Gourmet: Midnight Vending-Chapter 257 - 255: Fitness-Themed Barbecue Restaurant?
In an instant, it became lively in front of the yellow food truck, with gym coaches and members each holding a bunch of skewers.
The slightly spicy and fresh aroma, with cumin and lamb being a golden combination, was wildly enticing everyone’s taste buds. The lamb, crispy on the outside and tender and juicy inside, made everyone eat skewer after skewer, unable to stop.
"These skewers are really something. I thought that young boss was just trying to hike up the price with all that flashiness earlier!"
"Tell me about it. Getting skewers like this for this price is such an amazing deal! Last time at the Construction Road Night Market, the skewers were at most half this size, yet the price was double. Isn’t that just a rip-off?"
"It’d be great to have such skewers every day, but speaking of which, does this young boss only have skewers here? Isn’t that a bit monotonous?"
"There’s also beef noodles!"
The diners were eating and chatting with great enthusiasm, enjoying their food heartily.
Ma Juntao finished off ten skewers in two bites and eagerly leaned on the windowsill, "Boss Chen, give me ten more skewers!"
The grill was at this moment divided in half by Chen Mo with skewers.
On the left were new skewers being initially grilled, while on the right were skewers that were eight or nine tenths cooked, spinning and jumping in Chen Mo’s hands, with flames soaring.
When cumin and chili powder were crazily sprinkled on the surface of the skewers, it announced that the new batch of skewers was about to come off the grill!
Those who just finished ten skewers immediately gathered around, holding their phones ready to scan and pay.
Song Ya had also finished eating.
Although she thoroughly enjoyed her food, she felt a bit guilty. When her turn came, Song Ya said a little shyly, "I’ll have another ten skewers and a T-bone beef noodle, please."
She dared not eat more lamb skewers, fearing that eating too many would really make her gain weight.
Chen Mo nodded slightly. After finishing grilling a hundred skewers this time, he cleared half of the grill’s space to start grilling steaks.
Skewers are tasty, but so are beef noodles!
The gym coaches behind almost all made the same choice, but some were simply not satisfied with just ten, so they ordered twenty skewers and finished with an ordinary beef noodle.
Since there was no disruptive task today, the coaches and members habitually returned to the gym to eat after getting their beef noodles and skewers.
After all, the gym not only has hot water to drink but also air conditioning to enjoy. Eating barbecue in an air-conditioned room during Chengdu’s summer is an absolute pleasure.
On the other side, Yang Hong was still at home watching TV, but the plot on screen kept slipping from his mind.
He would daze off after a few seconds, and by the time he snapped back, several minutes had already passed.
"Song Ya used to either be at work or come home to cook, and she was always so enthusiastic with me every night. She says she’s working out, so she’s surely at the gym."
Yang Hong consoled his anxious mood and continued watching TV.
But after just a few seconds of watching, he suddenly took a deep breath, "A while back, Xiaoya was always so enthusiastic, but in those days I was just too tired. Lately, Xiaoya seems like she doesn’t show me any signals at night?"
Yang Hong recalled this period.
Every day he’d come home to a meal his wife prepared, then after dinner, they’d each play on their phones, going to bed right at midnight.
Previously, Song Ya would make some moves in bed, but lately, it was so quiet that Yang Hong was secretly happy for a few days.
But at this moment, Yang Hong suddenly realized.
Something’s off, this isn’t right!
"People say not eating at home means they’ve already eaten outside. Could it be?"
Yang Hong immediately shook his head. After twenty years of marriage, he felt he shouldn’t be having such thoughts.
But then, what could it be?
She says she’s going to the gym, yet she doesn’t sweat at all, and every night she goes out dressed so attractively.
Finally, Yang Hong couldn’t hold it in any longer.
He didn’t trust others, and family issues shouldn’t be aired to outsiders, so Yang Hong called his sister, Yang Jing.
"Jingjing, it seems like your sister-in-law has signed up for some gym on Construction Road. It’s so late; could you help me check when she comes back?"
"Yeah, I’ve called her several times, and she’s not answering. Her phone’s probably in the locker room. I sprained my foot today, so I’m not good for walking around. Isn’t that gym just at the entrance of your neighborhood?"
"Alright, you help me take a look. I’m a bit worried about your sister-in-law being out so late."
After the call, Yang Hong turned off the TV in annoyance and stood by the window, waiting for news from his sister.
After hanging up, Yang Jing headed straight out.
She was wondering about it on the way there.
What’s up with this sister-in-law? Isn’t a full day’s work tiring enough? How does she even have energy to work out at night?
She walked out of the neighborhood, and after just a few steps—
"What’s that smell? It’s so fragrant."
Yang Jing followed the scent with her nose, soon seeing a yellow food truck. In front of the truck was a line of sanitation workers, and on the side of the truck stood a sign, saying something about a caring late-night meal.
"Caring late-night meal turns out to be barbecue?" That smell has to be the scent of grilled meat.
Curious, Yang Jing walked to the front of the food truck.
"Wow!"
She happened to witness Chen Mo grabbing a large batch of skewers, twirling them, with the surface of the skewers engulfed in blazing fire.
Won’t this scorch the meat?
Just as Yang Jing thought this, she saw the flames extinguish, and there wasn’t the slightest sign of burnt marks on the surface of the skewers. She could even still see fatty pieces sizzling with oil, the released fats closely holding the chili and cumin on the meat’s surface.
"Forget it, the skewers look pretty tempting, but I just ate and I’m really not hungry."
Yang Jing reminded herself of her purpose and turned to enter the gym to find her sister-in-law.
As she turned, her peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the sign outside the truck.
"What’s this? Such large skewers for two Yuan each?"
If it was just about having barbecue, then no, Yang Jing wasn’t hungry right now. But if such large skewers were selling for only two Yuan, well, she couldn’t help it.
"Boss, give me ten skewers!"
Since Chen Mo had just finished grilling a large batch, after serving several sanitation workers, there happened to be some left.
Yang Jing took her lamb skewers, eating them as she walked towards the gym.
"Wow, these skewers are something!" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
"A little roadside stall can actually grill something this delicious, on par with those big barbecue joints!"
Yang Jing quickly ate five skewers, her mouth full of oil, and as she arrived at the gym’s exterior, she looked inside through the large glass windows.
Just one glance.
She froze on the spot.
She even thought she must have seen wrong, mimicking characters on TV by closing her eyes, waiting a few seconds, then reopening them.
"A gym is supposed to be a place for working out, right?"
Seeing the scene through the glass, Yang Jing suddenly felt she couldn’t keep up with modern trends anymore.
"So is this a barbecue-themed gym?"
