The Days of Opening a Restaurant on an Abnormal Earth

"Let's make a bet. I guess you probably think that this small shop of mine can't cook any interesting dishes, that's what you mean. So you're in a hurry to leave?" Zhang Tong said to Huang Zeying with a smile.

And everything he said was exactly what Huang Zeying thought, Huang Zeying really felt that this small shop couldn't produce anything. Let's take a look at the area. This store is just a Shaxian snack, um, a little bigger than the Shaxian snack. It is between the size of Lanzhou ramen and braised chicken and rice shops.

What can this store do? Could it be that the peanut sauce mixed with ramen is paired with a braised chicken? This is what Huang Zeying really thinks in his heart. is he hungry He was indeed hungry, but he really didn't want to eat something from such a small shop.

Because of Huang Zeying's stereotyped prejudice, the food made by this small restaurant is neither clean nor tasty. In fact, this kind of stereotyped prejudice is not limited to Huang Zeying, but many people have it. Anyway, Huang Zeying doesn't like Shaxian snacks, Lanzhou ramen, or braised chicken and rice.

"Don't look at people with stereotyped prejudice. Don't look at a small shop with stereotyped prejudice. Your teacher taught you: 'Judge people by their appearance, and lose the child'." Zhang Tong said with a smile: "Why don't I do it? A dish, you can talk about it after you eat it?"

Zhang Tong patted Huang Zeying on the shoulder: "Sit down first. Why don't you sit with your classmates?" Huang Zeying was pressed by Zhang Tong on the same table as Niu Ben and Chen Yao for no reason.

Huang Gang was very happy because he hoped that his son could make friends with good classmates like Niu Ben and Chen Yao. These two seem to be good students at first glance, birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups. Huang Gang has already discovered that something is wrong with his son. If it is allowed to grow freely, it may grow into a crooked neck tree in the future.

This time period is the period when children start to rebel, and it may not be effective for parents to talk to teachers. If there are a few friends with good conduct to persuade them from time to time, it will be much more useful than the advice of parents and teachers.

Huang Zeying's inexplicable pride and complacency now makes Huang Gang a headache. It would be best to let him down. This world has never been as simple as he imagined. Although Huang Zeying is a bit old-fashioned in seeing things, it is still not comprehensive enough. This is just a kind of self-righteous cleverness, which will definitely stumble in the future.

But some people are happy, some people are not happy. Because Zhang Tong pushed Huang Zeying to the side of Niu Ben. Niu Ben and Huang Zeying had conflicts, and they almost got into a fight last time. Thanks to Chen Yao who stopped him, otherwise Niu Ben really beat Huang Zeying, and if he beat him hard, Niu Ben would be in trouble.

But Zhang Tong has his own plan, Niu Ben is a good kid. But there are some contradictions between him and Huang Zeying, and Zhang Tong hopes to turn this contradiction into a healthy competition rather than a vicious circle. Otherwise, it would be very bad for Niu Ben. Niu Ben is not Huang Zeying's opponent in playing tricks. Maybe it fell into Huang Zeying's hands that day.

If the two can form a healthy competition, it will be good for both of them. Huang Zeying has his own strengths, and Niu Ben has his own strengths. The two of them will probably be successful in the future, but they are going in different directions.

Both of them looked at each other unhappy, but because this was Zhang Tong's shop, and Huang Gang was on the side. So the two of them didn't have an attack, but Niu Ben snorted softly, the voice was very soft.

"Hey, let's make a bet. If I make a dish later, if you think it's delicious, you can do me a favor. Well, it's easy. Your dad is here, so you can testify." Zhang Tong turned to Huang Gang After taking a look, Huang Gang thought for a while and agreed.

Huang Zeying glanced at Zhang Tong: "What if I don't think it tastes good?"

"If you don't think it tastes good, well, I can lose you a box of Lego bricks, and you can choose the model." This bet made Huang Zeying a little tempted. Some components of Lego building blocks are very expensive. Although the family has money, my mother is willing to spend money for herself. But this does not mean that she will buy toys for herself unrestrainedly, she will always control a total amount.

Some expensive components of Lego cost thousands of dollars, not for birthdays or special occasions, my mother would not buy expensive ones for herself directly. Tang Jing (Huang Zeying's mother) still controls her children's money discipline. Don't let Huang Zeying feel that the money is for nothing, so he doesn't pay attention to it.

"But one thing, can you guarantee that you won't tell lies later? You obviously like it very much, but you pretend it's not delicious." Zhang Tong looked at Huang Zeying seriously: "Bet needs to be honest, if you don't What about honesty?"

"Cut, I don't even bother to be a liar." Although Huang Zeying has various shortcomings, the last thing a proud person can tolerate is being questioned about deceiving others. And Chen Yao is still opposite, if her lying is exposed, then it will be too ugly. This can be regarded as a small test for Zhang Tong to Huang Zeying.

"But I'm a person who has eaten all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas. What can you make in this small shop?" Huang Zeying is still very confident.

But Niu Ben, who was sitting next to Huang Zeying, said, "Brother Zhang can do a lot, so don't show off your shallow knowledge." Niu Ben still supported Zhang Tong very much.

Zhang Tong started preparations in the semi-open kitchen, and asked Niu Ben, Huang Zeying and others, "Are you going to eat hamburgers tonight? By the way, Huang Zeying, do you like hamburgers?"

Before Huang Zeying could answer, Huang Gang opened his mouth first: "My wife and I don't take him to eat fast food. Eating too much hamburger, fried chicken and fries is not good for the child's health. KFC's Sudan red incident After that, we never ate that kind of foreign fast food anymore. We also didn’t eat fried food, especially Zeying’s mother, who didn’t allow Zeying to eat fried food outside. Because I don’t know if the oil outside is not clean, I don’t know how many times the outside has been deep-fried.” Because of the serious crisis of trust in food safety, it is not surprising that Huang Zeying’s mother did this to Zhang Tong.

Hearing what Huang Gang said, Niu Ben smiled at Huang Zeying: "Ha, you have eaten all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas. You have never eaten hamburgers or French fries in Dalian." Niu Ben suddenly felt a sense of superiority.

"Shut up. I don't care about eating junk food." Huang Zeying was taunted by Niu Ben, and he felt very upset.

"Okay, can you two not quarrel?!" Chen Yao persuaded the fight from the side, and it was also because she was the lubricating oil that the two boys never fought.

In the back kitchen, Xiao Xiao asked curiously: "Boss, what are you going to do? Just make sure he likes it?"

"Niu Ben told me about it, and also showed me the food photos that Huang Zeying posted in their class's WeChat group (it was mentioned in the article more than a hundred chapters ago, and it was a foreshadowing). I know this kid very well. What is your taste?" Zhang Tong said softly to Xiao Xiao with a smile.

"Then what does he like to eat?"

"Sweet and sour."

"Ah? Boss, do you still make desserts?"

"Who said that only desserts have a sweet and sour taste. Cooking is also fine."

"Oh, yes, sweet and sour pork tenderloin and sweet and sour mandarin fish are also counted." Xiao Xiao thought of two sweet and sour dishes that are very popular in Huaihai: "There is still pork in the refrigerator, shall we make sweet and sour pork tenderloin?"

"Why do you make sweet and sour pork? Let's make a difficult and varied dish today." Zhang Tong smiled.

"What is it?"

"Crystal old meat!"

Crystal Deep-fried Pork, this dish is known to most Chinese people because Tsui Hark filmed a movie called "Man Han Banquet" (also known as "Golden Jade Man Tang") in 1995. In it, the bald villain's first battle is crystal sweet and sour pork, while the protagonist's boss is fighting fried beef.

In 1995, the food for the masses was not particularly developed and abundant, and many delicacies could only be enjoyed by a few people who got rich first. Many people are still hearing about these two dishes for the first time. In particular, the miraculous crystal sweet and sour meat was processed into a very dazzling dish through the artistic treatment of the film.

The crystal sweet and sour pork in the movie was born out of the iced sweet and sour pork in Cantonese cuisine. The appearance and appearance of this dish in real life are not worse than those in the movie. It's just that it is very troublesome to make, and it is very important to control the temperature.

"Children generally like to eat sweet and sour tastes and fried foods. It is our innate intuition to like sweet, because sweet foods represent calories. The aroma of fried foods can attract at least 90% of the world's people, There are very few people who don't like fried food." Zhang Tong quickly processed the tenderloin, and said to Xiao Xiao while changing the whole piece of tenderloin into a knife.

"But the combination of sweet and deep-fried is easy to get greasy, such as frosted fried dough sticks. So at this time we need some sour to relieve the greasy taste. Xiao Xiao went to the fruit shop next door to buy pineapple and lemon." Zhang Tong instructed Xiao Xiao to run a leg.

And Huang Gang stood outside the semi-open kitchen with great interest and watched Zhang Tong change the tenderloin into a knife and cut it into small pieces, then pass three passes (note) and fry it in a frying pan.

"Don't worry Huang Ju, I use good oil here." Zhang Tong fried meat with fresh brand barrel oil, which can be seen. It's much better than not knowing that fast food places deep-fry things like palm oil, and you don't have to worry about re-frying. Huang Gang was naturally relieved of this kind of operation under his nose.

The tenderloin wrapped in egg liquid and dry starch is fried in the oil pan, and the aroma permeates the whole room. It must be said that the most attractive thing about fried food is this irresistible aroma. As long as the oil used is good and there is no "oil consumption smell" when frying, then just asking about the smell is enough to make people salivate.

Huang Gang couldn't help but salivate. Although he didn't like fried food very much, he hadn't eaten it for a long time, and the taste was even more appetizing when asked. I seldom make fried food at home, at most I fry pork chops occasionally.

Huang Zeying couldn't help swallowing when she smelled this smell. At this time, Xiao Xiao bought the pineapple back. Cut the pineapple back into small pieces, and the tenderloin has been fried twice (one time for medium temperature frying, and one time for high temperature frying to force out excess fat.) Set aside.

Heat the oil in an iron pan, add tomato sauce, squeeze lemon juice, salt and various other seasonings. It is amazing to say that although the tomato is an exotic plant from South America, it was not introduced to China until the end of the Qing Dynasty. But ketchup was invented by chefs in Guangdong, and then passed on to the world, becoming an indispensable condiment in modern Western food.

The use of ketchup in Cantonese cuisine also occupies a considerable proportion. Because of the appearance of ketchup, the dishes that use sweet and sour to make sweet and sour tastes in traditional Chinese food have been expanded. Tomato sauce can provide a sweet and sour taste, and can also contain more complex spice flavors, and the tomato itself has a unique flavor unique to tomatoes.

The tomato sauce began to boil slowly in the pot, and the pineapple and fried tenderloin were immersed in the tomato sauce and slowly boiled to taste. The sweet and sour aroma stimulated the mouth watering, and Huang Zeying, who originally planned to say that Zhang Tong's dishes were not delicious, couldn't help swallowing. Damn, this smells so good! Especially the aroma of tomato sauce and lemon, the sour feeling is too easy to make people drool appetizing. Not to mention that the meat has been bombarded by the aroma of frying when it was fried before.

The heat is just right, and the juice is collected and out of the pot. At the same time, another pot has boiled a pot of sugar water. Dip the steamed sweet and sour pork into the sugar water, so that the meat is covered with sugar water and then out of the pan. Then Zhang Tong took out the ice cubes that had been kept in the freezer layer of the refrigerator all year round. Put the sweet and sour meat on ice cubes, let the sugar water on the surface of the meat cool down quickly and condense into a sugar coating.

The white large shallow porcelain plate is ready, and the crystal sweet and sour pork is out of the pot! The surface of the bright red tenderloin has a layer of crystal-like sugar crust, and the yellow pineapple is dotted between the red tenderloin to complement each other in color.

Before serving, in order to neutralize the sweetness, Zhang Tong evenly poured a little lemon juice on it. Red and yellow crystal sweet and sour meat is served on a white plate. The sweet and sour aroma spread in the air. This is not a side dish, and it will not go well with rice. But this is definitely a dish that will please children.

The color is bright and lively, and the taste is sweet and sour. Chen Yao and Niu Ben had already given up studying before the crystal glutinous rice balls were served on the table. The moment the dishes were served, the two of them had already started to move their chopsticks quickly. And Huang Zeying who was on the side was still thinking about an important question: Should I eat it? Should it still be eaten?

He couldn't help swallowing his saliva: It's so delicious!

Note: Passing three levels refers to the step of coating the food with flour before frying, then coating it with egg liquid, and finally coating it with flour.