Chapter 484: Let You Open a Food Shop, You Open for Business at Three in the Morning

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Fang Yuan carried the tray back to the table, and Tian Yourong immediately curiously leaned over.

She usually only dined at high-end restaurants, never really liking these street-side small shops, and had never even come to a place like Food Street.

Today, if Fang Yuan hadn't called her over, Tian Yourong would absolutely not have appeared at Lu Family Restaurant.

She knew Fang Yuan, just like herself, rarely thought highly of such small shops.

But today Fang Yuan had specially called her here just for this plate of chicken feet just served, which made Tian Yourong feel puzzled while also arousing some curiosity toward this restaurant that looked unremarkable.

As soon as the Melt-in-the-Mouth Claw was placed on the table, Tian Yourong leaned over to sniff it, her eyes instantly lighting up, and she couldn't help but say with an exaggerated expression: "Wow! These chicken feet are braised so fragrant? Smelling them is quite unusual!"

While speaking, she couldn't help but want to reach out and pinch one to taste, but thinking that Fang Yuan, the one treating her to the meal, hadn't started yet, she didn't feel good about eating directly herself, so she withdrew her hand.

However, Tian Yourong's eyes, ever since this Melt-in-the-Mouth Claw was served, never left this dish again.

Fang Yuan placed the plate in the middle of the table and also silently lowered her head to carefully examine the chicken feet in the plate for a long while.

She wanted to know why this plate of chicken feet had the rule that "women cannot order them alone."

These chicken feet indeed looked good, the braised sauce seemed to have soaked from inside to outside, the skin and meat on top were all plump, looking at first glance like they were stewed very deliciously.

But besides looking good, and being slightly smaller than the usual chicken feet, Fang Yuan did not discover anything special about this plate of chicken feet.

Then why did Lu Feng insist on setting this rule that "women cannot order them alone"?

Fang Yuan couldn't help but glance toward the kitchen, and just happened to see Lu Feng leaning against the kitchen door at this moment.

As if sensing her gaze, she saw Lu Feng raise his head to look toward her, his eyes seeming to hint that she should try a taste.

Fang Yuan suppressed the doubts in her stomach and decided to first taste the flavor of this Melt-in-the-Mouth Claw.

These days, many restaurants also like to put on some fancy rules, but those are just gimmicks to attract customers to pay, and actually the taste isn't necessarily very impressive.

But at Lu Feng's place it was different; every dish he made had a taste that could make one's eyes light up.

This Melt-in-the-Mouth Claw had an appetizing appearance, and its aroma was fragrant and pungent when smelled, making Fang Yuan's heart involuntarily fill with anticipation.

"Yourong, try a taste."

Fang Yuan greeted Tian Yourong, then picked up chopsticks and clamped a chicken foot closest to herself.

As soon as the chopsticks touched the skin and meat on the chicken foot, she could feel that soft and tender texture.

The oily sauce wrapped around the brown-red skin and meat, under the hall's lights emitting a tempting luster, even the patterns on the surface of the chicken foot were soaked with a translucent oily sheen.

Ordinary chicken feet, after high-temperature frying and then simmering, inevitably have a layer of skin texture that is very tough and somewhat hard to bite.

But now this chicken foot that Fang Yuan just stuffed into her mouth and took a bite of, when eaten, had no such texture at all.

Although this chicken foot looked oily on the surface, when put in the mouth there was not the slightest greasy feeling.

Even more miraculously, when this chicken foot was served, it was clearly steaming with heat, but now when eaten in the mouth it inexplicably exuded a cool and refreshing chill.

Such a texture could be said to be very miraculous, just like holding a piece of warm ice in the mouth.

Fang Yuan had never eaten such a texture before, and couldn't help but exclaim softly: "Inside this chicken foot... is actually ice?"

The skin and meat on the chicken foot in the mouth almost didn't need chewing; a light press of the tongue and it turned into dregs.

The skin and meat were crispy, tender, and delicious, carrying the freshness of chicken, mixed with incomparably delicious sauce, layered on the tongue.

Fang Yuan nodded slightly, a thought flashing through her heart: this chicken foot truly lived up to its name, truly melt-in-the-mouth.

She was preparing as usual to pick out those small hard bones inside the chicken foot, when her teeth just happened to bite onto a piece of bone.

Before she could react, she only heard a light crack sound in her mouth, and that piece of bone was actually crushed without any effort.

"Hmm? Eating this chicken foot doesn't require spitting out bones?"

Fang Yuan suddenly widened her eyes, only then discovering that the bones inside this chicken foot were not the usual hard kind; biting down gave a crunchy texture, just like cartilage that had been braised through.

After the bone was bitten open, a cool chill was added in the mouth, followed immediately by the bone marrow inside the bone bursting in the mouth.

What surprised Fang Yuan even more was that the bone was ice-cold when eaten, but the bone marrow inside the bone carried a warm temperature.

Her chewing motion stopped for two seconds, then she immediately sped up her chewing.

The coolness of the bone, the heat of the marrow, the softness of the skin and meat, plus the just-right fresh saltiness of the sauce; every chew made the tongue feel completely different sensations, the texture could simply be described as wonderful.

Fang Yuan felt more and more surprised the more she ate; in a few bites she had chewed an entire chicken foot clean.

After the chicken foot was swallowed, a trace of coolness slowly rose in her stomach, and even her body felt a bit more refreshed.

At this moment, Fang Yuan seemed to vaguely understand in her heart why this dish had the rule that "women cannot order it alone."

But with delicious food right in front of her, she really had no time to think about it carefully.

The texture and taste of this chicken foot made her feel incredibly wonderful in every aspect; of course she had to finish eating this delicious chicken foot first before anything else.

Fang Yuan clamped up another chicken foot; this time she did not directly put it into her mouth to chew, but held it with chopsticks, bringing the chicken foot to her mouth and lightly sucking a sip.

The warm skin and meat wrapped in sauce slid into her mouth, and the bones inside finally revealed their true appearance.

Fang Yuan held up her chopsticks, bringing the chicken foot before her eyes to look carefully, and instantly held her breath.

The bone exposed after the skin and meat were sucked away actually glowed with a jade-like translucence; through the semi-transparent bone, one could clearly see the light brown bone marrow inside.

This made the bones in this chicken foot look as if they were carefully carved from jade.

Fang Yuan once again sent the bone to her mouth, putting it into her mouth to chew.

This time she deliberately slowed down her chewing motion, and in her heart she was even more certain.

After the chicken foot bone entered the mouth, as the teeth lightly bit down, the crunchy texture burst between the teeth, carrying a cool and refreshing chill.

First a chill rose on the tongue, then that chill slid down along the throat, with even the chest cavity feeling refreshed.

The coolness spread throughout the body, making Fang Yuan feel as if she was now in the deep mountains of early morning, both body and mind filled with a sense of purity.

"I see."

Fang Yuan let out a light breath of cool air, muttering to herself.

She couldn't help but raise her eyes toward the Kitchen's direction, and just happened to see Lu Feng standing at the Kitchen Door, looking at her with a face full of smiles.