Chapter 391
Lu Xiao accepted Chen Nian's statement, and at the same time she also whispered to Chen Nian that she would not say this.
However, she still told Chen Nian that if he really used the song written by the other party, even if he didn't have any money, he would have to use other methods to thank the other party.
Chen Nian said that he was right.
Tonight, there is a banquet to be held in the Chennian store. Today's banquet is not a regular customer in the store, but a guest who came here after a friend's introduction.
However, the guest booked a banquet here, not because of his birthday or because of a party, but because of a housewarming.
I just bought a new house and moved to a new home, so I invited my friends to have a meal together.
As early as when the other party came to book a banquet and paid a deposit, Chen Nian asked the other party curiously why he didn't go to a bigger restaurant like this. After all, if he wanted to pay attention to the show, it was obviously not suitable for him.
"There are no such things to pay attention to. Boss, don't belittle yourself. Your store is quite famous throughout Chengdu. I asked my friends when I was choosing a restaurant. As a result, six out of ten people said that they came to you, including myself, I really want to have a meal here.
I always heard my friends recommend you here, but I never had much time to come here. This time I took this opportunity to hold a housewarming banquet here."
"Okay, but if you want to drink some good wine, you may have to bring it yourself. I only have ordinary ones here." Chen Nian also reminded him at that time.
"Don't worry, boss, I will definitely treat you to a drink at that time." The man said.
Later, Chen Nian also wrote down the other party's phone number and name.
Tian Maifeng, phone number 13754...
Just in the afternoon, Chen Nian called the other party to confirm that they would come to the evening and specifically confirmed the time they came.
At about 6:20, Chen Nian saw a few people standing outside and chatting. After a few minutes, several taxis stopped and walked out of the car and gathered with the previous people.
They came in after almost everyone arrived.
"Boss, I booked a banquet here before." Chen Nian had already washed his hands when they were about to come in. Now he came to the lobby with a towel while wiping his hands.
"Please please, this is our private room."
After introducing several people, I saw that they gave in because of the seating matters, and then asked: "Are you all here? Do you want to serve the food now or wait for a while?"
"It's all here, we're the few. The boss will serve the food first. Thank you for your hard work." Tian Maifeng, who was pushed into the middle, stood up and said to Chen Nian.
"Okay, wait a moment. If there is any problem in the middle, you can call us at any time." Chen Nian added after saying that.
"By the way, boss, can you help us get a few cups? I brought a few bottles of wine here." Tian Maifeng said again.
"Okay, wait." Chen Nian then left the box and then reminded Wen Hongxia whom he met on the way: "Aunt Wen, you will send twelve cups to that box later, and put the extra two aside for later use."
Then I went back to the kitchen to prepare cold dishes.
At the same time, several people in the private room were chatting enthusiastically. It can be seen that their relationship is very good, but a few people looked at the surrounding environment and said jokingly: "Does Brother Feng have not had enough budget when he moved to a new home? I originally thought he was going to a big hotel."
As soon as he finished speaking, a girl next to him said, "Brother Monkey, you don't understand this. This hotel is hidden in the city. Although the name is average, the environment in the store is no different from other small restaurants, but the boss here is very powerful."
"Is the boss a celebrity?" Brother Monkey asked in confusion.
"It's the one just now." Tian Maifeng raised his chin and pointed to the door.
"The one who was the boss just now is. I look quite young and I don't know him either. Could it be that he is a rich internet celebrity?"
"You said he was an internet celebrity, but he was scolding him. He didn't like others saying that his store was an internet celebrity store, and he was the chef here." The girl said just now.
"But I think he is also very young, about in his twenties, maybe a little younger than mine?" Brother Monkey expressed his doubts again, because if Chen Nian was the chef here, he would never have thought that Chen Nian's skills would be so high.
"Young is young, but the dishes he cooks are different. Do you know Miaomiaowu? It's the food blogger with more than 8 million fans on the Internet. She often comes here for dinner, and it seems that she is still very familiar with the boss here." The girl said.
"I don't know, I usually rarely see these." Brother Monkey shook his head.
"If you don't know, then I can only tell you that our TV station seems to have come to interview and even been on TV some time ago."
"On TV..." Brother Monkey sighed, "Don't you know? You can spend money on TV in such promotional matters, including some awards from many companies, which are actually bought with money."
As soon as these words came out, other people who knew Honghong Hotel were a little unhappy, but they were all friends and they wouldn't say anything. They just started to tell the story of this hotel in a lingering manner.
In fact, Brother Monkey didn't deliberately argue with everyone. He just saw that they talked about it and expressed his own opinions.
Because he had never known this hotel before, and now he was so mysterious about it, he naturally felt a little confused.
"It's okay, our friends for so many years, if we can't even eat together, then we'll be in vain. Wouldn't we know if the food is served in a while? I'll understand if it's easy to taste it." In the end, Brother Monkey felt that they couldn't convince him, and if he continued to say it, it would probably make everyone unhappy.
Today was Tian Maifeng's joy of moving around, so it's better to take a step back a little. At least everyone is happier today. And after thinking about it, he felt that he shouldn't have said that just now.
"It's okay, Brother Monkey is here for the first time, he will know after a while." Tian Maifeng also came out to smooth things over and said.
Then everyone began to ask about Tian Maifeng's new home about decoration.
"You are just asking the right person. In order to better decorate, I specially consulted Brother Monkey. Moreover, the plumber and woodworkers we hired for decoration are also introduced by Brother Monkey. It is very easy to work, and the charges are reasonable..."
Soon the cold dishes were served, and the first dish was crystal meat. After all, there was only one cold dish in the whole banquet.
Although Aged can also buy a piece of beef sauce outside and cut it into slices, then put a vinegar plate and put some scallions and drop a few drops of sesame oil as a cold dish, but after all, that was not made by yourself.
But after seeing the crystal meat, Monkey Brother's eyes lit up: "Everyone... Can you allow me to show off a little? I know this dish."
"Why would Brother Monkey come and tell us? It's still a long time today." Tian Maifeng said with a smile.
"This dish is called Crystal Sausage, also known as Crystal Sausage. On the surface, it looks like it is made of ordinary lean pork meat, but in fact, authentic ones should be made with pig trotters, which belong to the cuisine in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu." Brother Monkey said.
After saying that, the others couldn't wait to pick up a piece of chopsticks and put it into their mouths.
"I can't eat it, is it made of pig's trotters, but it's really delicious." The girl said just now.
"Indeed, I've eaten at this restaurant two or three times. This dish is not on the menu outside and is only available at the banquet. I saw it once when I was having dinner here in the evening, so I later recommended Lao Tian to come here to hold a banquet."
"Then can you eat this pig's trotter?"
"I can't eat it..."
Soon Brother Monkey picked up the chopsticks and tasted it, then nodded seriously: "This is indeed made of pig's trotters, and the vinegar used is also Zhenjiang's balsamic vinegar. You see, the pork inside is reddish and tenderer than ordinary pork. It is because the meat inside the pig's trotters is wrapped with a thick layer of fat and collagen, so it will be tenderer."
After reviewing, Brother Monkey said seriously: "It seems that the owner of this store does have something."
Tian Maifeng then remembered: "By the way, Brother Monkey is from Jiangsu. Then Brother Monkey has to pretend to be good with us today, because when I ordered the dishes, I found that a large part of the banquet was Jiangsu cuisine."
"Isn't this a Sichuan restaurant?" Brother Monkey asked in confusion.
"No." Tian Maifeng shook his head, "Although it is in Chengdu and the boss's family is from Sichuan, there are still many types of cuisines here, and it is not the kind of home-cooked dishes that we commonly use. In addition to some vegetarian dishes, each dish here is one of the representative dishes of a certain cuisine."
Brother Monkey couldn't help but become more curious about Chen Nian.
"And there is such a chef? Does he bring whatever dishes he likes to the menu?"
"I think it's very likely."
Just as they were chatting, the second dish of crab noodles lion's head was also brought up.
Looking at the shallow-bottomed plate with ten meatballs placed on it, with green vegetables on it, Monkey Brother couldn't help but feel energetic again.
"If I guess correctly, this dish should be crab noodles and lion heads. And judging from the quality of this dish, the way of placing it and the taste it emits, it doesn't look like a dish that can be served in a restaurant like this!"
"Just say it, this store is different from our ordinary roadside stores. Perhaps the only similarity is that it looks the same." The girl said proudly, and several other people who had eaten at the Honghong Restaurant nodded in agreement.
But it was only after eating at Honghong Hotel that I realized how difficult it is to let this restaurant produce a new dish. Other restaurants want to release dozens of dishes at one time and hang them on the wall for customers to order them slowly.
Sometimes even the dishes are not on the wall, the chef can make them as long as you say it.
But this store is different. It only sells dishes on the wall, and every new dish will become a hit.
Many people think that this kind of restaurant may be gimmicks, but when they actually come and try it, they will find that the menu on the wall of this store is calculated and there is nothing that is not delicious as long as it is posted for customers to order.
And Chen Nian has already answered this question: I haven't fully figured it out and I will not sell the dishes I have studied and understood.
And this can be seen from the head of this crab paste lion.
The crystal meat dish in front is easy to say, but this crab noodles and lion head is very skillful.
"Friends, I took back what I said just now, because I was short-sighted." Brother Monkey said sincerely, and then poured himself a glass of white wine, "I will punish myself first."
After saying that, I drank it in one sip, and the previous grudge disappeared without a trace.
"Come on, Brother Monkey eats vegetables. I don't like meatballs. I'll give you my lion head." The girl also said at the right time.
"Don't eat meat?" Brother Monkey looked at the girl next to him who had just argued with him with a smile, "Have you lost weight recently? I think you are not fat either!"
As a result, after hearing this, the other party looked beautiful: "Brother Monkey, don't you want me to have this meal today? I heard from Brother Feng that most of the dishes today are meat!"
Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard this, and the private room was filled with joy for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, squirrels, mandarin fish, pork dumplings, pipa prawns, duck paws, white-robed shrimps, jade rabbit cabbage, golden jade soup and other dishes were served one by one, and then they realized how outrageous they had made the mistakes before.
They had only seen these dishes online. At that time, Xiao Jing, as the first grandma master to eat this banquet and deliver it, also gave a detailed introduction to these dishes.
But it is one thing to watch online, but it is another thing to really put it in front of you.
The Northeastern cuisine was introduced by the Northeastern people present, and the Sichuan cuisine was introduced by the Sichuan people present. A good housewarming banquet was held as a review conference.
There were laughter and joy in the private room, and it was like celebrating the New Year.
In the kitchen, Qiao Zhaomei also looked at Chen Nian in shock and frying dishes one after another, especially the soft-cup fish in it, which made him drool.
As a Guangdong person, he is naturally very particular about eating, especially when it comes to seafood and river food, and he has a certain say.
Long fish is an eel, which is commonly known as long fish in Huai'an, Funing and other places.
When making the aged, first wash the ginger and garlic and slice it. After washing the scallions, put them into the scallion knots. Put water, salt, vinegar, scallion knots, and ginger slices into the pot and pour in the alive long fish. Then cover the pot until the scallion stops moving, then add a small amount of clean water to turn the fish regularly.
After about three minutes, take out the long fish and wash it in clean water. Pinch the spine and cut it into pieces and then put it in a boiling pot and blanch it.
The whole process was smooth and flowing, and Qiao Zhaomei watched the fishes alive.
Chapter completed!