Chapter 848 Noodle Soup
Jiang Feng went straight to the restaurant, and when asked by the smiling waitress at the front desk of the empty Chinese restaurant, he made an unreasonable request.
"I need to borrow your hotel's kitchen to cook."
Jiang Feng couldn't wait any longer.
It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and if nothing else, the hotel kitchen is empty. It takes at least six hours to make a pot of stock, and almost six hours to soak shark fins.
It starts at three o'clock in the afternoon and ends at nine o'clock in the evening. It only takes a few minutes to cook a bowl of soup noodles, and it takes about five or six hours to make a braised shark's fin. If he wanted to eat both soup noodles and braised shark's fin, Jiang Feng would have to stay in the hotel kitchen until three in the morning.
This is a very OK thing.
Vacation is about leisure and letting yourself go. During vacation, almost no young employees in Tai Fung House go to bed before two o'clock in the morning. They spend every day staying up at night, not waking up in the morning, and eating lunch without breakfast. They are unhealthy but happy as gods.
Jiang Feng stayed in his memory for three months, and his hands were itchy for three months.
In the eyes of others, Jiang Feng had only not cooked for a few days, but to Jiang Feng himself, he had not cooked for more than three months.
More than three months!
He was already extremely itchy and excited.
Not to mention three o'clock in the morning, even if Jiang Feng just stayed up all night, he felt that he would be fine.
But the hotel waiter felt something was wrong.
To be honest, after so many years of working in this five-star hotel, this was the first time a guest had expressed dissatisfaction with the hotel's food and wanted to cook it themselves.
In the past, some guests had complained about the hotel's buffet or Chinese restaurant and requested customized meals. These were due to religious issues, many things they couldn't eat or allergies to some ingredients. Although the chef in their hotel is not the best, he can still cook pretty good food among five-star hotels of the same level. Very few guests are dissatisfied with the food.
Not to mention asking to use the kitchen to cook for myself.
The waiter knew Jiang Feng.
To be precise, the waiters are somewhat familiar with the employees at Tai Fung House.
They have provided accommodation and meals for many company annual meetings or industry conferences, but it is rare to find a company like Tai Feng House where nearly 100 people are involved in team building for a week.
"Sir, if we are not satisfied with the food in our hotel, we can make a request to the kitchen, and we will try our best to make dishes that satisfy you. However, borrowing the kitchen is really not within the scope of the services we can provide. Within." The waiter seemed a little embarrassed.
"You can't make the food I want." Jiang Feng didn't want to waste time and made it clear.
"Just tell me what dish you want?"
“Braised shark’s fin, from Tan’s cuisine.”
waiter:?
The waiter wondered if Jiang Feng was looking for her to make fun of her, so he had no choice but to contact the manager, who then went to the kitchen to communicate. The head chef of the kitchen felt that Jiang Feng was deliberately looking for trouble.
After almost twenty minutes of communication, the hotel agreed to divide the kitchen into a stove and a small cooking table for Jiang Feng to use. There is no charge for borrowing. You can also use the hotel's ingredients but you need to pay for them at your own expense. If Jiang Feng damages anything in the kitchen, he needs to compensate for the original price and pay for lost work.
The attitude was quite good, and Jiang Feng readily agreed.
As soon as Jiang Feng changed his clothes and entered the kitchen, he found a middle-aged man in chef's uniform standing by the stove, blocking the way.
"Excuse me, who are you?"
The middle-aged man looked a little unhappy: "I am the head chef of the Chinese food department."
"Oh." Jiang Feng suddenly realized that the head chef was quite dedicated and was still in the kitchen sorting things during the break. Little did he know that the head chef had specially changed into his work clothes and came in to see what Jiang Feng was going to do in the kitchen.
The head chef looked at Jiang Feng.
His tone is quite good for his young age.
Braised shark's fin, also from Tan's Cuisine. Do you know the last name of the current head of Tan's Cuisine?
I can’t even do it myself!
Who do you think you are, Jiang Feng, the sixth most popular celebrity chef in the culinary circle recently?
The head chef looked on with cold eyes and stood motionless.
"Please give way, I want to pass."
The chef stepped aside.
"By the way, do you know where the shark fins are? I need shark fins. Please go get me some. I want the best quality ones."
The head chef reluctantly went to get the shark fins for Jiang Feng, not because he wanted to be manipulated by Jiang Feng, but because he was afraid that Jiang Feng would mess up other precious ingredients.
Jiang Feng was completely unaware of the chef's slightly indifferent attitude. He was now focused on kitchen utensils and ingredients.
Ah, what a familiar place.
Wonderful kitchen!
Kitchen knives, stoves, chopping boards, and sinks make people happy just by looking at them.
Jiang Feng picked up a kitchen knife. Although it was not as easy to use as the kitchen knife awarded in the game, it was enough.
He only needs to briefly handle the whole chicken and pork bones used to make the soup. He has no requirements for knife skills and naturally no requirements for kitchen knives.
The news that Jiang Feng borrowed the hotel kitchen to cook quickly spread among the Tai Feng Building employees.
It even attracted a lot of onlookers from the kitchen employees who were close to him. The waiters also wanted to watch, but their good professionalism made them develop the habit of not entering the kitchen easily when nothing happened. They did not dare to enter the kitchen to watch for fear of disturbing them. To Jiang Feng.
The head chef was unhappy at first. He felt that there was something wrong with these people. First, there was a guy who said that the hotel couldn't make the dish he wanted and he had to go into the kitchen to cook. Then a group of people ran into the kitchen to watch him cooking.
Do they think cooking is making Indian flatbread? You can watch around.
Soon, the head chef discovered that the problem might not be with everyone in Tai Feng Tower, but with him.
It seems like he really can't do it.
As Jiang Feng started to cook the soup, the chef's attitude changed from indifference, disdain and wanting to watch the excitement to surprise, surprise and admiration.
The head chef realized that Jiang Feng was really capable of making braised shark fin.
When the soup stock entered the critical stage of cleaning, it was also the evening business hours. Everyone in Tai Feng Tower who had been watching Jiang Feng cooking the soup stock in the back kitchen had already left. The head chef was still squatting next to Jiang Feng, not wanting to leave.
Even if other chefs are urging him to go to work quickly and the boss may deduct his salary, he doesn't want to leave.
Salary is nothing, he wants to see the big boss make a fool of himself!
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At 9:40 pm, the soup stock is finished.
For more than six hours, Jiang Feng did not look at his phone, was not distracted, and did not chat with others. He stayed by the stove the whole time, sweeping soup and filtering it. Even when he had nothing to do and was just waiting for time, he stayed by the stove. superior.
He liked this feeling so much.
Jiang Feng even somewhat understood why Jiang Chengde had to stay in the kitchen to break through.
For a chef who pursues delicious and ultimate dishes, there is no place where they feel more comfortable and happy than the kitchen.
If so, it's probably a wet market.
Sun Maocai and the others had also returned from the vegetable market a long time ago. Not only did they go shopping, they also bought some fresh seafood.
Originally, they had no intention of buying groceries, but simply wanted to go shopping at the vegetable market, just like Wu Minqi and the others went shopping. The result was just like Wu Minqi and the others went shopping. Maybe they didn’t want to buy anything before going, but while shopping, they decided that this one is good, and this one is not bad either. They went back empty-handed and came back fully loaded.
Sun Maocai originally planned to borrow the hotel kitchen to cook some seafood for everyone to change their taste like Jiang Feng. However, when he came back, he heard that Jiang Feng had already borrowed the kitchen and was already talking about the soup stock.
The seafood they bought was no longer cooked. Sun Maocai, Sun Jikai, Zhang Guanghang and Wu Minqi, who had returned from shopping, after the hotel's evening business was almost finished, they moved a small bench with the head chef and sat three meters away from Jiang Feng to watch him prepare the soup stock. .
During the process, the two old men and the rest of the Jiang family also came over to take a look, and went back when they saw that the food was not ready yet.
Jiang Feng's broth is now ready.
Everyone thought he was going to start using the soaked shark fins to make braised shark fins.
But he didn't. He found another pot, filled it with half a pot of broth, and started adding noodles.
Everyone:? ? ?
You've been cooking broth for six hours just to cook noodles with it? !
The middle-aged chef felt that his outlook on life and values had been greatly impacted.
When the noodles were put into the pot, Jiang Feng suddenly felt very happy. Turning around, I found that five people were sitting not far away.
"Do you want to eat? If so, I'll place some more." Jiang Feng asked.
"Yes." The five of them said in unison, no one could refuse such a bowl of plain soup noodles.
Even if it doesn't even have an egg. (End of chapter)