An Ishikariya gift card with a face value of 12,000 yen.

I smoothed over Nurse Ayakako.

Nobunaga Hato can bring a box of Japanese confectionery from Yangquan Restaurant to the inpatient department of the hospital to visit Taro Kifu every afternoon.

Thinking of his proud stick skills, he couldn't compete with a 12,000 yen gift from Ishikariya.

Nobunaga was a little disappointed.

The three legendary nightclub SSR professions, as well as black lace equipment...

Sure enough, it cannot be a fuel-efficient lamp.

I thought I was playing "Night QQ sick building", maybe others thought Nobunaga was a takeaway man who delivered free food to his door.

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The afternoon tea that Nobunaga brought to Kifutaro was not the steamed manju that Ishikariya was selling.

Ishikariya's steamed buns are traditional Chinese steamed buns, which are two completely different dishes from the steamed bun snacks that Japanese people usually eat.

rb's "mantou" is a type of wagashi.

If translated into Chinese, it can be understood as bean paste buns. The outer shell of this kind of snack is usually made of wheat flour or potato paste, and the filling is usually made of red bean filling or white cowpea filling.

Chinese steamed buns are solid pastries without fillings.

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A lot of sugar is added to the outer shell of rb's steamed buns when they are made. In ancient times, because white sugar was an expensive luxury product, the steamed buns at that time used maltose. Nowadays, most steamed buns use soft white sugar.

Chinese steamed bun crusts require alkali or yeast powder to make them ferment and fluffy.

If divided by type, wagashi steamed buns can be roughly divided into six types: sake steamed buns, tea steamed buns, water steamed buns, grilled steamed buns, yam steamed buns, and buckwheat steamed buns.

The outer dough of these steamed buns are different, but they are all filled with bean paste filling.

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"Steamed buns" in Japanese confectionery are just a type of snack. They belong to the "raw confectionery" in Japanese confectionery, that is, fresh snacks with high water content and short shelf life.

The steamed buns at Ishikariya and Yangquan Restaurants are mostly served as staple food rather than snacks.

This is a staple food that is not available in Yubari City, Hokkaido, or even the entire country.

Ishikariya can expand everywhere in Hokkaido and be invincible. To a large extent, it is aimed at staple foods such as "Chinese steamed buns", which are blank in the rb market.

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In order to enrich the categories of Ishikariya and increase the profit margin of a single store, Nobunaga has been trying to make wagashi.

In this way, Ishikariya's business can be expanded from the manual labor market segment of coal miners, dock porters, and railway maintenance workers to the refreshment market with higher net profits and a broader market.

Japanese steamed buns are a type of Japanese confectionery and look like small pastries.

Some of them are decorated very delicately, making it difficult for people to associate them with the staple food of steamed buns.

Therefore, the gross profit margin is much higher than that of white and large steamed buns.

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The first wagashi I tried at Yangquan Restaurant was Rikyu Manju.

Rikyu Manju is a tea steamed bun named after "Sen Rikyu".

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The first independent teahouse in rb was founded by Sen no Rikyu.

He is Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "tea chief".

In October 1585, Toyotomi Hideyoshi assumed the post of Sekihaku and held a commemorative tea party in Ouchi, Kyoto.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi personally served tea to the Emperor Masachimachi, the princes, and the princes, and Sen no Rikyu served as the tea party assistant.

At this time, Sen Rikyu received the title of "Rikyu" from the Emperor, officially confirming his status as Japan's number one tea master.

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With the strong support of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the most powerful man in Japan at that time, Sen no Rikyu established the perfect tea ceremony etiquette.

rb "Tea ceremony" reaches its peak in the hands of Sen Rikyu.

Sen no Rikyu combines the experience of life's impermanence with the tea Zen experience of "originally nothing", and freezes it in the four-character formula of "harmony, respect and tranquility".

Fish baskets are used as bottles, bamboos are broken into pillars, and pottery is broken into dishes.

Sen no Rikyu pushed everything to the extreme, both physically and mentally. The extremely simple and simple tea ceremony paradigm he promoted became popular and became popular for a long time.

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All this made even Toyotomi Hideyoshi feel ashamed and angry.

Because the latter also came from a rough background, and when secular power reached its peak and could take over the world's life and death at will, he used gold tea sets and gold tea rooms.

In the realm of tea ceremony, there is a clear distinction between the two.

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Qian Rixiu is revered as the first "tea sage" in Japan, which is equivalent to Lu Yu's position in the history of Chinese tea.

He is a household name in rb, "Rikyu bean paste", "Rikyu tofu", "Rikyu peony", "Rikyu fence", "Rikyu headscarf", "Rikyu clogs", "Rikyu fan", "Rikyu color"...

Sen no Rikyu has become a symbol of rb culture.

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"Rikyu Manju" was born in Nara Prefecture in the 18th century, and Sen Rikyu was a Japanese Warring States figure in the 16th century, more than two hundred years apart.

Sen no Rikyu had never eaten this steamed bun wagashi before his death.

This tea steamed bun is mainly made of brown brown sugar dough, stuffed with bean paste, and then steamed inside.

Because the brown sugar used is produced in Amami Oshima, some people also call it "Oshima Manju".

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The amount of experience gained from food delivery in the hospital is much higher than that in Yangquan Restaurant.

Nobunaga Hato's [Japanese confectionery] production level has improved from [vulnerable] to [barely adequate], and has gradually left the unpalatable range.

It is only one step away from the pastry level of [Newcomer].

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After discovering Yubari City Hospital, which is a good dungeon for gaining experience, Nobunaga Yuba sent afternoon tea to Kifutaro and became even more diligent.

On Saturday night, Nobunaga was making steamed buns using wheat flour and brown sugar.

A mysterious diner came to Yangquan Restaurant.

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This is a burly Persian.

He was wearing a silk jacket that was woven with gorgeous patterns and exquisite craftsmanship. The lower edge of this gorgeous dress also had complex lace and plant decorative patterns.

Even more exaggerated is his crown.

The shape of this crown is strange and strange, and it is different from the aesthetics of this era. It is also obviously not the same style as the common crowns in the European Middle Ages.

The Persians went to an extreme on the road of symbolic art.

The crown of this Persian diner is a typical example of this type of headdress.

Symbols with auspicious and sacred meanings, including the celestial sphere, falcon wings, falcon head, crescent moon, ram's horns, etc., are all on this sterling silver crown, which looks a bit weird.

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Bang!

The other party took out a blue satin bag and threw it heavily on the table.

"Amir Nizam, asked me to help pay for the meal at Yangquan Restaurant."

Nobunaga opened the bag and found dozens of Sasanian gold coins inside.

Sasanian gold coins, the king of currencies in the East and West.

Gold coins are hard currency, and Sasanian gold coins are thick, beautifully made, and of extremely high quality. Even in the 19th century, Sasanian gold coins were still widely circulated among the people of West Asia.

In the 21st century, the highest price ever paid for a high-quality Sasanian gold coin at Sotheby's auction house in London was 560,000 yen.

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Nobunaga poured a glass of real Sapporo beer and placed it on the other party's table.

The Persian noble took a sip and nodded. He was very satisfied with the taste of Sapporo beer.
Chapter completed!