Chapter 1404 State Banquet
At the old Yangjiayan restaurant in Daqianmen, several Mercedes-Benz cars stopped in the parking lot, and then a special waiter came forward to lead the way.
First walk into the hotel lobby and say the name of the private room you booked. The waiter who led the way from the parking lot left, and the waiter who was dedicated to the private room came to lead the group up.
Previously, the overall decoration style of Yangjiayan was a bit similar to that of ancient restaurants, although many main buildings could not be made of wood, after all, that was not very strong and could not be built too high.
But the appearance treatment was made into a wooden structure, and some small corners could be made of wood, and basically solid wood was used, so it looked antique and very charming.
However, this looks very high-end, and sometimes it is not very popular with young people, so when Yangjiayan began to expand to the back.
The overall style was changed to the current luxurious style of decoration, which was somewhat mixed with some European and American decoration styles.
In short, if you want to eat in the ancient and fragrant Chinese historical charm, you can book the private room in the front restaurant. If you want to feel more in line with the current fashion style, you can book the newly expanded private room in the back.
Although the decoration style has changed, the dishes and tableware have not changed. There are only a lot of public chopsticks and independent tableware.
The tableware is still made of porcelain. The only son of Yang Jiayan designed and customized the tableware, and applied for patents and brand protection. You will never see the same tableware in other restaurants.
For this, Ran Feifei sued a porcelain factory that imitated the design of Yang Jiayan's tableware two years ago. She sued the porcelain factory and the restaurant that used these porcelains to try to get close to Yang Jiayan.
At that time, the entire catering industry was shocked for a while, because the restaurant that dared to do this had a capable person behind it, otherwise it would not dare to get close to Yang Jiayan.
As a result, not only did the restaurant close down, but it also lost a lot of money in the end. So those colleagues in the catering industry who originally had some ideas put away their little thoughts in an instant.
For the decoration style and tableware, if you can find a capable person, find a capable person to design it. If you can't find one, use the popular style and directly put the label of the restaurant on the tableware, which can be regarded as your own special tableware.
There is no need to produce the same one as Yang Jiayan, to provoke Mr. Ran's sharp knife that can definitely cut people.
The dishes were ordered before they came, because many state banquet dishes need to be made in advance. It is more convenient to order them in advance and eat them.
"Why is the porcelain covered with glass to prevent people from touching it?" Yang Dongxu wanted an ancient style box.
So after walking in, there were all kinds of carved railings, jade bricks, screens and porcelain. Among the porcelains on the shelf, there was a porcelain that was placed alone on a custom fixed booth and covered with a transparent glass cover.
"This porcelain is blue and white porcelain, authentic, and worth about 750,000. It is covered with glass because we are afraid that guests will accidentally touch it, and the other is that the cover is vacuum-sealed, which can better protect the porcelain."
The waiter in the box whispered beside him.
In fact, there is another reason that was not mentioned, that is, anti-theft.
The entire booth is specially made, not the wooden shelf next to it with stylish porcelain, and the glass is naturally bulletproof glass.
Even if you give me a big hammer and an hour, I may not be able to break this thing. What's more, there is a special alarm under the table.
When I first designed this, Ran Feifei also wanted to make the whole box look more stylish, so she invited a real master of Chinese studies to arrange the decoration and placement of objects.
The whole box did look very grand and stylish in the end, and I even felt like I was from a scholarly family. But I always felt that something was missing.
In the end, Yang Dongxu said that no matter how similar the appearance was, the things inside were fake, and fake things naturally couldn't be real.
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional.
So Ran Feifei waved her hand, and each box was equipped with a porcelain worth at least 500,000 yuan or other kinds of antiques according to the different decoration styles.
Such a domineering method instantly made the whole ancient style box full of style, and even many antique collectors ran to Yang Jiayan's box to see these antiques.
The price of porcelain such as blue and white porcelain has risen in the past two years. A few years ago, this vase was only worth 650,000 yuan, but now it has risen to 750,000 yuan, and there is still room for growth.
No matter what, you said that you spent one million yuan on the decoration of this box. I won’t tell you how much I spent on the decoration of my box. I will tell you that the porcelain on display in it is worth 750,000 yuan. Do you accept it?
Ran Feifei didn’t expect that she had gone to the box to get treasures before, originally just to improve the grade of the box alone. Who would have thought that this investment is now profitable, and a lot of money.
Every time this point is mentioned, Ran Feifei’s smile on her face will be a little stronger. As for this electronics, it was Yang Dongxu who brought it up with a word. Don’t be sorry, the decision of the wise leader must be made by Mr. Ran, what does it have to do with your big boss Yang Dongxu?
Du Weiwei couldn’t help sticking out her tongue. The decoration in the box felt very high-end as soon as she came in. Who would have thought that a bottle placed there was actually the same price as her own house. It’s not worth it, really not worth it.
After a few people sat down, they ate cold dishes first, that is, some cold dishes.
Of course, this cold dish cannot be served with a pile of dipping sauce, and then a plate of pig ears or pig liver.
These are all very delicate and high-end ingredients.
For example, the dragon beard noodles with soup, the noodles are hand-pulled and very thin, and they are the kind that are eaten dry and eaten with soup.
And this kind of dry noodles is not the instant fried crispy noodles, but very tough. It is eaten with a small pancake rolled up and bitten,
so it is very vulgar, and the taste is also a bit crispy. The soup is bird's nest soup, and the grade and feeling are different at once.
And the set meal is different from the banquet. The banquet is a whole dish, and then the guests at the table eat it together.
The set meal is made into small portions, a small portion, and everyone only eats their own portion.
Originally, Yang Dongxu was going to order a banquet, but the banquet was at least 20 dishes as the base, and the three girls didn't have a big appetite, so even if he could eat, he couldn't eat so much. There was no need to make anything special about this matter.
So it was simply changed to a set meal. It seems a bit trivial to divide it, but everyone can definitely eat enough, and it is not wasteful.
However, there are more waiters in the private room when dining. There are five.
Because when each dish came up, it was served on a tray by a waiter. They had four sets of meals for four adults, so naturally four waiters were needed to serve the dishes, and the remaining one was responsible for serving tea and water in the box.
"Is there steak in the state banquet?" Seeing that the first dish served was actually a piece of beef, Du Weiwei couldn't help asking again.
"The focus of state banquet dishes is not the dishes, of course the dishes are also important, but the focus is still on the word state banquet. What is a state banquet? It is the dishes that our country's leaders eat themselves or when they entertain foreign leaders.
And some of these dishes are traditional delicacies of our country, and some are delicacies made with the taste of foreigners. This doesn't look like a royal meal, all the dishes are domestic dishes at first glance.
And who stipulates that steak is the patent of foreigners? Our ancestors started eating beef a long time ago, and the way to cook beef is not just braised beef and spicy beef tendon, but also steak. It's just that the brand is not as good as Western food."
Before the waiter had time to introduce, Yang Dongxu spoke.
"I've known for a long time that China eats beef, but even if they make it and shoot it, it's not done this way, right?" Du Weiwei was a little unconvinced.
Although she had never eaten state banquet dishes before, was she bullied for not having eaten Western food? It was obviously a dish made with Western cooking techniques.
"This cooking method does use Western cooking techniques, and it is baked with cheese on the outside." Although Yang Dongxu felt that Greater China's cuisine was the best.
But he was not the kind of person who didn't accept that other countries' cuisine was good and sprayed it randomly. Whether it was a platter or the cooking method of the beef in front of him, he would not spray it for the sake of spraying and tell lies with his eyes open.
"This is indeed better. It tastes better than the Western steaks I've eaten, and the beef is very tender." Zhang Jing couldn't help but say after cutting a piece of beef and putting it in her mouth.
The second dish was Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, not the kind that came in a large can, but the kind that came in a small portion per person in a tableware that was about the same size as a clay pot soup.
Although the portion was small, it had everything it should have, so both the taste and the ingredients were very good. Zhang Jing and Du Weiwei kept nodding and saying it was delicious.
Before, the three women were sitting together and talking about losing weight. Bai Xi said that she had gained weight after giving birth and some clothes could not be worn. Du Weiwei and Zhang Jing also had a sense of crisis. Although they did not have children, they decided to keep their figures.
As a result, in front of delicious food, all weight loss plans were put aside.
The third dish was soft-shelled eel, also known as soft-shelled eel, which is a well-known dish in Huaiyang cuisine. The first hot dish at the first banquet of the founding of the country in 1949 was this dish, so it was called the first dish of the founding of the country.
In recent years, this dish has been served at many state banquets for foreign guests.
The state banquet chefs invited by the Yang family are all top-notch in the industry, so this dish really tastes delicious.
The fourth dish was Yangzhou lion head, one for each person. After eating, Yang Dongxu almost couldn't help but add another one. The taste was really good, and the soup was drunk clean.
The set meal has eight dishes per person, and each dish is not much, but after finishing the last dish, silken tofu, the three women are already full.
Yang Dongxu was also full, but he felt that something was missing, so he stuffed some fruit into his stomach and felt that he had eaten well.
Although it was not as refreshing as eating a banquet, one dish at a time. But this set meal can also fill you up, and the taste is not worse than the banquet, so you are very satisfied with this meal.
"How much is this set meal?"
People don't want to move after eating. Because the set meal was ordered in advance, Du Weiwei didn't look at the menu after arriving in the box.
At this time, while teasing Xiao Wenwu, she couldn't help but be curious and added more.
After all, the dishes are so delicious, and the service is also very thoughtful. The waiter also introduced the dishes in detail. Not only did she eat well, but she also learned knowledge. Du Weiwei decided to try Xiaozi herself next time when she has time.