Chapter 460 New Weather
In a blink of an eye, it’s the end of the year.
The winter in Peiping is much colder than that in City A and City Z. The heating has been turned on early, and the house is warm as spring, while the wind is freezing outside. Such a strong contrast makes the journey to work even more difficult.
The down jacket that accompanied Jiang Feng through the long winter in the past two years was no longer enough. Comrade Wang Xiulian spent a lot of money to buy Jiang Feng a Valentino down jacket of the same style as the old man, although Jiang Feng was interested in Versace next door.
Since the beginning of winter, Jiang Feng would feel jealous every night when he saw 996 wearing a Versace down jacket on his way home. 996 also often wondered why Jiang Feng wore a Valentino down jacket of a style that was so inconsistent with his age.
The two often looked at each other on the road and guessed each other's occupation.
Ji Xia’s fried noodles with soybean paste and Zhou Shi’s cold sea cucumber were officially added to Tai Feng Lou’s menu in November. Since Jixia’s fried noodles with soybean paste were only C grade when he made them alone, they were used as orange noodles together with Jiang Feng’s crab-stuffed orange noodles. Packages are sold in combination.
Crab-stuffed orange costs 188 yuan when purchased individually, and a combo set costs 388 yuan per serving. Anyone who has studied mathematics will find through simple calculation that a bowl of noodles is worth 200 oceans.
Babao Zhai’s fried bean paste noodles only cost 88 yuan a bowl.
Such a high price made some people who were brave enough to take advantage of it initially hesitate.
But everyone soon discovered that the crab-stuffed oranges in the combo meal were much more delicious than the crab-stuffed oranges sold separately. The taste was simply not the same order of magnitude.
Those who can frequent Tai Feng Restaurant are those who are not short of money. They only visit once or twice occasionally. If you do some research and do some research, you will find that the signature dishes in Tai Feng Restaurant are basically limited edition dishes and pre-ordered dishes. It is precisely for this reason that after the first few days of poor sales, the orange noodle set meal began to become as hard to grab as the caramelized yam. It became another signature dish of Tai Feng Restaurant and it is seasonal.
Ji Xia also gained a lot of money because of this. The stove cooks got bonuses for cooking. Although Ji Xia didn't have a basic salary, he still got bonuses.
Ji Xia asked Jiang Feng to save all her bonuses these days and give them to her during the holidays before the end of the year. Judging from her demeanor, she probably wanted to buy something before the holidays to take back. Jiang Feng didn't ask directly, but he could probably guess what Ji Xia wanted to buy, which was nothing more than food and clothes.
The game entered the update state again in mid-November. This time the update speed was unprecedentedly slow. The progress bar had been maintained at 0% for the first three days, which made Jiang Feng wonder whether the game manufacturer had gone bankrupt and the boss behind it was. They all ran away, so the server was shut down and updates were stagnant.
It's now the end of December and tomorrow is New Year's Day, and the progress bar is only 27% off. It looks like it's going to be updated forever.
In the past two months, Jiang Feng has been practicing making noodles, Su's moon cakes and sea cucumber dishes.
Since I have been practicing Bai An, my knife skills have not been improved much, so the seasoning and heat are all greatly increased.
Originally, he planned to practice baking lobster in soup, but after trying it once, he only made a D-level one and then gave up, losing a good flower lobster in vain.
Jiang Feng has not had much contact with seafood and is not good at handling seafood. It is unrealistic to challenge such a difficult Cantonese cuisine all at once.
Instead of learning how to make baked lobster in soup from scratch, it is better to practice stretching noodles and see if you can make a qualified fried noodles. It doesn’t need to be A-level or B-level. The buffs of fried noodles and crab-stuffed oranges are added. It will make Zhajangmyeon rise to A level by itself.
Of course, these are all small things, and it is also a small matter that Jiang Shoucheng successfully lost weight to less than 200 pounds but still failed to find the girl he loved, and did not go to Jiang Feng to learn how to make noodles. Jiang Shoucheng not only failed to learn how to make noodles, but even their department dinner was cancelled.
Originally it was just postponed because there were always people who had to work overtime for various reasons and the dinner could not go smoothly. It was postponed until mid-November before a time was set when no one would have to work overtime.
As a result, there was a series of car accidents near Renyi on the day of the dinner, and the entire emergency department was sent out to rescue them. After a busy day, dinner was sent by Jiang Feng. Jiang Feng sent all the noodles and Su's mooncakes he made, along with the love fried rice made by Comrade Jiang Jiankang.
The meals were delivered not only to the doctors in the emergency room, but also to the fire officers and soldiers responsible for the rescue. After a whole day of exhaustion, everyone was crying with hunger. Jiang Feng took this opportunity to gain a lot of experience points.
This is why the game has been upgraded.
If Jiang Feng was given another choice, he would definitely choose to let Comrade Jiang Jiankang finish frying the fried rice for everyone.
But these things are insignificant compared to the release of "Zhiwei" magazine.
Yes, Mr. Xu Cheng, a well-known gourmet in the gourmet industry, is good at everything and has dropped additional issues. Just when everyone thought he was going to drop all the originally planned annual magazines, "Zhiwei" magazine finally announced the release date.
January 1st.
New Year.
Xu Cheng eventually dropped the magazine from the previous year.
But this is not important, because the cover of the online version of the magazine released by "Zhiwei" magazine clearly shows a close-up picture of Tai Feng House, and the signboard of Tai Feng House is clearly visible. Although only the cover of the Asian edition was like this, and the covers of other editions of the magazine were not Tai Feng Lou, it was enough to make Jiang Feng ecstatic.
Xu Guo did not disappoint him. As expected, he did not have the time or energy to conceive of a brand new magazine cover.
Tai Fung Tower is about to be released.
Ever since Zhiwei magazine announced the cover of the magazine at the end of December, there has been a long queue at the entrance of Tai Feng Building. In the past, this treatment was only available during National Day, but now even from Monday to Friday, the entrance of Tai Feng Building is overcrowded. It is no different from those internet celebrity stores.
After all, "Zhiwei" is the real trend vane in the food circle, and it is much more reliable than those so-called internet celebrity check-ins. There are still many people who have collected the past issues of "Zhiwei" in their homes. Whenever they travel to a city, they start to read "Zhiwei" to see which restaurants they should go to.
It has been several years since "Zhiwei" has directly put a photo of a restaurant on the cover. The restaurants that have appeared on the cover of "Zhiwei" are all restaurants with excellent reputations that make countless old-timers flock to them.
Tai Feng Lou instantly became famous in the industry.
Originally, the reputation of Tai Feng Restaurant was limited to Peiping and its surrounding areas. After all, vegetables are not like other commodities. You have to eat the food to know what it tastes like. When people say which restaurant is famous, they are talking about the famous restaurants in that place, not the famous restaurants across the country.
To this day, many gourmets in the country have not been able to select the number one restaurant in the country that can convince restaurants all over the country. Each region has its own tastes and preferences, and no one is convinced.
Not to mention that Peiping is still not fighting for the first place, and the battle of four emperors has turned into a battle of five emperors because of the airborne landing of Tai Feng Tower.
Many people at home and abroad buy several editions of "Zhiwei" magazine together, not to mention that this exclusive interview about Tai Feng House was written by Xu Cheng himself and will be included in every edition.
Many gourmets are not short of money themselves. They read magazines as recipes and eat whatever is on them. They are more fanatical than starstruck fans.
Comrade Wang Xiulian, a business genius, started to calculate how much she should increase the price of vegetables on the spot. Jiang Feng persuaded her in time. The price increase just after they became famous is too ugly for capitalists. They can wait until after the New Year before raising the price.
How normal is it to increase prices after the new year? Jiang Feng believes that new and old diners at Tai Feng House can understand the new prices in the new year.
New Year's Day is actually not that long after the New Year. This year, the New Year is celebrated early, and mid-January is the off-year. The Jiang family's tradition has always been that the New Year is the New Year. Since there is no need to work during the New Year, everyone should happily close the shop and go home to celebrate the New Year and wait to eat the dishes cooked by the old man.
This year is the same. No matter how good Tai Feng House’s business is and how high the New Year’s Eve dinner profits are, Tai Feng House will not do New Year’s Eve dinner business. Nothing in this world is more intoxicating than going home during the New Year and eating the food cooked by the old man for more than ten days. and feel happy.
Let’s not talk about the future for now. Now everyone in the cooking circle and those who follow "Zhiwei" are waiting for the thickened version to be released on January 1st. Whether they are diners of Tai Fung House or not, everyone wants to see it. What does a restaurant that can appear on the cover of Zhiwei magazine look like, and what does Xu Cheng think of him?
The outside world is extremely concerned about the "Zhiwei" magazine released on January 1, but the employees in the back kitchen of Tai Feng House are not interested in this matter.
Everyone is making a common suggestion with Jiang Feng, Jiang Jiankang and the two old men.
Please, please hire two more chefs for the kitchen!
996 is really unbearable.
No matter how high the overtime pay is, I can't bear it. It may be okay for such a high-intensity workload to last for ten days and a half. If it really lasts for six months and a year, everyone may have to make money but spend their lives.
Jiang Feng and Jiang Jiankang actively accepted everyone's opinions, mainly because they were a little too tired to stand it. The recruitment of chefs has been making great progress during this period, and many chefs have applied for relevant positions.
With the new year and new atmosphere, after discussion, we decided to conduct the second recruitment for Tai Fung House’s back chef at Fenyuan at 3 pm on January 1st.
It’s time for some new people to join the kitchen at Tai Fung House. (End of chapter)