Chapter 790: Disruption of Time and Space
Once you get the lottery tickets, you have to spend them quickly.
Because the lottery tickets issued by the Temple of Heaven are stamped with dates, they will become invalid if they are overdue.
Not to mention that the secretary has long been attracted by the palace cake gift box specially provided by Tan Palace Restaurant for Tiantan Park. It tastes delicious and is affordable.
After asking the prize redemption staff, I learned that there is a sales point for gift boxes in Beishen Kitchen, which is a high-end catering service area, and the daily sales quantity is limited.
Even though the fun of guessing riddles was not over, the secretary still led the deputy director and driver into Beishen Kitchen.
But as soon as the clinker entered, they almost couldn't get out.
What's going on?
Isn’t it because there is a “man-eating tiger” hidden inside.
In this place, the consumption is extremely high everywhere.
But the secrets and fun inside are actually more intriguing than the promenade outside.
The three people in this Temple of Earth were really dumbfounded as soon as they arrived. They lingered and found it difficult to leave.
In order to allow tourists to eat satisfactorily and have fun, Ganqing Ning Weimin made some temporary adjustments to the banquet venue and service items of Tan Palace Restaurant during the New Year Garden Party.
First of all, from a functional point of view, he made a big distinction between the main hall and the left and right side halls for different business projects.
The shrine in the main hall is operated by Dan Gong Restaurant itself, and sells palace dishes in the name of Dan Gong.
The right shrine in the right hall is operated by Maxim Restaurant, which sells French cuisine.
The Zuoshenku in the left hall is used as a temporary teahouse.
Secondly, Ning Weimin also put some special thought into the business content and models of these locations to satisfy customers.
Take the palace cuisine of Tan Gong Restaurant as an example. Although due to the protection of garden monuments, there are no freshly fried dishes here, only large pots soaked in hot water, and pre-prepared dishes are prepared in advance.
And for the sake of speed and convenience, guests cannot order whatever they want. They can only provide five set meals that are extremely expensive in the eyes of the people in the capital.
They are NT$40 for two people, NT$80 for four people, NT$120 for six people, NT$140 for eight people, and NT$160 for ten people.
But no one who has eaten here is dissatisfied, which completely goes against the rule of thumb.
Why?
Because the secret lies in the small portions and large plates of these set meals, the combination of meat and vegetables, and the rich taste.
Think about it, even the two-person set meal comes with four hot, two cold, one snack and one pot, let alone other multi-person set meals.
Sweet, sour, tender, spicy and salty, there is always one that suits you, it’s a matter of probability.
In particular, many of the raw materials are unique to Tan Palace and are not included in the recipes of other restaurants.
For example, there are meats such as venison, roe deer, pigeon, and quail.
There are abalone, fresh shrimps, fine-scaled fish, salmon and other fresh fish.
There are also wild products such as monkey legs, hazelnuts, and pine nuts, as well as asparagus, romaine lettuce, lettuce, celery, cucumbers, leeks, and chives cultivated in the Temple of Heaven greenhouse.
This makes the dishes in the set meal even more luxurious, value for money, and high-end.
It is particularly worth mentioning that all set meals also include a seasonal pot dish.
This is the most ingenious trick Ning Weimin learned from Kang Shude and Zhang Dashao.
You know, Yipin pot, Eight Immortals pot, fish head pot, rich pot, and assorted hot pot, these are all indispensable things that wealthy households in the capital would place in the middle of their banquets in winter.
Even the emperor, princes and ministers in the palace are like this.
Eating pot dishes in winter, no matter how delicious, long-lasting and warm they are.
The key is that pot dishes look rich in color and solemn in form, and can bring people a happy feeling of abundance in life.
What’s more, the production method is particularly convenient.
In fact, the taste of pot dishes does not depend on the ingredients, but depends entirely on a mouthful of broth.
The ingredients that are actually put in do not need to be expensive, nor do they need to be heated to the right level, just let them simmer over the charcoal fire.
To put it bluntly, in fact, as long as there is such a dish on the table, it is paired with a plate of fresh and crispy melons and vegetables, which are eaten cold, stir-fried and pickled.
No matter how picky the diners are, if they have cold hands and feet, dry lips and cracked lips after walking around in the cold wind, they will feel so comfortable and relaxed after eating these two things, they will feel like they are in a fairyland.
Who said that in this winter, most people only have a few vegetables to eat: cabbage, carrots, and potatoes?
Not smiling?
That’s impossible!
In addition, since Ning Weimin has the real power of the head of Pierre Cardin's operations department, he naturally has the power to govern Maxim's Restaurant.
So two good things became one good thing.
Maxim Restaurant can not only get close to the people in the capital, but also consolidate the reputation and reputation of the restaurant.
The catering service content of the Temple of Heaven New Year Garden Party has also been enriched, gaining another feature that is different from other temple fairs, further solidifying the name of this place as a "foreign temple fair".
However, considering the limited cooking conditions of Beishen Kitchen and the high cost of importing most of the ingredients and seasonings of French cuisine, Ning Weimin did not let Maxim Restaurant use an open fire here. According to the formal restaurant to operate.
Instead, a "buffet" format is adopted that charges 30 yuan per customer.
Most of the food on the dining table is cold food, and there are no expensive dishes at all.
The only things that are steaming are a few stews and a few hot soups, just to warm the stomach.
To be honest, Ning Weimin’s original intention of doing this was to lower Maxim’s figure as much as possible, to provide some convenience to foreign tourists, and to let the Chinese people have a taste of something new.
As expected, although it is opportunistic, this unprecedented move is indeed very attractive to the Chinese people.
Because few Chinese people have seen such a banquet where all the food is put together and you can choose what you want.
After all, French food has many cold dishes and exquisite pastries, many of which are things that Chinese people have never heard of or seen.
Not to mention anything else, there are more than a dozen kinds of salads and sauces, dozens of kinds of bread and pastries, and dozens of kinds of sausages, hams, and barbecues.
Not to mention the current lack of supplies in the Republic, real cream and real chocolate are usually not available.
How can Chinese people who come to the buffet resist the temptation of the luxurious chocolate fondue and real cream pastries?
In addition, the price is much cheaper than the usual price of 180 per person at Maxim Restaurant, making it particularly friendly to the people.
So even if these things are flashy, if you eat them, the stomachs of the Chinese people will be upset.
But visually it is particularly pleasing to the eyes of customers, giving them a sense of satisfaction that “doesn’t last forever, as long as I have it once”. As for the teahouse in Zuoshenku, it goes without saying that it is functional. It is nothing more than a place for customers to stop and drink tea.
On a cold day, how nice would it be to allow some customers who are tired from wandering in the yard to have a warm place to sit, rest, and drink tea to relieve their boredom?
It sounds simple, but in fact it is not.
Because this side hall can only seat more than a hundred people, the reception conditions are very limited.
The teahouse set up here is to serve high-end people, and the fees have to be increased, at least five yuan per person.
Those who can't afford it can only go to the free tea shed to drink tea. If they really want to come here and sit and drink, they will have to "blow up the temple".
If a room is full of people and messy, being comfortable is no longer comfortable.
At that time, Ning Weimin will still have to worry about whether the high-end furnishings here will be damaged.
But the opposite is also true. Foreigners are not familiar with teahouses in the capital, and they may not have this elegance.
As for people in the capital, there are not many wealthy people nowadays who are willing to spend five yuan on a cup of tea or a plate of melon seeds to crack.
If this makes the side hall deserted and no one comes, it will be a failure.
It's embarrassing or not, it's not a waste of such a good hardware condition.
Therefore, Ning Weimin had to do something fancy to make customers willing to pay for it.
After much thought, he decided on retro.
I plan to restore the old teahouse style as much as possible according to the movie "Teahouse".
Let people here appreciate the customs and customs of the past, in order to bring customers a full range of fresh experiences.
Of course, I definitely had to ask for the opinions of the "experts" at home. As a result, after further detailed discussions with Kang Shude, the management of the teahouse became completely clear.
According to the old man, there were several types of teahouses in Beijing in the past.
During the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there was a teahouse called the Big Teahouse, which specialized in eating bannermen's meals and for a group of bannermen to walk birds, play with songbugs, and fight crickets.
The place must be large enough to withstand the noise, and it must also provide a variety of oven-baked snacks, pastry snacks, simple stir-fries, and rotten meat noodles.
The Yutai Teahouse in Lao She's "Teahouse" is like this.
In addition, there is also the "Book Tea House" where storytelling is performed daily in the morning and evening.
This kind of teahouse does not sell tea when the book is opened. As mentioned in the book several times, you have to charge a book fee.
The "tea tavern" sells tea, wine, peanuts and flower beans.
The "Teahouse" is a place where businessmen from all walks of life gather to meet and work.
The "Wild Tea House" is a place where people can rest temporarily in a remote village.
There are also teahouses that are designed to serve special groups of customers, such as the chess teahouse with a chess game in the teahouse, and the martial arts teahouse that uses martial arts to make friends.
According to the old man's wishes, the teahouse in Beishen Kitchen actually functions as a "wild teahouse".
But according to the current conditions of Ning Weimin, who is in charge of the Tan Palace, there is no need to worry about the supply of tea and food, and it can be compared to the specifications of a large teahouse.
You can also introduce the features of Book Tea House and Chess Tea House to satisfy customers.
So, when the three local people walked into Beishen Kitchen, what did they see?
At the entrance to the main hall of the treasury, there are two women in palace attire with flag heads standing on both sides of the gate to greet them.
Whenever you meet a guest and talk, you have to give a Wanfu gift first, just like acting in a movie.
Still inside, in the brightly lit glass windows, waiters in Republican-style robes and coats are carrying plates and hot pots to serve guests.
At the entrance to the side hall on the right, a doorman wearing a big-brimmed hat, a red coat, and a Western-style concierge uniform is greeting guests.
Inside the glass window is a dazzling array of food, like a buffet in a gourmet paradise.
The staff are all dressed in ceremonial tuxedos and are busy serving the guests.
At the entrance of the side hall on the left, a waiter wearing a cotton robe and a coat is enthusiastically inviting tea guests to come in and rest.
The Eight Immortals table inside is full of tea drinkers holding tea bowls in their hands.
The waiters, shopkeepers, and accountants are all in ancient costumes.
It has indeed restored the scene of Yutai Tea House in the movie a lot.
Even the entrances to these three halls are not empty.
In the greenhouse at the entrance to the shrine, a woman in royal attire sells gift boxes of Dangong cakes.
In the greenhouse at the entrance of the Divine Chef on the right, a chef in white sells Maxim's baguettes, French puffs, and puffs.
There is an open-air stall at the door of Zuo Shenchu, under the guise of "Tea Soup Plum", and a large copper pot with a dragon mouth shining golden light attracting everyone's attention. Dozens of tea ingredients and tea fruits are all attractively displayed on the stall.
Li Lianzhong, the third generation descendant of the well-known "Cha Tang Li" in the south of the capital, personally operates the big copper pot.
Whatever customers ask for is served to them. Every time they bend down to make tea or move the big copper pot, their vigorous posture attracts tourists to take photos.
How could this situation not make people yearn for it?
Especially because the drum book was still open in the teahouse, and soon the courtyard was filled with the singing of "Returning the Boat after Storm" from Jingyun Dagu.
"After passing through the mountains and forests, the wind is howling, the cold is whistling, and the heavy rain is coming. Looking at the river sky, there are lightning and thunder, and the wind and thunder are sudden. After catching the golden scale, the fisherman swings the oar and returns to the boat... …”
That’s it, sanxianer, drum book, teahouse, palace costumes, coats, Chinese ancient buildings, Chinese and Western cakes, Chinese and Western food...
And the laughter and bustle in the yard, The endless flow of tourists gather together to form a vivid and wonderful picture, but time and space are messed up.
It really gives people an illusion, as if they have crossed a time and space tunnel and traveled through countless decades or hundreds of years.
That would be so fun!
The three people in the Ditan did not expect that there would be so many people here. They were almost fascinated. They didn't know where to look when they walked into the yard.
Especially the secretary, after reading for a long time, he actually said such a sentence.
"Everyone knows that there is a Grand View Garden in "A Dream of Red Mansions", but in my opinion, today's Temple of Heaven Park is the Grand View Garden..."
(End of this chapter)