Chapter 11 Everyone was shocked
"I only have one dish, spicy and sour shredded potatoes, which is at the second-class level. The other four dishes, leek and dried tofu, flavored eggplant, stir-fried kidney, and straw-covered cucumber, are at the third-class level. The rest of my dishes are still far from the third-class level."

"The higher the level, the less experience points you get from cooking, so I won't cook these second- and third-level dishes for now. If I have to cook, I'll cook dishes below the third-level, such as braised prawns, fried meatballs, pan-fried yellow croaker, sweet and sour carp, stir-fried shredded pork tenderloin, etc."

Wang Jianye thought about it and decided to continue making the braised prawns, because he had the ingredients on hand at the moment and the few prawns he had brought earlier had not been used up.

Wang Jianye worked until ten o'clock in the morning and made three dishes of braised prawns, earning a total of twelve experience points.

In order to save ingredients, he only uses two large shrimps to make a dish.

After making these three dishes, all the prawns he had brought earlier were used up.

"Jianye, come and help me."

Chai Wenshan called him over to help.

Wang Jianye responded, put down what he was holding and came to Chai Wenshan's stove.

"Master."

"Wash the pot."

"Eh."

"..."

Fengze Garden started to attract customers gradually around 11 a.m., and by 2 p.m., there were basically no more customers left.

From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., this period of time is the busiest time in the kitchen.

After that, the kitchen will be a little quieter.

Wang Jianye and Chai Wenshan were busy until two o'clock in the afternoon.

There are finally not many customers in Fengze Garden, and it’s time for the people in the kitchen to have lunch.

The chefs in charge of the kitchen are very tired after working so hard, and the apprentices who are helping out on the side also have their work cut out for them.

So now that everyone wants to rest, who will cook? So the apprentice can only do it.

After all, in the kitchen, apprentices have the lowest status.

However, in order to motivate the apprentices, it is called an opportunity to practice cooking, and after practicing, the chefs in the kitchen can give you guidance.

As a result, many apprentices sought guidance from the masters in order to improve their cooking skills and were particularly proactive in asking to cook for themselves.

But because there are many people in the kitchen, the apprentice has to prepare several dishes. If the apprentice’s cooking skills are too poor, a lot of ingredients may be wasted.

In order to avoid waste, the kitchen stipulates that only apprentices who have worked for a long time or have better skills are qualified.

Wang Jianye was the kind of apprentice who had been working there for a long time, so after Chai Wenshan found Zhou Qingde, Zhou Qingde agreed to give him a chance.

Wang Jianye found Cao Xiaodong and asked, "Brother Cao, shall we start cooking now?"

"Yes, let's start now. All the masters have been tired for most of the day and are hungry."

"Okay, I'll do it now."

Wang Jianye returned to the stove and took out more than twenty potatoes from the vegetable basket.

The task assigned to him by Cao Xiaodong was to make twelve plates of spicy and sour potato shreds, so he needed to prepare more potatoes, otherwise there would not be enough.

The potatoes have been cleaned and the skins scraped off.

Wang Jianye just took it and cut it into shreds.

Just as Wang Jianye held the kitchen knife in his right hand, pressed the potatoes with his left hand and started to cut into shreds, he was amazed by his own knife skills.

"That's great."

When he was only at the third-level, he only felt that his knife skills were a little better than before. But now that his skill in making this spicy and sour potato shreds has been raised to the second-level, he immediately found that his knife skills were much better than before, not just a little bit, but a very obvious improvement.

If the second-stove chef of Fengzeyuan were placed in an outside restaurant, he would definitely be able to support a restaurant. It is already very high if he can cook the dishes to the second-stove level.

This also reflects the strong foundation of Fengze Garden. A chef who can run a restaurant outside can only be a chef in charge of the second stove after coming to Fengze Garden.

What's more, there are even more amazing head chefs and even higher-level state banquet chefs in Fengze Garden, almost at the ceiling level.

Wang Jianye quickly cut the twenty or so potatoes, rinsed them with cold water, and washed off the starch on them.

Then prepare the chopped green onion and minced garlic, and then heat the oil in a pan.

He prepared dish after dish of stir-fry.

In this way, a total of twelve dishes need to be fried, and he can gain experience points for twelve dishes of spicy and sour potato shreds, a total of twenty-four points.

With his second-level cooking skills, Wang Jianye quickly made these twelve dishes of spicy and sour potato shreds.

At this time, Cao Xiaodong and a few others had almost finished preparing the meal, and the remaining apprentices who did not participate in the cooking brought the dishes to the table together.

Then the master who was in charge of the first stove sat at one table, the master who was in charge of the second stove sat at another table, and there were more masters in charge of the third stove, so they were divided into two tables.

As for the apprentices, there were even more of them, so they had to sit at four tables.

Wang Jianye happened to be assigned to a table with Sha Zhu, Cao Xiaodong, and several apprentices including Li Si.

Sha Zhu sat next to Wang Jianye. In the entire Fengze Garden kitchen, they were the two most familiar with each other and usually sat like this.

Wang Jianye picked up a piece of the spicy and sour potato shreds he made with chopsticks and nodded involuntarily. It was indeed good. The ones at the second stove level were better than those at the third stove level.

Li Si had been making fun of Wang Jianye behind his back for several mornings, saying that the spicy and sour potato shreds he made would definitely not taste as good as before and that he would definitely not eat them when the time came.

But at this moment, the spicy and sour potato shreds made by Wang Jianye were placed on the table, and the color, aroma and taste were particularly tempting.

Several people were a little embarrassed
After all, the dish looked very good and it must taste good too, which was completely different from what they had imagined.

Seeing that their faces were not right, Sha Zhu said proudly, "The shredded potatoes made by my brother Wang are very good. You should try them."

As he said that, Sha Zhu picked up a piece of food with chopsticks.

"Well, how come this dish of Wang's is better than the one you just made?"

Sha Zhu was shocked. He clearly remembered that the spicy and sour potato shreds Wang Jianye made in the morning were also very good, but definitely not as delicious as this one.

"Maybe I wanted the masters to give me some pointers, so I put more effort into it."

Wang Jianye made up a reason.

Sha Zhu believed it and couldn't wait to pick up another piece of food with chopsticks.

Cao Xiaodong saw that the dish looked good, so he tried it.

“This dish is very well made.”

After hearing what Cao Xiaodong said, Li Si and others felt even more embarrassed. In the morning they said that the spicy and sour potato shreds made by Wang Jianye must not be delicious, but now they were slapped in the face.

Cao Xiaodong took another bite and looked at Li Si and the others who were not moving their chopsticks and asked curiously, "Why don't you try it? The dish Wang Jianye made is really good. I think it tastes better than what I made."

Li Si and his companions were all surprised.

Cao Xiaodong is the most skilled apprentice among all the apprentices in Fengze Garden.

And he actually said that the dish made by Wang Jianye was better than his, so it must be very delicious.

(End of this chapter)