Chapter 406: Chapter 318: First Build Staff Confidence, Then Delegate the Work

Just by watching the process of making rooster crest dumplings for a few moments, Lin Chen could already imagine its general texture.

The dough with the texture of fried dough sticks, the filling of fried dumplings, coupled with the slippery and soft combination of vermicelli.

It really is quite a special kind of breakfast.

Based on his past experience of running food stalls, this thing should fit the taste of foreigners.

"Yo, have you started already?"

Lucas appeared outside the car window at some point, waving to the people inside.

Lin Chen immediately nodded towards him.

"Old Lu, you’re going to film this later, right? This rooster crest dumpling is quite unique, and Xiao Zhao’s skill in making soup dumplings is quite impressive too."

"Film it, of course I’ll film it. If you’re praising it, it must be impressive."

"Okay, then I’ll head out. I have some ideas I want to try, but haven’t had the time. You guys can handle things here, right?"

"Huh??"

"What’s this?"

"Are you just leaving it like this?? It’s the first day, come on!"

The three of them stared at him, filled with disbelief.

"What happened?"

Outside, Dais and Elsa, who were preparing packaging boxes and number tags, looked puzzled, feeling somewhat excluded.

"This guy said he’s going out to have fun."

"Nonsense!" Lin Chen widened his eyes, "Have fun with a feather, I’m going to develop new dishes, alright!"

"Is that so? Then it’s fine~"

"Phew... I thought it was something serious."

Elsa breathed a sigh of relief, and Dais also gave Lucas a disapproving glare.

"Don’t talk nonsense, the chef is not that kind of person. We’ve all seen the skill of Zhao and Chen, and if they have the chef’s approval, it must be good."

"Alright, alright, just joking. Why so serious? Since when did you all become Old Lin’s diehard fans?"

"Chef, aren’t you going to taste it?"

Zhao Shun was quite confident initially, but seeing Lin Chen leave without even tasting it, he felt apprehensive.

After all, this is a foreign country, and he just arrived, there could definitely be conflicts in taste.

If no one oversees it and the guests don’t like it, what if they complain and leave bad reviews?

Old Chen also appeared somewhat bewildered, with a clueless expression.

He was always the one quietly handling work in the kitchen and rarely interacted with guests, let alone working in front of customers like this for the first time.

The leader just leaves like that??

"What, no confidence in yourself?"

Lin Chen smiled nonchalantly, "Just go ahead and do it, Lucas is here to translate, and none of you are new to the job, basic principles don’t need me repeating."

"Since you’ve made it, be confident in your skills!"

"Foreigners are people too, as long as your food tastes good, there’s nothing to worry about. Haven’t I tried all sorts of bold food experiments myself?"

"So, good luck~"

With that, Lin Chen walked towards the restaurant without looking back, raising his phone to his ear.

"Hey Magna, good morning. Do you have any fresh large squid on hand..."

Seeing him really leave, Old Chen seemed to lose his backbone, his face becoming increasingly anxious.

On the other hand, Zhao Shun, confident and bold, had brilliant sparks in his eyes.

Back when he was learning, his mentor never said a good word to him, only pointing out flaws, making him almost introverted with extremely unstable emotions.

When he went out to work, it was about the same. His boss and headwaiter would just make him work overtime repeatedly, and if talked alone, it was mostly about deducting wages.

For the first time in his life, he heard praises from someone else, someone he’d just met for less than twenty-four hours, who happened to be his direct leader.

Is this what foreign workplace culture is like?

Kinda feels good!!

"Don’t worry Old Chen, the head chef believes in us, what do we have to worry about? Show some confidence from your decade-long culinary career!"

"Uh...uh...I’m a bit uncertain."

"Anyway, I’m the one who decided the dish and taught the method, if there’s any issue I’ll take the heat, just go ahead and make it!"

"This, this, isn’t quite appropriate. I made the stuffing myself, oh well, if it goes wrong I’ll just take a scolding and get some wages deducted, as long as they don’t fire me."

"Don’t worry, the head chef already said to proceed with confidence!"

Zhao Shun patted his shoulder to encourage him, his gaze fixed on the oil pan emitting smoke.

Judging it was ready, he casually dropped a sheet of dumpling wrapper inside.

The white translucent dumpling wrapper sank to the bottom of the oil then quickly resurfaced, bubbling with large golden bubbles, its overall size expanding rapidly.

Soon, the bubbles disappeared, and the dumpling wrapper had turned into a palm-sized crispy brown piece, much like those in Chinese pancake wraps.

"Alright, let’s start frying. These five will be our breakfast, saving one is better than none. Once finished, the dumplings should be ready too. Let’s quickly eat and speed up our preparation."

"Alright!"

Feeling slightly more reassured, Chen Dongliang took a deep breath, gently pinched the sides of the rooster crest dumplings already made on the counter, following Zhao Shun’s example, suspending them in the air and slowly lengthening them, then softly submerging them into the oil.

He was seeing this dish for the first time too, and it was definitely intriguing.

The chicken crown dumplings floated up quickly once put into the pot, and within a few blinks, the dough started to visibly expand, not much different from the state when frying dough sticks.

The only thing left to do was to flip them occasionally until both sides were fried to a golden, crispy state before taking them out.

Zhao Shun wasn’t idle either, taking advantage of the lull to keep making small soup dumplings, because in another ten minutes, it would be six-thirty.

If nothing unexpected happened, the customers would soon appear.

He didn’t expect that even after going abroad, these foreigners who didn’t eat breakfast would actually wake up so early to line up; he couldn’t believe it.

While he was thinking about this, he subconsciously looked up and glanced outside the car window into the distance, and his expression froze.

He actually saw a few figures walking this way!!

Not only that, but his good buddy Gray, who sent him back last night, was also swaying over from the beachside. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

To thank him for his rides, Zhao Shun had specifically invited him to come try his cooking in the morning, but he didn’t expect him to come so early.

The thought that soon, foreign customers would be around the car window watching him wrap dumplings made his whole body tense up, and his hands instinctively sped up.

...

"Huh?"

Sergy, who was sleeping groggily, turned over and found his arm didn’t touch the warm body next to him, so he opened his eyes slightly and saw Su sitting at the bedside getting dressed.

He glanced at the bedside clock, and his eyes instantly became much clearer.

"It’s not even six-thirty yet, you’re going out this early?"

Su’s actions froze for a moment but quickly continued dressing, speaking in a relaxed tone.

"Yeah, don’t you know I go out for a walk every morning? Those with kids have been sleeping poorly at night, so they’ve recently begun going out for a walk earlier, then returning home to nap."

"Is that so?"

Since they didn’t have kids, Sergy rarely went out and was not familiar with other housewives’ habits, so he nodded in half-understanding.

"But isn’t a bit past six too early? You don’t have kids, what’s the rush to join in?"

"It’s called being prepared in advance; it’s never wrong to learn more about childcare."

Now fully dressed, Su leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.

"Keep sleeping, I’ll be back after my walk."

Watching his girlfriend disappear outside the door, Sergy turned over, his eyelids gradually closing.

After lying quietly for a while, he suddenly opened his eyes.

"Wait, Su’s routine used to be quite regular; why has she become this elusive recently, disappearing for half the day and now going out early?"

"If I think about it, I’ve been ordering takeout for both breakfast and lunch in the past few days; she always says she ate out."

"There don’t seem to be that many good restaurants in town. A group of housewives taking baby strollers to restaurants to eat? Every day?"

The more he thought about it, the more something seemed off.

Could it be... is there a guy out there trying to woo her?

"Ha, no way; I know Su best, she’ll only ever love me."

"Even if someone wanted to pursue her, she wouldn’t agree. Maybe she’s just going to scrounge food, she’s done that a lot before."

"Ah well, time to sleep~"

Before long, the steady sound of snoring filled the bedroom.

At the stairway.

Hiding there, Su heard the familiar snores and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Darn it, how come this lazybones woke up so early today? Thankfully, he doesn’t suspect anything."

"If he found out I’ve been going out every day for good food and didn’t take him, he might throw a fit."

She checked the time, hurriedly tiptoed down the stairs, put on her sneakers, and quickly left the house.

"I’m already several minutes late today; hope the line isn’t too long..."

It’s not that she didn’t want to take her boyfriend, it’s mainly because that guy eats too much and the situation at the food truck is special; it’s not convenient to buy a lot all at once.

Even she couldn’t get enough, and adding Sergy to the mix would mean not eating at all.

She didn’t know why she suddenly became so obsessed with Great Xia’s food; she never thought it was that great even when visiting Chinatown.

"Could it be that I’m just suited for traveling in Asia? Does authentic Great Xia Cuisine suit my palate better?"

While hurrying towards the hotel, she took out her phone to start texting.

"Nicole, are you guys downstairs yet? I’m on my way over."

"Waiting for the elevator, so excited to see what delicious food we’ll have today!!"

What Nicole didn’t say was she was even more excited to see Lin Chen.

No matter how good the food is, it’s made by people.

She could distinguish which was more important.

As soon as the elevator reached the lobby, she pulled her best friend and dashed outside.

In the distance, they could already see several figures lined up in front of the food truck.

"Darn it, why do these people come so early, don’t they sleep?!!"

She had hoped to be the first customer to surprise Lin.

Quickly running to the end of the line, she panted while standing on tiptoe to glance into the food truck window.

At that moment, the smile on her face froze.

"Who are those two people, why isn’t it Lin??"