Chapter 311: Did you go to A City to learn mung bean cake?

Pei Xing and Li Hua, who didn't understand mung bean cake, were burying their heads and eating mung bean mud, while their brains were running at high speed to organize words, waiting for Qin Huai to ask them how this mung bean mud was, and then give a perfect eating experience.

It is a pity that Qin Huai didn't intend to ask this question at all.

Because there is a more exaggerated one on their side.

An Youyou.

An Youyou has almost become a loyal believer in mung bean mud.

Not only did she make exclamation sounds comparable to movie lines, but her expression was also very exaggerated. Surprise, happiness, praise, intoxication, and many complex emotions such as falling in love with mung bean mud flashed across her face one by one. If she were the heroine of a food movie, this acting skill alone would be enough to win the Best Newcomer Award of the year.

An Youyou has already tasted five plates.

As a qualified working person, An Youyou knows well that tasting dishes is not like this. But as a person who has a sense of taste and loves mung bean cake, An Youyou feels that in many cases, it is not necessary to care about so many principles, just eat it first.

Qin Huai looked at An Youyou tasting plate after plate, and couldn't help but ask when An Youyou tasted the 6th plate: "Don't you feel greasy?"

Although An Youyou tasted many plates, the amount of mung bean mud in each plate was not much. These mung bean muds were just stir-fried out of the pot and were in a loose state without being pressed tightly. With An Youyou's appetite, it was impossible to be full with six plates.

An Youyou is at the age of growing up and can eat.

But wouldn't she be greasy?

Even if the mung bean cake Qin Huai made is not sweet, it is also a pastry, and it is stir-fried with full butter and white sugar, rich in rich oil and sugar.

"Not greasy, super delicious!" An Youyou exclaimed, "Master Qin, the mung bean cake you made is much better than the one sold outside!"

"There is a bakery at the entrance of the community where I live that also sells mung bean cake, sold by the jin, 25 yuan for half a jin. It is cheap, but it is not delicious at all."

"That mung bean cake tastes oily, and greasy. After biting it into pieces and containing it in the mouth, it feels powdery and numb, and the mouth is full of dregs after eating a piece, so I have to rinse my mouth. The most critical thing is that there is no mung bean taste at all, and I feel sweet to death after eating a piece."

Hearing An Youyou say this, Qin Huai could probably guess how the mung bean cake in that bakery was made. The shop owner probably used relatively inferior mung bean powder, sugar powder, and vegetable oil to save costs, plus the craftsmanship was not good, and the heat control was not grasped well when stir-frying, making the already cutting-corners mung bean cake look more like a sugar-oil mixture, or a very cheap one mixed with a lot of starch.

Making dim sum is like this. The master's craftsmanship is one aspect, and the quality of the ingredients is even more so. Good dim sum must be made with good ingredients and good craftsmanship. If the ingredients are not good, no matter how good the master's craftsmanship is, it can only fall into the situation of a clever woman who cannot cook without rice.

Qin Huai felt relieved after hearing An Youyou say this. An Youyou is not a professional chef, let alone a professional food critic, but she is a professional working person, and a working person who is strapped for cash.

Qin Huai's mung bean cake was originally prepared for customer groups like An Youyou.

Prepared for guests who have limited budgets, are busy with work, but want to eat some cheap and delicious small dim sum to relieve the work pressure of the day.

Qin Huai smiled: "If you like to eat, don't eat mud. Now there is mung bean mud that is not pressed into shape by the mold. After demolding, put it in the refrigerator to chill for a period of time and then eat it, it will have a different flavor."

"If you like it, bring a portion home to eat after work. I will tell Huang Xi later that from today, every employee of Cloud Canteen can take a portion of iced mung bean cake home from the refrigerator after work, just as an employee benefit."

"Thank you, Boss... Master Qin!"

After stir-frying the mung bean mud, the subsequent work is not Qin Huai's. Whether it is pressing the film, demolding, or putting the shaped mung bean cake into the refrigerator to chill, it is the work of the helper.

Master Qin, who is very good at arranging helpers to work, started making Four Joy Tangyuan.

At this time, someone might ask, why is the production process of Four Joy Tangyuan arranged before fermented rice mantou and San Ding Bao? Is it because Four Joy Tangyuan has high profits?

No, because it's almost meal time.

The diners of Cloud Canteen who are waiting to be fed can not eat San Ding Bao and fermented rice mantou at noon, but they cannot not eat a bowl of hot Four Joy Tangyuan.

The thoughtful Assistant Xiao Qin will definitely wrap enough Four Joy Tangyuan before 12 o'clock, allowing office workers who are well-funded and have worked all morning and are counting on this bowl of Four Joy Tangyuan to continue their lives to successfully continue their lives.

It also allows the grandpas and grandmas who have been sitting in Cloud Canteen since 6 o'clock and waiting all morning with wide eyes to eat Master Xiao Qin's latest signature dim sum.

This was the plot of the previous days.

Today, Xu Tuqiang, who came to Cloud Canteen to squat at 6 o'clock like the previous days, keenly noticed something wrong.

He found that the waiters in Cloud Canteen seemed to be opening a small stove. They were passing a mysterious small green cake to each other and eating it secretly.

Even Huang Xi was eating.

Xu Tuqiang looked at the time.

11:32.

Eating dim sum secretly at this time, there is a problem!

Xu Tuqiang stretched his neck towards the window as if unintentionally, and found that the waiter at the window was placing mung bean cake, and one after another demolded mung bean cake was neatly placed in a small plate. There were two models of plates, the small plate had 4 pieces, and the larger one had 6 pieces. Each piece of mung bean cake was very small, the kind that is not enough for adults to eat and just right for children to eat.

Cloud Canteen launched children's dim sum again?

Xu Tuqiang was very puzzled.

Xu Tuqiang knew how popular the radish cake was among children before. He had grandchildren at home, and every weekend his precious grandson couldn't wait to sit in Cloud Canteen, surrounding An Youyou and calling her Radish Cake Sister.

It was just that Qin Huai went to A City for an external banquet in the past two days, and the person who seasoned the radish cake became Li Hua. The radish cake fried by An Youyou didn't have the taste before, so it wasn't as popular as the previous two days.

Noticing that Xu Tuqiang had been stretching his neck to look at the window, Grandma Ding was very puzzled and looked at it, asking: "Do you love eating mung bean cake?"

As a former kindergarten principal, Grandma Ding recognized at a glance that the small cakes placed on the counter were mung bean cakes.

"I think it should be

Sitting in the Cloud Restaurant, one can see the scene in the kitchen directly through the window, but that does not mean one can see every move inside clearly.

Qin Huai's usual culinary workstation for kneading dough is relatively close to the window, so the elderly folks can see it if they want to. The stove for stir-frying is very far from the window; unless one truly stretches their neck and stares fixedly at the window, it is very difficult to see exactly what dish the chef is stir-frying.

The elderly folks who go for morning jogs every day have long since passed the intrusive stage of staring fixedly at the window; now, they just sit in the restaurant every day, chatting and waiting for snacks to eat.

Hearing Xu Tuqiang analyze it this way, Grandma Ding was a bit surprised and lowered her voice: "Why would you think that?"

Xu Tuqiang also lowered his voice: "I just saw Xiao Huang sneaking a bite."

"Usually, it's normal for the waiter to sneak a bite if the snacks made by Xiao Pei and Xiao Li aren't sold out by the afternoon, but for Xiao Huang to be sneaking a bite at this hour means this snack must be very delicious; nine times out of ten, it was made by Master Xiao Qin," Xu Tuqiang analyzed calmly.

Grandma Ding felt it made sense and exclaimed in a low voice: "Not bad, Xiao Xu, you've even learned to analyze things."

Xu Tuqiang said smugly in a low voice: "Of course, did you think I stopped using my brain after retiring?"

Huang Xi, who heard their low-voiced conversation clearly from not far away:...

Huang Xi: Grandpa Xu, Grandma Ding, you two don't need to whisper; with your volume and hearing, even if you whisper, we young people can hear it clearly.

Huang Xi put on a professional, appropriate smile, took a deep breath, straightened her back, and walked quickly to Xu Tuqiang and Grandma Ding, saying gently:

"Today we have a new product, mung bean cake. Master Qin specially improved the recipe. A small portion is 10 yuan, and a large portion is 15 yuan. If you are interested, you can purchase some to taste."

As soon as Huang Xi finished speaking, everyone moved.

The elderly folks lined up to purchase as if they had formed muscle memory; whether they loved mung bean cake or didn't, at this very moment, they all loved mung bean cake.

Mung bean cake with a recipe specially improved by Master Xiao Qin, eh? Love it, super love it!

Soon, the elderly folks from the morning jog each had a plate of mung bean cake, eating it while drinking hot tea.

Xu Tuqiang took a small bite of the mung bean cake, didn't chew, but let it melt in his mouth, savoring the dense and smooth texture of the mung bean cake, and took a sip of hot tea after it had mostly melted.

"This is what life is about!" Xu Tuqiang exclaimed, "I kept saying I felt like something was missing when drinking tea in the morning and afternoon; so it was the lack of mung bean cake. Master Xiao Qin is truly so thoughtful!"

Everyone:?!

You surnamed Xu, when did you become so good at buttering people up? Damn it, lost.

Soon, the Cloud Restaurant launched the new mung bean cake. This new product was completely different from the past. The news that Master Qin had painstakingly spent a long time carefully improving the mung bean cake recipe, making the mung bean cake have a great improvement in flavor, texture, and appearance, spread throughout the Cloud Restaurant's diner circle.

As for why every time the Cloud Restaurant has new news, it spreads rapidly through the diner circle...

That might be because there are enough group-buying groups, diner groups, and small groups everyone has pulled together privately.

The elderly folks also love taking photos; it doesn't matter if the technique is poor, it doesn't matter if they don't know about composition, it doesn't matter if they can't edit, as long as the snack is real.

Poor technique can only set off the deliciousness of the snack.

What? You ask how they can tell the snack is delicious from a picture?

Don't ask, they can just tell anyway.

Almost as soon as it hit 12 o'clock, the Cloud Restaurant was packed with office workers coming to eat lunch and buy mung bean cake.

Some office workers even took 5 minutes of leave to come over early to eat; the spirit of eating is moving.

Whether eating ordinary fast food or Four-Joy Tangyuan, there was definitely a portion of mung bean cake on the tray. The mung bean cake was a small piece, melting as soon as it was put into the mouth, sweet and not cloying; 4 pieces weren't enough to satisfy, 6 pieces were just right.

And it was cheap.

In the Cloud Restaurant, 10 yuan couldn't even buy one Four-Joy Tangyuan, but it could buy 4 pieces of such delicious mung bean cake; it is the undisputed king of cost-performance.

This cost-performance made many office workers who originally didn't have much interest in mung bean cake, and had already ordered other takeout, make a special trip over to buy a portion of mung bean cake to take to the company to eat.

Qin Huai's sales policy for mung bean cake is to provide plenty to eat.

Selling 333 jin of mung bean cake every day, there is no such thing as purchase limits; buy as much as you want. Anyway, this thing can't be kept for long; buy it once and you'll know, mung bean cake is definitely best eaten on the day it's made.

Zheng Siyuan arrived at the Cloud Restaurant at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.

Dressed lightly, full of energy, in a casual shirt and jacket, very convenient for changing into a work uniform to work at any time.

When Zheng Siyuan arrived at the restaurant, the last batch of office workers were queuing up to buy mung bean cake to take away.

Having not dropped by for a long time, many regular customers no longer recognized Master Xiao Zheng.

Zheng Siyuan walked skillfully toward the changing room, and when passing the queue, he heard two young ladies chatting excitedly.

"I really didn't expect the mung bean cake improved by Master Xiao Qin to be so delicious. Let me tell you, I came to buy it the first time the Cloud Restaurant sold mung bean cake; at that time, I thought the taste was okay, but it was definitely not as delicious as this time. This time the mung bean cake is really super, super delicious! You must believe me, this time it's much more delicious than before!!" The girl speaking, as she spoke, was almost about to raise her right hand to swear to heaven and earth.

"I know, I didn't say Master Xiao Qin's mung bean cake was bad, look at how anxious you are." The girl on the side rolled her eyes helplessly, "When I was eating, I happened to hear the elderly folks sitting by the window chatting; they said Master Xiao Qin went to A City two days ago, and it was specifically to learn mung bean cake."

"There's such a thing?"

"Of course, last time Master Xiao Qin went to Gusu for so long, you didn't not eat the San Ding Bao and fermented rice steamed buns he made when he came back, they were much more delicious than before! Not to mention the Four-Joy Tangyuan, it's just a bit expensive. Sigh, why can't that hateful Hu the Skinflint give me a 20% raise, so I could eat Four-Joy Tangyuan for two weeks every month."

"Then I think Master Xiao Qin going to A City is enough; going to Gusu for months is really too much to bear."

"I think so too!"

Zheng Siyuan, who couldn't help but stop his steps while listening:?

Qin Huai went to A City to learn mung bean cake?

Who in A City is good at mung bean cake?

Zang Mu? Zang Liang? Or Tong Deyan?

These three are all pure savory chefs, or is there actually a pastry chef in the Imperial Kitchen who is good at mung bean cake?

That shouldn't be.

Zheng Siyuan changed his clothes with questions in mind and walked into the kitchen.

By the way, Zheng Siyuan has a dedicated changing room in the Cloud Restaurant, and his employee uniform is kept in the changing room.

In the kitchen, Qin Huai was preparing the filling for the San Ding Bao.

The technique for preparing the filling was very beautiful and also very skillful.

Zheng Siyuan had already confirmed through the pictures sent by Qin Huai that Qin Huai had a qualitative breakthrough in preparing fillings throughout the New Year period. But before, he had only seen pictures; now seeing Qin Huai in person preparing the filling in front of him, and it was the filling for the San Ding Bao that Zheng Siyuan was very familiar with, Zheng Siyuan still couldn't help but feel a bit surprised.

He knew Qin Huai was a freak, but he didn't expect Qin Huai to be such a freak.

This progress was too astonishing; no wonder Tan Weian said in the small group every day that he wanted to beat up Qin Huai.

"You're here." Qin Huai couldn't free his hands while preparing the filling, and signaled Zheng Siyuan with his eyes to look at the mung bean cake specially left for him on the culinary workstation, "Mung bean cake, iced, but the time wasn't enough, so the texture shouldn't be in its best state."

"Is the one sold outside also iced?" Zheng Siyuan asked.

"Those are at room temperature," Qin Huai said, "Iced mung bean cake is sold in the afternoon."

Zheng Siyuan washed his hands, picked up a piece of mung bean cake, and took a light bite.

It didn't crumble much, which shows that the mung bean cake Qin Huai made was very firm.

But such firm mung bean cake melted as soon as it entered the mouth.

Excellent.

This was Zheng Siyuan's first impression of this piece of mung bean cake.

Savoring it carefully.

Excellent texture, excellent taste, sweet and not bland, making such a common mung bean cake to this level...

Could Qin Huai really have gone to A City to learn mung bean cake?

Zheng Siyuan looked at Qin Huai: "Did you learn this two days ago?"

Qin Huai thought for a moment: "You could say that. Do you remember Chen Gong, Boss Han's assistant?"

Zheng Siyuan nodded.

"Assistant Chen loves mung bean cake very much; he signed a long-term snack purchase contract with me and gave me a mung bean cake recipe, telling me to make it according to the recipe."

"I pondered it and found it was indeed good."

"The recipe was given to me by Assistant Chen, so I can't give it to you. If you want to learn, I'll make it for you tomorrow in front of you; it's very simple, you should be able to understand it."

Zheng Siyuan nodded with satisfaction and didn't stand on ceremony: "Good."

"What snack should I make now?"

"The remaining San Ding Bao and fermented rice steamed buns are left to you. Please also hang some superior stock by the way, and wrap some Zou Sha wontons and bubble wontons tomorrow morning."

"I'll make chicken noodle soup for you tomorrow."

"I didn't cut radishes properly for the past two days, so I'm going to spend more time cutting radishes this afternoon. I don't have time to research the double crab bun, let's start researching the double crab bun together tomorrow. I'll send you the recipe Master Wang gave me tonight; I've already told Master Wang, he doesn't mind."

"Good."

Assistant Xiao Zheng nodded after hearing Master Qin's instructions and started working.

(End of chapter)