Chapter 292: A Lost Taste
Su Miao was stunned for a moment, pointed to the tip of her nose and asked, "Do you recognize me?" ”
"I heard that everyone in Suzhou City is in the catering business, there is no one who doesn't know the big sister, and the big sister's mapo raw fried has become popular all over the city today. I went to watch the game when I went grocery shopping yesterday, and the big sister is so good, and Tong Sigongzi of Yipinlou actually tied two games in a row! Feng Erniu said with a smile, a pair of big eyes shining like stars.
"You little hoof, let you go grocery shopping and you actually ran to be lazy, I said why did you come back so late yesterday, I almost couldn't get out of the stall!" Feng Daniu slapped Feng Erniu on the ground.
Feng Erniu snorted, puffing out her cheeks to dodge, and at this moment, a crisp shout came from the kitchen:
"Vegetarian three fresh wontons are here!"
Feng Sanniu came out of the kitchen with a large tray, put it on the table with a smile, and behind her was a woman in her thirties, this woman had a long face and delicate facial features, although she looked yellow and thin because of overwork, but she still couldn't hide the delicate and gentle between her eyebrows, she smiled and put the other three bowls of wontons on the table, and said:
"Guest officer, please use it slowly!"
This shop is estimated to be really poor capital turnover, not even the soup stock for cooking wontons, there are five or six thin skin fillings and translucent wontons floating in the clear soup, his wonton skin is good, snow-white and delicate, blowing can be broken, the emerald green filling is faintly visible under the wonton skin, although the clear but not light aroma is rushing to the face, clear and pleasant.
It's just that on this hot day, it looks like a fire outside, and there is only one door in the cramped small restaurant to ventilate. The house is as hot as a steamer, and eating piping hot wonton soup in a steamer is really not very pleasant.
Su Miao stared straight at the steaming wontons. Suddenly I regretted it a little, I should have eaten cold noodles.
The few women who were born were still staring at her like staring at rare creatures, she was already hot, and these straight eyes came to pierce her back again, making her want to sweat even more.
"Big sister, try it, it's delicious!" Feng Erniu's big eyes were shining. Said with a smile.
Su Miao smiled wryly in her expectant eyes, picked up the spoon, and scooped a ravioli. In the eyes of everyone looking at the brave, he bravely took a small bite.
The vegetarian three fresh fillings are completely vegetarian, not even eggs, and the three fresh ones are shepherd's cabbage, leeks and shiitake mushrooms. Three vegan fillings are mixed together. It is composed of pure vegetarian stuffed wontons, coupled with a clear soup without any meat, and the green wontons, revealing the clear breath of nature everywhere.
If it is an ordinary ravioli, there is nothing to eat at this point, but this wonton is very fresh in the mouth, there is no meat and only relies on vegan fillings, but it has a very pleasing fresh taste. There is no doubt that there must be some kind of special sauce added to the filling. It's this sauce that makes vegan fillings delicious.
Su Miao tasted it carefully for a while, and raised her eyebrows: "Could it be that you put snail sauce?" ”
"That's amazing!" Feng Erniu's face changed, and she exclaimed in surprise.
Feng Niangzi was also stunned, paused, and said with a smile:
"The girl's mouth is really powerful, this snail sauce is handmade by the child's father, the old customers don't know how many years they have eaten it, the girl only tasted one bite and ate it!"
"I can still eat the taste of snails, this sauce tastes really good!"
"The child's father sold wontons all his life, and studied the wonton filling all day long, and he remembered it when he heard a merchant from the east say that the people on the seaside fished out the clams in the sea and made them into sauce and stuffing. We only have snails here, he doesn't know how people get it, so he stays in the kitchen all day to make sauce, and finally makes a jar of sauce, which is used in the stuffing, and the guests also love to eat, and our family is also because of this jar of sauce to open a small shop from wontons. Feng Niangzi said, sighing with mixed feelings, recalling the past and feeling happy, but then there was a thick sorrow and sadness, and her eyes were slightly red.
"Isn't it a good thing to start a small shop from wontons and prove that your business is good." Liang Chang was investigating the people's suffering, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but speak.
"Palace, official, do you know what wonton picks are?" Su Xian asked with a smile.
"Ben, of course I know, isn't that just the wonton picker, you should be Ben, you and I are the group of pampered goods in the inner courtyard!" Liang Chang felt that he was being looked down upon, so he was furious, pointed at the wontons at the base of the wall, and said angrily.
Su Xian smiled.
"Didn't you give you the recipe for the sauce?" Su Miao asked Feng Niangzi suspiciously.
"There's nothing to give, I accompany him to make wontons, I know how he does it, but all the old customers say that the taste is not as good as before, the wontons I make are different from the wontons made by the child's father, not as delicious as before." Feng Niangzi frowned, melancholy and uneasy, "It's just because my craftsmanship is not good, the old customers left one by one, and at the beginning the regular customers would come to help because of sympathy, but after a long time, no one was gone." ”
"No, I think it's delicious!" When Su Yan heard her say this, she didn't care about the heat, she ate several wontons in a row, and praised.
Feng Niangzi only thought it was comfort, hooked her lips and smiled.
"Big sister, what do you think, is it delicious?" Feng Erniu is a smart child, she just wants to listen to the professional comments of her peers, staring straight at Su Miao with a pair of big eyes, and asked urgently.
"It's delicious." Su Miao replied.
Her answer was too simple, Feng Erniu was stunned, because she was too surprised, she asked again with a grunt:
"Really delicious?"
"Well, it's delicious." Su Miao nodded.
"But the old customers say that the taste is different!" Feng Erniu said urgently.
"Why do you have to be the same?" Su Miao asked puzzled.
Feng Erniu was stunned.
"Did you make this sauce yourself, or did your husband leave it for you?" Su Miao pointed to the wontons and asked Mrs. Feng.
"Oh, I made it myself, the snail sauce left by the child's father has long been used up, and I made it again according to his recipe." Feng Niangzi replied with a smile.
"Do you feel the taste change when you eat it yourself?"
"Because I don't think so, that's why I can't figure it out. The old customers say that the taste has changed, but I cook it exactly according to the child's father's method, and it is impossible to change! Feng Niangzi said incomprehensibly.
"Such a small shop, and built in this kind of place, if you want to keep old customers, taste is only one aspect, I think your husband is a good communicator, can fight with guests, guests are willing to come and visit because they like him, but this is what you lack, so you can't keep customers. If it's just because of the difference in taste, even if this difference really exists, the wonton you make tastes no worse than others, and in the wonton shop I've eaten, yours can be regarded as the number one, so I think those regular customers don't want to come because they find it unpalatable, they just think it's too boring, so they leave. ”
Feng Niangzi was stunned for a moment, then smiled, full of melancholy and longing, and said softly:
"Yes, the child's father is a cool person, and the guests who came did not praise him, and it is common for many guests to stop leaving as soon as they talk to him, but since the child's father went, there has been no such thing."
"Mother!" Seeing that she thought of her deceased father again, Feng Daniu's eyes were also red, and she grabbed her hand and called.
Feng Niangzi patted her hand and smiled comfortingly.
"Your shop is in an alley, and no one will find out unless you find it. The most important thing for you now is to let the people in the city know about your place, so that people will come up and find you. Su Yan said in a serious tone.
"My eldest sister thinks so too, so since a few months ago, our family began to use wontons to pick out and sell, and it was better in winter, but in winter, the wontons in Suzhou City were all over the street, although they could be sold, they could not be sold well. Now it's hot again, I can't even sell two bowls in the morning, no one eats it at all, and all the good wontons are sticky and wasted. Feng Sanniu sighed worriedly.
"It's your problem that no one buys it, eating is not divided into seasons, there are more people who eat pots in the summer, and when our stall is the hottest, Yangchun noodles can sell two hundred bowls a day, and the people who eat are willing to eat when they are sweating." Su Xian said proudly.
Feng Sanniu was taken aback: "Auntie, you used to set up a stall to sell noodles?" ”
Su Xian's face turned green: "Who do you call 'aunt', why do you call her 'sister' and become 'aunt' when you come to me, am I that old?" ”
She looked so scared when she was angry, Feng Sanniu shrunk her neck in fright.
Liang Chang couldn't hold back, laughed loudly, and became busy and serious.
Su Xian glanced at him.
"Big sister," Feng Erniu was very persistent, staring at Su Miao for a moment, and asked in an urgent tone, "All along, my mother and I have been making wontons according to the method left by my father, but why, why is the taste different?" ”
"Erniu, didn't the eldest sister say that it's not a matter of taste, it's that we won't keep guests." Feng Niangzi was worried that she would annoy Su Miao by asking such a question, so she hurriedly dissuaded her.
"Mother, don't lie to yourself, it's really different!" Feng Erniu frowned, continued to lock her eyes on Su Miao, and said in an urgent tone, "Big sister, I have been learning to make wontons with my father since I was five years old, until I was thirteen years old this year, I have been making wontons for eight years, and my father said that he himself was a teacher at the age of twelve, but I still can't come in handy, big sister, what age do you say I have to practice to support this shop, and when I reach the age of big sister, can I become it?" ”
Her suddenly excited tone frightened a crowd, Feng Niangzi looked at her with distressed eyes, and whispered in a complicated mood:
"Two girls!"
"Second sister!" Feng Sanniu looked at her excitedly blankly, a little frightened.
Feng Daniu frowned, and before she was about to speak, a small hand suddenly pulled her sleeve, and when she lowered her head, Feng Sihu was raising her neck and said to her with a blank face:
"Big sister, shhhh
Feng Daniu was helpless, so she had to pick him up and take him to shush. (To be continued.) )