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When Lin Yutang of Linzhi returned to the store, He Dalian had already delivered the pig's trotters and pig's brains, and Chen Xi and others had already started processing them in the kitchen.

Seeing Lin Yutang and the others come back, Chen Xi pointed to the ribs on the table and said, "Xiaotang, the pork shop owner just gave us a few more ribs. Tell me how you want them cooked. I'll make them for everyone at noon."

In ancient times, people only bought spareribs. They preferred to buy meat with a mix of fat and lean meat, preferably with more fat to produce more oil for frying. They would usually just stew the spareribs in soup after buying them, and would not use much oil to braise them.

"Let's make some sweet and sour pork ribs." Lin Yutang thought for a moment and said. It would be a shame not to make these perfect pork ribs into sweet and sour pork ribs.

"Sugar? Sweet and sour pork ribs?" Chen Xi thought she had misheard. Some dishes did require sugar, she knew that, but adding sugar and vinegar to meat—what would it taste like? She couldn't even imagine it.

Lin Yutang saw that everyone was looking at her, and she knew that no one had ever heard of this dish.

"I'll make it at noon later. I guarantee you'll like it!" Lin Yutang promised, patting his chest.

"Then we'll just wait to eat~" the others said in unison, anything produced by Xiaotang must be a top quality product!

After busying herself in the kitchen for a while early in the morning, Lin Yutang began to prepare sweet and sour pork ribs.

Take out the ribs that have been soaked in water for half an hour, rinse them clean, then put them into a pot with cold water, add appropriate amount of green onion, ginger, and cooking wine, bring to a boil, skim off the floating foam, and cook for about one minute before taking them out.

Take out the ribs and drain the moisture for later use.

Let’s make a classic sweet and sour sauce: four spoons of cooking wine, four spoons of light soy sauce, three spoons of white sugar, two spoons of dark soy sauce, and six spoons of vinegar and mix well.

Heat oil in a hot pan over low heat, add four spoons of rock sugar, wait for the rock sugar to slowly melt, stirring constantly with a spoon until the color turns into a beautiful date red, add the chopped pork ribs, and stir-fry until the surface of the ribs is evenly coated with sugar color.

Add ginger slices, then pour in the prepared sweet and sour sauce, add hot water to cover the ribs, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat, cover the pot and simmer for one hour, finally cook over high heat until the remaining soup becomes thick and then it is ready to be served.

At noon, I made some sweet and sour spare ribs, and braised eggs, dried orchids, and kelp knots in the same pot with the braised pig's trotters. A simple employee meal was ready.

Because there was still a steady stream of customers coming to the restaurant at noon, everyone ate lunch separately. Lin Yutang took Ji Xingchuan, Da Niu, Ergou and Xiao Tuanzi to eat first.

The little guys looked at the bright red and juicy sweet and sour spareribs, swallowed their saliva together, picked up their chopsticks, picked up a piece of the target ribs and put it into their mouths.

The sour and sweet taste lingers between the lips and teeth, not greasy, the ribs are tender and soft and fall off the bone.

"Sister Xiaotang, this meat is so delicious! I have never eaten sour and sweet meat!" The foodie little dumpling spoke first.

"Me too, me too. This is the most delicious meat I have ever eaten."

"I want to scoop some soup and mix it with rice!"

"I want me too!"

After tasting the sweet and sour spareribs, the little ones were excited. They picked up spoons and scooped a little soup to mix with the rice, eating it with relish. Seeing this, Lin Yutang unconsciously ate an extra bowl of rice.

Seeing that they were only focused on eating the sweet and sour pork ribs, Lin Yutang shook her head helplessly and put some braised eggs, dried orchids and kelp knots in their bowls respectively. "Children can't be picky eaters." Lin Yutang said with pretended seriousness.

The little kids smiled awkwardly, and Ergou said, "Sister Xiaotang, we're not picky eaters. Even this sweet and sour meat dish today is so delicious that we forgot to eat the other dishes."

"That's right!" The other people nodded rapidly and echoed.

"If you like it, Sister Xiaotang will make it for you later, but don't eat too much of it, or your teeth will hurt." Lin Yutang was not trying to scare them, this was the truth.