Qin Yiyue and An Xiaoxiao also knew the importance of the New Year's Eve dinner. When they learned that Ye Chu was going to make a Manchu Han Banquet for the New Year's Eve dinner, they became as excited as Han Yuyan. The Manchu Han Banquet is the highest level of Chinese food culture. Even An Xiaoxiao, a little beggar, has heard of this name many times. It can be said that for every Chinese chef, the Manchu Han Banquet is very sacred.
If the New Year's Eve dinner at Manhan Building were to become a Manhan Banquet, even if it was a simplified version, it would still be a big hit.
But after being happy, Qin Yiyue suddenly thought of some important issues: "Boss, we have no problem making the Manchu Han Banquet, but... can you trust me with the recipe of the Manchu Han Banquet?"
"Our restaurant's specialty is the Manchu Han Banquet. From now on, every dish we make will be from the Manchu Han Banquet. How can we run this restaurant if I don't teach you the recipes?" Ye Chui said with a smile, "You, Xiao Du, and Dong Qian, since I chose you, I naturally trust you. Of course, I will ask the other chefs to sign a confidentiality agreement. If they leak the recipes, they will be held accountable under the food law. You three don't have to."
Don't employ people you don't trust, not to mention Tian Xiaodu, Qin Yiyue and Dong Qian are both people who have extremely high pursuit of cooking skills, Ye Chui believes that they will not leak the recipe.
Qin Yiyue's face flashed with emotion, and she nodded vigorously: "Thank you, boss."
"Nothing." Ye Chui smiled and shook his head. He thought of something and turned to Han Yuyan and said, "Dayu, if you are free in the afternoon, please help me print the menu for Manhanlou. I have already designed the menu."
"Really?" Han Yuyan and An Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up, "Let me see what it is."
"Our menu is divided into three types. Xiaodu, Dong Qian and Yiyue are each responsible for one type of banquet in the Manchu-Han banquet. Tian Xiaodu is responsible for the Wanshou Banquet, Dong Qian is responsible for the Yanchen Banquet, and Yiyue is responsible for the Qinfan Banquet. The menu will also have three types based on these three types of banquets." Ye Chui explained as he took out a piece of paper from his body. When he opened it, there were densely packed names of dishes on it.
Han Yuyan, An Xiaoxiao, and Qin Yiyue looked at the names of the dishes, and then Qin Yiyue found helplessly that he didn't recognize most of the names of the dishes: "Boss, are these dishes from the Manchu Han Banquet?"
"That's right." Ye Chui nodded.
The banquet for the vassal family is specially prepared for Mongolian relatives. Its style is relatively rough, which is more suitable for Qin Yiyue. The dishes include Hongmei Zhuxiang, Gongbao Wild Rabbit, Eight Treasure Wild Duck, Buddha's Hand Golden Roll, Fried Cuttlefish Shreds, Hanging Oven Pheasant, Raw Roasted Roe Deer Meat, and Lotus Leaf Rolls.
The Yanchen Banquet was a banquet to entertain court ministers. It was luxurious in style and suitable for Dong Qian. The dishes included magpie climbing plum blossoms, butterfly rolls, ginger fish fillets, spiced pigeon, sweet and sour lotus root, pickled cauliflower, spicy cabbage rolls, braised fish lips, and braised fish bones.
The longevity banquet was more down-to-earth, with dishes including the "Wan" character coral white, "Shou" character spiced prawns, "Wu" character salted beef, "Jiang" character red oil bean curd sheets, braised fish belly rolls, "gold leg roasted round fish", "skillfully roasted goose kite", "peach kernel pheasant cubes", "crab meat and bamboo shoot shreds" and so on. The banquet was handed over to Tian Xiaodu, who had been trained by Ye Chui for half a year and helped Ye Chui run a small restaurant, so he was the most suitable person to cook these dishes.
Of course, the dishes listed by Ye Chui are not enough to list all the dishes for the banquet, because some dishes are simply impossible to make. For example, in the longevity banquet that Tian Xiaodu is responsible for, there is a soup called Changchun Deer Whip Soup, and some of the ingredients used in it are definitely impossible to find in the current environment...
In addition to the three categories of banquet menus, there are also some dim sum, pickles, and tea snacks that can be ordered for every banquet, such as imperial bean yellow, sesame rolls, golden cakes, jujube paste cakes, sweet sauce radish, five-spice cooked mustard, sweet and sour milk melon, sweet Hejin, Xinyang Maojian, Shifeng Longjing, etc.
The various dishes listed on the entire piece of paper almost added up to more than a hundred.
Such a large number of dishes is not easy to find even in other big restaurants. In general, the menu of big restaurants only has 30 or 40 dishes at most. In high-end restaurants, the dishes are more expensive than quantity. However, Ye Chui completely ignored this rule. The most important thing is...
Almost every dish on this menu is unheard of.
What is the most expensive thing in the food era? It’s the recipe!
Ye Chui once sold a dish of spicy chicken for more than 100,000 yuan to Xizhou Wanlai Fu. Every dish here is worth more than the spicy chicken. The value of these recipes alone is no less than 30 million yuan. If these dishes can be listed together and sold, the price will double. Ye Chui’s Manhan Building, the restaurant itself, the chef team, and the hotel decoration are not the highest investment. The highest investment is these priceless recipes!
These recipes are full of high-end style. Of course, a bunch of dishes that have never been heard of sometimes give people the feeling that they are just sensational and will be questioned by others, but Ye Chui is not afraid of doubts at all, because the dishes he knows are all the most authentic methods!
Looking at the names of the dishes on the paper that seemed to be full of magical power, Han Yuyan, An Xiaoxiao and Qin Yiyue's eyes lit up. The opening of Manhanlou would naturally cause a sensation. Perhaps most people thought that the restaurant was awesome because of these chefs and Mr. Han's care, but in fact, the most amazing thing about this restaurant was the recipes that Ye Chui took out.
"Master." Han Yuyan immediately became excited and said to Ye Chui, "Grandpa mentioned your recipes some time ago and introduced me to a very powerful recipe production company. I will go to them this afternoon to design and produce the menu. Hehe, but I have to show the menu to Grandpa first. He must be very interested in it."
"Okay, we will hold a small Manchu-Han banquet for the opening ceremony of the New Year's Eve dinner. Mr. Han will also be seated at the table. Please invite Mr. Han on my behalf later." Ye Chui said with a smile.
"Grandpa will definitely not refuse." Han Yuyan said with a smile, but then his face darkened a little, "But Grandpa is the head of the Han family. If he eats the New Year's Eve dinner here, those people in the Han family will definitely come with him."
"Then we'll entertain them together." Ye Chui knew that Han Yuyan was a little bothered about being with the Han family, so he smiled and patted Han Yuyan's shoulder. "I'm sure the Han family will secretly discuss the affairs of Manhan Building and think that you are not doing your job here. Then we can let them see the spirit of Manhan Building."
Hearing Ye Chui's words, Han Yuyan smiled and said, "That's right, let them see the courage of our Manhan Building."
"Oh, Da Yu, can you help me contact other chefs when you have time?" Ye Chui thought for a moment and said, "The restaurant is about to open, and most of these dishes are new to them. Although the head chefs are Xiao Du Yi Yue and Dong Qian, and they are just assistants, they still need to be familiar with how to cook these dishes and what to pair with them."
High-star chefs are very good at cooking and can make dishes that taste 50% or 60% good just by reading the recipe once, but they still need necessary training.
"Okay, I understand, Master." Han Yuyan nodded. She was still in an excited state. "I'll go get the menu first."
As he was about to turn around and walk out, he turned back halfway and said with a grin, "Let's have lunch first."
Ye Chui rolled his eyes. This cute and silly disciple...
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A week later, the menu of Manhanlou was officially formulated. It was divided into three types. The menu of the banquet for the vassal was green-yellow with the flavor of the rough grassland, the menu of the banquet for the ministers was golden-red with the richness, and the menu of the longevity banquet was mainly grass green with the vitality.
The recipes were designed by a professional recipe company. Since they were recommended by Mr. Han, the quality must be good enough. Combined with the pictures of the dishes cooked by Ye Chui himself, all three sets of recipes are full of tempting flavors.
By this time, the renovation of Manhan Building was about to be completed. The original characteristics of Honglou had long been swept away, and it was in the final finishing stage. Ye Chui had also been busy recently, teaching the chefs how to cook various dishes in the restaurant every day. The recipes were fixed, but to make the dishes truly delicious, they had to be taught step by step, and he tried to make every chef here familiar with the cooking of various banquet dishes before the opening.
At the same time, Ye Chui also began to prepare a small Manchu-Han banquet for the opening New Year’s Eve dinner.
Dong Qian and Dong Youyou also officially bought a house in Yanjing. Dong Qian also joined the ranks of those being taught by Ye Chui. She will live in Yanjing in the future. It's a pity for Dong Youyou. She still has to keep an eye on several restaurants in Hainan, so she has to travel back and forth from Yanjing to Hainan.
Although Ye Chui would help her reimburse the plane ticket, and after all, Ye Chui also owned several restaurants in Hainan, Dong Youyou still had a lot of complaints. In her words, "I have sold my entire self to you."
—If you don't consider that this girl is gay, this statement is still quite ambiguous.
Tian Xiaodu, An Jing and Wang Shiyu are still in Xizhou and will come over in a while. By then, Lin Wei, Lin Zhengdao and Wu Haimei will also come together, and they will have the New Year's Eve dinner at Manhanlou.
There are only ten days left until New Year's Eve.
On this day, the first snow of winter suddenly fell from the sky. It was not the heavy snow that would melt as it fell to the ground, making the snow more graceful and less cold.
On the wet ground in front of Manhan Building, a van with the words "Food Weekly" printed on it suddenly stopped slowly.
There were two people in the car. One of them, a round-faced man, looked through the car window at the gate of Manhanlou, exhaled a breath of hot air and said, "Yes, this is it. I've been to the former Honglou. After it changed hands, it became Manhanlou and opened on New Year's Eve. This is the place we want to interview." (~^~)