Return To 1998

For three consecutive days in the morning, Xu Tongdao drove the old van to the city and drove around.

On the first morning, he came near the Naval Normal University.

The next morning, he came to the vicinity of Waterfowl University.

On the morning of the third day, he came near the Waterfowl Agricultural University.

These three universities are the most famous universities in Water Bird City in Xu Tongdao's impression.

In addition, there are second-class ones, such as Waterfowl Engineering University, Waterfowl Teachers College (Waterfowl Teachers College), and so on.

Waterfowl City is generally not wealthy, but the emphasis on education is unmatched by many places.

In the morning of the past three days, Xu Tongdao was looking for suitable stores near the three universities, mainly looking for places and asking for rent.

He did not 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, and it makes no sense to go to too many places.

After running down three mornings, he must have gained something.

For example, he has already inquired clearly that currently both Marine Normal University and Water Bird University have opened computer majors.

But Waterfowl Agricultural University does not currently have a computer major.

Therefore, he first ruled out opening his first Internet cafe near Waterfowl Agricultural University, and only considered Waterfowl University and Waterfowl University.

After some field investigations and comparisons, he is more inclined to open his first Internet cafe on the street of the West Gate of the Water Normal University.

The main reason is that he worked in the navy normal canteen for half a year at the time of Yuan Shikong. In contrast, he should be a little familiar with the navy normal side.

Moreover, the commercial atmosphere on the street on the west gate of the Water Normal University is really good. Although there are no big stores, it is very popular there. Many students of the Water Normal University like to spend money on that street.

Just when he decided to go to that street tomorrow morning, look for a suitable store, and rent it out as soon as possible, Ge Liangcai brought a chef named Li Jin to Xu Tongdao’s barbecue restaurant.

Li Jin, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old.

He was not tall, about 1.6 meters tall, and he was white and clean, with his hair straightened out, and his clothes and shoes were all clean. He looked like a college student, not a chef at all.

With his appearance, Xu Tongdao flashed a sentence in his mind when Ge Liangcai introduced this person: Huskies who got into the wolf pack.

Anyway, from the outside, Xu Tongdao couldn't tell that Li Jin looked like a chef.

But when his cousin Ge Liangcai introduced him, he said he was.

And he had worked with Ge Liangcai before, and Ge Liangcai smiled and said that Li Jin is best at home cooking.

Xu Tongdao didn't say much, and shook hands with Li Jin and exchanged greetings, and then discussed with Li Jin. Can you make two dishes first?

When looking for a job, chefs generally have to test dishes, unless they are apprentices.

Li Jin agreed very happily, and Xu Tongdao led him into the kitchen and watched him prepare and prepare dishes.

Li Jin asked what kind of food?

Xu Tongdao gave him a menu from the store, and asked him to choose three teas on the menu.

Apart from barbecue and whole lamb feast, this menu is home cooking.

Li Jin took a look at the menu and chose three simple dishes.

A slice of green pepper and potato shreds, a slice of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a slice of braised crucian carp.

In fact, home cooking is not complicated.

How else can it be called home cooking?

But Xu Tongdao knows that home cooking is easy to learn but hard to master.

There are too many people who can cook home-cooked dishes, but not many can really do home-cooked dishes well.

Sometimes, the simpler the dishes, the more they test a chef's skills.

Because the simpler the dish, the more people will cook it. If you do it often and others do it often, then you want to do it obviously better than others, and it will not be easy.

For example, the very common green pepper and potato shreds.

Is this dish simple enough?

But how can you cook such a simple dish to surpass the others?

Knife work, blanching time, stir-frying, seasoning, cooking time, etc., must be well controlled to make it possible to do well.

Li Jin showed good knife skills in front of Xu Tongdao's eyes.

When stir-frying, the skill of turning the pot and pushing the spoon is also very skillful, seasoning... Xu Tongdao sees it, and also nods slightly, that is, the time to make the pot is a bit earlier than when he made it by himself.

Then, the green pepper and potato shreds after being out of the pot are more beautiful than those made by Xu Tongdao himself.

On the white plate, each orange-yellow potato shreds is refreshing, mixed with the green green pepper shreds, piled on the plate, like a pile of firewood that has shrunk many times.

The effect is really good.

But Xu Tongdao frowned slightly.

Because he feels that this is not the correct way of home cooking.

The hotel would only do this with green pepper and potato shreds, and Xu Tongdao was used to this practice before.

But the real home cooking should not shorten the time in the pot for the sake of the appearance of the dish after it is out of the pot.

In a small restaurant like him, the appearance of the dishes is never the first. The taste and the weight of a dish are the first things that should be considered.

In life, many people have a feeling that although the dishes in the big hotels look good, they seem to be generally not as delicious as the dishes in the roadside shops.

Is this because the chefs of the big hotels are not as skilled as the 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 look good, you can't cook it properly, and the dishes can't be in the pot for too long.

Otherwise, the dishes will be burnt, tasty, and delicious, but they will be so soft that they will not look good on the plate.

And the cuisine of the big hotels... generally requires the first appearance.

Whether it tastes good or not, don't worry about it, make it look good first.

Li Jin's green pepper and potato shreds obviously have such a 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 when he reminds himself, Li Jin can overcome this problem.

...

After finishing the three dishes, Li Jin motioned to Xu Tongdao to try the taste.

Xu Tongdao didn’t save his face~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I tried every dish, and Li Jin’s three dishes were pretty good, but the taste of each dish was just as Xu Tongdao had expected, and the heat was not in place. , The taste is harder, and the degree of tasting is worse.

Xu Tongdao nodded.

"Master Li, you haven't done it in my small shop before, have you?"

This problem was obviously unexpected by Li Jin.

He was startled and nodded slightly, "Yes! I haven't done it before, what's the matter?"

Ge Liangcai on the side also looked at Xu Tongdao curiously.

Xu Tongdao smiled, took out the cigarette case and gave them cigarettes, which can ease the atmosphere.

Then he pointed out the problem, "Master Li, your craftsmanship is good! This is my truth, but you have never done it in a small shop like me, so you may not be clear about the way the small shop’s home cooking is done. You do this food, there is no problem in a big hotel, it is right! But in a small shop like me, the customers do not have so high requirements for the appearance of the dishes, but the requirements for the taste of the dishes are even higher. If you can If these dishes are cooked longer, there will be no problem."