Chapter 412 Forever Young
Jiang Feng arrived at Taifeng Tower early the next day.
How early exactly? This is probably the earliest time Jiang Feng has gotten up since graduating from high school. Jiang Feng and his high school have to run gymnastics at 6:30 every morning. It is precisely because of this policy that the question Jiang Feng thinks about most every day during his three years of high school is how to behave like Unintentionally and quietly, he made false claims to the east and attacked the west. He openly built the plank road and secretly asked Comrade Wang Xiulian to transfer to another school.
Until Jiang Feng finished the college entrance examination, he still couldn't come up with a plan that wouldn't prevent him from being beaten.
Before most of the office workers in 996 woke up, Jiang Feng had already arrived at the back kitchen of Tai Feng Building. He opened the bags energetically and looked at the oranges and crabs he had brought.
He carefully selected the oranges, which were round, plump and shiny. Before coming to Tai Feng Tower, Jiang Feng had already used a brush to brush the wrinkled skin of the oranges again and again, cleaning out the dirt in every crevice. Now these two oranges are definitely the two most handsome boys in the orange world.
Jiang Feng also knew that he came early. This was probably the most active time he had ever been in cooking in his life. Even he himself didn't know why. Maybe it was because he felt that the correct answer was right in front of him. The instructor was on the way and would be there soon. As the only lucky candidate in the room, it was normal for him to be a little excited. of.
Before the two old men arrived, Jiang Feng decided to deal with Chengzi first.
This time Jiang Feng handled it very carefully, shaving the orange flesh like a surgeon performing a surgical operation.
He led Jiang Feng to remove all the orange flesh from the two oranges and put them into a bowl. There was only a shallow layer of orange juice left in the oranges, and the two old men arrived belatedly.
The old man was in a good mood because he ate the chive pancakes made by Grandma Jiang herself. When he entered the kitchen, he was still humming a tune. When Jiang Feng heard the intermittent tune, he felt that it was a bit like the Huangmei opera that Grandma Jiang usually listened to.
"Go on, leave us alone." The old man saw Jiang Feng stop what he was doing and looked up at them, and told Jiang Feng not to be distracted while cooking.
When you open your mouth, there is a scent of sesame oil from green onions.
Jiang Feng:...
Grandma pancakes?
Now that the two old men are here, Jiang Feng starts steaming crabs. It only took a few minutes to steam the crabs. During this short period of time, Jiang Feng was not idle. He took a knife and gently scraped the inside of the orange, making it smoother and rounder, so that it looked like nice.
After the crabs were steamed, Jiang Feng started to process the crabs in front of the two old men. From handling the crabs to mixing the stuffing to steaming them, the two old men didn't say a word the whole time.
They had never made crab-stuffed oranges before, and watching Jiang Feng make this dish was the first time the eldest daughter had boarded the sedan chair. They actually had no say in the matter of crab-stuffed orange. They could only use their many years of cooking experience to give Jiang Feng some advice after tasting it.
More than half an hour later, two crabs stuffed with orange were out of the pot.
Jiang Feng performed very steadily this time, with basically no mistakes, and because he was extra meticulous and attentive when making it, the evaluation was higher than all the crab-stuffed oranges he had made before.
But it's still Class B.
There is an unbridgeable gap between A-level dishes and B-level dishes.
Jiang Weiguo did not speak. Although he felt that the crab-stuffed oranges Jiang Feng made this time were better than the ones he made last night, this dish was not to his liking at all, and he did not understand why Jiang Feng was so enthusiastic about this dish.
In his opinion, this weird dish is not as good as the chive pancakes made by Grandma Jiang.
The chive pancakes made by the old lady this morning were really delicious, but she didn't put enough sesame oil. I told her to put more sesame oil, but she said she should eat less oil as she gets older.
Don't think he doesn't know that the old lady came back from eating braised pork last night, the kind of sweet braised pork that's heavy on oil and sugar.
"Xiao Feng, do you think the heat of this dish is wrong?" Jiang Weiming spoke.
"Yes, when I made this dish, the previous steps felt very smooth, but the finished product always felt weird after taking it out of the pot." Jiang Feng nodded.
"There is something wrong." Jiang Weiming nodded and turned to look at Jiang Weiguo, "Brother, what do you think?"
The old man who was still immersed in the chive pancakes this morning was suddenly cue:...
"The final taste is a bit strange. It seems that orange and crab don't go well together." The old man said.
He has never made similar dishes, and has never even used oranges in the dishes, so he has no say. However, the old man personally thinks that the taste of orange meat and crabs are not very matched. This dish feels more like a legendary canteen dish.
The old man is also a fashionable old man who can use his mobile phone to read the news. This also leads to him being often deceived by the news. Even now, he feels that the dishes in the university cafeteria are like fried cucumbers with cherry tomatoes, stewed yams with blueberries, and roasted potatoes with strawberries. Epic dishes.
"People in the Song Dynasty often used orange to relieve the fishy smell of crabs. The biggest role of orange meat in the crab-stuffed orange dish should be to relieve the fishy smell of crabs. But since Xiangxue wine is chosen to remove the fishy smell, it means that the orange meat is also used to enhance the taste. , but now..." After Jiang Weiming analyzed calmly together, he found that he could no longer analyze it.
The entire kitchen fell into silence.
Suddenly, Jiang Weiming said: "Xiao Feng, you just steamed it on low heat for 5 minutes, right?"
"Yes."
"Can't find the feeling?"
"Not found."
"No feeling at all?"
"No."
Jiang Weiming was silent again, and then said after a long time: "In this case, you have to believe in your own feelings. Since small fire is not enough, you might as well switch to low fire."
"Mihuo?" Jiang Feng was stunned.
"This is just my opinion." Jiang Weiming smiled, "Xiao Feng, if you think it won't work, you don't have to accept it. The chef must believe in his own feelings. Our opinions are secondary. The knife is in your own hand. We are all masters, so we must have the confidence to be masters.”
"Your grandpa and I will go for a walk outside, and you can think about it here." After speaking, Jiang Weiming put down the crab-stuffed orange in his hand.
The old man followed closely behind.
Both crab stuffed oranges were empty.
The two old men also left, leaving Jiang Feng alone in the kitchen, quietly thinking about the opinions Jiang Weiming had just raised.
Slightly hot?
Jiang Feng thought he could give it a try.
Orange is a delicious fruit, with a good balance of sweet and sour, and a unique fruity aroma. It is precisely because of this fruity aroma that crab-stuffed orange is very tempting when the lid is removed.
But steamed oranges are different. Although the taste is roughly the same, it is a little less sweet and a little more sour, destroying the original perfect sweet-sour ratio, and also has an indescribable weird taste.
It’s okay to be curious, but not delicious enough.
If it is simmered, the original flavor of the orange may be preserved to a greater extent.
Jiang Feng felt as if he had opened the door to a new world.
The two old men on the other side slowly walked out of Tai Feng Building and separated at the door.
"Third brother, do you know where the aquatic products market is?" Jiang Weiguo asked worriedly.
"I know, Jianye took me there before." Jiang Weiming said, "Little brother, can you pick oranges?"
"I know how to pick. My old lady loves these fruits. When I was in the village, I had to go to the town to buy them for her every day." Jiang Weiguo said, "Xiao Feng, this kid, doesn't know how to buy oranges. They are not sour or sweet." Can sweet oranges be used in cooking? ”
"Brother, have you brought your bus card?" Jiang Weiming asked worriedly.
Jiang Weiguo took out his bus card from his pocket and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered an important thing: "Third brother, have you brought any cash?"
This time, Jiang Weiming was really confused. He dug into his pocket and only took out 16 yuan.
For 16 yuan, you can probably buy two crab legs.
"Isn't there some kind of mobile phone payment now? Brother, can you do it? Teach me." Jiang Weiming took out his mobile phone.
Jiang Weiguo, who was in his 80s, began to teach Jiang Weiming, who was 99, how to pay with his mobile phone. As he continued to teach, he discovered that he didn’t know how to do it either.
"Is that where you click to pay?" Jiang Weiming noticed the two big characters on the phone.
"That's not right. I think Xiaofeng and the others use their mobile phones to scan something, then enter the amount, and then enter the password. Isn't this just a code? Isn't that a code?" Jiang Weiguo was confused.
Jiang Weiming is even more confused than Jiang Weiguo.
The two old men stood at the door of Tai Feng Building, staring at the Alipay payment code.
A passing 996 office worker heard what the old man said, glanced at Jiang Weiming's senior phone, pointed at the phone enthusiastically and told them: "Grandpa uses this to pay, this is the payment code, you can just scan this with the clerk. If it doesn’t work, just give them your phone and they will help you.”
"Thank you, young man." Jiang Weiming said with a smile.
After the office workers left, Jiang Weiguo couldn't help but sigh: "Hey, I'm still old."
"You're old when you're old. What's wrong with being old? We've all been old for so many years. Now you feel that your reaction is a little too slow when you are old." Jiang Weiming said with a smile.
"Stop talking, third brother, please be careful on the road. If you can't find your way back, call Xiaofeng or Jiankang to pick you up."
The two old men separated.
Jiang Weiming took two steps forward and couldn't help but look back at the Tai Feng Tower sign.
He remembered clearly that his father told him that this sign was brought to Peiping from outside the customs in the year he was born.
From Guanwai to Peiping, for more than a hundred years, wherever this sign was hung, it was Taifeng Tower.
He is old, but this sign is still young.
Forever young.
Immortal. (End of chapter)