Chapter 21 The specialties of Chunfenglou
Chengnan Street, the most prosperous triangular area.
At noon, there were traffic and pedestrians were bustling with clouds.
On the left side of the street, there is a newly opened Spring Breeze Tower, with a city-wide gate, and the door is lined with exquisite warm sedans and gorgeous carriages.
This is a newly opened restaurant by the Zheng family on Chengdong Street. It is naturally an extraordinary restaurant. In Zhao Hao's eyes, it is even better than the five-star hotel nine hundred years later.
There was a bright red silk carpet at the door, and there were two rows of strong men standing on both sides of the guests, both of whom were eighteen or nineteen years old, with red lips and white teeth, and all of them were black jackets, which looked extremely energetic and neat.
Chunfeng Tower has five floors, each floor is divided into small pavilions similar to more than ten private rooms. All wine vessels are made of silver and even porcelain from official kilns to compete for luxury.
In the corridors of each floor, there are dozens of beautiful prostitutes dressed up in colorful clothes. Each of them has skin that is as slutty as snow. They are talking soft Wu dialect, flowers are full of their heads, smile like flowers, and invite guests on the railing, which is called "selling customers".
There is also a young woman who looks like a petite maid who comes without saying a word, holding a pipa or a guqin, and shouts cutely, "All officials, are you here to have a song?" This kind of singer who sings in a restaurant is called "Sitting" (not a socket). In "Water Margin", Lu Zhishen met Jin Cuilian who sang in a restaurant, and he was "Sitting".
There are also those who sell flutes, Ruan, breathing, gong boards, singing, and singing, which are called "driving" and those who sell small furnaces of incense as gifts, which are called "xiangpo". There are also those who sell jade noodles, venison, trunk cassia, trunk crabs, trunk sheep hooves, wine clams, shrimp antlers, dried trunks and other snacks, which are called "family style".
The waiter in the restaurant is available at any time and can recite hundreds of dishes for you in one go. And you don’t need to order dishes on the menu. If you order ten people clearly remember it, there is no mistake in the score.
Zhao Hao naturally couldn't help but admire such a restaurant. It was indeed worthy of being the top restaurant in Jiangning Mansion. However, this restaurant was not open in the place, and it was forced to open to the territory of the Zhao family in the south of the city.
Although Zhao Hao is called a guest, he came to step on the plate.
Yesterday, I heard my mother Xie Yun say that the Zheng family was getting more and more excessive. She drove the restaurant to the territory of the Zhao family in the south of the city, and then I paid attention to it. As a time traveler with a system, I can't hang out and show off all day long. If you have trouble at home, you naturally have to stand up, otherwise I would become a waste.
He chose a private room on the fourth floor, which was extremely quiet. The person sitting opposite him was no one else, but Wang Jue, the second son of the Prince of the East Prince of Chengdong.
The four major prefectures of Wang, Xie, Zhao, Zheng, and Jiangning, Xie Zhao's marriage. The Zheng family has been in a fierce momentum in recent years, but the Wang family has always maintained neutrality. Maintaining relationships with Wang Jue is naturally beneficial or disadvantageous.
The most important thing is that Wang Jue really treats him as a brother and shows goodwill repeatedly. It is impolite to come but not go, so this meal is a killing of two birds with one stone.
The Chunfeng Building of the Zheng family is magnificent and luxurious, and it must be all there. The Hefeng Building opposite the street is his Zhao family's restaurant. In terms of decoration, scale and service, it is no worse than the Chunfeng Building.
However, since Chunfeng Building opened, Hefeng Building's business has been going on, and it has become worse every day. At first, the Zhao family thought that the guests were just a few days before the opening, and after the fresh opening period, they would naturally recover.
However, the shopkeeper of Hefenglou was disappointed. Over the past month, Chunfenglou's business was getting better and better, while Hefenglou's business was getting worse, so he asked his mistress Xie Yun for the emergency.
The Zhao family's industry involves restaurants, medicinal materials, winemaking, tea and silk, and business is spread throughout Jiangnan Road. Although it is already the top restaurant in Jiangning City, even if it goes bankrupt, it will not hurt the Zhao family. The key is that the Zheng family's restaurant has actually opened to the territory in the south of the city. This tone is really hard to swallow, which also shows that the Zheng family is becoming more and more arrogant due to the queen's protection.
But after some investigation, Xie Yun had no choice. The Zheng family relied on hard power and luxurious decoration. On the one hand, the key is that the fundamental way of restaurant management lies in the quality of the wine and food.
As the saying goes, the wine is not afraid of deep alleys. As long as your wine and food tastes good, even if you only set up a shed, someone will come to queue up for dinner. If the taste is not good, no matter how luxurious the decoration is, it will be fresh.
The Zheng family’s restaurant has added more than a dozen dishes. It is said that the craftsmanship comes from the capital, and the taste instantly kills the entire Jiangning Mansion restaurant. Even the chef of Hefenglou, Uncle Tang, is willing to give up the disadvantage.
Zhao Hao had just sat down on the Xiangli Wooden Chair, and the waiter approached with a smile on his face, sang aloud, and then asked, "Dear officials..."
Before he could finish his words, Zhao Hao said impatiently: "Select expensive ones for me, and those with specialities, and those on the opposite side of Fenglou are not available, please click together."
The waiter smiled so much that his face was covered with flowers: "Okay, my son is indeed an expert, but he only has six people, but our family's special dishes include more than twenty flavors, including Qilin crispy meat, golden branches and jade leaves, ginseng meat, first-grade Ganoderma lucidum, third-grade black jade, Buddha's hands are wide belly, fish swim in shallow water, and phoenix spreads its wings..."
This guy was interrupted by Zhao Hao just now, and finally found an opportunity to show off his unique skills in reporting recipes. He even announced more than twenty dishes in one go, but he was still unsatisfied.
Zhao Hao couldn't help but feel shocked when he heard it. He held a big grass and said, "What kind of food is it?" It sounds very awesome. It is a kirin, a phoenix, a golden branch and a jade leaf, ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, black jade, etc. It's really very tall.
"What's the noise of you? You're here to send it together. Are you afraid that you won't have enough money for food?" Zhao Hao said angrily.
The waiter sang aloud. Although he was scolded, he still had a happy expression after doing a big business. He asked him for drinks, snacks, whether to have girls or something, and then he left happily.
Wang Jue looked at Zhao Hao and smiled and said, "Brother Zhao is here, I'm afraid he doesn't want to eat more than twenty dishes."
Wang Jue brought two trusted slaves, Zhao Hao brought Zhao Ji and Liang Lie, and there were only six people in total. He ordered more than twenty dishes, which was indeed a bit too much.
Zhao Hao laughed: "The Zheng family's restaurants are all open to the south of the city. We must taste them well. You can pack them if you can't eat them, hahaha!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Hao felt something was wrong. His identity as a royal family, as well as the young masters of the four major residences of Jiangning, would be a big news that caused a sensation in Jiangning City.
However, Wang Jue didn't seem to understand the meaning of packaging, so he blew and didn't say anything again.
After a while, the waiter who was delivering the dishes, holding a dish with a golden edge and silver bottom, and two or three steaming dishes were placed in it. He respectfully brought it in, and then carefully arranged it on the dining table.
Just when the twenty legendary special dishes of Wanfulou were shocked by the delicious dishes that shocked the entire Jiangning City foodies, they were filled with scattered scattered in front of Zhao Hao, Zhao Hao was completely shocked.
Damn it!
This is the Zheng family’s private dish that is famous for its color, fragrance and taste!
This is a delicious food that defeated my five-star restaurant and made our chef admire the disadvantaged delicious food!
This is a special dish that makes our mother unable to sleep or eat, and is planning to send chefs from her own restaurants to Beijing to learn the arts!
I'm pushing you!
Zhao Hao was stunned. He looked at the table of dishes for a long time before he remembered that he was the master. He hurriedly raised his glass and invited Wang Jue and others to drink and eat.
Then, Zhao Hao raised his chopsticks and ate a little of the dishes on the table. After savoring them carefully, he almost burst out with an old blood.
That "kilin crispy meat", the fuck is fried with fried yellow beef, and it’s really old!
That bullshit "golden branches and jade leaves", the fuck is scrambled eggs with onions, but the eggs are actually burnt!
That bullshit "Yi Pin Ganoderma lucidum" is just fried with mushrooms, and the taste is a little salty!
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Every dish on this table is a home-cooked small stir-fry from later generations. The taste can be stir-fried with your feet, which actually tastes like the whole Jiangning City. And it also has an average of 500 cents per table, and it costs more than ten cents of consuming a table of dishes. The expenses of an ordinary household for about a year are just a table of home-cooked stir-frying dishes at a large food stall level!
What a fuck!
In fact, before the Song Dynasty, because the problem of cooking iron pots was not solved, major restaurants always had stews and steamed dishes, and there was no cooking. Even after the Song Dynasty, the cooking technology was not promoted. Even in the official restaurants in the capital, several chefs who could cook were chefs, not to mention Jiangning Mansion far away in Jiangnan.
Like the chef of Hefenglou, Uncle Tang, who also knows how to cook several dishes, but it is a dilemma compared to the chefs in Chunfenglou who can make more than twenty dishes in a row.
Just as Zhao Hao was in a mess, the door of the elegant room was suddenly knocked, and then a familiar voice came in with a tone that was neither yin nor yang: "I don't know if Brother Zhao and Brother Wang are coming, it's a long time to welcome you!"
Chapter completed!