The barbecue stalls across the street looked shabby and shabby compared to Yun Jin's stall, like a makeshift operation.
Someone came to Yun Jin's place for barbecue, saw the place across the street, and asked, "Is that yours too?"
Yun Jin smiled and shook her head: "No, those are stalls set up by the villagers. They have some new dishes tonight, you can try them, they should taste good."
When they heard it was a barbecue stall run by villagers, they knew it was trying to steal their business. They smiled and stopped paying attention to the other stall, instead asking curiously, "What new dishes?"
"Roasted chicken butts." Yun Jin didn't expect that Sister-in-law Gao could pull some strings and get a batch of fresh chicken butts from the slaughterhouse. The chicken meat was specially supplied, and they didn't want the chicken butts.
Sister-in-law Gao thought that their barbecue had too few meat and vegetables, and was all vegetarian, so it wouldn't sell for much. If it had meat, it would definitely be different.
In those days, meat products had to be purchased with ration coupons, and sometimes they couldn't even get pork belly.
Although the taste of this chicken butt is a bit strange, it's still meat, and who knows, some people might like it!
Yun Jin was surprised that Sister-in-law Gao could get chicken butts. After hearing what she said, she immediately nodded and said it was fine. Chicken butts are cleaned well, and they will definitely taste good when roasted.
Anyway, Yun Jin wouldn't allow He Tingchuan to eat chicken butts.
After the first skewer of chicken butts was grilled, Li Aiguo took a bite and exclaimed, "Delicious!"
And so, tonight's meal included grilled chicken butts. Yun Jin recommended it to everyone who came for barbecue, and nine out of ten of them tried it and got a skewer of chicken butts. The grilled chicken butts did indeed taste different.
Yun Jin and her friends frequently introduce new dishes to enrich everyone's taste buds, and their business remains booming, making the barbecue restaurant across the street run by villagers seem deserted.
For the sake of one or two tables, it was for relatives and friends to come. There were no customers at all. They could only watch enviously as the bustling scene here was filled with customers, table after table, until there were no more seats and the tables were set up on the road outside the door.
And so, the six tables set up on the street were eventually filled up again.
Some people saw that there were seats available across the street and said they would sit there and have Yun Jin and the others grill the food and then deliver it to them.
Yun Jin stopped him: "The place across the street isn't ours. We really don't have any seats left. Why don't you come back tomorrow?"
"Then I'll go try the other place across the street. It's just that there's no room here, so don't blame me for eating at someone else's place." The woman who came was someone Yun Jin knew, and she was afraid that Yun Jin would be angry.
Yun Jin chuckled, "What are you saying, sister-in-law? It's not that I can't entertain you, but you can try it yourself. Tell me if it's good or not, and I'll improve our cooking."
Her sister-in-law liked her outgoing personality and took her family to the other side of the street.
The family running the barbecue stall in the village saw the approaching customers as if they were their saviors, and immediately gave them a warm welcome, making the sister-in-law feel a little embarrassed.
When asked about the price of the barbecue, it was the same as Yun Jin's, which was basically a copy of Yun Jin's prices. The only difference was the variety of food, but there was less meat. Their meat coupons were not as good as He Tingchuan's.
We haven't caught up with the trend yet, no chicken butts.
Sister-in-law Gao looked at the woman who had gone to eat barbecue across the street and asked, "Why did she go there?"
“We don’t have any seats here, so it’s good for her to try it. This sister-in-law is a big mouth and loves to chatter. Once she tastes it, she’ll know how the barbecue across the street tastes.” Yun Jin said with a mischievous smile.
Sister-in-law Gao gave a thumbs up: "It has to be you."
Yun Jin smiled proudly.
Soon, Yun Jin was busy again.
After the people who had finished eating paid their bills and left, before Yun Jin could even start eating, He Tingchuan had already taken the initiative to help clear the table and put the bamboo basket aside to wash and dry.
At this time, without plastic bags or oil-absorbing paper, you can only diligently wash the bamboo baskets and clean the edible leaves to use as oil-absorbing paper on the bamboo trays, all of which require human washing.
This work was originally Yun Jin's job in her spare time, but He Tingchuan, feeling sorry for his wife, did it for her.
Yun Jin also felt sorry for He Tingchuan and told him to stay home and rest with the children, as she could manage on her own. However, He Tingchuan refused, saying, "I want to stay with you. I can't rest well at home either. Why don't you come and help? I'll do more, and you can do less."
Yun Jin was touched. Even if she worked hard all night, she had to make it up to the person who knew how to care for his wife.
You might say he dotes on his wife, since he does a lot of housework.
You might say he doesn't care about his wife, but if Yun Jin gives him even a little something sweet, he'll take a big bite out of her.
This made Yun Jin afraid to give him any more treats, for fear that she would fall apart the next day.
The sister-in-law who went to try the food saw that the barbecue was undercooked and didn't know how to complain, so she asked them to grill it again.
It was cooked through, but the taste was just average.
It was burnt black, making it impossible to eat.
The fish, too, smelled fishy as soon as it arrived, and it couldn't compare to the fish that Yun Jin and the others had marinated.
Why does this fish taste so fishy?
The proprietress frowned: "Fish is naturally fishy!"
Seeing her bad attitude, her sister-in-law got angry and gave her a hard time: "What's wrong with you? You can't even clean your own fish properly. Are you trying to grill a dead fish for me?"
“The grilled fish I eat at their place isn’t this fishy. Your cooking skills are so bad, yet you have the nerve to set up a stall. Don’t you even know if you have the ability?” the sister-in-law scolded. “With your skills, you’ll never be able to make a living.”
The villager who was scolded looked displeased: "You... if you can't eat it yourself, then don't eat it."
"I never planned to come back to eat here again, even if you begged me, I wouldn't come." The sister-in-law called to her family to leave, but they stopped her: "Pay up, you haven't paid for what you ordered."
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