Daddy's Gourmet Shop-Chapter 298 - 289: In the End, My Affection Was Misplaced!

Chapter 298: Chapter 289: In the End, My Affection Was Misplaced!

Time rewinds.

Eight o’clock.

West City Street Police Station.

As soon as Wang Zhiheng arrived at the station, he patted his colleagues on duty on the shoulder and brought up the Delicious Restaurant.

"Let me tell you, not far from our station on West City Old Street, there’s a restaurant called Delicious. The crab fried rice cake and lotus leaf sticky rice steamed ribs are absolutely amazing. The crab is fresh and plump, and the ribs are big and meaty. Boss Huang at the Delicious Restaurant is truly skilled and honest!"

Seeing that his colleagues on duty looked a bit hesitant, he confidently said, "After next Tuesday when the restaurant expands and finishes renovation, you should go and try it. Once you’ve tasted the crab fried rice cake and the lotus leaf sticky rice steamed ribs, you’ll understand how wonderful they are."

The on-duty colleagues were momentarily stunned, just wondering why this "Delicious Restaurant" sounded somewhat familiar!

When they had some free time, they also liked to browse Weibo.

They loved checking out local news.

The Delicious Restaurant, during the last food festival, even made it to the local hot searches.

Naturally, they came across it.

But at the time, seeing all the over-the-top praise in the posts, their first reaction was surprise. They were surprised that such a small restaurant could make it to the food festival and surprised at the overwhelmingly positive comments from netizens!

They even thought it was too exaggerated!

They always suspected that most likely, the owner of the Delicious Restaurant hired internet shills or had a powerful backing to get into this year’s food festival.

Later, they came across reports about the Delicious Restaurant in local news, and quite a few friends and relatives shared photos of the food from the festival on social media circles.

All uniformly from the Delicious stand.

And all highly recommended.

Seeing the mouth-watering food photos posted by friends and relatives, they were indeed tempted.

However, due to being tied up with work and unable to extricate themselves, they didn’t specifically make an effort to attend the food festival.

Then, further down the line, in the latest issue of the "Food and Beauty" e-magazine, they again stumbled upon the Delicious Restaurant.

This made them internally exclaim that Boss Huang from the Delicious Restaurant was really impressive!

And the e-magazine content was detailed, aside from culinary descriptions, it also evaluated the hygiene and comfort of the Delicious Restaurant.

They even interviewed the owner and some patrons.

The long article accompanied by enticing food photos...

Alright!

They were tempted once again.

Seeing how close the address was on West City Old Street, they headed straight there after work in the afternoon.

Good grief!

The queue almost blinded them.

For the sake of satisfying their temporary food cravings, they stuck with the mentality of being there, so they continued to wait in line.

But the result?

Before it was their turn, they were told everything was sold out.

Their fervent anticipation ended up being a mistake in the end!

Since then, they stopped going out of their way to visit the Delicious Restaurant.

After all, the queue was simply too much to handle!

Moreover, being busy with work lately, their craving dissipated, and Delicious Restaurant just lingered in the depths of their memory.

It was only when Director Wang mentioned it that they remembered it again.

"That Delicious Restaurant, I know about it. It was at this year’s food festival, reported in the news, and even topped our local hot searches! Recently, it was in the ’Food and Beauty’ magazine. It’s very popular here in Wenling City and quite well-known in other provinces and cities too!"

"Yes, that Delicious Restaurant! I heard no one who’s eaten there ever said it’s not tasty, and many nearby folks line up there daily, wishing they could eat there every meal."

"I even heard a group of affluent youths went for a big feast and then surprisingly applied and got a job there just so they could eat without having to queue up every day!"

Wang Zhiheng and several colleagues, who hadn’t heard these updates, were stunned!

"Is it really that exaggerated?"

"It’s not exaggerated; you just need to hang around West City Old Street for a bit and see for yourself; there’s even more to it!"

"Honestly, when we went and couldn’t manage to buy anything, it was a pity."

Having tasted the food from Delicious Restaurant, Wang Zhiheng didn’t think it was exaggerated at all.

Honestly speaking, if it were him.

He would also apply there so he wouldn’t have to queue and could eat Boss Huang’s food daily.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered the two young men serving dishes in the restaurant.

Speaking of which.

Could they be affluent youths too?!

...

Not even ten in the morning.

The three from the Traffic Lights group took their rides to West City Old Street heading towards the Delicious Restaurant.

Normally, they wouldn’t get out of bed before noon.

The reason they got up so early today.

Was because they woke up hungry!

Originally planning to enjoy themselves at KTV after dinner, after having a bowl of crab fried rice cake at the Delicious Restaurant, they decided not to go to KTV that night.

Not for any other reason!

Just to save some money to indulge in more delicious food at the Delicious Restaurant.

So then...

After they failed to get food on the second queue attempt, they each just headed home directly.

Played some games to pass the time, then washed up and went to bed.

Then they all dreamt similar dreams throughout the night.

Dreaming of the sky filled with bowls of tempting crab fried rice cakes.

Making them swallow their drool.

They tried reaching out.

Only to realize...

They grasped nothingness.

Then they woke up!

Tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep again.

So they simply didn’t stay in bed any longer.

Got up, washed up a bit, on an empty stomach, gathered at the front of the Delicious Restaurant.

After all, who’d want ordinary meat buns or mantou after tasting such delicious crab fried rice cakes!

Given their economic means, they naturally opted for something better.

Being hungry also meant eating more once in the store!

At this moment, seeing no one lined up outside the restaurant, they felt a rush of excitement.

Thinking they were the earliest to arrive!

This time, they figured they wouldn’t miss out on other delicacies in the shop.

"Haha..."

Green Hair was almost moved to tears with joy: "No one’s queuing at the store entrance, Zhe, we’re the first to arrive! Now we won’t have to wait so long in line!"

Red Hair said with full confidence: "Since I couldn’t feast on another bowl of boss’s crab fried rice cakes yesterday, today I’m going to eat to my heart’s content and try everything else in the store..."

"Stop blabbering."

Yellow Hair, Jian Zizhe, quickly interrupted Red Hair and reminded, "Hurry and go queue up! Or else too many people will come soon."

They quickly parked their bikes by the roadside and rushed straight to the front of the Delicious Restaurant.

But as they got closer...

They found the glass doors shut, secured with a big lock.

A notice on the right glass door read, "Due to renovations, the shop will be closed for two days."

"Huh? What’s going on? Why is it closed for two days? It was open last night, no mention of this!" Green Hair rubbed his hungry stomach, looking incredulous.

"Indeed! It was open last night, so why today the closed reno?"

Red Hair stared at the unforgiving lock securing the door, feeling tears in his heart.

"C’mon... closed for two days, they’re trying to starve us to death at this rate!"

Yellow Hair couldn’t help but want to curse, but recalling Huang Ziqing’s words, he swallowed it back again.

Red Hair asked, "Zhe, so what should we do next?"

Yellow Hair, frustrated yet obliged, said, "What can we do? We’ll have to eat at another place then."

Green Hair gave a deep sigh, "Ah! Guess we’ll have to wait till next Tuesday to come back!"

The three of them left unwillingly and went to a nearby noodle shop for some noodles.

When the noodles arrived.

The three picked up their chopsticks and took their first bite.

Only to suddenly find the noodles were extraordinarily awful... 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Impossible to eat!

In their minds, only the taste of crab fried rice cakes lingered.

Indeed.

They simply couldn’t forget or eat anything else.

They felt as if their lives were ruined, reliant on Boss Huang’s dishes to survive!

A voice in their hearts kept urging: Boss Huang, come back soon. I can’t bear this alone, return soon to fill my belly, come back and bring my meals, don’t leave my stomach as vast as the sea.