Chapter 88(1/2)
Guaranteed replacement if fake
Author: round head and round belly
Guaranteed replacement if fake
"After all, this is a restaurant opened in the Forbidden City! The price is just extraordinary."
"Tsk tsk! Two thousand one kilogram of tribute rice, two thousand is enough for my family to eat for a year."
"Although Brother Yi's craftsmanship is indeed very strong, the fried rice priced at 188 yuan is still a bit outrageous."
"I can't afford it. I'm sorry for bothering you."
Seeing the audience in the live broadcast room either mocking or making fun of him, Li Yi smiled and said nothing.
If he were to sell it, the price would at least double.
Because Huang Xiaoming only calculated the price of materials, but not his labor costs.
Craftsmanship is also valuable.
In order to learn this craft, he stayed in the dream space for more than 20 years. Doesn't this count as money?
However, he has already made an agreement with the program team, signed a contract, and will be paid on a daily basis.
So the program team has the final say on how much to set the price, and he is only responsible for making the dishes.
On the satellite car, Wang Tian also saw the audience's taunting barrage, but she was well prepared.
"Director, purchase materials."
At her instruction, the live broadcast screen switched to the edited video screen. It was a video of Li Yi taking Liu Yifei, Zhao Jinmai and Wu Lei to visit the farmer's market to purchase ingredients.
After returning from visiting the market that day, Wang Tian asked the post-production team to seize the time and edit the video content just to deal with today's situation.
As the video played, the audience in the live broadcast room also saw the whole process of Li Yi purchasing ingredients.
In the video, the voices of Li Yi and the owner of the wholesale market were clearly heard.
The rice seller mysteriously took out a bag of rice and showed Li Yi a handful: "This is the real Jingshanqiao tribute rice, not the kind you can buy on the market. This is the rice from Sunqiao Town."
A few pieces of tribute rice are harvested in the fields, which amounts to more than 3,000 kilograms a year. Once sold, it will be gone.
Those pieces of land have been used as tribute rice since the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and officials are sent to the local area every year to supervise planting and harvesting. It has been more than 400 years now, and it can be found in the county annals."
Li Yi in the picture grabbed a handful of rice and smelled it, then looked at it carefully while introducing: "The characteristics of Jingshanqiao tribute rice are dry, whole, ripe, white, green stems like jade, and very small belly white. And its other characteristics
The particles are slender, smooth and transparent, and its length is the longest among all the goni.
There is a local folk song singing about this kind of rice. It is said that the bridge meter is long. Three rice grains are one inch long. The bridge meter is curved. Three rice grains are used to make a circle. The bridge rice is fragrant. If you eat three bowls of it, you can eat agarwood. This is what it is talking about.
The grains of rice are very long.
Judging from the length of this meter, it is indeed the real Jingshanqiao tribute rice, but the gloss is a little off, it should be last year's rice.
However, last year’s rice is also available, and the price is relatively cost-effective. It’s 2,000 yuan per pound, which is not expensive.
If it were new rice this year, it wouldn’t be at this price, and it might not be available yet.”
The scene changed, and Li Yi came to a shop selling mushrooms again and asked the boss about the price of mushrooms.
"Boss, do you have fresh ganba mushrooms?"
"No, it has to be transported by air."
"Where's the matsutake?"
"No, it has to be transported by air."
"It can be ordered, right?"
"It depends on luck. Even if you can order it, the price is very expensive if you buy it in the capital. You have to pay a deposit first."
“How much does fresh dried mushroom cost?”
"At least 800 pounds."
"Is it expensive?"
"I've already given you a bargain. In this season, buying fresh dried mushrooms locally costs three to five hundred and one kilogram. This is the capital, and they have to be shipped over by air. I won't make any money from you."
"Where's the matsutake?"
"You have to try your luck to get fresh ones. If you can find them, you can get them. Good quality ones cost at least 3,000 kilograms. The bigger they are, the more expensive they are."
"Almost, where are the dried matsutake mushrooms?"
"Dried matsutake mushrooms are more expensive. The lowest price is 2,000 kilograms. I don't recommend you buy them. The good ones are 6,001 kilograms. It's a bit expensive, but you get what you pay for. Pure wild ones, the taste is definitely enough.
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"For the market price, weigh me a pound of top-quality dried matsutake mushrooms, and order two fresh matsutake mushrooms for me. I want top-quality products! Don't fool me with Agaricus blazei blazei."
"Don't worry! You know the business, how could I deceive you? And I'm doing business here, so I can't run away. If I deceive you, how can I do business?"
“Can I order other fungi as well?”
"It depends on what you want! The price is not cheap anyway."
"I buy a lot, so I'll give you a discount!"
"Okay, okay! I'll give you a 95% discount! This kind of fresh mushrooms really doesn't make money, and it's very troublesome to order."
"make a deal."
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Looking at the purchasing scene and listening to Li Yi bargaining with the bosses, the sarcastic barrage in the live broadcast room gradually disappeared.
Seeing is believing, the market owner in the video makes it clear that these ingredients are really that expensive!
"There are really two thousand one kilograms of rice! I have learned a lot!"
"Things are rare and expensive. With more than 3,000 kilograms produced in a year, the price will definitely not be cheap."
"It's great to have money, even the rice you eat is limited."
"No matter how delicious it is, selling it for two thousand one catty is too much, right? Doesn't the Price Bureau care about it?"
"Tuigui! It is indeed a luxury item among mushrooms, six thousand one kilogram of matsutake! It is really more expensive than the price of silver! Silver is only four thousand one kilogram!"
"It's because I'm not worthy anymore. Did the program team win the lottery this season? Are you so willing to spend all your money?"
"So does it mean this is the ultimate taste? Is it really just in accordance with the palace standards?"
"Okay, even if you don't charge too much, how many people can afford it? Just ordering a few meals and cooking two dishes will cost tens of thousands. How many people in the country can afford ten thousand for a meal?"
Huang Xiaoming breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the comments made by the audience after their attitude changed.
But the last barrage does reveal the difficult situation the restaurant is facing now, which is the problem of customer sources.
The ingredients used in the restaurant are all good, but the price issue does deter a large number of people.
But Li Yi was not in a hurry.
Products at this price are not meant to be sold in volume. You must be able to keep your composure and adhere to the principle of not opening for three years and staying open for three years before you can start a business.
People who are willing to spend 10,000 yuan for a meal will not mind spending another 10,000 yuan.
If you don't have a ruthless heart and a sharp knife, how can you cut leeks?
But others don't have such a good attitude as him.
For artists, the most important thing about being on a show is not to complete the so-called tasks set by the program team, but to perform and contribute exciting content.
Without customers coming to the door, the program would be missing a large part of its content.
So, Huang Xiaoming, who couldn't hold himself back, simply went directly to the entrance of Yangxin Hall to pick up the customers, hoping to impress them and lure them in to spend money.
But after the customers saw the prices on the menu, they all found various excuses to leave. He worked for more than an hour and failed to win a single business.
"It doesn't matter. Today is the first day of business. Just treat it as a test. Even if it doesn't open, you can still accumulate some experience."
Huang Xiaoming is cheering everyone on.
But it can be heard from his words that his confidence is not very strong anymore.
For a time, the atmosphere in the restaurant gradually became dull, and Wang Tian in the satellite car began to waver, wondering whether it was time to use extra performers to support him.
But at this moment, a middle-aged couple with a child came to the restaurant.
Liu Yifei immediately greeted her: "Hello, do you want something to eat?"
Seeing her, the boy, who was obviously a high school student, opened his eyes in surprise and was speechless.
The parents behind him were attracted by the camera positions surrounding him.
"Are you... filming a show?"
The middle-aged man asked belatedly.
"Yes."
Huang Xiaoming came up to us and introduced: "We are recording the seventh season of Mango Channel's "Chinese Restaurant", which is a food show. You guys want to eat, right?"
To be continued...