"Pack up all your food and leave early. We are about to close!"
The owner of this restaurant kept talking to Xu Zijun, asking him to pack up the food for them and let them take the cooked dishes away to eat at home.
"How can that be? The freshly fried dishes will taste completely different once they are packed. They will definitely not taste as good as when they are freshly cooked. I came all the way here to eat your meal just for the taste. I will eat here and pay after I finish eating..."
Xu Zijun is a chef and knows more about these delicacies than anyone else.
How could he agree to the boss's proposal?
Xu Zijun has always known that many foods don’t taste as good after being packed. Moreover, the taste of some foods will change after being packed in a bag, even if they are hot.
So Xu Zijun insisted not to pack up the food.
The owner of the restaurant looked outside with a worried look on his face. It was pitch black outside, which made him feel panicked.
From time to time he looked at the kitchen, then at the dark outside, and spoke nice words to Xu Zijun.
"Just pack up, I'll give you a discount, you can leave early!"
"Do you think I'm short of money? I can give you a little more tip, five hundred, so we can finish our meal here before we leave. Stop whining and serve the food quickly. I'll call people over to eat..."
Xu Zijun doesn't care about whether there is a discount or not, what he cares about is whether it tastes good.
As long as it tastes good, it doesn’t matter if it’s a little more expensive, and it doesn’t matter if I give a tip!
The boss was about to cry, so Xu Zijun simply took out five hundred yuan and gave it to him as a tip, asking him to serve the food quickly and serve everyone's food properly.
Zhang Fan, Hua Yueying, Bai Wuchang and others also came over.
The boss hesitated for a long time and finally said something.
"I don't need to charge you for your meal. I just ask you to pack up. I'm closing the shop, right now..."
The boss's words made Xu Zijun angry.
"You are sick. I came to your house for dinner and asked you to take it away. What kind of restaurant do you run? I gave you a 500 tip right away. What do you want? How much money can you make in a day? Are you sick in the head? Why are you driving customers away?"
Xu Zijun got angry and started scolding the boss.
It was he who suggested eating here. He drove for such a long time to get here, and then waited in line for such a long time. We finally waited for him, and the food was almost served, but this boss was whining and making me angry.
He doesn't know how powerful a boss like this is unless he scolds him a few times.
Sure enough, after Xu Zijun lost his temper, the boss's face turned pale and he opened his mouth several times as if he wanted to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he found that he really couldn't say anything.
In the end, he really didn't say anything, but just served them the food and drinks obediently.
Then they hid in the kitchen, even after closing the rolling door, and stayed inside and refused to come out.
Xu Zijun just thought that the boss was really weird, but when he looked at the table full of food and wine, he soon smiled and asked everyone to sit down and eat.
Zhang Fan looked at the dishes on the table and realized that this table was different from the others.
The table is only half a meter high and seems to be made of bamboo. There is a round rotating glass on it, and underneath the glass are pieces of bamboo leaves.
The green bamboo leaves are very pleasing to the eyes.
The dishes on the table are very unique, a round omelet, not with the common chopped green onions or garlic sprouts, but with a wild vegetable called stinky vegetable that is fried with beaten eggs. It looks very tempting.
Xu Zijun was introducing it proudly.
"I recommend the food and drinks here because the owner is from Jinping, Honghe Prefecture. The dishes here are very unique. Look, this is called stinky vegetable fried eggs, but it tastes delicious and you will never forget it..."
"There is also this dish. I guarantee you have never seen it before. It is made by frying wild papaya flowers and Nanshan vine, also known as butterfly vine. The papaya flowers are bitter, and the butterfly vine is the favorite leaf of butterflies. But when the two foods are fried together, the taste becomes sweet when you try it..."
"There is a Butterfly Valley in Jinping. Every May and June, there are so many butterflies in the sky that you can't find your way. The butterflies' favorite food is this kind of butterfly vine. This food clears away heat and detoxifies, and it tastes good..."
After Xu Zijun said this, Zhang Fan also became interested, because he had never seen these dishes before and was very curious.
"Jin Ping, where is it? How do you know all this?"
"Jinping is a place of longevity. Why do people there live so long? It's because of these delicious foods. Only by eating healthily and well can people live long! Come and try these delicacies. Don't miss them..."
Xu Zijun was talking with a smile, and Zhang Fan also became interested and picked up the dishes on the table curiously.
The taste of that stinky vegetable and egg dish is indeed very unique. Although it is called stinky vegetable, it is actually very fragrant.
When you take a bite, the leaves of stinky vegetable and eggs mixed together, forming a very unique fragrance in the mouth, which makes people feel refreshed. The taste is really great.
The stir-fried dish with papaya flowers and butterfly vines was indeed not bitter and had a bit of sweetness in it. The taste was bitter first and sweet later, which made Zhang Fan nod secretly.
Just for these two distinctive dishes, this trip is worth it.
"Not bad, not bad, Xu Zijun, you are not only a foodie, but also a know-it-all. You really put a lot of effort into it. You even found a restaurant like this. You are really good at it..."
Zhang Fan's praise made Xu Zijun so excited that sweat started to appear on his head, and then he grinned like a fool.
Yes, Hua Yueying felt that Xu Zijun laughed like a fool. When his master praised him, he lost his mind.
Although this restaurant is simple, the food is really rare. She has never eaten it before. And although there are mostly vegetarian dishes, the taste is really great. This also aroused Hua Yueying's interest, and she never stopped eating with her chopsticks.
"Boss, give me two more plates of this stinky vegetable fried eggs and this papaya flower..."
Zhang Fan ate happily and shouted to the restaurant owner to serve the second dish. However, he didn't expect that the owner was hiding behind the kitchen and refused to come out. Only his voice could be heard.
"Guests, please leave quickly. Stop eating and leave immediately. I won't charge you any money..."
The boss looked very strange at this time, his voice was filled with tears, and he shouted something while saying this.
"You guys have to be careful, it's getting dark at night, something's going to happen, you have to leave quickly, otherwise you'll be in trouble, you won't be able to leave even if you want to..."
What the boss said was so strange that several people who were eating raised their heads all of a sudden.
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