The features of the hot and dense gas of quarks, which are considered as the quasiparticles of the model Hamiltonian with a four-fermion interaction, are studied. Being adapted to the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, this approach allows us to accommodate a phase transition similar to the nuclear liquid-gas one at the proper scale and to argue the existence of the mixed (inhomogeneous) phase of vacuum and normal baryonic matter as a plausible scenario of chiral symmetry (partial) restoration. Analyzing the transition layer between two phases, we estimate the surface tension coefficient and speculate on the possible existence of a quark droplet.