Chapter 752 Stealing Punch
"Damn it! These French people are sincerely torturing people! We are chefs, is cleaning the kitchen our job? That is the job of the cleaners. Besides, is it normal that the kitchen is cleaner than the restaurant outside? These foreign devils are so fucking sick! I was so tired after a long day that I had to clean the chimney. They are so demanding. Really? Xiaocha, don’t you think so?”
“That’s right. Actually, it’s not a big deal if we’re tired. The key is that they don’t treat us as human beings. Look! When those foreign devils were serving food in the kitchen, they were not shouting, they were roaring hysterically! I felt like they were going to throw a pan on my face in the next second. Damn it, how long has it been since the Opium War ended, why do we still have to be insulted by foreigners? Brother Chun'er, I don't understand, I don't know if they use any curse words, otherwise it won't work, I I really need to slap them!”
“Oh, Xiaocha, why do you guys always want to fight? Will this solve the problem? If I know French, I’ll talk to those foreign chefs. To be reasonable, we need to change the staff meals first. Don't let them fool us by making sandwiches all day long. Don't you think so? If we, the chef, can't eat well, how can we let the guests eat well? , let alone comparing it to our Tan Palace, it is not as good as those ordinary small state-owned restaurants. I am not being hypocritical. I just want to have a hot meal. Is that too much? Just eat cabbage with steamed buns, stir-fry bean sprouts, and make some watery pimples, or roll up big pickled radish into a big pancake. I don't want to eat the hard baguette or the white toast. , those three foreigners also asked me to put butter on it, put cheese on it, and add vegetable leaves, purple cabbage, pickled cucumbers, tomatoes and cold meat, which made my stomach feel so noisy..."
"That's right, Sister Yan'er. Hey, before I came here, I only heard that French cuisine was famous. I really didn't know that Western food was so unpalatable. Hey, that's what you said. The baguette is so dry on the outside but hollow on the inside. Isn’t this fooling people? How can we get pizza as good as our Laomian steamed buns and Su Yeer pastry? Let’s order some vegetables on top. The macaroni is so hard, it’s far less delicious than the braised noodles we have in Beijing. The salad is not as good as our leek and bean sprouts mixed with vermicelli! What I thought was that it was made by grinding dried mushrooms into powder and boiling it. How could this be a soup? Even the famous French foie gras was slimy and not chewy at all. How could we have sauced pork liver? Son, the sauced chicken liver is delicious. Not to mention the cheese, it smells like stinky feet. Sister Yaner, you are too honest to eat it. Why do you feel so uncomfortable? , next time you eat, you must not touch that thing..."
"Haha, Dai Hong, what you said is so right. I couldn't eat the cheese and secretly vomited it all. Hehe, it's not that we are immodest. In my opinion, French food is probably just in name. Ah. If nothing else, look at those French guys, they don’t even have a clue when it comes to cooking. This depends on their skills in our Tan Palace kitchen. I'm a kid, can you let them get the wok? Not to mention the first stove, the second stove, I don't even have the guts to make soup. Okay, let's try some fried shrimps on the stove. , Do you have the time? If you delay like this, how can you eat the food in the pot? They are the ones who waste the most time." >
"Yes, yes, brother Chun'er, this foreign devil is really good at cooking. He can do all those things like taking off his pants and farting. Good guy, so many knives, big and small, flat The long ones, and the jagged ones, are they necessary? I don’t know, I thought they were surgeons. There are so many pots, you have to use this pot, and you have to use that pot to cook this, If you make a mistake, then Baimaoer will fall out with you. I really don’t understand. Why do they have to make the kitchen so complicated? It’s better for us to have Chinese food, just an iron pot and a kitchen knife. The world. No wonder they can’t even count the plates. They have to spread them out one by one to count them. If they stack the plates together, they will be blinded. Their IQ is worrying..."
To be honest, no matter those three The Frenchman, a Western chef trained by them, did get part of the story right.
The five-person group of three men and two women in the Tan Palace, Jiang Dachun, Xiao Cha, Yang Feng, Xu Chunyan, and Dai Hong, privately had strong opinions because of the "torture" they had suffered and their inability to adapt.
I have only been working in Maxim’s kitchen for three to five days, less than a week.
After finishing the cleaning on the previous Friday, everyone went back to the dormitory to sleep together after get off work.
They couldn't help but vent their pent-up complaints and complaints to each other.
But then again, although a few of them tried their best to vent their dissatisfaction by spoiling Western food, they also had fun by crowding out the French.
But they are not newbies to the kitchen industry, and they still have some discernment.
What's more, who can excel in the kitchen of Tan Palace and do well? Who is not a master with some real skills under his command?
Since he is a truly capable chef, who has never experienced hardship or suffered?
In fact, not long after the purely negative emotions were vented, Huatouer's trend began to change.
This is something that those foreigners and those Western chefs didn’t guess.
The first people to lead this trend were good buddies Ning Weimin and Zhang Shihui who met at the Diianfang downstairs when they were working in Chongwenmen Hotel.
The leader of the Tangong hanging stove group - Yang Feng.
"Hey, that's it. If we keep talking, it will be over. We are hurting people behind their backs like this and they can't talk back. It's not very interesting. Xiaocha, don't look at me like that. I didn't mean to talk to the big guys. To play devil’s advocate.”
“Yes, it’s quite hard to work here. We work two shifts every day, ranging from ten hours to thirteen or fourteen hours, with only one and a half hours of rest in between. . It’s not good to eat. I’m afraid it’s more difficult for our stomachs to adapt to Western food than to cook it.”
“And in this kitchen, there is nothing to do in more than three seconds. , I will be urged and scolded, and no one can spend more than thirty seconds looking for something. Just because of this, I have lost two knives and have no time to look for it. If I say I like it here, then I am. You little kid, you are just pretending to be big in front of everyone.”
“But the problem is, we can’t forget why we are here! Those foreigners are here. Love to scold people. But who of us didn’t get scolded when we were apprentices? You forgot what the masters in our Tan Palace said about us, saying that we were all a happy generation and we didn’t need to be beaten for learning. To tell you the truth, even a good-tempered person like Master Ai scolded me and even punished me by brushing the duck stove."
"Good guy, that's the stove that's been roasting all morning, and it's still hot. I didn't dare to hesitate, so I sprayed cold water all over my body, put on a sack and got in immediately. The furnace wall was at least over 100 degrees at that time, and the water turned into steam as soon as it hit it, covering me with soot. It’s so dark, I almost turned into a piece of bacon after brushing it.”
"Hey, how about we change the explanation. I don't believe it. If Master Zhang, who teaches us how to cook palace dishes, scolds you like this in the kitchen and asks you to clean like this. How dare you talk back? You're good at cooking. Isn’t that the case, whoever is good at his craft is the master. How can you learn real skills without being scolded and endure hardship?”
“And we can’t turn our eyes open to foreigners. Are you lying? Apart from anything else, this kitchen is so clean, hygienic, has fresh ingredients, and is more efficient than ours. I would also be happy for our hanging stove to be so clean and to preserve duck embryos like they do. Yeah, I'm going to try it when I get back. Don't forget, our Tan Palace is the top restaurant in the capital, and its consumption level is not much lower than that of Maxim's. So, just learn from it. What, this hygiene can’t be compared to the past.”
“As for whether this French food is delicious or not, we have to decide with foreigners. The appetite is different. It’s hard to put this attribution, but there is one thing I can say for sure. The Western cooking method does have its merits. . ”
“There is almost nothing that cannot be roasted, and nothing is unpalatable. What is especially unimaginable is that all kinds of water vegetables are delicious. The baked goods are also very delicious. This is a place that cannot be compared with Chinese food.”
“Although our Chinese food also has a lot of baked goods, such as pastries in the pastry shop, sesame cakes, shabu-shabu, and screw spinners. . However, the variety of hanging stove barbecues in the kitchen is limited, almost all of them are roasted chicken, roasted duck, roasted pigeon, roasted lamb, roasted deer, roasted piglets, that’s all.”
"In addition, the methods of adding ingredients and marinating in advance, as well as the details of dish presentation and serving, are not as good as others. Western barbecue has many types of ingredients added in advance, and the sauces that go with it are much richer than ours. And that The electric oven is definitely a good thing. It is better to use for roasting whole pieces of meat than our oven. It is also worth learning how to use hot plates to bake meat and steaks.”
“So I don’t care. What do you guys think? I decided to treat this place as Shajiabang. Isn't it just a bit tiring and painful? No matter what the cost, even if you are pretending to be a grandson here and working as a handyman, you still have to learn the barbecue techniques of these foreigners." "In the words of our master chefs, it is impossible to be dignified in front of others. , you have to learn to suffer behind the scenes. Don’t let those three foreigners learn it. As long as I learn it, it will be different. If they can do it, they can’t do it. When the time comes, I will be confident that Tan Palace’s barbecue will overwhelm them.”
“What’s more, if you learn this skill, you will benefit the most from it. , isn’t it our own? No matter where we go from now on, if we want to earn a lot of respect, we have to rely on our true ability to speak for ourselves.”
"To be honest, this is a rare opportunity! Everyone, don't look at the unpleasant taste. But if this Tan Palace is not in charge of Weimin, if it is not inextricably linked to the Pierre Cardin Company and the Service Bureau How can we have the opportunity to come here to find out the details? The details of French food will never be clear to us. ”
Yang Feng's long conversation silenced several people.
Now the five of them are walking silently on the road.
Because no one spoke anymore, the cold wind whistling in the ears began to become more and more obvious.
This rhythm, this rhythm, is somewhat depressing and makes everyone a little embarrassed.
But after a while, after a moment of contemplation, Xu Chunyan, the oldest among the several people, took the initiative to express her approval of Yang Feng's words just now.
"Yang Zi, I didn't expect that you are really thoughtful and ambitious. It seems that we all underestimate you on weekdays. But don't look down on others. Among the five of us, you are not the only one who knows how to thank our manager Ning. , I know that I have to fight for Tan Gong. You are not the only one who can endure hardships. As the eldest sister of you, I don’t want to let you, the younger brother, be more embarrassed. To tell you the truth. You tell me, the skills of those three foreigners in making desserts also caught my eye. Let’s compare ourselves to see if you can learn all the French barbecue dishes first, or if I can master all the French desserts first. How about a treat for whoever loses? Let’s prepare a banquet for everyone present.”
What does it mean to be a woman?
The unique boldness of this Beijing girl immediately made everyone cheer.
Yang Feng also had to express his admiration.
"Sister Yan'er, if you say so, I'm taking advantage of you. There seem to be many types of Western desserts, baking, milk powder, cold food, knife skills, it seems that you have to use them all. This kind of competition It's not fair to you. How about we compete with each other to learn three dishes first? Of course, they must be the most famous dishes, and they must be recognized as authentic French dishes. If I lose, I'll take your word for it. If you want to lose, just buy me two big nines.”
The stakes are too high.
As a result, when he said this, not only was he full of atmosphere, but it also aroused Dai Hong's interest.
"Then I want to participate too. Brother Yang, let's compete too, but the stakes must be lower. If you lose, treat me to Maxim's ice cream. If I lose, I'll give you a cigarette." , do you think it’s okay?”
This time Yang Zi didn’t say anything, Xiao Cha didn’t want to do it.
"Dai Hong, you are deliberately taking advantage. You are not such a bully. Maxim's ice cream costs 20 yuan per serving. How much does a cigarette cost? Not to mention that you are a cold-blooded person. Yes, what you learned is so simple. If we compete, the stakes may remain the same, but the items must be fair. I am a hot dish, and you are a cold dish, just cold dishes, hot dishes, soup. Let’s cook one dish each and compete with each other to see who is better.”
Just like that, there were one more pair of bettors.
Not only are everyone gearing up now, but Jiang Dachun is even more boring to tease.
"Yang Zi, you are amazing. I really didn't realize that you are so scheming. You are simply the contemporary 'Tai Chi Yang', Yang Luchan. Don't tell me, you are so energetic. It’s really worth learning from you. That’s right, no matter what, we can’t go back to Tan Palace with nothing, right? Not to mention it’s embarrassing, but I’m really sorry for Manager Ning.”
“What? Tai Chi Yang? What did you say?" Yang Feng was confused and had no idea what Jiang Dachun meant.
Xiao Cha immediately went over his shoulder again and explained for his senior brother.
"Hey, Brother Yang, how come you don't know? Haven't you read the little book "Stealing Fists"? Just last month, it spread throughout our entire Tan Palace Restaurant. Even the chefs in the restaurant are reading it. I wish I could have one."
"Huh? A comic book? Does that have anything to do with me?"
"Oh, Brother Yang, are you a martial artist? I don’t know. In that book, Yang Luchan was determined to practice martial arts, and even pretended to be a mute beggar, and deliberately froze and passed out in front of the Chen family’s Tai Chi family. As a result, she took great pains to be taken in as a servant by the Chen family, and then she secretly learned Tai Chi. , Become a great master. That Tai Chi Yang is just as brave as you, I will give you my little book later, you will know after you read it.”
Jiang Dachun was happy again and gave a concluding speech.
“Hey, that’s right, from here on out, we are Maxim’s five-man team that steals punches.”
(End of this chapter)