After Qin Huai finished eating the crab roe shaomai, he realized that he might have underestimated this snack.

I saw him silently eating two of the three crab roe shaomai, leaving one for Huang Anyao who was begging for help, and then said: "Master Zheng, can you demonstrate it to me again?"

"No problem!" Zheng Da was delighted.

He was not very good at speaking in the first place. The combination of superb skills and weak language would make his production process, which did not seem to be very powerful in the first place, even more ordinary. Qin Huai could have this awareness and just didn't know whether Zheng Da was happy or not, and immediately prepared

Get all the materials together to start the demonstration.

The same process as before, peel the live shrimps, remove the meat, and chop into pieces. Remove the meat from the crabs.

Pour in Shaoxing wine, salt and other seasonings, stir well.

While Zheng Da was mixing the filling, Qin Huai asked: "Master Zheng, how do you control the seasoning of this filling?"

Qin Huai knew that Zheng Da would most likely not be able to explain, because Qin Congwen also asked him this question before when he was making snacks at Qin's breakfast shop, and he couldn't understand either.

Qin Huai knows that preparing stuffing is a process that relies heavily on feeling. Just like traditional Chinese recipes, the description of the dosage of each seasoning is basically a small spoon, a little, and an appropriate amount. Unlike the recipes found online today, which can be accurate to grams.

, these little, appropriate amounts are actually the feeling.

In an ordinary family, if one day a child suddenly wants to learn how to cook and asks his parents how much salt to put in braised pork, the parents will definitely say half a spoonful. As for whether the half spoonful is 1/3 spoon or 1/4 spoon, or to be precise

As for other quantities, it all depends on your own performance.

The taste of cooking comes from testing.

Some people have no talent in this area, and may have to try many times before they can feel what the Shao Sha method is. But some people are naturally very keen, and they only need to try it once and taste it with their tongues, and they can probably judge it.

Whether you add more or less of a certain condiment, you can adjust it yourself the next time you make it. Over time, you will adjust to a set of stable flavors that belong to you.

Masters like Huang Shengli who can explain things clearly and analyze them in detail to pinpoint the problem are actually in the minority. There are not many famous teachers these days.

Of course, there are very few masters like Zheng Da who can't understand it at all.

Although most normal teachers may not understand what they say, they can still say something.

But Qin Huai said before that he actually understood Zheng Da's teaching model, especially the sentence "You can feel it, you know this feeling." Qin Huai didn't know whether the third person watching could feel it, anyway, he

You can really feel it.

Zheng Da's answer was not what Qin Huai expected.

"This is. Yes.. In fact, this is about how to control this seasoning. The seasoning is actually... Let's put it this way. Actually..." It can be heard that Zheng Da really wants to give some precise guidance in language, but

His ability is limited and this track is not suitable for him.

After hemming and hawing for a long time, Zheng Da finally chose to answer in the way he was most familiar with. "You have to find the feeling."

"It's normal to be confused when you first make it. There's no way to teach you about this kind of very detailed seasoning. You can only roughly tell the amount in a standard range. Once you start making it yourself, you'll know the flavor after steaming the siu mai.

Understand what the problem is."

"Usually, the simpler the ingredients and the fewer types of seasonings, the more difficult it is to season them. As long as there is a slight problem with any of the seasonings, it will affect the final taste. At this time, the chef needs to have a sensitive tongue.

"

After Zheng Da finished speaking his standard answer, he still said something useful. These useful words encouraged him, and even before Qin Huai gave a reaction, Zheng Da went on happily.

"Oh, actually Xiao Qin, you are still delayed."

"Just now you asked me what my master taught me and my senior brother. I mentioned a little bit but didn't finish. The most important thing for a chef is not strength and understanding. The most important thing is actually the tongue."

"If you are not strong enough, you can practice it. If your understanding is not good, you can put it bluntly. If you don't understand it clearly, you can practice it. Even if your brain is enlightened one day, even an extremely smart person will be stuck by an inexplicable bottleneck. But the tongue is really important.

, if a chef does not have a sensitive tongue and a good taste of food, it will be difficult for him to make further progress.

of."

"Don't look at me being stupid when I talk to you. Sometimes it's not that I don't understand, but that these things are difficult to explain." "Many things are learned not by talking, but by tasting."

"The reason why my master accepted me and my senior brother as apprentices was because we both had a good tongue. You can't even imagine how my master conducted the audition. Among the ten plates of boiled shrimps, one was not boiled and had a little bit added.

It’s a condiment that’s hard for normal people to taste.”

"Eat one plate after another, you can drink water in between, and tell which plate has the condiments on it to be promoted."

"The second round is the sauce for boiled shrimp. There are 10 sauces. The recipe of one sauce is different from the other 9, but the difference is not big. Each person can only taste each portion twice, and the one who is right will be promoted."

"This is the threshold screening. You can't imagine how exciting it was back then. Alas, times are different. If there were a similar cooking competition now, each chef would be given a taste in the first round, and all the chefs with weak tongues would be eliminated.

.Then we will compare other basic skills, knife skills, and various categories, and finally determine the chef with the strongest overall strength. It will definitely be exciting!"

Zheng Da spoke happily. Although the topic became more and more biased, Qin Huai listened with interest. "Then what is the criterion for judging a good tongue?" Qin Huai asked curiously.

"There is no standard." Zheng Da said, "A good tongue is a good tongue. If you give him a dish, he will be able to eat it without saying anything."

"Nowadays, there are many types of condiments. In the early years, and a few decades ago, some people would deliberately mix the condiments and crush them in order not to share their unique secret recipes. But this kind of situation can only prevent ordinary competition.

My rival, Chef Yun, knows exactly what's in the dish at one bite, and can even guess the proportions after eating it a few times.

"I remember my master told us back then that the real secret recipe is not how well the ingredients are paired, but the technique, the cooking skills. That is the unique skill that no one else can steal." "What about my tongue?" Qin Huai

ask.

"Nothing to say." Zheng Da said bluntly. "You must have a good tongue."

Yeah?

Qin Huai still has some doubts. According to the game system rating, his food taste is advanced.

Qin Huai knows that high-end is already a very good level. His high-end seasoning is enough to cope with most dim sum, even some difficult desserts. This high level is not the highest rating.

There is also a master level above the advanced level. Upgrading to the master level requires one million experience points. Allowing upgrades means that there are other levels above the master level. Looking at it this way, it seems that the advanced level is not that advanced.

Seeing that Qin Huai didn't seem to believe what he said, Zheng Da smiled and said nothing.

Zheng Da didn't have much contact with Qin Huai. In terms of frequency and time, his relationship with Qin Huai was far inferior to that of Zheng Siyuan and Huang Shunli. However, Zheng Da thought he knew Qin Huai better and had always supported Huang Shengli in bringing Qin Huai to the world.

At the same time, let the world see Qin Huai's thoughts.

Zheng Da feels that Qin Huai, as a genius, is really not a genius. Zheng Da has been a self-aware genius since he was a child.

He is very talented in cooking and has done well in business. It is because he knows that he is a genius that he is arrogant, and that is why he is not recognized as a white-collar chef in state-owned restaurants, and Huang Shengli is allowed to be the master chef, but he is not

When he was a master, he resigned in anger and went into business.

A normal genius, not only looking at people with his nostrils turned upward, must at least be used to seeing stars holding the moon, far ahead of his peers. Qin Huai is just the opposite.

He is obviously a genius, and even among geniuses, he is considered to be a very rare type of genius. He has always been an outstanding talent since he was a child, and he has been praised by all the stars, but he seems to have very little self-awareness.

Some children are naturally sensitive and have low self-esteem. Due to the environment in which they were raised, they always anticipate the worst. Even though they are very capable, they still feel that they are not good enough. They often give up on things before they even start.

But Qin Huai's character is not like this.

Huang Shengli didn't understand, but Zheng Da understood a little bit.

He had been like this for a while. When he first worked in a state-owned hotel, he found that even if his level was far higher than that of his peers, he could not reach the height of his master.

At that time, he was very frightened, very uneasy, even internally conflicted, anxious, and self-blaming. He felt that he was nothing more than that, not a genius, just an ordinary mediocre person.

Zheng Da felt that Qin Huai's situation was a little different from that of his time. He had always thought that he was very good, but suddenly he encountered an obstacle that was difficult to overcome. He couldn't accept it for a while, so he had a brief emotional breakdown.

Qin Huai's mentality and state were obviously much better than those at that time. It was as if Qin Huai had already encountered an insurmountable obstacle before he discovered that he was a genius. He could not overcome it for many years after that. He had become accustomed to having a mountain in front of him.

, so I have a very wrong understanding of myself.

Zheng Da really wanted to ask Qin Huai if you secretly have a master behind my back.

Who is that master? Tell me his name, and I will go and fight with him. How do you teach disciples? How can you undermine the self-confidence of disciples like this? Isn’t this misleading! Do you know how to teach disciples? Don’t you know how to change?

Man, let me teach you, I understand!

Zheng Da was making crab roe shaomai while chatting about some interesting nonsense. While Zheng Da was making crab roe shaomai, Qin Huai ate the one left for Huang Anyao. He was a little hungry.

Qin Huai feels that watching the production process and tasting the results is more helpful for learning.

And if Huang Anyao can catch up with the second batch, he no longer sends WeChat messages to beg for help. Instead, he sends WeChat messages to confirm again and again when the crab roe shaomai will be released and whether he can catch the most delicious ones.

After finishing two batches of crab roe siomai, the afternoon teaching also came to an end.

Qin Huai didn't have time to try it himself. Since he was making crab roe shaomai, the chef had to do the entire preparation process himself. Qin Huai didn't make shrimp-filled dim sum often, so crab meat and crab roe were not enough for him.

In other words, it is a blind spot in knowledge.

If you are not familiar with the ingredients, you should have more contact with them.

In a long list of nonsense, Zheng Da repeatedly emphasized that the content related to teaching is that when making crab roe shaomai, the chef must prepare all the ingredients by hand. The preparation process is not troublesome, it is nothing more than taking the shrimp meat, crab meat and crab roe.

Only by preparing the ingredients by hand can we become familiar with the ingredients in the shortest time possible, establish a connection with them, and season them better. Qin Huai thinks what Zheng Da said is very reasonable.

I even think Zheng Da’s teaching level is acceptable.

The personal level of the teacher lies here. Whether the teacher can teach is a matter of the teacher, and whether the student can learn is a matter of the student.

Huang Shengli's textbook explains it in detail, while Zheng Da's textbook doesn't explain it in detail. They are both textbooks, and students can learn them as long as they have enough understanding.

"Thank you, Master Zheng, for your hard work today. I would also like to trouble you to come early tomorrow afternoon. I will go back today to get it all together, and I will start making crab roe shaomai after lunch tomorrow. If there is anything wrong in the process, I still need to trouble you."

You pointed it out in time." Qin Huai delivered his post-class remarks.

"No trouble, no trouble." Zheng Da said cheerfully, "If you don't understand anything when you go back, feel free to ask me. If you feel uncomfortable living in the house, feel free to tell me. Next time you are short of furniture, don't tell Gong Liang. Just tell me.

I rented this house and I will pay for it for you."
To be continued...