Urban Sims

Chapter 191 Xiao Long Bao

When Zhou Ming saw this recruitment notice, he had been idle in Baowan Town for three or four days, and was racking his brains to find a way to evade the monitoring and steal ripe corn from the field. , changed all the plans in his mind.

"It seems that in all my gaming life, I have never been a professional chef..."

During this period of life, I did not expect to start as a chef.

Squeezing through the crowded crowd, Zhou Ming walked into the store and said, "I want to apply for a job as a chef."

……

Inside the Valley Hotel.

Gu Naihui, who had already interviewed thirty or forty applicants, eliminated all of them except for a 17-year-old boy who was a little silly.

Of the applicants we eliminated, half were over the age of 18, and half lied about her questions.

Her younger brother is a medical student and has a bone age measuring instrument. No one's actual age can be concealed from the scan of this machine. Moreover, her younger brother also majored in psychology and has obtained a senior psychological counselor qualification certificate. With the help of the gatekeeper and the lie detector, if you have lied, you can ask two or three questions.

Even though there were still a few qualified candidates who didn't lie to her, Gu Naihui still eliminated him. She doesn't like smart people, she likes stupid ones. After all, she didn't let those applicants stay in Gu Naihui for a long time. The plan of a restaurant, wait for the money to be in hand...

"18 years old, proficient in cooking, has a family, and the family is in the lower area... Are you from the lower area?"

After learning about the personal situation of the applicant in front of her, Gu Naihui was taken aback. This guy's background is so special that he came from the lower districts. What did he do before?How did it come up?

Gu Naihui's heart was full of various questions.

Zhou Ming nodded and said: "I came from the lower area. I often helped my mother cook when I was young, so I have a deep understanding of cooking..." Speaking of these, he couldn't help but think of his mother Hongyan , has been separated for more than two months, how is mother now?Why am I feeling homesick all of a sudden...

After listening to him talking for a while, the lie detector did not move at all. Gu Naihui believed that what he said was basically true. Although she didn't hear any problems, her intuition told her: This guy can't be wanted.

The tone of his speech and the unique temperament that emanated from his body did not look like an 18-year-old boy at all, giving her a feeling of being unable to see through.

"I'm sorry, I'm almost optimistic about the previous applicants. There are two people I think..."

Zhou Ming suddenly got up and interrupted her: "Well, let me make fried rice with eggs for you to try. Take me to the kitchen and give me another 5 minutes. Since we are recruiting chefs, it is impossible to even demonstrate basic cooking skills." Don't you need any?"

Gu Naihui opened her mouth, unable to refute, her younger brother Gu Naifeng nodded, took him to the kitchen, and gave him a chance to show off his cooking skills.

After a "bang bang bang bang" sound, as expected, within 5 minutes, two plates of steaming, golden fried egg fried rice were placed in front of the Gu family siblings.

The aroma of the fried rice made the two of them swallow their saliva. The delicious fried rice whets the appetite.

Gu Naifeng dug a mouthful with a spoon and put it in his mouth. After chewing a few times, he gave Zhou Ming a thumbs up and said to Gu Naihui, "Sister, just recruit him. The rice he cooks is better than dad's." It's delicious!"

After speaking, he buried his head and wolfed it down.

Gu Naihui, who couldn't help swallowing twice just now, also picked up the spoon and tasted the fried rice on the plate, with a complicated expression on her face, but she didn't express any objection.

In this way, Zhou Ming and another simple and honest boy named "Jin Dazhuang" successfully applied for the job as chefs in the Gujia Restaurant.

……

after one day.

Knowing the severe situation facing the Gujia Restaurant, Zhou Ming, who enjoys free food and accommodation, certainly does not want this kind of life to end in just a few days. He hopes to live a more stable life.

So at the staff meeting, he suggested to Gu Naihui:

"To pull back the passenger flow, we can only adopt two strategies. First, the price is lower. The food price is lower than that of Du's restaurant. When the taste is slightly worse, let those customers who want to save money come back to the restaurant. Gujia restaurant consumption; second, research and develop new dishes, improve the taste of dishes, and make delicious dishes comparable to those made by intelligent kitchen robots, no, it must be better than the taste made by machines!"

"Two strategies, I suggest adopting the second one, developing new dishes! Try to develop a few popular dishes before the harvest period arrives. Time is tight, we should hurry up and act!"

There is only a week or so before the harvest in Baowan Town. By then, the number of migrant workers coming to Baowan Town will reach the maximum. This means a business opportunity, a business opportunity not to be missed!

Gu Naihui glared at him, and said expressionlessly: "It's easy to say, have you ever eaten dishes made by robots? And you have developed new dishes, the taste of which is comparable to that of intelligent kitchen robots? Are you a three-year-old child, such naive words Did you say it all?"

"Just give it a try, how will you know if it will work if you don't try it? Sitting like this all day long..."

Zhou Ming didn't say any more, because Gu Naihui on the opposite side started to stare at him with eyes full of anger.

Her brother Gu Naifeng said: "Sister, what Tie Qiang said makes sense, why don't you listen to him and give it a try? Didn't we try his dishes yesterday? The taste is very close to that of Dad's, and Tie Qiang Qiang said that he has many ways to improve the taste of the dishes. The traditional cooking methods of the Gu family still have a lot of room for improvement. It is indeed time for a big change in the Gu family restaurant..."

It turned out that when Zhou Ming was cooking dinner yesterday, he found that in addition to oil, salt, wine, vinegar, sugar, cumin powder, fresh powder and more than a dozen condiments in the kitchen, such as monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sauce, etc. There are very few types of spices, spices and other seasonings, especially the spicy chili powder, which can't even be seen.

Therefore, although the technology of this world is far ahead of the earth, in the field of culinary arts, compared with the food empire that Zhou Ming belongs to in the real world, which has developed for more than 5000 years, it cannot be said to be backward, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. , or in other words, there is a lot of room for enrichment and expansion.

The food made by the intelligent kitchen robot is indeed very delicious, but that’s it, Zhou Ming even thinks that it is not as delicious as the dishes made by the five-star chefs on the earth, and the standardized food has a weakness, that is, it is easy to eat. If you are tired of eating, such as Kang Shuaifu instant noodles, you will find it very delicious for the first time, but if you eat it more often, you may smell the smell and want to vomit.

"That's enough, don't talk anymore! It is impossible for humans to cook more than machines, so don't waste your efforts! I will go to the city later, you guard the restaurant, and other things, I will talk about it when I come back!"

As the person who speaks the most in the store after the store manager, Gu Naihui can only nod and obey the decision made, not to mention her brother, even her mother.

This afternoon, Gu Naihui went to Yaoxing City by car. She didn't tell everyone what she was going to do, and it took two days to leave.

So these two days gave Zhou Ming a certain amount of room to maneuver. He took the consumption card on his body and went to the street to buy ingredients such as flour, pork, leeks, shallots, etc., and then went to the hardware store to order a few aluminum alloys. The big alloy steamer spent all of his credit points (the working capital of Gu’s restaurant is all in the hands of Gu Naihui, if you want to do experiments, you can only spend your own money), and then ask Gu Naifeng and his mother’s After agreeing, I remodeled the kitchen a little bit, preparing to make the same food that smart kitchen robots can never make-xiaolongbao.

Yes, a smart kitchen robot can cook rice, stir-fry, cook soup, barbecue, and bake bread, but its internal space is limited. It is impossible to put a large steamer in it and then steam the steamed buns.

Not to mention, in this world, there is no such food as steamed buns, buns, or steamed buns.

"This, this food is so delicious! I have never eaten such a delicious food, what is it called, Xiaolongbao, pork soup Xiaolongbao? Delicious, really delicious, Tie Qiang, from your hometown People are so smart, they can invent such a genius food." Gu Naifeng gorged, and praised with a thumbs up!

"Xiaoqiang, can you give me the recipe of Xiaolongbao? Our Gujia Restaurant can let you stay here forever." Gu Naifeng's mother, Zhang Peizhen, said, looking at him longingly, hoping that his top-secret recipe would Cooking skills, you can stay in the Gu family restaurant and help the Gu family come back to life.

"delicious……"

Jin Dazhuang, a colleague who entered the restaurant with Zhou Ming, just immersed himself in eating the buns, one bite at a time, not afraid of being scalded, his hands were full of oil, and the juice splashed everywhere, and he couldn't stop at all. Zhang Peizhen, who was watching, frowned.

Zhou Ming took a tablecloth, told Jin Dazhuang to wipe his mouth, and told him to eat a little slower, and there were steamed buns (this kid has been busy with him all day today, so he will do whatever he is told to do, it seems I don’t know if he’s lazy, but he’s big and eats a lot. Zhang Peizhen doesn’t like him very much, and doesn’t understand how her daughter recruited such an edible thing), then turned to Zhang Peizhen and said:
"Auntie, it's not difficult to make Xiaolongbao. If you want to learn, I can teach you. Moreover, I can make not only Xiaolongbao, but also many other things. As long as you support me Me, everyone believes in me, I must have a way to bring the restaurant back to life, and open it bigger and bigger!"

"Okay, okay, support, we all support you!" Zhang Peizhen clapped her hands and laughed loudly. In her eyes, Zhou Ming was already regarded as a treasure.

"Brother Qiang, I have great confidence in you now, and I support you!" Gu Naifeng was about to become his fan, because the steamed buns were so delicious.

"Brother, I also support it." Jin Dazhuang, who was buried in eating steamed buns, raised his head and said, taking Zhou Ming as his brother.

……

The next day, everyone got up early, and then they were busy making small steamed buns. After they were steamed, they were sold at the door of the store. Each customer was allowed to try one. The first time they tasted this delicacy, they found 6 credit points , you can eat 10 small steamed buns, and when you give a large bowl of polenta as a gift, this morning, the small steamed buns sold out, and more than 300 steamed buns were sold. Less than a third of the way here.

In the breakfast battle, Gujia Restaurant won a big victory!
(End of this chapter)