Dahe Network News (reporter Liu Yang) Henan Changyuan, because of its long culinary history, a huge team of chefs, famous chefs at home and abroad, exquisite cooking skills, known as the "hometown of chefs". Zhao Liu'an, who won the title of "Great Craftsman of the Central Plains" last year, is one of the local celebrity chefs. What is the embodiment of the "craftsman spirit" in him? On December 2, the reporter of Dahe Network followed the interview group of the "Chinese Dream • Big Country Craftsman" activity to meet this "Yu cuisine master".
Despite his age, Zhao Liu'an was still full of energy and showed his cooking skills to everyone on the spot. "Fry eight large pieces, as the name suggests, is to cut a chicken into eight pieces, and then fry in the pan, the traditional method is to fry directly, and then I improved the method, first with paste, and then put the frying pan." He cut while introducing, and in a few moments he divided the whole chicken into eight pieces. Zhao Liuan said that the improved fried chicken is tender on the outside, golden in color, delicious and beautiful, and the dish was later named "China's Famous Dish" by the China Cuisine Association.
When it comes to cooking, Zhao Liuan always has endless words. "When I was a child, my family was poor, I dropped out of high school because I couldn't afford to pay the tuition, and I kept learning to fight fire with my father, others hit 200 a day, I can play 400 in a morning." Zhao Liuan said that at that time, he completed the workload in the morning, began to learn to cook in the afternoon, and slowly completed the transformation from a handmade artist who burned fire to a stir-fry chef.
"I really entered the chef industry at the age of sixteen, and for sixty years I have always put good dishes first, pursuing quality in ingredients and perfection in technology." Zhao Liuan introduced that his fried eight pieces, frosted steamed buns, fried spring rolls, cold mixed squid, pot sticker tofu were named "Chinese famous dishes", and he himself has been named as a national senior culinary technician, the first batch of registered veteran Chinese cooking masters, Chinese famous chefs, won the China Golden Chef Award, and became a first-class judge in the national catering industry.
Zhao Liuan told reporters that the "craftsman spirit" is the spiritual concept of craftsmen who carefully craft the products they produce and pursue perfection and extremes. "For chefs, they are all craftsmen in the catering industry, dishes are our products, and excellence in dishes is our craftsmanship spirit, specifically 'persistence, innovation, inheritance'."
What is perseverance? Zhao Liuan shared that persistence is to adhere to the spirit of excellence in products, adhere to scientific traditional cooking techniques, and always do every dish with a reverential attitude. "If you want to learn cooking knowledge well and master the cooking skills, you must be willing to work hard to learn, learn deeply, learn carefully, learn with understanding, and even more so, you must continue to practice, practice well, practice accurately, and practice with endurance." Zhao Liuan said that in 1983, in order to participate in the first workers' technical competition in Puyang City, he repeatedly practiced hundreds of times just to fry the "three non-stick" items, and finally won the first place in related projects.
"At the same time, adherence is not conservative and stubborn, we must constantly innovate in perseverance, there is innovation to develop, development to survive, and survival to inherit." Zhao Liuan told reporters. Over the years, he has trained many apprentices, which can be described as peach and plum all over the world, and there are more than 20 culinary technicians and senior culinary technicians alone. Among them, Fu Yongbo, Fu Yongchao and other 4 people won the title of "Chinese Cooking Master", and Fu Yongbo was also the winner of the "China Golden Chef Award" in 2012.
A kind of persistence, a persistence, a responsibility, a heritage, despite the age of the ancient, Zhao Liuan still continues to create new achievements in the industry, in the Central Plains to write a legend of ingenuity.