Chapter 277: Launch of Shandong Cuisine Textbook

Wang Jianye currently has ten apprentices, and all of them are apprentices for him in Fengze Garden.

This was the agreement made with him by Jiang Rongqing, the owner of Fengze Garden. No matter how many apprentices he accepted, he could only arrange for a maximum of ten apprentices to enter Fengze Garden as apprentices.

After all, one more apprentice means more cost for Fengzeyuan.

After these apprentices grow up, if Fengzeyuan does not need so many chefs, it will have to fire some of the lower-level chefs.

In order to avoid this situation, Jiang Rongqing limited the number of apprentice places for Wang Jianye to ten.

Now that the quota is full, it is not convenient for Wang Jianye to arrange for more apprentices to come in.

After explaining this to many masters, their hopes were dashed and they looked disappointed.

I regret not introducing it to Wang Jianye earlier.

Now I want to introduce it, but there is no chance.

……

In the morning, Wang Jianye called his ten apprentices together.

"Now, Wang Yijun and Cheng Jie have become the second-level chefs. The next promotion assessment will be held in half a year. By then, I hope to have three more second-level chefs. Do you have confidence?"

"Have!"

The remaining eight disciples said in unison.

Wang Jianye nodded with satisfaction, "It's good to have confidence. In the next period of time, I will do my best to help you improve. I hope you won't let me down."

Then, Wang Jianye looked at Wang Yijun and Cheng Jie and asked, "What are your ideas for the future?"

"Master, I want to keep going up and become the first one!"

"Master, I feel the same way."

They both wanted to improve so badly.

Wang Jianye was naturally satisfied. This way, he didn't need to urge his disciples, and they would have strong motivation on their own.

The condition for the next system upgrade is that five apprentices reach the head chef level.

It is now May of 1953, and there is still no apprentice who can reach the level of a head chef.

However, with Wang Jianye's guidance, plus the state-banquet-level dishes he cooked, the special effect of [Increase IQ by a Point] can be triggered 100%.

His disciples' talents will become higher and higher, and their progress will become faster and faster.

I believe that it won’t be long before among Wang Jianye’s ten disciples, several of them will be at the top level.

Wang Jianye is quite confident about this.

Then he asked Chen Xiaoyang to take out ten books from his bag and distribute them to all the disciples.

"Classics of Shandong Cuisine"—written by Wang Jianye.

This is a book he started writing in February, and it contains mainstream Shandong cuisine recipes.

The difficulty of the methods ranges from easy to difficult, and can reach the legendary level.

Including cooking skills, tips and experiences.

It's a book that's neither too thick nor too thin, with more than a hundred pages.

49 dishes are recorded, each of which is mainstream Shandong cuisine.

Basically every Shandong cuisine restaurant can cook it, but the quality varies.

Wang Jianye started writing this book in February, finished it at the end of March, sent it for review in April, and published it in May.

What Wang Jianye asked Chen Xiaoyang to take out of his bag was the first batch of published books.

"Oh my god, Master, did you write all this? It's so detailed!"

"When I read what's written here, it's just like what you, Master, are saying to me in my ear."

"Master, what you wrote is so good. As long as others follow this recipe, they will be able to cook it well."

"..."

Except Chen Xiaoyang, the other nine disciples saw this book for the first time.

After seeing the contents, I was surprised and puzzled:
"Master, you wrote down your specialties without reservation. Aren't you worried that other chefs from other restaurants will learn from you?"

"It's difficult. If you can become a top chef just by reading the recipe, the world would probably be full of top chefs."

Chen Xiaoyang shook his head. "The most important thing is enough talent and hard work. Without these two, it's hard to cook top-notch dishes.
At most, the cooking skills will improve a little, but it won't have much impact on our Fengze Garden.
Moreover, many masters have published books. They are all capable. Our master is not inferior to others, so he can do it too.

After publishing the book, our Master will become more famous and have more choices in the future."

After hearing Chen Xiaoyang's words, many disciples understood Wang Jianye's purpose of publishing the book.

That is to further enhance his fame. If he leaves Fengze Garden and starts his own business one day in the future, this fame can bring him many benefits.

Many apprentices stopped talking about this topic, after all, they were still working in Fengze Garden.

After listening to the discussion of his disciples and Chen Xiaoyang's answer, Wang Jianye thought to himself that he had another purpose, which you people are too narrow-minded to think of. That is, he wanted to promote Chinese cuisine, carry it forward, and pass it on.

In addition to this book "Classics of Shandong Cuisine", Wang Jianye will successively launch eight major cuisines including "Classics of Sichuan Cuisine" and "Classics of Cantonese Cuisine".

The apprentices were reading Wang Jianye's work "Classics of Shandong Cuisine" with great concentration.

They had heard Wang Jianye talk about many of the things in it.

But the feeling is different when you hear someone talk about it and when you see it yourself.

This can further deepen their understanding.

This is true for Wang Jianye's extremely talented disciples, not to mention others.

In the afternoon he distributed the first batch of published "Classics of Shandong Cuisine" to his apprentices.

Zhou Qingde purchased a batch of "Classics of Shandong Cuisine" and gave each of the many chefs in the kitchen a copy.

"This book... Master Wang wrote it so well that even an apprentice like me can understand it!"

"Master Wang's understanding of cooking is so profound. No wonder he can prepare state banquets."

"I feel that this book is much clearer than what my master taught me. From now on, I will take this book as my teacher and learn from it. I guarantee that I will be right."

"..."

After Zhou Qingde studied it carefully, he couldn't help but sigh:
"Chef Wang is truly worthy of being a state banquet chef. He has such a profound understanding of these dishes and can write about them clearly and comprehensively."

"I think this book will be enough for us to teach our disciples in the future."

After reading it, Master Zhao also sighed.

Zhou Qingde agreed with his idea: "Master Wang's "Classics of Shandong Cuisine" can be used as a textbook for our Shandong cuisine!"

……

Cuihua Tower.

Chef Xu bought a book called “Classics of Shandong Cuisine” written by Wang Jianye.

In the kitchen, I was working on this with Manager Zhang.

Manager Zhang didn't understand and asked Chef Xu in confusion:

"Master Xu, I don't know how to cook. How about this book written by Wang Jianye? What's the quality?"

"Excellent! Unprecedented! It can be used as a textbook for Shandong cuisine!"

Chef Xu gave it a very high evaluation.

After turning to the page about braised pork, Chef Xu's expression became extremely complicated.

He took great pains to send his own nephew to Fengze Garden as a spy and learn the practice secretly.

At this moment, it actually appears on the menu and is made public.

Moreover, it is more comprehensive and detailed than the method his nephew secretly learned.

"Is Master Wang so sure that I won't be able to learn his specialty dishes after he publishes them?"

Chef Xu felt bitter.

Because this is really reality.

Chef Xu learned from his nephew the recipe of Wang Jianye's signature braised pork, which made Fengzeyuan extremely popular.

After several months of research, there has been very little progress.

He estimated that even if he continued for a few more years, there wouldn't be much progress.

The gap in talent between him and Wang Jianye is too big.

Ye Youzhang was delighted to see that in this book, the signature braised pork recipe that he had worked so hard to learn was published so openly.

"If I had known that he would write this dish into a cookbook and publish it, why would I have gone to so much trouble, and even got kicked out of the sect, to steal this dish!"

Ye Youzhang regretted it very much.

Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world that can give him another chance.

"Uncle, you said that Master Wang was willing to publish his specialty dish, so why is he unwilling to let me teach you?"

Ye Youzhang was unwilling to give in.

Chef Xu sighed and did not correct the other party's mistake of not calling him Chef Xu during work:

"Giving it voluntarily and having it stolen are two different concepts. Chef Wang drove you away because he was hurt by you, not because you leaked the dish to others."

Speaking of this, Chef Xu felt bitter.

He knew that Master Wang didn't care at all if the recipes of his signature dishes were leaked.

Because even if you give him the recipe and ask him to practice according to it, it will be difficult for him to reach the level of Master Wang. Alas.

(End of this chapter)