Chapter 12
Yueting Self-service's first "limited edition" event
The next day, Xiao Yue, the chosen girl, went straight to the kitchen and set up new kitchen utensils.
The first one is the refrigerator, which is placed against the wall and takes up exactly half of the space.
The fresh-frozen cabinet still adheres to the style of the system's products, with a wooden color as the whole, a storage table with grids on the top, and a cabinet that slides open left and right at the bottom.
Xiao Yue looked around and found a button on the right. After pressing it, the coolness slowly invaded the entire cabinet. When he touched the inside, it was cool to the touch.
If you look at it with your naked eyes, you can't tell that this is a cold storage cabinet that keeps food fresh at room temperature.
Xiao Yue felt relieved and exchanged two in total.
One is used to store the unprocessed ingredients in the cabinet, and the other is naturally for preparing dishes later.
After putting it away, Xiao Yue then exchanged for a water dispenser.
This one looks quite ordinary. It looks like a larger wooden barrel with a water outlet in the lower middle position. Water will automatically flow out when you bend it. Even children can operate it after seeing it.
Xiao Yue's previous tea was placed in a wooden barrel, which would slowly cool down in half an hour at most. Now that he has changed to this, he doesn't have to worry about affecting the taste.
Xiao Yue was satisfied. She put on an apron and started preparing the buffet for the new day.
The staple food is rice, the signature braised chicken, and the new favorite braised lion's head...
After everything was done, Xiao Yue wiped his hands and started to prepare the new dish to be replaced today.
Before going to bed last night, she decided on the dishes that needed to be replaced today according to the dishes on the menu. There were three dishes in total.
——Cabbage and tofu soup, chopped red peppers, and cold cucumber salad.
Now that there are more types of ingredients, Xiao Yue naturally has to show off his skills.
There were no sour dishes in the restaurant, so she decided to add a sour and refreshing sour soup fish fillet!
Xiao Yue exchanged several varieties of fish, among which was black fish which was most suitable for making fish fillet soup.
There is a lot of mucus on the skin of black fish, and Xiao Yue spent a lot of time just dealing with it. Fortunately, she has good knife skills and she quickly cut the fish fillets and marinated them with salt, pepper, starch and egg white.
The next step is to prepare side dishes such as tomatoes and enoki mushrooms. Xiao Yue also exchanged for pickled peppers and sour soup.
After the oil is hot, add chopped pickled peppers and ginger slices to the pan, stir-fry until fragrant, then add tomatoes and stir-fry over high heat to release the juice. Then you have the soul sour soup.
When Xiao Yueguang smelled this scent, both sides of his cheeks couldn't help but feel sore.
Wait for the sour soup to boil, then add the enoki mushrooms and fish fillets.
It doesn’t take too long for the enoki mushrooms to be cooked through and the fish fillets to be curled up to maintain optimal tenderness. Then all of them are served and put into the insulation tank.
The fish fillet in sour soup is ready!
Xiao Yue swallowed his saliva, but couldn't help but take a bite, and his face wrinkled because of the sour taste.
The taste is authentic!
With the taste lingering in Xiao Yue's mouth, she continued to prepare the next dish.
The red three-chopped dish was replaced, and there was only one spicy dish left, so naturally a new one was needed to replace it.
Xiao Yue was thinking last night that there weren't many vegetables on the menu and it needed to be spicy, so he decided to make the most homely and most delicious dish - dry-pot shredded cabbage!
Hand-shredded cabbage, as the name suggests, needs to be torn by hand to taste the best.
Xiao Yue now used the food bowl as a vegetable bowl, and he had to tear up two bowls before he was satisfied.
It was quite relaxing at first, but too much was torture. Xiao Yue looked at his red fingertips, feeling a little amused.
After the cabbage is torn, the next step is to prepare the seasonings. Onions and garlic are indispensable, and garlic leaves and chili peppers are also essential.
After Xiao Yue has chopped everything, she heats up the oil, first adds the onions, garlic, and chili peppers to make them fragrant, then the bean paste, and when the oil turns red, she adds the cabbage.
This dish also requires careful cooking time. If it is cooked for too short a time, the cabbage will become undercooked, and if it is cooked for too long a time, it will not taste crispy.
Fortunately, Xiao Yue had made it countless times before and had almost perfect control over it. When the cabbage started to heat up, he would add soy sauce, and finally add the garlic leaves and stir-fry evenly before serving.
I saw that every piece of the originally tender green cabbage was soaked in red oil and chili peppers, and wrapped in dark green garlic leaves. It looked oily and tasty, and went very well with rice.
Now that both dishes were ready, Xiao Yue did not hesitate about the last one and chose the indispensable cold dish to relieve greasiness.
Last time it was cold cucumber salad, this time I upgraded it and added bean curd and carrots to make cold shredded vegetables.
In just half a minute, Xiao Yue mixed a large bowl of soup and put it into the thermos. Today's ten dishes and two drinks were ready.
But today is different from the past, as there is still more than half an hour before the store opens.
Xiao Yue calculated the time and was naturally not in a hurry. He exchanged it for several whole ducks.
Yesterday, her fame bar was upgraded, not only allowing her to gain a large number of points, but also giving her an oven for free.
This kind of good thing can be obtained every time you level up, how could Xiao Yue let it go?
So she thought about it all night and decided to step up her efforts to further increase her fame!
The buffet is already cheap enough, and everyone who enters the restaurant can enjoy the dishes, but what if she organizes an event of "limited dishes for newcomers"?
It can not only attract new customers and retain repeat customers for Yueting Self-service, but also arouse the concern of old customers.
Because the "limited" activity that Xiao Yue is doing is not really limited, but this dish is only available to newcomers for a few days, and then it will be added to the daily buffet menu.
This means that old customers can also eat there, which will naturally make them miss the restaurant and encourage them to come to the store to eat every day.
Of course, the premise of these activities is that the limited edition dish tastes good enough and is amazing enough.
The first thing that came to Xiao Yue’s mind was the crispy, salty, sweet and unique taste - crispy duck with taro paste.
This dish is a specialty snack from a certain place in the era before she traveled through time. It is not difficult to prepare, but it is relatively complicated, especially the step of marinating the duck meat.
First, cut the fascia of the whole duck and separate the bones, poke small holes in it, soak it in Huadiao wine, and then sprinkle salt, pepper, onion, ginger and garlic all over the body.
There are nearly ten kinds of spices used for marinating, including bay leaves, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, fennel...all of which need to be massaged into every corner of the duck meat.
Xiao Yue pickled five at the same time, and after they were all done, he put them aside and began to process the shell, which is the taro part.
This step is much simpler, the only trouble is probably not having a steamer.
Xiao Yue could only scoop the rice out of the steamer temporarily and steam it with that pitiful layer. It took two pots of steaming to get the enough.
Fortunately, the fire on the stove was very strong, so the time was not delayed for long.
After taking it out of the pot, Xiao Yue added white sugar and lard while it was still hot, melted and mashed them, and the hot rice noodles that had been prepared while waiting, and poured them all together and kneaded them carefully.
The taro paste is ready and the duck meat is marinated.
Xiao Yue found a place and exchanged for an oven.
The next second, a black square utensil that was different in color and size from the rest of the kitchen utensils appeared on the other side of the kitchen, making the place suddenly crowded.
Xiao Yue was a little surprised. He didn't expect its body to be so big. He might be able to roast fifteen at a time.
The operation is also very simple, with double doors and a push-pull style. Not only can the temperature be adjusted, but it also has the function of shortening the baking time!
For example, it usually takes half an hour to cook a roast duck, but this can be shortened to just a quarter of an hour.
This allowed Xiao Yue to make up for the time lost by steaming the taro.
However, in order to make the roast duck more crispy, she roasted it for another half a quarter of an hour before starting to remove the bones.
The roast duck was fresh out of the oven and still very hot. Xiao Yue's fingertips quickly got burned red as soon as she touched it, so she could only do it slowly.
By the time all five roast ducks were processed, the originally rich duck meat had shrunk by more than half.
Xiao Yue rolled the prepared taro paste into a ball and flattened it, spread the duck meat in the middle, and covered it with another layer of taro paste and rounded the edges. The amount was just enough to fill a plate.
This step is not the end. It needs to be baked again to make the surface of the taro paste crispy before it can be served perfectly.
This is the most complicated dish Xiao Yue has prepared in recent days, and he seems a little overwhelmed.
The crispy duck with taro paste has just come out of the oven and is served on a plate. It’s time to open the store.
Xiao Yue opened the door without stopping and found that a long queue had already formed spontaneously at the entrance!
Without further delay, she quickly pushed out all the food, wrote down today's menu, and went over to serve the customers.
While collecting the money, Xiao Yue said the prepared lines: "I'm really sorry! I'm a little late today. Because our restaurant has limited new dishes today, I prepared a little more..."
"What?"
“Limited-edition dishes!”
As expected, as soon as Xiao Yue finished speaking, surprised voices were heard in the team, and someone spoke in dissatisfaction.
"Madam Xiao, are you kidding me?"
"Didn't they say that you can eat as much as you want in the restaurant? Why is there a sudden limit on the amount?"
"If it's limited, how can it be called free eating?"
"What do you mean..."
Everyone's tone was just strange and dissatisfied, and there was no excessive reaction.
All of this was within Xiao Yue's expectations. She said, "Don't worry, everyone. This is our store's first event! All new customers can come here to get a limited-edition dish for free and taste it in advance!"
This time, Xiao Yue continued immediately without waiting for any questions.
"Of course. Since I'm talking about an advance tasting, that means everyone will have a chance to try it later! This event will last for about three days. After three days, this limited-edition dish will be added to the buffet menu for everyone to choose from!"
In fact, it is equivalent to preheating in advance, so that all customers can eat it later.
The faces of the people in the queue finally improved, and the new customer looked as if he had won some big prize, his excitement was evident in his words.
"Madam Xiao, what kind of dish is that?"
At this time, Zhao Liang and Liu Meng in the front row stood up and asked the question on everyone's mind.
Xiao Yue smiled mysteriously: "No matter how curious everyone is, they have to wait until everyone enters the store before I can serve it to you, right?"
The team, which was originally somewhat loose, immediately became tight-knit as if they had heard some instructions.
"Quick, everyone line up!"
"What's the new dish?"
"Don't you all believe in Madam Xiao's craftsmanship?"
Although it was clear that only new customers could enjoy today's limited edition dishes, old customers, led by Li Xiong, were more excited than each other.
After all, it’s a limited dish, so the taste must be good!
It’s not like they will never be able to eat it, it’s just a few days late. Can’t they check it in advance?
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