Iron Horse Frozen River, taken from "Iron Horse Frozen River Enters My Dream".

Originally, Mayer Restaurant didn't have private rooms, at most, it had partitions that provided relatively more privacy.

But even Louis didn't expect that Mayer Restaurant would become popular much faster than he anticipated.

To the point where Mayer Restaurant is now crowded every day.

It's worth noting that Louis started this business to satisfy his own culinary desires.

Now that the restaurant is booming, he himself can't dine in peace, which is completely contrary to his original purpose.

Thus, to meet his own needs, the Iron Horse Frozen River private room came into being.

...

The private room is particularly lively now.

Bam is munching on phoenix claws, chewing while spitting out the bones saying:

"I really like this taste."

Louis is making tea.

He tilts the lid of the teacup 45 degrees and circles along the rim, letting the foam on the surface of the tea flow away.

Then he spins the lid along the cup's inner waistline, pressing the leaves to release the aroma.

He then seals the space inside the cup with the lid, swirling the cup to let the excess tea overflow.

Seeping into the tea tray below.

After scraping foam, rubbing tea, and shaking aroma, he pours the tea into a cup and starts drinking it leisurely.

Alice curiously watches Louis and says:

"Can't you drink it directly? Why make it so complicated?"

Louis shakes his head and says:

"You don't get it, I used to drink it directly before, but now, having a bit of ceremony feels better."

The first four steps, in tea-making terms, are scraping foam, rubbing tea, shaking aroma, and blending.

A year ago, Louis would have just made tea, downed it in one go, and ended it there.

But now, he rather enjoys this sense of ceremony.

In this foreign land, it's only through this sense of ceremony that he proves his past.

That's why he said, Alice wouldn't understand.

In the past, he would also think this way of making tea was a waste of time.

— Though he only got a halfway job done,

Because, strictly speaking, there are several steps after the pouring called "blending."

For instance, the "Butterfly Dance" of inverting the lid.

Like displaying the tea leaves' state known as "Exhibition of Tea."

And the subsequent steps of returning the tea cup and lid to their places, "Landing the Butterfly" and "Reunification."

However, he's not interested in doing the latter steps.

He just wanted to have a sip of tea.

The first four steps could still be said to be for a good cup of tea, but the later steps he would rather skip.

Alice's appetite was not small.

Four or five dishes of tea snacks were devoured clean in no time.

The others were about the same.

The Nine Swords group have all undergone intensive training.

Each one has quite a hearty appetite.

Take Bam for instance.

He previously said, "Generally, we don't eat chicken feet, there's no meat on them."

But now, he's almost gone through ten plates of phoenix claws and is still eating.

It really looks like he enjoys phoenix claws.

Originally, many people came today with the intention of chatting.

But seeing how things are now, the conversation doesn't seem likely to proceed.

Except Alice, who felt a bit bored, kept urging Louis to play "chopsticks grabbing food" game with her.

It seems she quite enjoyed the previous game of using chopsticks like swords.

Or maybe she simply wanted to play around with Louis.

Unable to refuse her, Louis eventually agreed to a match with her over some cowboy ribs.

However, he was quite happy today.

Seeing the cuisine from home being appreciated by everyone put him in a good mood.

During this, a funny thing happened.

That's Mayer Restaurant used many ingredients that Tino locals or even Ense folks seldom consumed.

For instance, chicken feet, unless truly impoverished, would rarely be eaten by families in Ense.

No one understands better than the Daxia People how to make use of food's inherent flavors.

This homeland, vast with diverse terrains, has silently battled hunger in its own way for thousands of years.

As times changed, unique Chinese cuisines formed by combining with the geography and culture of various places.

Even more remarkable is that today, various dishes from Chinese cuisine are still constantly being innovated.

This philosophy of utilizing everything has deeply shocked the Tino locals.

That's also why initially, Mayer Restaurant's Chinese dishes had fairly average sales.

Back then, the biggest sellers at Mayer Restaurant were desserts and drinks.

After the Mayer Commerce Association became explosively popular following the dance party, its huge fame drew attention to the desserts.

Understanding this isn't hard; it's like who would have thought that the most spread mooncakes from Qian Province these years would be the Hospital Cafeteria's self-made Hospital Mooncakes?

From the hospital cafeteria, they spread out across the provincial capital.

And even later on, each year they spurred a short yet lively specialty mooncake industry chain.

You could say the early success of Hospital Mooncakes was due to word of mouth, but later it was more about its unique taste and flavor.

Mayer Restaurant initially rose on the strength of its desserts.

When a certain old dessert store claimed I didn't have a dessert business license,

Now we have it, Mayer Restaurant's exclusive offerings, for Mayer Commerce Association clientele.

Now the established clientele of that old dessert shop has been siphoned off into Mayer's new attire.

Word is that shop owner is preparing to sublease the store.

After all, if you can't earn enough Gold Coins in a bustling area, just the rent is quite a staggering figure.

But who would have thought that Mayer Restaurant's Chinese cuisine would become popular so quickly.

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