Life is a Game

Because he wanted to stay in Yonghe residence for dinner, Jiang Feng simply stayed for lunch. Compared with the staff meal in Taifeng Building, which can be compared to a buffet of less than 100 yuan, the staff meal in Yongheju is relatively simple and normal, except that there is no difference between eating aunts and eating in the student cafeteria.

There are meat, there are vegetables, the craftsmanship is average, there are more vegetables, less meat and more oil.

The staff meals in Taifeng Building are arranged by all stove chefs in turn, while the staff meals in Yongheju are fixed by the chefs with the lowest seniority, such as the young man who often calls Jiang Feng's uncle by mistake.

Today's staff meal was cooked by him. There were only five dishes in total, and Jiang Feng tasted all of them. After tasting it, Jiang Feng deeply realized that this young man was the lowest in seniority, and there was a reason why he was usually not allowed to touch the stove-this skill was really bad.

"Master..., Jiang Feng, when do you think I can become a real stove chef like you?" asked the youngest guy holding a plate.

"Sit down first, your beans are almost spilling on me." Jiang Feng pointed to the seat opposite him, motioning for the guy with the lowest seniority to sit down.

Because of the poor quality of staff meals, bosses like Peng Changping and Lu Sheng usually eat out by themselves, and some rich chefs also eat in small shops nearby. Only poor employees who support their families and live frugally will eat in the store.

"How many years have you been studying?" Jiang Feng asked.

Although he stayed in Yonghe Residence for longer than Taifeng Building during this period, he was always hanging soup and rarely communicated with others. Apart from knowing the names of the chefs and who were of a higher seniority, Didn't know anything else about it.

"Almost four years." The boy said.

"Then it's still early for you." Jiang Feng said, "I started learning how to cook with my grandfather when I was five years old, and I didn't know how to cook until I was in junior high school. You've only been a few years old."

Yongheju's model of recruiting disciples still continues the most traditional one. When apprentices are recruited, unless they are very talented, they will have to practice basic skills for ten years. Even though times are changing, cooks have changed from being illiterate to those who have received nine years of compulsory education. They are not only literate but also know Newton's second law and chemical equations. The way of recruiting apprentices in Yongheju remains unchanged.

This also led to Yongheju basically not receiving apprentices in these years, which is a bit worse than Zhiweiju in the south - Zhiweiju let go of the request anyway, but Yongheju refused to let go at all.

"Hey." The boy sighed, sighing for his bleak future that he didn't know when he would become a real chef.

Jiang Feng also sighed, sighing for today's unsatisfactory lunch.

Because the young man is the lowest seniority in Yonghe, his brothers and sisters have richer wallets than him and are formally young and love to enjoy themselves. He rarely eats in the store except for lunch at the end of the month. Usually, the guy didn't have any friends when he was eating, but today it was rare to catch Jiang Feng, who was not very familiar with him, but at least he was at the same age, so he naturally wanted to seize the opportunity to say everything he couldn't say during the meal.

Jiang Feng was sitting opposite him while eating and listening to him. I don't know since when, Jiang Feng found that he was very popular in this area. There were always some people he didn't know very well who were willing to talk to him about things that were not very important. if. It was the same when I went to the teahouse with Zheng Siyuan before, Zheng Siyuan didn't tell others about the faults of the cakes, just told him alone.

Maybe this is the affinity from a good boss.

After listening to the other party and talking a lot, Jiang Feng suddenly realized that he actually had something to ask him, and asked, "By the way, have you seen other masters cook Tan's cuisine banquets in Yongheju for so many years? "

The Tanjia cuisine banquet in Yongheju has always been a very mysterious thing. Everyone knows that Yongheju has something, but few people have seen it. It is said that Yongheju cooks it only a few times a year, but most people don’t even know when and for whom they cook it.

Ever since he got acquainted with Lu Sheng, Jiang Feng has always wanted to ask him why he made the Tan family cuisine banquet so mysterious, and it wasn't that the chef couldn't make it when he ran away, but why the good dishes were kept hidden.

It's a pity that Jiang Feng never found a chance to ask.

"I've seen it before. Last year, we made two tables in our store. It was a family banquet for an old diner in our store's 90th birthday. I went out to meet, and I followed my uncle, uncle, uncle, uncle, and the others to come to help!" pride.

"You went too?" Jiang Feng was shocked.

"Of course!" The young man was extremely proud, "I did all the dishes!"

Jiang Feng: ...

I really don't understand you Yongheju chefs very well.

"What's all about it?" Jiang Feng asked curiously, and felt inappropriate after speaking, "If you can't say it, then don't say it."

"There is nothing you can't say. Others may not be able to say it. You have learned cooking from Grand Master and you can definitely say it. If you want me to say that Grand Master will definitely accept you as an apprentice in the future, maybe in the future I will call you Little Master Uncle, my Master I haven’t learned cooking from Grand Master.” The young man said, “Let me think about it, there are not many big dishes, the main reason is that those dishes are too troublesome, and there are too many dishes, and they can’t cook them.”

The young man fell into contemplation, and it took a long time before he stumbled like a junior high school student memorizing a text: "I remember showing the tea and dried it. The tea is Boss Lu's tea, and the dried fruit was brought by my master from the store. I haven't eaten it before." I know if it tastes good or not."

"Then served a few small dishes. My brother said they were appetizers for wine. There were probably six or seven dishes served in small plates. I remember spiced fish, duck liver, alcoholic peanuts, sausages, elbow flowers, and a few others I remember I don't know."

Jiang Feng nodded, it was quite hearty to serve so many side dishes just to accompany the wine.

"There is also wine. The wine was also brought from the store. My uncle said that the most important thing in this banquet is wine. If you can't buy it from outside, they must brew it."

"I remember that the first dish was braised shark's fin. My master said that the order of serving other dishes can be changed, but the first dish must be shark's fin, the second dish is braised abalone, the third dish is steamed chicken with straw mushrooms, and the fourth dish is steamed chicken. The first course is tremella stewed vegetables, the fifth course seems to be fish, the sixth course is crispy duck with scallops, the seventh course is sweet soup, and two stacks of dim sum are served at the end. Originally, the dim sum should be made by ourselves, but it is really There is no manpower, so the dim sum is bought by the owner himself.”

"It's quite rich." Jiang Feng sighed, shark's fin, abalone, chicken, duck and fish were gathered in a banquet dish. This configuration can be said to be quite...

Wait, there are chicken, duck, fish, shark's fin and abalone, but what about sea cucumber and bird's nest?

"Why are there no sea cucumbers and bird's nest?" Jiang Feng asked.

This question involves the young man's blind spot in knowledge. The biggest contribution he made in the whole banquet was washing vegetables, so he really can't answer this question.

The young man shook his head in confusion.

What Jiang Feng didn't expect was that he had just finished asking Tan Jiacai about the arrangement of the banquet at noon, and met him in the afternoon.

After Peng Changping and Lu Sheng went out for dinner, they brought Xu Cheng back. Not only did Boss Xu come, but he also brought a bunch of ingredients, all of which were for dinner.

These ingredients need to be escorted by Xu Cheng himself, which is enough to show their preciousness and rarity.

Of course, it is also possible that Xu Cheng just wanted to find a reason to squat in Yongheju to a restaurant just like Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng went to look at the ingredients.

Chicken, duck, fish, various vegetables, sea cucumber, shark's fin, abalone, and bird's nest are all available.

Jiang Feng:?

Is Peng Changping Superman? Or he is the legendary Captain America. A chef in his prime who uses all these ingredients to make a banquet may die suddenly from exhaustion, let alone a super-senior player like him.

"Master Peng, are you sure you need so many ingredients for today's dinner?" Jiang Feng looked in disbelief.

"Swallow Wing Feast is these ingredients." Peng Changping said with a smile, "Six appetizers, nine hot dishes, one beet, four dried fruits, four fresh fruits, a cup of Tieguanyin for each person, can't and can't be changed."

Several apprentices of Lu Sheng and Peng Changping silently lowered their heads, their eyes became a little erratic.

"Are you busy?" Jiang Feng asked soulfully.

"Of course I'm busy." Peng Changping went to the side of the ingredients and counted them. "The chicken, duck and fish are processed first, and the shark's fin has not been soaked for enough time. Are the scallops and ham ready? This basin is alkaline water Well, how can you use alkaline water to make agar-agar, and soak agar-agar in warm water to keep its original taste, have you all forgotten this? How have you made agar-agar all these years? How is the chicken soup in the morning now? Chen ... Forget it, you go to deal with the duck, Jiang Feng, you go to look at the chicken soup."

Apart from being a little unhappy because of the lye, Peng Changping's tone was very gentle the rest of the time, and he arranged tasks for everyone in an orderly manner. Basically, everyone had work to do and everyone could work overtime.

The last few cooks from the Tan family's lineage who were not assigned jobs were the young man who had dinner with Jiang Feng at noon and the other two with the lowest seniority and the worst skills.

"Great Master, I'll wash the vegetables!" Although the young man didn't get a job, he could create a job. After speaking, he ran away with a basin containing vegetables that had obviously been washed.

Jiang Feng: ...

To be honest, I really don't understand your Yongheju chefs very well.