My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 588: Chapter 448: Crucian Carp Soup

"Sister... Can’t you be a bit more graceful next time? It’s because of this behavior that King Arthur dares not to marry you," Jack covered his face. Although according to age, Alice was indeed a super leftover woman, almost becoming a veteran singleton, she still hadn’t found anyone willing to marry her.

"You little rascal, always thinking of marrying off your sister, what? By marrying me off, you think you can benefit from old man Merlin’s favor?" Alice hammered Jack on the head. If this were an animation, there would probably be a big lump forming on Jack’s head by now.

"Ouch... Are you joking? Although old man Merlin indeed has a profound mastery of magic, when it comes to the depth of magic, I am actually better, alright." Jack rolled his eyes. He didn’t crave old man Merlin’s books at all.

Just thinking about the time during a mission in another world, when King Arthur was about to confess to this female knight who had been helping him constantly and make Alice the queen of England, but he never expected...

"Hey, isn’t that Arthur? Come on, let’s arm wrestle." When Arthur found Alice, she was in a bar, chugging down alcohol, surrounded by knights of the Round Table lying all around her.

What happened later...

Alice, as the recognized strongest member of the Knights of the Round Table, easily knocked down King Arthur and even got him so drunk that he was out cold, completely incapacitated.

"The two of you, what would you like to eat?" Chen Ze looked at Alice and Jack, who were bickering, and asked.

If he didn’t ask now, Chen Ze was worried that Alice and Jack might actually come to blows. Although it wouldn’t affect the restaurant’s tables, chairs, bowls, or dishes, it still wouldn’t be very good.

"Well... Just bring me a portion of the manager’s recommended dish, please." Alice indeed stopped, avoiding conflict. Every visit to Chen Ze’s place was a rare leisure time for the siblings, so Alice always considered her choice carefully.

"As for me, the same as sister, but could you add a serving of Iceberg Fresh Mountain and another of fish soup?" Jack licked his lips. It must be said that during the mission in another world, they had been eating all kinds of fish almost exclusively, but compared to the delicious taste at Chen Ze’s place, those grilled fish were barely tolerable.

They could only really be considered filling, but to reach the level of being praised as delicious was still far off. frёeωebɳovel.com

"Of course, please wait a moment, here is your coffee." Chen Ze brought out two cups of hot coffee from the kitchen and handed them to Jack and Alice.

"Thank you~" Alice smiled as she accepted it and then took a sip.

Although it was instant coffee, the taste was still acceptable, and neither Alice nor Jack had any particular demands when it came to drinks.

Chen Ze went back to the kitchen, planning to recommend the same dish to Alice and Jack as last time, only because Jack had ordered fish soup and Iceberg Fresh Mountain, Chen Ze needed to prepare these things as well.

"Iceberg Fresh Mountain is easy enough to handle since I can generally make that without any trouble now, but this fish soup..." Chen Ze hesitated. Honestly speaking, fish soup wasn’t hard to make—the simplest method was to boil some fish and add some seasoning, and it could be served. But Chen Ze, who was a bit strict with himself, still planned to find a relatively good fish soup recipe.

"I’ll make a crucian carp soup. I just recently bought some fairly good-quality crucian carp." Chen Ze checked his phone. The temperature today was rather low, and generally speaking, the lower the temperature, the fatter the crucian carp tend to be and, consequently, the more delicious the soup made from them would be.

The traditional crucian carp soup often includes the instruction to fry both sides until golden brown in oil, but Chen Ze didn’t follow this practice and instead chose to pan-fry with water. Once the water turned milky white, he poured it out and started to cook the fish soup.

"Although it’s said that such a fish soup only needs a bit of salt," Chen Ze hesitated a bit, "the recipe I found online claims it doesn’t need other seasoning to make an extremely delicious crucian carp soup."

"But according to the method Joichiro Yukihira taught me, some countries add different seasonings while cooking fish to balance and enhance the flavor, making the whole fish taste richer. I’ll give it a try," Chen Ze quickly decided.

"Manager, I’m here for work... huh? Miss Alice, Mr. Jack?" Betty burst in happily, only to find Jack and Alice sitting on chairs, watching her.

"Betty is a bit slow~" Alice smiled smugly.

"Ah, I didn’t expect my sister to win," Jack sighed and then took out a small box from his embrace, handing it to Alice.

"Of course~ I’ve had more salt than you’ve had rice~" Alice boasted proudly, laughing and patting Jack on the shoulder, only to hit a purple magic shield instead.

"I’ll just go upstairs and change my clothes first, you two take a seat," Betty immediately dashed to the second floor, as she had overslept a little today, mainly because she played games for too long the night before.

"Mm~ Go ahead, Betty, no worries," Alice said with a smile and a wave of her hand.

".." Chen Ze poked his head out to take a quick look, then continued to retreat to his fish soup.

Usually, when making fish soup, the fish’s innards are removed because few people eat them, though Chen Ze had heard of some places where eating fish innards is a cultural practice.

However, this time Chen Ze didn’t throw the fish innards directly into the trash; instead, he took them out separately, soaked them in a small basin, and was going to use them to cook the fish soup later.

"So next is..." Chen Ze quickly prepared the crucian carp, then started to pan-fry with water. Once the water turned white, he scooped up the prepared fish innards, put them in a cloth bag, added some minced green onion, ginger, and garlic, tied it up, and tossed it into the soup to stew the fish soup.

"Manager~ hehe, I’m a bit late today, what are you cooking?" Betty popped in, looking embarrassed.

"Fish soup, take out the Dragon’s Beard Candy first," Chen Ze clapped his hands and then put the Quadruple Speed stone slab underneath, ready to deal with the curry pork chop rice next.

"Okay~" Betty immediately nodded, relieved to see that Chen Ze wasn’t angry, which was the best outcome. Otherwise, if Chen Ze were angry, she might get her salary docked or even not have lunch.

Just thinking about the fragrant scent she vaguely smelled earlier made Betty involuntarily wipe her mouth.