Chapter 251 (1/2)
Chapter 251: Surprising Price
The tremella was very beautiful. The first one that Yuan Z hou picked looked like a peony. It was plump and tender with its color milky white and besides, was pretty and glossy. The whole petal-like part was tottering in Yuan Zhou’s hands.
The tremella that Yuan Zhou picked for his own use didn’t have any connective tissue. Once it was washed clean, it could be used directly.
Therefore, Yuan Zhou couldn’t wait to soak and clean it and then carefully wash the impurities away. Only after that did he get down to the preparations of the dish.
Different from other ingredients, the tremella couldn’t be cut by knives. He could only tear it down with his hands. Only in that way could the tremella be separated as per its intrinsic textures and would greatly enhance the taste of the dish.
A little while later, Yuan Zhou prepared a plate of tremella salad and also cooked a bowl of Clear Broth Noodle Soup to match the dish for his breakfast.
The tremella salad was served on a dark green plate. The spiral laces around the edges of the plate made the tremella look quite beautiful.
This time, Yuan Zhou only put the royal jelly and tremella in the salad. Therefore, it gave people a feeling that the dish consisted merely of some milky white tremella and white and transparent cement-like taffy.
A salad naturally wouldn’t have much fragrance. But when Yuan Zhou approached the plate, he could smell the scent of the pear blossom with a slight hint of tremella.
“There’s definitely no problem.” Yuan Zhou picked some tremella with the chopsticks and started to eat it confidently.
A fresh and brisk texture with slight softness and a delicate fragrance rushed into his mouth cavity in an instant. The slight spiciness of the royal jelly brought about a layered flavor to the bland tremella while the sour was perfectly mixed with the intrinsic bland taste of tremella.
“Perfect match,” Yuan Zhou gulped down a mouthful of the tremella salad and said with satisfaction.
“I indeed have talent in regards to culinary skills.” While eating the Clear Broth Noodle Soup along with the tremella salad, Yuan Zhou let out a sigh with emotion.
After the meal, Yuan Zhou’s bowl was exactly the same as that of other customers. It was so clean that he could even see his reflection with it.
“System, what’s the price of this dish?” Asked Yuan Zhou on his own initiative.
His limited level didn’t allow him to set the price by himself.
The system displayed, “The dish belongs to the reward of the system, so I won’t participate in setting the price. Nor will I share the income.”
“What the hell! Did I get up the wrong way or lose my eyesight?” Yuan Zhou stood up from his position immediately and murmured incredibly.
Having checked the contents carefully for quite a few times, Yuan Zhou finally confirmed the system indeed said that it wouldn’t share the income. To a money-grubber like Yuan Zhou, such a matter was truly more important than anything else.
“It’s the first time I set the price. I think a superior dish such as this deserves a good price.” Yuan Zhou muttered to himself while stroking his forehead and looking at the clean bowl.
After quite a while, Yuan Zhou found that he really wasn’t clear about the market price of the dish. After all, as a man, he seldom bought tremella to make soup.
While thinking, he took up the phone and suddenly caught sight of a random-number generator APP that could provide a number randomly by shaking.
“Let me use this one to decide.” Yuan Zhou almost gave himself a thumbs-up gesture for his cleverness.
He turned on the APP and directly began to shake it for a number. Good fortune did visit Yuan Zhou. He got a very good number, which matched his to-be position of the Primary Master Chef.
Therefore, Yuan Zhou prepared a small paper as large as a piece of dried tofu and pasted it on the menu. The location of the paper was selected skillfully, by the edge of a lotus flower.
“It’s really a nice position,” having pasted it well, Yuan Zhou said contentedly.
After solving the problem, Yuan Zhou let out a sigh of relief. It was still early and not suitable to exercise immediately. Having thought for a while, Yuan Zhou continued to study how to make the honey tremella.
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Time is like the sand in one’s hand. The tighter you hold, the easier it goes away.
For the whole morning, Zhou Jia failed in noticing the small paper pasted by Yuan Zhou. Many visitors were basically regular customers. Even if some were not, they had at least been here for one or two times. However, none of them discovered the new dish developed by Yuan Zhou.
Yuan Zhou, likewise, wasn’t prepared to remind them.
Zhou Jia inquired Yuan Zhou with a caring tone when she saw the dish of Phoenix-Tail Prawns still marked with “unavailable” during the lunch time.
“Boss, hasn’t your wound recovered yet?” Zhou Jia asked with concern.
“Temporarily, no.” Yuan Zhou nodded the head.