Chapter 819 No one knows preserved egg and lean meat porridge better than him (4500+)
The last week of testing not only disrupted Jiang Feng's plan, but also disrupted the plans of many contestants. For these contestants who knew that they must be here to accompany the runners, they originally thought that it was time to go back to each house and find each mother, and happily end this reality show that has no money but can improve the business of their own restaurants. The program team suddenly told them, congratulations on having another opportunity to truly show your talents. Please seize the opportunity and have a real cooking competition.
In order to allow all contestants to fully adjust and prepare for the final test, the test time has been changed from Sunday to next Wednesday at 10 a.m. The location was a relatively remote venue that Jiang Feng had never heard of. It was said to be a venue prepared for the semifinals and finals, and was taken out in advance for this test.
In this way, this last test became a bit like a warm-up match before the semi-finals and finals.
It also aroused everyone's fighting spirit that they didn't have before.
Since there is no chance to qualify, why not get a good ranking in the last test. This can also tell everyone that it's not that I'm not strong, it's just that I'm unlucky.
With this mentality, a total of 28 contestants from seven participating restaurants prepared with an unprecedented serious attitude for this test that will not affect the final result.
Wednesday at 10am.
Jiang Feng and the other two arrived at the competition venue on time.
This competition location was so remote that Jiang Feng always thought that this place did not belong to Peiping. Because of the distance, even if the program team sent a special car to pick them up and set off at seven o'clock in the morning, the four people at Tai Feng House were still the last group to arrive - there was a traffic jam on the road for an hour.
Excluding the location, if the venue for program preparation was judged solely on the basis of the competition venue, Jiang Feng felt that this was definitely a venue that could score over ninety points.
big.
This venue is very large, big enough to accommodate seven groups of contestants at the same time. It has seven fully equipped sets of expensive cooking stations, aquatic products area, frozen product area, fruit and vegetable area, and various dry goods and seasonings. It is like a super luxurious large-scale vegetable market. .
It allows every chef to do their best.
The official start time of the competition is 12 noon and the deadline is 5 pm, a total of five hours. For such a long competition, if you are willing and don't care about quality, you can just make a pot of broth temporarily.
The two hours before the start are the preparation time for the players. During these two hours, the players need to select ingredients, determine the recipes, discuss the division of labor, and even do some basic processing of the ingredients.
If the other contestants don't mind, if one group really wants to increase the soup, they can start raising the soup.
Two hours may seem like a long time, but if you really want to prepare a dish carefully, time is still very tight.
"This test is the last test of the points competition. The theme of the test is signature dishes. There is no limit on the type and quantity of the dishes. It only needs to match the theme and reflect the signature of the respective restaurant." The staff finally reiterated the rules of the competition.
"What are the judging criteria and who will be the judges?" Pei Shenghua asked.
“We are sorry, but due to relevant regulations we cannot announce the list of judges before the end of the competition, but please believe that the judges in this competition are absolutely professional and impartial, and we also believe that they will judge your dishes from a fair and just perspective. The staff member glanced at the time and said, "It's 10:15 in the morning." The competition will officially start at twelve o'clock and end at five o'clock in the afternoon. From now on, everyone can select ingredients and do some preparations. If any contestants need to prepare the soup in advance, please contact the staff and we will ask for other information. Contestants’ suggestions and discuss whether it is possible.”
As soon as the staff finished speaking, everyone began to discuss individually or went directly to the food area to select ingredients.
Chef Arnold is one of the action types. He ran to the aquatic area to pick lobsters without saying a word.
The competition venue is large, and each contestant has his or her own cooking station and area. Jiang Feng and Sun Maocai first studied all the tableware and seasonings on the cooking table. Basically, they were all produced by Good Taste and there was nothing wrong with them. They were even familiar with them. Then they started to discuss the dishes.
"The theme this time is signature dishes. Do you have any ideas?" Sun Maocai asked with a smile, obviously not in a hurry.
"Since it's a signature dish, I think it should be you and Chef Jiang Feng. Sun Jikai and I can help you two." Wu Minqi said, and Sun Jikai nodded in agreement.
If we talk about the signature dishes at Tai Feng Restaurant, they must be Sun Maocai and Jiang Feng.
Sun Maocai looked at Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng shook his head blankly.
He has no idea at all. This is not modesty. His mind is really empty now and he has no idea at all.
If he had been asked to cook one of Tai Feng Lou's signature dishes in the past, Jiang Feng would have felt that he had many options, such as chicken bean curd, eight-treasure chestnut pigeon, shredded yam, crab stuffed with orange, and even fish head with chopped pepper and Li Hongzhang chowder.
But since he had some enlightenment two days ago, Jiang Feng started to feel a little confused.
In his opinion, there is only one real signature dish of Tai Feng Restaurant, which is Jiang's Ginseng Soup.
But this is his trump card for the finals, and it is impossible to do it in the warm-up matches. The most important thing is that he is not yet good enough to make Jiang's ginseng soup a signature dish.
Jiang Feng knew that this test was actually an opportunity for the program team to give the major restaurants an opportunity to show off their true talents. It was also an opportunity for them to cut material and stir up the topic. Master Xu from Yongheju next door went to chat with the staff after they finished speaking, and asked his apprentice to find ingredients related to the soup stock. It was obvious that he was making a soup stock dish.
It will take more than six hours from now until 5pm. Although the time is a bit tight, I can still manage to make a pot of chickpea pudding.
As long as he thought about it, Chickpea Flower would definitely be an answer sheet submitted to Tai Feng House for this test that would satisfy many people. It would not say that it could score 100 points, but at least it could score a high score of over 90 points.
But he didn't want to.
Jiang Feng felt that he had never known so clearly what he wanted and what he wanted to do.
He is already the third master, and logically speaking, no dish in the world can stop him. He doesn’t need to imitate, now it’s someone else’s turn to imitate him.
He wants to be himself.
It sounds a bit like the inexplicable words in some incomprehensible novels, but Jiang Feng just wants to be himself now.
Thinking like this, Jiang Feng's thoughts wandered further and further, and even began to become a little empty, until Sun Maocai's words brought him back to the game.
"No idea at all?" Sun Maocai asked.
"I really don't have any ideas." Jiang Feng showed a slightly embarrassed smile, "I feel like I... don't have any signature dishes anymore."
Sun Maocai:?
Sun Maocai couldn't understand why Jiang Feng was suddenly so angry.
A person who was full of signature dishes now suddenly came out and said that I have no signature dishes, I don’t know how to make signature dishes, if it weren’t for Sun Mao who was a master and a genius at the same time, he realized that Jiang Feng might have fallen into some bottleneck, or was looking for something. Some lost self that he can't figure out, he may be about to jump up and hit people now.
"Let me tell you my opinion. I just checked that there are no snakes in the ingredients section. Taishi Snake Soup is definitely not possible. If you want to talk about what everyone thinks is a signature dish, Dinghu Shangsu may be more suitable, but the frequency of this dish appears It’s too high, I think it’s nothing new, and if you insist on choosing a signature dish, you don’t have to choose Dinghu Shangsu,” said Sun Maocai.
"What to choose?" Sun Jikai asked.
"Wenchang chicken and baked lobster in soup." Sun Maocai said.
Sun Jikai was stunned.
Not only him, but Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi were also a little surprised. Although these two dishes were good, if they were cooked by Sun Maocai, they would not look as good as a signature dish.
Too common.
If Sun Maocai said that pigeons swallow swallows or abalone juice with Liao ginseng, Jiang Feng would think it was a little more serious, at least the raw materials are expensive.
"Why these two dishes?" Jiang Feng asked.
"Because these two dishes were Jubaolou's signature dishes forty years ago." Sun Maocai smiled and looked at Sun Jikai, "These are your great-grandfather's signature dishes."
Seeing that everyone was silent, Sun Maocai continued: "Are you surprised? The signature dishes of a generation of Cantonese cuisine masters are not abalone, shark fin, sea cucumber, fish maw, fish maw, but baked lobster and Wenchang chicken in soup."
"Actually, these two dishes are also good dishes, but they are not that difficult and the cost is not so expensive, so they are very popular among the public. In fact, the best dishes made by Master are not these two dishes, but these two dishes are the most popular. The dishes that were popular among the guests gradually became Jubaolou’s signature dishes.” Sun Maocai began to explain the reasons for choosing these two dishes, “It’s not that you can’t cook better dishes, but better dishes require higher broth. ”
"We only have more than six hours. From selecting ingredients to serving dishes, no one can guarantee that the stock will meet the requirements in such a short time. Baked lobster in soup does not have such high requirements for stock, and it is not easy to make mistakes. . Of course, this is just my idea. If you have any other better ideas, you can also mention them. It is still in the discussion stage. We'd better discuss the results within twenty minutes."
Of course the others had no objections. Wu Minqi and Sun Jikai were both ready to handle the whole process. Another person, Jiang Feng, who should theoretically have an idea, was at a confused stage in his life where he was looking for himself.
After what Sun Maocai said, Jiang Feng, who had been confused for several days, suddenly had some ideas.
"Let's make a set meal."
"Set meal?" the three of them said in unison.
"He didn't limit the dishes, nor the types. Why don't we just make a set meal that includes both meat and vegetables, staple food, meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, soups, and even desserts?" Jiang Feng suggested.
Sun Maocai held his head and thought about it, and thought it was a good idea.
In order to facilitate customers' ordering, basically every restaurant will have corresponding set menus. For example, Tai Feng Restaurant once released a spring limited set set menu, and the current set menus are Jiang Feng's marriage set meal and fried noodles set meal.
It would not be off topic to say that the set menu is the signature dish.
"This is a good idea. If it is a set meal, it will be enough to have two meat dishes: Wenchang Chicken and Shangtangju Lobster. One is poultry and one is seafood. Then we still need soup, vegetarian dishes and desserts."
"There are also staple foods." Jiang Feng emphasized.
"Yes, there are also staple foods." Sun Maocai didn't understand why Jiang Feng emphasized that there were still staple foods.
"Actually, Lao Sun and Qiqi can each be responsible for a part. Except for making the soup stock, six and a half hours is more than enough for us to make a set meal. Today is just a test and not a formal semi-final or final. There is no need for them to help us, even today If we lose the test, we can just get back on track in the finals and semi-finals," Jiang Feng said.
Sun Maocai didn't expect Jiang Feng to have this idea. In fact, he was not a person who cared too much about winning or losing. After all, he had never won a cooking competition against Chef Arnold for so many years and was used to losing.
"I think it's pretty good." Sun Maocai agreed.
In this way, the decision-making power falls into the hands of Wu Minqi and Sun Jikai, depending on which part they want to be responsible for.
The two looked at each other and saw hesitation in each other's eyes.
They are all a little afraid that they will be the one holding them back.
Sun Jikai thought for a while and spoke first: "If that's the case, then I'll be in charge of the soup."
As a Cantonese chef, making soup is naturally something he is good at.
"Do you have any ideas?" Sun Maocai felt that he still had a say in the matter of soup, although what he usually drank most at home was radish and pork ribs soup.
Sun Jikai shook his head.
When making a set meal, the combination of dishes is very important. It must be harmonious, unified, unique, and not obtrusive.
A set meal can't have all the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty, but it can't be all sweet, all salty or all spicy to make people feel bored.
"How about the Four Gods Soup?" Sun Maocai asked.
"Four Gods Soup?" Jiang Feng couldn't help but shout. He had never heard of this soup.
"It is a therapeutic soup that clears fire, detoxifies and nourishes the skin. The taste is very light. It is made of Poria cocos, Huaishan, lotus seeds and Gorgon fruit." Sun Maocai explained.
After hearing this, Jiang Feng thought it was okay, and Sun Jikai also said there was no problem.
In this way, the ball was kicked in front of Wu Minqi. She had to make a choice between vegetarian dishes, desserts and staple food.
Of course, she doesn't have to choose.
Wu Minqi hesitated for a long time.
"Then I will... be responsible for the vegetarian dishes." Wu Minqi said, "What do you think of the fish-flavored eggplant?"
"It's not bad, it's a good match." Sun Maocai still affirmed, and finally looked at Jiang Feng.
He is also one of the chefs.
Jiang Feng already had the answer in his heart.
"I make desserts and main dishes!"
"Staple food?!" Sun Maocai was really surprised now. In fact, he had never included the staple food in the set meal from the beginning, because the staple food in the set meal is usually white rice, even if it uses good white rice and good mountain spring water. The cooked rice is also white rice without technical content.
Sun Maocai thought that Jiang Feng would add another meat or vegetable dish, and then be responsible for the dessert, or make the set meal without dessert. Chinese set meals can be without dessert.
Jiang Feng nodded affirmatively.
"What are you going to do?" Sun Maocai asked.
"As for desserts, I actually learned almond milk from Master Peng in Yongheju for a while, and I can make it pretty well. It's great as an after-dinner snack."
"As for the staple food, I plan to make it-" Jiang Feng showed a confident smile.
“Preserved egg and lean meat porridge!”
Just when he proposed to make a set menu, he suddenly realized in the morning that he actually had his own dishes, right from the beginning.
Wherever you start, you have it.
When he first got the game, the first dish he was praised by Chen Xiuxiu was the preserved egg and lean meat porridge. The second nearly perfect dish he made was the preserved egg and lean meat porridge (the first was eight-treasure porridge). The final of the Good Taste Cooking Competition The dish is preserved egg and lean meat porridge, and it is also the preserved egg and lean meat porridge that made him famous in A University Food Street.
Once upon a time, he was also a porridge king.
But later on, his cooking skills improved, he gained more memories, and he had to learn more dishes. He had more and more dishes that were more famous than porridge, which overshadowed his title of Porridge King, and for various reasons. Jiang Feng rarely makes porridge.
Despite this, many people still remember that Jiang Feng's porridge was delicious.
Zhang Qian remembers it, Liu Qian remembers it, and many students from University A remember it.
No, the chickpea pudding is delicious, nor is the crab-stuffed orange very distinctive, nor is it the Babao Chestnut Pigeon that tastes like Jubaolou.
The porridge cooked by Jiang Feng is delicious.
The prefix is Jiang Feng.
He already had his own style, but it was just a little off track.
And now——
Jiang Feng smiled confidently.
He wanted everyone to know that he, Jiang Feng, was not the Porridge King for nothing!
No one knows preserved egg and lean meat porridge better than him! (End of chapter)