Chapter 33 Making Lunch

Wang Jianye thought of Qianlong cabbage.

The main ingredient used in this dish is cabbage, which is very common in the kitchen and is cheap.

In winter, every household buys cabbage for winter storage, and they buy hundreds of kilograms at a time, so there is no shortage of it.

Wang Jianye took out the washed cabbage from the vegetable basket and tore it apart with his hands. There is no need to blanch the Qianlong cabbage. After tearing it apart, add some sesame paste, sugar, sesame oil, salt, vinegar, dark soy sauce and honey to adjust the taste and then stir well.

Wang Jianye cooks this dish very quickly, and it only takes three to five minutes.

[Ding, experience value +1]

The simpler the dish, the shorter the time and the less experience points you will get.

The time it took him to make this Qianlong cabbage dish was almost the same as the time it took him to make shredded pickled cabbage at home, so the experience points he gained were also the same, just a little.

"It doesn't matter if it's less. This dish can be cooked faster. In the time it takes to make a dry pot potato slice or stir-fried potatoes with green peppers, I can make two of these dishes. All in all, the experience points I gain will be about the same."

Wang Jianye continued to make this Qianlong cabbage dish.

[Ding, experience value +1]

[Ding, experience value +1]

【…】

After he had been busy for a while, Sha Zhu came over curiously and asked, "Brother Wang, what kind of dish are you practicing?"

"Qianlong cabbage."

Wang Jianye explained it and continued.

"This dish won't be tested during the assessment, right? Then why are you still practicing this?"

Sha Zhu couldn't understand why Wang Jianye was practicing Qianlong Cabbage, so he left after watching for a while.

Then Chai Wenshan came over and looked at the Qianlong cabbage, stir-fried potatoes with green peppers, and dry-fried potato slices made by Wang Jianye, and asked in confusion: "Jianye, why do you want to practice this?"

"Master, because the ten dishes I am going to test have already reached a level that can be cooked, so I want to practice other dishes."

There was no choice, Wang Jianye told his true current level, otherwise his master would probably ask him not to practice these, but to practice the dishes that would be tested.

"Ah? You've got everything ready?"

Chai Wenshan was very surprised. He remembered that Wang Jianye told him yesterday that he only learned how to cook five of the dishes. Together with the newly learned stir-fried shredded pork tenderloin and sweet and sour pork tenderloin, that would make seven dishes, with three more to go.

Now Wang Jianye actually told him that he had also mastered the other three dishes. When did he master them? This was too fast.

"Yes, Master. After I got home last night, I bought some ingredients and practiced at home. I practiced until the second half of the night and my level improved."

Wang Jianye yawned.

"But if there is no one to guide you, can your level improve quickly?"

Chai Wenshan couldn't figure it out.

"That's right, Master. There is a master in our hospital who has excellent skills. I learned from him tonight."

Wang Jianye made up a reason.

"Oh, that's how it is."

Chai Wenshan felt a little lost.

He has not even taught his own apprentice yet, but he has let others teach him.

He felt a little uncomfortable. "Master, I know you may not feel well, but I am trying to improve my cooking skills and bring honor to you. Yesterday, I cooked some really good dishes, and you were very happy. You even gave me two meat dishes to take home as a reward, so I want to work hard to improve my cooking skills. But your home is a little far from mine, so I can't come to you for advice. Besides, it's so late and you need to rest. As your apprentice, I can't disturb you."

After hearing what Wang Jianye said.

Chai Wenshan was obviously much more relaxed. "It's okay. I, your master, am not such a stingy person. You know how to seize the time to improve your level and bring honor to me. You are a good disciple. I can't thank you enough. How can I blame you? Okay, Master Zhou is coming over after the meeting. Let's go. I'll take you over to ask."

"Hey, okay."

Wang Jianye wiped his hands, then followed his master Chai Wenshan to Zhou Qingde.

Chai Wenshan told Zhou Qingde what he wanted to know.

Zhou Qingde then told Wang Jianye which dishes he had been tested on and which fifty dishes he needed to master.

Just as Chai Wenshan thought, Zhou Qingde had an excellent memory and he could still remember those things even after such a long time had passed since his assessment.

Wang Jianye wrote them down one by one in the notebook, thanked him, and returned to his stove.

Taking advantage of the fact that Chai Wenshan didn't come to disturb him, he continued to practice his cooking hard.

[Ding, experience value +1]

[Ding, experience value +1]

After making this Qianlong cabbage dish twice more, Wang Jianye improved his cooking skills to a proficient level.

"I only gained a few experience points when I made this dish at the entry level. Now that I have upgraded it to the proficient level, how many experience points can I gain if I make it again?"

Wang Jianye was itching to try it, so he made another one.

[Ding, experience value +1]

"It turns out that the entry-level player gets one experience point, and after reaching the skilled level, the experience point gained is not zero, but one."

Wang Jianye figured out that the minimum experience point gained from cooking a dish is one and it will not decrease any further.

I didn't think any more about it and put the Qianlong cabbage aside, thinking about which dish to practice next.

Just when he hadn't made up his mind, Cao Xiaodong found him and said, "It's time to make lunch. You can come and make it too."

"okay."

Wang Jianye had been practicing cooking seriously, and before he knew it, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon and it was time to cook lunch.

Cao Xiaodong suggested, "The hot and sour potato shreds you made yesterday were so good that my master couldn't find fault with them. Can you cook something else today? If you cook something else, we can also let the chefs here give you some advice."

"Well, what dishes are not being cooked now?"

Wang Jianye asked.

Cao Xiaodong thought for a moment and said, "Leek and dried tofu, cabbage stewed with vermicelli, dried beans stewed with meat..."

He mentioned several dishes in a row.

Among these dishes, Wang Jianye can currently cook a dish of leeks and dried tofu particularly well. In the morning, when he was practicing cooking in order to get the recipe, he specially improved this dish to the level of a top chef.

As for other dishes, like cabbage stewed with vermicelli and dried beans stewed with meat, he was not very familiar with them, so it would be a waste of food if he made them.

It didn't matter if he practiced these dishes by himself, because he wouldn't cook too many times, but now he had to cook for so many people in the kitchen, and he had to cook a lot of dishes at one time. If he cooked them badly, it would be a waste. Maybe next time he wanted to cook, others would not let him do it.

So, Wang Jianye figured it out and said to Cao Xiaodong, "I want to make leek dried tofu, is that ok?"

(End of this chapter)