Chapter 1004 Meeting the ‘National Master’ (Part 1)

As night fell, a Maserati sports car with a blushing face stopped at the door of Yangjiayan. Yang Dongxu, who got out of the car, scratched his head as he looked at his sports car.

Back then, he loved this first sports car in his life very much. He felt proud to drive it on Chang'an Avenue. But after many years, when he drove such a sports car on the street again, he always felt a sense of sultry.

"Maybe it's because I'm more mature as a father." Yang Dongxu couldn't help but mutter in his heart, and then handed the car key in his hand to the younger brother who was parking at Yangjiayan.

At this time, the night had just fallen and the lanterns were just lit, but there were already a lot of cars parked in the parking lot at the door of Yangjiayan, and more than 70% of them were luxury cars.

With the continuous development of the domestic economy, the catering industry is actually developing rapidly, especially in an international metropolis like Yanjing. If you can't keep up, you will be eliminated instantly.

Therefore, competition in industries like the catering industry is actually very cruel. Haven't you seen those state-owned enterprise canteens close down one after another, and even the Beijing Hotel has started to open to the public?

In this fiercely competitive catering industry, Yangjiayan is definitely unique. It never advertises like some old restaurants, such as Quanjude's roast duck, which has become a must-try dish for tourists to Yanjing. As a result, old Yanjing people seem to be more and more resistant to roast duck.

Unlike other newly emerging restaurants, all kinds of Western food and European and American decoration styles are full of style. From its opening to now, Yangjiayan has always adhered to only one decoration style - classical.

At the same time, there is only one cooking style - authentic.

Many people know that after Chinese food goes abroad, it has to make some changes according to the tastes of foreigners in order to open up their own restaurant business.

Even in China, due to the differences between the north and the south, many restaurants will make slight changes to the tastes of local people. But Yangjiayan never makes these changes, whether in China or abroad.

Yangjiayan says that it is Sichuan cuisine, which is definitely the most authentic Sichuan cuisine and never has any discounts. It is said that it is Cantonese cuisine, which is definitely Cantonese cuisine. Even if it does not meet the tastes of Yanjing people in Yanjing and can only entertain some guests from the south, it will never change.

In short, if you want to eat hometown food, then Yangjiayan is the right place. It is definitely authentic hometown flavor, not fake hometown food.

Such a restaurant is considered by many peers to be a failure. If it were not for those palace imperial dishes that were originally famous, Yangjiayan might have been out of business long ago.

After all, you are in the north and a large group of customers like to eat steamed buns. How can you sell cakes, and those greasy southern cakes, have business?

But what surprised those people who wanted to see the joke was that Yangjiayan was obviously not looking for a point, but its business was unbelievably good.

If outsiders come to Yanjing to work and want to eat a bite of hometown food and ask friends where it is more low-key, at least eight out of ten people will recommend Yangjiayan.

However, what is slightly different from the unified recommendation of the signboard of "Yangjiayan" is that they may add a few words in front. For example, if you want to eat authentic Anhui cuisine, then Wangfujing Yangjiayan is the first choice.

It is said that the boss of Yangjiayan is from Anhui Province. Therefore, as the first head office, Yangjiayan in Wangfujing, in addition to the signature palace dishes, the most authentic Anhui cuisine can definitely make you taste the taste of your hometown.

If you want to eat Cantonese cuisine, then Yangjiayan in Daqianmen is the first choice. If you want to eat Sichuan cuisine, Yangjiayan in Xisanhuan has always had a good reputation.

In short, if you want to eat hometown cuisine in Yanjing, just go to Yangjiayan. As long as you don’t go to the wrong branch of Yangjiayan, you will definitely find a taste that satisfies you.

And seeing that Yangjiayan is so successful, it’s not that no one imitates it. But all these imitations failed. One is that the restaurant that wants to include all cuisines will not only have a straight rise in back kitchen expenses after operating for a period of time, but it is also easy to play a four-in-one.

Even if there is capital to catch up with the scale of Yanjing Yangjiayan, it can’t catch up with the scale of Yangjiayan across the country. You must know that in order to ensure that the dishes made by its chefs are absolutely authentic, the chefs in the back kitchen of Yangjiayan are transferred every three years.

For example, chefs who cook Anhui cuisine will obviously have some subtle influence on cooking because they have worked in Yanjing for a long time. In order to avoid these influences, chefs of Anhui cuisine will be transferred back to Yangjiayan in Anhui Province after working in Yanjing for three years, and then another chef of Anhui cuisine will be transferred from Anhui Province to take over.

In this way, the taste of Yangjiayan dishes can be kept at a high level of authenticity. If you eat roasted whole lamb in Yangjiayan with Inner Mongolia flavor, it will be exactly the same as the roasted whole lamb on the grassland. Whether it is lamb, seasoning, or chef, it is absolutely produced in Inner Mongolia.

Therefore, the authentic flavor that was originally not optimistic and did not know how to adapt, not only did not drag Yangjiayan back, but became the signature of Yangjiayan.

Especially as Yanjing develops more and more internationally, more and more outsiders come to Yanjing to develop. Many low-key Yangjiayan businesses have been doing very well since they opened. Although the price is very expensive, some ordinary working class people go there once a month, and with such a large base guarantee, Yangjiayan still has a prosperous business.

The Yang Family Banquet that Yang Dongxu came to today is not the main store in Wangfujing, but a branch store on Chang'an Street. Chang'an is now Xi'an, so the main dish is naturally the specialties of Shaanxi style.

Dinner is the most difficult time to get a reservation for the Yang Family Banquet. As soon as you enter the door, you can feel the booming business of the Yang Family Banquet. Not only is the hall full of people, but there are also many party guests in the sitting area next to it.

Especially the top-level private rooms upstairs may not be available even if booked a week in advance. There are even many real big guys who have directly given some top-level boxes to annual subscriptions. Yes, they are not monthly subscriptions but direct annual subscriptions. They are rich and willful.

Instead of staying on the first floor, we walked directly to the back and went up to the attic on the second floor under the guidance of the waiter. Every year, some branches of Yang Jiayan had to choose to expand because the location at that time was too small.

Some bought nearby land for expansion, while some who couldn't buy the land simply moved directly without fear of losing old customers because of the move.

When he arrived at the luxurious private room, Yang Dongxu originally thought that he had arrived ten minutes early, but he didn't expect that today's guests had already arrived, and there were already three people in the private room.

Haina's general manager Liu Zongsheng, New Picture's boss Zhang Weiping, and now well-known domestic director Zhang Yimou.

To be honest, not only Zhang Yimou but also Zhang Weiping was very surprised when they heard that Haina's big boss invited them to dinner. After all, ever since Yang Dongxu went to Hangzhou to attend college.

There are only legends about him in Yanjing. Every time he returns to Yanjing, he has dinner with old friends like Li Yihang. He has never heard of inviting others to dinner.

Many people who want to get into Yang Dongxu's relationship and enter his circle can only get in touch with Li Yihang's level with a lot of effort. As for the inner circle, it seems that it has remained unchanged since it was settled many years ago.

It's not like there aren't some people with status and background using their brains, but even if they come into contact with Zhu Hengyi, they can even meet Lai Tianqing. But for Yang Dongxu, he is still so indifferent.

So when Liu Zongsheng called Zhang Weiping to make an appointment for dinner, he specifically mentioned that it was his boss who invited him and he wanted to bring Zhang Yimou with him. This made Zhang Weiping extremely nervous at the time, thinking that Heiner was trying to catch Zhang Yimou's attention. This was the pillar of his own platform, the kind of load-bearing pillar that could be poached and the new scene would be finished in an instant.

But then I thought about it and felt it was impossible. After all, Haina wanted to poach Zhang Yimou, but it was because he had direct contact with Zhang Yimou. It was impossible to inform her boss first and poach people in front of his big boss. Such humiliation really didn't happen to him. Is Mr. Zhang made of clay? Let alone Heina, China Film Group would not dare to be so arrogant.

So after thinking for a moment, he figured out that the other party was probably here for the new movie "Hero". After insinuating, Liu Zongsheng didn't use any tricks to hide it.

This made Zhang Weiping, who had not yet prepared funds for the film, turn from surprise to joy. If Hainer is really interested in "Hero", Hainer can take all the funds, not to mention the remaining half of the funds.

"Sit down and don't stand. We are all elder brothers in terms of age. This is a bit embarrassing for me." Yang Dongxu quickly pressed his hands as he walked into the box.

He didn't have any humility to sit on the vacated main seat. Although he was younger, he had no problem sitting on the main seat due to his status and capital.

"Have you ordered anything?" Yang Dongxu asked casually, signaling for everyone to sit down.

"Not yet. We have just arrived and are talking about the movie." Liu Zongsheng said with a smile.

"Then I'll order. I'm not polite. I didn't order your favorite dishes. Don't blame me for not being full." Yang Dongxu half-jokingly took the menu and ordered two of Yang's family banquet staples. I also ordered some very distinctive Shaanxi dishes.

The reason why I chose this Yang family restaurant to entertain guests was actually because of the Shaanxi cuisine, or in other words, because of Zhang Yimou. As the chief director of the movie "The Future National Master", Zhang Yimou's status in his heart is higher than that of Zhang Weiping.

After all, as capital, he is more profitable than Zhang Weiping. He doesn't need to please anything, but the other party has to rely on him. But although he also has good results in making movies, half of the credit must be attributed to cheating. And Zhang Yimou is a true national teacher who must be respected.

Zhang Yimou is from Xi'an. Although he went to university in Yanjing, he was assigned to Guangxi directly after graduation. In fact, he didn't stay in Yanjing for a long time. It was only in the past few years that he came to Yanjing to cooperate with New Picture. .

But because he spends most of his time traveling around the country for filming, coming to this Yang Family Banquet, which has a very authentic Shaanxi flavor, shows Yang Dongxu's respect for the future national master.