Chapter 38 Chicken and Egg
One day, two days...
In a blink of an eye, Yuan Yi's fried rice business has been in operation for almost two weeks.
The business has fluctuated in terms of sales volume. Through his son's private statistics, Yuan Yi realized that the single variety of egg fried rice is still difficult to sustain. There were not many students who repeatedly bought fried rice in two weeks, and most of them tried it with the idea of trying it out.
First of all, these people have long been used to local Western-style meals such as hamburgers, pizza, fries, etc. It is okay to eat this fried rice with strong Chinese characteristics occasionally once or twice, but it is probably difficult to rely on them to focus on this.
Secondly, the habit here is to have a tea break at 10 o'clock. Students usually eat some snacks bought from their homes or at the supermarket nearby, so that they won't be too hungry when they are lunch. Basically, a small burger or fish and potato can solve the problem, and there is no need for such a large box of fried rice.
Furthermore, fried rice with a 15-dollar fried rice is cheap enough compared to regular restaurant sellers, but a burger with a 5-dollar one has no price advantage at all.
Finally, the main reason is the singleness of the food varieties. To be honest, even Yuan Yi himself is unwilling to have the same fried rice every noon, even though he has added meat grains, Lao Ganma and other ingredients to the fried rice in different ways.
To sum up, the sales of fried rice have not improved much, and later it has shown a gradual decline. This is the result of Yuan Yue and East and others going to other classrooms to promote it vigorously.
Yuan Yi understood that if his takeaway business continues, he had to make changes, and he must not be limited to just a kind of fried rice.
After thinking about it, Yuan Yi even sought the help of Baidu masters, but found some solutions that suit the current situation. Seeing that he finally ordered several Chinese "delicacies", Yuan Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't believe that he could not conquer those dolls this time.
Yuan Yi planned to make pasta this time. There are many types of Chinese pasta, including buns, steamed buns, pancakes, stuffed and stuffed, and you can even use your own skills to play carving to give ordinary pasta new shapes.
For this reason, Yuan Yi went to the supermarket to purchase some pigments for food. No matter how beautiful the shape looks, it is still not attractive enough without the color. It is impossible for different types of things to be white in color.
It just happened that some time ago, Yuan Yi bought a large steamer from a pastry chef who returned to China in the group. It has a diameter of about 60cm and a height of about 40cm. According to normal size, 30 buns can be steamed in one pot.
As for which pasta to make for the first time, Yuan Yi already had a general concern.
The fundamental difference between steamed buns and buns is whether there is filling in the flour.
Yuan Yi understood his ability to make noodles, and he just learned how to wake up and knead noodles before going abroad...
When making buns, he was really worried about "accidents" that would be exposed. When making steamed buns, he was worried that the single taste and taste would not attract children's interest.
After thinking about it, Yuan Yi planned to effectively integrate the two, so he first tried steamed buns with some stuffings.
The main ingredient of the filling is beef. There are ready-made beef fillings sold in the supermarket. Then add some chopped cabbage leaves, pour soy sauce, salt and other condiments, and finally stir in cooking oil.
Two types of flour were used, namely fine white and fine normal flour and semolina suspected mixed with buckwheat.
The two kinds of flour made of one is consistent with the white flour buns that Yuan Yi believes, and the other one has a light brown color.
This was caused by Yuan Yi’s accidental mistake when buying flour. He took a bag of it for granted in front of the flour shelves, and after he came back and tried it, he found that the color and taste were different.
Compared with the English on the packaging, it took a lot of effort to search online to understand the difference between various flours.
However, no matter how wrong it is, it has become a means to enrich the noodle food. Whether in terms of vision, feel or taste, it is indeed quite different from thin and thick.
Yuan Yi planned to use a hen as the main body. The chubby appearance of the hen is not difficult to make with flour. Just a little kneading can shape the head and tail. The two types of flour can make two hens, one gray and one white.
In addition, Yuan Yi cut his eyes, beak, wings and other details with a dining knife and then finished it all. Finally, he applied food coloring materials to the surface of the hen's body. After steaming, the coloring blocks were naturally mottled and made them look natural and feathers.
The bright red cockscomb and bright yellow beak are steamed and then applied to avoid cracks on the color blocks caused by the expansion of the face.
When the hen's round eyes were painted at the end, especially the playful eyelashes, it added a lot of fun. Even Yuan Yi himself was very satisfied with the vivid appearance.
With chicken, you have to have eggs. The main body of the chicken is a steamed bun without filling, so the eggs have to be filled with stuffing.
So eggs, half smaller than hens, were made, and all of them were wrapped with mixed beef fillings. They took a bite and the aroma of their mouth was filled with the aroma.
In order to make the pasta he made high-end, Yuan Yi also asked Green Tea to help get some plastic boxes for pastries, one chicken and two eggs were just right.
At noon, Yuan Yi was waiting early on the road next to the school. He could park here, and walked over from the school gate and turned around in less than 20 meters.
Yuan Yi had long rejected the move of blocking others' shopping at the school gate. Although he did not see any notice that he would not allow the setting up stalls at the school gate, it always made Yuan Yi feel that it was not appropriate.
After several searches, this convenient parking area, with trees and shade, became a designated "stall" for Yuan Yi's "dining car".
Looking at the neat 30 boxes of pastries in the tidy box, Yuan Yi couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth. It's all money!
Two eggs for one chicken are priced at 5 yuan. If you want to add another egg, 2 yuan per two yuan and 3 yuan per two yuan.
As for the consumption capacity of these students, Yuan Yi was not worried at all. Judging from the news from his son, these children were rich, and this kind of novel and fun thing that could be eaten as a food cannot be accepted by them.
Yuan Yi had already taken photos of the chicken and eggs he had tried before and asked his son to take to school to show them to his classmates. If nothing unexpected happens, these few 30 sets should be sold out.
The facts were indeed not beyond Yuan Yi's expectations. After seeing the real thing, the more than a dozen students brought by his son exclaimed and lined up to buy it. After these students brought the chickens and egg sets back to the classroom, they triggered a sales boom. Even the students who had already prepared lunch came over to buy or watch, and the result was that even the extra beef-filled eggs were wiped out.
Chapter completed!