While the girls were taking dance lessons, Su Ji was also making final preparations before opening.
Feng Yifan saw that the snacks Chen Xu and Luo Yu made for the little girls today tasted good, so he asked Chen Xu and Luo Yu to make more.
"Chen Xu, Luo Yu, for Su's after-meal dessert today, let's use the fruit pastry you made for Ruoruo and the others."
Chen Xu and Luo Yu were a little surprised when they heard this.
Chen Xu immediately asked, "Chef, do you mean to use fruit pastries as dessert today?"
Feng Yifan nodded and asked, "Yes, how about it? Is it okay?"
Chen Xu agreed decisively: "You can be the chef. Don't worry, Luo Yu and I will prepare it now."
Everyone in the kitchen, including Su Jinrong, saw that Chen Xu was very excited, and they naturally understood why Chen Xu was excited.
Because this is his chance to finally show himself.
After being at Su Ji for so long, Luo Yu's dim sum has become the restaurant's signature dish. Some customers even order one or two portions of Luo Yu's dim sum to take away before leaving, and take them back as gifts for their friends.
In comparison, Chen Xu has never had the opportunity to show himself.
Whether in Su Ji or Ruo Restaurant, he seemed like a handyman.
This made Chen Xu deeply doubt whether he should not have come to Su Ji
Fortunately, Luo Yu's silent support made Chen Xu gradually become more patient.
He also began to study at Su Ji, learning from Feng Yifan, Shi Jiahui and others.
Even at night, Chen Xu would specifically look for Lin Ruifeng, Ma Xiaolong, Hans, Tom and Ning Cheng to discuss together. The group of people really calmed down and studied the dishes and snacks together.
And through communicating with Hans, I also got inspiration from some of his Western desserts.
The most important thing is that through studying at Su Ji and communicating with everyone, Chen Xu understood that one should not stick to formalities.
So this time, Chen Xu and Luo Yu teamed up and used the pastry making method of durian pastry, replacing the filling with other fruit purees, and indeed achieved good results.
Moreover, it has been approved by Feng Yifan, so he can be served as a dessert for dinner tonight.
Maybe this arrangement wouldn’t be a big deal in other restaurants
But if it were in today's Su Ji, it would obviously be very different.
It can be said that the diners who come to Su Ji to eat have become more picky with their taste buds due to the various dishes of Su Ji these days, and any casual dim sum will not be accepted by everyone at all.
Feng Yifan would not easily serve a snack on the table.
Being able to serve Chen Xu’s fruit pastry shows full recognition of this dessert of Chen Xu.
Next, Chen Xu immediately began to prepare.
The first step to making this dessert is to knead the dough, which requires two kinds of dough.
First, make the water skin on the outside. Use low-gluten flour, add sugar, eggs, and lard, mix them in the flour first, then add water and mix it all together.
Finally, you need to do some pounding on the chopping board to make sure your hands, face and chopping board are shiny.
Set aside to rise for a while.
During this time, you also need to mix the oil core in the middle.
Also using low-gluten flour, you need to sift the flour first, then mix it with butter in proportion. After it is completely mixed, wrap it with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator to freeze.
Then take out the water skin that had been left to rise for a while, knead it again, wrap it with plastic wrap, and put it in the refrigerator.
While the skins and cores were being refrigerated and frozen in the refrigerator, Chen Xu and Luo Yu began to prepare the fruit puree together.
All kinds of fruits are blended into juice, and the pulp and juice must be blended out together.
Then you need to sift it to filter out some of the residue in the fruit pulp.
Then put it in a bowl, add some sugar and some starch, beat it evenly, and finally put it in the steamer to steam it.
In this way, portions of fruit puree are made.
Everything is ready and Su Ji has started serving dinner.
When guests are ordering, the waiter in charge of taking orders will specifically recommend today's after-meal snacks to everyone.
"After-meal desserts are free, but each customer can only have one piece, so if customers want to buy them, they need to place an order later."
Fang Lin explained to a table of guests who were placing orders.
When they heard that the after-meal snacks were free, all the guests naturally accepted it with pleasure.
Of course, some customers also curiously asked: "Excuse me, are these dim sum made by Chef Feng?"
When faced with this question, Fang Lin immediately answered: "Oh, no, these are new dim sum developed by our dim sum chef. Guests can have a taste."
Although it was not made by Feng Yifan, it was said that it was newly developed by Su Ji’s dim sum chef, and the customers all expressed that they were acceptable to it.
In the kitchen, Chen Xu was still a little nervous. After all, this was the time when his snack was put to the test.
He clenched his fists and looked a little stiff.
Luo Yu was standing nearby, and seeing Chen Xu's expression, he probably understood Chen Xu's mood at the moment.
In fact, Luo Yu had the same experience, and more than once.
The first time was in the hotel restaurant, where she had a competition with the dim sum chef. She was also very nervous before the results came out.
The second time was at Ruo Restaurant.
If Luo Yu saw such a lineup on the day of the restaurant's soft opening, he would be really nervous.
But at that time, Chen Xu was not nervous, so Chen Xu was always by her side to support her.
And now, it is Chen Xu's turn to face the test of the diners.
Luo Yu knew very well that at this moment she needed to stand up and support Chen Xu.
She reached out her hand and gently held Chen Xu's hand, then Luo Yu said very seriously: "Don't worry, you should believe that when you made it at noon, you received unanimous praise from everyone, and Ruoruo, Xixi and Feifei also liked it in the afternoon. You can definitely do it."
With Luo Yu's encouragement, Chen Xu suddenly felt a surge of strength in his heart.
He turned his head and looked at her.
The two people were like they were meeting for the first time. At first sight, they felt that each other was the one they were destined to be with.
At this moment, both of them believed in this and had confidence in each other's abilities.
With Luo Yu's trust, Chen Xu held her hand and the two of them interlocked their fingers.
Chen Xu said: "Don't worry, I will do it well."
Luo Yu said: "I believe you can."
Shi Jiahui saw the scene between the two people in the kitchen and couldn't help but laugh and said, "Oh, you two are really something. Usually we all watch the chefs and their spouses show their affection, but why are you two doing it too?"
Chen Xu and Luo Yu were shocked when Shi Jiahui said that.
But the next moment, Luo Yu held Chen Xu's hand and raised it up, and the two of them still had their fingers tightly clasped.
Luo Yu smiled and said, "Sous Chef, we are a legal couple, so it is allowed for us to show our affection like this."
Shi Jiahui laughed immediately: "Yo yo yo, you're getting excited again. Okay, you two can show off slowly, but don't forget to prepare the snacks."
Hearing this, Chen Xu and Luo Yu quickly turned around and took the skins out of the refrigerator.
Remove from plastic wrap.
The first step is to roll out the water dough flat, making it very large, just enough to wrap the oil core.
After wrapping, pinch the edges.
Then start rolling out the sandwich skin.
After rolling it into a long strip, fold it into three parts.
Then roll it out again and fold it in half.
Do this three times and it's basically done. Next, roll out the dough and use a mold to cut out round pieces of dough one by one.
Next, fold the round dough in half and sandwich the prepared fruit puree in the middle.
Press all the edges down, and Luo Yu helps by the side to make some patterns on the edges.
At this moment, Chen Xu and Luo Yu's tacit cooperation appeared.
Chen Xu wrapped it, and Luo Yu was responsible for making the pattern on the edges.
Luo Yu is indeed very powerful and can almost ensure that the patterns are consistent.
As soon as Chen Xu finished wrapping one, Luo Yu immediately took over and trimmed the edges.
The two of them worked together and quickly made the first pot.
Place it on the baking tray, brush some egg yolk liquid on the bulging part of the filling, and sprinkle a little white sesame seeds on it, then put it in the oven to bake.
When the first pot came out, the aroma drifted from the kitchen to the front restaurant.
This immediately surprised the diners in the restaurant.
"Wow, it smells so good?"
"It smells really good, like the scent of snacks."
"Well, it should be a snack, with the aroma of butter and fruit."
"There is also a fragrance that is a bit like milk, but not quite."
"It smells really good. I want to eat it."
"That's a snack. You have to wait until after dinner."
"Eat quickly. If you don't eat well, we won't serve you dessert later. Eat well."
Some children who came with their parents didn’t want to eat properly as soon as they smelled the delicious snacks.
However, under the guidance of their parents, the children did eat their meals well.
But the children, although they ate their meals obediently, were still thinking about snacks.
So after the first table finished their dinner, the children at the table couldn't wait to yell, "Mom and Dad, we're done eating, let's have some snacks."
In fact, the guests don’t need to ask for snacks. When they see that the guests have finished their dishes, the snacks will be served.
Moreover, the first table of dim sum was delivered by Chen Xu himself.
"Hello, this is tonight's after-dinner dessert, fruit crisps, please enjoy."
The small fruit cakes were served, which surprised the family of three at the table.
Originally it was supposed to be somewhat similar to the shape of a dumpling, but after adjustments by Chen Xu and Luo Yu, its shape has now become similar to that of a gold ingot.
Combined with the patterns made by Luo Yu on the edges, it really looks like small ingots, which is fun.
The key is that if you look carefully, you will find that the top of the Yuanbao is composed of layers of closely connected crispy crust. You can only see densely packed layers, and you can't even count how many layers there are at once. It looks very beautiful.
Among the family of three, mom and dad were the most amazed and thought the snack was really beautiful.
The children can't wait any longer: "Mom and Dad, can we eat now? Come on."
But the mother did not let the child eat. Instead, she took out her mobile phone to take a picture first.
The child was naturally very anxious: "Mom, can't we eat yet?"
Finally, after my mother took many photos from different angles, she said, "Okay, okay, you can eat now."
The child immediately rushed to pick up the one he had already set his eyes on.
As a result, because she used too much force, her hand was broken when she squeezed it, just like Feng Ruoruo did before.
"oops."
Seeing this, the parents hurried to help clean up.
Mom said, "Hey, why are you in such a hurry? This is a fruit crisp, the outer skin is very crispy, it will break if you use too much force."
The father said nothing, quickly helped clean up, and gave his to the child.
"You have to hold it carefully. You can't hold it as hard as you did just now."
This time the child was very careful and pinched gently as his father instructed.
Putting it to his mouth, the child opened his mouth and took a bite.
As a result, what was left in my hand broke into pieces again.
Fortunately, Dad and Mom reached out to help catch it.
The child was chewing it in his mouth and said, "Wow, this, this, it's broken again."
Mom said, "Eat first, don't rush to talk."
The child ate the fruit crisp.
After swallowing it, the child couldn't wait to say, "Mom and Dad, this is delicious."
At the same time, snacks were served at another table nearby.
While this family of three was delayed, the other table had already finished their meal.
After eating it, the guests at another table almost exclaimed with the children: "It's really delicious, crispy shell, and the taste of fruit inside, so delicious."
“And it smells good.”
The family of three here saw the people at the next table eating and praised the food.
Dad and Mom ate the last one separately.
After eating it, the children’s parents were full of praise and thought it was really delicious.
The key is to eat it after a meal. The fragrance of the fruit and the non-greasy crispy crust really make people feel very delicious.
After the children finished eating, they felt unsatisfied and immediately asked for more.
After weighing the pros and cons, the parents finally ordered a take-away from the Su Ji waiter.
The guests at the next table actually asked for a take-away order.
What Chen Xu didn't expect was that on the first day he could show his strength, he actually won very good business, and many tables of guests ordered a take-away.
This was also the first time that Chen Xu was so busy during the entire dinner business hours.
Fortunately, snacks can be made in batches, you just need to master the proportions, so that a lot can be produced in the oven each time.
That evening, Su Ji's business seemed to be better than the previous few days.
Because there were more people gathered at the door than in the previous few days.
But in fact, it’s not that there are more people, but that some people need to wait for their snacks to be packed after finishing their meal, so they will linger at the door for a while.
After the family of three received the packed snacks, the children couldn't wait to eat them.
But my mother stopped me: "Okay, let's take it home and eat it. Otherwise, you'll finish it before we get home. What will we eat when we get home?"
What the mother said was very effective. No matter how much the child clamored for food, he would go home quickly with his parents.