On the way to the Sichuan restaurant, they passed by a barber shop. More than 10 employees were lined up outside the door, shouting slogans. A man in front who looked like the boss was yelling, which looked very embarrassing.
Ye Tian felt she had been a truly good boss, offering excellent benefits and showing off her culinary skills. Few people who worked at her restaurant quit. Everyone worked primarily to earn a living, and even the boss couldn't afford to insult someone.
After walking another 100 meters, they arrived at the Sichuan restaurant.
Because it was still early, they were the first wave of customers, and the chefs and waiters were sitting in the hall chatting boredly.
Seeing someone come in, a male waiter stood up and greeted: "Would you like to eat? How many people are there?"
Ye Fei answered "yes", and then the waiter led them to the table for four by the window and brought over a menu after a while.
"Please order!" Ye Tian handed the menu to Shi Lei.
He didn't even look at the menu and said directly: "Sister, I won't be polite, I'll order Maoxuewang." Then he pushed the menu in front of Ye Fei.
Ye Fei looked at it for a while, and finally ordered only one spicy chicken, and said that it was enough and there was no need to order so many dishes.
Ye Tian knew he was trying to save money, so she took the menu and added boiled fish and stir-fried anchovies. Four dishes for three people was enough. She then consulted the two boys and ordered a large bottle of Sprite.
The hygiene conditions of this restaurant are average. The tables are a bit greasy, and the tableware is the kind that is cleaned and supplied uniformly and costs one yuan a set. The glass cups inside are not very transparent.
Ye Tian asked for a pot of boiling water, and they rinsed the cups and bowls, just to comfort themselves.
"Have you ever eaten Houttuynia cordata?" Shi Lei asked Ye Fei deliberately.
“I haven’t eaten it!”
"I've never dared to eat it either. Why not try it?"
"I don't want it!"
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Ye Tian silently ordered a plate of Houttuynia cordata. Life is about tasting all kinds of flavors!
After a quarter of an hour, the dishes came up one after another.
Ye Tian ordered a bowl of rice for each of them. Adolescent boys, like hungry ghosts, ate with relish, slurping it up.
Influenced by their comments, Ye Tian also picked up a piece of fish. "It's too old, and has a faint fishy smell. The oil must have been used many times," she silently commented.
She took another bite of the stir-fried phoenix tail vegetable and said, "It's limp and has no crisp texture."
The spicy chicken was fried too quickly, and the Maoxuewang was just average. Unexpectedly, the dish Ye Tian found most delicious was the cold-mixed zheergen that she had deliberately ordered for the two boys.
Of course, only Ye Tian thought it was delicious. The two boys only took a bite. Ye Fei swallowed it, but Shi Lei simply spit it out. "This taste is so weird!"
Houttuynia cordata is a magical food. Those who love it love it to death, while those who don't like it find it disgusting. Of course, some people gradually fall in love with it after eating it a few times.
Today's watercress is very fresh. It is mixed with young ginger and the taste is just right. The leaves are sweet and not fishy at all.
"Sister, this Houttuynia cordata is so fishy, but you actually eat it with relish. I admire you so much!" said Shi Lei.
"Little brother, you don't understand!" Ye Tian stretched out two fingers and waved them.
Ye Fei couldn't help but burst out laughing, thinking that Ye Tian was cheerful and cute now.
The two boys were not picky eaters and found the spicy Sichuan cuisine very tasty. They each finished three bowls of rice and almost all of the dishes. Ye Tian didn't eat much because she really didn't think it was very tasty.
After the meal, Ye Tian went to pay the bill. The food in this restaurant was not expensive, a total of 239 yuan, which was just the price of 8 small pieces of hairtail at Xiyuan Restaurant.
After dinner, Ye Tian and Ye Fei said goodbye. The two boys insisted on sending her to the subway station and watched her go through the security check.
Ye Fei looked at her back reluctantly until she turned and got off the elevator. Then he slowly withdrew his gaze and said to Shi Lei, "Let's go back!"
The subway was packed during the evening rush hour, and there were no empty seats. Ye Tian reached out and pulled a handle, standing in the middle of the train, swaying back and forth as the train started and stopped.
Like duckweed, drifting with the flow.
Breathing the mingled air of various scents inside the car, Ye Tian suddenly felt lost. Small body, big world. She couldn't return to where she came from, and she didn't know where to go.
Sometimes, we don’t know the meaning of life, but at least we know what kind of life we want to live.
If you can't fight against fate, then just go with the flow!
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Two days later, Ye Fei returned home and gave his parents half a bag of beef jerky that he had specially reserved.
Uncle Ye Tian asked his son, "Where did you get the beef jerky?"
"My sister gave it to me. She made it in an air fryer. It's really delicious. I think it's even better than the ones you bought, so I left a few pieces for you to try." Although Ye Fei didn't show any expression, if you looked at him carefully, you could see that the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.
"You've seen her. How is your sister doing? Alas! I'm so useless. I can't even take care of a niece." He blamed himself.
"Yeah, she's pretty good. She earns a decent income from working part-time at school, and she even treated me to dinner." Ye Fei said.
"That's good, that's good!" Ye Fei's father finally sighed deeply.
Ye Fei's mother said nothing and didn't eat the beef jerky.
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Over the next few days, Ye Tian experimented with cooking in the air fryer, cooking everything from grilled meat skewers to grilled hairtail and sweet potatoes. However, the grilled meat skewers were a bit hard, not as good as those grilled over charcoal.
However, she quite likes the simplest roasted sweet potato.
In her previous life, Ye Tian's family was poor. As a child, she relied on sweet potatoes to fill her stomach during the winter when food was scarce. Consequently, she has a love-hate relationship with sweet potatoes. She's not tired of them, but perhaps it's just a way of avoiding them.
There are many varieties of sweet potatoes now. She remembers eating the dry, red-skinned, white-fleshed sweet potatoes as a child. Now there are ordinary sweet potatoes, purple sweet potatoes, smoked sweet potatoes, chestnut sweet potatoes, and many more. But the most suitable for baking in an air fryer is the smoked sweet potato, especially the smoked sweet potato No. 25.
Simply wash the sweet potatoes, place a piece of tinfoil directly on the air fryer net, and place the sweet potatoes inside. Choose smaller sweet potatoes; they cook more easily. Set the temperature to 200°C and bake for about 15 minutes on each side. Your fragrant, tempting baked sweet potatoes are ready. It couldn't be simpler.
After the smoked sweet potato is baked, honey will flow out of the skin. Eat it while it is hot. It is fragrant, soft and sweet. This is what we are talking about.
Eating roasted sweet potatoes easily reminds people of the large iron buckets of roasted sweet potatoes sold on the roadside in winter. The taste is really similar. However, Ye Tian's roommates and the two sisters in the dormitory across the street have been eating sweet potatoes for midnight snacks for three consecutive days. No matter how delicious they are, they are getting tired of it.
"I've had enough sweet potatoes for now. Can I have some hot and sour noodles made with sweet potato flour?"
"It's just wishful thinking. It's just instant hot and sour noodles..."
"I also want to eat Qingtuan..."
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