443 Invasion of Big Star 2
This area of Longkan Street is a famous catering street in Jianhai.
After Wang Jian came out of the Chamber of Commerce, he went straight here. At this time, there are all kinds of restaurants on the street, such as Cantonese seafood, plateau stews, Red Mansion Roast Duck, Chongqing hot pot, etc., as well as Korean barbecue and Japanese cuisine.
He walked in door-to-door, holding a notebook in his hand. The table looked at it and remembered it. The table looked at it and wrote it down again. He remembered the colors and shapes, remembered them, and asked the diners how they felt.
"Are you?"
"Oh, I'm a restaurant investigator. Please tell me how you feel about this dish!" He pretended and smiled. After getting the relevant feelings, he quickly wrote it down.
Along the way, he felt that each restaurant on Longkan Street had its own variety, and the one with a boom in business took care of the tastes of all the diners.
For example, the best restaurants are mid-range restaurants, which not only operate their own specialties. For example, you can order shredded pork with Beijing sauce in Hunan restaurants. And there is Meizhou Salt Bureau Chicken in a famous store in Chengdu.
So, Wang Jian seems to feel that one of the reasons why his investigation has figured out the business of these mid-range restaurants is that they are not like high-end restaurants, focusing on high taste, and they are also painful to say "no" to ordinary diners; let alone street stalls to provide people with food. In mid-range restaurants, people who eat also have a face, not only a full stomach, but also take care of the various needs of diners. They have their own characteristics and other special varieties. No wonder the business is so booming.
Of course, he understood that he came to this street not to do market research, but to learn more and strengthen his own good cooking skills. He failed to invite President Long, but the turning point was to get an opportunity to show his skills in the South Chamber of Commerce.
In order to get development, Wang Jian has always been a person who is desperate to learn and do his best.
He remembered that when he opened his house in Jinwan, when he was invited by Mr. Zhan to listen to the play, he borrowed books, studied and strengthened all the way to Peking Opera, and did not think that Peking Opera had nothing to do with his planning and gave up going deep. At this time, half of the time for him and Deng Haomin to sign a high-compromise contract for the promotion of Yinhua Pedestrian Street, whether the Nan Chamber of Commerce will promote it or not is a successful step for him, and there is no reason for him not to fight.
At this time, his step is to make himself able to make a few special dishes.
Walking into the restaurant, he stood at the end of the street and gasped and looked back at the dim lights on Longkan Street.
"Now my life is not qualified to feel emotions, a lyrical song here!" After a glance of the fireworks, he said to himself and kept walking towards the famous 'white shark' fresh market.
When he came back with a large bag of puffels, bullfrogs and crabs, Yang Wei shouted, "What are you going to do? Have you changed your job to seafood?"
He said: "In a few days, when Long will eat in the Chamber of Commerce, I will go there to cook a few dishes. In fact, there is also a chance to have dinner with Chairman Long, so it is particularly important for us!"
"It's a treat, invite the dragon to go out to eat!"
"Please don't move. President Long won't go out, but we must also have a meal with him!"
"So...you... have to do experiments at home!"
"Smart, I have to cook a good dish as soon as possible. I have to cook these seafood immediately!"
"Is it so complicated?"
"Only have the opportunity to show your craftsmanship and get closer to President Long. Can I say 'no' to such an opportunity?" Wang Jian smiled and looked at Yang Wei.
Yang Wei curled his lips. He had turned to the kitchen and began to move.
Yang Wei went into the red with him and saw him grab the still alive bullfrog from his bag. He stabbed his neck and opened a mouth. He put down the knife. One hand grabbed the bullfrog tightly, and the other hand began to pull along the bottom of the frog. Soon, he skillfully peeled off the skin. He picked up the knife again, followed the bullfrog's chest with another knife, and reached out his hand to remove the internal organs...
"Ah...so disgusting...so cruel..." Yang Wei turned his head as he shouted.
"Oh, killing living things is always like this. Xiaowei, don't you want to see it? It's done. Come and taste my craft!"
"How can you do this?"
"Well, when I was a child, I was in the countryside. At that time, there was pig killing in our village. I read a lot and knew more about it. In addition, I also like to read the recipe at home. There are still some theories, and now I have to practice it!"
As he spoke, he was busy in his hand, and the bullfrog's peeling showed its white and tender limbs that were still twitching. His hands and vegetable washing dishes were already covered with blood, and the black, red intestines, liver and lungs at the bottom of the plate, and the black and green skin of the bullfrog had also been thrown into the garbage blue.
His hand stretched out from the blood, and then began to blow up the pues...
"I think if our Yinhua Pedestrian Street can't be promoted this time, you can also be a chef!"
"Oh, no!"
In his understatement, the tension in his heart arose. If he fails to sign this promotion contract with Deng Haomin, he will not only have to compensate 100,000 yuan. In the eyes of some people, 100,000 yuan may not be nothing, and he can't afford to pay for himself. More importantly, after the failure of Deng Haomin, whom he signed, he must also leave Yang Wei, because Deng Haomin is still thinking about Yang Wei...
He didn't dare to say all this, but smiled faintly. The steamer was already full of breath, and he put the washed crabs in and steamed them.
That night, they didn't have dinner. It should be a dinner party with seafood, side dishes and special sketches.
"Wow, Wang Jian, I've seen your real craftsmanship. You really can't dig. Once you dig, you can do anything!" Yang Wei sincerely praised it.
"Ha ha, Xiaowei, I hope Chairman Long can think of me as well as you!"
"I believe you!" Yang Wei nodded as he began to eat happily.
"It depends on Director Zhang's arrangement!"
"Is Director Zhang so important?"
"Yes, although Director Zhang is only the office director of the Southern Chamber of Commerce, there are not many staff in the Chamber of Commerce. President Long has no deputy, and many of his work is directly authorized by Director Zhang. Director Zhang is a second-level department on the surface, but in essence it is a first-level department. He is a bit similar to President Long's deputy. This is also the difference between the Chamber of Commerce and ordinary enterprises and institutions.
"Then, we still have hope. Just go to the Chamber of Commerce to set up a table of good dishes, and I think Chairman Long will look at you differently!"
"Oh, I hope so. It's just that this is not the key. I hope it can play a role in throwing bricks and attracting jade!"
"What is the jade you attracted? Take them to Yinhua Pedestrian Street to sign the contract?"
"Ha ha, it's better for them to take the initiative to sign the contract, but is it possible?"
"What is the jade that leads to?"
"I want to take out what President Long is most interested in, and we will find a common language!"
"Common language?"
"Hmm!" Wang Jian smiled mysteriously at this time.
The next day, Director Zhang of the Chamber of Commerce had news to inform Wang Jian of the Chamber of Commerce two days later.
"Okay, I'll prepare all the materials!"
"Okay, since you are the chef, I won't ask. You can arrange it yourself. Is it convenient?"
"Do you have a private room in your canteen?"
"No, but I can call up one, but that room may only seat four or five people!"
"Then please ask Director Zhang to transfer out of that small room! There are two people on my side, Chairman Long and you on your side. Is there anyone else?
"There are two more, there are only six people in total!"
"Then add a chair, I actually want to sit as close as Chairman Long as possible."
"Well, yes! That's it for me! It depends on your craft!"
"Don't worry!"
For two days in a row, Wang Jian kept buying materials and making his 'good dishes'. Yang Wei said it was delicious, but he still made it carefully over and over again.
"You are quite self-disciplined. This kind of craftsmanship is really good. You can have a rest." Yang Wei persuaded him.
"I don't want to be picked by others when I go to the Chamber of Commerce to cook, let alone let people think that I am not skilled, but the chef has a shameful bad reputation."
"Alas..."
"Nothing!" He pushed Yang Wei out of the kitchen with a smile and continued to cook again.
Early on the morning of the day he went to the Chamber of Commerce, he took Yang Wei to the Seafood City with the specialties bought from famous restaurants on Longkan Street that day. His eyes are shining with all kinds of seafood products. Yang Wei is busy paying for this and that.
"Do you know what they want to eat?"
"I don't know?"
"Then you still buy so much?"
"Only by buying more can you win what you like!"
"Alas... I hope you can succeed!"
"Don't worry!"
With cooking materials all the way, they took a taxi to the Chamber of Commerce. Director Zhang has arranged for the master in the canteen of the Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with him.
While putting away the materials with Yang Wei, he smoked smoke for the master of the canteen, with a smile on his face and a very respectful look.
The masters gave him the position of the chef. He put on his hat, put on his apron, and began to concentrate.
When it was close to lunch time, Director Zhang came to the canteen.
"Director Zhang, try the one I just made, stir-fried scallops." Wang Jian brought a plate of dishes with a simple and honest look.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Director Zhang took a look at the dish gallbladder fan and said.
He didn't taste it, but when he looked at the dish, he was already very happy.
Wang Jian added that there is also the last dish, baked lobster. After finishing this dish, it can be served.
"Okay, Wang Jian, you are really unattractable. Look at your little, you can do everything!"
"Ha ha, Director Zhang, you are flattered!"
"Really, very good!" Director Zhang sincerely praised while going out to arrange a small room.
In a blink of an eye, the lunch with President Long began. Wang Jian secretly straightened out his thoughts and stood in the small room, waiting for the arrival of President Long.
Soon, Director Zhang and two other chamber of commerce staff accompanied Chairman Long.
"Xiao Wang, thank you for your hard work!" Chairman Long smiled at him as soon as he stepped in.
He greeted Yang Wei with a smile and said, "It should be, it should be!"
All six people sat down, and no one was in a hurry to move the sieve, but looked at the table full of dishes.
"It's good, it's good. Look at the color, it's ready for color; when you smell it, it smells good; when you eat it in your mouth, it depends on the smell!" As Director Zhang spoke, he raised the sieve and greeted everyone to start taking action.
After eating for a while, everyone said that it tasted good.
However, Wang Jian has never eaten seafood, but has been eating a plate of bitter vegetables with nests.
Everyone looked at him strangely.
It seemed that he was a little embarrassed. His hand holding the bitter vegetable shook, and a bitter vegetable fell on the table. He immediately picked it up and put it in the bowl.
Director Zhang opened his eyes wide and asked, "The table of seafood you made tastes good. Why don't you eat it!"
Wang Jian explained calmly, "I've been a little angry these days. I've been fine, but I've been a little angry in the past two days, so I dare not take it lightly. Seafood is a hair product, and I dare not eat it for the time being. Eat more bitter vegetables, eat some nests, and I will clear the fire in my body. In addition, now that life is good, it is also good to eat this bitter vegetable nest.
Director Zhang, the other two people, and Yang Wei listened to Wang Jian's words inexplicably, but Chairman Long suddenly smiled, "This bitter dish is not easy to buy in the market. Few people have eaten it!"
"Yes, seafood is easy to buy now. After buying this bitter vegetable, we went to the morning vegetable wholesale market for a long time to look for it. Wang Jian has been worried that he can't buy it..."
"Well, it's not easy!" President Long responded, also picked up a bitter vegetable and chewed it carefully.
He then asked Wang Jian, "What do you think is the benefit of eating this bitter vegetable nest?"
Wang Jian said with a smile, "It's not that I want to remember hardships, but I still can't forget the past days. When I was a child, it was quite bitter, and now I often warn myself not to forget."
At this time, the master of the kitchen came in, brought another turtle soup, and asked the presidents if they had enough food.
Chairman Long immediately waved to the chef and said, "This big table is enough! It's a waste if you can't finish it!"
The chef retreated with a red face. At this time, Wang Jian took out the cigarette and dispersed several cigarettes.
Chairman Long smoked. He took the cigarette, and Yang Wei next to him quickly stood up and lit it for Chairman Long, and the others also lit it.
Chairman Long took a deep breath and asked Wang Jian, "You are all children. You are from the 1980s. The children of your era are already very happy."
"Most of it should be. I don't know if it's my special situation or my origin. I used to think I was short. One is short, the second is short, and the third is short diploma! The diploma is short, and you can work hard to strengthen it, but the origin and height have not changed. This is also a painful thing!"
"Ha ha, are you from the countryside? Poor child?" President Long seems to be interested in this topic.
"When I was a child, my father had been doing odd jobs outside to earn money. I farmed at my mother's house. My father once went to work outside and picked up sand to transport it from the ship. He accidentally fell into the river. When I was rescued ashore, the first sentence said, 'I can still choose.'"
"Well, that's what you said in the early 1980s. At that time, the market was not fully open, and it was not easy to find jobs outside. At that time, except for regular workers, it was said that they were part-time workers. Zero workers may also be fired at any time. Maybe your father was afraid of losing that part-time job at that time.
"Yes, my father carried sand, tiles and cement on the construction site. But he is not in good health, and he can't eat much. He is so hungry and skinny. Once, their class picked stones on the top of the mountain, but two big stones accidentally rolled over the mountain, and everyone else ran away. Only he ran slowly, but his father was still fortune-telling, and one of the big stones ran over his instep!"
"Wow, Xiaojian, I haven't heard about this!" Yang Wei sighed beside him.
"My father almost lost his life that time. The workers carried him up and wrapped his wounds all the way to find the leader of the construction site. However, the construction company sent my father to the hospital, and my father came out with a lame leg, and he was fired from the construction site!"
In his memory, Wang Jian is promoting the difficulties and sufferings of his former family. However, what he concealed was the unspeakable diseases that his father contracted because of his affair with bad women when he was working outside, and the fact that his father never sent a penny home.
"After my father came home, he could no longer do heavy physical work, so I worked in the field with my mother. My mother did physical work like a man. Pear field ploughed the land, roared like a man, and took the same steps. Several times, my mother fell into the field and drank the dirty mud water in the field again and again.
"Oh, no wonder you are so economical. You have to pick up a piece of bitter vegetables on the table to eat! It is true that the children of poor families have been in charge of the family for a long time. Director Zhang also sighed.
"Actually, there is nothing. I remember that what I can do is to boil hot water for my mother at home, wash her face and feet. I rolled up her clothes and wiped her back. She crawled with pears during the busy farming season. His left shoulder raised blisters, like a camel's back, with two ends high and low in the middle. Sometimes, I wiped her shoulder, and I went to twist a towel again.
She lay ** and fell asleep.
"What about your father?" At this time, Chairman Long suddenly asked.
"My weak father took on all the housework when I was not at home. In order to save electricity, he often cooks in the dark, washes and sweeps the floor at home. At that time, I thought that when I grow up, I am willing to do anything and be willing to do everything. As long as there is a way to change the environment at home a little better, I am willing to do everything and work hard to do it.
When Wang Jian was talking, he saw Chairman Long listening, turning the tray on the table, moving an ashtray over and putting it in his hand. Then he said, "Xiao Wang, I can't see that you are from the 1980s and have suffered these hardships!"
Wang Jian took over and said, "Actually, it's nothing. At that time, our countryside was quite difficult. But I think only if we work hard and our younger generation work hard to change our difficulties, we will always get better. I know that Chairman Long is very active in participating in some charity activities now, which I admire very much!"
"Oh, Xiao Wang, in fact, you can feel those sufferings in the 1980s. I'm from the 1950s, not to mention. Now listen to what you said, and then look at our good days. I think many people have forgotten the past.
"Is this a gambling wall built by years?"
"Well, if we don't clean up this wall, we will grow bushes, which will grow higher and higher."