Chapter 497 Really? I don't believe it (spread hands)
Chen Zhixin was even more surprised when he heard this. He knew that Chen Qing did not have any lakes in eating. Although he was not as rich as himself, as a company executive, he could still eat whatever he wanted.
"This store is so powerful?"
"How about coming in and try it. If it is not delicious, I will treat you. If it is delicious, please treat me." Chen Qing said.
After hearing this, Chen Zhixin couldn't help but feel a little convinced.
"OK."
Then he followed Chen Qing into the Honghong Hotel.
Although Chen Zhixin and Chen Qing knew each other, they had never dated each other. The type that Chen Zhixin liked was completely different from Chen Qing. After knowing each other for a long time, Chen Zhixin also knew that Chen Qing's personality was the kind that he could not control at all, so he kept getting along with each other as friends.
Moreover, Chen Qing was two years older than Chen Zhixin, so he directly called Chen Zhixin Xiao Chen.
After entering the hotel, Feng Honghong saw the person coming at a glance and hurriedly went up to entertain him enthusiastically: "Xiao Chen, I'm here to have dinner again. Are you not busy with work today?"
"Yes, Auntie, I came out early today without much work. It just so happens that there are not many people in the store at this time."
"It's early. We just finished our staff meals. If you came earlier, you could still eat with us." Feng Honghong smiled and greeted the two of them and sat in a position by the window. This side was relatively quiet. Even if someone came for a while, they would not feel that the people coming and going around were too noisy.
"Will you bring your friends to eat today?" Feng Honghong asked curiously after the two sat down.
But she did not ask directly if this was your boyfriend, nor did she make up for it. After all, it was a matter between other people's guests. If they were, it would be okay to say it, but if they were not, they would only embarrass people.
"Well, it's a friend, but I just met him at the door, so I came in and had some food together." Chen Qing said as he tied his hair that had originally tied his ponytail into a bun, so that his hair would not fall off during the meal.
"Then what do you want to eat? What we write here are special dishes. Generally speaking, customers order whatever taste they prefer." Feng Honghong put down the menu and was about to start memorizing.
"Auntie, I'll ask for a Mapo tofu first, and then another... Hey, new dishes are available, so I'll ask for another handful of meat."
Feng Honghong nodded and wrote down the two dishes, but at the same time she reminded: "If two people, these two dishes should be enough. The main thing is to make the seed meat larger, with meat and eggs inside."
"Auntie who is fine, I'll pack it back if I can't finish it." Chen Qing explained. After all, there was a friend here today, and she also wanted Chen Zhixin to see what the dishes in this restaurant were like.
After all, people always like to get some sense of recognition from others on this kind of preference.
Chen Zhixin was also looking at the menu. He looked at the menu that most of the dishes on this menu were home-cooked dishes, but there were also many dishes that test their skills. Just like everyone who wanted to find some problems at Honghong Hotel, he soon saw Wensi Tofu.
"There is no soup, so I want a Wensi tofu." Chen Zhixin pointed to Wensi tofu and said, "Now there are two dishes and one soup, so I'll order another..."
But he didn't see any dishes he was interested in after looking at it: "Boss, are there only these on the menu? Are there anything else?"
Feng Honghong glanced at the young man and thought to herself that the young man looked very picky, but out of politeness, she originally planned to order these dishes, but at this moment Chen Nian in the kitchen suddenly shouted: "Mom, you can show him the dishes at the banquet and order a little."
Chen Nian said.
He also heard the conversation outside just now and heard the bets made by the two when they were at the door.
As a chef, he naturally doesn't want people to think that this restaurant and the dishes he cooks are useless. He then spoke after seeing the dishes that the other party had never thought of ordering after seeing them.
Feng Honghong looked at her son in surprise, but at this time Chen Nian happened to finish the work at hand and came outside.
"You came early today, and the ingredients in the store are quite complete. We can order the menu at the banquet." As he said that, he took the other two menus at the banquet and placed them on the table.
Chen Zhixin glanced at Chen Nian in surprise: "There is still a hidden menu?"
"It's not considered a hidden menu, but these dishes are usually only placed on banquets, otherwise it will take too much time to cook them in the store, so they are usually only made at the reservation banquet, so the ingredients can be bought in advance." Chen Nian explained.
But when he said this, Chen Zhixin became even more confused: "Then why did he take it out again now?"
Chen Nian smiled when he heard this: "I just heard you two bets. It happened that other guests had booked a banquet today, and there were more ingredients."
"Hahaha... I know. It turns out that you two are from the same group. OK, so I'll see how the food here is today, but you don't have to worry. I won't deliberately find fault. It's delicious, but it's delicious. It's not delicious." Chen Zhixin suddenly laughed out loud when he heard this.
Those who like to taste delicious food everywhere and like to make friends are naturally not pretentious people.
Of course, although such a young chef would not underestimate him, if he treats him as those masters, there will definitely be a certain distance.
And for Chen Qing's sake, he thought Chen Nian was quite interesting to do this, and he was more interested in his temper.
"Okay, then I'll take a look." As he said that, Chen Zhixin began to flip through these two menus. Compared with the previous menu, Chen Zhixin found that the production of these two menus was much more difficult.
"That's right, these dishes are worth ordering." Chen Zhixin looked around with interest.
He didn't want to waste it either. The dishes were actually enough now, but he still wanted to order another dish that was slightly more difficult. Finally, he focused on the hibiscus chicken slices.
"Come on this one, be more light."
"Okay, wait, this dish may be relatively slow, and the price is forty-nine."
"No problem, Forty-Nine is not expensive, and time is no problem. You can cook it slowly here, and I'll have nothing to do at night." Forty-Nine is nothing for Chen Zhixin. He often orders a dish for several hundred when he goes out. Some more high-end places even charge a service fee of 10 to 15% of the price of the dish.
Chen Nian nodded and then went back to the kitchen.
Chen Qing ordered another large cup of sour plum soup.
They were not in a hurry to serve the dishes because Chen Nian planned to serve the fuchsia chicken slices first, and then serve other dishes after the fuchsia chicken slices were finished.
When I was in Tianjin before, this dish was a bit hard, and Chen Nian used the back of a knife to cut the chicken into mud bit by bit.
But there is no need to be so troublesome after coming back.
First add chicken breast, fish, horse's hooves, chopped green onion rice, ginger rice, salt and chicken soup to the molecular cooking machine.
Then press the switch, and the blade inside began to rotate rapidly. In just a few seconds, the whole piece of chicken had turned into chicken crumbs.
The color is light pink, the texture is delicate and uniform.
"It's true that modern technology is still developed." Chen Nian couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time he told the apprentices in the kitchen. "In the past, the master used two kitchen knives to shoot this dish on the back of the knife on the eucalyptus board. If you want to make it at this level, you have to take a shot for more than an hour. It's not like now, just like now, you can complete it with a button."
Xie Yu couldn't help but ask, "Master, then I have a question. As you said just now, in ancient times, people made it with kitchen knives, and modern people made it with machines. Will the taste be different?"
Chen Nian shook his head: "If we talk about this piece of meat simply, the taste is actually the same, and the current seasonings are actually higher than that time, so I personally think that some dishes are not actually better than now, but the ancients will definitely make them better than now. After all, the times are developing and technology is advancing."
"But if the fish at that time were better than now, then I think it's normal. After all, there was no such a lot of industrial pollution at that time."
This is all experienced by Chen Nian personally.
After putting the prepared chicken rice dumplings into the bowl, Aged uses special tools to pour the egg whites of several eggs into the bowl with the chicken rice dumplings.
Then pick up the electric egg whisk and adjust it to the lower gear and stir it slowly.
"Although you don't have to make this dish now, you must pay attention to stirring too quickly when making it, otherwise they will form blocks." Chen Nian continued.
After saying that, Chen Nian grabbed some water and starch and put it in it, and still stirred slowly.
Next is filtering the fascia, seasoning sauce and putting it into the pot to remove the chicken slices.
After more than ten minutes of busy work, Aang finally put this dish out.
"Master, is this the hibiscus chicken piece?"
"Yes, this is what the hibiscus chicken slices look like."
"When I was cooking chicken broth just now, I didn't think that it would be the chicken slices in the end, and it seemed to be softer and tenderer than normal made with chicken slices." Xie Yu exclaimed.
He saw all the steps just now. He ignored what the master said about using a molecular cooking machine instead of manual labor. The other steps alone are cumbersome.
"No wonder this dish was selected for the state banquet. It turns out that there are so many things to pay attention to." The reason for saying this is because he saw Chen Nian being cautious when making it just now and did not dare to be careless at all.
Chen Nian smiled as he heard this: "Yes, this dish is indeed a bit of background, and what I do now looks like is OK, but if it is really the masters of the state banquet, they will probably have to be much better than mine."
As a result, Feng Honghong happened to come in and prepare to serve the dishes. When she heard this, she smiled on the spot: "Look at what you said, if you have the ability to open a restaurant here? You have been going to hold a state banquet for others long ago. Even if you don't go to a state banquet, there are big hotels outside to invite you to be the chef for others. The money you earn is not much more than what you earn when you open a restaurant here?"
"That's right." Chen Nian knew very clearly that he was indeed inferior to others in these aspects.
Then, Feng Honghong walked out with the dish...
For the past ten minutes, Chen Zhixin and Chen Qing were chatting all the time, but Chen Qing was mainly talking about some of the advantages of this store and the stories of this store he knew.
Chen Zhixin listened with interest, but he didn't really take it seriously.
Especially when he was looking at the menu just now, he found that there was Mapo tofu that only sold for one dollar.
At that time, he thought that there was beef in the authentic Mapo tofu, but as a result, the Mapo tofu here only sold for one dollar. Not to mention beef, maybe even tofu may not be able to buy it.
And even if there is no meat, the dish is only sold for one dollar, so it probably uses some technology to make it, just like the new industry "pre-made dishes" that the boss who started campus loans has now reinvested.
It doesn’t take any time or technical difficulty. Just pour it into the pot and stir-fry it for a few times.
Anyway, he would never order this kind of dish when he was away, so he was mainly worried.
But Chen Qing ordered that dish when he came up, and he couldn't say anything else.
But they chatted like this for more than ten minutes before passing, and then Feng Honghong finally served the first dish on the table.
"Here, hibiscus chicken slices."
Feng Honghong put the dish on the table, and the two of them suddenly saw it and their eyes lit up.
Chen Qing also booked a banquet at Honghong Hotel, planning to bring employees to eat next month during the team building. There was also such a hibiscus chicken slice, but when she saw this dish, she couldn't help but lit up.
But before she could move quickly, Chen Zhixin on the opposite side had already begun to talk about the difficulty of making this dish.
"This dish is a dish for state banquets. When I went to BJ, I had eaten it in Cuihua Building, one of the eight buildings. I felt that this dish was good at that time, and in Cuihua Building, the price of this dish seemed to be forty-nine.
You see, this dish is made of chicken, but it does not show the shape of the chicken. I later asked a friend for inquiries. When making this dish, it not only needs chicken, fish, but also horses' hooves, but you basically can't eat these when you eat them.
Later I also ate this dish in some restaurants, but what they cooked was very ordinary. Some even cut the chicken into slices to make it, which was purely accompaniment in the lake.”
"I didn't expect you to understand this."
"That's right, I'm not the kind of vase that only takes girls to high-end restaurants to show off. I really like this." Chen Zhixin said.
"Then why didn't you be a chef?"
"Hey, look at what you said. If I go to be a chef, can my dad let me go? Whoever I go to be a chef, I have to buy someone's restaurant and fire me." Chen Zhixin said helplessly.
Chapter completed!