At noon, the other two teams also arrived dejectedly. The food city was doing a booming business. As long as a store was open, it would make money. Who would rent out a store?
"Let's go to the IGO office, which manages the food court stores."
The IGO office in the Food City is a building with a bright and clean lobby. Tang Qingxi walked to the office window to inquire about the cost of renting a store.
The woman who greeted Tang Qingxi was a woman in her forties. She had no idea what to do with Tang Qingxi's question: "Well, you just said you only rent for one month."
"Yes, it's only for one month, so it doesn't matter if the rent is a little higher."
"How much can you give?"
The rent for a shop in the food city was about 100,000 yuan a month. Tang Qingxi thought for a moment and said, "I'll pay 300,000 yuan."
"If it's 300,000, I actually have a shop here. Wait a minute and I'll take you there."
The elder sister asked the person next to her to take her place for a while and took Tang Qingxi to look after the store.
On the way across the street, I learned that the elder sister's surname was Li, and her name was Li Qingqing. Her family also opened a noodle shop in the Food City.
The shop that Li Qingqing was talking about was the shop next to her noodle shop. The shop next door was originally a porridge shop. The owner was good at making porridge, and everyone who came to the food city would patronize it.
The owner of the shop has passed away, and the one who inherited the shop is his son. After his father passed away, he wanted to run the porridge shop, but for some reason, he just couldn't make edible porridge using the recipe left by his father.
Li Qingqing also couldn't understand how the neighbor's son could cook porridge, the simplest thing, until it was half raw and half cooked.
It's been half a year, and the shop is running at a loss. It might as well be rented out for another month to make some money.
When we got there, we found the shop was in a good location with many tourists coming and going. The shop looked quite new and available for rent, so we decided to see if anyone wanted to rent it.
"Xiao De, Xiao De, come out for a moment. Your aunt is looking for you." Li Qingqing shouted at the door of the shop.
A 2-meter-tall, burly man walked out of the shop and asked Li Qingqing with a worried look on his face, "I'm here. What's up, Auntie?"
Li Qingqing said with a smile: "Xiao De, this shop has been out of business for a while, right? Look, there's a short-term lease here, would you like to rent it?"
Xiao De looked up at Tang Qingxi and said in a muffled voice, "No, I won't rent it. This is the shop my father left behind. I will definitely run it."
"Xiao De," Li Qingqing advised, "I know you want to run your business well, but the water and electricity bills for the past six months are quite high. The person renting the shop is willing to pay 300,000 yuan a month. If you rent the shop for another month, at least you can buy some food."
Xiao De still refused without hesitation: "I don't want to rent it, you guys can go away."
"Hey, kid." Xiao De refused to rent, and Li Qingqing had no choice but to say apologetically to Tang Qingxi: "I'm sorry, I made you come here for nothing."
Tang Qingxi stepped forward and said to Xiao De, who was about to enter the shop, "We have a chef. If you rent the shop to us, the chef can teach you how to make porridge."
In this world of gourmet food, being a chef is a sacred profession, and it is a very serious matter for a chef to take on an apprentice. He will only consider taking an apprentice after the apprentice has been trained for a few years. It takes at least ten years for the apprentice to become a master. This is why Xiao De is alone in the kitchen trying to cook porridge, and no one is willing to teach him.
As long as you promise to teach Xiao De how to cook porridge, I believe he will be tempted.
Xiao De used to be a food hunter and knew nothing about cooking. This shop is the life's work of his father, and he really wants to run his father's shop.
Hearing this, he turned around and asked, "Can you really teach me how to make porridge?"
"Really? We can put it in the contract."
"Okay, I'll rent it to you."
After renting the shop, Xiao De would not leave for the time being, and would help Tang Qingxi and the others. It just so happened that Tang Qingxi and the others were not familiar with the ingredients.
Tang Qingxi looked at the layout of the store. The store was well maintained and there was no need to add anything else.
The next step is to understand the ingredients in this world. The ingredients needed to make Buddha Jumps Over the Wall are quite complicated. Xiao De directly took Tang Qingxi and the others to the market.
The Central Food Market, covering an area of 3,000 hectares, has approximately 900,000 tons of food traded every day, making it the largest food trading market in the world.
No matter what ingredients you need here, you can find them for you within 10 minutes.
Walking into the market, you will see people coming and going, it is very lively, with the sounds of sellers, shouts, and bargaining filling the air.
Tang Qingxi saw a fish with big claws coming towards him. It was nearly 10 meters long and weighed at least two or three tons. The pair of big claws weighed over a hundred kilograms.
"What is this?" Tang Qingxi asked Xiaode.
As a former gourmet hunter, Xiao De was very familiar with the habits, capture methods, and edible parts of these ingredients. Seeing Tang Qingxi's inquiries, he answered attentively:
"This is a lobster fish, caught only at the first grade. The fish meat is rough, but the meat inside the lobster claws is comparable to high-quality crab meat."
High-quality crab meat. Tang Qingxi swallowed his saliva and asked, "How many kilograms of crab meat are there?"
"About 300 kilograms."
Who has ever eaten 300 kilograms of crab meat?! That's 30 kilograms of crab meat at most, and that's the weight of the whole crab. Crab roe buns, crab meat lion's head, steamed crab, spicy crab...
Tang Qingxi pulled Sun Jiaojiao's sleeve and swallowed his saliva, saying, "Let's buy some lobster fish. I want to eat crab meat and lion's head tonight."
"I want to eat too." Zhao Siqi said with his mouth watering.
Qian San waved his hand and said, "Then buy it. I'll make a crab feast for everyone tonight."
The lobster fish vendor said with a smile: "One lobster fish, do you need anything else?"
"I also have sirloin mushrooms, which taste like sirloin.
"Giant octopus. This octopus has hundreds of tentacles. You're definitely not going to go wrong buying it."
"Wine coconut, a fine wine naturally fermented inside coconut, has a sweet taste and is most popular among ladies." The vendor introduced them enthusiastically one by one.
Tang Qingxi twitched the corners of his mouth. What kind of weird names are these? They are really descriptive.
You don’t need any of these, so let’s first find the ingredients needed for Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
This is when Qian San comes into play.
Making Buddha Jumps Over the Wall requires shark fin, abalone, fish maw, top-quality flower mushrooms and matsutake mushrooms, and the tendons of pigs, chickens, cows, and deer are indispensable.
The skirt is made of earth dragon turtle, the abalone is made of nine-star abalone, and the chicken is candied chicken...
Qian San adjusted the ingredients according to Xiao De's introduction.
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