Chapter 12 This dish is delicious

Li Si coughed lightly: "Actually, I'm not very hungry."

Although he said this, curiosity still drove him to pick up a piece of food with chopsticks and taste it.

Sha Zhu looked at him proudly and asked, "How is it? Is it delicious?"

"Well, this dish made by Brother Wang is quite delicious."

Li Sidu started calling him brother.

He had never called Wang Jianye like this before. After all, the status in the kitchen is determined by cooking skills.

Before, Wang Jianye didn’t have such good cooking skills, so Li Si and the others just called Wang Jianye by his name.

Now that Wang Jianye has made a particularly delicious dish of spicy and sour potato shreds, and his cooking skills have improved, they have to change their way of addressing him and call him "brother" to show their respect.

At this moment, Li Si felt even more embarrassed when he thought about what he said this morning.

The other few people were not named, but their expressions were much more normal than Li Si's.

Cao Xiaodong took another piece of the spicy and sour potato shreds on the plate with his chopsticks, closed his eyes and savored the flavor, nodding his head more and more as he ate. This dish was really well cooked, much better than his own, and even almost as good as his master's.

"Jianye, how did you make this dish? If it's convenient, could you tell me about it?"

Cao Xiaodong was convinced by the spicy and sour potato shreds made by Wang Jianye.

He really wanted to know how Wang Jianye made the dish so well and whether there was any trick.

Cao Xiaodong looked at Wang Jianye expectantly, he wanted to improve so much.

"Actually, there's nothing special about it. It's still the same three points: knife skills, heat, and seasoning. If you get these three points right, the spicy and sour potato shreds will be very good. When I made it..."

Wang Jianye said it simply without hiding anything, he actually did it.

Cao Xiaodong nodded thoughtfully, thinking of going back and trying it after dinner.

Sha Zhu didn't quite understand, "Brother Wang, can the spicy and sour potato shreds be made this way?"

He has only been an apprentice for more than a year, and his level has not yet improved.

"I did it this way, you can go and try it out and see how it works."

After hearing what Wang Jianye said, Sha Zhu also decided to give it a try.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

The table where the chef who cooks the second stove sits.

Sun Qu sat next to Chai Wenshan. After taking a bite of the hot and sour potato shreds on the table, he praised it highly: "This dish made by my apprentice is really good. He is almost as good as me. Old Chai, you should try it."

Chai Wenshan took a bite reluctantly and said, "It's quite good."

Although he was reluctant to admit it, he had to admit that this spicy and sour potato shreds was very good.

Chai Wenshan was depressed. Why didn't he have a disciple as good as Cao Xiaodong?

Seeing Chai Wenshan's depressed expression, Sun Qu was even happier: "In my opinion, the level of the hot and sour potato shreds made by my apprentice has surpassed the level of the third stove master in our Fengze Garden, and has basically reached the level of the second stove master like you.
He has only been an apprentice for three years, and he has this much talent. What do you think? I told you this morning that the next head chef of Fengze Garden will be my apprentice. Do you believe it now?"

Chai Wenshan was slapped in the face and didn't want to talk.

But Sun Qu was unwilling to give up, "When my apprentice becomes a chef in the future, I will ask him to prepare a banquet to celebrate, and then we two brothers will have a good drink together."

Chai Wenshan gritted his teeth and ignored him.

Although the other chefs at the same table who were in charge of the second stove felt jealous, they still expressed their congratulations on the surface.

"Master Sun, congratulations on having a great apprentice."

"Your apprentice is so powerful even though he's only an apprentice. What will happen if he trains for a few more years?"

"You are so lucky to have such a good apprentice. You will be blessed in the future." "Master Sun, you are really good at teaching."

"..."

Everyone's words made Sun Qu feel a little elated.

"No, no, it's not that I taught him well, it's that Cao Xiaodong is very talented, and he's willing to work hard and practice diligently, so he can cook such good dishes."

Sun Qu was very happy.

As a master, he has accepted a good apprentice, and the apprentice can also make him proud, which is a great honor for him.

The spicy and sour potato shreds were so good that everyone at the table naturally thought it was made by Cao Xiaodong.

After all, among so many apprentices in the kitchen, only Cao Xiaodong has the best talent and the highest level. Only Cao Xiaodong can make this spicy and sour potato shreds to the level of the second kitchen chef. The other apprentices simply don't have this ability.

So they assumed that this dish must have been made by Cao Xiaodong.

At this moment, Sun Qu was eating the spicy and sour potato shreds on the table and commenting on the goodness of the dish.

From the knife skills, to the heat, to the seasoning.

Sun Qu praised it all.

After all, in his opinion, this dish was made by his own apprentice, so he was not stingy in praising it in front of outsiders.

Chai Wenshan, who was standing by, pretended not to hear anything and just kept eating.

On the surface, he seemed not to care at all, but in his heart he was very envious.

It would be great if he also had a disciple like Cao Xiaodong.

This way, Sun Qu would no longer be able to show off in front of him or act arrogantly in front of him.

Unfortunately, this kind of thing is just something we can think about.

After all, since Fengzeyuan was founded in the 1930s, more than 20 years have passed, and only two extremely talented apprentices have appeared.

One of them is Cao Xiaodong, and the other is the current kitchen manager, the head chef Zhou Qingde.

When Zhou Qingde took part in the grading assessment, because his level of performance far exceeded that of an average third-stove master and had reached the level of a second-stove master, he was directly graded as a second-stove master.

The food today is good, but Chai Wenshan has no appetite.

Because Chai Wenshan next to him kept nagging and praising Cao Xiaodong.

This made Chai Wenshan upset and he couldn't eat.

After a while, the people at Wang Jianye's table finished their meal and started to clean up the table.

At this time, Sun Qu, who had not finished his meal yet, called Cao Xiaodong over.

Seeing that Sun Qu’s good disciple had arrived, Chai Wenshan wanted to leave.

Because based on his understanding of Sun Qu, calling his disciples over must be to show off in front of them.

Chai Wenshan didn't want to be scolded by Sun Quzi any more, so he wanted to run away.

But Sun Qu hurriedly stopped him and said, "Hey, Lao Chai, don't go. Come and listen to how my apprentice made this spicy and sour potato shreds. I need your help and guidance to see if there is anything we can improve on."

Chai Wenshan was not happy: "You are his master, what can I say to you?"

"Well, you can't say that. You're the best at making spicy and sour potato shreds among us. I'm not as good as you, so you have to give me some pointers. Don't worry, I won't let you give me pointers in vain. When Cao Xiaodong holds his apprenticeship banquet later, I'll invite you first, and I'll let him toast you then. How about that?"

Sun Qu pulled his arm, not letting him go. Humph, you still want to run?
Chai Wenshan had no choice but to sit down.

Cao Xiaodong came up to Sun Qu and said, "Master, you are looking for me."

(End of this chapter)