Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1896: Small Intestine Cannot Be Purchased

"Can all these things be grilled?" In Mai Xiaomiao's impression, barbecue means sausage, ham, steak, chicken wings, chicken legs, etc. Seeing Zhou Zhi buying all kinds of weird things, he couldn't help but ask.

"In addition to barbecue, we can also make teppanyaki, which is similar to barbecue." Zhou Zhi patiently taught: "Yellow throat, tripe, and chicken gizzards are also delicious when made into teppanyaki."

"And the squid is good too." The young couple seemed to be treating a big customer, so the proprietress pointed at the expensive one and recommended, "And the shrimp. My husband left at three o'clock and just got it from the airport. It's very fresh!"

"Can you cook pork elbow?" Mai Xiaomiao looked at the transparent shrimps and thought they should be delicious.

"If you like, just order it. I actually prefer river shrimp and fried leeks." Zhou Zhi said, "But they're hard to buy here. This frozen squid is pretty good. Can the boss lady cut it for us?"

"Cut the squid flowers?"

"Correct."

"can."

"Then we'll call this one, and you can help us change it to squid flower."

After leaving the hot pot stall with more than ten kinds of ingredients, Mai Xiaomiao whispered, "Elbow, elbow."

"What?"

"It seems like you didn't tip the boss who helped you just now."

“Oh, you don’t have to tip in China.”

"But she cut the squid for us, she's different from other vendors."

"Hahaha, you only saw her helping us cut the squid, but you didn't see how much water she put into the bag when she weighed the squid." Zhou Zhi laughed, "China is very big. This habit of semi-processing ingredients in the vegetable market is very popular south of the Yangtze River. People won't pay more. For the vendors, this is a kind of promotional measure."

"But it doesn't work so well in the North."

"Oh." Mai Xiaomiao felt that he had learned something new today: "Huh? What is this? Why is it so cheap?"

There was a large cart next to a vendor's stall, and the cart was full of turnips.

This is a kind of green vegetable. There is a large stump at the bottom. Scrape off the skin and you will find a white and sweet head of vegetable inside. It is a very popular vegetable among people in Shu.

There are many green and thick petioles on the stump. These petioles have a slightly bitter taste, but they are a rare delicacy for the people of Jiachuan.

The people of Jiachuan like to cut the petioles of this vegetable into shreds and stir-fry them with pickled pepper beef, which tastes really good.

However, people in Shudu do not know how to cook this dish, nor do they like to eat this kind of petiole. They usually buy it home and make small pickles. They do not consume much, so it is very cheap.

The vendor mainly sells vegetable stems, which are sold by the basket. A large plastic basket costs only one dollar.

"How about adding a dish to lunch? This is one of my specialties. Oh, Xueshan is also very good at making this dish." "Is it this green vegetable? Then buy it quickly." Mai Xiaomiao was so excited that he thought he had found a great bargain: "It's cheaper than feed!"

This sentence made the people around them, including the vendors, look at them with strange eyes. Zhou Zhi was so scared that he quickly apologized: "She grew up in a foreign country and just came back not long ago. She doesn't know how to speak. I'm sorry, sorry..."

"Oh, you're a Chinese overseas?" The boss had thought that Mai Xiaomiao's dress and demeanor were a little different. Now he was skeptical, but his attitude improved: "Which country did you come back from?"

"From the United States, where there is no such vegetable." Mai Xiaomiao was honest.

"This vegetable stick is delicious, but the stem is a bit bitter, so I just sell it casually." The boss said, "How about I choose a few sticks for you to try?"

Zhou Zhi was too embarrassed to refuse because of his careless words just now: "Then choose three carrots, and give us two baskets with this pole as well."

"Just pay for the corn, and I'll give you the vegetable stalks." The boss was not stingy: "Anyway, when the market closes, just like the girl said, all the stalks will be taken away by the chicken and rabbit farmers around here."

Nowadays, the vast majority of Chinese people are still very polite and enthusiastic towards foreign overseas Chinese.

"This fried beef is also very delicious." Seeing the boss so enthusiastic, Zhou Zhi decided to contribute his specialty to help the boss attract business.

"What the young man said is a little funny." An old lady nearby laughed: "This is served with beef, isn't it just like what is said in the skits and crosstalk, that for the sake of two taels of vinegar, dumplings are specially made?"

This saying has actually become quite common, but Mai Xiaomiao seemed to have never heard of it and was immediately amused and couldn't stop laughing.

This reaction actually made the aunties who had some complaints about her change their impression of her. They thought that this girl was just innocent. However, they still warned Zhou Zhi earnestly: "You haven't met the parents yet, right? Young man, even though the girl is an overseas Chinese, you still have to teach her the rules..."

After hearing this, Zhou Zhi didn't dare to stay here any longer. After the vegetable stalks were weighed, he didn't even want to ask the vendor to help peel them. He just randomly filled a big bag with the vegetable stalks and fled the scene with Mai Xiaomiao, who didn't understand what he said at all.

The beef stall was not the one Mai Xiaomiao was familiar with. In her impression, beef did not have tendons or offal, but rather neat and nice-looking pieces of meat. Not only did the beef in Chinese stalls smell bad, but the beef they sold was also very strange. Some of the beef was very piecemeal, some was very thin, and some was fat and lean. It was very different from the square or round pieces of lean meat in American supermarkets.

In fact, it will be the same in Chinese supermarkets in the future. The real difference may still be the head, hooves, tail and internal organs.

You have to hurry early to get parts like cucumber strips, because they will be sold out early in the morning. If you come at this time, the back of the neck is almost the only best part.

Zhou Zhi had almost finished shopping and was about to head back with the trailer when he was stopped by Mai Xiaomiao: "Easy pork elbows, the ones from yesterday... the grilled small intestines are delicious..."

"It's late autumn now, and the small intestines are used to make sausage casings." Zhou Zhi pointed to the sausages hanging next to the butcher's shop and the aunties waiting to buy meat for sausages: "At this time of year, the pork shops are their home ground."

By 1995, life in cities had become visibly richer. In fact, there had already been shops that manufactured sausages and bacon on a contract basis since 1985, but people were still accustomed to making them at home, and the smoking was done on the rooftops of their dormitories, outside the yard, by the river and other open areas. Therefore, the butcher shop business was still very scattered at the time.

After smoked meat was no longer allowed in the city in the past two years, the butcher shop's OEM business became booming. People bought meat from the butcher shop, and then ground, mixed, stuffed and hung the meat in the shop. They then wrote their name tags on them, left contentedly, and waited until the next week to claim their smoked bacon and sausages.

In fact, it is estimated that no one can tell whether the sausage that has been smoked and dehydrated by more than 30% is the one that was stuffed. If the seller replaces the items and only keeps the labels, the lawsuit cannot be filed. The main thing between buyers is mutual trust.

This method also made Mai Xiaomiao feel very interesting. It was the first time she knew that the casing outside the sausage was made of small intestines. She pulled Zhou Zhi's clothes and stood by the butcher shop to look at it curiously for a long time.