Food: Starting with Wonton Noodles

After leaving Ocean University, Zhou Yu reopened the system.

It was exactly 10:30 p.m. when the system began its daily settlement.

Chef System

Today's satisfied customers: 123 (Click to view detailed customer wish list)

[Wishlist tasks claimed/Completed: 1/0]

Today's settlement rewards:

Today's customer satisfaction reward: [Premium] Jiangnan Hundred Flower Chicken (to be claimed); One traditional dessert recipe of your choice (to be claimed).

[Basic Settlement Reward: If the number of paid customer orders reaches 100 today, the sales revenue will be quadrupled;]

[Note: A daily paid order volume of 10-99 orders will double the base revenue, while a daily paid order volume of 100 or more will quadruple the revenue. Please strive to serve 100 tables of guests daily to improve service quality and average order value per table.]

[Recipes already mastered: Wonton noodles, Perfectly smashed cucumber, Double-skin milk pudding]

"Jiangnan Hundred Flower Chicken?" Zhou Yu was surprised when he saw the name of the dish.

There are countless ways to cook chicken in Lingnan, but the names of the dishes are often prefixed with the cooking method.

Seeing the words "Jiangnan" in front of it, he thought it was a Huaiyang dish.

Furthermore, what does the extra "[精]" at the beginning of this recipe mean?

It wasn't until he clicked to claim the dish that he learned about its history and essence.

This is actually a traditional Cantonese dish.

Most chefs are not highly educated, and they tend to name themselves quite casually.

Just like the Chongqing Chicken Pot that Zhou Yu once misunderstood, it was actually just a dish made by someone named Chongqing.

The reason why Jiangnan Hundred Flower Chicken is named after Jiangnan is simply because chefs in the last century believed that Jiangnan had a stronger influence of literati and scholars, hence the name Jiangnan.

In fact, at the beginning of the last century, when Cantonese cuisine first began to flourish, there were already countless ways to cook chicken.

Not a single chicken can leave Lingnan alive.

This saying didn't just become popular today.

When Cantonese cuisine was just beginning to develop in the last century, there were already countless ways to cook chicken.

And Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Lingnan, where Cantonese cuisine is most competitive, is no exception.

As the only port at the time that traded with the outside world, Guangzhou also ushered in its first golden age.

Driven by traveling merchants from all over China and abroad, the locals of Guangzhou also began their first wave of wealth accumulation.

People from Lingnan not only love to eat, but they also dare to eat anything. This has led to the development of almost every way to cook chicken, to the point that even the locals are tired of it.

Against this backdrop, Wenyuan, one of the four major restaurants in Guangzhou at the time, launched Jiangnan Hundred Flower Chicken, which dominated the entire food scene.

What's interesting is that this dish only includes the name of chicken, the appearance of chicken, and the taste of chicken.

But there wasn't a single piece of chicken in it.

"Hundred Flowers" refers to fillings made with a variety of flowers.

In the Lingnan cuisine, "Hundred Flower Filling" is a beautiful name for shrimp paste made by grinding shrimp meat.

Jiangnan Hundred Flower Chicken retains the chicken head and wing tips for presentation, and uses shrimp paste instead of chicken meat.

Wrap the shrimp paste in the skin of a whole chicken, steam it until cooked, and then cut it into pieces.

Finally, sprinkle with flower petals to enhance the color and aroma.

It is a traditional dish that requires a lot of time and effort to prepare.

After learning about the recipe and history of this dish, Zhou Yu finally understood why he had never heard of it again.

Unlike the early days of the catering industry in the last century, when it was just emerging and reaching its peak, diners back then had more time and inclination to appreciate food, and chefs had more motivation to research and create culinary delights.

But today, with the help of technology, people have not only made progress in kitchen utensils, but have also invented many pre-prepared methods.

Despite advancements in technology, the pursuit of flavor is declining.

I'm only sacrificing a little in the pursuit of flavor, but I can serve dishes faster and more accurately, sell more dishes, and make more money. Why would I make a dish that takes a lot of time to prepare?

This is an increasingly fast-paced era, and elaborate dishes like Jiangnan Hundred Flower Chicken are destined to be eliminated and lost.

But Zhou Yu was not discouraged by this; on the contrary, he was very happy.

After all, what eliminated this traditional dish was not its taste, but efficiency.

Although we don't need to use Jiangnan Baihua Chicken now, we will definitely be able to use it when we open a store in the future.

After obtaining the God of Cookery system, neither the system's rewards nor Zhou Yu's true nature led him to want to be a chef who wins by sheer quantity.

The Chef God System allows you to become a Chef God, meaning you can no longer be an ordinary chef who makes money by selling high-volume meals.

He also understood why the word "[精]" was added before the name of the dish.

In a cuisine known for its chicken dishes, this series of dishes stands out from the crowd. What's wrong with adding the word "exquisite" to it?

Not at all excessive.

After figuring it out, Zhou Yu clicked to claim today's sales bonus and other recipes.

Considering that it would be easier to sell at a stall later, he chose ginger milk curd, which is also made with water buffalo milk, as his dessert.

If we choose other dishes, we will inevitably have to prepare more raw materials. This is not only more troublesome, but also results in greater waste.

Therefore, when given the choice of dishes, Zhou Yu preferred to choose those made with readily available ingredients.

At that moment, his WeChat notification rang again:

"4365 yuan received via WeChat".

Although only 100 orders were sold today in order to boost sales volume, the number of orders here is not based on the number of people. He actually sold 135 bowls of wonton noodles and 30 servings of smashed cucumber today.

Unlike yesterday, which was a holiday, many students packed their wonton noodles to take away today because of classes, so more wonton noodles were sold for the same number of orders.

Luckily, he prepared enough wonton noodles for two days, otherwise he would have been unable to reach 100 orders and quadruple his order, just like yesterday.

The only thing he prepared in a fixed quantity was the cucumber salad, so there were no other unexpected issues.

It seems the turnover for tonight has exceeded 5000 yuan. Zhou Yu was very happy.

At the height of the internet boom, his monthly salary was less than 20,000 yuan. Now, he earns more than 8,000 yuan in just two nights, which is equivalent to half a month's salary before, and he is very satisfied.

"It seems that the daily settlement reward is also related to the number of satisfied people," Zhou Yu thought to himself.

Yesterday, before he reached 100, his settlement reward was a random dessert from the system and the basic chef skill that required time to unlock.

The basic chef skill was clearly a reward given for his first time setting up a stall.

Overall, it's not as generous as today's reward.

After completing over 100 orders, not only did I receive a reward with a customizable recipe option, but I also started receiving premium recipes.

However, if simply having a higher number of satisfied customers results in a more generous reward, it clearly contradicts the system's rule of encouraging 100 orders!

"There are hidden gems among the satisfied diners!"

Zhou Yu came to this only conclusion.

It seems that different people, and different dishes, will inevitably have different hidden scores in the end.

This is the key factor that ultimately determines your daily reward settlement!