Chapter 658: Chapter 303: A Different Fried Noodles, A Different Delicious! New Main Dish Can Trigger Tasks? [Subscribe Please]_3

Is this someone aspiring to be Lu Tixia?

Just as he was about to say “eat slower,” Lu Jiayue held up the bowl of garlic cloves, showing it off: “Hey, someone! Get me more garlic, peel another two heads!”

“Eat slowly, don’t choke. They are making stir-fried noodles in the kitchen. Try them later. The taste is absolutely not inferior to these stir-fried pancake strips.”

“I don’t believe it, unless you bring the noodles over… I always feel like you are trying to cheat me out of my stir-fried pancake strips.”

Yours? Lin Xu finished the egg soup in his bowl, then picked up the bowl containing garlic cloves and headed to the kitchen.

He grabbed a handful of peeled, washed garlic cloves from the vegetable basket, then served two bowls of egg soup, carrying them out on a tray.

“Eat with the soup, slowly, don’t choke. I’ll go to the kitchen to see when the noodles will be ready.”

“Okay, thanks, Xu Bao!”

Back in the kitchen, both sides of the dough pancake had been fried.

Wei Qian poured the fried dough pancake into a large colander to drain the oil.

Once the oil had drained sufficiently, he poured it back into the pan and gently shook the fried dough pancake pieces with chopsticks to fluff them up again.

Then he dumped in the previously prepared vegetables and sauce, covered the pan, and simmered it on low heat.

“How long do we simmer it for?”

“Three minutes should do. The noodles are already fried; they just need to soak up some sauce.”

After Wei Qian finished speaking, he placed several plates on the workbench behind him, ready to serve the noodles once they were done so everyone could taste them.

Three minutes later, there was noticeably less liquid in the pan, as indicated by the sizzling sound of hot oil.

Wei Qian turned off the heat but did not lift the lid.

Instead, he waited another three minutes.

Upon lifting the lid, a rich aroma wafted from the pan.

The scent included the aromas of meat, noodles, Celery, and onions.

The mix of smells was indescribably delicious.

“Damn, this aroma is really strong!”

“It doesn’t have any raw noodle smell, but it’s super fragrant. Teach me sometime, Wei Qian. It’s perfect for quick home cooking.”

“I want to learn too; it smells much better than the usual fried noodles at night markets.”

“Don’t let it spill! Hurry up, this aroma is so tempting!”

Wei Qian tossed the contents of the pan a couple of times; he had intended to use long chopsticks to toss the reddish, oily noodles again, but everyone was urging him on.

He could only quickly toss them twice before spooning noodles out for everyone with chopsticks and a spoon.

He picked up a chopstickful of noodles, twirled it, then lifted it up, his left hand swiftly catching it with the spoon.

He shook the noodles into the spoon and then tipped them onto a plate, thereby serving a portion.

No sooner had he plated the noodles than Zhu Yong picked up a plate and tasted a chopstickful of noodles, immediately expressing his admiration, “Oh my goodness, these noodles have revolutionized my understanding of fried noodles. I never thought noodles could be this delicious.”

The moment the noodles were in his mouth, he could taste the distinctive scorched flavor typical of fried noodles.

This scorched flavor can’t be found in braised noodles. The noodles were slightly dry, giving them a fried-then-refried sensation—crispy and crunchy, extremely satisfying.

As for the glossy layer of fat and the pork belly coating the noodles, it continually tantalized everyone’s nerves and taste buds.

Delicious, truly delicious.

Zhu Yong had never imagined that fried noodles could be this delicious; it was simply unbelievable.

Others tasted it and found it delicious as well.

After everyone’s noodles were served, Lin Xu, carrying two plates of fried noodles, came outside and saw Shen Baobao scraping the bottom of the bowl.

TSK TSK TSK. She just saw someone washing a car while eating stir-fried pancake strips, and now *she’s* this desperate for food?

“Come on, try the fried noodles made by Wei Qian.”

After setting down the plates, Lin Xu picked up his own used chopsticks, pinched a clove of garlic in his hand, and then tasted a chopstickful of noodles.

The flavor was indeed good.

The taste was smoky and savory, and the Celery perfectly balanced the greasiness of the noodles.

Delicious, it was really tasty.

Shen Baobao took a bite and immediately set down the empty plate that had held the stir-fried pancake strips, focusing on eating the fried noodles on her plate.

“This flavor is really great. Didn’t the netizens say they wanted more new main dishes? Why not launch this one? These fried noodles taste much better than the usual ones. I believe everyone will definitely like it.”

Like it? The flavor was indeed good, but what the other customers would think, he really didn’t know.

As he was hesitating, Chen Yan, dressed in a chef’s uniform, ran up from the staircase.

“What’s the main dish today? Hurry and give me a serving, I need to play my role as the head chef.”

Clearly, Ren Jie had arrived.

His elder sister-in-law had entered role-playing mode once again.

Lin Xu pointed toward the kitchen. “See if Wei Qian has any fried noodles left. If there are, take a plate… After taking it over, help me ask if it’s good. I’m hesitating about launching it in the restaurant.”

“Sure, I’ll ask for you in a bit.”

This type of fried noodles was complex and time-consuming to prepare, and in his hometown, because they couldn’t sell for a good price, they had almost been phased out.

But Lin Ji’s Food wasn’t afraid. As long as the taste was good, there were plenty of customers in the restaurant willing to pay for a delicious meal.

Moreover, after launching this noodle dish, it might even attract a wave of customers who love fried noodles.

It wasn’t long before his elder sister-in-law sent a message: “The young police officer said the taste is superb. If the chef in their police mess hall had such good skills, he would never leave and just stay there to eat and drink.”

Wow, that’s quite a high rating.

Since that was the case, he decided to launch the new fried noodles.

Lin Xu could make this noodle dish, but to be safe, he still spent 150 points to exchange for the Perfect Level recipe for stir-fried noodles from the points store.

“Host spent 1,500,000 points, exchanged for the Perfect Level Cooking Technique for stir-fried noodles, and triggered the Trial Task: Please manage diligently. Ensure that within three days, over 300 customers eat stir-fried noodles for two consecutive meals. Upon completion, the host will permanently acquire the Perfect Level stir-fried noodles Cooking Technique; if not completed, the Skill level will downgrade to Superior.”

Over three hundred customers—that’s quite a demanding requirement. If it were the old Lin Ji’s Food, it might be fine, with only those few meals; not eating was not an option. But now, with so many dishes to choose from, customers rarely ate the same dish and the same main course consecutively, even if they found it tasty. They also wanted to try new flavors.

However, since it had already been exchanged, and unlike the roasting chicken where the timing started whenever he began cooking, these stir-fried noodles were already being timed from now.

Without delay, Lin Xu called Dou Wenjing, who hadn’t come for a meal today. “Sister Wenjing, the restaurant is planning to launch a stir-fried noodle dish tomorrow noon. Remember to arrange some promotions. I will send you the specific content on WeChat.”

“Okay boss. By the way, what is the name of the stir-fried noodles? So we can introduce it to the netizens as well.”

What is the name? The name of these stir-fried noodles was Raw Stir-fried Noodles. But it sounded a bit like eating raw noodles.

To prevent customers from being put off by the name, Lin Xu thought for a moment and said, “Let’s call it Hometown Fried Noodles. This kind of stir-fried noodles is available in various places in North China, and calling it this might even evoke customers’ memories of their hometown.”

Hometown Fried Noodles?

Dou Wenjing repeated the name over the phone, then said, “Okay boss, I’ll arrange for the operations department to start generating some early buzz tonight.”

The so-called early buzz was actually very simple: just let some insiders release a message that a new main dish was launching tomorrow noon.

These days, the more obscure the information, the more people believed it.

Maybe even before the major accounts made a move, the netizens would have stirred up the excitement.

After talking to Dou Wenjing, Lin Xu was about to continue eating when suddenly, the system’s notification tone sounded in his mind: “Host has launched a new main meal, triggering the side task [Hot New Product]: Please ensure that within three days, one thousand servings of the newly launched main dish [Hometown Fried Noodles] are successfully sold. Upon completion, reward a Perfect Level soup—Hot and Sour Pork Stomach Soup.”

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