In the following days in Fucheng, Zhao Yunlan stayed in the restaurant every day. To draw up a menu and set a price, we must continue to examine the attitude of the handymen.

Zhao Yunlan discussed with Li Mingyi for a long time on the menu, because the family's affirmation of Zhao Yunlan's cooking at the beginning, and everyone's gossip about putting those dishes in the restaurant, caused Zhao Yunlan to almost go astray in the dishes. This restaurant focuses on hot pot, and there is no need to draw up too many menus, if it is too miscellaneous, it is easy to be self-defeating.

So Zhao Yunlan and Li Mingyi decided that in addition to the hot pot, other dishes would be used as side dishes for the hot pot. A hot dish is a steamed dish, a steamed pork that can be replaced with steamed pork ribs. Some cold dishes are mainly marinated meat, braised pig ears, braised chicken feet and chicken wings, and desserts, Zhao Yunlan doesn't know how to make those pastries, so she uses her own canned fruits as desserts. Of course, Li Ji's hot and sour noodles are also arranged together, since it is to create Li Ji's signboard, the food sold must be related.

For the hot pot soup base, Zhao Yunlan plans to make an old chicken mushroom soup, sour radish and duck soup, and a lamb bone soup, and finally add a spicy pot with pepper. In addition to having a separate pot, the pot that Zhao Yunlan set before is also in the form of a mandarin duck pot, so that it can be combined and matched with the hot pot soup base.

And the side dishes used for shabu-shabu, the meat dish part beef, hairy tripe, and mille-feuille belly don't need to be thought about. It's directly mutton, lamb tripe comes to shabu, Zhao Yunlan thinks of what she likes to eat, shrimp slip is definitely not here, since she came here, Zhao Yunlan has never seen shrimp, so she changed to fish balls. The smooth and tender fish picks out the spines, chops them up, and adds some sweet potato flour to increase the stickiness and make the fish balls more tender.

This sweet potato flour was remade by Zhao Yunlan later, which is finer than the powder of the made vermicelli, and it was sifted over and over again, leaving the finest part, which can be used to marinate the meat when stir-frying the meat, and the taste is more tender.

There are also spicy pork slices, which can be used as a signature of hot pot, after all, it is marinated with pepper and other seasonings and potato flour. Other dishes such as chicken gizzards or duck intestines, these can be slowly pushed out in the water, I am afraid that everyone will not be able to accept it.

For the preparation of vegetarian dishes, it is also possible to prepare some radish, cabbage, or some mountain goods, fungus, bamboo shoots, or fresh wild vegetables in season.

Li Mingyi looked at the dishes that were finally decided, but he didn't care too much about how many of these dishes were prepared, but he just sighed that the words of the sister-in-law are getting better and better, if you don't say that the sister-in-law is from a peasant woman, I really can't believe this word alone.

Zhao Yunlan looked at Li Mingyi and knocked lightly on the table: "Second brother, what are you thinking?" If there's anything wrong, we have to say it earlier, and we can change it. ”

Li Mingyi came back to his senses and only said: "Won't it take too much time to transport these things to the house, these meats can still transport those sheep and chickens alive, but this dish will not be fresh when it is transported over." ”

Zhao Yunlan: "Well, I've also thought about this problem, so the vegetarian dishes are mainly transported to these easy to store, if you want fresh wild vegetables, just buy them in the villages around this city." However, I would like to buy a piece of land in this city, otherwise it will cost a lot of money on the way every time I bring it over. ”

Li Mingyi: "Well, it does need to. I'll ask about this land and see if I can buy it. ”

Zhao Yunlan nodded: "There is no rush in advance for this place, let's do the things at hand first." Let's see what this restaurant will look like. ”

Li Mingyi understood that he was not in a hurry, but just took the matter of buying land to heart.

Zhao Yunlan: "And our pricing. We sell in the form of a la carte, then we have to indicate the price of each dish, mainly the price of these meat dishes, the price of this meat dish ranges from 20 to 80 yuan. For example, if it is a spicy pork slice, this is our main signature, and with our special pepper flavor, we can set it a little more expensive. ”

Li Mingyi listened to Zhao Yunlan again and again, and took notes.

Zhao Yunlan continued: "There is also a soup base that must be ordered first to eat hot pot, our soup base is genuinely made of meat and big bones, so this soup base must also be clearly priced." As for those vegetarian dishes, radish and cabbage are not worth much, so let's settle between two and eight yuan. If it is a fresh mountain product, it is in season, and it can be slightly more expensive. ”

Li Mingyi stopped his pen and thought about some snacks: "The price of steamed pork and steamed pork ribs is 30 yuan, and the price of lo-mei is 20 yuan." Is it feasible to set the price of canned fruit at the price sold in the town? ”

Zhao Yunlan nodded in agreement. Thinking of going to Qingchun Mansion to eat a signature dish and spending six taels of silver, Zhao Yunlan felt that the price of her own dish was still a relative. It's just the price of this wine, hey~ Now that this wine has not yet landed, I have to wait for a while, or go directly to the winery to order wine, but it is not good to create my own signboard after all.

"During this period of time, let them familiarize themselves with the process, and then slowly send people back to Lijia Village to pull things over, and when it opens, we will also do some reward activities to see the situation." Zhao Yunlan proposed.

Li Mingyi immediately understood that when he opened a hot and sour noodle shop before, it was the same way, and the price was cheaper three days before the opening. Li Mingyi asked: "Then how do we set this price?" ”

Zhao Yunlan: "We won't change this price, we will directly waive some money." For example, if we spent three taels of silver here that day, we can get 500 yuan free and give a fine snack. ”

Li Mingyi: "Five hundred texts? Wouldn't that be too much? ”

Zhao Yunlan: "This is just an example, you and Xiaomei will calculate the price together and then agree." ”

Li Mingmei has been helping Zhao Yunlan remember all the expenses before the opening during this time, although Li Mingmei did not learn the rules and etiquette from Mama Cui during this time, but Li Mingmei has become busier.

"Things are almost the same here in the restaurant, can the chess pieces that Master Zhang played before be done?" Zhao Yunlan asked.

Li Mingyi: "Well, it's done, I moved upstairs, and asked Master Zhang to play some chess boxes, which are sample drawings drawn by Yimei." Upstairs, there is a room by the window as a study, which can be used as a room for reception and conversation, and Xiaobao has been studying in that study room these days.

Zhao Yunlan: "Then there will be a table in the middle, and we will find two people at home to play chess." In fact, Zhao Yunlan just wants to do a backgammon exhibition match, and when the time comes, she can sell this backgammon.

Li Mingyi: "Okay, I think we can let Mingzhi and Yuncheng play, they are scholars, and playing chess here will definitely help us attract a lot of readers." In this way, the chess piece we have placed here can be made more beautiful, and it can be placed here, and the guests can play a game when they are interested in eating. ”

Zhao Yunlan's eyes lit up, now Li Mingyi is getting more and more upright!

"Well, second brother, I'll leave this matter to you. Their training should be faster, and I will go to Jingshan Temple the day after tomorrow to count the days and see when the right time to open, and the restaurant will be taken care of by you. ”

Li Mingyi: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, everything is up to me." Also, my mother said before that I would change the deed of this restaurant to your name, and it would be handled properly tomorrow. ”

Zhao Yunlan smiled: "Hmm." ”