Before Ye Diao could say anything, someone grabbed him and said, "Ye Diao, your grandfather and I are old friends. I've been patronizing your Ye family restaurant since you were a baby in open-crotch pants. Thirty years have passed. I can be considered your restaurant's oldest customer, right? Tell me, do you still have those spicy shrimp?"
"Brother Ye, my father really likes that chopped pepper fish head. It's getting hot now, and he can't eat anything else. He looks forward to eating it with his meals every day. But when I asked about it, the waiter told me it was sold out! How am I going to explain this to my father when I get home?"
Everyone surrounded Ye Diao, hoping to use their friendship with the boss to open a back door for them so that they could buy spicy vegetables.
Ye Diao was overwhelmed by the noise made by the group of people.
"My dear uncles and brothers, it's not that I don't want to sell it, it's just that you came too late and it's sold out. There's nothing I can do about it, right? I haven't even eaten it a few times myself. If there were still some left, would I just leave it there and not make any money?"
This is the truth. Ye Diao wishes he could supply unlimited spicy dishes every day so that he can make a fortune.
But there is really not enough pepper.
Even if I use it sparingly, the ones I bought last time are almost used up. Now we can only supply so many dishes every day. Once they are sold out, they are sold out. I can’t hold back any more.
Didn't he come up with a plan before, where he let people who wanted to buy it come in and bid? The highest bidder wins.
However, this pattern only lasted for a few days. When Master Ye, his father, found out about it, he almost picked up a broom and beat him up.
Where in the world can you run a restaurant like this? You think your dishes are made of gold, yet you're selling them for a hundred taels of silver a plate?! If the emperor heard about this, how would he view our Ye family?
How can the fifth prince live his life?
Therefore, the auction model has long been cancelled and is now changed to first come first served.
However, due to fierce competition, the dishes are often snatched up as soon as they come out, leaving some people unable to buy them at all.
Now that we have caught his boss, don’t we want to try to take action against him?
Ye Diao finally managed to get rid of the group of crazy gourmets and ran into the private room that belonged to him alone.
Outside the private room, a table of dishes has been set up, just waiting for people to come and start eating.
In order to welcome Mr. Feng, Ye Diao had discussed with Xue Huan a few days ago and invited her to come and be the chef. Of course, it was not a free invitation and she would be paid.
Xue Huan was not interested in staying in the kitchen and cooking as a chef all the time, but she could accept doing it occasionally to earn some extra money.
She had prepared the menu three days ago and asked Ye Diao to prepare all the ingredients. Yesterday she came over to start preparing for today's banquet.
Everything was ready, just waiting for Mr. Feng, whom Ye Diao wanted to treat, to come.
Seeing that only Ye Diao came in, and he looked disheveled, Xue Huan asked, "What's wrong?"
Ye Diao lay on the chair, gasping for breath. He waved his hand when he heard this, poured himself a cup of cold tea and drank it gulply, then told her what had just happened in the lobby.
Finally, he said, "Miss Zhao, are you really not going to sell me some more chili peppers?"
Xue Huan spread her hands helplessly, "It's not that I don't want to sell more, it's just that there aren't that many."
Of course, that was all nonsense. The truth was, she wasn't going to expand her chili pepper sales until someone discovered it.
The period before others discovered the chili pepper was her chance to take advantage of the opportunity and make a fortune.
However, this period of time should not be long. After all, she can buy chili seeds in the grocery store, which means that chili has already been introduced to Daqi a long time ago, but others have not discovered it yet.
But considering the current popularity of chili peppers, it is estimated that many people are looking for chili peppers.
It is even possible that Ye Diao was buying chili peppers from her while also looking for other sources.
She was not at all confused about this, because even if he found it, it would be useless. The quality of the peppers she grew was definitely better than those grown by others in other places!
She can win with quality.
Moreover, behind the chili peppers, she has a series of delicious foods derived from chili peppers waiting for him.
Ye Diao sighed. Although he had known this would be the result, he still couldn't help but hold on to a little hope.
Xue Huan asked, "Where is Mr. Feng?"
"Mr. Feng is not coming." In fact, he had guessed this result a long time ago, but he was still prepared for him to come to the banquet.
"Then this table of dishes..."
"Mr. Feng isn't coming because he's not enjoying the food. Let's eat on our own. Miss Zhao, I've been craving your cooking for a long time. Now I can finally enjoy it openly. Come, sit down."
Ye Diao rolled up his sleeves, sat down in the main seat, and asked the waiter to invite the shopkeeper and Master Ding.
The shopkeeper was busy and couldn't spare the time. The same was true for Chef Ding, who had many delicious dishes waiting for him to prepare.
However, the two expressed regret for not being able to attend the banquet, and asked the waiter to pass on the message that they hoped some food could be left for them so that they could taste Miss Zhao's cooking skills again.
Ye Diao laughed and said, "Okay, leave some for them."
There are four cold dishes: smashed cucumber, scallion and preserved egg with tofu, pickled pepper duck feet, and spicy cold noodles.
There are six hot dishes: spicy crayfish, braised beef, stir-fried eggplant shreds with chili peppers, stir-fried pork, sweet and sour spare ribs, and braised winter melon with abalone sauce.
Plus two soups: loofah and egg soup and eight-treasure pigeon soup.
Ye Diao also considered himself a gourmet, but he didn't recognize most of the dishes on the table, let alone their names.
Some of the ingredients in the dishes are not rare, but he never thought of cooking them this way. Others, such as spicy crayfish, are something he never thought of eating.
This thing looks very ferocious and has little meat. There are plenty of them in ditches and ponds in the summer, but no one would have thought that it could be served on the dining table.
It’s not that no one has tried to eat it, but it’s difficult to handle and it’s very fishy. Without chili peppers to balance it out, the taste is simply unpalatable.
Looking at the bright red crayfish in the basin, Ye Diao didn't know where to start.
Xue Huan demonstrated it to him, then skillfully picked up a crayfish. She first opened its claws, sipped the broth on it, then sucked out the meat inside, and then ate the shrimp head. The yellow meat inside was more tender than tofu and melted in the mouth.
Finally, eat the meat from its tail.
Before eating, Ye Diao asked: Can this thing be eaten?
After stumbling over one, Ye Diao said: "It's delicious! He can eat any of this pot!"
After he tasted the cold noodles, he felt that his summer was saved and he no longer had to worry about not being able to eat during the bitter summer!
"Miss Zhao, do you have any more cold noodles? I want to send some to my mother and grandmother to try. Old people can't eat much in the summer, but this cold noodle is soft, chewy, and very appetizing. My mother and grandmother will definitely like it."
Xue Huan deliberately did more when she was making it, "There's still quite a bit."
In addition to sending it back to the mansion for his family to taste, Ye Diao also sent someone to deliver a portion to Feng Xian.
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