325 Chapter 325: The Secret of the Signboard

"Oh, it's useless." After hearing Liu Huaxing's words, Yang Chengzhi shook his head and sighed and spit out a smoke ring. "Uncle Bi's old man suffered a stroke because of damage to the blood supply area of ​​the brain and his speech ability was affected. Fa has a normal conversation, and legs and feet are inconvenient. I guess it’s impossible to cook again in this life..."

"Ah...Is that so?" Liu Huaxing frowned and sighed a little regretfully.

But then the problem is very big. At present, there are two methods. The first is to create a fish head with chopped pepper and sauerkraut fish that are enough as signature dishes. The second is to find the teacher and father to quit. Heres to help.

It’s not easy to create it by yourself. First of all, Liu Huaxing’s style is not compatible with this restaurant. He is a French restaurant, while "Late Rice" is a traditional Chinese restaurant. The taste he created may be familiar to many people. I think it’s delicious, but the old customers of this store may not be able to get used to it; secondly, the impression of the signature dishes has become a habit for regular customers, just like the mother’s taste, it’s useless if it’s not exactly the same. The taste has changed.

However, although this scheme may lead to the loss of old customers, it can attract new customers. After all, Liu Huaxing is very confident in his craft.Cooking is nothing more than paying attention to details, as he told Yang Xiaoxiao when he used to make egg fried rice, the simpler things, the more detailed they are, and details determine success or failure.

The risks are large, and the returns are naturally large.If this method is successful, Liu Huaxing will be able to reverse the "taste" of this restaurant, let it get rid of the taste of the older generation, and pursue the new taste he created, and there will be no need to worry about being controlled by others, after all, the recipe In the hands of his son-in-law.

However, it may take three to five years for this method to be effective, and it takes a long time for human tastes to form habits.Delicious is important, but it is more important to suit the taste of the guests.

This is like the influence of preserved eggs and fermented cheese on domestic and foreign diners. Many Chinese think preserved eggs are so delicious. Why don't foreigners like them, while those stinky cheeses are just like rotten garbage.

But correspondingly, foreigners also view preserved eggs in this way. This is the difference caused by the taste habits developed since childhood.Some dishes are not delicious. Many local specialties are delicious in the eyes of locals, but outsiders can't swallow them at all.Therefore, this method has certain risks, which is equivalent to overturning the restaurant's years of foundation and rebuilding a new signboard.

And the method of finding the heir of the teacher's father to change jobs... It is impossible for the other party to take the initiative to help. After all, he switched from a restaurant that had trained him for many years to other places, and it was enough to quit when the teacher's father was about to retire. Visible his character.

After thinking about it, Liu Huaxing decided to adopt a "compromise" approach.

First go to the teacher’s father’s heir to taste their dishes, and you will probably know the taste of the signature dishes of late rice. Then, based on this taste, he adds his own craftsmanship to create a new style that has both the old taste and his new style. chef's special.

"Uncle, where is the heir's restaurant? I want to go there and have a look." Liu Huaxing asked.

"Oh, don't mention Zhang Wenhao." Yang Chengzhi said annoyedly. "The character is in a mess. When he was about to inherit the position of chef, the lion suddenly opened his mouth and said how much the annual salary of other restaurants would be to dig him. If we don't He will switch jobs if he pays a higher price. Our old store has always been based on word of mouth. How can there be such a high profit to give him an annual salary of several million?"

"I know, I'm not going to ask him for help, just to taste the signature dishes in the store." Liu Huaxing said with a smile, and Wang Mei persuaded him after hearing this: "Oh, forget it. I know what your kid is. I want to help, but this kind of thing is not something your child can intervene. This is something his father will find a way. Your top priority is to learn."

"It's okay, Auntie, it's only the third semester of high school now, and the school has just started, the pressure is not that big. I think I can help with this. In any case, let me try it. After giving up, I can study at ease." Liu Huaxing smiled back. Tao.

"Oh, this..." Wang Mei looked at Yang Chengzhi, and Yang Chengzhi was smoking a stuffy cigarette with a bored look.

Yang Chengzhi’s solution is to introduce some discounts. For example, the three time periods of 9 to 11 in the morning, 2 to 4 in the afternoon and 8 to 13 in the evening, a half-price refreshment policy will be introduced to attract customers to come during the low peak period of dining. This can't solve the fundamental problem. The inferior quality of the signature dishes will cause the store's reputation to decline, which will cause the overall loss of customers.

Therefore, in the end, Yang Chengzhi told Liu Huaxing the location of the restaurant.

So, on Sunday, Liu Huaxing brought Yang Xiaoxiao to this store, ready to try it.

"Bashan Yeyu... It's quite poetic." Looking at the name of the store, Liu Huaxing couldn't help but chuckled. He actually disliked Zhang Wenhao, a person who didn't know how to be grateful. Job hopping at this important juncture.

Of course, job-hopping is a very normal phenomenon in society, and Liu Huaxing can understand it, but if you want to jump, you should jump early, or give people a little buffer time for restaurants, and then train an heir.However, this guy used this as a threat to ask the store to give him a salary increase at a critical moment.A chef of this kind of personality can't make anything good even if he cooks.

Because the interest is too strong, even if you will spend your full capital and earnestly cook during the first period of opening, sooner or later after earning word of mouth, you will start to cut corners and sharply increase prices. In the end, the reputation and taste of the store will naturally collapse. Can't continue business.He will see more of this kind of thing in the future, and the brand is as big as the whole *de and *ignorance can not escape this fate, let alone a new store?

But on the other hand, Liu Huaxing is still a little lucky: the problem was discovered earlier, and there is still room for recovery.

If it takes another two years to find out that the restaurant’s business has plummeted, then it may be a little difficult to save the situation.

Even if he can find a group of new customers by relying on new tastes, Yang Chengzhi and "Late Rice" may not be able to survive that difficult period. It takes too long to re-establish reputation and signature cauliflower, and business losses may result Boil this shop.

Now, it should be able to stop the loss and bring back the profit within a year...The premise is that as long as the sign can be found.

"Xingxing, shall we go to the hotel in the afternoon after eating?" After finding a place to sit down, Yang Xiaoxiao grabbed his hand and asked with a smile.

"Little greedy cat...but not this time, another day?" Liu Huaxing patted her head and smiled, "I have important things to do today. I don't say you should know what it is?"

"Hey..." Yang Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and hummed a little unwillingly. Liu Huaxing kissed her little mouth: "Okay, bear with me. One day at noon, we will skip class in the afternoon and have a good time. ."

"Okay!" Yang Xiaoxiao said with a happily smile, obviously she prefers to be intimate at home like this.

After ordering two dishes of chopped pepper fish head and pickled cabbage fish in the store, Liu Huaxing and Yang Xiaoxiao began to taste them.The reason why Liu Huaxing can achieve success in cooking is because his sense of taste is particularly sensitive. Once his master and chef added a little breadcrumbs to the meatballs, although it was only a small spoonful, he immediately tasted it.

This is because when making meatballs, in order to prevent the meatballs from being too thin, a little steamed bread crumbs were added to it. But that day, there was no steamed bread crumbs in the store, so the chef replaced it with bread crumbs, but he tasted it. Because of this, the chef was fancy.

After eating this chopped pepper fish head, Liu Huaxing frowned at that time: "What a unique fragrance..."

Then, Liu Huaxing tasted the pickled fish, which also had a very unique fragrance.

The fragrance does not come from a certain kind of spice, because the spice is just an embellishment, and this kind of fragrance has a sense of integrity, as if the whole dish is wrapped.

Of course, these two dishes are not only the fragrance, but as a chef who has many years of cooking experience and is quite talented in this area, he can see the other details, such as how to marinate the fish. The fish meat is more qualitative. For example, how to make the fish meat in the pickled cabbage fish add more flavor and the unique spicy sauce in the fish head with chopped pepper.

Basically, Liu Huaxing will know the mystery of these two dishes after tasting a few bites. The key to chopped pepper fish head is the "chopped chili sauce", which should be homemade in the store, and you can taste the flavor of star anise and cinnamon, and Light wine aroma.

He can roughly guess the little tricks in the pickled cabbage fish, and he even has better alternative methods to make it more colorful.Only the scent of the overall sense made him hard to understand.

In Chinese cuisine, is there anything that can give a dish the overall aroma?

Liu Huaxing carefully recalled that this kind of overall feeling is rarely seen in foreign cuisine, so what is the most obvious gap between Chinese cuisine and foreign cuisine?When he thought of this, he already had an answer: oil.

The most famous thing about Chinese cuisine is that it uses more oil, and the harder the dish, the more oil.

But this is very rare in foreign countries. Many countries’ cuisines pay attention to healthy diet. For example, Japanese and Korean cuisines deliberately reduce the cooking oil, so that their dishes are always clear and watery, and there is no oiliness, while French cuisine. It is also usually not used in a large amount of oil, only Chinese cuisine, often a whole pot of oil is put in a dish.

Therefore, Liu Huaxing speculates that the overall aroma of these two dishes must come from the "oil".

I'm afraid it is not ordinary peanut oil and corn oil, but some other oil.The oil generally has its own unique fragrance. The taste of peanut oil and rapeseed oil is the most mild, and will not overwhelm the taste of other ingredients.

Corn oil has a slight taste of corn itself. When cooking some light foods, people with sensitive taste can feel the taste of corn oil.This is why the Chinese do not like olive oil.

People abroad especially like olive oil. Olive oil is used in cooking and salads. Olive oil is indeed healthier. It contains unsaturated fatty acids and has lower calories than ordinary oil. It is used to eat nutrition without heating. High value, weight loss people will eat a spoonful of olive oil to ensure daily fat intake.

But olive oil has a very strong fragrance, which will overwhelm the taste of a lot of food itself, so many people do not like it.

The scent in these two fishes should also come from some kind of oil, but Liu Huaxing is not sure what kind of oil.But he knows this oil is very important, because this fragrance is the only special presence in these two dishes, that is to say, this is the source of the “taste of home” that the guests have formed a habit.

Maybe Yang Chengzhi people who don't know how to cook will find it incredible: the key to the signature dishes in the store is the "oil"?That being the case, why didn't the teacher tell the chef in the store what this oil is?

The reason is simple, because the guests and the chef may not even know that this "oil" is the key.They only think that the deliciousness of their signature dishes comes from the overall intentions and details, which is the deliciousness of the dish itself, but in fact, to explain it from a scientific point of view, the most important thing, which allows customers to form taste habits, is the strongest. That taste.

In other words, as long as the oil is used correctly, even if other details are reduced, the guests will not be able to eat it.

Because most people don't have his sensitive sense of taste, they can only taste the strongest taste. As long as they can taste this taste, they will feel that it is still the familiar taste.

"Little strawberry, do you think it is delicious?" Liu Huaxing turned to Yang Xiaoxiao and asked curiously.

"It's normal, it's unique, but it's just that, not as delicious as my star made." Yang Xiaoxiao said disapprovingly.

"That's because you are accustomed to the taste of my cooking." Liu Huaxing touched her head and smiled, "Okay, go back after eating? It's almost time to reproduce this dish... Just call again ."

After buying the order after eating, Liu Huaxing called Yang Chengzhi and asked about the oil imported from the store. After checking the list, he found a kind of oil that he had not tried, called " Tea seed oil".

"Well, that's the fragrance!" Liu Huaxing bought a small pot of tea seed oil from the supermarket and nodded happily after smelling it.

The correct answer has been found, so the next step is to go home and repeat the miracle.

Because he wanted Yang Chengzhi to try it, Liu Huaxing and Yang Xiaoxiao went to her house, and Wang Mei had already prepared some fish heads of grass carp and pantou, but actually Liu Huaxing didn’t need so many dishes to try. The advantage of the ability to read files is that he can save the effort of trying and save materials and time.

However, this kind of file reading that needs to go back to a specific time every time and the reading interval is more than one hour usually requires a deeper reading point. So now he comes to the kitchen and Yang Xiaoxiao is in him. Standing on the side ready to help.

"Little Strawberry, come here." Liu Huaxing waved to Yang Xiaoxiao, and the little girl came over very obediently.

Then, Liu Huaxing opened Yang Xiaoxiao's neckline and glanced in. The little girl was wearing light blue underwear today.

"Well, it's really beautiful." Liu Huaxing nodded in satisfaction, and the impressive archive point was available.

"Hey...what are you doing? Not being serious when you should be serious." Yang Xiaoxiao glared at him with a pursed smile, and poked him in the face.

"Do you know that I need a little motivation for love to cook." Liu Huaxing teased, Yang Xiaoxiao smiled, and then came over and kissed him on the face, "Here you are."

Next, Liu Huaxing began to get busy in front of the stove.

He not only wanted to reproduce the signature of the store, but also created a blue-and-blue work with his French cuisine concept, standing on the shoulders of the predecessors and then surpassing the predecessors, thus completely defeating Zhang Wenhao, a chef with low character.