"Hey, Xiang Jin, your cooking is indeed amazing. It's even better than the food I had in some restaurants in the provincial capital."
After dinner, the adults were all sitting in the courtyard setting up the Dragon Gate Formation. Xiang Jin and the other young people also automatically formed their own small circle. Han Che sat on the only recliner in Xiang's family's house, sighing on his face.
Then he spoke out with satisfaction.
"Don't put a high hat on me. It's just a few simple home-cooked dishes. How can it be as exaggerated as you said? If I meet a real famous chef, my level may also be their entry-level level.
, Well, it’s like elementary school students and college students.”
Although Xiang Jin has always been quite satisfied with his cooking skills, he is not so confident that he gets carried away when someone compliments him casually.
Han Che widened his eyes exaggeratedly and said, "No, is this the level of you, or the entry-level level of a general? Then you are like this, how can I and Yan Chen be embarrassed?"
Xiang Jin was immediately confused, "What does this have to do with you two?"
Han Che looked around and saw that Yan Chen hadn't come back yet, so he lowered his voice and said to Xiang Jin, "Let me reveal a secret to you."
"What secret?" Xiang Jin suddenly became interested.
Then Han Che probed in the direction of the courtyard entrance like a little mouse. Seeing that Yan Chen still hadn't come back, he said, "Don't think Yan Chen is so smart. He is good at reading and has good grades."
, it seems that he can learn to do other things as soon as possible, but he actually has no talent at all when it comes to cooking.”
Xiang Jin didn't believe it, "No way, I think he was very skilled in washing and chopping vegetables today, and the vegetables he fried today were also good."
Han Che said, "It's true, I didn't lie to you, he can only do these three things. If you don't believe me, you will know if you ask him to cook you a meal one day.
Let me tell you, since the two of us were ten years old, his grandfather and my grandfather left my second uncle to learn how to cook. However, we have been learning for nearly four years, and we still don’t have much knowledge.
Make progress.
Yan Chen only learned how to wash and cut vegetables, and stir-fry one plate of vegetables, but I might be a little better than him. I can stir-fry several plates of vegetarian vegetables and a dish of spicy and sour potato shreds.
But Yan Chen can cook porridge, he can cook several kinds of porridge, but I can only cook white porridge."
Xiang Jin immediately laughed after hearing this, "You two are really good friends and brothers. You even have the same talent in cooking."
Han Che immediately defended himself, "I'm different from him. He just has no talent. It's because I don't like cooking, so I haven't studied it carefully. If I studied it seriously, I would definitely be better than him."
So much talent.”
"What is more talented than anyone else?"
At this moment, Yan Chen came over with a can of tea, which immediately startled Han Che, "You, you, you, why did you come back all of a sudden?"
"Why don't you come back after taking the things?" After Yan Chen handed the tea to Xiang Jin, he stared at him suspiciously.
Han Che felt guilty and did not dare to look at him, so he said, "Xiang Jin, let me help you make tea." After that, he stood up from the recliner, grabbed the tea box from Xiang Jin's hand, and
Rush into the main room.
Staring at Han Che's fleeing back, Yan Chen became even more confused, so he turned to ask Xiang Jin, "He was with you just now..." But before he finished speaking, he saw
Xiang Jin stared at himself with a joking expression on his face.
"Oh, it's nothing, he just praised the delicious food I cooked," Xiang Jin said quickly, but she regretted it after saying this.
Sure enough, Yan Chen's brows suddenly furrowed, and then he could not help but grit his teeth and whisper, "Han Che has such a big mouth!"
Oh my god, smart people are like this. With just a little prompting, they can figure out what the whole incident is like.
Xiang Jin pretended not to hear clearly and looked at him with a puzzled expression, "Ah, what did you say?"
Yan Chen said, "Oh, it's nothing. I said I would go and serve him tea."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Then I'll join you," after all, there are so many people, and they only have four hands in total.
After several people brought out the tea and handed it to the adults, the young men also took a cup and drank it.
Han Che continued the previous topic, "Xiang Jin, your cooking skills are so good, you can open a restaurant directly!"
Xiang Jin glanced at him sideways while drinking tea, "I'm still studying, why should I open a restaurant?"
Han Che quickly explained, "No, no, I'm not talking about the present, but the future. When you stop studying, you can open a restaurant with your skills. That's what I mean."
Xiang Jin said, "I won't study in the future, and I won't open a restaurant."
"Why?" Han Che was puzzled.
Xiang Jin said, "Because I have to work?"
Han Che sighed, "That's such a pity? With such good cooking skills, it's a waste not to open a restaurant!"
Yan Chen gave him a sidelong glance.
Xiang Jin said, "It's nothing to regret. I only cook to satisfy my own appetite. I don't use it as a means of making a living in the future."
Han Che stared at her and confirmed with hope, "Are you really not planning to drive?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Ah, of course it's true. Could it be that I lied to you? Opening a restaurant is too tiring. You have to be busy all day long. You get up early and stay late. First, you have to go to the vegetable market very early.
Buying vegetables, then picking vegetables, washing vegetables, chopping vegetables, and finally cooking, without any rest time in between, I can't bear that kind of high-load work."
Han Che said, "Can you hire someone to do it? You just need to be the boss and collect money."
Xiang Jin said, "If you don't have money, how can you hire someone or be a shopkeeper? Both hiring people and being a shopkeeper require capital, so don't you have to do it yourself at the beginning?"
Han Che thought for a moment and nodded, "That's right."
Xiang Jin continued, "So for people like me, it's okay to cook a few meals occasionally to reward my stomach, but it's okay for people like me to sit around the stove, pots, pans, and oil and salt all day long.
It won't work if you are so jealous. You don't have the perseverance and patience." Then she looked at Han Che with a suspicious look on her face and said, "What do you think when you ask me this?"
Han Che nodded fiercely, "Yes, yes, you see, you don't plan to open a restaurant in the future anyway, why don't you teach me how to make those dishes?"
The suspicion on Xiang Jin's face became even worse, "You don't cook, and you don't like cooking, so why are you learning? Besides, it's just a few random home-cooked dishes, what's there to learn?"
Yan Chen folded his arms and suddenly said, "He wants to take that recipe back to his second uncle to use as a new dish in the restaurant."
"Isn't it? Your second uncle owns a restaurant, so he still lacks some of my farm dishes? Besides, the taste of my dishes is just average, far behind those of the chefs," Xiang Jin was surprised.
.
"Where is it? Don't belittle yourself, I'm telling you that my second uncle really can't cook those two dishes," Han Che quickly flattered him.
"Your second uncle still cooks the dishes himself?"
Han Che nodded, "Well, my second uncle's restaurant is not big. It's only sixty or seventy square feet in total. Including the waiter, there are only four of them. My second uncle is usually in charge.
One is responsible for washing, chopping and garnishing the dishes, the other is responsible for passing the dishes and collecting the dishes, and the third one is responsible for the cashier."
Then Xiang Jin looked at Yan Chen aside, and Yan Chen said, "His second uncle used to be in charge of logistics in the army. Later, he retired and opened a restaurant with a few comrades, but his second uncle's
There are really not many dishes. There are only a few or ten dishes here and there. No new ones have been introduced in several years. I guess everyone around me is tired of them."
Xiang Jin said, "That's not necessarily true. As the saying goes, a mountain is not as high as a fairy. It doesn't necessarily have to be a lot of dishes, as long as it has the main features of your store."
Yan Chen said, "The key is that the dishes in his second uncle's shop are just average and not as delicious as yours."
Han Che nodded sharply, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Xiang Jin was surprised, "No, it tastes just average, but it can still be used for so many years?"
Yan Chen explained to her, "Most of the troops and their families eat there."
Han Che added, "My second uncle's restaurant is not far from the military compound."
Xiang Jin asked, "Don't the troops have their own canteen? Why do they still eat out so often? Besides, aren't the troops very strictly controlled? Why, they can still come out at any time?"
Yan Chen said, "The control in the army is indeed very strict, but they will also have vacations and rotations. As long as they take vacations and rotations, they can still come out.
After eating the big pot of rice for a long time, occasionally I want to change the taste and eat some stir-fry or something? Anyway, they have a salary to receive, but they can’t spend it on ordinary days, so why don’t they eat? The most important thing is that there is another noodle shop nearby.
There is only one Chinese restaurant owned by his second uncle."