Su Ruoxi pushed her father out of the kitchen, pushed him to the door, and then opened the door of the restaurant.
Su Ji's has two main doors. The door facing the street is very simple, with wooden boards interlocked with each other, like the shop doors in costume TV dramas.
After removing the wooden boards facing the street one by one, there is actually another door inside the storefront.
The door inside is actually the facade of Su Ji. It consists of two old red-painted small doors with an old plaque hanging above them.
From right to left on the old plaque, there are two characters "Su Ji" whose gold paint has faded. On the left side, next to the lower half of the character "Ji", there are two small characters "Shi Wei".
This is the old plaque of Su Ji, which has been passed down from the ancestors of the Su family.
Since the ancestors started running the restaurant, Su Ji has moved to many places, and the facade and storefront have also been changed, but this old plaque has always been hanging high above Su Ji's door, symbolizing the inheritance of Su Ji.
Although two generations of chefs from Su Ji had participated in state banquets, it was Su Ruoxi's grandfather who really made Su Ji famous.
Grandpa Su Ruoxi not only participated in state banquets, but also became a true master chef among domestic chefs at that time by creating and improving several dishes.
When my grandfather was in his prime, Su Ji, a small restaurant on the old street of Huaicheng, became a holy place for chefs from all over the country to study. Many famous chefs from all over the country visited the restaurant, and many young chefs came to learn from him.
At that time, Su Ji was also in his prime, with an inclusive mind and a vigorous and energetic momentum.
Today, the soaring momentum of the past has long disappeared.
Su Ji is just like the old street outside the door that is facing reconstruction. It has experienced the changes from prosperity to desolation. It is like an old man in his twilight years, incompatible with the fashion of young people. It seems that the only thing he can rely on is the compassion of sentiment.
It used to be.
Now Feng Yifan's return has injected new vitality into Su Ji. In his own way, he has subtly influenced and changed everyone in the family, and is also gradually changing Su Ji.
Su Jinrong sat in front of the door and accompanied his daughter to open the two doors. The sunlight shone in from outside and splashed into his arms.
At this moment, Su Jinrong felt that this was like a sign of his son-in-law's return.
Look up to the sun, the bitter cold will pass, your energy will rise, and you will soar straight up.
Su Jinrong raised his head and squinted at the sunlight. The warm morning sun could really dispel the coldness in his heart.
Su Ruoxi took down the door panels one by one and placed them in the gap between the two doors. She turned around and saw her father basking in the sun with a smile on his face. She seemed to have fully recovered.
Su Ruoxi also turned around and looked outside the door. There was not a single cloud in the blue sky, and the morning sun was not too hot but rather refreshing.
I closed my eyes, slowly raised my head towards the sky, took a deep breath, and everything that happened in the kitchen this morning naturally emerged in my mind.
I made snacks for my daughter with my own hands, and my father did not stop me. It really was like pushing away the thick clouds that were once pressing down on me, and finally welcoming the bright morning sun.
At this moment, under the rising sun in front of the door, the father and daughter both had a new experience and were full of longing for their future life.
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The pace of construction in Huaicheng has suddenly accelerated in recent years. From an ancient city that was once rich in ancient charm but not so modern, it has been continuously filled with modern and fashionable elements and has become a diversified emerging city where tradition and fashion are intertwined and modern and classical collide.
Different from the urban area where the old street is located, on the south bank of the river that runs across Huaicheng is a younger urban area full of fashionable elements.
Here, inside the towering buildings, there is a group of young people who pursue modern fashion and are full of trendy energy.
Meng Shitong and others are one of them.
At this time, in one of the buildings, Meng Shitong was yawning and holding a cup of coffee, standing behind A Fei who was standing in front of the LCD screen, carefully examining the finished film that had been edited all night.
"stop."
I don’t know how many times Meng Shitong has called a halt.
A Fei and He Yaqian, who were sitting in front of the screen, were already a little numb, but they still clicked the mouse to freeze the picture.
Meng Shitong took a sip of coffee and said, "I think we should enlarge the picture in this place to show every process of Chef Feng's cutting. It should have that kind of visual impact."
He Yaqian turned around and snatched the coffee from Meng Shitong's hand, took a sip from the other side of the cup and said, "Sister, are you going to torture us to death?"
Meng Shitong snatched the cup back and said seriously: "This is very important, okay? Since we want to make this series, we must attract people from the beginning. Without visual impact, how can we attract others?"
Ah Fei stared at the screen, and suddenly seemed to understand the meaning of Meng Shitong's words just now.
"Sister Meng, shouldn't we give a close-up here? Then we should start slow and then speed up, first with a few slow shots to highlight the steadiness, accuracy and ruthlessness of each cut, one cut to cut the meat, but stop right at the fish skin, cutting the meat without damaging the skin.
After highlighting this close-up, we return to normal speed, and then give a sense of speed shock. "
After hearing what Ah Fei said, Meng Shitong reached out and patted Ah Fei on the shoulder, and said excitedly: "Yes, yes, that's it."
He Yaqian was a little surprised when she heard this: "Why do we have to highlight Chef Feng's knife skills? Wouldn't that just be showing off his skills?"
Meng Shitong smiled and said: "It's not just to show off my skills, but to let people understand what it means to 'know it at first sight, but fail at it'. First, I give people the feeling that I can do it, and then use this knife skill to tell everyone that you can't do it."
Ah Fei nodded and said, "Sister Meng is right. This can be a gimmick for us to shoot and produce videos later."
He Yaqian also thought of it. When she saw Feng Yifan's knife skills, she immediately understood what Meng Shitong meant.
"Sister Meng, this is a good idea. Let's put the before and after clips in front to make everyone think this dish is simple, and then use this knife skills to directly discourage people from eating it."
At this point, He Yaqian couldn't help but smirk: "Thinking of the audience staring at the screen in amazement, I feel really good."
Ah Fei replied, "Yes, let others feel the pain you have felt."
He Yaqian immediately stopped smiling and said, "Xiao Fei, are you dissatisfied with me?"
Ah Fei quickly said, "I dare not, I dare not, absolutely not."
After such a period of discussion and laughter, everyone instantly lost their sleepiness and immediately started editing.
Finally, almost around noon, the editing and production of the entire film was completed.
When Meng Shitong and her friends watched the 20-minute video from the beginning, they couldn't help but smile wickedly when they thought of the stunned looks on the faces of the viewers throughout the video when it was released.
After watching the video, Meng Shitong immediately decided, "This is good. It's amazing that Yaqi put a close-up of the knife skills in the opening."
He Yaqian said with a sly smile: "Hehehe, I just want everyone to feel what it means to not just have hands."
Everyone was very excited, so although they should have felt sleepy after staying up all night, they didn't feel sleepy at all. They just sat there looking at each other.
After a brief moment of daze, photographer Ah Fei couldn't help but ask, "How about we go to Su Ji to have lunch? And then come back to catch up on some sleep?"
He Yaqian was the first to stand up: "What are you waiting for? Let's go."
Meng Shitong and a few others set off again. This time they did not bring any filming equipment and prepared to enjoy the delicious food of Su Ji.