Chapter 188, The Best Catfish Feast (Four Thousand Chapters!)
Around noon.
In the small courtyard, the voices of people are boiling, and the sounds of all kinds of eating and comfortable moans and exhalations are endless.
Today, this is the second time that Tang Fan's small shop has held a special event, and the old customers who were lucky enough to taste the first dog meat hot pot banquet are naturally looking forward to it, and the new customers who have just come in the past two days also want to see what kind of banquet is worth spending 40,000 yuan on them.
And after eating today's superb catfish feast, both new and old customers are naturally full of praise, addicted and worthwhile.
Today's superb catfish feast has five dishes and one soup.
The five dishes are boiled fish fillet, braised catfish with garlic, braised catfish, eggplant stewed with catfish, and a deep-fried crispy fish ball.
The last soup is catfish tofu soup.
When the tender catfish meat is cooked in a variety of ways, it has a variety of wonderful flavors.
The spicy and tender boiled fish fillets make diners keep stuffing the fish fillets into their mouths while they are angry, and their faces are full of red light, and they can't stop eating.
The rich garlic aroma of garlic roasted catfish makes diners have a long aftertaste, knowing how the freshness of catfish and the aroma of garlic complement each other.
The mellow and tender flavor of the braised catfish allows diners to truly experience the unique and delicious fresh and tender taste of the catfish from another world.
The soft and fragrant stewed eggplant of catfish is like sucking a mouthful of liquid jam of yellow persimmon in the mouth, without chewing at all, just gently pursing the mouth, the eggplant meat and fish meat will be flattened and spread all over the tongue, and when the fragrance of the eggplant and the fresh catfish have just burst out on the taste buds, the eggplant meat and fish meat that have been cooked to soft rotten meat have unconsciously slipped into the esophagus, leaving only the fragrance all the way.
The crispy and tender fried fish balls are a mixture of crispy and tender, and when diners bite into it, the fried and refreshing case is broken, and the locked fish inside immediately explodes like a bomb, and there is nothing else in the whole mouth except the fresh aroma of the fish, only a slow aftertaste and enjoyment.
The final soup is fresh, tender, salty, and moist, the fish is fresh, the tofu is tender, and the soup is salty......
Every dish made all the diners very satisfied, and all kinds of heartfelt praise came out of their mouths from time to time, listening to Tang Fan, who was standing in the courtyard, and Uncle Wei, who was hiding in the kitchen, were very satisfied and useful.
These dishes were all set by Tang Fan last night, and he and Old Man Ding naturally tasted them in advance last night, and they were naturally extremely satisfied with the taste of each dish.
Especially the fried fish balls, which are now deeply liked by Tang Fan, in addition to being delicious because of its deliciousness, the most popular thing for Tang Fan is that this dish can be eaten as a snack.
Yesterday afternoon, he naturally went to the river in the other world to practice again, and Uncle Wei didn't have time to stay by the river to be a full-time chef for him because he wanted to put on some more sets, so he simply made a big pot of fried fish balls, so that Tang Fan could eat a few to supplement when he had no aura.
At that time, Tang Fan was beautiful, holding a fishing rod in one hand, and stuffing a delicious fish ball into his mouth from time to time with the other hand, enjoying it was simply unwanted, as if he was not suffering from cultivation at all, but enjoying his leisure time comfortably.
Maybe it's because of the good mood, Tang Fan's cultivation has also made extraordinary progress, and the time of an afternoon has made him more handy in mobilizing his aura, from the original time of five or six seconds to two or three seconds, and thanks to the credit of the iron plate carving, the aura he mobilized is not just right, but at least it has greatly reduced the waste of aura, which can allow him to last a few more rounds.
Anyway, yesterday afternoon, Tang Fan's cultivation was making rapid progress, of course, in the evening, he did not forget to continue the depressed and bitter iron plate carving career, the progress was also rapid, at least the carved flowers can be seen in general appearance.
And it was also yesterday afternoon, Uncle Wei had more than 200 sets, including hare sets and vole sets, it can be said that there will be a set within a radius of a few miles, and the speed made Tang Fan secretly speechless.
And this way of casting a wide net has also been duly rewarded, this morning Tang Fan harvested eighty-nine voles and ninety-six hares!
It's a super bumper harvest!
However, this also caused him and Uncle Jin to work until more than ten o'clock, before all the game was peeled and processed, and then chopped into small pieces and put into the cold storage on the side of the courtyard.
This cold storage was built yesterday afternoon, the reason why it is so fast, is not because of how good the construction team Liu is looking for, but because the cold storage is a ready-made overall cold storage, directly pulled from the manufacturer and put on the ground to power it, Liu brought the construction team yesterday, just responsible for pulling a cable and building a large board room that can accommodate the cold storage, otherwise the factory-style super-large cold storage will take five or six days.
This kind of overall cold storage capacity is not too large, and the volume is about the same as a large truck pulling building materials, Tang Fan only needs four this time, but these four are enough for him to use in the recent period, and he still has to find a way to breed himself in the future, after all, the way of recycling is the foundation of long-term development, Tang Fan will not be short-sighted and will be exhausted in the other world.
In addition to the cold storage, the fish pond has been dug out of a large fish pond of fifty acres when it is close to the middle of the night, and it is not far from the backyard, but there is no water to raise fish inside, Tang Fan is going to get a large pumping machine tonight to draw some water from the big river in the other world.
There is also a greenhouse, which has also been built, and the greenhouse with steel skeleton and plastic film is still relatively easy to build, and Tang Fan did not let Liu build a large area, because he did not have enough manpower to take care of it, if it were not for Uncle Jin, an all-round housekeeper, who had taken care of the greenhouse before, Tang Fan would not necessarily build this thing, after all, he would not control the temperature and ventilation or something, so after it was built, he could only hire employees with work experience, but how could the vegetables from the other world be seen by outsiders, so if there was no Jin Lao, Tang Fan would definitely not build this greenhouse。
And even if these fish ponds and greenhouses are built, Tang Fan is also worried about safety, after all, these things are outside the yard, and he has no safe and effective way to monitor and protect, in case someone sneaks in, there will be a lot of things exposed.
Fortunately, the old man Ding is worthy of being a hidden powerful person, the old man said that he knows a person, this person is a must in dog training, as long as you buy dozens or hundreds of well-trained fierce dogs from him and put them inside, to ensure that outsiders can't get in......
Therefore, even if the ingredients are in place, as long as the catch is enough in the past few days, and all the things that should be planted are planted, even if Tang Fan leaves for ten days and a half months, the small shop can still maintain normal business.
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Tang Qiaoqiao sat in an inconspicuous position, stuffed the last fried fish ball in front of him into his small mouth, closed his eyes and savored it, enjoying the delicious sensation of this last delicacy exploding on his taste buds.
After her jade neck agitated and swallowed the food in her mouth, she reluctantly opened her eyes, and her small mouth pouted dissatisfied.
What she is dissatisfied with is also a question that most diners are dissatisfied with, that is, why is the composition of the human body so unreasonable? After tens of millions of years of human evolution, why has only one stomach evolved, but not two?
When you encounter delicious food but can't eat more of it, this is definitely a great pain and regret in life......
[Today's theme activity of this catfish banquet is really the same delicious, no, every dish here is so delicious! I really want to learn, I really want to learn, but this stinky boss is so unreasonable, I'm really angry!]
Tang Qiaoqiao's big eyes stared at Tang Fan who was standing in the courtyard with a smile on his face, [How can I get this stinky boss to agree to let me stay......]
Her eyes began to wander aimlessly in the courtyard, full of distress and thought, and suddenly, her wandering gaze swept to the kitchen door, where an old man was looking at the different diners in the courtyard with a vague smile.
[Who is this uncle, sitting at the door of the kitchen, he is definitely not a diner, is he the relatives and elders of this stinky boss...... Eh, there's a way!]
Tang Qiaoqiao's originally distressed eyes suddenly lit up, her eyes wandered, and she glanced at Tang Fan who was standing in the yard with a ghostly look, and saw that the stinky boss was facing away from her, she immediately got up quietly and ran to the kitchen door like a bird......
Old man Ding didn't run around today, he went to the otherworldly forest yesterday, although he didn't explore far, he still roughly estimated the danger inside, just like he said, compared to the tropical rainforest outside the otherworldly gate of the country, the forest here is like a paradise! There must be danger, but it's not that big, just enough to use it to train his cheap apprentices.
Since the selected trial ground is not too dangerous, the old man is no longer worried, as long as the apprentice is trained well in the past few days, so his old man will stay in the small courtyard honestly today, quietly appreciating the 'emojis' contributed by the diners in the courtyard.
He really likes this kind of scene, each diner's expression is different, but all of them are vivid, just looking at their expressions, it seems that he has 'seen' what they are eating.
Like what......
[Look at the appearance of this girl who is sweating profusely and keeps inhaling, you don't have to guess to know that it must be a boiled fish fillet! But this girl's eating appearance is too inattentive, and the big meat slice is thrown off the cheek and stuffed into the mouth...... It's amazing!]
[Yo, this balding guy, stay there like a fool, his mouth doesn't move but he can swallow a small bite, it seems that he should eat catfish stewed eggplant, this dish is indeed quite suitable for the elderly......]
[Well, this intoxicated, dumbfounded, out-of-body expression is a little hard to guess...... But seeing that he pursed his lips tightly, and his mouth was still bulging, it should be the fish balls he ate, and this expression should have been shocked by the rich and fresh fragrance of the fish balls......]
[This...... Hmm, who is this girl, what are you doing in front of the old man?]
Just when Old Man Ding was playing his boring game with great interest, he found that a 'gifted' little girl ran in front of him.
"Hello uncle......"
Tang Qiaoqiao showed a signature innocent and cute smile......
Tang Fan has been standing in the courtyard, constantly inspecting his 'territory'.
He also likes to see the customers in his store satisfied, which will give him a special sense of accomplishment and satisfaction, and the more people dining, the stronger his sense of achievement.
The number of customers today has reached more than 140 people, and there are forty or fifty people queuing up in the glass room outside, which is enough to imagine how lively the small courtyard is today.
The entrance of the small courtyard kept going in and out for half an hour, and all the customers in line were all able to eat, but fortunately, although the customers in line were salivating and in a hurry, they were all quite qualified, and they knew that the diners who had finished eating went to the 'paralysis area' before they queued up one by one.
Because packing is not allowed today, Tang Fan has been standing in the small courtyard admiring the expressions of the diners, and has not returned to the kitchen, nor has he paid attention to what happened at the door of the kitchen.
After sending the last customer out of the hospital, Tang Fan turned around and went to the kitchen, ready to express his gratitude to Uncle Wei and Uncle Jin who had been busy all morning.
But as soon as he walked to the door of the kitchen, he found that the cheap master was chatting with a murder weapon beauty in full swing, seeing that the old man's face was smiling and even wrinkles came out, Tang Fan knew that the old man and the murder weapon beauty were chatting very happily, but the old man was happy, but he was not very happy, because the beauty chatting with the old man was not the person he wanted to see.
"Tang Qiaoqiao, why are you here here!"
Tang Fan knew that this evil star had come to the store to eat today, but he didn't notice this evil star just now, and thought that she left when he wasn't paying attention, but he didn't expect to be chatting with the cheap master so hotly now, which is obviously a courtesy, either a traitor or a thief.
Before Tang Qiaoqiao could speak, Old Man Ding opened his mouth dissatisfiedly: "What do you mean and why are you here! The girl is sensible, what's wrong with chatting with me, a boring old man!"
Tang Fan pouted, you didn't have anything! But this woman didn't have a good heart, she came here upside down, obviously the drunkard didn't mean to drink.
He was about to say something, but he heard the old man suddenly say again: "By the way, Qiaoqiao is a good girl, she likes to learn to cook, such a modest and studious girl is getting harder and harder to find now, anyway, Lao Wei is idle and has nothing to do, I decided to let Qiaoqiao come to the kitchen tomorrow to study with Lao Wei......"
"What! You agree to let her stay here and learn to cook?"
Tang Fan shouted: "No!"