The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 55 Crepe Wontons
Zheng Siyuan is a man of action.

He arrived at 6pm.

Looking at the Dior suit on Zheng Siyuan, Qin Huai silently swallowed the tomato fried rice in his mouth, sighing in his heart that the father and son really have different styles.

Zheng Da and Qin Huai were eating together in the cafeteria. Although Zheng Da felt that the level of the chefs at Yunzhong Cafeteria was really poor, he could not say anything. After all, this was the business of his future apprentice and he could not belittle it.

Zheng Da stood up and served a dish to Zheng Siyuan, who then sat opposite Qin Huai with the dish in his hand.

"Zheng Siyuan, we added each other on WeChat yesterday." Zheng Siyuan looked Qin Huai up and down.

"Qin Huai." Qin Huai also introduced himself.

"When are you going to make the Sophora japonica buns?" On the way here, Zheng Siyuan had already roughly understood the problem Qin Huai was facing. "I need to see you make it, just like my dad."

"We have to wait until tomorrow." Qin Huai said and yawned, "It's almost time, I should go back to sleep."

Because of Zheng Da's surprise attack on the cafeteria today, Qin Huai didn't go back to sleep at noon and is now very sleepy.

However, Zheng Da's surprise attack was not without effect. Although he failed to solve the series of problems Qin Huai encountered in making locust flower steamed buns, he proved himself.

Zheng Da spent the whole afternoon showing off his skills to prove that he was qualified to be a Qinhuai master. As long as there were ingredients and they could be made, Zheng Da made them all.

Shortbread, Dingsheng cake, fresh meat mooncake, plum blossom cake, rose cake, crab shell cake, crabapple cake, fermented rice cake...

The main thing is to have a large amount of food.

The old men and women who were used to grabbing steamed buns in the afternoon had never seen such a scene before. They were all going crazy.

I used to wait in the cafeteria when I thought the time was right, and leave when I bought something. But today, I didn’t leave even after I bought something, and I just waited there. If I didn’t wait, how would I know if there would be new snacks later?

Because Ouyang couldn't keep skipping work to grab snacks, he even spent a huge amount of money to hire two errand boys to do it for him.

While the uncles and aunts were fighting outside, Qin Luo was eating inside. As he ate one thing after another, he not only dispelled the idea that Zheng Da might be a liar, but also persuaded Qin Huai to consider becoming his disciple.

This is so delicious.

"What time do you usually start making dim sum?" Zheng Siyuan asked.

"I arrive at the store around 4 o'clock. I am responsible for breakfast. There are fixed meals to prepare in the morning. The peak breakfast time in our store is from 8 to 9 o'clock. If I want to make locust flower steamed buns, I have to wait until at least 10 o'clock." Qin Huai explained.

Zheng Siyuan nodded: "Are there any restrictions on your morning meals?"

"Ah?" Qin Huai didn't understand what Zheng Siyuan meant. "Basically, they have steamed buns and the like. There are very few customers eating in the restaurant in the morning."

Zheng Siyuan continued to nod, indicating that he understood, and said, "I usually don't get up so early in the morning, so I may have to wait until after 6 o'clock to arrive."

"Ah?" Qin Huai was really confused.

"I have the habit of making snacks every day." Zheng Siyuan said, "I also make some special buns and steamed buns, but I don't make them often on weekdays."

"I'll send you my list of snacks. Take a look at it when you get back or tomorrow morning and pick out a few that are suitable for your cafeteria and I can make them tomorrow."

As he spoke, Zheng Siyuan took out his phone and started typing a message. After typing a few words, he asked, "Do you eat both sweet and salty food here?"

Qin Huai: "...Eat, eat all."

No, he felt like he was interviewing a new dim sum chef.

After finishing his meal quickly, Qin Huai was so sleepy that he was in no mood to chat. He went back to sleep without waiting for Zheng Siyuan to finish eating.

After Qin Huai left, Zheng Da couldn't wait to say, "Siyuan, tomorrow you will show us your specialty and make... fresh meat mooncakes! Let Xiao Qin see how strong our family is."

Zheng Siyuan looked at his father in silence. He had thought about a lot on the way here.

I wondered if his father had tricked him into going on a blind date again, and I wondered if his father had been deceived by someone, but I never thought that his father might be trying to deceive others.

When he first entered the cafeteria and saw Qin Huai, he was still wondering if Qin Huai was a liar. Now he just wanted to say sorry to Qin Huai.

"Dad, didn't you say you don't want to accept apprentices?" Zheng Siyuan complained mercilessly, "It's not as troublesome as you said to accept apprentices. If the talent is not good and it can't be taught, people will doubt whether the master is incompetent. As long as the skills are not lost, it's okay to apologize to the master."

"This is different!" Zheng Da said solemnly, "I have a feeling that whether your father can go down in history depends on whether Xiao Qin can accept me as his master!"

Zheng Siyuan suddenly wanted to say sorry to Qin Huai even more.

Sorry, my dad is not normal.
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The next day, the uncles who were jogging in the morning were surprised to find that Xu Tuqiang did not seem to be talking nonsense, and there was indeed a new dim sum chef in the Yunzhong Canteen.

However, this new dim sum chef was not the middle-aged man who wore a mix of brands as Xu Tuqiang said, but a young man who looked very steady and was a few years older than Qin Huai.

"Wife, what's going on?" Not only the uncles who were jogging in the morning were confused, but Qin Congwen was also a little confused.

Qin Congwen didn't expect that the cafeteria would be different just after he went back early to rest and take a nap yesterday.

First, a mysterious Master Zheng came yesterday and worked in the cafeteria for the whole afternoon making a bunch of snacks. Then this morning another mysterious Master Xiao Zheng came and started making wontons as soon as he arrived.

He is young but has superb skills.

The freshly-rolled wonton skins are as thin as rice paper, so delicate that they can be blown away, and even translucent when facing the sun.

Not only is the wonton wrapper amazing, but the knife skills are also excellent. Even chopping green onions can make him look like a chef.

Not to mention the skill of wrapping, as soon as you put the filling in and hook your finger, a round wonton that looks like bubbles spit out by a fish is born like magic.

Is it so hard to make breakfast now?
Qin Congwen began to feel fortunate that he entered the industry early, otherwise the Qin’s breakfast shop would not have been open for so many years.

"I don't know." Zhao Rong was staring at the wontons in Zheng Siyuan's hand. Her hands gradually strayed from the way she was wrapping the dumplings. She wanted to wrap the dumplings like wontons. "Huai Huai said, didn't Master Zheng come here to help?"

"Master Zheng is Master Zheng's son. He is here to help as well."

Qin Congwen didn't understand whether to help or not, but he felt that Master Zheng was here to join the company.

"How do you make this?" Zhao Rong stretched her neck to look, "Why can't I make it so round?"

Unlike Zhao Rong and Qin Congwen who could only crane their necks to watch from a distance, Qin Huai's cooking counter was next to Zheng Siyuan's, so he could just turn his head to look and even ask questions.

"The wonton skin is very thin." Qin Huai sighed.

The thin wonton skin means it is easy to break when cooking. It not only tests the skills when wrapping it, but also when cooking it.

“Crepe wontons need to have a thin skin,” Zheng Siyuan explained.

Last night, Zheng Da had already introduced Qin Huai's situation to Zheng Siyuan in detail. Zheng Siyuan expressed that he understood why his father wanted to take in an apprentice, but he still wanted to say sorry to Qin Huai. When he was explaining, he couldn't help but be more patient and detailed.

"This kind of wonton has a thin skin, so after it is cooked, the skin is wrinkled, which is pronounced the same as "绉", so it is called "绉丝WANTUN".

"When I was a kid, my dad often made this kind of wontons for me and my sister at home. In recent years, the crepe wonton skins sold on the market are basically made by machines. The thin hand-rolled wonton skins are difficult to make, and many experienced chefs are unwilling to spend the effort, so it is difficult to eat authentic ones now."

"The filling can be pure meat or fresh shrimp. Mustard greens are also good when the season is right. These wontons have thin skins and little filling. They are mainly eaten for their freshness, so the soup base is very important. We don't have enough time today, so I'll ask my dad to make the soup base in the afternoon, so tomorrow's wontons will taste even better."

After hearing what Zheng Siyuan said, Qin Huai wanted to ask Zheng Siyuan: Master Zheng, are you ready to join us?
Our cafeteria really needs talents like you.

(End of this chapter)