allonlinenovel Chapter 127 Malatang
Chapter 127 Malatang
"Drink some water. You haven't stopped since you came back from town. Sit down and rest for a while."
Gu Yin poured a cup of mint tea and handed it to Leng Yan.
"Yes, yes, I'll do the work of washing and moving the vegetables."
Zifeng also ran over with great insight and helped take over the work in Leng Yan's hands so that she could free up her hands.
"Thanks!"
Leng Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead, took the cup and drank it all, then waved his hand casually.
"Then I'll leave this to you. I'll go take care of other things first."
Leng Yan said this and turned to go to the kitchen, preparing to prepare another dish, malatang.
There are too many green leafy vegetables in the summer, so making some spicy hot pot, which is appetizing, delicious, and quick to serve, is perfect for selling in shops.
Leng Yan did what he said and started thinking about the base ingredients for the spicy hot pot immediately.
"Mom, go and help me kill a chicken, then add the pork bones I just bought today and stew them over high heat to make a pot of soup."
After Leng Yan sorted out the steps, he began to give orders.
"Oh, okay."
Zhang Cuiniang always kept her daughter's request. After responding, she turned around and went about her business.
The soup base of Malatang is divided into white soup and red soup, and Leng Yan is going to make the red soup.
She first prepared all kinds of spices including onions, ginger, garlic, bean paste, chili peppers, peppercorns, bay leaves, etc.
Start stir-frying them one by one in the pan. After all the ingredients are stir-fried to produce red oil and aroma, you can add the stewed bone soup and pork bones and continue stewing.
After the base ingredients are almost ready, Leng Yan starts to wash some vegetables, such as lettuce, amaranth, bok choy, coriander, silver sprouts, etc.
Then she cut some potato slices, yam slices, tofu, pork tenderloin and the like.
I don’t have enough time today. If I could fry some meatballs and make some fish balls and mix them together to cook spicy hot pot, it would taste better.
After all kinds of vegetables are prepared, add some hand-rolled noodles. They are boiled quickly and in a short while, bowls of delicious spicy hot pot will be out of the pot.
The spicy and rich soup base of Malatang, and the aroma of all kinds of fresh ingredients cooked in it is so overbearing that it attracts everyone in the family to keep looking into the kitchen.
"Sister Yan, what kind of food are you cooking? It smells so delicious!"
Leng Huai and his friends had just returned from a private school. They smelled the fragrance wafting from their own kitchen from a distance and were immediately craved for it.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm so greedy that my stomach is growling all over."
Leng He, who had been standing by, couldn't help but swallow.
Leng Yan couldn't help but laugh when she saw this. The spicy hot pot was already cooked, so she asked her family to help bring it to the table. Today's dinner would be this spicy hot pot.
In order to cater to everyone's taste, Leng Yan also prepared some condiments, such as chopped green onions, coriander, garlic, chili oil, sesame paste, peanuts and so on.
In this way, everyone can add some small ingredients to the spicy hot pot according to their own preferences, and the taste of the spicy hot pot will be even better.
The design of this small condiment table is also continued in the shop selling spicy hot pot.
The shop she bought from Sheng Yuxing has been renovated and redesigned these days. They have moved from Leng's snack shop on Tianshui Street to Qing'an Street and have been reopened for several days.
At first, the diners in the shop were a little uncomfortable and often went to the wrong place, subconsciously running towards Tianshui Street.
But after a few days, they have adapted to the new environment, and now the business of Leng's snack shop is not only unaffected, but its area has become much larger than before, and the number of customers it receives every day has almost doubled.
For this purpose, Leng Yan went to the dental shop again and bought a few more servants. After they were trained, they started working in the shop.
In particular, the ordering area in the shop is now designed with separate windows, which doubles the efficiency and greatly saves diners' waiting time.
Therefore, after Malatang launched its new dishes in the shop today, there was no need for any promotion before sharp-eyed diners noticed the new ordering button and couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity.
"Boss, what kind of food is this? Why are there so many vegetables?"
"Yes, yes. And is that soup cooking in the pot? It smells so good."
"Hey, why are there colorful meatballs on the shelf over there?"
The diners were talking about it all at once, but no one could guess what the food was going to be.
Leng Yan saw that the gimmick had almost been created, so he hurriedly explained.
"This dish is called Malatang. As you can see, these vegetables, these meatballs, and the hand-rolled noodles are boiled in this pot of secret soup. The taste changes wonderfully, making it a bowl of Malatang that makes people linger."
"Is it really that magical?"
Everyone was attracted by her vivid and emotional description, and they were all very curious and wanted to order some to try.
"So what's this spicy hotpot? How much is it?"
Leng Yan had already thought of this and weighed it according to the standards of malatang in his previous life.
"Weigh it?"
The diners looked puzzled. "This is the first time I've heard of weighing a meal."
"Yeah, yeah, why do you make it so complicated? I don't want to eat it anymore."
"Indeed, I love meat and I love full meals. These green leaves don't taste good at all. Forget it. I'll just go eat egg fried rice with rice."
"Hey, you can't say that. Since this is food from Leng's Snack Shop, as an old customer, I definitely trust the deliciousness of this food. I must try it."
"Yes, yes, that's what I think. They must have their reasons for doing this."
Seeing that the diners were about to engage in endless discussion, Leng Yan hurriedly spoke up to explain.
“Dear diners, this weight refers to the weight of these dishes.
There are trays and tongs over there. You can pick up whatever you want to eat. After you have selected the ingredients, you can come here to pay. "
"So how much does it cost to eat this?"
a diner asked.
"It depends on the choices. For our spicy hotpot, the vegetarian dishes are five cents per pound, the meatballs are ten cents per pound, and the staple food is two cents per serving."
"What? Those green leaves on the street can be bought for one or two pounds for one cent, but you are selling them for five cents a pound. Why don't you just go and rob them?"
"That's right, and those meatballs made of something unknown are sold for ten cents a pound. With that money I might as well eat some fat meat."
"Yes, yes, yes, this Lengji Snack Shop really doesn't take our money seriously. It's sucking our blood and trying to make money from our hard-earned money."
"Yeah, yeah, they're just treating us like fools. Who would eat this if it's so expensive?"
Suddenly, there were a few troublemakers in the crowd, stirring up trouble. Leng Yan frowned and looked, and at a glance he saw a few unfamiliar faces.