Chapter 156: A Dish that Breaks My Senior Brother’s Defense: Roasted Eggplant! [2100 Monthly Tickets Added Last Month]

Chapter 156 A dish that breaks my senior brother’s guard—roasted eggplant! [2100 monthly tickets added last month]

As night falls.

Linji Food ushered in the evening peak.

Perhaps because the news of the store closing for renovation spread, there were more customers today than before, and it seemed more crowded, so that people such as Yue Liyue, Professor Xu and others who lived nearby chose to pack up and go back to eat.

Well, the store is closing soon.

It's better to reserve the table for customers who come from afar.

After all, it’s not easy for people to come all the way.

"Boss Lin, how long will the renovation take?"

“Will the new store increase prices?”

“Will it still be so crowded when it opens again?”

"Will you open a branch in the future?"

"..."

Customers are full of curiosity about the new store. They are looking forward to not having to wait in line to eat in the future, but they are also worried about the skyrocketing prices and the deterioration of the quality of the dishes after the new store opens.

For Lin Kee Food.

The attitude of the customers is the same as that of fans of some niche singers.

I have the ambivalence of "I'm afraid that my brother will suffer hardship, but I'm also afraid that my brother will drive a Land Rover".

They are afraid that after store expansion and business is booming, they will drift away from customers, or even open a bunch of branches under the coercion of capital, and end up with nothing but chicken feathers.

Lin Xu patiently said to them:

"The renovation will take about a month. It depends on the progress of the renovation. The food prices may be adjusted, but the magnitude will not be too big... As for the branch, we have no such plans for the time being, so don't worry."

When the customers in the store were discussing the new store animatedly.

On the short video platform, Lin Xu’s new video of how to make white jade lotus root is also extremely popular. Countless netizens flocked in to watch how to make this winning dish.

"Oh my god! This swordsman is too dissatisfied."

"Calling my mother this time won't solve the problem. This knife skill is beyond my mother's capabilities."

"I wanted to make it for my family to try over the weekend, but due to the knife skills requirements, I feel like my family is more likely to send me to the hospital."

"Just because of the appearance, I know it's something I can't afford."

"Looking forward to the Dundun tasting session..."

"Don't look forward to it. I just came back from Sister Xin's live broadcast room. Dundun didn't appear in this episode."

"Why didn't you appear on the scene? Don't I, Brother Dun, deserve to eat the dishes for the distinguished guests?"

"Share some hot knowledge: Cats are carnivores, not vegetarians."

The video has a high number of views.

And the popularity continues to rise.

In just a few hours, it reached the top ten on the food section list.

Fans of other food UP bloggers are following bloggers like Aite:

"Look what good material I found for you?"

"How about making this next time? Other food bloggers can make it, but I don't allow UP, whom I follow, to not make it!"

"This white jade lotus root dish is very popular right now. UP, do you want to be among the top 100 this year? If you want to, hurry up and make it in the next issue to amaze them!"

"Roll it up, roll it up!"

For a time, almost everyone in the food area was named.

Let these UP owners also see this white jade lotus root thread.

When they first saw the name of the dish, they thought they could give it a challenge to satisfy fans' requests and gain popularity.

But after reading how to do it.

Many UP owners immediately gave up the idea.

I can't rub it. I can't rub it.

I make videos just to earn a little money to support my family, but I don’t want to harm myself.

It’s really not cost-effective to put your own hands on just for a few views.

But they were also curious about the origins of this UP master who suddenly appeared in the food section and could make such a labor-intensive dish.

Then they started to look through Lin Xu’s previous videos.

I saw the dishes I had cooked before, I also saw Dundun, and I was also given a series of information about Lin Xu.

For example, having a rich and beautiful girlfriend, being accepted as an apprentice by a master of state banquets, queuing up all day long in front of a small restaurant in Beijing, etc.

"Come on, it's such a good hotel. Let's go back and do a store visit."

However, after they learned about the history of Linji Food, they discovered that the store, which had just opened less than a month ago, was going to close for renovations.

"Other restaurants may not be on track even after one month of operation. But this one is good. Less than one month after its opening, the business has already exploded to the point where we have to expand the store."

Various discussions continued.

The popularity and views of the video have also skyrocketed.

By the time Lin Xu got off work in the evening, the number of views on the video had exceeded 500,000 and was heading towards 1 million views.

And the number of followers on his account has officially exceeded the 200,000 mark.

In just a few hours, the number of followers increased by 70,000 to 80,000, which made Lin Xu a little overjoyed.

Because the more fans he has, the easier it is for the topic of Lin Ji Food to be brought up.

The completion of the main mission [Rise to Fame] is getting closer.

There are still about ten days left until the task is completed.

The popularity of the topic of Linji Food officially reached second place tonight. Although there is still a big gap between Yanjing Food Sharing, which ranked first, it is not insurmountable.

According to the current situation.

After a week, the popularity gap between the two topics will be almost evened out.

But the requirement to be ranked among the top ten in the Yanjing area is obviously much greater.

Now Linji Gourmet has just entered the top 20, and is now at the 18th place on the overall list. There is still a gap of more than 1 million popularity between the topic of the 10th place # Chaoyang Mass has made a contribution again # .

There’s a long way to go!

Lin Xu sighed.

He held his cell phone and watched for a while the video taken by classmate Shen of his father-in-law jumping around on the dance machine, then said good night to little Yue Yue, who was on the verge of being beaten, and turned off the lights to go to sleep.

Two days later.

While Lin Xu was waiting for Dou Wenjing to find a designer to come up with the design drawings, senior brother Xie Baomin hurriedly opened the door and came to the store.

"Junior brother, when will your store be renovated? Many customers came to Building 2 to order your "Home" dish. I had people try to make it, but the appearance was too different from what you made. I'm sorry. Serve it to customers...If you don’t go to work, the reputation of Building 2 will be damaged!"

Building No. 2 originally had a low reputation and could not compare with the business of Building No. 10.

But since Lin Xu won the championship on behalf of Building No. 2, many customers who went to Diaoyutai to eat would deliberately detour to Building No. 2 to try something new, which led to a rapid increase in the sales of Building No. 2.

So Xie Baomin wanted to seize the opportunity and ask Lin Xu to go to work quickly.

With the blessing of the cooking competition champion, I believe the business in Building 2 will reach a higher level.

Of course.

The most important thing is that I finally don’t have to patiently explain to customers over and over again why the dish "Home" is not available.

"Director Liao of the catering department is really slutty. He announced at the competition that your dish would be served in Building 2. Many customers now call every day to ask when the new dish will be available. The front desk in Building 2 doesn't know how to reply. .”

Lin Xu brought a cup of sour plum soup to Xie Baomin:

"Senior brother, don't worry. After I come out with these drawings, if there are no problems, I will immediately stop the business for renovation... I will be paid to go to work, right?"

"Of course, as a senior brother, can I treat you badly?"

Lin Xu asked again:

"Chezi and the others won't have anywhere to go by then, and they won't be able to help with the decoration. How about letting them go to the Diaoyutai with me?"

"No problem, as long as you go, everything will be easy to talk about!"

"Then can you arrange for someone to teach them about their cooking skills?"

Xie Baomin put down the sour plum soup in his hand:

"Junior brother, are you treating our Building 2 as a training class?"

"I don't want them to follow your progress, senior brother. After all, you are the holder of five consecutive Diaoyutai championships. Let them also benefit from your glory."

Xie Baomin smiled helplessly:

"You are so kind to your employees, but they can go there as well. The kitchen in Building 2 is pretty free, so I can give those guys something to do."

Finished talking about business.

He asked Lin Xu:

"Did you see the photo Master sent?"

"I saw it. I was actually in Sanya. But let me tell you something, Master is almost 70 years old and he has maintained a good figure. He even has abdominal muscles."

Yesterday evening, Uncle Gao posted a shirtless photo on WeChat Moments, drinking beer at the beach.

Under the setting sun, the old man wearing sunglasses was smiling all over his face, but the most eye-catching thing was his figure, with bronze skin, strong muscles, and even eight-pack abs on his belly.

Lin Xu looked a little envious.

Xie Baomin said with a smile:

"Neptune, your health comes first. Master has been exercising continuously over the years, and his body is in better shape than many young people."

Tsk…

Is this the reason why the leopard print aunt can't stop lusting after the master?

But from now on this title can no longer be called.

Because after the two of them came back from their wanderings, they might just hold a wedding and officially be promoted to the fifth generation of master wives.

Master is an old Neptune who shows mercy at all times.

Only a woman like her with money, leisure and means can control it.

The two senior brothers chatted for a while.

Lin Xu stood up and said:

"Lunch is almost ready. Can we eat it in the store later?"

Xie Baomin nodded:

"Okay, I just happened to be making a home-cooked dish. You guys can help me check it."

check?

Lin Xu was a little surprised.

You have won five consecutive championships at Diaoyutai, and your cooking skills are so high. How can we be qualified to check your food?

He asked curiously:

"Senior brother, have you received any hospitality tasks again?"

But as for home-cooked food... foreign dignitaries rarely eat this, right?

Xie Baomin smiled bitterly and said:

"It's not a reception, it's because my youngest son came home from the boarding junior high school last night. I personally cooked a table of dishes. I originally wanted to reward the boy, but he said that the cauliflower I cooked was too fancy and not as big as the school's. The chef’s cooking was so delicious that I was so angry that I couldn’t sleep at night.”

Lin Xu:? ? ? ? ?

I thought my classmate Shen's filial piety was more unique.

It turns out that the children in my senior brother’s family are also so filial.

It belongs to be full of filial piety.

He smiled and asked:

"Which dish made you break your guard?"

Xie Baomin excitedly picked up the eggplant left on the shelf for the afternoon:

"Burned eggplant! I served a table of glutinous rice, chicken, braised mutton, stir-fried river shrimp and fried diced pork, and he actually said it was not as delicious as the roasted eggplant in the school cafeteria, and said that the dish I cooked was not good enough for rice."

Grilled eggplant?

This dish is often seen in school cafeterias.

When Lin Xu was in college, he also liked to eat roasted eggplants. The fried eggplants were put back into the pot for processing. The eggplants wrapped in batter were soft and delicious. The sweet and salty taste was mixed with the sourness of tomatoes. It tasted great. The meal is delicious.

Especially the soup in this dish is so fragrant when mixed with rice.

Lin Xu didn't expect it to be this dish.

He smiled and said:

"Don't talk about me, senior brother. When I was in college, I really liked eating roasted eggplant. Mixed with rice, I can't beat it. The only dishes that can compete with it are minced pork and eggplant or salted fish and eggplant."

Xie Baomin became even more excited when he heard this:

"Then when it is cooked, you can help me check it to see if it is as delicious as the one in the school cafeteria. Today I am determined to make this dish. If it doesn't surpass the school chef, I will resign tomorrow and find a job in a middle school."

Tsk tsk tsk...

Look at how angry the senior brother is. This is a breach of defense.

Lin Xu smiled and said:

"It's just a word, kid. Why are you so angry?"

While comforting his senior brother, he was ready to steal his master.

Well, I still have an Excellent Level Cooking Learning Card in my hand. Since my senior brother is going to make this classic dish of roasted eggplant, let’s learn it.

Go back to the new store after it is renovated and opened.

Maybe this dish will become one of the restaurant's signature dishes.

After all, dishes such as roasted eggplant and ground fresh vegetables have always been must-order dishes in home-cooked restaurants.

This dish seems to be found everywhere.

However, the methods are slightly different. For example, when frying the eggplant and stir-frying the ingredients, some places put tomato sauce, some places put soybean sauce, and some even add bean paste or even no sauce.

Apart from this, everything else is pretty much the same.

Almost all fried eggplant pieces are put into a pot and simmered, so that the eggplants are filled with the sweet and sour soup mixed with soy or salty flavor, and then taken out of the pot.

When eating, cover the rice or pour the soup on the rice to whet your appetite.

Xie Baomin kept mumbling while preparing the ingredients.

Obviously, this home-cooked dish made him, the master of state banquets, somewhat unbalanced.

After cleaning the eggplant, he was about to peel it when Lin Xu said:

"The school cafeteria makes this dish without peeling it. How about you try making it without peeling it?"

"Really? That will save me trouble."

Xie Baomin wanted to prove to his son that his cooking skills were better than those of the school chef. When he heard that the school chef did not peel the food, he immediately chose to do so.

Place the eggplant on a cutting board and cut into hob pieces with a knife.

The so-called hob block is to roll the ingredients while cutting, so that the knife keeps cutting from the section cut by the previous cut. The block produced in this way is beautiful and cooked, and has more edges and corners, making it easier to catch the batter and soup.

After cutting the eggplant.

Xie Baomin poured the eggplant into a basin and soaked it. This can effectively remove the strange smell from the eggplant.

When cleaning, put some salt and white vinegar in the basin.

Salt can give the eggplant a base of flavor while frying.

White vinegar can prevent eggplants from oxidizing and discoloring.

After soaking for a while, remove the water.

Sprinkle some dry starch into the eggplant and shake it a few times in the basin to spread the dry starch evenly on the edges of the eggplant pieces.

Dry starch crisps the surface of the eggplant and prevents it from absorbing too much fat during frying.

Wait until all the eggplant pieces are coated in flour.

Xie Baomin brought two more tomatoes, a green pepper and a red pepper.

Peel the tomatoes and cut into cubes.

Convenient to release juice when frying.

The green and red peppers are cut into diamond-shaped pieces, which are used to match the color.

Then prepare some chopped green onions and some minced garlic, and the ingredients for roasted eggplant are ready.

Xie Baomin turned his face and asked:

"Is there nothing else to prepare?"

This question really stupefied Lin Xu.

When he was in college, he had never done a work-study program in the cafeteria, so he didn't know the process of cooking in the cafeteria.

I was very impressed by the fact that eggplants are not peeled, because when eating, I occasionally eat the skin of an old eggplant and have to spit it out, which affects the efficiency of the meal.

"That should be it. How about you make it first? I'll know when it's done."

Although I don’t know how to make it, I will never forget the taste and texture of it when mixed with rice. I will know if there is any difference when I taste it later.

Xie Baomin set up the oil pan and started making it.

When frying eggplants, the oil temperature should be high, so that the hot oil can fry the skin of the eggplants dry and hard at the first time.

If the oil temperature is too low, the eggplant pieces will absorb the fat in the pan like a sponge.

This not only consumes oil, but the key is that the cooked eggplant will be greasy and greasy, making it difficult to swallow.

The oil temperature is 60% hot.

Scatter the eggplant pieces coated in dry starch into the pot for frying.

Don't move it when you first put it in the pot, because it is easy to shake off the dry starch on the surface. When the skin is slightly browned, stir it with a spoon to turn the eggplant pieces over.

This makes it easier to fry the eggplant pieces thoroughly, and also prevents the side next to the oil from being fried.

Fry until the eggplant skin is slightly wrinkled and there is a layer of brown color on the surface of the eggplant, take out the eggplant pieces.

Increase the oil temperature again for re-frying.

This step is to fry the excess fat in the eggplant pieces so that the eggplant does not taste greasy.

The re-explosion time should not be too long.

Twenty or thirty seconds is enough.

Before serving, pour the chopped green and red peppers into the oil pan for a while, then hold the pan and pour all the oil and ingredients in the pan into the large colander mounted on the oil drum.

The grease is controlled into the oil drum and can be used again next time.

The ingredients are kept in a colander to control the oil.

Xie Baomin put the oil pan back on the stove. Instead of adding additional oil, he used the remaining oil in the pan to sauté the onions and garlic until fragrant. Then he added the diced tomatoes and stir-fried them quickly until the tomatoes became slightly mushy. state, and then add two spoons of pork bone stock to the pot.

Start seasoning.

Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, and salt to the pot in sequence, and stir evenly to allow the flavors to blend and penetrate.

Then add the soaked fungus.

Cook for two minutes, cook the fungus until raw, then add the fried eggplant cubes and green and red peppers, stir-fry over high heat.

Taking advantage of this moment, Lin Xu silently recited in his heart:

“Use the worksheets!”

The system prompt sounded in my mind:

"Learning object: Xie Baomin. Current skill is: Anger. Do you want to learn?"

Lin Xu:? ? ? ? ?

System, you are being naughty again!

While he was in a daze, Xie Baomin had already collected the juice in the pot and was now carrying it to the workbench behind him to start serving the dishes.

Rinse the pot after serving.

Then the executive chef of Diaoyutai wiped his sweat with a towel and said to Lin Xu:

"Junior brother, let's try it and see if any of the school chefs can do it well."

Lin Xuzheng regretted not learning this dish.

He put away his thoughts and carefully observed the roasted eggplant that his senior brother made in a state of anger.

The ruddy eggplant pieces are served on a white porcelain plate, and are dotted with green and red peppers and black fungus. They look really tempting.

But Lin Xu always felt that it was a little different from the roasted eggplants served on those big trays in the school cafeteria.

But he couldn't tell exactly what was different.

Just when he was about to taste it, Ma Zhiqiang on the side suddenly said:

"Thank you, Master. Your cooking is very particular and exquisite. Dishes like roasted eggplant are more homely, so you have to order them casually to be delicious."

Yes, it's so exquisite.

Lin Xu finally realized where the problem was.

Xie Baomin frowned in confusion.

Ever since he started learning cooking at Diaoyutai, exquisite dishes have always been the first requirement of his masters and leaders.

Unexpectedly, when making roasted eggplant, being delicate would actually become a drawback.

"Am I really not as good as the school chef?"

"Of course not."

Lin Xu picked up a piece and tasted it.

The taste is still very online.

If it were rated otherwise, it would have to be at least an excellent level.

But this roasted eggplant is in the style of a high-end hotel, without the taste of a home-cooked restaurant or canteen.

It reminds me that Ma Zhiqiang is good at cooking big pot dishes.

He put down his chopsticks and said:

"Zhiqiang, please come and do one, so that senior brother and I can learn a lot."

Ma Zhiqiang was not polite, washed his hands and said:

"Then I will show my shame in front of you two!"

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Grilled eggplant is one of my favorite dishes, so I would like to share it with you. This chapter has 5,400 words. Today, 10,000 words have been completed. Please vote for me, brothers!