royal family

In his spare time, Shao Yan didn't go to the research meeting, but concentrated on soaking in the store.

Shao's father ordered a batch of fresh seafood to be airlifted back from the coast, and the most eye-catching sea urchins were lying in the basket with big black thorns and teeth and claws, looking extremely hideous.Shao Yan had never seen such a thing, especially if it was still alive, squatting in the kitchen to study it.

Before it was time for dinner, Tian Fangli was leaning against the counter with his chef's hat on and talking, talking about what Louis and the others heard from the taxi driver just now.

Almost all the famous restaurants in province A participated in this food program organized by Shaw Brothers. The program was broadcast on the TV station of province A for several days, and the ratings were not low, but Yumenxi did not know whether it was intentional or unintentional. excluded from this event.

Even Tian Fangli only learned of the news after the filming of the show started, no matter how stupid he was, he could see that his family was being excluded, and he was somewhat upset.

Seeing that Shao Yan listened to his complaints with a nonchalant expression, he thought that the other party was a sinister person who couldn't understand these subtleties.Tian Fangli and Shao's father have worked under him for so many years and have seen too many dirty things.Shao Yan was already twenty, and he felt that he should let the other party know about it. After all, the Shao family and his wife were the only son, Shao Yan, and Shao Yan would inherit the family business sooner or later.

Shao Yan listened to him chattering about the competition between Shaw's restaurant and Yumenxi after the separation of Shao's family, and learned that Shaw's recently formed alliances with other brands of restaurants in Province A intentionally or unintentionally. I just find it funny.Shao's father had already said that he would shift the focus of his business to the economically developed areas of City S. Shao Yubo's petty behavior was undoubtedly quite ridiculous to him.As for the so-called gourmet show in City A... who cares!If Tian Fangli hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't even have heard of it.

The sea urchin is very fresh. After Shao Yan heard that it can be eaten raw, he cut it open, cleaned it, dipped it in soy sauce, and swallowed it. The sea urchin was cool and smooth with the unique sweetness of seafood. Still trying to figure out something else.

There was a knock on the kitchen door. Apprentices would not come at this o'clock. Shao Yan glanced at his watch with doubts on his face.

The door opened, and the waiter on duty at the front desk came in. He glanced at Tian Fangli, who looked a little ugly because his speech was interrupted, and said to Shao Yan cautiously, "Young Master Yan, there are some foreigners looking for you outside..."

The name Yan Shao was called by Yan Xi as a joke, and later the waiters in the Yumen seats in City S called him that. I don't know when, his collective name in City A also changed to this.

Shao Yan didn't remember any foreigners he knew, so he said to her: "It's not time for dinner, you let them go first, and come back at four o'clock."

The waiter held the door and defended hesitantly: "But they said they were your friends..."

Shao Yan frowned: "Since when have I had foreign friends?"

Louis and the others were starving. At this o'clock, the imperial gate seats were empty and the lights were not turned on. It took them a long time to persuade the front desk supervisor to go to the back kitchen to inform Shao Yan.Louis’ friends looked around at the neatly arranged tables and chairs in the hall of Yumenxi. The decoration style here is very similar to that of Yumenxi in S City, but the details are a little old. Overall, the environment can still be rated very high. of.There was nothing to eat on the plane. Since boarding the plane, a group of people had only eaten a few breads. Seeing such a dining environment, they felt hungry all at once.

Danny complained to Louis and said, "Why don't you have his contact information? Of course the restaurant is closed at three o'clock, we might as well go shopping outside, maybe we can find some special snacks."

How can Louis say that he doesn't know Shao Yan well at all, he came to City A to find someone with enthusiasm, and now he can only slap his swollen face to fill the stage.The front desk supervisor walked away for about ten minutes. The long waiting time made him nervous. He finally saw the figure coming out from a distance, and the moment he caught Shao Yan, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Louis' cold and tall image disappeared, and he waved excitedly at Shao Yan and shouted: "Here!!!"

Who is this?

Shao Yan couldn't understand his words or his face, so he approached in confusion, carrying a freshly washed sea urchin.Louis immediately realized that the other party had forgotten who he was, and was greatly frustrated, so he tried hard to remind the other party to remember him.

Shao Yan couldn't understand what he said, so he didn't want to go there immediately, grabbed the foreman's clothes and stopped: "What is this man talking about?"

"He said he met you in City S, and a friend of yours named Yan Xi..."

Shao Yan recalled it for a long time before he remembered the foreigner who sat in the same box with Yan Xi the day the passion fruit wine came out.Foreigners all look the same to him, and it is a bit difficult for him to think about it.Shao Yan didn't know Louis well, but there was a close relationship between them, so he couldn't just drive people away, so he had to walk over.

Both sides do not speak the same language, but fortunately, the almighty foreman can speak three foreign languages, which makes it much easier to communicate.

The group of friends brought by Louis were all surprised when they heard that Shao Yan was the person they were looking for.They thought that their goal should not be seventy or eighty, but also an old chef with many years of experience.After all, there are very few chefs who can be highly praised by Louis over the years, and the chefs of restaurants that can be rated as three stars in Gumei are all quite old without exception.

Everyone was hesitating. Shao Yan saw Louis wrinkled his pretty face and said pitifully that he was hungry. After hesitating for a moment, he glanced up and down, turned around and walked towards the kitchen angrily: "Come with me. Really good Pick, when did you choose?"

The foreman only translated good words with a smile, and Louis stared at Shao Yan's thin and straight back, feeling warm like a spring breeze in his heart.

"Louis, are you kidding me?"

"We came to City A after exhausting ourselves to find him?"

"This person looks very difficult to get along with!"

As soon as Shao Yan left Louis, the group of friends caught up and surrounded him. A group of people whispered their dissatisfaction with what they saw just now.Louis seemed to see himself more than a week ago through this group of people, just smiled and didn't talk much.

There are quite a lot of ingredients in the back kitchen, but Shao Yan didn't plan to make anything grand.The ground was full of seafood, and there were sea urchins he had broken out on the cooking table. Shao Yan complained about the ignorance of these uninvited guests, thought for a while, and asked Tian Fangli, "Is there any more steamed rice at noon?"

Tian Fangli rummaged through it: "There's still a little bit of Bijaponica rice, but it's not too much."

"You take out the rice, and then go to the cold storage to find the big fish roe and the beef I marinated this morning." Shao Yan found a big bowl, poured out several sea urchins, picked out the internal organs and washed them clean.The sea urchin meat is fat and golden, tremblingly crowded in the big bowl.Shao Yan poured a few drops of lemon juice on top based on his feeling, divided the rice into several bowls, and then directly spread the sea urchin on top.The caviar brought by Tian Fangli was bright red and watery one by one. When he fished it out, Shao Yan couldn't help throwing one into his mouth. The fresh juice burst from the thin caviar membrane, and his mouth was full of special fishy taste. .After washing the fish roe, soak them in the special sauce he made himself. Shao Yan opened the iron plate and spread the large piece of marinated beef on the plate. The knife in his hand cut the iron like mud.While frying, he cut the meat into small pieces. Tian Fangli, who had watched his cooking too much, couldn't help but stop what he was doing and immersed himself in it with his neat and crisp movements.

The beef with fine fat fibers is grilled at a high temperature, exuding a rich and tangy aroma, and the dark brown surface is full of gravy.Shao Yan made a large plate that seemed to him to be mysterious, divided each plate into a few pieces, and then poured the sauce he had prepared.Then he scooped the soaked fish roe into the bowl with sea urchin and rice. After thinking about it, he added a handful of fish floss that he fried for himself before, and left the soaked fish roe. The sauce was poured over.

"I'm afraid this is not enough to eat." Tian Fangli couldn't help reminding him when he saw that he was sitting on the side after finishing all these and obviously didn't intend to do anything.Shao Yan raised his chin to the big soup pot next to him: "Then there is still my stewed goose and foie gras? Get it out and cut a few plates, enough to eat. If there is not enough to eat, just give the bread. Do you still want to eat a full banquet at this hour? Right , You have to pay for the food."

Tian Fangli looked at him silently for a while, except for a few people on duty, the people in the store were not off duty at the moment, so he had to cut up the goose and foie gras and bring other dishes to others in person.

This frightening speed of serving food surprised those who hadn't waited long, after all, delicate food takes a lot of time to cook.It was only then that they remembered that they didn't seem to order food yet, and they felt somewhat neglected in their hearts.After seeing the things sent up, the unhappy mood improved a little.

Shao Yan had set the table for the emperor for so many years, and it was not covered by his casual skills.The sea urchin rice, which takes less than 3 minutes to prepare, is served in a small green bowl made of stone-like material. The violent collision of golden sea urchin, golden red roe and green oily small bowl brings an ultimate visual enjoyment.The diners still liked the mysticism that Shao Yan disdained, and the few pieces of beef on the big plate were also well received in terms of their appearance.Although the roast goose and foie gras served later did not go well with the first few dishes, but I was so hungry, who would care about it if I had something to eat.

It doesn't matter whether it meets the standard or not, just eat it if it looks pleasing to the eye.The few people who were still complaining about Louis immediately put their chopsticks on the sea urchin rice, which seemed more filling. As soon as a spoonful of sea urchin mixed with rice and a few fish roes were eaten, everyone subconsciously put it in their mouths. "Well" sounded.

How could it be this smell! ?

They thought it was just an ordinary sea urchin rice, which is not uncommon in various restaurants, especially restaurants in R country, because the highlight of a bowl of rice is almost all improved by sea urchin, so the most important step conditions It is the freshness of the sea urchin.But the bowl of sea urchin rice in front of them undoubtedly overturned their previous impression of sea urchin rice.The umami taste of sea urchin is no longer the undisputed focus, the rice has a light bamboo fragrance, and the sweet fish floss and fish roe are also outstanding.These kinds of flavors are mixed with the same distinctive sauce on the top, and the delicious composition can make people feel relieved instantly!

The moment Louis entered the sea urchin rice, he knew that he had made the right bet on this trip.It has been too long, too long since he has come across such an intoxicating delicacy.The last time he felt a similar emotion was in a private restaurant in country P that was only for the royal family. It was almost the most delicious meal he had ever eaten in his life, and it was also the most admirable three-star sign he awarded.History is always so similar, the previous shock went round and round, and he felt it again in this humble new restaurant in country C.

Before he could swallow the sea urchin rice in his mouth, Louis hastily forked a piece of hot beef and stuffed it into his mouth. The gravy that filled his mouth instantly was incredibly delicious.In fact, he has always been admiring the original beef without any treatment, and he insists that the taste of the marinade will take away the deliciousness of the beef itself.But at this moment he discovered that marinated beef can also have such an irresistible flavor!The combination of the fragrant sauce and the obviously very high-quality beef flavor, the tender and elastic taste is definitely a top-level enjoyment!

The pitiful amount of beef was gone in three or two bites. While stirring the sea urchin rice in the bowl, Louis reached out to fork the small plate of foie gras in front of him.The foie gras is sliced ​​very thick, and the marinade is obviously the flavor of country C. I don’t know what is in it, but the combined effect is surprisingly good!The thick foie gras has been thoroughly eaten by the marinated meat from the inside to the outside. The taste is slightly harder than that of Western-style foie gras, and the mouthful is full of rich foie gras aroma.The braised goose cut into small pieces has a shiny skin, and the black-red soup penetrates into the fibers of the goose meat. The taste is smooth and tender, and the taste is rich, which is no less than any other dish on this table!

Louis felt that he should say something at this time, but when he looked up, he found that his companions were all eating like him.These dishes were just right for him, so the amazement they gave him was far more than the stinky tofu and stinky mandarin fish that he ate at Yumenxi in S City last time.Seeing that his group of friends who were complaining a few minutes ago are now slapping themselves in the same way as he did when he first went to Yumenxi to eat, Louis unexpectedly felt a kind of embarrassing joy that he was not the only one.

"Is this really sea urchin rice..."

"I have never eaten such an excellent sea urchin in the top three-star restaurant in country R!"

"The roe is not fishy at all! How did you do it?"

"God, this rice is even more delicious than the sushi rice in country R..."

Listening to these discussions, Louis quickly forked a few pieces of goose meat and foie gras and put them on his plate. He suddenly remembered the process of eating a meal, and hurriedly wiped his mouth and shouted to the foreman who was watching them with a smile: "Excuse me , what about the wine with our meal?"

The foreman was taken aback by his question. The Yumen seat has never had such a rule, and he has never encountered a customer asking such a question.This group of people were Shao Yan's "friends", she did not dare to treat them lightly, so she apologized and went into the room to ask Shao Yan.

"Tsk! Why are there so many things going on!" Shao Yan was furious when he heard the foreman's question. He came to eat when he couldn't catch up and even clamored for drinks. Could it be that foreigners are so thick-skinned?Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the foreman was huddled by the door, trembling because of his anger.It's boring to scare a tall and slim girl like this, Shao Yan didn't want to embarrass her, so he sighed and took out a wine bottle from the top of the kitchen cabinet and put it on the table: "Give it to them."

"Hey hey hey hey!!!" The foreman raised his voice the moment he saw the bottle, "Flower Noodles! Yan Shao, how can you do this! The store has been out of stock for so long, and you still secretly hide your own goods. "

"I hide what, I don't drink." Shao Yan waved his hand and said, "This is Tian Fangli's."

Louis fidgeted excitedly on the stool when he saw the wine bottle brought by the foreman. The food on the table was almost cleaned up after a while, and everyone was eating the stewed goose head and goose neck that would never be eaten with chopsticks.The goose meat, soaked in marinade, has a unique flavor when chewed on the bones. Louis originally disliked the lymph in the neck of poultry, but at this time, how could he have the strength to be hypocritical!

The companions ate up all the goose brains and goose feet, because the speed of eating was too fast, and it was only at this time that they realized that they seemed to be a little full.Everyone lowered their heads and returned to calm and wiping their mouths. They looked at each other and nodded to confirm the value of the meal. They were planning to say something before they could leave. Unexpectedly, the foreman brought another wine bottle at this time.

"Huh?" Danny asked subconsciously, "Is this for us?"

The foreman didn't know what to say, so Louis kicked him and said, "What nonsense, this is the wine that goes with the meal at the Yumen banquet, and it's the one that sold out in S City and made me queue for a month and a half. "

Danny couldn't help laughing, took the wine bottle and started to unseal it, saying in his mouth: "The wine that can keep you thinking about it for such a long time must not be an ordinary wine. The bottle of Bolton Chateau in [-] tasted so good last time. , it's just that the wine of country C is definitely not to my liking... oh!"

When Danny smelled the aroma of the wine, he immediately swallowed back the remaining words that were almost on his lips. He sniffed the aroma of the wine from the mouth of the bottle intoxicatedly, and frowned involuntarily: "God..."

Louis looked at him vigilantly, and sure enough, the first thing he saw was to pour wine into his glass.After the goblet filled with water was full, there would not be much left in the bottle, so Louis quickly got up to grab it!

The clear and sweet wine entered the mouth, and everyone who was already full could not help but sigh softly.They taste wine more slowly than many, giving their noses and taste buds more full enjoyment as a result.Danny burped while holding his small wine glass. Seeing that Louis was still drinking carefully, he couldn't help but give him a thumbs up in admiration: "You are the best."

"No." Louis thought of the embarrassing reason why he found Yumenxi's store, and couldn't help shaking his head, "It's a trick of fate."

-

After that, Louis stayed in City A for a period of time, and his two meals a day with his friends were almost settled at Yumenxi.He stayed there until Shao Yan's flower wine produced new products and the supply was no longer so tight, then he bought more than ten bottles of Shi Shiran with the limit per person and left.

The young girl in Yumenxi was fascinated by Louis and his friends, so that everyone in the branch in City A knew that a group of wealthy foreigners had come to the Tianfu branch.This group of foreigners spent at least [-] to [-] yuan a day at Yumenxi, not to mention eating and buying wine.So when Louis and the others really left, the waiters who were used to the imperial gate seats they patronized were still reluctant.

When Louis and the others stayed in City A, they remembered what the taxi driver had said, and because they realized that they had been too proud of the restaurants in the past, they also specially found the list to taste it, and finally left with only disappointment.Including the old signature Shao's restaurant, none of the restaurants in the program alliance can surprise people with its taste.Since the restaurant can grow bigger, the taste of the dishes must not be much worse, but the evaluation standard of Gumei has never been that it can only be eaten.What can be crowned with the name of real food must be the existence that can make people taste happiness with their taste buds.

Yumenxi has obviously achieved this, but a restaurant worthy of the name has been excluded from the publicity of a group of rabble, which is undoubtedly a very ridiculous and sad thing.But even though they were reluctant to leave, they still had to say goodbye to Yumenxi. Gumei’s new gourmet annual is about to be finalized. To the camp of glory.

Shao Yan didn't notice Louis's departure at all. He was busy integrating the outstanding apprentices in City A to carry out the devil training that Maeda and Xiaotian had experienced before, busy with the shortage of wine in both Province A and City S, and Researching new dishes and his own studies, the decision to open another branch in S City sacrificed all his personal time recently.

Tian Fangli is still brooding about the fact that he was able to appear on the TV food alliance of province A. He always sends someone to watch it secretly, and then tells Shao Yan that these alliance restaurants always have a lot of foreigners. It seems that the whole province of A It seems that foreigners are all concentrated on their side.

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Shaw Group has recently spent a lot of money on publicity alone. The sponsorship fee of the TV station in Province A is not cheap, but only after paying this money will the program team really praise Shaw Brothers as a key role.It is not so easy to stand out among so many restaurants. The sufficient exposure has revived the influence of Shao's old signboard. People from many cities near City A have come to Shao's to taste after watching the show.

The large advertisements in the bustling business districts in various cities in province A, the soft advertisements of various channels, and all the permeable corners of city A.Shao Yubo even signed an agreement with the rental company in City A. Once he meets a foreigner or a foreigner with a clear purpose of looking for delicious food, he must do everything possible to sell Shao's restaurant to them.The downstairs of Shao’s restaurant even has someone registering, and every time a table of guests is brought to the door, the restaurant will pay the driver who carries the passengers [-] yuan for hard work.

This is a big deal!A driver who can speak well can earn nearly a thousand a day, and a fool would not do it.Shao Yubo didn't care about the turnover that these customers could create after they came to the door, what he was looking for was that there was a one-in-[-] probability that these food hunters would be judged by Gumei.

After all, Gu Mei originated in country F. In recent years, almost no restaurants in country C have made the list. It is very, very likely that the judges are foreign nationals.For this reason, Shao Yubo humbly turned around and invited Zhao Weibo back to the restaurant to be the chef. It didn't take much, even a one-star Gumei review would be enough for him!

Shao's waiters have undergone intensive training, and their service attitude towards foreign customers, especially foreigners, is so good that it is chilling. This situation makes some old customers who have visited the door many times quite unhappy.However, Shao Yubo obviously didn't notice that there were fewer old customers returning to the restaurant recently. He was busy with TV and various publicity work, and almost consumed all his energy for it.

No matter how cautious he is in ignoring the imperial door seats in this kind of propaganda, he will be discovered by others no matter how careful he is.In the past, Yumenxi rose rapidly in a short period of time, and many people were not optimistic about this new brand restaurant because of the tit-for-tat confrontation between the two. Now the Shao family has united almost all the established companies in Province A, except for Yumenxi. , There are even more people watching jokes.

Even if this situation is not considered to be attacked by colleagues in the industry, it can be regarded as a kind of cold treatment.How can a person have no support in the rivers and lakes?After all, the Shao family has a big family and a big business. Although the business was a little colder due to the death of the old man some time ago, it has begun to pick up recently because of Shao Yubo's publicity.When the Shao family regains its previous strength, it is not known whether there will be a position for Yumenxi in the huge province A. From this point of view, Yumenxi has shifted its business focus to outside the province early, which has become a kind of Quite a sensible way to avoid the limelight.

I don't know when it started, in Province A and even in many areas around Province A, news began to circulate that Shao's restaurant would soon be crowned with the title of Gumei Star.The people who spread these words are running around in different forums, and they speak with their noses and eyes.Sometimes, for fear of not being eye-catching enough, they specially wanted to draw out the history of the Shao family to speak.The opposite of this is naturally the voice of shouting down Yumenxi that gradually began to appear, but this voice did not appear clearly, it was just that some unidentified "locals from City A" always seemed to have some sense when they supported the old Shao family signboard. Ruowu stepped on the imperial gate seat.

This kind of thing can't be done too eye-catchingly, and the masses are not fools, they will definitely find something wrong.Therefore, the argument of stepping on Yumenxi must not be cut from the culinary art. Most of the bad-mouthing voices are attacking Yumenxi's hype that deviates from traditional food ethics.All the "old employees who left under Shao's father" came forward and began to reveal some unknown "scandals" of Yumenxi.According to them, the reason why Yumenxi can develop so quickly is thanks to the excellent hype team.

These rumors have no impact on Yumenxi's business at all, and even spread the popularity of Yumenxi to a certain extent, but there are too many negative news, and the impact on the image of a company that is still in its infancy is very fatal.Almost without Father Shao's thinking, even Shao Yan guessed who the person who would do such a thing was.The real person behind the vest of the "old employee who left under Shao's father" is also well known to the Shao family and his wife.

Yumenxi is busy opening a branch now, it is the busiest time, how can I have time to talk to them?It just so happened that the Yan family also cooperated with a lot of media, Shao's father thought about it, and entrusted this matter to Yan Daichuan.Regardless of whether it was suppression or silence, Father Shao, the old propaganda sign of the Shao family, had no objection, but he didn't want to hear the voice of maliciously smearing Yumenxi.

Unexpectedly, within a few days, the situation became more and more unstoppable.

Originally, it was only a small hype within the scope of province A. I don’t know why it suddenly rose up like a raging fire. Shao’s restaurant and Yumenxi became the focus of everyone’s discussion after they faded out of everyone’s sight last time. The old Shao’s signature Even the neighbors in the alley heard about the matter of taking Gumei star overnight!After tea and dinner, anyone can talk about this matter. The children all know that there is another restaurant in Country C that will become Gumei Restaurant. Many people in the catering industry also expressed their pride for this.

In these new rounds of topics, Yumenxi's existence is pitifully small, and it is basically brought up for comparison with the old Shao family's signboard.The black material is rarely seen under the control, but the imperial gate seat is almost trampled to the point where no advantage can be found under various comparisons.The scope of participation in the discussion this time is mostly limited to the middle and lower classes who have never really entered the Imperial Gate Seat, and the number of people in this class is also the most impressive.Obviously they have never set foot in Yumenxi or Shao's restaurant, but they are very good at analyzing the various advantages and disadvantages of the two.They memorized the history of the Shao family back and forth, knew the population composition of the Shao family and Yumenxi well, and then unanimously determined that although Yumenxi has great influence outside the province, in terms of strength, it must be slightly inferior to the Shao family that has been in business for so many years .

How dare you refute?

Then why did Mr. Shao want to hand over the company to his youngest son instead of his eldest son?Why does Yumenxi go to City S instead of staying in City A?Why did the chef at Yumenxi, who was clearly a relative, defect to Shao's house?Could this be unreasonable?

The situation was a bit out of control, and Shao's father faced the offensive of public opinion for the first time since he opened Yumenxi. Although he was not in a hurry, he was somewhat angry.Especially when seeing those who don't know how to pretend to understand and make unreasonable remarks, they even have the heart to come to Shao Yubo and kick Shao Yubo.The old customers of Yumenxi all expressed their trust and sympathy for him, and everyone seemed to subconsciously believe that the instigator of this incident was Shao Yubo who was thousands of miles away.

Only Yan Daichuan who reassured Father Shao not to worry about this matter knew that the situation was far from that simple.