Chapter 496 Another Bowl
The waiter said, "This fish noodle soup is made with fish bones. The fish meat is freshly sliced and cooked in the fish soup. The soup tastes very fresh. You can have a bowl, young lady."
"Okay, let's have this fish soup noodle." Zhuang Qingning said.
"Okay, two bowls of vegetarian noodles and one bowl of fish soup noodles." The waiter said with a smile, "You three are the first table of customers today. I'll bring you a portion of pickled radish later. It's best eaten with noodles."
"Thank you." Zhuang Qingning replied with a smile.
"Of course. Please wait a moment, the noodles will be here soon." The waiter said as he lifted the curtain and walked towards the backyard, apparently to urge the kitchen to prepare the noodles.
They were the only guests at this table! Shen Quan and Shi Bao looked even more miserable, and they felt that the waiter's words about the delicious soup were just lies.
"How about I go next door and buy some buns?" Shen Quan stood up. "Manager Zhuang, what kind of filling do you want? I heard people outside shouting that there are spring onion and meat, cabbage and meat, and radish and meat. I think there are also vegetarian fillings, cabbage and tofu fillings."
If the noodles taste terrible, at least there is a bun to eat with it and some noodle soup, and it's okay.
After all, we've already come in, and it wouldn't look good to leave without eating.
Zhuang Qingning blinked and laughed, "Just now he was clamoring for noodles, but now he wants to buy buns again. Are you afraid that the noodles here are not tasty enough?"
Seeing that Zhuang Qingning had also thought of this, Shi Bao and Shen Quan nodded like chicks pecking at rice.
Then he moved closer to Zhuang Qingning, lowered his voice so that the waiter inside the store wouldn't hear him, and said, "Look how deserted the noodle shop is. Didn't the waiter just say that we were the first table of customers, and no one came here to eat noodles? That must be because the noodles here are so bad that no one came."
"I'm going to buy some buns so I can eat them later. There seems to be a braised meat shop next to it. Why don't I go and see what braised food they have?"
Shen Quan said, "How about a roast chicken?"
There are buns and roast chicken, which are enough to fill you up. As for the noodles, just drink some hot soup and enjoy.
Zhuang Qingning helplessly paid and held his forehead, "Don't say that the noodles here are not delicious. Wait until the noodles arrive and try them first. If they are not delicious, it is not too late to buy buns."
"Besides, I think the noodles in this noodle shop shouldn't be bad."
"Why does Manager Zhuang say that?" Shi Bao scratched his ear, "No one comes to eat..."
"Look at this store." Zhuang Qingning looked towards the door. "The entrance is spacious. The sign on the door and even the doors and windows are very grand and clean. The tables and chairs in this room are also better than those in ordinary small shops. They are all painted and look very new. Judging from the appearance, it should be newly opened."
"The sign outside says the best noodles in the world. The location is really good, but they only sell noodles. Aside from the people in the town, once people who come to the town see this, they will definitely think that the noodles sold in this shop are not cheap and cannot be eaten."
"As for the people in this town, if they just want to fill their stomachs, there are plenty of stalls selling noodles. If they want to eat something good, there are only noodles here, which is not enough. If you invite people to dinner, it naturally doesn't make sense to treat them to noodles."
"I guess this shop is deserted because of these things. But I see that everything here is arranged in an orderly manner. I guess the owner of this shop should be an extremely rigorous person. Such people usually do things seriously. Since they sell noodles, the cooking method of these noodles must have been carefully studied. So I guess the taste of this noodles is probably good, and the ingredients are sufficient."
"This shop is so deserted, and the waiter is not sent out to attract customers. I guess the shopkeeper has his own obsession and arrogance. I guess the noodles in this noodle shop taste good, but they may not be very cheap..."
As soon as Zhuang Qingning finished speaking, the waiter came over quickly, looking apologetic, "I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you that the rule of our noodle shop is that you have to pay first."
"And this vegetarian noodle costs six cents a bowl, and the fish noodle soup costs ten cents a bowl. The prices are not cheap. If you think it's suitable, then eat it. If you think it's not suitable, the noodles in the kitchen are not put into the pot yet..."
Yes, you can still regret and leave.
Shi Bao and Shen Quan looked at each other.
Zhuang Qingning was right. The noodles in this noodle shop are really not cheap.
The grain harvest in this dynasty has always been good, and the grain price has been very stable, so the vegetarian noodles sold at the stalls outside are sold at two cents a bowl at the cheapest, and three cents at the slightly more expensive ones. Fish soup noodles are at most five cents. With the price being twice as expensive as outside, it is no wonder that no one comes to eat noodles.
But since Zhuang Qingning had already said the price, would the noodles taste the same as Zhuang Qingning had guessed? Shen Quan hurriedly took out his money bag, counted out twenty-two coins and gave them to the waiter, "Please hurry up, I'm a little hungry."
"Okay, sir, please wait a moment." The waiter took the money and went to the back.
Not long after, three bowls of noodles were brought out.
Two bowls of vegetarian noodles and one bowl of fish soup noodles.
This fish soup noodle, just as the waiter said just now, is a proper dish, with fish soup that is boiled till it turns white, garnished with some chopped green onions, and under the neatly arranged fish fillets are noodles that look quite chewy. The whole bowl of noodles is emitting a steaming aroma.
This vegetarian noodle looks like a clear soup, which looks like plain water, but you can smell a faint fragrance from the soup. The noodles are like silver threads, sinking to the bottom of the bowl, dotted with a little sesame oil.
It looks very good, much better than the noodles sold at any random noodle stall outside, and it also has a very strange aroma when it smells, but I don’t know what this noodle tastes like...
Everyone was already starving, so no one was polite to each other. They picked up chopsticks, picked up the noodles and put them into their mouths.
This side...
Shi Bao and Shen Quan were both shocked when they swallowed the first mouthful of noodles.
It is chewy, smooth and springy, with a refreshing flavor. I don't know how to describe the taste of this noodle in my mouth, but I feel it is very comfortable and delicious and I can't stop eating it.
He didn't even bother to take a piece of the pickled radish on the table.
The two of them almost wolfed down the bowl of noodles in front of them in a flash, finishing it all, and even drank most of the soup. Finally, when they put the bowl on the table, they waved to the waiter hurriedly.
"Waiter, another bowl of noodles."
The two of them spoke in unison, looked at each other, and then laughed.
"What kind of noodles would you like?" The waiter smiled. "Or plain noodles?"
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