HLnovel Chapter 108 Banquet (1)
Chapter 108 Banquet (1)
As more and more customers came, some of them became dissatisfied. "Bai Yu, what kind of chef did you hire? We are so hungry, but you won't serve us any food."
"Yes, yes, you won't invite some low-class person to cook for us, right?" someone echoed.
The two people who were talking were both famous playboys in the capital, and no one dared to interrupt.
Then a voice was heard, "Everyone, please be patient. The chef I invited today used to be a royal chef. He will certainly not treat you badly." Bai Yu comforted.
"But why can some of you drink Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, but we can't?" The dude was not convinced.
Bai Yu said, "Master Li, didn't you notice that this Buddha Jumps Over the Wall requires sitting quietly here for about half a minute before it can be served."
"You are such an arrogant chef that you actually dance in front of me. What will happen if I don't follow the time?" Master Li shouted unconvinced.
"It's not that my chef is so arrogant, it's that Mr. Li is so impatient. If you drink the hot soup, you will be so angry that you will explode." Bai Yu remained elegant, but his tone had already started to be sarcastic.
This Mr. Li was one of his classmates. His family had some money and he felt very important all day long. If his parents had not asked him to have good relationships with everyone so as to benefit his future development, he would not have been willing to call him over.
"Wow, so impressive. Don't think you are great just because you are a member of the Bai family. You are just a concubine. How can you compare with the dignity of the principal wife?" Seeing that Master Li was becoming more and more outrageous, the people around him hurriedly stopped him and pulled him to stop him from talking.
However, Master Li felt that he was being humiliated and said unconvincedly, "You were the one who asked us to hold a birthday party for you, but you were not even allowed to eat. What kind of Bai family is this? They don't even have food."
Seeing that he looked like a starving ghost, Bai Yu called the maid next to him and said, "Bring him some rice and soup. See if he has room for something else after he's full."
The maid nodded and went into the kitchen.
The noise in the front can be heard in the back. Anqiao doesn't have any rules about not being able to eat. It's all for the sake of making the guests feel comfortable. Since he wants to eat, he can eat.
An Qiao and Bai Yu thought of the same thing. They couldn't eat for a while, and now that he was making such a fuss, they would feel embarrassed to slap themselves in the face again.
The maid brought soup and rice to Master Li. Master Li looked at the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall in front of him and smelled it. It looked delicious, but he still said to save face, "It's okay, edible, but not as good as my chef."
No one made fun of him and just smiled. Mr. Li started eating without paying attention. He pretended to be elegant at the beginning, but then he didn't want to pretend anymore and started eating with a grunt.
Bai Yu was entertaining others and had no mood to care about him.
Just as Mr. Li was gulping down a bowl of rice in a daze, An Qiao brought up the first dish, the Honghu Qitian.
There is a quail in a bowl. An Qiao stuffed the quail with Panax notoginseng, cordyceps flowers and bamboo fungus, which smells quite nourishing.
One in a stack, in order not to conflict with the previous soup, this time there is only a little soup, mainly for eating the nutritious quail.
"Wow, Brother Bai, your chef is really good. Where did he get him? I would like to invite him when I hold a banquet." The youngest son of the prime minister was the one who spoke. His mother loved to invite ladies to hold flower-viewing banquets or chrysanthemum-viewing banquets. In short, they would have a meal when anything was open.
If I could hire this cook, my mother would definitely not stop me from going out to play, and would praise me for being sensible.
Such food looks good and has a nice name. Most importantly, it looks very nutritious. When the time comes, I can ask the chef to make some beauty-enhancing food. My mother and close friends will be so happy.
The next thing that came up was a stack of yam cakes. The yam was ground into small pieces, and the whole stack lay on the plate, sticky and glutinous, with some sauces of different colors on top.
Some people got the yellow one, some people got the red one...
"Brother Qi, what does your yellow taste like?"
"It should be mango, or maybe some pineapple. Anyway, it's not too sweet and delicious. It's perfect for winter. If my little sister sees it, I don't know how happy she will be."
"Hey, my little sister does the same. Mine is green, and tastes like a mixture of green bean paste and some fruit. It's refreshing and sticky. I don't know how it can be made like this."
"I don't even know what this is, it's delicious."
Everyone was attracted to this person. There was a kind of jam on it, and some black seed-like things. It smelled unique and charming.
"Brother Bai, do you know what this is?" One of them asked curiously when he saw Bai Yu lying motionless.
"This is passion fruit, which is only available in Qiongzhou. It tastes so good when eaten with ice jelly in summer." Bai Yu said to everyone as if recalling the past.
"What is ice jelly? Brother Bai, you are really knowledgeable."
Young Master Li listened to others praising Bai Yu and snorted with disdain, "Nothing more than that."
An Qiao's restaurant basically serves ordinary people. It was just a coincidence that she entered Gu Mansion and Shangshu Mansion. Although many dignitaries came to buy some every day, they didn't eat it every day. When she was selling ice jelly, her food box didn't even enter Gu Mansion.
So it’s normal that everyone doesn’t know each other, but it’s a bit strange that Bai Yu knows him.
An Qiao has no memory of Bai Yu.
At this moment, the kitchen prepared the next meal...
There was only a short interval between each dish, so everyone didn’t go hungry, but they also didn’t feel too full.
Only Master Li was even more indignant. He knew that Bai Yu was cheating. If it weren't for him, he would have been so full that he was about to vomit.
But I was too embarrassed to say it was delicious, so I could only eat a little, and I felt indignant for a while.
As the dishes were served one by one, the people in the kitchen went from being nervous at the beginning to being calm. This was actually not much different from cooking in a restaurant.
"It's really delicious, Brother Bai, you hired a great chef. This mandarin duck butterfly is actually a stack of chicken wings. It's really well named and full of fun. The key is that these chicken wings are really delicious. We don't have the habit of eating these at home, but we didn't expect them to be so delicious."
Bai Yu clasped his fists politely, "What this chef cares about most is some wild fun. This is probably also a kind of fun, hahaha."
Another person also said, "This chef is very interesting. Two big wings and two small wings. Aren't they butterflies? Each wing has a different flavor. It's really delicious. I can't even eat enough."
Everyone laughed.
In addition to these interesting dishes, there are also some palace banquet dishes, such as white sauce fish, Wensi tofu, shepherd's purse dumplings...
Everything is exquisite and cute.
It is obviously ordinary Wensi tofu, which almost every family here has eaten.
But Anqiao’s Wensi tofu is different. In addition to being cut like silver threads, it looks particularly beautiful in the soup base, like blooming flowers.
It has a unique flavor when you put it in your mouth. Compared with the ordinary Wensi tofu which uses enoki mushrooms, black fungus, dried shrimps and other ingredients, Anqiao's soup base uses the seafood sent by Baiyu, so it tastes fresher, like drinking seafood soup.