Chapter 169: Gong Liang

After the big disaster yesterday, Qin Huai went back and reviewed it carefully.

He felt the main problem was still unfamiliarity.

He was not familiar with the ingredients, nor was he familiar with crab roe shumai, and he was even not very familiar with this kind of seasoning where the raw materials were too simple.

He seasoned the crab roe shumai according to his previous experience in making dim sum, and the process and steps were modeled after Zheng Da's demonstration. Combining the two, taking the dross and removing the essence, he finally completed the inedible shumai.

Qin Huai reflected for a whole night and decided to adopt the "forgetting method," forgetting his previous experience and doing it completely according to Zheng Da's mode as a beginner.

This idea was good.

But the ideal is plump, and the reality is bony.

Can't do it, completely can't do it.

After a hearty seasoning, Qin Huai got a disaster on par with yesterday.

Good news, this time there were only 9 small errors and 6 big errors.

Bad news, some errors were different.

And missing one small error didn't have much impact on the taste.

It was already difficult to have room for decline. Qin Huai's basic panel was here; no matter how he messed up, he couldn't mess up to the level of Chen Huihong's cooking skills.

Qin Huai's another disaster masterpiece was sent to every food taster at Huang Ji Restaurant.

Most of the time, food tasting is not a good job.

If a dish needs to be tasted, it means that the dish is not a complete finished product, and there are problems that need to be improved. And the process of improvement is a long process that requires a lot of trial and error. A professional food taster needs to taste every dish carefully, put forward problems and his own improvement opinions, not only to eat, but also to eat seriously and carefully.

Gong Liang only took one bite and realized that the job of food tasting was not so easy to do.

The risk is too high.

It's not that Gong Liang hasn't tasted food, and his memories of food tasting are quite good.

Gong Liang vaguely remembered that when he was a young boy reading, Master Jing next door sometimes tried to make new dishes at home.

To be precise, it wasn't a new dish. Master Jing had good skills. Some foreign businessmen only recognized Master Jing's skills. When receiving them, they named Master Jing to cook. Everyone's taste was different, and the types of dishes they specified to eat were also different. Whenever this happened, Master Jing would try to make dishes at home.

As a neighbor, Gong Liang was a teenager in high school at the time, and when he was lucky, he could snag a few bites; eating one bite would make him happy for days and remember it for years.

At that time, Gong Liang thought, when he was as rich as a foreign businessman in the future, he would also name Master Jing to cook for him. No, no need to name, just cook every day. As long as Master Jing was willing to cook, he was willing to eat!

Now, Gong Liang's beautiful filter for food tasting was shattered by the crab roe shumai in front of him.

He couldn't believe that this was dim sum made by Qin Huai.

Although he had already eaten the Gastrodia elata pigeon stew made by Qin Huai two days ago and knew that his beloved Assistant Xiao Qin was not omnipotent, crab roe shumai is dim sum!

This is dim sum!

Gong Liang was a complete layman in cooking, even more of a layman than an outsider like Huang Anyao who had rich theoretical knowledge but almost zero practical level. So even though he knew that the difficulty of crab roe shumai was not small, unless Zheng Da was willing to do it, it was difficult for him to eat the same crab roe shumai substitute as Master Jing elsewhere, but he didn't have a very specific concept.

In Gong Liang's heart, the difficulty of crab roe shumai was indeed very large, but Qin Huai's craftsmanship in making dim sum was also very good. Plus, the fermented rice steamed buns made by Qin Huai were almost on par with Zheng Da, especially the first batch of fermented rice steamed buns every day. Gong Liang could even chew out the feeling of rushing to the state-run restaurant to grab steamed buns after work back then when chewing the steamed buns.

Therefore, in Gong Liang's cognition, Qin Huai's craftsmanship was on par with Zheng Da.

At most a little bit worse, after all, Zheng Da shouted every day to take Qin Huai as a closing-door disciple.

Although Zheng Da was a bit lazy and didn't want to make dim sum, he was still reliable in doing things and couldn't do the kind of thing of forcing a young dim sum chef with the same level as himself to be an apprentice.

As a result, the crab roe shumai in front of him shattered the 18-layer filter Gong Liang added to Qin Huai.

Assistant Xiao Qin, who was omnipotent in dim sum, also had times when he encountered Waterloo.

Gong Liang sniffed, and tears almost flowed down.

The feeling of idol shattering.

Gong Liang looked at the other Huang Ji kitchen staff who were tasting, and found that everyone's reaction was very calm.

However, everyone finished the crab roe shumai very calmly and gathered together to discuss, discussing what was the difference between Qin Huai's crab roe shumai today and yesterday, whether it was a problem with the ratio of seasonings, or a problem with the combination of shrimp meat and crab meat.

Some people even optimistically expressed that the progress was great, and the most obvious problem yesterday no longer existed.

Gong Liang was stunned.

Gong Liang thought for a while, stood up from the small stool, grabbed Dong Shi, who was discussing most intensely, and dragged him to the corner outside to ask:

"Is it normal for Assistant Xiao Qin's crab roe shumai to be made like this?"

"It's normal." Dong Shi said, seeing Gong Liang's expression more confused, he explained, "He made it even harder to eat yesterday."

Gong Liang:?

"Mr. Gong, don't worry. We all know that it was because you wanted to eat crab roe shumai that Qin Huai learned it, but Qin Huai had never made dim sum with crab meat and crab roe before, and he didn't even make dim sum with fresh shrimp filling."

"Let me put it this way: Qin Huai is from Guangdong Province, you know that, right? He is now like a chef who is from Cantonese cuisine and does Lu cuisine very well. Let me think about whether I can make such an analogy... Yes, that's right, he does palace dim sum well."

"He is now good at two cuisines, one north and one south, but now he has come to us. We do the most Huaiyang cuisine here. If you let a chef who has been doing northern cuisine for many years suddenly change his career to do Huaiyang cuisine without any experience, it must be acclimatized. It will definitely be a big problem when he first learns it."

"Now it's his second time making crab roe shumai, and it's normal to make it hard to eat. So Mr. Gong, don't worry. Give Qin Huai one or two months, and I believe that with his level, there will definitely be no problem."

"Don't think that two months is too much. A normal chef, especially a dim sum chef, learning crab roe shumai of this difficulty by changing factions in two months is already very terrible. Even if Qin Huai hasn't learned it in two months, it's normal. You have to believe that as long as he promises you, he will definitely make crab roe shumai for you."

Gong Liang was even more stunned.

Seeing that Gong Liang's expression was still the same, Dong Shi thought Gong Liang still didn't understand, thinking about what angle to make an analogy to let Gong Liang understand how difficult it was to change tracks to make crab roe shumai.

Just as Dong Shi was thinking fast, and his mouth was slightly open to say some witty nonsense to ease the atmosphere, Gong Liang spoke.

"When did I ask Qin Huai to make crab roe shumai?" Gong Liang asked.

Now he didn't care about his idol, Master Qin, having a disaster.

Gong Liang felt that someone must be harming him.

Heaven and conscience, when did he, Gong Liang, become such a person without self-knowledge.

Although he liked to climb up the pole, pestering, that also depends on the occasion, the person, and the timing. He and Qin Huai's relationship is still in the conquest period. It is his conquest of Qin Huai, using material sugar-coated bullets to pull closer the relationship with the potential stock, Assistant Xiao Qin.

He is now an angel investor, and the money for the first round of financing hasn't been invested yet.

Who is spreading rumors outside that he wants to kill the chicken and take the eggs.

If this word reaches Assistant Xiao Qin's ears, what face will he have to rub noodles in the future!

Gong Liang wanted to rush back to the kitchen entrance and eat another crab roe shumai to prove his innocence.

Although Assistant Xiao Qin's Gastrodia elata pigeon stew and crab roe shumai were disasters, the five-ding steamed buns, fermented rice steamed buns, dream-fulfilling sesame cakes, noodle fruits, fruits, crab shell yellow, chicken soup noodles, and locust tree flower steamed buns were all good for everyone to see!

If one or two are disasters, they are disasters. At worst, he, Gong Liang, won't eat them. The others still have to be eaten.

"Wasn't it you who asked?" Dong Shi was also shocked.

"Who said I asked? Who?" Gong Liang gritted his teeth.

"Everyone says so." Dong Shi said, "Qin Huai invited you to have breakfast at Huang Ji in the morning, and started learning crab roe shumai in the afternoon. I heard that when Qin Huai learned crab roe shumai, Master Zheng gave him two ways to learn, one is the current one, and the other is a slightly simpler one."

"Qin Huai knew that you ate the crab roe shumai made by Master Jing for a month back then, so he specially asked which method you ate back then, and he wanted to learn that one, and said that after it was done, he must invite you to taste it to see if it was the taste of that year."

"We all thought it was you who asked, so Qin Huai learned it specially."

Gong Liang was stunned.

After the shock, it was full of emotion.

Gong Liang was from sales. Since he was young, he said human words to people and ghost words to ghosts. Many things he said, he forgot himself, and he never expected anyone to take what he said to heart.

Gong Liang didn't even remember whether he had told Qin Huai about his glorious record of eating crab roe shumai for a month.

However, crab roe shumai was indeed a very special dim sum for him.

That was the time he was closest to fulfilling his dream. Gong Liang had also spent a lot of money to invite famous dim sum masters from other places, trying to restore the crab roe shumai he ate back then, but to no avail. Later, Zheng Da told him directly that that kind of crab roe shumai was a unique secret recipe in a sense. He could give the recipe to Gong Liang, but other dim sum masters probably couldn't make it.

The facts were indeed so. Some dim sum masters had superb skills, and the crab roe shumai made was equally delicious, but Gong Liang couldn't taste the feeling of that year.

Only Zheng Da, the direct disciple taught by Master Jing, could make a few similar tastes.

Gong Liang felt his eyes were a bit moist. However, his acting skills were very good, and this fluctuation of emotion could be controlled to the point that outsiders couldn't see it.

Gong Liang said: "Is that so? I don't know. I might have mentioned it to Assistant Xiao Qin, but I didn't ask him."

"However, I still have some research on crab roe shumai. I can taste where there is a problem in one bite! I didn't eat it seriously just now, I will go back and eat one now."

Gong Liang went back to taste food with high spirits.

Dong Shi:...

Such hard-to-eat shumai, Mr. Gong is actually willing to eat two.

What everyone said is really not false. The red envelope for this year's New Year, the one Mr. Gong gives to Qin Huai must be the thickest.

Gong Liang returned to the small stool to shine for the food tasting career, but Qin Huai's two head food tasters quarreled over Qin Huai's next teaching process.

Qin Huai is a chef who is very good at writing wrong question books.

Qin Huai thinks he is not necessarily good at learning, but very good at reflecting.

He always realizes what problems the dim sum he made has in the presence of references, and then repeatedly modifies, repeatedly makes mistakes, adds, subtracts, deletes, and modifies on the wrong question book, and finally makes the dim sum he wants.

Zheng Da and Huang Shengli both strongly agree with his learning behavior and mode.

But the two have huge differences on how to add, subtract, delete, and modify the wrong questions on the wrong question book.

It is a recognized fact that the crab roe shumai made by Qin Huai is hard to eat.

But specifically how it is hard to eat, what is the reason that makes the shumai so hard to eat, and how Qin Huai's cooking skills and level should be modified and controlled to make the shumai not so hard to eat, has become a problem.

Huang Shengli and Zheng Da have completely different views on this.

Zheng Da feels that this is simply not enough practice.

His teaching mode combined with Qin Huai's learning mode is simply a perfect match, a natural master-apprentice pair. As long as you follow this mode, he does it once every day and Qin Huai does it once, and repeats it for one or two months, it will be fine.

In summary, it is one sentence.

If the dish is bad, practice more.

Huang Shengli feels that Zheng Da, if you really don't know how to teach apprentices, stand aside and don't waste time.

Is Qin Huai's problem that the practice volume is not large enough?

Yes.

But he obviously has other problems.

Huang Shengli saw at a glance that Qin Huai was very unfamiliar with the ingredients needed for crab roe shumai.

Whether it is fresh shrimp, crab meat, or crab roe, they are not ingredients that Qin Huai is good at.

Huang Shengli feels that what Qin Huai needs to do now is not to practice crab roe shumai, but to get familiar with the ingredients first. He needs a master who knows how to explain to help him break down the ingredients step by step, tell him what to do, and how to taste.

As for that master, he is far away in the sky and near in front of him.

Zheng Da feels that Huang Shengli is doing something unnecessary.

Huang Shengli feels that Zheng Da doesn't know how to teach apprentices.

"Master taught me like this back then!" Zheng Da said loudly.

Zheng Da looked at Huang Shengli, his face full of "you can question my ability to teach apprentices, but you can't question Master's ability to teach apprentices."

"Can your situation be the same as Xiao Qin's?" Huang Shengli was not weak, using the expression of "how long have you taught Xiao Qin, do you know how long I have taught" to fight back.

"When Master taught the two of us, the fundamentals were not missed at all. At that time, the two of us were apprentices, purely doing odd jobs in the state-run restaurant, no salary, but not a single job was missed. Whatever dirty and tiring work was done by us, cutting vegetables, processing ingredients, fish, shrimp, and crab were not missed. When I was responsible for the water table, I felt that I was full of fishy smell when I slept, and I couldn't sleep because of the smell. Have you forgotten?"

Zheng Da's voice was a little smaller: "That was back then, Siyuan wasn't taught like this when he was a child. Back then was back then, now is now, there were no conditions back then."

"I know, my few apprentices weren't taught like this either. I want to tell you that Xiao Qin is different from us, he doesn't have this foundation."

"We lived here since we were young, and we ate the fish, shrimp, and crab in the river since we were young. At that time, there were no seasonings, boiled in water and steamed dry. If there was really nothing to eat, who would eat this stuff? The fishy smell of fish, shrimp, and crab was engraved in the bones."

"When Master taught you crab roe shumai, you naturally knew how to remove the fishy smell and season it, because you understand."

"Xiao Qin is not. If you ask him, the number of times he has eaten crab since he was a child is probably not as much as your fraction."

"Look at what you said, Xiao Qin's family is not that difficult..."

"I mean Xiao Qin just doesn't like to eat crab! If you chat with him more, you will know that his sister Did Luo Luo ate steamed crab and got hurt when she was a child. For a few years, she wanted to vomit when she smelled the crab. Their family never steamed crab."

Zheng Da was shocked: "How can this child Did Luo Luo eat everything and get hurt."

Huang Shengli:...

"So I said the situation is different. Xiao Qin has little contact with this kind of ingredients, and even doesn't contact them much on weekdays. The child's words haven't been fully recognized, and you let him write an essay. Are you not making things difficult for people? Is there such a way to teach? You still want to take him as a disciple like this. You don't even know how to teach. Why do you take him as a disciple? Do you think you can be a good master just by having technology?"

Zheng Da was sprayed by Huang Shengli and didn't dare to say a word.

"I also..."

"Don't 'also', I'll teach first, I'll lay the foundation, and then you teach after I lay the foundation. Still blowing in front of me that I have studied for several days and discovered a particularly good teaching method. You have studied for several days and studied this? I think you haven't studied anything in these decades."

Huang Shengli won a complete victory.

Qin Huai was stunned watching from the side.

Because these two people were arguing in front of him.

Qin Huai was seeing this scene for the first time.

Since studying locust tree flower steamed buns, he has been taught by Zheng Da and Huang Shengli, but he has never been taught by two people at the same time. Occasionally, the two appeared in the same frame, and that was across the mobile phone. Qin Huai didn't expect that these two people were actually...

Not like fellow apprentices.

Huang Shengli looked at Qin Huai and instantly switched back to the laughing master expression: "Xiao Qin, don't listen to what your Master Zheng said, he won't teach these basic things."

"Come, I'll take you to the aquatic products side to pick some live shrimp, I'll start teaching from how to choose the right shrimp and crab."

Qin Huai looked at Zheng Siyuan for help.

Yes, Zheng Siyuan is also here today.

Although he didn't say a word from beginning to end, as if he didn't appear. But Zheng Siyuan has been staying in the kitchen, acting as a food taster.

Zheng Siyuan nodded affirmatively.

"Get used to it." Zheng Siyuan said, "My dad and Master Uncle's teaching concepts have not been consistent for so many years. When they taught me when I was young, they often quarreled like this."

"Don't care about what they are arguing about, anyway, whoever wins the argument, learn from whoever."

"Whoever wins is right."

Qin Huai:...

Your master's teaching method is so unique.

Quarreling teaching, whoever wins the argument comes to teach.

I'm so tired. As expected, going to an amusement park isn't very suitable for me. I was so tired that I directly extended my hotel stay and changed my train tickets, and fell into a deep sleep for a day first.

This year's Universal ends here, I will come again next year. (Next year I will definitely buy a fast pass, never queue again qaq)

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