Chapter 155 Discussion
Not to mention that Chongqing had been paying attention to them. After hearing what Su Xia said, he ran to L20 and whispered.
"L20, do you like the admiral?"
"Ah?" L20 was a little confused. She didn't know why Chongqing asked that. Anyway, she had never thought about that question.
"What I mean is." Chongqing paused and changed the words, "L20, what do you think of the admiral?"
"Not bad." L20 said, "I feel like he is different from the admiral everyone talks about."
"Another poor guy is doomed." Chongqing spread his hands. No one could become the admiral's secretary ship and then escape.
Su Xia didn't know what Chongqing was doing, otherwise he would have scolded Chongqing, saying that you, a little girl, are immoral and actually say bad things about others behind their backs. He watched Yixian put a large spoon into the oil pan and gently pushed the fried fish, and asked curiously, "How does it take to fry the fish?"
“You can fish it out once it’s fried until it turns golden brown,” Yixian replied.
"It feels golden now." Su Xia said.
Yixian shook his head and said, "It's not enough."
"It looks golden already... I don't understand." Su Xia said, "That's why people say that cooking really depends on experience. Even if you have a recipe, you can't make the same dish."
“I don’t know.” Yixian said, “I don’t cook very often, so it seems pretty easy.”
"That's talent." Su Xia said, "The other side is the British style, which has no talent."
“Maybe a little bit.” Yixian said that no matter how hard one tries in Chongqing, the improvement of culinary skills is always slow.
The fish was almost done, already golden brown, and the aroma could be smelled. Yixian picked up the fried fish with a colander. He shook it slightly to prevent it from getting too oily, and then placed it on a plate that had been prepared long ago. The fish head needed to be fried again.
"Admiral, would you like to try it?" Yixian asked.
"Okay?" Su Xia naturally wouldn't refuse. He was very fond of eating. "Just pull it out?"
"Just pull it straight."
Su Xia reached out and tore off a little fish meat, put it into his mouth, and chewed it slowly. To be honest, it didn't taste like anything, after all, the fish was just cut and fried. Even so, it didn't stop him from nodding and praising: "Not bad. Good. Delicious."
"The admiral is really good at talking." Yixian said, "It's just fried , but the sauce hasn't been poured on it yet."
"Even without the sauce..." Su Xia remained calm, "The fish is delicate and refreshing, not burnt or overcooked, and fried just right. This is Yixian's level. If I were to fry the fish, I wouldn't be able to grasp the timing of taking it out. Either I would take it out too early and it wouldn't be cooked through, or I would take it out too late and the fish would be burnt."
Although Su Xia's words made sense, Yixian was sure that they were just polite remarks.
Su Xia didn't care about that. He just said, "To be honest, I will never watch any cooking videos again. If I want to learn how to cook, I can just go to Yixian."
Yixian wanted to make a joke for a moment. Whatever the admiral wants to eat, Yixian will cook it for you. Who are you learning to cook for?
Of course Yixian would not say that, he just smiled and said, "Okay."
Su Xia said: "I think I still have some talent. When the time comes, I will be better than you. Don't feel bad about it."
"The admiral is very confident." Yixian said.
"Let me cook for Yixian when the time comes."
"Yeah." Yixian is a reserved person.
The fish head is also fried, take it out and arrange it. Next is to make the sauce. Take another stove, a pot, put in tomato sauce, a small bowl of water, peas, corn kernels, and then mix in white vinegar, sugar, and salt, and cook until the tomato sauce becomes thick. Thicken it. Finally, pour the sauce on the fried mandarin fish, and a squirrel mandarin fish is ready.
Yixian took the chopsticks from the chopstick holder and handed them to Su Xia, saying, "How about you try it now, Admiral?"
Su Xia took the chopsticks and picked up a piece of fish. Yixian's cooking skills need no further explanation, and the food was naturally delicious. Su Xia wanted to praise him, but after thinking hard, she didn't know how to praise him, so she said, "It's delicious, lingering on your lips and teeth, delicious, sweet and soft."
"Admiral, don't make it hard on yourself. If you don't know how to praise, then don't praise. You've been trying to come up with these idioms for a long time. I feel bad for you." Chongqing couldn't help but interrupt when he heard Su Xia's praise, "What is sweet and soft? Is it really okay to use it on fried fish?"
Su Xia wanted to refute, but she didn't know how to refute. Fortunately, L20 came to her rescue. She couldn't wait any longer: "Let me try it too."
Su Xia handed the chopsticks to L20 and reminded him, "Just taste it once, don't eat too much, wait until you eat."
"I'm not a child." L20 was very unhappy.
"You are not a child, but a fool." Su Xia likes to bully L20, silly child.
"You are the fool."
Su Xia watched L20 using chopsticks very unskillfully. He suddenly frowned and had a question.
"It takes that long to make this squirrel mandarin fish, right?" Su Xia said.
"Yes." Yixian said, "So we need to speed up a bit. It's already past twelve o'clock."
"Chongqing, come and help, just wash the vegetables." Yixian commanded.
"Leave it to me." Chongqing said. It's good not to have to do anything, but it's not good to feel like an outsider.
"I want to help, too." Changchun waited for L20 to finish tasting the food, and she wanted to try it too. Now she wanted to help again. She just liked to join in the fun.
"There's no need for your help, Changchun. You're always making things worse. If you want to help... then go find everyone and tell them that it's almost time to come back and prepare for dinner." Chongqing looked at Su Xia, "Admiral, do you plan to sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor, or do you want to help?"
"If you need it, I don't mind helping out." Su Xia said, "But I asked that originally. It took a long time to make a squirrel mandarin fish... It's not that I think it's too slow. I don't know when lunch will be ready. The main thing is... Yixian, can you guys cook a big pot dish?"
"Although I have never made it, I can learn it after a while." Yixian said, "The admiral asked what to make in the big pot?"
"I just suddenly thought... I found an excuse to come to Yixian this time, saying that I wanted to hear your opinions on the cafeteria." Su Xia said, "Now it seems that it is so troublesome for you to cook a dish... There are hundreds of people in the garrison. To prepare food for so many people, you must cook in a big pot."
"If we are going to cook for so many people in the garrison, we must cook in a big pot." Yixian said. Although he had never managed a large cafeteria, as a chef, he could make a rough estimate. "But even if it is a big pot, if the admiral wants to use a cafeteria to supply so many people in the garrison, at least ten people will be needed to be responsible for it. "
"I'm afraid ten people are not enough." Su Xia said, "Because I hope that the cafeteria... will not just provide a few dishes for everyone to eat, like those school cafeterias. I hope that the cafeteria can provide a wider variety of dishes, and the taste must be better."
"No problem, ten people is enough." Yixian said.
"I'd like to hear more about it." Su Xia said. He was really troubled by the big canteen. On the one hand, we can't tire everyone out, so we can't have too few people. Then we can have more employees, but it seems difficult to find so many suitable people. It's not easy.
As one of the heads of the eight great families, Yixian is not only gentle, but also very capable.
"Ten people are preparing food for so many people in the tutelary fort. We also need to have more variety and better taste. It seems difficult, but it's actually not that difficult."
"First of all, we have to cook in a big pot. We can't cook a squirrel and mandarin fish like we do now. It takes a lot of time to prepare it. And the big canteen can only provide some common dishes. There is no way to guarantee those complicated dishes. We can only provide a certain number, and it's on a first-come, first-served basis."
"In this situation... we can buy many ingredients directly, instead of preparing them slowly like we do now. For example, we directly from outside, already processed chicken. Chicken wings or chicken legs, they are all the same. We just need to process them after buying them."
"Science is very advanced now. There are many machines that can help cut vegetables, mince meat, and even knead dough, which can save us a lot of work. Otherwise, it would take a lot of time to prepare food for so many people every day. Of course, the food prepared in this way will not be as good as if we prepare it ourselves."
"For a large cafeteria, cleaning up is not easy. But we can buy a dishwasher. The dishwasher certainly can't wash as cleanly as we can, but there are no outsiders in the garrison, and we are all family, so it's okay."
"Ten people may not be enough, but fifteen people will definitely be enough."
“We will know the details after the operation.”
After Yixian said this, Su Xia felt that her thoughts suddenly became clear. Yes, it's not just the whole family cooking, so there's no need to buy some machines, which are overkill. If you want to prepare meals for so many people, you have to buy equipment, and then a lot of work can be handed over to the machine.
"It's really a good idea to come here today, otherwise I would have wanted to put dozens of people in one cafeteria." Su Xia laughed, "But I'm really surprised that Yixian actually knows so many machines and how to use them."
Yixian said: "Admiral, please don't treat me as an antique."
"Yes." Su Xia said, "I am biased."
"It's not just that." Chongqing said, "Aren't there many self-service buffets out there now? All you need to do is prepare a soup pot and an electric oven, and leave the rest to the guests. We can do the same, just prepare the ingredients, and leave the rest to everyone."
Su Xia doesn't eat buffets very often, but occasionally, he does. Recalling that there are indeed many such buffets in the world, he said, "Then the ingredients, such as beef rolls, lamb rolls, shrimps, etc., can be bought directly."
"What are you talking about?" Ning Hai finished his work temporarily.
Next, we discussed how to reform the cafeteria and what we must pay attention to. But we should be busy when we should be busy, and we can participate when we are done.
Soon the food was ready and we could have lunch.
