From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 11 Purchasing Skills

In the early morning, the farmers' wholesale market was already brightly lit and crowded.

Large trucks have already entered the wholesale market.

The truck is stacked with vegetables and fruits purchased from all over the province, packed and transported to the Quancheng Farmers Wholesale Market.

Of course, you can see more than just vegetables and fruits in this largest farmers' wholesale market in Quancheng.

There are also seafood delivered from seaside cities, as well as various poultry, meat and eggs.

It can be said that almost all kinds of ingredients can be purchased here.

And because it is a wholesale market, it mainly wholesales to vendors in the large and small vegetable markets in Quancheng.

Therefore, the prices of vegetables, fruits, chicken, fish, meat and eggs here are very cheap.

Of course, although the things here are very complete and the prices are very cheap, it is impossible for ordinary people to come here to buy food.

First of all, this market is far away from the city.

Secondly, this place is wholesale. For example, when Zhang Lei and Yang Peng came to buy eggplants, they had to buy at least one sack. That's why they bought too much and were scolded by Lin Jiacheng.

The wholesale prices here are cheap, but there is also a fatal problem.

There are many packaged fruits and vegetables that are only allowed to be bought in bags and cannot be opened for selection.

In addition, the market opened early in the morning, and the light was not very good.

Inexperienced people are likely to make mistakes.

You may actually buy a bag of vegetables, but half of the bag will be rotten.

However, that situation is still relatively rare.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for everyone to come here to wholesale in the early morning.

Feng Zhengming entered the wholesale market with his senior brother. They did not have their own purposes like some vegetable vendors.

Because it is a contracted canteen, Li Huidong and the others purchase not only the basic chicken, fish, meat and eggs.

The remaining vegetables and fruits are generally bought as cheaply as possible.

In this way, you can save some canteen cooking costs as much as possible.

And as long as there is meat and fish as a companion, with Li Huidong's cooking skills, it is easy to make any dish delicious.

So when they entered the market, Li Huidong and the others first went directly to purchase chicken, fish, meat and eggs.

Li Huidong used to work in the back kitchen of Yanxi Building and came here to purchase with his master. He was quite familiar with the merchants here.

When you arrive at the meat stall, many people will immediately greet Li Huidong.

"Chef Li is here, what are you going to order today?"

"Chef Li, do you want large intestines? Today I specially prepared a pack of large intestines with intestines inside."

When he heard that there was a large intestine and intestines, Li Huidong immediately walked over.

"Take it out and see."

The other party quickly took out the prepared pack of large intestines.

Feng Zhengming moved closer to his senior brother. The moment the bag was untied, he immediately smelled the smell.

However, Feng Zhengming and his senior brother still endured the smell and reached out to lift up the large intestine in the bag and take a closer look.

Feng Zhengming pinched it and said, "Brother, it's very fresh and very fat."

Li Huidong looked at the meat stall owner and said, "Give me a bag."

The boss didn't understand, but he still took a new bag and handed it to Li Huidong.

Then, Li Huidong pinched the large intestines in the bag one by one with his hands and transferred them to a new bag.

When Feng Zhengming saw this, he glanced at the boss of the meat stall. The boss's expression suddenly changed.

Finally, after Li Huidong transferred the upper part of the large intestine in the bag to another bag, the lower part appeared.

The lower part, just from the color, is obviously frozen.

The boss looked embarrassed and said: "You probably didn't notice it when I was pretending and didn't take off some of the previous ones, so it was trapped underneath."

Li Huidong said calmly: "Then weigh them separately. How many packs do you have left? Take them out together."

The boss had no choice but to take out several packages of pig intestines.

Li Huidong didn't talk nonsense, he opened the bags and screened them all.

Sure enough, under almost every bag, there was a portion of frozen pig intestines.

Li Huidong said: "Okay, what about you? Weigh them separately. I'll take them all."

The boss originally watched Li Huidong untie each bag and uncovered all the hands and feet he had tampered with. He was still thinking about what he would do with the remaining frozen pig intestines after he bought them.

Unexpectedly, Li Huidong directly said that he wanted them all.

The boss immediately put a smile on his face and said: "Thank you, Chef Li, let's do this. I don't want your money for these frozen ones, and you will give me the ex-factory price for these fresh ones."

Li Huidong did not refuse: "Okay, I'll weigh them all."

The boss quickly weighed the pig intestines, Li Huidong paid, and Feng Zhengming, Zhang Lei, and Yang Peng started putting the pig intestines on the tricycle.

After that, Li Huidong also took good care of the boss's business and asked for half a pig directly from him, as well as four large pig heads, as well as pig tails, pig hearts, pig livers, pig lungs, pig loin and other things.

These things have almost filled a tricycle.

The boss has something to do with pig intestines, and the prices for pork, tails, hearts, livers, lungs, and kidneys are all very cheap.

And the heart, liver, kidneys and lungs are all very fresh.

After saying goodbye to the boss and leaving the stall.

Li Huidong whispered to Feng Zhengming: "Don't think that just because this is a wholesale market, you can trust these people. All of these guys in the wholesale market are smart, so be sure to distinguish them."

Feng Zhengming nodded and said, "Brother, I understand."

As they walked, Feng Zhengming thought for a moment and said, "Brother, please let me handle those frozen pig intestines when you get back."

Li Huidong was a little surprised when he heard it and asked: "What are you going to do? I want those frozen intestines. I plan to go back and clean them before putting them in the stew pot."

Feng Zhengming said: "Brother, we can put the fatter ones in the stew pot and leave the thinner ones to me. I will make a stir-fried small intestine. Then leave half for the canteen to sell at noon, and I will sell the other half. The lunch box is just a meat dish."

Li Huidong smiled and said, "Okay, you have a good idea. Then I'll pick out the fine ones and give them to you."

Feng Zhengming and his senior brother bought some beef and various cheaper vegetables in the wholesale market.

Following his elder brother around the wholesale market, Feng Zhengming saw a lot of things.

Feng Zhengming discovered that the prices of vegetables at the wholesale market are indeed very cheap, some are even half cheaper than those at the vegetable market, and the food here is also fresher.

But the wholesale market is not all advantageous. The disadvantage is that many vegetables must be purchased in large bags.

Moreover, you are not allowed to open the bag to see, let alone select one by one.

Although the whole bag is not full of rotten vegetables.

However, there will inevitably be squeezing during transportation, so a whole bag of vegetables will definitely be lost.

This is why the price of these vegetables in the wholesale market is twice as cheap as in the vegetable market.

Vegetable vendors who wholesale vegetables from here still have to calculate the losses in each bag, and naturally the price of vegetables will definitely rise.

After the shopping was completed, it was already completely bright.

On the way back, Feng Zhengming took the initiative to ride a tricycle alternately with Zhang Lei and Yang Peng, so that the two could rest alternately on the way back.

(End of this chapter)