Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
US Episcopal bishop (1835 - 1893)
From the last post till now. I had done battle every single day.
In the past 2 weeks, we have 3 events in shop. 2 of them was happen within 3 days, and it is across Friday.Which is the bloody day for all kitchen.
As a chef, sometime we pray for easy life as we wanna do more focus on our food, or even design some new things. Workload somehow will beat you up. Right after the event, I need to fight for the Friday, and Friday, I need to fight for the day and event ready for the coming day event. I need to design 2 new special dishes within 24 hours. And I made it. The price is, I vomited 3 times on Friday. Thank you my assistant to make this happen.
To be honest with you all. I didn't like my kitchen very busy. I am not a lazy boy as I always think busy days make time goes even faster. But I always hope I need not to compromise the quality to gain the speed. In addition, more food we sold somehow reflect a lower sales, as they didn't drink much. However, once I know we broke the sales record since we opened. I feel my effort worth. I didn't got more salary if the sales getting higher. But, to make the task done beautifully, I feel extremely excited. When the customers said I put a lot of effort in food, even for a very small cheese platter, I put miso in it ; even the tomato garnish, i slow baked it for 2 hours.Somebody notice it. I am touched.
And yesterday, our boss just give us a wonderful incentive dinner. It is amazing!
Hope I can keep fighting and be a stronger man.
That looks nice, but I have no idea what any of it is! Not the sort of stuff we get to eat in the north of England.
回覆刪除This is one of the most popular dinner style at Hong Kong. This is called "Hot Pot" Hong Kong people love to eat and know a lot of ingredient among the world. We used different food from different countries and put in a boiling stock/soup to cook. We cook our own food till our own doneness. We use beef from Japan, Geoduck from Aus. a lot of seafood from Japan, and local veggie =)
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