Invasion Of Alien Species? That's Not Enough For Us To Eat

Hongxing Night Snack Shop, back kitchen.

"Quick, quick, the last jelly pot, hurry up and send it out!"

Zheng Heqiu took the freshly made eel jelly pot away from the stove and shouted outside.

"Master, this dish of yours is delicious, and the craftsmanship is even better than before."

The disciple next to him smiled and complimented.

Zheng Heqiu picked up a towel and wiped his hands, and said with some pride: "That's right, I started my career with this dish.

Jelly pot, this is his specialty. He is very confident about it.

This is a famous Cantonese dish.

The so-called jelly pot is to put fresh ingredients directly into the extremely hot clay pot for frying.

The casserole has a strong heat storage function, which can instantly cook the surface of the ingredients and quickly lock in moisture.

Add onion, ginger, garlic and various sauces to sauté until fragrant, pour a little rice wine and sauté until fragrant, the aroma is hot, and the taste is extremely crisp and tender.

This method is suitable for many raw materials that are crisp and tender but not easy to get out of water, such as eel, chicken, fish, shelled shrimp, etc.

Because the ingredients are placed in a clay pot (clay pot), after being baked at an extremely high temperature, the soup in the pot will continue to evaporate rapidly and make a "squeaky" sound.

"嗞嗞" in Cantonese is pronounced as "Jiejia", so the locals named it "Jiejiao".

At the beginning, Zheng Heqiu opened his first food stall.

For many years after that, he relied on this dish to attract customers, accumulated funds, and the store grew bigger and bigger. Finally, he opened the current Hongxing Night Snack, which spans Wenchang South Road for more than ten years.

Originally, Zheng Heqiu hadn't cooked this specialty dish himself for a long time.

But now he met Su Yun as his archenemy, he had to go 27 horses again!

"How is the business in the store today?"

Zheng Heqiu asked his apprentice.

Although according to the number of orders, we can know that the business in the store is good. But he still had to ask to feel at ease.

"Master, you go out, so what's the problem?"

"Today's business is dead!"

"It's only been more than an hour now, and the turnover has already exceeded 3,000!"

Seeing the apprentice's thumbs up, Zheng Heqiu pretended to smile indifferently.

He picked up his phone and sent a message to Wei Feng at the Fengling food stall.

"Old Fox Wei, how are you doing?"

After a while, Wei Feng sent him a message back.

"Very nice. It's over 2900 already. Are you done?"

less than mine!

Sure enough, my hard power is stronger!

Zheng Heqiu looked at the information on the phone screen, feeling very proud.

"Come out for a chat?"

He sent a prestige letter to Wei Feng, and after getting a reply, he raised his head and looked at the apprentice next to him, and said, "You guys give it a shot first, I'll go outside to smoke a cigarette and have a rest."

He walked out of the back kitchen and looked around the store.

The guests are already full!

Many people are blowing the heat of the jelly pot and eating carefully.

The entire hall was filled with a strong aroma!

Zheng Heqiu nodded in satisfaction, and looked outside the shop again.

There were more than 30 customers sitting at the door, all of them were waiting for their seats.

Business is really good today!

Zheng Heqiu nodded in satisfaction, raised his feet and walked outside.

As he walked, he noticed something was wrong.

Why are there so many people outside the door?

As if waiting for something.

Over there, like a small shop?

He speeded up and drove out of the store in a few steps.

Then he froze!

At the entrance of Su's shop, there was a long queue!

Roughly counting, there are more than one hundred people!

what's going on?

Why are there so many people queuing?

Zheng Heqiu was shocked!

After being in a daze for a while, he took a puff of cigarette forcefully, and only after being choked a few times did he regain his senses.

He moved his throat and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Why is there such a long queue at the entrance of Su's shop?

Zheng Heqiu walked to the front of the line and looked inside Su's shop.

Overcrowded!

Every chair is full of people!

Every table is filled with food!

Many people wearing plastic gloves, eating supper!

Many people seem to be having a good time, whether it is crayfish, tilapia, or bullfrog, they all grab it with their hands!

The customers were talking loudly, and there was a buzzing sound throughout the store.

The noisy voice filled the whole shop and also reached Zheng Heqiu's mind.

business is so good

It's better than your own store!

what happened?

Zheng Heqiu froze in place.

"Hey, that uncle over there, if you want to eat, go to the back line! Don't jump in line!"

"That's right, I've been queuing for half an hour and I'm still queuing, what line are you in?"

"Looking at the length of the line, it doesn't take more than 40 minutes. Don't try to eat it."

Zheng Heqiu was in a daze, when he heard the shouts of the guests in line, he walked away helplessly.

Standing in front of his shop, he saw Wei Feng coming out of Fengling food stall.

The guy's mouth was trembling, and his fingers were pointing, as if he was counting the number of people in line.

His eyes widened, and he seemed to be stunned by the situation in front of him.

Seeing this scene, He Qiu let out a sigh of relief.

lost!

A sense of frustration rose from his heart.

He stood on tiptoe and shouted to Wei Feng: "Old Wei, stop counting."

Wei Feng shivered, looked at Zheng Heqiu, and moved his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.

After hesitating for a moment, he ran down the steps, made a big circle, bypassed the line in front of Su's shop [and ran in front of Zheng Jiaqiu.

"Old Zheng, what's the situation? Why are there so many people here?"

Wei Feng opened his eyes wide and asked immediately.

Zheng Heqiu shook his head, and said helplessly: "If you ask me, who should I ask?"

The two looked at each other speechlessly, they could only turn their heads and looked at the long dragon-like team together stupidly.

"If I remember correctly, he's on the second day of opening?"

"Business was not so good yesterday!"

"Why are there so many people all of a sudden today?"

The two of them didn't know it at this time, because of their publicity, many guests on Wenchang South Road were attracted.

Those people originally wanted to go to Hongxing Supper or Fengling Food Stall for a taste, but when they saw the long queue at the gate of Su Yun and smelled the special fragrance, they couldn't move immediately.

Zheng Heqiu smiled wryly, and said, "From the very beginning, the voice of ordering in his store has never stopped."

"The customers inside have to add orders, and the new guests have to order."

"This sales, I'm afraid it will take off."

"Our business is also very good, but compared with him..."

Having said that, Zheng Heqiu did not continue.

The business in their store is also very good, and the money they make must be much more than yesterday.

But seeing such a big battle and such a good business in Su's small store, a new store, he felt very unbalanced.

Wei Feng pinched his fingers, as if he was calculating something.

"I estimate that his turnover rate today is about to explode."

"I'm afraid it will be more than 6."

The so-called table turnover rate means the repeated use rate of the dining table.

(Total number of tables used) ÷ total number of tables × 100%.

For example: there are 100 tables in a store, and the number of tables in a day is less than 100, then the turnover rate is 0.

If there are 200 tables in one day, then the turnover rate is 100%.

Wei Feng is good at things like calculations and marketing. He quickly estimated the turnover rate of a day based on the team in front of him and the number of tables in Su Yun's shop.

A turnover rate of 6 means that each table is used six times and receives six waves of guests.

In the late-night snack industry, this is an extremely terrifying statistic!

Zheng Heqiu was numb when he heard the beeps coming from the side from time to time.

He had to admit that he lost completely this time!

Wei Feng carefully observed the queue in front of Su's shop, and found a strange place.

Almost all guests held a leaflet in their hands.

That's the leaflet for Fengling Food Stall and Hongxing Supper!

Taking a closer look, he found that most of the new guests had their leaflets in their hands.

Those people seemed to have originally planned to come to Hongxing and Fengling to eat, but after seeing the long queue, they discussed it and walked into the queue!

Only a few people ran to both sides of Hongxing and Fengling.

What's the situation?

"Old Zheng, look, those guests are holding our leaflets in their hands."

Feng Ling touched Zheng Heqiu's arm with her elbow.

"They were all customers who were pulled over by flyers! But they were in line in front of Su's shop. 17

"How is this going?"

After his reminder, Zheng Heqiu also discovered 490.

He is also confused!

Without waiting for his answer, Wei Feng walked to the end of the line on his own, pretending to be casual and listening to the guests chatting.

"Hey, look, the line here is so long. What kind of store is this?"

“Smells delicious!”

"How about we try it out here?"

"The line is too long, let's forget it."

"I feel that Hongxing and Fengling are also queuing in front. Since they are all queuing, why don't you try it here. You see the queue is so long, the taste must be good."

"This store seems to be the one that made a fuss over the scarf before? What kind of bullfrogs are they selling? Is the business so good?"

"Let's go, try it, if it doesn't taste good, let's go to Hongxing and Fengling again."

Listening to their discussion, Wei Feng's face darkened.

What the hell!

So it was the leaflets sent out by the two of them that attracted so many customers to Su's shop?

Does this count as shooting yourself in the foot?

Although the business of the two of them has also improved, the business of Su's small shop has become even better!

Thinking of making a wedding dress for someone else, Wei Feng didn't know whether to cry or laugh, his face was very conflicted!

He slowly walked back to Zheng Heqiu's side, and told him his conclusion.

Zheng Heqiu was also confused!

The relationship between the two has been busy for a long time, and finally benefited Su Yun?

They looked at each other, dumbfounded!

Su's shop.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Director Dong and Tian Lei finally got their seats.

As soon as he entered the store, Tian Lei shouted.

"waiter!"

"Braised shrimp, garlic crayfish, spicy crayfish, oil-braised crayfish, sauce-fried crayfish, one each!"

"Braised tilapia, pan-fried tilapia, pan-fried tilapia, have one!"

"Pickled pepper bullfrog, dry pot bullfrog, and braised bullfrog, one each!"

The arrogant appearance of his long list of orders made the people around him look sideways.

Next to Tianlei, Director Dong squinted at him.

You kid, this is treating me like a kid, right?

spongy bone?.