When the sign above the restaurant's door was unveiled, everyone on the ancient street finally saw the name of this western restaurant run by Feng Yifan.
If the restaurant.
Everyone was a little surprised to see such a name.
Including everyone in the restaurant kitchen who was invited by Feng Yifan, no one had expected that Feng Yifan would give the restaurant such a name.
But if you think about it carefully, everyone understands the meaning of this name.
Feng Ruoruo took her father's hand and asked, "Dad, what's the name of this?"
Feng Yifan smiled and replied to his daughter: "Three words, from right to left, it's 'Ruo Restaurant'."
Feng Ruoruo followed her father and read: "Ruo Restaurant."
After hearing Feng Ruoruo read out the name, Han Wenwen said, "Ruoruo, this restaurant is named after you. Your name is Feng Ruoruo, and your father's restaurant is called Ruo Restaurant. Isn't that your restaurant?"
After hearing this, Feng Ruoruo first looked at Sister Wenwen, then raised her head to look at the name of the restaurant, and finally the little girl looked at her father.
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Well, Sister Wenwen is right. This restaurant is indeed named after Ruoruo. You can also say it's named after my mother, because my mother's name also has the character 'Ruoruo' in it."
After hearing Feng Yifan's explanation, everyone who came to the banquet laughed.
Su Ruoxi walked forward, looked at the restaurant sign, then looked at her husband. At this moment, she was also very moved.
Feng Yifan put his arm around his wife and said, "Don't cry. Today is the opening day. We should be happy."
Feng Ruoruo also said, "Yes, yes, don't cry, Mom. Dad used my and Mom's names as the restaurant's name. Mom, you should be happy with Ruoruo."
Su Ruoxi wiped away her tears and smiled: "Okay, we all have to laugh."
Afterwards, under the arrangement of Shi Jiahui and Catherine, the restaurant officially started the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
A lot of people gathered on the ancient street, and more and more people gathered, almost blocking the area in front of the western restaurant.
Many people took out their mobile phones and recorded the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the restaurant's opening.
The first thing that happened was naturally some people took photos and quickly posted them on WeChat Moments and the Internet.
"Chef Feng's western restaurant has opened. The name of the restaurant is 'Ruo Restaurant'."
"Chef Feng's 'Ruo Restaurant' opened. The restaurant's name is the name of Chef Feng's wife and daughter, both of which have the word 'Ruo' in them."
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While posting it on various WeChat Moments, Meng Shitong and her team also started a live broadcast, broadcasting the entire opening process so that many people could see today’s opening.
When cutting the ribbon, Feng Yifan also invited several of the country's top state banquet chefs, including Mr. Zhuang Daozhong, Rodney, the chef of Perovence Restaurant, and his own family to cut the ribbon for the restaurant.
When Rodney was photographed cutting the ribbon and posted on Weibo.
It soon attracted considerable attention on Weibo.
"Wow, it was the chef of Perovence Restaurant who cut the ribbon in person."
"Really? I heard that Perovence Restaurant is going to open a branch in China. Could this Ruo Restaurant be a branch of Perovence Restaurant?"
"No, if the restaurant is Chef Feng's Western restaurant."
"Yes, that's right. Ru Restaurant is not a branch of Perovence. Moreover, among those present, there are several people whose status in the domestic culinary world is not inferior to that of the chef of Perovence."
"There were several top chefs from state banquets participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony."
"I don't know the others, but you should know Mr. Zhuang Daozhong. He is a truly top chef. The Chinese cuisine recipes that were passed on before were also customized by him personally. Now he travels around the country for the recipes."
"Wow, that's really a master chef, he deserves more respect."
"But why should we support a western restaurant?"
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Coincidentally, when some people were discussing on the Internet that Zhuang Daozhong and several other state banquet chefs were going to support the opening of a western restaurant, Feng Yifan was also interviewed by some media at the scene and talked about his own western restaurant.
“In fact, you may have misunderstood. My restaurant cannot be considered a true Western restaurant. Although we do use Western cooking techniques in our dishes, the ingredients we use are basically domestic ingredients.
In addition, our restaurant not only provides knives and forks, but also chopsticks for guests to choose freely.
So actually, if Chef Rodney were to judge, this might not even be considered a Western restaurant.”
While Feng Yifan was explaining, he also called Rodney over to help explain.
After listening to Feng Yifan's narration, Rodney also said very frankly: "Ruo Restaurant cannot be considered a true Western restaurant.
Although it seems that many cooking methods are Western, some of the cooking techniques are a fusion of Chinese and Western techniques. I think we should not judge a restaurant by the differences between the East and the West, but should focus on the taste of the dishes. "
While helping to explain, Rodney also did not forget to promote the Perovence restaurant.
“Just like this time, our Perovence restaurant is going to enter your domestic market after sufficient consideration and demonstration, and we have made some adjustments to the taste to make it more in line with the tastes of your domestic population.
Perovence has always been committed to letting guests taste and enjoy food, rather than simply sticking to our own things. "
After listening to this, Feng Yifan just laughed off Rodney's smuggling of work.
After the interview, Feng Yifan also invited the reporter to enter the restaurant to take some photos.
Although it is not open to the public today, he allowed reporters to enter and take pictures, which still won unanimous praise from reporters who came to interview him.
After the shooting, it was almost six o'clock in the evening.
Feng Yifan first asked the reporters to come out, and then invited today's guests into the restaurant.
"Well, it's getting late, please take your seats, distinguished guests."
Afterwards, under the envious gazes of people on the street outside, the invited people came into the restaurant one after another and started sitting.
The restaurant had already been decorated, and Su Liancheng had changed his clothes and stood with the restaurant staff.
When everyone entered the restaurant, Su Liancheng bowed with everyone to welcome them.
"Welcome."
Feng Yifan asked everyone to sit down and personally guided Zhuang Daozhong and others as well as Rodney and his group to sit closer to the open kitchen.
By doing this, I can allow a few people to watch me cook from a close distance, which can be regarded as accepting the inspection of professionals.
After everyone was seated, Feng Yifan carefully counted the number of people.
Feng Ruoruo sat next to her grandparents, and then sat with a group of her friends. Even the two girls brought by Su Lanxin and Pei Caiyun sat with Feng Ruoruo and the others.
Seeing her father counting the number of people, Feng Ruoruo turned her head and suddenly raised her hand.
"Dad, Teacher Guo and Sister Jingyi haven't arrived yet."
The little girl raised her hand to speak, which made everyone in the restaurant laugh.
At this moment, everyone felt that Feng Yifan’s daughter was really interesting.
Feng Yifan smiled and responded to his daughter: "Okay, Dad knows, then we'll just wait a little longer."
At the same time, he said to the people in the kitchen: "You start preparing first."
Everyone in the kitchen immediately responded: "It's the chef."
Then, under the leadership of Shi Jiahui and Catherine, everyone in the kitchen began to take action.
After a short wait, Guo Hong and Guo Jingyi finally arrived.
When they arrived at the door and saw the sign saying "The place is fully booked today", Guo Hong and Guo Jingyi were a little hesitant about whether to go in.
However, Feng Yifan, who happened to be at the door, saw them and quickly opened the door to let the two in.
"Come in quickly, everyone is waiting for you. Huh? Aren't Jingyi's parents here?"
Guo Hong smiled and explained: "Jingyi's parents were busy, so they didn't come."
Feng Yifan nodded and said, "It's okay. Later, Jingyi can bring her parents along. I'll treat your parents to a meal then."
When Feng Ruoruo saw Teacher Guo and Sister Jingyi coming, she waved her hands and shouted, "Teacher Guo, Sister Jingyi, come quickly, we are here."
Guo Hong and Guo Jingyi also walked over and sat down at the table next to Feng Ruoruo.
After Feng Yifan made sure that all the guests had arrived, he turned around and went into the kitchen.
"Welcome everyone to our restaurant today. Please order your set menu first. Today, our restaurant has two set menus. One is mainly mountain delicacies, and the other is river and seafood. You can choose one of them."
Su Liancheng immediately handed the menu to everyone so that they could choose freely.
Everyone made their own choices quickly.
Among them, Rodney and other foreigners basically chose wild delicacies, obviously wanting to taste domestic ingredients.
However, Zhuang Daozhong and his team of state banquet chefs chose a set menu of river and seafood.
After everyone had made their choice, Feng Yifan immediately asked the kitchen to start preparing.
During the preparation process, Feng Yifan also asked Su Lian to serve some drinks and some snacks to fill everyone's stomach.
Soon, the first appetizer was ready.
As the appetizers were served.
Everyone who is responsible for serving the food will carefully explain and tell diners that appetizers can be eaten with their hands.
Of course, the restaurant also provides disinfectant wipes for everyone to clean their hands.
Seeing the appetizers being served, most people who saw them for the first time were amazed.
Then, the restaurant instantly turned into a large-scale shooting scene.
Everyone used their mobile phones to take pictures of this small and exquisite appetizer.
Feng Ruoruo also acted as an introducer, introducing her father's dishes to her friends and telling everyone that the dishes being served were appetizers.
“This is an appetizer, just a little bit, and it’s not for us to eat full, but to taste the flavor and whet everyone’s appetite so that we can eat other dishes next.
Before eating, be sure to wipe your hands clean, and then eat with your hands."
Su Ruoxi wiped her daughter's hands and said, "Okay, eat well. Don't always explain to others. Don't dad and the others explain it to you?"
Feng Ruoruo immediately said seriously: "Mom, this restaurant is named after Ruoruo, so Ruoruo has to help Dad promote it too."
After hearing what her daughter said, Su Ruoxi was a little unable to refute.
Lu Cuiling said beside her: "Okay, let's start eating quickly."
After hearing what her grandmother said, Feng Ruoruo said with a smile, "Okay, let's eat."
When everyone starts tasting it, they will find that this appetizer is not only small and exquisite in shape, but also tastes great in the mouth.
Whether it is ham puff pastry or river shrimp dumplings.
The taste is really unique.
The taste is not very strong when you put it in your mouth. When you chew it slowly, you will feel that you are not satisfied yet.
After eating it, if you savor it for a while, you will find that the taste is really special.
Just these two appetizers have made everyone take a new look at Feng Yifan's restaurant.
Especially the several top professional chefs present.
The few people sitting with Rodney asked for his opinion.
Rodney nodded and said, "This appetizer uses fried apricot puree and is paired with processed ham slices. It tastes really good. Add to that the sweet and spicy shortbread and the chili rings on top. The sweet, spicy and salty flavor is really appetizing."
On the other side, several state banquet masters also looked at Zhuang Daozhong, wanting to hear Mr. Zhuang’s opinion.
Zhuang Daozhong smiled and said: "This shrimp dumpling looks like a shrimp dumpling, but in fact, everyone knows after eating it that it is not a shrimp dumpling at all. It contains meat and shrimp, and is supplemented with kelp, and Yifan fills the shrimp dumpling dipping sauce into the shrimp dumpling.
The hot and sour taste stimulates the taste buds, and paired with the freshness of shrimp and meat, it is a very unique taste and successfully aroused my appetite. "
Everyone nodded in agreement.
This appetizer alone is enough to amaze everyone.
Of course, there are also some people who have not eaten this kind of Western food before and may feel that the portion is too small as it is only one bite.
When the other party asked questions, Su Liancheng also leaned over to give some explanations.
"Oh, this is just an appetizer to whet your appetite, so the portion won't be very large. There will be other dishes later."
Soon, the second course was served, which could also be considered the official first appetizer.
As for the mountain delicacy set meal, it is a dish mainly based on goat milk.
As for seafood, the dishes are mainly based on caviar.
Both dishes look very simple, but at the same time reveal different temperaments.
Next, of course, there was another round of shooting.
Although they haven't eaten it yet, many people are already amazed by the exquisite presentation of the dish, which completely subverts everyone's imagination of the dish.
Feng Ruoruo also introduced herself to her little friends. Although the little girl didn't speak very clearly, that's how children can narrate things very casually. The children were also willing to listen to Feng Ruoruo because she was really good at speaking.
When Su Lanxin heard what the little girl said, she couldn't help but keep looking at Feng Ruoruo.
She even wanted to sit over there, but when she saw Lu Cuiling next to her, she felt a little embarrassed to go over.
Feng Yifan and his team were not slow in serving the dishes, and they quickly presented one dish after another.
Every dish is unique and always amazes today's guests.