What makes a good chef?
As a former industry insider, Yao Yuan has met many outstanding culinary masters, from top international celebrity chefs who are at the forefront of international trends to national skill inheritors who adhere to traditional techniques.
These different chefs all have their own specialties, whether they are good at innovation and use all kinds of incredible techniques to break through everyone's understanding of food, or they stick to tradition and use the most traditional techniques and the most original ingredients to restore delicious food. The true taste of food.
As for Yao Yuan himself, his former mentor was the well-known Huaiyang cuisine state banquet master and national super chef Mr. Zheng Xiuwen. Master Zheng himself can be regarded as a top presence in the domestic culinary industry. Although Yao Yuan himself has not become famous, Following the master, I have not seen much of the world, and I have had many interactions with chefs from all over the country and even the world.
Therefore, Yao Yuan still has some understanding of the basic qualities that a good chef should possess.
Just in China, the chef industry is very particular about the inheritance of master and apprentice. However, due to special reasons in the 1970s and 1980s, this inheritance was discontinued.
The subsequent reform and opening up has allowed a generation of young people to see many new things from abroad, and they have become a little impetuous. Many young people in society would rather work as bellmen or waiters in hotels. I don’t want to join the dirty and tiring job of a chef.
There is no other reason. When you work as a doorman or waiter, you can dress smartly, blow the air conditioner and get tips. As for whether you will develop personally in the future or whether you can learn a craft skill that you can use, you don't care at all.
Therefore, from then on, most of the apprentices who could be willing to work in the kitchen were from humble backgrounds. Either the family is in trouble or people from out of town come to the city to work.
Among these apprentices, those who can succeed in their studies and stand out as independent chopping boards and woks are most likely to be disciplined, patient, and able to work in a down-to-earth manner.
As for aura, that is something that only the department head will consider.
In particular, a medium-sized restaurant with about 300 seats has a kitchen staff of thirty or forty people, most of whom are young men. It is a typical labor-intensive industry. In such a collective, the requirements are actually similar to those of the army. Number one on the list is discipline and obedience.
That's why it is said that any soldier who comes out of the army, especially a cooking soldier, no matter what his skills are, must be a good talent in the kitchen!
Of course, if you want to achieve certain achievements in this industry, it has some similarities with other industries, and the test is the chef's personal accomplishment and culture.
Therefore, when Yao Yuan heard that comrades from all over the city were coming, he had already thought about it, and was even a little excited, so that he lay in bed unable to sleep for a long time.
I have a lot of ideas. In order to earn living expenses and to help Xie Zhenhua’s family solve difficulties, these are all things I do incidentally. However, in order to achieve my goals of economic freedom and enjoying life, the things I do now are not enough.
However, as a cook, if you want to make money in the catering industry, it will definitely not work without helpers around you.
Xie Zhenhua's name is definitely not something that can be pointed out, and neither can ordinary people. After all, there are still some technical thresholds in our industry. If there are a few retired cooks around, even the ones in the city can help me. few.
But where can such people be found?
You can't just put up recruitment notices in newspapers to recruit people, right?
It is impossible for our workshop to recruit decent talents!
As my mind wandered, I suddenly thought of my father. As the number one troop commander in a large base, he must have many retired soldiers under his command every year. Can I find a way out of him?
I'm afraid it won't work. What I did must be too outrageous in the eyes of the old man. Even Wang Hongyu's parents would not agree, not to mention that his father is as rigid as he is.
I was just thinking about writing a letter to my father tomorrow to get some information, but then I thought of my mother.
Speaking of the current appearance of my father and mother, I haven't seen them for decades, and a wave of longing began to fill my heart. Gradually, it filled my entire brain, and I gradually fell asleep.
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At the intersection of Zizhu Park, a large billboard has just been erected across the road, with a few large characters written on it: "Information Highway Three Kilometers North."
The sign is correct. Three kilometers north of this place is the location of Xinguan Village, which is famous at home and abroad. It was at this time that the earliest Internet in my country was born.
Xinzhongguan has also become the largest high-tech electronics distribution market in the north. All kinds of high-tech electronic products and related products imported from the southern pass will be concentrated here and then sold to various cities in the north.
Today's Xinguan Village is undergoing vigorous construction, and the Xinyi Avenue from south to north is being built. In order to widen the road, the poplar trees that have been in the sky for decades are being sawed down to the ground without any distress. This shows how much determination the country has invested in the construction of Xinzhongguan.
The entire Xinyi Avenue is covered with exposed loess and bursts of coyote smoke. Under the noon sun, buses, minibuses, taxis, Santana, Jetta, and Fukang are jumping one after another, breathing heavily and blowing out blue smoke. Jumping and trudging across the ground.
Three kilometers to the north, at the intersection of Xinyi Avenue and the North Fourth Ring Road, deep ditches were dug out of the road surface. The ditches were covered with steel plates, so all cars had to slow down when they came here.
So, at this intersection, cars were blocked. The red Charade and the yellow face-shaped hinged Volkswagen opened the door helplessly in the sea of cars, making a "pop" sound like a flat tire. There was a sound, the car door opened, and a crowd of people like ants poured out of the car and plunged into the scorching sun.
Xie Zhenhua was among the crowd. He was very busy this morning. After buying a canopy bed, he went to the morning market to check out the stalls. After selling all the items, he turned around and got on the No. 320 bus, all the way to Xinguancun.
His purpose in coming to Xinguancun was very simple, just to visit the electronics market here.
There are currently two electronic markets in Xinzhongguan. One is the electronic accessories market located in Huangcun in the south. This market mainly deals in electronic components; while the electronic market in the north mainly deals in computer accessories, and of course some Computer-related books and audio-visual products.
People getting off the bus were first stopped by women holding children in twos and threes. The women asked one by one in a low voice: "Do you want a CD? Do you want a VCD?"
After getting rid of these women, there were three-wheeled vehicles lined up one after another. There were stoves on the vehicles and various ingredients were placed in plastic bags. The young man wheeling the wok shouted hard: "Fried rice, fried noodles, fried rice." Cake!" The girl on the trolley nearby, holding a box of foam plastic lunch boxes, shouted: "Lunch box, lunch box, two meat and one vegetarian for two and a half yuan!"
There are no decent restaurants near the electronic market right next to the west gate of Yenching University. Even if there were, in this new Zhongguancun city where time is money, no one would be willing to waste time going out to eat in a restaurant. Their work meals would be at the door. These food carts make do. Even the customers who come here to buy things are the same. They hold their lunch boxes without caring about the image. They find a shady place where the sun cannot shine, hold the lunch boxes and dig into their mouths.
The Xinzhongguan Electronics Market is euphemistically called the leading high-tech product distribution center in the country. To put it bluntly, it is no different from a vegetable market.
Glass counters one after another are divided into booths of about four square meters. Each booth is piled with piles of electronic products. Although they are all computer accessories, they are divided into three, six or nine grades here.
Relatively cheap accessories such as 5.25 floppy drives, 1.44 floppy drives, optical drives, chassis, and power supplies are all piled up like cabbage, ready for anyone to pick through; slightly more valuable motherboards, graphics cards, and sound cards are covered with anti-static bags. On the counter, there is a large area, with simple model and performance parameters written on cardboard on each motherboard, while the motherboard and graphics card packaging boxes are used as cover, hung high on the back for display; only the most valuable CPU and memory will be put into the counter, and there will be a dedicated shelf display for customers to choose.
Every weekend is the busiest time here. Today is Sunday, and the Xinzhongguan Electronics Market is even more crowded. The huge market feels a bit packed.
People are so crowded and bumper to bumper that the stall owner’s glass counter is often pushed out of position, and the busy stall owner has to constantly push the counter outward, otherwise his stall will be dented.
Such a hot and crowded scene makes it difficult for people to imagine that this is the northern high-tech center of our huge country.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand that various mass spontaneous crazes have arisen in this era. In addition to the blind and even harmful qigong craze, clivia craze, and business craze, there are also reading crazes, foreign language crazes, and computer crazes.
These latter crazes just prove that in an era when the country has just opened, the people are eager for knowledge and foreign exchanges. This is a good thing, and it has also accumulated a large number of available talents for the country.
Today, Xie Zhenhua also aspires to become a talent, a professional in computer science.
He listened to Yao Yuan's encouragement last night. He already liked computer knowledge and bought his own home computer early.
Xie Zhenhua's family is not rich. His mother is a salesperson and his father is a factory worker. Their income is on the low side. Under these conditions, the two lovely parents do not know much about computers themselves, but for the sake of their precious son's future ability To get ahead, he actually spent almost all of his family's savings and spent nearly 20,000 yuan to buy his son the most advanced 486 computer with a Sound Blaster card.
As the saying goes, the hearts of parents in the world are pitiful! Twenty thousand yuan is enough for a family’s living expenses for two years!
Fortunately, this time the investment was spent in the right place. Starting with a 486, Xie Zhenhua could later join the Internet trend sweeping the world.
However, the current negative effects are also obvious. Xie Zhenhua's grandma was seriously ill. The family was unable to pay for the hospitalization expenses and almost sold their house to raise funds.
Fortunately, this problem has been almost solved with the efforts of their little brothers.
Today Xie Zhenhua ran to the electronics market under the scorching sun, just to buy some professional books on computers.
Xie Zhenhua, who was immersed in picking out books at the stall, was unexpectedly punched on the shoulder, and a crisp voice sounded from behind with surprise: "Why are you here too?"
