From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 24 Preparing for a birthday banquet for going to the countryside (please follow up)

In the next two days, Feng Zhengming still helped his senior brother in the cafeteria, and went to the train station to sell lunch boxes every noon and evening.

And because Liu Daxing and Qiu Bin helped promote it, many staff at the train station began to go to Feng Zhengming's lunch box stall to buy his lunch boxes.

In this way, it brought some regular customers to Feng Zhengming.

Passengers catching trains every day are still the main source of customers for Feng Zhengming’s box lunches.

Feng Zhengming has built a reputation and travelers will recommend him to each other.

As a result, Feng Zhengming can almost sell out all his lunch boxes every day.

As for the few gangsters who blocked the road, they did not appear again.

Senior Brother Li Huidong was worried and would arrange for Zhang Lei and Yang Peng to pick up Feng Zhengming these two nights.

In addition to selling boxed lunches, Feng Zhengming also helped his senior brother prepare for a birthday banquet when he went to the countryside.

Brother-in-law Lin Jiacheng helped purchase a batch of fresh and better quality ingredients, especially some high-quality dried seafood.

It can be said that the level of the birthday banquet has been improved a lot at once.

Feng Zhengming helped his senior brother prepare some dishes in advance.

For example, elbows need to be stewed in advance, otherwise it will be too late to stew on the same day.

After buying the elbow, Feng Zhengming first led Zhang Lei and Yang Peng to clean it up.

In the backyard of the canteen, find a large iron basin and use wood to make a fire. When the fire starts, put all the elbows you bought into it and burn it.

Burn the entire surface of the elbow in a brazier until it becomes carbonized and turned black.

Then take the elbow out of the brazier, throw it directly into the prepared basin of clean water, and start scrubbing the elbow vigorously with a steel brush to clean all the blackened and carbonized parts on the surface.

Scrub the elbows clean, throw them all into a soup bucket, pour water to cover all the elbows, and add a large amount of ginger and green onions.

Feng Zhengming even poured in a small half barrel of cooking wine.

Then he said to Zhang Lei: "Leizi, just watch. Remember to burn it over high heat first. Don't hit the foam when it boils. Open the lid and let it cook for a while. Turn off the heat and take out the elbow. I don’t want any soup.”

Hearing what Feng Zhengming said, both Zhang Lei and Yang Peng were a little surprised.

"Uncle Junior, don't you want the soup?"

"The soup can actually be used to stew elbows."

Feng Zhengming said: "It can't be used. The first pot of soup was too dirty, and we prepared bone broth. We will stew the elbows in bone broth later. It is used for birthday banquets, so we must make sure it is clean."

While Zhang Lei was stewing the elbow in the soup bucket, Feng Zhengming started dicing the meat.

At this time, Feng Zhengming did not forget to teach a senior brother and two apprentices.

"If you want Sixi Meatballs to be delicious, you need not only to have a lot of meat. The key is not to chop the meat filling too finely. You must cut it like this. Cut it into dices the size of soybeans. Basically, lean meat and fat meat. The ratio is 7:3.”

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng listened and read at the same time, and also took notes carefully.

The two of them followed their junior uncle to prepare the ingredients for these birthday banquet dishes.

I really learned a lot.

In particular, I learned some of Feng Zhengming’s techniques in handling a large amount of ingredients.

Li Huidong taught them before, mostly based on his experience in Xiaozao.

When Zhang Lei and Yang Peng worked in the canteen, they always felt that using the method taught by their master to process ingredients would be very time-consuming and laborious.

But after learning from Feng Zhengming, the two discovered that handling a large amount of ingredients can be so rough.

Of course, Feng Zhengming's roughness is not due to unclean handling.

On the contrary, Feng Zhengming is rough and fine, and his methods may seem rough, but the results are very good, and he can process a large amount of ingredients at one time. It’s like the elbow needs to be cleaned of residual pig hair and the smell of sweat glands.

Feng Zhengming directly lit a pot of fire, threw all the elbows in and burned them until the surface was dark.

Clean up all the remaining smell of pig hair and sweat glands at once.

For another example, Feng Zhengming used a soup bucket to boil the elbow first, then poured out all the soup from the first time, and then asked Zhang Lei and Yang Peng to clean the bucket.

Then add water with bone broth again, add various marinades, and then add the elbows to stew.

These methods may seem extremely crude, but they are also the most effective and quick ways to deal with odors.

Li Huidong saw Feng Zhengming cutting the meat himself, and he said directly: "Yang Peng, you have nothing to do. Go help your junior uncle cut the meat. Cut it according to the requirements of your junior uncle. This is a good opportunity for you to practice. Hurry up." go."

When Yang Peng heard his master's order, he naturally ran over and took over Feng Zhengming's meat-cutting job.

Li Huidong called Feng Zhengming to his side.

"Zhengming, let them do some work. You can guide them to do it. If you do everything yourself, aren't you exhausting yourself to death?"

Feng Zhengming smiled and said, "Brother, you know, I used to do this in Yanxi Tower, so I feel comfortable doing it myself."

Hearing this, Li Huidong didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

But then Li Huidong sighed helplessly: "It's a pity that Yanxi Tower collapsed like that."

Feng Zhengming heard his senior brother mention the collapse of Yanxi Tower, and he remembered hearing the news at the train station.

"Brother, I heard at the train station that Yanxilou Restaurant was sold, and the old signboard was also sold?"

Li Huidong lamented again and said: "Yes, they have all been sold. Those management guys really don't understand anything and only have money in their eyes. If they hadn't had problems with procurement, how could Yanxi Building's reputation have dropped so quickly?" ? And those managers secretly took money from the finance department and emptied the good Yanxi Building.

In the end, even the small building could only be sold to pay off the debt, and the old signboard could only be sold to others. All the prodigal things that could be sold were sold out. "

After listening to his elder brother's lament, Feng Zhengming clenched his fists with a serious face and said, "No, the old sign of Yanxi Tower will not fall into decline. Sooner or later I will get everything back."

When Li Huidong heard this, he looked at his junior brother and saw his serious look on his face.

In particular, he noticed Feng Zhengming's clenched fists.

I felt a bit in awe of my junior brother's words.

The two junior brothers were lamenting the fate of Yanxi Tower when a car horn sounded outside the backyard door of the cafeteria, followed by Lin Jiacheng's shout.

"Open the door, Zhang Lei, Yang Peng, come and open the door."

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng heard this and ran over to open the door together.

First they opened the small door and stuck their heads out, and then the two quickly opened the large iron gate of the backyard.

Outside the big iron gate, a small truck was parked. After the big iron gate opened, it slowly drove into the backyard of the canteen.

Lin Jiacheng asked the driver to park the car in the backyard, and then he jumped out of the car and shouted excitedly: "Huidong, I also bought fish, ten fresh carp, as well as fresh shrimps and shellfish." , I guarantee that Mr. Liu’s family will be satisfied at the birthday banquet.”

Seeing that Lin Jiacheng also purchased aquatic products, Li Huidong nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay, prepare some things that need to be prepared tonight, and we can set off early tomorrow morning."

Lin Jiacheng patted the minivan and said, "I have already agreed with the driver that we will take this car there tomorrow."

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng were very happy when they heard that they had a car ride.

Feng Zhengming smiled calmly and continued to lead Zhang Lei and Yang Peng to prepare materials.

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