"Sir, could you tell us the origin of this dish first?" Seeing that Ye Chui still didn't speak, the beautiful reporter asked again.
Ye Chui had come back to his senses from his stunned state by now. If he continued like this it would become a joke. In his previous life, as the God of Food, he often accepted TV interviews. At this moment, he was not scared at all. After thinking for a while, he thought of how to explain it.
He just smiled and continued, "This Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is a delicacy that originated in the early Qing Dynasty. It is also a supreme delicacy in our Chinese famous banquet, the Manchu-Han Banquet. Ordinary people have no chance to enjoy it. Only the emperor can eat it. The recipe of this dish was lost during the vegetarian movement, but I got an ancient recipe passed down in my family, so I am lucky enough to be able to make this dish."
"This dish actually originated from the Manchu-Han Banquet? It turns out that this dish has such a great origin, no wonder it caused such a sensation." The beautiful reporter blinked her eyes and continued to ask with a smile, "But I heard that this dish costs 300 yuan a bowl, isn't it too expensive?"
"No, it's not expensive at all." Ye Chui smiled proudly and said, "Every single one of the utensils and ingredients used in this dish are carefully selected. I spent 100,000 yuan just on the raw materials! And, Miss Reporter, you are wrong. This dish is 300 yuan a bowl in the morning, and when it goes on sale in the evening, it will be 500 yuan a bowl, and 800 yuan a bowl tomorrow morning. As for the final product tomorrow afternoon, it will cost 3,000 yuan a bowl."
The price of Ye Chui's Buddha Jumps Over the Wall had been announced before, so many people knew it, but the reporter didn't know. A dish costing three thousand yuan a bowl? This was simply unheard of, and this time it was her turn to be dumbfounded.
It took her a long time to come to her senses: "It's so expensive that even I can't afford it. Is this dish of yours really blessed by the Buddha?"
"Uh..." Ye Chui was speechless. He made this dish just to go against the Buddha...
However, Ye Chui was also a very perceptive person. He quickly thought of something and said with a smile, "I am just a businessman and I respect the Buddha very much, so I will not tell you about this matter directly. You can just figure it out for yourselves."
This was neither an acknowledgement nor a denial, allowing everyone to figure it out for themselves, but hearing it was like a complete acknowledgement. No one knew who first spread the news that this dish had been blessed by the Buddha, but now that Ye Chui said this, the people around him felt that the evidence was even more solid—
"Two monks came to eat in the morning. If it hadn't been blessed, would they have eaten this kind of meat?"
"It is indeed blessed. Eating it can prolong your life and deepen your Buddhist practice."
Immediately, people started to discuss in low voices.
Ye Chui couldn't help but blushing and coughed hurriedly.
The beautiful reporter seemed to believe in the question of consecration, but then she thought of something and asked Ye Chui, "But I still don't quite understand the name of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. Why is this dish named like this? Is there any allusion behind this name?"
"This..." The allusion is the poem "The Buddha heard that he had abandoned Zen and jumped over the wall", but if this poem is said at this time, it will definitely not work, so Ye Chui can only shake his head and say, "I'm sorry, I just got the family recipe, I don't know how the name came from."
"Perhaps I can explain this question." At this time, a middle-aged man wearing glasses suddenly stood up and said. The beautiful reporter quickly directed the camera to point the lens at him. The middle-aged man coughed and continued to speak -
"I have always studied Buddhism and am an expert in this field. I once heard a rumor about the Buddha. It is said that a high monk was resting in a temple. At night, he heard a baby crying outside. It turned out that a wild wolf had taken away a baby from the village. He was compassionate and jumped over the wall to chase the wolf and rescued the baby. He was also seriously injured. The villagers sent him food from their homes to express their gratitude. Because the monk was about to pass away, the villagers boiled the food into one pot. I think this dish, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, should have come from this."
After hearing what this so-called expert said, everyone nodded involuntarily: "So that's how it is..."
Ye Chui: “…”
Ye Chui didn't know whether the story about this enlightened monk was true or not, but the name of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall had many origins, but this was definitely not the case. Even Tian Xiaodu had seen a rumor about a beggar. It seemed that this so-called expert was just an "expert" who wanted to show off on TV.
But it doesn't matter.
The beautiful reporter interviewed the expert about the deeds of this great monk, and then turned the microphone to Ye Chui: "By the way, sir, you are selling this Buddha Jumps Over the Wall here. Do you have a chef license?"
Hearing the question from the beautiful reporter, Ye Chui was slightly shocked. In this world, to open a restaurant, one must have a chef license and relevant certificates from the Food Association. Even the owner of this small restaurant, Chen Laosan, has a one-star chef certificate. However, Ye Chui was not originally an employee of this restaurant. If this matter was investigated thoroughly, he might even be convicted.
But Ye Chui was very tactful and quickly figured out how to deal with it. He smiled and said, "I just borrowed Chen Laosan's small restaurant today, and it's not officially opened. This Buddha Jumps Over the Wall can be regarded as made by Chen Laosan's restaurant. However, in the future, I plan to open a restaurant of my own, and then this Buddha Jumps Over the Wall will become my restaurant's signature dish."
With these words, Ye Shu directly explained that he had temporarily joined Chen Laosan's noodle shop, but at the same time he did not give the good reputation of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to Chen Laosan in vain. Instead, he said that he would also open a restaurant in the future - this was probably a sudden inspiration for him, and he wanted to promote his own big restaurant in advance.
Now that Buddha Jumps Over the Wall has become a hot topic on the Internet, it is a good opportunity for my future big restaurant to do some preliminary publicity.
These words obviously aroused the interest of many people.
"This Buddha Jumps Over the Wall can indeed be a signature dish of a big restaurant."
"I wonder when this young man's restaurant will open? If it does, I will definitely go and patronize it."
"If nothing else, it's worth it just for this Buddha Jumps Over the Wall!"
These people were talking about it, but they didn't realize what kind of restaurant Ye Chui was going to open. They thought it was just an ordinary small restaurant. After all, looking at Ye Chui's age, he didn't look like someone who could afford a star-rated hotel.
A star-rated hotel is one that has a star rating in front of it. Ordinary small restaurants do not have star ratings. For example, Ye Chui's Xiaoyu Home Cooking is not considered a one-star hotel.
Of course, if Ye Chu wanted to rate a star, he could probably get one, but one or two stars are useless among star-rated hotels. People only pay attention to hotels starting from three stars, so Ye Chu didn't bother with that.
These people subconsciously thought that the restaurant opened by Ye Chui would not be more than three stars at most.
After all, Ye Chui was just a teenager no matter what - although Ye Chui had made a splash in the five-star chef competition not long ago, his fame was limited after all, and no one recognized him directly.
They didn't know at the moment that the restaurant Ye Chu was going to open was not a small restaurant, but a big restaurant, a world-famous super-large restaurant...
"Haha, seeing how confident you are, your restaurant will definitely be successful in the future." The beautiful reporter immediately said with a smile, "I am really looking forward to your restaurant. I wonder what the name of your restaurant is?"
When asked about the name of the future hotel, Ye Chui was silent for a while.
He had decided to open a big hotel a long time ago, so he had thought a lot about the future hotel. Ye Chui had already had an idea about the name. At this moment, the name of this hotel, which would become world-famous in the future and become the first in the world to break through the ten-star rating system, was spoken by Ye Chui for the first time.
"The name of my future hotel will be Manhanlou."
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Manhanlou means the full Manchu and Han banquet.
There is no doubt that Manhan Building will focus on the dishes of Manhan Banquet, which is an ultimate banquet that integrates various Chinese cuisines. It can represent Chinese cuisine and it can dominate the world's food industry.
The interview with the beautiful reporter was still going on, and the topic turned to the dish Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. The name Manhanlou, like Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, was firmly remembered by many people at this moment. They were looking forward to the emergence of a restaurant called Manhanlou in the future. In the crowd, Han Yuyan, who had just arrived, quietly approached Tian Xiaodu.
"Big Brother, why are all the reporters here? Are they actually here to interview Master?"
"Master, this dish makes too much noise. There's nothing we can do." Tian Xiaodu said with a smile. When he saw An Jing and Wang Shiyu standing next to Han Yuyan, he immediately asked curiously, "Why did Xiaoyu and An Jing come here together?"
"Tomorrow is Sunday, so I can come and see how my brother tries to win back my future sister-in-law." Little Wang Shiyu said with a smile, holding her cartoon schoolbag in her arms. There seemed to be a living thing struggling in the bag, obviously her little monkey.
Han Yuyan continued, "I have already booked two more rooms at the hotel. It's too tiring for you and Master to watch over the dishes here at night. I'll help out tonight, too."
"Oh, that's good." Tian Xiaodu nodded. It was indeed unpleasant to take turns with Ye Chui to stare at the taste of this dish.
"Sister Dayu, Uncle Tian, I just heard from my brother that he is going to open a big restaurant in the future and it will be called Manhanlou. Have you ever heard him talk about this?" An Jing asked curiously. When she arrived here just now, she happened to hear Ye Cui talking about Manhanlou.
"Master has said before that he wants to open a big restaurant, but I've never heard him mention this name." Tian Xiaodu shook his head, "But the name Manhanlou is indeed good."
"Yes, the Manhan Restaurant with a full Manhan banquet is quite impressive." Han Yuyan also nodded, and then she laughed again, "Master is really cunning, and he even said that the series of things about Buddha Jumps Over the Wall were not planned long ago. Look, he even said the name of the restaurant he will open in the future. This must have been planned long ago. Buddha Jumps Over the Wall attracted onlookers and became a hot topic on the Internet. He also received interviews from reporters. This must have been anticipated by him a long time ago."
"That's right, Master is really unfathomable." Tian Xiaodu was also very sure of this, "He also said no, how could it be possible that there is no."
An Jing and Wang Shiyu also nodded at the same time. Brother is so awesome...
Ye Chui, who was being interviewed nearby, heard the conversation and a helpless expression appeared on his face.
He really didn't mean to cause such a sensation... (~^~)