Chapter 53: Invitation to Tasting
The front yard of the private restaurant is a Chinese retro courtyard style, with courtyards and patios, which are renovated into a small garden. Small bridges, flowing water, and pebbles are indeed a quiet place in the downtown city.
The backyard is even more unique. Since he often needs various aquatic products, he simply built a small living pool here to feed the aquatic products first.
If a customer orders at any time, he will still kill live fish and crabs that are caught to be fresh. I have to say that if you treat the ingredients like this, you don’t know how to calculate the cost.
In short, the chickens he brought were easy to manage, and he just had to feed some rice and corn every day.
One hundred chickens ran in the backyard, relaxed and stress-free, and the area was really considerable.
Zhou Heng didn't know Boss Jiang's strength yet, but he was stunned. With such a large area, how much rent would be! Poverty simply limited his imagination and could not even estimate the price.
Boss Jiang was very happy when he saw the 100 chickens jumping around. He had already made preparations and planned to start making his new dish.
Seeing Zhou Heng was about to leave, Boss Jiang smiled and said, "Xiao Zhou, don't rush to leave! I will release a new dish tonight. If you are not in a hurry, how about staying for me to taste it?"
Zhou Heng was a little flattered and hurriedly said, "How can you be so embarrassed!"
The taste of this private dish is first-class and the price is really extraordinary. How can he taste it for others?
Besides, he is not a well-known critic, and he can't make a comment.
Maybe they are just being polite to him.
Boss Jiang smiled and said, "I'm not polite to you. This dish is a new dish, and you have the best local chickens to cultivate. I think you have the right to speak!"
For this dish, he ran around these days, buying various ingredients, waiting for the local chicken to be delivered.
Zhou Heng gave in politely again, but couldn't push it away, so he finally agreed not to leave.
He divided half of the peaches he brought from his home to Boss Jiang and his other half, and prepared to bring them to his former colleagues for them to taste them too.
After all, they said they wanted to eat countless times and asked them to taste it.
Boss Jiang suggested that the time to try the dishes was at night, and now there were still several hours of free time, so I could eat lunch with them.
When old colleagues met, they were very happy, especially Xiao Chen, who argued that she must pay for the meal because she had just received a commission!
It was Edward's order. Now the deposit has been paid. Last time she said that she must treat her, so no one should compete with her.
At the dinner table, everyone chattered and asked, how was Zhou Heng doing at home, is the breeding industry really easy to do, no one can help, can one do it alone, etc.
The company is not developing very well, so they also want to inquire from multiple sources. If there is a good way, they even want to retreat and change careers.
Xiao Chen looked at Zhou Heng and smiled and said, "Brother Heng must be very happy at home. Look, he is tanned and has a feeling of being strong and strong, which is different from being in the office all day long."
Zhou Heng smiled and said, "You understand now, but who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard! Hahahaha..."
My former colleagues were also used to jokes.
I talked about Zhou Heng for a while, and then talked about the current situation of the company. In short, it was like that. The customers were getting smaller and smaller, and the fewer the more they were doing, and the future was worrying.
In the past, the company didn't take small customers like Edward seriously, and now it has to be nice. Now, the company is trying hard to invite him to attend the next season's exhibition.
Speaking of this, Zhou Heng smiled and said, "Oh? He really wants to come over! Last time I told him that I resigned and raised chickens at home. He also said he wanted to go to my house to eat chicken."
Xiao Chen asked, "Really? Then I will tell you in advance when he comes next time! The boss asked me to receive it."
Having said that, even Edward, a foreigner, wants to go to the mountain village to eat chicken, travel, and have holidays, why don’t they want to?
Isn’t this forced by life?
Xiao Chen asked Zhou Heng: "Brother Heng, I have a great view from you! Do you want to develop tourism, homestays, etc.? It's very popular now! I feel like I'm making money."
The rest of the people also agreed.
Even if they don’t have time to travel, they like to go online to see what fun places others go to - there are really not too many travel internet celebrities now, and they can see any video website.
Wherever it becomes popular, internet celebrities must check in.
Although this is following the trend and some people don’t like it, it at least brings popularity and benefits to the locals!
Compared with the wealth-making party, what is personal preference?
Someone also suggested to Zhou Heng: "Brother Heng, why don't you also leave a message to those internet celebrity big Vs and invite them to your place. To drive, maybe it's really OK."
Then the table started talking, saying that those Internet celebrities are worth a lot of money, some of whom do not have too many fans, advertising fees are tens of thousands, and many of them are zombie fans, and the money is not effective.
Zhou Heng remembered Jiang Xiaoxuan, and didn’t know how much the advertising cost for her, who is more than 100,000 fans.
However, she said that her fans are all real fans and there is no zombie, so there should be no moisture.
He smiled and said, "It's not just a matter of running a homestay. You have to have a scenic spot and an attractive gimmick. Otherwise, if others don't go there once, what's the point?"
He also mentioned that there are now a group of foreign college students living in his village, which is considered a low-end version of the homestay.
Especially when it comes to those students who are following their families to eat farm dishes, they all have very novel and envious expressions. They don’t spend much money and can enjoy it, which is exactly what they dream of!
Some people started to joke, and while Brother Heng is not a famous internet celebrity check-in place, they can take time to go over and have a try first.
Otherwise, when it really becomes a place of success in the future, it will be time to start charging, and it will be a good idea to make money now.
Everyone at the table is hahaha.
While we were talking, the dish came up, and it was a clay pot of chicken soup.
The method of cooking Cantonese cuisine is to add some ingredients such as bamboo ginseng, poria, and red dates to the bottom of the chicken soup. It smells a refreshing fragrance and is also a dish that has been stewed for a long time.
The waiter divided the soup into the soup bowl for everyone. The people on the table smelled the fragrance, and everyone praised the authentic chicken soup for this restaurant.
After the waiter finished the soup and went out, Xiao Chen whispered to Zhou Heng: "Brother Heng, how about this chicken soup compared to your local chicken soup?"
Zhou Hengyi spread his hands: "How can this be compared with my chicken?"
That is, the waiter went out, otherwise, they would probably be unhappy after hearing this. After all, this restaurant is mainly made of earthen jar chicken soup, and it is famous in this area.
However, what Zhou Heng said was the truth.
From the beginning of stewing, the chicken in his house has been constantly savoring the appetite. Until the time it was served, everyone who smelled it was saliva.
Youdao is to eat the marrow and know the taste. After eating your own chicken, these are unaware of them.
Xiao Chen was a little unbelievable and said, "The difference is not that big, right? This one is also a native chicken!"
This can of chicken soup is 288, not cheap. There is a huge sign at the door of the store, indicating that it is a farm chicken from a certain place.
Zhou Heng smiled and asked her: "Do you know what the price of a real native chicken?"
The people on the table immediately spoke out. Some said that they sold two of them on the Internet for more than fifty, some said that they sold two of them on the Internet for more than one hundred, and some said that there were more than one hundred in the vegetable market, and all kinds of them were included.
In fact, when it comes to this, the controversy has already come to an end. Real native chickens will not be cheap.
Some people from the countryside said that they only found out after they returned that the local eggs at home had sold for two yuan a few years ago.
Isn’t the result very obvious? This can of chicken soup costs 288 yuan per can, which seems very expensive, but the cost of the ingredients can be seen at the naked eye. How much does it cost to have a native chicken, bamboo ginseng, and poria cocos?
The food costs of general restaurants are usually less than one-quarter of the selling price, or even lower, because there are also manual labor costs for chefs, as well as huge venue rental fees, decoration fees, publicity fees, etc.
If this is the case, the boss will have to sell it according to the book.
Zhou Heng tasted the chicken soup, and the taste was indeed OK.
How to say it? The quality of the "local chicken" they use is definitely not very good, but the chef is good at cooking. He can use some cooking methods and mix ingredients to make the meat tender and make the chicken soup very fragrant, so it feels pretty good.
Didn’t the advertising slogan of some kind of seasoning say: “With it, I can become a chef in an instant.”
However, if you dare to stew it in a real way, you won’t add these things. The stew will be more fragrant and delicious than this one.
Listening to Zhou Heng talking, his colleagues looked envious. Is your chicken so delicious?
They were eating here and talking, but Jiang Lijun was extremely busy on the other side.
The new dish has been prepared for a long time. Judging from the ingredients, he has prepared for several years; if he starts from the apprenticeship, he has prepared for decades.
This dish was taught by the master, because the ingredients required were extremely rare. Under the conditions at that time, at most ordinary chicken could be obtained, and even other ingredients were not prepared.
When the master was making the simple version, he taught him some formal practices, imagining the strange fragrance of the formal product and the sense of accomplishment that was shocked by everyone. At that time, the master was so angry that he was talking so hard that he swallowed his saliva.
For decades, he has never forgotten the scene at that time.
Until now, he occasionally tasted the native chickens raised by Zhou Heng's family, and he knew that this dish should be possible.
He invited a few friends to come and taste it, and also left Zhou Heng to taste it together.
So, he is busy preparing for the evening dish.
In the afternoon, several friends had already arrived one after another, crossing the quiet retro style courtyard and coming to the backyard where only the chef could stay.
The hunger strikers are not allowed to visit here, and only the busy figures of the staff are there.
As soon as I arrived at the backyard, an unknown fragrance burst out, attracting appetite.
Chapter completed!