Night 11: Beef in flavored sauce
Wen Jun picked up a piece of beef and looked at it, to be honest, he felt that the taste of the sauced beef this time was really not good. However, the boss said that it had a different flavor, so he should try it again.
Wen Jun had always felt that his sense of taste was very sensitive, and he really didn't taste any special flavor at all just now, so he didn't believe Huo Bai's words very much. Of course, it is also possible that Huo Bai himself felt that the taste was not good and he couldn't eat it, so he found an excuse to ask him to help solve it.
After he went to high school, he often came to Huo Bai for supper. Once he gave a very good suggestion for helping to taste the dish, so Huo Bai often asked him to help taste the taste and improve it. Who made him born to love to eat, to eat, to eat, to eat.
The beef was stuffed into his mouth by Wen Jun, who looked suspicious, and he chewed it and tasted it carefully.
When he tasted it before, his first feeling was that the meat was a little dry and a little dry, the spice flavor was a little strong, and the taste was too salty with an indescribable taste.
He didn't think it tasted, it could even be said to be unpalatable.
Now he chewed it carefully, and found that the taste seemed to be burnt, but it did not taste that particularly heavy burnt bitterness, but was a little sweet, slightly bitter and indescribably sweet. If you bite down with your teeth, you will have a feeling of being crunchy.
The meat of that piece is charred, crispy and slightly elastic, the taste is not salty or light, and there is a strong meat aroma and cumin sesame flavor, the more you chew, the more delicious it feels, and after swallowing, there is a little bit of burnt sweetness in the mouth full of meat.
Probably...... This is the special flavor that Boss Huo said.
"Hmm......" Huo Bai looked at Wen Jun, who was frowning and thinking about something, raised his hand and took a sip of herbal tea.
"The owner...... What did you put in it?" Wen Jun picked up a piece of beef and looked at it again, however, he didn't see anything. Then he leaned in and sniffed it again.
"Caramel. Huo Bai picked up a piece of beef with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, Wen Jun suddenly realized, "Caramel?
His eyes began to glow, no longer as dim as they had been.
"However, the taste of this beef is ...... in most places Well...... It's unpalatable. Wen Jun looked down at the plate of beef sauce, hesitated, and tried to change it to a more euphemistic expression.
Huo Bai swallowed the beef and drank two sips of herbal tea, "It's really unpalatable, but I can make it a few more times, don't be in a hurry to make it." ”
Wen Jun was silent for a while, and then suddenly smiled, "What about this plate......?"
Huo Bai put down the chopsticks in his hand, "What does it matter, if it wasn't for this failure, there wouldn't be the taste of the bottom piece of beef." The next time I do it, I will know how to avoid mistakes and make it more delicious. ”
"Hmm...... A little fat in the beef may taste better. Wen Jun took a sip of the cup with the herbal tea on the side.
"Boss, how many times will you fail to make a new dish?" I don't know why, Wen Jun suddenly asked Huo Bai a somewhat strange question.
"Many times, I can......'t count the number of times," Huo Bai smiled.
"You're going to fail to cook so deliciously......"
"Yes, why not. ”
"If you fail, don't you feel that your efforts have been in vain......" Wen Jun lowered his head, and Huo Bai couldn't see the expression on his face clearly.
"I don't think it's ......," Wen Jun's words were swallowed back by him as soon as they reached his mouth.
Huo Bai stood up and put his apron back on, "I don't think so." ”
“…… Oh......" Then, Wen Jun sat on the stool with his head bowed and was silent.
When the time came, Lao Zhou and they came.
"Is it a messy stew today?" the black egg slapped himself in advance, and rushed over to look at today's dishes. Seeing the rice cooker and the side dishes in the cauldron, he turned around excitedly and shouted: "Brothers, I have vegetables and meat today, and the rice is enough!"
"You're here today...... the fat man walked over and gave the black egg a meaningful look.
Hei Dan ignored the fat man, turned his head and took the big basin that was put aside for rice, took out the rice cooked in the rice cooker, and brought it to the table with both hands.
"Boss Huo, are you going to go again?" a thin black man sat down at the table in a dark vest, he looked up at Huo Bai who came over with a cauldron and asked.
Huo Bai nodded, "It's too late." ”
"Well, too, it's dangerous for a little girl to get off work so late. ”
Maybe it's because the task is very heavy during the day today, and the old Monday pedestrian didn't say much from the time he came in to the time he was ready to leave.
The workers left in twos and threes after eating, but Lao Zhou, who usually took the lead in leaving, stayed the last one today.
"Old Huo ......" Lao Zhou's face was dark and his face was full of helplessness, "My brother's baby will come over in two days, you can take another bowl......" After speaking, he frowned and left with a sullen face.
After cleaning up the mess, Huo Bai was sitting on a stool resting when he saw Wen Jun coming over.
"Boss Huo, can you pick up my mobile phone and use it......
"Yes. As he spoke, he took out his phone and handed it to Wen Jun, "Thank you." ”
Wen Jun, who got the mobile phone, turned around and walked back to his seat. He sat on a stool and stared at the mobile phone in his hand for a while, the screen of the mobile phone was black, and his familiar and unfamiliar listless face could be vaguely seen inside.
He stretched out his finger and clicked on his phone and logged into his social software. As soon as I boarded it, my phone started ringing wildly.
The phone was flooded with message prompts, followed by a number of small red dots marking unread information after each avatar on the screen.
Wen Jun suddenly felt that he shouldn't borrow his mobile phone from Huo Bai, and his finger hung above the screen and didn't dare to fall.
After hesitating for a while, he clicked on the first one, and after a while it was the second, then the third, and then the fourth...... In this way, Wen Jun quietly read all the unread information.
After reading those messages, Wen Jun logged out. Then he clicked the call button and pressed the number he had already knew.
Press the green dial key.
"Dut...... Honk...... ......After a while, there was a sound waiting to be connected from the mobile phone, "Ring ring, bell ring, bell ring, bell ring......" At this time, the sound of music suddenly sounded on the side, mixed with the sound of waiting for the call, came into Wenjun's ears.
Wen Jun looked up and saw his father, who was hiding behind the street lamp not far away, and pressed the ringtone of his mobile phone with a look of annoyance.
Wen Jun's father walked over with his mobile phone in his hand and said to Huo Bai embarrassedly, "Boss...... Here, have a late-night snack. Then, he pretended to look at Wen Jun relaxedly, "Son, you are also coming for supper......"
"Boss, fry some beef pho for my dad. Not spicy, not carrots. ”
Wen Jun's father did not speak. He stuffed the phone that no longer rang into his pocket, wiped his sweaty palm on the side of his pants, and sat at the same table as Wenjun.
After a while, Huo Bai came over with beef pho, "Boss, is there any soup?" Wen Jun's father took the plate and asked.
"Yes, nori soup. ”
"Can you add some sea rice? Well, some pickles?" Wen Jun's father followed Wen Jun fearfully for most of the day, he was really hungry.
"Wait a minute. Huo Bai turned around and went to get the kimchi and soup.
After serving side dishes and soup to Wen Jun's father, Huo Bai walked out and left the place to the father and son.
"Da-da-da-da!" came the crisp sound of high heels, the woman who had been smoking on his canopy yesterday morning.
As soon as the woman wanted to speak, she was stopped by Huo Bai raising her hand, and he glanced at the father and son who were sitting in the food stall behind him.
The woman was stunned for a moment, and then, she lowered her footsteps and walked over, "Boss, what is there to eat?"
Huo Bai turned around, "Fried noodles, fried rice, fried rice cakes, fried pho, spicy hot, stir-fried, casserole, barbecue, I sell them all in general food stalls." ”
"That'...... Just grab a plate of appetizers and two beers. The woman pulled two stools, one sitting and the other in front of her, and she reached out and nodded, "I'll sit here and eat." ”
Huo Bai raised his eyebrows, "Okay." ”
Wen Jun and his father sat under the light, still not saying a word, Wen Jun's father was eating pho, and Wen Jun watched.
"I'm sorry ......"
Wenjun's father, who was eating pho, was stunned, and he looked up at Wenjun who was sitting directly across from him. "It's okay, it's okay......" Wen Jun's father's eyes were slightly red, and he said with a smile, but his voice trembled a little.
"Dad, I want to repeat my studies for a year. ”
"Good. ”
"Mom and sister. ”
"It's not good to stay up late, so let them go back first......"
After eating the last bite of beef pho, Moon Jun stood up with his father, "Let's go home." ”
Wen Jun nodded, "Go home." ”
"Boss, thank you. Before leaving, Wen Jun returned Huo Bai's mobile phone that he had borrowed him.
"You're welcome, do you want to try the new products when they come out? Huo Bai didn't look at it, and directly took the mobile phone and stuffed it into the pocket of his apron.
"Come on. Wen Jun nodded.
The woman sitting on the stool drinking looked at the back of the father and son leaving one after the other, "This child is so happy......
"Huh. The next second, the woman seemed to think of something, and couldn't help laughing. After laughing for a while, she suddenly took the wine bottle and the plate with the wine and food down and sat down in the food stall with a calm face.
She was sitting in the same position where Wen Jun was sitting before, and the woman didn't say a word in the time after that, drinking and eating and smoking alone.
Huo Bai stood in front of the stove and prepared the breakfast to be sold today.
At half past four, the first guest to buy breakfast came, and more and more people followed. Until around 4:40, the materials prepared by Huo Bai were almost exhausted.
"Old ...... Boss, come, come...... Come...... Whew, whew...... ...... whew," a staccato breathless voice suddenly came.
Yueban propped her knees, panting hard, Huo Bai brought her a glass of water, "What's wrong?"
Yueban took the water and smiled, and did not answer Huo Bai's question, "Xie, Xie...... Call...... Thank you ......"
"Three breakfasts, one spicy, one chives, and one with nothing, take them away. Yue Ban finally took a breath, she looked at the breakfast that Huo Bai sold today and said.
Huo Bai took the water cup and brought her three breakfasts, he sold rice cakes today.
Yue Ban took the bag and paid the money and left, and at this time, it was time for Huo Bai to close his business.
Turning around, the sitting woman was gone.
A disposable plastic cup stuffed with cigarette butts, several empty wine bottles, an empty plate, and a piece of paper money pressed under the plate were left in place.