After the soup base and vegetables were served, Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing boiled some vegetables and tasted them. Zheng Qing said in a surprised tone, "Hey, this tastes okay!"
Comrade Xu nodded slightly, "It's not bad!"
At least it tasted better than the hot pot he had eaten in Mizutori City in the past two years.
What he tried just now was a dish hot in a red soup pot. Now he tried a piece of potato hot in a white soup pot, and it seemed okay.
So, he opened the handbag he carried with him, took out a small notebook and a ballpoint pen from the bag, turned to the first page, and wrote on it: Liu Yishou Hotpot, and put a check mark behind this line.
Except for the taste of the soup base here, he thought it was okay. However, he was a little disappointed with the dipping sauce.
It's not much richer than the hot pot restaurants he ate at in Mizutori City. There are just a few kinds of dipping sauces.
He is now not sure whether it is only this hot pot restaurant that does not have many kinds of dipping sauces, or whether all the hot pot restaurants in the current foggy city do not have many kinds of dipping sauces.
He had a vague guess in his mind - maybe all the hot pot restaurants in Wudu currently don't have many types of dipping sauces.
reason?
Maybe it’s due to the limitations of the times!
In the few years before he was reborn, the hot pot restaurants he went to had a wide variety of dipping sauces, often dozens of them, and most people may have never heard of many of the dipping sauces.
He estimated that so many kinds of dipping sauces should have been developed bit by bit over time.
Of course, this is a guess in his mind and remains to be verified.
At noon that day, he and Zheng Qing ate in this hot pot restaurant for more than an hour, drank several bottles of beer, and only paid and left after they were full.
When I left, I didn't ask if the store sold the recipe.
He planned to try all the dozens of hot pot restaurants he had heard about online before coming to Fog City before talking about them.
Even if you want to buy a recipe, you have to choose the one with the best taste.
Unless the ones with the best taste are unwilling to sell the formula, he will consider settling for the second best.
On the way back to the hotel on foot, Zheng Qing handed over a cigarette and asked casually: "Xiaodao, you said that if we eat one meal at noon, one meal in the evening, two hot pot meals a day, at the end of the day, we can only taste food from two hot pot restaurants.
Taste, and you plan to taste dozens of hot pot restaurants this time. At this rate, we will have to stay here for a long time this time!"
As he spoke, he chuckled.
This matter didn't matter to him. Anyway, Comrade Xu paid all the expenses for this business trip. He only accompanied and assisted, which was almost like a free trip.
But his words reminded Xu Tongdao.
"Well, what you said makes sense, let's do six a day! Starting from tonight, let's hurry up and no matter which store we enter, we will only order one mandarin duck pot and a few less dishes. The main thing is to taste it.
, and then quickly go to the next one. Those hot pot restaurants should be open for three or four hours no matter whether it is noon or evening. We should be able to catch three at noon and three at night. "
After Comrade Xu finished speaking, Zheng Qing turned to look at him in surprise, with a wry smile on his face, "Are you going to hurry up like this? This is very wasteful. Every pot bottom is not cheap. Let's just boil a few dishes and leave. It's too wasteful.
Alright?"
"It's okay! Anyway, we are going to all the restaurants we plan to go to. No matter when we go, we must order soup base.
If we are in such a hurry, it seems that every time we go to a restaurant, the soup base is quite a waste, but overall, we can save a lot of money on cooking. Besides, we are here mainly for work, not really for tourism.
, come and enjoy the delicious food, hurry up! Sing it to all the dozens of hot pot restaurants in the plan as soon as possible to save time, and you have to fight with these stores to buy more recipes! "
"Oh, you are the boss, you have the final say! That's what I mean."
…
That afternoon, they found a car dealership that sold used cars and rented a second-hand van to serve as a means of transportation for the next few days.
As for why not rent a car? Rent a van?
That's of course because vans are cheap and rent is also cheap.
From that night on, the two of them drove this second-hand van, like celebrities on the go, going to this hot pot restaurant and that hot pot restaurant. Every time they went to a hot pot restaurant, they ordered a mandarin duck pot, and then ordered
There are six or seven hot dishes, most of which are vegetarian.
Ignoring the strange look in the waiter's eyes, he shamelessly waited for the bottom of the pot to be served and took the time to heat the dishes. The taste was average, so he took a few bites and left.
It tastes good, so I just take the time to finish these hot dishes, then pay and leave immediately.
That speed is like the reincarnation of a starving ghost.
But the efficiency has actually improved several times.
Every day at noon or evening, they can visit at least three hot pot restaurants, sometimes four or even five.
Compared with the time they spend eating, they go to every hot pot restaurant, order food, wait for the food to be served, wait for the soup base to boil, and wait for the food to be cooked, which is actually longer.
Of course, there are surprises.
At noon on the third day they arrived in Fog City, they only visited one hot pot restaurant.
I won’t tell you the name of that hot pot restaurant.
Speaking of the taste of the soup base in that hot pot restaurant... it's average! It can't be said to be very good, nor can it be said to be bad. This is not the reason why the two of them did not rush to the second hot pot restaurant after eating this hot pot at noon.
The soup base in this hot pot restaurant was delicious, but it was because... not long after finishing eating, they drove a van to the next hot pot restaurant.
On the way, Zheng Qing's expression suddenly changed, "Oh! Why does my stomach hurt all of a sudden? Trail, trail! Please help me find a public toilet nearby. It's not working anymore. My stomach hurts more and more. I'm going to step on it."
Damn it, did you catch a cold while sleeping last night? That’s not right! It’s July now, the weather is so hot, how could you catch a cold?”
At that time, Comrade Xu was a little speechless and wanted to laugh a little.
They were speechless because in this way, they might not be able to go to the three hot pot restaurants at noon today.
I want to laugh... of course because of the bad nature of human beings - when I see others being unlucky, I want to laugh myself.
"Okay! I'll help you look for it, and you should also pay attention to whether there are toilets on the roadside."
…
As a result, before helping Zheng Qing find the toilet, Xu Tongdao's face suddenly changed. He heard his stomach growl twice. He was not afraid of this sound, but the moment the sound sounded, he suddenly felt
There was a cramp in my stomach.
"Zhoucao...why does my stomach hurt? Are we acclimated or something?"
For a moment, he didn't think of other possibilities.
At this time, Zheng Qing was covering his stomach with both hands, hunched over and huddled in the passenger seat. Hearing this, he looked in shock, stayed for two seconds, and suddenly asked: "Are we... having a bad stomach?"
Right? Could it be that the food in that hot pot restaurant just now was not clean?"