Chapter 367 Lakeside Shop (I)
When the shop was in hand, Chunyu's heart was also relieved, and then she asked Yinqiao to help find the craftsman, gave them more wages, and asked them to speed up and decorate the shop according to what she wanted. WwW.lwXs520.cOM
Although it was a little distressing to use ten taels of silver, it was not a loss, because it only took less than five days of effort, and the store was completely new.
The wall that had fallen off the white blank due to dampness was well brushed with a layer of white ash, and it was also the kind of wall ash that was elegant and white, and it was also brushed with cyan grass ash three feet from the ground, which was not only resistant to dirt, but also the blue and white contrast, which was more elegant.
The window ridges and door panels have also been replaced, and they are also moisture-proof mahogany, and the outside is also painted with black paint, which is very simple and generous.
The walls inside are also the same blue and white walls, and the carvings on the walls of the three private rooms are painted with light blue lacquer, and between the white and blue carvings, there is a rich feeling of blue and white porcelain.
After the installation, it took them a day to clean and purchase a batch of tables, chairs, cabinets and utensils for the stove. As for the teapots, dishes, chopsticks and the like, Chunyu gritted his teeth and purchased a batch of blue and white porcelain in order to meet the occasion. Although the blue and white porcelain at this time was relatively ordinary, such a large batch of teapots and dishes still cost more than 30 taels of silver. Coupled with all the things purchased, this set turned out to be more than a hundred taels out.
That's it, I haven't gone to procure materials yet. But this is not in a hurry, Chunyu plans to go back and discuss it with Yinqiao, and make two menus first. And then according to the price and consumption level here, the price is set.
Because he saw that it was a very decent snack bar, Yinqiao was also full of fighting spirit and wanted to do a good job. She was adopted by a piano girl since she was a child, and she didn't know anything but playing the piano to please others, and occasionally embroidering. Later, after meeting Dr. Zeng and starting to live an ordinary life, he realized how useless he was. She couldn't even make a simple bowl of poached egg white noodle soup, but fortunately, her husband didn't dislike her and kept encouraging her. And she is also willing to learn, and from time to time to run next door, to find the aunt next door to learn to cook, half a year of hard work, but learned a good way, and later it was the icing on the cake of excellence, the husband was full of praise for the food she cooked, and said that the chef of the drunken fairy building could not be compared. Although his husband is exaggerating, she is still very confident in her craft.
So after the two of them had dinner, they began to discuss, until when it was time for them to finally settle on all the dishes and make two menus. On the outside of the menu is a book cover made of two thick cardboards, on which are written Li Kee-style snacks, and the four seasons are also drawn. Inside, each page has a food written on it, and the price and characteristics are attached, which is very novel and easy to understand.
Of course, this is all the credit of Yinqiao, after all, they sit as geisha, but they all write good handwriting. There is also a handwriting in Chunyu, and it is just a matter of writing at will on weekdays, but I still dare not take it out to meet people.
In addition to the stewed vegetables, stewed pork, steamed pork, spicy soup, tofu, flowers, xiao long bao, soup dumplings, spring rolls, hamburgers, and fried chicken nuggets, fried buns, butter cakes, and various shredded meat noodles, clear soup noodles, egg flower noodles and the like.
Of course, there are still several special snacks in Suzhou, such as honey tofu, dried plum blossom cake, duck white soup with Ao sauce, braised duck noodles, and fried small crispy fish with Austrian stove noodles, which are all Yinqiao's specialties. And Yinqiao also said a brief introduction to the characteristics of these specialty dishes, and I felt delicious just by listening to it. In fact, there are many more, but they are not suitable for selling here, and the restaurant is too small to prepare too many materials, otherwise it will be a waste.
Aowei sauce duck, color, fragrance, nutrition are all good, has the reputation of "a family of Austrian cooking, full of fragrance". It is characterized by fat but not greasy, tender but not rotten, and umami to the bone. The Okutome noodles are dominated by fried fish in red oil and braised duck noodles in white soup. Fried fish noodles with red oil: The fried fish is made of herring fish, and the noodles are processed into dragon whisker noodles with fine white noodles, which are fine and tender, ruddy and fragrant, and refreshing to eat. Braised duck noodles in white soup, duck is cooked in old soup, so it is fat but not greasy.
However, Chunyu has long heard that this hairy crab in Yangcheng Lake has always been known as the crown of crabs. Moreover, it is related to the special ecological environment of Yangcheng Lake. The water area is 100 miles square, the blue waves are rippling, the water quality is clear and pure like a mirror, the water is shallow and the bottom is hard, the aquatic plants are abundant, the extension is wide, the climate is suitable, it is the most ideal crystal palace for crabs to settle and grow. Therefore, the shape and meat quality of Yangcheng Lake crab are greatly different in the crab family.
It's just that Chunyu heard Yinqiao say that the crabs in Yangcheng Lake only began to have the so-called June yellow only in June. That is, an underadult crab, but although it is an underage, it is not called June Yellow in vain. The yellow crab in June is so fat that it is about to flow out, as the saying goes: don't forget the yellow in June. That is to say, the June yellow crab is still worth trying.
Early the next morning, Chunyu asked Yun Xiao and Yun Xi to go to a family in the alley next door, find a sister-in-law named Lu, and ask her to take them to the market to buy meat and vegetables and other ingredients.
This sister-in-law Lu was known to Yinqiao when she was doing embroidery work, and she is very practical and diligent. Chunyu thought yesterday that they still needed help in the store, so she asked Yinqiao to see if there were any people who knew and were not bad here to help, and the salary would be generous. Yinqiao immediately thought of Sister-in-law Lu, so she went to the door and said, Sister-in-law Lu was hesitant at first, but when she heard that she was paid 700 yuan per month, and then she would increase her salary if she did a good job, she agreed at once. She has several other part-time jobs every month for other people's laundry and embroidery, and it is only 500 yuan, which is just to go to the restaurant to help wash dishes and cut vegetables or something, you can get 700 yuan a month, and you can't find this good thing anywhere.
And she also asked Chunyu if they needed a second child, her son was eleven years old this year and still had nothing to do at home, and he was too young to let him go to others as an apprentice, and he was reluctant to follow his father to the dock to work as a coolie, but the restaurant in the town was afraid that he couldn't memorize the name of the dish and didn't accept it as a second child.
Chunyu had always treated her very favorably, so she was going to give her a salary of one or two pieces of silver per month, but Yinqiao and Yunxi were very surprised, thinking that Chunyu gave too much, and they all said that five hundred wen was a lot, but Chunyu felt that it was too mean, so it was compromised to seven hundred wen. Therefore, she felt that she had saved a lot of money, so it didn't matter if she invited one more, but Yinqiao said that the second child of the shop was idle and could only give 500 yuan.
But even Wu Baiwen also made Sister-in-law Lu happy, and immediately brought her son Lu Qiang over to show Chunyu, Chunyu saw that although the child was thin but smart, he could be regarded as a shopkeeper. (To be continued.) )>