Once Su Ruoyan left, Bai Na turned to ask Feng Ti, "Do you know what kind of dish this is? Will its plate presentation be artistic? "
"I don't understand." Feng Ti shook her head sincerely and continued, "But I know that this pipa is a musical instrument from ancient China."
"I think the combination of a dish and a musical instrument will be pretty good," Feng Ti said with certainty.
"Alright, I hope you're right." Bai Na shrugged and didn't say anything else.
"No, we should have confidence in Wu's taste," Feng Ti said seriously.
"Yes, we should have confidence in Wu's taste," Bai Na nodded affirmatively.
After all, if Wuhai viewed it as a sacred place for inspiration, the place would definitely not be bad.
After understanding this, the few of them sat quietly in their seats and began to wait.
Yuan Zhou's cooking speed had always been very fast. Even if this was a dish that was very complicated and difficult to decorate, it wasn't a problem for Yuan Zhou.
"Hua La" Yuan Zhou wiped his hands on the azure stone countertop and a few boat-shaped plates were placed neatly on the countertop.
Then, in front of everyone's eyes, a silver knife light danced in Yuan Zhou's hand and a life-like beauty appeared on the boat-shaped plate.
The beauty's face was like a silver plate and her hair was combed into a beautiful bun. She wore a dress that fluttered in the wind and her arms were slightly raised as if she was hugging something.
Behind the beauty was the position of the ship's cabin. A few shadowy figures walked out from there. Each of them looked different, but they all had one thing in common: they all had their arms slightly raised.
Two people stood at the bow of the boat. One was dressed like a scholar, while the other was dressed like a madman. The patterns on their clothes were also clearly visible, but the color was the same as the women's, white.
This was because they were all carved from tofu. Although they all looked life-like, they still seemed to be lacking something.
Meanwhile, Yuan Zhou calmly put down the waiter and turned around to busy himself at the stove. He was still cooking the dishes ordered by the other customers.
Yuan Zhou could now multitask and cook many dishes at the same time.
Feng Ti and Bai Na happened to be sitting on the curved long table. They naturally had a panoramic view of Yuan Zhou's marvelous knife skills just now.
"This is already considered art. How can it be so fast and precise?" Baina exclaimed.
"That's right. I've never seen anyone cut vegetables like that before," Feng Ti said in astonishment.
"That's true. That's why Mr. Wu is so infatuated with it. Look at the characters on the plate. They are too similar," Bai Na said as he pointed at the boat plate that Yuan Zhou had just completed.
"Indeed. It's just that the color is a little monotonous and lacks some soul," Feng Ti said objectively.
"Hey, don't be so harsh. You have to know that Mr. Yuan is a chef. The utilization of the space and the layout are already very good." Bai Na didn't just look at the overall situation, but also carefully looked at the details and then said.
"Yeah. I wonder what kind of dish it is. It looks pretty good." Feng Ti thought for a while and then started to guess what the dish was.
Yuan Zhou didn't let them guess for long. After the dishes on the stove were scooped out, Yuan Zhou started to be busy with the boat-shaped plates again.
The whole process took no more than two minutes. The characters that had just been placed on the plate were still slightly steaming.
Yuan Zhou uncovered the lid of the steamer and white steam came out. At that moment, the steam couldn't be seen, but Yuan Zhou reached out his hands accurately and quickly to carry out the steaming plates inside.
Actually, it was possible to carry them out after a while. However, Yuan Zhou had tried it before. If he carried them out after the steam dispersed, the temperature at the top of the steamed food and the temperature near the plate would be different. If he carried them out at that time, the heat would be just right.
However, the difference between doing that and carrying them out after the steam dispersed was only 0.001 points. Perhaps the difference was even smaller than that. However, Yuan Zhou had always been like that. With more than 0.001 points, the difference in the taste would be huge.
That was the reason why he had never been willing to recommend Yuanzhou shop and badmouth Yuan Zhou wantonly. After all, nobody pursued perfection better than Yuan Zhou.
Let's not talk about that for now because Yuan Zhou had started to finish the several boat-shaped plates on the azure stone countertop quickly.
What he carried out was the soul of this dish, the Pipa Tofu. With a slight shake of his hand, the plate tilted slightly and the steamed Pipa Tofu slid accurately into the hands of those girls.
Only then did everyone realize that those girls who raised their arms were indeed holding something. That thing was a pipa.
Right after that, Yuan Zhou quickly took out a shiitake mushroom and started to cut it from the root. The long white shiitake mushroom root fell on the pipa shaped tofu obediently and turned into strings of a pipa.
The brown shiitake mushroom cap was cut into the handle of a pipa by Yuan Zhou.
At first glance, it seemed that those girls were really holding pipa in their hands.
However, that wasn't the end. Yuan Zhou turned around and picked up the pot on the stove that had been boiling since no one knew when and poured it into the plates one by one.
Yuan Zhou then said, "Carry the dishes."
As soon as he said that, Su Ruoyan immediately answered, "Yes, boss."
When Su Ruoyan arrived, Yuan Zhou had carried the boat-shaped plates to the partition board and then turned around to get busy again.
"Oh, my gosh. This is so magical. What's this? I must order this dish. It's so magical." Bai Na stared at Su Ruoyan in amazement. He looked as if he couldn't wait to snatch it.
"It's so beautiful. It's just like a painting. I think you're right. We should order that." Feng Ti nodded her head approvingly.
The other artists were also astonished. They all stared at Su Ruoyan passionately.
Su Ruoyan seemed to feel their gazes and walked towards them. That made Bai Na and Feng Ti, who didn't know it was the Pipa Tofu that they had ordered by themselves, very surprised.
"Here's the Pipa Tofu you ordered. Please enjoy." Su Ruoyan served the dishes to them one by one starting from Feng Ti. After she left, they finally recovered from the shock.
"My gosh. It turns out to be the dish we ordered." Bai Na looked at the plate in front of him and was so surprised that he couldn't say anything more.
"Yes. It's simply art. It's so beautiful." Feng Ti couldn't help swallowing her saliva when she said that.
It wasn't because Feng Ti had second thoughts about art, but because the fragrance was too alluring. Feng Ti recalled that he didn't seem to have eaten anything at noon.
"I have never seen a dish cooked by a chef that could catch everyone's eyes so accurately only by the plate presentation alone."
"Or to be exact, this is a painting with an extremely high degree of completion."
"It's too perfect, especially the color mixing at the end. It's almost comparable to Wu You's. Plus, the perfect knife skills."
"Besides, the use of color and the layout are similar to Mr. Wu's."
These painters praised the layout, color, and a series of other aspects of the dish.
Actually, they didn't expect that what they said was true. Because Yuan Zhou had learned the use of color and space by teaching Wu Hai, the kitchen monster, how to cook.
Yuan Zhou naturally learned the real skills assiduously. As for Wu Hai, at least his vegetable dishes and fish soup were edible. After all, the meat came from the fish soup.
That's right. The clothes of all the people in the light brown ship-shaped plate had been colored after Yuan Zhou poured the sauce on them. Besides, the colors were different for each person.
For example, the clothes of the two people dressed like Confucian scholars at the bow of the ship had become the common flaxen color in ancient times, revealing their slightly open white chests.
The clothes of the arrogant scholar were dark brown, which was almost black. His collar was wide open, giving him a feeling of a distinguished scholar.
On the other side was the beauty with a face as big as a silver plate. Her face was slightly covered by the pipa, which added a more hazy sense of beauty. Her clothes had become conspicuous and beautiful silvery white.
The beauties behind her were in different postures, covering half of their faces with the pipa. Their clothes were mainly light brown and red, of different shades.
These beauties were holding the pipa in their arms, as if they were coming out of the cabin. If Feng Ti and Baina could read poems, they would understand that this was the real version of the sentence "Holding the pipa with half of your face covered".
The color of the clothes was the reason for the soup in the pot. Moreover, the soup was poured precisely on the characters, not touching the pipa on the main dish at all.
The thickness and the method of pouring the soup made the clothes of the people show different colors. These colors and the pipa were the finishing touches.
That was why the artists exclaimed in admiration and praised them.
The painters gathered together and seriously discussed the painting, no, the dish.
The atmosphere was very serious. Everyone was enthusiastic but restrained, but some people couldn't help but swallow their saliva from time to time.
The aroma of the steaming hot dishes wafted into everyone's nostrils, causing them to be unable to tear their eyes away from the dishes.
Therefore, the artists were in a dilemma. They wanted to seriously appreciate the dishes, but they also couldn't help but want to stuff them into their mouths and eat them.
Now, it was a struggle between the spirit and the desire for good food.
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