Chapter 177: Uncle owes you a favor, so feel free to ask for anything you want.

Several people focused their attention on him, and Chen Hui's heart skipped a beat.

He quickly denied it, "Don't look at me. I'm a lazy guy, how can I cook?"

"The fish you grilled is delicious!" Wu Dahua said seriously.

"Fish cooked with pickles is also delicious!" Wu Guang also said.

"What pickles? They're sauerkraut. My wife took him to Wang Huiying's house to get them." Wu Shuisheng corrected.

"Oh?! You can actually choose ingredients?"

"Grilled fish? How do you cook it?" Chen Yaozu looked at Chen Hui with interest.

"Uncle Yaozu, don't listen to their nonsense, I..."

Chen Hui wanted to argue again, but Chen Yaozu pulled him out of the private room and into the kitchen.

"Grilled fish or boiled fish with pickles, choose one."

"." Chen Hui looked confused.

He grabbed the customer and cooked for him halfway through the meal.

There is really no sense of service in this era.

"I can see that they really think your cooking is delicious. What? Don't you want to give your uncle this face?" Chen Yaozu raised his chin and said.

"Yaozu, what's going on?"

The ordered dishes are almost cooked and one of the chefs is free.

Seeing Chen Yaozu bringing a stranger into the kitchen, he came over to ask in confusion.

"This is a young man in our family. The guests he brought said that what he cooked was better than what Chef Xu cooked." Chen Yaozu said.

"Are you bragging?"

The melon-eating chef wiped his hands and looked Chen Hui up and down, questioning: "With his tiny arms and legs, can he swing a spatula?"

"Look, you can tolerate being suspected like this?" Chen Yaozu tried to provoke him.

"I can!" Chen Hui said calmly.

"You can do it but I can't, so how about we grill a fish?" Chen Yaozu asked.

Another chef who had just finished his work saw how lively it was here and came over to join in the fun.

If he had to leave, Chen Yaozu would feel a little embarrassed.

Chen Hui sighed and said, "Okay, help me kill a bigger pomfret and fix the knife!"

After saying that, Chen Hui started looking for seasoning in the kitchen.

I have to say, the kitchen of this state-owned restaurant is different.

Although there are still no barbecue ingredients such as cumin powder.

But Chen Hui found three types of chili powder of different coarseness and fineness.

Pepper oil and pepper powder are also available.

Salt, sugar, cooking wine and soy sauce are all available.

"Uncle Yaozu, do you have tools for brushing oil?" Chen Hui asked.

Chen Yaozu looked at the chef next to him.

The old chef shook his head and asked in confusion: "Whose oil did you use to brush it?"

"Please find me a clean brush so I can use it to apply the oil." Chen Hui did not explain, but only made a request.

The old chef looked at Chen Yaozu in confusion.

Chen Yaozu put his hands together and smiled, begging, "Find him one. Those fellow villagers all said that his cooking is delicious. I'm really itching to get one."

"Okay." The old chef said, and rummaged in the drawer where he kept his tools.

I actually found a small brush and asked curiously, "Why is there something like this in the kitchen?"

"Isn't this the egg wash that Chef Li brought last time? He said he wanted to make some snacks, but the response wasn't very good so he didn't make it." said another chef who was free.

The tools are all found.

The seasoning is also ready.

Chen Hui scooped out a large spoonful of lard for later use. He asked someone to prepare a charcoal stove and red-hot charcoal, broke off two long pieces of wood and inserted them into the stove to secure the fish, then squatted beside the charcoal stove and started roasting it.

Chef Xu prepared the last dish for Chen Hui's table.

After simply washing his hands, he came over eagerly to watch Chen Hui grill the fish.

"Uncle Yaozu, I'm here to eat!"

"The chef is taking a break now, but you're still forcing me to grill fish here." Chen Hui smiled helplessly.

"Uncle owes you a favor!" Chen Yaozu said with a smile.

It was also his first time to catch a customer and cook for him.

"You know what, Chen Yaozu's favor is quite valuable!" another chef said with a smile.

"So when are you going to repay this favor?"

Chen Hui immediately grasped the key point and emphasized it unintentionally.

"Tell me, is there anything I can help you with? Just ask for anything you want." Chen Yaozu said generously.

Chen Hui looked around.

I don’t know what the real relationship between these chefs and Chen Yaozu is, so I smiled and said, “It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Chen Yaozu smiled, raised his chin and said, "Watch the heat."

When one side was almost done grilling, Chen Hui dipped a brush in plenty of oil, brushed it carefully, and then turned the fish over.

Lard dripped onto the red-hot charcoal, and the flames and smoke rose up.

"Can this be delicious? It's going to smell like smoke and fire?" Chef Li was a little skeptical.

Chef Xu looked at the half-eaten lard in the bowl and said distressedly, "With so much lard, it must be good to eat, but the cost is too high."

The fish was grilled on both sides, and the skin was already a little crispy, but it was still a little bit away from being cooked.

Chen Hui brushed pepper oil on it.

I pinched some salt and rubbed it back and forth between my fingertips, rubbing the salt into fine particles and evenly sprinkling it on the fish.

On the other side, the second round of baking was carried out using the same method.

Finally, brush it with oil again, sprinkle with pepper powder, coarse chili powder, and fine chili powder in turn, turn it over and bake for another minute or two to allow the oil to fully bring out the aroma of the powder.

He put it on the plate and said to Chen Yaozu:
"Well, that's it, it's nothing."

“Because it’s not marinated, the fish tastes a bit bland.”

“It will be really delicious if you can marinate it for a few hours before grilling it so that the fish can have enough flavor.”

Several chefs exchanged glances.

Chef Li, who has the most experience, said, "You also know how to pickle. Do you cook often at home?"

"Not often. My wife takes care of the meals at home."

"But I have learned from many chefs, although I only learned the basics." Chen Hui smiled modestly.

The era when long and short videos were popular.

It is easy to become a five-star chef or an apprentice to the chef of the Samsung Tire Factory.

"I don't know if it tastes good or not, but it smells really good." Chen Yaozu said, swallowing his saliva that was secreted crazily.

He took a small piece of fish with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. His eyes widened immediately and he exclaimed in amazement: "It's delicious!"

"I'll try it too!"

Chef Xu was not convinced that he was defeated by Wu Shuisheng and others.

I also took chopsticks and tasted two bites carefully.

The other two chefs were already tempted by the aroma of various spices, and they also gathered around the plates to eat.

The three chefs tasted it and crowded aside to talk in a low voice for a while.

In the end, everyone came to a unanimous conclusion: Chen Hui’s grilled fish is indeed delicious, but there is no technical content involved, it is all thanks to the lard and seasonings.

Translated into simple and easy-to-understand terms, it means "I can do it too!"

(End of this chapter)