Food starts from cooking

Chapter 89
The time for this meal is not short. Most of the Fujian and Cantonese dishes are time-consuming to cook, especially the main dishes.

Take pork belly and chicken soup as an example, from the purchase of ingredients, to cooking the meat, to re-cooking, even within the same day, it takes at least four or five hours.

It should be said that anyone who brings soup here in Fujian and Guangdong basically starts in two or three hours.

Zhou You originally wanted to change and do something simple, but the old man was unwilling, and asked Liu Qingyao to take Zhou You to the shop instead.

"My store has been in existence for 67 years! Although it is not big, it is well-known in Pengcheng because it is a time-honored brand and it was established by my grandfather!"

"And my family, in fact, relied on this restaurant to change from a family in a fishing village to what it is now!"

On the way from home to the store, Liu Qingyao began to tell Zhou You some things about his family, especially her grandfather's!
Mr. Liu, formerly known as Liu Zhang, has been fishing with his father since he was a child. When he was 11 years old, his father stayed in the sea after he went out to sea. Since then, the sea has become his forbidden place.

At the age of 13, Liu Zhang met his first nobleman, a gray-haired old alcoholic, and later learned that he was an imperial cook who came out of the palace. Few people!

Imperial physicians, imperial chefs, craftsmen, etc., some of them were left behind, but most of them still disappeared in the ocean of history.

Liu Zhang was smart since he was a child, probably because of his talent. After following that master, his skills improved very quickly.

In just a few years, he became famous in the local area, but at that time, because he was too young and short in stature, he basically couldn't handle cooking.

I thought it would be a matter of course to become a famous chef after waiting or even raising it. Unfortunately, no one thought that the old gentleman left early because of depression, which caused Liu Zhang to learn. Fortunately, before he left, he gave Liu Zhang Pointed to a door.

From the age of 16, Liu Zhang started from the small fishing village of Pengcheng, walked along the coastline, traveled to countless cities, and entered countless restaurants. This trip lasted for 14 years, and then...

The restaurant is indeed not big, but it is not small either. It can be seen that it has undergone many revisions. The most important thing is the location of the restaurant, which is to the right of Window of the World and to the left of Happy Valley!
Large-scale public facilities can be seen everywhere in the surrounding area, and residential buildings are also high-rise buildings.

But the three-storey restaurant stands in a place surrounded by many buildings, which is particularly eye-catching. It can be seen that Liu Zhang was so good at the beginning. You must know that this land is also his family's!

Yipinlou!

The gilded characters on the plaque are particularly eye-catching, and there are no century-old shops, excellent restaurants, etc., and the cars at the door are also parked neatly, ranging from millions to tens of thousands.

After entering, the main hall was already full of people, including well-dressed young people and middle-aged and elderly people in vests, chatting and laughing, and most of them had their own food in front of them. Zhou You took a rough look and found that most of them were steamed. dumpling!

"Little Qingyao, how is your grandfather's health?"

"As usual, eat well!"

"Yo, Qingyao!"

"Hello!"

Liu Qingyao should come here all the time, the older diners here recognized them when they saw them, and Liu Qingyao responded with a smile.

When they arrived at the back kitchen, a middle-aged man with the appearance of a chef greeted him, glanced at Zhou You, and said to Liu Qingyao, "The ingredients are ready!"

Zhou You came here mainly to get the materials. Of course, Liu Zhang didn't let the kitchen make his own proposal to prepare materials for Zhou You, but let Zhou You choose by himself.

After all, if a chef wants to cook, he must start with the selection of ingredients.

He was taken to the cold storage in the basement, and when he looked around, there were all kinds of ingredients. At the entrance, there was a row of chickens and a row of pigs, which Zhou You could spot at a glance.

There are roosters, hens, black-bone chickens, large and small, free-range, and in factories, all of which are freshly killed.

There are also pigs, from size to breed, they have been classified above!
This is simply a chef's happy valley, Zhou You hurriedly went over to specify the ingredients he wanted, and then followed Liu Qingyao out.

When passing by the back kitchen, I just heard the voice inside.

"Who is that person!"

"I do not know!"

"It can't be Mr. Liu's boyfriend!"

"No way!"

"It seems... a bit like that, that guy is so handsome!"

"Shit, you're a man!"

"Actually...it seems to be a chef, ready to cook for the old man!"

"Ha, is it true or not?"

"I've heard that too!"

"Niupi, how dare you cook for the old man!"

After leaving Yipin Building, Zhou You took Liu Qingyao back to the hotel and took his bag.

And when they returned to Pengwankou, the ingredients had already been sent to the kitchen at home.

"I can't go out, so I can only wrong you!"

The old man is not in good health. With the current situation, he can only go to the hospital except at home, but a chef cooking in the kitchen at home will be restricted, especially the temperature!
Zhou You didn't care, he put his bag in the living room, and then went into the kitchen.

The old man was also pushed to the restaurant, where he could see Zhou You cooking.

Pork belly chicken, also known as phoenix reincarnation, is more popular in the eastern Guangdong generation. It is a must-have pre-dinner soup for banquets in the Hakka area!
The main ingredients are pork belly and chicken!
The so-called pork belly is the stomach of a pig. This time, Zhou You chose not the stomach of a local black pig, but the stomach of a factory pig, because compared with the black pig, the stomach of the large white pig raised in the factory has less odor and is larger. The elasticity is also better than that of black pigs. This is because factory pigs are designed to grow meat, so they eat more food than black pigs.

As for the chicken, Zhou You chose an old hen!
Liu Zhang just sat quietly in the wheelchair, looking at Zhou You's busy figure, vaguely, he seemed to see himself back then!

But it mainly depends on Zhou You's method. The method of making pork belly chicken is relatively simple, and the focus is on the heat, so there is nothing to look at in front of it.

Of course, the ingredients are also a key point!
And when Liu Zhang was paying attention to Zhou You's matching ingredients, someone from the family came back, and it was more than one person.

The footsteps hurried, and soon arrived at the restaurant.

"dad!"

"grandfather!"

There were men and women, old and young, the leader was about sixty years old, looking very anxious, he came over and held Liu Zhang down, and checked up and down: "Daddy, are you okay!"

And here, the younger ones have already begun to criticize Liu Qingyao.

"Qingyao, what's the matter with you, don't you know grandpa's current physical condition?"

"Yes, yes, Grandpa needs to rest now!"

Liu Zhang frowned and said, "I'm fine!" Seeing some grandchildren blaming Liu Qingyao, he straightened his face and lowered his voice a little: "Go away!"

In a word, everyone was silenced directly, because they knew that the old man was angry!

　I had a severe cold, and I took a drip in the afternoon, and fell asleep when I came back. I'm sorry, the recommendation ticket is a bit miserable. I beg for a monthly ticket for the recommendation ticket, thank you everyone!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)