Chapter 338

Since the crab roe sauce Zheng Siyuan made later was not suitable for mixing with noodles or rice, Qin Huai had to urgently launch the plan for ordinary crab roe buns, using that batch of crab roe sauce to make a batch of crab roe buns.

The guests of Yunzhong Canteen, who were delighted by the sudden appearance of crab roe buns, were as happy as if it were the New Year.

No, they were much happier than during the New Year. During the New Year, Yunzhong Canteen doesn't open, which is not happy at all.

If you ask who among this group is the happiest, it is naturally Xu Tuqiang.

It's not because Qin Huai made new dim sum like crab shell yellow today, nor because of the crab roe buns that suddenly appeared in the afternoon, and certainly not because Yunzhong Canteen suddenly added many dim sum chefs, meaning there are endless ordinary dim sum from morning till night.

It's because Qin Huai specifically told Xu Tuqiang in the afternoon to remember to come to the canteen at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, as there would be glutinous rice cakes.

Glutinous rice cakes!

Xu Tuqiang took a big bite of the crab roe bun, sighing in his heart that this crab roe bun was delicious, while being ecstatic that he could finally eat glutinous rice cakes tomorrow.

Xu Tuqiang glanced at the neighbors beside him who had clearly changed their minds, abandoning crab roe mixed noodles and falling in love with crab roe buns.

Hmph, they are all fickle people, unlike me; in my heart, there is only glutinous rice cake forever!

Hehehe.

When eating dinner in the evening, Tan Weian asked Qin Huai with great concern if, now that everyone had found the correct research method for crab roe sauce and it was estimated that they would succeed soon, they would stop making crab roe mixed noodles and crab roe mixed rice in the future.

Compared to crab roe buns, what Tan Weian loved was still crab roe mixed rice.

Qin Huai comforted him: "We definitely won't stop making them completely. The recipe for mixed rice and mixed noodles you gave is also very worth studying. Zheng Siyuan will definitely study it, right Zheng Siyuan?"

Zheng Siyuan, holding his rice and looking somewhat depressed at the preserved mustard and pork belly on his tray, nodded when Qin Huai cued him: "Of course."

Zheng Siyuan understood what Qin Huai meant. Tan Weian gave the recipe, so of course, their food arrangements here had to be up to par. If Tan Weian wants to eat crab roe mixed rice, they'll just make it for him; it doesn't take much time anyway.

As for Old Man Wang and Ouyang... for them, there is no difference between tasting crab roe buns and crab roe mixed noodles; they love both and will eat whatever is given.

Zheng Siyuan continued to look melancholically at the preserved mustard and pork belly in front of him.

Qin Huai glanced at Zheng Siyuan's tray and found that he had actually scooped up the preserved mustard and pork belly despite his disbelief, and asked: "Do you love eating preserved mustard and pork belly?"

Zheng Siyuan shook his head: "I just don't understand why anyone would love eating such salty preserved mustard and pork belly."

"Maybe because it goes well with rice," Qin Huai said, "Actually, apart from the fact that our canteen's savory dish chef's skills are a bit unstable and the preserved mustard and pork belly is always a bit too salty, the skills aren't bad; it's just the level of an ordinary restaurant."

"Of course, it can't compare to Huang Ji, but the restaurants around here all taste about the same. Otherwise, I wouldn't eat in my own canteen every day; at least food safety is guaranteed. Everyone can see how the ingredients brought in every day are handled; it's all about being clean and hygienic."

Zheng Siyuan could only continue to look melancholically at the preserved mustard and pork belly, sighing for his work meals.

Seeing Zheng Siyuan's expression, Qin Huai naturally knew what he was sad about. He looked up at Tan Weian and asked casually: "I met Zang Liang in City A last time, and he said he has a good relationship with you."

"That's for sure," Tan Weian said, "We are the same age and were in the same class in elementary school. At first, Master Zang also worked in Hangcheng, but later Master Zang changed jobs to another restaurant, and then he transferred to another city."

Qin Huai suddenly realized; so they were classmates.

He had previously felt that Tan Weian and Zang Liang were about the same age, but he didn't expect them to be classmates directly.

"How are Zang Liang's cooking skills?" Qin Huai asked.

Tan Weian thought very seriously for a while.

"This depends on who you compare him with." Facing a good brother, Tan Weian's evaluation was still very objective, "Their savory dishes are different from our pastry dishes. When we pastry chefs are young, we are just vegetables, except for you and Zheng Siyuan, you two are freak... people."

"But on the savory dish side, if the talent is particularly good, there are many who achieve results in their teens and make a name for themselves in their twenties to be able to stand on their own. Zang Liang is still a little distance away from standing on his own, but he is also considered to have good talent in the young generation, especially his knife skills, which are truly second to none."

"But if you say he is really a genius, that doesn't count. There is a bigger genius in Beiping. I don't know if you've heard of Zhang Guanghang. You must know Old Man Xia Mubing, the master chef ranked ninth in the list of famous chefs."

Qin Huai nodded, indicating he had heard of him. According to Dong Shi, Old Man Xia loves to scold people very much and is the famous number one sprayer in Beiping. He has high seniority and solid strength, the kind that everyone fears.

"Zhang Guanghang is Master Xia's apprentice, his only apprentice. That is truly... even more Zheng Siyuan than you."

Qin Huai:...

Buddy, your language expression has something to it.

"Naturally, Zang Liang can't compare to gods like Zhang Guanghang, and he should be a bit worse than Sun Jikai from FJ. It's not that his strength is poor, but mainly because Sun Jikai is younger than him, but this is hard to say."

"I don't know if that guy surnamed Sun had his brain kicked by a donkey or what, but he wants to study abroad for no reason, and it's some business school. In our line of work, who studies abroad? Even if the degree is high, it's useless if the cooking tastes bad. Isn't this a waste of time?"

"Let me think about who else is stronger than him..."

Seeing that Tan Weian was about to burst out the names of the young generation stronger than Zang Liang like a menu, Qin Huai hurriedly stopped him: "Then how is his thickening level?"

"It should be okay, I'm not very clear, but it must be stronger than ours; he is a savory dish chef." Tan Weian replied. After saying this, he realized what Qin Huai wanted to do and opened his eyes wide in disbelief, "You wouldn't be thinking of..."

Qin Huai nodded.

"I was just thinking if I could invite Zang Liang to come over for an exchange for a period of time," Qin Huai said very frankly.

Tan Weian was so shocked that the rice in his mouth was about to fall out. He hurriedly chewed a few times and swallowed the rice, not even having time to lick the vegetable leaves off his teeth, and said in surprise: "But he is a savory dish chef!"

"A pure savory dish chef, he studies Huaiyang cuisine!"

"What is he coming here to exchange?"

Tan Weian originally thought that the apprentices of Zhi Wei Ju going out for exchanges was already outrageous enough, but he didn't expect there to be something even more outrageous.

A savory dish chef coming to a pastry canteen for an exchange is no longer just going against the heavens; this is purely going against the ancestors.

Even if savory and pastry dishes were to be one family, it wouldn't be this kind of family.

"Seasoning," Qin Huai said very naturally, "When he was in City A, he told me that he thought the filling I made was very beautiful."

"This shows that he is definitely interested in exchanging seasoning with me. And didn't I just make it clear to Zheng Siyuan? The double crab bun is a savory dish filling and a pastry dim sum. In a sense, it is the same as Guo'er. You know Guo'er best; Guo'er is a dim sum that Master Huang and I made together."

"If I can make dim sum together with Master Huang, why can't the three of us plus Zang Liang study dim sum together?"

Qin Huai's overly natural tone and sincere words left Tan Weian speechless for a moment.

What to do? Tan Weian actually felt that what Qin Huai said made a lot of sense now.

But... how can savory and pastry dishes be together... even if these two have commonalities, they can't be mixed into one...

Your master taught you like this back then... oh, you don't have a master.

Zheng Siyuan, say something!

What time is it now? Stop staring at that salty-as-hell preserved mustard and pork belly; that preserved mustard and pork belly doesn't taste good. I also know that Zang Liang's cooking must be better than these two savory dish chefs in Yunzhong Canteen, but you can't help the evildoer just to eat something good!

Where is your persistence as a pastry chef?

Where is your pride as a professionally trained chef?

At a time like this, aren't you going to stand up and say something?

Zheng Siyuan, hurry up and say something!

Seeing that the atmosphere was right, Zheng Siyuan slowly moved his gaze away from the preserved mustard and pork belly, looked at Tan Weian, and nodded calmly: "I think what Qin Huai said makes a lot of sense."

"Whether he is willing to come for an exchange is Zang Liang's business; as long as he is willing to come, everything is easy to talk about."

Tan Weian:?

Zheng Siyuan didn't forget to comfort Tan Weian: "Relax, you have to look at problems with an inclusive attitude."

Tan Weian:...

"It just so happens that you and Zang Liang are childhood friends and classmates. You two have a good relationship, so you go and ask Zang Liang tonight if he is willing to come over. If he comes, we can help arrange accommodation here. Sister Hong still has a few houses in the residential area; we can clear out the things inside and he can move in with his bags at any time."

"You still want me to ask?" Tan Weian was already desperate; he was desperate for this world.

"You don't want to ask?" Qin Huai thought for a while, "It's okay, I have Zang Liang's WeChat; if you don't want to ask, I'll ask."

Tan Weian raised his hand and made a stop gesture.

He stood up, his gaze deep, his voice heavy: "I'll ask."

Tan Weian felt that if he didn't properly complain to Zang Liang tonight about these two perverts with brain problems, Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan, he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.

"Good, then it's happily decided," Qin Huai said cheerfully, "Tan Weian, why did you stand up? Are you finished eating?"

"No." Tan Weian sat down silently and continued to eat, while frantically organizing his language in his heart, waiting to have a hearty complaint with Zang Liang at night.

As a result, when night came, Tan Weian was hit again.

As a standard savory dish chef, Zang Liang's off-work time is very late.

He only gets off work at 10:30 PM.

Getting off work so late is because Zang Liang has to help Zang Mu tidy up the cooking station. As Zang Mu's nephew and only disciple, even if Zang Liang is the little prince of knife skills, he still has to do the work of a helper.

The cooking industry is like this; every apprentice has come through this. Those with many senior and junior fellow apprentices will even fight for work; after all, there is only so much work, and if others do it, you have nothing to do, and if you have nothing to do, you will be seen by the master.

One step behind, every step behind; this is how the king of involution is born.

Tan Weian was almost asleep waiting for Zang Liang to get off work, relying entirely on the desire to complain to support himself.

As a result, just after Tan Weian finished speaking about the matter and hadn't even started complaining, Zang Liang readily agreed.

"What?! You actually agreed!" Tan Weian's scream almost tore through the sky, and he jumped up from his chair, his face full of "how could you also betray the revolution."

"Otherwise? Do you want me to agree or not? Isn't Qin Huai sincerely inviting me? Does he have other options?" Zang Liang's face was full of question marks.

Tan Weian's face had the same question marks: "He doesn't have other candidates. No, how could you agree? Do you know what the situation is in Yunzhong Canteen now?"

"Do you know how ordinary the two savory dish chefs in Yunzhong Canteen are? They are just at the level of ordinary restaurant chefs. The preserved mustard and pork belly is salty as hell, the tomato scrambled eggs are also very average, the chili fried meat is too spicy and I don't like eating it, the stir-fried lotus root slices aren't crispy enough, and the potato slices are even worse, oily and greasy."

"But it's really cheap; the price of a fast food meal with two meats and one vegetable is only enough to eat one Four Happiness Tangyuan."

"No, my point is that Yunzhong Canteen is now full of pastry chefs; what are you coming here to exchange?"

"Didn't you just say that the double crab bun needs thickening? I'll come to thicken it," Zang Liang said, "And Master Qin's seasoning level is indeed very high. When I was in City A, I worked as a helper for him for a day, and I saw his seasoning level with my own eyes."

"When you said you were going to lead a team to Yunzhong Canteen for an exchange two days ago, I was particularly envious. I tell you, I've wanted to go for a long time. Last time I worked as a helper for Qin Huai in City A for a day, that feeling was really too good."

"Although Qin Huai can't explain it clearly, he does it clearly enough. You don't need to listen to what he says; you can learn a lot of things just by watching from the side."

"Learn what?" Tan Weian was confused.

"Ideas, seasoning relies on ideas," Zang Liang said enthusiastically, "Ingredients change, and you should have different processing methods for ingredients in different states."

"I watched him make Four Happiness Tangyuan for two days, and his filling adjustment was always changing with the state of the ingredients. My master even said that Qin Huai definitely has a good tongue, and his tongue can help him find the feeling very quickly. But it's only finding the feeling; ideas are talent, innate. Some people's ideas rely on practice, and some people's ideas are born with them. Qin Huai is the latter."

Zang Liang became excited as he spoke: "You know, my knife skills are very good, but in our Huaiyang cuisine, apart from valuing knife skills, we value seasoning even more. My seasoning has never been able to keep up with my knife skills."

"My master said I have no ideas for seasoning, and I haven't found that feeling. I didn't understand what his feeling was or what the idea was, or how I could find it by feeling. Until I saw Qin Huai adjusting the filling in City A last time, I suddenly understood what that feeling was. Qin Huai has this feeling; he has always relied on that feeling to find ideas. Do you understand the feeling I'm talking about?"

Tan Weian: Holy crap, such familiar words.

"Don't understand," Tan Weian said very honestly, "Seasoning also needs ideas."

Zang Liang: "... You need to practice more."

Tan Weian:...

"So, you are very willing to come, right?"

"Of course!" Zang Liang's eyes lit up, "I'll call my master now and tell him; my master will definitely agree."

"Qin Huai said he can help solve the housing, right? That's even easier to handle. If my master agrees, I'll book tomorrow's ticket, and I'll definitely arrive before tomorrow night!"

Tan Weian hung up the phone in a daze.

For some reason, he suddenly felt that the person who understood Qin Huai best in this world had appeared.

Holy crap, so Qin Huai always saying "do you understand that feeling, have you found that feeling" wasn't him talking nonsense because he couldn't explain it clearly; there really is a feeling.

What kind of feeling is it? Why do you all understand it?

(End of chapter)