Jiuya Restaurant, the doors were tightly closed.
The aroma wafting from inside was irresistible, drawing passersby to peer inside.
This is the most famous food street in the provincial capital, so it's not surprising that it smells good.
The aroma of the Kokoya restaurant is intoxicating.
As they smelled it, everyone's mouths started watering.
Su Xiaonuan was teaching two chefs how to cook in the kitchen.
She wasn't afraid of the chefs learning her skills secretly; she taught them everything she knew without reservation.
To help them learn faster, she wrote down the recipes for each dish in a notebook and stood by their side to guide them on the timing of cooking and adding ingredients. She emphasized that the cooking time was crucial to the taste of the dish.
In those days, resources were scarce, and chicken, duck, fish and meat were the main meat dishes. Therefore, she developed a series of dishes, all made from readily available ingredients.
The ingredients are ordinary and down-to-earth.
The dish has a lovely name and tastes delicious.
Therefore, she decided that all the dishes she launched should have the characteristics of her own restaurant.
Meat dishes include crispy chicken, diced chicken with peach kernels, stir-fried chicken giblets, mushroom chicken soup, crispy duck, cold duck feet salad, braised duck strips with three delicacies, braised goose with bamboo shoots, jade pearl eel, spicy loach, deep-fried small fish, minced fish balls, loofah and almond pork rib soup, five-spice steamed pork ribs, and braised pig's trotters.
Vegetarian dishes include: shredded white fungus with three kinds of shredded vegetables, shredded potatoes with shredded onions, bean sprouts with chili oil, three kinds of loofah, cauliflower in chicken broth, hydrangea tofu, tiger-skin green peppers, stir-fried magnolia petals, water spinach with fermented bean curd, celery with spiced beans, candied potatoes, and stir-fried dried bean curd with garlic sprouts.
Snacks include sesame seed cakes, spring pancakes, layered cakes, golden thread rolls, brown sugar steamed sponge cakes, osmanthus cakes, and cloud-shaped steamed buns.
This is the menu for the first three days of business. From now on, we will introduce a new dish every day. Only by constantly introducing new dishes can we attract more customers to come and eat. Xiao Nuan had thousands of recipes in mind, but she ultimately chose some down-to-earth dishes.
Other restaurants specialize in dishes like braised pork and shredded pork with green peppers, but her dishes are several levels above average.
In those days, it was rare to find such high-class dishes even in fancy restaurants.
The staff are all helping out in the kitchen. All the dishes have to be made once before the store can open for business and the food can only be sold if the test is successful.
Therefore, if the taste of the dishes does not meet Su Xiaonuan's requirements, they have to be made again. If that doesn't work, they have to keep making them.
"Daughter, aren't you being a bit wasteful?" Ye Mei tugged at her sleeve. "I think it tastes great, why do I need to keep making it? The ingredients all cost money."
“Mom, when we open a business, we have to do our best. Otherwise, why would people pay to eat here?” Su Xiaonuan pointed outside. “To stand out among so many restaurants, we have to make exceptionally delicious dishes. Wasting a little ingredient is no big deal; we’ll earn it back later.”
"But Xiaonuan, we can't possibly finish all this food!" Su Ming was also worried. There were already so many dishes on the table, and his daughter was still urging them to keep cooking. Even if they ate their fill, they still couldn't finish it all.
"Dad, go open the shop door and let those people outside come in and taste the food." Su Xiaonuan pointed to the table of dishes that met the standards.
The shop door opened, and people who had come attracted by the aroma poured in.
They rushed to grab their chopsticks and grab the food.
They not only ate the qualified dishes, but also swept up all the unqualified ones.
After finishing the meal, we were still not satisfied.
I heard that all the flyers for the three-day opening have been handed out, and many people have expressed disappointment. It's such a pity that you can get such delicious food at a 30% discount!
However, some people said they would come tomorrow even without the discount flyers.
After everyone left, Su Ming closed the shop door again.
The last batch of dishes was the ones they ate themselves, and they were the best-tasting batch.
Both chefs were stunned. The same ingredients, under Boss Su's guidance, tasted exceptionally delicious.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they even packed some food to take home for their families.
Xiao Nuan is very generous, and her employees are also very dedicated.
On their way back in the afternoon, they went to the department store again and bought school bags and stationery for DouDou and GuoGuo.
After shopping, they didn't go home first, but went to Yaleyuan to pick up the children, just as school was letting out.
This kindergarten takes children to school in the morning and picks them up at 5 p.m. They eat lunch at school, and of course, there are snacks in the morning and afternoon.
Many parents were already waiting at the kindergarten gate, eagerly searching for their children in the crowd.
"Xiao Nuan, do you think Dou Dou and Guo Guo are doing well on their first day of school?" Su Ming rubbed his hands together excitedly, wishing he could rush into the school and see how the children were doing.
"Whether they get used to it or not doesn't matter. I'm worried they won't have enough to eat at school." Ye Mei was holding a brown paper bag with Malay cakes she had brought. They were originally packed in a large bag, but she took out four cakes and carried them separately in case the children were hungry.
She planned to feed the children as soon as they came out.
"This school is alright; they give the kids food after lunch break." Aunt Chen saw them from afar and made a point of squeezing in next to them.
"It's you?" Su Xiaonuan's eyes lit up with surprise.
"Hey girl, you said they give out food after lunch break. Tell me, what kind of food does the school usually give to the kids?" Ye Mei was only concerned about whether her precious grandson was eating enough at school.
“The food is different every day. There’s corn, sweet potatoes, steamed buns, mantou, and small bread rolls, which are rotated among the children,” Aunt Chen said. “At ten o’clock in the morning, we give the children a boiled egg and some fruit, just in case some children didn’t eat properly at home in the morning. Lunch is one meat dish and one vegetable dish, and the dishes are different every day.”
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