Food starts with noodles

High-end restaurants are better. People who go to spend money basically go there for their health.

But if cheap restaurants stick to the healthy route, they won't be able to survive unless they open their stores with the mentality of not making money like Xu Zhuo did before.

And after the restaurant is renovated this time, Xu Zhuo's store will also be able to make a profit, and it will not be as low as before, and it will be completely exchanged for customers with profits.

After the new price list comes out, some customers are bound to leave.

However, this is also a helpless move. After the store is upgraded, the cost will also increase exponentially. If the price is not raised, the store will not even be sustainable.

When they came to the supermarket, several people began to choose the ingredients to be used.

The crispy chicken that Xu Wenhai wants to make is best to be a small rooster, which is not available in supermarkets, and he plans to go to the vegetable market to buy that kind of fresh-killed rooster later.

The carp that sweet and sour fish needs is available, and Xu Zhuo chose a carp that weighs about one catty.

You can’t buy this stuff too big, because if the fish is too big, the fish is more than two years old, and the meat quality is definitely not as tender as the one-year-old fish. In addition, there are quite a lot of dishes today, and the fish I bought is too big to be eaten. It’s a waste. .

When he and Yu Keke were choosing fish, Wei Junming chose a piece of high-quality pork belly and a piece of two-knife pork for twice-cooked pork in front of the meat cabinet.

The dishes that use pork belly today include the tamales made by Xu Zhuo and the Dongpo pork that Wei Junming wanted. Wei Junming was worried that it would not be enough, so he bought about three catties at a time.

After picking out the meat, Wei Junming bought a few more chicken legs, and Yu Keke came over curiously: "Godfather, why don't you buy chicken breast? I think this chicken breast is very good."

Wei Junming smiled: "Drumstick meat is better than chicken breast meat for Kung Pao Chicken, because chicken breast meat is too thick, and it doesn't taste good when fried."

Then the three picked two yams, a few cucumbers, a pound of mung bean sprouts and some side dishes to be used.

After the bill came out, Xu Zhuo let Yu Keke and Wei Junming go back first, he was going to the vegetable market to buy tofu and roosters.

Since it is going to be done today, it must not be improvised.

Be serious when cooking for others, and don't just settle for it when it's your turn to eat.

Xu Zhuo strolled to the vegetable market, picked a small rooster, asked the store to help butcher it, and then went to a store selling old tofu to buy two catties of old tofu.

After paying the bill, he carried it back to Yao Meixiang's house.

At this moment, Wei Junming and Xu Wenhai have already started working in the kitchen.

There is no need to prepare the dishes Xu Wenhai is going to cook, he is picking bean sprouts now.

The old man wants to make oily beans. As the old man's son, he naturally wants to help him.

Wei Junming cooks the twice-cooked pork first, while the Dongpo pork must be stewed in advance.

Seeing Xu Zhuo coming back, Wei Junming asked with a smile: "You can steam the meat first, don't let the time not make it taste bad."

In fact, he was afraid that Xu Zhuo's tamales could not be done well, so he took advantage of the fact that he was free and watched Xu Zhuo's cooking from the side, so he could give pointers if he made a mistake in any step.

Xu Zhuo really has nothing to say about this godfather.

But my father can’t do it anymore, Xu Wenhai looked at the cucumbers that Xu Zhuo bought, and sighed slightly: "I knew I would order the dishes first, cucumbers in coir raincoats are so simple, pickled peppers and chicken feet are also ready-made, you just need to make a dish of tamales That's it..."

Xu Zhuo smiled: "Then how about I stay in the kitchen while my grandfather is making fried bean sprouts?"

Xu Wenhai immediately quit.

He also hoped to learn the essence of oil-splashed bean sprouts from the sidelines later, otherwise he would be so busy picking bean sprouts right now?

"Xiao Zhuo, what, it's better for me to stay in the kitchen later. After all, the hot oil is easy to splash. If it burns you, I will feel distressed for several days. Let me do it..."

Chapter 239

He spoke without changing his face or heartbeat, Xu Zhuo was very envious of his thick skin.

Xu Zhuo's dishes don't need to be deep-fried, so he definitely won't stay in the kitchen. Instead, Xu Wenhai not only needs deep-fried fish, but also deep-fried the crispy chicken he makes.

I will use a pot of oil for the oily bean sprouts that the old man will make later, and it will save the need to toss the oil pan back and forth.

However, the oil used in Shandong cuisine is peanut oil, and now there is only rapeseed oil at home. In order to let everyone eat authentic Shandong cuisine, Xu Zhuo, who had nothing to do, went to buy a small barrel of peanut oil.

"Chefs in the south like to use rapeseed oil, and even think that the dishes made without rapeseed oil are not authentic, but the northerners, especially the Shandong cuisine area, prefer to use peanut oil, Xiao Zhuo, what is the reason?"

Xu Wenhai paid attention to Xu Zhuo while pinching mung bean sprouts.

Xu Zhuo thought for a while and said, "Because the south doesn't produce much peanuts, they are used to eating rapeseed oil, while the north is the opposite, the main production area of ​​peanuts, so the southerners use rapeseed oil and the northerners use peanut oil. Phenomenon."

"Personally, I also prefer peanut oil, canola oil is too fuzzy and always smells weird."

Speaking of this, he glanced at Wei Junming who was cooking meat, and quickly added: "Of course, this is just my personal opinion, and it doesn't represent everyone. After all, there is a supporter of rapeseed oil here."

Wei Junming was delighted when he heard it: "In Sichuan cuisine, there are really few dishes that use peanut oil. They are all rapeseed oil or lard. Sometimes it is very common to use these two oils together for color and taste."

"The other reason why I don't use peanut oil is that peanut oil is too expensive to use. Rapeseed oil is cheaper, and the color of fried things is better and quicker, so everyone likes to use rapeseed oil."

"However, many people now use soybean oil, sunflower oil, and corn oil. There are also various blended oils. There are many choices. Most people eat them in combination, not just one."

After he boiled the meat into the pot, he made room for Xu Zhuo: "Come on, let's start making tamales, just let me see what you have learned from Lao Zhang."

In order not to delay Xu Zhuo's operation, but also to be lazy, Xu Wenhai went outside with a basket containing bean sprouts.

"Ke Ke, Pan Pan, you two wash your hands to do me a favor, remove the head and tail of the bean sprouts, just pinch them like I did."

Chen Guifang rolled his eyes at him: "You are really lazy."

Xu Wenhai smiled: "Isn't this for the two of them to learn from it?"

After finishing speaking, he took a bean sprout and said: "This dish is not easy. It is a headache just to prepare it. If you are really particular, the bean sprouts not only need to pinch the head and tail, but also have to pull out the core in the middle."

Yu Keke was free right now, so she tried to smoke it, and she really pulled out something that looked like a bean sprout root.

Zhou Wen also washed her hands at this moment and came over: "Uncle Xu, when I was watching "Snail House", it said that there was a dish called bean sprouts stuffed with meat. , do you have this dish?"

Xu Wenhai nodded: "There is such a dish, it's called Huoya Yinsi, but everyone likes to call it bean sprouts stuffed with meat, but everyone knows how to make this dish, but not many people actually make it. "

"This is Subang cuisine. Ke Ke's grandfather should know this dish, but this dish is even more unpopular than oily bean sprouts, because no one will be free to cook this dish, and no one will be free to go to The restaurant orders this dish."

"Even if this dish is priced at [-] yuan, it is not enough for labor costs, but the same dish of fried bean sprouts with ham costs less than [-] yuan. The price difference is countless times, but the taste is the same, so no one wants to order it, and no one wants to eat it." do it."

In the kitchen, Xu Zhuo sliced ​​the meat, and then put in the ingredients for the cured meat one by one to prepare the cured meat.

The whole process seemed to have been done many times, and Wei Junming was amazed to see it.

"Xiaozhuo, your talent in cooking is the highest among people I have ever met, so don't waste your talent, work hard, and try to surpass me, your father, and your grandfather. There is nothing wrong with cooking Chinese food Controversial No.1..."

This goal is a bit big, even higher than the goal proposed by the system for Xu Zhuo.

People's system just made him a chef, but the godfather actually proposed the No.1 small goal directly.

Is it true that people are so bold and prolific?

Xu Zhuo would not be dazzled by this praise, on the contrary, he was always calm.

He knows his own level better than anyone else. If it weren't for the system, the Sifang Pavilion would have been closed for subletting by now.

After finishing all this work, it's time for Xu Wenhai to come in and cook chicken.

Crispy chicken is not easy to make. It must be cooked until it is six or seven years old, and then fried with high-temperature hot oil, so that it will become crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

And after frying, it must be served on a plate, so that it tastes more delicious.

When Xu Zhuo came to the living room, Yu Keke had already picked up the bean sprouts and was watching TV with Chen Guifang with a bag of Huamei.

Seeing Xu Zhuo come out, the girl quickly stuffed a piece of plum into Xu Zhuo's mouth: "Is it delicious? I just bought this at the supermarket. If you like it, I will feed you every day."

Sun Panpan and Zhou Wen quickly covered their eyes when they heard this: "Here it is again, this crazy girl feels uncomfortable if she doesn't show her affection..."

Xu Zhuo was sitting on the sofa, holding his mobile phone to look at the news of posting gifts and red envelopes in Moments, chewing plums in his mouth, and subconsciously asked: "It smells like bean sprouts. Did you wash your hands?"

"puff……"

"Hahaha……"

Sun Panpan and Zhou Wen couldn't hold back any longer and burst out laughing.

Yu Keke squinted her eyes, and just when she was about to explode, Xu Zhuo reached out and took out a plum from the bag and stuffed it into her mouth.

Sun Panpan was just about to say it was sweet, but Boss Xu said, "I didn't wash my hands either, so we're even..."

Straight man Xu is online again.

Sitting in the living room, Xu Zhuo finished reading Moments, and was about to turn off his phone and go to the kitchen to have a look. Someone in his university dormitory group sent a message. When he clicked on it, it was from Meng Liwei, the head of the dormitory.

"Brothers, I'm divorced, that bitch went to open a room with her leader today, and I happened to be checking the surveillance in that hotel, and I was caught straight..."

Meng Liwei is actually one year younger than Xu Zhuo, and the dormitories were ranked according to appetite back then, and Meng Liwei became the boss of the dormitory because he was so good at eating.

When he got married on May [-]st last year, Xu Zhuo went to be the best man, but he didn't expect to leave so soon.

Xu Zhuo asked, "Have you left?"

Meng Liwei posted a photo in the registration hall of the Civil Affairs Bureau: "I am applying for a divorce certificate, and it will be over in a while. Is any of you free? I want to go out and relax, but I don't know where to go..."

Xu Zhuo thought for a while and said: "Come to Rongcheng, I'm in Rongcheng recently, just to accompany you around."

Chapter 240 The Secret of Long Marriage

Soon, other people in the group also spoke one after another, comforting Meng Liwei not to be too sad.

The six people in the dormitory are all learning programming, but Xu Zhuo and Meng Liwei didn't do it.

The reason why Xu Zhuo didn't become a programmer was that the old man suddenly threw the noodle shop to him, abruptly destroying his dream.

And Meng Liwei didn't become a programmer, the main reason was...no one wanted him.

At that time, everyone else in the dormitory had found jobs, and Xu Zhuo took over as the boss. Only Meng Liwei was still struggling to submit resumes everywhere.

Xu Zhuo was free to help Meng Liwei analyze the reasons for the failed interviews. He thought that Meng Liwei had too much hair, which left a bad impression on the interviewer.

He also suggested that Meng Liwei go to a barber shop to have a Mediterranean hairstyle, and he might be recognized by the interviewer as a genius among programmers in no time.

Of course, this was all a joke. Meng Liwei eventually returned to his hometown and worked as a technical engineer in a security monitoring company with a monthly salary of [-] plus bonuses.

Although this treatment is not as good as those classmates who are programmers, it is considered very good in their hometown.

After work, Meng Liwei met his wife. After dating for more than half a year, both of them felt good. In addition, Meng Liwei's family had already bought a wedding room, so they chose to get married on May Day.

Xu Zhuo was deeply impressed by that wedding, because Meng Liwei's wife was so excited that she shed tears several times at the wedding, and vowed to stay with Meng Liwei forever.

Xu Zhuo and the others were all clapped red, their brothers found the one they like, and they were all happy for Meng Liwei.

But in just over a year, their marriage came to an end.

Especially Xu Zhuo, who is still in shock.

This happened so suddenly, last night Meng Liwei posted the perfume and jewelry he bought for his wife in Moments, and recalled the process of getting to know his wife, the sweetness between the lines is simply enviable.

Unexpectedly, in less than 24 hours, this sweet marriage had an accident, and it was still in this way and on this day.

It's hard to imagine how uncomfortable Meng Liwei must be right now.

The divorce was done very quickly. The two had no children, and the house belonged to Meng Liwei's parents, so there was no need to divide any common property. Just take the household registration booklet and marriage certificate to the registration hall to apply for a divorce certificate.

After receiving the divorce certificate, Meng Liwei immediately bought a direct flight ticket to Rongcheng for Zhang Mingming. The other brothers were all busy, so only Xu Zhuo could accompany him to relax.

Good brother, that's it. Although you don't have many contacts at ordinary times, but when you really have something or are upset, you will think of the other party immediately.

Xu Zhuo wrote down the arrival time of the plane, and comforted Meng Liwei a few words. In fact, it was a good thing for Meng Liwei, and it was better than finding out in a few days.

Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, and if you leave, you will leave.

Putting down the phone, Xu Zhuo looked at the people in the living room and asked: "My classmate just got divorced, and he will come to play with me tomorrow. Please help me think about how to get him out of the failed marriage as soon as possible."

Sun Panpan, an emotional expert, went online again: "What does he usually like? What is he more interested in? And what is the reason for his divorce? Is it because of domestic violence?"

Xu Zhuo thought for a while and said, "He's not interested in anything, he doesn't have any special hobbies. The reason for the divorce is that his wife cheated on him. He happened to catch him, and he chose to divorce in a fit of anger."

Everyone thought it was a matter of appearance, but after Xu Zhuo took out the photo of Meng Liwei and his wife, this point of view became self-defeating.

Although Meng Liwei was not as outstanding as Xu Zhuo, his appearance was not low. Standing with his wife, his appearance was even slightly higher than his wife's.

Sun Panpan wanted to forcefully analyze it again: "Then what characteristics does he have? The one that impresses you very much."

Xu Zhuo thought for a while and said: "He has a big appetite, which is comparable to Li Hao, but he is not as greedy as Li Hao. Buddha nature."

At that time when their dormitory was arranging seats by flipping faces, Xu Zhuo hadn't eaten all day, so he thought it shouldn't be a problem to fight for the first place.