Chapter 201 (2/2)
“Who’s gonna clear away the leftovers after cooking?” Wu Hai hadn’t thought of cleaning the leftovers by himself. As for Yuan Zhou, he definitely wouldn’t help him. There was no need to ask.
“I will come in the evening to clear them away,” Zheng Jiawei said firmly.
Moreover, he did not speak much this time. Instead, he just started to clean the kitchen earnestly with an extraordinarily fast speed.
Within an hour, he made the kitchen as clean and neat as a brand-new one.
“It’s settled. You can use it now. I’m leaving,” before Zheng Jiawei left, he looked at Yuan Zhou with a sympathetic expression.
Yuan Zhou was a little puzzled. With his sensitive instinct, however, he still believed Wu Hai definitely had problems, hence was alarmed.
“Is he like a kitchen killer?” Yuan Zhou guessed randomly.
“The processing of the ingredients will still be left to me?” Wu Hai turned the head and asked Yuan Zhou who had been standing at the door.
“Humm, you do that. You can start now,” Yuan Zhou held his hands against his chest and stood at the door. Of course, the tips of his toes were obliquely heading towards the door.
He acted that way as if Wu Hai were going to bomb the kitchen.
“Ok,” Wu Hai nodded and took out the ingredients to wash.
Everything went normally at the start. With the water flowing with a sound of “Hua Hua”, the vegetables and other ingredients were washed clean one after another and put on the countertop to stand by.
“Nice work. You can put them in the pan now,” after a careful observation, Yuan Zhou found that Wu Hai had done a good job.
“Humm,” Wu Hai answered. After that, he lit the fire and prepared to put the ingredients into the pan.
Only then did Yuan Zhou discover that there were no flavorings at all on the countertop of the kitchen as well as edible oil.
“Peng”, Wu Hai pulled open a cabinet and took out a large sprinkling can from inside and then started to pour it into the pan.
“What does that mean?” Yuan Zhou was really confused.
Not until when he poured the liquid out did Yuan Zhou discover it was the edible oil, which flowed out of the shower head into the pan. Yuan Zhou became a little speechless.
Subsequently, Wu Hai picked up a big painting brush and started to brush in the pan.
“What are you doing?” Yuan Zhou couldn’t help asking.
“I’m making the edible oil fully cover the bottom,” on Wu Hai’s face was an expression of earnest.
“You continue,” Yuan Zhou pressed his forehead and started to have an ominous sentiment.
Immediately after that, Wu Hai began to place the beef pieces all over the pan. Yes, it was the word of “place”. Pieces of the beef were all where they were supposed to be.
The next step was to place the star anises. When Wu Hai added the cooking wine during the process, he also used a smaller sprinkling can. This way, it was quite clear which part required and which part didn’t require the cooking wine.
Now Yuan Zhou finally knew why all the cooking pots were pans in Wu Hai’s home. He was matter-of-factly painting rather than cooking the dishes.
However, it would be nonsense if he could make the dishes delicious that way.
Therefore, the sympathetic wink of Zheng Jiawei was now understandable. The kitchen killer could no longer apply to Wu Hai now. It should be more of a kitchen monster.
When it was getting close to the noon, Yuan Zhou organized his words and then said, “Let’s go so far today. I need to go back and prepare for lunch.”
“What about the remaining ingredients?” Wu Hai asked while looking at them on the top of the kitchen range.
“I will teach you step by step in the afternoon,” Yuan Zhou took a look at the beef briskets that seemed to be a piece of art and said decisively.
“Ok,” Wu Hai agreed squarely.
After that, Yuan Zhou returned to his restaurant. In the kitchen, he thought of the fierce manner of Wu Hai when he cooked. No matter whether it was required or not, Wu Hai would take out bottles of coloring materials and poured them into the pan while muttering something like “The color on this side is too light, and I need to add some red color.” or “The brown color on that side is too light.” etc.
That whole pan of the colorful Stewed Beef Brisket with Tomato greatly tested Yuan Zhou’s tolerance. Who knew how he had weathered the several hours in Wu Hai’s kitchen.
Luckily, someone interrupted Yuan Zhou’s recollection at that time.
“Is Boss Yuan here?”….