A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

  Chapter 87 Sky-high menu

  Today is the first day of the restaurant's official opening, and the time is very tight.

  So, after breakfast, the program crew came to the restaurant.

  The live broadcast of today's show is at 8:00 am.

  But as soon as it started broadcasting, millions of viewers poured in.

  Many of them were attracted by watching the slice video last night.

  Wang Tian usually works in the car watching the director. The first part of today's show is to welcome the flying guests.

  Huang Xiaoming accompanied the flying guests to the gate to film the welcome scene, while Li Yi brought Liu Yifei, Zhao Jinmai and Wu Lei to the restaurant first, and began to prepare today's ingredients.

  The pot of vegetarian seafood soup was finished by the staff yesterday.

  So, the first thing Li Yi did when he arrived in the kitchen was to put all the sea vegetables soaked yesterday into the soup pot, and re-boil the vegetable stock.

   Soon, Huang Xiaoming arrived at the restaurant with three flying guests including Zheng Jun.

  Although everyone had met in the morning, it was in private and the audience didn't know.

  In the program, it is the first time for everyone to meet, so we still have to go through the cutscenes that should go.

  However, it was the first time for the three flying guests to see the restaurant built in the imperial dining room, and they were shocked.

  Zheng Jun walked around outside and joked: "You have taken over the emperor's kitchen!"

  After visiting the front hall, Liu Yun entered the kitchen.

  After greeting Li Yi and the others, she looked curiously at the electrical appliances in the kitchen, looking left and right, feeling novelty.

   "Is this refrigerator the kind that can make ice quickly? It's so convenient!"

   "This dishwasher is so big! It feels like all the bowls in our house can't be filled."

  “The water purifier in my home can also set the temperature, but it’s not as convenient.”

   "It's really better to buy this kind of high-speed wall-breaking machine. I want to change the one in my house."

   This is an advertisement placement session arranged for sponsors, but Liu Yun really likes these kitchen appliances.

  Qin Lan stood at the door of the kitchen, looking at everyone with a smile on her face, but she didn't approach the counter.

  There is a box of tofu on the desk, which Li Yi is going to use to prepare dishes.

  When her eyes glanced over the desk, although she concealed it well, she still showed a trace of resistance.

  Li Yi has been observing her, because she is the target of the mission.

  But Li Yi didn't expect that she would have a problem with tofu and would not eat tofu.

   This undoubtedly added a lot of difficulty to the completion of the task.

  However, Li Yi was not too worried. This situation was not a big problem for him.

   After visiting the restaurant with the three flying guests, Huang Xiaoming began to assign tasks to them: "Come today, you are guests, but you still have to do the work you should do."

   "We ran all the way here together, and still have to help with work?"

   Zheng Jun made a joke with a smile.

   "Not for nothing, just take care of the food."

  Huang Xiaoming smiled and said, "Brother Zheng Jun, do you want to be in the front hall or the back hall?"

   "Can I bask in the sun in the yard?"

   Zheng Jun looked at the deck chairs in the yard.

   "When you're done with work, you can lie down for as long as you want."

   Zheng Jun was joking. After looking away, he said casually: "I'll be in the back hall! Do some hard work, I don't want to talk too much."

   "Okay then, Li Yi, if you need help, just ask Teacher Zheng Jun!"

  Huang Xiaoming immediately looked at the others: "Then Yi Fei and Qin Lan greet guests in the front hall and clean up. Sister Liu Yun, you are in charge of delivering the dishes. Mai Mai, Xiao Lei and Zheng Jun are helping in the back kitchen. What do you think?"

"Can."

  Everyone nodded in agreement.

  But Li Yi suddenly said, "Can I change people?"

  Everyone was taken aback and looked at Huang Xiaoming.

  Huang Xiaoming nodded: "Tell me, it depends on your needs, as long as you can come over if you are busy."

   "Let Sister Liu Yun be in the front hall! Qin Lan passes the dishes."

  Li Yi explained: "Cleaning the table in the front hall and cleaning up kitchen waste in the back kitchen will inevitably come into contact with ingredients, such as tofu, but when passing dishes, just use the tray, so I think it may be better."

  He didn't explain that Qin Lan had a psychological shadow on tofu. This was her personal privacy, and it was not good to say it in front of the show.

  But after everyone heard it, they all understood that he was thinking about Qin Lan.

   "I think so."

  Huang Xiaoming looked at Qin Lan and asked her, "What do you think?"

"I have no opinion."

  Qin Lan nodded and glanced at Li Yi, a little surprised.

   I didn't expect Li Yi to be so caring.

  Li Yi's expression was as usual, and he did not reveal his true intentions.

  Seeing that everyone has accepted the division of labor, Huang Xiaoming announced: "Then let's do this first, let's try to start business before ten o'clock, okay? Come on!"

  After listening to him, everyone started to get busy.

  The preparations for the back kitchen were almost ready, Li Yi called and asked where the errands were.

  He has already discussed with the owner of the farmer's market, he can call to help him with the dishes, and then let the city run errands to bring them over.

  Busy time always passed quickly, and it was ten o'clock in the morning in a short while, and the preparations for the restaurant were almost done.

  Thus, Huang Xiaoming led everyone to open the door of the restaurant and officially opened for business.

  As the gate opened, Wu Lei pulled a string of blown balloons through a ring one by one, and then they were squeezed, forming a series of crackling sounds.

  This is an eco-friendly salute, only noise and rubber shards, no open flame hazard.

  Facing the huge number of tourists in the Forbidden City, the restaurant did not have much preparation time, and many customers flooded in as soon as it opened.

  Everyone was very interested in the recording of the program, and they came in to visit one after another, and some of them planned to order something to try.

  But after seeing the restaurant's menu, all the customers' faces changed, and they left the restaurant with strange expressions.

   As a result, the customers came in quickly and went out quickly, like a gust of wind blowing, and soon, the restaurant was deserted.

  For this phenomenon, the store manager Huang Xiaoming and the chef Li Yi both expected it, because they set the menu.

  However, in order to answer the doubts of the audience, the cameraman still came to the menu and gave a close-up of the menu.

  When they saw the price marked on the menu, the audience in the live broadcast room exploded instantly as if their butts had been smashed by firecrackers.

   "Holy shit! The cheapest fried rice with soy sauce costs 188 per serving? Why don't you grab it?"

   "Tai Chi Fushou Soup 1688? Are you kidding me? A bowl of soup costs more than 1,600 yuan?"

   "Jixiang Nafu 6888, I'm sorry to bother you, but I don't deserve it."

   "Good guy! None of the nine hot dishes is below four figures. This is really for the emperor!"

   "Is this the legendary sky-high price menu?"

Seeing the doubts from the audience, Li Yi didn't say anything. Instead, Huang Xiaoming explained sincerely: "I calculated this price based on the amount of raw materials used. In fact, I really can't make much money. It's only a little higher than the cost price. The extra point is also to make up an auspicious number.

Fried rice with soy sauce actually loses money, because the rice used is very expensive. It costs two thousand yuan per catty, and one catty of rice can only steam two catties of rice. 300 yuan, not including soy sauce and Li Yi's technical labor.

  The other dishes are similar. The ingredients we use are the best, real ingredients, and you can see that this is really the cost price. I didn’t lie to you. "

  But after listening to his explanation, the audience still didn't buy it, and the screen was full of ridicule.

  (end of this chapter)