Liu Tong and his friend got really drunk last night and didn't wake up until almost 10 p.m.
Upon realizing he was already late, Liu Tong immediately applied for a field assignment, while his friend asked his boss for leave on the grounds of feeling unwell.
After washing up, the two went to Xu's Fast Food Restaurant together.
A friend saw this restaurant on Shanghai TV, and the food featured in the video looked quite delicious.
I just haven't had the chance to come and try it myself. The company is too far away from here, so I can't order takeout.
This time, we finally found an opportunity.
After getting off the bus, there was still some distance to Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, so the two chatted as they walked towards it.
As they chatted, they started talking about fun things from their childhood.
"Do you remember how possessive you were of your food when you were little? It was your aunt who brought you a bag of braised chicken feet after her business trip. When she heated it up, it smelled so good! It attracted us all, and we watched you gnaw on the chicken feet for half an hour."
"Holy crap, how do you still remember this?" My friend couldn't help but cover his face. "I was so engrossed in eating that I didn't notice you guys. When I came to my senses, I treated you to a meal."
After that, Liu Tong's friend, not to be outdone, began to expose Liu Tong's shortcomings.
“When you were little, you were also very possessive of your food. Every day after school, you would buy a bag of salted peas that cost one yuan at the school store and put it in your backpack, pretending to be nonchalant so you could take it home and eat it all by yourself.”
"How did you know? I didn't tell you about this!" Liu Tong exclaimed in surprise.
"Your mom told me this when she was chatting with my mom: every day she manages to find a few peas that have rolled under the bed in your room."
Time always flies when you're chatting; it felt like they had only exchanged a few words before they arrived at the entrance of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant.
Suddenly, Liu Tong's friend's nose twitched twice. He seemed to smell a strong aroma of spices, which smelled a bit like braised food.
His gaze searched around and finally landed on a stainless steel basin that an older woman was stirring with a spoon.
The fragrance comes from here!
Just then, Liu Tong walked up to the table and asked, "Auntie, what kinds of braised meat dishes do you have today?"
"We still have a few spicy duck necks, duck feet, chicken wing tips, and original flavor chicken feet left, but everything else is sold out."
"Give me some of everything, and some spicy vegetarian dishes too."
Holding the braised dishes and freshly prepared food, the two found a quiet corner on the second floor and sat down.
Liu Tong placed the dish of braised dishes in the center of the table. The braising liquid slid off the food as the dish shook, dripping from the tips of the chicken wings onto the duck necks, then down the sloping neck muscles into the duck feet on the ground. The plump duck feet soaked in the amber-colored braising liquid.
Then, Liu Tong opened a jar of frozen apple cider vinegar and placed it in front of his friend: "Try it, the combination of braised dishes and apple cider vinegar is a perfect match, I'm telling you."
After saying that, Liu Tong kept a close eye on his friend's every move, waiting for his feedback after he had eaten.
From the moment my friend saw the braised food, his eyes were glued to it. Now, upon hearing Liu Tong's words, he immediately reached down, pulled out a plump duck foot from the bottom, and put it in his mouth.
The braising liquid dripped first from the fingertips of the duck feet into the mouth, making contact with the tongue first, and the salty and fragrant taste triggered all the taste buds on the tongue.
With a gentle opening and closing of the teeth, a fingertip was easily bitten off along the joint of the duck's foot. As the teeth and tongue rubbed together, the already tender meat completely separated from the bone, turning into minced meat in the mouth, and then flowing down the throat and safely landing in the stomach.
That's too little! That's too little! I want more!
One finger segment after another disappeared swiftly into the gaping maw, while pieces of bone, tinged yellow by the brine, fell onto the table, forming a small pile of bones.
The saltiness of the braised food accumulates in the mouth, competing with the body for scarce moisture, turning everything in its path into parched land.
Just as the thirst was about to reach its peak, a mouthful of cool, apple-scented rain fell from the sky, washing away the saltiness that had accumulated in my mouth and instantly calming the turmoil in my body.
Liu Tong watched as his friend devoured a large plate of braised dishes with a bite of braised food and a sip of apple cider vinegar.
Damn! I knew it wasn't my sense of taste that was wrong!
After wiping the brine off his hands, Liu Tong's friend leaned back in his chair, staring thoughtfully at the dish that was now just filled with brine.
The construction site of the Bauhinia Garden.
After the announcement of the meal allowance yesterday morning, everyone on the construction site was unable to concentrate on their work, and people kept discussing the issue.
"Where to eat?" has become the latest greeting on the construction site. Even if two people meet in the toilet, they will still ask this question.
The workers' first choice was naturally Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, which offered large portions, delicious food, and low prices.
Anticipating that the fast food restaurant across the street would be packed today, Qiao Xingguo was already preparing for his sprint at 10:55 a.m.
But things didn't go as planned. At 10:58, the foreman came over and chatted with him for a short while, only about ten minutes.
Because of those ten-odd minutes, when he rushed to the front of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, he found that both stores, four floors, and more than a hundred seats were completely full, and the outside was still crowded with people trying to get in.
At this moment, Qiao Xingguo thought of the Delicious Restaurant, whose taste and dishes were not much different from Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, so it was not unacceptable.
So he turned around and walked towards the delicious restaurant. He had only walked about ten meters when he saw a group of people coming back from around the corner.
"Is the Delicious Restaurant full too?" Qiao Xingguo asked a familiar coworker.
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