Chapter 50
Tomorrow, Su Miao will bring some braised food for customers to taste, so he needs to agree on the price with his father first, so that no one will ask him about it tomorrow.
This pot of braised food contains seven types of ingredients: pig heart, pig tongue, pig head, chicken feet, duck feet, duck neck, and eggs.
Pig heart and pig tongue are both offal. The bearded chef gives them a discount of 30 cents per pound. Pig head meat is also considered real meat. Many people eat it so it is relatively expensive, costing one dollar per pound.
Chicken feet, duck feet, and duck necks are sold at stalls specializing in poultry. They are sold by the piece, with chicken feet and duck feet costing 6 cents each and duck necks costing 10 cents each.
Eggs are 70 cents per pound in the market, which is about 8 cents each.
The ingredients are not expensive, but the spices for making the brine are not cheap. Then the father and daughter discussed that braising is more labor-intensive and material-intensive than frying.
Then let's order pig hearts and tongues at 2.5 yuan per pound, pig heads at 3 yuan per pound, and chicken feet, duck feet, duck necks, and eggs at a uniform price of 20 cents each.
Su Yuan was watching Su Miao making a list and said, "Miao Miao, why don't Dad go back to the village to collect eggs? They're only 50 cents a pound in the village."
Su Miao asked, "How many eggs can the village harvest at one time?"
Su Yuanzheng was unsure for a moment. "The last time I went back, I heard from your uncles that everyone has raised a lot more chickens in the past two years. They can have 20 eggs every day. They save the leftovers and carry them back to the county town to sell. It also helps to supplement the family income."
"Our village is so close to the county town, can cars get there now?"
"There are two bus routes that pick up passengers at the village entrance, but there are only four buses a day, and the intervals are long, and you have to buy tickets. So they rarely come to the county town. They either borrow bicycles from the brigade or gather together some agricultural and sideline products from home, carrying a lot of things each time and then buying what they need to take back."
"That's not easy."
Su Yuanzheng thought of something happy: "The last time I went back, your second uncle said he also wanted to buy a tricycle, but it was a second-hand one. He said that with a tricycle it would be convenient to bring things up to sell, and in the future he could just bring pickles and firewood up to us!"
Su Miao had a very good impression of his second uncle's family, so he was naturally happy for them. "The second uncle's family really knows how to live. They've already bought a car. If he can deliver it, you won't have to work so hard to pull it. But you have to give him some hard work money."
"Your second uncle is a very down-to-earth person. He definitely won't accept more money. Why don't you pack him some braised pork offal to go back and eat some meat? After all, we make it ourselves, so he won't be able to refuse."
Su Miao thought of another idea to save trouble and calculated in his mind: "If we can sell 40 eggs a day, we need about 5 kilograms. If we collect them in the village, we can save 0.2 yuan per kilogram, which means we can save 1 yuan a day.
Dad, why don't we ask Uncle Er to collect the eggs in the village? He will definitely know which family has more eggs and which family is more reliable. It's better than you going from house to house to collect them."
Su Yuanzheng also thought this was a good opportunity to help his cousin and said, "That's great! When will we ship it? Eggs can still be stored for a long time."
Su Miao thought for a moment and said, "Although eggs can be stored at room temperature for more than half a month, in order to ensure the freshness of the ingredients, we'd better not stock up too much at one time.
How about having Second Uncle deliver 40 kilograms of eggs once a week? There's still room in the car for firewood. In addition to the eggs and firewood, we can pay him an extra two yuan each time as labor fee. Do you think this amount is appropriate?"
"That's right! Two yuan can buy more than a pound of meat. He won't accept more than that. I'll go back to the village and talk to him tomorrow after I deliver the pork offal."
Su Miao felt that it was really inconvenient not to have a phone at home. He had to find someone to talk to if he had anything to say.
The next day, Su Miao followed his father to deliver pork offal. He reheated the leftover braised food from yesterday, cut it up, put it in a small pot, and poured a few spoonfuls of soup on it.
Su Miao brought plates and a lot of toothpicks, and let the customers taste them later.
Little Fatty came out just after work. He and his coworkers ordered a pound of pork offal for lunch today. When he saw Su Miao, he greeted her.
"You're here on such a cold day? What are you doing guarding this little pot?"
Su Miao saw that most of the customers had arrived and Su Yuan was busy weighing and packing food for everyone. She smiled and opened the lid of the pot.
The rich salty and fragrant aroma spread outward, comparable to the fried pork offal on the side.
The fat boy sniffed, his eyes flashing with enthusiasm: "You made the braised food?"
Customers who were waiting to pack their pork offal also came over to watch. This restaurant is really amazing and has come up with new and delicious dishes.
The small vendors around who had switched to selling hot food were also surprised. The boiled noodles they sold also had a lot of seasonings and were quite fragrant, but even from a distance the fragrance from that stall could still be overshadowed by the other stall's.
It can be seen how delicious and overbearing this new food is.
The fat guy praised: "I have eaten braised pork before, and I have tried to make it at home. It is also very fragrant when it is cooked, but not as good as yours. And after it cools down, the taste feels so-so. I wonder how yours tastes."
Su Miao put a spoonful of the pre-cut braised food into the bowl. He also chopped the duck neck and feet into small pieces, and then took out a box of toothpicks.
"This braised dish is indeed more complicated than I imagined. The ratio of spices, the choice of ingredients, the braising time and the heat are all very particular. It took me a lot of effort to adjust it several times before I got it right. Come on! Uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters, come and try it. If you have any opinions, feel free to give them!"
The warehouse lady who often comes to buy pork offal laughed and said, "Wow! You are so generous. You give it away before the sale starts? And the pieces are cut into such big pieces."
Su Miao did not cut the food into very small pieces like other tasting shops did. She felt that this was insincere and she could not taste the flavor at all.
Little Fatty looked at the greasy braised food and couldn't wait to try a piece of chicken feet.
Wow! It was so delicious. The chicken feet were already soft and glutinous, and they absorbed the broth so well that he couldn’t bear to spit out even the bones while chewing them in his mouth.
I tried the pig's head meat again, it melted in my mouth, fragrant but not greasy!
Seeing him like this, everyone couldn't help but try it, and all of them were impressed by the delicious and mellow aroma of the braised food.
Someone asked: "How do you sell this braised food?"
Su Miao recited the price list that he and his father had agreed on last night, and no one thought it was expensive.
An uncle said, "This price is really cheap for a prepared food. Yesterday, when some relatives came to my house, I went to the prepared food store of the meat processing plant and bought half a roast duck. It was just over a pound, and it still had the butt. Guess how much it cost?"
The worker next to him said, "Six dollars, right? I bought one during Chinese New Year."
The uncle gestured and shouted, "Seven pieces! It's so heartbreaking! I was so shocked when I saw that huge duck butt underneath. I ate it all!"
"Wow! That's a price increase compared to the beginning of the year! Back then it was four yuan per pound."
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