MTL - Chang’an Small Restaurant-Chapter 52 The twists and turns of spinach
The spring outing banquet and the occasional news of all kinds of men and women.
Shen Shaoguang stood at the counter, making calculations while listening to gossip from diners not far away.
"This Zhao Lang has been paralyzed for a year, and he only breathes more than a dead man, but his wife is happy for a while now, she said that she met Lang Jun in a dream, God has mercy and gave her With this baby, the Zhao family is still happy to send happy fruits and eggs everywhere, really... the world is getting worse." A diner shook his head and sighed with a sip of wine.
"You don't understand, then the Zhao family has a large family business, but no one inherits it. Even if the old husband and the old know it, they have to keep one eye and close one eye. It's good that those who are born are counted as their own descendants. It's better than being cheap and branching out." The drinker explained the reason to him.
The drinking friend laughed "sneeringly": "There are no rules in the merchant's house, so there are rules for others? I heard that Princess Fuhui—" The drinking friend stopped, regretted his blunder, and laughed Twice, just keep drinking.
Not long after the two stopped talking, Pei Lang and his friend Lin Shaoyin who were somewhat involved with Princess Fuhui walked in.
Shen Shaoguang sneered secretly, the tip was enough, and the filter was thickened!
Shen Shaoguang led them to sit down by the window. From the seats, through the half-opened window, you could see Jing Mingchunhe outside, and the elm willow on the roadside was the bride in the sunset ... The key is to stay away from those two gossip, otherwise it will be embarrassing.
Shen Shaoguang asked with a smile: "Lin Langjun still want fried pork with bamboo shoots and chicken slices with mountain mushrooms? Today's spinach is very tender, or a two-color fish ball with spinach juice?"
After listening to the spinach, Lin Yan paused, and finally smiled and nodded: "Okay."
Pei Fei raised his eyebrows, looked at the warm Lin Yan, and then looked at the smiling lady Shen, hehe...
"What do you want, Mr. Pei Lang?" Shen Shaoguang asked with a smile.
Pei Fei looked down at the menu and found that the dishes had changed a lot. There were only two rows of the hot pot covered with a sheet of paper before, and the prominent ones were spring stir-fry, fresh vegetables and so on. The door lists the spring dishes.
Seeing that Pei Fei set his eyes on the spring plate, Shen Shaoguang, as a responsible and conscientious shopkeeper, reminded him to be cautious - eating a spring plate at night is only afraid of being incompatible with health. There are not one or two plates supported by the plate. In the future, the spring plate will be given as a pill for strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach.
Pei Fei smiled, and even Lin Yan raised the corners of his mouth.
I couldn't laugh when I was amused, Shen Shaoguang suggested that he order a few vegetable stir-fries, "This stir-fry is different from boiling and stewing, it's fresh and crispy. It's the right time to eat."
Fresh, crispy and tender... She said she really wanted to eat, Pei Fei carefully studied the menu, ordered a few more spinach, and glanced at Lin Yan who was drinking tea quietly, in the end It was not implemented, and instead ordered several meat and vegetarian dishes such as scrambled eggs with celery, fried bacon with green onions, fried eel silk, and fried bean sprouts with vinegar.
Shen Shaoguang took over the menu, "You two wait, the food and drinks will be ready soon."
Take it to the kitchen, hand over the menu to Yu San, watch Achang cook the fire to choose vegetables, Ayuan cuts the vegetables to prepare, and Yu San goes to the stove. The three cooperated very well, and Shen Shaoguang withdrew. , then went back behind the counter.
Now that spring is coming, people want to eat something crispy and fresh. The main ones in the restaurant are the spring dishes and this spring stir-fry.
In this dynasty, the popular cooking methods were steaming, boiling, roasting and stewing. Although the mainstream cooking method of "fried" has appeared, it is not popular - mainly due to the limitation of the times, not who There are iron pots suitable for cooking at home, and cooking oil is also a problem. ①
Well, the so-called "If a worker wants to do something good, he must first sharpen his tools".
The cooking method of frying is actually especially suitable for restaurants: the cooking time is short and the dishes are served quickly; Make endless patterns.
In the autumn and winter, there were also stir-fry dishes, but it was not obvious at that time. Now when spring comes, the menu is changed like this, and there are more stir-fry dishes. All kinds of vegetable stir-fry are very popular with diners. , such as that Lin Shaoyin.
Recently, Lin Shaoyin often comes to the restaurant to sit and sit, and most of the orders are stir-fried, and his favorite is the fried pork with bamboo shoots.
Didn't the descendants have a Su Da scholar, foodie, Dongpo, who said, "It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo. Without meat, you will be thin, and without bamboo, you will be vulgar. It's okay to be thin. Fat, scholars and vulgars cannot be cured." His friends ridiculed him again, "Gong Ruduan is a bitter bamboo shooter, and tomorrow's spring shirt can be taken off." Listen, listen, in order to eat bamboo shoots, even an official can not do it.
Lin Shaoyin, the flower of the high mountain, is naturally not vulgar. Besides, he already has bamboo, so he also pursues "eating with bamboo shoots".
Thinking of his bamboo, Shen Shaoguang felt a little melancholy, that's all...
There are no new guests at this time, Shen Shaoguang went into the kitchen to help. Seeing that A Yuan had already sliced the fish, and there were still green vegetables to be cut, she asked her to cut the vegetables and scraped the fish paste with a knife.
Scraping fish mud is a technical job. To fix one side, take a sharp knife and slowly scrape from the fixed side to the other side. Scrape it onto the knife and spread it into the bowl, layer by layer, little by little, don't worry. If you don't care about the 3721, the fish **** will not be so soft and tender, and you need to add glutinous rice powder, otherwise there is a risk of becoming a pot of fish porridge.
A Yuan didn't like this water mill work the most, she still cut vegetables with a click. Seeing that the little lady was willing to take over, she gave it to her with a smile, and went to cut the vegetables.
Shen Shaoguang finished scraping the fish paste, put a little salt, pepper, and water in it, and pressed his chopsticks in one direction, the fish meat was good.
Then mash the spinach that has been blanched, put it in the gauze net and squeeze the juice, take half of the fish and add the juice and stir, and then there is half of the original white fish, respectively Use a small spoon to scald it in boiling water, and it is a fresh and tender two-color fish ball.
I was pounding spinach when a new customer arrived outside, so Shen Shaoguang handed the semi-finished product to A Yuan and went out to greet the guests.
It was a pair of young and old. Because there were few old women and children in the restaurant, Shen Shaoguang recognized at a glance that they were grandsons and grandsons who came to eat dumplings during the Lantern Festival.
Shen Shaoguang asked them to sit down. The old woman ordered meatballs with jade tip noodles and spinach egg drop soup, and didn't order anything.
Shen Shaoguang served them the hawthorn drink and said with a smile, "It's alright, Grandma and Xiao Langjun wait a moment."
After a while, the dishes of Lin and Pei were ready, and the soup of the grandparents and grandchildren was ready.
Other guests came one after another, Shen Shaoguang was greeting, but heard the cry of children coming from the lobby.
Shen Shaoguang hurried over.
The old woman frowned, and the little doll pursed her lips and looked like she was about to cry.
"What's the matter? Is this jade-pointed face not in the mind of Xiao Langjun?"
The old woman looked at Shen Shaoguang apologetically, "He likes this steamed cake, but he doesn't like green vegetables."
Shen Shaoguang nodded: "I wonder if Xiao Lang has heard of a man named Popeye?"
Make a fist gesture, "The meat here is bulging, it's amazing!"
"Like a knight?"
Yes, the fusion of Chinese and Western legends, Shen Shaoguang nodded: "Yes, like a knight, punishing evil and promoting good, acting chivalrous and righteous, he is a hero."
The boy frowned and looked at the bowl of spinach egg drop soup: "Okay, I'll drink it!"
"That's right, really good." Shen Shaoguang praised with a smile.
The old woman also smiled, "Remember what the little lady said." She thanked Shen Shaoguang again.
Shen Shaoguang walked back, but raised his eyes to see the expression of Pei Langjun's mocking expression, while Lin Shaoyin lowered his eyes and drank the fish ball soup indifferently.
Is this a friend choking? Although Lin Shaoyin may not be very talkative, Shen Shaoguang always felt that Pei Lang was the one who was suppressed. They wouldn't cry, so Shen Shaoguang naturally ignored them and walked back to the counter.
The night was getting darker, Shen Shaoguang stood at the door to send her big client away, "You two, it's good to go."
Pei Fei returned the salute with a smile, while Lin Yan smiled and nodded.
The moon was round and bright, Lin and Pei walked slowly back to the Lin house.
Pei Fei tilted his head to look at Lin Yan, and then smiled "sneeringly".
Lin Yan just moved on and ignored him.
"You too have today..."
Lin Yan knew what Pei Fei was referring to, and felt that he was making a fuss. Lin Yan pursed his lips, and finally said, "Don't think too much."
"I didn't think much about it, I just wondered why you eat spinach that you never eat..."
"I think spinach is crunchy and tender now, and it's okay to eat it occasionally." Lin Yan said lightly.
Occasionally... This "occasionally" probably refers to the time at the Shenji liquor store. Pei Fei nodded, "It's so good, it's so good, maybe An Ran will be able to 'a silver saddle shines on a white horse, like a shooting star' one day. ②"
Lin Yan glanced at him, "You're really drunk!" He walked towards the Lin house first.
Pei Fei swayed in the back with his hands behind his back, and hummed a little tune: "The drums are louder, the people are quiet at the beginning, the flowers are fragrant and the moon is cold, there is affection but always ruthless, ah..."
The author has something to say:
①There is a debate about the cooking method of stir-frying in the Tang Dynasty.
②Li Bai's "The Journey of the Knight".
