Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 193 - 154 Teaching and Staff Welfare_2

Chapter 193: Chapter 154 Teaching and Staff Welfare_2

"Try it," Huang Shengli asked Qin Huai to taste the dish.

Qin Huai tasted it. Just like at noon, it was delicious.

Huang Jia finished, and Qi Tian took the stage.

Qi Tian stir-fried the greens with an expressionless face.

While his stir-frying actions weren’t as graceful as Huang Jia’s, they were cleaner and more efficient. Compared to Huang Jia, Qi Tian was a more practical chef.

Many chefs like to learn some fancy tricks. They might not always use them, but it’s nice to show off when they can.

However, Qi Tian was clearly not that kind of chef. When chefs demonstrate their skills, they usually make their movements more elegant without compromising the dish’s quality. Qi Tian was the complete opposite. His movements were not at all graceful, giving the impression that he had another 100 dishes to stir-fry, so he had to work quickly.

Soon, Qi Tian’s stir-fried greens were ready.

They looked just as beautifully green, and in terms of appearance, they might even have looked more appealing than Huang Jia’s.

While quickly doing the work, Qi Tian even took the time to plate the dish slightly.

"Try it," Huang Shengli said.

Qin Huai tasted it.

Delicious.

A different kind of delicious from Huang Jia’s greens.

In terms of texture, Qi Tian’s stir-fried greens were crisper, and he had mastered the level of crispness perfectly. It was the kind that, if not mastered well, could become undercooked and a total flop.

Qi Tian calmly left, and Wang Jun began stir-frying the greens.

As Huang Shengli’s least skilled disciple, Wang Jun’s stir-fried greens did not betray his reputation.

At his level, he couldn’t become a chef at Huang Ji.

If Huang Jia’s and Qi Tian’s stir-fried greens each had their merits and both were equally delicious without any faults, then Wang Jun’s stir-fried greens had quite a few flaws.

He didn’t control the high heat well enough, and his flipping actions weren’t clean and efficient, causing the greens to heat unevenly. It seemed the sauce reduction before the dish was ready was slightly lacking...

Being picky, this plate of greens could have at least 10 faults picked out.

To put it simply in terms people can understand, the stir-fried greens weren’t even as good as those made by Zheng Siyuan.

Even though Zheng Siyuan is a pastry chef, his skill with heat is still pretty good, especially with basic dishes like stir-fried greens.

When Zheng Siyuan practiced cooking as a child, he used to stir-fry greens by the basketful every day.

This time, without Huang Shengli having to say it, Qin Huai tasted it proactively.

Not quite there.

If this plate of greens were served at the menu price, customers might complain.

However, it’s tastier than the 10-yuan stir-fried greens at the Qin Family Breakfast Shop next door. Huang Ji Restaurant still maintained its basic standards.

Next was Dong Li.

Then came Dong Shi.

Qin Huai was surprised to find that Dong Shi wasn’t boasting; when it came to stir-frying greens, he was actually a bit better than Dong Li.

Although Dong Shi talks nonstop all day, babbling nonsense, and his words often sound unreliable, he’s fond of gossip, and likes to chat with others during work hours, he does possess some skill.

You can slack off, but you can’t be bad.

Finally, Huang Shengli personally stir-fried a plate of greens for Qin Huai.

Placed alongside the greens stir-fried by Huang Jia and Qi Tian, his dish completely outshone theirs in every way.

A plate of stir-fried greens so good that even the pickiest children who hate vegetables would say to their mothers after eating it, "Mom, I want to eat stir-fried greens!"

Without comparison, there is no harm.

Yesterday, Qin Huai knew Huang Shengli’s cooking skills were good and knew his stir-fried greens were exceptional, but he never felt it so viscerally like today.

With such skills, one could indeed do whatever they wanted.

Qin Huai began to understand why Gong Liang always took advantage of opportunities to cozy up for a couple of good dishes.

With such culinary skills from a childhood friend, even if you can’t eat the Three Heads Banquet, three plates of stir-fried greens would do.

"Do you know why I had each of them stir-fry a dish for you?" Huang Shengli asked.

Qin Huai thought for a moment: "Is it because each of them has their own style?"

Huang Shengli paused, thinking that he had prepared so thoroughly, yet Qin Huai had still stolen his line?

Huang Shengli no longer asked and directly said: "Huang Jia is my first disciple. He practiced the basics with me since childhood. His cooking skills, techniques, concepts, and dishes are all taught by me personally, making him the chef whose style most resembles mine."

"Qi Tian learned from another mentor. His style was developed before he came to me. Although he studied under me for many years, you can clearly see that his cooking style is completely different from Huang Jia’s."

"Wang Jun is self-taught. He had many bad habits. I taught him for many years, corrected quite a few, but he still retains some. These habits frequently cause small mistakes in places where they shouldn’t, so until now, his culinary arts haven’t advanced much. But he can endure hardship, and I believe with a few more years of practice, his skills will make a very significant leap forward."

"You should be most familiar with Dong Shi and Dong Li. Little Ninth is lively, and Xiao Ba is steady. They are still young and haven’t fully developed their styles, so their personalities are clearly reflected in their cooking."

"In terms of talent, Little Ninth is much stronger than Xiao Ba, so even if he occasionally slacks off, his skill is not inferior. He is a chef with his own ideas, understands how to infer from one fact to another, and isn’t afraid to challenge authority. Even if I teach him something he’s not satisfied with, he’ll secretly change it. You can see it from his flipping actions; he has too many of his ideas."

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