Natural disasters + zombies (extreme heat, insect plagues, extreme cold, earthquakes, heavy rain, and other disasters followed one after another). Xie Purou had just completed her previous mission ...
Xie Purou cleverly asked everyone to go to the serving counter to get their dishes and take whatever they ordered.
The hot pot base has to be prepared by her herself.
When she walked to the back kitchen, the hot pot base was in the pot. Since there was no other base, everyone could only order the beef oil base. She didn't need to check and could just take it.
The restaurant was already full of people. Some of them came alone, but somehow they arranged to sit at a table together. People who knew each other and those who didn't knew each other sat together and had a great time chatting.
In short, the place was packed.
Xie Purou came out with the first plate of hot pot base, and discussions about hot pot were heard all around.
"Do you smell the aroma of hot pot?"
"I smell it! It's this smell! Ahhhh, I'm going crazy thinking about it."
God knows how cruel the end of the world is to a food lover.
And now they finally smell the familiar smell of hot pot!
When everyone smelled the fragrance, they couldn't help but start discussing it and reminiscing about their past.
"I used to go eat hot pot once a week."
"I used to look forward to the weekends the most. I could go shopping and eat delicious food. This smell is so familiar. I couldn't walk past a hot pot restaurant."
While discussing, everyone was looking for the source of the smell.
Xie Purou was carrying out a pot of spicy hot pot base. The pot was full of base and all she had to do was add water and boil it.
I don't know how everyone has such a keen sense of smell. It's clearly just hot pot base, but they were talking about it as if they were already eating hot pot.
After serving it on the table, add water to the pot and turn on the heating induction cooker under the pot to heat and melt the base ingredients.
The spicy hotpot on the table was boiling. The taste of the hotpot was richer than the solidified one, making everyone salivate with greed.
No one dared to move. They were as reserved as children visiting relatives to pay New Year's greetings. Without the permission of the host Xie Pu Rou, they were afraid of doing something wrong and causing pain to the host, which would result in not being able to eat.
Those who had prepared the soup base walked to the food pick-up counter, and the food ordered by each table was placed on the same large tray, waiting for people to pick it up in person.
Xie Purou brought dozens of pot bases to the table, and finally it was her table's turn.
After sitting down, I realized that I didn’t have the dipping sauce, so I had to stand up and go to the kitchen to get some seasoning.
The seasonings are laid out in pots, and each pot is equipped with a small spoon for the seasoning for guests to use.
There is no shortage of soy sauce, vinegar, oyster sauce, chili powder, and sesame paste.
There are no chopped green onions or coriander, and they need to be drawn. She only has seasonings at the moment.
Due to limited conditions, no one said anything about why certain seasonings were missing. It was already great to be able to eat hot pot in the apocalypse.
There is no charge for the dipping sauce. Just take a small bowl and it is marked on it not to be wasted.
Xie Purou glanced at the charges at the hot pot restaurant.
The hot pot base costs 300 points, a plate of meat dish costs 50 points on average, and a plate of vegetarian dish costs 20 points. This meal is not cheap at all.
If you have a big appetite, one meal can cost you a month's accommodation in a single room.
Fortunately, no one thought it was too expensive. There were even some rich guys and girls like Shi Zhu and Chu Ling who didn't even look at the price.
The boxes are the dots, and the bangs are the highlights.
Their table was so full that there was no room left for their hands.
While the food in her pot was still thawing, she walked over to their table and asked, "There are only so many dishes. Won't you get tired of them?"
Qi Hua held the beef roll in his hand and smiled foolishly, "It's good to have something to eat. Besides, we are all carnivores."
"Why don't you come and sit here, sister?" Shi Zhu asked her.
"No, no." Xie Pu Rou waved her hands repeatedly.
Their table has to be able to accommodate everyone.
The tables in the hot pot restaurant are big and small. The big one can seat twelve people, and the small one can seat four people. Somehow, the table seems very narrow after they sit on it.
After preparing the dipping sauce, Shi Zhu picked up two plates of meat and put the beef rolls and lamb rolls into the pot.
As the pot gurgled and boiled, the spicy aroma of the meat mixed with the base filled the entire restaurant, as if tempting everyone to say, "Come and eat me."
Shi Zhu was the first to take the first bite of the fat lamb roll. He took a deep breath and said exaggeratedly, "This fat lamb roll! Ah~ No technology or hard work, just this taste! This is amazing!"
"Delicious! I finally get to eat hot pot meat!" Qi Hua stuffed a large piece of meat into his mouth and could no longer speak clearly.
Qian Wushuang and Chu Ling looked reserved while eating, but in fact their eating speed was not much slower than Shi Zhu.
They didn't know how many servings of beef and lamb rolls they ordered, one after another. The eight of them were eating to their heart's content before they remembered that they had also ordered vegetarian dishes.
After putting the vegetables into the pot, everyone slowed down their eating pace and chatted and laughed.
"I want to drink milk tea while eating hot pot."
"How about we play rock-paper-scissors? Whoever loses gets to buy it."
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The portion of each dish was not large, and Xie Purou's table ordered everything and enjoyed it to their heart's content.
She made her favorite sesame sauce dipping sauce.
The soup base is divided into mild, medium and hot. She likes spicy food, so she chose the medium spicy one.
The base of the spicy hot pot is flavorful, with a strong aroma of beef hot pot base.
The bright red color of the chili oil is so eye-catching that it stimulates the appetite of people who love spicy food.
When the ingredients are put into the pot and taken out, they are covered with red oil. The ingredients covered with chili oil are so tempting from every angle.
You don’t need to dip the first bite in sauce. You can eat the meat slices cooked in the original hot pot flavor. This way you can experience the flavor of the hot pot to the greatest extent.
I didn’t expect it to be so spicy!
The spicy taste was just moderate, and it touched her heart, making her cry.
He took out the milk tea from the space and took a big sip to suppress the sudden spicy taste.
I must have opened it wrong! Try again! I wasn't mentally prepared.
This time I am mentally prepared that the moderate spiciness will definitely not be enough to frustrate her!
Another bite is still spicy...
What's going on? Is it because I haven't eaten spicy food in a long time and I'm not used to it?
Finish a cup of milk tea in a few sips and stop thinking about it.
It was too spicy, so I had to scoop out the chilies from the bottom of the pot and fill a bowl with them. I hope that the spiciness of the ingredients will be reduced a bit.
After taking a bite of the meat slice dipped in sesame sauce, I finally felt relieved.
The meat slices were covered in sesame paste, and she also added some sesame seeds to enhance the flavor.
The presence of sesame paste is very strong, like a beauty filter for the meat slices. For those who love sesame paste, just looking at it will make them salivate subconsciously.
This was her first hotpot in this world. It was a pity that she didn’t have a mobile phone, otherwise she really wanted to take a picture of the whole table and post it on WeChat Moments.
Isn't the purpose of life to have this piece of meat?