Li Qing smiled bitterly and complained to the boss who was still standing next to him: "Boss, are you sure you are a master of Shandong cuisine? Not a master of Sichuan or Hunan cuisine?"
"Ha...haha...is the pepper a bit too much?" The boss felt a little guilty.
Mainly because I was worried that the guests wouldn't be able to stand the fishy smell of pig offal. People here don't eat animal offal, and there is no good way to remove the smell here, so I had to add more chili peppers to cover up the smell of pig offal...
"Come on! Use less spicy food in other dishes. If you can, don't add it. If you say this is Sichuan food, I will admit it... Forget it, just take the big pancake and eat it!"
The dishes were all served, but it would not be good to send them back. In addition, it was indeed very appetizing. It was not easy for a restaurant owner to be in a foreign country. Li Qing did not say anything more. He was drooling and could only hope that the old man was behind. Be merciful.
The one-inch-thick flatbread was indeed very characteristic of Lu Province. Li Qing and Monkey completely forgot about themselves during the whole meal. In the end, they were so stuffed that they couldn't get up from their seats, so they had to loosen their belts and sit down to eat.
The diners at the table next to them couldn't hold back, and eagerly asked the boss to serve a plate of the stir-fried pig heart that was served at the beginning, and insisted that they want the same dish. After trying it, they were shocked and couldn't stop eating it. He shouted directly: "Master Hala! Master Hala!"
Unknowingly, it was the official meal time, and the small restaurant was already full of people. Many people were sniffling and strongly requested the boss to cook food with a strong fragrance. The restaurant boss was so happy that he couldn't help but agree. Busy feet never touch the ground.
Seeing that there were still people standing without seats, Li Qing and Hou Hou forced themselves to stand up, picked up their hats, walked to the door curtain of the back kitchen, and shouted inside: "Boss, check out!"
"Here it comes! Here it comes!" After a while, the boss came out with a plate of stir-fried kidneys. It looked very spicy. Li Qing and Monkey quickly got out of the way, and their eyes were smoked!
After the boss delivered the dishes, he came to Li Qing and Monkey, nodded and said, "I'm sorry, I'm a little too busy today. Please forgive me for the things I can't pay attention to. Chenghui 375 Pala."
Li Qing and Monkey were dumbfounded. What is Para?
The monkey took out a silver dinar and asked the boss stupidly: "Isn't the dinar used here? What is a palla?"
"Uh!" The restaurant owner looked at the dinar in the monkey's hand and said, "1 dinar is equivalent to 100 pallas, and yours is the largest denomination silver coin of 30 dinars..."
"Oh! It does have 30 printed on it. Are the prices here so cheap? Such a large table of dishes costs less than 4 dinars?" The monkey looked at the dinar silver coins in his hand. This thing seems to be quite valuable. , asked curiously.
It is normal for outsiders to not understand the local prices, so the restaurant owner had no choice but to educate Li Qing and Monkey about the local prices.
"Well, it's not cheap, right? Normally, it costs about 1 dinar per person to eat here. In addition, the ingredients you eat this time are not valuable. I got these things to prepare I eat it myself. The ingredients are basically pig offal half sold and half given away by the butcher shop, and the bean sprouts are raw by myself. But you eat a lot, so the price is a little higher..."
"You know, if you just buy simple food such as bread and potatoes, 1 dinar is enough to feed a poor family for a day. The silver coin in your hand is a month's salary of an ordinary worker. But other For example, salt, seasonings, etc. are not cheap, and oil is also relatively expensive. Fortunately, I use lard..."
Li Qing did some calculations and found that the price was really not high. Of course, it was incomparable with later generations. In later generations, it was common for one meal to cost a month.
Li Qing snatched the silver coin from the monkey's hand, put it into the restaurant owner's hand and said, "I've been eating here for the past two days. This is the money for the meal. You can prepare something for me then!"
The restaurant owner felt it was too hot to hold the silver coins: "This is too much. I can't finish it. I can't finish it at all..."
Li Qing suspected that the restaurant owner had also traveled through time, but unfortunately there was no evidence.
"If you can't finish it, save it for next time! Let's eat the nine-turn large intestine tonight. Is it okay for the two of us to digest our food here?"
"Okay, I'll keep it for now. You two can rest as you please. I'll find you two stools!"
"Forget it, my name is Boss Li, and his name is Monkey. What's your last name, Boss?"
"Ah? Your surname is Zhang, your bow is Zhang, and I, Zhang Youcai, do you still have a Chinese name?"
The monkey was not happy: "How strange, we have been talking in Chinese for so long, and yet you still think we are crooked nuts? Go and do your work, we will find the stools ourselves!"
"Oh! Okay, I'll get busy first!" After saying that, the restaurant owner hurriedly got into the kitchen.
Li Qing and Hou Hou wondered for a long time, and finally found two small stools inside the counter. They sat down and tried them. Their stomachs were curled up and they felt uncomfortable, so they had to stand up again and leaned on the counter to chat.
Seeing the restaurant owner busy with his business, he was as busy as a butterfly in a flower. Unfortunately, his old face could only be regarded as a fluttering moth at best. The monkey couldn't stand it anymore and said to Boss Zhang who was passing by: "I Speaking of Boss Zhang, you don’t have to work so hard, right? Find two waiters! What’s going on..."
Boss Zhang had just cleared a table and carried the wooden basin to send the used tableware to the back kitchen. He happened to hear the monkey talking and replied with a smile: "There was an old lady here to help before. There is no war in the city these two days." Well, I just asked her to go home and hide."
"Business was not good before, and I had nothing to do to recruit waiters, so I just made do with it. No one ordered Chinese food before. Thanks to the two of you today, otherwise I would have to practice Shandong cuisine at home. Got it!"
As Boss Zhang spoke, he entered the kitchen, and soon the sound of cooking could be heard from inside.
Li Qing and Monkey looked at each other with a smile, looked around boredly, and chatted casually about something! Occasionally, I help clear the table and greet the guests, which is relaxing!
But the diners who came later were a little confused and didn't understand what role these two German officers played here. Fortunately, after the German army entered the city, it did not interfere too much with the lives of ordinary people, so there was no uneasiness among ordinary people.
Finally, the number of people in the restaurant gradually decreased, and Li Qing and Hou Hou found an empty table and sat down again. Boss Zhang also relaxed a little. He sent a basin of used tableware into the kitchen, then walked out empty-handed, hammered his waist with his right hand, and sat down next to Li Qing with a grin on his face.
"I said, Boss Zhang, let Auntie come over quickly. You are really busy here alone. The battle is over, and you have seen it. There will be no soldiers to embarrass you!"
"Hey, I'll call the old lady here in the afternoon. She's too old after all..."
The monkey seemed to have thought of something funny and couldn't help laughing: "Hey!"
Boss Zhang couldn't help but startled when he heard the laughter, and sighed: "Don't say it yet, I feel more and more that you two are the children of our country. If it weren't for your looks, I wouldn't have any doubts... …pity……"
"What's a pity?"
"It's a pity that she has a crooked face. At first glance, she is not a child of our country!"
The monkey couldn't help but become anxious: "You are mistaken about this. We grew up in China, and are authentic Chinese..."
Boss Zhang stared at the monkey for a while and shook his head, obviously not believing it.
The monkey looked at Li Qing's face and argued: "Isn't it just a little whiter...the eye sockets are a little deeper...the nose is a little straighter..." As he said this, he was discouraged and couldn't go on. Don't look at it, it just changed a little, that taste That's not the case anymore.
Come on, I can’t explain it clearly.
