Chapter 634 This Is the Real Beggar's Chicken
In less than fifteen minutes, a beggar chicken came out of the oven. This was the fastest one that Chen Xinan had ever made.
After all, they used modern kitchen equipment here, including liquid gas stoves, ovens, etc.
Chen Xinan brought the whole beggar chicken wrapped in lotus leaves and placed it on an empty table, saying to Master Cai: "Come, try it!"
A cook came over, looked at Chen Xinan with disdain and scolded:
"You are really showing off your skills here!
Your level can be seen from your work. Do you still need to taste this chicken?
In the time you spent, my master could have made three pots!
You dare to come and challenge with such a level, you are simply sick!"
The other cooks also laughed, and the way they looked at Chen Xinan was like seeing an idiot who had just learned to count and dared to challenge a university professor.
Chen Xinan did not say anything, but just stood by the table naturally, looking at Master Cai.
On the contrary, Master Cai looked a little solemn. He took a deep breath and walked to the table. Just when he was about to open the lotus leaf package on the plate, the cook next to him said:
"Master, you can't eat meat, I'll do it!
It's something made by a layman, I'll give him face by trying it!
See if he can't make anything delicious..."
While speaking, he had already opened the lotus leaf package outside, with a hint of ridicule on his face, and he was talking, but when a wave of hot air came up, he was stunned!
"It smells so good!" A female cook standing next to him exclaimed, and then immediately covered her mouth, as if she had said something wrong.
But no one around blamed her, because everyone's nose was attracted by this special smell at this moment!
This is definitely a different smell from Cai's beggar chicken.
It's just that this smell is constantly stimulating people's taste buds.
It makes people drool and want to feast on it immediately!
"It smells good, but whether it tastes as good as it does is not certain! Let me try it first!"
"Yes! The beggar chicken is still the best made by the master. How can others' be delicious? Let me try it too. It must be tasteless!"
"Damn, we agreed to taste it, why did you tear off the whole chicken leg!"
"This chicken tastes ordinary, I can't taste it with a piece of meat. I want this chicken leg to taste how big the difference is compared with the master's craftsmanship!"
"Then this chicken leg is mine! Let me tell you, I'm tired of eating chicken now! I want to vomit when I smell it! If it weren't for the master, I wouldn't eat so much chicken!"
Everyone stared at Master Cai's cooks in amazement, scrambling for the plate of beggar chicken without any image. They all stretched their necks and swallowed their saliva.
The fragrance that just came out was only smelled by the few people standing next to them.
But once the whole chicken was gutted, the fragrance was smelled by everyone around the stall, which really made people swallow their saliva and increase their appetite.
Master Cai walked to the side of his apprentices and tried to push them away, but was elbowed by his apprentice, who cursed without turning his head:
"Don't push us! You are all like wolves. There is only this much, how can we grab it?"
Master Cai's face turned black, and he shouted at them: "Don't eat it all, leave some for me!"
An apprentice snorted and cursed: "Why? Are you so confused? I grabbed it with my own ability, why should I give it to you? If you want to eat it, you can buy it with money!"
Master Cai: "..."
The cook held the chicken leg and chewed it. After chewing it for two bites, he felt something was wrong. He turned his head and was startled. He shouted: "Master?!"
He stood aside obediently, coughed twice to the other cooks, and kept winking.
A group of cooks looked embarrassed and honestly retreated to the side.
A fat man did not forget to secretly put the chicken butt in his palm behind his back, turned his head and pretended to cough, and stuffed the chicken butt into his mouth.
Master Cai felt a little depressed when he saw the plate with not much bone left in front of him.
As the cook just said, these guys really want to vomit when they smell chicken!
Sometimes they cook too much and can't sell it, so they want them to take it home to eat to save waste.
As a result, they are lazier than each other, and no one wants it.
In fact, people who do this kind of business have some occupational diseases.
Even if it is a delicacy from the mountains and the sea, you will feel sick of it if you cook and eat it every day!
But what is it now?
You feel sick of what I cook, and you come to grab what others cook. Aren't they all beggar chickens?
How much difference can the taste have?
Master Cai looked at the minced meat and bones left by the cooks on the lotus leaf with a stern face, picked up a piece with a look of disgust, and put it in his mouth.
He just chewed it twice, and then he was stunned.
When he was a child, his grandfather made beggar chicken for him by the river, and it tasted like this.
But as he grew up, whether it was his father or himself,
No matter how many culinary honors you have won or how much money you have earned with your skills, you can no longer make food taste like this!
After chewing the food in his mouth, he swallowed it, and the fragrance seemed to remain in his mouth.
Master Cai turned his head to look at Chen Xinan, and said sincerely: "I am not as good as you in making beggar's chicken!
How do you make this taste?
I have been pursuing the most authentic taste of beggar's chicken, but I have never found it.
I didn't expect that today, you opened my eyes!"
Chen Xinan pouted and said: "How can this be the most authentic taste of beggar's chicken! It's far from it!
The tools are wrong, the materials are wrong, and the ingredients are even more wrong, so the taste is certainly wrong!"
Master Cai looked at Chen Xinan in disbelief and asked: "This kind of chicken is not the most delicious? Your requirements are too high, right?
You still say that this is wrong and that is wrong? I think you are a little too modest!"
Chen Xinan snorted and said: "What are you modest about! I tell you, beggar's chicken is not the most delicious chicken! It's easy to make.
But it's not easy to make something delicious, and it has requirements in all aspects!
First of all, the material of the chicken is best for domestic chickens. The factory chickens fed with this kind of feed are far inferior in meat quality!
In terms of materials, firewood is naturally the best, because only the smell of firewood can make the chicken fully flavored, and the fragrance of lotus leaves can penetrate into the chicken!
The ingredients are even more particular, and the aroma of chicken must be purified, and it must not be dominated by the main ingredients!
Now your ingredients are too strong, and the beggar chicken you make can no longer smell the fragrance of chicken, but the smell of seasoning, and the fragrance of meat has become something dispensable.
This is a typical assembly line food, the taste is only superficial, I said the taste is average, am I wrong? "
Master Cai blushed when he heard it, and now he finally understood that he had met an expert among experts!
With such a gap, he still wanted him to apologize in front of everyone? It was simply self-humiliation!
Chen Xin'an didn't say much, he was not someone of the other party, not everyone was qualified to be taught a lesson by him.
Shaking his head, Chen Xinan turned and left, ready to return to his friends.
Master Cai suddenly said from behind: "Brother, I will hire you with a monthly salary of 15,000 yuan to be the master chef at my stall!
You can ask around. I am the only one who can afford this price in the entire Tanshi Street!"
Everyone exclaimed, and a bunch of kitchen workers also showed envy.
15,000 yuan a month, even in Kyoto City, is not considered a low income!
The annual salary is almost 200,000 yuan!
Chen Xinan just smiled and shook his head, without saying anything.
Master Cai certainly did not give up. If he could recruit this young man, he would have more hope of making a comeback!