After coaxing his daughter, Feng Yifan temporarily handed over the kitchen to his uncle and took his daughter upstairs to let her wash up. At the same time, he also had to help his father-in-law get up.
After Feng Yifan helped his father-in-law finish washing and changing his clothes, he carried his father-in-law and his family downstairs.
I saw that the main door of Su Ji downstairs had been opened, and the chairs that were originally upside down on the table had been put down and neatly placed on the four sides of the square table.
Near the door, where the sun could reach, Shi Jinbin had already prepared breakfast, waiting for Feng Yifan and the others.
Shi Jinbin smiled and said, "Okay, our breakfast is ready, come and have a taste."
Feng Ruoruo asked curiously, "Grandpa Shi, did you also make breakfast with Dad?"
Shi Jinbin immediately replied: "Of course, Grandpa Shi cooked a pot of river porridge for you, which is just right to go with the buns and steamed buns made by your father."
When Feng Ruoruo heard Grandpa Shi say that her father had made siomai, she immediately asked happily, "Did Dad make that green siomai?"
Feng Yifan put his father-in-law on the wheelchair and responded with a smile: "Yes, Dad made jade siu mai for you, and made it sweet for Ruoruo, adding more sugar."
Feng Ruoruo quickly said to her father: "Thank you, Dad."
Feng Yifan responded: "You're welcome."
Then, Feng Yifan pushed his father-in-law and led everyone to the table selected by his uncle.
This table is close to the west side of the door, but not on the extreme west side, so it can be directly exposed to the morning sunlight.
This choice allows you to feel the first ray of warmth brought by the morning sun, but you won’t feel hot due to direct sunlight.
Everyone sat down around the table, and Shi Jinbin opened his clay pot of river porridge.
The moment the lid was opened, the aroma of rice porridge mixed with the fragrance of river seafood wafted out instantly.
Feng Ruoruo leaned on the table with her little hands and stretched her head to look: "Oh, it smells so good, what is this, Grandpa Shi?"
While serving food to everyone, Shi Jinbin said, "This is river porridge. Grandpa cooked it with fish, shrimp, snails and other river seafood. Try it. It's delicious."
Feng Yifan looked at the ingredients in the pot carefully and found that his uncle had put in almost all the ingredients he had bought in the morning.
However, each ingredient was carefully processed by the master, so the porridge did not appear messy.
Especially when it is served, apart from the shrimps and snails that can be clearly seen inside, the other river seafood is almost invisible.
But if you look closely, when Shi Jinbin scooped up the porridge with a spoon and poured it into the bowl, you can clearly see that the porridge is mixed with various very small fish meats and some other river seafood.
Feng Yifan couldn't help but admire that his master was able to handle all of this in such a short time.
Especially at Master's current age, he still has such skills, which is really amazing.
Shi Jinbin also looked at Feng Yifan at this time, with a slight smile on his face, and said, "How is it? Your uncle's craftsmanship is pretty good, right? Although he is a bit older, his hands and feet are still relatively flexible."
Su Jinrong smiled and said, "Brother Shitou, you are still amazing."
Feng Yifan also said: "Yes, Master, you are so old, and you can still maintain such skills, it's really amazing."
Shi Jinbin said seriously: "You have to keep practicing your craft. If you give up, your craft will decline. So I insist on being busy in the kitchen every day. Although I am more of a guide for my apprentices, I still do it myself."
Feng Yifan nodded in agreement.
Su Ruoxi stood up at this time and reached out to take the bowl and spoon from Shi Jinbin: "Uncle Shitou, let me do it."
Shi Jinbin was not polite and gave the bowl and spoon to Su Ruoxi.
Su Ruoxi served everyone a bowl of porridge, and finally served herself a bowl before sitting down next to her daughter.
Because her mother and grandmother were there, Feng Ruoruo waited for her mother to sit down, and naturally her grandmother would feed her.
But the little girl was not in a hurry to eat the porridge. She was still very anxious to eat her father's jade siu mai: "Daddy, hurry up, I want siu mai."
Feng Yifan smiled and opened the steamers one by one, and suddenly all kinds of buns and steamed buns in the steamers appeared.
Feng Yifan said to his daughter, "We need to let the two grandparents pick it up first, right?"
Feng Ruoruo also nodded: "Yes, Grandpa Shi, Grandpa, Grandma, you guys eat first, Dad's buns and siu mai are delicious."
But before the three old men were ready to eat, Feng Ruoruo added, "You guys eat the buns first. Dad's buns are always very good. Grandpa Shi, you eat the buns."
The little girl said this, her eyes fixed on the emerald green steamed buns in the steamer.
It was obvious that the little girl was worried that her favorite steamed buns would be eaten by her grandparents.
Shi Jinbin saw what Feng Ruoruo meant and teased her deliberately: "Grandpa wants to eat a steamed bun, is that okay?"
When Feng Ruoruo heard this, she hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded: "Okay, Grandpa Shi, you can eat it, but you have to save some for Ruoruo."
Everyone suddenly became happy when they heard the little girl's words, especially Feng Ruoruo, who looked reluctant to leave.
Shi Jinbin picked up a steamed bun and put it on Feng Ruoruo's plate.
"You eat it. Grandpa won't eat yours. Grandpa will eat the buns."
Looking at the steamed buns on the plate, Feng Ruoruo immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, Grandpa Shi."
Then, grandma was not polite at all. She picked out the jade steamed buns that Feng Ruoruo liked and placed them on the small plate in front of her.
There are four small steamed buns in total, and the father carefully added ingredients to them for his daughter.
Feng Ruoruo took a bite and immediately tasted the sweetness inside, mixed with the puree of green vegetable leaves, which really made the little girl like it very much.
This is made by my father, and you can’t taste any vegetable flavor in the vegetable puree, so Feng Ruoruo likes it very much.
Shi Jinbin also picked up a steamed bun without any toppings, put it in his mouth and took a bite to taste it.
After eating, Shi Jinbin nodded and said, "Well, this jade siu mai is very well made, with moderate sweetness. The key is that the green vegetable puree does not have that astringent taste, it is very well processed."
After eating the steamed buns, Shi Jinbin took another bun and gently broke it open.
Suddenly, the soup inside the buns flowed out, and a rich aroma wafted across the surface, mixed with the aroma of the leavened buns. People couldn't help but start drooling just by looking at and smelling it.
Shi Jinbin took a big bite and found the bun had a soft skin, rich soup of three cubes inside, and the taste of three cubes in his mouth.
The complex smells mixed together and the feeling made Shi Jinbin instantly think of his master.
When he first came to Su Ji and learned cooking from his master, the first meal he ate was steamed buns, which were the three-piece buns made by his master himself.
That was Shi Jinbin’s first time eating Sanding Buns, and he really thought it was delicious.
Whether it is the soft buns, the flavor of the stir-fried dumplings inside, or especially the steamed juice that seeps into the bun skin, it is really salty and delicious.
Many years have passed, and now when Shi Jinbin eats these buns at Su Ji again, he misses his master even more.
After finishing a bun in just a few bites, Shi Jinbin didn't reach for another one.
Feng Yifan was surprised to see this and asked, "Master, what's wrong? Is it not to your liking? Is there something I did wrong?"
Shi Jinbin waved his hand: "No, you cooked it very well, and it tastes great, almost the same as what my master cooked back then. But I can't eat too much with my body, and I still have porridge to drink."
Hearing Master Uncle say this, Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Master Uncle, it's only morning now, there's still a day to go, there's no need to diet like this, right?"
Shi Jinbin said helplessly: "I can't help it. Your aunt kept telling me when she was alive. I promised her that I would take good care of my health."
After hearing this, Feng Yifan naturally could not persuade him any further.
Instead, Su Jinrong asked softly, "Sister-in-law, when did you go?"
Shi Jinbin responded calmly: "Two years ago, he didn't suffer much, and he passed away peacefully. Besides, he got to see his daughter, son, grandson, granddaughter, and granddaughter, so he was doing well."
Before Shi Jinbin came to Su Ji to learn cooking, he was actually married and his eldest daughter was born.
However, in order to improve his cooking skills, he decided to leave home and come to Su Ji to learn cooking.
However, since they are all in China, Shi Jinbin goes back to visit often.
Every time Shi Jinbin went home, his master would prepare some specialties for him to take back to his family.
Shi Jinbin's wife is a teacher and has a relatively stable job, so she can take care of the children alone and she is very supportive of her husband.
Even after she had two sons, she still went to work and took care of the children alone, supporting Shi Jinbin in learning cooking.
Later, during the years that Shi Jinbin worked at Su Ji, he also thought about bringing his wife and children to Huaicheng.
It’s just that my wife had a job, so she didn’t come in the end.
The couple was separated for a long time at that time, but their relationship was always very good. Later, every summer vacation, his wife would bring the children to visit Shi Jinbin.
Su Jinrong had also met that sister-in-law, a very gentle and scholarly woman.
Later, Shi Jinbin went to Beijing, which actually gave the couple more time to spend together. Because Shi Jinbin was actually from Beijing, his home was also in Beijing.
Su Jinrong recalled those things, looked at Shi Jinbin and said, "Brother Shitou, thank you for staying to help Su Ji during those years."
Upon hearing this, Shi Jinbin immediately said, "Jinrong, I am not happy with what you said. How could I just walk away when Su Ji was facing that situation? How could I be worthy of my master?"
Feng Yifan quickly came out to smooth things over: "Uncle, my dad didn't mean that. He just felt that it was a bit unfair for you to be separated from your aunt for so many years."
Shi Jinbin said seriously: "Your aunt understood this at the beginning. She knew that the kitchen was very important to me."
At this point, Shi Jinbin still felt a little guilty: "But I do feel guilty towards her. For so many years, she has been raising the children alone, and it has been so hard."
Su Jinrong stretched out his hand and placed it on the back of Shi Jinbin's hand.
Shi Jinbin glanced at his old brother, then turned over and held his hand.
At this moment, the two brothers said everything without saying a word.
When the atmosphere seemed a little strange, Feng Ruoruo had already finished eating the steamed buns and started drinking the porridge with a small spoon.
After taking the first sip, Feng Ruoruo was immediately surprised: "Wow, Dad, this porridge is sweet, but it seems to be a little salty. It's delicious."
The little girl's words immediately made the atmosphere cheerful again.
Shi Jinbin smiled and asked, "So, little Feng Ruoruo, when you eat this porridge, is it sweet or salty?"
This question stumped the little girl.
Feng Ruoruo stood there in a daze, not knowing how to answer for a moment.
Should I say it's sweet? It tastes salty.
It's salty, right? It's also a little sweet.
After thinking for a long time, Feng Ruoruo pouted and said, "Ruoruo doesn't know either. Ruoruo thinks it tastes good, so Ruoruo is going to start eating. Grandpa Shi, you should eat too. Don't ask questions."
After saying that, Feng Ruoruo started eating, scooping the porridge with a spoon.
After hearing what the little girl said, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they all started laughing.
Especially Shi Jinbin, he laughed heartily: "Hahaha, Ruoruo is right. No matter what it tastes like, as long as you think it tastes good, eat it with big mouthfuls. Grandpa likes watching Ruoruo eat the most."
Feng Ruoruo ate a few bites and said, "Then Grandpa Shi, please eat too. Let's all eat together."
Shi Jinbin nodded: "Okay, let's eat together. Come on, let's all try it. Let's eat together. Listen to Ruoruo."
Everyone started eating. After Feng Yifan took the first bite, he immediately praised the special taste. The sweetness his daughter mentioned was a unique sweet taste of river seafood.
The saltiness should be the strongest when cooking porridge, which is the little bit of base flavor that the master uncle adds to the porridge.
However, the base taste is not strong. Not only does it not take away the taste of the river seafood, but it actually highlights the sweetness of the river seafood.
The porridge tastes very good, whether it is the softness of the cooked rice or the fish mixed in the porridge, it is really delicious.
This bowl of porridge can't even be considered porridge, but a delicious dish made with a lot of river seafood.
What surprised Feng Yifan the most was that one kind of fish meat had been specially processed.
If you taste it carefully, you will find that the fish meat should be made into meat paste first, then egg white is added and beaten together, and then mixed with porridge, so that the fish meat paste is cooked into the shape of rice in porridge.
So when drinking porridge, I couldn't even tell whether it was rice or fish paste.
After eating a bowl of porridge, the feeling of fullness and deliciousness really made Feng Yifan feel extremely satisfied.
"Master, this bowl of porridge is really great."
Shi Jinbin said with some pride: "This bowl of porridge can be considered my specialty. It was once a signature dish of the Red Maple Restaurant. The river fish in it can be adjusted according to the season, and even river fish can be replaced with seafood."
Feng Yifan smiled and asked, "Uncle Master, I wonder if I can learn from you?"
Shi Jinbin smiled and replied: "Why not? Let's go to the kitchen later and I'll teach you once, and you should be able to understand it."
When Feng Yifan and his family had almost finished their breakfast, the Lin Family breakfast shop next door also started to get busy. Some customers who could not fit in the breakfast shop began to come to Su Ji to eat.
Shi Jinbin saw that the business next door was booming and couldn't help but feel curious: "Xiao Lin's breakfast shop is quite interesting. It seems that their pot sticker dumplings are really popular."
Feng Ruoruo immediately said, "That was what my dad taught Uncle Xiaolin."
Shi Jinbin was a little surprised when he heard this and looked at Feng Yifan: "Oh? It turned out that you, Yifan, taught me this? Then I must try it."