Chapter 135 (1/2)
Chapter 135: Method of Completing the Mission
When the customers spoke highly of Boss Yuan’s craftsmanship, Mu Xiaoyun also felt honored.
“Boss, why don’t you sculpt some more flowers to put at the entrance?” When she found there was no business in the restaurant at the moment, Mu Xiaoyun said on her own initiative.
“What for?” Yuan Zhou was a little curious. He thought she came up with the same idea as his.
“Because they are beautiful,” Mu Xiaoyun said naturally.
“What do you say if every customer can take one away after their meal?” That’s right. Boss Yuan’s good idea was just to gift the customers the sculpted flowers that were alike to real ones, in order to draw attention of some of them.
“To take it away like what I did?” Mu Xiaoyun thought for an instant and asked.
“Yes,” Yuan Zhou nodded.
“But why do you want to do so?” Mu Xiaoyun said earnestly.
“Because they are beautiful,” Yuan Zhou hesitated for an instant and said with natural expression.
“But I feel we are at a disadvantage if we gift them for free,” Mu Xiaoyun tilted her head and took a look at the several remaining flowers.
“Got it.” After thinking for a while, Yuan Zhou felt that he was indeed at a disadvantage by doing so much extra work. However, business mattered first.
The current key point was how to gift the benefits without leaving a trace.
After all, Yuan Zhou was quite aloof.
“So do we send it or not?” Mu Xiaoyun looked at Yuan Zhou and asked seriously.
“It depends,” Yuan Zhou was still considering and thus answer casually.
The moment Mu Xiaoyun wanted to ask something, they were interrupted by a customer who had just entered the restaurant.
“I heard this 100 Styles of Rice Cuisine can be done in 100 ways as long as the main ingredient is rice. Is it true?” a handsome and cultured man wearing westernized suit and rimless glasses asked mildly.
“Yes, exactly. What do you want to eat, sir?” Mu Xiaoyun went up and greeted him warmly.
“Could I order Soy Sauce Fried Rice?” the man said gently with a nice attitude.
Having looked back at Yuan Zhou and saw him nod, she said with a smile, “No problem. Wait a moment, please.”
“Please don’t put green onions inside. Thank you,” the man added before sitting down quietly.
“There’s no green onion,” Yuan Zhou said while he was wearing the mask.
“Thank you, boss,” the man nodded with a mild expression.
He was way too naive. Even an expensive Clear Broth Noodle Soup dish had no green onions inside, let alone a bowl of Soy Sauce Fried Rice.
“Humm,” Yuan Zhou answered and then started to prepare.
This time, Yuan Zhou directly used Xiangshui Rice, the one used specifically for Egg Fried Rice, yet with a different cooking method.
He scooped up one bowl of plain white rice and got it loosened to the extent that every rice grain was basically separated. Afterward, he moved the rice onto a bamboo sieve to dry in the air and began to prepare other ingredients.
Yuan Zhou took out from the cabinet a small bowl of lard, which was soft and exquisite and as white as the agar before putting it on the cooking range for standby.
Then, all the ingredients required by the Soy Sauce Fried Rice were readily prepared. Usually, a chef would stir and mix the soy sauce in the rice beforehand to guarantee that the color of the cooked dish would be uniform thus looking good when cooking this dish.
Yuan Zhou, nevertheless, didn’t do it this way.
Neither the rice nor the soy sauce was of the meat category, so he needed to use lard to stir and mix it together. The white lard that he had just taken out was the leaf fat of pigs.
He melted the leaf fat in the wok. Having been well processed beforehand, the leaf fat didn’t have any peculiar odor. Therefore, it was directly poured into the rice after being melted, as the hot wok and cool oil made it easier to cook the rice.
The soy sauce used by Yuan Zhou was extremely different. The sign pasted on the bottle of the soy sauce indicated it was “Qiu You”. Yuan Zhou didn’t understand what it was at first and only got to know it after asking the system.