Setting Up Stalls – Chapter 189

Braised Abalone in its Original Shell¹

Su Ruixi first took a moment to admire the Braised Abalone in its Original Shell made by Sun Miao. The dishes Sun Miao made have always had a very high appearance value, it was just that the one-time-use meal box limited the presentation. Fortunately she remembered that this time she was making a single dish, so even the meal box she chose was a large bowl-style meal box, the kind generally used in shopping malls to hold sour vegetable fish².

Although the selling price of this Braised Abalone in its Original Shell was the same as the lion’s head, the cost of the raw materials had gone up.

The Braised Abalone in its Original Shell, just lay there quietly quietly in the one-time-use meal box.

The entire body of the meal box was white, and the outermost perimeter of the interior was encircled by a ring of jade-green colored green vegetable hearts, while in the very center was the inverted abalone and fire leg. Observing its exterior, one could only see fire-red colored fire leg meat arranged neatly, and intermittently one could see the white abalone meat from within.

A spoonful of sticky thick, golden-yellow yet partially transparent thick soup juice landed on the meat, and when the light hit it, it only made the entire dish appear crystal clear and translucent.

Moreover, a flavor drilled one thread one strand into Su Ruixi’s nasal cavity, making her unable to resist swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

Good-tasting abalone when smelled will have a faint sea water taste, and a slightly fresh and salty sea fishy taste, Su Ruixi indistinctly did indeed smell it, a person like her who disliked smells so much, actually did not find this smell unpleasant. Because this scent was indistinct, and there was also that clear fragrance of the green vegetable, the savory deliciousness of the soup juice lingering in the air.

These few flavors, were like willow catkins³ tangled in the air, fused into one piece, and would follow the wind, not knowing where they would fly.

Smell can stimulate a person’s craving more easily than appearance, even if Su Ruixi turned her head away, it was somewhat difficult to block that smell from entering her nasal cavity, tempting her. Su Ruixi sighed a breath of air: “Miaomiao, you should quickly put the lid on, don’t tempt me here.” After she finished saying this sentence, she went out the door first.

Su Ruixi called the butler over, and together with Sun Miao took the things for setting up the stall, and went downstairs.

When they came back yesterday Sun Miao had already scouted out the location, finding the window on the first floor directly opposite the second road lamp. After Sun Miao set up the stall, she really couldn’t hold back, and directly asked for a portion, brought it into the main hall, and then asked the hotel for a bowl of rice.

This time she truly had no mind to manage Sun Miao, the sky is big and the earth is vast⁴, the lunch in front of her was the most important thing.

Her favorite was still the green vegetable, Sun Miao had even specially kept only the innermost green vegetable hearts, this made Su Ruixi unable to wait, directly taking her chopsticks and advancing towards the green vegetable hearts. The green vegetable heart was lifted from the large white plate, and light yellow soup juice was still dripping down from it. Following Su Ruixi’s action of placing it into her bowl, it landed on the rice along with the green vegetable heart.

The pale golden soup juice also entered the bowl, dyeing the pure white rice with a layer of glistening color.

Su Ruixi held the bowl in one hand, and held the chopsticks in the other, and bit into the green vegetable heart. The green vegetable hearts Sun Miao made, that was without question, softly cooked and crisp coexisted, ordinarily even when simply stir-fried, they were extremely delicious. Now being soaked in the abalone soup juice, the flavor rose several degrees with a whoosh whoosh whoosh.

The clear sweetness of the green vegetable and the savory deliciousness of the abalone soup juice fused together, making Su Ruixi finish eating one green vegetable heart with three downs and five divided by two⁵. Looking at the rice stained with the soup juice, Su Ruixi also smoothly sent it into her mouth.

During this period Su Ruixi truly felt that this establishment’s rice was quite average, the type of rice used was acceptable, but the electric rice cooker and the cooking technique were not very good, anyway Su Ruixi could pick out many problems. But after adding this bit of soup juice, it changed. The unremarkable rice absorbed the soup juice, the outside seemed to be coated in a golden-yellow layer, when eaten in the mouth, it was also full-bodied, moist, making one want to eat three big bowls in one breath.

However Su Ruixi was very reserved, because she knew, the heavy head play⁶ was still to come. This abalone and fire leg, used the most effort.

Su Ruixi extended her chopsticks, and naturally picked out a piece of the outermost fire leg. The quality of the fire leg was alright, it was the Jinhua fire leg⁷ that Sun Miao had first tried herself in the market. After being steamed together with the abalone, it also carried a bit of the abalone’s flavor. In the instant it entered the mouth, the salty and savory flavor directly rushed into the oral cavity.

After she swallowed it, she looked forward to the abalone meat even more.

Just the store-bought fire leg was this delicious, Sun Miao spent great effort to prepare the abalone, would definitely be even more savory and delicious!

Because she had lifted off a slice of fire leg, the abalone meat underneath was also revealed a little, Su Ruixi followed the momentum and picked up a slice of abalone meat. The abalone meat was more elastic than the fire leg, after the fire leg had fully absorbed the soup juice, it had just been hanging down naturally on the chopsticks. But the abalone meat was not, its two sides sighed slightly, showing that it was not the same as the fire leg.

The white abalone slice had the slight brown of the skirt edge on one side, and golden-yellow soup juice was slowly falling down. Su Ruixi picked up her bowl, to catch it a bit, to prevent the soup juice from falling on the table.

After observing for a while, Su Ruixi sent it into her mouth.

Her two eyes, suddenly became much brighter. This bite of abalone, she didn’t even know how to describe it. The abalone meat was Q elastic, and also had a bit of tenacious strength, but it was also easy to bite through, with one bite, the abalone meat even bounced against her tooth bed.

After the mouthfeel, what was experienced was the flavor of the abalone. The first thing felt was still the flavor of the soup juice, carrying a clear sweetness and a unique savory taste, it dashed left and crashed right in her oral cavity. But what followed, was the unique deliciousness of the abalone. What was out of Su Ruixi’s expectation was, the flavor of this abalone, was unexpectedly fresh and clean.

Yes, fresh and clean, that such a word could actually be used for food.

But as Su Ruixi chewed further, the flavor of the abalone became more and more distinct.

If when eating the sea oyster fried pancake before, what flashed through Su Ruixi’s mind was leaning against the railing at Huilan Pavilion feeling the sea breeze, then at this moment, what she saw was the surging tide under the coast repeatedly striking the shore. A sea of fierce wind and sudden waves⁸, pounced towards her face.

One bite down, Su Ruixi completely couldn’t stop, the abalone meat along with the white rice, made her quickly finish a bowl of rice. One bowl wasn’t enough, Su Ruixi again had the server help her add another bowl. By the time two bowls of rice were in her stomach, Su Ruixi was shocked to realize that the Braised Abalone in its Original Shell in front of her had already been eaten completely clean.

At this point, she couldn’t help but let out a full burp.

Little did she know, the way Su Ruixi looked so satisfied while eating after Sun Miao, had also become Sun Miao’s living signboard. At the very beginning, Sun Miao’s small stall was indeed one where no person asks for the ferry crossing⁹, she had even put up a small blackboard sign, on which was written the things being sold and the prices, most people saw the price and just shook their heads and left.

A small number of people would inquire a bit, asking Sun Miao if it was takeout from the hotel behind her, after being denied by Sun Miao, they also lost their intention to buy.

After a little while, a hotel guest returned, originally just passing by directly, but unintentionally saw through the window behind Sun Miao, that there was a person there feasting with great gusto. A great beauty was eating there, and even revealing such an expression of enjoyment, after noticing it was very hard to look away.

Because of the line of sight of the customer in front of her, Sun Miao also turned her head back, and saw the scene of Su Ruixi eating the Braised Abalone in its Original Shell while fiercely shoveling rice there. When the customer inquired: “Is this what this beautiful woman is eating? It looks so delicious……” Sun Miao then nodded in response, that smile was big, and she looked a little bit proud: “Yes.”

Whose family’s great beauty is this, with the expression of a top-tier eating broadcast¹⁰ host, aiya, she’s from my own family ah.

Also because of this living signboard Su Ruixi, Sun Miao’s Braised Abalone in its Original Shell finally sold, selling two portions directly. The customers were already staying in the hotel, after taking the packed food, they entered the hotel just like Su Ruixi, found a place to sit down near Sun Miao’s stall, and intended to enjoy the delicious food with their hearts.

Not eating you wouldn’t know, one taste and it was a shock, no one could escape the law of “really fragrant”¹¹ after eating Sun Miao’s food, and they also understood why the great beauty could reveal such a satisfied expression: it was really too delicious! 588, the one who profited was oneself!

The movable-type signboards became more numerous, the Braised Abalone in its Original Shell also started selling faster, in the blink of an eye 5 portions were sold, plus Su Ruixi’s, there were only four portions left in front of her. After Su Ruixi finished eating, she asked for a glass of lemonade, drank a little, then asked for another glass, and carried it out to find Sun Miao.

She gave the lemonade to Sun Miao, letting her drink a little, and also said: “Why don’t you go inside and sit for a while to eat lunch? I’ll sell for a bit, you haven’t eaten your lunch yet.”

Sun Miao shook her head: “I’m not hungry, and there are only a few portions left, I’ll go in and eat after they’re sold out in a bit.” Actually Sun Miao was still a bit worried, if Su Ruixi helped her sell, would the system recognize it, if the system didn’t recognize it……then she would have to make them all over again and sell them all over again.

In order to prevent such a thing from happening, Sun Miao still decided it was better to sell them all herself.

After selling five portions, the remaining ones were a bit hard to move, mainly because the biggest movable-type signboard Su Ruixi had already finished eating, she was sitting on the small stool Sun Miao had prepared, propping up her head and watching Sun Miao there. There were actually quite a few people who came to ask, the main question was still “is this takeout from this hotel”, after getting the result, they all shook their heads and chose to leave.

After the inquiring people left, Su Ruixi then said: “They have eyes but do not recognize Mount Tai¹², for this level of Braised Abalone in its Original Shell, they should be thankful for their good luck today to be able to eat it for 588.”

Su Ruixi was sometimes quite incapable of speaking tactfully, but she was willing to suppress herself for Sun Miao’s sake, waiting until the people left before making a squeak. Sun Miao smiled, and turned to chat with her, diverting Su Ruixi’s attention.

Not long after, Sun Miao unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance.

It was Yuan Xiangyi, the other party also didn’t expect it to be such a coincidence. She looked at Sun Miao and Su Ruixi, and finally let her gaze fall on the small stall in front of Sun Miao: “Little Boss Sun, you really……do not forget your original heart¹³.” Sun Miao and Su Ruixi were clearly out to have fun, but ended up here, still not forgetting her great duty of setting up a stall, this kind of spirit……is really quite worthy of being learned from.

Su Ruixi didn’t really like Yuan Xiangyi, but this sentence she said really struck a chord in Su Ruixi’s heart, she also followed her gaze to look at Sun Miao, that gaze was clearly one of reproach: You see, it’s not just me who has this reaction.

Sun Miao was at a loss, and could only laugh it off, and at the same time ask Yuan Xiangyi: “Would you like a portion?”

Yuan Xiangyi first asked: “Is it made by Little Boss Sun herself? Is this Braised Abalone in its Original Shell? Little Boss Sun also knows Lu cuisine?”

This was the first one, to ask if Sun Miao made it herself, instead of asking if it was the hotel’s takeout. Sun Miao nodded her head: “En, I made it this morning, I only know how to make this one.”

She wasn’t lying, she only knew how to make this one Lu cuisine dish, and she had just learned it this morning.

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