It was June 1st, and Huaxia Food City officially opened.
A copper hot pot is placed in the center of the table, and the charcoal fire underneath is burning brightly. In order to maintain the original flavor, the charcoal fire is real charcoal fire, and the copper hot pot is also a real copper hot pot. The white clear soup bottom is constantly bubbling with hot water, and the hot pot is surrounded by various fresh vegetables, including tender cabbage, frozen tofu, thin vermicelli, white radish slices, beef tripe and other hot pot ingredients.
Of course, the most indispensable thing is a piece of crystal clear, tender lamb roll.
In this way, the mutton rolls are cut into slices by hand. The hot pot restaurant specially hired three chefs with excellent knife skills to be responsible for cutting mutton slices. Every morning, freshly slaughtered mutton will be sent to the hot pot restaurant. After freezing, the three knife-skilled chefs will start their day's work. This job is meticulous and serious, and the cut mutton rolls will be delicate and refreshing.
Use a pair of bamboo chopsticks to gently pick up a roll of mutton and put it into the boiling soup. Shake it slightly and you can eat it. The mutton is now milky white in color. Dip the mutton lightly in the dipping sauce and then put it into your mouth.
The fragrance is everywhere and the fun is leisurely.
"Not bad, not bad. The hot pot restaurant here is very authentic, and it's no worse than the ones I had when I was a child. It seems that this kind of Chinese delicacy that has been buried will see the light of day again here."
Sitting at the table were Ye Chui and Old Han. After Old Han took a bite of mutton, he felt greatly relieved and looked very happy.
"I have wanted to open a hot pot restaurant for a long time. At that time, I promised Mr. Han that I would promote this kind of food, but I never had the time. Now my wish has come true." Ye Chui said with a smile and put a few pieces of frozen tofu into the boiling soup.
"Boy, the hotpot I eat at your place usually has this kind of clear soup, but I just saw your menu, and it seems that this hotpot restaurant has several other kinds of hotpot soup bases?" Han Lao's face suddenly showed an expression of excitement, and his eyes stared at Ye Chui, "Boy, are you hiding something from me? There are other kinds of hotpot that you never make for me?"
Seeing Old Han's unhappy look like a child, Ye Chui could only smile bitterly and said, "It's not that I'm hiding something from you, it's mainly because the bases of the other types of hot pot are either too strong or too greasy, which is really not suitable for the elderly. So Dayu resolutely refused to let me make those types of hot pot for you."
There are five types of hotpot in the hotpot restaurant. The one he and Mr. Han are enjoying now is the clear soup lamb hotpot. In addition, there are spicy hotpot, seafood hotpot, beef hotpot, and chrysanthemum hotpot - these five types of hotpot were created by Ye Chui by slightly changing the five most popular hotpots in China in his previous life.
The clear soup mutton hotpot is the Old Yanjing mutton hotpot, the spicy hotpot is the Chongqing hotpot, the seafood hotpot is the seafood hotpot, the beef hotpot is the Shandong beef hotpot, and the chrysanthemum hotpot is the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chrysanthemum hotpot.
Of course, there are too many famous types of hot pot in the previous life, such as Shanghai assorted hot pot, Hangzhou three-fresh hot pot, Yunnan Shenwei hot pot, Hubei game hot pot, Northeast white meat hot pot and so on.
It's just that these types of hot pot can't be launched in one hot pot restaurant. If possible, Ye Chui also plans to open some more branches. Anyway, now he has established a large-scale food enterprise and has the ability to build various chain branches.
It is a great pity that hotpot, this unique way of eating, has disappeared completely during the vegetarian movement. Ye Chui feels that he needs to bring this lost delicacy back to the light of day.
What’s most interesting is that although hot pot was invented by the Chinese, this food style has spread to other countries and regions and has also taken root in other countries, such as Korean stone hot pot, Japanese hoe-grilled hot pot, Indonesian curry hot pot, Thai ice charcoal hot pot…
When the Man Han Banquet Food Company was preparing to open restaurants in other countries, these were the hot pots that Ye Chui was going to launch, which could be regarded as promoting hot pot to all parts of the world.
Stone hot pot is a Korean specialty hot pot. It will definitely be very popular if it is launched in Korea.
Hokkien hot pot is a Japanese specialty. It will surely be a big hit in Japan.
These are all certain things.
"Alas, it's a pity that I can't eat so many delicious foods." Han Lao said with regret. In the past few years, the old man had been angry because he couldn't eat delicious foods, but after meeting Ye Chui, he felt sad because there were too many delicious foods. This change is really interesting.
He shook his head, picked up the chopsticks, picked up another piece of mutton, and started eating it deliciously.
At this moment, Ye Chui and Old Han were sitting in a private room by the window on the second floor of the hot pot restaurant. Through the window, they could see the bustling crowd on the street outside.
Food City is a food project that Huaxia has focused on launching. It started its grand promotion two months ago. It has all kinds of food. It is officially opened today, which will naturally attract everyone's attention.
Sitting in the position where Ye Chui and Han Lao were, they could clearly see the situation of the Anran Xiaohun Rice Restaurant across the street - to put it simply, the sales of this restaurant were outstanding.
The restaurant of "An Ran Xiao Hun Rice" is large, with two floors, which can accommodate at least fifty people dining at the same time. But even so, there was a queue outside the restaurant, which is enough to show how popular "An Ran Xiao Hun Rice" is.
"Haha, I watched the promotional video you asked someone to shoot before the hotel opened. It was very good. The hotel has so many guests now, and it's all thanks to that video." Old Han also glanced out the window and said with a smile.
"The main credit goes to Heavy Rain." Ye Chui said to Old Han with a smile, "Her scrambled eggs are indeed the best. The biggest selling point of the Sad Rice is her scrambled eggs."
Hearing Ye Chui's words, Old Han immediately laughed heartily: "Haha, I never thought Yu Yan could learn to cook. Although she only knows how to fry eggs, this tea egg is enough to make her a famous chef. But in the final analysis, her cooking talent is very poor. She can achieve this step now because she met a famous teacher like you."
Ye Chui smiled modestly: "I have never given her any special instructions. This is the result of her own hard work."
The chef of the Sad Rice is Han Yuyan, and Ye Chui also found three assistant chefs for her.
The composition of the Sad Rice is very simple, with rice, barbecued pork, scrambled eggs and some vegetables.
Han Yuyan is responsible for scrambled eggs, one chef is responsible for rice, one chef is responsible for various vegetables, and another chef is responsible for various barbecued pork. The barbecued pork comes from Qinfeng BBQ restaurant not far away, which is convenient and fast.
It can be said that the preparation of the Sad Rice is extremely fast. Even though it is crowded now, it can still be supplied. Although Sister Han's scrambled eggs are of a very high level, it will definitely not take more than a minute to fry an egg. Compared with other restaurants, the chef here at the Sad Rice should have the easiest job.
Old Han glanced at Ye Chui cunningly and said, "Boy, it seems that you look down on that Manny. He came to China and opened the Mexican restaurant next door just to challenge you, but you let Yu Yan, the most useless of your disciples, to fight him. This is a disdain for him."
"Mr. Han, you are wrong." Ye Chui shook his head, he stood up and walked to the window, opened the window and stuck his head out. The Mexican restaurant was next to the hot pot restaurant. The restaurant's business was naturally not as popular as the Anran Xiaohun Rice, but the customers were still coming in and out. Considering the terrible minimum consumption of the Mexican restaurant, the sales of this restaurant would obviously be very terrible. Ye Chui continued, "Mr. Han, you should have heard that when Manny Pritchett first arrived in China, he once made a dish and sent it to Manhanlou. That dish... was very good."
As for Manny's veal with French mushroom sauce, Ye Chui had never discussed the quality of this dish in detail with anyone, and only now did he speak to Mr. Han.
Mr. Han was stunned for a moment: "Very good?"
The word was simple, but Mr. Han felt that it was not simple at all.
"That dish has reached the realm of perfection in my mind." Ye Chui explained to Han Lao, "That Manny's level is definitely not lower than mine."
Old Han was slightly stunned: "Are you... scared?"
"Of course not." Ye Chui smiled and shook his head. "He's not that scary to me, but I know that this person is a real opponent that I can go all out against, so I treat him very seriously."
Old Han finally understood what Ye Chui meant: "Competing with restaurant sales is not a real cooking competition. You took the competition with Manny very seriously, so you deliberately avoided it in this competition. Do you want to make your cooking competition with Manny more formal and serious?"
"That's right." Ye Chui nodded with a smile. As expected, Old Han could understand him best. Manny's cooking skills were something he had never encountered in his previous life. He was completely on par with him. This was the conclusion Ye Chui came to after taking a small bite of veal. So he was very serious now. The competition between him and Manny must be the most serious. As for the restaurant competition that was going on now...
Ye Chui smiled with some contempt: "That Manny is an excellent chef, but he is not a qualified businessman. His Mexican restaurant is doomed to fail."
After listening to Ye Chui's words, Mr. Han was silent for a while, then suddenly laughed: "I am now looking forward to the cooking competition between you and that kid. It will definitely be the highest level of cooking competition I have ever seen in my career as a gourmet."
"Mr. Han, I believe the official competition will not be too far away." Ye Chui said with a smile. He glanced at the street below again, "But now let's beat this kid hard. If he dares to make trouble in China, he will have to pay a price." (~^~)