Dare to cook

Chapter 7 Double A-level Missions

If I am young and promising and not inferior, I know what is precious.

Those beautiful dreams were not given to you, I will be ashamed all my life...

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It was four o'clock in the morning and it was still dark.

The wake-up bell rang beside Yao Yu's pillow.

Yao Yu turned off the alarm on his phone, rubbed his eyes and sat up on the bed.

Today is Yao Yu's first day in Renhe Pavilion, and it will be a very important and busy day for him.

Yao Yu got up, washed up, glanced at the photos of the famous chefs of the Yao family hanging on the wall of the living room, then walked out of the house and drove to the largest seafood market in Shanghai.

The ingredients for Renhe Pavilion are purchased by a special person, so Yao Yu doesn't need to worry about it.

However, if he wanted to make some local dishes with excellent taste, Yao Yu had to buy some items himself.

People in Shencheng like to eat crabs, and crab roe and crab sauce are indispensable in the high-end local dishes.

Crab roe and crab sauce are not only delicious when mixed with noodles, but if used well, they can play a very good role in hanging soup, refreshing, and steaming vegetables.

For professional local chefs, crab sauce is an indispensable condiment in the kitchen.

Yao Yu deliberately woke up early in order to buy the best ingredients for crab sauce.

The seafood market at four or five o'clock is already very busy.

80.00% of the seafood here will be sent to the back kitchens of various restaurants and restaurants before [-]:[-] in the morning.

After Yao Yu came to the seafood market, he didn't go to the wholesale area, but came to the northeast corner of the market.

Here is the gathering area for high-end seafood in the entire market.

All kinds of seafood with the best quality will be gathered here, and then bought and taken away by chefs in need.

After Yao Yu came here, he directly activated the skill of [Clearly Investigating Detail].

Under the systematic vision of discerning the details, the quality of all seafood cannot escape Yao Yu's eyes.

Even if it's seafood packed in a foam box, Yao Yu can see through the box to see what's inside at a glance.

Lobster with a quality of 9.7, grouper with a score of 9.81, king crab with a quality of 9.67...

There are so many good things...

But these are not what Yao Yu wants.

He continued to wander around, and finally stopped in front of a seafood stall.

"Boss, how do you sell swimming crabs?"

The seafood vendor said: "The yellow shell is 90 yuan a catty, and the purple shell is [-] yuan."

Swimming crabs are also called white crabs, and they are distributed in most coastal areas of our country.

This sea crab is in great demand in the market.

However, if wild catches are used to supply the market, it is easy to destroy the ecological balance.

So as early as a few years ago, some people began to breed swimming crabs on a large scale.

Swimming crabs cultured in an artificially simulated natural environment are generally green-shelled and yellow-shelled.The pure wild crabs will have purple on their shells because of the different food they eat.

What Yao Yu wants is this kind of high-quality wild crab.

He said to the vendor:
"Choose ten purple-shell female crabs for me, each weighing more than one and a half catties."

As soon as the street vendor heard this, he knew he had met an expert.

"Are you planning to make crab roe paste? If you only buy purple-shell female crabs, the price will be more expensive."

"It doesn't matter, as long as the crab is good. Don't try to fool me with the dyed crab."

"How can it be? Allah's business depends on word of mouth."

After picking the crabs, weigh them on the scale. Ten crabs weigh exactly [-] catties.

After Yao Yu scanned the QR code to pay the bill, he was about to leave with the crab in hand, when he turned around and saw a somewhat familiar old man walking towards him.

"Mr. Liu, are you here to visit the market so early?" Yao Yu asked in surprise when he saw the visitor.

Liu Zi, who is nearly seventy years old, is thin and thin.

He is the founder of Zijunlou, the largest seafood restaurant in Shanghai.

He is also a chef who was once on the Kirin List.

But later, when he got older, Liu Zicheng stopped cooking for nearly ten years, and gradually retired from the list of unicorns.

Liu Zicheng didn't expect to run into Yao Yu either.He and Yao Yu's grandfather Yao Liren are old friends.

Seeing Yao Yu at this time, Liu Zi was overjoyed:

"Xiao Yao, I heard that your illness has been cured? Why don't you go to work in the Renhe Hall instead of looking for your Grandpa Liu?"

Yao Yu smiled and said:

"There are so many masters in your Zijun building. I can only do odd jobs when I go. Why did you come out so early? It's not yet dawn."

"As people get older, they can't sleep anymore. It's better to go out for a walk."

As Liu Zicheng said, he saw the crab Yao Yu was carrying and smiled.

"Heh, your crabs are big enough. Are they all female crabs? Are they going to be used to make crab roe or crab sauce?"

"Do a little of both." Yao Yu said.

Liu Zicheng nodded:
"To make crab sauce, you need good crabs and good wine. You should use Shaoxing old wine that is more than ten years old for your crabs. It's best to use Nurhong, or it will be wasted."

"If you're not in a hurry, just wait. I'll have someone send you some dried peach blossoms in the afternoon. Soak peach petals and almonds in warm water and add them to the crab sauce to enhance the taste."

"Okay, thank you Grandpa Liu. I will try the method you taught later."

Yao Yu was very surprised, he didn't expect Liu Zicheng to teach him how to make crab sauce.

You know, Liu Zicheng is the best figure in the Yangtze River Delta in terms of his ability to make crab sauce.

Over the years, many chefs on the Qilin list want to learn how to make crab sauce from Liu Zicheng, but Liu Zicheng just doesn't teach.

Except for his little apprentice, Liu Zicheng seldom instructs others to make crab sauce.

Liu Zicheng chuckled and said with emotion:
"You don't have to thank me. When it comes to cooking seafood, your grandpa is better than me. I couldn't forget the whole crab feast he made at that time."

"It's a pity, your grandfather passed away early, and your second uncle passed away even earlier."

"Fortunately, you cured the problem on your tongue, otherwise, your Yao family..."

When Liu Zicheng said this, he suddenly stopped, because it would be inappropriate to continue.

He has an old relationship with the Yao family.

For the sake of Grandpa Yao Yu, Liu Zicheng was also willing to teach Yao Yu more things.

At this time, a series of messages popped up in the system.

[Trigger AA level task - the taste of memory]

[Task requirement: Please follow the recipe of 'Yao Liren' to make a whole crab feast that satisfies Liu Zicheng within one month]

[The higher Liu Zicheng's satisfaction is, the richer the rewards will be]

【mission rewards:】

[1. You can get up to 10 secret recipes of crab sauce, 6 secret recipes of fish sauce, and 7 secret recipes of advanced shrimp sauce taught by Liu Zicheng]

[2. There is a chance to unlock new skills - eat all over the world]

[Eat all over the world skill effect: When cooking seafood dishes, you can get up to 30% additional cooking skill value bonus]

Yao Yu was shocked immediately.

To reproduce the whole crab banquet presented by grandfather Yao Liren, Liu Zicheng, the number one seafood chef in Shanghai, must be satisfied?
System, are you sure you're not embarrassing me, Fat Tiger?
However, the corresponding rewards are also very rich.

Why can Liu Zicheng make Zijun Building the No. [-] seafood restaurant in Shanghai?It is because he has too many secret recipes for exclusive crab sauce.

As long as Yao Yu can learn Liu Zicheng's secret recipe, his seafood cooking skills will improve by leaps and bounds.

Moreover, the effect of the skill Eat All over the World is even more titanium.

If he can acquire that skill, he will gain a considerable advantage even if he meets the Chef of the Qilin List in the seafood cooking showdown!
This task is well worth doing!
(End of this chapter)