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Chapter 172 - 169: Preparing to Launch Braised Dishes · Nov 02, 2026

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151 Chapter 151 - 150: Just 2 Bowls of Noodles Can Be This Satisfying 2026-11-02
152 Chapter 152 - 151: Take All These Free-Range Eggs 2026-11-02
153 Chapter 153 - 152: Eager to Try 2026-11-02
154 Chapter 154 - 153: What a Brilliant Move from the Boss 2026-11-02
155 Chapter 155 - 154: This Isn’t Awesome, It’s Legendary 2026-11-02
156 Chapter 156 - 155: How About Picking Some Plums to Sell? 2026-11-02
157 Chapter 157 - 155: How About Picking Some Plums to Sell? 2026-11-02
158 Chapter 158 - 156: Winning Tofu in a Lottery Draw 2026-11-02
159 Chapter 159 - 156: A Raffle for Tofu 2026-11-02
160 Chapter 160 - 157: Unlocking 2 New Recipes in a Row 2026-11-02
161 Chapter 161 - 158: Boss, We Want Tomato and Egg Soup Too 2026-11-02
162 Chapter 162 - 159: Isn’t This Beauty Afraid to Eat So Late? 2026-11-02
163 Chapter 163 - 160: I’ll Take You Back 2026-11-02
164 Chapter 164 - 161: So the Boss’s Crayfish Are All Caught by Villagers in the Fields 2026-11-02
165 Chapter 165 - 162: Taking You Back to the Village to Catch Crawfish 2026-11-02
166 Chapter 166 - 163: The Boss’s Divine Cooking Skills Are to Die For 2026-11-02
167 Chapter 167 - 164: Catching Crayfish in the Village with the Girls 2026-11-02
168 Chapter 168 - 165: There’s Also a Camisole Inside 2026-11-02
169 Chapter 169 - 166: Taking the Girls to Experience Fishing for Crawfish 2026-11-02
170 Chapter 170 - 167: Boss, We All Love You 2026-11-02
171 Chapter 171 - 168: I’m Not Telling You the Answer 2026-11-02
172 Chapter 172 - 169: Preparing to Launch Braised Dishes 2026-11-02
173 Chapter 173 - 170: Bumping into Old Customers 2026-11-02
174 Chapter 174 - 171: Boss Jiang and Master Liang Are Both Pleasantly Surprised 2026-11-02
175 Chapter 175 - 172: There, You Will Open a New World of Gourmet Food 2026-11-02
176 Chapter 176 - 173: Only 10 Jin of Braised Chicken Feet for Tomorrow 2026-11-02
177 Chapter 177 - 174: Boss, Are the Braised Chicken Feet Ready to Eat Yet? 2026-11-02
178 Chapter 178 - 175: A Bowl of Wine 2026-11-02
179 Chapter 179 - 176: Into the Game Dungeon for Raw Chicken Feet 2026-11-02
180 Chapter 180 - 177: Killing Chickens in "Hot-Blooded Legend 2026-11-02
181 Chapter 181 - 178: This Remote Place Will Be Longed For 2026-11-02
182 Chapter 182 - 179: Who Painted That Painting? 2026-11-02
183 Chapter 183 - 180: Which Art World Senior Is This? 2026-11-02
184 Chapter 184 - 181: You Can Even Listen to a Professional Painter Talk About Art Live in This Shop 2026-11-02
185 Chapter 185 - 182: The Contemporary Painting Saint Also Came to Eat at the Boss’s Place 2026-11-02
186 Chapter 186 - 183: We Are Waiting Here for the Ancient to Return 2026-11-02
187 Chapter 187 - 184: Just Stay Upstairs Tonight 2026-11-02
188 Chapter 188 - 185: Braised Chicken Feet for Sale Again Today 2026-11-02
189 Chapter 189 - 186: A Large Group of Female Students Also Came for Guyi 2026-11-02
190 Chapter 190 - 187: Painting a Picture as a Gift for the Boss 2026-11-02
191 Chapter 191 - 188: The Contemporary Painting Saint Paints Live 2026-11-02
192 Chapter 192 - 188: The Contemporary Painting Saint Paints Live (Part 2) 2026-11-02
193 Chapter 193 - 189: Some Wine and Braised Chicken Feet for the Road 2026-11-02
194 Chapter 194 - 190: Braising Some Chickens to Sell Tomorrow 2026-11-02
195 Chapter 195 - 191: What Kind of a Master Is He? 2026-11-02
196 Chapter 196 - 192: Delicious Braised Chicken Leg 2026-11-02
197 Chapter 197 - 193: This Restaurant is Indeed Extraordinary 2026-11-02
198 Chapter 198 - 194: Missed 1 Century of Wonders 2026-11-02
199 Chapter 199 - 195: A New World of Gastronomy Indeed 2026-11-02
200 Chapter 200 - 196: This Place Will Become a Gourmet Holy Land 2026-11-02

Chapter 172: Chapter 169: Preparing to Launch Braised Dishes

「The next day.」

After breakfast, Li You chose a conspicuous spot in his restaurant and hung up the painting Ling Xiaoru had given him the day before.

With this magnificent and majestic ink wash landscape painting, the entire restaurant seemed to gain an air of grandeur.

’It really is a great painting!’

Next, Li You got on his motorcycle. He planned to make a trip to the town market.

It was market day in town, so he was going to buy all the ingredients needed for his brine recipe.

This included star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, dried tangerine peel, cao guo, and more.

He would make the brine when he got back and prepare to launch his new braised dishes.

He started his motorcycle and set off.

Ten minutes later, he arrived at the town market.

In the market, there was a spice shop that sold all kinds of seasonings. The owner was named Liu Yiquan, and he was a regular at Li You’s restaurant.

Li You decided to check out Liu Yiquan’s spice shop first.

When he arrived at Liu Yiquan’s shop, Liu Yiquan was delighted to see him and laughed heartily. ”Boss Li, welcome! Are you here to buy some seasonings?”

Li You nodded with a smile. ”Yes, I need a few things. I thought I’d come see what Boss Liu has first.”

Liu Yiquan said, ”Great, great. Please, Boss Li, take a look around. I have a pretty complete selection here.”

Li You nodded.

He had just glanced around and already spotted several of the ingredients he needed: star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, dried tangerine peel, cao guo, fennel seeds, and more.

The selection was indeed quite complete. The key now was the quality.

For these kinds of ingredients, the market was often flooded with inferior, shoddy products passed off as high-quality goods, which were difficult for the average person to identify.

But Li You had his system, so he could identify them easily.

”Ingredient (Spice): Star Anise.”

”Quality: Inferior.”

Star anise is one of the most famous, common, and widely used spices.

It’s also one of the most important spices in a brine.

However, there are a lot of fakes on the market.

Some unscrupulous merchants sell things that look very similar to star anise, like Illicium lanceolatum, red anise, or difengpi, passing them off as the real thing.

Not only are these fakes ineffective, they are also poisonous.

So, one must be extra careful when buying star anise.

The star anise here was indeed genuine.

But it was only of inferior quality. Li You wasn’t going to consider it.

”Boss Liu, do you have any better star anise?” Li You asked.

Liu Yiquan replied regretfully, ”I’m sorry, Boss Li. All the star anise I have right now is from the same batch.”

Li You nodded. ”I’ll take a look at your other spices then.”

”Sure!”

Liu Yiquan was disappointed that Li You didn’t want the star anise, but he wasn’t surprised.

He knew that Li You had very high standards for his ingredients.

So, his standards for spices must be just as high.

And his star anise really wasn’t the best.

It was perfectly normal that Li You wasn’t interested.

’I hope he finds some of my other spices acceptable.’

”Ingredient (Spice): Cinnamon.”

”Quality: Inferior.”

”...”

”Ingredient (Spice): Bay Leaf.”

”Quality: Medium.”

After checking several types of spices in a row, he finally found one of medium quality.

Li You’s eyes lit up. He said, ”Boss Liu, these bay leaves are quite good. I’ll take ten catties.”

Of course, he wouldn’t use nearly that much for a single batch of brine.

But since he’d found some of medium quality, he figured he should buy extra and use it over time.

After all, the next time he came, they might only have the inferior quality stuff.

Seeing that Li You had finally found something he liked, Liu Yiquan let out a long sigh of relief.

He was genuinely afraid that Li You would look through everything and find nothing acceptable.

It wasn’t about missing out on the sale, but because it would mean Li You would be very disappointed in his shop.

That was something he didn’t want to see.

Now, he could finally relax a bit.

Liu Yiquan smiled. ”Great. I’ll weigh them out for you right now, Boss Li.”

Li You said, ”Thanks, Boss Liu.”

Liu Yiquan replied, ”Not at all, not at all. You’re too polite, Boss Li.”

Then, he grabbed a bag and personally weighed the spices for Li You.

Li You continued to look at the other ingredients.

He then discovered two more medium-quality spices: cloves and fennel seeds.

This made Li You happy again.

To find three types in a single shop was quite good.

He asked for ten catties each of the cloves and fennel seeds as well.

Liu Yiquan readily agreed, overjoyed.

This put him even more at ease.

After he finished weighing all three spices, he asked, ”By the way, Boss Li, you’re buying all these spices. Are you planning to launch a new dish?”

Li You nodded. ”I’m planning to make some brine and introduce a few braised dishes.”

Liu Yiquan’s eyes lit up. ’Braised dishes are fantastic!’

Braised chicken feet, braised pig’s head skin, braised chicken, braised duck... they’re all delicious.

And Boss Li’s braised dishes would surely be much, much tastier.

’This is something to look forward to!’

Liu Yiquan laughed heartily. ”Boss Li’s braised dishes will definitely be the best of the best. I’m really looking forward to them! I hope I can try them soon.”

Li You smiled. ”I’ll launch them as soon as I can. I hope you won’t be disappointed, Boss Liu.”

Liu Yiquan said, ”There’s absolutely no way I’ll be disappointed.”

Li You added, ”I hope so.”

After chatting for a few more moments, Li You paid and left with the three spices: bay leaves, cloves, and fennel seeds.

Now he had to continue shopping for the other ingredients.

’I wonder if I can get everything I need today?’

’I hope I can.’

Not long after Li You left Liu Yiquan’s shop, the news that he was preparing to launch braised dishes spread among many of the other shop owners throughout the market.

Bosses who were familiar with Li You, like Deng Luping, Zhao Yu, and Xie Hai, all heard about it one after another.

They were all just as surprised and excited!

Just then, Li You happened to be passing by Deng Luping’s shop.

Deng Luping saw him, called out a greeting, and said, ”Boss Li, I hear you’re going to be offering braised dishes. Is that right?”

Li You was a bit surprised.

He knew the news would spread among these shop owners, and even throughout the whole market.

But he didn’t expect it to travel so fast.

Though surprised, he still smiled and said, ”I am indeed preparing for it. I hope you’ll come and try them, Boss Deng.”

Deng Luping said, ”Boss Li’s braised dishes will surely be the best of the best. I’ll definitely be there to eat them. You’d better make a lot every day, Boss Li! Otherwise, you’ll definitely sell out.”

Li You smiled again. ”I’ll do my best.”

After chatting a bit more with Deng Luping, Li You took his leave and continued his search for the needed ingredients.

After another loop around the market, he managed to buy Sichuan peppercorns, dried chilies, and rock sugar.

In the end, however, he was still missing several ingredients, including star anise, cinnamon, dried tangerine peel, and cao guo.

Wenxian Town was just a small town, after all. Finding medium-quality or better versions of every ingredient was proving to be difficult.

To find them all, he would probably have to go to the county seat.

Li You hesitated for a moment, then decided to make a trip to the county seat.

Right now.

The only problem was, if he did that, he would have to suspend business for lunch today.

There was no other way.

The fifty bowls of Steamed Pork with Preserved Greens he had made yesterday morning were all sold out.

Otherwise, he could have stayed open as usual and just sold that one dish.

Because if they were only selling that, Da Bai and Xiaohai could handle it themselves without Li You needing to be in the kitchen.

That way, the restaurant could have remained open even if Li You wasn’t there.

But the Steamed Pork with Preserved Greens was sold out, so that wasn’t an option.

He had no choice but to close for lunch today.

Li You used his special sensory connection with Da Bai and Xiaohai to inform them that he was going to the county seat to buy ingredients and that they would be closed for lunch today.

He told them to explain this to any customers who arrived.

”Okay, Boss, we understand,” Da Bai and Xiaohai responded in unison.

Li You was satisfied.

Then, he got back on his motorcycle and set off again.

Heading for the county seat.

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