Chapter 464: The charm of side dishes

"Serve it... serve it later, but don't serve it last. He likes to eat some staple food." Qin Huai's entire attention was attracted by the Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix, almost subconsciously blurting out "at this time, what staple food to eat," but after reacting that he had to eat staple food, he changed his words.

He could not eat staple food, but Zhao Chengan must eat it. If Zhao Chengan didn't eat staple food, how could the side mission be completed?

As soon as Zhang Guanghang left, Zhao Chengan screamed: "Damn, Qin Huai, what is this dish called? I didn't hear clearly just now. Hundred Birds what? This dish doesn't have a hundred birds at all, this dish is just a peacock spreading its tail, right? This dish should be called Peacock Spreading Tail."

"This styling is too awesome. This carrot-carved standing bird head, I can't carve it out in a day. And these pieces, where does this dish start eating? Can this bird head be gnawed?"

Zhao Chengan said so with his mouth, but his chopsticks stretched out very fast, eating while talking, and then quickly commented: "Damn, chicken, this piece is pork, and what is poured on it is thickened sauce. Qin Huai, you hurry up and eat, this dish is actually a hot dish!"

Qin Huai:...

You said "hurry up and eat," but your speed of stretching chopsticks is slow.

Does the word "hurry up" not mean concern, but warning?

Qin Huai knew that there was no extra time to complain in this situation. Although his competitor was only one, and his appetite was not very large, far less than Ouyang and Shi Dadan, but his appetite was not large either.

Zhao Chengan ate very fast when he was hungry. His chopsticks were more nimble than when he made dim sum. Don't know, thought he had practiced pastry dim sum for so many years just to show off in eating.

Without any hesitation, Qin Huai quickly joined this war without smoke, snatching one bite after another.

When Zhang Guanghang walked into the private room with the 3rd plate of dishes, the Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix was also empty, leaving only a lonely, exquisite carrot bird head standing on the plate.

Zhang Guanghang:...

Did these two just not listen to what he said at all?

"Suzao Meat, please enjoy." Zhang Guanghang said, preparing to collect the plate, but was stopped by Zhao Chengan.

"That... Master Zhang, we want to ask, is this carrot edible?" Zhao Chengan asked humbly, his face full of "we two pastry chefs are seeing such a big world for the first time, haven't eaten such awesome styling dishes before, don't know what can be eaten and what can't."

Zhang Guanghang: "... This mainly plays a decorative role. It can be eaten. The carrot is blanched in water, mixed with sesame oil, sesame oil, and sugar. But there are many dishes today, so it is not recommended to eat."

Zhao Chengan was enlightened, excitedly said to Qin Huai: "Qin Huai, look, I said it, this must be edible. I just smelled that this carrot is very fragrant!"

Zhao Chengan said while quickly picking the carrot into his plate, biting off the bird head in one bite, making a crisp chewing sound of carrot: "Hmm, a bit like cold salad."

After finishing, Zhao Chengan also divided a few slices of cucumber slices that were also thin as cicada wings and played a decorative role into Qin Huai's plate. Qin Huai tasted it and found that this cucumber slice was also very delicious, not seasoned, but very crisp and refreshing.

Two pastry chefs who had never eaten a proper top-level banquet made sounds of not having seen the world.

Zhang Guanghang didn't speak, just silently withdrew the empty plate and returned to the kitchen.

After returning to the kitchen, Zhang Guanghang found that Xia Mubing was looking at the surveillance happily, in the literal sense of happily.

Xia Mubing was laughing.

In the surveillance, Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan finished the decorative dishes of Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix and began to study the decorative dishes of Suzao Meat. One bite of small tomato, one bite of broccoli, exclaiming repeatedly.

The small tomato was sugar-soaked, the sauce on the broccoli was specially poured on, and the decorative dishes on the Suzao Meat also tasted very good alone.

Zhang Guanghang couldn't help but ask: "Master, you spent so much time making these side dishes this morning, is it just to let them discover?"

Xia Mubing put away his smile, and there was a trace of pride that couldn't be hidden in his tone: "These dishes are palace dishes. When my master was the second chef at Taifeng Restaurant, he was best at these palace dishes."

"Those princes and nobles might not care about these side dishes used as decorations, and even the main dishes are just let the servants pick up a pair of chopsticks to taste. But nobles don't eat, doesn't mean the chef can't be careful. If a noble suddenly wants to taste the side dishes and finds that it is just a styling with very bad taste, angering the noble, the chef will have to eat and walk around."

"At that time, the old prince liked to invite Taifeng Restaurant's chefs to do banquets at the prince's mansion. My master and Master Jiang were responsible for the main dishes, and we apprentices were responsible for the side dishes. The leftovers from those banquets were basically divided by the servants of the prince's mansion. We apprentices couldn't even get the scraps."

"Every time after the banquet, my junior brother was very greedy. Plus his brain was not very smart, my master was afraid that he would do things like stealing leftovers and turning over the swill bucket in the prince's mansion, so he would greet the steward of the prince's mansion and bring home the scraps that were not used when cooking. Using simple seasonings to mix, making the taste of the decorative dishes to satisfy my junior brother's greed."

"Later we went to the Li family. The nobles of the Li family were easy to talk to, and the leftovers from big banquets would be divided to the servants. The kitchen could naturally get the best. My junior brother might have developed the habit of eating these scraps. When dividing leftovers, he would rather have one less bite of pork knuckle meat than have one more bite of scraps."

After listening to Xia Mubing say this, Zhang Guanghang couldn't help but say: "Master, why have I never heard you mention these things for so many years?"

After Xia Mubing finished listening, he was stunned, looked at the surveillance and smiled, sighed: "Maybe it's because I'm old, I've forgotten many things, and I can't remember them myself."

After saying that, he continued to cook.

Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan in the private room didn't know Xia Mubing's painstaking efforts on the side dishes. They just simply felt that Fen Garden was worthy of being the number one private kitchen restaurant in Beiping. Even a casual decorative side dish was so awesome. Soybeans had the taste of soybeans, green beans had the taste of green beans, tomatoes were sugar-soaked, cucumbers were refreshing, and even broccoli, carrots, cucumbers, and small green vegetables were carefully seasoned, each with its own flavor.

The main dish stood out, and the side dishes bloomed.

Qin Huai almost forgot the side mission halfway through eating, with only eating, eating, eating in his mind.

Delicious, love to eat, like to eat.

Before going to the restaurant for dinner, seeing those side dishes placed on the side of the dinner plate, such as radish dishes, broccoli, tomatoes, etc., Qin Huai ignored them directly, and even used chopsticks to push the side dishes to the side, feeling that they were in the way.

Today, eating at Fen Garden, the plating of every dish was extremely exquisite, and the side dishes were also various. As soon as the dish was served, Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan didn't eat the main dish first, but the side dishes used for decoration on the spot.

The taste of the side dishes of different dishes was different. Some tomatoes were sugar-soaked, some tomatoes were salt-soaked, and some tomatoes were wine-soaked. Carrots were refreshing, some were soft and rotten, and even broccoli, which felt like it couldn't make any tricks, Qin Huai tasted at least three different flavors.

This is the strength of the top 10 famous chef record!

This is the gold content of the number one private kitchen restaurant in Beiping!

Zhang Guanghang had been serving dishes, each dish was full and served in, and empty plates were served out, making the guests at that table in the hall dumbfounded, sighing that these 6 people in the private room ate quite fast.

At this time, some readers might be curious, are Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan's appetites that big? They are not Ouyang and Shi Dadan, how could two people eat so many dishes.

Their appetites are not that big, but Xia Mubing can secretly reduce the amount of dishes.

In order to let Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan eat more dishes, every dish Xia Mubing made was a cut-corner version, only 1/3~1/2 of the amount of dishes Fen Garden normally sold. The remaining empty space of the plate was filled with decorative side dishes by plating, which was also why Xia Mubing spent so much thought on the side dishes used for decoration.

Even if this thought was only known to the creator Master Xia and his apprentice Zhang Guanghang.

"Wanfu Meat, please enjoy."

"Osmanthus Shark Fin, please enjoy."

"Braised Deer Tendon, please enjoy."

"Clear Soup Willow Leaf Bird's Nest, please enjoy."

"Mandarin Duck Cauliflower, please enjoy."

"Wuyu Egg Soup, please enjoy."

"..."

"Hiccup." Qin Huai hiccuped after drinking the last mouthful of Wuyu egg soup.

This hiccup woke Qin Huai up.

Because he and Zhao Chengan had been clearing the plates, Qin Huai didn't count how many dishes they had eaten carefully, just felt that there were quite a lot, and he and Zhao Chengan seemed to have a large appetite today, eating so many dishes without feeling very full. 【464-6

Qin Huai realized something was a bit off.

The staple food hadn't been served yet!

Fen Garden's serving style is actually quite arbitrary. Aside from ensuring that cold dishes are served first and not interspersed among the hot dishes, other dishes are really served at random.