An ordinary family restaurant opened in a commercial street, like many small restaurants, it is run by a family.
Xingping Restaurant is run by a father and son. The son is a junior high school student, and the father is a reclusive master.
Dulan and Dinisha changed into fashionable modern clothes, which did not match the atmosphere of the family restaurant. Especially Dinisha's shining blond hair, even in casual clothes, it made people feel that they should go to a large restaurant in the business district.
This is not a regular commercial street restaurant, it's against etiquette.
There weren't many customers in the store because it was just four o'clock and it wasn't dinner time yet.
"Two bowls of barbecued pork noodles," Dulan said.
"Coming."
Seeing such a special guest, the boss was full of energy and wanted to entertain the guests with impactful food.
There was a clanging sound in the kitchen, and the food was brought to the table. Two bowls of hot noodles were topped with glistening, juicy barbecued pork.
The scent was like an army rushing towards the noses of Duran and Dinisha, killing them and going straight to their foreheads.
"Fragrant." Du Lan praised, picked up the chopsticks and started to taste.
The noodles are very chewy, the barbecued pork is very tender, and the soup is very refreshing. For a family restaurant, this bowl of barbecued pork noodles is quite perfect, making the most of cheap ingredients.
"Two guests, this is a complimentary snack from our restaurant. My new grilled squid with peanut butter. After tasting it, I hope you can make a judgment." The long-haired middle-aged boss took out another plate of weird snacks.
The squid seemed like the arrival of an ancient god from ancient times, and the weird peanut butter on it seemed like the mud of the long river of history.
Just looking at it is quite impressive, let alone tasting it.
Dulan picked up one and put it into his mouth. The taste was like facing an ancient god. The stickiness of the peanut butter and the toughness of the dried squid were like a set of combo punches, making it hard for people to parry.
But who is Duran? He is a time traveler. He has eaten more weird creatures than biologists know. Not to mention dried squid, even if the ancient god really comes, he still has to taste it.
"The taste of this snack is very strange, but peanuts belong to wood, squid belongs to water, and water can produce wood, so the two ingredients reacted, and the main flavor was masked by the peanut butter of wood. At the same time, water stimulates the lungs, and wood stimulates the liver, which can cause people's
If the anger is strong and the guests feel sad about farewell, they will not be in the mood to taste delicious food." Dulan said something incomprehensible as soon as he opened his mouth.
"..." After hearing this, the boss knew that this was the theory of the Five Elements in Chinese cuisine. He had studied it when he was young, but it was too mysterious and mysterious, so he did not continue to study it.
Du Lan did it on purpose, because the world of gourmet food is like this. When two chefs compete, you compete with the ingredients, and they compete with each other with creativity. They say cheap ingredients plus creativity are the best. You compete with creativity, and others compete with experience. You compete with others.
When it comes to experience, others compare with technology. You compare with technology, and others compare with will. You compare with will, and others compare with emotional output. Finally, you compare with emotion, and others compare with xinxing...
The winning or losing of food is never about the taste, but about something other than the food.
So Dulan's evaluation was not about the food, but about the yin and yang and the five elements. As he said that, he picked up the snacks, took a look at the narrow layout of the shop, sat down in the north seat, and continued: "I am sitting on the Bagua seat now.
This place belongs to water and can suppress wood, so take another bite."
Dulan smiled immediately after eating it and said, "It's delicious."
"Delicious?" Does the boss know that this food is a test product? No customer said it was delicious. Does it really have anything to do with the seat of the customer? "There were customers sitting in this position to taste this experimental snack before, but they didn't say it was good.
Let’s eat.” the boss asked.
"The changes in the five elements are very subtle, not only related to the direction. You look in front of me, my expression, my emotions, and my sitting posture. In order to strengthen the water, I listen to the ingredients with my ears and use fear to stimulate the ingredients.
Taste, thinking about the ingredients with wisdom, eating in a half-sitting and half-standing horse stance, and even increasing the secretion of saliva, so there are no unpalatable ingredients, hahahaha..." Dulan was full of nonsense.
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"..." The boss was dumbfounded. Is this a meal? It felt more exaggerated than the chef cooking in the kitchen. He said: "The guests just eat, the chef is responsible for cooking. If they are as complicated as you, the guest, then the guest
I can't eat with peace of mind. Each one of them is doing the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, which is too demanding."
"No, no, no, I can make unpalatable things delicious, and I can also turn delicious things into supreme delicacies. I should promote it to every customer who likes to eat. Because there is nothing bad in this world.
Only guests who don’t know how to eat are allowed to eat.”
"I can't agree. I think this should be the responsibility of the chef, to explore the mysteries of the world of ingredients and study the wonderful blend of five flavors. If the guests can turn unpalatable ingredients into gourmet food, why do they need a chef?" said the boss.
The chef believes that the chef is responsible for cooking and the guests are responsible for eating, so they cannot violate etiquette.
"If chefs can understand the mystery of the Five Elements and Bagua, they can make the food taste better."
The boss said: "I also studied it when I was young, but the Five Elements and Bagua were exaggerated and not that powerful."
Du Lan said: "It shows that you have no intention. Your cooking skills are still at the most basic level. They have not yet been promoted to the abstract realm and have not reached the realm of concepts."
"Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty are inherently based on matter. It's like giving you a handful of salt. You can't use the Five Elements and Bagua to conceptually turn salt into sugar, nor can you turn ordinary beef into Wagyu beef. I'm afraid your theory cannot change matter.
The most you can do is to change your mentality, which is a kind of psychological suggestion and psychology." The boss is also a talented chef and has a wide range of interests, including psychological cooking. He uses suggestions to enhance the five senses of the guests so that they can eat more delicious food.
gourmet food.
"No, no, this is the real technique. If the chef masters it, he can improve his cooking skills, and if the guests learn it, they can eat delicious food. The five flavors are harmonious, following the principles of southeast, northwest, center, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth." Dulan said.
The boss stopped talking. There was no need to argue with the customer. The customer was obviously not an ordinary diner, but he just didn’t know the purpose of coming to the store.
The boss was also a talented chef when he was young. He was world-famous and a legend in the food industry. Just because he was tired, he came to this restaurant, met the restaurant owner's daughter, and married into his wife. From then on, he became the owner of this small restaurant.
More than ten years have passed peacefully.
But this kind of stability was broken by a phone call from an old friend some time ago. Maybe someone knew in advance that he was going to return to the culinary world, so he came to provoke him.
"Guest, may I ask your name?"
"Dulan." Dulan said, "Why, your restaurant still checks identification?"
"That's not true. The chef never cares about the identity of the guest. If the guest wants to eat, the chef will cook. It's as simple as that. But something happened recently and I have to be careful. I wonder if the guest knows about 'Totsuki Academy'?
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"You know, the training ground for noble chefs is a place that specializes in training the following to become cooks. Cooks are very important to the nobles, not only for making delicious food, but also for ensuring safety. There have been too many cooks who have influenced the world since ancient times. In ancient times,
Yi Yin, Zhuan Zhu of Yu Zang Sword, can be said to be an assassin who cannot cook is not a good cook, and a cook who cannot assassinate is not a good assassin." Du Lan said: "Actually, I am an assassin, referred to as a cook."
"Sure enough." The boss knew that the other party must be a chef, otherwise he would not come to his store to have a long talk. This is the chef's intuition, cooks will attract cooks.
"What's true?"
"You're here to cause trouble," the boss said.
"I'm not, my wife and I just came here to eat." Dulan said: "By the way, I want to open a store in the commercial street. At that time, I will inevitably have to compete with all the stores on price. When the time comes, you cook with your heart, and I use
Cooking at low prices depends on whether the customers care about their mouths or their wallets."
"Interesting, I accept the challenge." The boss was originally planning to close the business for three years, but before closing the business, he could still fight one last time to defend the glory of the commercial street.