mesbooks Chapter 273: Zhiwei Restaurant Opens
Chapter 273: Zhiwei Restaurant Opens
Liu Ying arrived with her family, and when she saw Lin Jiaojiao standing at the door, she walked quickly towards her.
Lin Jiaojiao heard the voice and went over to greet them with a smile.
"Long time no see, Sister Liu. Xiuxiu is getting cuter and cuter."
Liu Xiuxiu held Liu Ying's hand and raised her chubby little face when she heard Lin Jiaojiao praising her for being cute.
"Sister Jiaojiao is really good at seeing things. I think so too, but mom thinks I'm fat and won't let me eat."
When Liu Ying heard her say this, his face turned red and he scolded her in a low voice.
"What are you talking about, kid? What do you mean by not giving you food? That's called controlling your diet!"
Liu Xiuxiu didn't buy it and pouted: "Hmph, I'm going to move to my grandma's house when she comes back."
Lin Jiaojiao looked at them awkwardly. Liu Xiuxiu was indeed a little fat now, but children were chubby and looked very cute. Unexpectedly, this led to a dispute between mother and daughter. Seeing that Liu Ying's suppressed anger was about to explode, she hurried to come to the rescue.
"Alright, alright. Lin Fei and the others are playing upstairs. Xiu Xiu, go play with them."
Children's tempers come and go quickly. When she heard her friends were upstairs, she immediately let go of her mother's hand and ran upstairs.
When Liu Ying saw her little daughter jumping away, her anger turned into helplessness.
"Oh, sorry to embarrass you. Xiuxiu has been spoiled by her family and has become lawless. Whenever she is not satisfied, she will use her grandmother to pressure me. Sister Lin, you have a lot of ideas. Do you have any good way to discipline her?"
Lin Jiaojiao’s own child hasn’t been born yet, and she has never taken care of a child, so how can she have any experience to talk about?
"How about I wait until my child is born and raise him for a few years so I can gain some experience and tell you?"
Liu Ying listened to her joking words, smiled and punched her on the shoulder.
"Screw you, no kidding. I wish you good business. Let's go up first."
"Okay, okay, you guys go upstairs and sit down and chat and drink some tea."
After she watched Liu Ying and her family go up, another carriage stopped in front of her. She looked carefully and saw that the person getting off the carriage was the shopkeeper Chen from Zuixianlou.
She greeted him with a smile: "Long time no see, Shopkeeper Chen. Welcome, welcome."
Shopkeeper Chen got off the carriage, stood still, and greeted Lin Jiaojiao with a smile.
"Boss Lin, long time no see. Your business is really growing bigger and bigger. Congratulations on your prosperous business."
"Hahaha, Shopkeeper Chen, you're too polite. Please come upstairs."
Shopkeeper Chen smiled and nodded and walked inside. This time she brought her chef with her. She had come to eat at this spicy hot pot restaurant several times since it opened, but this small business could not affect her restaurant's business at all.
But now it’s different. Lin Jiaojiao actually opened a restaurant on the second floor. She had attended Lin Jiaojiao’s wedding and the dishes tasted really good.
When she received the invitation, she immediately wrote to the headquarters. If she didn't take action, she would not be able to open the restaurant.
As a result, there was still no response after she sent the letter, so she had no choice but to bring the chef here to see if he could taste the ingredients and then go back to think about it carefully.
As she was looking at the rockery and flowing water by the wall, an idea suddenly came to her. She immediately turned her head to look at the woman standing quietly behind Lin Jiaojiao. She only took one look at her and immediately turned her head back. She was already sweating coldly on her back. She did not stay at the stairs, but hurriedly went upstairs with the chef.
At this time, the three women who had come to eat hot pot earlier had finished their meal and paid the bill. They stood in front of the counter and saw that the place was already full of people. Fortunately, they came early.
Zhang Tong handed them the packaged roasted chicken and roasted rabbit. "Take it, sir. What do you think of our hot pot? Is the spiciness of the red soup appropriate?"
"It tastes very good, but the red soup is a bit spicy. But it's okay with the oil sauce. What's so spicy about this? I've never seen it before."
Zhang Tong explained: "This is chili pepper, a spice brought back from Fanwai."
"I see, this chili tastes better than wasabi."
After Jiang Mengjie finished speaking, she took two large oil-paper bags. This was something they ordered halfway through their hotpot meal, and it was also one of the dishes ordered by the diners at the table behind them.
Seeing Xiao Er Niang passing by their table with a plate of sizzling roast chicken in her hand, the three of them discussed it and asked Xiao Er Niang to bring the menu over and turn to the page about roast chicken.
A roast chicken cost 288 wen, which was very affordable compared to other restaurants. They were originally planning to order two, but then Xiao Er Niang recommended the roast rabbit. Although it was 70 wen more expensive, they wanted to try something new, so they each ordered one.
The most important thing is that a meal for the three of them plus take-out only cost a little over one or two taels of silver, which is much more cost-effective than what they usually eat in restaurants.
Lin Jiaojiao watched the three people leave. Seeing that they carried two bags of food, she suddenly felt that there were not enough chickens, ducks and rabbits. At this rate, all the chickens, ducks and rabbits on the farm would be eaten up in a month. Although the chicks and ducklings were already hatching, it would take several more months for them to grow.
Well, let’s keep the chickens and ducks on the farm for laying eggs. As for the ones the restaurant needs, let Zhang Tong buy them from the market or surrounding farmers.
After she had greeted the last guest, she followed them upstairs.
The banquet was for hot pot, and the ten tables for eight people were already full. Although the tables were for eight people, there were actually ten people sitting at each table.
This double boiler is also bigger than the one for four people. The four waitresses served the dishes in an orderly manner and soon the table was full of food.
Except for the people on Lin Jiaojiao's side, Fu's mother, Liu Ying and the others, the rest of the people had seen this way of eating for the first time. And looking at the red and clear soups in the pot, as well as these raw dishes, wasn't it the spicy hot pot downstairs?
So this hotpot is just Malatang cooked by yourself?
Seeing that all the dishes had been served, Lin Jiaojiao picked up her small wine glass, stood in the middle and began to speak.
“Thank you all for coming to support the opening of Zhiwei Restaurant. Many of the guests present here today are partners of Zhishi and Zhiwei. The smooth operation and achievements of the restaurant are inseparable from the sincere cooperation and strong support of old friends. For this, I would like to express my sincere gratitude. At the same time, I am also very happy to have the honor of meeting the friends present. Without further ado, cheers to our further cooperation in the future, our growing friendship, and the health and happiness of our relatives and friends!”
After she finished her official speech, she drank the wine in the glass. The women sitting there were moved by her speech and unconsciously picked up the wine glasses on the table, raised them towards her and drank them all.
Seeing that the atmosphere was good, Lin Jiaojiao continued, "This hot pot is indeed similar to the spicy hot pot downstairs, but the taste is definitely much stronger than spicy hot pot, and it also comes with a sauce. Now I will let our staff show you how to add the seasoning for the sauce."
After she finished speaking, she returned to the head table, where all her top business partners sat. Fu's mother was also sitting next to her. Upon seeing her come back, she quickly asked them to start eating. She herself was not polite and picked up the bowl to start mixing the seasonings.
After Fu Mu took the lead, the others followed suit. Lin Jiaojiao and Liu Ying waited until they finished, then they divided the little bit of minced garlic left in the bowl equally between them.
Liu Ying half-jokingly said to everyone: "The hot pot flavor would be half as good without the minced garlic."