Food: The super chef just wants to set up a stall leisurely

He initially started visiting restaurants out of curiosity and passion. At that time, he watched various food bloggers live a carefree and easy life and make money from doing what they loved. He was extremely envious and felt that was the life he wanted.

So he also began to try to take this path.

He is not short of money. At the beginning, he visited restaurants at his own expense after work, treated friends to meals and took some food photos or store exploration videos.

But for the sake of aesthetics, he followed the example of those bloggers and always waited until all the dishes were served before arranging them on the plates and taking pictures from different angles.

It’s not so bad if you come across a restaurant that serves food quickly. Your friends won’t say anything even if you take a few photos.

But in most cases, the restaurant serves a few dishes first, and then a few more half an hour later. By the time all the dishes are served, they are cold, not to mention that he has to complete the long pre-casting process of repeatedly arranging the dishes and finding angles to take pictures.

As time went by, his friends began to get impatient, and he felt very embarrassed. He took the photos in a hurry and they were very sloppy. When he got home, he was not satisfied with the finished products, and not many people saw them when he posted them online.

So he made up his mind and resolutely quit the job he had worked for only half a year. He spent money to find someone to teach him how to speak, shoot and post-production.

The person also took him to join the current store exploration group, and after they became familiar with each other, he started to go out with the people in the group.

Only after I went out did I realize the gap between the actual store experience and what I had imagined.

In the store exploration videos that are posted, there is always a table full of dishes with tempting colors that make people salivate. Then the blogger eats leisurely while showing off the food. The close-up of each bite of food shows that the ingredients are very rich, which makes people feel happy at first glance.

But actually visiting a restaurant is completely different from eating in person. Videos have to be shot repeatedly, with the same lines, the same movements of holding dishes, and even the way of taking a bite of food have to be recorded many times.

If someone is talking behind your back, you have to redo it; if the lighting of the dish is not good, you have to redo it; if the words are unclear or the tongue slips, you have to redo it.

A table of restaurant visitors gathered around a table full of dishes and first took photos of the overall dish together.

After that, they took turns sitting at the table to record the video, while the others helped with lighting, recording, and finding angles.

After one person finishes taking the photos, he stands up, and another person rearranges the plates, sits at the table and starts a new round.

It usually takes more than two hours to visit a restaurant, at least an hour and a half to take turns taking photos, twenty minutes to arrange the dishes and find the angles, and ten minutes for each of us to quickly eat the dishes around the table with our bowls in hand.

Reality is always realistic, and slowly what I thought was a freelance job started to become the same as working.

He still remembers that he was fascinated by the online videos and wanted to visit the store.

He wants to share all the delicacies he likes and has discovered with ordinary people who are lost, so that they can have a bite after a busy day and get the same feeling as him, to be comforted and healed.

Instead of being like it is now, with all the same shooting angles, layers of filters and color saturation, and fixed and routine professional copywriting, when they take a commercial and start praising the food for the first time before the food is even served.

The reason why he is still persisting is because he still remembers his original intention and wants to try to become the kind of store blogger he really wants to be, sharing the food he really likes and that heals his heart.

Zhao Xiaojing’s fried skewers are such a delicacy.

It made him forget about the commercial purpose and just enjoy the amazing moment when the food took his mouth, to the point that he forgot to take a photo of the food until the end.

Such delicious food should not be lost because of him, because the hostility of two young men who have just entered the industry disappeared for no reason.

Guo Gaoang regained his spirit, picked up his phone and contacted the blogger who asked him to guide the two newcomers today.

By the way, I will sort out and edit the whole thing and forward it to other bloggers I am close to...

On the other hand, Zhao Xiaojing, who was still busy in the cafeteria, was unaware of this sudden war of words.

She spends her working hours very fulfillingly every day and hardly ever thinks about looking at her phone.

After getting off work at noon, I am busy preparing the fried skewers in advance, including a series of cleaning, marinating, and coating with flour, etc. After that, it is time to go to work in the evening.

She spends her days focusing on improving her cooking skills. She only takes out her phone to check messages when she gets off work in the evening and waits for customers to pick up their groceries at the supermarket entrance, or when she gets home and finishes practicing her basic cooking skills.

Today is the same as always.

As soon as she finished frying the food for the second time for dinner, she took the opportunity to find Sun Dehai to continue asking for advice.

"Master Sun, I can now use the big flipping spoon you taught me to flip over the sand these past two days. I can shake the pot in various ways without any sand leaking out. Can you help me take a look?"

"So fast? Good! Show me!"

Sun Dehai was slightly surprised and then laughed out loud.

When he originally taught Zhao Xiaojing to practice flipping the spoon, he told her that by the time the construction period was over, she should be able to practice it almost perfectly. In fact, he was exaggerating at the time because he was afraid that the girl would not be able to persist in it.

He thought that if he could develop his hand strength in three months, it would be enough, let alone using clever strength to flip the pot and shake it.

Who would have thought that in the past month, every once in a while, Zhao Xiaojing would ask him to teach her about the irregularities in her movements. As she taught him, the little girl started by holding the pot with bare hands, then moved on to pushing the spoon with air, then to flipping the pot with sand, then to shaking the pot in fancy ways, and now she has even learned to flip the spoon...

In the blink of an eye, she had learned all the techniques of flipping the wok.

He was also slowly calming down from being shocked by the rapid progress every day.

Sun Dehai smiled and watched Zhao Xiaojing take out an empty pot on the side, scoop out two spoonfuls of rice, and then start practicing the sequence of flipping the pot, shaking the pot in fancy ways, and flipping the spoon.

At first, Sun Dehai just stood aside with interest, ready to give some instructions, but as he watched, his eyes gradually widened.

Isn't this progressing too fast?!

Although he was already used to Zhao Xiaojing's high learning efficiency, he had only taught her how to flip the spoon the day before yesterday, right?

Moreover, when pointing out the shortcomings of Zhao Xiaojing's practice of fancy pot-shaking, he demonstrated it and talked about it casually!

It's only been two days?

"Xiao Zhao, what did you just say to me? You said you could barely flip the spoon when you practiced it? You call that barely?"

Sun Dehai looked at Zhao Xiaojing's almost seamless flipping of the spoon in disbelief.

"Yeah, I feel like I didn't do this 180° turn very smoothly."

As she spoke, Zhao Xiaojing pushed the pot outwards to lift the rice up, then quickly pulled it back in, collecting all the tumbling rice into the pot without a single grain falling.

"You've only practiced for two days, how can you expect to be smooth?"

Sun Dehai looked mad.

"Look, in just two days, you have already mastered the techniques of pushing, pulling, lifting and crushing to such a high standard. Xiao Zhao, you really are an instant master. You are born to do this!"

"That's amazing, Xiao Zhao. You've basically mastered flipping the spoon. Now you need to press the spoon in your right hand a little harder, close to the bottom of the pot. Then practice more and become more fluent. Then you'll be considered a master!"

Sun Dehai looked at Zhao Xiaojing's confused expression, who didn't even know how capable she was, and couldn't stop praising her.