Food: How come this boss knows everything?

Chapter 287 Huang Jin smiled. He was fat, but not noticeably thin.

There is such a restaurant in Jianghai City where I live.

The boss has good skills. He started out by setting up a stall at a night market and would move to another location every once in a while.

After opening the shop, I often take holidays as I please.

But there are many foodies here.

People like the boss's cooking skills, it's delicious, inexpensive, the ingredients are fresh, and the atmosphere is good too.

Especially at night, when you just want to eat something for some reason, you can come to this small shop and be sure to find what you want to eat. Then you can chat with the customers around you, or listen to other people’s stories, and get some comfort in your boring daily life.

Fatty Sun often feels proud of himself for finding a suitable shop.

But after coming here tonight, the scene before him was a little beyond his expectations:
"Oh my god, it's even more lively than New Year's Eve?"

Xu Mengmeng next to her looked at the time and said, "It's 11: pm on a weekday."

The couple has also been following a TV series recently and remembered that the shop seemed to have provided the venue and ingredients for a scene in the TV series. After being discovered by netizens, many people online clamored to come and try the same thing.

Judging from this posture, netizens are not bluffing
"It comes as soon as you say it."

It's the same idea as they both had.

The store owner anticipated this possibility and made adjustments to the day's food offerings.

The main dishes are the same barbecue and spicy hot pot as in the TV series.

I also prepared a few winter snacks:

There are roasted sweet potatoes, candied haws, and sugar-fried chestnuts that I got from the seasonal chestnut recipe these two days.

Sugar-roasted chestnuts taste best right out of the wok, so Li Rui always uses the wok in the store to stir-fry a batch from time to time.

The chestnuts that Aunt Cai had sent had long been sold out.

It happened that the mother and daughter were selling boxed lunches and some local specialties on the roadside, so Li Rui asked the boy to buy a large sack from there.

The chestnut shell is tightly sealed.

Before frying, make a horizontal cut on the hemisphere.

In addition to allowing the sugar solution to penetrate, it also makes it easier for customers to peel the shell when eating.

The most important thing is to get the chestnuts out of the pot safely.

There are also food-grade tools and chestnut openers available online, and the knife-changing process can be safely handed over to the store clerk.

Xiao Ma once asked Li Zi while he was speaking to her:
"Boss, why do you have everything in the store?"

Li Rui thought about it and realized that there were indeed many practical gadgets in his store that had only been used once or twice.

This is what a food blogger’s kitchen looks like.

In addition to chestnuts, you also need to prepare some sugar water to make sugar-roasted chestnuts.

Sugar, water, cooking oil,
And a small amount of salt to make sugar taste sweeter.

After the chestnuts and sugar water are prepared, you can start frying them directly in the pan.

Place the chestnuts with the flat side facing down and the spherical side with the cut facing up.

Then pour the prepared sugar water into the pot.

It should be just above the chestnut.

Cover and simmer over medium heat.

When the water in the pot slowly evaporates and only a thin layer remains on the bottom of the pot, remove the lid and start stir-frying quickly.

Fry until the last bit of moisture is dried, allowing the caramel aroma to be fully released.

Then, take it out of the pot and put it into bags.

The chestnuts just out of the pot are still very hot to the touch and need to be cooled slightly. If you are in a hurry, you can blow on them hard.

Then use the thumbs of both hands to break open the shell from the part where the golden chestnut flesh is exposed.

Chestnut kernels exude an alluring sweetness.
Xu Mengmeng put the whole chestnut into her mouth.

The chestnut meat is soft and glutinous, and you can feel the crunchy and mellow texture after just a few bites.

The taste is also very sweet.
In addition to the sweetness of the chestnuts themselves, the sugar frying process also gives the chestnuts some caramel flavor.

“These chestnuts taste really good.”

Xu Mengmeng ate several of them in no time, and her fingers became sticky from the sugar liquid.

While pausing to wipe his hands, Xu Mengmeng looked at the sumptuous midnight snacks and desserts in front of him and fell into deep thought. Xu Mengmeng was more concerned about her figure than Fatty Sun.

She said to those around her:
"I seem to have gained weight in the past few months."

Fatty Sun is very good at comforting people. "This shows that your base is small, so you react so obviously to a change of one or half a pound."

"That's right."

Fatty Sun thought, of course, I'm just not noticeably thinner.

On the other side, Xu Mengmeng picked up the smiling sugar-roasted chestnuts and became happy again.

I also peeled one for Fatty Sun.

"Here, the first chestnut of winter."

Business continues.

Many unfamiliar diners came to Li Rui's restaurant today.

From the conversation, we learned that many people came from other places.

Looks very young too.

It is already the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and many students have already had their winter vacation.

After they returned to their hometown, they made plans with their local friends to hang out together before the New Year.

The general principle is,

Go wherever is popular.

This small shop in Jianghai made them feel that their trip was worthwhile.

Wang Yuliang and his two classmates have been childhood friends since kindergarten and throughout high school.

When I applied for college, I wanted to apply for a city.

But as fate would have it, they went their separate ways.

In the end, we could only see each other during the winter and summer vacations.

Wang Yuliang thought that after graduation, the three of them might stay in different cities and have to work again. It would not be easy for them to get together and play carefree like they do now.

When we were young, our childhood friends were almost the most important people in all our interpersonal relationships.

But as I grew up, I came into contact with more and more people, and my childhood friends took away my original share.

Thinking of this,

Wang Yuliang couldn't help but sigh:
"Alas, the opportunities to eat together may become fewer and fewer in the future."

His two friends were having a great time eating skewers:
"What the hell? Why are you so sad?"

"Is the midnight snack in the store not tasty? This grilled skewer is so delicious."

Wang Yuliang smiled and they were still the same.

Afterwards, he also joined in the meal.

Young people nowadays rarely drink alcohol.

However, when the atmosphere of the midnight snack reached a certain level, the three boys thought that maybe they could have a drink.

So the three of them ordered:
"Waiter, three bottles of beer, please."

An alcoholic beverage fermented from wheat with the addition of hops, it has a unique aroma.

With the heat from the store's oven, sweet potato baking barrel and heating, it is still a good choice even in winter.

Especially after the spicy seasoning has stimulated the throat and the aroma of meat and fat have gone down the throat.

It feels really refreshing after taking a sip of this.

People who cannot hold their alcohol tolerance will feel a little tipsy after drinking one bottle.

Wang Yuliang blushed slightly as he looked at his two childhood friends, who seemed to be in a similar situation.

"Come back for another date during the summer vacation."

The other two were not as rational and realistic as him.

"I'm not leaving. I'm spending the whole year here."

"Correct."

(End of this chapter)