Chapter 106 Hand-made Fish Balls
So, in the evening of the second day, everyone ate the delicious salted duck again.

Moreover, the taste of the salted duck this time was even better than the day before because Xia Mingyue’s technique was more skillful.

Now, it was Jiang Zhuguo's turn to think about whether to buy a duck...

In her opinion, all the food and drink she had here were thanks to Xia Mingyue and the Lu family. There was no reason to let only these two families buy meat. She said that she had to treat everyone to something to eat.

Moreover, she didn't plan to give a penny of her 500-yuan monthly salary back home, and she didn't have much other expenses here, so there didn't seem to be much use in keeping the money.

But just when Jiang Zhuguo was planning to go to the street to buy a duck, the owner of the grocery store came to his door.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he smiled and said, "Mrs. Xia, I have made the oil paper cup you asked for. Take a look. Does it look like this?"

Xia Mingyue took the thing that was handed to her and looked at it carefully.

It is about six inches high, with the bottom approximately half the size of a palm, and becomes wider towards the top. Its general appearance is about 80% similar to the popcorn bucket in modern society.

However, this oil paper cup is not entirely made of oil paper. The inside is made of oil paper, and the outside is made of ordinary paper that feels very rough. This way, it not only has the function of preventing water from leaking, but also has a certain degree of strength.

"This oil paper cup is exactly what I want." Xia Mingyue was very surprised, but a little worried, "I just don't know how much this oil paper cup costs?"

"The price is really not cheap." The grocery store owner sighed, "Three cents for one."

In fact, you don’t need much oil paper, and thinner paper will do. The paper used on the outside is the worst and roughest kind, and you can even see the texture of various straws and bamboo fragments on the paper.

But gluing the two layers together requires a lot of glue, and there will be some paper loss, plus the labor cost, so the price naturally goes up.

But Xia Mingyue let out a sigh of relief when she heard that.

Three cents, fortunately, it was within her affordability.

But he couldn't show too much on his face, so he just said, "It's not cheap. I'll probably need a lot more later. Can the shopkeeper give me a discount then?"

"Of course." The grocery store owner nodded repeatedly, "If Madam Xia wants more, it can naturally be cheaper. At the very least, we can give you some extra."

For everything, when the quantity increases, the price will naturally be easy to negotiate.

"Madam Xia, do you want some now? How many of these oil paper cups do you need? I have to prepare them in advance."

Whether it is oil paper or personnel, they all need to be prepared in advance. It is absolutely not possible to do it now.

"Boss, please make me a hundred first. I'll see how they turn out and then order the next batch." Xia Mingyue replied.

"Okay, I'll prepare it right away." The grocery store owner responded, "Just wait for Madam Xia to give you the money when the goods are delivered."

"Thank you, shopkeeper."

"Ms. Xia, you are too polite..."

After seeing off the grocery store owner, Xia Mingyue felt relaxed.

The bamboo skewers are in place, the oil paper cups are in place, and the seasonings are ready. The next thing to do is to enrich the product variety of cold pot skewers.

Needless to say, vegetarian dishes only require seasonal vegetables.

Tofu can be made from tofu skin, bean curd sticks, and vegetarian chicken slices, etc.

For fungi, you can use soaked dried black fungus and fresh mushroom cubes. You can also use some gluten cubes that you have washed and steamed on weekdays.

However, there are relatively few meat dishes, only tenderloin slices and pork belly slices, and the variety is relatively simple.

If you want to make your cold pot skewers famous, you need to have a novel appearance, and you need to have a signature and good food...

Xia Mingyue thought about it and finally asked Jiang Zhuguo to buy two grass carps.

Grass carp feeds mainly on aquatic plants. Its meat is tender and fresh, and it is widely popular. It tastes great whether stewed or cooked into soup.

Jiang Zhuguo did not delay at all after receiving the order, and hurried to the street to look for someone selling grass carp.

There is a river to the south of Jinqiu County. There are usually many people fishing and fishing there. Some people also open ponds for breeding. There are many kinds of fish and shrimp, including carp, crucian carp, grass carp, etc.

Jiang Zhuguo picked out two large grass carps that looked very fresh and took them home.

Scrape the scales, remove the gills, and remove the internal organs...

After cleaning both grass carps, Xia Mingyue took a kitchen knife and sliced ​​off the meat close to the bones from the tail of the grass carp.

Place the fish slices upside down on the chopping board, chop the fish meat gently with the back of a knife, and then slowly scrape off the fish paste. Mix the scraped fish paste with egg white, then filter it with gauze to fully filter out the small fish bones.

After all the fish paste has been processed, season it with salt, pepper, and water soaked with green onion and ginger, then add a little sweet potato starch and keep stirring in one direction until the fish paste is completely firm and becomes sticky and chewy.

Squeeze the meatballs out of the tiger's mouth and put them into the pot with cold water. After all the meatballs are in the pot, bring to a boil over high heat. When cooked, take them out and soak them in cold water. The white and tender fish balls are then ready.

Xia Mingyue used two different ways to eat the finished fish balls.

One is to string them into skewers and soak them in the sauce used to make skewers, becoming fish ball skewers.

The second method is to boil the fish heads, fish tails and fish bones that are not used in making fish balls into soup, and then use the soup to cook the fish balls again to make fish ball soup.

Both dishes were served on the table. Xia Mingyue asked Jiang Zhuguo, the Lu family of three, and Zhou and Song who worked here to try the dishes.

The fish balls are chewy and smooth, and the fish meat is fresh, fragrant and delicious with a wonderful taste.

The fish ball skewers have a spicy and fresh taste because of the sauce. They have a hot and refreshing taste and you will feel very satisfied. You will want to get a second skewer right after eating one.

The fish ball soup has a light taste, comfortable in the mouth, like a gentle breeze, not too fast or too slow, but it makes you want to eat the whole bowl of fish balls and soup.

In short, the fish balls are delicious, and the fish ball skewers and fish ball soup are both very delicious.

They are so equally beautiful that it’s hard to tell which is better!
But after several people praised the fish ball skewers and fish ball soup, they felt something was wrong.

Since Xia Mingyue asked them to taste the food, she probably wanted to choose one to sell, but now they think both are delicious. Doesn't this make Xia Mingyue even more embarrassed?

"Sister-in-law, it's not that we don't want to choose one, it's just that both of them are delicious and we really can't choose..."

As soon as Lu's words came out, others immediately nodded in agreement crazily.

But he looked at Xia Mingyue more and more embarrassedly.

"It would be great if both are delicious." Xia Mingyue got the answer she wanted and smiled, "In this way, we can sell both!"

(End of this chapter)