Chapter 150.2 – Two Elders and Opening a Business
Everyone then went up to the second floor to take a look around. They were pleasantly surprised to find that the rooms on the second floor were made of soundproof materials, so they wouldn’t have to be afraid of people overhearing them if they said something secretive. People like them were full of convoluted thoughts and secrets. They felt like they should come to this place more often in the future as a show of support.
After they looked over the second floor, the group came down and found seats on the first floor. As a newly opened restaurant, naturally everyone would be interested in it. Since they were already here, they couldn’t just take a look around and then leave. Thus, they ordered a table full of dishes.
The two elders wanted to appreciate the painting and the calligraphy on the screen in the lobby on the first floor up close, so they purposely found a place near the screen.
At first, they didn’t have much expectation for the restaurant’s dishes, but when the food was served, the strong aroma of the food wafted into their nostrils, which actually stirred the gluttons in their stomach, and some of them even gurgled.
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There were more than twenty different types of dishes at the An Family Restaurant. It was impossible to order all of them at once, so they could only order some that looked delicious and that they would usually like.
But after tasting the dishes, everyone became interested in the other dishes. Just smelling the aroma of the food in this restaurant made them salivate. They have never been so gluttonous in other restaurants.
“Look at this menu. There is something called a hamburger on it. It has a strange name. I have never heard of this kind of food before.”
A scholar flipped through the menu and was suddenly attracted by the food names in the back. You could guess what most of the dishes were from the name, but he had never heard of this hamburger thing.
“Let me see?”
The people at the same table were also interested by what he said, and quickly took the menu from him.
The menu was very exquisite. Each dish was sorted according to its type, including a beverages section, followed by a section for convenient and portable foods, such as the hamburger previously mentioned by the scholar, which ranked at the top of the list, and there were even more than one type of hamburger.
First, there was the size of the hamburger. According to your hunger level, there were four types of hamburgers to choose from: five inches, six inches, seven inches, and eight inches. The price was marked on the back. Second, there was the number of layers of meat. Pay a few more copper coins to add another layer of meat to the hamburger, and the five-inch hamburger was the basic choice priced at fifteen copper coins.
To many people, this was an expensive item.
You could purchase a lot of buns with fifteen copper coins, but there were still some people who were very interested in this thing. For people like Pan Zhong and Wan Xi Chuan, they were not short on money.
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These two elders have eaten delicacies from the mountains and the sea, but this hamburger was a food item that they have never heard of before and it has aroused their interest, so they ordered a few plates of dim sum, and then ordered two five-inch hamburgers.
On the first day the restaurant opened, there were no empty seats, and the waiters kept running around. An Zi Ran had expected this situation, so he hired ten waiters from the get-go. The swift waiters quickly served the two elders all their dishes.
The two elders looked at the strangely shaped hamburger in front of them. For a while they didn’t know how to react.
“This… is a hamburger?”
Pang Zhong was surprised. He was a well-informed person, but he was sure he had never seen this kind of food before. It looked like two pieces of golden steamed buns, with a piece of meat and other ingredients in the middle.
Wan Xi Chuan picked up a hamburger and smelled it, “This meat is indeed beef, and the portion is quite a lot.”
There was beef, chicken, and pork on the menu. The two were curious whether it was true, so they ordered two beef burgers. They thought the meat would not be too much, but it looked like a big piece.
Pang Zhong took a bite dubiously. He thought the meat might be difficult to chew, but he bit it off immediately. After eating it, he found that the beef was minced and then squeezed into a round piece. It is just right for the elderly whose teeth were slowly deteriorating, and children could also eat it.
“It tastes really good.”
Hearing this comment, the people in the lobby all started to crave this hamburger. Fifteen copper coins for such a big piece of meat was not very expensive. Some people touched their pockets and in the end decided to try a beef burger. If it was good, they would buy it again, and this thing looked very convenient to eat.
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The beef burger was not greasy. After eating the beef burger in their hands, the two elders drank a cup of tea to refresh their taste buds. They were already slightly full after this, so they could only eat a bit of the dimsum on the table.
The hamburger was still a little expensive for most people, but it was worth the money. At least the amount of meat in the burger was quite a lot, so it should be okay to eat it once in a while.
Soon, the first floor lobby was filled with sounds of praise for the hamburger.
Not long after, the couple from the teahouse couldn’t help themselves and they came to the entrance of An Family Restaurant.
