Chapter 222 0221 [Hot Pot in the Sea! 】

After sending Lu Yawen away, Shi Zhijian took a deep breath and looked through the calendars of this era.

The calendars of this era are similar to those of the previous life. Most of them are colored paintings of stars, with the date and time dotted below.

There are still seven days before the Chinese New Year, and the whole of Hong Kong is full of impetuousness and excitement.

At this moment, the factory cafeteria rang the bell, and the third sister-in-law, who was very loud, knocked on the side of the pot with a spoon and yelled loudly: "Today's noon, let's serve meat with oysters and soy sauce!"

The crowd was surging, and the third sister-in-law raised her voice again and shouted in the direction of the workshop: "Let's serve the food! Facai oysters (good fortune)!"

Shi Zhijian came out of the office with a cigarette in his mouth, and saw people rushing towards the cafeteria. When passing by his office, all the workers bowed to Shi Zhijian, greeted him, and said the same thing: "Boss ,Happy New Year!"

Is Chinese New Year coming?

It was only then that Shi Zhijian realized that time had passed so quickly, and the first Spring Festival after his time travel and rebirth was approaching.

The third sister-in-law is guarding a large pot of fat vegetables, oysters and braised pork, and the people in the cafeteria bring out a pot full of pot vegetables, radishes, bamboo sticks, squid, pig skin, mushrooms, chicken, and dace balls that are often eaten during the Spring Festival in the New Territories. And the stewed pork stacked the whole pot out of the top, and the oily look made people appetite.

The workers lined up for dinner in an orderly manner, Da Daoxiong and Beard Beard were on the sidelines to maintain order.

"Boss, the dishes for lunch today are very good. Would you like to try them too?" The third sister-in-law in charge of the kitchen said kindly when she saw Shi Zhijian looking around.

Shi Zhijian originally wanted to have lunch with everyone, but after thinking about it carefully, he estimated that these workers would be embarrassed to eat next to him, so he said, "Don't worry about me, I'll go out to eat!"

The third sister-in-law let out a little disappointment. Today's lunch dish is her specialty, but unfortunately the boss didn't have a chance to taste it.

When the work over there was almost done, Shi Zhijian said to Da Daxiong, Hu Xuyong and other factory backbones: "Everyone has worked hard today. If you have time, let's get together!"

Da Daxiong and others immediately puffed out their chests and protruded their stomachs and made a serious appearance, "Of course! Brother Jian, say hello, we will definitely be there!"

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noon.

Yuen Long is poor, and there are no high-end hotels, so Shi Zhijian randomly found a small restaurant called "Zheng Kee Teppanyaki" nearby. , The six of Lan Mingkun had dinner.

These people were all doing coolies in the rivers and lakes, and they had a huge appetite. Shi Zhijian ordered a lot of staple food for them, mainly steamed buns and rice, and also ordered a few more expensive meat dishes, as well as beer.

The food taste of this restaurant is mediocre, but the business is very good, besides the boss, there are also three shop assistants, which is still not enough manpower.

Because the food was served too slowly, Da Daoxiong urged the food loudly, and the boss kept saying that it was in the pot and would serve it immediately, but after waiting for five or six minutes, there was still nothing.

Da Daoxiong was about to urge the food loudly again, but a diner next to him spat phlegm on his shoe.

Lou Daoxiong was so disgusted that he couldn't do it, so he asked the other party to settle the score, but was stopped by Hu Xuyong, saying that brother Jian would invite you to dinner today and don't cause trouble.

Da Daoxiong held back his anger, but the other party still refused to let go, saying that this kind of place is like this, spit casually, and go to other places if you like clean.

Looking at the other diners around, none of them took it seriously. There were used paper towels all over the floor. The waiter cleaned up the table and just wiped it with a rag, and it was done. Flies and cockroaches crawled around in the cracks of the wall, and the waiter served food At that time, my thumbs were inserted into the vegetable soup, and I threw it on the table casually: "Your egg drop soup!"

Da Daoxiong closed his eyes, wondering how he used to eat in this kind of place.

Hu Xuyong and Da Daoxiong felt the same, and also felt that the surrounding environment seemed a bit worse.

Shi Zhijian could see clearly, but kept silent.

When the food was served, Chen Jinlong, Chen Jinhu, Mao Shiqiang and Lan Mingkun sat alone at the table and ate in full swing.

Shi Zhijian, Lou Daxiong and Hu Xuyong gathered at a table but didn't move their chopsticks, just drinking beer together.

"Why, not used to it?" Shi Zhijian leaned on the chair, and asked Da Daxiong and Hu Xuyong with a smile.

Da Daxiong took a few mouthfuls of food with his chopsticks, nodded and said, "I didn't think it before, but now I think this kind of small shop is so unhygienic!"

"Yeah, I really don't know how I used to eat!" Hu Xuyong also picked up the chopsticks and stuffed a mouthful of vegetables into his mouth.

"I used to be poor, and it was OK if I could eat enough. Now that the economy has improved, everyone has money. Apart from being able to eat, I have begun to be picky."

Lou Daoxiong and Hu Xuyong seem to understand, but they feel that Shi Zhijian's words are very reasonable.

"Food is the most important thing for the people. With the development of Hong Kong's economy, people will pay more and more attention to food, so the development of the catering industry is the most promising!"

Da Daoxiong and Hu Xuyong seemed to smell something, looked at each other, and hurriedly looked at Shi Zhijian to listen.

There are too many things happening in the factory today, especially the unsalable instant noodles, which makes many people start to worry about the future prospects of the factory.

"Ah Xiong, what's your favorite food?"

"Char siew, roast goose leg!"

"Ayong, what about you?"

"Of course I'm going to Kowloon City to have a side stove and eat dog meat!"

"Side stove? But eating dog meat is too monotonous!" Shi Zhijian narrowed his eyes, remembering the last time he and Lei Luo had a side stove in Kowloon Walled City.

"If there is a seafood hot pot restaurant that is very hygienic and has good service, where you can choose abalone, oysters, scallops and various seafood, would you go there?"

"Uh, seafood hot pot?"

"Yes, it is the kind of bottom material with various flavors, which can cook various special pot bottoms, such as slightly spicy, spicy, and halal, seafood, fat beef, fat sheep, etc., you will choose ?"

The secret weapon that Shi Zhijian secretly developed before is actually various hot pot bases. The last time Lei Luo tasted it was the seafood hot pot newly developed by Shi Zhijian.

In fact, in Hong Kong in this era, there is no concept of optional hot pot at all. To be precise, there is no real hot pot in the local area!

Historically, although hot pot has been popular for a long time, the red clay fire stove in the Tang Dynasty, the shabu-shabu in the Song Dynasty, and the feast of thousands of old people in the Qing Dynasty, etc., but it was in the The 1970s in Hong Kong, the 90s in the mainland.

In Hong Kong, there has always been only a very traditional side stove, which only eats dog meat and stewed pork ribs. It was not until the late 1970s that the concept of hot pot became popular in Hong Kong.

Hot pot restaurants do not need to wait for a long time to eat, and the food can be cooked as soon as it is served. You don't need a good cook, just an uncle who cuts meat in sweatshirts and a lady boss who looks like a chartered woman. Of course, there is no need for a good environment. Tables, chairs and benches can be placed casually, and you can eat them when you set them up.

This is also convenient for many clubs to gather for dinner, and when there are differences of opinion during the meal, they can just grab a stool and a wine bottle. If it is broken, you can switch to another batch at any time and continue playing. When you are tired, sit down and rest for a while, and continue later.

Hot pot is a kind of rough food culture, everyone eats in one pot, there is no pickiness, no refinement, only lively and rich taste, so hot pot culture is popular culture, wharf culture, rivers and lakes culture.

Da Daoxiong and Hu Xiyong don't understand noble culture, but this simple and easy-to-understand "hot pot culture" is exactly what they want, so that when Shi Zhijian explained it a little bit, he said that the seafood is super cheap, and one pot bottom can be eaten by many people , The eyes of the two of them suddenly lit up, lighting up like a light bulb.

"Brother Jian, your idea is great! Hot pot! I like hot pot the most!" Hu Xuyong clapped his hands and praised.

"That's right, this hot pot doesn't require too many people, and it's really great that you can make it yourself! It's so cool to think about it!" Da Daoxiong jumped up with joy.

Even though Da Daxiong doesn't have any business acumen, he couldn't help being excited when he heard Shi Zhijian's fresh idea.

People next to him danced loudly and thought he was insane, so they all pulled their chairs away from him.

Shi Zhijian saw Da Daxiong's excited appearance, couldn't help laughing, picked up the beer and handed it to Da Daxiong: "Shut up, drink first! Don't be surprised!"

Being criticized by Shi Zhijian, Da Louxiong hurriedly covered his mouth, carefully pulled up the chair and sat down, but couldn't help but said: "Brother Jian, what's the name of your hot pot?"

Hu Xuyong also immediately looked at Shi Zhijian curiously.

Shi Zhijian picked up a peanut with his chopsticks, swish, and threw it into his mouth: "Fill it from the sea!"