Chapter 30
Xiao Rong invited three sisters to her house today, and they started exchanging pleasantries as soon as they arrived.
"Sister Rong, I haven't seen you for a long time. I thought you didn't want to see us anymore."
"Sister Rong, why did you think of treating us to a meal today? Didn't you say you've been eating boxed lunches recently?"
"Yes, why didn't Sister Rong eat the boxed lunch today? Maybe she doesn't like boxed lunches anymore."
Facing everyone's somewhat sarcastic greetings, Xiao Rong just smiled and said, "It's been a long time since I had dinner with you all. I just happened to have some free time so I invited everyone to come over for a get-together. Today I specially prepared some delicious food, I hope you will like it."
Xiao Rong asked everyone to sit down at the dining table, and as soon as everyone sat down, their attention was attracted by the food on the table.
The tempting stir-fried pork liver, the golden and crispy crispy pork, the spicy and sour shredded potatoes, the brightly colored braised eggplant, and the delicious seaweed and pork soup.
Faced with a table full of tempting delicacies, Zhang Sumei's eyes lit up.
"Sister Rong, the dishes you prepared look delicious. Your aunt is a great cook."
Zhang Sumei stared at the crispy pork in front of her. The golden skin of the crispy pork looked very crispy. She couldn't help swallowing.
What Luo Baiying liked at first sight was the stir-fried pork liver. The unique aroma of the pork liver hit her taste buds immediately. The smell made her stomach start to stir.
And the braised eggplant. It was the first time she saw fried eggplant so purple.
Tang Siyan couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks, but no one else had started yet, so she could only hold back her hands and muttered to herself, "Stop talking, let's eat."
Seeing that everyone was already greedy, Xiao Rong curled the corners of her mouth and smiled secretly. These three people all disliked lunch boxes.
She once invited them to eat box lunch together, but all three of them refused her. Now they were drooling at the food in the box lunch restaurant. Xiao Rong couldn't help laughing. What would their expressions be if they knew that these dishes were from the box lunch restaurant?
Xiao Rong couldn't suppress the urge to smile, so she cleared her throat and said, "I specially prepared these dishes. If you like them, I'll be satisfied."
Tang Siyan could hardly bear it anymore, the various scents kept tempting her.
"It's getting late, why don't we eat first." Tang Siyan said, looking very hungry.
Luo Baiying also said: "Yes, let's eat first, everyone is hungry."
Luo Baiying was ready to eat the fragrant stir-fried pork liver.
Not only they were greedy, Xiao Rong herself was also greedy, "Then let's start eating, it's best to eat it while it's hot."
As soon as she finished speaking, Luo Baiying picked up a piece of pork liver with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. The thin pork liver was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a smooth and glutinous texture and a rich and mellow flavor.
Luo Baiying couldn't help but widen her eyes. The pork liver tasted much better than she had expected. There was no fishy smell at all, and it was surprisingly smooth and tender.
It is not easy to make stir-fried pork liver smooth and tender. The most important thing is the heat. It must be stir-fried over high heat to make the pork liver smooth, tender and fragrant.
Luo Baiying savored the mellow aroma of the pork liver, which was delicious and tasty.
"Delicious, pork liver is so delicious!" Luo Baiying said excitedly.
As soon as he finished speaking, he picked up another piece and put it in his mouth. The pork liver was tender and tasty, not woody or fishy. It was simply perfect.
Zhang Sumei, who was eating the crispy pork, was also very excited. She said as she ate, "This crispy pork is also very delicious. The skin is super crispy, and the meat inside is fresh and tender. The taste is super good."
The crispy meat in her mouth became more and more delicious the more she chewed it. Zhang Sumei was really surprised. This was the crispiest, most fragrant and tender crispy meat she had ever eaten.
The skin was fried very crispy, and the meat inside was particularly tender, smooth and fragrant. Zhang Sumei couldn't help but sigh at the high level of this chef.
Tang Siyan was the fastest eater. She had tried every dish, including crispy pork, stir-fried pork liver, spicy and sour shredded potatoes, and braised eggplant. She liked every one of them.
She was scooping a spoonful of seaweed and pork soup into the bowl, lifted the bowl and took a sip. The warm soup slid down her throat and she instantly felt its sweetness.
"The soup is delicious, the seaweed is soft and fresh, and the meat slices are thin and tender." Tang Siyan drank it very happily.
Luo Baiying also hurriedly tasted other dishes and became more and more excited the more she ate.
Bite after bite, everyone ate happily and contentedly.
In a short while, the four of them finished all the dishes on the table.
Zhang Sumei finished the last mouthful of soup and couldn't help but sigh, "It's delicious! Sister Rong, is this really made by your aunt? Such a delicious dish can't be made by ordinary people. If you say it's made by a top chef, I believe it!"
"Sister Rong, the aunt who cooks in your family is hired from a big hotel. Her skills are even better than those of the chefs in big hotels." Luo Baiying has eaten at major famous restaurants in Hai City. She had just eaten pork liver from a high-end restaurant the day before yesterday. Even the pork liver cooked by a famous chef was not as tender and glutinous as this one.
Tang Siyan also envied Xiao Rong's cooking auntie. She smiled and said, "Sister Rong, can you introduce your cooking auntie to me?"
She thought that if she had a cook with such good cooking skills at home, she could eat super delicious meals every day.
At this time, Luo Baiying thought of what Xiao Rong said about her eating boxed lunches recently, "Sister Rong, your auntie cooks so delicious food, why do you still eat boxed lunches every day? Are you lying to us? If my auntie's cooking skills were so good, I would definitely eat at home every day. Let alone boxed lunches, I wouldn't even want to go to high-end restaurants."
The more she talked, the more envious she became. Luo Baiying also wanted to have a cook with such good cooking skills.
Xiao Rong was still savoring the mellow aroma lingering in her mouth. She really liked today's new dish, stir-fried pork liver. After stir-frying, the pork liver was still fresh and tender, without any fishy smell. It was super delicious.
Hearing everyone praising the delicious food, Xiao Rong's smile almost overflowed.
She smiled and said, "I want to confess something to everyone. I deceived you."
Before Xiao Rong finished, Luo Baiying immediately answered: "I know, I knew you were lying to us when you said you were eating boxed lunches. You didn't go out to dinner with us because your auntie at home is a good cook, so you would rather eat at home than go out to eat with us."
"Don't mention Sister Rong. If I had a cook with such good cooking skills at home, I wouldn't want to go out to eat." Tang Siyan felt that the dishes cooked by the cook in Xiao Rong's family were much more delicious than those in high-end restaurants. She could understand that Xiao Rong didn't want to eat out.
Xiao Rong cleared her throat and continued, "The lunch boxes are real, I didn't lie to you. What I want to confess to you is what happened today. The food you just ate was not made by my auntie. I bought all the food from the lunch box restaurant. I lied to you and said it was made by my auntie because I knew you didn't want to eat the food from the lunch box restaurant."
Xiao Rong said a lot in one breath, and then she waited and looked at everyone's reactions.
Everyone seemed stunned.
The first person to speak was Zhang Sumei, "Do you mean that the delicious lunch we just had was the one you mentioned?"
Xiao Rong nodded, "Yes, I bought a lunch box and then put the food from the lunch box onto the plate."
Zhang Sumei: "Oh my God, why didn't you buy us such delicious lunch earlier!"
A row of question marks floated across Xiao Rong's forehead. She had clearly invited them several times. "I recommended this lunch box to you a long time ago, but you disliked it and were not willing to eat with me."
"Hehehe..." Zhang Sumei remembered that she had indeed disliked it, but she couldn't blame them for disliking it. They didn't know that the lunch box would be so delicious. Usually, boxed lunches gave people the impression that they were cheap but not delicious.
"If you told us that the lunch boxes were so delicious, we would definitely go and eat them," Zhang Sumei vowed.
If she knew it was so delicious, she would eat it even if it was a roadside stall.
Xiao Rong was speechless for a moment. She didn't know how many times she had told them that the lunch boxes were delicious, but they just didn't believe her. Xiao Rong understood a truth: many things were useless no matter how you said them. It was better to let them experience it for themselves.
"The main reason is that we didn't know it was as delicious as you said." Tang Siyan also said with a smile.
She remembered that when Xiao Rong told her that the boxed lunch was delicious, she thought Xiao Rong was talking nonsense, although she had never eaten a boxed lunch and had even only seen boxed lunches in TV dramas, where busy workers had no money and could only eat cheap boxed lunches. So in her worldview, boxed lunches were cheap but not delicious.
No one would have thought that a cheap lunch box could be so delicious. Speaking of lunch boxes, Tang Siyan became greedy again. She quickly said, "Sister Rong, please tell us the specific address of this lunch box restaurant. We can go there together next time."
Luo Baiying: "I want to go too. Sister Rong, can you take us with you next time?"
"It's better to act than to think. Why don't we go tomorrow?" Zhang Sumei couldn't wait to have the second meal.
She thought that the lunch box restaurant would have a wide variety of dishes for her to choose from, and she had already decided to try other dishes that she had never had before.
Xiao Rong's face was almost frozen with laughter. Their enthusiasm now was in stark contrast to their disgust at that time.
"Are you sure you want to go? That box-type rice restaurant is in a remote suburb, and I heard that it is a very simple-looking box-type rice restaurant, completely different from those luxuriously decorated high-end restaurants you usually go to." Xiao Rong said deliberately.
Tang Siyan: "Decoration can't be used to make a living. As long as the food tastes good, the decoration is not important at all."
Although she said so, what Tang Siyan paid most attention to when choosing a restaurant was the decoration. She liked restaurants with exquisite and stylish decoration. Dining in a restaurant with a good environment can make people happy both physically and mentally.
But in front of such a delicious lunch box, she can ignore everything as long as the food is delicious.
"Yes, Sister Tang is right, the decoration is not important. The food is so delicious, who would care about the decoration?"
Luo Baiying just wants to eat a box lunch now, and she can endure it even if the environment is not good.
Seeing that everyone was so eager to go to the Heya Restaurant, Xiao Rong smiled more and more brightly, "Okay, since everyone wants to go, let's go."
Just like that, the four of them made an appointment to go to the Heya Restaurant together tomorrow.
Xiao Rong had never been to a box lunch restaurant in person. Last time, she heard her son say that box lunches taste better when eaten hot in the restaurant, so she was looking forward to this trip to the box lunch restaurant.
On the other side, Yuan Chaotian, who had just delivered the lunch boxes, took another order to run errands to buy fever medicine for someone. The distance of this order was very short, and the fever medicine was delivered to the customer in less than ten minutes.
At this time, Yuan Chaotian's stomach was almost empty. He remembered the lunch box he had just bought and prepared to find a quiet place to eat it.
Yuan Chaotian rode his bike to a nearby park, which was full of grandpas and grandmas who came out to sing and play chess after lunch. Yuan Chaotian walked to the slightly quieter lakeside and sat down on a stone bench by the lake. After a busy morning, he could finally sit down and rest for a while.
As soon as I sat down, my stomach started growling.
"What a useless guy, he cries when he's hungry!" Yuan Chaotian complained about himself.
Then he took out the lunch box he had just bought in the suburbs and said, "Let's see what this cheap lunch box that rich people like to eat looks like."
As he spoke, Yuan Chaotian opened the lunch box. Instantly the rich aroma hit his face, catching him off guard and his taste buds were hit all at once.
“What a delicious lunch box!”
The rich and mellow pork liver, the sweet and sour sweet and sour pork, and the water spinach full of garlic flavor.
When he just entered the Heyan Restaurant today, he heard many workers discussing the stir-fried pork liver. They said that stir-fried pork liver was a new dish and they all wanted to try it.
So Yuan Chaotian also ordered stir-fried pork liver, but actually he didn’t like pork liver very much.
Yuan Chaotian has also cooked pork liver at home because pork liver is cheap and he bought it to save money.
It turned out that the pig liver not only had a strong fishy smell, but was also very dry and choking to eat. One had to drink a mouthful of water to eat one piece.
After eating it once, Yuan Chaotian never bought pork liver again.
But now the pork liver in front of me smells particularly tempting, with a unique mellow aroma of pork liver, and the thinly cut pork liver looks very delicious.
Yuan Chaotian picked up a piece and took a big bite. The pork liver was pink and tender, not dry at all, and had a fragrant aroma.
Chew slowly, the aroma of the pork liver becomes more and more intense, lingering in your mouth, giving your taste buds the ultimate enjoyment.
Yuan Chaotian ate three pieces in a row and didn't feel choked or fishy at all. It was just fragrant and tender, absolutely delicious.
In front of delicious food, it would be impolite to slack off for even a second, so Yuan Chaotian quickly finished the lunch box.
Whether it was stir-fried pork liver, sweet and sour pork, or even the seemingly ordinary water spinach with garlic, they all found him incredible.
After eating, Yuan Chaotian finally understood that rich people would be willing to spend more than 20 yuan for running errands to buy a box lunch of more than 10 yuan. If he had money, he would be willing to do so too.
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Today's new dish, stir-fried pork liver, is very popular. While eating the stir-fried pork liver, Yao Chu began to think that Chen Kangle could make the pork liver, which he didn't like, so delicious. If Chen Kangle made the shrimp he liked, it would definitely taste even better.
After thinking it over, Yao Chu shamelessly walked over to Chen Kangle and said, "Boss Chen, can we make shrimp as a new dish next time? Boiled shrimp, braised shrimp, or dry pot shrimp are all fine."
The customer who was waiting in line next to him heard Yao Chu's suggestion and agreed: "Boss Chen, I also want to eat shrimp, crabs and oysters. The seafood made by Boss Chen must be delicious."
Another customer said, "You are talking about expensive seafood. Do you know how much shrimp and crabs cost per pound in Haishi? Meat dishes in Hezi Restaurant are only five yuan. If you sell shrimp and crabs, do you want Mr. Chen to lose money and go bankrupt?"
"Indeed, if you sell shrimps and crabs for five yuan, you will definitely not make any money." Yao Chu has been to the market to buy shrimps, and the price is indeed not cheap.
Yao Chu suddenly had an idea and thought of a good idea. "Boss Chen, how about this? You can set the price of the shrimp a little higher. As long as it tastes good, we are willing to buy it at a higher price."
Other customers also thought this was a good idea. "Boss Chen, you can set different prices for different dishes. Dishes with expensive ingredients should be priced higher, and those with cheap ingredients should be priced higher. This way, the dishes will be more diverse, and our customers can choose freely. If they want to eat cheap food, they can buy the low-priced ones, and if they want to eat expensive food, they can buy the high-priced ones."
"Yes, although I don't make much money, I still want to eat some seafood and beef occasionally. I hope Boss Chen can make some of these more expensive dishes so that we can taste more dishes."
During the break, Chen Kangle thought about this problem seriously. She had thought about making shrimp before, but later she went to the market to ask about the price of shrimp. After calculating, she felt that it was not cost-effective and gave up the idea.
Chen Kangle felt that the method the customer just mentioned was feasible. Different dishes could be priced differently and divided into different price ranges, such as the five yuan range, the six yuan range, the seven yuan range…
Now that more and more customers are coming to Hedian Restaurant, Chen Kangle also plans to enrich the menu. At present, Hedian Restaurant has only one food insulation display cabinet, which can only hold 18 dishes in total. Chen Kangle plans to buy another food insulation display cabinet, so that he can sell more dishes at the same time and divide the dishes into different prices.
But if there are more types of dishes, Chen Kangle may not be able to handle it alone in the kitchen. If he wants to expand the variety of dishes, he will have to hire a chef assistant to help.
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