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Before cooking the Mala Baby Lobster, Shiyu needs to prepare the other ingredients first. For this, she is thankful for mother nature. Because in the hills near the broken temple, there are many natural plants that could be used as seasonings. Some of these were transported to Shiyu's garden.
Bu Yan saw she grabbing a pile of leaves and dried fruits. Then Shiyu added some oil into the wok. Once the oil is hot, she added the ginger, onion, chilli etc into the wok and stir-fried them.
Can these be stir-fried?
Bu Yan was astounded.
Then he saw Shiyu adding the leaves and dried fruits into the wok and fried them as well.
In a short while, a mouth-watering fragrant drifted out. Because of the chilli, the smell does indeed make anyone who smelled it sneeze.
For some strange reasons, Bu Yan love this scent.
At this time, Lao Er washed the baby lobsters and brought them in. Shiyu added the baby lobsters into the wok, and fried them for a while. The baby lobsters changed colour from grey-black to red. Then Shiyu added some wine as well as sugar. Once the aroma thicken, she added some water and closed the lid.
"All right, let's cook the other ingredients."
Since there are some (spicy) baby lobsters, they will be thirsty as the food is a bit spicy. Therefore, they need to drink something to wash away the spiciness. As these people are mostly young children and could not drink beer, Shiyu assigned Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu to purchase some sour plum. She will make some sour plum drink.
Once the baby lobsters are ready, Shiyu lifted the lid. The delectable aroma whiffed out and the children drooled.
By Yan had also eaten baby lobsters before. The taste is terrible and tasted like eating sand and mud. But for some inexplicable reasons, when he caught of a whiff the aroma, he also drooled.
"Try it!" Shiyu hands over a pair of chopsticks. She love to watch the reaction of people when they eat the food she cooks.
Bu Yan did not decline, and pick one baby lobster. After pulling out the shell, he placed the meat into his mouth. The succulent taste of the baby lobster was infused with the spicy and tangy sauce, and melted in his mouth. This… this is a slice of heaven.
"It is delicious!" Bu Yan cried out.
The tender and soft prawn, filled with the spicy sauce was very tasty. He had not even chewed it to savour the flavour yet, but had already swallowed it.
Seeing Bu Yan eating in front of them, the little children could not resist anymore. Each of them grabbed one with their fingers, ignoring the heat of the lobster's shell, and immediately peeled it and bite into the lobster flesh.
"Come, let's eat it outside." Shiyu placed the lobsters into a large bowl, and placed the bowl on the table under the shade of the large tree.
As soon as she had let go of the bowl, the children immediately surrounded it and helped themselves to the food. Shiyu poured a bowl of plum juice for them, and sat down to eat with them.
A pot of baby lobsters, some bowls [1] of plum juice. Under the star-lit night, the group of children and one elderly man feasted.
When infused with the chilli gravy, the baby lobster had never tasted better. When the lobsters were gone, they immediately add some gravy to their rice and just eat the rice and gravy.
Bu Yan rubbed his swollen belly as he left. He loves the food, and told Shiyu that even if his Shifu did not ask them to come, he will come here in future.
On the next day, Shiyu went to sell the steam bun as usual. She heard someone exclaiming "The buns at Fragrance Restaurant taste similar to this bun." She smiled. After keeping the cart, she went out.
When she returned, she had a purse filled with silver tael.
On the 3rd day, most of the shops in Qing Shan City sold the same buns as her.
"Grandpa, now that we have about 100 taels of silver, let's open a restaurant of our own!" Shiyu counted the money and proposed.
"Oh, you decide!" Grandpa seemed to understand - a child that was blessed by an immortal is different and is much smarter more resourceful than ordinary kids.
"Great, then we rent a place for our new restaurant." Shiyu had already enquired. Most of the rental for a year does not exceed 50 taels to 100 taels. Right now, they can try. Also, now is the breeding period for lobsters and there are a lot of baby lobsters. Maybe baby lobsters can become a speciality of this town.
"Grandpa, I am quite young and some things are better left to adults like yourself. I am afraid that you need to help out."
To get the approval of the divine artefact, she must earn more money and purchase higher grade ingredients.
These few days, she had successfully enquire what dishes they liked to eat. Xiao Qi loves to eat steam buns, and Xiao Wu loves to eat chicken. Grandpa love to eat a dish made from spiritual meat. Lao Er and Xiao Liu wants to eat something that was created using spiritual ingredients.
In this world, the most type of food is the common food. Above it is the spiritual food that is cooked using spiritual ingredients. Above it is spiritual beast's meat. There are also higher ranked food. But at this time, they could not imagine it.
In this Qing Shan city, other than the massive clan families, most of the population could not even afford to purchase the meat. If they want to eat spiritual beast meat, they must kill a spiritual beast. But most people usually end up being hunted by the spiritual beasts instead of being the hunter. Only the Xiuzhen practicers stand a chance against these beasts.
Regarding the Xiuzhen practicers, they are also divided into levels: the Basic level, Elementary Level, Medium Level, High Level, King Level, Master Level, Grand Master Level, Divine Level, and the Emperor Level. There are 9 levels in all. Within each level is also divided into 9 sub-level.
Shiyu is an ordinary woman who have not embark on the route to Xiuzhen. Most of the disciples in a clan are at least basic level 4 or higher, but does not deviate from this level by a lot. Right now, Lin Fan is not even basic level 3. That is why he was taunted and called a useless bum by others.
In this world where strength reigns supreme, Shiyu also wanted to have power. As an ordinary human, she does not have the power to protect others or chase after what she wants.
Finally, Grandpa managed to rent a shop near the city guard. This shop was in a prime location, but the owner of the shop has some issues at home and needed the money urgently. In the end, they agreed on the price of 70 taels of silver for 6 months rental.
This shop was a restaurant and there are already several things that they could use right off the bat. For example, it had tables and chairs for the customers. There is no need for Shiyu to purchase these.
Right now, the most important thing is to select good ingredients and choose a day for the grand opening.
"Morning, we will sell breakfast stuff. In the afternoon, we will sell flour products. At night we will sell the baby lobsters." This is Shiyu plan. As a normal shop, the majority of the customers are commoners. Other than the dinner, the rest of the items should not be too expensive.
Everyone agreed. Grandpa was a scholar in the past, and knows how to read and write. Therefore, all issues regarding money was assigned to him. As for the rest of the children, when the restaurant is very busy, they will help out and be waiters, or when it is not so busy, they could help to catch more baby lobsters.
But they were few in number. Therefore Shiyu advertised in the entrance that they were willing to purchase any baby lobsters, and the price depend on how many lobsters they had.
The lobsters are quite stupid and only know how to hide in the sand. Even children can catch a lot. As soon as the children saw the notice, they immediately informed their parents and rushed down to the river to catch.
In just one day, Shiyu had received several buckets filled with baby lobsters. She was contemplating if she should dig a pond just to keep the baby lobsters.
After 3 days, the shop was finally opened for business. The name of the business is "Er Gou Fat Onion Lobsters."
Why such a weird name?
Oh, her two novel writer friends have created this world. But their name is not mentioned anywhere in this world. With this, Er Gou and Fat Onion should be pleased.
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Notes:[1] They use bowls to substitute for cups.
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