Chapter 277 Trial dishes (make up for the day before yesterday)
For three consecutive mornings, Comrade Xu drove the old van around the city.
On the morning of the first day, he came near the Naval University.
The next morning, he came to the vicinity of Mizutori University.
On the morning of the third day, he arrived near Shuigiao Agricultural University.
These three universities are the most famous universities in Shuiniao City in Xu Tongdao's impression.
In addition, there are second-class ones, such as Shui Niao Engineering University, Shui Niao Teachers College (Shui Niao Teachers College), etc.
Mizutori City is not generally wealthy, but its emphasis on education is unmatched by many places.
During the past three mornings, Xu Tongdao has been looking for suitable stores near these three universities, mainly looking for space and asking about rent.
He didn't rush to decide where to rent.
He has no plans to go to other universities.
Anyway, with his current funds, he can only afford to open a small Internet cafe in the near future. There is no point in traveling to too many places.
After three mornings of running, he must have gained something.
For example, he has found out clearly that both the Naval Normal University and Water Bird University have opened computer majors.
However, Mizutori Agricultural University currently does not have a computer major.
Therefore, he first ruled out opening his first Internet cafe near Shuiniao Agricultural University, and only considered Naval Normal University and Shuiniao University.
After some on-the-spot investigation and comparison, he was more inclined to open his first Internet cafe on the street of Ximen of the Naval University.
The main reason is that in the original time and space, he worked in the cafeteria of the Naval University for half a year. In comparison, he is more familiar with the Naval University.
Moreover, the commercial atmosphere on the street at the west gate of the Naval University is really good. Although there are not many big stores, it is very popular there. Many students of the Naval University usually like to go to that street to shop.
Just when he decided to go to that street tomorrow morning to find a suitable store and rent it as soon as possible, Ge Liangcai took a chef named Li Jin to Xu Tongdao's barbecue restaurant.
Li Jin, about 27 or 28 years old.
He is not tall, about 1.6 meters tall. He is fair and clean, with a neat haircut. His clothes and shoes are also clean. He looks like a college student, not a chef at all.
His appearance made Comrade Xu have a sentence flash in his mind when Ge Liangcai introduced this person: a husky that has blended into a pack of wolves.
Anyway, from the appearance, Tongdao Xu couldn't tell that Li Jin looked like a chef.
But when his cousin Ge Liangcai introduced him, he said he was.
Moreover, he had worked with Ge Liangcai before, and Ge Liangcai smiled and said that what Li Jin is best at is home cooking.
Comrade Xu didn't say much. He shook hands with Li Jin, exchanged a few words, and then discussed with Li Jin whether he could cook two dishes first.
When a chef is looking for a job, he usually has to test dishes, unless he is an apprentice.
Li Jin agreed readily, and Comrade Xu took him into the kitchen and watched him prepare and cook the dishes.
Li Jin asked what to cook?
Tongdao Xu gave him a menu from the store and asked him to choose any of the three teas on the menu.
On this menu, in addition to barbecue and whole lamb feast, there are home-cooked dishes.
Li Jin took a look at the menu and chose three simple dishes.
A dish of green pepper and potato shreds, a dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a dish of braised crucian carp.
In fact, home cooking is not complicated at all.
Otherwise, how can it be called home-cooked food?
But Tongdao Xu knows that home cooking is easy to learn but difficult to master.
There are many people who can cook home-cooked meals, but not many can really cook home-cooked meals well.
Sometimes, the simpler the dish, the more it tests a chef's skills.
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Because the simpler the dish, the more people can cook it. If you often cook it and others often cook it, it will not be easy if you want to make it obviously better than others.
For example, the very common green pepper and potato shreds.
Is this dish simple enough?
But how can you make such a simple dish better than your peers?
Knife skills, blanching time, stir-frying, seasoning, cooking time, etc. all need to be well controlled to make it possible to make a great meal.
Li Jin showed his good knife skills in front of Comrade Xu.
When stir-frying, he was also very proficient in turning the pot, pushing the spoon, and seasoning... Xu Tongdao saw it and nodded slightly, but the cooking time was a little earlier than when he cooked it himself.
Then, the appearance of the green pepper and potato shreds after they came out of the pot was a bit prettier than what Comrade Xu made himself.
On the white plate, every orange-yellow potato shred is very refreshing, mixed with the green green pepper shreds, piled on the plate, like a pile of firewood that has been shrunk many times.
The presentation effect is really good.
But Comrade Xu frowned slightly.
Because he felt that this was not the correct way to cook home-cooked food.
Only big hotels would make green pepper and potato shreds like this. Comrade Xu was also used to this way.
But for real home-cooked dishes, the time in the pot should not be shortened for the sake of the appearance of the dishes after they come out of the pot.
In a small shop like his, the presentation of the dishes is never the first priority. The taste and the portion of the dish should be the first consideration.
In life, many people have a feeling - although the food in big hotels looks good, it seems that it is generally not as delicious as the food in roadside shops.
Is this because the chefs in big hotels are not as skilled as those in small shops on the roadside?
of course not!
The problem is that the appearance and taste of a dish are actually contradictory.
If you want to make a good presentation, the heat must not be set right, and the dishes must not be left in the pot for too long.
Otherwise, the dish will be burnt, tasty and delicious, but limp and won't look good on the plate.
And the dishes in big hotels... are generally required to be the best in appearance.
Don't worry about whether it tastes good or not, make it look good first.
Li Jin's green pepper and potato shreds obviously have this common problem.
It looks good, but Xu Tongdao doesn't think this dish will be delicious.
Fortunately, this problem is not big. He believes that Li Jin can overcome this problem if he reminds himself.
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After finishing the three dishes, Li Jin motioned to Xu Tongdao to try the taste.
Xu Tongdao didn't try to disgrace him and tried every dish. Li Jin's three dishes were all very nice, but the taste of each dish was just as Xu Tongdao expected. The heat was not in place and the texture was a bit hard.
The taste is also a bit off.
Comrade Xu nodded.
"Master Li, you probably haven't done anything in a shop as small as mine before, right?"
This question was obviously unexpected by Li Jin.
He was startled and nodded slightly, "Yes! I haven't done it before. What's wrong?"
Ge Liangcai on the side also looked at Comrade Xu curiously.
Comrade Xu smiled, took out his cigarette case and gave them cigarettes, which could lighten the atmosphere.
Then he pointed out the problem, "Master Li, your craftsmanship is good! This is what I say sincerely, but you have never made it in a small shop like mine, so you may not know how to make home-cooked food in a small shop. How can I say this?
?The way you cook this way will be fine in a big hotel, that’s right! But in a small shop like mine, customers don’t have such high requirements for the appearance of the food, but they have higher requirements for the taste of the food. If you can
If these dishes were cooked longer, there would be no problem."