Yuan Zhou's first step was the aroma that the diners and onlookers could smell outside the door. It was the aroma of minced pork.
Wu Hai was leaning against the door. If not for the people behind him holding him back, he would have pounced in and devoured the minced pork.
The sleeping beast in his heart was awakened.
That's right. By then, Yuan Zhou had already opened the door. After all, it was time to open the door since it was almost time for breakfast.
With regards to the crowd surrounding the entrance, Yuan Zhou had already developed a great immunity.
At that moment, Yuan Zhou began kneading the dough. However, his technique was still as experienced as before. After all, Yuan Zhou was now an intermediate master of cooked wheaten food. His kneading technique was naturally more refined.
Chinese culinary skills were extremely complicated. There were 17 kneading techniques, which were much more complicated than modern machines.
Moreover, that did not include the pastry method. As the saying went, "pastry becomes a membrane, while dough becomes a tendon". One could see the huge difference between the two.
Teng, teng!
The dough fell on the chopping board and emitted a sound. Yuan Zhou had already entered the kneading stage.
In unofficial history, there was a person called Xu Dian, who used naked dough to knead, rub, and twirl it around his fingers. After three turns, he could make a basket. It was soft when eaten while it was hot. It wrapped around the teeth, but it didn't stick to the teeth. Because it was naked dough, it was sweet and hot. One bite at a time, it was very delicious.
One could even soak it in the hot mutton soup. The meat broth would soak the dough before eating it. The taste was self-explanatory.
Back to the main topic, the reason why Yuan Zhou knew so much was that Yuan Zhou knew 23 kneading techniques. One of them was Xu of Cooked Wheaten Food.
As an intermediate master of cooked wheaten food, he had a lot of knowledge. Unfortunately, the dough was Jin Province's cooked wheaten food.
Yuan Zhou's technique was impressive. However, most of the people's attention was on a new item in Yuan Zhou's kitchen. From the outside, it looked like a bamboo basket made of bamboo strips. The workmanship was more exquisite than the average.
It was hung from the ceiling with a hemp rope as thick as a bottle cap. It was about 15 to 20 centimeters from the stove below. It was quite big. Although they were only looking at it from the door, they could estimate that it was about the size of a floor fan.
"What's that?"
"Boss Yuan is playing something new again. Shameless Wu, you're closer. Take a closer look and see what that thing is."
"Although I don't know what's in the basket, I can tell that today's breakfast is Dan Dan noodles. What I just made is the minced meat of Dan Dan noodles."
"Nonsense, I can see that too."
Everyone was very curious about the new thing hanging in the kitchen. Most importantly, someone discovered that the bamboo baskets were hung with hooks on the roof, which were definitely not there before. Some diners even said that they were not there last night.
It could be guessed that this hook was made by Yuan Zhou overnight after the pub's opening hours last night. Thinking about it again, why did he make it overnight? It must have something to do with today's breakfast.
Therefore, the crowd became even more curious and asked Wuhai, who was at the front of the line, to take a look.
Wuhai looked at it with shifty eyes and saw something.
"There seems to be a pot in the bamboo basket?" Wuhai wasn't sure. "It should be. It's still steaming and there's a black bottom of the pot underneath."
After hearing what Wuhai said, everyone took a closer look and indeed, the bamboo basket didn't cover the pot completely. Instead, the black bottom of the pot was exposed. It was just that no one noticed it just now.
Using a bamboo basket to hang a pot?
"What's this pot for?" A diner asked.
"To cook Dan Dan noodles," a diner answered subconsciously.
"Of course. I just want to know why Dan Dan noodles are cooked in this way. It's different from other noodles."
This sentence voiced out the doubts of all the diners. Almost all the locals here had eaten Dan Dan noodles before, but they had never seen a hanging pot before.
The so-called reputation and prestige could be reflected at this moment. If it was an ordinary merchant doing this, there would definitely be diners who would think that he was deliberately mystifying things.
However, when Yuan Zhou did it, no one would have such a thought. They were all wondering why he did it.
Among the crowd, only Zhou Shijie had a different expression. At first, he was also puzzled, but later, he seemed to understand why Yuan Zhou did it.
"Yuan Zhou is still as serious as ever. He won't let go of any opportunity to make the food taste better," Zhou Shijie muttered to himself.
"Dad, do you know something?" Zhou Xi asked curiously.
"Yeah, Chairman Zhou. Tell us, what's going on?"
Everyone pricked up their ears and prepared to listen to Zhou Shijie's explanation.
"Do you know the origin of Dan Dan noodles?" Zhou Shijie asked first.
Everyone shook their heads. If one didn't specially investigate this kind of food, no one would care about its origin. It was fine as long as it was delicious.
Zhou Shijie didn't keep them in suspense and said directly, "Dan Dan noodles were invented by an ancestor named Chen Baobao. In the early days, people carried it on a pole and sold it to the dock workers.
"At one end, there was a charcoal stove with a pot. At the other end, there were bowls, chopsticks, seasonings, and noodles. When they were carried on the street, they were called Dan Dan noodles. That's how it got its name."
Zhou Shijie's explanation was very accurate. The customers in the queue also listened attentively. But what did this have to do with Yuan Zhou hanging the pot?
"You guys are really stupid. At that time, due to the environment and the time, only charcoal stoves could be used. The temperature of the charcoal stoves wasn't high enough, so they often had to blow air."
The one who could speak in such a tone was undoubtedly Lee Yanyi. No one knew when this guy appeared.
"Yuan Zhou hung the pot high. Do you see what's under the pot? Obviously, he wants to use the outer flame. This way, the temperature is higher than the charcoal stove. Although the flame isn't as stable, I think Yuan has a way to solve this problem," Lee Yanyi said.
The customers didn't pay attention to the stability of the flame. They only paid attention to what Lee Yanyi said.
"Does cooking have anything to do with the flame?" A customer obviously asked a layman.
"Haven't you eaten Firewood Turkey before? If the flame doesn't affect the cooking, why would he use firewood? He can just use natural gas. " Lee Yanyi said, "This Yuan Zhou is really trying his best to make the food taste good. He even took the flame into consideration."
"However, it's really a waste to cook it for you guys who don't know anything. You guys don't know anything," Lee Yanyi pouted.
That's right. He wasn't targeting one person, but everyone in the queue.
There were ten malignant tumors in Yuanzhou shop, but at the same time, there were also ten miracles. One of the miracles was why Lee Yanyi and Wuhai hadn't been beaten to death yet.
The other regular customers were already used to Lee Yanyi's sharp tongue. However, Zhou Xi wasn't a regular. Hearing such remarks, he stepped forward bravely.
"What you said is wrong," Zhou Xi said. "Although I don't know who you are or how knowledgeable you are, you don't have the right to deny all of us."
"Although we, the customers, don't understand many things and don't understand why Boss Yuan made such arrangements, we can feel Boss Yuan's seriousness towards delicacies and his pursuit of ingenuity." Zhou Xi's logic was very smooth, "The most important thing is that we can taste the good food. That's why we are willing to queue up."
The two of them started arguing. However, Lee Yanyi had never lost in arguing with others …
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