From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 17: Stir-fried dishes in a large pot are as good as stir-frying in a small pot
  Feng Zhengming and his senior brother, while everyone was eating, had fried various canteen dishes.

During this period, two of Li Huidong's apprentices took the opportunity to come over and take a look, and even wanted to lend a hand to help.

But they were all rejected by Li Huidong.

"You two are still far behind. You are not qualified to go to the stove with me and your junior uncle yet. Just watch from the side first."

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng still respect Li Huidong as their master.

As soon as the master opened his mouth, the two apprentices naturally did not dare to say anything and stood aside obediently holding their meals and watching.

I saw Feng Zhengming and Li Huidong cooperating with each other.

In the process of cooking in the big pot, Li Huidong is more responsible for putting the vegetables.

Then Feng Zhengming was responsible for adding some seasonings to the pot.

In order to ensure that the food was delicious, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng looked at it in surprise. Feng Zhengming was really fierce when cutting the ingredients.

To make shredded potatoes with vinegar, Feng Zhengming directly poured a bottle of vinegar and put in less than half a bag of salt.

During the initial stir-frying process, the strong smell of vinegar emitted made Zhang Lei and Yang Peng feel pungent as they stood aside.

Even standing next to the big pot, the two of them felt completely unable to eat.

But even so, Feng Zhengming and Li Huidong still stood by the pot and stir-fried together.

The two brothers held large shovels in their hands. One of them shoveled into the pot from one side, and then turned over the vegetables and various seasonings underneath.

During the whole process, the two brothers alternately stir-fry from different angles.

You don’t even need to adjust the firepower of the large stove.

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng still remember that when they and their master were frying large pots of food together, they had to control the firepower on the stove from time to time to prevent the food on the bottom of the pot from being burnt first when the firepower was too high and there was no time to stir-fry.

But brothers Feng Zhengming and Li Huidong cooperated and stirred up the whole process.

The two brothers alternately stir-fry, just like stir-frying vegetables in a small pot. They can stir-fry the vegetables in the pot easily and naturally.

After the brothers kept stir-frying, the vinegar smell in the pot gradually evaporated.

The shredded potatoes in the big pot actually gave off the same crystal clear feeling as in the small pot.

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng were really stunned.

Seeing that the shredded potatoes had changed color, there was no need to talk nonsense. The two brothers had a tacit understanding that one of them would continue to stir-fry and the other of them would turn off the stove.

Then he brought the big pot over and quickly poured out all the shredded potatoes in the pot.

The whole process can be said to be very smooth.

After Zhang Lei saw it, he couldn't help but said: "The cooperation between master and junior master is really great."

As soon as Yang Peng heard Zhang Lei's words, he quickly followed up and said: "Yes, yes, I was dumbfounded. You guys really cooperated so smoothly."

Being praised like this by his two apprentices also made Li Huidong a little proud.

Looking at each other with Feng Zhengming, the senior brother Fu Zhi smiled knowingly.

Li Huidong said: "The tacit understanding between me and you guys, junior fellow apprentices, you know, we are in the back kitchen of Yanxi Building. This kind of tacit understanding between fellow apprentices is cultivated through repeated failures."

Speaking of this, Li Huidong asked Feng Zhengming: "Do you still remember?"

Feng Zhengming didn't need his elder brother to explain what he was saying, so he continued, "I remember, at that time, I just started learning cooking from my master. I always felt that my abilities were quite powerful and I should be able to get started with all kinds of things. As a result, the first match failed. I made a mistake, and it was you, senior brother, who seriously helped me correct many problems."

Before time travel, Feng Zhengming liked watching gourmet cooking videos.

But in fact, because of work, I have never been on the stove at all.

Perhaps the most amazing cooking skill is cooking instant noodles in the kitchen. But after time travel, Feng Zhengming once felt that he had watched so many videos and could give pointers to the chefs' dishes.

After all, he can be considered a Chef Yun, and he must be able to learn how to cook.

As a result, Feng Zhengming was deeply shocked from the moment he started learning matching from his master.

It turns out that cutting and matching looks very simple on the Internet, but it is not as easy as it seems.

Many times, Feng Zhengming almost cut off his fingers.

And there were countless stab wounds on both hands.

Fortunately, Feng Zhengming learned from the experience and quickly accepted the fact that he was just a novice in cooking.

Then I started to study seriously with my master and senior brothers humbly.

The master also took good care of Feng Zhengming, probably because Feng Zhengming had no relatives in this era and was regarded by the master as an orphan, so he taught him very carefully, hoping that Feng Zhengming could learn a skill to make a living.

In the eyes of Zhang Lei and Yang Peng, the tacit understanding between Feng Zhengming and his senior brother seemed to be that of one person.

These are also the experiences Feng Zhengming learned from his repeated failures.

To put it bluntly, I just try my best to cooperate with the senior brothers, and naturally there is such a tacit understanding.

Li Huidong said to his two apprentices: "There is no shortcut to learning how to cook. Every chef practices hard step by step. Now you see that your junior uncle and I work together tacitly. In fact, we also had a tacit understanding at the beginning. Without any cooperation, your little uncle has been scolded in the kitchen so many times."

Feng Zhengming immediately said: "Senior brother, don't talk about the things you were scolded in front of your disciples."

Hearing what Feng Zhengming said, Li Huidong and his two apprentices suddenly couldn't help laughing.

Hearing the commotion here, Li Huidong's son Li Xiaogang, who was eating with his mother, quietly came over.

"Dad, uncle, I will learn to cook from you when I grow up."

Hearing his son's voice, Li Huidong turned around and saw his son approaching. He reached out and picked him up.

"Good son, from now on, learn more from your brother-in-law. Your brother-in-law is truly proficient in all the eighteen martial arts. If you learn from your brother-in-law well, you will definitely become a master chef in the future, even better than your father. ."

When the senior brother said this, Feng Zhengming quickly said: "Senior brother, please don't brag in front of the children."

Li Huidong said with a smile: "Why are you bragging? You have been with the master for so long, and you have learned almost all the skills of the master, and you have learned almost all the kitchen processes very well. From now on, Xiaogang will learn from you, It’s definitely not wrong.”

But at this moment, Li Huidong's wife came over.

Li Xiaogang immediately said to Feng Zhengming: "Okay, uncle, I will learn from you later."

Feng Zhengming smiled and said: "If you want to learn, my uncle will definitely teach you everything he knows."

After talking and laughing for a while, Feng Zhengming and Li Huidong continued working.

The two brothers are obviously more agile together.

Before long, the dishes in the cafeteria for the evening were basically ready.

Feng Zhengming also filled the three pots with vegetables, and the two buckets were also filled with rice.

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng helped load Feng Zhengming's things onto the tricycle.

Before leaving, Li Huidong looked at the sky and told him: "Zhengming, you must pay attention to safety on the road. If it is dark when you come back and you meet someone on the road, you must give priority to ensuring their safety. If the money is gone, we will make more."

Feng Zhengming knew very well that his senior brother was worried. He nodded seriously and said, "Brother, I remember."

Under the watch of a group of people, Feng Zhengming rode a tricycle and rushed to the train station with the setting sun.

(End of this chapter)