Chapter 294 Preparation for the Whole Shrimp Banquet
By the time Su Zifang appeared in the lobby again, half a day had passed.
"These...are all written by you?!"
The people in the kitchen were shocked when they saw a notebook Su Zifang took out.
"Well, I just sorted out the recipes I left behind after I went back. This is the current complete record of the Shao Tai Feast."
Su Zifang didn't say who left it. Anyway, if others thought it was Su Xingchao, it wouldn't be him who was lying. There was nothing wrong with him.
Kong Yan flipped through a few pages with an incredulous look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Xiaoman and others asked.
"Too...complete..." Kong Yan said three words silently.
"Isn't it all bad?" Mu Fei didn't quite understand what was so surprising about this.
"If you had seen other ancient Yans, you wouldn't say that." Kong Yan shook his head.
"In the ancient banquets I saw before, I can tell you what ingredients the dish is made of, which is considered very conscientious. For example, the Chun Nao in Zhou Bazhen has only one description: fried glutinous rice is added to upland rice, and it is fertilized with paste.
, called Chun Nao."
“If you don’t have Chinese level 8, you can’t even understand this sentence!”
"So... what did you say?" Mu Fei scratched his head, not understanding.
"Hai" is a meat sauce made from various meats. This sentence means that Zhou Bazhen has a dish called meat sauce rice bowl. It is made by covering the heated meat sauce on glutinous rice and then pouring refined animal oil into it.
It’s done.”
"That's it?" Mu Fei looked disdainful, "I thought the food was so good, but it's not as good as our staff meals."
Kong Yan had a dark look on his face.
"It's 2020 now, what do you eat? What can the Zhou Dynasty eat? Get a bottle of soy sauce, you will be more moisturized than the Emperor of Zhou."
"Okay, I'll put this here. Kong Yan, if you have experience, take a look at it first. Then I'll listen to you and arrange for us to cook and sprint for first place."
"You don't need this for the rematch?" Zhao Xiaoman thought that Su Zifang took this out to prepare for the rematch, and looked confused.
"It's such a waste to use this." Kong Yan explained for Su Zifang.
"Looking at Yang Qiongfa's score yesterday, many restaurants are casually trying the water. For example, Hanfu Restaurant also used an ordinary party banquet, and Wentao Restaurant made a whole duck banquet, which is not a signature banquet."
Su Zifang smiled lightly: "Hanfu Restaurant is really powerful, Wentao Restaurant has no choice, this one is different."
"Anyway, everyone is holding back their strength. The audition is not difficult for big restaurants. There is no need for signature dishes. The semi-finals will probably be a little more serious, but the real competition begins in the last game."
"Yeah!" Su Zifang said that Kong Yan was right.
"Then look what we are preparing to cook this time?" Zhao Xiaoman and Zhang Zidan were still most concerned about the matter in front of them.
"What did you just discuss?"
"Flower banquet, river fresh food banquet, seafood banquet, poultry banquet, shrimp banquet." Zhang Zidan handed over a piece of paper with the dishes prepared for each banquet written on it.
Su Zifang raised his eyes and glanced at Mu Fei, then silently crossed out the flower feast.
If you hold a flower banquet in this kind of competition, you will probably be kicked out of the competition group in a minute, right?
For the other banquets, there are many choices, but they are actually not much different. After all, it is impossible to use only one kind of ingredient to support the banquet. There must be other auxiliary ingredients.
For example, the previous tofu banquet also used a lot of other ingredients.
"Shrimp feast?" Su Zifang was a little moved when he saw the name.
"Kong Yan, can you prepare the shrimp skin spring rolls now?" Su Zifang looked at Kong Yan.
Guanglin's extremely exquisite spring rolls came to mind again.
"It should be sixty to seventy percent."
Kong Yan didn't dare to answer with certainty.
Ever since Su Zifang tried to make Kung Pao Chicken by getting him drunk, he has been able to make many dishes that he could not make before using this method.
After being praised by everyone in the kitchen, Mu Fei even gave him the title of Drunken Chef.
Although I haven’t tried shrimp skin spring rolls yet, the emphasis of this dish is on knife skills. As long as you handle the ingredients when you are awake, there is no big problem in preparing the spring roll ingredients.
"How about trying a whole shrimp feast?" Su Zifang suggested.
"I have Longjing shrimps, you have shrimp skin spring rolls, Xiaoman has drunken shrimps, Mu Fei has grilled shrimps, and Zidan knows how to fry big shrimps. It shouldn't be a big problem if we share a table."
"Okay." Zhao Xiaoman and Zhang Zidan agreed, and Mu Fei also nodded.
"The recipe?"
"You and Xiaoman make arrangements, and I'll think about it too."
"good!"
Kong Yan responded and started thinking.
When the business ended in the evening, Kong Yan took the rest of the kitchen staff to the side.
"I have thought about it, and the size of the whole shrimp banquet is set to be mid-range. Although the ingredients are single, you can choose several kinds of river shrimps and sea shrimps to complete different dishes, giving the banquet more flavor and meeting the requirements of the city's business card for external display."
"Taking into account Jingling's dining habits, I think we can consider using shrimp dishes with obvious regional characteristics."
“My initial thoughts include shrimp cakes, Longjing shrimps, lobster balls in soup, shrimp fried rice balls, shrimp skin spring rolls, shrimp steamed eggs, shrimp rice rolls, jade shrimp dumplings, and shrimp cabbage soup.”
“It also needs to be paired with cold dishes and desserts.”
"Ten dishes and one soup?"
"If the rematch lasts an hour, wouldn't it be a bit stressful?"
Su Zifang calculated the number of dishes and began to think about the workload of this banquet.
"It's quite strict. Each person has to cook 0.2 more dishes. You can consider asking three people to cook the seven simplest dishes, and the other two people to cook four more responsible dishes."
"The drunken shrimp can be made. I will adjust it and make it a cold dish suitable for a banquet."
"If I make drunken shrimp here, I can save at least 40 minutes, and I can make two or three more stir-fry dishes."
Zhao Xiaoman spoke first.
"If it's not too difficult, I can cook three or four dishes."
Zhang Zidan thought for a while and then said.
Mu Fei, the fastest swordsman in the southwest, slapped his chest: "Two ways."
After receiving everyone's contempt, he scratched his head without embarrassment: "There is no way, Yunnan cuisine is not very good at cooking shrimps, I can only learn slowly, it is more important to be more steady."
"Eight courses, let's do three more courses." Su Zifang glanced at Kong Yan.
"I only have one dish, and I will be responsible for setting it up later.",
"Then...I'll make two more dishes. Longjing shrimps are faster to cook, and I'll make another tempura and other dishes."
"Tempura?" Zhao Xiaoman's expression was a little complicated: "When did you learn to make this?"
"As An Yan said before that she likes to eat, I specially looked for videos to learn it. Although I haven't done it yet, my theoretical knowledge is perfect!"
Su Zifang started talking nonsense without caring about the fact that he had never even read the tempura tutorial.
"Is it now fashionable to trick dogs into killing them?" The rice cake in Mu Fei's mouth suddenly lost its taste.
"Okay, I don't think there's a big problem with the menu Kong Yan ordered. Just add drunken shrimp, tempura, and finally soup."
"How about shrimp roe?" Zhang Zidan suddenly said.
"It's also shrimp, but the taste and freshness are different. It will form a very unique texture in the soup, and it will feel very good."
"If you make hibiscus egg soup and use shrimp roe to enhance the flavor, it will taste very good."
Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, and they unanimously approved this dish.
Chapter completed!