Chapter 482
As milk tea is a recreational drink, the store does not need to open too early. Employees can arrive at the store at 10 o'clock to prepare materials and officially open the store at 11 o'clock.
Su Miao went to discuss cooperation with the dairy factory. During the trial operation phase, he ordered 20 kilograms of milk every day, and then increased the order quantity based on actual demand.
The delivery master from the dairy factory delivers fresh milk directly to the store at 10 am every day. After receiving it, the clerk will immediately put it in the refrigerator to keep it fresh.
Milk spoils quickly, so in order to maintain the taste of milk tea, Su Miao put up a sign saying that it is made to order.
Although it will increase the waiting time for customers, those few minutes are nothing compared to the wonderful taste.
The tea and condiments can be prepared in advance, and when a customer places an order, milk can be taken out of the refrigerator to heat it and mix it with the tea.
At this time, the convenience of the gas stove is highlighted, and the milk can be heated in a very short time.
In summer, most customers like to drink cold drinks. After the milk tea is prepared and poured into the cup, the temperature of the milk tea has actually dropped. Add a few ice cubes into it, seal it and shake it a few times, and the milk tea will become a cold drink.
However, when the ice melts, it will dilute the original appropriate concentration of the milk tea.
So when taking an order, the clerk will ask the customer whether he wants a hot or cold drink.
If the customer wants a cold drink, the waiter will add a little bit of Panda brand condensed milk when heating the milk, so that every cup of milk tea can be kept fragrant.
The preparation of milk tea and side dishes is not complicated. The two employees learned it in just two days.
Currently, there are two flavors of milk tea, one with green tea base and the other with black tea base, and the two have different flavors.
The small ingredients include pearls, red beans and jelly.
This kind of "pearl" is made of tapioca starch and brown sugar. She had never made this before when she made milk tea with Jiayin.
Because although she had drunk it in her previous life and had heard about its preparation method, she had never made it herself. She only figured it out during her free time during the Chinese New Year.
Su Miao instructed the clerk to put brown sugar into a pot of water, and after it melted and boiled, pour it into the tapioca flour.
"Sister Meng, cook the brown sugar water according to the ratio I just mentioned. Pour it in immediately when it's boiling.
And the water should be poured in all at once, not in batches. Stir with chopsticks while pouring, and try to make sure that all the tapioca flour absorbs the water.
OK, now you can put the dough on the chopping board and knead it. Make sure it is evenly kneaded."
Su Miao watched Sister Meng kneading the dumplings diligently, and suddenly thought of the interesting things that happened in the dormitory in her previous life.
At that time, there was a pearl milk tea shop not far from the school. Different from the Hong Kong-style milk tea you drink in tea restaurants, that shop was opened by a young Taiwanese couple.
At that time, milk tea had been popular in Taiwan for several years, but it had just recently entered the mainland.
She still remembered that the sign said Taiwanese pearl milk tea, but the menu said "boba" milk tea, and the "boba" here refers to the "pearl" tapioca pearls.
At one time, several people in their dormitory were very obsessed with drinking milk tea and chewing on the chewy, sweet and soft pearls. They even made a schedule and sent someone to buy it by bike every other day.
After a few visits, I became familiar with the boss and his wife.
According to them, the pearls in the original "pearl milk tea" did not refer to the tapioca pearls inside.
They all call this tapioca pearl Boba or QQ, and the "pearl" originally refers to the bubbles formed when milk tea is shaken.
Several girls in the dormitory had been drinking for half a month. Suddenly one day, one of the roommates came back in a hurry after finishing an elective course.
As soon as he walked in, he said breathlessly, "Haven't you bought your bubble tea for today yet?"
Another roommate said curiously, "Not yet. What's the matter? Are you going to volunteer?"
She took a sip of cold water, calmed down, and said, "No! I heard a classmate say in class today that the pearls in the bubble tea are made of plastic!"
The other roommates were all shocked.
"Huh? Plastic? How is that possible? Who told you that?"
“I don’t know him either, he’s the student sitting behind me, he seems to be from the Finance Department.
She said someone at the school next door drank it every day and had problems. When they went to the hospital for a checkup, the doctor said their intestines were full of those pearls, all intact and undigested!
"No, why would I be so unconvinced? We've been drinking it for so long without any problems. Besides, the pearls aren't very hard. They'll break if you chew them. There's no way they'd stay intact in my stomach."
The roommate who brought back the news scratched his head and said puzzledly, "That seems to be the case."
"If you ask me, I think you might have offended someone and this rumor was spread. You're a top student, but you still believe this?"
The roommate who passed on the news still had some doubts and said:
"They were telling the truth. They even described exactly when the patient was taken to the hospital and which hospital they went to. It was as if they had witnessed it with their own eyes. Anyone who heard it would be puzzled."
Today it was Su Miao's turn to buy milk tea, so she said:
"Why don't I ask the boss when I go buy milk tea later and hear what they say."
My roommate said in surprise, "Huh? Why don't you just ask them? Even if it's true, they won't admit it. Why don't we just stop drinking?"
"Just ask directly. It's okay. We're consumers, and it's normal to ask questions about products. Besides, even if you convict a criminal, you still have to let him defend himself. Besides, right now, you're just listening to other people's gossip."
"Then...then go ahead. If there's really no problem, we can continue drinking. It's really delicious. Don't tell me that it was me who spread the word, or you shouldn't sell it to me anymore."
Su Miao rode his bike for about twenty minutes in the afternoon to arrive at the milk tea shop, and saw the boss and his wife making milk tea with sad faces.
"Boss, please make me four cups of milk tea and take them away later."
"Hey! Okay, okay! There aren't many people here today, so it'll be done quickly."
Su Miao looked around the store and saw only a few people waiting, much less than usual.
So she asked tentatively, "Boss, there are indeed fewer people here today. Is it because the school is having a sports day and none of the students are here?"
"Ah, we don't know either. Suddenly, fewer people have come these past few days. Didn't your neighboring school just start its sports day yesterday?"
Su Miao thought about it and decided to ask directly what he had heard: "Boss... I think this may be related to a rumor circulating in the school, which is..."
After hearing this, the owner of the milk tea shop was furious and his face instantly turned red: "What! Who said that?! What plastic?! How can people eat plastic?! This is too much!"
After saying that, he and his wife each took Su Miao's side and entered their operating room.
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