Chapter 158: A Wonderful Experience at the Lich Restaurant (Part 2)
After finishing the dessert, they turned their attention to the next dish.
The strangely named "Fuqi Feipian" looked very special. They carefully picked up the slices of offal meat cut into the right thickness, dipped them in the red oil sauce, and carefully took a small bite.
"Wow! Is this spicy?!"
"It's so exciting, it feels like a thunderstorm has set off in my mouth!"
"Hiss, hiss... My mouth is burning! But this tastes so good!"
They stuck out their tongues, inhaled, and fanned their mouths, but they couldn't help wanting to eat another piece.
"How's it going? Can you handle this level of spiciness?" the cat waiter popped up again, "Or do you need a less spicy sauce?"
"I can accept it!" Several people were sweating all over their faces because of the spiciness, but they nodded vigorously: "This spicy taste is really addictive!"
Jericho poured the sauce over the Fuqi Feipian. "Please enjoy. Would you like a drink to relieve the spiciness? We offer warm milk, iced juice, iced Witch beer, and special cocktails."
The four people's eyes lit up instantly: "Yes! Please give us witch beer!"
Four large, one-liter glasses of ice-cold beer were placed in front of them. Their lips flushed red as they eagerly picked up the glasses, gulping down a third of them in one gulp before exhaling a breath of hot air: "Wow! So refreshing!"
"A sip of Fuqi Feipian and a sip of beer, this is the perfect combination!"
They happily divided the dish and started to attack the next one. Every dish was super delicious and tasted like nothing they had ever tasted before.
The shrimp dumplings are incredibly sweet and savory, their translucent wrapper thin and chewy. A gentle bite releases the pork and shrimp broth that eagerly pours into your mouth. There's not much juice, just half a mouthful, but it's packed with the essence of the ingredients, blending the delicious flavors of pork, shrimp, and bamboo shoots. It needs no additional seasoning or sauce; it's already a truly exceptional experience.
The bamboo shoot fish steamed in soy sauce is very tender. Although the fish looks ugly, the meat is very tender, almost as tender as freshly baked tofu pudding, and the texture is very distinct.
After being steamed with soy sauce water, the fish meat has a salty, fragrant and delicious taste, and the fishy smell is completely gone. Just peel off the fish meat along the bones and you can satisfy your appetite.
However, their favorite is the chicken soup sweet potato noodles.
The sweet potato starch is not red at all, but a transparent, slightly grayish-yellow color. It rises and falls in the clear, thick chicken broth, absorbing the broth and looking soft and tempting.
Each of the four guests filled a bowl for themselves, picked up the chopsticks clumsily, and tried hard to put the slippery rice noodles into their mouths.
The sweet potato vermicelli sheets were long, wide, flat strips, and when soaked in the broth, they were quite heavy. Trying to "capture" them was a challenge for beginners who weren't very skilled with chopsticks. Customers ultimately resorted to carelessly holding their bowls and sucking hard at the sides of the bowl, only to successfully eat the "cunning" escaping sweet potato vermicelli sheets.
But the effort was worth it. The chicken broth was incredibly rich and flavorful, perfectly thickened thanks to the starch from the sweet potato vermicelli. The oil from the broth and the starch from the vermicelli combined perfectly, creating the most blissful combination of carbs and fat.
What’s more, this bowl of chicken soup with sweet potato noodles contains not only chicken and broth, but also delicious mushrooms, fresh shrimps and squid rings... The soup bowl is full of real ingredients.
Strangely, despite the customers diligently eating, the sweet potato noodles in the soup bowls seemed to multiply on their own; the amount didn't decrease, but the soup became less and less. As if anticipating this, the young waiter came over with a copper kettle with a long spout and refilled the chicken broth twice.
So by the end of the meal, the four guests all collapsed in their seats with their bellies full, too lazy to move at all, their eyes constantly glancing at the table, their tongues still savoring the wonderful taste.
——Hey, one stomach per person is not enough to eat in this restaurant!
The guests enjoyed their meal very much. When they saw the price when paying, they just took a deep breath and paid easily: "It's a bit expensive, but it's definitely worth it!"
Such delicious, novel and topical meals, as well as the signboard with the king's personal inscription hanging on the restaurant building, the shop owner who is a lich and her close connection with the lord of this territory... These interesting things will become topics of conversation for merchants to attract customers when they travel around to do business!
Money can be earned anywhere, but if you want to eat such delicious dishes, you will miss this restaurant in the village!
The guests returned home with full bellies, and Jericho, now a foreman, was also very satisfied as he put the small change into the cash register. The guests had just given him a generous tip, which was real income that did not have to be handed over to the boss, but belonged entirely to Jericho.
The cat licked its fangs happily, fiddling with the tips in its pocket, and searching the crowd queuing at the door for the next wave of fat sheep... ah, no, the generous guests.
——After all, not all guests are worthy of being received personally by him, the foreman.
Since the new restaurant was built, the business hours have been changed to 10 am to 10 pm. The waiters in the store rotate in two shifts, and the chefs help each other watch the tables and take turns to rest.
It is said that the Lich boss is still looking for and training more chefs, striving to raise two groups of people so that everyone can get enough rest.
After the news came out, the employees were both happy and sad - having someone to take shifts meant they had more time to rest and wouldn't be so tired, but at the same time, their working hours were reduced, so they naturally earned less money.
The restaurant industry is always a competitive landscape. Customers need to eat three meals a day, so restaurants can't just open and close for a few days. Adequate staffing is also a crucial prerequisite for successful restaurant operations, with the quality of the chefs being paramount. Regardless of the number of teams employed, everyone's culinary skills must be consistent; customers can't expect to eat one dish one day and another the next.
The hardworking, poor, and ambitious new employees were like lively catfish, stirring up the water. The old employees didn't have many opinions about this - Nasha was a real foodie, and the sight of the thick menu made her unable to move, and she was eager to stay at the stove 24 hours a day, seven days a week to study these delicious dishes.
Leila is a tireless alchemy doll and has no concept of holidays or rest. She just needs to bask in the sun in the greenhouse to recharge.
Jericho only listens to the Dresden family and works here naturally to help his young master make money; what's more, the cat guardian spirit now regards the brewing workshop as half of his home, and he is also working hard to help Andre and Jiangyou expand their sphere of influence.
The larger the scope of the 'home', the greater the power of the guardian spirit. Who knows when Jericho will be able to grow a third and fourth tail if he continues to work hard!
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