There was a row of iron skewers with meat and vegetables placed in front of everyone. The teenagers slowly turned the iron skewers and brushed the sauce on the skewers.
The meat is sizzling softly, and the green peppers, eggplants, beans, leeks, and potatoes are also steaming.
More and more people gathered around, everyone looked at the dishes curiously, looked at the young man behind the grill, and speculated on what he was doing.
Barbecue is a way to eat at two extremes.
Ordinary people can just build a fire outside and roast potatoes, roast peanuts, roast grasshoppers, bake some dry pancakes, and sprinkle some fine salt to fill their stomachs.
And the grilled lamb chops like Tianxianglou's before are high-end.
Carefully cooked, plus unusual seasonings, ordinary people can't afford it.
Now Tianxianglou has reopened, and it also serves barbecue.
It's just that the dishes placed on the wooden plates are all kinds of, including vegetables and meat.
Someone once went to Tianxianglou to eat grilled lamb chops. At this time, he couldn't help but laugh with disdain: He wanted to imitate Tianxianglou's signature dish before, but he failed to learn it and used some vegetarian dishes to show off the appearance.
Some people are full of expectations: this way of eating is novel.
At least these skewers are eye-catching, and coupled with the open-air barbecue, they look like a wild place.
While the onlookers were talking about it, the teenagers at the grill took out some powder and sprinkled it on the vegetables and meat skewers that had been roasted to a crispy yellow layer.
Just listen to the sound of "rustling", green smoke billowing, followed by a strange aroma.
"It smells so good! It smells so good!"
This fragrance is so alluring, not the mellow and long aroma of stew, but a frivolous, captivating and alluring scent, just like the oiran with a light waist in Chunyue Garden.
Everyone was like a mouse falling into a rice vat, looking around with their nostrils wide open, trying hard to find the source of the fragrance.
Two guys stood nearby and shouted loudly without losing any opportunity:
“If you’re passing by, don’t miss it. Tianxianglou has launched a tasting event. The skewers are amazing.”
“If you miss today, you will find delicious food that is hard to find!”
"Come on, come on, take a look, free stuff without money."
There is no charge for such fragrant food, and a group of people came around and stretched out their hands.
"Here, I want a box to try!"
"It smells weird, but I don't know if it tastes good or not. It looks like it's mushy."
"Haha, what is this? It's white and slippery."
"Haven't you heard? This is a box made of paper!"
Because the barbecue was made with iron skewers and could not be taken away by others, Song Liyun had people take out the grilled meat skewers and vegetables and put them into paper boxes as small as a palm.
For those who want to try something new, each box contains only two pieces of meat and some vegetables, plus a wooden chip as a chopstick.
Someone took the carton and put it into his mouth without even using the wood chips.
After just one taste, I couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow, it's delicious, it's delicious."
One person said it was delicious, and everyone else who tasted it said it was delicious. More and more people came to ask for the carton.
The eight people in charge of the skewers worked hard to turn the iron skewers. Their movements were awkward. Some of the meat was already cooked, some were still raw, and some skewers were scattered when they were served.
A lot of the spices mixed with chili, Sichuan peppercorns, and cumin powder were also thrown into the charcoal fire, and the spicy heat produced by the grilling was even more exciting and made the onlookers swallow their saliva.
The rich aroma of barbecue filled half of the street, and people crowded crazily towards Tianxiang Tower, all wanting to get a taste of something in a small carton.
There is a limited amount of dishes placed outside for free tasting. Some people are not satisfied after trying it and follow them into the store.
When I learned that I could dine now, I immediately started ordering.
The strange way of ordering food is also weird, you have to order and pay: a bunch of mutton costs five cents, a bunch of green peppers costs one cent, and a bunch of eggplants also costs one cent. It seems quite cheap, and you can order a bunch of each to satisfy your cravings.
But when the mutton skewers arrived, the diced meat, which was not much bigger than my thumb, did not satisfy my craving. Instead, it made me scratch my liver and heart.
The newly opened Tianxiang Restaurant also has chilled sake. After eating the spicy and scalding barbecue, and taking a sip of the ice-cold wine, it was a kind of spicy pleasure that was extremely irritating to the mouth, and then instantly fell from the top.
A bite of food and a bite of wine is the reincarnation of life.
The most uncomfortable thing is: when everyone calls for more food, they say there is no more.
Tianxianglou clearly informed us that today is just a trial opening for everyone to try something new.
If you want to eat, please come back tomorrow. Those people can only leave with a sigh.
Tianxiang Building is a two-story wooden building, with private rooms on the second floor and the lobby on the first floor.
Now we have a small staff and it's a trial opening. We only open downstairs.
But in just a short time, ten tables were filled with people.
People came and went like a flood. Song Liyun was in the back kitchen helping two chefs wash vegetables, cut meat, mix ingredients and skewer them. The bowl full of meat and vegetables quickly disappeared.
The waiters in the lobby were also running to take back the plates they had eaten.
This is completely different from the way they used to deliver food slowly and leisurely.
Zhou Xiang led people to go around the table and count the iron signs to collect money... This was a simple matter.
Finally, all the dishes in the back kitchen were sold out, so we stopped grilling skewers, and there were still a few circles of people outside the door.
Song Liyun stood at the door with a smile: "Everyone is welcome to come and taste it tomorrow. The free event will last for three days. If you haven't tasted it, you can come into the store in the future and there will be more dishes."
"Hey, female shopkeeper, can you take what you say seriously? Can we eat for free tomorrow?" someone shouted from the crowd.
"Of course it is possible."
"Okay! I'll come back tomorrow!"
The man squeezed out of the crowd and left happily, planning to bring his whole family to try it out tomorrow.
Not far away in the street, a young man in green clothes and a small cap curled his lips, rubbed his nose, and muttered: "Now it's time to start driving, it's too easy! There are no firecrackers or red silk hangings, but the smell
It smells quite good."
He raised his eyes and looked at Song Liyun, who was specially wearing a green shirt and white skirt and was talking about barbecue skewers to the onlookers, then turned around and walked to the back door of the county government office.
After persuading the onlookers who did not get the tasting items, they took the oven back to Tianxiang Tower and closed the store door.
The eight sergeants in charge of the skewers were sweating through their clothes due to the early heat. Now they sat down and drank the chilled sake, and then ate the skewers they grilled themselves. They felt refreshed.
These people were specially chosen by Song Liyun to go to the guard. Not only did they have outstanding looks, they had broad shoulders and narrow waists, they were also good at barbecue.
The skill of being able to grill meat was easily picked up by the Zhenbei Army. It was a required course for their army during field training.
They are really not used to being surrounded by people watching barbecue.
Especially the older girls and younger wives in the crowd, their gazes were hotter than charcoal fire, as if they wanted to take off their clothes and peel off their skin.
Zhou Xiang was so excited that he was wandering around the building. He didn't expect that just such a simple skewer would solve the problem of Tianxiang Building not having a chef and make it famous.