Abnormal Food Article

Chapter 21 Crab Shell Yellow (please vote for me!)

On the morning of the second day, Qin Huai, who originally planned to sleep an extra hour and go to the store to make buns at 5 o'clock, forgot to set the alarm clock and was woken up at 4 o'clock on time, so he had to go to work early.

When Qin Huai arrived at the cafeteria, Qin Congwen and Zhao Rong were already making meat buns.

Qin Luo was still sleeping. Yesterday was the first day of business. Qin Congwen and Zhao Rong thought it was such an important day that they had to prepare in advance as a family before waking Qin Luo up. Today has become an ordinary second day. When Qin Luo is still growing, he might be able to move a few more centimeters if he tries hard, and then returns to his happy life of sleeping until he wakes up naturally.

Qin Huai took a look at the materials prepared by Qin Congwen and found that there were a lot more than yesterday.

Apparently Qin Congwen discovered that sales were very good yesterday, and the buns were sold out at noon, so he planned to pack more.

There are also many migrant workers around here who are willing to eat cheap steamed buns to save money at noon and night. After the steamed buns are sold out, some customers take the initiative to ask why the cheap big meat buns are gone.

Although the 1.5 yuan buns are not very profitable, Qin Congwen has made hard-earned money selling breakfast all his life. 1 and 2 cents are always not too little. Mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are. If you can sell them, make more buns. If you can make a little profit, a little.

When the business is good, the mood is good. Qin Congwen got up early to make buns and was full of energy, and even hummed a ditty happily.

Qin Huai, who was kneading the dough, couldn't help but laugh: "Dad, why don't you just close your breakfast shop and rent it to others, and just stay here and sell steamed buns. The sales volume is no worse than at home."

"That's not possible." Qin Congwen said without hesitation, "Luoluo's academic status is still in her hometown. She has to start high school in September. Your mother and I have to go back, otherwise your aunt will take care of her and she will go crazy."

"Yeah, Luoluo is a little better in English, but she doesn't know anything about Chinese, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or Biology. The results of the high school entrance examination haven't come out yet. Once they come out, I don't know if I can go to a high school in the city. I heard that if the score difference is big, there will be no school selection fee. "It's cheap. The two high schools in our county are not as good as each other." When it comes to Qin Luo's further education, Zhao Rong has endless worries, "I don't know if this child can keep up in high school. He has five homework to make up." , I don’t know if I can make up for it seven days a week.”

If he had to make up five homework assignments a week... Qin Huai could only light a candle in advance for Qin Luo's miserable high school life.

After kneading the dough, Qin Huai divided Qin Congwen's peeled shrimp into two parts.

Qin Congwen noticed Qin Huai's movements and asked, "Huai Huai, is Dad more prepared? I will peel less tomorrow."

"No." Qin Huai shook his head and pointed to the smaller portion, "This one is for making crab shell roe."

Crab shell yellow, a famous Shanghai-style snack.

It is called this because it is a yellow round baked snack that looks like a crab shell. There is a poem praising it as "I smell the aroma before I see the bakery, and the puff pastry comes out of my mouth one after another." This shows that its texture is crispy, and its taste is divided into two categories: sweet and salty.

Qin Huai knows how to make it sweet, mixing sugar with lard. The salty Qinhuai can also make it, just add diced pork. Only Qin Huai couldn't eat the stuffed shrimp that Ouyang wanted to eat.

Qin Luo doesn't like shrimps, and the Qin family usually doesn't stuff their wontons with shrimp fillings.

The earliest method of making crab shell yellow was to stick the dough directly on the furnace wall and bake it. Nowadays, the method is not that complicated. You can just put it in the oven and bake it in batches. It is fast. The blessing of technology saves time and worry.

Ouyang has wanted to eat crab shell yellow for a while. Qin Huai heard from Qin Luo that yesterday he also specified that he wanted to eat shrimp stuffing. Qin Huai felt that it was time to fulfill his adopted son's wish.

After all, when Qin Huai first came to inherit the inheritance, it was Ouyang who offered to let him live in his home. Ouyang helped him a lot. Qin Huai had to make shrimp stuffing even if he had never done it before.

It doesn’t matter if you haven’t made it before, there are recipes online.

Qin Huai was simmering the fillings of Wudingbao over low heat while watching recipe tutorials on his mobile phone.

After reading it, no.

The person who teaches you how to make crab shell roe is not good at it.

It looks very good. It has been brushed with egg yolk liquid and sprinkled with white sesame seeds. It looks absolutely first-class. But there is obviously something wrong with the filling process. The shrimps are cut into cubes and mixed with pork, sesame oil, light soy sauce, pepper, sugar, and even some oyster sauce. I want to add everything in the kitchen. Add all the seasonings.

Originally, this shrimp-filled snack had the unique umami flavor of the shrimp. The taste is very bland. If you add too much pork, it will easily take over the show. If you add too little, it will have no flavor. If you add a seasoning family portrait, the final filling will be full of seasoning flavor and the shrimp will be wasted.

Qin Huai shook his head and closed it, looking at the next one.

It doesn’t seem to work.

Also, how could a truly awesome secret recipe appear on the Internet? This is the secret recipe.

Forget it, just do it based on feeling.

Qin Huai believes that Ouyang will not mind. And he always felt good.

Qin Huai started the third-line operation, supervising the stuffing of the buns in the pot, controlling the dough that was fermenting silently, and making the crab shell yellow stuffing at the same time.

At 6:07, the first batch of shrimp-filled crab shells came out of the oven with a fragrant aroma.

Almost on time, Ouyang stepped into the store at 6:08, 100% ahead of all paid employees.

Huang Xi didn't come at this point.

Qin Huai does not encourage employees to go to work early. After all, there are not many customers if they come early. Qin Huai and the others can perfectly handle the few or two customers who come for morning jogs and get up early.

The rents near Yunzhong Community are not cheap. The waiters in the store generally live far away and have to get up early to work the morning shift. Qin Huai knows the pain of not being able to sleep in, and he doesn't have much obsession with clocking in on time for work.

"Crab shell yellow!" Ouyang saw the golden crab shell yellow at a glance.

A whole plate of crab shell roe is neatly placed together, which is really eye-catching, not to mention that this large plate of crab shell roe is freshly baked. Crab shell yellow cakes are originally shortbreads. Everyone who has been to a dim sum shop knows how fragrant freshly baked shortbreads are.

Ouyang took a deep breath intoxicated.

"Smells! It smells so good! It's worth getting up early, Qin Huai, I can eat ten!"

Qin Huai didn't believe Ouyang's lies at all. The five- and three-cube buns in the small steamer next to him would be ready in two or three minutes.

"How about two of them to taste first?" Qin Huai picked up the shelf.

Ouyang nodded crazily.

Qin Huai put two crab shell yolks into a small plate and directed Ouyang to go to the warehouse to find the crab shell yolks and hang them in the window. He told him that these things are really hot when they come out of the oven. They are hotter than steamed buns. No. Don't eat Qin Luo Tiezui's skills directly.

Ouyang went to find the sign and struggled for a while. After washing his hands, he came back and had a good meal.

Ouyang tentatively picked up one with his hands and pinched it a little too hard, causing the pastry to fall off.

One mouthful.

Crisp, fragrant, salty and fresh.

The puff pastry and sesame seeds were stained on both sides of the mouth, and fell onto the table, also staining half of the body. The saltiness of the pork and the taste of the shrimp were all very distinct. Ouyang took a bite and felt that this shrimp must be particularly good.

It tastes like shrimp!

He ate a lot of shrimp-filled dim sum, including shrimp wontons with a whole shrimp in them, but he couldn't really taste the shrimp at all.

But the crab shell on my hand has yellow.

Still fragrant and crispy.

Without any hesitation, Ouyang took the second bite and wrapped up the remaining crab shell yolk in one go. Then he picked up the second one, opened his big mouth, and wrapped it in one gulp with the same movement.

One bite, great!

This time I can really eat 10!

Ouyang chewed happily, lamenting in his heart that his parents were really disappointing.

Why couldn't his parents have happened to travel to Qiu County 20 years ago, happened to pass by the orphanage, and happened to meet Qin Huai and be adopted by Qin Huai?

In this way, Qin Huai becomes his younger brother!

Now that Qin Luo has a good life of eating snacks every day, doesn't Ouyang enjoy it?

Ouyang looked at Qin Huai with regret in his eyes.

Qin Huai:…

Why does he feel weird about Ouyang's eyes?

(End of chapter)