Food starts with noodles

Xu Zhuo tried his best to satisfy all kinds of weird requests.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the customers in the store gradually dispersed, and Xu Zhuo could finally be quiet for a while.

At noon today, I sold more than 30 bowls of hand-rolled noodles, plus drinks, beer and side dishes, and I charged almost 500 yuan in the morning.

The highest income in half a year.

Xu Zhuo even hoped that the broken water pipe should be connected two days later so that he could earn more money.

After counting the income, Xu Zhuo calmed down, it was time to check the progress bar.

With so many guests today, the task should have been completed early in the morning.

It seems that you didn't hear the notification tone just now, did you ignore it because you were too busy?

Xu Zhuo was dumbfounded when he opened the system panel.

"Mission 2 progress: 10/[-], please make persistent efforts, the host."

Holy crap, after working for so long, only two people think it's delicious.

Could it be that the community without water is the family home of the Bite of the Tongue crew?

He clicked on the number 2 displayed on the progress bar, and two names suddenly appeared: Yu Keke and Sun Panpan.

Xu Zhuo recalled it for a long time. Finally, he opened WeChat and looked at the two newly added high school girls, and finally he matched the numbers.

The two co-authors didn't think the noodles were delicious, but they just praised Xu Zhuo because he was handsome.

Xu Zhuo was a little frustrated. He didn't expect that he had a bad start. The task he thought could be done casually turned out to be so difficult.

No. 40 people can't eat here this morning. When the water pipe is repaired, there will only be [-] or [-] diners a day.

At that time, it will be even more difficult to complete task one.

Sighing, Xu Zhuo began to clean up, put away all the beverage bottles and beer bottles, threw the used tissues into the trash can, and put them in the trash can outside later.

There are also disposable chopsticks, paper cups, etc., all cleaned up.

Just after mopping the ground, several men dressed as migrant workers walked to the door, looking at the clean and clean ground, hesitant.

"Hey, I just finished mopping the floor, why don't we change to another one, it will be dirty."

"The only noodle shop nearby is still open, why don't we take off our shoes?"

"How about this, let my brother move two tables out, let's eat outside... Brother, do you still have noodles? We just finished our work, so we didn't make it in time for dinner..."

Xu Zhuo smiled at them: "Come in, the city management won't let you set up tables outside."

Several migrant workers were a little embarrassed.

They had just finished repairing a broken water pipe, and there was mud all over the shoes, which would have made the ground dirty to get in.

Finally, they found some newspapers on the floor in Li Sifu's store nearby, and when they walked in, a dozen or so people crowded in front of the two small tables at the door.

A somewhat bald uncle seemed to be their leader, and said to Xu Zhuo, "Brother, each of us has a big bowl of noodles, a bottle of beer, and two small dishes for each table. Well, we don't pay attention to people, taste It’s good or bad, but the appetite is big, so try to be as affordable as possible, I’m afraid I won’t be full, and there’s no biscuit stand around here..."

Now the whole street, except Sifang Pavilion, has been moved away.

Xu Zhuo brought four large plates for making sweet and sour fish from the back kitchen, and filled them with four full plates of cold dishes from the cold dish cabinet, almost killing half of the stock in the store.

After serving them, they were all shocked: "This is too much, little brother, what do you want us to say..."

Xu Zhuo brought them beer and disposable glasses from the freezer: "You drink first, I'll cook noodles for you."

Then, bowls of hand-rolled noodles that almost fell off the top came out from the back kitchen. In order to make them eat well, Xu Zhuo also brought them several heads of garlic.

"Everyone, what's missing and what to talk about, we have everything here."

The uncle who took the lead expressed gratitude: "Thank you, brother, this is too affordable."

After finishing speaking, he whispered to a few people next to him: "We are lucky, and we met a good person again, so hurry up and eat, a water pipe was dug up on the North Ring Road, we have to hurry there later, and we can't delay people's dinner at home ..."

After finishing speaking, they took the bowls and started to eat noodles sporadically.

Xu Zhuo turned around and was about to go to the kitchen to help them serve some noodle soup, when a prompt sounded in his mind.

"Congratulations to the host for perfectly completing the novice task one. The Sifang Pavilion won the praise of the workers and acquired the skill-kneading dough specialization."

"I hope the host will continue to work hard and complete the novice task as soon as possible."

I really didn't have any precautions at all. The task one that was still a headache just now was completed like this?

Xu Zhuo went to the back kitchen and opened the panel.

Task progress: 12/10, completed.

Task time: 5 hours.

Task evaluation: perfect.

Chapter 003 Making Braised Noodles

Xu Zhuo was a little surprised, not only because the task was completed so quickly, but also because the migrant workers outside just ate noodles, they didn't say a word at all, they just ate with their heads down.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhuo suddenly understood.

The so-called flattery in the task must be from the heart, right?

Fortunately, he didn't find a group of acquaintances to come to the store to brag about business.

Otherwise, you will die of embarrassment.

After serving a bowl of noodle soup to each of the migrant workers outside, Xu Zhuo went back to the back kitchen to study how to use the so-called specialized skill of kneading noodles.

The noodles made in the morning have been used up, Xu Zhuo plans to make some more noodles while he is free, and see if there is any difference when kneading the noodles.

After washing his hands, Xu Zhuo brought a washbasin and filled it with about seven or eight catties of high-gluten flour.

Then bring cold boiled water, sprinkle some salt in it, and stir to melt.

Then stir the flour with chopsticks, and pour water into the flour in small amounts.

When all the flour in the basin has become snowflake noodles, start kneading.

In no time, a smooth, non-sticky dough is kneaded.

Xu Zhuo covered the noodles with a damp cloth and started to wake up. He came out by the way to see if the dozen or so migrant workers had eaten well.

They were drinking soup at the moment, and when they saw Xu Zhuo coming out, they immediately gave a thumbs up: "Brother's cooking skills are really good, I've never eaten such delicious noodles, and they're also so affordable."

"Calculate the total amount for us. We have to go to the North Ring."

Ten bowls of noodles, ten bottles of beer, and four small dishes.

Xu Zhuo took one hundred and five, and the group of uncles happily paid.

They cleaned up the newspapers on the ground, and then walked to the bus stop with tools.

While walking, we discussed how delicious the hand-rolled noodles we just ate were.

After Xu Zhuo watched them leave, he cleaned up the dishes on the table.

Put all the noodle bowls into the sink, pour in the detergent, and start washing the dishes.

While washing the dishes, Xu Zhuo was thinking, if the business was like today, he would have to hire two people again.

He's so busy, it's really a bit overwhelming.

After washing, Xu Zhuo looked at the time. The dough had been awake for almost half an hour, so he started to knead the dough.

In fact, hand-rolled noodles do not need to be kneaded, because the main thing is to roll.

But now Xu Zhuo's noodle rolling expertise has not yet been obtained, so he can only try to increase the texture by kneading the noodles.

When his hands touched the dough, Xu Zhuo suddenly had a lot of kneading skills in his mind.

Pressing, kneading, pushing, pressing, throwing and other methods all came to mind.

Xu Zhuo, who was kneading the dough, had an idea. If kneading continues like this, can it be made into other noodles?

He immediately thought of braised noodles.

The dough pieces of braised noodles are mainly completed by kneading and resting the noodles.

The so-called three-kneading and three-awakening is an indispensable link in the process of making stewed noodles.

When kneading and waking up just now, Xu Zhuo is now starting the second kneading step.

Knead the dough first, then separate the dough after kneading, knead into long strips, and then proceed to the most important step.

Grease.

In the process of making stewed noodles and hand-rolled noodles, the biggest difference is that stewed noodles must be oiled.

Only when the oil is applied, the stewed noodles will be more chewy and not easy to break.

Spread the good peanut oil evenly on the kneaded strips, and then use a knife to cut into noodles of the same size.

The standard dough piece is two taels, Xu Zhuo took one and weighed it after cutting it, it was exactly two taels, no more, no less.

Grandpa told Xu Zhuo since he was a child that a good cook has eyes like a ruler and hands like a scale.

He didn't know what it meant before, but now with the blessing of the system, Xu Zhuo finally understood it.

Roll the dough on the chopping board to form small cylinders one by one, Xu Zhuo took the tray and greased the tray.

The twisted small cylinders are placed on the tray one by one, covered with plastic wrap, and the second awakening begins.

Still needing to wait for half an hour, Xu Zhuo had nothing to do. He washed his hands and took his mobile phone to search the Internet for how to make stewed noodles and how to make bone broth.

The hand-rolled noodles handed down in the family can basically be called hand-rolled stewed noodles, because whether it is Xu Zhuo's grandfather or his father, hand-rolled noodles have always been made by rolling noodles and stewing stewed noodles, and they have never made other forms.

Fortunately, there was only Xu Zhuo in the shop, otherwise the elders would definitely beat him if he blatantly changed his career to making stewed noodles.

The older you get, the more you care about things like inheritance.

But now Xu Zhuo only cares about completing the remaining two novice tasks.

Then look at the origin of this dog system.

There are many practices that can be found on the Internet, but they are basically family practices. Xu Zhuo also read some interviews in restaurants, but they are all posed and irrelevant.

For example, when making bone broth, people usually say what ingredients to add and how long to cook, but no one has ever said anything about the ratio of ingredients.

These commercial secrets are difficult to find online.

Half an hour later, Xu Zhuo put down his phone, washed his hands again, and prepared to rub his hands three times.

The little cylinders on the tray have absorbed the fat and become softer and more sinewy.

Knead the small cylinders one by one, then press the long strips, put them on for a while to wake up, Xu Zhuo started to do the last step.

Using an oiled rolling pin, roll out the pressed strips into rectangular dough pieces.

This kind of noodle is the common braised noodle.

Braised noodles are used in the last part of pulling noodles when eating hot pot.

Xu Zhuo put oil on each of the sheets and stacked them together, [-] sheets in a stack, wrapped them in plastic wrap and put them in the freezer of the refrigerator.

When using it, you just need to take it out, stretch the dough, tear it into wide noodles and cook it in bone broth, which is much faster than making hand-rolled noodles.

Xu Zhuo believed that if there were still more than 30 diners in the afternoon, he would never be as busy as he was in the morning.

He doesn't even sweat at all.

Stewed noodles can be popularized in the catering industry precisely because stewed noodles are more efficient.

Looking at the streets in the north, there are almost one braised noodle shop next to each other. Although there are also hand-rolled noodles, most of them are pretending to use machine-made noodles bought by noodle shops.

Of course, for family meals, hand-rolled noodles are more popular.

Xu Zhuo, a child in the south, doesn't know much about it, but most of the children in the north have a bowl of hand-rolled noodles made by their mothers in their memories.

Just as Xu Zhuo was about to take a breath after finishing all this work, the notification sound of the dog system sounded again.

"Congratulations to the host for being able to comprehend by analogy and successfully making stewed noodles. Special reward skill-bone soup cooking."

"I hope the host will work harder to make more and better delicacies."

Xu Zhuo was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect the dog system to be so generous, to throw out the bone broth.