Shanhai Hot Pot Restaurant

On a rare rest day, office workers can finally not have to get up early, they can leisurely go downstairs to have breakfast and then go home to sleep in cages, and then make appointments with friends.

Li Min is one of the ordinary office workers. He got up from the bed unsteadily. It is impossible to eat breakfast. It is not human who can get up from the bed on the rest day. It was already 10 in the morning when he finished washing. :30.

"Oops!" Li Min held his trouser waist in one hand and the phone in the other, apologizing to the person on the other end of the phone, "I'm sorry, I overslept, where have you been?"

The tone of the person on the other end of the phone was pretty good: "It's okay, I'll go directly to your house and wait for you downstairs, and we'll take a taxi there when you go downstairs, but it's probably after eleven o'clock, so there must be a queue."

"But when we get on the bus, we can line up in the official account, and maybe we can go in and eat when we arrive."

Li Min heaved a sigh of relief, as long as he didn't get scolded, he smiled and said: "The business of that store is also very good."

"Business has always been good. I heard that the second floor is officially open today, so you can go eat barbecue." The person on the other end of the phone sighed, "Today is estimated to be a hundred times more crowded than usual."

Li Min: "It's all my fault for getting up late."

They originally agreed to go there at ten o'clock. Although there might be a line at ten o'clock, it was better than eleven or twelve o'clock.

Li Min quickly washed and dressed, and when he went downstairs, he saw the person waiting for him leaning against the electric pole, and he trotted over.

"Did you take a taxi?" Li Min said, "Why don't you take a taxi directly? We still have to wait for online taxis. There should be more taxis at the moment."

This online car-hailing service is not easy to book. When I opened the taxi-hailing software, there were more than 20 people lined up around me. No matter how fast the speed was, it would take 10 to [-] minutes for them to wait their turn.

"Prepare with both hands, the queue is still lined up, if there is a taxi, I will cancel the taxi."

After waiting for more than ten minutes, they finally stopped a taxi.

The driver couldn't help laughing after hearing them report the destination: "Why are all the taxis in the vicinity going there this morning? Is it that delicious?"

When Li Min talked about this, he became energetic: "It's not ordinary delicious, it tastes good, and the price is cheap. I have to eat it once a week. If I'm not too busy with work, I can go there every day."

Driver: "I also wanted to go some time ago, but every time I pass by, I can see a bunch of queues, which is scary to watch."

"That's true." Li Min sighed, "That can't be helped, I think it's delicious, and others must also think it's delicious."

The driver asked curiously, "Are you also going to eat barbecue?"

"Yes." Li Min just finished answering, and then said to his friend sitting next to him, "Let's see how many tables we have left?"

Friend: "...There are five tables left."

"Five tables?!" Li Min opened his eyes wide in surprise, "Is it so few?! I thought there were at least a dozen tables ahead."

The friend looked at the time: "It's just eleven o'clock now, and it's estimated that after 11:30, there will be too many people."

The news that Shanhai Hot Pot Restaurant will sell barbecue was told by friends in the same group. This restaurant doesn’t like to advertise, and it doesn’t distribute flyers. Proactive promotion, which has led to today, there are still many diners who do not know that Shanhai Hot Pot Restaurant is now selling barbecue.

The driver lamented the popularity of this store along the way.

"I used to pass by there often. Just a year ago, the store was very deserted when it first opened. There were not many customers at all. The store was empty every day."

He smashed it: "I didn't expect that the business is so good now, the boss must have made a lot of money."

"The business is so good, the income must not be bad, and the store has been expanded twice."

Li Min: "The waiters inside are all good-looking, regardless of gender, and I don't know how the boss chooses people. If someone like me wants to work as a waiter in a hot pot restaurant, the boss probably won't ask for it."

Now everyone thinks that the boss is a face-controller, and invites people only to look at the face.

As for Chen Yan, the only one who was not handsome, he was considered to be related to the boss and relatives, so the boss had to take him in.

"Here we are." The driver stabilized the car on the side of the road.

Li Min and his friend looked at the entrance of the hot pot restaurant through the car window, their eyes filled with secret joy.

"Fortunately, we ranked first on the official account."

Li Min said fortunately: "If this is not filmed, it is estimated that we will have to wait for more than ten tables."

The waiting area at the entrance of the hot pot restaurant is already full of people. The people who come are all young people. They can be seen as office workers. They sit in the waiting area and play with their mobile phones. If they can’t wait, they go to the nearby store to buy milk tea or It's two pieces of fried chicken.

"Fuck, when did you hire a newcomer, so handsome!" My friend looked at Zhu standing at the door, his eyes lit up.

Li Min pushed his friend with his elbow: "Your eyeballs are about to fall out, take it easy, you didn't realize it until you've been here for more than a month?"

The friend rolled his eyes: "I've only been away for two months on a business trip."

"So handsome..." The friend wiped his face, "It would be great if I could ask for my phone number."

Li Min persuaded: "Forget it, I don't know if he is gay, so don't look for a straight man."

The friend sighed: "You said the same thing when I wanted to ask the boss's phone number before, but it turned out! The boss turned out to be, and the handsome cashier got there first."

"...No one else will come first, and it won't be your turn." Li Min stepped forward, "Do you want milk tea? I'm going to buy a cup."

The friend quickly shouted: "Buy me a cup too, I want to drink pudding milk tea."

As soon as they bought the milk tea, Zhu called their number: "Is a28 there? Is a28 there?"

Li Min hurried over: "Here."

Zhu: "Just go upstairs, and someone will welcome you when you go up."

They entered the store and walked up the stairs to the second floor.

Usually the first floor is full at this point, but today there are two empty tables on the first floor, probably because the customers who came to the store today are all for the barbecue.

Not only can you eat barbecue on the second floor, but you can also eat hot pot. I don’t know if everything on the first floor can be changed to the second floor.

Walking up the last step, Li Min raised his head, he suddenly froze, and stood there blankly without moving.

There were a lot of people on the second floor, which was within Li Min's expectation, but the decoration on the second floor was completely different from Li Min's expectation.

If the first floor is full of passionate fireworks, then the second floor is another world. Both the chandelier and the floor are like a bright galaxy.

The tip of his nose was full of the smell of hot pot and barbecue charcoal.

"Hello, how many of you are there?" The young girl came over. She was wearing the uniform of the hot pot restaurant, and there was no oil stain on the white clothes. She had a smile on her face, warm and friendly.

Li Min: "There are only two of us."

The girl led them to a seat by the window, where there were three tables for two.

"The self-service area is over there." The girl pointed to the seat on the left, "The bathroom is over there."

"You can scan the QR code to order."

As soon as the two sat down, a waiter brought charcoal.

After the charcoal was placed, the baking tray was placed on the top, and the waiter asked thoughtfully, "Do you want to bake by yourself or let us do it?"

Some customers like to roast by themselves, and the meat roasted by themselves seems to be extra fragrant.

Li Min quickly said: "Come on, the two of us will definitely burn the meat or burn it old."

The waiter smiled at them: "Okay."

They also ordered the bottom of the hot pot. They had no restraint when ordering. They wanted to eat everything they saw, because they remembered that they came here for barbecue today, so they didn’t order too many hot pot dishes. Clicked.

"Pumpkin pie is a must." Li Min ordered two pumpkin pies.

Friend: "Have you ordered the candied apple?"

Li Min: "I definitely ordered it. Let me tell you, I have ordered candied apples in other stores, but none of them are as good as this one. I don't know if it is because the taste of this store is really outstanding or because of my psychological problems. "

After all, the raw materials of candied apples are different. Normally, the taste of each store should be similar.

But what's outrageous is that after eating this one, you will feel that the shredded apples of other houses are "defective products" if you go to other places to eat them.

Soon the roast was served and they ordered the meat platter, beef and pork belly and chicken.

In addition, there are foie gras and chicken skin.

"This beef looks like Shuangjiang beef." His friend swallowed subconsciously as he looked at the meat on the platter.

Li Min: "It looks quite fresh."

The waiter smiled and said, "Our food is all brought in on the same day, so it must be fresh."

Li Min also laughed, that's what he said, but no one knows when the goods were purchased, and they can't eat whether the ingredients are fresh or not, anyway, it's good enough.

"Let's roast the foie gras first." Li Min said to the waiter.

The foie gras was put on the baking tray, the fat overflowed quickly, and the smell of the foie gras soon filled Li Min's nose.

When eating foie gras before, Li Min didn't smell any aroma, only the smell of charcoal fire.

But now, he smelled an aroma of oil, mixed with the smell of charcoal fire, not as strong as the smell of hot pot, but a very light scent, but even so light, it can attract everyone who smells it , Li Min stared blankly at the foie gras on the baking tray.

Soon, the sides of the foie gras are slightly charred and the fat drains into the grooves next to the roasting pan.

"It's ready to eat," the waiter told them. "The foie gras is best with cranberry sauce, but you can also dip it according to your own taste."

Li Min couldn't wait to pick up a small piece of foie gras, and he dipped it in the sauce as recommended by the waiter.

When he first ate it, he could only taste the sauce, slightly sour, but more sweet, and then the original taste of foie gras. It is still rich in oil in the mouth.

But because of the sauce, it is not greasy at all. On the contrary, the aroma of the oil and the sauce is so fragrant that people want to swallow their tongues together.

What foie gras eats is the aroma of fat that other ingredients cannot replace.

Li Min closed his eyes and chewed slowly, the outside of the foie gras was slightly burnt, and the little bit of burnt aroma seemed to be absent in his mouth, but it was not bitter at all.

Even after swallowing the foie gras, there is still a lingering fragrance in the mouth.

When he opened his eyes again, the first thing he did was to put all the foie gras on the side of the grill into the empty bowl in his hand.

"Fuck! What are you doing!" The friend glared at Li Min, "Are you alone?"

Li Min quickly smiled and said, "Order another one."

Friend: "...do you think I look like a shabi?"

Li Min had no choice but to pick up the bowl and share half with his friends.

The beef on the grill was also roasted, and this time the waiter said to them: "Beef dipped in barbecue sauce is the most delicious, but you can try every kind of dipping sauce."

Li Min dipped the beef in the barbecue sauce, the color of the barbecue sauce was very dark, and the brown barbecue sauce didn't look very good, but when he put the beef into his mouth, he could taste how fragrant the barbecue sauce was.

The beef is very tender, this is the effect that he thinks he can’t roast, dipped in a little barbecue sauce and dried chili, after eating it, it will be spicy first, then salty, and finally fragrant, spicy and salty together, and Li Min chewed a little bit of inconspicuous sweetness slowly, and he felt that his whole body had been sublimated.

These are two completely different flavors from hot pot, but they are equally delicious.

Especially the texture of the beef itself, which is obviously very thick, but it tastes extra tender, but the inside is fully cooked.

Li Min remembered that when he went to a western restaurant to eat steak, he usually ordered medium-rare steak, but after eating it, he felt that [-]% was too old. Later, he ordered medium-ripe steak, but it depends on luck whether it is tender or not.

The degree of ripeness seems to vary from store to store.

In short, he doesn't have a good impression of beef. It is not as delicious as pork, especially pork has fat, and it is delicious only with fat.

And no matter how you eat beef, it is firewood, even the touted Wagyu is just so-so in his opinion.

But the beef he ate today changed his view of beef. It turns out that the beef can be so tender. Because it is so tender, the taste is surprisingly good. You don't have to chew it all the time, and you can swallow it quickly.

"Absolute." Li Min sighed, "This restaurant is really amazing. Everything is delicious, and there is nothing bad."

The friend nodded desperately: "There is a reason why the business is so good. It would be great if I could come to eat every day. I am so envious of the waiters who work here. If they want to eat, they can definitely eat every day, and they don't have to wait in line."

Li Min laughed at him: "Don't even think about it, your appearance is not good enough."

Friend: "...Don't talk about me, you are not good enough."

Li Min raised his head and asked the waiter standing next to him: "When you came to apply for the job, did the boss recruit people based on their face?"

The waiter didn't seem to expect that he would ask this question, and after a few seconds of stunned, he smiled and said, "That's not true, I was introduced by a friend, the boss just let me try roasting meat and vegetables, and I think I can handle the heat well." All right, let me come."

Friend: "I don't believe it, it can't be that all the applicants here are handsome and beautiful, right?"

The waiter was suddenly praised, and the smile on his face couldn't be restrained: "It's a coincidence."

The main reason is that among the strange beasts, there are very few ordinary ones, and those like Chen Yan are a minority, because they can control their appearance after transforming into human form, and they will all change into handsome men and beautiful women, but Chen Yan, he has become what he is now. The appearance is because he thinks he is blessed to look like this.

Some alien beasts are also quite "superstitious".

Change whatever is lacking, and some people are superstitious about "face".

Although it was created by the human race, many alien beasts were influenced by the human race.

After the beef was finished, the waiter grilled the pork belly again, and the cut pork belly soon became cooked and curled. Li Min quickly said, "Roast the pork belly for a while, so that all the oil will come out."

The waiter nodded. After the meat was roasted, Li Min picked up a piece, dipped it in the sauce, put it in the lettuce, and then put in the garlic and chili rings. He wrapped the meat and ingredients with the lettuce, and stuffed it into his mouth. inside.

There is only one sentence in Li Min's mind - "Pork belly is always the most tricky!"

The combination of fat and lean meat is very fragrant.

They ate hard, and the waiter asked after all the meat was roasted, "Do you want more?"

Li Min burped: "No need, we still have hot pot dishes to eat."

The hot pot does not need the help of the waiter to cook, and the waiter takes the empty plate away.

After returning to the back kitchen, the waiter told Yiyi, "It's too busy."

Yiyi smiled at him, and typed: "The store's business has always been very good, and the weekend is the busiest. It will be easier on weekdays."

The waiter let out a long breath, carried the dishes and went out again.

As Lu Shu, he has been hiding all these years, and he re-entered the human society after a thousand years after receiving Yiyi's message. Compared with other alien beasts, Lu Shu was often persecuted by the human race in the past, because As long as the human race wears their fur, they will have many children and grandchildren.

The human race always has a strange obsession with offspring. It seems that the more children the better, it doesn't matter how many survive.

The Lushu clan hides and hides, and dare not show their faces in front of the human race.

After receiving Yiyi's letter, he did a long time of thought work before making a decision.

After all, it is boring to always hide in the deep mountains and old forests. They eat and sleep every day, and occasionally see the human city from a distance, and they also want to go and have a look.

Now that he came to the city of the human race, he felt that everything was very novel.

Human cars, TVs and mobile phones, everything opened his eyes.

But compared to these, he was most shocked by the busy work, since the first day he came here, he has never touched the ground.

"Lu, there are guests at table three again." Ming Qian ran up from downstairs.

The deer nodded: "I'll be there right away."

Mingqian invited eight people in one go this time. If you don't invite them, you won't be able to do so. Even if the beasts can work, it's impossible to divide one person into two. After all, barbecue takes time.

Although he expected that today would be very busy, Ming Qian still felt a bit overwhelmed when he was really busy.

Downstairs there are more than 20 tables queuing up now, not counting the people queuing up on the official account. It seems that we may have to be busy until three or four o'clock today before we can have a little respite.

"Boss, drink some water." Yao handed the water glass to Ming Qian.

Ming Qian quickly took a big gulp and almost drank the glass of water in one gulp. After he finished drinking, he asked Yao: "Is there enough vegetables and meat?"

Yao: "Yiyi sent a lot today, enough."

Ming Qian heaved a sigh of relief, and he went to ask Yiyi again: "Do you still have enough raw materials?"

The shop is running out so fast, there probably won't be enough vegetables and meat in Yiyi's hometown.

Yiyi typed and said: "All the pigs and cattle in my hometown have been slaughtered, and now I buy from relatives. When the relatives are finished, my new pigs, cattle and chickens can be sold again."

Ming Qian: "That's good."

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"Sir, it's here." A car stopped at the entrance of the hot pot restaurant.

Someone ran down and opened the rear door, a pair of leather shoes fell to the ground, and the man got out of the car.

He was wearing a set of black clothes, looking up at the photo of the hot pot restaurant, the expression on his face was distorted for a moment, but the expression flashed by, and the people around didn't see it clearly.

"I heard that this shop started selling barbecue today." The young man stood beside him and said humbly.

A smile appeared on the man's face: "Come on, go in and try the taste of this store."

The man walked in first, and the two young men who came with him looked at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

Ever since this store won the first place in Crystal of Asia, the owner's mood has become worse and worse. Although he asked people to tweet that this store bribed the jury, he didn't want people to compare this store to the jury. Jiuye connected, so he had to clarify on Twitter, and said against his heart that he believed in the fairness of the jury.

It is still painful for me to be entangled. From the perspective of young people, it is better to ask the jury directly. After asking clearly, stop thinking about it.

And even if they kept saying on the Internet that the hot pot restaurant bribed the jury, it was only at the beginning that some people believed it, and people's memory is very poor. It has been so long since the selection of the Crystal of Asia, people have long since ignored it.

People who have eaten have also begun to say nice things on Twitter.

But what made the boss most angry was that Shanhai Hot Pot Restaurant didn't come out to say a word from the beginning to the end. It didn't even have its own official Twitter account, as if it didn't know about it at all, and didn't care about it.

The boss hit the cotton with all his strength.

Fujiwara didn't know what his subordinates were thinking. When he walked into this hot pot restaurant, he felt that it was the same as he imagined. All the shopkeepers are successful people and social elites.

Just looking at the customers, this store cannot be compared with Nine Nights.

His pride was soothed and his chin lifted even higher.

"Hello, how many of you are there?" Chen Yan came up to him.

Fujiwara said in Japanese: "Three people."

Chen Yan also replied in Japanese: "Excuse me, have you taken the number?"

Fujiwara was stunned. When he came in, he saw people waiting in line outside, but he didn't expect that they were in line for this store.

Chen Yan also saw that they didn't have a number, so he smiled and said, "You guys should go and get a number first, and come in after the number is called."

Fujiwara's subordinate said: "We can add money."

"Let's talk about a price."

Chen Yan sighed: "Please understand, and I remember that the Japanese are very orderly."

Now that the word Japan is mentioned, they can only look at each other, as if they insist on adding money at this time, it will appear that the Japanese are not orderly and polite.

You can lose face yourself, but you can't lose face to the Japanese.

Fujiwara took a deep breath and said to his subordinates, "Go get the number."

He himself looked around the environment and guests on the first floor.

This time he flew over from Japan specifically to see how this store is.

After trying it himself, he will have more confidence to question the jury.

But he doesn't think his store will lose, and this store will never be more delicious than his store.

Fujiwara sneered and walked out of the store.