Chapter 984: Full harvest
This trip to the tavern was not in vain, Ning Weimin definitely gained a lot.
To be honest, he was greatly inspired by the operating conditions of the wine tank and the suggestions given by Zhang Dashao.
After returning home that day, Ning Weimin felt something else in his heart.
Even several days have passed, and he is still digesting what he saw and learned this day.
First of all, he thought this unique tavern in the capital was so interesting.
Actually, he and Zhang Dashao hadn't been drinking for long, and they had just finished a glass of wine.
Customers are almost here.
Three or four elderly people came in together, and they all had the same accent.
"Shopkeeper, Mao San, here comes one. And some black bean curd."
"Shopkeeper, Mao Qi, come here. A plate of fried peanuts."
The wine in the big wine vat is "one", one is a cup, and a cup is one tael.
Mao San and Mao Qi are types of shochu.
Bulk Erguotou is called "Mao San" for 1.31 taels, and "Mao 7" for 1.71 taels.
Then, before half past eleven, the whole pub was full, almost all of them were drinkers like this.
Not to mention the six large wine tanks in the middle, even the Eight Immortals tables on the walls around the tavern were full.
It’s really noon, well, there’s no place to even think about sharing a table.
And until one o'clock in the afternoon, there are always people lining up in front of the store.
Why is it so lively?
Why is this big wine vat so popular with customers?
No one needs to tell Ning Weimin, he can understand it with his own eyes.
The most important reason is that this small store is very cost-effective.
It not only satisfies your cravings, but also satisfies your appetite, and it’s delicious and inexpensive, so who wouldn’t come?
Don’t forget, Zhang Dashao’s side dishes are delicacies that can make people drool, they are something that makes people ecstasy.
Furthermore, Kang Shude sells wine without watering it down, and the price is sufficient. Drinkers also care about this.
In addition, the chef's authentic Shanxi sliced noodles on the stove are also available, as well as the Beijing Rotten Pork Noodles that can no longer be eaten elsewhere.
A total of fifty or sixty cents can make a person well-fed and satisfied. Where can I find a place in Beijing?
Not to mention the atmosphere here is great.
This is not a place to watch people order their dishes. The poor can afford it, but the rich can afford it.
And unlike restaurants where everyone eats dumbly and the guests at each table do not interact with each other, in this tavern, the guests at each table can chat together.
Because the drinkers who come here are basically the people who live nearby.
We are already familiar with each other, and with the wine glass at this end, there is no room for disrespect.
As I took a sip of wine, I saw the mountains south and the sea, the sky and the earth, the clouds and mountains shrouded in mist, all talking like gods.
While everyone was laughing and joking, in a trance, drunk and heart-warming.
All worries and worries, grudges and grudges were washed away by the wine.
In particular, Kang Shude was an eloquent shopkeeper. He would always joke with the guests from time to time, and there was constant laughter in the tavern.
For example, when I meet such an old guest, I sit down and ask for something from the cabinet.
"Shopkeeper, please give me a hair and a bowl of noodles."
Kang Shude may greet the chef in a special way.
"Master Zhang, let's have a bowl of ox-headed horse."
Then he poured the wine for the waiter and asked Fang Bin to serve it. He might even stand behind the counter and joke with the guests.
"This, your 678 is here."
This is called "borrowing words to point at the end".
The first sentence hides "face", and the second sentence hides "nine".
If the guest is knowledgeable, he will smile knowingly.
Sometimes, there will even be guests who are interested and deliberately make a joke.
“Boss, if we have money, we don’t want to buy a drag strip.”
Kang Shude will answer more humorously.
"Our business is honest, don't worry. We will not mix metal, wood, fire and earth."
This will cause more laughter.
Also, when customers check out, Kang Shude always deliberately says "money" for everything below fifty cents, and "payment" for anything above fifty cents.
In this way, he sings the same account but uses different words. As time goes by and the number of times increases, others will discover the "jokes" he hides.
Some people want to ask because they are curious.
"Hey, you are interesting. If the money is small, you say 'pay', and if the money is large, you say 'pay'. Are you treating them differently here?"
Kang Shu De immediately raised his thumb after hearing this.
"You have good ears, but don't get me wrong. The key is that I'm afraid that you guys will be bored. In fact, handing over money is not the same thing. The important thing is to treat everyone equally, so that you can drink happily and chat with satisfaction. That’s it. Is it you?”
What is this called?
This is called knowing how to do business.
So the guests who come here just want to have a shopkeeper who is eloquent and knows how to liven up the atmosphere. When they stay in this big wine tank, they can feel relaxed and unrestrained.
Although there is no changing of glasses or giving orders, the drinkers can enjoy themselves for more than half a day just by chatting with each other.
The wine in everyone's cup is like an elf, making all the men who come to this big wine vat to make love with it become free and living gods.
What a peaceful and undisciplined state of mind.
Ning Weimin couldn't help but feel a little moved, and couldn't help but think like this.
It is also a public consumption place for ordinary people, but thirty years later, most people are only familiar with bars introduced from Western society, and few of us still know the local pubs that were popular in the past.
To be honest, if we exclude the admiration for foreign countries and look for factors that stimulate the pursuit of girls and petty bourgeoisie.
Simply speaking from the perspective of drinking and chatting, the big wine tanks in Beijing are probably more interesting, healthier, more conducive to socializing and relaxing, and more humane than Western-style bars.
But the most rare thing is that this big wine vat does not treat customers like leeks, and it does not try to raise prices all day long to make customers pay IQ tax.
On the contrary, he is willing to make profits for customers and make some deals that do not seem to be so cost-effective.
Therefore, it shows sincerity and can accumulate favors.
As long as this original intention remains unchanged, it will always be the first choice of nearby residents.
This is simply the domestic Salia.
No, this is even better than Salia.
Because the big wine tanks in Beijing can provide customers with more than just affordable food.
There are also spiritual enjoyments of entertainment, culture, communication and human relations.
Do you think it’s awesome or not?
I'm afraid everyone has to admit that a business can only be considered complete if this is achieved.
Those who start a business can make money, not to mention paying taxes legally, but they can also earn favors and reputation.
It can bring a sense of happiness to customers and is beneficial to the stability and harmony of society.
So compare the memory of Beijing, where the streets are full of chain fast food restaurants, with the capital of the previous life, where even buying a waiter cost six yuan.
Ning Weimin sincerely hopes that there will be more large wine vats selling loose wine in the capital in this life.
He also truly felt that this deal was actually worth doing.
Although the rising rents in the future will be a huge pressure that such a business cannot bear.
Kang Shude also told him today.
In the past, there were snack vendors selling snacks outside the doors of the big wine tanks in Beijing.
Often such a small shop can recruit those who sell baked sweet potatoes, steamed buns, wontons, canned mutton, and sesame cakes, and can feed a large number of people.
This means that if you really understand the meaning of this big wine vat, you must firmly grasp the traffic password.
Is it still difficult for him to monetize traffic in the future?
Everyone who has experienced the Internet era knows that the rest is nothing more than a trick of "the wool comes out of the dog's body". In short, it was precisely because of this trip to the big wine vat that Ning Weimin suddenly understood that it was not difficult at all to make a commercial district or tourist area prosperous.
If he were allowed to live again now and make suggestions for the Temple of Heaven Park again.
He will definitely use smarter, easier and easier ways to increase the number of tourists in the Temple of Heaven and provide revenue for the park.
I simply won’t put so much thought into it and come up with so many new and original ideas for the Temple of Heaven.
Now it seems that what he did in the past was really stupid.
As for the suggestions given by Zhang Dashao, Ning Weimin also felt like he had found a treasure and deeply believed in them.
The day after the call back, Ning Weimin came to Tan Gong Restaurant and summoned Jiang Dachun and Xiao Cha to experiment.
Unsurprisingly, celebrity chefs are celebrity chefs.
They tried the recipe and method given by Zhang Dashao, and it turned out to be very effective.
Among other things, the scallop stock and dried kelp stock made using this juice extraction method are amazing.
Use it below to cook wontons, which will greatly improve the taste.
Not only did the chefs who tried it say it was good, but Ning Weimin also immediately tasted the taste of Japanese seafood ramen.
He was surprised to realize that maybe this was the biggest secret of Japanese ramen.
So he directly ordered to apply this method to the snack bar downstairs.
Unexpectedly, the market responded that day.
Assorted noodle soup and small wontons have actually become items that can be sold out.
Many customers who came to the dim sum shop at noon to order these two items added more after eating.
Not only did it leave a lot of compliments, but many people even came back in the evening just after eating at noon.
It's a pity that these patrons were unable to do so, because the food they wanted to eat was sold out before four o'clock in the afternoon, and they had to wait until tomorrow.
The vegetarian shark fin and the bionic bear paws made of pig trotters are also amazing.
Don't look at the vegetarian shark's fin, it's just a fake thing made with vermicelli, chicken breast puree, pork belly, shrimp, eggs, mixed with water chestnut powder, rice wine and rock sugar.
But if you use the method of roasting shark's fin and dip it in stock, the taste and texture will be the same as the real thing.
Anyway, when Ning Weimin became the general manager of Tan Palace, he ate shark fins all the time. Even his tongue couldn't tell the difference.
Who can say this is not craftsmanship?
But compared to the vegetarian shark fin, what is even more amazing is the production of the bear paws.
Because it is pig's trotters, there is no need to soak them in lime water, nor to use rice water to remove the smell, nor to remove the bear hair one by one.
It must be said that the environmental protection of processing raw materials is a big deal.
But conversely, it is not easy to dismantle pig trotters.
It has to be arranged into the shape of a bear's paw from the bones and mechanism, which is very laborious.
Thankfully, Jiang Dachun and Xiao Cha were from Beihai Fangshan. They are best at composing characters for knife skills, so they are suitable for this job.
Otherwise, if it were someone else, maybe they would be more willing to pluck out the hair on the bear’s paw one by one.
It is not easy to clean up, and it is also difficult to stew. The difficulty is that it takes time.
The last thing you need to do when making bear paws is to apply honey on them and simmer for an hour, even if they are fake bear paws.
Then wash off the honey, put the pig's trotters into shape in the casserole, and put the ingredients in one go.
Wait until the casserole is completely sealed with wet flour, then simmer over low heat.
Then just wait patiently. When all the soup in the casserole is gone, when will the dish be considered finished?
But to be honest, it tastes really good.
If you think about it, you will know that the ingredients penetrate into the meat little by little in the sealed space, without losing any flavor or water.
The last moment I put away the soup, all the flavor was absorbed.
When I opened it, I saw that although it was just pig's trotters, the fat was tender and slightly trembling, and it was as beautiful as nephrite.
The taste is not comparable to ordinary pork trotters, but more like the best fish lips.
Especially the small strips of muscle in the pig's trotters, which are particularly soft, tender and delicious.
Anyway, let's put it this way, even if it is not bear paws, based on this laborious method, this dish can be called the taste of pig's trotters ceiling.
Then it should be sold at the bear's paw price. It's not a shame at all.
But then again, no matter how good these two ideas are, they are not as good as the last idea given by Zhang Dashao.
Ning Weimin was really tempted by the rouge rice "Purple Gold Hoop" that Zhang Dashao told him.
Although he was still not sure whether the rouge rice was of the high quality described by Zhang Dashao, he was still full of unlimited expectations and planned to use all his connections and abilities to find it.
Because no one knows better than him how convenient special top-quality ingredients are for collecting IQ taxes.
Just like Lafite, Maotai, caviar, white truffle, blue lobster, French salt flower, bluefin tuna, which one does not make the rich willingly give their banknotes.
To put it bluntly, do rich people only have food to eat?
No, they eat for status, curiosity, and because things are rare and valuable.
Especially in the Western food industry, the reason is that China does not have top-quality ingredients, thinking that Chinese food should therefore be cheap and not available in restaurants.
Therefore, Ning Weimin has more motivation to win glory for the country.
We must find this kind of rice and try our best to protect it and use it to deceive foreigners.
To this end, the direct action he took was to contact the Agricultural University in the name of Tan Gong Restaurant to inquire about the details of rouge rice from industry experts.
You don’t know if you don’t ask, but it makes him even more excited when you ask.
Because the Agricultural University does have relatively detailed information. After the introduction by the professor of the Agricultural University, it is clear that the origin of this rouge rice is very special.
The full name of Ganqing rouge rice is "Yutian rouge rice". It is an extremely precious crop originating from Fengnan County, HEB Province.
Once served as "tribute rice" to the Qing court.
Emperor Kangxi also personally planted and cultivated it, and recorded it in his personal notes "Jixia Gewu Pian", saying that this kind of rice is red in color, has long grains, and has a fragrant taste. It is different from ordinary red rice, so it is named It is "Royal Rice".
After several attempts, it was finally successfully transplanted to the west of Beijing, and it became known as the west of Beijing rice.
After Kangxi cultivated imperial rice, he also advocated its promotion in the south in addition to the north.
In the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi's reign, Cao Xueqin's father, Cao Fu, received a bushel of imperial rice seeds from his maternal uncle, Li Xu, and began to promote it in Jiangning (Nanjing) and also plant it in his own fields.
Cao Xueqin may have eaten this kind of rice when he was a boy, and later wrote it into "A Dream of Red Mansions".
After Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River and brought rice back to Beijing, the rouge rice in the south became the "purple gold hoop".
Planted on the bank of Kunming Lake, it is irrigated by Yuquan water, which is known as "the best spring in the world".
Because it is difficult to cultivate, has a small yield, and requires a large amount of high-quality water for irrigation, it has almost become extinct in modern times.
Later, thanks to our great leader's reading of The Red Mansion, I saw in Chapter 53 that Zhuangtou Wujin of Jia's house was filial to pay the rent. He often used rice with more than a thousand stones, but the "Romance Rice" specially for Jia's mother only had only "Two Stones" thus attracted attention.
He asked the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate the situation of "Oden Rouge Rice" and proposed that the grain department purchase a portion of "Oden Rouge Rice" for the central government to entertain international friends.
In this way, rouge rice has been protected to a certain extent and its cultivation has been expanded to a certain extent.
But it is a pity that for a few years, the rations have been tight, so this low-yield high-end rice has once again been neglected. The country stopped purchasing it and did not care about its protection.
Although western Beijing is a rice-producing area, since the 1960s, only high-yielding rice has been grown.
It's really hard to find these days. I'm afraid only local farmers still have some rice seeds left.
If you really want to find it, it may be the best possibility to visit around Liulangzhuang.
Facing this situation and hearing such an introduction, Ning Weimin was disappointed but not discouraged. Instead, he was more certain of the professional capabilities of Agricultural University.
So he didn’t beat around the bush, and simply asked the Agricultural University for help to find this kind of rice and cultivate a batch of it.
He said that if it succeeds, he will not only bear all the expenses, but also pay a high price to buy it.
You can also additionally fund scientific research projects at agricultural universities, or donate a car to the school.
Think about it, in this day and age, can the school remain unmoved when faced with such a gift?
So Ning Weimin finally transferred the matter to the Agricultural University.
The other party promised him that he would use the grain department to check out the situation near west Beijing. If he could find rice seeds, he would find a way to meet his request.
Let it be a trial business cooperation between Tan Gong Restaurant and Agricultural University.
(End of this chapter)