"Boss, do you want me to look after the store in the morning?" Su Ruoyan already knew that the boss was busy today, so she quickly finished cleaning up and asked.
"No need to check the store." Yuanzhou shook his head, it was very safe in the Kitchen God Shop on Taoxi Road.
Yuan Zhou asked Su Ruoyan to leave. When there was nothing going on in the store, Yuan Zhou would not let the clerk stay. As long as the work was done, how long did it take
He went upstairs to take a shower and returned to the kitchen to take a look at the dozens of Singaporean sauces he had made recently. He thought about bringing some of them with him. This time he planned to cook Nyonya cuisine. After all, the national treasure chef Opie Luo's specialty is Nyonya cuisine, which is the most conducive to communication.
Nonya cuisine is a Malacca cuisine that is a combination of Chinese cuisine and Malay cuisine. It is an authentic Singaporean cuisine. It is a perfect combination of traditional Chinese cuisine and Malay spices, integrating sweet, sour, spicy, slightly spicy and other flavors. It is thick and the sauce used is made from at least ten kinds of spices.
Therefore, many Nyonya dishes have a huge demand for sauces. Yuan Zhou made a lot of sauces when he was learning Singaporean cuisine.
The more than 2,000 kinds of sauces collected by the system have whetted his appetite. As for the ratio of more than ten kinds of sauces in Nyonya cuisine, Yuanzhou said that this is a trivial matter. In fact, to be precise, Nyonya cuisine The cuisine in Penang is the most authentic. When talking about Nyonya culture from around the world, the first reaction is that the concept of Malaysia is similar.
That's why Opelo wants to revamp Peranakan cuisine and turn it into a fully Singaporean cuisine.
About 600 years ago, Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty went to the West and brought Chinese immigrants and customs to Malaysia, which promoted the integration of Chinese culture and Malay culture at that time and formed a new culture. This is the so-called Baba and Nyonya culture.
Children born from intermarriage between Chinese and Malays are called "Baba" for boys and "Nyonya" for girls. Not only have they made adaptive changes in their living habits, but they have also changed in their eating habits. Nyonya cuisine is the first generation of "fusion" cuisine created by them based on traditional Chinese food and cooking methods, combined with commonly used Malay spices. , formed its own special taste, which is characterized by a strong taste, with sour, sweet, spicy and pungent taste, full of tropical flavor.
In order to be able to cook food that suits the family's taste at any time, generally, a Nyonya family's kitchen will be equipped with various spices, such as: shallots, garlic, ginger, galangal, and mountain ginger. , lemongrass, cauliflower (ginger flower), chili pepper, mint leaves, asam paste, belacan, cinnamon, orchid, lime, pandan leaves...etc.
An ordinary family usually needs to prepare so many Nanyang spices. You can imagine how many sauces are needed for an authentic Nyonya dish.
Of course Yuanzhou also knew a very interesting phenomenon, that is, Nyonya cuisine was an absolute matriarchal system at the beginning, which meant that it was passed down from daughter to son, and each family only used its own unique recipes, methods, and secret recipes. , passed down orally from generation to generation to daughters-in-law, daughters, etc., so it is normal that the number one chef in Malaysia is Huang Aisan and she is a woman.
Huang Aishan is one of the directors of the Asian Celebrity Chefs Federation. The reason why Chu Xiao did not invite him was because it was well known that Huang Aishan and Opello were very different from each other.
"Forget it, let's not bring it." Yuanzhou felt that bringing the sauce made with the best spices and ingredients in the store would be suspected of cheating, or more frankly, a bit of bullying.
Furthermore, Yuanzhou noticed that Opello, who was best at Nyonya cuisine, obviously came empty-handed and did not bring authentic sauces from Singapore.
Now that he had made his decision, Yuanzhou did not delay and walked out of the store directly to see Chu Xiao and his party.
"This is Chef Yuan, the number one chef in Asia, I'm talking about. These are the chefs participating in this Yuan Chu roundtable meeting." Chu Xiao also dared to say that he introduced all the comers one by one. Again.
"Every chef, welcome to come from afar."
Although Chu Xiao's introduction was beyond Yuan Zhou's expectations, Yuan Zhou was still in high spirits. He straightened his back and politely greeted a group of masters. His etiquette was impeccable and he showed his master's style.
"But what is the Yuan Chu Round Table Conference?" Yuan Zhou thought silently in his heart.
"I've wanted to communicate with Chef Yuan for a long time. It's a rare opportunity." The chefs, led by Opello, all admired Yuan Zhou's performance. As for Chu Xiao's introduction, they probably didn't. Hear clearly.
"Everyone, please come with me." After receiving Chu Xiao's signal, Zhang Le knew that his work was coming, and immediately stood up and asked everyone to follow him.
The Huanting Building is really close. The group of people arrived at the entrance of the venue in just a few minutes. At this time, Technician Cheng was already waiting at the door.
"Master, you are here." As soon as Technician Cheng saw the group of people, he immediately stepped forward and stood in front of Yuan Zhou to say hello. The disciple's posture was very upright.
"Zhao Mei, you're here, thank you for your hard work." Obviously Yuanzhou knew that Technician Cheng was responsible for preparing the ingredients.
But now that Technician Cheng has been promoted, he should be called President Cheng. Of course, President Cheng is just a little apprentice in front of Yuan Zhou, no different from before, and he treats Yuan Zhou with the same respect as before.
"No, Master, this is what I should do." President Cheng said.
Yuan Zhou nodded without saying anything. Instead, he turned around and introduced President Cheng to the chefs, "This is my disciple, President Cheng of the Sichuan Cuisine Association."
Apprentices can become presidents. Opello and others have seen Yuanzhou's prestige. Of course, they don't think there is any problem with Yuanzhou accepting such a large disciple at a young age. Who is the one in the culinary circle? Whoever is good at cooking is the teacher.
It only took a few minutes for the few people to chat, but they arrived at the venue quickly.
The venue is actually very simple. In fact, it just built ten temporary stoves, and then stored the ingredients. As expected of the engineering team that boasted that it had taken on several orders for cooking exchange meetings, it did a pretty good job. .
There are ten stoves in a row on one side. They are neatly built and clean and look very comfortable. Moreover, because the venue is large enough, there is enough space reserved for each stove. On the other side, there is a row There are rows of shelves and glass water tanks, with a very conspicuous large table in the middle.
Of course, everyone didn’t get close so they didn’t see those specially carved characters.
All kinds of fresh vegetables and spices and meats are neatly stacked on the shelves. They look very fresh. There should be all kinds of seafood in the glass water tank. After all, whether it is Singaporean or Western food, many kinds of seafood are used. style seafood.
Not only Yuan Zhou was satisfied in his heart, but the faces of the chefs were also visibly happy.
"Recruiting girls, the ingredients are good." Yuan Zhou praised.
"As long as Master is satisfied." President Cheng's image as a cold president suddenly collapsed, and he smiled like a fat man weighing more than 140 pounds.
"Then let's get started. Each of us will cook a dish and communicate." Chu Xiao, as the initiator, spoke first.
"Okay, let's get started." Yuan Zhou nodded in agreement.
After seeing Yuan Zhou’s cooking skills, the other masters couldn’t wait to show off their own cooking skills, so they were all ready to start.
Every chef walked to the ingredients and began to carefully select the ingredients they needed. Chu Xiao also looked at Yuan Zhou and went to choose the ingredients full of fighting spirit. Yuanzhou had already thought about which dish to cook, so he went straight to the glass water tanks to find the ingredients he needed.
Opero had the same performance as Yuan Zhou. When he ate the braised noodles made by Yuan Zhou, he had already made up his mind to cook his best chili crab today. He also made a decision from the beginning. I came to the glass water tank and quickly selected a very punctual Sri Lankan crab. The taste was very good. This is also the most suitable variety for making chili crab.
On the other hand, Yuan Zhou also came to the crab tank, but unlike Opello, he chose an ordinary three-tuberculose swimming crab. Although it looked full of energy and claws, it was more powerful than Opelo. The quality of the Sri Lankan crab is obviously lower.
"Is he going to make spicy crab?" Opello was a little confused as he watched Yuan Zhou grab a crab with great accuracy and then leave.
The crab struggled fiercely, but when it was in Yuan Zhou's hands, it was like Sun Wukong in Tathagata's hands. It couldn't break free no matter what, and was easily held in Yuan Zhou's hand.
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