Shangshi Private Kitchen Restaurant is a branch opened in Bei'an.
The location was chosen in a densely populated area.
Although it was not widely publicized, with its well-known reputation in the circle, genuine ingredients, and unique and delicious cooking techniques, it was successfully promoted to a well-known upstart in the catering industry.
In Liu Yunong's words about his private restaurant, this branch is a perfect example of combining the old customs and authentic traditional flavors of Liu's main restaurant with the fashionable and new trends in modern catering services. Old wine is replaced with new bottles, and the bottles are exquisite. It’s eye-catching and the wine has a mellow and pleasant taste!
When Shen Laosan drove over, he thought the location of this branch was quite interesting.
Unlike the main store, which located the store in an old street, it chose an old residential area.
If it weren't for the location, it would be a bit difficult to find this store.
But once you enter the store, you will find that the decoration of this branch is very creative and clever.
There is a small table for couples by the window. They sit on a small wooden stool, rub each other's feet under the table, and enjoy the inner view of the community full of human fireworks through the window.
Customers who come alone to taste delicious food usually like to sit around the bar.
On the food delivery table connected to the kitchen window, there are plates of prepared dishes from time to time, slowly rotating out from the revolving bar for diners to take as needed.
For those like Shen Laosan who value privacy and have higher requirements for a dining environment, they can choose to dine in a private room.
It will be like an ordinary restaurant, with dedicated waiters serving tea and water, and the service is very attentive and thoughtful.
Although it is a branch store, Shen Laosan had to admit when he was led to the private room by the waiter that this store was no different from the main store in terms of decoration and service quality.
It is also a private kitchen and a small catering business, but Liu Yunong's shop can meet all the catering requirements of new and old customers at the same time.
I just don’t know how skilled the chefs at the branch are, and whether they are too different from the master chefs at the main store.
Zhang Conglin personally greeted Shen Laosan and sat in a private room by the window on the first floor.
Shen Laosan didn't even need to look at the menu, and didn't give Zhang Conglin a chance to speak. He spoke loudly and read out the two dishes he had ordered before.
"Soft glutinous sauce duck, green tofu in golden soup, and bring me a big bowl of rice. Oh, there is also red date tea here, right? Have a pot."
When Zhang Conglin heard it, he thought, okay, they are all the most popular set meals in the main store.
Zhang Conglin sighed inwardly that he was indeed a regular customer of the store and was really familiar with their dishes.
He replied: "Okay, I'll serve you the food right away."
The waiter left, and only Shen Laosan was left in the box.
He looked around at the decoration in the box and was stunned and silent.
This style is exactly the same as the main store, from the wallpaper to the furnishings, even the doors and windows.
Sitting here is like sitting in a box in the main store.
The dishes in the store are all his favorites, dishes that his grandfather used to cook in the back kitchen of the main store.
In addition to making friends and pursuing beautiful girls, his grandfather also has such a big hobby: cooking!
And he is really willing to work hard and explore the ingredients, heat and taste.
Because of his love, his grandfather put aside the family property and worked under the then head chef of Shangshi Private Restaurant, and stayed in the back kitchen cooking for half his life.
Whenever he was thinking of a new dish, he would first make it for Shen Lao San and Grandma Shen to try, listen to Grandma Shen's opinions, and then check whether it suited Shen Lao San's taste.
Which dish Shen Laosan eats a lot and likes, and which dish Shen Laosan eats less and doesn't like, the old man silently remembers in his heart.
Later, until the old man passed away, no one knew that the chef who was working diligently in the back kitchen was originally from the Shen family.
But since then, Shen Laosan has become a regular customer of Shangshi Private House Restaurant.
The soft and glutinous sauce-flavored duck is served in a large round plate. After stir-frying, the duck meat is charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
From the styling to the plates made of Dahe, it is all the same as the main store.
The duck meat is chopped evenly, and each piece of duck meat is covered with marinated and fragrant duck skin. The meager duck meat on the bottom skeleton is fried into a layer of crispy skin, which is stained after stir-frying. Strong hemp aroma.
Shen Laosan is curious about this spicy and spicy taste.
Golden soup green tofu is tofu cooked with brine, mixed with thick soy milk fried from pure soybeans, deep-fried, topped with secretly chopped matsutake mushrooms, and then poured with thick and sweet pumpkin paste, which is full of fragrance , the entrance is sweet.
Shen Laosan held the spoon and stared blankly at the soft and glutinous sauce duck in front of him.
It wasn't the taste he had eaten at the main store before.
But it was exactly the same as the classic old-fashioned soft and glutinous sauce-flavored duck that his grandfather once cooked at home.
Most of the dishes in Shangshi Private Restaurant have been improved.
Compared with the classic old taste, it is more in line with contemporary people's eating habits and tastes.
But his grandfather admires the classic and old taste of various dishes.
I feel that no matter what time, only the classic old taste is the cooking method that strictly adheres to the traditional craftsmanship and retains the original taste.
The more classic flavors like this are about to be lost in today's society, they are the most precious and worth-tasting old flavors.
The soft and glutinous sauce-flavored duck is stir-fried until it is charred and crispy, and the bones can be chewed. Crack it to bring out the flavor. Shen Laosan likes to chew the duck bones dry.
He chewed the duck meat in silence, slurping the delicious aroma that was just right with the mellow and numbing aroma. His heart felt sour, sweet, bitter, and astringent, and a ball of memories rushed over him...
Shen Laosan's eyes were dark and bottomless as he looked at the dish. It was as if through the dish, he saw the figure in his memory, although he was a little stooped, but his posture was extremely professional.
The old man only wore a loose white vest on his upper body, and the back of his neck was burned dark red by the poisonous sun, and hot sweat flowed freely.
He stood in front of the kitchen counter, his posture was very good, and his cooking movements were very skillful.
The slicing and slicing are done with meticulous skill.
The strong copper-colored arms held up a cast iron pot, and the dishes were tossed evenly and brightly, three horizontally, four vertically, five left and six right, which was quite rhythmic.
Shen Laosan was lost in memories. At that moment, he suddenly felt that the soft and glutinous sauce-flavored duck in his mouth overlapped with the taste he had eaten before.
It is full of the mundane intimacy of the small life in the city, and the mouth is full of the long-missed and fragrant classic old taste.
He still held the chopsticks in his hand, but forgot to put them down. Unknowingly, he was absent-minded for a little longer...
