Chapter 455: The Fascination of Spicy Soup Pot
Translator: Xiong_Guoqi Editor: DesTheSloth
"Jia Jia, I want a serving of plain white rice of 100 Styles of Rice Cuisine." As soon as Wu Hai agreed with him, his neighboring customer ordered the dish immediately.
"Okay. It's 98 RMB in total." After a nod, Zhou Jia said then.
"The bank transfer has been made." The customer pointed at the phone and said smilingly.
"One moment, please. It'll be served very soon." Zhou Jia confirmed receipt of the payment and said with a smile.
"Okay. No problem." The customer nodded his head.
Zhou Jia smiled at him and then left to report the order.
As for Wu Hai's money, he naturally transferred it to the customer.
While looking at Wu Hai, the customer said, "I have ordered the rice. Can I get a spoon of the soup now?"
"Certainly you can. But you must use your own spoon to get it." Wu Hai said calmly.
Before that, he had secretly compared the sizes of his own spoon and the person's spoon. Obviously, his own spoon was a little bigger.
As his neighboring customer was eating the Egg Fried Rice, he also used the spoon.
"My spoon is smaller than yours. I think it's fairer to use your spoon." The neighboring customer said shrewdly.
"Really?" While saying that, Wu Hai picked up his spoon and stuffed it into his mouth to lick it without any hesitation.
"What did you say just now? I didn't hear you clearly. You know, old people don't have sharp ears." Wu Hai stroked his mustaches and looked at his neighboring customer with an innocent gaze.
"Nothing." The customer was made speechless for quite a while. Only after that did he say.
"Okay, good. I saw some oil droplets on the spoon and thus licked it. Do you mind?" Wu Hai asked with an evil interest.
"Ho Ho. When did you see an oil droplet on the spoon provided by Boss Yuan?" The customer couldn't help rolling his eyes.
"You are right. I might have misjudged that. Please scoop the soup quickly. If it gets cold, the taste will be affected." Wu Hai said extraordinarily cleanly and generously.
"Oh, yeah! Thank you so much for your reminding." The neighboring customer simply didn't know how to cope with Wu Hai, therefore he had to gnash his teeth and say that.
"You are welcome." Wu Hai revealed a most cordial smile while stroking his small mustaches.
Then, the customer said no more. He scooped out a full spoon of the soup cleanly and poured it on the Egg Fried Rice meticulously.
That's right. He learned that from Wu Hai. If the soup could be used for the plain white rice, it could also be used for the Egg Fried Rice.
As the soup was too little, he had only to stir and mix the rice with the soup slowly.
"Now you can have a try." The colleague of this customer smiled mischievously.
"Yes, now. This guy is such a stingy person." He intentionally said loudly.
Nevertheless, Wu Hai was just indulged in the Rice Served in Soup and couldn't extricate himself. He was totally deaf to others' complaints.
"Haw-haw. Hurry up. We almost finished our meal." The colleague couldn't help bursting into laughter and then urged the customer.
"Okay." He nodded his head and then scooped up the evenly-mixed Egg Fried Rice from the plate into his mouth at a gulp.
Yuan Zhou's Egg Fried Rice was alike to the Golden Fried Rice in "Cooking Master Boy". Due to that reason, Yuan Zhou's restaurant even attracted some female animation addicts to come to eat.
After all, the cold face, too many rules and yet delicious dishes simply could be found nowhere except in fiction or animations.
So when the brilliant red soup of Spicy Hotpot was poured on the golden yellow Egg Fried Rice, the color brought out the best in each other.
The collision of two bright colors didn't destroy the beauty of either color, but instead improved each other.
"The color looks truly comfortable." The customer signed with emotion and then gulped it down.
The taste of Egg Fried Rice was needless to say. Wrapped up by the soft and tender egg liquid, the moderately hard rice provoked the supreme taste of both ingredients upon entering his mouth.
And there was one more taste now, the spiciness.
The egg was an ingredient that could match with most food ingredients. Whatever it was cooked with, like the Chinese toon sprout, pungent garlic or the Chinese chives that had special fragrance, the egg could manifest the intrinsic delicacy of these ingredients.
They could all form a fantastic taste. This was exactly the inclusiveness of the egg.
Naturally, the spiciness that he encountered now was also like that.
"Hiss... Spicy!" Alike to Wu Hai, the customer shouted as soon as it entered his mouth.
After a while, however, he closed his mouth and started to chew.
The taste was marvelous. The delicious Egg Fried Rice was wrapped up by a layer of spicy soup, which suddenly made the originally bland Egg Fried Rice have a spicy taste.
"What a wonderful taste!" The customer said while continuously making the sound of "Hiss...".
The spiciness nicely set off the intrinsic taste of the Egg Fried Rice while the numbing taste served as the final taste which stimulated his tongue from time to time and made it capture the various tastes.
The taste was just like a cloud of dazzling fireworks.
"Shua Shua". With only two bites, a spoonful of Rice Served in the soup of the Spicy Hotpot was swallowed up.
Then the customer kept silent on the chair for quite a while before he suddenly said to his colleague at the side, "Do you remember how many years we have been working together?"
"Three years. Why?" His colleague appeared an alert look.
Did this guy want to borrow his money?
"Please order another serving of plain white rice for him later. I want to eat some more of that spicy soup." The customer said cleanly.
"You really startled me. I thought it was something bigger." His colleague said lightly.
"It's so good that you can agree." The customer turned his head and looked at Wu Hai after a nod.
"Do you want more? I think the soup can soak another bowl of rice." The customer asked Wu Hai with an extraordinarily natural tone.
"Of course." Wu Hai set down the bowl contentedly and then said affirmatively.
"My colleague can help to order another bowl of rice. The condition remains the same." The customer sounded enthusiastic, as if he here a kind friend.
"No need. According to your reaction, the Egg Fried Rice also taste good with the spicy soup." Wu Hai refused him flatly and asked Zhou Jia to serve him a bowl of Egg Fried Rice.
"Is it really good that you do this in an abnormal way?" Looking at Wu Hai's soup pot, the customer asked, being reluctant to accept the fact.
"Thank you for your kindness." Wu Hai said that smilingly.
It was boisterous and noisy in the restaurant just like always. Other customers were naturally tasting the delicious dishes blissfully while watching the intriguing scene.
"There's neither BBQ nor liquor tonight." Yuan Zhou stood at the desolate door and said while looking at Broth.
That's right. It rained all day today. After the dinner time ended, the customers left one after another. As Yuan Zhou didn't intend to serve the BBQ tonight, only Yuan Zhou was left there at the door now.
Lying prone on the ground under the veranda, Broth didn't respond to Yuan Zhou's word.
"I'm going to eat the hotpot. Are you coming to join me?" Yuan Zhou looked at Broth and asked.
"Xi Li Xi Li". There was still only the patter of the rain droplets and nothing else.
Broth still didn't have any reaction as usual.
"You little thing, I feed you with food and water, but you never act cute to me. I think you have been a useless dog." Yuan Zhou started to ridicule Broth once in a blue moon.
"I heard that dogs don't eat spicy things, but I'm not sure if it's true. Anyway, I suggest you not eat it." Yuan Zhou suddenly remembered that and gave up the idea.
"Hua La". Yuan Zhou closed the roller shutter door and returned to the kitchen and then started to prepare the hotpot for his dinner.
Tsk! A hotpot prepared for him alone. Yuan Zhou felt the restaurant was a little quiet and secluded.
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Between Scrooge and Wuhai, who do you think is more stingy? 🤑
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❤️ Cooking Master Boy ❤️ Looks like the author was a fan. I liked that anime, and I should rewatch it since it has been awhile.
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You know, Boss Yuan you could always invite someone over to eat hotpot with you. Cough Yin Ya 😚
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Chapter 456: Go Out To Buy Vegetables
Translator: Xiong_Guoqi Editor: DesTheSloth
In the evening, Yuan Zhou naturally washed, prepared, cut and rinsed all the ingredients in hot water in his restaurant.
With all these ingredients boiled together, the hotpot was quite abundant. Yuan Zhou didn't pay much attention to the taste, but cooked it casually this time.
It was a little cold during breakfast time, therefore Yuan Zhou prepared the hot Lotus Root Starch.
"Sigh. How wonderful it is if we can eat the Lotus Root Starch along with the foods sold outside." A customer sighed with emotion while drinking the Lotus Root Starch.
"It's not like Boss Yuan will drive you away if you do that." Another customer beside him drank a mouthful of refreshing and slightly sweet Lotus Root Starch blissfully and then said to him.
"Why do you still ask since you have known the answer?" The customer turned his face away and didn't talk to him anymore before he drank the Lotus Root Starch carefully.
There were many stall keepers selling breakfast in front of Yuan Zhou's restaurant. Those who became hungry while waiting and those who failed in getting their number ticket would have to make do with those foods. However, very few of them would like to eat Yuan Zhou's dishes along with the food outside.
Even if they intended to eat the steamed buns and soybean milk for breakfast, they would drink up the soybean milk outside first before they started to eat the steamed buns cooked by Yuan Zhou attentively.
No harm can be caused without comparison. This saying wasn't merely a joke in Yuan Zhou's restaurant.
The breakfast time was still as short as the ones in the past. After that, Yuan Zhou got seated by the door and kept sculpting the radishes in different colors. The shelf was filled with the radish sculptures by the lunchtime.
Just as always, the customers entered the restaurant one by one after Zhou Jia announced that lunch time commenced.
Ling Hong came too. Naturally, he came for the new dish.
"Boss Yuan, you are really unfriendly. Why didn't you publicize the new dish on the microblog?" As soon he entered the restaurant, he said discontentedly.
"Ho Ho. To tell you specially? You don't seemed to have put on weight recently." Wu Hai, who always liked arguing with Ling Hong, said that before Yuan Zhou had time to answer him.
"Of course I didn't. Instead, I have a six-pack Instead, a painter like you who sits and draws every day should be cautious about your weak body." Ling Hong stroked his own hair and said without a care.
"Then why is your face so big?" Wu Hai snorted coldly.
"It's because I'm handsome." Ling Hong stroked his own chin.
"Ho Ho." With a sneering expression, Wu Hai looked at Ling Hong.
Even Yuan Zhou knitted his brows at the side. What a joke! There was definitely nobody better looking than him in this restaurant. Well, that was just what Yuan Zhou was thinking right now.
"Go away. I'm asking about the new dishes. Since you have finished your meal, please don't interrupt me." Ling Hong waved his hand and disregarded Wu Hai's sneer.
"I don't have the habit of advertising." Yuan Zhou answered naturally and sincerely.
"Boss Yuan is still so low-profile." One of the remaining customers who heard them speak instantly said that.
"Exactly. Even Boss Yuan was introduced to me by others." Another person immediately echoed at the other side.
"I've never seen Boss Yuan ever advertise for his restaurant." The customer nodded approvingly.
"Yeah. Even for the TV program, it was because the TV station kept annoying him." It was a girl who had been fascinated by the TV program.
"Boss Yuan is indeed a low-profile person who has superb craftsmanship, like a great master that lies concealed in the bustling place." A customer summarized conclusively
"Only in that way can we eat his dishes every day. Otherwise, we'll probably have to wait for a year or more if there are too many people." Some customers immediately nodded their head approvingly.
Naturally, Yuan Zhou heard all their conversations with his sharp ears and thus felt very happy. However, he still maintained his composure and appeared indifferent on the surface.
"I think this guy is just lazy." Ling Hong murmured discontentedly on hearing that.
"Pardon?" Yuan Zhou looked at Ling Hong.
"Nothing. How shall I eat the hotpot since there are no side ingredients?" Ling Hong denied it at once and then started to ask about the Spicy Hotpot.
"You can eat it in whatever way I like." Yuan Zhou said earnestly.
"Rice Served in Hotpot Soup! Yes, it's worth ordering." A customer thought of Wu Hai immediately and suggested loudly.
"Rice Served in Soup?" Ling Hong appeared quite surprised.
"Yes. It looked appetizing." It was a girl who proposed his suggestion. Seeing Ling Hong look at her, she nodded forcibly.
"Girl, this idea is very dangerous." Ling Hong said solemnly.
"No, it isn't. That Brother Wu eats it that way." The girl said with puzzlement.
"Ah, it's you! Look, what a bad influence you have on a girl! Can rice be eaten along with hotpot soup?" Ling Hong turned his head and looked at Wu Hai with deep hatred and resentment as if Wu Hai had done something that couldn't be pardoned.
"Do you have a different opinion?" Wu Hai sat down and asked indifferently while stroking his small mustaches.
"Of course. You are free to eat it strangely, but please don't set a bad example." Ling Hong said righteously.
"Hotpot must have side ingredients such as beef, mutton and pork, etc." Ling Hong added again.
"Why don't you try to ask Yuan Zhou for those things?" Wu Hai made a gesture of "Please".
"I will do that in a different way." Ling Hong smiled mysteriously.
"Ho Ho." Wu Hai still gazed at Ling Hong with an ironic look.
"Ta Ta". Ling Hong took two steps forward. He looked at Yuan Zhou smilingly and prepared to say something.
It had to be admitted that Ling Hong was rather handsome today. Despite the cold weather outside, he was still wearing a snow-white shirt and a flaxen business suit outside which revealed his collarbones. Judging from his sunny and handsome look, he didn't seem to feel cold.
As for Yuan Zhou, he was still wearing the Han clothing with the lotus-flower patterns. Yuan Zhou had always been wearing the lunar-white Han clothing recently. His tidy and clean short hair was concealed in the scholar's hat; the sleeves were narrow ones and the waistband was tied tight. Due to his superb craftsmanship, he looked tall and upright as well as confident on the whole.
Though his face wasn't as handsome as Ling Hong's, his rigorous and earnest manner attracted many girls' attention. At least, the girl that spoke just now had been watching Yuan Zhou for quite a long time without blinking her eyes.
"Speak normally." Yuan Zhou said warily while looking at Ling Hong's expression that was filled with ill-intentions.
"I heard someone in the suburbs plant very nice radishes." Ling Hong looked at Yuan Zhou earnestly.
"So?" Yuan Zhou didn't react for a while. Did he smile with malicious intentions just to talk about the radishes?
"I noticed that you sculpted quite a few radish flowers today. Are you running out of your radishes?" Ling Hong smiled with even more malicious intentions this time, like a fox.
"Are you going to send me the radishes for free?" Yuan Zhou said naturally.
"Hey. Why can't you react in a normal way?" Ling Hong supported his forehead and felt quite speechless.
"So you won't send me the radishes, will you?" Yuan Zhou looked at Ling Hong with puzzlement.
"I can take you there for a visit so you can check by yourself." Only then did Ling Hong bring out his purpose.
"Okay. I will have time in the afternoon. Sorry to bother you." Yuan Zhou considered for three seconds and then said courteously.
"You are welcome. Perhaps I'll have to bother you by that time." Ling Hong waved his hand and answered generously.
"Um." Yuan Zhou nodded.
"Everybody, you can order your dishes now." Zhou Jia reminded.
"Okay. Everybody, please order your dishes." Yuan Zhou still appeared solemn when he talked.
Ling Hong returned to his seat and prepared to order dishes with a satisfied smile. At that time, Wu Hai spoke.
"What are you planning?" Although Wu Hai asked with a curious tone, his expression didn't seem that way.
"You'll know that by the time." Ling Hong said with complete confidence.
"Whatever you have planned, it's definitely nothing good." Wu Hai said in a positive tone.
Upon hearing that, Ling Hong revealed an evil laugh. Of course, he hadn't planned anything good.