Rebirth of the Almighty Internet Celebrity

Chapter 100

Having basically figured out Qi Qi's true thoughts, Qi Dahai no longer had the initial panic.

Liang Teng, Wu Xia, and Principal Li all calmed down.

Qi Dahai was too lazy to entangle his daughter needlessly.

He turned his gaze to Wu Xia and Liang Teng.As long as Liang Teng nodded and agreed to Qiqi's little request, the matter would be resolved.

If Liang Teng insists on not agreeing, it won't be too late for him to come to work on Qiqi's side.

Liang Teng felt that everyone's attention was focused on him.

Liang Teng didn't hesitate, and discussed the details with the little girl: "Can you guarantee that no matter whether you win or lose after the cooking competition, you will not use the money you have saved for more than ten years to invest in real estate? If yes, I will follow you Learn about cooking."

"Okay, okay. I promise to invest in the future and completely bypass the real estate industry. I won't invest in land in any city." Qiqi's little head lit up like a chicken pecking at rice.

"Okay then. Of course you have a well-thought-out plan when you propose to compare cooking skills. Tell me, how do you plan to compare cooking skills?"

"It just so happens that the dishes ordered today are not to the public's liking," Qi Qi said, "Boss Liang and I will each cook a dish, so that everyone can boost their appetite."

Principal Li thought very sadly: Who said that these dozen dishes are not suitable for the public's appetite.I'm hungry looking at this table of food... Everyone is dragged by you to not move their chopsticks, and it's hard for me to eat alone.

Liang Teng said with a slight embarrassment: "This is a big hotel. Will they let us use their kitchen freely? How about we finish this meal first and then find another kitchen to compare our skills? This matter is not particularly urgent, right? .”

Qiqi also thought of the difficulty of this reality.

But the little girl's style of doing things is very fast, and she doesn't want to procrastinate.Can not help but hesitate to hesitate.

"It's easy to fix."

Qi Dahai spoke.He could see his daughter's inner thoughts, and he didn't want such trivial matters to drag on for too long, consuming everyone's time and energy talking about serious matters.

What is business?Of course, it is to help Wu Xia and Liang Teng to complete the land purchase in the shortest possible time.Sell ​​a big face to Miss Wu.This is also to lay a good foundation for one's future "motivation".

"I know Chef Li who is in charge of the kitchen in this hotel. He has a daughter who has just graduated from college and is an intern in the social news department of my 'Vientiane.com'. For her daughter's 'regularization' in the unit, Chef Li personally He visited me at the headquarters of Wanxiang.com... I asked him to come forward to coordinate and occupy the kitchen of the hotel, should he have some face?"

Principal Li nodded again and again: "I know Chef Li. He is the mainstay of this hotel. He can decide things like borrowing a kitchen."

Qi Qi was even more tricky, and suddenly had a whim and said: "What kind of kitchen do you want to borrow? With such a big battle, people thought we were going to have a 'Manchu Banquet'. Boss Liang and I cook a dish alone, and ask the hotel kitchen to deliver gas cylinders." , send a gas stove, send a full set of cooking utensils, and send us the list of ingredients according to the list of ingredients that Boss Liang and I made... probably these are enough."

The others looked at her speechlessly.

That's easy to say.

But it is even more troublesome to move so many things around when cooking a dish.

According to Principal Li's knowledge, the hotel's kitchen is located on the first floor. To collect all the necessary things from there and transport them to the ninth floor where their boxes are located, they have to go through the elevator.Obviously more tossing.

Qi Dahai was the same as his daughter in this matter, and he didn't feel that he was causing trouble to others.

After all, they are rich people who are used to living with servants to take care of them.

Isn't it just to let the waiter run a few more legs now?What's the matter?
It's the off-season for the hotel business, so there's not much errands to run, so aren't those waiters too idle to chat?

Qi Dahai asked Qi Qi and Liang Teng to write down the "ingredients" they needed on paper, and he would tell them to deliver them later.

Both Qi Qi and Liang Teng were very knowledgeable, and expressed that they wanted to learn cooking skills, of course cooking dishes with the same ingredients.So I respectfully ask Boss Qi to "propose a question", what kind of themed meat dish do you need?

Qi Dahai turned to ask Wu Xia to "propose a question".

Wu Xia said that she was an employee of Mr. Liang, and she wanted to avoid suspicion, and she couldn't be honest. She suspected that she specially picked the dishes that her boss was good at as "examination questions".Let's ask Boss Qi to ask questions.

Qi Dahai really didn't think about this, so he also stated that Qi Qi is his daughter, and he also wanted to avoid suspicion.

Everyone gave way to each other, and finally simply asked Principal Li to "propose a question".

Principal Li was stunned.

I couldn't get rid of it a few times, so I had to say: "Then use chicken as the main ingredient. Make a dish, steam, fry, bake... no matter what method you choose. In the end, the dish that everyone thinks is more delicious win. How?"

Principal Li hasn't eaten chicken for a long time, and now he's a little greedy when he thinks about chicken.Therefore, it is recommended that chicken be used as the main ingredient.

The others happened to have eaten chicken in the past two days, and they ate quite a lot.It's a bit boring to hear chicken.

But after thinking about it, wouldn't it be more skillful to make the chicken, which is not very interesting now, delicious and appetizing?It is also easier to judge the quality of cooking!
So it was unanimously agreed to use chicken as the main ingredient.

After deciding on the main ingredients, Liang Teng and Qi Qi each pondered for a moment, thinking about what kind of dish to cook.In this way, the ingredients are easily listed.

Liang Teng and Qi Qi quickly wrote down all the ingredients they needed on white paper and handed them over to Qi Dahai.

Qi Dahai was also unambiguous, and immediately picked up his mobile phone, found Chef Li's, and dialed it.

The call was connected quickly.

Qi Dahai didn’t say that his daughter wanted to cook by himself, but said that he was in Jiahe International Hotel now, the weather was cold and the dishes were freezing quickly, and he was used to hot dishes, so he wanted some utensils and ingredients from the kitchen Come and eat while it's hot.

Not to mention that this is not a difficult task, even if it is to make things difficult, if you ask Boss Qi, Chef Li will readily agree.

Qi Dahai then reported a series of names according to the ingredients list of his daughter and Liang Teng.Chef Li wrote down one by one.

Qi Dahai hung up the phone.Everyone continued chatting and waited for the people in the kitchen to bring things.

Wu Xia was a little curious, picked up the list of ingredients that Liang Teng and Qi Qi wrote down on the same white paper, and looked at it carefully.

Qiqi's ingredients include lotus leaves, flour, wine jar mud, a three-yellow chicken (about two catties in weight), and a lot of seasoning spices including star anise, cumin, cloves, and jade fruit powder.

Cooking wine is of course indispensable.

The ingredients also include lard, diced chicken, lean meat, shrimp, mushrooms and so on.

In addition, I asked for tin foil and an oven.

Wu Xia also has a special preference for food.Looking at Qiqi's list of ingredients, including the oven, lotus leaf and tin foil, she is [-]% sure that Qiqi is going to make a "beggar's chicken".

The authentic method of "Beggar's Chicken" is of course to dig a mud kiln in the wild, and directly bake the mud ball wrapped in "Beggar's Chicken" until it is pitch black.Then knock it open again, the aroma is tangy.

From an unsightly black mass to a mouth-watering delicacy, the huge contrast between before and after adds a lot of fun.

This is a big hotel, as long as you are willing to give a "tip", it is not absolutely impossible to ask the waiter to find two sacks of mud to make the authentic original "Beggar's Chicken".

But if you really want to make such a fuss, it is estimated that the hotel management will also have opinions.

So Qiqi wisely bought an "oven".

Anyway, the final decision is the taste of the dishes you cook, not the fun and boring process.

If you want to shoot a video, of course you must use two sacks of mud.Can't save trouble.

After reading the neat list, I have a good idea.Wu Xia looked at Liang Tenglie's list again.

A hen, sea cucumbers, fungus, bamboo shoots, sea rice, lean pork shreds, scallops, abalone, magnolia slices, ham, squid, mushrooms, etc. are a lot.

Condiments include: pepper oil, soy sauce, refined salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, dough soaked in water, broth, onion and ginger oil, etc.

Liang Teng's choice of ingredients didn't have any obvious signature ingredients, and Wu Xia couldn't guess what kind of dish he wanted to cook for a while.

According to her experience, using these relatively common ingredients listed by Liang Teng, there are at least ten ways to prepare a whole chicken.

It is not surprising that he cannot guess which approach he is going to adopt.

This kind of unknown thing also made Wu Xia a lot of interested.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a fat middle-aged man who was almost as tall as he was wide took a few waiters in person and "escorted" all the things Qi Dahai asked for into the box.

That big fat man was Chef Li who was on the phone with Qi Dahai before.

Chef Li was very enthusiastic about Qi Haihai, and several waiters left consciously after putting away the food.Chef Li continued to get close to Qi Dahai.

What about "Don't be surprised if you can't prepare the best materials in a hurry", what "Boss Qi is coming to the hotel to make the hotel flourish", what "Boss Qi is so low-key, he didn't even tell you when he came, so that he can prepare for the welcome banquet." ", what "If the little girl doesn't perform well in Boss Qi's company, Boss Qi should point her out so that she can improve"...

The purpose of rambling here and there is to create a sense of presence in front of Qi Dahai.

Qi Dahai was quite helpless, knowing what his ultimate goal was.

So I gave him some thoughts: "Ling Qianjin's performance in this company is excellent, which is obvious to all. With her talent, she is naturally qualified to stay in 'Vientiane.com'. This is not something I specially opened for her. Don't worry. gone."

Chef Li was overjoyed.

In order to express his gratitude, Chef Li pointed at the dishes on the table, pretending to be displeased and said: "Those old fritters in the kitchen are fooling people with the 'cooked food' purchased from outside. I am also on vacation these days. If I 'sit' in the hotel kitchen and absolutely do not allow so many purchased 'cooked food' to appear at the banquet."

"For example, for this lemon roast duck, I always ask for it to be roasted fresh. When the guests agree to serve the dish, the roast duck will be ready about three hours in advance. When the table is served, the lemon roast duck can be full of color, fragrance and taste. The taste is excellent. Those The roast duck purchased outside is easy, and it doesn’t mean that the roast duck is too hot, but it has been placed for too long, and the best tasting time has been lost.”

"This step is bad, every step is bad, and the taste in the end is absolutely different. Everyone recognizes that I am the number one chef in this city. In fact, many people don't know that my old Li is not so good at cooking. I just win in the kitchen. 'Serious' and 'heart'."

Qi Dahai, Principal Li, Liang Teng and Wu Xia nodded frequently.

A look of "deep empathy".

Qi Qi was quite impatient.

She was eager to show off her cooking skills, but Chef Li refused to leave.

She didn't know how many times she said in her heart, "talking, talking, talking, talking, talking..."

Chef Li said that he would get another freshly cooked dish for Boss Qi.

Qi Dahai declined politely, not to be so troublesome.

Chef Li chatted a few more words and left satisfied.

With no irrelevant idlers waiting to get in the way, Liang Teng and Qiqi started their preparations.

The hotel's service is quite considerate, Qiqi didn't catch a live chicken directly.Otherwise, Qi Qi, who hadn't even killed a chicken, would definitely make the box a mess.

The three-yellow chicken had been plucked, bled, its internal organs were taken out, and washed with water.

Qiqi can be marinated directly with soy sauce, cooking wine and salt.

In addition, grind cloves and star anise into fine powder, then add jade fruit powder and mix well.Gently rub all over the chicken.

The chicken needs to be marinated for enough time, so take advantage of this opportunity to open the gas bottles, turn on the gas stove, put the iron pot on the open flame, then put the lard into the pot and cook until it is cooked.Then add onions and ginger and sauté until fragrant.Then put the diced chicken, lean pork, shrimp, ham sausage, shiitake mushroom...in the auxiliary ingredients into the pot and fry until cooked.

After taking it out of the pot, place it on several plates and set aside.

After that, it's time to wait for the pickling to finish.

……

Liang Teng was also unambiguous, the marinating work takes time, so the preparation work should be done first.

What he has to do is much more complicated than Qiqi.

The hotel also offers dehaired and gutted chicken, but that's not enough.

Liang Teng took a sharp knife and skillfully removed the bones of the whole chicken.

Only the bones of the chicken head and legs are left.

Liang Teng was used to cutting chicken bones before, and the chicken he picked was not as tender as Qiqi's three-yellow chicken, and was relatively old.It's also easier to chip away at the bone.

Next, Liang Teng took sixteen kinds of condiments, including sea cucumber, sea rice, fungus, bamboo shoots, lean pork shreds, scallops, abalone, magnolia slices, ham, squid, mushrooms, etc., in a certain proportion, and stuffed them all into the into the belly of the chicken.

Then put another iron pot on another stove of the gas stove.Then pour half of the [-]-jin bucket of first-grade peanut oil into the iron pot.

Turn on the open fire, boil half a pot of oil, and then directly fry the "boneless chicken" filled with ingredients in the oil.

Liang Teng controls the heat. When the boneless chicken is fried until it is "charred on the outside and tender on the inside", he picks it up with a large mesh spoon, drains the oil, and steams it in a steamer for a while.

……

Finally, the three yellow chickens have been marinated for enough time.

Qi Qi pinches two cloves, and places one on each of the three yellow chickens' armpits.

Then wrap the chicken body tightly with lard oil.Then use a large lotus leaf to wrap the whole chicken.The lotus leaf is wrapped with a layer of tin foil, and then wrapped with a layer of lotus leaf.

Wrapped so tightly that you don't have to worry about lard overflowing, the chicken and lotus leaves are tied tightly with fine hemp rope repeatedly.

Qiqi took another larger plate, crushed the mud from the wine jar into powder, added water, and gradually blended it into a thick mud.

Next, spread the wet mud on the wet cloth to a thickness of about 1.5 cm.

It doesn't work too much.

At this time, Qiqi went to fetch the tightly bundled chicken, put it in the middle of the thick mud, then picked up the four corners of the wet cloth wrapped in mud, and wrapped the three yellow chicken tightly again.

In this way, the mud on the wet cloth will gradually stick to the "lotus leaf" on the outside of the chicken.

When it is confirmed that the wet mud has been transferred to the three yellow chickens, the wet cloth is removed, and the wrapping paper prepared earlier in the morning is used to wrap it.

This is mainly to prevent sticking hands.

Then it's easy.Qiqi has prepared an oven in advance, which is specially used for roasting "Beggar's Chicken".

Without firewood in the wild, direct barbecue can only be replaced by technological products such as "oven".

A lot less wild. Fun, but also a lot more clean and hygienic.

Qiqi put the wrapped chicken in the oven and baked it directly on high heat for 40 minutes.

When it can be taken out, see if the mud in some places is dry and cracked, and Qi Qi uses the remaining mud to fill the cracks.

Then continue to put it in the oven and continue to bake with high heat for 30 minutes.

Then switch to low heat to roast...

According to Qiqi, it still needs to be baked for a long time.It means that after the chicken is roasted, you can knock off the mud on the surface, untie the rope, and remove the lotus leaf and tin foil.

At that time, or sesame oil, soy sauce, sesame oil or oyster sauce, etc., according to each person's taste, they are topped with different oils to eat.

It takes some time to get out of the oven.

On Liang Teng's side, he also started to take an oval plate and began to arrange beautiful vegetable patterns.

The main thing is to match the green and red vegetables into a pattern, and put them on the plate, which can produce a strong visual aesthetic impact.

So far, Liang Teng and Qiqi's dishes, including manual operations, have almost been completed.

Just wait enough time to serve the chicken out.

……

The series of "cosplay" between the two made the few onlookers enjoy the video.

Qi Dahai even took out his mobile phone at the request of his daughter and recorded some exciting videos.

Segmented recording is not as strict as continuous shooting.Qi Dahai also took pictures casually.Record something interesting.

Relatively speaking, among the group of people, Wu Xia has the most knowledge about food. After watching Liang Teng make it to the end, he finally got a little impression of this dish.

She had some unclear memory and asked uncertainly: "Is this the one named seafood, uh, 'Seafood Assorted Chicken'?"

Liang Teng nodded: "There are places where this dish is called like this. Look at the dish I prepared to hold the chicken. The pattern of green vegetables on it is like a piece of brocade. After the deboned chicken comes out of the cage, put it on Put it on this dish, doesn't it look like a whole chicken lying in a cluster? Probably this is the origin of the name 'Assorted Chicken'. But I prefer its other widely spread name—— Bag chicken!"

"Is this 'Bag Chicken'?"

Qi Dahai and Qi Qi were shocked.

The two of them had heard the name "Budai Chicken", but they never paid attention to it, and of course they never tasted it.

Liang Teng said: "Qi Qi's chicken and I will put it on a plate together and present it to the dinner table for everyone to taste. Look, these two dishes look pretty good. I'm happy to be able to show off my cooking skills today." Satisfied. There is no point in winning or losing.”

Qi Qi also admired Liang Teng's flowing skills.

At this time, I didn’t have as strong a desire to compete as I did at the beginning.

She also nodded frequently to Liang Teng's polite words, expressing her approval.

Wu Xia looks at it from a professional perspective. Like Qi Qi and Liang Teng, the "cooking skills" whose "appreciation" is far greater than the technical requirements, feel that it is difficult to see a person's real cooking skills.

Wu Xia always felt that the real test of a person's "cooking skills" still lies in the control of the heat, the blending of salt and light, these most basic skills.

Just like the simplest dish of stir-fried vegetables, there is a huge difference in taste between those with high cooking skills and those with poor cooking skills.

As for the two things Liang Teng and Qi Qi made, there were a lot of ingredients and they were full of flavor.

Then there are tools such as ovens to automatically control the heat.

How many gold-rich "cooking skills" are there in something delicious to eat.This is a matter of opinion.

For example, "barbecue" is the most popular among young people.Buy a lot of barbecue materials, a lot of ingredients, and grill them to eat.Can you say that young people who know how to barbecue can be called "excellent cooks"?

Wu Xia felt that it shouldn't reflect too much cooking skills.

But from the perspective of visual appreciation, Liang Teng and Qiqi's approach is definitely more pleasing.

No wonder these two guys want to make a big splash when it comes to shooting "food videos."They are all big experts who are deeply aware of "strengthening strengths and avoiding weaknesses".

Just when everyone was thinking about it, Principal Li felt so hungry that he almost fainted from hunger.

He is used to being frugal, and he knows that today he has to pay out of his own pocket to treat Boss Qi to a "big meal". Principal Li didn't even eat breakfast in the morning.

I've been preparing for this meal at noon to pay back my money.There is no way, that's how Xiaomin thinks.

Unexpectedly, Qi Qi got into trouble and wanted to compete with Liang Teng in terms of cooking skills.

Just fight, it took too long to make this dish with chicken as the main material.

Principal Li has been suffering from hunger and hunger, and he can hardly bear it anymore.

A thought popped into his mind: one of the stoves of the gas stove is not in use now, is it used to heat up one or two dishes on the table.How much to eat, cushion stomach?

At this moment, waiters pushed the trolley one after another and knocked on the door to deliver food.

Principal Li just thought: This is already a table full of dishes.Why send it again?They must have sent it by mistake, right?

But the head waiter told Qi Dahai: The hot dishes on this table were made by Chef Li himself, and Chef Li ordered Boss Qi to eat them.

It turned out that although Qi Dahai declined, Chef Li still insisted on making a table of fresh dishes for them to eat.

This is also an expression of Boss Qi's gratitude for his willingness to reuse his daughter.

The dishes are all ready.Qi Dahai also stopped being polite, so let the waiters serve the food.

The waiter had already been informed by Chef Li, and he knew that the table in the box was full of dishes.So specially bring another table.

After setting up the dining table that comes with you, all kinds of freshly made dishes with excellent color, fragrance and taste on the trolley were placed on the table one after another.

After setting it up, the team leader said "Please take it easy" to the guests, and then took a few waiters and left quietly.

Looking at a table full of steaming dishes, just looking at the appearance, I feel that they are much better than the table of dishes that Principal Li invited before.

It whets the appetite.

Principal Li was secretly delighted, but at the same time felt sorry for the table he ordered: a table full of dishes without chopsticks?It is estimated that no one ate it.The dish I ordered cannot be refunded, and it is impossible to give me a free order.Otherwise, I will finally pack it quietly.Otherwise it would be too wasteful!
(End of this chapter)