Chapter 114: Passing Gods
The proprietress wearing the fried dumpling hood let go of her hand a little embarrassed and said to the two people in front of her, "Guests, please come in, our fried dumplings taste very good."
Kei Fujiwara looked up and glanced at the signboard, which mainly sells a variety of snacks, and its signature dishes are fried dumplings and fried udon.
"Please come in, Fujiwara-sensei, I only discovered this shop yesterday, and it tastes surprisingly good." Nobutoshi Takagi said with a smile.
Fujiwara shrugged his shoulders and followed him inside, glancing at the shopkeeper and his wife who were standing at the door...... The relationship is really good, and it is still so crooked at this age, this is the ideal state of marriage.
Today, Kei Fujiwara was huddled in his office writing a manuscript, but Nobutoshi Takagi suddenly came to him and said that he had found a particularly delicious gyoza restaurant, and he must try it.
Fujiwara Kei felt like he wanted to eat at the time, and he planned to write it for a while, but Nobutoshi Takagi sat down directly, claiming that he would wait until Fujiwara Kei finished writing.
There was no way, so Kei Fujiwara had to put down his pen and come here with Nobutoshi Takagi.
This is a mom-and-pop shop, there are no other clerks in the store, the furnishings are very neat, and the tables do not have the oily feeling of the old restaurant.
The greasy feeling on the table of the old restaurant can't be wiped off, and it should have just opened here.
The husband and wife saw that a customer was coming, and returned to the store. The man puffed out his cigarette and rushed back to the kitchen, while the woman stood next to them and waited for their order.
Nobutoshi Takagi said, "A set meal of fried dumplings and a cup of lemon oolong tea."
The set meal means set meal, and Kei Fujiwara glanced at the menu sign hanging on the wall, thought for a moment, and said, "Order a fried dumpling and a spicy fried udon."
"Fujiwara-sensei, oolong tea is delicious."
"Okay, another cup of oolong tea, chilled."
"Guest, don't you want rice?" The hostess asked.
It is said that I eat dumplings and fried noodles with rice, which is very ...... Dumpling fried noodles are not a staple food in their eyes, but a dish like fried shredded potatoes. Kei Fujiwara waved his hand repeatedly, "No."
"Mr. Takagi, this is a new store, right?" Kei Fujiwara asked, looking around.
Nobutoshi Takagi nodded, "I think it's just opened, and I haven't seen this store when I passed by here a month ago."
"There aren't a lot of people......
"Of course, there are few people, and this place is not suitable for opening a restaurant at all." Nobutoshi Takagi whispered, "The shopkeeper and his wife should be laymen, or it may be that the rent here is cheap. Good business and good taste are two different things, no matter how delicious the food is, it is not necessarily good business, and people like us who are so persistent in chasing delicious food are a minority after all."
Nobutoshi Takagi said with emotion.
After a while, Nobutoshi Takagi's fried dumplings and Fujiwara Kei and fried dumplings were served, and they were hot and steamy, and you could smell a burnt smell when you put your nose together.
As soon as I picked up a fried dumpling and bit it, a hot broth came out, and Kei Fujiwara first had a tingling pain in his lips and tongue, and then a delicious and mellow taste quickly filled his mouth.
Keiichi Fujiwara was stunned...... Delicious!
Let's talk about the dough first, the bottom layer is crispy and burnt, and you can hear the "crunch" sound with every bite, and the dough outside the crispy skin is extremely tender, as thin as paper, and you can see the meatballs wrapped in the dough under the sun.
The minced meat is even more fresh and sweet, and the minced meat is wrapped in a unique sweetness, and the umami is even more special, and it actually tastes like shrimp meat from the pork.
Stir-fried udon noodles are also very delicious, but they are still a little worse than fried dumplings, so it's no wonder that the wooden sign that says fried dumplings is hung in the first place, and it seems that it is their signature dish.
It was indeed delicious, and this meal was the most delicious gyoza Kei Fujiwara had since he came to Tokyo.
"Pretty delicious, isn't it, Fujiwara-sensei." Nobutoshi Takagi said, looking proud that he had found such a good store. "Well, can this shop be used as footage for filming?"
"It's fine, but you have to agree to it." Kei Fujiwara glanced at the husband and wife who were busy working.
"Fujiwara-sensei, the broadcast time must have been decided, right?" Nobutoshi Takagi asked.
Kei Fujiwara nodded, "The first episode has been produced and will be broadcast late at eleven o'clock next Saturday."
"I'm looking forward to it...... Whatever the outcome, it's my favorite job." Nobutoshi Takagi said with emotion.
At this time, the proprietress stepped forward and placed a small plate in front of Kei Fujiwara and Nobutoshi Takagi with a hot spring egg in it.
"This is a gift from our store, please use it slowly."
Kei Fujiwara nodded slightly, "Thank you...... Excuse me, would you like to ask if you can do so? What kind of meat is used in these fried dumplings?"
"It's pork." The proprietress pulled the fried dumpling hood on her head, and it was difficult for her to wear this thing on a hot day, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on her cheeks.
"Pork? But the taste seems strange......
The proprietress suddenly became nervous: "What's the matter, does it smell strange?" How can this be, the ingredients we use are very fresh......
"No, no, I didn't mean that, the ingredients are very fresh, but they don't taste like pork...... It tastes a little more delicious than pork."
"Because I put scallion juice and sea sausage puree in the filling." Then the boss poked his head out and said. "I don't put much sugar in it, I rely on the sweetness of the green onion juice, and the umami depends on the sea sausage."
The proprietress hurriedly went over and quietly pulled the hem of the boss's clothes, how did you tell the secret recipe?!
"It turned out to be a sea intestine ......," Kei Fujiwara suddenly realized.
It is said that it is an island country, living near the sea, and seafood is often the richest umami substance of all foods. Therefore, I like to pursue umami in my diet, and the earliest monosodium glutamate was also invented by myself.
In fact, ancient China also discovered the secret of freshness early on, and Lu cuisine is one of the best. Many chefs of Lu cuisine will carry a can of sea intestine noodles with them to enhance the freshness of the dishes, which is also the secret of the delicious Lu cuisine in the past.
And the gradual decline of modern Lu cuisine, some people believe that one of the reasons is the invention of monosodium glutamate. MSG, as a cheaper means of freshness, directly destroys the biggest advantage of Lu cuisine. Of course, this is just someone's family opinion, and Fujiwara Kei doesn't know whether this is the case.
In addition to the "umami" flavor, there are many flavor substances that are unique to the sea intestines, which also makes this fried dumplings particularly delicious.
After paying the money, Fujiwara Kei stood up, politely walked up to the proprietress and handed over a business card: "Excuse me, I'm a staff member at Fukuyamadai, and I want to discuss something with you."
The proprietress turned out to be a business card and bowed a little stiffly: "Hello, may I ask what's the matter?"
"We are filming a food show, we need to shoot it in your store, your fried dumplings are very delicious, and they will also appear in our show at that time, maybe it will also help your business, I wonder if you are very much in favor of us to shoot?"
The proprietress thought for a moment and said, "It's not a problem...... But we have a request, can we have our photos featured on your show? Two seconds, no, even a second."
Kei Fujiwara happily agreed, "No problem." What is this, every episode of "The Lonely Foodie" will mark the address of the hotel in detail.
"Thank you very much."
Kei Fujiwara paid and left.
"Welcome back next time." The proprietress shouted at the backs of the two, and then said to her husband excitedly, "Daddy, do you hear that? We need to have a TV station to shoot in our store. It means that the food you make tastes really good!"
"Hmm......" The man replied and didn't speak again. What if the taste is good, and the taste is good does not mean that the business is good. Every time I did business before, I had no experience at all, so I rented the store in this remote place. There aren't many customers coming to the door right now.
Now life is stretched, the children want to go to the summer camp and have no money, my wife stared at a discounted dress in a department store supermarket for a long time not long ago, and finally didn't buy it, thinking of this,
The man's heart was full of pantothenic acid.
If there is a passing god, please save our family from the current poverty!
The man said secretly in his heart.