Chapter 69: Let You Open a Food Shop, You Open for Business at 3 AM

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

At midnight, Lu Feng got out of a taxi and walked along Food Street toward his own shop.

He arrived a bit earlier than the past few days because he hadn't eaten much at night, and once he got to the shop he still had to make something to eat for himself.

After returning to the rental house in the afternoon, Lu Feng went to find the landlady and gave her the fish he had caught.

The landlord had fractured a bone and was hospitalized, and this fish was just right for him to stew into soup to nourish his body.

As a result, the landlady pulled him and wouldn't let him leave, insisting he stay for dinner at her home that night.

That very night the landlady stewed that fish, making a whole big pot of fish soup.

She portioned half into a lunch box to take to the hospital for her husband to drink at night.

The other half was dinner for her and Lu Feng.

The landlady's culinary skill was not bad, and the stewed fish soup was very fresh and delicious, but Lu Feng did not like eating fish meat or drinking fish soup.

He didn't know if it was because when he ate fish before, a fish bone got stuck in his throat, leaving him with psychological trauma.

But facing the landlady's enthusiasm, he was too embarrassed to refuse.

So he forced himself to drink a small bowl of fish soup and eat two pieces of fish meat, then Lu Feng repeatedly declined, saying he was already full.

By now he had reached Food Street, smelling the fragrances coming from the snack stalls at the entrance, and his stomach started growling again.

Arriving at the store entrance, Lu Feng greeted a few familiar snack stall bosses, then walked into the shop.

Opening the System Mall, looking at the dazzling array of ingredients inside, Lu Feng began to plan tonight's new flavor.

At this moment, a bottle of red chili powder displayed in the mall ingredient list caught his attention.

Devil Chili Powder?

Lu Feng immediately became interested, as he was someone who really liked eating spicy food.

Lu Feng had liked eating spicy food since childhood, and he always believed that no matter what kind of noodles, without chili they had no soul.

After some consideration, he decided to try something a bit heavier in flavor tonight: Explosive Spicy Shredded Meat Fried Noodles.

After deciding on the flavor, Lu Feng quickly began purchasing the corresponding ingredients in the mall.

Soon, a few light sounds came from the storage room, and the ingredients he ordered had been delivered.

Lu Feng took out the pork tenderloin; this tenderloin looked pink and tender, all lean meat with not a bit of fat, very suitable for stir-frying.

Lu Feng picked up the kitchen knife, cut the tenderloin into meat slices of equal size, then cut the meat slices into long shredded meat.

Afterward he put the cut shredded meat into a ceramic bowl, added a spoonful of cooking wine, half a spoonful of light soy sauce, then added some corn starch, stirred a few times with chopsticks, ensuring the added seasonings evenly coated every strand of shredded meat, and set it aside to marinate for a while.

Lu Feng then picked up two green peppers, removed the stems at the top, and split them open down the middle with a knife.

He scraped clean the remaining chili seeds and white pith inside with a knife, then cut them into fine green pepper shreds.

Lu Feng also took a few bird's eye chilies, cut them into small segments, smashed a few cloves of garlic and chopped them into minced garlic, placing them together to be added to the pot later.

If only these two types of chili were put in the fried noodles, at most they would taste a bit spicy when eaten, and still far from counting as explosively spicy.

Lu Feng rummaged in the ingredient box for a while and took out that bottle of red chili powder.

This was the protagonist of tonight's new flavor fried noodles.

According to the System Mall's description, this bottle of Devil Chili Powder was made from six different varieties of chili including Devil Chili, ground and mixed together.

Lu Feng picked up the bottle and looked at it under the light; the chili powder was ground very fine, the color bright red, looking just like red pepper powder.

He opened the bottle cap, carefully leaned in to smell it, and instantly a pungent spicy smell rushed straight from his nasal cavity to his forehead, making him unable to help sneezing several times in a row, with tears flowing out.

This spiciness, truly powerful!

Although choked by the spiciness, Lu Feng still revealed a satisfied smile; he felt this bottle of chili powder would definitely elevate the texture of tonight's fried noodles by several levels.

After everything was prepared, Lu Feng turned on the gas stove, heated the wok, then poured in an appropriate amount of cooking oil.

As the oil temperature slowly rose, Lu Feng placed his hand above the wok to feel the temperature; feeling the oil temperature had roughly reached the ideal temperature, he poured the marinated shredded meat from the ceramic bowl into the oil wok.

With a "sizzle" sound, the shredded meat began to gradually change color in the hot oil.

Lu Feng picked up the spatula and stir-fried a few times; once the surface of the shredded meat turned grayish-brown, he quickly removed it from the wok and placed it into a bowl for later use.

Immediately after, he poured some more oil into the wok; once the oil temperature came up, he added bird's eye chilies and minced garlic; after stir-frying briefly, the garlic fragrance mixed with a faint spiciness filled the entire kitchen.

Then he poured in the cut green pepper shreds and stir-fried quickly.

The emerald green pepper shreds gradually softened with the stir-frying, and their color became even brighter.

Immediately after, Lu Feng grabbed a handful of fried noodles and threw them into the wok, added light soy sauce, oyster sauce and other seasonings, stir-fried a few times with the spatula to make the flavor even.

Then he added the shredded meat that had just been stir-fried; Lu Feng held the wok handle and tossed it a few times, the various ingredients in the wok tumbling and leaping, drawing beautiful arcs in the air, then steadily landing back in the wok, not a single one falling out.

When it was almost time to remove from the wok, Lu Feng sprinkled some chili powder into the wok.

He had not yet tasted the spiciness of this chili powder; to be conservative, he did not add too much.

After the noodles in the wok were stir-fried a few more times, the noodles were evenly coated with bright red chili powder.

At the same time, the chili powder sprinkled into the wok, after being heated, had its chili flavor stimulated; a strong spiciness rose from the wok, choking Lu Feng into coughing repeatedly.

This flavor was too pungent; Lu Feng thought that when opening for business later he would have to wear a mask.

Things made for customers to eat must be ensured clean and hygienic.

Lu Feng reached out to turn off the gas stove, making use of the residual heat in the wok to stir-fry a few final times, then plated the fried noodles.

Mission accomplished.

Lu Feng carried the stir-fried green pepper shredded meat fried noodles to the hall.

The fried noodles in the plate were steaming; the noodle surface was evenly covered with chili powder, and under the hall lights, the color was slightly reddish.

The aroma of the Fried Noodles rose up, but the fragrance seemed somewhat aggressive; if one sniffed too hard, the spiciness within would make one's nose itch uncontrollably.

But if one smelled carefully, one could detect the wheat fragrance and Meat Fragrance hidden behind that spicy scent.

Looking at this plate of bright red Fried Noodles, Lu Feng felt Satisfied.

In terms of color and aroma, this portion of Fried Noodles was enough to make one's Mouth start watering involuntarily.

Next, it was time to Taste the flavor.

Lu Feng picked up his Chopsticks and took a bite of Fried Noodles.

As soon as the noodles entered his Mouth, it was as if a flame rose up inside, and his entire oral cavity seemed to begin burning.

"Hiss! So Spicy!"

That bottle of Devil Chili Powder was indeed extraordinary; Lu Feng had only added a little bit, and it was already unbearably spicy.

After the fiery Texture passed, the flavor of the Fried Noodles itself, mixed with tender and delicious shredded meat, plus the crisp and sweet Texture of the Green Pepper strips, made Lu Feng momentarily forget the spiciness in his Mouth.

As he chewed, the Devil Chili's flame-like spiciness surged over him once again.

But each time it became somewhat Uncomfortable for Lu Feng to bear, the Fried Noodles' own Fragrance would timely attract his attention, making the spiciness just right in an instant.

After swallowing the Fried Noodles in his Mouth, Lu Feng couldn't help but keep drawing in breaths, and fine beads of sweat began to Steam on his forehead.

Although his Mouth felt somewhat Uncomfortable from the spiciness, he had no intention of stopping.

The flavor of this Explosive Spicy Flavor Green Pepper Shredded Meat Fried Noodles was truly too tempting, spicy yet fragrant, fragrant yet spicy.

With every chew, the sensation in his Mouth switched back and forth between scorching heat and deliciousness; this unprecedented Texture seemed to open for him a new Gate of deliciousness, making him unable to stop.