The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2122 Text
Chapter 258

There were several customers waiting, and the waiter was cleaning the table and changing the tablecloth. The waitress asked me to wait a while, but I was not in a hurry. I saw several other customers standing and waiting, and there were few customers who came to dine alone.

After a while, there was a small table that we could go to. The size of the small table was suitable for dining for two. After we sat down, a waiter came over and gave us the menu.

The recipe book was very thick, probably twice as thick as the one in a suburban roast duck restaurant, and had a lot of pages. Famous restaurants are different, they can make hundreds of dishes. The recipe book was old, a bit like a torn old book, and you could tell it had been flipped through by many customers. It was really a worn-out book that had been read a lot.

Looking at the food, the signature dishes are of course placed at the front of the menu, and they are divided into several grades. The higher the grade, the more expensive it is. As those review videos said, the price of the signature dishes of that restaurant has increased. It is already more than 300 yuan. Even if you order half a duck, it will cost more than 100 yuan. If you add a salt and pepper duck rack or a less expensive dish, it will cost 200 yuan.

I heard customers talking at a table not far away, and I looked up. They were a family of three, a couple with a child. The man wanted to order half of the signature dish, but the woman disagreed, saying that since we were here, we should order the signature dish of a whole fish, with soup or other cooking methods.

At that time, I was flipping through the menu of that restaurant, and was quickly thinking about budget control and moderate consumption. I wasn't hungry that day, because the fried cumin chicken fillet and original chicken nuggets I had for supper were frozen foods bought at a discount in a big supermarket. I cooked them myself, which was more affordable than the same type of fried foods on the market. I also had iced cola, but since I was here, it was inevitable to spend more money. I saw a row of chefs slicing ducks over there. It was already mass production on an assembly line, so there should be surplus duck racks. I estimated that if I could buy the goods this time, there would be more than one roast duck rack left, so I cancelled the idea of ​​ordering half of the signature dish, after all, it was more expensive, so I ordered a few affordable dishes and saved the remaining budget for buying a few duck racks, intending to spread out the consumption this time.

After thinking about it, I finally decided to order a few affordable dishes this time. I think if the price is right, I can come back in the future. The dining environment of that restaurant is pretty good. It is indeed classy and well-deserved. The quality of the dishes should also be good. There is no extra charge, which makes it more approachable. According to the price of many ordinary dishes on the restaurant menu, it is not as expensive as expected. It may be because the consumption of some restaurants in the suburbs is also high. I gradually adapt to it. If I had known this, I could have come to that big restaurant for dinner many years ago (there was a service charge before. If I charged an extra few dozen yuan, the total price would not be appropriate). With the preliminary plan of either dining or shopping in the future, I hope that I will not make a wasted trip again in the future. After all, it takes 50 to 60 kilometers to go there. Even if there is a direct subway line, I still have to walk a lot, and there must be thousands of steps.

After looking at part of the menu and comparing the same dishes with those in the hotel restaurant, I found the prices are comparable, with some dishes being more expensive, worthy of being a big hotel.

If the customer does not have a certain budget, it is not easy to order a few good dishes in that restaurant without spending too much money. The group purchase price of that restaurant is 200-300 yuan for a meal for two, which is already a discounted price. The price of some drinks is high. I continued to look at the dishes, but I didn’t pay much attention to the specific prices of some dishes. I just looked at them casually to know what dishes the restaurant would make. I found that it was really as the review video said. That restaurant has many duck dishes. It is said that there is a full meal. It has entertained many VIPs and was very famous back then.

I looked at the layout and decoration of the main hall of the hotel. There are several floors, with the lobby as the main one. On other floors, you can see a bunch of tables and chairs in the lobby. I think it meets the basic design of a large hotel or restaurant. There are dozens of tables in the main hall of the lobby, and there are also tables on other floors on the side. It is also a qualified place to prepare weddings or birthday banquets. There is an audio-visual room near the lobby, and there may be private rooms. There are also tables and chairs upstairs. Based on the basic situation, it should be able to accommodate hundreds of customers at the same time.

Looking at the paper color pages of the menu, the restaurant has southern dishes such as shrimp dumplings in steamers, and a dim sum set served in wooden flower baskets. It looks good, with a good combination of utensils, and some characteristics. You can taste a variety of famous local Beijing-style desserts in one dish. I don’t know what the actual product is like, but it seems to be the recommended dim sum dish in the store. When I was looking through the menu, I saw the duck pastry. I want to order it this time because it is relatively cheap. I have seen that dim sum dish in some review videos, and I have to order it. It is one of the most affordable dishes in the store. Although it is slightly more expensive than similar dim sum on the market, it is considered a favorable price in that store.

After looking at the menu for a while, I saw a male waiter nearby. I asked him to come over. His skin color was darker and he looked to be in his twenties. I could see several waiters in the store. It was quite busy during lunch time on weekdays. Some restaurants in the ancient street were probably in a similar state. There were always customers eating there, but they were not as busy as during holidays.

When the male waiter came over, I said I wanted to order, and he took out the ordering machine in the store. There are many restaurants like this. The waiter uses a machine like a handheld computer to place an order, and the chef in the kitchen will receive the information and prepare the food. However, whether it is prepared in time depends on the specific situation. Some restaurants serve food very quickly. In the same time, if a family makes the same dish, the chef may not have finished cutting the dishes and preparing the ingredients before the dishes are finished and the dishes are ready to be served. But in some restaurants, it takes more than half an hour to serve the dishes. If the waiter does not help to urge and serve the food as soon as possible, it will take an hour. This kind of thing happens. Most Chinese meals are finished within one or two hours. If there is no conversation, it may take less than an hour to pay the bill. Even if you eat buffet, you can still eat a lot in one and a half hours or two hours. It is said that some Western food takes several hours to finish because each dish is served very slowly. Some people like the feeling of waiting slowly, and think that staying a little longer in a restaurant with a good environment, eating and talking at the same time, is also a better experience.

Watching the video of the on-site evaluation, the cold duck feet in that restaurant are good and the price is also okay. It is said that the chef of that restaurant can make duck feet crispy, tender and fresh. This time I want to order a meal to taste. I usually don’t eat bad goose feet and duck feet in sauce, because the prices of related cooked food in large supermarkets or small shops are relatively high. Some are thirty or forty yuan per serving, which may be less than one pound. Chicken feet are often eaten. Many smoked chickens and braised chickens in large supermarkets are relatively complete, with chicken feet, and are on sale for more than ten or twenty yuan per piece. Market stores and cooked food stores, as well as some restaurants, have sauce chicken for forty or fifty yuan, and the portion is larger. The big plate chicken in the suburban roast duck restaurant costs more than seventy yuan. That restaurant has mustard duck feet, which costs forty or fifty yuan, which is about the same price as the cold dish of roast pepper beef or husband and wife lung slices. You can also order very spicy dishes, which reach some of the spicy levels of Sichuan cuisine, but the quantity is not much. There can be some sauce beef slices or beef offal in the dishes. Relatively speaking, it is more affordable than the steamed shrimp dishes, river dishes, seafood dishes, etc. in the store.

When I asked to order cold duck feet, the male waiter said that dish was no longer available and was sold out. I didn't ask any more questions and could order other dishes of similar price and change to other dishes. The menu mentioned the dish of roasted duck heart. The review video mentioned that the chef used to cook that dish with famous wine, which not only had a strong fire but also had the lingering aroma of the famous wine. However, considering the cost, I guess the cooking wine or alcohol with added ingredients was used. Since the price of that dish was relatively high, I didn't order it.