vrcanaries Chapter 394 Do you still want to cook in the restaurant?
Chapter 394 Do you still want to cook in the restaurant?
Wan Yuyue and Yun Yongyuan took two steps back, looked at Zhao Xiaojing's gloves in horror, and began to retch while holding onto the wall.
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Zhao Xiaojing was confused again, looking down at herself. "What? Do you think I want to vomit when you see me?"
"It's not you, but could you please go further away..."
"Take the gloves off!"
Gloves? Zhao Xiaojing looked at the bloody gloves and looked at the two people's faces with a look of realization. "Is the dumpling meal that Dazhuang mentioned still hurting you two?"
"Mom, I can't see the fish anymore today!" Wan Yuyue wailed.
“Neither blood nor internal organs are allowed!” Yun Yongyuan covered his eyes.
"Pfft." Although Zhao Xiaojing's happiness is never based on the suffering of others, this is an exception for these two boastful people. "How about trying the collapse therapy? Face whatever you are afraid of, and I'll leave the fish to you two to cut open?"
"How about you kill me?"
"And you want to dissect me too?"
Zhao Xiaojing laughed out loud, stopped teasing the two men, put on gloves and returned to the pool.
This time the two of them were well behaved and no longer turned their heads to look over here. Zhao Xiaojing was happy that no one was watching. While scraping the scales on the front of the fish, she used the quick module to clean the scales on the back and the fish belly.
Soon the whole fish became clean and smooth. Zhao Xiaojing put the removed fish waste into a garbage bag and tied it up tightly. She cleaned the gloves and sink completely, then threw the garbage bag out and opened the window to prevent the two from seeing the fish or smelling the fishy smell and PTSD again.
"Fish jerky slices into fish fillets?" Nie Xiuqi saw Zhao Xiaojing washed the fish and placed the freshly fried vegetables beside her, then picked up the fish body and prepared to start.
"Yes, give me the fillets after you finish slicing them, and you can do the fish bones." Zhao Xiaojing picked up the chopsticks and tasted Nie Xiuqi's dish, nodding in appreciation, "It's fine this time, just cut the lotus root a little thinner."
Unlike Wan Yuyue's extreme good and bad and Yun Yongyuan's steady progress, Nie Xiuqi has been a chef for a long time and has his own cooking system. He can understand many aspects and tricks at a glance and can make them successful, but this is limited to the adjustment of small details, such as the order of pouring scallion oil and the amount of seasoning.
However, if you are relearning a dish that you have been cooking for a long time, the entire cooking method will have to be greatly changed, and it will be difficult to adjust. The learning time will be twice as long as Yun Yongyuan's.
But in fact, considering his cooking skills, it is not a big problem to follow his original habits and methods. It is just a little bit worse than the system recipe.
Zhao Xiaojing thought this was acceptable, and she also thought that it was not necessary for the whole restaurant to cook in the same way. Every chef had his or her own unique tricks, and it was better to let a hundred flowers bloom. However, after tasting her dishes, several chefs thought her cooking was good and wanted to learn her cooking method, so she just let them do it.
Anyway, as time goes by and you are exposed to more things, you will naturally form your own system.
But to be honest, Nie Xiuqi was a bit underemployed working in her restaurant, even though his salary was not low.
But after all, he has been working as a chef in a restaurant for four or five years. He is different from Yun Yongyuan and Wan Yuyue who have just graduated as interns, and himself who has cooked for decades in his previous life but is only proficient in making home-cooked meals.
"Senior Brother Nie, do you still want to cook in the restaurant?" Thinking of this, Zhao Xiaojing turned her head and asked.
"Dang!" The kitchen knife in Nie Xiuqi's hand shook violently and fell onto the chopping board. At the same time, Nie Xiuqi quickly shook his hand away, and the fingers of his left hand immediately began to bleed.
"Okay, rinse it quickly. I'll get you some iodine." Zhao Xiaojing quickly ran to the front hall, took out the always-available iodine and Band-Aids from the cash register and ran back.
"It's okay, the cut isn't deep." Yun Yongyuan stood aside and looked at Nie Xiuqi's wound and breathed a sigh of relief.
"What can make you so excited? You're even hurting yourself." Wan Yuyue tilted her head and looked at Nie Xiuqi in surprise.
Nie Xiuqi avoided his gaze and stared at Yun Yongyuan's finger, where he was helping him put a Band-Aid, without saying a word.
The wound on the finger was not too deep. After rinsing it with water and pressing it with a cotton swab dipped in iodine for a while, the bleeding stopped. After putting on a Band-Aid, Nie Xiuqi returned to the chopping board without saying a word and continued slicing the fish.
Yun Yongyuan and Wan Yuyue were obviously used to it, and didn't care about Nie Xiuqi's silence. They dispersed and went back to do their own things.
Zhao Xiaojing followed him back to the operating table. Seeing that Nie Xiuqi was slicing very slowly and seemed to be having trouble, she hurriedly pushed the fish head in front of her and said, "Let me slice it. You just need to cut the fish head with a knife and pat it a little bit."
"No need." Nie Xiuqi shook his head, and his hands moved faster instantly, so Zhao Xiaojing didn't insist.
But after a while, Zhao Xiaojing caught a glimpse of Nie Xiuqi's speed slowing down again, and even stagnated.
"boss."
Zhao Xiaojing was just about to tell him not to be so stubborn, but Nie Xiuqi looked straight ahead, without even looking at Zhao Xiaojing, and spoke.
“Did I do something wrong?”
"Huh? No, everything is fine." Zhao Xiaojing looked at Nie Xiuqi strangely.
“I know I have a weird personality.”
"I just look within for more. Didn't I say last time that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses? I know all of them and I can accept them. Who is saying something behind my back?"
"...You just now... weren't you going to fire me?" Nie Xiuqi turned his head cautiously and glanced at Zhao Xiaojing.
"When did I say..." Zhao Xiaojing was stunned, and then stopped talking. She instantly realized that this was a misunderstanding. "I asked you just now, not because I wanted to fire you, but because I was worried that my restaurant was too small and too limited, and you couldn't stay here. I wanted you to stick with it, practice cooking well, and stay here. We will also open a restaurant."
"Yes, really?"
"Yes!" Zhao Xiaojing smiled helplessly, "The profit from making rice topped with gravy is limited. We said before that we would definitely expand the store. But after you came, the sense of urgency became stronger. After all, it was just me, Brother Yun and Sister Wan, and they still need to practice! But you are different. I am afraid that you will run away, so I want you to stay steady and teach them more. When the competition is over, I will start planning to open a new store."
Nie Xiuqi's expression relaxed and he looked away awkwardly. "Every time my boss wanted to fire me, he asked me if I wanted to try another restaurant. I thought..."
"Blame me, blame me. I didn't explain clearly and caused you to get stabbed in the hand for nothing. This is really a misunderstanding!"
After explaining the matter clearly, both of them felt a little guilty. Just as they were in a delicate awkwardness, the voice of Wan Yuyue whispering loudly reached their ears.
"Do you think she did this on purpose? Is she playing hard to get? Now she has my eyeball firmly in her hand."
"Ahem! You're talking too loudly." Zhao Xiaojing said calmly without even raising her head.