Chapter 229: Hotpot, spicy hotpot with butter

At nine o'clock in the evening, the task of cooking was entirely given to Yun Yongyuan. Zhao Xiaojing paid special attention to the dishes that required proper cooking, while directly taking two preparation plates, a large deep plate and several flat plates, and began to arrange the hot pot side dishes.

In the afternoon, she had already braised pork intestines, chicken feet, quail eggs, and cowhide dried tofu, which are side dishes that are not easy to absorb flavors. Now she imitated the plating method of hot pot restaurants, using lettuce leaves to line the bottom, and carved two fences out of carrots, dividing the large deep plate into four squares in the shape of a cross, and put the four braised dishes in them.

Zhao Xiaojing has already learned most of the carving class. Although she doesn't have a carving knife yet, carving a fence out of carrots is the simplest thing. As long as you know the structure, you can make it with a few cuts with a kitchen knife.

After the four grids were arranged, Zhao Xiaojing took a look at them, pinched two coriander leaves, scraped three small grasses with winter melon peel, and inserted them on the fence as decoration.

Next was beef. Zhao Xiaojing bought several parts of the cow, such as the hind leg, chest, tenderloin, sirloin, etc. However, using the boss's professional terminology, they were called pork toe, marbling meat, tender meat, and chest fat. Zhao Xiaojing didn't know much about this, so she just bought a few pieces suitable for hot pot as recommended by the boss.

After all the beef was cut out, half of the large preparation plate was full. The tender meat was taken out and slightly marinated to make spicy beef, and the rest was eaten directly by hot pot.

For the lamb, Zhao Xiaojing chose a tenderloin, which was both fat and lean. After being frozen in the freezer, it was now perfectly soft and firm, making it quite easy to cut. Although she only bought one type, the portion was generous. After Zhao Xiaojing cut the lamb into long, thin slices and placed them on the serving plate, the serving plate was already more than half full.

If you put the basa fish and luncheon meat on the remaining quarter, the first plate will be completely full.

Zhao Xiaojing picked up the one-meter-wide plate and put it directly into the refrigerator. She started the second one, and the third one...

When everyone finished their work and the kitchen staff called for the dishes to be served, the seven people except Zhao Xiaojing were shocked.

In front of him were two one-meter-wide trays used for preparing food. They were stuffed to the brim with food, leaving no gaps. One tray was filled with all kinds of meat, with green leaves underneath and some coriander sprinkled on top. It was arranged in a bold and artistic way.

There was a plate filled with a variety of vegetables, tofu, and mushrooms. At a glance, there seemed to be more than twenty kinds. Each one was stuffed very firmly, and the colors gradually changed from yellow to green, getting darker from bottom to top.

In addition, there is a large deep plate next to it that they usually use to store dishes. It is almost a basin and is divided into four parts by carved radishes. Each compartment is filled with braised dishes that are about to overflow.

Not to mention the plates of tripe, duck intestines, duck blood, duck throat, chicken gizzards cut into chrysanthemum slices, etc.

Even though a group of people helped move the ingredients and cleaned and processed them together in the afternoon, the visual impact of everything displayed was still too strong.

Moreover, the meat was all in the refrigerator. Everyone thought that Zhao Xiaojing had bought some vegetables for the next few days, but they didn't expect that it would all be cut up in the evening.

"Sister Jingzi, have you made a fortune?" Lu Hongwen silently swallowed his naive saliva.

"Sister, sister, sister, are we going to be fired?" Ouyang Yidan's thoughts turned to the last supper.

"Sister, do I eat too much? I know I eat a lot. I will control myself in the future. It has nothing to do with Dandan. She actually has a small appetite!" Wu Kaile explained blankly after hearing this.

"Not like that. Junior sister eats a lot herself, so the vegetable market must be closed down." Yun Yongyuan's dry humor began to show again.

"Hey! Xiao Zhao, you are so honest! Look at you, you are all so funny. Young people have rich imaginations! Okay, come and move the tables to eat!" Hou Guihua shouted loudly, and everyone laughed. Lu Hongwen and Wu Kaile helped to put the two tables together to form a large table for 12 people.

Zhao Xiaojing came out with two bowls of dipping sauce. "This one is spicy, and this one is not spicy. I've prepared the dipping sauce for you. Just scoop whatever you want."

Su Yuchen stared blankly at the bowl of seasoning and soup, then looked at Zhao Xiaojing, "Did you use up all the sauces I bought today?"

"I'm not that wasteful." Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help but laugh. "I used up almost half a bottle. Mainly because there was too much sauce. I was afraid that if I took it all out and asked you to mix it, you wouldn't be able to make it taste good and you'd have to let me do it. So I might as well make it all for you at once."

"You're right." Su Yuchen chuckled and stopped worrying. "Since you're so arrogant today, let's just have a drink! Xiao Wu, bring over some white beer, yellow beer, and other drinks. Everyone, pour whatever you want!"

"Okay!" Wu Kaile was excited when he heard it. Lu Hongwen and Ouyang Yidan followed quickly and dragged a bottle of beer, two bottles of white wine and several bottles of drinks from the beer box next to the front desk.

Lu Hongwen put a stack of cups aside and asked everyone what they wanted to drink. Zhao Xiaojing turned on the induction cooker to the highest setting, and after the red soup pot boiled, she took the serving chopsticks and started to put the meat in.

The store had all kinds of soft drinks, but everyone unanimously chose wine. Lu Hongwen simply pushed the beer box containing the drinks away, opened a barrel of rice wine and two bottles of beer, and poured them out to everyone according to their needs.

The durable chicken gizzards, shrimp balls and duck blood were boiling in the pot but not yet cooked. Zhao Xiaojing put a few large chopsticks of beef into the large colander, but she didn't know which part it was.

"Sister Mirror, Sister Comb, please propose one." Feeling the warm atmosphere, Lu Hongwen said.

"Jingzi, go ahead. Jingzi paid for all the dishes today and didn't let me spend a penny. She also didn't want to use the working capital that we both use for the store. She said she wanted to treat you to a meal." Su Yuchen spread out his palms, supported his head and looked at Zhao Xiaojing, making a gesture of invitation.

"It's nothing. This meal is a celebration, first of all, to celebrate the expansion of our store and the joining of Sister Geng and Sister Hou. Secondly, it's a thank you. Thank you for your support, thank you for being a team and treating the store's affairs as your own. I especially want to thank you, Comb. This hot pot is mainly for you. Without you, there would be no me today.

Come on, cheers! "

Zhao Xiaojing kept smiling, spoke very sincerely and seriously, and raised her glass again.

"Cheers!" Everyone was startled by the sudden serious words and subconsciously raised their glasses in response.

"Why are you suddenly so formal? I should be the one thanking you. I didn't do anything..."

And thank you for needing such luxury?" Su Yuchen was confused and glanced at Zhao Xiaojing and asked in a low voice.

"It's not luxurious, just hotpot, spicy hot pot with butter." Zhao Xiaojing tilted her head and spoke softly to Su Yuchen.