Chapter 25: Despicable Food Relieves Hunger
In the autumn season, the scenery in the mountain countryside is the most attractive, get off the highway, go west along the national highway, the breath of the city is getting weaker and weaker, the quaint charm of the small town and small town is getting stronger and stronger, the roadside field, the moisture is just right, the corn field is one person high, the sorghum is half a head higher than the corn, and the pieces are connected into a green gauze tent, and the natural breeze blows in the face when the car window is opened, mixed with the breath of soil and grass. The red Cadillac Mercedes-Benz is particularly eye-catching on the national highway, not only people look at it, but even the big mules and big tendon cows that occasionally pass by on the side of the road are also looking back in surprise, followed by a mooing and hissing!
Even Jiang Dijia, who has already come once, is also very interesting, chatting with his brother all the way, driving is Zhang Kai, the catering manager of Jiuding Holiday Inn, who seems to be a family who grew up in the city. When approaching the destination of Oolong County, Jiang Dijia pointed to the car and parked at the door of the first pot of Oolong, the wide road was originally a natural parking lot, Jiang Jiuding and Zhang Kai were a little stunned when they got out of the car!
It's better to see the scenery than to listen to the scenery, and it's better to be famous when you meet!
It's just a two-story roadside building, an old-style brick and wood building with a sloping roof, and a muddy unicorn town house on the roof. It is estimated that the foundation is cheap, there is a second yard behind this big yard, covering an area of almost four points, it seems to be some years, in addition to those few big characters are still majestic, this house is not even as bright as some of the new small shops on the side of the road, of course, it is far from the luxury building in the highway service area.
The only good thing is that the on-street parking space can be expanded indefinitely.
Jiang Dijia saw the disdain in the eyes of his brother and Manager Zhang, and said with a smile: "Brother, don't make the same old mistakes, when Chairman Chen first brought us here, we all felt unsatisfactory, but if we eat one or two meals, okay, I am more convinced!"
"Huh...... If you hadn't said it, I'm afraid I wouldn't have entered this kind of small shop in my life. Let's go, Manager Zhang, let's be convinced!"
The three second brothers entered the store, the store is still the same, the face is different, the time of the meal, this lively energy can be seen, in the hot day, the hall is crowded and shouting almost full of tables, each table is a large and small iron pot, coarse porcelain bowls, around the table is high or low, stretching chopsticks to rush to the mouth, almost a sex, eat is the mouth of oil, sweat on the head!
Jiang Jiuding, who was surprised and contemptuous, showed a slight disgust in his expression, in this group of diners, at a glance, he knew that a small half of them were drivers who were in a hurry, and there were even porters and vegetable sellers, and when they were eating, they were erected by their side with a half-human-high flat pole. This eating appearance is even more outrageous, almost half of the people holding the coarse porcelain square bowl sighing and pulling the rhythm into the mouth, smacking, occasionally paused, but with a big mouth, one bite can bite off half of the steamed bun, what's more, eat to the rise, "snort", but on the napkin to wash the nose!
Jiang Jiuding subconsciously hid, as if he was afraid that the guy would throw himself on him, and followed the waiter upstairs repeatedly. Sister Jiang Dijia saw that the greeting girl was replaced by the cashier girl of the day, looking left and right, and disappeared the smiling trotting hall, and was greatly disappointed!
It was the peach blossom sister who greeted the guests, combing a big black and shiny braid, and her expression was not very enthusiastic, and she invited a few people to the private room by the window on the second floor. It seems that there are more guests in power, Jian Taohua casually took the pen and threw the laminated menu on the table, and said lukewarmly, what to eat?
That posture is not to welcome guests, but to interrogate prisoners!
The brothers and sisters of the Jiang family didn't take it, but their faces changed, but when they thought about it, they were relieved, some of the roadside shops were good to eat, and they dared to expect their service level to be so good?
Zhang Kai twisted it into his hand and looked at it, it was extremely simple, one meat and one vegetable, just two sides, but there were more than 30 kinds of dishes, this contempt was a little bit, Jiang Jiuding was afraid that he had just eaten a lot of thunder, and he didn't say anything for a long time, and the environment on the first floor was like a mule and horse store really disappointed him.
"Waiter, introduce me to the best dishes in your store!" Chef Zhang Kai said casually. The old saying at dinner.
Unexpectedly, the time and place and the characters are not quite right, the face is black and red, and the simple-looking peach blossom immediately choked: "The menu is all good, why do we write the menu if we don't do it!?"
The implication is conclusive, aren't you asking nonsense? There is a lot of impatience in that expression, there are many people, you can eat it, who cares about grinding your mouth so much.
This manager was choked by a word, but Jiang Jiuding tilted his head sideways and smiled noncommittally.
Jiang Dijia saw the cashier's peach blossom, and said with a smile: "Your name is Peach Blossom, right?
"Well, I remember you. Of course Peach Blossom remembers the man who was slaughtered.
"Really?" Jiang Dijia was suddenly happy, and was about to ask where Jian Fan was.
Unexpectedly, Jian Taohua was wrong, and thought that this guest was going to be close, so she immediately rushed to open her mouth: "Of course I remember......... But don't you think I'll give you a discount? We still have regular customers who have eaten for more than 20 years, and regular customers want discounts, and our store can't be opened? You city people, everything is good, this is not good, why are you more stingy than the countrymen, so you like to make a price. ”
As she spoke, Peach Blossom was still angry, with an expression that she didn't want to see the people in the city.
Yes!?...... Jiang Dijia's later words were stunned by the peach blossom sentence. I was choked by Jian Taohua, so I just shut up.
As soon as he stopped here, Manager Zhang was still thinking about it for a long time, and said casually: "Waiter, then you have any special dishes, you always know, right?"
"Special!?" The word made Peach Blossom think about it, and really came up with an idea, and said proudly: "Special, the stews are almost the same, my uncle has marinated a vat of pig's head meat in the past two days, why don't you try it?"
"Pig's head meat!?" Jiang Jiuding replied in surprise, his face a little deformed. When he turned around, he and Manager Zhang looked at each other and smiled.
Anyway, it is also in the provincial capital, and it has been running a restaurant for several years, so it really takes the best abalone in South Africa, Australian lobster, caviar, and bear's paw bird's nest fresh monkey brain to scare the people in the catering industry.
Unexpectedly, Jian Taohua was happy, looking at Jiang Jiuding surprised, and thought that what he recommended was in the right place, so he was happy to show his white teeth, and said with a bright smile: "I know that you haven't eaten it, one year we only start to marinate it in our store after autumn, and you can't eat it at all in summer, and you are so lucky that you are in a hurry!"
The implication is that you are in a hurry, as if you have picked up a big bargain!
Jiang Dijia knew that there was nothing to make sense with this kind of rectal country sister, but seeing her brother being choked and stunned, it was quite funny, she covered her mouth and shrugged her chest with a smile she couldn't hold back.
Jiang Jiuding was made clear, and said stupidly: "Gotta ...... Manager Zhang, you are in charge. ”
Zhang Kai hadn't spoken yet, this Jian Taohua saw that her only strong recommendation was ignored, and found that Jiang Dijia was stunned and smiled, unhappy, and said stupidly, what are you laughing at, if you haven't eaten, you haven't eaten, I know that you are from the provincial capital, and you are from the provincial capital, and you have never eaten it! Not eating it will make you regret it for the rest of your life, and you won't be able to catch up next time you come, and you won't have anything to eat............ Jian Taohua chattered, downstairs shouting to pay, Jian Taohua said in a hurry, you pick, wait a while...... The voice fell, and the wind went out......
As soon as Jian Taohua went out, her voice was amplified several times and shouted in her voice, Shui Sheng, where is your corpse.........?
This voice was so loud that it pierced people's eardrums, and Jiang Jiuding, who was about to speak, was startled, pointed to the door of the private room with an awe-inspiring expression, and said nervously: "Jiajia, this is ...... Could this be the legendary village girl!?"
The three of them looked at each other happily, and when they entered the door and met such a living treasure village girl, they laughed, but they forgot about the unhappiness just now.
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The three of them didn't order this pig's head meat in the end, they weren't the masters of the big pieces, and they could eat that greasy and disgusting thing.
Jiang Dijia still remembers the chai chicken vividly, but Jiang Jiuding is eating Western food, and inadvertently ordered a beef pot, while Manager Zhang Kai and Manager Zhang took care of both, ordering a dish of vegetables and a hot pot of haggis!
It seems that it is busy enough, and the service attitude is really discounted.
When the first pot of vegetarian stew was served, the three of them were also hungry all the way, and they moved their chopsticks as they spoke. Jiang Dijia already knew the flavor here, so he ate with relish on a small plate, and Manager Zhang, who came for the first time, ate a few spoonfuls, but the banter on his face gradually disappeared, stopped the spoon and chopsticks and looked at Jiang Jiuding, and said: "Mr. Jiang, it's really good, it's time to catch up with the flavor of our hotel." ”
"It's okay!" Jiang Jiuding replied lightly.
Although Jiang Jiuding may not be able to cook, but eat always, Jiuding Hotel vegetarian stew has a similar stew, but just has already taken a closer look, tofu is made hot but not rotten, potatoes eat soft but not mushy, a chopstick to go down, Chinese cabbage, celery stalks, kelp slices, winter melon pieces, more than a dozen kinds of stewed vegetables each maintain their original shape, but to eat into the mouth, the bitter taste of cabbage, the numbness of celery, The astringency of the kelp has been completely eliminated, but the original aroma of the vegetables is still maintained, forming a special flavor! It is a higher level than the pot stew that has been tasted in the provincial capital.
Manager Zhang looked at Mr. Jiang, didn't dare to say anything down, they all ate home, and they knew at a glance that they were obviously inferior to the knife work in this dish; Putting others together with oneself is a bit of a way to elevate one's identity.
The first pot of vegetarian dishes made the two men a little dull, and it was really a bit of a blow. Only Jiang Dijia didn't feel that the two men's thoughts were out of it, and they were full of praise.
As soon as the second pot of flavored chai chicken was served, Jiang Dijia had tasted it, and until now I still remember that little Jian Fan smiled and said with a smile, "Be healthy and drink chicken soup............ Without thinking about it, I poured a small bowl and tasted it carefully, and tasted it pleasantly. The soup still tastes, if the running hall is there, a few more nonsense words, maybe the taste can be a little stronger.
Manager Zhang tasted a lot of chicken at this time, and when he looked back at Jiang Jiuding, Jiang Jiuding's face was also frozen, his mouth was sobbing, and he was still chewing, but he couldn't speak. In his eyes, it seemed that he was tightened by loss, and the degree of the blow deepened a little.
"Mr. Jiang!" Manager Zhang said cautiously: "This has a secret recipe, right? The soup is flavorful, the taste is straight through the chicken bones, the bones are crispy and the meat is fragrant, and the preserved meat melts when chewed. ”
Jiang Jiuding was speechless for a while, tasted a few pieces of chicken, and tasted half a bowl of chicken soup without giving up, and even picked a few pieces of wolfberries and ingredients that are often used in the vegetable soup and put them in the bowl to take a closer look, trying to find out something wrong, and only after a while did he say stupidly: "Alas, Manager Zhang, it is better than what we do, and the materials are also exquisite.
Manager Zhang's face was a little sneering, but all the seasoning is a way, just pay attention to the taste, and the seasoning has a long shelf life, and it is very normal to have a few defects or a few insect eyes, Jiang Jiuding is afraid that he wants to find something wrong with this, but after picking for a long time, he still found nothing. I was disappointed that I didn't find it.
It is understandable to be so understandable in a big store, but it is not easy to do this in a small roadside shop. The surprise in the hearts of the two of them was really getting higher and higher.
Jiang Dijia was eating, chewing in his mouth, looking at the surprise of the two of them, but it was very useful, and said in a mocking manner: "Come on, this firewood chicken grew up eating live food in the countryside, and you just pulled the frozen chicken in a cart, how can it be compared? I'm not afraid that you will be angry, after eating here, I hate what I do to you!"
Jiang Dijia complained a few words, no one answered, and when she raised her eyes, after the initial surprise experienced by her brother and Manager Zhang, they were sipping soup and chewing meat, and the two of them were too busy to reply.
Yes, this man really met the food, and he was a little more invested than watching beautiful women!
When the dish was full, the image of the two men was already a little out of words, Jiang Jiuding loosened his tie, Manager Zhang quietly loosened his belt, the two of them rolled up their sleeves, stared at a few pots of stew with a look of concentration, and the chopsticks kept being carried to the plate, and disappeared in the mouth in a blink of an eye.
Oh, the tendon meat is stewed, not stuffed teeth, not bad!
Lamb crispy bones, flavored, okay.
This radish is delicious, and it tastes like no radish, only the umami of mutton soup.
Tofu, this is handmade tofu, brine point, and someone else does this?
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The two men were surprised and appreciative, and said while eating, completely forgetful, Jiang Dijia looked dumbfounded, and knocked on the table with a smile: "Hey, don't do it like this, you don't have any demeanor at all, this is a lot of dishes, and you have to grab it from me if you don't have many dishes." ”
Jiang Jiuding said with his hands and mouth: "It's okay, no one here knows us......... It's still good as Dad said, where is there no food at the end of the world, but I don't know a lot about Fu Qian? If it weren't for Jiajia, maybe I wouldn't dare to come in this store at all. …… Manager Zhang, you want to make the food in our hotel taste this level, how about I promote you to deputy general manager?"
"That can't be!"
Manager Zhang was eating, his face was already a little ruddy, and he said disapprerovingly: "Don't make fun of me, the soup is stewed to this portion, there is definitely a secret recipe, but all this kind of old shop, this thing is secret, you know the haggis of the drum tower in our provincial capital, that pot of soup, more than a hundred years, has not been extinguished, the Japanese are here, reluctant to smash this shop;* When the four olds were broken, the public procuratorate and the law were smashed, but the red and blue characters all recognized this old shop sheep soup, and no one dared to move; Mr. Jiang, I heard that the rules of this old store are all passed down from generation to generation, and even the daughter-in-law and son-in-law can't touch the edge, this guy, whoever holds it is a golden mountain cash cow, and he will not worry about food and clothing for several lifetimes. Is it possible for us?"
"I said Brother Zhang, is the manager of the catering department you or me? I won't let you think of a way? You must have a way, ah!" Jiang Jiuding smiled mockingly, and suddenly stunned Zhang Kai, and was about to react, but Jiang Jiuding laughed and shushed, made a look, looked at his sister, and signaled not to go on.
Jiang Dijia saw that the sneaky nature of these two people had already been known, and said with a smile: "Brother, you can't pry this corner, this shop has been in Wulong County for more than 20 years, and its roots are here...... I thought, no matter how delicious this is, it's also a popular dish, is it that valuable?"
"Hey, there's something wrong with my vision. For example, Jiang Jiuding brought it up with interest, stretched out his chopsticks and pointed and said: "For example, when the reform and opening up was just beginning, the vitex pollen we sold to Guangdong was shipped to the south in tons and tons, and the original price was low; the Cantonese people made this local specialty into boxes and sold it to Hong Kong in boxes, and the price tripled; the Hong Kong people made this thing into bags, and the value increased by three to five times; but the Japanese were even darker, and they bought the bagged ones back, purified them and made them into bottles, and the value directly increased tenfold......... That's business. For example, this flavored chicken sells for 25 yuan in a roadside store and can sell for 50 yuan in a mid-range store, but if you use a white porcelain basin imitating Ru kiln and put it in a five-star restaurant, so that the owners who are used to eating sea cucumber, abalone and prawns can taste this soup, how much do you think is appropriate?...... I'm not afraid that you're expensive, I'm afraid that others will. ”
Jiang Jiuding talked eloquently, the meaning is very clear, buy a piece of skin, package it, it is easy to buy, but the premise is that you have to have something that others can't and can't make.
"Makes sense!" Manager Zhang gave a thumbs up like an epiphany: "Jiang always has a vision, even we eat comfortably, let alone others." ”
"Don't be a sycophant, you're better at stealing customers than I am. Jiang Jiuding said with a smile, Zhang Kai laughed and praised each other for a while, and no one blushed.
Before Jiang Dijia could save this business scripture, she was interrupted by a knock on the door, and it was the peach blossom sister who came in again, holding a plate in both hands, and slamming it on the table.
Pork head!?
It was indeed pork head, with a shiny pork skin, two fingers wide of fat and a small piece of red meat, thinly spread a dozen slices on the plate, and a small plate of white garlic paste was placed in the middle!
The brothers and sisters of the Jiang family looked bitter and turned their heads sideways with a sigh. This greasy thing can't be put on the table.
Zhang Kai didn't necessarily like this thing, looked at the peach blossoms with a black and red face and an extremely positive expression, and said cautiously: "We didn't order this dish?
Jian Taohua was not happy, and said angrily: "I said that you people in the city don't know how to do it, I kindly introduced you, but you still don't believe me." Yes, I'm coming all the way, I'll give you half of it, and it'll be a discount, and I won't charge money......... Let me tell you, there is no such shop in this village, and I can't marinate a few cylinders a year. ”
Jian Taohua had a tone of you being a dog biting Lu Dongbin, and no one of the three dared to refute it, Jiang Jiuding was stunned, pointed to the pig's head meat, and tried to discuss in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, we will pay according to the price, you ...... You take this away. ”
I was already full of wine and food, and this greasy thing was a little sick to my stomach when I looked at it.
"If you want to eat, you can eat, you can't tell the difference between good and bad?
Jian Taohua couldn't say anything, and brushed her sleeves away. made Jiang Jiuding stunned, and couldn't answer for a long time, Jiang Dijia only waited for the peach blossoms to go out before he smiled and was happy. The elder brother, who has always been commanding, is really suffocating when he meets such a group of people as the Jian family.
"Come on, Brother Zhang, it's yours, we're all full!" Jiang Jiuding stupidly pushed the plate in front of Zhang Kai.
"I don't like to eat this either, yo, this oil comes out nicely and is elastic......... Yo ......"
Zhang Kai's chopsticks took a piece of thin pig's head meat, swaying on the tip of the chopsticks, this is not without surprise, the pig's head meat is basically the same as the scraps in the meat, sticky and soft and greasy, the small alley in the city sells cooked meat stalls for a few dollars a catty, very cheap. However, the chopsticks are different, not sticky, not greasy, and full of quality, which arouses interest.
Gently dipped in the white garlic paste, the white garlic paste without any seasoning, a piece of mouth, the bite squeaked, creaked. The pork skin is crispy and fragrant, the lean meat is fragrant, and it has a greasy taste......... I was surprised when I chewed it, and said in my mouth, is this pig's head meat?...... I took another piece and chewed it again......... Another piece of ...... Well, not bad.........
Zhang Kai picked up a treasure, chewed it, and smiled happily.
Jiang Jiuding looked strange, carefully grabbed a piece, bit it lightly and tasted it, the expression was the same as Zhang Kai, and nodded, huh?
"Mr. Jiang, this is like the legendary white cut meat! The fat meat is hard, crispy, and fragrant, it should be marinated raw meat, steamed after marinating, and continuing to soak in the marinade after the oil is produced. No, the white-cut meat has long been lost. ”
"Like?"
"Like, too much. ”
"I haven't eaten it, I've only heard my dad say it. ”
The two of them were discussing in surprise, the taste in their mouths was over, and when they turned around, they were stunned again, there was only the last piece left on the plate, and even the last piece was on the chopsticks, and the chopsticks were held by a pair of jade hands, dipped in garlic paste, but it was her sister Jiang Dijia, the two of them were stunned when they spoke, and a few pieces had already been wiped out by her.
"Ah!?Jiajia, aren't you a vegetarian?Now you even eat fatty meat?" Jiang Jiuding was shocked.
Jiang Dijia chewed with a comfortable face, finished chewing with satisfaction, wiped his small mouth, and smiled: "Well, it's delicious! I knew that the meat was so delicious, so I wouldn't eat the pot of vegetarian dishes in front of me......... Don't stare at me, if you want another plate, it's done!"
After the three of them discussed, they really asked for a plate, and now even Jian Taohua showed a rare smile, and the three people in the city finally recognized their recommendation, not only finished eating, but when they checked out and left, they asked for two catties to take away!
The three of them ate a lot, and the fattest one there stumbled when he got into the car. Peach Blossom was happy, with disdain in her eyes, and secretly said in her heart:
And what about the people in the city?