The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 283
Humble Administrator's Garden Store.

Just after lunch, the waiters were busy clearing the tables and cleaning up, and the kitchen staff closed their stalls for lunch.

At this time, in the stuffing room behind the dumpling stall, Yaru was making stuffing while instructing Zhongwei to make noodles, and the practice pastry in the private restaurant was cleaning up.

"The evening market at Subei's shop costs fifty catties of noodles. It looks like his family sold a lot at noon today." Zhong Wei said.

Zhongwei is an elder sister in her thirties, a local, who speaks an authentic Jiangnan accent.

"Not as many as ours." The intern said.

The practice pastry in the private restaurant is a distant cousin of Qiao Shan, from Anhui, of medium height, plump, with an indescribable smile on her baby face, which looks a bit kitsch with her almond eyes.

Yaru sealed the prepared stuffing with a plastic sealer, put it in a refrigerated distribution box, and closed the lid.

"Master, I'll adjust the next stuffing, just watch from the sidelines," said the pastry trainee.

"You follow along first." Yaru refused without raising her head.

To be honest, Yaru doesn't like this intern, because he is a relative of the boss, he doesn't want to do any work, he prefers the light to the heavy, and the cleaning is also superficial. , When he said it, he talked back, saying that he couldn't bend his waist.

How good it is to stay at home with the waist off, and why not go to work.

Come late and leave early every day, saying that my home is far away, and I can't help it by riding an electric bike for an hour.

What can't be done?The head chef lives in the southern outskirts of the city, and it takes an hour to ride an electric bike. There is no one like her, who comes early and leaves late.

In fact, the dumpling master of the private restaurant has already been appointed, and he is the Zhongwei who makes noodles.She has followed Yaru since the opening of the Humble Administrator's store. It has been more than three months and she can operate completely independently.It's just that Qiao Shan's sister-in-law found Qiao Shan, but there was nothing she could do. According to the relatives, she arranged to be a dumpling worker for a job.

Being a dumpling worker is the first thing to learn to roll the skin with both hands.When Qiao Shan’s cousin-in-law went to work on the first day, Yaru was taken by an old dumpling worker, but her hands were worn out on the same day, and she didn’t want to roll it the next day.

It is normal for people who have never used a two-pointed rolling pin to roll dumpling skins to wear their fingers. Every dumpling worker has experienced it.What if it's worn out?Use a Band-Aid to stick it and continue rolling, there is no other way.

The masters we see on TV who roll out ten, twelve, and at most sixteen dumpling wrappers with both hands using a rolling pin with two pointed ends are all trained in this way.

If you can't roll the skin, just follow the dough.

So Yaru transferred her to the noodle making room, where she learned how to knead dough from Zhongwei.

This cousin thinks making noodles is simple. As the saying goes, who doesn't want to eat dumplings, just mix water and noodles together.Unexpectedly, mixing noodles is more laborious than rolling skins. What is the ratio of noodles to water, oil to salt, lecithin, temperature, humidity and other standards?

Watching Zhongwei skillfully pour the noodles into the dough kneading machine, then add water to it from time to time as the winch rotates, wait for the dough to be kneaded, take out the upper noodle kneading machine and slide it repeatedly until the standard is reached, and she starts to wake up. If you can’t do this, don’t talk about anything else, let’s just talk about the noodle machine. It’s scary to look at it, let alone do it.

There are people around us who can't do what they want to do and don't have enough food to eat, but they still refuse to admit it, and they always want to reach the sky in one step.There is usually only one way to deal with this kind of person, Princess Iron Fan's fan - fanning away.

In the first few days, Yaru told the head chef about Qiao Shan's sister-in-law, but the head chef couldn't make the decision, so she reported it to Xiao Gao.Xiao Gao couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he told Li Shuang in bed at night.

Sister Shuang was not used to problems, and said, "What's wrong? She runs a restaurant? What do you want to do? Ask her if she can do it? If she can do it, if she can't, get out."

"Isn't it mainly Qiao's cousin sister-in-law? She trained her for her shop and she's doing an internship here." Xiao Gao said in embarrassment.

"Practice fart! Is it working like this? What's the matter? You don't control the private house store? You can't fix the opening of it now?" Li Shuang gave her husband a very unhappy look, and kicked him out of the territory.

Of course Xiao Gao didn't want such a person in the kitchen, but he didn't have Li Shuang's energy. Although he managed well and innovated, he lacked a bit of arrogance.He didn't get angry after being looked down upon by his wife, and he wondered how to deal with it by himself.

He thought of Gu Yi, because this cousin was brought by Gu Yi. As the saying goes, you have to tie the bell to untie it.

Gu Yi was also a little embarrassed, so he said: "Let's do it first, and I will support someone for nothing, and it will be over when the business opens and transferred away." His handling is also a method, but it is a little bit accommodating, and it does not solve the fundamental problem.

Cousin Qiao Shan was upset when she saw that Yaru refused to let her change her mind. She felt embarrassed, so she stood there fiddling with her phone.It happened that Erdun opened the door and came in. He was looking for Yaru to study the mutton stuffing.

Seeing his cousin smiling friendly, he was going to go around her and go to Yaruna.

"Oh, it's just that you are here. My phone is running out of battery. Do you have a charger? Lend me to use it." My cousin borrowed the charger from Erdun with bright eyes, and at the same time puffed up her chest, seemingly unintentionally but actually intentionally. attention-grabbing.

The reason why she is like this is that Erdun is handsome, with the rough and unrestrained Mongolian man on her body, she is a man.

Men like beautiful women, and women like handsome men.

The smile on Erdun's face was still charming, and he said calmly: "I'm sorry, we don't allow you to tinker with your mobile phone during working hours. I didn't bring my mobile phone with me, and the charger is in the dormitory."

After finishing speaking, she walked over, but the cousin was not angry, and said from behind: "I see that your vegetable cutter is not here, can I chop vegetables for you?"

Erdun turned his head and said politely: "No, I'm busy, you can go to wash the dishes if you want, and the dishwashing aunt will take a break today."

The cousin sister-in-law was a little messy, and her face was full of resentment unwillingly, but it was a pity that Erdun had already turned around and didn't see it.

When Lao Tan and Gu Yi entered the store, the employees were having a working meal, one cold and one hot, pork belly stewed with cabbage tofu, small fish and peanuts.

Lao Tan went straight to the chef's table, and he stopped everyone from standing up, and then sat down.

"Boss, when did you come back?" Erdun asked first.

In the eyes of the kitchen people, Lao Tan is a master, and they are used to calling him "the boss".

"Morning." Lao Tan replied, and then asked: "How is it? Are you still used to it?"

"I'm used to it." Erdun smiled and said, "It's just too hot and stuffy, not as cool as Hohhot."

"Yes, it's good to get used to it. I didn't adapt when I first came."

"Boss, this yellow beef is fresh, and it will be too old after frying." Erdun quickly talked about the dishes, his face was full of excitement.

"All live cattle are killed, and this dish is also fresh, especially Hangzhou pepper, millet spicy, and pen bamboo shoots, which can surpass the fragrance." Old Tan said.

"Yeah, the stir-fried yellow beef I'm making now is better than when it was in Hohhot. It's comfortable to stir-fry, and I feel it. When will I try it?"

"Okay, at night, fry a plate and take it home, drink some." Old Tan said with a smile.

"It's done!" Erdun continued in a low voice, "Boss, there are people who sing Pingtan in the evening market of Hunan Restaurant, which is very lively."

Old Tan said: "Yes, when his family opened, it has a major feature."

"Our family is the Northeast Dumpling Restaurant, so it should be Errenzhuan, I think it will work." Erdun said.

The characteristics of literary and artistic youth are that they like prosperity and excitement, and they also have the desire to show themselves.

Old Tan smiled and said, "Our specialty is home-cooked Northeast dumplings, plus health-preserving wine. Errenzhuan singing is lively, but this is Suzhou. The common people grew up listening to Pingtan, and they like it. Errenzhuan is a specialty of Northeast China. Watch it fresh. If you change the taste, you won't like to listen to it after a long time.

The specialty of the Hunan cuisine restaurant is to eat hot and spicy Hunan cuisine and listen to authentic Pingtan. Let’s not argue with this, it’s best to be yourself. "

"What about singing?" Erdun asked.

Old Tan heard what he meant, and said that he wanted to show off his talents for a long time, and his throat and eyes were itchy when he watched people sing Pingtan.So he said, "By the way, you sing beautifully."

Erdun smiled embarrassedly and said, "General."

"Can you play the matouqin?" Old Tan asked.

"Yes, since I was a child."

"Oh——" Lao Tan nodded, looking at the anticipation on Erdun's face, and said, "Let's play for a while at night to add to the fun and see if you have the potential to be a singer."

"Boss, I'm a singer who was delayed by cooking."

(End of this chapter)