Although it was not the first time for Yang Zhiyi and Li Feier to enter Su Ji’s kitchen, it was the first time for them to enter the kitchen so late.
Entering the kitchen, I saw that the cooking table, stove and walls were all exceptionally clean.
Li Feier couldn't help but exclaimed: "I really like Su Ji's kitchen. It's clean and tidy. It makes people feel comfortable just looking at it, and they can eat with peace of mind."
Su Ruoxi smiled when she heard this: "This is the tradition of Su Ji. My great-grandfather set this rule, and my grandfather was even more strict. At that time, the most difficult job for my grandfather's apprentices every night was to clean the kitchen."
Li Feier couldn't help but be very curious: "Did you witness it at that time, Ruoxi?"
Su Ruoxi nodded: "Yes, I was still in elementary school at that time."
Li Feier suddenly realized: "So that's how it is? Then isn't Chef Feng very unfortunate? He didn't get to learn cooking skills from Grandpa?"
Su Ruoxi glanced at her husband and smiled, "He should feel lucky. If he had learned from Grandpa, he would have been miserable. Grandpa was very strict with his disciples. Even my dad was often scolded at that time. He was even beaten by Grandpa."
Li Feier was a little surprised: "Wow, is Grandpa so powerful?"
Su Ruoxi said seriously: "Yes, it's amazing."
The two mothers were chatting enthusiastically, but Yang Zhiyi couldn't wait any longer: "Chef Feng, you must have prepared something delicious for us, bring it out quickly, don't let our Fei'er starve."
Hearing her husband's words, Li Fei'er pouted her lips immediately: "I think you want to eat? Didn't you have dinner at Su Ji last night? Are you hungry again so soon?"
Yang Zhiyi said to his wife in a flattering manner: "I am worried that you will starve to death, right?"
Li Feier said with disdain: "Don't give me that. You obviously just want to eat it. Be careful or I'll tell Xixi tomorrow and say that you took me to Su Ji to eat alone while she was asleep."
Hearing his wife say this, Yang Zhiyi was immediately confused and said, "How can you say that?"
Li Feier raised her chin and said, "Of course, do you dare to say that I'm wrong?"
Seeing the looks of Yang Zhiyi and Li Feier, Feng Yifan and Su Ruoxi also laughed.
Then, Feng Yifan began to prepare midnight snacks for everyone.
Feng Yifan took out prawns, and then chicken wings, chicken legs, some beef, spare ribs, and various vegetables. In a blink of an eye, the cooking table was filled with a dazzling array of items.
Li Feier quickly said, "No need for so much. I can't eat so much, right?"
Yang Zhiyi immediately said, "It's okay. If you can't finish it, you still have your husband. If it really doesn't work, we can just pack it up and go."
Li Feier reached out and knocked her husband on the head: "You only know how to pack up. Su Ji doesn't charge for buying these ingredients. If you can't finish them, won't it be wasted?"
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. We are still here together. We haven't had supper for a long time. Today, we two sets of parents can eat as much as we want."
Then, Feng Yifan began to process the prawns. He quickly cleaned the prawns, cut off the heads and removed the shrimp threads.
Then clean the chicken wings and chicken legs and dry them with absorbent paper.
Then debone the chicken legs and make a few cuts on the chicken wings.
Next are the beef and ribs? They also go through some pre-processing? The beef’s fascia is smashed with a small hammer, and then it is cut into small pieces and marinated in batter.
The ribs are all chopped into small pieces, coated with batter and fried in a pan.
Seeing Feng Yifan's quick hands and feet, he prepared all the ingredients almost instantly.
The only things left to be washed were vegetables, so Su Ruoxi took the initiative to wash them.
Li Feier naturally went up to help, and only Yang Zhiyi remained standing aside.
His wife splashed water on Yang Zhiyi's face and said, "What are you still doing there? Why don't you go and help? You are the only one doing nothing? How dare you just wait for food?"
After being scolded by his wife, Yang Zhiyi had no choice but to walk to the stove and prepare to help Feng Yifan.
Feng Yifan just handed over some simple matters to Yang Zhiyi.
He continued to prepare, taking out a small stove and then a frying pan.
Next, some sauces were prepared and Yang Zhiyi was asked to help marinate the chicken legs and wings.
After the vegetables were washed, Feng Yifan cut them all and mixed them directly into the sauce for marinating the chicken and marinated them together.
Seeing all this, Yang Zhiyi asked curiously: "Chef Feng, what are you going to do?"
Feng Yifan smiled and replied, "Time is tight, so I can only make a stew for you. It should be enough for everyone to eat after stewing meat and vegetables in one pot and adding some noodles at the end."
Seeing this, Li Feier was suddenly surprised and said, "Ah, I know, this is the three-juice stew pot, right?"
Feng Yifan nodded. "Yes, it's similar to that one, but I made some improvements. The sauce is nothing special. It's just sweet and spicy sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, honey, chili powder, and I just added more ingredients to make it more hearty."
As he spoke, Feng Yifan put a piece of butter into the pan after it was heated.
After the butter melts, put the unmarinated enoki mushrooms and cabbage at the bottom, then pour in the marinated chicken and other vegetables, and finally put in the beef and ribs.
After arranging them neatly, Feng Yifan poured some sauce on them, and finally turned on high heat and covered the pot.
While waiting, the four people started chatting again.
Li Feier talked about what happened at the competition today, and then talked about Feng Yifan.
"Do you know who is the most famous person at the competition?"
Yang Zhiyi and Su Ruoxi made some guesses, but they were all denied by Li Feier. Finally, she pointed at Feng Yifan and said, "The most famous and most mentioned one is Feng Yifan, Chef Feng."
Hearing this, Feng Yifan laughed: "I didn't participate in the competition, and I'm not a judge."
Li Feier continued, "Yes, you didn't participate in the competition, and you weren't a judge, but the contestants were influenced by you. When they were divided into groups, almost everyone in the first group imitated the way you cooked, even the movements, which caused a lot of problems."
Feng Yifan was even more amused and confused after hearing this: "Why do you want to imitate me? And imitate my movements?"
Li Feier said seriously: "Because everyone thinks that you are the most standard one, so everyone thinks that as long as they imitate you, they will definitely get high scores and advance to the semi-finals."
Hearing this, Yang Zhiyi couldn't help but say, "Wow, Chef Feng is really amazing. Even without going to the competition site, he is affecting the competition all the time."
Feng Yifan looked helpless: "Aren't those contestants putting the cart before the horse? My cooking process has become a habit after years of practice. I do it that way because I'm used to it. They just need to make the dishes delicious."
Li Feier smiled and said, "I think Chef Feng, you should tell the contestants about this."
Su Ruoxi said at this time: "It's because you like to act cool and make others think you are handsome, so everyone wants to be as handsome as you."
There was a hint of sourness in his wife's words, which made Feng Yifan rush over to comfort her.
"Don't be jealous, honey. From now on, I won't let anyone else film me cooking. I'll only cook for my wife and our little baby Ruoruo. I won't even let Lin Ruifeng watch."
Hearing Feng Yifan's words, Su Ruoxi burst into laughter, and Yang Zhiyi and Li Feier also laughed.
Su Ruoxi slapped her husband and said, "Don't try to play tricks on me. Don't think I can let you go. You have to be more handsome and cool in the future and not let others outshine you."
When Li Feier heard this, she was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Haha, Ruoxi, if you say this, aren't you afraid that your husband will be favored by those little fairies and then come to snatch him away from you?"
Su Ruoxi hugged her husband and said, "I'm not afraid, because he doesn't dare to provoke those little demons."
Seeing the couple flirting with each other, Yang Zhiyi also approached his wife and gently put his arms around her waist.
At this moment, in Su Ji’s kitchen, these two couples were enjoying the warmth that belonged to them.
At the same time, the four of them were chatting together, really like four long-time friends.
What’s interesting is that these two pairs of parents became friends because their daughters were good friends in kindergarten.
After waiting for a while, Feng Yifan opened the lid of the stew pot, and a rich aroma instantly filled the air.
Feng Yifan used chopsticks to turn the food over and over again, allowing the flavor to penetrate into every ingredient.
When turning it over, the rich aroma permeates the entire kitchen, making everyone salivate.
After Feng Yifan finished flipping the food, he turned down the heat slightly and took out the bowls and chopsticks to distribute them.
"Okay, you can start eating. Eat the vegetables first. Feel free to taste them."
Yang Zhiyi was not polite either. He first picked up a big shrimp and put it into his wife's bowl.
Li Feier looked at the shrimps her husband put in the bowl and immediately said, "You want me to eat them with the shells? Don't you know how to peel the shells for me?"
While Li Feier was speaking, Feng Yifan had already peeled the shrimps for his wife and put them into her bowl.
Seeing this, Li Feier said to her husband: "Look at her husband, you really don't care at all."
Yang Zhiyi had no choice but to quickly peel the shrimps for his wife and put the shrimps in her bowl.
Four people were in the kitchen, sitting around the stew pot on the small stove, eating enthusiastically with chopsticks.
Although it was late at night outside, the kitchen of Su Ji was filled with the warmth between husband and wife.
After eating the shrimps, the two ladies began to eat the vegetables that were turned up from the bottom, including potatoes, enoki mushrooms, cabbage, some celery, onions, and Feng Yifan even added some chestnuts.
Li Feier ate a piece of potato and said, "Well, this potato tastes better than meat. It has absorbed a lot of flavor."
Su Ruoxi also ate a piece: "Hmm, potatoes are delicious."
Then Su Ruoxi ate the enoki mushrooms and praised them in the same way: "This enoki mushroom is also delicious, and it also absorbs the full flavor."
The two ladies decisively gave up the meat and concentrated on eating the various vegetables in the pot.
On the contrary, Yang Zhiyi was eating all kinds of meat and couldn't stop for a moment.
Li Feier looked at her husband wolfing down his food and couldn't help but bump into him and said, "Don't just eat, say something, say something quickly."
Yang Zhiyi was eating a piece of hot chicken, and then he kept breathing heavily, sniffing and saying, "Say, say, say, what?"
Seeing Yang Zhiyi's expression, everyone present couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Li Feier said with a smile: "I asked you to eat so much, do you need to be so anxious?"
After eating for a while, I had basically finished all the dishes.
During the preparation, it seemed that Feng Yifan had prepared a lot, but when it came to eating, the four of them finished it very quickly.
Finally, Feng Yifan cooked some noodles and mixed them into the soup in the pot.
"Okay, this is the last noodle."
Yang Zhiyi couldn't wait to reach out and pick up the noodles and said, "This last noodle is the soul of this stew. Come, my wife will give it to you."
Li Feier only asked for a little: "Okay, this is enough for me. Don't eat too much, otherwise you will get fat."
Yang Zhiyi smiled and said, "What are you afraid of? I still like you even if you are fat."
Li Feier pouted and said, "I'm fat, I won't look good on the show."
Talking about the show, he turned to Feng Yifan and said, "By the way, Chef Feng, when we were editing today, we thought of a new show and would like to invite you, Chef Feng, to be a guest."
Feng Yifan was a little curious: "Oh? A new show? What's it called?"
Li Feier immediately said: "For the time being, we are going to call it "Taste Huaicheng", which will specifically introduce the special food of our Huaicheng. It is based on this Chinese cuisine cooking competition, which can be regarded as a way to promote the food culture of our Huaicheng."
Feng Yifan nodded and said, "Well, this is a great idea."
Then he added, "However, since the theme of the competition is Chinese cuisine, haven't you ever thought about expanding it? Making a national food show with Chinese cuisine as the theme?"
Yang Zhiyi agreed immediately: "Chef Feng, this is a good idea. You can make a special Chinese cuisine program to introduce various Chinese cuisine menus. It can also be considered as promotion. You can discuss it with Mr. Zhuang. Such a program will definitely be very popular."
Su Ruoxi also thought this was a great idea: "Well, we can let Uncle Shi and Yifan together. It will definitely be a great show for two generations of top chefs, one old and one young."
After listening to what the others said, Li Feier said seriously, "I do have this plan, but we don't have enough experience for now. I want to use Huaicheng as a base for me and my team to practice first. By the way, I also need to expand my team, and then we will promote it nationwide."
Feng Yifan thought about it carefully and felt that Li Feier's idea was great.
"Well, if you are short of manpower, I recommend Meng Shitong and her team. Although their team is only engaged in online video production, I think their technology is still very good."
Li Feier laughed: "Hahaha, Chef Feng and I have the same idea. I also plan to let Meng Shitong and others join my team. Let's start with "Taste Huaicheng" together."
Su Ruoxi clapped her hands and said, "That's great. I think it will be great if you two work together."
Yang Zhiyi, who had already started eating, also muttered, "I support it."
Li Feier hit her husband: "What do you support? You only know how to eat."