Recently, a reporter from China News Network walked into The "Zhang Yungang Provincial Skill Master Studio" in Gansu. The picture shows the apprentice of Professor Zhang Yungang (left), the leader of the Skill Master Studio. Photo by Zhang Jing
Lanzhou, February 11 (Zhang Jing) The Spring Festival of the Lunar Year of the Tiger is the 30th New Year that Zhang Yungang spent in the kitchen, in order to let the customers in the front hall eat the reunion dinner as soon as possible, he stewed and fried in front of the stove, and he could not be idle for a moment... From many years in the kitchen, he not only makes a table of delicious meals, but also focuses on catering to the tastes of diners and returning to the taste of home to explore the market.
Zhang Yungang, 49, a native of Lanzhou, likes to eat in the kitchen since he was a child, and at the age of 10, he used a coal stove to steam rice and make home-cooked dishes, which was a rare culinary talent in his mother's view.
In the early 1990s, people's living conditions improved, and when major catering businesses were working intensively to Chinese New Year's Eve rice signs, Zhang Yungang plunged into the back kitchen and water counter, responsible for cleaning all the ingredients in the hotel throughout the day, as well as giving the chefs a hand. People talk about pomp and Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the hotel and gradually become Zhang Yungang's "Chinese New Year's Eve annoyance" busy between the desks.
The picture shows Zhang Yungang's hotel displaying clay sculptures with Lanzhou cultural elements. Photo by Zhang Jing
After the Spring Festival, Zhang Yungang unloaded his fatigue, but he did not reduce his obsession with cooking at all, and even began to systematically learn theoretical knowledge and continuously improve his practical ability. He is good at home-cooked food series, through reasonable combination of nutrition, long-term practice of new product development, according to the market positioning, to produce innovative dishes with Lanzhou's local cultural characteristics.
By chance, Zhang Yungang met the person in charge of a local restaurant named "Jincheng Ga Laohan", "Lanzhou is also known as Jincheng, the representative of Ga laohan in the northwest dialect is thick and simple." He said that cooking is like being a person, to be a delicacy that can be accepted by the general public, so that the people can enjoy the taste of the tongue, but also to combine regional characteristics to pass on food culture.
In this way, the concept of cooking for many years coincides with the marketing culture here, Zhang Yungang served as the head chef, began to teach apprentices, the teaching process runs through the idea of "tasting one side of the food, appreciating the culture of the other side", committed to "feasting on the inheritance", creating a table of "talking" dishes, and attracting repeat customers with taste.
Apprentice Wen Dong has studied with Zhang Yungang since 2018, while enhancing his culinary skills, he has also significantly improved his sense of professional identity, only the first Chinese he was worried about his livelihood, but now, Wen Dong has a good income with this craft, based on a family in the provincial capital city, and has participated in the provincial cooking skill competition for many times, constantly exchanging skills with his peers.
It is worth mentioning that Wen Dong, under his own hard study and the words and deeds of his master, obtained the provincial chef senior technician professional qualification certificate in 2019, which in his view is a great encouragement.
For Zhang Yungang, Wen Dong is only one of his chefs, and he has trained 7 intermediate chef technicians and thousands of people in the skills upgrading training of community reemployment personnel. Therefore, in order to stimulate the innovation vitality of skilled talents, the local social security department listed the "Zhang Yungang Provincial Skill Master Studio" in 2018, looking forward to giving play to the positive role of the skill master studio in the aspects of apprenticeship transmission, skill inheritance, skill research and promotion.
Shi Yongbin, director of the Vocational Capacity Building Division of the Gansu Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, said that as of now, Gansu has reviewed 35 national-level and 81 provincial-level skill master studios (of which 32 are double-listed). The province gives one-time financial subsidies of 100,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan to the national and provincial skill master studios respectively to encourage skill innovation and development, which aims to improve the social treatment, let skilled talents gain a sense of professional identity, create a good environment for the development of skilled talents, and promote the construction of "Skill Gansu" with high-quality human and social services. (End)
Source: China News Network