Chapter 48 48 Colorful Glutinous Rice

After returning from Xiayazi Village, Xia Tang devoted his energy to the snack bar again.

The weather is getting colder day by day, but the snack bar's business is not affected at all. There is a long queue at the door before it opens every day.

However, with more guests, it is inevitable that there will be more requests.

For example, a junior high school opened up right at the end of the back street recently. Junior high school students wanted to queue up for rice noodles, but they were pressed for time. Once, they cut in line and had an argument with the neighbors who were also queuing.

Xia Tang and Ma Dafeng both stopped several times.

The fight didn't happen, but my head was buzzing from the noise.

So much so that Ma Dafeng felt scared when she saw young children in school uniforms walking towards her.

Xia Tang knew that this was not a solution.

The food she makes now, such as rice noodles and fish cooked with sour papaya, all need to be eaten while sitting in the store.

Some fought back with small helmets, but after all, not many people could carry helmets with them.

The cooking time and the waiting time are both relatively long.

Although fried potatoes are convenient to hold, they are just snacks after all and cannot satisfy your hunger.

Xia Tang then planned to launch a staple food that could be taken away and sold to the children on their way to and from school.

On the one hand, it increases the customer base, and on the other hand, it reduces competition.

What she thought of was selling glutinous rice.

To be honest, there are at least three households selling glutinous rice in the back street.

But what they sell is rather monotonous.

A big bowl was filled with yellow glutinous rice, with only some red dates, peanuts, and sausage slices on the surface, but most of them could not be dug out.

If you can eat a peanut in a bowl of glutinous rice that costs only 20 cents, you are considered lucky.

Xia Tang didn't intend to do the same as them.

She planned to raise the price of each bowl by 1 cent and sell it for 30 cents.

But each bowl has a fixed amount of ingredients, and after being steamed, it is mixed with special stuffing, so that a bowl of glutinous rice can be both delicious and filling.

Moreover, they are wrapped in high-quality oil paper into small packages, so you can eat them while walking. It is clean, hygienic and convenient.

Therefore, as soon as Xia Tang came back, he started preparing glutinous rice.

After two days of preparation, the hot glutinous rice started to be sold.

She took over the table that originally sold fried potatoes at the door, and now sells fried potatoes on one side and glutinous rice on the other.

The glutinous rice was placed in a large bamboo basket covered with a clean white cloth.

In the middle of the bamboo basket is glutinous rice arranged in a circle, and outside are various fillings prepared, including glutinous rice sausage, bacon sausage, bacon, shredded vegetables, peanuts, steamed red dates, meatballs, etc. They are gathered next to the glutinous rice, and it looks full and beautiful.

What is even more surprising is the glutinous rice in the middle. It is not the ordinary yellow rice, but is colorful, including purple, yellow, green, red and other colors. With various ingredients on the outside, it looks more like an exquisite painting than a dish.

After it was done, even the employees at the snack bar couldn't help but be surprised.

Sister Lan pointed at the blue rice that had just come out of the pot and looked at Xia Tang in shock:

"Boss, why does this rice look like it's poisoned?"

She had just listened to what Xia Tang said and cooked the butterfly pea flowers and glutinous rice together, but how come it turned out to be in such a state that it was not suitable for use!

Xia Tang couldn't help but laugh:

"This is not poisoning, this is just ordinary plant pigment, don't worry, it's not poisonous!"

She scooped out a little bit of each different color of glutinous rice and distributed it to the employees to taste first. Each one was filled with plenty of toppings.

Several people were a little hesitant at first, but after eating it, they all praised it unanimously:

“This is the best sticky rice I have ever eaten!”

"Why does this rice have a different aroma?"

“Smells so good! Delicious!”

"You know what? Different colors have different flavors! A floral scent, so delicious!"

Xia Tang looked at Minyun and Zhu Cunhua who couldn't stop eating, and smiled.

Since our own people have tried it and found no problems, the next step of selling it should be fine.

Sure enough, as soon as the glutinous rice was moved out, it attracted the attention of the people in the queue.

"Boss Xia, what are you doing?"

"Colorful, is this rice? Why does it look so strange..."

“But it looks pretty good!”

"This is the new glutinous rice in our store. Come and try it."

Xia Tang wrapped several large bags with large pieces of perilla leaves and handed them to the first few people to try. They immediately praised the food:

"It's delicious! I've never eaten glutinous rice like this before!"

"You are ignorant. I've been to Xiangshi before and the glutinous rice there is dyed like this! But the one made by Boss Xia tastes better!"

"There's enough ingredients! If we put this on Xiao Yuzi's stall in the back street, it would last a year!"

"You better keep your voice down while you choreograph! Watch out, Xiao Yuzi's wife might come over and beat you up!"

The people queuing in front of us were full of praise for the food, some even stopped queuing for the rice noodles and immediately packed up a few portions for their families.

But it was hard for the people in the queue behind, they could only watch but couldn't get closer, they could only say while waiting in line:

"You guys should go line up for the rice noodles! Save the glutinous rice for me!"

The queue became lively.

Xia Tang asked Zhu Cunhua to stand at the door to sell, while he and several other employees went to the back to prepare the next pot of glutinous rice.

They prepared five pots of glutinous rice that day, but unexpectedly, they were all sold out before 1pm!

So much so that some diners who came to buy it stamped their feet helplessly when they saw that it was sold out:

"Boss Xia! I came as soon as I heard there was glutinous rice, how come it's gone now?"

"I even left work half an hour early just to make glutinous rice!"

Xia Tang still felt a little apologetic:

"No, we're out of stock. Wait until tomorrow. We'll have more stock tomorrow."

Xia Tang expected the glutinous rice to sell well, but she didn't expect it to sell so well.

But many of them are bought by neighbors at noon, and once the junior high school students get out of school, they are gone again.

This is different from what Xia Tang thought.

She was thinking about what to do, and even thought about asking Zhu Cunhua to get a bamboo basket and put it directly at the door to divide the flow of people in the store.

But setting up a stall at the door didn't seem to be a big deal. After all, it wouldn't look good if the school got involved.

Glutinous rice is so popular in Xia Tang's tangle.

Business was so good that sometimes Xia Tang wanted to save some food for Qin Yue who got off work late, but sometimes there was nothing left.

But Qin Yue is not picky.

He is also busy when he comes back from work.

As soon as my arm was healed, I was assigned to the new machine tool department by the factory.

There is no other way. The new machine tool is about to be put into use. Without Qin Yue's debugging and teaching of its use, it will not work.

He was busy all day long. Sometimes when he came to pick up Xia Tang, he was still wearing the gray long-sleeved uniform from the factory and carrying a tool box in his hands. He could wash off two ounces of oil from his hands.

He looks even more like a repairman than a mechanic.

Suddenly, among the diners at Tangji Snack Bar, there were more and more rumors that Boss Xia had hired a repairman.

Sometimes, some people even took the initiative to find Xia Tang, saying that they had someone more suitable and advised her to break up with that dead-end repairman.

Xia Tang told Qin Yue about it in the evening and he was so happy that he couldn't stop.

Qin Yue looked at her fair face and couldn't help but hug her waist. He lowered his head and whispered in her ear:

"Did you listen?"

Xia Tang refused and glared at her:

"I heard it, so why would I tell you?"

Qin Yue smiled innocently and lowered his head.

Everyone is busy during the day and at night.

But who would have thought that the popularity of glutinous rice would last only a few days before some people started to dislike it.

On this day, the store had just opened and the glutinous rice had just been put out for less than five minutes when a woman stopped at the door and refused to let anyone buy it no matter what.

At that time, Xia Tang happened to be out.

The only people in the room were Ma Dafeng and Zhu Cunhua, who were on shift.

Ma Dafeng was an honest person, but Zhu Cunhua was a hot-tempered person and became unhappy on the spot:

"Who are you? There are people selling things outside on this street, why don't you let us sell our goods?"

But I didn't expect that the woman would stand in the middle of the street with her hands on her hips and not move:

"On what grounds?"

"Your sticky rice is poisonous! My child vomited after eating it! Why can't you say anything?"

"Ours are all fresh! They are sold out within half an hour every time they come out of the pot! How could I possibly vomit!"

After all, Zhu Cunhua was small and was squeezed until she was about to cry.

There were already many people in the back street, and after hearing the commotion, many of them gathered around.

Most of the old customers of Tang Kee who were queuing up were accusing the woman of being unreasonable.

Some people also point fingers at the glutinous rice, thinking that the color is obviously the result of industrial pigments.

There are many different opinions, and more and more people are watching.

Xia Tang originally went to buy butterfly pea flowers and roselle. As soon as he came back, he saw so many people gathered at the door, so he quickly separated the group and went in.

When the people around saw that it was Boss Xia who came, they all started talking to Xia Tang about what had happened.

Xia Tang was delighted when he heard this.

She has run the shop for a long time and everything has been going smoothly.

Sometimes she even wondered if things were going too smoothly for her. Why had she never seen the various strange things she had seen in 1818 Golden Eyes in her previous life?

Well, now I’ve found you.

She walked up to the woman under everyone's gaze.

The woman first heard others talking about Boss Xia, and was subconsciously frightened. But when she saw that Boss Xia was so young, she straightened her back:

"You're here just in time! You've ruined our child's life! You should compensate us! If you don't, I'll be happy! I'll stay here right outside your door!"

After saying this, he sat down on the steps, obviously intending to become a lazy bum.

"Why are you like this..."

Zhu Cunhua wanted to step forward to argue again, but was stopped by Xia Tang.

Xia Tang was neither anxious nor annoyed, instead he said:

"OK."

"…What?"

The woman didn't expect Xia Tang to react like this. After a moment of shock, she immediately became excited:

"Okay! Then you have to compensate me 50! No! One hundred! No! One hundred is not enough!"

At this time, even the onlookers who were not on Tang Kee's side rebelled:

"You pay whatever you say you will pay!"

"That's right! Whatever you say is true! Boss Xia, we won't compensate her!"

Xia Tang walked up to the woman and said, "Since you want me to pay, where is the evidence?"

The woman was stunned at this time:

"What evidence?"

"Since you said your child got sick because he ate glutinous rice, then what disease did he have? Where are the hospital's medical certificate and stool test evidence?"

Xia Tang's almond-shaped eyes slightly curved: "You can produce these evidences, right?"