Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 235 I heard that the restaurant has launched a new sauce-flavored pancake?

The guest shouted from several tables away, "Miss Shen, I heard that there will be new food today. What delicious food have you made?"

Shen Yu smiled and said, "Uncle, just try it and you will know."

As she spoke, she placed the tray on the table in front of the stove.

He took out a piece of the sauce-flavored pancake, cut it into small pieces on the chopping board with a knife, put it on a plate, picked up the bamboo tongs and walked over.

In front of the customer was an empty tray of skewers, a half-finished pizza, and two almost-finished side dishes.

Shen Yu walked up to the customer, picked up a piece of sauce-flavored pancake with a bamboo clip and placed it on the empty tray in front of the customer.

She introduced with a smile: "This is a Jiangxiang pancake. It is crispy and has a strong sauce flavor. It is freshly made and is still hot. Uncle, please try it."

Before the guest could say anything, the guest at the opposite table stared at the tray and asked expectantly, "Give me one too."

Shen Yu smiled and picked up another piece for him, then said in a slightly higher voice: "The shop has newly launched thousand-layer meat patties, sauce-flavored patties, and red bean paste patties."

"Today is the first day of sales. Try before you buy. If you buy a lot, you will be given a bamboo basket for packing. It is convenient to carry and will not go bad within two days. If you take a basket with you when you go on a long journey, you can have two more days of delicious meals on the road."

Most of the customers who were sitting down to eat were shop owners and their assistants. Several of them were shop owners who were often sent out by their employers to buy goods.

Upon hearing what Shen Yu said, he immediately became interested and waved to Shen Yu.

Shen Yu was carrying a tray and moving around the shop.

Anyone who wanted to try it took a small piece and placed it on the plate in front of the guest.

After distributing all the cakes on the tray, she cut a piece of sauce-flavored cake and thousand-layer meat cake and placed them on the table, allowing the guests to take some and taste them.

Just as I put the plate and spare bamboo tongs away, Yutao came over with a tray of freshly baked red bean paste biscuits.

Shen Yu also followed suit, cutting the red bean paste biscuit into six small portions and placing them together with the other two types of biscuits.

As customers came in and out of the store, the cakes for tasting were quickly distributed.

Except for the portion that Shen Yu had reserved for Qixi to take away, the three kinds of pancakes were sold out before lunch.

What surprised Shen Yu was that it was not just the guests from far away who were interested in this kind of cake that could be stored and was fresh and crispy.

The people in the same city were also very interested in it. After tasting it, they all said it was delicious, crispy, fresh and fragrant, and it would also be good to take it back and eat as a snack.

They took out their money to buy a few pieces, packed them in lotus leaves, and carried them away contentedly.

When Qixi came over, Shen Yu was busy introducing the taste of the new cakes to the customers.

Seeing that the shop was busy, Qixi didn't rush to get the lunch boxes, but started to help clean up the dishes and chopsticks used by the customers.

It took a long time before Shen Yu saw Qi Xi coming.

She hurriedly asked Jiang to come to the table. She squeezed out from the circle of guests and said with a smile, "The guests are trying the food now and just saw you coming over."

As he said that, he went to the backyard and took the packed food box and said, "The thousand-layer meat pie and the sauce-flavored pie in here are both meat."

"But the red bean paste biscuits are made with vegetable oil, the filling is red bean paste, and the iron pan is also a separate small iron pan. This biscuit is not meat-based. If the county magistrate does not mind, you can try it."

"I put the red bean paste biscuits separately on a layer below, and used a new plate. I didn't put them together with the meat patties, so don't worry."

Qi Xi hurriedly thanked him, and seeing that Shen Yu was busy, he asked if he wanted to stay and help before leaving.

Shen Yu waved his hand and said, "No, go back quickly, the cake is still hot."

Qi Xi then said goodbye and left.

After the busy lunch hour and when there were fewer customers, Shen Yu took some time to put the first piece of sauce-flavored pancake back on the pancake griddle to heat it up again.

After being brushed with meat sauce and sprinkled with chives and sesame seeds, it was cut and brought to the store, ready for everyone to eat as lunch.

Unexpectedly, just as Li and Jiang took one piece each, a guest came in.

He seemed to have just run for a while and was sweating profusely.

When he came in and saw Shen Yu greeting customers, he pushed aside the customer in front of him and asked bluntly: "I heard that the restaurant has just launched a new sauce-flavored pancake, which is cheap and tastes good. Do you have any more?"

Shen Yu turned around to look at the empty tray and apologized, "You came at an unfortunate time. It's the first day we've made it, so we've sold out."

The customer looked depressed and was about to turn around and leave, but he saw the cake on the tray in front of Li in the corner, and pointed at it and asked, "What kind of cake is that? It looks delicious."

Shen Yu didn't know whether he should say it or not, that was the sauce-flavored cake he wanted to buy.

Li had already put down the half-eaten cake in her bowl, and came over with the tray of cakes, saying attentively, "Sir, this is the Jiangxiang cake."

As he spoke, he brought it to the table, cut off a piece with a knife, put it on a small plate and handed it to the guest.

"Guest, please try it. To be honest, this is the first time I've eaten this kind of cake. These cakes are all made by my daughter. You can't find them anywhere else."

"It tastes delicious, with rich sauce flavor and crispy layers."

The customer didn't hesitate to take the small plate, picked it up with his hands and took a big bite.

While chewing, he said, "It smells so good. No wonder Niu San was so proud that he brought a basket of cakes on board at noon to show off to me."

"I wanted to try it but he refused. When I wanted to buy half of it, he protected it like a treasure."

"I begged him for a long time before he told me that he bought it from Fengnian Food Store on Market Street. It was called something called Jiangxiang Cake."

"No, I got off the boat and ran over here. I'm going to buy some to eat on the way."

Without waiting for Shen Yu and the others to reply, the customer quickly walked to the table and said with a smile: "Boss, please sell all these cakes to me. Didn't you say you had no more? Can't you sell these?"

Shen Yu said with some embarrassment: "This cake was made at the beginning, and it got a little cold, so I reheated it and cut it into pieces, preparing it for my own consumption."

The customer didn't care at all and said with a smile: "What's the big deal? Even if the cake is broken, it's still a cake. I don't mind it, so just sell it to me."

Li said straightforwardly: "If the guest doesn't mind, what else can I say?"

"We just ate two pieces of these cakes, so we don't need a whole cake. If you want one, I'll charge you fifty cents."

"Although it's less than a hundred coins, I'll still pack it up in a bamboo basket for you. After all, you made a special trip just for it."

"I am happy to hear that my guests like my food."

Jiang had already prepared the bamboo basket and lotus leaves.

Li personally put a tray of broken sauce-flavored biscuits in.

The guest saw that there was only half a basket of cakes and frowned, "This is a little too little. It's not enough for the three of us to eat for two days."

"Boss, what food do you have in the store? I want to buy some more."