Chapter 94: The Fox Spirit Subdues a Group of Thousand-Year-Old Demons
This old master chef was the head chef of the Imperial Kitchen back in the day. Every one of the forty chefs here had learned culinary skills from him to some extent, so they could all be considered his disciples.
Now, the old master chef wants to learn from a little lass, wouldn’t that make this group of people become grand-disciples?
This seniority is forcibly lowered by a large margin, and the other party is still someone the same age as their granddaughter, who would be willing?
They thought this time they came to learn cooking because the Third Young Master had invited the legendary God of Cooking!
Other chefs also took off their aprons, “If you want me to learn cooking from a little girl, I won’t be a chef anymore! I traveled thousands of miles from the Jin Kingdom, enduring the hardships of the journey, not to be humiliated!”
“What’s going on? This girl is younger than my granddaughter, right? I’ve eaten more dishes than she’s cooked! You actually want me to learn cooking from a little lass younger than my granddaughter? Unless she started learning to cook from her previous life, how could she understand what cooking is at this age? She probably doesn’t even know how to hold a knife, right? Let’s go, let’s go… I won’t do it either! Let’s go find the Third Young Master and talk to him!”
“Let’s go, let’s go find the Third Young Master!…”
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The chefs all shouted that they wanted to leave.
Shen Dong was overjoyed and looked at Xingnong, waiting for this spy from Welcome Inn to retreat in the face of difficulties!
Xingnong saw that most of the chefs here were led by the oldest chef.
But no matter where you are, strength speaks for itself.
Actions speak louder than words. Xingnong walked to the cooking counter, picked up a kitchen knife and a white radish. She tossed the radish into the air, her left hand holding the knife danced. In a calm and unhurried manner, she said, “You are all my seniors, please give me some pointers.”
The swooshing sound made the chefs turn their heads involuntarily.
The old master chef widened his cloudy old eyes.
The surrounding chefs were also dumbfounded!
In mid-air, slices of radish as thin as cicada wings slowly drifted down.
The speed was so slow that it seemed as if it wasn’t radish slices that were falling, but butterfly wings, swan feathers.
Xingnong quickly wielded the kitchen knife, slices of radish as thin as cicada wings slowly landed on the chopping board. With each rise and fall of the knife, the radish slices formed a complete radish on the chopping board.
The chefs: “…”
This knife skill…
Although they didn’t want to admit it, this knife skill was better than theirs!
Even the old master chef couldn’t cut it this thin!
Then Xingnong walked to the water tank with live fish, grabbed a live fish, and began to process it at the counter specifically for handling live creatures.
With each rise and fall of the knife, a swallow-shaped fish was in the frying pan in less than a quarter of an hour~
The chefs: “…”
Is this girl really only in her teens?
I’m afraid she’s been practicing her knife skills since her previous life?
Did this girl forget to drink Meng Po soup and reincarnate?
Knife skills are a very important part of cooking. In this dynasty, the people who can afford to eat in restaurants are all from wealthy families, and they all have chefs at home.
They go to restaurants to eat, mostly for the need to entertain guests. At this time, eating is not about pursuing fullness, but about pursuing something on a spiritual level, such as respect, face, vanity, enjoyment, and so on.
For a dish, people’s first sense is visual, then olfactory, and finally gustatory.
Taste is king, but the appearance must also attract people to eat!
Therefore, color, aroma, and taste are all important, with color and aroma coming first.
And the chefs in this dynasty learn cooking by first learning the taste of the dish, and then learning knife skills.
Knife skills are the most difficult.
A good chef who can only make dishes taste good is only considered qualified. Only when the knife skills and plating are mastered can a chef be considered truly skilled.
Therefore, when everyone saw Xingnong’s superb knife skills, they were already convinced in their hearts.
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With such good knife skills, how could her cooking be bad?
Time passed unnoticed as the chefs were dumbfounded.
A plate of rose radish, flying swallow chili fish, and three-fresh white jade rolls were ready.
Everyone looked at the yellow rose flowers, the chili fish that seemed ready to fly, and the crystal clear three-fresh white jade rolls that looked like mutton fat jade. They subconsciously sniffed their noses and then picked up their chopsticks from the basket.
A faint sweet and sour taste, mixed with a hint of orange’s unique aroma, melted in the taste buds, greatly increasing appetite.
Can’t help but have another piece, there’s none left.
The fish is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, coated with a thick and moderate sauce, fragrant and spicy, with an endless aftertaste, making people unable to stop.
Want to taste one more bite, there’s none left.
The light and refreshing white jade-like three-fresh radish rolls enter the mouth, the spicy taste is instantly taken away, replaced by a sweet and refreshing taste, with a sweet aftertaste.
Still wanting more, but there’s none left.
A group of fat and strong old men turned their heads at the same time, their eyes burning with passion as they looked at Xingnong.
The old master chef’s cloudy eyes lit up: “Little girl, your knife skills and cooking are good! Do you want to be my disciple? If you become my disciple, I will learn cooking from you!”
Haha, he finally found someone with exceptional talent who could inherit the essence of his lifelong culinary skills!
The chefs: “…”
Didn’t he say it the other way around?
But it’s good that he said it the other way around!
Xingnong: “…Alright.”
She already had many masters, one more didn’t matter.
Anyway, what does it matter if you’re a master or a disciple? It’s just a title.
Her goal was just to make money.
Hearing this, the old master chef said happily: “Come, come, come, disciple, make another dish and let your master learn, cough, cough, let your master give you some pointers! I heard you made the Third Young Master eat pork? Make that dish! Let me see if there are any shortcomings!”
The chefs: “…”
This old man is really shameless!
He wants to learn her dish, but he can’t bring himself to ask directly.
A master learning cooking from a disciple?
Does he still have any shame?
But, it’s good to be shameless!
It’s just that this little girl is still too young! And too easily deceived!
Those of them who could be her grandfather were more or less embarrassed.
So everyone decided in their hearts to teach her their best dishes, to teach her everything they had learned in their lives!
They looked at each other, since they were being shameless, let’s all be shameless together!
The chefs all said: “Yes, yes, yes, Little Master, no, Little Junior Sister, I heard you made pork taste like fish? And made the Third Young Master eat it all? How did you do it? Make it again and let us see, let your Senior Brother point out any shortcomings!”
“Yes, Little Master, make it again, make it again and let us see, let us learn, what do you need to prepare? I’ll help you!”
“What do you mean learn, it’s to give pointers, Little Master, do you need ginger? I’ll prepare it!”
“What Little Master, it’s Little Junior Sister, Little Junior Sister, do you need minced garlic? I’ll pound it.”
So Xingnong became the “Little Junior Sister” of a group of chefs, teaching them how to cook.
The lowest in rank, but doing what only those with the highest rank do.
