Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 561 Fast Food

Knowing Uncle Zhao's temper, Hua Lei stopped trying to persuade him, and as a result, the family had more and more winter bamboo shoots, so much so that even if the restaurant used them every day, they would never be used up.

So, Hualei prepared to make a batch of sour bamboo shoots. The reason why the snail rice noodle, which was very popular in the previous life, was so smelly was due to the sour bamboo shoots.

Making sour bamboo shoots is also relatively simple. Peel the winter bamboo shoots, wash them, blanch them, add an appropriate amount of salt to rice soup, put them in a sealed jar, and marinate them for a month.

Sour bamboo shoots can be eaten alone or as a side dish, or stir-fried with various dishes. After the sour bamboo shoots were pickled, Hua Lei made a sour bamboo shoot fish and sent it to Pei Jingyang.

Of course, I also made a portion at home. I washed the fish, made a few cuts on the surface, and marinated the fish with minced garlic, ginger and salt.

Prepare other ingredients such as minced chili and minced garlic, put a proper amount of oil in the pot, and when the oil is 70% hot, put in the dried fish.

Don't flip it in a hurry. Wait until one side is fried before turning the other side, otherwise it will easily fall apart. Keep the fish over medium-low heat throughout the process and fry the fish until golden brown before taking it out.

Leave some oil in the pot, add minced garlic and dried chili and stir-fry until fragrant, add sour bamboo shoots and stir-fry for two minutes, then add an appropriate amount of water to boil. Add a little salt, soy sauce, and other spices to the water and continue to boil.

After half a cup of tea, put the fried fish in the soup and stir-fry. When both sides of the fish are full of soup, take it out. Add a little MSG and a little yellow and white sugar to the remaining soup in the pot to enhance the flavor.

Because Rong Jin didn't like coriander very much, she added some chopped celery leaves to the flower buds. When the soup became thick, she poured it over the fish and it was ready to eat.

Although there is only one word difference between sour bamboo shoot fish and sour cabbage fish, the taste is very different, sour, spicy and refreshing, and each has its own characteristics.

After Pei Jingyang received the sour bamboo shoots and fish, he couldn't stop eating again. He even ate half a bowl of rice. He found that he had a really good appetite since Hua Lei came to Mobei.

Unfortunately, Madam Han couldn't accept the smell at all. She felt that the whole house was stinking. That night, she even sent Pei Jingyang to sleep in the study.

After Hualei found out, she also smiled secretly. Unexpectedly, the nights that the couple had spent together, which had finally made them feel passionate every day, suddenly turned into a severe winter.

In the future, if Madam Han dislikes me again, I will send her dishes made of sour bamboo shoots every now and then. After all, in addition to sour bamboo shoots and fish.

You can make sour bamboo shoots chicken, sour bamboo shoots fried with meat, or sour bamboo shoots stewed with snails. If you don't have any, you can also make some snail noodles for Pei Jingyang. Hehe!

Of course, dishes made with sour bamboo shoots are also served in restaurants, but the audience is polarized. Those who like it think it is the ultimate delicacy, while those who don’t like it think it is extremely disgusting.

Hua Lei didn't care. The restaurant's business has been getting better and better recently. Of course, it has received several caravans traveling to Mobei recently.

These caravans, just as Pei Jingyang said, were really rich. Moreover, after eating the dishes of Baiweilou, they bought a lot of seasonings from the restaurant.

Because he thought the pickled fish tasted good, he ignored Hualei's advice and bought a lot of pickled cabbage. Even though Hualei said that the taste of pickled cabbage would change if it was left for a long time, he didn't listen.

All of a sudden, Hua Lei felt that even if her restaurant was closed for half a year, it would still be able to survive. Of course, Hua Lei's restaurant was not closed for half a year, but was crowded with customers every day.

The thing is, originally, the officials and staff who came to Mobei from the capital had their lunch supplied by the imperial court, so there was also a canteen in the county government, and when it was lunchtime, the staff could just go directly to the canteen to eat.

However, because the officials and staff of the Ministry of Works had basically gone to the construction site of the new provincial capital, they basically did not return every day due to the long journey.

During this time, they stayed in a military settlement that was specially vacated by Pei Jingyang, so the canteen in the county government had basically nothing to do with them.

Although these people from the Ministry of Revenue all lived around the county government office, because there were quite a few officials and staff members, they also needed to go out with the people to supervise the reclamation of wasteland.

The common people only had two meals a day, so the supervisors did not go back to the county government office for lunch. The county government office's canteen had little to do with them.

So some officials became dissatisfied, because the lunch supplied by the court to all personnel was enjoyed by a few people who had been working in the county government. They could not enjoy it, so these people felt unbalanced.

After hearing these opinions, Minister Zhang thought about it and decided that this would not work. Moreover, even if there were no patrol officers, there were still people in the town collecting night incense and doing some logistical support work.

They would go out from time to time due to some unexpected situations, and the canteen would arrange lunch according to the number of people who showed up in the morning.

In this way, people who go out temporarily cannot enjoy the lunch in the county government canteen, and the canteen prepares meals for these people, resulting in waste.

In the long run, the food expenses will not decrease, but those who cannot enjoy the meals will feel more and more unbalanced, and the meals prepared in the canteen will also be wasted.

So after discussing with Mr. Li from the Ministry of Works, they decided to cancel the lunch supply in the county government canteen and convert the money into silver and distribute it to everyone.

This meant that all officials and staff had to solve their own lunch problem. Thus, Hualei's business came.

When Hua Lei heard the news, she immediately asked the restaurant to write a notice and post it on the door. The restaurant would offer lunch in the form of one meat dish, two vegetable dishes and one soup, similar to the fast food restaurants in the previous life.

The restaurant would prepare several meat dishes, several vegetarian dishes, and a free vegetable soup in the morning. Officials who needed them could go to the restaurant and choose.

Choose one of the meat dishes you like and two of the vegetarian dishes you like. That's it.

It is fast, convenient and hygienic, and the price is two copper coins lower than the subsidy directly distributed to each person by the court. Of course, if you want to eat two meat dishes and three vegetable dishes, that is also possible, but you need to pay extra.

Rong Jin was skeptical at first and told Hua Lei that this was not an option. Just like herself, she would definitely go home to eat and would not choose Hua Lei's hotel. After all, everyone has a cook at home.

However, Hua Lei smiled and said that there were not many people like Rong Jin who lived near the county government office and worked in the county government office.

It only takes Rong Jin two cups of tea to get from the county government office to his own house, which is very convenient. However, many people who work in the county government office do not live near the county government office.

Many people who live around the county government office need to go out on field work, just like I sometimes have to go out on field work.