The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 323 Helper Study Group

The crab roe noodles were sold until 8:42 in the morning.

The last bowl of crab roe noodles was bought by a leader named Wang from a company in a nearby office building. As for why Qin Huai knew so much about it, it was mainly because this leader's employees happened to be queuing behind him to buy buns, and Qin Huai heard more than one office worker call this leader Mr. Wang.

To be honest, it’s different working for Mr. Wang. I’m not afraid of being late for work.

Mr. Wang spent a full 18 minutes eating this bowl of noodles, from the time when Yunzhong Canteen was busiest to the time when the flow of customers was extremely quiet. After eating, he went to the Xiaoou Handmade Lemon Tea Shop opposite to buy fruit tea on the waiter's recommendation, and did not forget to ask if the crab roe noodles were sold every morning.

It can be seen that Mr. Wang decided to be late for work every morning in order to eat crab roe noodles.

"It seems that the guests really like today's crab roe noodles. Although we didn't make the crab roe sauce that satisfied us, we have satisfied most of the guests." Qin Huai concluded with a smile.

Zheng Siyuan was unmoved by what Qin Huai said, and just asked with a little doubt: "Have you learned a new encouraging teaching method from somewhere recently?"

Qin Huai nodded obediently: "I have learned a lot from guiding the store employees recently. How is it? Was my speech okay?"

"Master is better at speaking than you in this regard." Zheng Siyuan said, "If Master wanted to praise someone just now, he would never let me hear that he was deliberately praising someone."

Qin Huai understood, but he still had to practice.

"What snacks are you making today?" Zheng Siyuan asked.

Zheng Siyuan is a dim sum chef who is very sensible in his work. He knows the difference between normal work and extra practice, and will never let extra dim sum research affect his normal work.

"Just like before, I'll make Four Joys Tangyuan and Mung Bean Cake, and you can make Sanding Buns and Wine-Rice Mantou. You can make the rest as you like." Qin Huai said, "But I might be a little lazy during this period, so I need you to make more snacks for me."

"I thought I'd get familiar with sea cucumbers while we're working on the crab paste."

Zheng Siyuan admired Qin Huai's visionary learning method. Crab roe sauce needed to be studied, but Qin Huai could provide very little help in this regard (he was not good at controlling the heat). Qin Huai mainly played the role of tasting and making noodles to prevent the crab roe sauce from being wasted.

After finishing the research on crab roe sauce, Qinhuai may even have no improvement in seasoning, knife skills and heat control, but will make great progress in dough kneading.

Don’t ask, the only thing I want to know is whether there is enough crab roe noodles.

"Do you need help? How do you plan to get familiar with it?" Zheng Siyuan asked.

"I plan to make some cold sea cucumber salad." Qin Huai said.

"Don't sea cucumbers have a strong fishy smell? Then I'm going to do the easiest and most likely to fail method. Although my knife skills are not very good, it shouldn't require much knife skills to make cold sea cucumbers. The most important thing about cold dishes is seasoning. I believe that by the time I've made the cold sea cucumbers, I'll know enough about sea cucumbers. By that time, your crab roe sauce should be almost ready, and we can combine them and officially study the double crab buns."

Facing Qin Huai's plan, Zheng Siyuan just said: "Knife skills are also very important."

“Knife skills are very important for all cold dishes.”

"Then I'll find someone to help me cut it. Li Hua's knife skills are pretty good. I'll talk to him later."

After saying that, Qin Huai showed a slightly distressed expression: "Alas, at first I thought that two dim sum chefs were enough for Yunzhong Canteen, but later I found that dim sum chefs alone were not enough and I had to hire more helpers. But when I really started recruiting helpers, I realized that not every place has helpers like Huangji and Zhiweiju these days."

"If you hadn't come to help me, I wouldn't have had time to practice making cold sea cucumber salad."

Zheng Siyuan agreed: "It is indeed difficult for ordinary restaurants to recruit assistants with good cooking skills, not to mention that your requirements for assistants are higher than those for ordinary chefs."

"Whether it's Huang's or Zhiweiju, their level of ordinary helpers is more than enough to be normal chefs in ordinary restaurants. Apart from other things, Wang Jun can only be considered a half-chopping chef in Huang's, but in terms of cooking skills, he is much better than the two chefs in your cafeteria."

Qin Huai:......

Okay, I get it. You are very dissatisfied with the staff meals in our Yunzhong Canteen.

"What did you eat yesterday?"

"For lunch, I had pork with preserved vegetables, water spinach with garlic sauce, and pork rib soup."

"Don't eat pork with preserved vegetables. I always think the pork with preserved vegetables in our cafeteria is too salty, but some customers love it, so we've never removed this dish."

"I suggest you just have some scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Rice is also okay."

Zheng Siyuan: …

Tired, destroy it.

Master Zheng, who was not very satisfied with the employee meal, could only sigh deeply and then start kneading the dough to make buns.

It's another dull morning.

The diligent Master Zheng has been concentrating on making dim sum, while the lazy Master Qin just made some four-happiness dumplings and mung bean cakes, and then started to study the cold-mixed sea cucumber.

Master Qin’s research results were not allowed to be tasted by anyone.

Every time he mixed a portion, he would taste it himself, then look embarrassed and put on a mask of pain, then doubt his life, be silent for a few seconds, and finally fall down.

The same scene kept happening repeatedly in the kitchen. As Master Qin's expression became more and more solemn, Pei Xing, who had originally planned to rush forward with the dough to receive today's instructions, was very tactful and kneaded his dough silently.

During lunch, Pei Xing asked Li Hua in a puzzled voice, "When Master Qin was tasting the dishes before, didn't he always let us taste them together after they were done?"

"Why has he been doing it silently, eating silently, and pouring silently today?"

Pei Xing's face was full of "I also want to do my part to help Master Qin."

Li Hua took a deep look at Pei Xing and finally understood why this relative couldn't make it in Zhiweiju like himself. Talent is one thing, emotional intelligence is another.

Li Hua took a bite of rice silently and said, "Master Qin has his own judgment. If he thinks it is not necessary, then it is not necessary."

Some dishes are worth tasting, while others are not even worth tasting.

The pigs that eat the canteen slop today are blessed.

On the other hand, Qinhuai’s cold sea cucumber salad is so delicious that it makes people question their lives.

It's not that I doubt life because it's unpalatable, but that I doubt life because of the difficulty of cooking sea cucumber dishes.

Before, Qin Huai knew nothing about sea cucumbers. Even though Cao Guixiang gave him a brief basic theory class for more than an hour and asked him to go back and practice it on his own, Qin Huai still didn't understand sea cucumbers before he put it into practice.

Now he understands.

Sea cucumber is a thing...

It’s really fishy!

Compared with sea cucumbers, the smell of fish, meat, and seafood is nothing. The smell of sea cucumbers is the real smell. It is not particularly strong, but if it is not cleaned properly, you can taste it as soon as you eat it, which directly destroys the seasoning of the whole dish and tells you in the most intuitive way that the chef's skills are not up to par.

It can’t be said to be particularly difficult to handle.

But it’s also really hard to handle.

Qin Huai's master-level seasoning means that he is destined to never make any big changes in seasoning.

The same was true when I was making the cold sea cucumber salad today. In the first few times, because I was not very familiar with the ingredients and my techniques were very unfamiliar, there were many problems when processing them, which made the first few servings a bit difficult to swallow.

Learning new dishes is a process of constantly discovering problems and making corrections. Qin Huai corrected the problems quickly, but he just made corrections.

He simply managed to make the cold-mixed sea cucumbers not have the fishy smell, and made it pass the test, but he did not make the cold-mixed sea cucumbers taste good.

The sea cucumber ingredient itself has no taste. All its flavors are given during the later seasoning process. It is a truly show-off dish.

Showing off one's skills means that one must have skills to show off.

It can be said that during the morning's production process, Qin Huai began to doubt his life a little with every little progress he made.

As he learned more about sea cucumber as an ingredient, a question that Cao Guixiang had raised earlier began to linger in his mind.

Can sea cucumber be used to make buns with crab roe?
How dare the chef who invented this recipe?

This is no longer a question of being skilled and daring, this is simply... willful. How can these two ingredients be combined together?

As Qin Huai became more familiar with sea cucumber as an ingredient, he realized that Master Zheng's method of frying sea cucumbers for a few seconds was simply genius.

Zheng Da is indeed very talented.

His ideas were unconventional, but his results were astonishing.

As Qin Huai worked, he began to respect Master Zheng.

This admiration and confusion lasted until noon. When Qin Huai was cutting shredded radish in front of the camera of his mobile phone, he was thinking in his mind, how did you think of pairing sea cucumber and crab roe together, and is this right?

Are the double crab buns made with crab roe sauce and the double crab buns made with fresh crab roe really the same kind of double crab buns?
Qin Huai even understood Zheng Siyuan a little. It is good to be ignorant and fearless. When you don't know, you have no concept and think everything is possible. The more you know, the more limited your thinking becomes. It can't be said that it is more limited. You can only say that you know the difficulty and barriers, so you don't think about it at all.

Thinking about it this way, Zheng Da is indeed a genius.

Throwing anything into the frying pan and frying it may be outrageous, but the thinking is genius.

"What's wrong with Xiao Qin? You look absent-minded. What are you thinking about?" Cao Guixiang noticed that Qin Huai was distracted and reminded him, "It's not a good habit to think about other things while cutting vegetables. Be careful with your hands."

Qin Huai didn't even look down at the kitchen knife subconsciously, and explained directly: "I was thinking about how to match crab roe and sea cucumber together to make bun fillings."

Cao Guixiang couldn't help laughing out loud, and she coughed twice while laughing, and quickly took the cup to drink water: "It seems that you learned how to cook sea cucumbers today. Let me think about what you did. You definitely can't cook hot dishes, your knife skills and heat are not good enough. For cold dishes, I guess you can only make cold sea cucumbers, right?"

"You used the recipe I gave you?"

"Yes." Qin Huai nodded.

"Then you can practice hard." Cao Guixiang said, "My recipe is not an ordinary recipe. It is a secret recipe at least. The seasoning is difficult. It must be made by a very experienced chef or a chef with a very high seasoning level."

"But what you just said is also true. It is ridiculous to use crab roe and sea cucumber together to make steamed buns. The difficulty of making this filling is no less difficult than the seasoning of the cold sea cucumber salad I gave you. If you make the cold sea cucumber salad well, I believe you can still make the double crab buns you mentioned successfully."

Qin Huai:?
Qin Huai looked up in shock: "Ah, the recipe for the cold sea cucumber you gave me is very difficult?"

"Of course, this is a secret recipe. How can a secret recipe be easy? Aren't those that are easy to make have been stolen by others?" Cao Guixiang looked at Qin Huai in the camera with an innocent look on her face. If she could hold back her smile, her innocence would be more real. "Besides, the secret recipe is delicious. Ordinary cold sea cucumbers taste very ordinary. It is impossible to be as delicious as this recipe."

Qin Huai:......

"I didn't expect that either." Qin Huai said leisurely, "The recipe you gave me casually turned out to be a secret recipe."

"What's unexpected about this? You're a plain-cooked chef and I can only give you a few recipes. If you're a red-cooked chef, you have this talent. Let me tell you, I have as many secret recipes as you want for cold sea cucumber salad. If you learn one recipe a month, I can guarantee that you won't make the same recipe twice in three years."

"Have you ever thought about taking in a disciple?" Qin Huai asked.

In the video, Cao Guixiang paused while drinking water, thought about it carefully, and then shook her head.

"It's not my turn. I have two other senior brothers. Although they both went abroad and I don't have their contact information, I heard that they accepted many apprentices before they went abroad and took them all abroad."

"Let my senior brothers take care of the inheritance of the sect. I, the little junior sister, will be lazy and stay in the south to enjoy a leisurely life."

Qin Huai was tactful enough not to ask any more questions and just continued cutting vegetables in silence.

Just then, a message from Tan Weian popped up, asking if Qin Huai was busy because he had just made a video call but failed to get through.

This is a rare thing. Although Tan Weian likes to forward pictures, he basically has never made a video call to Qin Huai. He only calls him by voice when there is an emergency.

It seems that there is really an urgent matter, which must be discussed face to face.

"Master Cao, a friend of mine wants to video call me. It must be urgent. I'll answer it first."

"Okay, you take care of your thing first." Cao Guixiang nodded.

Qin Huai put down the kitchen knife, hung up the video call, and then made a video call to Tan Weian.

The other party answered in seconds.

Judging from the background, Tan Weian should be in Zhiweiju, squatting at a place that looks like the door of a warehouse and tiptoeing to answer the phone.

"What's the matter?" Qin Huai asked.

"It's just... there's something that's not too big, but it might be a bit big." Tan Weian hesitated, "Um... didn't my junior brother and I come back from the exchange at Huangji a few years ago?"

Qin Huai didn't quite understand what Tan Weian wanted to say, and tried to guess: "Gu Li encountered some problems when making snacks, and he was embarrassed to come to me directly, so he asked you to help ask me?"

"No, no, no, no, no." Tan Wei'an denied it again and again, using five "no's" in a row to express that it was really not the case. "It's just that everyone has made great progress."

Qin Huai:?
"To be honest, although you can't see it, I really gained a lot from researching Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls."

Qin Huai: ? ?

"The same is true for Gu Li. I even feel that the Ruyi Roll he made has begun to show results and has the potential to succeed."

"Not to mention the others. They didn't have a proper master to begin with. They were just ordinary helpers who usually learned a little bit here and there from our Zhiweiju. This time when they went to Huangji, they made rapid progress. If you didn't know, you would think they became Huangji's apprentices."

Qin Huai:? ? ?
"So..." Qin Huai asked hesitantly, "You want to call me via video to express your gratitude?"

No way, Tan Weian, this is not your character script.

"That's not the case. It's like this." Tan Weian took a deep breath and finally got to the point. "Our boss Su wants to discuss something with you."

"Boss Su, whose daughter is on a blind date with Zheng Siyuan?"

Tan Weian quickly whispered, "Yes, yes, yes, keep your voice down, Boss Su is walking towards me."

Qin Huai immediately said with a serious expression: "What's the matter?"

"You know, as the largest gang in the white case world, we at Zhiweiju are not short of registered disciples, or helpers."

As soon as Tan Weian finished speaking, a deep male voice interrupted him.

"Xiao Tan, what are you talking about? Give me your phone, I'll talk to Master Qin."

Then the picture began to fluctuate violently due to the handover of the mobile phone, and soon a middle-aged man with a square face with "positive character" written all over it appeared in the camera.

The middle-aged man smiled warmly.

"Master Qin, right? I'm the boss of Zhiweiju. You can just call me Boss Su. Everyone calls me that."

"Boss Su."

"Master Qin, I heard from Xiao Tan this morning that you need help."

"Isn't this a coincidence? We have a lot of helpers at Zhiweiju who are in great need of your guidance. Your guidance last time was so successful that even our Master Zhou was full of praise for your teaching!"

"How many do you need? Tell me the number, and I'll let Xiao Tan lead the team. We'll start a one- to two-month exchange and learning program."

"You can use the person as you like. Use him the same way you used him at Huangji. I remember you have my WeChat. If you have anything to say, just tell me on WeChat. If you are not satisfied, tell me at any time and I will replace him for you."

"You don't need to worry about accommodation. We will arrange it for you."

"If you have time, it would be even better if you could come to our Zhiweiju for a month or two in the middle or second half of the year. What do you think?"

Boss Su looked at Qin Huai with great anticipation.

Qin Huai: ...?
This is the legendary treatment for the protagonist, sending a younger brother... no, sending a helper? !

"That's good... of course." Qin Huai nodded, "Do we need to discuss the specific matters further?"

"Of course, are you still working? I won't bother you anymore, we can chat on WeChat later."

(End of this chapter)