72: Chapter 72 Grilled Skewers are on fire, Second Watch request for collection_1 72: Chapter 72 Grilled Skewers are on fire, Second Watch request for collection_1 For the next two days, Cai Wei was incredibly busy, she spent a lot of time each day teaching Jiujin and Uncle Zhou how to grill skewers.
From controlling the heat to using the right amount of seasoning, everything required strict control to achieve an irresistible taste!
Fortunately, Jiujin and Uncle Zhou were very dedicated in learning.
Every word that Cai Wei said was carefully memorized and put into practice by the father and son.
So, after two days, they were already able to grill skewers with a taste that was not inferior to Cai Wei’s craftsmanship.
Apart from teaching Jiujin how to grill skewers, Cai Wei also hired a few neat and tidy maids from nearby to skewer the meat alongside Aunt Zhou.
She estimated that once the grilled skewers were introduced, they would definitely be popular throughout the town.
The skewers that Aunt Zhou could produce alone would hardly meet the market demand.
Therefore, they needed to stock up on skewers before they hit the market.
“Separate the fat and lean skewers and the skewered pigs’ trotters…”
“The skin of the wild boar is very thick and needs to be boiled for a while before skewering…”
“The small skewers here are sold for two copper coins each, and the large skewers over there are five copper coins each, don’t mix them up…”
Cai Wei was so busy that her head was spinning, but when she thought of the rush for grilled skewers when they hit the market tomorrow, all her tiredness disappeared.
Lady Du and Cai Fei were not idle either.
They made a lot of meat stuffing according to the method taught by Cai Wei, wrapped a lot of Hun Dun and dumplings, and froze them outside, ready to be sold when they open for business.
Even the little Wen’er and Wu’er took the initiative to find work watering the vegetables.
The two little guys were busy shuttling around the six side rooms with watering cans, watering the vegetables their older sister had planted.
Older sister’s craftsmanship was really good, she was a great gardener, the vegetables in the six side rooms sprouted in just two days.
They were tender green and growing very well!
During this period, Cai Wei also took the time to visit the nursing home.
She picked a basket of fresh vegetables from her space and sent them over, and even asked Bai Mao Hu for a wild boar to leave there.
The elderly, young, sick, and disabled in the nursing home, who can now eat well and wear warm clothes, are very content.
They didn’t expect their benefactor Miss Wei to also send them fresh vegetables, which are rare in winter, and wild boar meat, which is more precious than pork.
They were all moved to tears.
After everyone’s intensive preparations, the delicacy of grilled skewers finally appeared in front of the townspeople on the twentieth of December, which was the day Cai Wei took over the Baifu Restaurant.
At noon that day, in the long Goldfish Lane, a smell that made people drool suddenly wafted into the air.
The intoxicating aroma spread in the air, causing passersby to stop, unconsciously following the smell…
Soon, they arrived at the Baifu Restaurant.
In front of the Baifu Restaurant located in the center of Goldfish Lane, a long line of iron stoves was blazing with charcoal fire.
On it were small pieces of meat skewered with iron skewers, either fat or lean.
The bright, oily meat was being roasted on the vigorous charcoal fire, “sizzling” and spitting oil.
Surrounding the meat were some unknown condiments, which, when sprinkled on the meat and grilled over the charcoal, emitted a smell that made one’s mouth water!
Faced with such a delicacy, some people couldn’t hold back and entered the restaurant, shouting out their desire for the skewers of meat being roasted outside.
Jiujin and Uncle Zhou saw that they had an order and did not dare to slack off.
They put all their energy into displaying all the barbecue techniques that Cai Wei had taught them in the past two days!
Once the skewers were grilled, the shop assistant called out and delivered a handful of skewers, which were crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, and delicious, to the customers’ tables.
As soon as the skewers arrived at the table, they immediately triggered a strong response from the customers.
Those who had eaten the skewers couldn’t help but exclaim their pleasure.
Some even immediately sent their servants to invite their friends to taste…
Within an hour, the Baifu Restaurant was full.
Every guest, without exception, ordered the grilled skewers, those without a seat mostly chose to wait outside in the freezing cold rather than compromise by going to another restaurant!
Two hours passed, and all three thousand skewers prepared by Baifu Restaurant were sold out, with some people licking their lips complaining that they didn’t have enough.
Those customers who had been waiting outside for a long time without even getting a single skewer, were dissatisfied when they heard all the skewers were sold out and they had been freezing outside for a long time.
Seeing this, Cai Wei quickly called the shop assistant aside and whispered a few instructions.
On receiving instructions, the shop assistant immediately ran outside and loudly announced, “Honored guests, do not be angry, our boss just instructed that for those who have queuing today in our restaurant but have not been served, you can go to the counter and reserve seats for tomorrow in advance.
As compensation, for every customer who has paid a deposit to reserve a seat for tomorrow, we will present a plate of cold cucumber salad and a plate of pig head meat in sauce!”
On hearing the shop assistant’s introduction, some people were surprised, and others were half convinced.
In the thick of winter, it was already impressive to have some greens like spinach and rapeseed to eat.
Even a large restaurant like Zuixian Residence didn’t have the rare cucumber!
But this Baifu Restaurant was able to get cucumbers?
And from the sound of it, they seemed to have a good number of them in stock!
Immediately, everyone reassessed the strength of the Baifu Restaurant.
The resentment they had just felt for not being able to eat the skewers quickly dissipated; after all, none of them had ever eaten cucumber in the winter!
This little unpleasantness was soon dissolved, and the customers swarmed to the counter to reserve seats for the next day…
Thanks to the attraction of the grilled skewers, the business at the Baifu Restaurant was booming that day!
Not only the large mesh grilled meat and mesh grilled leaf mustard and cabbage from the barbecue series sold fast, but also some dishes that usually did not sell well were sold much more than usual…
Although it was within Cai Wei’s expectations that the skewers would be popular, she did not expect them to be this popular!
However, she felt a painful twinge when she thought that some guests had to go to other restaurants because they couldn’t find a seat.
No, she needs to figure out a way to make those silver coins flow into her own purse!