Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 144 Smoked fish tail is another price
Fortunately, the snow had just fallen last night and was soft and had not yet frozen, so it was not difficult to shovel. In less than half an hour, a passage leading to the Hu's Restaurant was shoveled out from the side of the provincial road.
Zhao Qiangguo quickly drove the car to the entrance of the hotel.
Unexpectedly, there were many drivers who had the same idea as him.
We are all experienced people. Looking at the thick dark clouds in the sky, we can tell with our toes that the snow will not stop for a while.
Others have cleared a passage for them. If they don't leave now, will they continue to spend the night on the provincial road?
Experienced drivers are not afraid of spending the night in the car.
What they are really afraid of is that while they are sleeping at night, a car suddenly loses control and hits them from behind.
There were really a lot of collisions, and I'm afraid that none of the cars parked on the side of the provincial road could escape.
Although at this time, experienced drivers would have already pulled over and waited.
But what if you encounter a young person who is new to the road and insists on driving forward? They can control themselves, but they can't control all the drivers on this road.
You'd better drive the car down quickly!
Jiang Tian and his friends had originally only dug a small path less than half a meter wide from the doorstep. Now, other cars that wanted to drive to their doorstep began to actively join the snow-clearing army.
Before noon, the large open space in front of her house had become a temporary parking lot, filled with cars of all sizes.
Hu Qiongfang, along with Hu Cuizhi and Zhang Xiufen, boiled three large pots of water and poured them into thermos. The passengers couldn't wait and ran over to help, bringing the filled thermos to the front and pouring hot water into the teacups for the people in line.
After drinking a full teacup of hot water, the passengers who were almost frozen to death in the car finally breathed a sigh of relief.
They also knew that if they tried to take the bus home in this kind of weather, they might get stuck on the way.
But so what? I am away from home all year round, and only during the New Year holidays can I go home to see my family and have a reunion dinner with them.
The three words "New Year's Eve dinner" seem to be engraved in the blood of the Chinese people. No matter how tough they are in normal times, when the New Year is approaching, their legs will want to run home uncontrollably.
Fortunately, they were lucky this time and met a kind-hearted restaurant owner.
Hu Qiongfang did what she said and led the stranded passengers to her restaurant. She did not force them to eat in the restaurant, but let them come in and sit down. The door was open, and everyone could come in and take a rest regardless of whether they bought anything or not.
There were several charcoal basins lit in the room, and there was free hot water. If you wanted to drink, just pour it yourself. It was free to drink as much as you wanted.
Hu Qiongfang's generosity made the passengers who came in to avoid the snow feel bad.
After being hungry and cold in the car all night, drinking only boiled water is definitely not enough.
If you don't want to spend money, you can get a teacup of free boiling water, take out the cold steamed buns in your bag, break them into pieces and soak them in hot water. That way you can fill your stomach.
Those who had money in their pockets would go over to look at the price list on the wall and ask Hu Qiongfang if there were any hot meals available in the store.
"Yes! Freshly made dumplings with pork and cabbage filling, 40 cents for a small bowl, 60 cents for a large bowl."
"We also have noodles. A bowl of clear soup noodles costs 10 cents, and comes with a small plate of pickled vegetables."
"Pickled mustard greens and shredded pork noodles are 20 cents a bowl, stewed pork noodles are 40 cents, and three-fresh noodles are 50 cents. Which one do you want?"
The man who asked about the price was dressed like a cadre. After listening to Hu Qiongfang's offer, he didn't say which one he wanted, but said he would go and see the toppings first.
Hu Qiongfang was secretly shocked.
Sure enough, my daughter was right again. City people are more particular than country people. Before eating in a restaurant, they will check whether the food is hygienic or not.
Then he was picking on the wrong person.
Hu Qiongfang could swear on the signboard of her own restaurant that, looking around the entire Shuangfeng Town, there was probably no restaurant that could be as clean as theirs.
Even in a state-owned restaurant, the dishes are not washed as cleanly as those in their home.
Hu Qiongfang and Jiang Tian had a meal at a state-owned restaurant in town. They knew that the waiters with iron rice bowls were more lazy than each other. They even used loofahs to scrub dishes? Don't dream. They just rinsed the dishes in a basin and took them out. If there were no rice grains in the bowl, they would consider it clean.
Anyway, they eat with their own lunch boxes, so they don't use these dirty bowls and chopsticks. Even if they get sick after eating, it won't be them, so what is there to be afraid of?
But it’s different for private restaurant owners like Hu Qiongfang. If their customers get sick from eating, they really have to take responsibility.
In addition, there is Jiang Tian, who was a professional canteen owner in his previous life. His kitchen management level is at least several decades ahead of this era.
Therefore, when the customer followed Hu Qiongfang to the meal window, what he saw was the steaming toppings in the soup pot. The outside of the soup pot was also scrubbed clean, and even the spoon for scooping the toppings was one soup pot and one spoon, so there would be no chance of any smell mixing.
The noodles are freshly made hand-rolled noodles, cut and placed in a long bamboo plate, covered with a piece of clean gauze.
The gauze is only lifted when the noodles are being cooked. The noodles are served as much as the customer requests and the rest is covered back, so that not even a speck of dust can get in.
The dumplings are also placed layer by layer on shallow bamboo plates, which are placed on a wooden rack, and each layer is covered with a layer of gauze.
The sanitary conditions are really good!
Not to mention such a rural place, even the canteen in their unit might not be so meticulous.
The guest, who looked like a cadre, immediately ordered a bowl of noodles with three fresh ingredients.
There are no fresh river shrimps in this season. Even with an oxygen pump, they cannot be kept alive because it is too cold. However, Jiang Tian has a "plug-in".
She asked Han Jisong for help . After collecting the river shrimps from the fishermen in the countryside, she went to Han's house and asked Grandpa Han to help clean and fry them.
The fried river shrimp can be stored for three or four days in this weather. When cooking noodles, put the fried river shrimp in when the noodles are almost out of the pot.
The river shrimps in the three-fresh noodles made in this way can still retain their delicious meat texture as when they were just out of the water. Although they don’t look as good as fresh ones, the fried ones have a different taste.
However, the most outstanding ingredient in this bowl of three-fresh noodles is their smoked fish.
Jiang Tian, this "swindler", even marked the price of a fish according to different parts.
The most expensive one is the smoked fish tail made from a whole fish tail. A single fish tail costs fifty cents, which is more expensive than a bowl of stewed meat noodles.
The smoked fish heads are cheaper, only 20 cents each.
There are only two pieces of smoked fish fillet in a bowl of three-fresh noodles. If you want to have more pieces of smoked fish, you have to pay extra.
The cadre who ordered the meal probably loved the fish tail very much. When he heard that the fish tail had to be paid for separately, he pinched his nose and ordered a smoked fish tail.
If he hadn’t noticed that this shop had more fish tail meat and that the fish were bigger in size, he would have definitely complained about this shady shop!
However, after eating a bowl of three-fresh noodles, the cadre was very satisfied.
He took the money and bought all the smoked fish tails in Hu Qiongfang's store.
Plus ten pounds of smoked fish fillets.
