Different God of Cooking [Rebirth]

Renmin Shopping Center is currently the largest shopping mall in Chengdu.

Generally, when new gadgets appear in the country, the Renmin Mall must be the first place to put them on the shelves.

There are various types of products in the food area. Nowadays, people basically don’t have the habit of buying fresh food in the mall, and everyone prefers to go to the farmers’ market.

Therefore, most of the products sold in the food area of ​​the mall are products that can be stored for a long time, such as sealed smoked foods, various canned fruits, processed meat foods and frozen meat.

Compared with other areas of the shopping mall, this place is not popular with young people, and there are "chefs" who are in charge of cooking at home.Among a group of adults, the figures of the two children are particularly obvious.

A boy with a mature face that is not commensurate with his age walked in front of the food shelf, kept picking up the products, and then carefully read the explanatory text behind the products.And another more lively child was following behind the former, revealing curiosity all over his body.

From time to time, I asked the boy in front of him what was in his hand, and the boy patiently explained the content in detail. Obviously, this is not the first time he has visited the food area.

The existence and interaction of the two of them attracted the attention of others. They are all children of someone else, they are good-looking and sensible.

These two are of course Zhao An and Ji Jiashu. They finished their final exams and ushered in the winter vacation.Zhao An wanted to take this opportunity to do a market research. He knew it would be a boring job, and originally wanted Ji Jiashu to rest at home.

However, Ji Jiashu had never been to the food section of the shopping mall, so he strongly demanded to follow him.Then there was the scene at this time.

Zhao An came to the food area mainly for two reasons. First, he wanted to see where the current domestic food production, processing, and transportation industries have developed.

With the acceleration of social modernization and urbanization into cities, the production and sales of agricultural products will inevitably be separated, and this separation presents the characteristics of space and time.

Zhao An has been thinking about how to make his own stewed vegetables and more products in the future into processed products that can be stored and transported.

Zhao An's focus is mainly on the product information behind the food, mainly the production location and shelf life.It can be seen that all kinds of processed food now mainly come from the province S, and at most only a few neighboring provinces.

Even some well-known national food companies in later generations have not yet appeared on the shelves, such as sausage, milk, and canned food.

Obviously, the current transmission speed of information and logistics is still too slow, some excellent enterprises have not yet exerted the siphon effect, and various food industries are everywhere.

After a lot of observation, Zhao An saw several different food processing factories near Rongcheng, and Zhao An silently memorized their names for possible needs in the future.

After watching the processed food, Zhao An walked to the freezer beside him.This is not the first time Zhao An has come to the freezer, even Zhao's father has been here.

The main production areas of poultry are in rural areas, and slaughtering generally follows the principle of proximity.But meat is more consumed in densely populated cities.Since the 80s, China's refrigerated food industry chain has appeared, but the development speed has been relatively slow.

Because the meat cold chain includes four important links: refrigerated processing, refrigerated storage, refrigerated transportation, and refrigerated sales, each link costs a lot.In addition, the purchase price of meat in different regions of the country is not very different, which leads to the fact that the price of refrigerated meat is not cheaper than that of fresh meat at this stage.

Now Zhao's mother is responsible for two stalls of stewed vegetables every day, and the consumption of pig's trotters alone is quite a lot.Zhao's father also tried to go to the pork slaughterhouse to buy pig's trotters directly, but the slaughterhouse only sold whole pigs.So Father Zhao had to go to multiple meat stalls every day to buy.

Of course, Father Zhao has also been to the mall to look at frozen meat, but he gave up when he saw the price.

But Zhao An has been paying attention to the mall, because he knows that if the stewed vegetables business is to expand further, there must be a large and stable source of meat.

Zhao An searched for new products along several freezers. He hadn't been to this mall for more than a month, and he hoped that there would be some unexpected gains.

White feather chicken feet 2.5 yuan/catties

There was a real surprise, as soon as Zhao An saw the price, he knew that these chicken feet were the ingredients he was waiting for.

With the deepening of reform/opening/opening, China's foreign trade is also developing continuously. At this time, foreign trade can be said to be full of gold. As long as you can find a market with enough profit, with the support of national policies, you can basically Easily apply for import and export trade licenses.

This is a crazy age, people dare to sell and buy anything for money.

Some people will import all kinds of "foreign garbage" from abroad, among which garbage musical instruments, garbage clothing, garbage electronic products, etc. are the most common, and traders use foreign garbage to fool domestic consumers.Not only earn money from domestic consumers, but also get a foreign garbage disposal fee for importing these foreign garbage.

There are also people who will smuggle various natural sources such as coal, rare ores and even national antiques abroad, without considering the interests of the country at all.

It is true that this was a chaotic era of import and export, but it undoubtedly relieved the pressure on the food industry, which was still quite scarce in China at that time, to a large extent.

At this time, Western countries headed by the lighthouse country have already realized the modernization, automation and high-tech of agriculture.The production efficiency of agricultural products is far higher than that of Huaxia.

However, based on the current currency exchange rate, plus various transportation and sales costs, and direct import of meat products, the price of meat is still higher than that in China.Therefore, at this stage, imports of soybeans, corn and other grains are still the mainstay.

This is the birth and development of Huaxia Food Import.

But never underestimate the ability of businessmen to explore business opportunities.

In the course of trade, differences in eating habits between different countries were discovered.Still taking the Lighthouse Country as an example, the businessmen found that the Lighthouse Country did not have the habit of eating chicken feet, and even pig's trotters were the food that the poor with particularly difficult economic conditions would choose.

The prices of these two kinds of food are quite low in Lighthouse, especially the former is close to zero.

As a result, importers buy these meats at low prices, and then transport them back to the country for sale.

And this is the origin of the frozen chicken feet in front of Zhao An. The price is lower than the market, and with the word "white feather", Zhao An is basically convinced that this is imported frozen chicken feet.After all, the breeding of white-feathered chickens is still dominated by western countries.

But just to be on the safe side, Zhao An still needs to look at the details again.The chicken feet are packed in a plastic bag, but the product information is written on the outside of the cardboard box.

Origin: United States

Transporter: Linhai City Changrong Import and Export Trading Company

"Zhao An, is it cold?"

Seeing Zhao An picking in front of the freezer and feeling the cool air, Ji Jiashu asked.

Only at this time did Zhao An realize that his hands were frozen from looking at the product information. Zhao An said, "Xiaoshu, let's buy some back later."

"Okay."

Zhao An looked around again, and found that there was no other imported frozen meat except chicken feet, but Zhao An estimated that it would be soon.In the future, other imported foods such as trotters, beef, and chicken wings will be launched one after another. This is the trend of an era and a market, and it will not change no matter what happens.

Zhao An finally bought a catty of white feather chicken feet, and then chose two pieces of chicken breast.

Chicken breast meat is made by a food processing factory in S Province. Zhao An bought chicken breast meat because he wanted to try a new product, a product that could not be called a dish at all.

Then Zhao An picked some snacks, but most of them were produced in this province.This is the task he must complete here today.

This morning Ji Jiashu came to his house to do homework for winter vacation as usual, and the two stayed in Zhao An's bedroom.Mother Zhao came over from time to time to ask Ji Jiashu if he wanted to eat fruit or drink water, but Ji Jiashu refused.

Zhao's mother thought that Ji Jiashu might like to eat snacks because he was young, so she prepared to entertain Ji Jiashu with snacks.

But Zhao An usually doesn't like to eat snacks, so there is nothing at home.After lunch, Zhao An was "kicked out of the house" by Zhao's mother, who asked Zhao An to buy Ji Jiashu his favorite snacks today.Anyway, she can meet her now. It is estimated that the two children will be you going to my house for a day and I going to your house for a day during the winter vacation.

Zhao An took this opportunity to go to the People's Shopping Mall to make purchases. As for the funds, it should come from Zhao's mother's approval.

Choosing snacks is also a rather cumbersome process. In Zhao An's memory, Ji Jiashu has never seen Ji Jiashu particularly like a certain kind of snacks. He occasionally buys spicy sticks at the small shop in front of the school.

In addition, Zhao An was not familiar with these snack brands, so he asked Ji Jiashu every time he took one.

"Do you want AD calcium milk?"

"No need, Zhao An."

"Where's Melissa?"

"no need."

"Where's the jelly?"

"Too much."

Come on, if you ask Ji Jiashu anything, he will refuse.So Zhao An chose to take a bag of everything, anyway, apart from Zhao's mother's special approval today, there is also the money Zhao An usually saved.

Now Zhao's father and Zhao's mother will often give Zhao An some living expenses and pocket money. In their opinion, Zhao An is mature enough and will not spend money recklessly.What's more important is that Zhao An usually helps, so he should be rewarded.

Zhao An felt that the way he bought snacks was really like the appearance of a nouveau riche going to the city to purchase, so he couldn't help laughing.Finally, under the persuasion of Ji Jiashu, Zhao An stopped his mopping up mode.

I have to say that the snacks are really cheap now. Mai Lisu and AD calcium milk are [-] cents, and the most expensive beef jerky is more than [-] yuan. As for spicy sticks, they are even cheaper.

I bought a bag full of things, and it didn't exceed 30 yuan. This also added the chicken breast and white feather chicken feet that Zhao An bought.

On the way home, Ji Jiashu offered to help Zhao An carry his pocket more than once.

Of course Zhao An did not agree, Ji Jiashu was speechless with one sentence:

"Let's wait until you can beat me by arm wrestling."

Wrist wrestling is also one of the easiest ways for junior high school boys to compete. Even if the winner is already determined today, the two who have already sparred in two days will start a "battle" on the desk again.

Zhao An's physical fitness is already excellent, and he has already started strength training, so it is no surprise that Zhao An became the "arm wrestler king" in the class.

Usually, there are countless boys who want to challenge Zhao An, but they are all rejected by Zhao An. His reason is also very simple: "Go and win all the other boys in the class first, and then come to me."

The only player who has the right to advance directly is our classmate Ji Jiashu.

It's just that among the 27 arm wrestlings between Ji Jiashu and Zhao An in the past, Ji Jiashu didn't win once.

Hearing Zhao An mention this matter again, Ji Jiashu fell silent, quickened his pace, and strode forward.

Finished!

"Little tree, wait for me!"

Zhao An, carrying a heavy plastic bag, chased after Ji Jiashu.