From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 71 Start with three bowls of jerky rice

In the early morning of the next day, when Feng Zhengming went shopping with his senior brother, they bought two large pieces of pork belly with their own money.

Back in the canteen, he immediately started preparing to put the meat into the pot.

First pick up the whole fan of pork with a clean stove hook, turn on the fire and burn the pig skin against the fire.

Then start using hot water to clean the entire fan of pork after the pig skin has been burned black.

Use a knife to scrape off the charred layer on the pig skin, and clean the pork as well.

Then wash the pork several times with hot water.

Then cut the pork into large thick slices next to the sink and wash it again with hot water.

After this time, the pork has turned white and has no blood at all. The surface can be said to be very smooth and tender.

Feng Zhengming brought the cleaned pork, prepared eggs, tofu, dried tofu, gluten and large green peppers into the small kitchen.

Repeat the same steps as yesterday, but fry the sugar color in the small kitchen first.

Dry the water on the surface of the pork one by one, tie it all with cattails, and then spread the fried sugar color on the surface of each piece of pork.

The tofu is cut into slices and fried, and the dried tofu and gluten are also cut into small pieces.

After finishing this, Feng Zhengming heated up the stewed soup and took out the eggs that had been soaked overnight.

In the prepared basin, arrange the meat, eggs, tofu, dried tofu, gluten and large green peppers made yesterday, and add some braised soup in proportion to the basin.

At this time, less than half of the stew in the pot has been consumed.

Feng Zhengming then added water to the stew pot according to the method given in the master's letter. Then he needed to strictly follow the proportions and add the previous ingredients to the stew diluted with water in strict accordance with the proportions.

After adjusting the stew, put the pork bought today into the pot piece by piece.

First, bring the entire pot of stewed soup to a boil over high heat, and then simmer over high heat for a while to remove all the foam and oil on the surface of the stewed soup.

Wait until there is no more foam on the surface of the stewed soup. At this time, bring the stewed soup pot to the briquette stove, seal part of the furnace door to ensure that the briquettes stove is on low heat, put the eggs into the pot, soak the lotus leaves and cover it with the stewed soup. and finally cover the pot.

Today, the pot of meat is ready, and the rest is to simmer it slowly over low heat.

Then cook the tofu, dried tofu, and gluten in another pot of stew.

After everything was done, Feng Zhengming tidied up and walked out of the small kitchen carrying yesterday's meat.

I saw Feng Zhengming coming out with a big basin of meat.

Naturally, it immediately attracted the attention of Zhang Lei and Yang Peng outside.

The two of them took a closer look and couldn't help but salivate immediately.

Zhang Lei said: "Uncle, you look even more beautiful today than you did last night."

Yang Peng nodded: "Yes, she is really more beautiful than last night."

Feng Zhengming said with a smile: "After a night of soaking, the meat is more flavorful, so it naturally looks more beautiful. I divided this big pot into half and put it in the canteen."

Li Huidong turned around and said, "The fastest seller in the canteen today at noon is probably your meat."

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng both agreed on this. The taste they had yesterday made them greedy again.

Feng Zhengming put the entire pot of meat into the canteen first and kept it warm using the briquette stove in the canteen.

Then he and his senior brother began to lead Zhang Lei, Yang Peng, and Chang Xiuqin to prepare for lunch in the cafeteria.

After a morning of washing, cutting and preparing, Feng Zhengming and Li Huidong worked together to stir-fry pot after pot of vegetables.

Before the canteen opens at noon, everyone in the canteen naturally has to have lunch first.

And today at noon, because Feng Zhengming’s pot of meat was there.

Zhang Lei, Yang Peng, and Chang Xiuqin all stared eagerly at the pot of meat. Seeing this, Feng Zhengming smiled and said: "Don't just look at it, each person has a piece of meat, and also tofu, dried tofu, gluten, do you want green peppers and eggs?"

Li Huidong smiled bitterly and said, "Aren't you going to sell lunch boxes at noon? We've all eaten them."

Feng Zhengming said: "Brother, don't worry, I still have a pot over there. If it's not enough, I can take some out of the pot this morning and sell them together."

As he said this, Feng Zhengming had already poured out a plate of meat from the big basin.

Each person gets a piece of meat, as well as eggs, tofu, dried tofu, gluten and green peppers.

After taking out such a plate, there is no need for other dishes. This plate alone is already very rich.

I saw Feng Zhengming serving such a plate.

Even Li Huidong couldn't help but swallow several times.

Finally, Li Huidong couldn't stand the temptation anymore: "Okay, I'll have this plate for lunch today."

With Li Huidong's consent, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng couldn't wait to stretch out their chopsticks and go straight to the piece of meat they had been staring at for a long time.

For lunch, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng each ate three bowls of rice.

Li Huidong originally had a wry smile on his face and wanted to talk about his two apprentices.

Before he could open his mouth, he was interrupted by a burp next to him.

Look again, it turns out that Chang Xiuqin has already eaten the fourth bowl of rice, and when eating this fourth bowl of rice, Chang Xiuqin even mixed the rice with the stewed soup and oil on the bottom of the meat plate. .

"Hiccup...I think you guys haven't eaten the rest, so I thought not to waste it, hiccup..."

Seeing Chang Xiuqin's appearance, Li Huidong was really dumbfounded.

The words he wanted to say to the two apprentices were on his lips, but now he couldn't say them at all.

Feng Zhengming smiled happily and said: "Sister, you are right, you can't waste it."

Then Feng Zhengming tidied up, packed the vegetables and rice, found a special pot to put meat in, put everything on the big tricycle, and prepared to rush to the train station.

Last night, Mr. Feng told Feng Zhengming that he didn't need to deliver food at noon today, because he didn't eat much of what he delivered last night, and he could just heat it up for lunch at noon today.

Feng Zhengming also plans to go to the train station to sell lunch boxes at noon, so as to make the Feng family famous.

Wait until evening to report the "results" to Mr. Feng.

Riding a tricycle, pulling things all the way to the train station.

A couple selling box lunches at the train station saw that Feng Zhengming not only brought three pots of vegetables and two buckets of rice today as before, but also brought an extra pot.

This change made the woman immediately alert.

Liu Qing said to her husband, "Did you see that? He brought an extra pot of food today."

Xu Yingzhu said: "Let me tell you, his business is not bad, there is no way he will quit. He brought an extra pot of dishes today. It is obvious that he intends to prepare a few more dishes to attract people like us."

When Liu Qing heard what her husband said, she sneered: "It's just him, what can he do if he prepares one more dish?"

Xu Yingzhu said: "Okay, we sell ours and he sells his. You'd better not meddle in other people's affairs."

Feng Zhengming parked the tricycle and placed all the things.

I saw that the lunch box stall of the couple in the distance was already occupied by customers.

He simply didn't hide it and shouted loudly: "If you want to eat, come and see. There are a handful of meat with rice, and there are three side dishes to choose from. Don't miss the good jerky rice."

Feng Zhengming's voice instantly attracted the attention of people around the train station.

The people who were already sitting at the couple's box lunch stall all turned to look at Feng Zhengming.

(End of this chapter)