The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 228 Pick up the child

In late October, the Provincial Catering Association and the Bandung family jointly held the "Golden Autumn Dumpling Festival", which was held in the lobby on the first floor of the Bandung shopping mall.This time, not only the dumpling restaurants in the provincial capital participated in the Dumpling Festival, but also some famous dumpling restaurants in the three northeastern provinces, including several from the south.

A Qiao Dumpling House is also invited.

Yanhua called Lao Tan to tell him about it. Lao Tan was busy designing a new kitchen, so he didn't think it was necessary to participate.

"Our family is a dumpling restaurant with a good reputation in the provincial capital, so it's not good if you don't participate." Yanhua said.

"How much sponsorship fee do they want?" Old Tan asked.

"Not much, one hundred thousand."

"It's dark enough—" Old Tan thought for a while and said, "Well, you can participate, but you have to advertise for our family."

"You—" Yanhua smiled and said, "I don't want to participate either, the main reason is to save face, I'm still a district representative, it's not good if I don't participate."

"Then participate, I will go back at the end of the month."

Putting down the phone, Lao Tan was stunned for a while, remembering the scene of participating in the Dumpling Festival when he was working at Linjiangxuan.At that time, Master was still there, and he won two gold medals, which was very glorious.

It’s just that now I don’t have the idea of ​​showing off, and I don’t have the desire to be competitive. In addition, the Dumpling Festival is too commercialized, and it loses its original meaning, so I don’t have any thoughts.

Although he is not in the mood, he has to do things to save face, and it is also to give the catering industry in the provincial capital a face.

The renovation of the new kitchen was supported by Toya Dawa.Although the open kitchen is novel, it is a concept after all, and the Food and Drug Administration has not yet opened up the management of Chinese kitchens.

After Lao Tan explained in detail how to design and how to achieve hygienic standards, Toyadawa thought carefully before telling him that it could be done, but the decoration must pass the inspection and acceptance of the bureau before it can be done.At the same time, if the effect is good, it will be promoted as a model kitchen, and Aqiao Dumpling House will be designated as a window service restaurant and an inspection-free unit.

With the support of the Food and Drug Administration, the kitchen decoration went smoothly and is now basically completed.After debugging, it is ideal, the smoke exhaust and noise have reached the expected standard, and it is waiting for acceptance.

It stands to reason that people should enter the kitchen at this time, but now there is no one.

Lao Tan encountered a new problem.

After returning from Yiyang, Lao Tan organized the photos and videos taken during the inspection into courseware, summoned Yang Zhijun, three chefs and stall supervisors to watch, explained in detail, and announced that the newly renovated Saiwai restaurant is this model.

Although everyone was shocked after watching it, they all agreed that the dumpling restaurant could not do well, especially the link of introducing dishes to guests.

"Our house is a dumpling restaurant. There are a lot of dishes that need to be cooked, and there is a lot of work to do. It is definitely not good if you don't have a load." Yang Zhijun first objected.

"I am going to redesign the dishes and adjust the structure of the dishes." Old Tan said.

"Readjusting the traditional dishes of our family can't be cancelled? Like pot-packed meat, tender meat sections, and ground three delicacies, all need to be battered and powdered, which can't be solved. You can't ask the master to cook the pot and stuff the pot at the same time. Let’s go.” Yang Zhijun said.

"This is easy to solve, and a furnace eye operation is proposed separately." Old Tan said.

"Don't you also face customers? Hygiene can't be guaranteed, do you wear gloves? I looked carefully and found that almost none of their dishes were battered, and they were all fried directly, and there were very few of them with cornstarch. "Yang Zhijun insisted on his views.

As Yang Zhijun and other people also raised different questions, it was generally difficult to organize and have difficulties.The only thing that didn't ask a question was the noodles. They are now open-ended, and it's the same whether they change or not.

Seeing everyone's objections, Lao Tan is also troubled.But it is difficult to change what he decided. After everyone finished talking, he said calmly: "This is an experiment. Although we went to investigate, we haven't done it, and I have no experience."

Immediately afterwards, he raised his voice: "What if you don't have experience? Don't do it? Open kitchens are the trend, and it is the idea to let the dishes speak for themselves. In the next two years, whoever does it will win, guaranteed.

I know what everyone thinks, if you are a chef, you can just stir-fry, and no one wants to cut small ingredients and move the plates to match the chopping board.One is that you can't get through it psychologically, and you can't lose your face, right? "

"The third brother is not, mainly because he is too busy." Yang Zhijun said, with the intention of defending.

"I haven't said how to operate it yet, how do you know you're too busy?" Old Tan asked with a sullen face.

Yang Zhijun clicked his lips dryly, but did not make a sound.

Lao Tan raised his voice: "Don't say that something is impossible or impossible before it is done. How do you know it can't be done before it's done? Why can't people do it?
No need to deny it, after reading the courseware, I don't believe you are not shocked.Dissatisfied?I didn't lead you to the scene to see it for yourself, you can do it yourself.

I still say the same thing, put us all together, it is impossible to study aircraft and cannons, without that IQ, if you don’t understand the research in the kitchen, your life will be in vain, and you are not qualified to be a chef. "

Seeing that Lao Tan lost his temper, everyone lowered their heads and did not speak.

Old Tan breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Calling everyone here is not to change the kitchen and do it right away, but to sit down and study together to see how we do it and how to adjust it. One person counts short, two people count long, and three cobblers top the list." Zhuge Liang, I don’t believe we can’t make an open kitchen together.”

There was silence, and the atmosphere was a little tense.

After a while, Yang Zhijun blushed and said, "Third brother, you can do it. The main reason is that we haven't seen it before, so we don't know how to do it."

Old Tan smiled, and said, "I know you're like this, so hurry up and say whether you want to do it or not."

"think."

"You can do whatever you want. Who else wants to do it?" Old Tan asked.

"Me." Erdun said.

The cold dish assistant at the central kitchen store didn't speak, but just raised his hand.

Then the three head chefs also raised their hands.

Lao Tan was very satisfied with the effect, so he asked Yang Zhijun to stay after the meeting, and asked him to make arrangements. A week later, he would bring Erdun and the cold dish deputy, and two chefs who performed well to study in Yiyang.

Now that the kitchen is done, Lao Tan is not in a hurry, and he just has time to study the structure of the dishes.

A yellow school bus slowly stopped by the side of the road. Xiaojun got off with his schoolbag on his back, said goodbye to the driver uncle, and then walked to the kindergarten in front.

The entire kindergarten was silent. The children were picked up by their parents an hour and a half ago, and now only Xiaoying, who was squatting, and the grandfather who was beating the watch were left.

Xiaoying saw her brother, and ran towards the door happily. The small schoolbag strap on her shoulder was a bit long, so that the schoolbag hung on her buttocks, and she slapped her little buttocks rhythmically as she ran.

"Slow down—" Grandpa Da Geng shouted from behind.

Xiaoying ran up to her brother, raised her face excitedly, and said, "Brother, today I got little red flower again."

"Yeah, Xiaoying is awesome."

Xiaojun took his sister's hand and said goodbye to Grandpa Dageng.

It is one kilometer from the kindergarten to home. Every morning, Xiaojun brings his younger sister to school before going to school, and picks him up after school in the afternoon.Dad left early in the morning and came back late at night, so he couldn't pick them up.

"Brother, guess what we ate in kindergarten today?" Xiaoying asked.

"drumstick?"

"No, it's chicken wings, potatoes, and garlic sprouts."

"Are you full?"

"I'm full—but now I'm hungry again." Xiaoying said a little aggrieved.

"Brother will cook noodles for you when I go home." Xiaojun said and patted his sister's head.

"Noodles again—" Xiaoying pouted.

"Then what do you want to eat? No more --- stewed rice."

"No, the rice you stewed last time was not cooked, but it was hard."

"Last time, there was less water, and this time it must be just right." Xiaojun assured.

After walking two steps forward, Xiaoying raised her head and said to her brother in a negotiating tone: "Brother, can we go to Aunt Xiaomei's restaurant to eat dumplings, Aunt Xiaomei said we can go—"

Xiaojun grabbed his sister and said, "We can't go, we don't have money——"

"Oh--"

Xiaoying walked forward disappointed.

"Brother will buy you an apple." Xiaojun didn't want to make his sister sad.

"Okay!" Xiaoying jumped happily.

Children are young and don't understand too many things. Eating is dominant at this age.

The little brother and sister walked forward when a black car stopped beside them with the windows open.

"Ah, Aunt Xiaomei—" Xiaoying exclaimed.

It was indeed Zhou Xiaomei. She went to pick up Xiaoying from the kindergarten, and when she heard that she had just picked her up, she drove over.

"Xiaojun Xiaoying, get in the car." Zhou Xiaomei called from inside.

Xiaoying went to pull the car door, but was grabbed by her brother.

Xiaojun asked, "Aunt Xiaomei, where are you going?"

"No, I'm here to pick you up, get in the car quickly." Zhou Xiaomei said.

Xiaojun hesitated.

"What are you thinking, come up quickly, the traffic police should be here soon." Zhou Xiaomei urged with a smile.

The two children got into the car.

Zhou Xiaomei stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the Jinqiao store.

(End of this chapter)