The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2138 Text

Chapter 274

The author continued to narrate what happened that day. If you go further on that street, cross the traffic light, and continue walking, you will reach a four-star hotel. For the suburbs, the hotel is quite large.

The original plan for the day was to do some shopping first and then go to the hotel’s official restaurant for dinner. However, I had to carry a lot of things with me, and it was almost seven o’clock in the evening. It would be better to eat nearby, go home early, reduce the hassle, and not feel tired.

I didn't have much money to spend on shopping in the mall, but I looked at a lot of items and talked a lot, which delayed me a bit. When I got to the fruit store, I stood and waited for a while to buy discounted fruits.

I won’t dine at the hotel restaurant this time, but I plan to dine there a few times in January this year. I will realize this plan and will not delay it any further.

Since we don't want to go forward, we go back. Cross the road and go back to the other side of the mall. Outside the mall, near an entrance to the underground shopping district, there is a store selling pancakes and candied haws. The store also sells cold noodles, nuts, corn strips and other common foods.

When I got there, I asked about the price of candied hawthorns, and the young man in the store said that candied hawthorns were six yuan each, and candied fruits were ten yuan each. I saw that the store had small platters of candied haws and candied fruits, and asked the price. It was fifteen yuan for a small box, and you could choose five small skewers of candied fruit. I didn't buy a big skewers, but a small one, with candied cherry tomatoes, blueberries, hawthorns, and grapes. The young woman in the store wore a cartoon hat made of cotton wool, and she packed the candied hawthorns in paper boxes, and then put the candied fruits in plastic bags.

I have bought pancakes from that store many times before. They cost 8 yuan each. When adding flour paste to a hot pan, you have to spread it evenly to make it the right thickness and even. Then you will add an egg, sprinkle some chopped green onions and sesame seeds, a piece of crispy bread, some pickles, and sweet noodle sauce. You can add chili sauce. Some time ago, I had to buy two pancakes each time. The quality of the products in that store was okay. If you add extra eggs and ham, it would cost more than ten yuan in total, which is not cheap.

I went to a pork elbow restaurant to eat. This time I tried northern cuisine. The portion sizes of the dishes in that restaurant were okay.

The pork elbow restaurant was the reopened version of the former sweet and sour pork restaurant, but it just changed its location. The original storefront was replaced by a flat noodle restaurant, which closed after operating for a while. The storefront is vacant and has not been rented out yet. The newly opened pork elbow restaurant is still in the same row of small and medium-sized restaurants as the cake shop, not far away.

Some time ago, a new store opened that specializes in pork elbow dishes. It was run by a wealthy middle-aged male boss and a middle-aged female boss who was busy working in the store. After a year, they have reopened the store again.

Once I passed by that street and saw a new store opened. There was a flyer outside the door, indicating that the store had specials, so I went there to eat. It turned out that the old store had reopened and was still nearby, just a few dozen meters away from the previous store. I remember that time I wanted to order the special pork elbow dish, and I saw the special price on the menu wall was 30 yuan. The boss lady said that if I wanted to order that dish, I had to pair it with two original dishes, so I ordered two original dishes and one special dish. The quality of the big casserole pork elbow is okay, so I plan to go there again in the future and save the budget for going to the northern restaurant. I have been to the Guobaorou restaurant dozens of times, and I am still quite familiar with it. Sometimes I eat at that store during festivals. If you are in the corridor of the 100-yuan buffet restaurant and you really can't get a number, you can expect to wait for an hour or two and still have difficulty getting a seat, so you may go to that store, which is a few hundred meters away and a short walk away. The area of ​​the new store is similar to that of the old store. Neither is a big store, and is far smaller than the business area of ​​a 100-yuan buffet restaurant. However, the new store is much cleaner and has a basement with private rooms. The prices of some dishes are a little higher than in the past, but it is good enough that the store has a few special dishes. It competes with the braised pork elbows at the Northern Restaurant across the street, giving some customers other choices.

The braised pork elbow at the Northern Restaurant costs 48 yuan, which is already the most affordable dish in the restaurant. The restaurant’s special dishes also include braised pork bones and grilled fish.

There are many restaurants that serve pork elbow dishes, but the prices are around 60 or 70 yuan or even higher, so the prices may not be very affordable.

When I arrived at the pork elbow restaurant that day, most of the tables in the restaurant were already occupied by customers. Fortunately, there were still seats available. If there were no seats, I would walk to the Northern Restaurant, which also had pork elbows and stir-fried dishes. I went to that Northern Restaurant in the second half of last year and have been there 20 times. The pork elbows in the restaurant are pretty good, with a certain amount of portion and just stewed until they are mushy. Every time I go to that restaurant, I almost always order the pork elbows in sauce.

If I hadn’t been carrying things, I could have walked to the restaurant street. The roast duck restaurant didn’t have any discounts. It wasn’t a membership day, so there were no special dishes. But the spring pancake restaurant next door had a special dish every day. Looking at the discount group of that restaurant, during festivals, they might also give away dumplings or Laba porridge, which is also to attract customers to consume. I saw the event news. The author occasionally went there, and some publicity was useful. I often saw customers talking about booking tables and private rooms in the group. If there were many customers, it might cost hundreds of yuan. The prices of the food in the store were high and low. Many people went to that restaurant. Some went there to check the coupons, because the store gave a good discount, and some went there to eat the special dishes, thinking they could get a good deal.

I saw the proprietress of the pork elbow restaurant busy taking orders. There were many customers in the restaurant, and some came to pick up takeout. Looking at the names and prices of the dishes on the menu wall, the price of the black pork elbow has been increased to 40 yuan. I asked how I could order the special dish? What did I need? The proprietress said that I just needed to order one of the original dishes.

I asked if they had four-joy meatballs? The lady boss said no. I asked if they had fish dishes? She said they didn't have any right now, the kitchen was busy, and they couldn't make dishes that weren't on the menu wall, so she asked me to order according to what was on the menu wall.

After looking around, I chose the pork cutlet and eggplant, and also the sweet and sour pork. The pork cutlet and eggplant is one of the affordable dishes in that restaurant, priced at 36 yuan per serving, with a combination of meat and vegetables. The sweet and sour pork in the old restaurant is cheap, but the quality of the dish is very average. Seeing that the price of the new restaurant's sweet and sour pork is 48 yuan per plate, I want to order it to try and see how the quality is. I told the store that the pork elbow should be fatter. I used to order pork elbow dishes at the old restaurant, and they also had fat elbows.

After ordering, I sat down at a chair at the dining table, turned on my phone, and began to read and revise the tasks for the recent chapters of the Star Lotus story. I wanted to complete some more tasks, and put off the remaining tasks until after I got home. I would just try to complete as many as possible.