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Chapter 344: Any problems?

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Soon, the news that Master Xiao Qin was about to go on a business trip for three days spread throughout the entire Cloud Canteen diner circle.

The diners' reaction to this was...

No reaction at all.

It's only three days, everyone can accept it as long as he doesn't leave for months. Life is so good now; there is a rich breakfast other than the dim sum made by Chen An in the morning, you can eat Four Joy Tangyuan as a main meal at noon, you can eat crab roe mixed noodles as a main meal at night, and there are twenty or thirty types of dim sum dropped randomly throughout the morning, afternoon, and even dinner.

It doesn't matter if you think crab roe mixed noodles and Four Joy Tangyuan are too expensive. Affordable mung bean cakes and radish cakes are the favorites of diners with not-so-rich wallets.

It doesn't matter if you think work is too tiring and hard. As long as your hand speed is fast enough and your luck is good enough to grab a cup of tangerine peel tea, after the Party A asks you to modify the material for 17 versions and tells you that the first version is better, you will be able to smile... well, you can't smile at all, you can only reluctantly accept it, and slap him seventeen times in your heart, *pa pa pa*, throwing all these 17 versions of the plan on his face.

Even if Master Xiao Qin's dim sum is hard to grab, there are Master Xiao Zheng's shortbread, fermented rice buns, San Ding Bao, and fresh meat mooncakes. These 4 types of dim sum are Zheng Siyuan's resident dim sum.

Zheng Siyuan is not like Qin Huai, who feels uncomfortable if he only makes the same dim sum for a few days. He enjoys this kind of monotony very much, making the same dim sum every day, and even wants to fix what dim sum to make at what time every day.

Tan Weian has secretly complained to Qin Huai more than once that Zheng Siyuan must have obsessive-compulsive disorder. At least in the matter of making dim sum, his obsessive-compulsive disorder is very serious.

Rich dim sum allows the customers of Cloud Canteen to accept the reality that they can't eat the dim sum produced by Master Xiao Qin for a few days to the greatest extent. After hearing this tragic news, they say "Oh," and then continue to eat dim sum.

Yes, this is the performance of the most loyal diner of Cloud Canteen, Grandpa Xu Tuqiang.

Xu Tuqiang was eating Jiang Mi rice cake when he heard this news.

Xu Tuqiang was eating the last portion of Jiang Mi rice cake sold in Cloud Canteen today, which was specially left for him by Qin Huai. It was a precious small stove, which made him feel warm in his heart.

Because he was moved by Xu Tuqiang's love and persistence for Jiang Mi rice cake, Qin Huai decided to temporarily add Jiang Mi rice cake to his resident dim sum, making rice cake every afternoon and selling rice cake in the morning.

Because rice cake needs to be made a day in advance, Qin Huai will not use all of the daily rice cake to make Jiang Mi rice cake. A part of it will be made into rice cake soup and sold during evening business hours.

Qu Jing has had no night shifts lately, all are day shifts with regular work and rest. She comes to Cloud Canteen for dinner on time every night, and by the way, takes the dim sum left by Qin Huai home to keep for breakfast the next morning.

"Xu Tuqiang, when did you get so close to Master Xiao Qin?" Grandpa Qian looked at Xu Tuqiang with suspicious eyes, full of "Did you violate the convention, kid?" in his eyes.

Xu Tuqiang ate the rice cake in big mouthfuls and didn't speak. It's easy to choke and go to the hospital for rescue if you speak at this time.

After eating the rice cake in the plate, Xu Tuqiang drank two sips of tea to smooth it out, and said slowly: "What do you mean when did I get so close to Master Xiao Qin? My relationship with Master Xiao Qin has always been very good. Qian, don't forget, who discovered Master Xiao Qin's craftsmanship first, and who brought you here for breakfast."

After speaking, Xu Tuqiang glanced indignantly at Grandpa Wang, who was already standing at the kitchen door and was about to eat into the kitchen: "Don't be sarcastic to me here, if you have the ability, go and be sarcastic to Wang Laogen. Who has such good life as him? We are all sitting outside to eat, he is sitting inside to eat."

As soon as this remark came out, the contradiction was immediately transferred. Grandpa Qian at table 9, Grandma Ding, and another grandpa who didn't have a name all looked at Wang Gensheng standing at the kitchen door with envious, jealous, and hateful eyes, each face full of wanting to replace him.

"Why is Wang Laogen's life so good? Everything good happened to him, demolition, Gusu tourism, small stove, what kind of horoscope is this." Grandma Ding's once peaceful face was full of jealousy, "Why did Master Xiao Qin look for him to taste crab roe sauce? I also understand crab roe sauce very well."

"There was a teacher in our kindergarten before whose aunt's relative's neighbor sold crab roe sauce."

Everyone:...

Don't bring out this kind of relationship that doesn't even count as a distant relative.

Everyone could only continue to stare at Wang Gensheng with envious, jealous, hateful, and uncomprehending eyes.

In fact, not only are there many people in the lobby staring at him with this look, but there are also people in the back kitchen staring at him with this look, and that person is Tan Weian.

Today, Seeing Zang Liang is still responsible for thickening the crab roe sauce. By the way, because Seeing Zang Liang accidentally entered a community canteen dominated by white-case, he couldn't find what work he should do for a while, and felt uncomfortable if he didn't work, so he grabbed the work of the two red-case chefs with very low presence in the canteen in the morning and noon—

Half of the dishes in the canteen at noon today were stir-fried by Seeing Zang Liang.

Diners who got the dishes stir-fried by Seeing Zang Liang felt that their appetite increased greatly for some reason at noon today. Originally, they could only eat one jin of rice for a meal, but now they want to eat four jin. The weight-loss people who feel that summer is coming soon and have to control their mouths and can't open their legs are even more eager to slap their mouths while eating.

While cursing themselves for being so greedy, wanting to eat everything as soon as they start losing weight, while burying their heads in eating, one meal is not enough and they have to go for another portion.

Seeing Zang Liang's cooking skills directly made the two red-case chefs in the Cloud Canteen autistic, suspecting that Seeing Zang Liang was not here for communication at all, but a new chef specially invited by the boss to warn them to practice their cooking skills, and they would be fired in two months if they didn't cook well.

Because Cao Guixiang told Qin Huai not to practice thickening by himself, and go back to Guangdong to learn in two days, Qin Huai resisted even if he really wanted to thicken, and left all the thickening opportunities to Seeing Zang Liang.

At this time, friends with good memories may still remember that when Seeing Zang Liang came to work this morning, he directly stated that he seemed to have found a little feeling of thickening, so did he find the feeling?

Seeing Zang Liang felt he found it.

Qin Huai felt that Seeing Zang Liang needed to run-in to join their feeling faction.

Zheng Siyuan felt that the crab roe sauce thickened by Seeing Zang Liang was not what he wanted.

Tan Weian felt that he found a fart, so what if the thickening technique is good? Does Seeing Zang Liang understand crab roe sauce? Does he understand the gold content of three generations of sauce making?

As a result, before Tan Weian expressed his food review, he just frowned slightly and said "I think it's not very good," and started, Qin Huai nodded to indicate he knew, and directly carried the crab roe sauce to find Wang Gensheng, letting Wang Gensheng taste it.

Tan Weian:...

No, his role in their team is only left to taste crab roe sauce, now even tasting is not needed?

Who is this Grandpa Wang? He doesn't look like a chef, his arms have no muscles, and there are no calluses that a chef should have. Is he a food critic? What food critic in China has a lot of research on crab roe sauce?

Why did Qin Huai ask him to taste crab roe sauce? Does he understand crab roe sauce very well?

Tan Weian's teeth were almost bitten off.

Zheng Siyuan looked at Tan Weian lightly, feeling that Tan Weian not only needs to practice cooking skills but also needs to practice his mentality, pointed to the crab roe sauce that was out of the pot more than 20 minutes ago and was not suitable for making double crab buns because the thickening state was not very ideal, so no one asked for it until now, and said:

"Qin Huai just rubbed some noodles."

The implication is that if you want to eat crab roe mixed noodles, cook them yourself.

Tan Weian gritted his teeth and went to cook noodles.

On the other side, Qin Huai and Seeing Zang Liang were waiting for Grandpa Wang to taste the results.

In all fairness, Wang Gensheng is not a person with strong language expression ability. His expression ability is only at the level of an ordinary person. Plus he is not a food critic, and he has nothing to do with the chef industry, which directly leads to his language being very poor when conducting food reviews.

Of course, it is a bit richer than Qin Huai and Zheng Da.

Qin Huai and Seeing Zang Liang stared at Wang Gensheng with great expectation.

Qin Huai is expectant because he knows that Wang Gensheng is the only one who has eaten the version of double crab buns he wants to make, and all the interpretation rights are in Wang Gensheng alone. If he nods, it's okay, if he shakes his head, it's not okay no matter how delicious it is.

Seeing Zang Liang's thickening is technically flawless, his thickening is standard, ordinary, and has no fancy techniques. As a disciple of Huaiyang cuisine master Zang Mu, Seeing Zang Liang's level and talent are top-notch among the younger generation.

Qin Huai and the others all felt that Seeing Zang Liang's thickening was not good, not because they felt his technique was not good, but because they felt he didn't find the feeling that crab roe sauce thickening should have.

But these are all the feelings of Qin Huai and the others. Qin Huai needs Wang Gensheng to taste it and then corroborate that their ideas are correct, so as to convince Seeing Zang Liang. After all, Seeing Zang Liang felt that his thickening was quite good.

And Seeing Zang Liang's expectation is entirely because he doesn't know who Wang Gensheng is. He thought Wang Gensheng was specially invited by Qin Huai to appreciate crab roe sauce, so he subconsciously felt that Wang Gensheng was a very professional food critic, and didn't think carefully about whether there was this food critic in China.

In the expectant eyes of the two, Wang Gensheng took one bite after another.

Grandpa Wang is very nervous now.

As a Xie Zhi, Wang Gensheng's pursuit of fairness, justice, and honesty is basically engraved in his bones, and he has a strong sense of responsibility. Qin Huai invited him to the back kitchen door to taste crab roe sauce, and Wang Gensheng subconsciously wanted to do this well, taste something different, and it would be best to write a food review on the spot that is not inferior to Xu Tuqiang's circle of friends.

But Wang Gensheng found it difficult to do what he wanted to do.

Because he felt that this crab roe sauce seemed a bit wrong.

Wang Gensheng looked embarrassed.

"Grandpa Wang, don't be nervous, say whatever you have, even if you think it's not good, say it boldly, it's only when it's not good that it needs to be changed." Qin Huai comforted.

Wang Gensheng nodded and said boldly: "I think this crab roe sauce is not good."

Seeing Zang Liang:?

Is the language of food critics now so sharp? No paving, just scolding when coming up?

"Where is it not good?" Qin Huai asked.

Wang Gensheng thought about it, thought until his eyes narrowed, the wrinkles on the corners of his eyes and forehead increased by several lines, his five senses were almost together, almost writing "I can't think of it" on his face.

"Just... the feeling is a bit different."

Qin Huai keenly grasped the keyword.

"A bit different, have you eaten the crab roe sauce that makes double crab buns?" Qin Huai asked.

Wang Gensheng nodded: "Didn't I tell you? Maybe I forgot, actually I don't remember very clearly, that was many years ago."

"After eating the buns back then, my friend gave me two cans of crab roe sauce, saying it was the leftover from making buns, let me take it back to mix with rice."

"Actually, I know his heart. At that time, I just started working, and my family situation was not very good. I had to send most of my monthly salary back. If I didn't have enough money, I naturally had to save it from eating and drinking. At that time, I could use meal tickets to buy staple food in the canteen, and get a free portion of cabbage, and other dishes had to be spent extra."

"I couldn't bear to spend money, and every day it was cabbage with rice. The cabbage boiled in our canteen was clear soup and water, and I couldn't even put a drop of oil in it. My friend saw that I ate like that every day and was afraid that I would starve myself to death, so he specially stuffed me with two cans of crab roe sauce to eat with rice."

"I originally wanted to save it and eat it for a year."

"As a result, my friend told me that the crab roe sauce couldn't be kept for long, and let me finish it in two months, which made me feel distressed..." Wang Gensheng smacked his lips as he said this, didn't see distress, but saw a bit of greed.

"Then the crab roe sauce you ate before, and now, where is the specific difference?" Qin Huai asked.

Wang Gensheng thought hard again, not very sure: "Taste... taste? It's not taste, it is indeed the taste of crab roe sauce, there is no taste of spices, but it is indeed different, different in... in..."

"That is a bit lighter. No, it can't be said to be a bit lighter, it also has a mellow feeling when eaten, but... it should be a bit lighter."

It can be seen that Wang Gensheng really wants to use more vivid language to describe it, but his ability is limited. When he was in a hurry to speak, his lips were trembling, and he wanted to slap himself to make his mouth speak faster.

"Is it the feeling that is different?" Qin Huai asked, "This crab roe sauce doesn't have the feeling of the crab roe sauce you ate before, it has nothing to do with saltiness, the taste is generally the same. The light mellow you said I can probably understand, it should be a problem with thickening, is it that the final thickening didn't give you the feeling you wanted?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Wang Gensheng nodded again and again, "It's just what Master Xiao Qin said just now, no feeling, no feeling of the crab roe sauce I ate before."

"Actually, that crab roe sauce is not good for rice at all, but when I ate it at that time, I really felt it was particularly delicious. Dip a little crab roe sauce, with cabbage soup soaked rice, that clear soup and water cabbage soup soaked rice suddenly became delicious, it is really more useful than any pickles."

"If you want to say that it is heavy-tasting like pickles, it is not. Our pickles at that time were really salty, used for rice, and a little pickle could eat a large basin of rice."

"That crab roe sauce is different. That crab roe sauce needs to be dipped a little, eat a bite of crab roe sauce with a bite of rice. The rice soaked in cabbage soup is loose and soft, eat a big bite, and it slides down the throat, it is just delicious."

As he said, Wang Gensheng smacked his lips again.

"But it was only two cans, and it was finished in less than three months. Later, my friend sent me two cans of kimchi, saying it was the practice of Shu land, and I don't know where it came from, it was also quite delicious, good for rice."

It can be heard that Xu Nuo has a way, and he could get kimchi from Shu land in Gusu in that era.

Grandpa Wang finished commenting, looking at Qin Huai with eager eyes, wanting to know how his performance today was, and whether he could barely give a passing grade.

Qin Huai smiled and said: "Thank you Grandpa Wang, I have to trouble you to stay in the canteen for a few more hours, there will be double crab buns for you to taste later."

"I know that the current crab roe sauce may not be right, but correction also takes time. You try it first, if you have any problems, say it at any time, and if you think of anything, tell me at any time."

"Good, good, good." Wang Gensheng nodded again and again, "Oh yes, later my friend sent me two cans of sauce pickles, saying it was the practice of the north."

Qin Huai:... don't have to say it when thinking about this, let's think about things related to double crab buns, Grandpa Wang.

Wang Gensheng left the kitchen door and found an empty seat to wait for buns to eat.

Qin Huai looked at Seeing Zang Liang: "Understand? It's still a problem of feeling, there must be a problem with thickening, your thickening didn't find the feeling."

"But I think the top priority is not to find the feeling of thickening, but to find the feeling of crab roe sauce first."

"Crab roe sauce can be thickened first, don't be afraid of waste, you have also seen that many customers here are very willing to eat crab roe mixed noodles and crab roe mixed rice. If it really doesn't work, selling crab roe sauce directly is also fine, I believe there are many customers willing to buy crab roe sauce, and the sales are not worried."

"Still have to practice more, find the feeling."

"Strive to find the feeling before I come back. By then, I will have learned the technique of thickening from Master Cao, and you will have found the feeling of crab roe sauce. Let's study thickening together again. Your technique is better than mine, so you must be the main one to thicken."

"Zheng Siyuan and I have the processing of sea cucumber. I have also practiced a lot of sea cucumber during this time. My level is not as high as Zheng Siyuan's, but it should be enough to make buns. The requirement for sea cucumber processing for double crab buns is actually not very high, mainly the difficulty is in seasoning."

"Let's set it like this, you practice more to find the feeling first, any questions?" Qin Huai looked at Seeing Zang Liang.

Seeing Zang Liang:...

Any questions.

What did Grandpa Wang say just now? Obviously, he didn't say anything, how did you say a "feeling," and he said a "feeling," and it was finished.

Seeing Zang Liang felt that his thickening today had a bit of feeling, what exactly is the feeling? Which feeling should he find? Is the feeling you said the same feeling he felt?

Why are there so many feelings?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 345 =====

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