Gourmet: Midnight Vending

Chapter 440 - 380: Cooking Scientifically, Bachelor’s Degree Required

Why does everyone envy the master chefs of state banquets?

Of course, having your skills recognized is one thing, but for those in the industry, they only feel that those state banquet chefs are waiting for the assistants to prepare the ingredients, then just cook and plate them.

Not just the master chefs of state banquets, even at home, if someone is willing to buy, wash, and cut the vegetables every day, most people would be happy to handle the cooking.

After all... if it’s just cooking, it’s not troublesome and quite interesting.

So for something that took a long time to prepare overnight, Chen Mo still wanted to try it himself, to see how these complex dishes would turn out!

Hou Yao didn’t say much, since Chen Mo wanted to do it himself, he just stood by and watched.

...

The appearance of the braised pork with preserved vegetables had set the banquet atmosphere to its peak. All the guests were silent for a moment after eating it and then began to praise it lavishly.

Even Chen Jinping and Liu Xiuzhen, who were hiding in the room, suddenly became busy.

"Mr. Chen!"

Chen Jinping was a bit surprised, "And you are?"

He had just seen this guest sitting at the main table, and didn’t know how he got up and into their house.

"Oh... I’m Wu Bin, a colleague of Chen Mo’s from the company."

A colleague?

Chen Jinping quickly threw away his cigarette butt and shook hands with him, "Hello, hello."

Wu Bin took out a cigarette to light for Chen Jinping, the old man was a bit embarrassed, using both hands to shield the other’s lighter to light the cigarette.

"Brother Chen." Wu Bin then changed his tone, "Well, I’m around your age, so I’ll call you brother!"

Chen Jinping, an honest farmer, was a bit baffled and didn’t know what to say for a moment.

Wu Bin saw the old man’s awkwardness and chuckled, "It’s like this, my son is getting married at the end of the year. I just asked Minister Jiang, and he said today’s banquet is worth two thousand yuan."

"Ah?" Chen Jinping blinked, "I didn’t know that."

"Well, whether it’s two thousand or three thousand, I really couldn’t have imagined Chen Mo’s cooking would be so good! Everyone here today is praising him."

Hearing someone praise his son, of course, Chen Jinping was happy, "This kid, I don’t even know when he learned this skill, we had no idea."

"It’s like this." Wu Bin said seriously, "When my son gets married at the end of the year, I was thinking of asking Chen Mo to do a few tables like this for us!"

"This." Chen Jinping didn’t say anything, he knew he couldn’t decide this for Chen Mo.

"Haha, I’ll talk to Chen Mo when he’s not busy, but I’m afraid he might not be willing to help. When you’re free, please help me put in a good word for him."

While speaking, Wu Bin again took out a pack of cigarettes and a red envelope, stuffing them into Chen Jinping’s pocket without giving him a chance to refuse, "I’m relying on you for this!"

Chen Jinping was about to return the items when he saw Wu Bin slip out of the room like a rabbit, and it wasn’t convenient for Chen Jinping to chase him out in front of so many people to return them.

He squeezed the red envelope, "Oh my, this must be a few thousand!"

Liu Xiuzhen was also flustered, "Cooking is this profitable? Oh my, you better put it away for now, later give it to Xiao Mo so he can handle it himself."

Chen Jinping nodded, puffing on his cigarette, his expression towards Chen Mo becoming a bit complex.

Is my son that amazing now?

No, wait a minute, isn’t his talent supposed to be thriving as a leader in a company? Isn’t he working for a state-owned enterprise?

Wu Bin left, and Chen Jinping continued to look outside.

Not long after, another woman came.

"Please, my son’s full moon wine, you have to help me talk to Chen Mo!"

Then...

"You know, my family treasures this second child very much. If I can host a banquet like this, his grandparents will definitely be happy. You really need to talk to Chen Mo for me."

Soon after.

Chen Jinping looked at the thick stack of red envelopes in his hands, almost dumbstruck, staring at the money in disbelief, "Could we earn this much from farming in a year?"

"No."

Liu Xiuzhen answered straightforwardly.

"This..."

Once again, Chen Jinping looked at the busy Chen Mo, feeling proud, yet strangely proud.

Isn’t my son supposed to be a talent who’s striving to be a company leader?

Chen Mo had no idea that his big banquet today had impressed quite a few people, and some even directly reserved the banquet with his father for two years later.

Of course, Chen Jinping didn’t agree to any of them, only saying that Chen Mo would have to decide for himself.

This vegetarian dish was indeed complicated, so even though the ingredients were prepared in advance, Chen Mo still invested a lot of effort, starting to feel a bit impatient.

Mainly because it was his first time making it, his proficiency wasn’t very high.

Cut the elm ears and yellow ears into one-centimeter-thick slices, blanch in boiling water for one minute, and set aside!

Remove and drain the snow fungus and osmanthus fungus from the soaking water, set aside!

Take the shiitake mushrooms and mushrooms from the steamer, which had been steaming for ten minutes, a lot of soup had seeped out, set aside for now!

Blanch the fresh mushroom buds with cross cuts for half a minute, set aside!

Hou Yao felt his scalp tingling, recalling that when he first learned this dish, it took him several days to remember just the ingredients needed.

He even memorized the processing method for each ingredient for several days.

Finally, he memorized the cooking method and time for each ingredient for several days.