Since Zuixianju reopened, it has been almost unbeatable. However, there is one thing that Zuixianju has always lagged behind, and that is the banquet ordering that Li Qi just mentioned. In this aspect, let alone Jade Pavilion and Fan Lou.
Compared to other big restaurants, I'm afraid it's a little inferior to Yanglou.
All of this is thanks to Wang Fu. It was not good for Li Qi to offend anyone, but he offended the most famous person in the dynasty. Since the first-year banquet, the number of guests who come to Zuixianju to book banquets has dropped by nearly 10%.
70%, and there has been no improvement. Naturally, people from Wang Fu's party will not come to Zuixianju to eat or book banquets. If other officials want to come to Zuixianju to book banquets, they must think carefully.
Is it worth offending Wang Fu? There are also bachelors from the Hanlin Academy who rarely come to Zuixianju.
Those who dared to come to Zuixianju to order a banquet were ministers like Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Li Bangyan who were equal to Wang Fu.
The spending power of these ministers is one against ten, and these interests are very objective.
Li Qi naturally wanted to fight for it, but he was unable to do so. Unless he had a good relationship with Wang Fu or Wang Fu fell, it would be difficult to change the status quo.
However, this aspect is Fan Lou's advantage. After all, this Tokyo restaurant is not called the number one restaurant for nothing. However, since Fan Zheng's death, Fan Lou has delivered fewer and fewer banquets, and the rise of Jinlou has even more
This is to rub salt into Fan Lou's wounds.
Those princes, princes and ministers came to Fan Lou to order banquets just because of their relationship and Zhang Chun'er's cooking skills. But now that Fan Zheng has passed away, Zhang Chun'er has also started a new business. Two signs of Fan Lou were demolished at the same time, so the business is naturally not good.
I did it. Many regular customers followed Zhang Chuner to Jinlou.
Fan Shaobai naturally understood the benefits. He hurriedly asked: "What is a first-class banquet?"
Li Qi smiled and said: "This banquet was also developed by me recently. It is tentatively divided into twenty-four dishes and eight dishes per table. It is divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower according to the guest's spending power. The difference is only in the materials.
Go up. Each table has eight cooking methods including grilling, stewing, sauce, roasting, stewing, stir-frying, steaming and stewing, and the taste is all-inclusive, covering almost all the flavors from all over the country."
This banquet is actually Li Qi's variation from the eight bowl series. When his father taught him cooking, he asked him to focus on the eight bowls from various places, because these eight bowls are the highest level of folk banquets. You should study them thoroughly.
, then you will know the flavors of different places well, so that you can deal with guests from all over the world.
The difference between the Yipin Banquet and the Eight Bowls is that the first sixteen dishes were recombined by Li Qi by extracting one or two delicacies from the Eight Bowls series from various places, plus the dishes he had developed before.
The eight courses are composed of classic dishes from various countries. To exaggerate, this banquet can be said to have brought together the essence of cuisine from all over the world.
Fan Shaobai was very excited when he heard this and asked: "Then when do you plan to launch this series?"
Li Qidao: "I'm afraid it will take some time. Although I have formulated the dishes now, these dishes all have their own characteristics. They cannot be made in one or two days, so the chefs need to practice for a while.
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Fan Shaobai frowned and looked slightly melancholy. Although Zui Xianju and Fan Lou were allies, they both ran restaurants after all. It was quite interesting that Li Qi put Yipin soup dumplings and Yipinhong pills for sale in his shop.
How could Li Qi be willing to give up this banquet to Fan Lou?
Seeing the silence, Li Qi glanced at him, then understood, and said with a smile: "By the way, are the new chefs you hired unreliable?"
Fan Shaobai was slightly startled and said: "Don't worry, they all signed a contract of betrayal. If anyone dares to leave, I will have to break their legs and then arrest them to see the officials."
Wow! This is too cruel. Li Qi said nonchalantly: "Okay, I'll come over in a few days and teach them a dish each, and we'll have a banquet together then. After all, there are so many dishes, I
Even one store can’t do it.”
He simply wanted to rely on Fan Lou's network to make up for Xia Zuixianju's shortcomings. At this point, the two of them really complemented each other perfectly.
Fan Shaobai was overjoyed and said, "Is this true?"
Li Qi said half-jokingly: "Would you like me to sign a deed of betrayal for you?"
"I don't have so much money to treat you." Fan Shaobai laughed and said: "Master Li, you may not know that after our first-class soup dumplings were launched at noon, Wang Yuanwai was so anxious that he even specially sent
People came to our place to buy some soup dumplings and went back to Jinlou in the afternoon. They haven’t come out yet. They probably went to find the woman to discuss countermeasures. I also heard people say that many things from the restaurant this afternoon
The masters have all gone to the Golden Tower, what do you think they will do?" After he said this, there was a hint of worry in his brows.
"You don't have to worry about this." Li Qi leaned on the fence and said, "Zhang Chun'er is different from Cai Yuanwai. To put it mildly, she is more cautious than Cai Yuanwai. To put it worst, she is not as good as Cai Yuanwai.
Her courage, she probably learned her business skills from your father, but there are some things that cannot be learned. The so-called food competition is nothing more than relying on novel and delicious dishes to attract customers. Once there are many customers,
If you do, you will gradually become a regular customer of her Jinlou. This is also a method. She does this just to compete with us for customers by relying on her best method. So, we just need to be ourselves."
Fan Shaobai nodded slightly and said with a hint of worry: "But the new dishes she introduced are also very attractive to customers. Besides, there are so many restaurants following her lead. We may have to be careful about what dishes will be launched tomorrow."
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Li Qi smiled disdainfully and said: "A delicacy can also be divided into superior and inferior. Apart from Jin Sanbao and the fish soup, the dishes she has recently introduced are novel and can hardly be called excellent. After a while,
The guests will get tired of eating it. A truly classic delicacy can be immortalized. Even hundreds of years later, people will still applaud it after eating it. Only this kind of delicacy can be considered a good delicacy. I am not bragging, I can guarantee this delicacy.
Even hundreds of years later, soup dumplings and first-class beef balls will still be loved by guests. When eating soup dumplings becomes a habit of the guests, then one of our dishes can surpass their ten dishes."
Although Fan Shaobai had acquired a lot of kitchen knowledge recently, he still had only a partial understanding of what he heard. However, he thought that the plum blossom buns in Wanglou's cave were not as delicious as this soup dumpling and could stand for decades without falling, so this soup dumpling would be the best.
Needless to say. Hehe smiled and said: "I understand."
Li Qi narrowed his eyes and said: "Actually, the first-class series is just the beginning. I am currently planning to launch a morning tea culture."
"Morning tea culture? Is it the same as that of Tian Xia Wushuang?"
"That's not true." Li Qi shook his head with a smile and said: "The food of our Song Dynasty can be said to be unprecedented, unparalleled in all dynasties. Chinese food and lunch are both very particular, but this breakfast is still regarded as
Ignore that ordinary people just buy a few steamed buns to fill their stomachs for breakfast, and rich people just eat more expensively, and there is nothing particular about it.
There is a saying that the day's plan starts in the morning. In fact, breakfast is also particularly important in terms of diet. When you wake up early in the morning, your mouth will taste astringent. If you can drink a cup of tea first to cleanse your mouth, refresh your energy, and arouse your appetite, then you will be better able to
Taste the delicacies of various delicacies. If you have free time, you can also read a book while tasting delicious food. When you are tired of reading, you can look at the morning sun and enjoy the tranquility and vitality of the morning. This is definitely a treat.
A fairy-like enjoyment. If drinking is to relieve sorrow, then breakfast culture is to keep guests happy to face the next day."
Fan Shaobai's eyes flashed and he said happily: "If the delicious food in our store can make the customers feel happy, then the customers will naturally come to our store." The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and he clapped his hands and shouted: "Okay. You guys
What a great idea! But what kind of food do we need to attract customers to come to our store for breakfast?"
What kind of delicacy? Huh, I was confused by Aunt Cao's steamed buns before. I didn't expect this. This time I have to make this breakfast more popular than the main meal. Li Qi smiled and said: "You can do this
Don’t worry, you will know when the time comes.”
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion downstairs. Li Qi looked down and said in surprise: "Hey! Isn't that Old Fox Cai?"
I saw Cai Minde walking in with a big belly. Almost everyone in Tokyo knew that Jade House and Fan Lou were mortal enemies, and the two families had no contact. Cai Minde rarely appeared in Fan Lou, and he would not choose to come at this time if he wanted to.
, so that those guests were very surprised when they saw Cai Minde coming.
Fan Shaobai hummed: "I think this old fox must have seen that our business is good, changed his mind, and wants to cooperate with us."
Li Qi twitched the corner of his mouth and said: "You underestimate him too much. I think he must be looking for me to discuss business and wants to buy Yipin Pills from me."
Fan Shaobai didn't believe it: "How is this possible? Your Zuixianju and his Jade Pavilion are only a mile or two apart. Why do you sell it to him? Isn't he asking for trouble? It's impossible. I'm determined not to do it."
Li Qidao: "Since you don't believe it, how about we bet fifty coins?"
"It's a deal."
During the conversation, Cai Minde brought a bowl of Yipin Bai Wan from who knows which table. He also saw Li Qi, waved quickly, and then walked upstairs with long strides.
After a while, Cai Minde went up to the fifth floor, walked over with a big step, and laughed loudly: "Mr. Li, your product series is really good, especially these meatballs. Cai loves them very much."
A bartender happened to be walking by. He grabbed the bartender and put the bowl in his hand. He waved his hand and said, "Go and get me another bowl of poinsettia pills."
The bartender recognized Cai Minde, so he responded and went downstairs.
Fan Shaobai said half-jokingly: "Exceptor, you have to pay for this."
Cai Minde said boldly: "Of course. To be honest with you two, Cai has brought enough money to come here today. Let alone this bowl, even if he wants all the Yipin Wan you have, that's no problem."
Fan Shaobai was stunned for a moment, scratched his head, and sighed bitterly: "Executive member, you are really my nemesis of Fan Lou. Just by doing this, I will lose fifty thousand dollars immediately."