Daddy's Gourmet Shop-Chapter 331 - 321: Has His Culinary Skills Improved By Leaps and Bounds?
"Boss, six bowls of crab stir-fried rice cakes, eight bowls of Yellow Croaker Noodles..."
Just as Huang Tao was dazed, Lin Zifeng’s voice calling out the order instantly pulled his thoughts back.
"Oh, got it..."
Huang Tao nodded, glanced at the nourishing fish soup in the pot, saw that it was ready, and then instructed Lin Zifeng beside him: "Zifeng, you handle the fish soup."
"Yes, boss..."
Lin Zifeng immediately nodded, took the ladle, scooped up the fish soup, and poured it into the pre-prepared soup bowls.
Huang Tao started another pot, turned on the heat, put oil into it, and added soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, ginger, and other seasonings and ingredients to prepare the crab stir-fried rice cakes.
In the past, to pursue the taste of crab stir-fried rice cakes, he would cook one serving per pot each time.
So, even though he was very fast at cooking, it was still quite limited.
But as his culinary skills continued to improve,
he now can stir-fry several servings in one pot simultaneously.
The taste is no worse than before.
In fact, it’s even better!
This time was no exception!
Once the seasonings simmered into a sauce, he directly added the amount for six servings of crab stir-fried rice cakes into the pot.
The pre-fried crab and rice cakes were added to the pot, and he turned the heat to the maximum.
Grabbing the spatula handle, his upper arm drove his forearm into action. The pot filled with crab meat and rice cakes flipped like a vibrant waterfall, then gracefully fell back down.
Each flip of the crab and rice cakes mixed them with the sauce in the pot.
Instantly coloring the crab and enhancing the flavor of the rice cakes.
His stir-frying technique became more sophisticated, like a surgeon’s scalpel. The pot three feet around is like an absolute domain, where he could clearly feel the state of each piece of crab and each rice cake.
Watching from the side, Lin Zifeng exclaimed at their boss’s cooking skills, marveling at how exceptional it was!
Some diners eating in the restaurant and customers queuing at the counter saw this scene and all slightly opened their mouths.
Especially Sun Linhai, who ordered the crab stir-fried rice cakes and waited for the food. It was his first time seeing Huang Tao stir-fry six servings in one pot simultaneously.
And it was also his first time seeing such a beautiful stir-fry technique.
Amazed, a question arose in his mind: Would the taste of such a large batch stir-fried at once be subpar?
After several rounds, the crabs and rice cakes jumping in the air were evenly coated with the light brown sauce.
The restaurant suddenly fell silent, and everyone’s eyes simultaneously turned, as if witnessing the birth of a work of art.
A moment later.
With his final toss, the rice cakes and crab filled with sauce landed back in the pot without a single piece scattered.
The stir-frying technique was truly extraordinary!
As he plated the crab stir-fried rice cakes into the prepared dishes, Li Chengzhan and Lin Qiuyu quickly stepped forward to place the plates onto their trays.
Just as the ceiling light shone onto the dishes on the tray.
Making the crab stir-fried rice cakes emit a translucent shine.
Jiang Han, closest to the kitchen, captured this scene, mesmerizing the audience in the live stream, with comments soon popping up:
[Whoa... Boss Huang’s stir-fry skills are impressive!]
[Wow! Has Boss Huang’s culinary skills improved drastically?]
[Boss Huang’s culinary skills were already top-notch!]
[Wow, this stir-fry... nearly blinded my 24k titanium dog eyes!]
[Achieving this level of stir-fry technique takes at least ten to twenty years of practice! Boss Huang is truly amazing!]
"Indeed, Boss Huang is truly impressive..."
Jiang Han mumbled while glancing at his phone screen, his first sight was the live stream viewer count, which made him pause.
1.08 million!
Compared to his thirty-something thousand followers, it’s not that many.
But any streamer knows that only the active followers will tune in for each live stream.
Most followers might replay the stream later when they have time.
Many followers might just have stumbled upon his live video and followed on a whim, never actively checking out his streams.
88,000 viewers were his best numbers in recent times.
Indeed, to have a successful stream, it relies on Boss Huang...
As this went on, Li Chengzhan and Lin Qiuyu had delivered the crab stir-fried rice cakes to the tables of the diners who ordered them.
The dish for the two police officers was also served.
Sun Linhai picked up his chopsticks and carefully examined the appealing crab stir-fried rice cakes in front of him.
He found that every rice cake was nearly 360 degrees uniformly coated with the light brown sauce.
And the thickness was even.
Which meant they were heated evenly and had absorbed the sauce equally well.
After a thorough look, he couldn’t find a single rice cake unevenly coated.
He smiled and said, "This crab stir-fried rice cake... looks pretty good!"
"Mmm~"
He picked up a piece of rice cake with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth.
As soon as it entered, the tender and chewy rice cake and its rich aroma exploded in his mouth.
It truly exploded!
He had been bustling about with traffic management earlier and was quite hungry.
This one bite made him feel as if his growling stomach was rejoicing, and his face involuntarily showed a deeply satisfied expression, as if on cloud nine.
Initially worried that the young boss cooking such a large amount of crab stir-fried rice cakes at once might compromise the flavor.
Now it seems that those worries were completely unnecessary!
Though it was his first time tasting the food made by Boss Huang, it instantly conquered him with its deliciousness.
He spoke while munching, his words full of joy and admiration: "Delicious! This boss’s skills are really good!"
Wang Zhoubin, a loyal customer of Delicious Restaurant, sincerely added: "Naturally, Boss Huang’s skills make everything taste great!"
As the customers enjoyed their meals in delight, Huang Tao continued his task, but already received the notification of task completion in his mind from the system.
[Congratulations to the host for completing the ’Renowned Everywhere’ mission, where ten thousand people in five cities now clearly know the name of Delicious Restaurant, the names of 5 menu items, and the owner’s surname.]
[Reward: random culinary skill - ’Dry-Fried Ringing Bell.’]
[Dry-Fried Ringing Bell]: Also known as ’Fried Ringing Bell,’ it’s a traditional dish from the Hangzhou area in the Zhejiang cuisine. This dish uses quality tofu skin, pork tenderloin, egg yolks, and other ingredients, boasting a golden yellow hue, akin to a ringing bell, with a crispy aroma, and crunchy flavor. In 1956, Dry-Fried Ringing Bell was selected as one of Hangzhou’s 36 famous dishes. Preparation...
Wow!
Is this the trend of collecting all famous Zhejiang cuisine dishes...
Speaking of which, can it summon a dragon when completed?
As he pondered, the recipe for ’Dry-Fried Ringing Bell’ instantly turned into a stream of light visible only to him, merging into his forehead.
He immediately felt he had completely mastered the preparation process and experience for this dish.
"Looks like there will be new additions to the menu."
He muttered with a smile and continued to immerse himself in the great art of cooking.
