On this day, Tang Hai earned his first large amount of non-work earnings.

Selling fish made more than $20.

In the United States, the price of food is very cheap, and the average fish in the city is $2 a pound, and the high-end and high-grade fish like cod is $4.

The average salary in this town is 2,000, a pound is about the same weight as a catty, and a pound of fish is only 1 yuan?

Tang Hai was satisfied with the low food prices here, but after he went to sell fish, he felt that the eggs hurt, he had to sell 2,000 pounds of sunfish to catch up with the per capita salary, according to three pounds, he had to sell 6,000! Not to mention that he can't catch it, he doesn't have the energy to sell 200 a day!

He thought about it for a long time, and the next day he went to the town to buy some things, and then on the evening of the third day, he drove a broken three-wheeler to the pool in the town square to set up a stall.

The signboard is a wooden board, placed directly against a pillar, with the words 'Chinese cuisine' on it, and then marked in English.

A string is tied between the two trees, and a string of wooden signs are hung on it, including three fresh dumplings, cabbage and pork dumplings, fried rice noodles, rice noodles across the bridge, egg fried rice, barbecued pork rice, fried fish, and ......

When it comes to China in front of Americans, ninety percent of Americans think of kung fu and Bruce Lee first, and Chinese food comes to mind second! And then to the Great Wall or something!

Tang Hai's master is a Chinese chef, who is best at Sichuan cuisine, and then Japanese, Mexican, and Italian cuisine to adapt to American tastes.

And Tang Hai is already out of the blue!

It's not that Tang Hai hasn't thought about making money from the 'Chinese food' sign, but it's not easy to open a Chinese restaurant in the United States.

First of all, the venue, you have to have a restaurant, and after renting the storefront, you must decorate it into a standard style, and Tang Hai has no money.

The second is the business license and health license, if you want to sell alcohol, you also have to apply for a business license for light wine and spirits, which is also very expensive.

Then there's the chef certification.

One set down to cut Tang Hai and sell it, and there was no money.

It's not okay to go to a Chinese restaurant to be a chef.

Chinese chefs are very profitable, and it is difficult to find authentic Chinese chefs here in the United States, and many people even go back to China to hire a chef to help with a set of procedures for going abroad!

Although Tang Hai has cooking skills, he is too young first, others don't believe that he has skills, and secondly, he is too thin, is there a thin chef in the world? This is the consistent bias of everyone. Thirdly, he did not have any proof of graduation from a culinary school.

Combining three points and one, even if he wants to be a black chef, no one invites him.

That's right, his current store is strictly illegal, and he has to run away if he encounters Uncle Tiaozi.

He decided to wait until he earned the money before going through the procedures, and if he couldn't make it, he wouldn't do it, and today was an attempt.

He was in a white chef's robe, wearing a chef's hat, his nails were cleanly cut, and his beard was cleanly shaved.

Tang Hai hugged his arms against a wall, obviously Tang Hai abides by the chef's guidelines very much, and he looks like a chef at first glance, but he is still too young......

No one came until the meal!

Thankfully, the pot of soup that had been boiling saved him!

In a large cauldron, the water is boiling, and strings of fish balls, tofu, beef offal, tribute balls, and radishes have been boiling, and this thing has three names......

The first one, Malatang! There is chutney sauce and sweet and spicy sauce next to it, isn't it the standard configuration of Malatang?

The essence of Malatang is 'sauce'!

The second, Li Hongzhang's hodgepodge! It is rumored that Li Hongzhang went abroad to be anorexic, so he simply cooked a bunch of things in one pot, and this dish became famous!

The essence of Li Hongzhang's hodgepodge is 'miscellaneous'!

The third, oden! The soup base is kombu broth, and the fish balls and radishes are cooked in soy sauce, and the rice wine is added to boil after the water is boiled.

The essence of the taste is in the last rice wine, and the neat placement is even more mouthwatering!

Tang Hai didn't shout, people were young, and Americans were generally more cautious about eating, so no one came.

The characteristic of Malatang is that the more you cook, the more fragrant it is, because the soup will become thicker and thicker, even if you add water, there are trace elements in the water itself, and the thicker the trace elements, the more fragrant the soup will be......

Tang Hai boiled radish and soup for an hour during the day, and at this time, it simmered for an hour on low heat, and it was really unstoppable by the gods!

Soon, a young girl in her twenties was attracted to food.

"Handsome guy, you don't shout, and you can't write clearly, what is it selling here?"

"This is cabbage pork dumplings, we have a famous saying in China 'delicious but dumplings', this is the most famous food in Yun Province 'cross-bridge rice noodles', this is ......"

Tang Hai pointed to the sign very carefully, not because the other party was beautiful and looked like the actress Drew that Tang Hai liked. Barrymore, it's not that the other party is in good shape, but it's that this is also the first customer to come, and he must keep this customer!

The woman listened to Tang Hai's description for a long time, and suddenly!

"You say that each one looks like the best dish in Chinese cuisine, so which one do you make the best?"

Tang Hai didn't expect her to say this, his mouth opened wide on the spot, and his brain crashed.

The woman chuckled.

"You just said there is fried noodles, right? I've heard that some Americans love Chinese food and even learn to use your chopsticks for this dish, so I'll come to this one, but you have to teach me how to use chopsticks. ”

Fried noodles are 2 dollars a piece, and you have to teach the other party to use chopsticks, who will do such a loss? Tang Hai thought to himself.

"Okay, please wait." Tang Hai said.

The woman sat down, put her bag on her lap, and swallowed from time to time as she watched the spicy tang that was boiling and boiling.

There is nothing to say about fried noodles, in order to show his hand, Tang Hai not only threw the pot, but even deliberately fried the pot to catch fire! The woman's attention shifted from Malatang to the pot, and she covered her mouth and looked at it in surprise......

Many people also stopped because of this, Tang Hai was proud in his heart, and he worked harder!

"God, what is this, magic?"

"But Chinese food?"

"Is it a combination of magic and Chinese food?"

Fortunately, Tang Hai didn't hear people's whispered discussions, otherwise this dish would definitely be messed up.

Cover the lid to extinguish the fire, remove the plate, pour the final sauce, and Tang Hai added a small spoonful of spicy radish sauce.

The stuff was served on a pale orange plate, which represented $2 a plate, and at the end of the day, Tang Hai would charge according to the color of the plate.

Things are easy to make, but it is more difficult to teach people to use chopsticks, Tang Hai taught women how to use chopsticks for a long time, although they are not proficient, but they can already clip things.

"Your Chinese chopsticks are so hard to learn! Moreover, why is one end round and the other end square, is it to distinguish between the top and the bottom? ”

The chef is very tired from cooking, in order to relieve his physical fitness, the chef who cooks immediately generally has to find a way to rest, Tang Hai leaned against the wall with his arms and said with a smile:

"It's not just about distinguishing between up and down. We ancient Chinese thought that the sky was round and the earth was square, and the shape of these chopsticks was also because of the saying 'the sky is round and the place is round', which is part of Chinese food culture. ”

The woman listened with great interest: "So there is still this meaning!" ”

She had already been whetted by the fragrant food, and now she couldn't hold back any longer, and picked it up with the same difficulty as a three-year-old child with chopsticks, and lowered her head to bite it......

I saw her eyes widen, sucked twice and sucked the fried noodles into her mouth, and then closed her eyes intoxicated!

Not to mention Tang Hai's fried noodle skills, just saying that the sauce has a lot of origins, it is what he makes and eats, and he will not treat himself badly in terms of eating!

The last spoonful of radish sauce is ground with spicy radish! The slightly spicy sensation in the mouth will stimulate the taste buds, and after a few seconds, the spiciness will subside, and it will be the sweet taste of radish! It's still spring, and the radish is only slightly less sweet than in winter, but it's also delicious!

After chewing more than ten times, the woman reluctantly swallowed the fried noodles.

Then she quickly took out her phone!

"Hey, Annie? Have you eaten? Come to the square, quick, fast, there is a newly opened Chinese restaurant here, and the taste is super! ”

The corners of Tang Hai's mouth raised slightly, he had two wishes when he was a child, either to become a writer and conquer people's hearts, or to become a chef and conquer people's stomachs!

Every time he conquers someone else's stomach, he will be happy!

"Young man."

"What would you like to eat, gentleman?" Tang Hai looked at the other party with a smile.

This is an old gentleman with smooth hair combed back, gray temples, bright eyes, and a beard that looks a little like Lu Xun, wearing a suit and leather shoes, very stylish.

To his left was a cute little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old holding his hand.

"Is this all you have to eat here?" The old gentleman seemed to be attracted by Tang Hai's cooking skills, and he just stood by and observed for a while.

It's just that he doesn't seem to be going to try Chinese food?

"My business philosophy is that if the customer needs it, and at the same time I will also do the catering, I can do it." Tang Hai is not a pedantic person, people really want to eat what the signboard doesn't have, and he won't push the dollar out.

"I see you have sunfish here, and I want to eat the Mexican cream fish nuggets, is that okay?"

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