After Ah Fu was promoted to the deputy general manager in charge of the Mainland branch of No. 9 Hotpot Restaurant, he basically traveled around the country. But if you really think about it, Yangcheng should be his base.
Now that the little boss has arrived in his territory, he will definitely use all his skills to satisfy Sun Dahai and the others.
The Pearl River Causeway next to the White Swan Hotel is the most famous night market food stall in Yangcheng after the reform and opening up. When Sun Dahai and others came down, it was just after eight o'clock, and this night market food stall hotel had only started to open.
However, many stall owners are now preparing for the opening of the market. Sun Dahai and the others, led by Ah Fu, came to a stall.
This stall looks like it is run by a family. The middle-aged man is shirtless, with only a towel hanging around his neck. He is wearing big pants and slippers. Together with a little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, he is walking from a tricycle to the stall.
Move folding tables and chairs down.
The liquefied stoves, woks, and various ingredients and seasonings were neatly placed on the stall. It seemed that they were brought by the previous cart. There were so many things that a tricycle could not carry them in one trip.
There is an old lady with gray hair behind her. She is sitting on a small bench. In front of her are four small homemade briquette stoves with four pots of soup on them.
A middle-aged woman was at the stall, talking to two people riding bicycles with two large wooden barrels hanging on both sides of the bicycle frame.
After a while, she took out a washbasin and a plastic bucket, and asked the two men to fish out a lot of seafood from the bucket behind their car and put it into her vessel.
Sun Dahai went over to take a look, and it turned out to be Pipi shrimps and flower clams. Of course, the names of these two things in the south are different from those in the north. They are called pissing shrimps and sixty-year-old clams respectively.
Sun Dahai is just a foodie and does not study marine animals. He is not interested in whether they are two different animals or whether they are just called different due to geographical reasons. He only knows that they taste similar.
The Pipi shrimps were poured into a large plastic bucket and half a bucket of water was added. At this time, the Pipi shrimps were still very fresh and looked very lively. However, the more they looked like this, the more they attracted the attention of diners.
He died faster.
It was obvious that the middle-aged woman and the two seafood sellers were acquaintances. They put down the seafood and did not settle the account or collect the money. They said hello to the middle-aged man and rode away.
At this time, Ah Fu walked forward and greeted the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was very enthusiastic and quickly cleared a table for everyone with the best view of the Pearl River night view. After carefully wiping it, he invited everyone to sit down.
The middle-aged man's surname is Zhai, and everyone calls him Lao Zhai. Ah Fu has had late-night snacks here many times and is very familiar with him, so he also calls him Lao Zhai.
Lao Zhai looked loyal and honest, not the kind of person who was eloquent. After saying a few words to everyone, he returned to the stove to pack up his things and prepare to open the business.
His wife, the middle-aged woman who collects seafood, is responsible for receiving guests. Before the opening time of the night market, she came over to greet Ah Fu, Sun Dahai and the others, and gave them a gift.
A large pot of his homemade Cantonese herbal tea and a plate of pre-fried snails were delivered to Sun Dahai's table.
The things the landlady gave were not many, not worth a few dollars at all, but they seemed very humane. Moreover, the couple didn't seem to be pretentious at all. They treated Ah Fu like a friend. No wonder Ah Fu was willing to take Sun Dahai and the others there.
Come to this stall for a late night snack.
In this kind of night market food stall, apart from a few of its best dishes, the rest depends on what ingredients are received that day. The food stalls operate on a small scale, and it is impossible to prepare ingredients for many dishes.
Most people in this era have no brand awareness when it comes to operating food stalls. Nowadays, most of the food stalls do not have store names or recipes. They just operate their own specialties at a fixed time and place.
The same is true for Lao Zhai's stall. There is no store name, only a water sign with the dishes and prices that can be provided here today scrawled on it.
Lao Zhai is in charge of cooking the soup. He is very good at cooking and is the backbone of the family. His old mother is responsible for making the soup, and the soup is considered a signature feature of his family.
His wife is responsible for greeting guests, billing and calculating money, and is very efficient. His eldest daughter and second son take turns coming here every day to help out.
The family does their best and lives a hard life.
There were quite a few people like Sun Dahai and others. In addition to the eight of them, there were also Ah Fu and the minibus driver, a total of ten people.
There are all folding round tables here, two put together. Although it looks a bit awkward, the two round tables are next to each other, like glasses. But everyone squeezed in and sat down.
There are only a few dishes on the menu, including stir-fried beef with kale, stir-fried pork intestines with green and red peppers, stir-fried thin shells with jinbuhuan, stir-fried cabbage sum, Yunnan melon with salted egg yolk and lettuce with oyster sauce.
The staple food is rice noodles, which are homemade, soft and chewy, fragrant and delicious. The preparation is very simple, there are only two kinds: dry-fried beef rice noodles and egg-fried rice noodles.
Because two kinds of seafood were temporarily added, the landlady discussed with Lao Zhai and added two more dishes under the water sign: Peeing Shrimp (steamed, salt and pepper) and Huajia (soy sauce, green onion and ginger, spicy stir-fried).
Lao Zhai's mother is responsible for making soup. She prepares two kinds of soup every day until sold out. The soups are also changed every day. Because the quantity is small and the price is high, just supplying the old customers is not enough for everyone, so the soup is not written.
On the water sign.
The soup has actually been simmered at home for several hours. After arriving at the night market, it was poured from a large bucket into a casserole, new ingredients were added, and then placed on a small stove with briquettes to simmer for half an hour before it was ready.
Otherwise, the soup in his store takes three to four hours to cook. There are only four small stoves for making soup. It can only make four servings in one night, and the cost is too high. Besides, there are not many customers who can wait.
Got it in time.
Ah Fu asked, today's soup is stewed teal with winter melon and barley and chicken soup with five-finger peach root. Even though the main ingredients of the soup are chicken and duck, both of them are very suitable for consumption in summer.
, the combination is still very reasonable.
Ah Fu asked Sun Dahai what to eat, but Sun Dahai was too lazy to think about it. Looking at the water sign, there were only a few dishes in total, so he told Ah Fu that except for the staple food, he would eat it later, and he would order two portions of each dish first.
Let both tables eat at the same time.
You need one portion of each of the two kinds of soup, so you can drink whichever you like. But don’t rush, it will take more than half an hour to drink the soup.
When the lady boss heard this, she knew that this was a big customer who didn't care about money. She quickly placed an order and asked Lao Zhai to start cooking.
Not to mention, Lao Zhai is really good at it. Several dishes came out of the pot neatly. Everyone happened to be hungry, so they drank herbal tea and started eating.
Sun Dahai tasted the dishes and found that although the dishes were simple, they tasted really good. He gave Lao Zhai a thumbs up and praised Ah Fu beside him.