"Madam, do you want to eat? Just one or several people?"
"Little Brother, I'm not here to eat. I have some recipes I want to sell to your restaurant. These recipes have never been eaten before. I wonder if the owner of your restaurant is interested in buying them."
When the waiter heard that the lady was here to sell cooking recipes, he didn't look down on her. Life was difficult these days, and perhaps this lady had some delicious recipes that she wanted to sell to make a living?
"Madam, please wait here. I'll go in and ask the shopkeeper to come out."
The waiter arranged for Li Yun to sit at the table and then hurried into the backyard to find the regular counter.
The shopkeeper was in the counting room, worrying about the restaurant's recent income. Business had plummeted, and the expenses were often insufficient to cover the income. He didn't know how to explain this to his boss, and was worried about it. Then the waiter came in to look for him.
"Shopkeeper, there's a lady outside who wants to sell you some recipes. She also said that no one has ever eaten those recipes. Would you like to go out and take a look?"
The waiter's words piqued the restaurant owner's interest. Who could possibly be so brazen as to claim that no one had ever tasted her food? If it wasn't genuine, then it was a scam. He wondered if it was someone like that. If it was genuine, he'd pay a high price for it, potentially reviving the restaurant. If it was a scam, he'd show her why flowers bloom and send her to jail.
The shopkeeper followed the waiter to Li Yun. At this moment, Li Yun was thinking about something and did not see the shopkeeper and the waiter coming over.
"Shopkeeper, this is the lady I just told you about selling you recipes. Madam, this is my shopkeeper. If you want to sell me recipes, just go to him."
The waiter introduced the shopkeeper and Li Yun to each other and then left.
"Ma'am, please take a seat. I heard you have a recipe for a dish to sell, right? I wonder what it is."
Li Yun knew from the shopkeeper's tone that he didn't believe him, but he didn't get angry. After all, they didn't know each other. Nothing can convince people with facts.
"Shopkeeper, I have three recipes to sell. You might be skeptical, but I'll prove it with facts. If you believe me, I'm not wrong. Could you please lend me the kitchen? I'll cook these three dishes for you to try, and then we can discuss the rest. Is that okay?"
Seeing Li Yun's confidence, the shopkeeper thought that perhaps what she said was true. He was eager to see how Li Yun would perform, hoping not to disappoint him.
"Yes, ma'am, please come here."
The shopkeeper personally took Li Yun to the kitchen and asked the chef to leave. This was the rule. When someone came to sell a recipe to try cooking, they were not allowed to peek at their cooking, unless they had bought out the recipe.
After Li Yun entered the kitchen, he looked at the ingredients inside and thought about what dish he wanted to make. He picked out the ingredients he needed: ribs, pork belly, and fish.
The first dish to prepare is braised pork. Wash the pork belly, cut it into pieces, blanch it in a pot, and then rinse and dry it. Heat rock sugar until it caramelizes. Add the pork belly to the pot and stir-fry until golden brown. Add the prepared star anise, cinnamon, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, and rice wine to the pot. Add warm water to cover the pork belly. Once the water boils, reduce the heat and simmer for half an hour.
After Li Yunguan simmered the pork ribs, he started the second step. To make sweet and sour spareribs, prepare the spareribs, cool and dry them, prepare the ginger slices and garlic, heat the oil in a pan, add the ginger slices and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, add the spareribs and fry for a while until you can smell the aroma of the meat, then pour in the tomato sauce, soy sauce, sugar and vinegar and stir-fry.
I just bought tomato sauce and vinegar on Haoduoduo. They are not available here.
After the aroma comes out, add appropriate amount of boiling water, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for a quarter of an hour, stir again until there is not much soup, and reduce to high heat to reduce the juice. The fried ribs will be fragrant and sweet.
When the first dish was cooked, the aroma had already drifted out of the kitchen and into the hall. The shopkeeper who was waiting in the hall was so attracted by the aroma that his mouth was watering, his stomach was rumbling, and he was so restless that he kept walking around.
After Li Yun finished cooking the third dish, he asked the waiter to bring the dish out for the shopkeeper to try.
The waiter came in, took the dishes out, and went upstairs. Customers passing by who were eating downstairs smelled the aroma and looked over. They saw the golden pork, which shone like gold, tender and juicy, making people salivate.
The waiter entered the private room and placed the dishes on the table.
The shopkeeper saw it and hurried over. He had never seen such a beautiful dish before. The aroma made his mouth water and he picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in his mouth.
"ah!"
He had never eaten such delicious pork before. It melted in his mouth, was oily but not greasy, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, so delicious that he couldn't stop eating it.
The shopkeeper ate three pieces of braised pork in a row before he was satisfied. Then he tried the next dish.
It tastes sour and sweet, very delicious. Although it is sour but not bitter, and sweet but not greasy, the taste is simply intoxicating.
The last dish I tried was a boiled fish. It had a slight spicy taste, mixed with the fresh aroma of the fish, making me salivate.
The light spicy taste is very special and makes people want to eat it bite by bite.
After tasting the dishes, the shopkeeper asked Li Yun what the three dishes were called.
"Boss, this one is called Red Braised Pork. It's a perfect side dish for a meal. Everyone who has tried it loves it. The second dish is called Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs. It has a sweet and sour taste that makes you want to eat it. It's also a very popular dish. The third dish is called Boiled Fish. It's an appetizer. It's fragrant and spicy, and it goes especially well with rice."
While pointing at the cooked dishes, Li Yun introduced the name of the dishes and their popularity to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper listened to the names of the dishes that Li Yun said. They sounded so nice, and then he looked at the dishes on the table. They really matched the names.
The shopkeeper felt that with these three dishes, his restaurant could be revived and return to its former glory, or even surpass it.
The chef standing next to him saw the shopkeeper eating so eagerly, and after hearing the names of the dishes introduced by Li Yun and smelling the aroma, he wanted to have a bite.
The chef looked at the shopkeeper eagerly, hoping that he would ask him to try the dish.
The shopkeeper was about to discuss the purchase of a house with Li Yun when he suddenly felt a gaze fixed on him. He looked up and saw the chef's pleading gaze. "Oh, I almost forgot! We haven't even had the chefs taste the food yet."
"Why don't you all try it and see how it tastes?"
"Yes, boss."
The chefs hurriedly grabbed their chopsticks, picked up a piece of braised pork, and began chewing. "Mmm, it's delicious! The melt-in-your-mouth flavor, the smooth, yet not greasy, makes you want more." The chefs immediately fell in love with it, scrambling to grab the braised pork, afraid their colleagues would eat more than they did.
After finishing the pot of braised pork, the chefs moved on to the next dish. As soon as they took a bite of the sweet and sour spare ribs, the sour and sweet taste made them surrender.
They usually don’t like sweet and sour food, but this sweet and sour pork ribs, which is sour but not bitter, sweet but not greasy, completely conquered them and made even those who don’t like sweet and sour food like it.
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