Zhou Dong suddenly realized that Yan Xiang had changed. This middle-aged and old white-faced, who was originally a little light and frivolous, now smiled like a innocent boy, with his eyes full of irresistible desire for knowledge. Suddenly, he turned from an experienced veteran into a piece of white paper waiting for him to write.

"Zhou Wang, I wonder if I can ask you for some advice?

You are the king of Chinese faces, and I have learned it again. In fact, I have wanted to visit you for a long time and ask you for advice!"

Yan Xiang walked to Zhou Dong with a slight hand and filled him with wine. He toasted his hands in front of him, bent his waist slightly, and his eyes were filled with sincere advice.

Zhou Dong nodded. Since he had said all the big talk, he was about to show off his skills. Now Yan Xiang is here to invite him, so he just goes with the flow.

Wu Tingze frowned and said, "Lao Wu, when did you say such words? Why don't I know?

The wine is about to be cold, so why not ask Chef Zhou to taste my wine first!”

Wu Tingze was displeased without formally fighting, and his sincere and respectful look on his face, which made Wu Tingze very displeased.

He believed that his rose dew would definitely earn some face for his brothers and sisters, and it would be too embarrassing for Lao Wu to do this!

Zhou Dong laughed and stood up: "The wine brewed by Master Wu will not be bad, but it can still be warm when the wine is cold. I'd better go and see Master Yan's osmanthus first. I hope it will be preserved properly and there will be no frost."

"Don't worry, the osmanthus is wrapped in oil paper and there are three layers of moisture-absorbing tissue in the middle, so it cannot be frozen and frost."

Yan Xiangmei smiled and caused the road ahead: "Your Maiden King Zhou, be careful, this threshold is a bit high, don't stumble..."

When I saw Lao Wu’s appearance, the most comforting thing was Xiong Buer. How long has it been since I saw Lao Wu so steady and sensible? Even the eyes of Zhou Dong became softer.

***

The old tavern occupies a small half of the space on the first floor of the food industry. The back kitchen is not an indoor enclosed room, but a semicircular yard circled behind the building with a wall in the middle, half for the old tavern, and the other half is the territory of the chef Xu Guanghui and Xu.

I don’t know where I got the news. As soon as Zhou Dong walked into the yard, he saw Xu Guanghui leaning over the wall: “Chef Zhou, it’s been a long time since I saw you, why did you have time to come to the old tavern?

I'm still waiting to go to your private hall to eat boiled cabbage, but I don't know when it will open?"

Zhou Dong smiled: "It's almost done, Chef Xu, you climb so high, do you have to be careful?"

Judging from the height of the wall, you can tell that Xu Guanghui is mostly stepping on a ladder. Zhou Dong was secretly surprised that the relationship between the Wuqiu Chu and the five brothers of Lao Xionggou seemed to be not very harmonious. Xu Guanghui not only refused to come over, but when he greeted him, he just nodded slightly to Xiong Buer even if he had said hello.

"Okay, I'm very busy here, so I won't say hello to Chef Zhou. If you have time, don't forget to sit here."

Xu Guanghui shrank his head back.

This little episode made the brothers except Xiong Buer look very good. This is great. The chef who beat the table to the point where the big wine jar was invited to the kitchen. Xu Guanghui turned around and didn't know how to bury us behind the scenes.

Yan Xiang was very focused on his business, and led Zhou Dong to walk through the grape trellis in the middle of the courtyard, pointing to the oil paper spread beside a shallow well and said, "You see, these osmanthus flowers are being untied. I should be right?"

Zhou Dong saw that the feng shui of this yard is good. This shallow well should have the ground veins. It is the kind that is warm in winter and cool in summer. The water in the well is cool in summer. It can be used to cure watermelon, beer, and warm in the well in winter. You can feel a hint of warmth when you stand by the well, just like the air-raid shelter that you often go to when you were a child.

The grape trellis just half covers the shallow well, and the winter sun shines through the dry yellow vines and becomes mottled and broken.

Four or five thick oil papers were laid under the grape trellis by the well, with some buds that seemed to be blooming and slightly dry yellow osmanthus flowers, which seemed to be thawing using the temperature brought by the sun and the heating coming out of the wellhead.

"This Yan Xiang looked a little lighter than the other brothers of Lao Xionggou. He didn't expect that he would be very careful when he started his skills."

Zhou Dong nodded, feeling that the child is teachable.

"It is actually a very safe way to use the heating emitted from this shallow well and the illumination of winter sunshine to thaw these osmanthus flowers.

There are not many chefs who can do this now. They either use hot water directly or use microwaves. If you have this patience, you can deserve a 'fine and attentive', and you are a good person!"

Yan Xiang made Zhou Dong feel very satisfied. He thought about his students. The fat man was lazy but had to work hard due to the pressure of his girlfriend. At least he would not do it at this stage. Zhou Aiguo is talented and hardworking, but he was still half a point worse than Yan Xiang when he was careful. As for the Su brothers, he was scolded by himself yesterday. When he was making ground-fried chicken, he refused to work hard on fire. Instead, he learned the evil way of throwing pebbles into the pot. Now he has been punished by himself to wash dishes in the kitchen!

"Yeah, it's pretty good!"

Zhou Dong looked at Yan Xiang with a smile, as if he was the senior Xingzun watching a hardworking and good student...

The brothers of Lao Xionggou were a little surprised. What was Chef Zhou's gaze? It seemed that she likes Lao Wu very much?

"But that's just good. Although you're much better than ordinary chefs, you still can't solve the fundamental problem..."

Zhou Dong shook his head slightly and said, "This method of slowly 'removing flowers' can reduce the generation of water vapor than using warm water directly. In addition, it is winter, the air is dry and the heater in the well is protected. As long as you are careful and careful, the osmanthus flowers that are detached can be called the best!

But even if you are so dedicated and get the right time and place, there will still be a flaw."

Yan Xiang was slightly shocked: "In order to prevent the generation of water vapor, I used this slow solution. But even if I was careful everywhere and used various conditions, I still couldn't solve the problem that osmanthus would lose its fragrance during the 'thaw' process."

“Since you’ve found a problem, find a way to solve it.

If the bones of lard and osmanthus cake are lard, then its soul is osmanthus. If the fragrance of flowers is discounted, can this dessert be eaten?"

Zhou Dong smiled and said, "Are there any osmanthus flowers that have not started to thaw? If so, take some.

Also help me prepare some application stuff.”

Yan Xiang hurriedly said, "Please tell me if you are a king of Zhou."

"A big iron pot, the bigger the better. It needs a matching cage and a stove that can match it.

Also, a bucket of pure water is needed. I think the water in this well is very good. In addition, prepare some ice cubes, preferably ice-making, and do not freeze in the refrigerator."

Zhou Dong thought carefully and said, "There are also yellow sugars, which require more than 95% of the sugarcane, high-gluten flour, glutinous rice flour, and first-class high-quality flour, the trough of cake making, the hammer for cake making... Do you have the hammer for cake made of pine wood?"

"Of course, they are all ready-made, it's the guy I've used for many years."

Yan Xiang thought for a while and 'boosted' the courage to say, "Zhou Noodle King, are you going to use the steaming method?

This...is probably not possible, how big is the water vapor?"

The most taboo thing about relieving osmanthus is that the water vapor is too large, which will cause the fragrance of flowers to disappear faster, which is even worse than the "removing flowers" method used by Yanxiang before, and is not much better than those chefs who use warm water and microwave thawing.

Zhou Dong smiled: "You may have forgotten that I have another nickname called "Zhentianguo".

Half of the effort is used to make white tables in the steamer.”

"Yes, the King of Zhou is right!"

Yan Xiang could only nodded repeatedly. Although he really couldn't figure out how Zhou Dong could use a steamer and avoid water vapor affecting the osmanthus, he didn't dare to ask.

Master Divine Beggar said that the means used by chefs who can make the "dead trees meet spring" are not something he can understand at all, just learn it.

Soon all kinds of things were prepared. Zhou Dong first matched the high-gluten noodles with glutinous rice flour and kneaded the noodles while adding water. However, in just over a dozen minutes, a basin of "Three Lights" standard noodles were reconciled.

Others couldn't see anything, but Yan Xiang's eyes tightened.

High-gluten flour and glutinous rice flour are not the same. It is not easy to mix them perfectly. He has been doing this industry for twenty years, and it took at least half an hour to go with this basin. Whether it can be satisfied depends on his performance on the spot.

It's only been ten minutes, and that's what happened?

Yan Xiang gently pressed the dough with his fingers. As soon as he pulled his finger back, the gravure of the finger had disappeared. The dough seemed to be as smooth as never pressed. He immediately took a breath of cold air and looked at Zhou Dong blankly. He remembered very clearly that when Master Ghost made this lard osmanthus cake in front of him, it took him twenty minutes to get the dough together!

"Using a steamer to thaw osmanthus may not necessarily have water vapor. The key is to control the heat and the hot soup in the pot!"

Zhou Dong said while putting the osmanthus flowers in the cage, and laying a layer of hemp-eyed cage cloth below.

These cages are carefully processed by swallow necks. They are only used to pass them with clean water, and then placed in a place that is protected from light and dust and is naturally dry, without any odor.

At this time, the water in the pot was barely warm, far less than fifty degrees, and no water vapor was coming out, but the heat had begun to penetrate upwards, and the osmanthus flowers that were "frozen" began to shake slightly due to heat.

Zhou Dong stretched out his right hand and gently swept over the osmanthus flowers. It seemed that he was trying the temperature in the pot with his hands. In fact, the legendary vegetable washing skills were fully fired, and the energy spots that ordinary people could not see with their naked eyes flew into the dark osmanthus flowers.

"This swallow neck is really not simple. It actually preserves these osmanthus flowers without flaws. Although they all look "freezing", in fact, there is no water added during the freezing process. As long as I do not make any mistakes, these osmanthus flowers can be "resurrected" again and bloom perfectly!"

Through the grape trellis wrapped in with vines, Zhou Dong glanced at the pale and powerless sun, and felt a little proud in his heart.
Chapter completed!