【Chapter 723】
Plati can no longer remember how many times he came to Ginkgo Village. He always feels that almost every time the Jinghu Group has a new product on the market in recent years, he will come. ⊙
He wants to order the "Xiaoshi Wine" when it is on the market. When the "Jinghu Beef" is on the market in large quantities, he has to visit the scene in person. Sometimes he even goes to the "Xiao Family Farm" to witness the growth environment of the white jade snails with his own eyes... In short, he always has excuses to go to Ginkgo Village.
In fact, in addition to the so-called "business demand", the real reason for coming to Ginkgo Village so frequently is clear, that is, to taste the most authentic "Jinghu Food" in Ginkgo Village!
Otherwise, with Plati's wealth and busyness, there would be no need to travel from France to Ginkgo Village every year, and it would be just that the attributes of a veteran gourmet were playing a role.
Today, the "Xiaoshi Wine", "Minghu Beef", "Minghu Salmon", "White Jade Snail", "Minghu Foie Gras" and various top ingredients produced by "Minghu Group" have quietly occupied many high-end Western restaurants in France. As the general distributor of France, Switzerland and the Netherlands, the food company owned by Plati has become the leader of the top European food suppliers.
In the first quarter of 2013, Plati Foods achieved a total sales of 200 million euros, becoming the largest partner outside the Wharton Group!
However, in Plati's view, even though these refrigerated and air-freighted ingredients are sold well in Western Europe, even if the Michelin three-star chefs cooked them personally, they still couldn't find the unique charm they had in Ginkgo Village.
In this way, in various seasons every year, Plati would fly to Yaozhou with legitimate reasons, and work fell second. It was nothing more than just having a feast and satisfying her appetite.
But what makes Plati depressed is that he has to take Air France or China Airlines flights to Peking or Haizhou every time, and then transfer to Yaozhou on other flights. After this, even the fastest flights will take a day and a night, and sometimes even have to stay in the transit site for one night.
Now Plati is extremely looking forward to China Airlines launching a direct flight to "Paris-Yaozhou". I heard that this plan has been put on the agenda. The first flight in the second half of the year will be carried out by the newly launched A380.
Of course, what Plati is most looking forward to is to have his own private jet. By then, it will be much more convenient for him to go to Ginkgo Village or all over the world.
However, Plati did not have the good luck of Xiao Feng. The g650 he booked at Gulfstream will take two years to deliver. Before that, he could only take airline flights.
This time, the Platz and his wife did not come alone. They arrived in Yaozhou on the same plane with them, Mr. Ducasser, the top chef in Paris’s food industry!
In the past two years, the top ingredients of "Jinghu Group" include red wine, have become the main source of raw materials for Dukass Restaurant, and this subtle influence has been extremely powerful.
As a senior Michelin three-star chef, Mr. Dukass naturally has profound research and experience in various top ingredients, and the products of the "Mirror Lake Group" gave him a big enough surprise.
He has always wanted to visit Ginkgo Village in person to see the origin of those top ingredients but failed to travel for various reasons. This time, the "Jinghu Group" launched a bombshell again, so he naturally couldn't sit still.
It is different from the fat chef in the traditional Chinese impression. Dukasse is tall and thin, and looks quite like a crosstalk artist Mr. Li Sanli. However, his blue eyes, which are deeply trapped in his eye sockets, are bright and energetic!
On the flight, Dukasse has always imagined in his mind what the Ginkgo Village, which can produce those top ingredients, would look like. He has always refused to check the relevant pictures of Ginkgo Village, believing that this would ruin his feelings.
When the flight was hovering over Yaozhou Airport, the majestic Jade Dragon Snow Mountain immediately shocked him. This kind of scene can only be seen in the roof of the world.
In the past, Ducasse had been to the Alps for vacation. Its highest peak, Mont Blanc, was only 4,800, and it was still a certain distance from the 5,598-meter Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
What's more, the steepness of Yulong Snow Mountain is incomparable to other mountains. Especially the main peak, "Sanzi Steep", is still a Virgin Peak that has not yet been conquered by anyone.
Today, humans have climbed Mount Everest at an altitude of 8,848 meters countless times, but they still cannot conquer the "fan steep", which naturally reflects its greatness in some ways!
After leaving the airport, the Audi A8l luxury fleet of "Jinghu Group" was already waiting at the airport gate. Plati and his party did not stop too much and headed straight for Ginkgo Village.
Because of the May Day Golden Week, many media reporters gathered in Yaozhou to prepare to shoot various news materials to report to the audience on the grand tourism event of the Golden Week.
The luxury fleet of "Jinghu Group" picked up the plane at the entrance of Yaozhou Airport so flamboyantly, which has long attracted the attention of media reporters and tourists. Everyone wants to see who the guests of "Jinghu Group" are?
However, a group of foreigners hurt the reporters very much. After all, their domestic stars and wealthy people do not have much news value.
As for Chef Dukass, who is as thin as a zombie, although he is famous in the food industry, the public does not understand him, and the reporters missed the opportunity to make big news.
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In addition to Plati and Dukass, partners of the "Mirror Lake Group" including Lin Watanabe, Smith and Brian also came to Ginkgo Village to prepare to attend this grand event.
For them, the continuous increase in output of the top food ingredients of the Jinghu Group will bring them more profits and market share, so they are naturally extremely active.
In addition to these heavyweight partners, 30 cooperative restaurants in "Jinghu Group" in first-tier cities in China were also invited to attend the truffle ordering conference, so they naturally wanted to send executives to participate.
If someone knows something about the Chinese food circle, he can see that in the crowds of Ginkgo Village, there are many masters of the food industry, who are all attracted by the food of the "Minghu Scenic Area".
In the food system of Chinese food, truffles do not occupy an important position, and the Chinese have never added truffles to their dishes.
This can be seen from the common name of "pig gong fungus" in southern Yunnan and western Sichuan!
The black truffles in France and the white truffles in Italy are the world's top truffles, which are well known, but everyone does not know that there are also numerous truffles produced in southern Yunnan and western Sichuan.
According to scientific testing and analysis, the quality of truffles, mixed aromas, etc. in this area are not much different from those in foreign truffles. However, China has always been dominated by Western food, resulting in extremely low truffles in this production area.
Currently, the market price of French black truffles fluctuates between US$2,000 and US$3,000, while Italian black truffles need to be increased by about 10 times. The better the quality, the heavier the monomer, the higher the price.
However, in China, the price of "pig gong fungus" has been below $100 for a long time. Many unscrupulous restaurants have pretended to be French truffles and made huge profits after purchasing them.
The reason why Chinese truffles are in such an embarrassing situation is that in addition to the fact that Western restaurants are not the mainstream of China, the downturn in brand operation and construction is also an important reason. In a word, Chinese truffles are not recognized in the international market!
However, this time, the guests who came to Ginkgo Village to attend the truffle ordering conference in the "Jinghu Group" knew in their hearts that with the official launch of the truffle under the "Jinghu Group", the current market structure will undergo earth-shaking changes.
In the past four years, the Jinghu Group has built a great stride in the Western food ingredients market from scratch, and its success is eye-catching.
Although the current "Jinghu Group" cannot affect the overall trend of the world's top Western food ingredients market, many of its top ingredients have won enough reputations in the global food circle.
Perhaps, this time the truffle ordering conference of Jinghu Group will kick off the prelude to the 'Jinghu Group's battle with the top Western food ingredients market.
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As a top chef, Dukass is still very concerned about the production environment of ingredients. As a supporter of the theory of "ingredient first", he has always believed that only top ingredients can produce top food.
Now, after coming to Ginkgo Village, his first thing was to go to the "Xiao Family Farm" and "Jinghu Ranch" to observe the production status of various ingredients at close range and obtain first-hand information.
What I saw and heard in Ginkgo Village surprised Dukasse. After all, this place fully meets all the requirements of Dukasse’s most ideal food production base, and it is reasonable to be able to produce so many top-quality food ingredients.
What surprised Dukasse even more was that the food in Ginkgo Village was completely beyond his imagination!
Whether it was Plati, who came to Ginkgo Village many times or Dukasse, who arrived in northwestern Yunnan for the first time, they were quickly addicted to the various top-notch delicacies of the "Xiao Family Private Restaurant". Judging from the taste alone, the food here has reached its peak.
The reason is that all the top ingredients are freshest, and the cooking water is all Qingling Mountain Spring mixed with the "Space Spirit Spring", which is not comparable to other places.
In a sense, if the so-called "Eyun" mineral water is much better, it will naturally achieve the effect of "1+1﹥2" when used to cook top ingredients watered by "Space Spirit Spring".
Dukass was a little arrogant before, feeling that he came from a place where Western food was so prosperous that his achievements in Western food were naturally better than those of Chinese chefs, but the facts taught him a vivid lesson.
Chapter completed!