

Oh, the vegetable dumplings made by Chef Qin this time are so delicious!

In the Yunzhong Canteen, Chen Huihong, who was a super-connected household and therefore did not have to abide by the community convention, bought 20 steamed buns at once. She had 18, Luo Jun had 2, 5 for dining in, and 15 to take away.

"You bought so many buns?" Luo Jun couldn't help but take a few more glances at the buns that Chen Huihong bought, and said sarcastically, "Why, haven't you eaten enough vegetable buns in your lifetime?"

Chen Huihong stuffed a bun into her mouth and said, "I ate very few vegetable buns. When I was eating and drinking in Beijing, the big restaurants never made ordinary vegetable buns. They were either beef buns, mutton buns, or some wild delicacy buns, seafood buns, or eight-treasure buns. They stuffed all kinds of things into the buns, such as roe deer meat, venison, bear meat, whatever. The flavors were all mixed up. It was hard to even taste the ordinary pork buns."

"Although the taste is a mess, the buns at Taifenglou are always the most delicious. Have you ever eaten at Taifenglou?"

Luo Jun silently took a bite of the bun and spat out one word: "Get lost."

"Have all of you learned the art of speaking from Chen Gong?"

Chen Huihong chuckled: "Not really, we just have some small exchanges in private."

"Assistant Chen's words are very interesting and he has some unique insights."

Luo Jun took another bite of the bun, but didn't say anything because the bun tasted pretty good and eating a few bites could make him feel a little better.

After finishing the whole bun, Luo Jun slowly said, "Can you finish 18 buns? Give me three. I want to have them as a midnight snack tonight."

Chen Huihong: ???
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After dinner, Qin Huai went to Zheng Siyuan's house carrying a bag of dim sum platter consisting of vegetable and meat buns, mung bean cakes and pan-fried radish cakes.

Because the agent Zheng Da had found was not good enough, Zheng Siyuan did not rent a house in Yunzhong District, but only a well-decorated one-bedroom apartment in the neighborhood next door. Later, Qin Huai learned about this and said that he could help Zheng Siyuan find a house in Yunzhong District, but Zheng Siyuan refused. Zheng Siyuan did not have high requirements for housing and did not want to move. He felt that they were all close, and it was just a matter of walking two more steps or two less steps.

When Qin Huai delivered the snacks to Zheng Siyuan's doorstep, Zheng Siyuan was making crab roe sauce.

Seeing Qin Huai coming, Zheng Siyuan said directly: "You came at the right time. I wanted to talk to you tomorrow."

"The crab roe sauce version of the double crab buns should have used fresh crab roe for the crab roe sauce, but now is not the time for crabs to be in season. If you have fresh crab roe, you don't need to make the crab roe sauce version, just make the normal version."

"These are all new crab roe sauces that I made with extra processing from crab roe sauce. It just feels a little off. You're here so you can help me taste them."

The method of making crab roe sauce is actually very simple, that is, boil fresh crab roe with lard, and then add other seasonings such as green onion, ginger, garlic, etc. according to personal needs. If you want the crab roe sauce to be more delicious and more attractive in color, you can boil oil with shrimp heads, and add shrimp head oil, the finished product will be better.

If there is no additional requirement, the seasoning only requires simple light soy sauce, cooking wine and salt.

Zheng Siyuan must have been making crab roe sauce right after work. The rich smell of crab roe filled the whole room. Because the crab roe sauce was made from crab roe sauce, the fishy smell was relatively small, and it was also mixed with some other flavors that did not belong to crab roe.

"Really?" Qin Huai didn't expect that Zheng Siyuan cared more about the double crab buns than himself. He hadn't even planned to start practicing the double crab buns, but Zheng Siyuan had even prepared the crab roe sauce.

Qin Huai put the snacks he brought directly on the entrance, changed his shoes, and went straight to the kitchen to taste them.

Zheng Siyuan has already prepared three types of crab roe sauce.

The fourth type is to fry slowly in a pan over low heat to make the crab butter again.

Qin Huai looked at the bottles and jars on the kitchen table, and it was obvious that the crab roe in the jars was not very pure. It must have been added with some extra things to make it look like the crab roe sauce of various brands. He took a spoon.

He first tasted all the crab roe sauces prepared by Zheng Siyuan one by one. Then, since he had never made or eaten double crab buns, he had no idea what the requirements for the crab roe sauce for making double crab buns were, or what it should taste like. He couldn't explain it at the moment and could only comment on the taste.

Qin Huai pointed to the first one and said, "This tastes the most normal."

"It tastes like normal crab sauce, but with a little more cooking wine. The last two have too many extra ingredients. I feel like the starch content of the third one is higher than the crab roe content. I know that thickening the crab sauce a little at the end can improve the taste, but this is not how it should be thickened, right?"

"It's the sauce." Zheng Siyuan explained, "I got the first sauce from the supplier. It was the most expensive and the best quality. But maybe because it had already been made into crab roe sauce, I felt it was not very suitable for the double crab buns after the secondary processing."

"If you use crab roe sauce to make double crab buns, it won't be as authentic."

Qin Huai:?
Is there such a thing?

This was the first time Qin Huai heard that making a dim sum cannot use too many real ingredients.

Zheng Siyuan knew what Qin Huai was shocked about, and explained: "My master's original intention in developing the recipe for making double crab buns with crab roe sauce was to allow diners to eat double crab buns with similar taste even in the season when crab roe is not on the market."

"The pursuit of taste is secondary. The key is whether the crab sauce can be preserved for a long time. In order to preserve the crab sauce for a long time, a lot of spices must be added. The conditions back then were different from today, so it was impossible to preserve the flavor to the maximum extent possible."

"So before I came here, I actually thought about whether the prescription left by my master is still applicable now?"

"Nowadays, there are more and better crab roe sauces, even if they are not as authentic, but the taste is not much different. In my opinion, these crab roe sauces are more suitable for making double crab buns, and the master's recipe is a bit outdated."

Qin Huai was a little surprised to hear Zheng Siyuan say this.

It's not that Zheng Siyuan is an old-fashioned person who is conservative and sticks to the old ways, but Zheng Siyuan has always respected and even admired his master. It was the first time he heard from Zheng Siyuan that his master's prescription might be outdated.

"Zheng...Have you discussed this matter with Master Zheng?" Qin Huai asked.

"I talked to my dad on the phone. I thought he would scold me at first, but he didn't. On the contrary, he was quite happy and laughed for at least three minutes. I was afraid he would choke from laughing."

"My dad said that I was only learning how to make dim sum before, but now I have finally learned how to be a chef."

"The beginning of a good apprentice surpassing his master is to question whether everything his master does is really right. My father has always questioned his master since he was a child and was often punished by my master. However, my master liked my father's character very much and thought that my father would definitely be an outstanding chef in the future."

"Actually, my dad is good in everything except that he's too lazy."

“After making money, I don’t want to work hard anymore.”

Qin Huai:......

Look at what you said, who wants to work hard after making money?

If you don’t believe me, go ask An Youyou. After she makes money, she probably just wants to lie on the beach and bask in the sun every day.

“So…” Qin Huai seemed to know what the first problem he needed to overcome if he wanted to start making double crab buns was. “Before we start researching double crab buns, we actually need to study how to make crab roe sauce that is more suitable for the current double crab buns.”

After Qin Huai finished speaking, he tasted the three servings of crab roe sauce one by one, but still couldn't figure out what it tasted like.

His tongue was not bad, but he had no reference sample. He had never eaten double crab buns and didn't know what kind of crab roe sauce was more suitable for double crab buns.

Zheng Siyuan shook his head: "No, this is what I want to do."

"Before you study the double crab buns, the most important thing is to taste what the double crab buns taste like."

After saying that, Zheng Siyuan took out a jar of homemade crab sauce from the refrigerator: "This is the crab sauce my father made last year, using my master's recipe. But it's not for making double crab buns, it's for mixing with noodles."

"I'll make you a double crab bun tomorrow, and you can roughly taste what it tastes like, and then we can start working on the crab roe sauce."

"Considering that a lot of crab roe sauce will be produced when making crab roe sauce, I think starting from tomorrow, Yunzhong Canteen can sell crab roe noodles online."

"The handmade noodles you make are quite delicious."

Qin Huai nodded, understanding Zheng Siyuan's hint.

"I know. The soup you prepared this afternoon is still simmering on the stove."

"I will make sure you have chicken noodle soup tomorrow morning."

(End of this chapter)