46 Preparation (1/2)

Arriving at the restaurant, Wang Ming and Louzheng put the meat in the refrigerator and started to get to work. Wang Ming got Louzheng to keep on practicing walking around with plates in his hand and simulating taking orders. While Wang Ming went out to the last stop of the day, he had totally forgotten to buy some red firecrackers and a red ribbon. This was a tradition for many shops and restaurants. On opening day, they would light on some red firecrackers and cut a red ribbon to signal that it was the opening day and attract customers.

Arriving at a shop that sold things fireworks, Wang Ming saw the perfect firecrackers. They were mostly red but also had golden edges. The golden color is the color of prestige and prosperity. After taking the firecrackers he wanted to go a tailor to see if he could find and buy a red ribbon. But it surprised him to see that not only did the fireworks shop sell fireworks and firecrackers but it also sold ribbons in different sizes and colors. Looking around, he found a big red pull bow that was red and also had a golden edge it was also the perfect size being a bit over 5 meter long. Seeing it was the perfect one, Wang Ming snagged it instantly and went to pay.

Then making his way back to the restaurant, Wang Ming arrived at the door when he heard a loud sound coming from inside the restaurant. Opening the door, Wang Ming thought that someone were here to make trouble and fought with Louzheng. But facepalmed when he saw it was just Louzheng who had tripped and fell to the ground. Walking towards him and helping him up Wang Ming couldn't help but tease Louzheng.

”Such a big and strong guy, but can't even walk straight while holding a plate. Maybe I should sack you right here.”

Hearing his words, Louzheng's eyes widened and turned around to beg Wang Ming not to kick him. But when he saw that Wang Ming was smirking and laughing, he knew that Wang Ming were just playing with him.

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”Don't scare me like that Wang Ming! I don't know why, but I become clumsy the instant I have a plate in my hands.”

”I know, I'm just joking with you. Now lets resume the training. I think I know the reason for your clumsiness. You focus too much on how you are holding the plate, and you are too nervous and afraid of the plate falling or that food will slide off the plate. Just relax hold the plate with a steady hand not only focus on your hand but focus on your body. Let your body and eyes lead the way and you should be fine. So resume training.”

Wang Ming had thought about Louzheng's problem and finally realized, that it was because he tunnel-visioned on the plate and the table he would serve and forgot about his surroundings. Which made him bump into other tables and chairs.

While Louzheng was training on his waiter skills, Wang Ming started preparing the food. Since he had roughly 100 pounds of meat, he needed to do all the prep work beforehand. That was to blanch all the meat which would take him at least an hour or two. Since he only had a pot big enough for roughly 20 pounds, he had to do it five times to finish the 100 pounds. (If you don't remember blanching is to cook the meat from cold water just to a boil to remove any impurities and blood from the meat.)

After blanching the meat and drying them with multiple clean towels. He then cut the meat into equal chunks, every chunk was roughly one pound each. This was the serving size for every order, you would get one pound of meat and a bowl of rice for every person at the table. Rice would be no problem to serve since the kitchen had five big rice cookers. After cutting the meat up, he placed them in a small clay pot that could room roughly three pieces of meat each. He would do one piece for each clay pot if he could, but he didn't have enough clay pots, neither did he have a big enough bamboo steamer.

Wang Ming decided to change up on how to cook the pork belly. Since last time he warmed the clay pot directly but this time after cooking the clay pot directly for 1 hour, he would transfer the clay pot to the bamboo steamer. The bamboo steamer was perfect for him to steam and cook multiple clay pots at the same time. So he would do the hard cooking directly but use the bamboo steamer to cook and tenderize the meat.

Wang Ming couldn't help but feel thankful for how big this kitchen was and how much stuff it had. He could cook roughly 12 clay pots at a time, which were roughly 36 pounds of meat. Then transfer them all to a bamboo steamer, and after doing this three times, the 100 pounds of meat should all be done and which would leave only the 8 hour tenderizing process left.

But he would not cook the meat yet, since the restaurant opened at 11am, if he cooked the meat now then it would not just a few hours old but half a day to a day old, that would deteriorate the quality too much. The clock was roughly 6.30pm now, so he thought he could take a break and eat, then train with Louzheng to roughly 10 pm and send him home. There after he would take an hour power nap before preparing the kitchen and start cooking through the night. He knew it would be hard, since it would mean that he would be awake for over 24 hours. But he would exchange everything to make the restaurant successful, so sleep was nothing.

Then looking at Louzheng, Wang Ming appreciated how hard he worked. It had been roughly 8 hours now but Louzheng kept on working hard and practicing. Wang Ming felt once again impressed by how much Louzheng improved after Wang Ming pointed out his problem. Louzheng had easily surmounted the problem and now looked like a seasoned waiter, though there were many advanced waiter rules he didn't know. But that didn't matter. Though seeing how good Louzheng were already, Wang Ming didn't see any point in more training and sent Louzheng home to eat and get ready for the opening day.