These past two days, Xu Milu has been so busy dealing with calls from people wanting to buy super-sized radishes that she's been working herself to the bone. After resolving the radish storage issue, she also has to deal with the compensation problem for the Ping Pong grape greenhouse.
When she came to her senses, she realized that the long line in front of the rice and food shop stretched from one end of the South Bridge to the other.
What's going on?
The length of the team made Xu Milu question her life choices.
The rice food shop opens at nine in the morning, but it's not even eight o'clock yet, and people are already lining up outside in the cold wind. She even saw two guys who looked like scalpers shouting to sell numbers.
"Boss, how about we hire two more waiters? Zheng Jie and I definitely can't handle it. Da Liu and the others can help the old man usually, but with so many customers, they definitely can't manage!"
Waiter Xiao Tao stared in disbelief and said:
"So many people? They're all here for our super radishes and super grapes?"
Looking at the long, dark queue through the glass door, Xu Milu couldn't help but gasp and sigh, realizing she had underestimated the Chinese people's obsession with food.
Although the name of the rice food stall wasn't mentioned much by netizens, the clever residents of Ningcheng had already guessed that the giant radish was related to it, and they came to queue up early this morning.
Xu Milu immediately turned around and called Old Man Liu:
"Grandpa, please don't come today. It's cold and the roads are difficult to walk on. There are a lot of people today, so you might bump into something... Right, right, there's Da Liu and Xiao Mo here, aren't there? I can handle it by myself, so I won't learn to cook today."
Old Liu on the other end of the phone was barely able to contain his excitement.
He has two apprentices helping him every day, so he's not tired at all, but he's under a lot of pressure!
People are worried about forgetting what they've learned, but he's afraid he won't have anything left to teach Xu Milu!
The daily sense of urgency is no less than the fear of handing in an assignment.
He was relieved that his granddaughter missed her cooking lessons a few days ago because she was harvesting radishes.
When Xu Milu wanted to learn fruit carving, he boasted that he would study it intensively for several days, burning the midnight oil, just to barely pass the test.
Heaven knows how his granddaughter learns so fast, she's like a sponge, she can learn anything she's taught and even apply what she's learned to other situations.
In the past two days, Xu Milu has started carving birds, fish and insects out of cabbage. Although she can only achieve a resemblance, the bird's head feathers are so detailed and lifelike that Cui Shengguo is questioning his life.
Xu Milu: Don't ask, it's just the Cui family's knife technique.
Old Liu's half-finished cookbook was almost worn out from being read so many times.
He was worried that if things continued like this, Xu Milu wouldn't achieve anything significant, and he would have to teach himself to become a professional chef first.
I've never studied this hard when I was younger!
Have you ever risked your life to avoid losing face?
Old Liu, with tears in his eyes, said he had.
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Xu Milu was completely unaware of her grandfather's fear.
Today was perfect timing; she had just brought three super-sized radishes from the warehouse this morning and placed them in the back kitchen. There was nothing else, but radishes were plentiful.
She called over Xiao Tao and a few others, and they quickly revised the menu.
"Radish cake, spicy dried radish salad, candied radish, radish stew with mutton, radish buns, stir-fried radish greens, stir-fried radish slices with meat, radish balls, braised beef brisket with radish, braised rabbit with radish, and for drinks, honey lemonade and water chestnut tea,"
Looking at this long list of radish-themed menu items, Xiao Mo couldn't help but complain:
"Boss, how many farts will we produce if we eat so many radishes? Can the customers handle it?"
Xu Milu remained very calm:
"It's alright. We're having a radish feast today. The set meals will still be based on beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. The beginner set meal can be any four dishes, the intermediate set meal can be any five dishes plus a ping-pong grape platter, and the advanced set meal can be any seven dishes plus a radish and grape platter. You and Da Liu will take down the life-size standees outside the store and replace them with a super radish. Customers can take photos and pose as they please, just be careful to maintain order and prevent any accidents."
Is there any better advertisement in the world than a giant, delicious radish?
Da Liu and Xiao Mo were seeing a complete, giant, delicious radish for the first time, and they wanted to hold it tightly and never let go.
As the two of them carried the giant, delicious radish from the kitchen to the store entrance as Xu Milu had instructed, the diners waiting in line immediately erupted in excitement.
"Wow, this radish is really this big?!"
"Oh my god, take a picture quickly!"
"This isn't a model, is it?!"
"Mommy, a big radish!! A big radish!!"
Even in the biting cold, people's enthusiasm for the Super Radish remained undiminished. Passersby even mistook it for some novel model, but after learning that it was the Super Radish that had gone viral online, they couldn't help but join the queue.
Who didn't read fairy tales when they were a child?
Even now that I'm grown up, if I saw such a magical thing actually appear, I would still want to touch it and taste what it tastes like.
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Radish cake sounds simple, but the method of making it is somewhat complicated.
Wash the radish, grate it into thin shreds with the peel on, add appropriate amount of salt, sugar and a little pepper to taste, and wait for the radish to release its juice. Meanwhile, dice the mushrooms and pork belly and stir-fry them in a pan.
Once the mushrooms and meat pieces have turned an enticing golden brown, add shredded radish and stir-fry together. Then pour in a mixture of rice flour and starch into the pot. After all the ingredients are mixed, steam until cooked. You can pan-fry or steam it before eating.
Radish balls are relatively simple to make. Cut the radish into thin strips, rub them with salt to draw out the water, add minced pork, soaked shiitake mushrooms, and dried bamboo shoots, chop them together, add seasonings, and mix well. It's best to stir for a while to increase the stickiness.
When the filling becomes sticky, it's ready. Shape it into appropriately sized balls, roll them in breadcrumbs and dry bread crumbs, and deep-fry them twice until they turn a bright yellow color, which is incredibly cute.
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