The 135th chapter birthday wishes (1)
In July 2015, there were two more things that needed to be solved.
The first thing.
The results of the private custom market for windle aromatherapy come out at this time.
Market research results show that scented candles about food memory are not suitable for launching customized services in China at present.
Speaking of Chinese food, it mainly depends on inspiration and feel. It rarely uses a bunch of measuring vessels like Western food. The final product is somewhat industrialized.
Chinese food rarely measures like this. If you study it carefully, the taste of each time you make it has subtle differences.
This is why there were few Michelin three-star Chinese restaurants in the past, because Michelin restaurants must be consistent in quality.
In recent years, Michelin has reviewed many Michelin Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. I don’t know if it is because of the consistency of Chinese restaurants or the evaluation criteria of Michelin have been reduced.
Many of the old foreign nobles have family-born dishes, one dish, one family and generations can make the same taste. Even if they are not good at cooking, they can cook beautifully.
To be honest, most of the domestic craftsmanship are passed down from family, and few of the domestic dishes are passed down from family.
Speaking of the internationally renowned cooking family in China, it is mainly Lijia Cuisine, No. 11, Houhai Yangfang Hutong, Beijing. (Note 1)
However, speaking of this, there are more foreigners who eat Lijia cuisine than Chinese. It takes a month to make an appointment to get free, which is still not in line with the eating habits of the people in China.
Lijiacai currently has eight stores around the world. The founder's three daughters and one son have all become the descendants of Lijiacai. However, these children, each of them, have different interpretations of the same dish.
Chinese people emphasize that they are better than others. The apprentice must make some innovation based on the master to be successful.
Therefore, Chinese food traveled all over the world and became famous, but it was not possible to have a restaurant like McDonald's or Pizza Hut. (Note 2)
Windle aromatherapy in Shanghai shows that most people have the taste of their mother in their memory of food, but when they ask which dish their mother tastes, most people’s answers are unclear.
There is only a general concept of mother's taste, and there is no specific concept of dish taste.
Under such a premise, Shanghai is obviously not a place suitable for the first-time private customization of food aromatherapy.
The second thing.
After Cheng Fengchun returned to London in July, he stayed in London. Because he had not returned to China, the proposal for marriage was still in the stage of "paper talk" until the end of July.
Zuo Zai felt that she should have to talk to Cheng Fengchun in person about her and Cheng Lie, so that she could express her inner guilt and respect for Cheng Fengchun.
However, Zuo Zai waited until two days before Cheng Lie’s birthday, and did not wait until Cheng Fengchun returned to Shanghai.
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August 3, 2015.
Cheng Lie's 35th birthday.
Private customized services must be carried out in London, and Cheng Fengchun must be solved in London if he wants to come to propose marriage.
So, Zuo Zai came to London on Cheng Lie's birthday.
On August 3 last year, Zuo Zai and Cheng Lie had just "breaked up". Zuo Zai was focused on his work and focused on it. He missed Cheng Lie's 34th birthday and failed to prepare the perfume for Cheng Lie.
In the past ten years, every time Zuo Zai's birthday, Cheng Lie took Zuo Zai to go shopping, Zuo Zai was responsible for buying things, and Cheng Lie was responsible for paying the bill.
After buying things, the two of them would have dinner together. After going back to dinner, Zuo went to bed again. Cheng Lie would draw a cartoon to draw the things they bought on the day, the dinner they had, and Zuo Zai looked like that day.
Finally, I will write the date, and my-girl-is-15yrs-old-now. (My girl is 15 years old now.)
The ages are updated every year, starting from 2005 to 2014, and never falling every year.
However, in 2015, Zuo Zai celebrated his birthday with Huo Feng, so he must have missed Cheng Lie's comics.
In recent years, Cheng Lie's birthday is the same as Zuo Zai's birthday. Apart from not drawing comics, Cheng Lie still takes Zuo out to buy things, and also takes Zuo to have dinner.
According to Cheng Lie, he is older, so it is best not to celebrate. Let Zuo help him celebrate his birthday. In this way, Zuo will grow up faster after celebrating two birthdays a year.
Because Zuo was fifteen years old, Cheng Lie started to pass like this at the age of twenty-five, and later it became a routine.
Cheng Lie basically didn't let Zuo do anything. At the beginning, he even ordered the restaurant himself.
After a few years of hard struggle, Zuo finally took the matter of arranging a restaurant on Cheng Lie's birthday, treating him to dinner, and ordering cakes into his own hands.
Last year, when Cheng Lie was 34 years old, Zuo Zai didn't dare to say hello, for fear that he would cry, and even more afraid that Cheng Lie would be sad. This year, Zuo Zai didn't want to miss his brother's 35th birthday no matter what.
Zuo Zai arrived in London in the afternoon, and Cheng Lie went to pick Zuo Zai up. After arriving at Cheng Fengchun's home in London, Zuo Zai didn't see anyone else at home.
"Where is Uncle Cheng?" Zuo asked Cheng Lie again.
"My dad will not go home tomorrow. He knows that you will be very happy to come to London." Cheng Lie replied.
No matter what season it is, listening to Cheng Lie's words is like spring breeze.
Uncle Cheng is really happy to see him? Zuo Zai has no confidence at all.
However, today is Brother Lie’s birthday, so it’s better not to think about these things first.
"Brother Lie, I'll go up and take a shower first, and I'll invite you to dinner later." Zuo Zai said to Cheng Lie with a smile.
"Okay, you treat me to one meal a year. I haven't eaten that meal last year yet. I have to order two meals later." Cheng Lie responded with a smile.
"No problem, I'll give you my meal later, won't it solve the problem?" Zuo said aloud and walked towards his room.
Cheng Lie looked at Zuo Zai's back and remembered the days when Zuo Zai grew up at home before he went to Shanghai.
If I hadn't opened a branch in Shanghai at that time, would everything be on the same track?
Will their old man regret his original decision?
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Note 1
Li Shanlin, the founder of Lijiacai, was originally a mathematics professor. It is said that his ancestors were the governor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who specialized in managing Cixi's diet. After retirement, they started cooking in their own courtyard. At first, they had one table a week, and then one table a day.
Although the founder's three daughters and one son all became the successors of Li Jiacai, the real heir, Li Li, the second daughter with the best cooking skills, immigrated to Australia in his early years and opened Li Jiacai in Melbourne.
Li Jiacai also received two Michelin stars in his Tokyo branch in Japan.
Lijia dishes usually lack a feeling - refreshing. Some soups are made of high-end, elegant and upscale. When the Li family makes them, they will try them and prevent diners from seeing the ingredients, so they will bring a bowl and clear soup.
Lijiacai is a "high-end Chinese restaurant" that foreigners love, but for most Chinese gourmets, it is a bit of a good thing.
Note 2
In China, in the early years, eating Pizza Hut was not a very cheap day. But in foreign countries, when international students were particularly poor, they would first be like Pizza Hut and then KFC and McDonald's.
A Pizza Hut package is about the same price as a KFC McDonald's, and it is even a little cheaper. In addition, a whole pizza is much more effective than the KFC and McDonald's packages from the perspective of filling your stomach.
There is another interesting thing. Although McDonald's is a much larger company than KFC, when KFC first arrived in China, its development location was much better than McDonald's.
But in fact, KFC's consistency is also problematic. KFCs around the world taste different in taste, and even the size of the fries is different.
At this point, McDonald's is the real king, and there is no difference in the taste of any country.
KFC has been over-sinized, and its performance in recent years has not been satisfactory.
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(At the end of the previous chapter, there were many comments, mostly about love but not getting it.
But in fact, Xiao Mo's writing this book has nothing to do with love. Before the conclusion of Volume 3, there are two words in the last sentence that may be ignored by everyone.
Do you want to try to find out?)
Chapter completed!