Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 193: No more food delivery today, we are going to eat fried skewers in the restaurant

Shen Yu had no experience at the beginning, so he bought a whole chicken and cut it into small pieces to make skewers.

Yesterday afternoon, I went to the chicken and duck shop on purpose and after being pointed out by someone, I found out that there was a shop specializing in selling meat skewers.

This shop sells all the types of meat skewers commonly seen in small stalls, including ready-made raw meat skewers.

Shen Yu took a look at the meat skewers being processed in the store. The meat was fresh, and large poultry like chickens and ducks were all boned and cut and skewered on the same day.

Shen Yu thought it was just what he wanted, so he bought some of each kind of meat skewers.

The meat skewers are bought from other stalls and placed directly on the stall. When customers want to buy them, they are fried in oil and then sold.

Shen Yu added the step of pickling.

After buying the meat, put the skewers in a large bowl, sprinkle the pickled rice wine and onion and ginger water in small amounts in appropriate proportions, and stir evenly.

Fortunately, the meat skewers are not very big, so even with the bamboo sticks, they can be coated evenly.

Set it aside for a while, then add egg white, starch, pepper and some broth, mix well and pour into a large bowl. Stir it a few times, then add some sesame oil and set it aside to marinate overnight.

When frying meat skewers today, Shen Yu asked Li to fry some chicken and duck skewers that she had bought. After they were fried, Shen Yu tasted them first and found them to be quite good.

It turns out that if you stir the meat a little more and marinate it for a little longer, the taste will be almost the same as if you marinate the meat first and then skewer it.

Shen Yu asked Li and the others to try it as well, and they all thought it tasted good.

After the bones of chicken and duck are removed, they taste tender and juicy. You can also save the time of skewering them. All you need to do is skewer some pork belly and spare ribs every day.

The vegetarian dishes were not very popular yesterday, so Shen Yu simply made only two vegetarian dishes today, one was stir-fried garlic shoots, and the other was stir-fried bean sprouts with vinegar.

Garlic shoots have a spicy taste and paired with pork belly skewers, they are both refreshing and flavorful.

Bean sprouts are available all year round, not restricted by seasons. They taste crispy, sour and fragrant, and are delicious when rolled into pancakes with twice-cooked pork.

Because the meat dishes from yesterday were popular, Shen Yu added some more when he made them today. He also used the pot in the big kitchen to stew a pot of braised pork ribs. After the stew was done, he divided it into small bowls and put it in a steamer to keep it warm for sale.

Shen Yu was in charge of cooking, Li was frying skewers in front of the oil pan, and after Zhou Dalang made the pancakes, he and Jiang received customers in the shop. Yutao was responsible for cleaning up the dishes on the table after the guests had finished eating.

After Shen Yu finished cooking the dishes, she went to the big kitchen alone to make buns for lunch.

While doing the work at hand, she was wondering whether she should hire two more people to wait on the table or deliver meals.

There are many customers in the store today, all of whom come for the pork belly skewers and the twice-cooked pork for ten cents. Under the current situation, it may not be possible to spare staff to deliver the food in time at noon.

Just as he was thinking about this, Zhou Dalang ran over and said that someone in the store was looking for Shen Yu.

Shen Yu put down the buns he was wrapping, patted the flour off his hands, went to the shop and saw that he was a clerk in a shop on Market Street.

The guy was standing in front of the small kitchen, looking at the freshly fried meat skewers on the stove's colander with a greedy look on his face.

Seeing Shen Yu coming over, he hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Miss Shen, how are you?"

Shen Yu smiled and returned the greeting, and asked, "Why are you here now, little brother? Is there a change in the number of lunch orders?"

The waiter chuckled and said, "Miss Shen, everyone on the street knows that you have opened a restaurant. It is said that the meat skewers and the twice-cooked pork are especially delicious."

"Our shopkeeper asked me to tell you that we won't be sending food to our house at noon today. The shopkeeper asked us to take turns to come to your house for lunch."

Shen Yu smiled and agreed. The waiter asked, "Miss Shen, can we come over to eat your meat skewers and these dishes anytime? Are they all hot? Do we have to wait?"

After Shen Yu answered all the questions, the waiter said happily, "That's great. If we can eat right away, we can choose what we like. It's no big deal to come to your house and run a few steps. I'll go back and talk to the shopkeeper now."

After saying that, the waiter looked at the skewers reluctantly, then turned and left.

Zhou Dalang smiled innocently: "If I can eat it anytime, I would also like to come to the store and choose what to eat. I can eat this dish today and that dish tomorrow. It's better than waiting to eat big buns every day."

Shen Yu said disapprovingly: "If they are too busy in the store to come, how can they come over? Isn't it better to have the food delivered to their door? Let's see."

After saying that, he went back to the big kitchen in the backyard to continue working.

But before he could finish wrapping two buns, Zhou Dalang called him out again.

Shen Yu had no choice but to go over again. This time, three waiters came back and said that food could not be delivered at noon and that they had to come to the store to choose their food.

One of the waiters said, "Our boss said that he heard that the food in Miss Shen's shop is available anytime, anywhere, and it has both meat and vegetables, which is very convenient. So he wanted to change his taste, so he won't deliver the buns these days."

Shen Yu sent the three waiters away, then turned around and told Zhou Dalang, "If another waiter comes, don't tell me. Just write down the name of their store. When we deliver lunch later, we won't deliver to that store."

Shen Yu was alone in the big kitchen in the backyard putting buns into the steamer. After adding coal, he thought about going to the shop in front to see if he needed help.

Zhou Dalang saw Shen Yu coming over, and said anxiously with a guilty look on his face: "Miss Shen, there are several more people coming. There are too many people, and I haven't been with them many times before. I have mixed up everything. What should I do?"

Shen Yu simply said: "Okay, I know about this, don't worry about it."

She called Yutao aside and told her to keep an eye on the heat of the buns in the big kitchen. When they were done, she would ask Zhou Dalang to turn off the fire and put the buns in the steamer.

After Shen Yu finished explaining all this, she took off her apron, put the account book, paper and pen into her small bag, and walked out of the store.

I checked the account book for each delivery shop and went to each shop, from the main street to the market, to ask.

When Shen Yu told the shop owners and waiters in each store that the dishes sold in his own store can be eaten in, taken away, eaten whenever you want, and can be picked up immediately, and that there are also large buns for sale at noon.

The shopkeepers and employees who used to love eating big buns all changed sides and stated firmly that they had been busy in the store for the whole morning and could not stay in the store at noon any longer.

If you want to go out for a walk, the few steps to Shenjia Fengnian Restaurant is just the right distance.

When you get to the store, you can order whatever you want to eat. After eating, you can take a walk back to the store. Walk a hundred steps after the meal and live to be ninety-nine. It's simply perfect.

Shen Yu was amused by the attitudes of these shopkeepers and wanted to laugh all the way, but he had to hold back his laughter and asked the next customer seriously: "Do you want to deliver food today? Do you want to eat steamed buns, or go to the store to try the meat skewers and twice-cooked pork?"