Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 219

The wonton noodles of Hengxiangyuan use very traditional alkaline water noodles.

Familiar check-in reminders arrive as scheduled
[Ding dong, you checked in successfully. The gourmet restaurant you checked in is: [Hengxiang Garden]]

[38-year-old store, consistent quality]

[All wontons insist on buying and selling on the same day]

[All the shrimps used are fresh prawns]

[Using high-quality dried shrimp, land fish, and hen as the soup base]

【Fresh pork belly is used for meat filling】

[Low-temperature de-alkali technique is used with great proficiency]

[Chef: 3-star senior chef: Qi Hengsan]

"Ding dong, the system rating, [Hengxiangyuan] is rated as 3 stars."

"Ding Dong, you have received a 3-star gourmet store check-in reward"

[Attribute: Strength 1]

[Attribute: Durability 1]

[Attribute: Recovery 1]

[Ability: Triathlon]

[Ability introduction: You have a thorough understanding of the triathlon]

[Money: 1000 yuan]

【Fame: 30】

[Fame introduction: 1 point of fame will allow 10 strangers to know you through different channels]

? ? ? ?
Li Xiao scratched his head, some didn't quite understand the system's reward this time.

It's been a long time since I was rewarded with three attributes, and it also comes with an ability that has nothing to do with wonton noodles [Ability: Triathlon].

He originally thought that he would get a [Ability: Proficiency in making clouds] or [Ability: Proficiency in making alkaline water surfaces].

Although he already had similar abilities, it is better to have more skills than not to have them. The more such things, the better.

However, after being able to check in successfully as expected, what he got was such an ability.

He silently took out his personal mobile phone, clicked on his notepad, and looked at the item on it.

[Participate in an international long-distance running event in the name of the Great Han Kingdom]

He gasped, hey, hey, I was thinking of participating in a long-distance running event, not a triathlon.

He tried to talk to the system in his heart and asked, "Brother, let's discuss it, why don't we change the reward?"
However, the system remained silent as before, as if it didn't have any thoughts.

However, looking at the new skills he had just acquired, and glancing at the notepad on his phone, he had a vague feeling that the system was not as simple as he imagined.

However, he rationally suppressed the curiosity in his heart. After all, it was still broadcasting live, in case something unexplainable phenomenon of heaven and earth appeared during his research.

Then he would be finished, a good life had just begun, and he didn't want to be arrested for research.

Li Xiao leaned over to the bowl, smelled the faint smell of alkaline water, and it flooded into his nostrils, but the smell of alkaline water was not pungent, obviously it was just the right amount of alkaline water.

Li Xiao picked up a pinch of golden transparent alkaline water and dropped it in front of the live broadcast room.

"If someone noticed the conversation between me and the old man in Tang suit just now, someone should know that alkaline water noodles are widely used."

"The purpose of adding alkali is to remove the sour taste in the dough, making the finished product more flexible and soft. With the increase of the amount of alkali water, it will even make the noodles more elastic and crisp."

"However, this kind of noodles with excessive alkaline water will make people smell strong alkaline water, and there will be a bitter feeling in the mouth after eating."

"So usually this kind of alkaline water surface with excessive alkaline water will have a [alkali walking] process before use."

"After making the alkaline water noodles, put them in a cool place, keep the humidity, and let them stand for 1 to 2 days, or wrap them in plastic wrap and put them in the refrigerator. The smell of alkaline water will disappear quickly after 3 to 5 days, but The content of alkaline water will not be reduced, but the taste will be better.”

"So if we have the conditions, we can try our best to choose bamboo noodles. However, because the production process of bamboo noodles is too complicated and the cost is much higher than that of alkaline water noodles, there are not many places where we can eat them."

Li Xiao stuffed the lye water from the chopsticks into his mouth. The lye taste after the mouth was stronger than the smell, but it was still within the normal acceptable range.

After all, if you want to enjoy the crisp taste it brings, you must accept its slight lack of taste.

Duck eggs with strong fragrance are added in the middle of the alkaline water noodles to make the noodles golden yellow, and after adding alkaline water, the golden noodles are chemically changed and become translucent and the color is very beautiful.

"The taste is crisp, full of toughness, you can eat a strong egg flavor, full of chewiness, and the taste is quite good."

"The only downside may be that not everyone likes the taste of this alkaline water noodles, especially those who eat it for the first time may be quite uncomfortable."

Studio

"Is this the so-called alkaline water noodles? It looks so special."

"Indeed, this side is actually translucent."

"The noodles of this wanton noodle shop are mediocre, but the taste of the wanton noodles is superb."

"Hey, I'm just the opposite of the one upstairs. I like the noodles there the most. The lye tastes just amazing."

"Is it just me who thinks that wanton noodles are not as delicious as before?"

"I think the taste is exactly the same as before, even better. Maybe it's just that you eat more good things, so you feel that he has become different from before."

"Isn't the woman who makes your heart throbbing and itchy unbearably the same woman who is naked now, and you have no impulse?"

"Tsk tsk, the words are not rough."

Li Xiao didn't care about the sudden acceleration of the car in the bullet screen. After all, it's natural to drive reasonably. After all, you are an adult, so don't overdo it.

Li Xiao pointed the camera at the wonton noodles, and he pointed to the alkaline water floating on the wontons and explained
"In many shops, the wontons are on the surface, while the noodles are under the wontons. In fact, this has no meaning other than looking good."

"Soaking the noodles in the soup for too long will easily absorb too much water, which will greatly change the texture of the noodles. The most common thing is that the noodles will become swollen and soft."

"On the contrary, if the noodles are placed on the surface and the wontons are stuffed at the bottom like here in [Hengxiangyuan], not only can the alkaline water noodles always maintain a crisp taste, but also the wontons can fully absorb the water in the clear soup. , let the meat filling be filled with soup."

"However, this method also has a disadvantage, that is, the skin of the wonton must be quite confident, otherwise the skin of the wonton will become soft after soaking for a long time, and if it is too long, it may even melt in the soup."

Pick up a wonton and put it in front of the camera
"This kind of wonton skin from their family is very good. It has not melted after soaking for so long, and it is very thin and transparent, so you can clearly see the meat inside."

"The one I have now is a shrimp wonton. We can clearly see a huge shrimp inside the light pink pork filling."

Li Xiao took a bite of this huge wonton, and the juice of the wonton immediately splashed out.

Li Xiao chewed carefully first, and the small half of wonton in his mouth

"There is really a lot of water, wrapped in meat filling, and it flows out as soon as you bite down."

"The gravy is very clear and sweet. The pork belly is [-]% lean and [-]% fat. The fat and thinness are even, not too dry, not too greasy."

"Their minced meat is not stirred by a machine, but chopped out piece by piece with a kitchen knife, so the fibers in the pork are not destroyed, and the meat tastes quite elastic and chewy, not like the ones stirred by a machine. That has no soul."

Li Xiao licked her lips

"Their minced meat is very fresh, but I can tell that it's not because of the addition of chicken essence or monosodium glutamate. It seems that they not only added the ground fish powder when cooking the clear soup, but also added it when stirring the minced meat. The powder of earth fish."

"The seasoning of their minced meat is a bit light and sweet, but it's just right when paired with the rich clear soup."

He showed the half of a wonton that he bit off in front of the camera
"You can see that the ingredients they use at home are really generous, such a big shrimp, and they use live shrimp instead of frozen shrimp."

Shrimp occupies 1/4 of the volume of the whole wonton, which can be said to be quite willing.

For fresh shrimp wontons in many places, the store only dares to call it fresh shrimp wontons by stuffing 1/3 or half of the shrimp.

In order to save costs, most of the shops still use cheaper frozen shrimps, and they are not as big as the ones in [Hengxiangyuan].

Everyone in the live broadcast room was surprised when they saw the huge shrimps appearing in front of them.

"Good guy, this is the real shrimp wonton."

"ヽ(*.>Д<)o゜, compared with the host's wonton, the shrimp wonton in my hand, I should eat shrimp wonton, or it can be called shrimp baby wonton .”

"Pfft, I'm dying of laughter, there is a picture."

"It made me really want to eat, so I decided to have a meal after get off work tonight."

"Are you going at night? I'm on my way now. Fortunately, I got up early today."

"It's been a long time since I went shopping in the old town. The live broadcast of the host made me suddenly want to go back for a walk."

"That's right, that street used to be really busy."

While chatting with the audience, Li Xiao settled the two bowls of wonton.

The taste of both wontons is quite good, good quality, good taste, and low price, no wonder it can be rated 3 stars just for the wontons.

Li Xiao even felt that the 8 yuan bowl of fresh shrimp wonton in front of him should not be able to make money here.

My bowl of fresh shrimp wonton noodles has a total of 6 wontons, each of which has such a large fresh shrimp inside, even though the cost of each wonton is only one yuan.

The price of wonton alone has already reached 6 yuan, which is not counting the cost of soup base and alkaline water noodles, but the price of such a large bowl of fresh shrimp wonton noodles is only 8 yuan, which is so low Appalling.

He glanced at the master chef who was cooking lye noodles with a smile, and couldn't help muttering in his heart.

It seems that the rumors on the Internet are indeed true. The owner opened this restaurant out of interest. It is estimated that he really just wanted to eat wonton noodles, so he opened this restaurant.

After all, as a shop on the street, the cost of food materials is not a big one. The cost of many materials is only [-]% to [-]%; shop rent, labor, water and electricity are the most important parts of the cost.

Compared with those shops promoted by Internet celebrities, this one is really low-key, and the real boss opened the shop not for making money but for hobbies.

As for those on Douyin and Xiaomao platforms, it is said that there are dozens of rental houses collecting rent and opening shops in idleness, 90.00% of them are fake.

Most of the shops that appear in the online celebrity videos are paid, and they are not profitable. No one is willing to promote for you for no reason. charitable.

Li Xiao even knows some scumbags in the industry, who will first ask you if you need their company's help in promotion. If you agree, everyone will be happy, and you will pay for it and promote it.

But many bosses are not interested in this, or do not have the financial conditions to promote it, and these unscrupulous anchors will rely on their huge fan base and ingenious language arts.

Those stores that are unwilling to pay for promotion are belittled to nothing, but most of the things he said are true to you, but they are exaggerated to a certain extent. The slandered merchants want to sue him for defamation There is no way.

This has also caused many slightly larger merchants to often fall into a dilemma when encountering door-to-door sales.

Many merchants who originally didn't want to spend money on promotion are forced to accept promotion, which means buying and selling by force.

After all, merchants are also worried that once they release a video of stepping on thunder at night just after their rejection, the loss may be even more than the thousands of promotion fees, and the loss outweighs the gain, so some merchants can only lose money. Even if you have teeth, you have to swallow it in your stomach.

After checking out and leaving [Hengxiangyuan], he called a Didi back to the villa, changed his clothes and set off again. He has other activities today, which is to buy an SUV.

As soon as he changed his clothes, the horn of a car came from the door, and Li Xiao hurried out.

I saw a blue Lynk & Co 02 parked at the entrance of the villa, and beside the driver's seat stood Ding Yougang whom I had only seen the day before yesterday.

Ding Yougang looked enviously at Li Xiao coming out of the villa, he took a breath and patted Li Xiao on the shoulder
"Good guy, I want to switch careers to do live broadcasting. Is it really so profitable to do live broadcasting? How long has it been? Even bought a big villa, Longding Mansion, this villa must not be a few million dollars bigger? "

Ding Yougang sighed and looked around the huge lawn and the small three-story building.

He and Li Xiao have been friends for many years, and he knows the conditions of Li Xiao's family quite well.

Li Xiao won't be surprised if he can buy a house in the urban area. After all, his parents are both factory workers. Although the salary is not high, the sum of the two must be enough.

It is very simple to save a down payment for my son for so many years.

However, it also depends on the down payment of the house, like this kind of large villa with hundreds of square meters, let alone the full payment, even the down payment is several million less, which is not something that Li Xiao's working family can afford affordable.

Recalling that two days ago, the class monitor said that he would ask Li Xiao to broadcast live for two hours for 10 yuan. At that time, everyone thought it was the business of the class monitor taking care of old classmates.

However, looking at the current posture, it is obvious that this is the money earned by Li Xiao's own live broadcast.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little itchy, his own family environment is not bad.

His father originally ran a factory with hundreds of workers. After he graduated, with his father's support, he also opened a smaller factory.

However, the manufacturing industry has been sluggish in the past two years, and it is difficult to do both import and export, especially for a small newly opened factory like his.

Fortunately, with the care of my father and my elder brother's factory, I can barely drink soup here, and the monthly income is only [-] to [-].

Li Xiao, who came from an ordinary background, didn't rely on anyone's help, and only relied on his estimated income of at least hundreds of thousands a month. As for how much he could earn, he didn't dare to think about it, nor would he ask.

After all, personal issues such as personal income are very sensitive. Although the two are good friends, once they are asked, things will change.

Ding Yougang said sourly
"I didn't expect you to be the first to make a splash. Some time ago, I said that you couldn't play the live broadcast, so I came here to run sales for my factory."

"After all, with your appearance, if those rich women are still bowing to you, the orders are not rushing."

Hearing Ding Yougang's words, Li Xiao was also a little emotional.

At the beginning, he also moved his mind to come back. A few months ago, he almost couldn't hold back, and agreed to the other party's request to come back to Dongguan to work.

After all, he has been in Hangcheng for more than half a year and there is no improvement. He is still a little lucky now. Fortunately, he saved face and refused the help of his friends. Otherwise, it is unknown whether he can trigger the check-in system now.

Of course, if I came back as a salesperson, the result would not be too bad.

After all, as the other party said, with Li Xiao's appearance, as long as he can let go, he really doesn't have to worry about no orders.

With performance, Ding Yougang will definitely not be stingy with the commission, as small as [-] yuan a month, there must be some, but it is definitely not as happy as it is now.

Fate in life is always so wonderful, the two arrived at today's destination in Ding Yougang's blue Lynk & Co 02.

Mercedes Benz 4S shop.

The two had communicated yesterday, Ding Yougang asked clearly, and Li Xiao directly gave a few recommendations on his budget, needs, and functions.

The few recommendations are all SUVs, and the price is around 50. After all, Li Xiao needs to travel all over the country.

Cars, sports cars, special off-road, vans, and RVs are not suitable.

Only SUV is a perfect fit. SUV refers to sports utility vehicle, that is, suburban utility vehicle.

Not only is the comfort level relatively good, but the driving feeling is relatively good. Driving on urban roads for a long time will not cause fatigue.

It can also cope with ordinary mountain roads, has quite good horsepower, and the space inside the car is large enough, especially the space behind the trunk, which is enough for Li Xiao to store a lot of luggage and shooting equipment.

It can be said to be the best choice, and Li Xiao's budget is relatively sufficient, so this time their goal went straight to [Mercedes-Benz GLC].

This is the first time for Li Xiao to enter a place like a 4S store. Although Ding You just drove a car worth more than 20 yuan, and the clothes on both of them are very ordinary, the young lady and sister in the 4S store are yelling at each other. .

Of course, the lady in the 4S store not only has a very good service attitude, but also has excellent professional knowledge. She clearly introduced to Li Xiao the functions of the [Mercedes-Benz GLC] at different prices.

After the test drive, although Li Xiao felt that there was still a certain distance between the Mercedes-Benz GLC and the monitor's Cayenne, at least it was not so comfortable to drive.

However, considering that the off-road performance of the Cayenne is lower than that of the Mercedes-Benz in front of him, and driving such a good car in the wilderness, other problems may occur, so he has a care in his heart.

The two exchanged winks. Although they hadn't played together for many years, their tacit understanding was as good as before.

Ding Yougang frantically pointed out his shortcomings, while Li Xiao showed a hesitant expression.

The young lady next to her saw that the guests raised various shortcomings, even the color was not bright enough.

Not only was he not unhappy, but he was secretly happy.

When it comes to buying and selling, the least fear is that you will bring up your shortcomings, only that you will be full of good words, then turn around and walk away and never come back.

She also received quite a few guests, and it was clear that the two of them had a lot of interest, otherwise they would just leave if they were really dissatisfied, instead of forcing and nagging here.

After some negotiations, the 4S store sent a full set of explosion-proof film and one-year insurance, and Li Xiao won the new black [Mercedes-Benz GLC] at a price of 60.

Since there were existing cars in the 4S shop, Li Xiao drove away in a black Mercedes-Benz GLC with a temporary license plate after paying the down payment.

(End of this chapter)