It was four o'clock in the morning, which was still very early, but Feng Yifan knew very well that he had a lot of things to do today, so he had to get up early.
Without even turning on the light in the room, he groped his way out of the room.
After washing up in the bathroom outside.
Feng Yifan still prepares breakfast for his family in the kitchen and keeps it warm in an insulated box.
After that, he packed up, changed his shoes and prepared to go out.
Because he had to make three portions of three heads today, he had to go to Su Ji in advance and start some preparations early.
For chefs, every big banquet requires a lot of preparation in advance.
Even many auxiliary materials need to be prepared many days in advance.
Only in this way can the entire banquet be completed on the day of the banquet.
Feng Yifan opened the door quietly. When he was about to go out, he looked back at his daughter's room to make sure that there was no movement at the door, which meant that his daughter had not gotten up yet.
Only then did he walk out of the door with more peace of mind and locked the door from the outside.
When I walked out of the corridor, I could still feel the chill of winter.
Feng Yifan tightened his clothes and then jogged out of the community.
When I walked to the gate of the community and swiped my card to get out, the security guard at the gate poked his head out and asked, "Chef Feng, you're here so early today?"
Feng Yifan smiled and responded: "Yes, there is a big banquet to be held today."
The gatekeeper also seized the opportunity to ask: "I heard that you are going to prepare a three-head banquet today, and I heard that a three-head banquet is a very special banquet. Many hotels nowadays can't even prepare it."
Feng Yifan smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, we are going to prepare a three-head banquet today. If you are free in the evening, you can go to the ancient street to taste the flavor."
The security guard at the gate said, "Okay, okay, is it at night? I happen to be changing shifts at night."
Feng Yifan nodded: "Yes, it's in the evening, you are welcome to come then."
The gatekeeper asked again: "How much does it cost?"
Feng Yifan smiled and replied, "It's free. Today is New Year's Day, so let's celebrate together. Therefore, the three-head banquet at our Su Ji and Ruo restaurants is free."
The gatekeeper exclaimed, "It's free? Chef Feng, you're not making any money, so you're going to lose money?"
Feng Yifan smiled and waved his hands: "There is no such thing as compensation or not. It's New Year's Day, a new year, a new atmosphere. We are just celebrating New Year's Day with everyone and having fun together. When the Spring Festival comes, everyone will go home to celebrate the New Year, and it will be impossible to organize such a banquet."
The gatekeeper couldn't help but give Feng Yifan a thumbs up: "Chef Feng, you are really generous. I really admire you."
Feng Yifan said: "There is no such thing as grand or not grand. The purpose of celebrating a festival is to have fun and everyone should be happy together."
The guard nodded: "That's right, I will definitely go there that night."
While Feng Yifan was chatting with the gatekeeper, a few figures came out of the community.
When they arrived at the gate, they saw Feng Yifan chatting enthusiastically with the security guard, and several people couldn't help laughing.
"Chef, you got up too early."
Feng Yifan smiled and responded: "Didn't you guys get up early too? Have you figured out how to cook the pork and fish for you?"
Shi Jiahui smiled bitterly and said, "You really know how to find work for us. We had already drawn up the menu, but you insisted on adding something to it. A whole pig and a big fish. How can we cook them into dishes? How can we come up with something that easy?"
Feng Yifan asked: "So you got up so early to go there to prepare in advance?"
Shi Jiahui yawned, and Catherine said, "Yes, we need to prepare in advance."
Feng Yifan nodded: "Okay, let's go."
After saying goodbye to the gatekeeper, Feng Yifan, together with Shi Jiahui, Catherine, Chen Xu, Luo Yu, Hans and Tom, who had also gotten up early, walked out of the community and headed towards Su Ji on the ancient street.
The gate guard looked at the backs of Feng Yifan and his group and couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that it is not easy to become a top chef."
The group came to Su Ji's back door from the back alley.
When Feng Yifan took out the key and prepared to open the door, the back door of Su Ji opened from the inside.
After they entered the room, they saw that Lin Ruifeng, Ma Xiaolong and Ning Cheng had also gotten up.
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "It seems that we really have all the personnel. Everyone is up at this time. Have you figured out how to arrange it?"
Everyone looked at each other in confusion, then responded in unison: "It's the chef."
Feng Yifan clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's get started."
Coming to the kitchen so early, everyone naturally doesn't start cooking right away, but prepares various side dishes in advance.
This includes various broths and various ingredients that may be used, such as golden garlic.
Many things need to be prepared in advance, otherwise it will be impossible to prepare everything in a short time when you actually cook.
This also includes some processing of three pigs and three fish.
In fact, after the pigs and fish were brought back yesterday, they were also processed in a preliminary manner. For example, all the pork was disassembled and the fur was burnt off. Then they were all washed and cut into the required sizes, and then placed in a bucket of running water to soak overnight.
Soaking in running water overnight is to completely remove the bloody smell of meat and fish, as well as some unclean impurities.
When cooking today, the meat and fish will be very clean, and the blanching process can also save a lot of time.
Not long after Feng Yifan and his friends started, there was a knock on the back door again.
When I opened the door, I saw that it was Zhao Daxia and Fang Lin.
Feng Yifan was a little surprised that the two of them came over at this time.
"Sister Zhao, why are you and Fang Lin here so early?"
After Zhao Daxia entered the room, she said, "I knew that you would come early to work today, so I came early to help. I am responsible for washing the vegetables. If I don't come early, how can you handle it?"
Fang Lin said: "Since I have entered the kitchen, I must be a member of the kitchen, so I can't fall behind."
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Okay, go change your clothes and start working."
Faced with Feng Yifan's rudeness, Zhao Daxia and Fang Lin were actually very happy.
Because both of them knew very well that Feng Yifan was not being polite to them and really treated them as his own people. He also acknowledged that they were part of the kitchen.
Everyone was busy. It was still dark outside, but Su Ji's kitchen was already bustling with activity.
At about 5:30 in the morning, Feng Ruoruo woke up, and as usual, she quietly got out of bed and quickly went into her parents' room.
Originally, after the little girl came in, she planned to run to wake up her father and ask him to take her to buy groceries.
As a result, the little girl went to the bed and found that her father was gone.
Before Feng Ruoruo could exclaim, her mother on the bed said, "Didn't you find your dad? Dad got up and went out at four in the morning. You're late."
Feng Ruoruo heard her mother's voice and looked towards the bed again.
Then the bedside lamp was turned on by my mother.
Feng Ruoruo immediately climbed onto the bed and pouted her lips and said, "Mom, look at Dad, he doesn't care about Ruoruo at all and goes out by himself. You should take care of Dad."
Seeing her daughter's look, Su Ruoxi reached out and gently poked her daughter's puffy cheek.
"Hahaha, little thing, Daddy is very busy today. We have to prepare a three-head banquet, so we must go to the kitchen early to start preparing. If you follow him, it will distract Daddy. You and Mommy should sleep for a while, and then we will go together in the morning, okay?"
Seeing that her daughter was still a little angry, Su Ruoxi said, "Ruoruo, haven't you slept with your mother for a long time?"
When her mother said this, Feng Ruoruo suddenly remembered that she hadn't slept with her mother for a long time.
Then the little girl stopped being angry, walked up to her mother with a smile, and crawled into her mother's quilt.
"Hehehe, mommy, let's sleep together, and mommy's baby will come too."
While speaking, Feng Ruoruo gently touched her mother's belly.
Su Ruoxi hugged her daughter and said softly, "Okay, let's sleep together. We will sleep until dawn and then help Dad."
Feng Ruoruo nodded seriously, and then snuggled obediently in her mother's arms.
When the mother and daughter began to take a nap, the two elderly people, Su Jinrong and Shi Jinbin, had already gotten up.
The two old people finished washing up in the room, changed their clothes, and walked out of the door quietly.
Su Jinrong did not forget to take a look in the kitchen, took out a few buns and handed them to Shi Jinbin.
Shi Jinbin took the buns and found that they were hot. He asked in surprise, "You made the buns in such a short time?"
Su Jinrong smiled and said, "No, Yifan made it before he left."
Shi Jinbin was even more surprised: "Yifan has already left?"
Su Jinrong nodded: "He should have gone to Su's to get busy."
Shi Jinbin put away his surprise, nodded and said: "Well, today we are going to prepare a three-head banquet, which is indeed a great test for him, and there are many things that need to be prepared."
Su Jinrong said, "Yes, so Yifan must have gone to Su's a long time ago, and before he left, he prepared breakfast for his family and put it in the incubator in the kitchen."
Shi Jinbin looked at the warm buns in his hands and couldn't help but sigh: "What a thoughtful and good man."
Su Jinrong said: "Okay, let's go and help."
Shi Jinbin nodded and said, "Let's go."
The two old people also went out together.
At the same time, Sun Mingxing, who had returned to Fujing Building last night, also got up at 5:30, washed, changed his clothes and took his own kitchen utensils. When he was about to go out, he was blocked by his young apprentice Quan Jie.
"Master, can you take me with you today?"
Seeing the look on his little disciple's face, Sun Mingxing smiled helplessly.
"Boy, didn't we agree that you would stay in Fujing Building today and help your brothers take care of Fujing Building's business today?"
Quan Jie saw the smile on his master’s face and knew that his master was happy to take him there.
He hurried forward and offered to help his master carry the things.
"Master, if I don't go with you on such an important matter, how can you handle it at your age? So I must go with you and serve you."
Sun Mingxing also asked his apprentice to take the things and said as he walked, "You are a cunning boy. I'm afraid you don't want to serve me, but want to show off in front of your Senior Brother Feng, and then see if you can take the opportunity to stay with him and learn cooking, right?"
Quan Jie said with a smile: "Master, you are very observant. I am sure I can't hide my little thoughts from you."
Sun Mingxing was not angry, and still said cheerfully: "It's not easy for you to stay in Su Ji. Someone came to ask to be your disciple yesterday. Although it hasn't been successful, he has already stayed in Su Ji. There should be many more people coming to ask to be your disciples today."
When Quan Jie heard this, he suddenly became nervous: "Master, is the competition so fierce?"
Sun Mingxing said, "What do you think? Do you know how many tests I went through when I became Su Ji's disciple? It's not easy to become Su Ji's disciple."
Quan Jie then asked: "Master, do you think I have a chance to stay in Su Ji?"
Sun Mingxing did not answer directly, but asked: "You want to stay in Su Ji, are you planning to leave my school and become Feng Yifan's disciple?"
Quan Jie immediately said, "That's impossible. Master, you will always be my master."
Sun Mingxing continued to ask: "Then why do you have to stay in Su Ji?"
Quan Jie fell silent. After hesitating for a while, he replied, "Master, I actually want to learn more so that I can integrate what you have taught me in the future."
Sun Mingxing thought for a moment and said, "You are still ambitious, kid. Do you think that there is not enough room for advancement by staying by my side?"
Quan Jie was quite frank: "Master, I really want to go out and see a wider world and scenery. I also want to have the opportunity to become a chef in a three-star restaurant like Brother Feng, and I hope I can have the opportunity to participate in the state banquet."
When Quan Jie saw that his master fell silent, he became a little worried. Was he being too direct
But after a moment of silence, Sun Mingxing said: "Well, you have such ambitions, Master is very happy, if you really want to stay in Su Ji, then as long as your Senior Brother Feng nods, Master will not stop you."
Quan Jie immediately said, "Thank you, Master, for your help."
Sun Mingxing added: "However, if you are kept in Su Ji, you must do something for me and not bring shame to me as your master."
Quan Jie nodded seriously: "Master, rest assured, I will do my best."
Sun Mingxing then grinned and said, "Then you should get ready to be a waiter at Su's."
While master and apprentice Sun Mingxing and Quan Jie rushed to Su Ji, Chen Wei and several fellow apprentices also rushed to Su Ji. Also rushing to Su Ji were the grandparents Zhuang Daozhong and Zhuang Zhebin.
The three-head banquet has not officially started yet, but the top chefs related to Su Ji have begun to gather.