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"But after the call was dialed, I suddenly didn't know what to say. I didn't know what I was thinking at the time. I just called you based on my intuition. But as soon as I heard your voice, I felt that I was just with you. We are partners, and you are still my boss. Even if we go further, we are just ordinary friends. So after hesitating for a while, I didn’t say anything at first. Just when you asked if it was a work matter, I just accepted it. I kept talking...but as I talked, I suddenly felt very lonely. It seemed that when I was the saddest, I couldn't find anyone to talk to, so I said that to you at the end. .”

Jester and Claudia were just sitting here chatting. Mainly Claudia was talking and Jester was listening. He was just regarded as someone to talk to and listened to what she was saying. Some of her interesting stories, her past with her father, in fact, most of what Claudia told in the restaurant in Los Angeles at the beginning was the truth.

She has not had a mother since she was a child, so she has known independence since she was very young. She is also very smart and hard-working. She wants to be the best no matter what she does. You know, if a person is equally good in two ways, there will be many problems. People will like to be friends with you, but if she is excellent in everything, no one will like to be friends with her. That's the kind of person Claudia is.

Seeing that it was getting late and Jester was a little hungry, he asked Claudia what she liked to eat. However, Claudia just smiled after hearing Jester's question and seemed to have changed from the previous one. Temporarily freed from her sadness, she said confidently: "Go to my house and try my cooking skills." Hearing Claudia say this, Jester was very surprised. It was hard for him to believe that the other party was actually proficient in cooking. Skill, but when I think about her two-Michelin-starred restaurant, I feel relieved. The person who can open such a good restaurant does not have great cooking skills. Just being good at food.

Claudia's residence is just a small apartment in London. The decoration style is very simple, monotonous and cold, with black and white colors symbolizing authority. Although it is consistent with her identity, it is not consistent with her gender. That's right. If the other party hadn't brought him here, I'm afraid Jester wouldn't believe that this was the house of an unmarried girl.

Although Claudia is British, her cooking has nothing in common with British cuisine. In her kitchen, he not only saw some kitchen utensils for making Western food. We even saw a Chinese-style wok and a pilot casserole, which surprised Jester because it was the first time for him to see a foreigner cooking Chinese food. Seeing Jester's confused look, Claudia smiled and said simply: "I like food very much, and I even like food cooked by myself, including Chinese food, so I learned from a Chinese chef before. . I didn’t do very well, I can only say that I learned a little bit.”

After hearing this, Jester nodded. It was basically impossible to learn Chinese food well without the master's one-on-one instruction and a lot of time in contact. When he saw Claudia, since there were so many Chinese kitchen utensils here, he also Somewhat technical. You know, his family has an inheritance of cooking skills. Although his own cooking skills are not outstanding, he can still be a chef in an ordinary restaurant. But what makes Jester hesitate is that he wants to cook Chinese food, but does Claudia have some necessary Chinese condiments?

Unexpectedly, when Claudia heard that Jester wanted to show off his skills in cooking. She immediately opened a cabinet in the kitchen, which contained various accessories for Chinese food. She also said that even onion, ginger, and garlic are very common in Chinese food, but they are rare in the UK. She also knows where to buy the raw materials, let alone other ingredients.

However, after Jester thought twice, maybe to show off his cooking skills, he chose a very famous but also very difficult dish. The whole process of this dish has more than 20 steps, which can be said to be the best in Sichuan cuisine. The greatest test of cooking skills, the pinnacle of Sichuan cuisine, it is rare to be able to make it to the table and get a dish at the state banquet.

There is another allusion to this dish. As we all know, Sichuan cuisine is one of the most suitable cuisines for home cooking because of its simple preparation and common ingredients. However, such cuisine also brings a drawback to its development, because these can make Sichuan cuisine The advantages of spreading, Sichuan cuisine encountered a bottleneck when it wanted to develop into a high-end cuisine. Because it was too popular, the quality was not high enough.

When a person's status reaches a certain level, for this kind of person, whether a dish is delicious or not is no longer the most important, because whether it is said by the eight major cuisines or the four major cuisines, in In the hands of top cooks, everyone's taste buds can be conquered. At this time, for these people, eating food is a kind of extreme style.

Therefore, without quality Sichuan cuisine, it is naturally difficult to gain a foothold in places like Beijing.

Of course, Jester also read this allusion from a book with anecdotes about the origins of famous dishes. As to whether it is true or not, that can only be a matter of opinion.

Jester started his cooking under Claudia's curious eyes, and Jester also saw Claudia's curious eyes, so he also smiled and told the other party about what he was going to cook. An anecdote about this dish.

Claudia was also very interested in this kind of story, so she listened very carefully.

Therefore, Jester was also telling the story carefully.

At that time, the capital city was undoubtedly dominated by Shandong cuisine, the ancestor of northern cuisine, and the representative of Shandong cuisine, Tanjia cuisine, was even more famous throughout the world. It was under such circumstances that Huang Jinglin, a famous Sichuan cuisine master, went to the capital because he got a distinguished person. Due to his appreciation, he was fortunate enough to enter the imperial dining room as an imperial chef.

In the imperial dining room at that time, Shandong cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine were the most powerful. Although there were other cuisines, they could not compete with these two major cuisines, let alone the representatives of Sichuan cuisine who could only enter middle- and lower-class restaurants at that time. Huang Jinglin came. It was under this situation that Huang Jinglin encountered a lot of difficulties, and this famous dish known as the best in the world was also born under this situation.

You know, Cixi likes to eat vegetarian food, so she often asks the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room to cook vegetarian food. This would not be a problem for these exquisite imperial chefs, but suddenly one day, the old witch Cixi had a whim and she wanted to eat it. To put it simply, it is a vegetarian dish that does not add any meat or fish, not to mention meat, fish, chicken, duck, or even oil.

This time, it was difficult for these imperial chefs with superb cooking skills. Under these conditions, it was not impossible for them to cook, and they could even make it quite delicious. But the problem was that this was an imperial meal, and it was not just delicious. Normally Cixi I was used to eating all kinds of delicacies and delicacies that they had racked their brains to come up with. How could this kind of dish, which could only be considered delicious, win the favor of the old witch?

It's okay if he doesn't get her favor. If he offends this old witch because of it, it would be a heinous crime.

Just when everyone was at a loss what to do, Huang Jinglin, a newcomer who had just entered the imperial dining room, was also worried. To be honest, he originally came with great revenge. He wanted to make a name for himself in the capital, but after coming Only then did he realize that cooking skills alone were not enough here, because any chef who could gain a foothold in the capital didn't have his or her own unique skills?

Moreover, he was ostracized a lot in the imperial dining room and his life was not going well, so he just came here and immediately thought of resigning and going home.

Not long after he submitted his resignation application, this task came down, and with this task came the reply to his resignation application. The head of the Imperial Kitchen agreed to his resignation, but required him to participate. There can be no meaty vegetarian dishes in this scene - after all, no one can escape from this suffering.

In desperation, Huang Jinglin could only agree.

But after he saw the conditions given by the old witch Cixi, he also cursed and refused to use anything. How could he be allowed to cook it? Cabbage mixed with salt? Isn't this nonsense?

The days passed day by day, and as time went by, the three days required by the old witch Cixi were getting closer and closer, and all the chefs in the imperial kitchen could not think of any good way to cook this portion. Of course, someone may have thought of the real vegetarian food in the eyes of the witch and hid it quietly, not wanting to be exposed in front of others.

Finally, on the third day, which was the day requested by the old witch Cixi, all the imperial chefs walked into their own kitchens with different expressions.

Among them was Huang Jinglin, who was completely different from the others, with a calm and calm look on his face.

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