Su Jinrong personally served the stir-fried shrimps, and when the stir-fried shrimps were served, they naturally received a lot of praise.
At the same time, Zhuang Daozhong was also surprised when he learned that today's dish of stir-fried shrimps was cooked by Su Jinrong himself.
"Jinrong, you, you really recovered? You can even finish stir-fried shrimps."
Su Jinrong smiled and said, "It is basically recovered, but today's dish is definitely still flawed. I haven't been able to really bring out the best of this dish. I hope Master Zhang, Master Zhu, and Uncle Master don't mind."
Zhuang Daozhong said: "This is already very good. Being able to do this proves that your skills are still there and have not been lost."
Feng Ruoruo stared at the tender white shrimps on the table. The little girl said, "Grandpa, I think your fried shrimps are as good as my dad's."
Yang Xiaoxi asked curiously: "Ruoruo, have you ever eaten this dish?"
Chen Yaofei said: "Xixi, have you forgotten this dish that Father Feng cooked?"
Yang Xiaoxi asked doubtfully, "Has Father Feng ever fired someone?"
Feng Ruoruo said: "Yes, my father has fried it too. Grandpa's is the same as my father's, both are very white, and the shrimps are shiny."
The little girl's words also made the elderly people present laugh.
Su Jinrong also relaxed from his tension.
"Grandpa's is not that good. The one cooked by Ruoruo's father is better."
Feng Ruoruo pouted and said, "That's not right, Grandpa, yours is as good as Dad's. Grandpa really means it. You have to believe Ruoruo."
Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei also said: "Yes, Grandpa Su is as good as Father Feng."
Zhuang Daozhong smiled and said, "Jinrong, the children have said so, so don't shirk it. We think it's just as good, so don't belittle yourself."
Then everyone really tasted it.
The shrimps retain their chewy and fresh texture, looking shiny but not actually greasy.
If you taste it alone, you will really feel that this dish is completely independent of all the dishes on the table and has a very unique taste.
After eating a spoonful, there will be some lingering fragrance in the mouth, which is really delicious.
Mr. Zhu said, "Well, I haven't eaten this stir-fried shrimp for many years."
Mr. Zhang said: "Nowadays, there are indeed very few chefs who can cook like this."
Zhuang Daozhong also said: "The main reason is that this dish itself requires a lot of skill, and most chefs probably don't dare to try it easily."
Su Jinrong said: "Indeed, this dish requires great attention to the control of heat and some techniques in the frying process. It is really a test for a chef."
Zhuang Daozhong said: "Not many people are willing to put in the effort to cook Kung Fu dishes nowadays."
When Mr. Zhu heard this, he couldn't help but say, "Nowadays, people are indeed impatient. For example, there are many Internet celebrity restaurants everywhere, but in fact, the dishes in them don't taste very good at all."
Mr. Zhang suddenly said in a serious tone, "I heard that some so-called Internet celebrity restaurants hire people to queue up every day, and then create a very popular scene, and then attract people who don't know much about it to queue up in those restaurants to eat, artificially creating a popular scene."
Hearing this, Yang Xiaoxi's grandmother immediately said, "Yes, there are a lot of them now."
Several other elderly people also nodded and said that they had seen similar news on the Internet.
Lu Cuiling said: "In fact, many Internet celebrities who do live broadcasts on the Internet are also very bad. They can easily lead people astray. Also, many of the things they promote through live broadcasts have no quality assurance at all, and end up being bought by people who don't understand them."
Su Jinrong also said after hearing this: "A few days ago, it seems that there was also a live-streaming internet celebrity who came to our place and talked to Yifan about something, wanting to help us promote, and then asked us to give them a certain amount of money."
Hearing Su Jinrong's words, Zhuang Daozhong immediately laughed: "Hahaha, does Su Ji still need others to promote it?"
Lu Cuiling said, "Master Yifan, please don't laugh. This is true. Many people came to visit us."
Feng Jiandong said: "Yes, yes. There were also people who came to block the door and take pictures. They didn't come to eat at all."
Chen Shoulin said: "It happens every day. It still happens now. There are people coming to the door just to take pictures or to live stream."
When Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zhu heard this, their expressions became serious.
Mr. Zhu said: "Those people didn't eat, but came over to block the door to take pictures and live broadcast. What on earth do they want to do?"
Lu Cuiling said: "What else can they do? Those people just do live broadcasts and want to be famous, so they try to go to some well-known places that are popular on the Internet, and then live broadcast to people on the Internet. It can be said that they are using the name of Su Ji to promote themselves."
Feng Ruoruo also said at this time: "Grandpa, Grandpa, when Xixi, Feifei and I are walking on the street, there will be many people taking pictures of us, and many people also want to take pictures with us."
Yang Xiaoxi followed up and said, "Yes, they didn't even ask us if we agreed or not."
Chen Yaofei said: "Many of them forced us to take photos with us even though we didn't agree."
Hearing this, Mr. Zhang's face turned even uglier: "These people are really something. They don't even let the children go."
Mr. Zhu also said: "This is really not good. You can like someone, but you can't affect their normal life, right? And why force the child?"
Su Jinrong said: "So maybe you two have heard something. We had some incidents before, which led to some people on the Internet intentionally smearing Su Ji, mainly smearing Yifan and Ruo Restaurant, but Yifan did not explain anything. In fact, Yifan also wanted to reduce his own popularity."
Lu Cuiling followed up, "Yes, that's right. Yifan just wants to reduce the heat and attention, and doesn't want to cause so much trouble to the children at home."
Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zhu looked at each other, and then the two old men suddenly laughed.
All the unhappiness from before disappeared at this moment.
Mr. Zhang said, "I really didn't expect this. People all hope to get more attention and have more people know about it. The popularity has never decreased, but you want to reduce the popularity and attention."
Mr. Zhu said: "I think it's good to lower the price. It's a place to eat, why do you have to turn it into an internet celebrity restaurant? Do your business well. People come here to eat, not to take pictures or live broadcast. This is the right thing to do."
Mr. Zhang smiled and said, "But there will be contradictions in this regard. If there is no popularity and attention, how can anyone know about it? How can we attract more customers?"
Mr. Zhu thought for a moment and said, "Alas, nowadays, even good wine needs to be hidden in a remote alley."
This is indeed a dilemma.
In this situation where everyone is making all kinds of videos and live broadcasts, it is indeed too much to ask to stop others from filming.
And nowadays there is indeed no popularity, which may naturally lead to a lack of business.
Su Jinrong said at this time: "Yifan is also exploring and wants to learn from some of the top restaurants abroad. We need to set some rules to restrict those who come not to eat but just to take pictures and live broadcast, so that the environment can be cleaned up for guests who really want to eat."
Mr. Zhang said, "Yes, yes, let's set some rules."
Mr. Zhu also agreed: "Setting rules can indeed avoid a lot of trouble."
Zhuang Daozhong added: "So, this also requires your strong support."
Elder Zhang and Elder Zhu laughed when they heard this: "Hahaha, sure enough, they are still waiting here."
Mr. Zhang said with certainty: "Needless to say, we will definitely give our full support."
Mr. Zhu also said: "Yes, we must give strong support."
Su Jinrong quickly said, "Thank you, thank you both."
Hearing grandpa's thanks, Feng Ruoruo also stood up and said, "Thank you, great grandpa."
Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei naturally stood up as well to express their gratitude.
The two old people were very happy to receive the thanks from the little girls.
Before Su Jinrong came downstairs, Lin Ruifeng, Ma Xiaolong and Ning Cheng came up together and served four more dishes.
Su Jinrong was a little surprised when he saw this: "Why are there so many dishes at once?"
Lin Ruifeng said, "Master, these are what our master asked us to serve. He said that if we mix these dishes together with your dishes later, we can have a total of ten dishes, which means perfection."
Mr. Zhang said, "Oh, there are too many dishes. If we can't finish them, they will all be wasted."
Ma Xiaolong said: "Don't worry, Master has also made special adjustments. The amount will not be too much, and he also took into consideration that there will be no leftovers."
Then, the three people placed four exquisite dishes on the table.
Seeing the four exquisite dishes, Su Jinrong and Zhuang Daozhong immediately laughed.
Su Jinrong introduced them personally: "These four dishes are also a token of Yifan's love. Let the two of you taste some of Su Ji's more unique dishes."
The four dishes are: eel back pot stickers, moon stewed with raw meat, fried eel paste, and stewed navel.
After Su Jinrong announced the names of the dishes, he said, "They are all made with eels. There isn't a lot of them, so everyone can just eat a little bit of each. It won't affect the taste of my next two dishes."
Feng Yifan did make very detailed preparations before serving the dishes.
It can be said that these four dishes are basically for the elderly and children to enjoy, so they can taste the flavors but won’t eat too much.
Seeing the four exquisite dishes also made Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zhu feel a little surprised.
"It's really exquisite. I didn't expect these four dishes could be so exquisite."
"It's just as Jinrong said. Feng Yifan is really better than his teacher."
Next, everyone tasted the four dishes separately.
Three of them are relatively classic eel dishes, but the last one, stewed navel, is a soup dish and a rare one.
Zhuang Daozhong said: "I haven't eaten this dish of stewed navel for many years."
He then explained: "Braised navel is actually a soup made by stewing eel blood and eel belly meat together. Eating it in this late autumn season is very good for the body."
It just happened to be a small bowl for each person, and after tasting it, everyone felt it was very delicious.
Chen Yaofei's grandmother was surprised and said: "I thought it would be very fishy, but I didn't expect it to have no fishy smell at all, but it was very fragrant and delicious."
Su Jinrong said: "Hahaha, if you taste a fishy smell, it means Yifan's skills are not up to par."
Mr. Zhang was eating the fried eel paste in the bowl while drinking the soup cooked for the navel. He was sweating all over, but he felt very comfortable.
"It's really good. These dishes are really delicious."
Mr. Zhu said beside him: "Hahaha, I remember that sentence, no eel can leave Huaicheng."
Suddenly everyone in the room burst into laughter.
Zhuang Daozhong said: "In fact, Huaicheng has another specialty, which is the eel banquet, which includes many different ways to cook eels. Yifan only presented four of them today."
Mr. Zhang said, “I have also heard of this.”
Then Mr. Zhang looked at Su Jinrong and said, "Jinrong, you have to do more research in this area. It would be best if you can restore it and put it on the Chinese cuisine menu."
Su Jinrong nodded: "We will definitely work hard to restore the eel banquet."
Seeing that everyone was very satisfied with the meal, Su Jinrong took his leave again to prepare his last two dishes.
When Su Jinrong went downstairs, most of the customers dining in Su Ji on the first floor had also left.
Only then did he realize that it was indeed getting late.
Su Jinrong hurried into the kitchen: "Yifan, are you ready?"
Feng Yifan immediately said, "Everything is ready, Dad, you can start the last two dishes."
Su Jinrong nodded: "Okay, let's get started."
The last two dishes can be said to be very important dishes, and they are also the key dishes of today's meal.
The first one is naturally the lion head.
Although it is already late autumn, Su Jinrong still prepared crab meat lion head.
The meat filling has been finely chopped and coarsely chopped, and then it needs to be processed and beaten, and then some crab meat, diced shiitake mushrooms and water chestnuts should be added.
This is done to relieve the greasiness, after all, the lion head is still very greasy.
The guests upstairs are all elderly people and cannot eat very greasy food.
This is also why when cooking, adjustments must be made according to the different guests, and the dishes cannot be left unchanged, as that will inevitably affect the experience of different guests.
When rolling the lion's head, in order to prevent the people upstairs from eating too much, Su Jinrong also rolled it into smaller pieces.
The first time is to boil it in clean water to shape it, and skim off some floating foam and impurities.
Then take it out and put it into the broth to simmer slowly.
Put it in a casserole with broth and cover it with cabbage leaves.
The next step is to slowly simmer.
During this time, Su Jinrong also started to prepare the last dish with Feng Yifan.
This last dish may be more like a staple food. Putting it at the end with the lion's head can also be regarded as a way to make the guests full at the end of the meal.
The last dish is "Chicken Porridge Pomegranate Buns".