Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 335: Big Sister’s Cooking is the Best

Jiang was also very impressed and couldn't help but say, "Even the noodle chefs in the big restaurants can't make noodles like this."

Zheng Sanniang asked in confusion: "Girl, you have such good noodle making skills, why don't you sell some noodle soup in your shop? The customers will definitely like it too."

Shen Yu smiled and shook his head: "There is already a noodle shop on this street, and there is also a noodle stall next to the breakfast stall at the entrance of the market."

"It's better not to sell the same food. It's not good to compete with others for business, as it will damage the harmony."

Li said, "Yuzhi is right. We are now making stir-fried dishes and stews, which is different from them. Even if our business is better than theirs, they will just have to accept our advice."

"The owner of that noodle shop has come to our store several times to buy pork belly skewers."

"We like how we do business. The skewers are delicious. My little grandson loves them."

"They also said it was good this way, because everyone was selling different foods, so they wouldn't scheme against each other, and they would feel more comfortable."

Everyone was chatting about business without interrupting their work.

When Shen Yu saw Yucheng and Dundun got up, he brought down the braised pork trotters with soybeans that he had been simmering on the stove since he got up.

He opened the stove door, added some coal, and fanned the fire.

Use a small soup pot to fill up some broth and add appropriate amount of water. Blanch some green vegetables first, then scoop them out and put them in a soup bowl. Add a little salt and pepper to season the bowl.

When the water boils, put the silver thread noodles into the pot.

The silver thread noodles are extremely thin and they become translucent after just one boil in the soup and can be scooped out.

Serve the noodles and add half a bowl of clear soup.

Put in a few large pieces of pork trotters that have been stewed to be even softer and glutinous, scoop up a spoonful of thick soup, and a bowl of soft, glutinous and fragrant pork trotter noodles is ready.

Li took out five or six pieces of steamed candied date cake and set them aside to cool.

I'll prepare and pack the food so that the two children can eat it to fill their stomachs if they get hungry in the afternoon.

Yucheng and Dundun came to the kitchen and saw that breakfast was not the usual steamed buns and spicy soup, but the steaming and fragrant pork trotter noodles that Shen Yu had specially gotten up early to prepare.

His appetite was immediately whetted, and he devoured the two bowls of noodles in no time.

They finished their meal with satisfied looks on their faces.

Yu Cheng said happily, "Big sister's cooking is still the best. I go to school every day and haven't eaten the food that Big sister cooked for a long time."

Dun Dun also nodded and said with a smile: "Sister Yuzhi's cooking is the best."

Li handed the wrapped candied date cake to the two of them and scolded them with a smile: "You two greedy boys are quite picky about food. Doesn't it mean that the food we cook is not delicious?"

"I won't cook for you anymore. You can cook for yourselves after school."

Yu Cheng was carrying the bookcase on his back, smiling droolingly, "Mom, your cooking is delicious too, but it's just a little bit worse than what my eldest sister makes, just a little bit."

As he said this, he stretched out his little finger and showed a short part of it. Li didn't know whether to laugh or cry when she heard it, and she was so angry that she raised her hand to slap him.

Yucheng and Dundun made faces at each other and said, "Let's go." Then they turned around and ran away.

How could Li really take a picture? Seeing the two people walking out of the door in a hurry, Li shouted from behind: "Slow down, it's not even daybreak yet, watch your step when you walk."

"Oh, I got it. Don't worry." The two responded from a distance.

The footsteps in the alley gradually faded away.

Li shook her head, sighed, and continued to work.

Because winter was approaching, the sun rose late in the morning. When the two of them walked, the alley was still dark and cold, and it was really hard to read the book.

Shen Yu recalled the scene when he went to elementary school as a child. It was also before dawn, and he would go to school alone with a heavy schoolbag on his back. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that it was a good thing that he didn't have to go to school anymore.

It's so cold, I have to get up so early and walk such a long way. If I don't eat well, I really can't bear it.

I hope this college can move closer soon.

Shen Yu and her friends have to wait until they finish serving breakfast to when there are many customers.

Sprinkle some dry flour on the silver noodles made this morning and shake them loose. Put them on a bamboo plate, cover them with a cloth and set them aside. Prepare some pork ribs and vegetable noodles for breakfast.

After steaming the buns in the morning, Shen Yu put the large and small casseroles that had been filled with amber meat last night into the steamer.

After half an incense stick of steaming time, you can move the casserole to the insulated steamer in the store's kitchen and it can be sold at any time.

Because we told the diners the day before that we would start selling amber meat today, and even while we were still selling breakfast, there were already anxious customers coming to buy amber meat.

Business today is surprisingly good.

Before noon, all the twenty portions of amber meat prepared were sold out.

Shen Yu knew that on the first day, people would want to try something new, so more people would come to buy.

But the popularity exceeded Shen Yu's expectations.

At noon, several regular diners came here to eat lunch and wanted to buy some amber meat to take back, but they were disappointed.

Li and her friends had no choice but to promise that they would prepare it tomorrow and reserve a few portions in advance to ensure that the diners who did not buy it today would have a portion of amber meat to take home.

Even with verbal promises, diners are still not reassured.

Shen Yu simply took out the account book and charcoal pencil.

Just like when selling small reunion cakes, the names of diners who want to buy amber meat tomorrow and the quantity they want to buy are recorded one by one, and only then can the diners leave with peace of mind.

Before leaving, he told Shen Yu not to forget that even if they came late at noon, they could not sell the food to other diners.

Shen Yu was so amused that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. If someone didn't know, they would have thought that the restaurant sold some strange food.

When other diners saw this, they also ordered amber meat for tomorrow.

By the time the store was about to close, we had received more than twenty orders for tomorrow alone, and most of them were large portions.

When Li heard Shen Yu report the quantity, she became anxious: "If everyone is willing to order large portions, the clay pots at home will not be enough. We have to order some more large clay pots."

Shen Yu also felt that fifty large casseroles were not enough.

Diners buy the amber meat along with the casserole, but they don't necessarily come back to return the casserole the next day.

I always have to wait until I have free time, or go to the market to buy things, then I will bring them here. In this way, the clay pots will not be in circulation.

After the two of them discussed it, Li took off her apron, picked up her purse, and hurried to the shop on the other side of the market. She ordered some more clay pots while the market was still open.

Shen Yu plans to make only two large pots of amber meat every day.

There are two large pots at home. After filling both pots at once, when divided into casseroles, there are about twenty large portions and ten small portions of amber meat.