Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 21 This is so delicious
Li Guifen leaned against the kitchen door and watched Jiang Tian start cooking.
Seeing her skilled movements and her cooking posture looking more professional than her man's, I couldn't help but be amazed.
She never thought that Jiang Tian was reborn, and she thought someone in her family was preparing banquets for others in the countryside.
If that's the case, then it makes sense.
Some chefs who help people prepare banquets in the countryside have extraordinary cooking skills. The couple was able to open such a small restaurant on the provincial road because the husband worked hard for several years to learn the skills from a chef who prepared banquets in the town.
When the proprietress was distracted, Jiang Tian had already quickly prepared the mixed fish stew.
"Okay! It's a pity that there are no wild small crucian carp and yellow croaker. If we can add these two kinds of fish, this mixed fish stew will be more delicious."
Jiang Tian wiped her hands, brought the mixed fish stew to the table, took three pairs of chopsticks, and took out the steamed buns she had brought from her bag.
She gave Li Guifen a smile and said, "Aunt Guifen, come and try it while it's hot."
The corners of Li Guifen's mouth twitched twice.
From the smell of this, if you don’t know, you would think this store belongs to Jiang Tian.
Of course, Li Guifen didn’t know at that time that half a year later, this store would really become Jiang Tian’s.
Li Guifen took the chopsticks but did not take the steamed bun.
Although every family has been able to have enough to eat in recent years, many families in rural areas are still reluctant to eat fine grains such as rice and flour. Although Jiang Tian and her daughter took four white flour buns with them when they went out, which may look shabby to modern people, in that era , it was considered a relatively decent amount of dry food to take with them when going out.
Many families usually eat multi-grain steamed buns, which are made by mixing corn flour, buckwheat flour and coarse wheat flour together. The steamed buns are gray-brown in color and a bit irritating to the throat, but they are filling enough to fill you up.
And it is cheaper than steamed buns made from white flour.
Li Guifen walked into the kitchen, took out a plate of hot steamed buns, and said with a smile -
"Auntie, I can't take advantage of you, a little kid. So, you serve the dishes and I serve the buns, and we can just have a meal together."
As he spoke, he picked up the steamed buns and stuffed one into each of Hu Qiongfang and Jiang Tian's hands.
Li Guifen originally just wanted to take a couple of bites to try the taste of this dish, but she didn't expect that the mixed fish stew was just as Jiang Tian described. The broth was delicious, and the eels and loaches were soaked up by the sauce. Because they were freshly killed, the meat was also particularly tender.
The most amazing thing is the snails underneath.
Each of these snails is as big as a child's fist. Normally, snails of this size are not easy to flavor. However, before cooking, Jiang Tian cut off the butt of the snail, soaked it in soup for half an hour, and simmered it over charcoal fire. The stewed snails are firm, delicious and juicy.
Comrade Li Guifen almost swallowed her tongue after taking a bite of the delicious snail meat.
Isn’t this so delicious?
Li Guifen's eyes lit up.
This dish is great!
The cost doesn’t seem high. She is a professional restaurant owner and she can tell at a glance that Jiang Tian left some room for improvement in this dish. After eating the loach, eel and snails, there is still a lot of soup in it.
If the truck driver and the boss of the following truck want to have a drink, they can add two taels of fried tofu fruit, or bean curd, cabbage, sweet potato flour, etc. into the casserole, add some water, and blanch the vegetables in it. Don't make it too fresh.
Thinking of this, and looking at the half bucket of snails that Jiang Tian and the others brought, Li Guifen couldn't help but smile bitterly.
This little girl is so cunning! She deliberately put a layer of snails under the casserole. Is she planning to sell her snails as well?
Snails are not valuable these days, but they are heavy.
Even though Li Guifen lowered the price to 1 cent per pound, half a bucket of snails still cost her 4.20 yuan.
However, this dish is indeed rare, and it is also the favorite dish for cart masters to eat with wine.
Li Guifen has already figured it out. She put ten snails in a casserole. Although it may seem like a lot, the cost is definitely no more than 20 cents.
But this dish, which contains fish, eel, loach, and snails, is so large in portion that she plans to sell it for four yuan a portion.
If there are only two people, you can order a mixed fish pot and spend another two yuan to add some side dishes such as cabbage, sweet potato noodles, tofu fruit, half a pound of liquor, and a few steamed buns, and you can have a delicious meal, which is not expensive.
Unexpectedly, while Li Guifen was thinking about how to sell this mixed fish stew, Jiang Tian was already gearing up to win her over as a "long-term customer".
"Auntie, you go to the morning market to buy vegetables every day. It's so tiring. The fish and shrimp there are very expensive. How about I deliver them to your door in the future?"
Li Guifen was somewhat tempted. The price per pound of loaches and eels sold by Jiang Tian was not only cheaper than those sold at the morning market, but also 10 cents cheaper than those sold by fishmongers who went to the countryside to buy them. If someone could really deliver the goods to her door and sell them cheaper than at the morning market, she would definitely be willing to do so.
However, Li Guifen was used to bargaining with others and did not agree immediately.
She also wanted to negotiate and lower the price.
"My shop is small, and I don't use much every day."
Jiang Tian smiled and said, "No other restaurant has mixed fish stew. With this signature dish, customers flock to it. Maybe next time I come, your restaurant will be full of seats."
These words made Li Guifen burst into laughter.
Indeed, the most important thing for opening a restaurant is to have your own signature dish.
Moreover, Jiang Tian’s words just now just inspired her.
That’s right! We don’t have to hire another chef to get Big Brother back.
When the restaurant business picks up, we can use the excuse that we are building a building to expand the store and let my brother go home and stay for a few days.
Once you go back, it won’t be easy to come back.
Li Guifen sneered secretly.
Want to take advantage of her? Li Guifen has eaten everything in her life, but never suffered any loss!
Thinking of this, Li Guifen agreed: "Okay! But my family needs a small amount, so you don't have to deliver it every day. Deliver it every other day in the future."
Jiang Tian quickly took the opportunity to discuss the supply quantity with her.
Li Guifen counted on her fingers and finally decided on a number -
"Every time you come here from now on, you must bring me 20 kilograms of yellow eels and 10 kilograms of loaches."
"I want fifty kilograms of snails, is that okay?"
Hearing that she wanted so much, Hu Qiongfang's palms began to sweat.
If they could really sell so much every other day, then the mother and daughter would simply stop farming. They could earn more by fishing for eels and catching snails than farming.
Jiang Tian agreed straightforwardly: "Don't even mention 50 kilograms. When your restaurant business becomes popular, I'll buy 100 kilograms. As long as you ask, I'll collect the whole amount and send it to you."
"It will definitely not hinder your fortune ."
Li Guifen laughed loudly: "Girl, you are so sweet, aren't you? What do you mean by getting rich? It's just a small business."
