Chapter 282: Let You Open a Gourmet Shop, You Open for Business at Three in the Morning

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Ever since unlocking the System, Lu Feng had never seen ordinary ingredients sold in the System Mall.

Although he believed the pig trotters provided by the System were definitely of good quality, he still couldn't help but inspect them.

Lu Feng found a thin, smooth bamboo skewer, gently inserted it into the thickest part of the trotter, then pulled it out, rinsed it with water, and held it under his nose to smell carefully.

As expected, there was no faint gamey smell like ordinary pork on the skewer; instead, it carried a faint fragrance of grass and trees.

Truly a System product, indeed using top-quality ingredients, even the blood inside the trotters had been drained clean.

The skin of these two trotters was extremely smooth, with not a single stray hair on them.

Here Lu Feng had to thank the System for its thoughtfulness.

Otherwise, just using tweezers to pluck out the remaining pig hairs would take up quite a bit of his time for so many trotters.

Lu Feng held these two trotters and nodded with satisfaction.

According to the max-level Dongpo Pork Knuckle Technique imparted by the System, the first step was to remove the bone inside the trotter.

When ordinary people deboned, they always had to cut open along the skin first, flip the skin and meat open before they could remove the bone inside.

But this way, the integrity of the trotter would be destroyed.

When stewing later, it would easily fall apart, and the finished product wouldn't look good either.

Therefore, the Dongpo Pork Knuckles in ordinary restaurants were all not deboned.

But Lu Feng did not process it according to the traditional method.

He took a narrow-bladed pointed knife from the knife rack, his left hand supporting the joint area of the trotter.

Finding the gap where the fascia connected to the bone, his right hand held the knife against the fascia and quickly stabbed in.

Immediately afterward, he exerted a little force with his wrist, letting the blade slide gently along the bone, while his left hand held the pig trotter and turned it around once.

This way, a complete bone was removed from inside the trotter.

And inside the trotter with the bone removed, the fascia that originally wrapped the bone still fit perfectly against the pork.

The removed bone had not a bit of meat left on it, looking clean and tidy.

"With these max-level knife skills, handling ingredients is indeed much more convenient."

Lu Feng looked at the smooth cut inside the trotter and couldn't help but sigh.

If this were in the past, even if he could remove the bone, he couldn't do it this perfectly.

The System's temporary mission rewards were still very helpful to him.

When he had free time later, he would study more.

Maybe he could squeeze a few more convenient and useful skills out of the System.

Lu Feng shook his head, temporarily tossing these messy thoughts to the back of his mind.

He deboned the other trotter in the same way, preparing the ingredients needed for Dongpo Pork, and continued to busy himself.

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While Lu Feng was making Dongpo Pork Knuckles at Food Street, inside Hong'an Restaurant on the other side.

"Cheng Fan, what are you up to again!"

Li Hong'an stormed into the back kitchen in anger, looking at Cheng Fan in the kitchen with an iron face: "The few tables of guests in the front hall who ordered Red Braised Pork have urged four or five times already, why haven't you made it yet!"

Cheng Fan was currently slumped in a chair in the corner of the back kitchen, his fingers constantly swiping on his mobile phone.

The content on the mobile phone screen was precisely the scene inside Lu Feng's shop.

Hearing Li Hong'an's angry voice, he didn't even lift his head, just snorted impatiently.

The other chefs, seeing this, all slowed down their movements, secretly glancing toward Cheng Fan and Li Hong'an with the corner of their eyes.

Ever since this Cheng Fan came to the back kitchen, there hadn't been a single day of peace in this kitchen.

Although they admitted, Cheng Fan's cooking skill was much higher than theirs.

But his temper was truly something few people could stand.

Right now the boss was so furious, yet this Cheng Fan still had this listless attitude.

Now there was some excitement to watch.

"Get up for me!"

Li Hong'an walked angrily to Cheng Fan's front, heavily slapped the operation counter beside him: "What do you take my place for? Your home's kitchen? Do you know it's work time now!"

Cheng Fan then reluctantly lifted his head, slowly stood up, and lazily said: "What's the rush? It's just a few portions of Red Braised Pork, I can make them for you in a few minutes."

Although he said that, he still looked like he had no intention of cooking.

He took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in his heart.

Right now there were many guests in the shop; if the customers heard the quarrel in the back kitchen, it would inevitably affect the restaurant's business.

Li Hong'an patted Cheng Fan's shoulder, pointing toward the storage room at the very back of the back kitchen: "Come with me over there, I have something to say to you."

After saying that, he walked toward the storage room.

Cheng Fan then put down the mobile phone in his hand, followed in with a face full of reluctance.

The storage room was empty, the light overhead somewhat dim.

"Cheng Fan, what are you trying to do? These past two days waiters have often complained to me, saying your dish serving speed is getting slower and slower, I've been tolerating it and not finding you, what's wrong today? Are you throwing in the towel?"

Li Hong'an closed the storage room door, glaring at Cheng Fan and giving him a round of scolding.

However, regarding his scolding, Cheng Fan didn't offer a single explanation.

After a long while, he slowly spoke up, his tone full of complaint: "Boss Li, about that thing you told me last time—are you going to do it or not? It's been several days already. My cooking competition with Lu Feng—why is there no movement at all? You didn't forget, did you?"

Hearing this, Li Hong'an immediately understood why Cheng Fan had been so lax.

"Cheng Fan, you... I'm arranging it, aren't I?"

Li Hong'an rubbed his slightly swollen brow, the anger in his heart subsiding a bit: "You've met Lu Feng twice, you know his temper. The more anxious you are, the harder this will be."

"I don't care. You promised me, and now you're doing nothing."

Cheng Fan waved his hand irritably, not wanting to hear Li Hong'an's explanation: "If this isn't certain, then for this Red Braised Pork, find someone else to make it. I, Cheng Fan, learned these culinary skills from my master over so many years—they're not for making home cooking every day for these clueless customers in your shop."

Saying this, he started to walk outside, appearing not to want to keep talking to Li Hong'an.

"Hey! Come back here!"

Li Hong'an panicked and quickly grabbed Cheng Fan.

His restaurant's business was booming these days, and going forward it still couldn't do without Cheng Fan's culinary skill.

If Cheng Fan quit, how could the restaurant's business continue?

"Who said I did nothing? The television station came to interview a few days ago—did you forget?"

Li Hong'an held Cheng Fan's arm, his tone softening a bit: "Actually, that was also specially arranged by me. Think about it—you've only been in Jiangcheng a short while, your fame hasn't spread yet. You want to challenge Lu Feng's cooking skill; how many people would pay attention?"