Yao Zijun rolled her eyes at Lu Wanzheng; the dog food was practically smeared in her face.
After walking and stopping frequently, the two finally stopped at a shop selling rice cakes.
The rice cakes sold at this shop are all made to order. Lu Wanzheng asked about the different ways to eat them and was also very curious about how the rice cakes were made.
After some inquiry, it was learned that the owner's family made a living by selling rice cakes. The young and strong man in the family was responsible for pounding the steamed glutinous rice flour in the mortar with a wooden pestle in front of the hall.
The women in the family wash and steam glutinous rice in the kitchen, which is a relatively easy job. When they have free time, they come back to the front to help sell things.
As for the older folks, they are responsible for cutting the freshly made rice cakes into the appropriate shapes according to the customers' needs.
There are many people in the town who know how to make rice cakes, and almost every household has the tools to make them, but not many have opened rice cake shops. These shops, besides covering their own daily expenses, sell to passing tourists. Moreover, the travel guide says that this shop makes the best rice cakes.
"Boss, we'd like three kinds of fried rice cakes with the secret sauce, and three servings of stir-fried rice cakes with seaweed." Lu Wanzheng read out the menu from the guidebook.
The tall, thin boss had a simple and honest look in his eyes. His weathered face was covered with deep wrinkles, and he was dressed in the simplest of clothes: a T-shirt and jeans.
"Young lady, you look unfamiliar. Are you new here?" The shop owner spoke slowly but clearly.
Lu Wanzheng nodded, "We just arrived today. We heard that the rice cakes sold here are delicious, so we came to try them."
"Young lady, you must know a lot about food. Our secret sauce is the best, and our stir-fried rice cakes with seaweed are also top-notch." The owner said with a smile, looking at the two young girls in front of him, his eyes shining with kindness and friendliness.
The little girl is very pretty and looks like a good child.
The amount of rice cake cut is much larger than what is usually sold.
Although the old man was quite old, his hands didn't tremble at all, and the knife in his hand was very obedient, cutting the rice cake exactly as he wished.
"We also looked up some recipes online, and everyone said that your rice cakes are delicious, and they even pointed out that your secret sauce is the best, so we came to try it."
Lu Wanzheng recounted all the information she had found online about the store.
The owner chuckled upon hearing this, never expecting his shop to be so popular.
The old man opened an unopened bottle of oil and poured it into a small pot. He poured just enough to completely submerge the rice cake he had just cut.
The old man was frying rice cakes in a pot while calling out to a young man not far behind him in his local dialect.
Lu Wanzheng looked in the direction he was looking. The young man was wearing a headscarf, his eyebrows were long and black, and he had a towel around his neck to wipe his sweat when he got hot. He was holding a wooden pestle and pounding rice cakes.
Hearing the old man's call, the young man went to the sink, washed his hands, dried them, went to the back and took out a few pieces of freshly made rice cakes, placed them on the table by the door, and covered them with a clean cloth.
The rice cakes were still being fried when an older woman came out of the house. She was of medium build, wearing a plaid shirt and gray pants. She looked very nice, not at all tacky, and appeared very capable and generous.
The woman held a stainless steel bowl in her hand. "Young ladies, is this the secret sauce you ordered?" Her bright eyes, framed by thick eyebrows, looked at Lu Wanzheng and Yao Zijun.
"right."
The aunt smiled, placed the secret sauce on the table, lifted the cloth covering the rice cake, and began to cut it.
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