Chapter 407: Highest Praise

Qin Huai's first reaction was to make Four-Joy Tangyuan, after all, this was the dim sum he was currently best at. When he started preparing ingredients, he suddenly realized that he couldn't make it now. Four-Joy Tangyuan looked relatively time-saving and fast, but in fact, it was because the red bean paste filling and sesame sugar filling needed to be prepared in advance.

Just these two types of fillings needed to be prepared at least one day in advance.

The apprentices who went to the Cloud Middle Canteen for exchange hadn't arrived at Zhi Wei Ju yet. Qin Huai was able to stroll to the entrance of Zhi Wei Ju very quickly because Su Gan helped him put down his luggage and he didn't need to tidy up.

Qin Huai, adhering to the principle that familiarity is good, picked two apprentices whose names he didn't remember but whose faces he remembered, who went to Huang Ji for exchange last time, and let them help him.

As a result, just after chopping the meat filling, Qin Huai realized that this was not Huang Ji or the Cloud Middle Canteen, and he hadn't thought about sending the red bean paste filling and sesame sugar filling over before coming to Zhi Wei Ju.

"Master... Master Zhou." Qin Huai looked at Master Zhou, who had been standing by his side and looking down at him chopping meat, with some embarrassment, "I just subconsciously felt that this was my shop, and forgot that the sesame sugar filling and red bean paste filling need to be prepared in advance. Four-Joy Tangyuan has very special requirements for the sweetness of these two fillings, and other ready-made fillings cannot be used. It might not be possible to make the complete version of Four-Joy Tangyuan today."

"Do you think it's okay if I only make meat filling and mixed-fruit filling? The flavor might be slightly worse when eating, because there is only one sweet one and one savory one. I will prepare those two types of ingredients this afternoon or tomorrow, and make the complete version of Four-Joy Tangyuan for you the day after tomorrow."

Master Zhou nodded slightly, and no dissatisfaction could be seen on his face. Although Qin Huai had only been in contact with Master Zhou for more than ten minutes, he could see that Master Zhou was not the kind of person who would hide his likes, dislikes, and expressions.

When he was being sarcastic, he wished he could write the words "I am being sarcastic to you" on his face.

Seeing that Master Zhou had no opinion, Qin Huai felt relieved to continue, and by the way, turned his head to instruct the helper on the side: "The candied fruit and nuts must be chopped more finely. Today, only two types of Tangyuan will be made. The mixed-fruit filling should be slightly higher in sweetness than before, and there must be no grainy feeling when eating."

The helper didn't even dare to lift his head, nodding repeatedly, and the force of his knife was heavier. Looking at his posture, he wished he could directly use the knife to crush the nuts.

Master Zhou just took one look and frowned in disgust, whispering: "It's finely chopped, not pulverized. If it's pulverized, a blender is enough. Commercial electricity is one yuan per kilowatt-hour, which is much more cost-effective than you."

Qin Huai:...

Master Zhou shouldn't have the habit of licking his lips usually, otherwise he was really afraid that Master Zhou would accidentally lick his lips one day and poison himself to death.

Qin Huai continued to chop the meat filling.

Qin Huai believed that there should be apprentices or direct disciple reserves in Zhi Wei Ju whose knife skills were better than his. Although his knife skills were already intermediate, intermediate knife skills could at most be considered formally entered the door in the chef circle.

In savory restaurants, direct disciple reserves with advanced knife skills were everywhere. Qin Huai's level of knife skills was not enough to look at in a pure pastry restaurant like Zhi Wei Ju. Qin Huai had heard Su Gan say that there were very few pastry chefs who were very good at knife skills, which was a bit like the talent points being added wrong.

Qin Huai chose to mince the meat himself, mainly because the Four Happiness Tangyuan has rather special requirements for the meat filling, which he discovered while watching Cao Guixiang mince meat. He does not have Cao Guixiang's technique, nor can he learn the essence of her mincing, but he can roughly copy the form; if he can pick up a little bit, he will.

Qin Huai was a conservative who firmly believed that a dim sum needed to be completely made from beginning to end by the master who made the dim sum to be considered a good dim sum. Whether it was a helper helping out, or cooperating with other masters with better skills, as long as there was participation of others in this dim sum, the dim sum was not so complete, and did not have the personal characteristics of the master who made the dim sum.

Of course, Qin Huai just firmly believed so, and he himself still loved the helpers very much. After all, if there were no helpers to help, he really couldn't be too busy alone.

Master Qin tried hard to show his clumsy knife skills in front of Master Zhou, and the unknown apprentice showed his knife skills, which were originally not so clumsy, but were very clumsy because of some reasons, such as being too nervous, beside Master Qin.

Under such circumstances, Master Zhou brought his double standards into full play.

The apprentice's clumsiness was a waste with lower cost-effectiveness than a blender.

Master Qin's clumsiness was that Master Qin's knife skill foundation was not good, and it was already quite good to be able to do this step.

"Your knife skill level is much better than I thought." Master Zhou said directly, "I heard from little Tan that you helped in your own breakfast shop at home since you were a child, basically didn't cut vegetables and didn't know how to hold a knife, and couldn't even cut radishes clearly at Huang Ji before the New Year. It was only after you recognized a master some time ago that your level improved by leaps and bounds."

"The master you recognized has a quite high level."

Qin Huai: Tan Weian, you were still quibbling on the high-speed train that you don't usually gossip!

Speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives. Just after Master Zhou finished talking about little Tan, and just after Qin Huai finished scolding Tan Weian in his heart, Tan Weian made a shining appearance wearing an employee uniform.

By the way, Tan Weian might have been a bit too let-go + eating and drinking too much at the Cloud Middle Canteen and Huang Ji and gained weight, so the employee uniform was a bit tight on him.

"Qin Huai, I just heard in the changing room that you came to Zhi Wei Ju and I didn't believe it. 20 minutes ago Su Gan told me you were carsick and even asked me to go buy you carsickness medicine, but he thought I was too slow to tidy up and went to buy it himself. Why did you come to Zhi Wei Ju when you were carsick? How did you start making dim sum?"

"No way, buddy, you wouldn't have been infected as soon as you arrived in Hangcheng, right? I was really vomiting dizzy and dark last time I was carsick, wishing I could vomit out my bile. Don't be like me, carsick the day before, and eat too much and go to the hospital the next day. Let me tell you, our Zhi Wei Ju has so many dim sum, you start eating from 10 AM, and every dim sum you eat one bite is enough to make you full. Don't you love eating shrimp dumplings? Master Zhang's shrimp dumplings are particularly delicious, and there are..."

"Master... Master... Master Zhou, you... you are also here." Tan Weian rushed up and chattered for a while, only then noticing Master Zhou standing on the side.

Master Zhou glanced at Tan Weian, and said in a tone that was not sarcastic but the words were very sarcastic: "So you can see me, I thought it was because the color of my clothes today was too white, and I blended into the floor tiles like a chameleon and couldn't be seen."

Tan Weian was so scared that he stuttered, weakly raised his right hand, showing the small bag he was carrying: "I... I... I was in a hurry to find Qin Huai, I... I just wanted to say that although Su Gan went to buy carsickness medicine, he didn't have carsickness and had no experience, and the medicine he bought was useless. So I went to buy another one that I had eaten last time and felt quite effective. I couldn't get through to Qin Huai's phone, and just heard in the changing room that Qin Huai was in the kitchen, so I ran over to find him directly."

"I... I just came to deliver medicine."

Master Zhou said lightly: "Assistant Xiao Qin's carsickness is not serious, there is no need to take medicine. It's not good to take too much of this kind of medicine, just drink some hot water."

Once this was said, the apprentice who was cutting vegetables immediately took action, flashed to the corner, poured a cup of hot water, and handed it to Qin Huai.

Master Zhou was obviously very satisfied with this kind of apprentice who had eyes, gave him an appreciative look, and then glanced with great disgust at the apprentice who didn't understand Qin Huai's meaning, used a lot of force when cutting, but the candied fruit and nuts were not chopped very finely.

"Little Tan, you have more contact with little Qin and understand his meaning, you go help him first." Master Zhou gave Tan Weian a look, Tan Weian instantly understood, patted the apprentice who was cutting candied fruit and waved his hand to signal him to retreat quickly, otherwise Master Zhou might split you.

Tan Weian started helping Qin Huai prepare ingredients.

Tan Weian came, and Master Zhou's words became a bit more. While watching, he asked: "You are all here, why hasn't Su Gan come yet?"

"Others haven't come either. I came directly after putting down the suitcase because I had to buy medicine and deliver medicine to Qin Huai. My junior fellow apprentice hasn't come either, he is cleaning at home. No one has lived at home for a long time and the table is covered with dust."

"Su Gan still has to return to his home from the place where Qin Huai lives, and went to the pharmacy to buy medicine on the way, it is estimated that it will take another 20 minutes to come over."

"How was Gu Li's harvest this time?" Master Zhou asked.

Master Zhou said so, Qin Huai looked up at Master Zhou with some surprise. He didn't expect Master Zhou to care about Gu Li so much. ===== CHAPTER 408 =====