Food Stall: Customers Chase Me across the Country-Chapter 298 - 299: The Two Nemeses of the Cantonese Kitchen — Stir-Fried Beef River Noodles
Shen Teng looked at Wang Fan, who was wrapped up tightly at the window, and laughed like an old wolf seeing a lamb.
Once Wang Boss’s general location is determined, finding him is simply too easy.
Just look where there’s a long line, and you can’t go wrong.
This is the lethal appeal of the strongest wild boss.
Surprised? Unexpected? Happy?
Wahaha, accept the judgment of fate, Boss Wang!
Looking at Shen Teng appearing in front of him, Wang Fan was also speechless.
Are people now really so resourceful? I’ve recently kept a low profile, even covering my face, so how did he find me again?
"Hey Boss Wang, didn’t expect this, did you? Seeing me, you should know your fate by now, right?"
Wang Fan couldn’t help but roll his eyes. Damn fate, at worst, I’ll give you a limited quantity, what can you do?
But the one who needs to accept fate now is you, not me.
"Sorry, today’s steamed chicken is sold out."
Shen Teng’s face, full of excitement, enthusiasm, and pride, instantly froze upon hearing this sentence.
He took two incredulous steps back and looked at the board, and indeed found that the remaining amount had turned to 0.
This is not scientific!
Heaven wouldn’t do this to me!
"Boss Wang, don’t joke around, do you know how I’ve gotten by these days? Huh?! I haven’t had a proper meal in two weeks! I finally found you, and you use your thirty-six point five degree mouth to say such cold and heartless words? Do you think it’s appropriate?"
Wang Fan cleared his throat and said: "Thirty-seven point one, I’ve had a slight fever these past couple of days."
Shen Teng was furious: "Is that the main point? The main point is how can you tell your loyal fan there’s no food?!"
Wang Fan pointed to the empty computer and stacked trays: "You can see for yourself, they’re really sold out. Plus, all the ingredients have been cleared, you better hurry to another window to get some food, don’t starve yourself."
Shen Teng took out his phone from his pocket: "Fine, since you’re heartless, don’t blame me for being unrighteous, a Cloud-Piercing Arrow will bring thousands of soldiers galloping over!"
With that, he took a picture of Wang Fan and his stall with his phone: "Brothers, anyone near Tianjin, quickly come to Boss Wang, the coordinates are at Kainan University’s Science Canteen, Window 5!"
Wang Fan watched Shen Teng’s antics without any reaction, mainly because no matter how many people came, he sold the same amount of stuff, so there was nothing to fear. But he was quite curious about how this guy found him.
"How did you find me?"
Shen Teng gave a proud chuckle and said: "Though you hid your whereabouts well this time and chose such a hard-to-find spot, you couldn’t avoid having a traitor among you. He accidentally captured you when sharing photos. We’d recognize your distinct aroma even after it turned to ash, how could we not find you?" 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
Wang Fan grimaced, talking about a fragrance even if it turned to ash, that’s pretty disgusting...
"Alright, you better go find something to eat, the other stalls have good food too, I’m packing up to get off work."
"Puh, liar, I don’t believe you’ve eaten at the other stalls, how do you know their food’s good?"
Wang Fan had no way to deal with this witty fan, wasn’t it just some polite talk? Why did you have to reveal the truth?
Seeing there’s no profit to be squeezed from Wang Fan’s clean kitchen, Shen Teng had no choice but to head to another stall, though it would just be a hasty meal to fill his stomach.
This can’t compare to those at hotels, let alone Boss Wang’s, how could I eat happily?
But tonight...
Shen Teng looked at Wang Fan busy packing up at window five, with excitement blazing in his eyes.
Tonight’s meal is inevitable!
...
This morning, Wang Fan already thought about what to make for dinner.
How could you make Guangfu cuisine without dry-fried beef noodles?
Guangfu cuisine is so diverse, with beef hotpot, Cantonese-style morning tea, wanton noodles, rice rolls, fermented bean curd cakes, raw fish and shrimp, marinated seafood, etc., there’s so much you can’t even count it all.
But if you were to choose a dish that represents Guangfu cuisine among so many, at least 9 out of 10 Cantonese chefs would unanimously tell you: "Dry-fried beef river noodles!"
The other chef would shout "plus one."
In Guangfu, dry-fried beef river noodles are the standard for testing a Cantonese chef’s skills. To see how deep a chef’s skills are, look at his dry-fried beef river noodles.
It’s said that Cantonese chefs have an unwritten rule, which is that you must make the dry-fried beef river noodles well before formally qualifying and being able to claim you’re a Cantonese chef.
To those who don’t know, this dish seems simple, merely a few ingredients stir-fried together, but in truth, it really tests one’s skill, the biggest key being the "dry" part.
Dry-fry means high heat and quick stir-frying, the beef refers to beef, generally using tender beef tenderloin, while river refers to the less common river noodles.
The full name of river noodles is Shahe Rice Noodles, from Shahe Town, Qingyuan City.
Which brings us to the wisdom of the ancients being remarkable.
The raw material of Shahe noodles is just rice, and the rice from Shahe Town is not sticky, making it too hard and not palatable to eat directly.
But our charming ancestors always found a solution, they reprocessed the rice into river noodles, turning waste into treasure in a moment.
Wang Fan blushed a bit looking at his own recipe, he couldn’t believe the system recipe could be so shameless.
The recipe read: "Ancient style dry-fried beef river noodles, over 90% of Guangfu people have never tasted this!"
Wang Fan really felt this brag was too much, it’s like saying 90% of Tianjin people have never had a Jianbing Guozi, or 90% of Beijing people never drank Douzhi...
Wait, something strange seemed to mix in, Douzhi seems to be a thing Beijing people use to fool outsiders, most of them seem to have never drunk it.
That stuff that’s as sour as swill, hardly anyone truly likes it, right?
But dry-fried beef river noodles are different!
This dish in Guangfu, whether in the morning, afternoon, evening, or midnight snack, is always the fallback option when you don’t know what to eat.
He even suspects no Guangfu person can go a week without eating dry-fried beef river noodles, with such a staple dish, you say 90% of Guangfu people haven’t eaten it...
But he wanted to try it.
His Chef Level had quietly approached the 50 mark, he didn’t know what the equivalent level of 50 was among other chefs, at least a second level should be no problem, right? Should he spare some time to take a test and try?
Thinking this, Wang Fan began to select the ingredients needed for dry-fried beef river noodles.
