Chapter 303: Fried Pickled Fish and Spicy Shrimp
She heard that the fast food restaurant not only had spicy crabs at night, but also a new spicy crab dish. Old Mrs. Han was so greedy that she forced Old Man Han to accompany her again in the evening.
I didn’t expect that the fast food restaurant at night would be even busier than at noon!
The old couple then discovered that in addition to dine-in service, this restaurant also offered delivery service.
In this era when telephone bills are still quite expensive, Jiang Tian fully mobilized the power of the people and recruited a group of "delivery riders" at the University of Foreign Languages.
In addition to delivering food, these "riders" can also develop another side job, which is to "sweep the dormitories" every night and ask if anyone wants to order food tomorrow and needs help bringing food, and then give the money directly to them. In this way, in addition to the money from delivering food, they can also earn "business fees".
Although one order only earns ten cents, a little bit adds up. College students are bored at night anyway, so if they go to a few more dormitories and get dozens of orders in one night, they can earn a few more dollars.
In this way, those who want to order takeout do not need to spend money to call the store. They just need to give the money to the delivery man, agree on the delivery time, and when the time comes, they can just wait for the takeout in the dormitory.
The deliverymen also got themselves a lot of orders through this "self-reliant" method.
I heard that some diligent delivery riders can earn three to four hundred yuan a month just by working part-time delivering food at noon and in the evening.
These days, there are not many part-time job opportunities for college students. Many people from foreign language universities work part-time as "riders" at Fangjie fast food restaurant.
Especially those poor students who were admitted to universities from rural areas, many of them borrowed tuition and living expenses in order to go to university. In order to save money at school, they only bought a steamed bun for a meal and drank the free soup in the cafeteria to barely fill their stomachs.
Since they started delivering food at Fang Jie's fast food restaurant, their lives have improved a lot. Those who are more diligent can earn several hundred yuan a month. Not only can they pay off the foreign debt they borrowed for school, but they can also save a lot of money on food every month.
Jiang Tian specifically told the store manager here that anyone who works part-time as a delivery man in the store will be provided with a meal at noon and in the evening.
Although the food we ate was the leftovers from the day's sale, there was meat, vegetables and enough rice to fill us up, which was much better than the food in the school cafeteria.
While Mr. Han was sitting there eating, he saw several "part-time deliverymen" come in with a cross-body insulated box on their backs, take out a dozen lunch boxes and put them in the box, then ride their bicycles and rush to the other side to deliver the food.
Upon hearing that this was Fang Jie's fast food restaurant, and that it was a "work-study position" specially set up for poor students from the Foreign Languages University, Mr. Han nodded secretly, and a smile of approval slowly appeared on his serious face.
I didn't expect that Jiang Tian has such a broad mind and vision. If that's the case, she is not unworthy of his eldest grandson.
Old Lady Han also took the opportunity to speak well of Jiang Tian: "I heard that Jiang Tian and her mother have set up a 'Rural Poor Girls Education Assistance Program' to help rural girls who have excellent grades but cannot afford to go to school due to family reasons to return to school. Every year, they support more than a hundred such poor female students. Old man, think about it, you have been engaged in education for a lifetime, have you ever done this?"
Mr. Han froze and said stubbornly, "Humph! They made so much money, shouldn't they give some back to society?"
Old Lady Han rolled her eyes at him and said, "That's a nice thing to say! I've seen that few of your students who have made a fortune in business can support more than a hundred poor students to go to school every year."
The old man couldn't win the argument with his wife, so he picked up a piece of fried pickled fish angrily, pretended to pick out fish bones, and started to eat slowly.
You know what, this seemingly low-class roadside fast food restaurant actually makes a very authentic marinated fish dish.
Mr. Han’s hometown is on the bank of the famous Xiangjiang River. He grew up eating all kinds of fish and shrimp, and he especially loves the hometown specialty, fried pickled fish.
The preparation of this fish is very unique. In the early years when there were no refrigerators to preserve food, people living by the river would cut the fish into large pieces, spread a thick layer of salt on both sides of the fish, and then place it in a well-ventilated place to "exposure" it to the sun for a few hours to prevent the fish from becoming smelly in the summer.
The fish meat marinated in this way has a firmer and elastic texture, and the taste of the fish meat is a bit similar to the famous Huizhou stinky mandarin fish. The fish meat is in the shape of garlic cloves. And because the middle section of the grass carp is used, the meat in this part is thick and there are few fish bones, so it is very convenient to eat.
The old man has been eating this dish since he was a child. He has tried all kinds of ways of eating it, such as steaming, braising, frying, and stewing.
But what Jiang Tian taught the fast food restaurant chef was to use their own stinky black beans and braise it together with the pickled fish, and add a little bit of their own pickled peppers. It is fragrant and spicy, and has the unique aroma of black beans, which goes especially well with rice!
The old man was busy eating, and he actually ate a whole plate of rice with a piece of fried pickled fish!
After finishing his meal, the old man sighed comfortably, touching his slightly bloated stomach: "I haven't eaten so well in a long time!"
"I don't know where Tiantian hired this chef from, but his cooking skills are really good. Let's ask him if he has any apprentices. We can hire one to cook and reduce the burden on our nanny."
Old Lady Han snorted, ruthlessly exposing the old man's little thoughts:
"I see you're just greedy and want to try this pickled fish!"
etc!
"Didn't you call the girl 'the lunch seller' before? When did you change your name to Tiantian?"
Mr. Han hesitated.
After a long while, he glared at his wife in anger and said, "What lunch box seller? She's our granddaughter-in-law!"
Old Mrs. Han had a smile on her lips and was about to retort when a harsh curse suddenly came from the door.
"Great! The villagers said you made a lot of money outside, but you still don't admit it? Now I've caught you, right?"
"Everyone, come and take a look at this heartless little bastard! He is living a life of luxury outside, while his parents and brothers back home are almost starving to death!"
"You are such a heartless ungrateful bastard! Your brother is so old and he hasn't even found a wife, and you are still here, leisurely being a female college student? I tell you, Liu Xiangmei, today you either give me the money or come home with me to get engaged!"
"Where did this crazy woman come from? How dare she come to our Foreign Languages University to cause trouble?"
"Go to the school gate and call the security guard over!"
The security guards at the Foreign Languages University are obviously not as fast as those at Fangjie's fast food restaurant.
Before they came over, the store manager called two security guards who had become waiters and forcibly pulled apart the old woman who was tearing apart the female student.