National Tide 1980.

Chapter 790 Time and Space Disorder
Once you get a ticket, you have to spend it quickly.

Because the lottery tickets issued by the Temple of Heaven are dated, they will become invalid after the expiration date.

What's more, the secretary has long been attracted to the reputation, and the palace cake gift box specially provided by the Temple of Heaven Restaurant by the Altar Palace Restaurant is delicious and affordable.

So after asking the prize redemption staff, I learned that there is a gift box sales point in Beishen Kitchen, which is a high-end catering service area, and the daily sales are limited.

Even though the fun of guessing the riddle was not over, the secretary still brought the deputy director and the driver into Beishenchu.

But once the clinker went in, they almost couldn't get out.

what happened?

Isn't it because there is a "man-eating tiger" hidden in it.

In this place, the consumption is very high everywhere.

But the ways and fun inside are even more intriguing than the promenade outside.

It really makes the three people in this earth altar look dumbfounded when they come, and it is hard to leave.

Ganqing Ning Weimin made some temporary adjustments to the banquet venue and service items of Tangong Restaurant during the Chinese New Year Garden Party in order to make tourists eat satisfactorily and have fun.

First of all, in terms of function, he made a big distinction between the main hall and the left and right side halls.

The shrine in the main hall is operated by Tangong Restaurant itself, and it manages palace dishes in the name of Tangong.

The right shrine in the right hall is handed over to Maxim Restaurant to operate French cuisine.

The Zuo Shenku in the left hall is used as a temporary teahouse.

Secondly, Ning Weimin also put some special thought into the business content and mode of these places to satisfy customers.

Take the palace dishes of Tangong Restaurant as an example. Although out of the protection of the gardens and historic sites, there are no freshly fried dishes here. There are only big pots soaked in hot water, and prepared dishes are prepared in advance.

And for the sake of speed and convenience, customers can't order dishes at will, and can only provide five set meals that are extremely expensive in the eyes of the people in the capital.

分别是二人40元、四人80元、六人120元、八人140元、十人160元。

However, the guests who have eaten here are not dissatisfied, which completely violates the law of difficulty.

why?
Because the secret lies in the small amount of these set meals, the combination of meat and vegetables, and the rich taste.

Think about it, even the two-person set meal has four hot, two cold, one dim sum, and one pot, regardless of other multi-person set meals.

Sweet, sour, tender, spicy, salty, there is always one that suits you, it is a matter of probability.

In particular, many raw materials are unique to Tangong, and other restaurants do not include things in the recipes.

For example, there are meats such as venison, roe meat, pigeon, and quail.

There are fresh fish such as abalone, fresh shrimp, squid, and salmon.

There are also mountain products such as monkey legs, hazelnuts, and pine nuts, as well as asparagus, romaine lettuce, lettuce, celery, cucumbers, leeks, and shallots cultivated in the greenhouse of the Temple of Heaven.

It makes the dishes of the set meal look extraordinarily rich, value for money, and high-end atmosphere.

It is especially worth mentioning that all the packages also include a seasonal pot dish.

This is the most flattering trick Ning Weimin has learned from Kang Shude and Zhang Dashao.

You know, Yipin pot, Eight Immortals pot, Fish head pot, Fugui pot, and assorted hot pot are all indispensable things that rich households in the capital put in the middle of the banquet in winter in the past.

Even the emperor and princes and ministers in the palace are the same.

Eating pot dishes in winter, no matter how delicious, long-lasting and warm.

The key is that pot dishes look rich in color and solemn in form, which can bring people a happy feeling of abundance in life.

What's more, the method of making it is very convenient.

In fact, whether the pot dishes are delicious or not depends not on the ingredients, but on a mouthful of broth.

The ingredients that are actually put in don’t need to be expensive, and they don’t need to be cooked properly, just let them simmer over charcoal fire.

To put it bluntly, in fact, as long as there is such a dish on the table, it should be served with a plate of fresh crispy and tender melon and vegetable salad, marinated and eaten.

Even the diners with the most savage taste will feel comfortable all over after eating these two things, as if they are in a fairyland.

Who made it so that in the winter of this year, most people only eat vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, carrots, and potatoes?

Don't smile?

It is impossible to drop!

In addition, since Ning Weimin has the real power of the head of the Pilkardton Operations Department, he naturally has the power to govern Maxim's Restaurant.

So two good things made one good.

Maxim's restaurant can take this opportunity to get close to the people in the capital and stabilize the restaurant's reputation and reputation.

The catering service content of the Spring Festival Garden Fair at the Temple of Heaven has also been enriched, and it has gained another feature that is different from other temple fairs, further confirming the name of "foreign temple fairs" here.

However, considering the limited cooking conditions of Beishenchu, and the high cost of importing most of the ingredients and seasonings of French cuisine, Ning Weimin did not allow Maxim's restaurant to open fire here, operating as a formal restaurant.

Instead, it adopts the "buffet" form that charges 30 yuan per customer.

Most of the food provided on the dining table is cold food, and there are no expensive dishes.

There are only a few stewed dishes and a few hot soups that are steaming, just for warming the stomach.

To be honest, Ning Weimin's original intention of doing this was to reduce Maxim's figure as much as possible, to provide some convenience for foreign tourists, so that Chinese people can taste something new.

Sure enough, although opportunistic, this kind of pioneering move is really attractive to the people of the country.

Because few people in China have seen such a banquet where all the food is put together and you can choose it yourself.

After all, there are a lot of French food and cold food, and the pastries are exquisite, 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 types of salads and sauces, dozens of types of bread and pastries, and dozens of types of sausages, hams, and barbecues.

Not to mention the current shortage of supplies in the republic, real cream and real chocolate are not available on weekdays.

Chinese people who come to eat buffet, facing the luxury of chocolate fondue and real creamy pastries, how can they resist such a temptation?
In addition, this price is much cheaper than the usual price of [-] yuan per person in Maxim's restaurant, which is very close to the people.

So even if these things are flashy, if you eat them, the stomachs of Chinese people will probably make a fuss.

But from the visual point of view, it is particularly pleasing to the eyes of customers, and creates a sense of satisfaction of "don't last forever, as long as you once had it".

As for the teahouse in Zuo Shenku, it goes without saying that it is functional, it is nothing more than a place for customers to rest their feet and drink tea.

How nice is it for some customers who are tired from wandering in the yard to have a warm place to sit and rest and drink tea to relieve boredom in the cold weather?

It may sound simple, but it is not.

Because this side hall can seat more than 100 people, the reception conditions are very limited.

The teahouses set up here are for high-end people, and the fee has to go up, at least five yuan per person.

People who can't afford it can only go to the free tea shed to drink tea. If they really want to sit here and drink tea, they have to "bomb the temple".

If a room is full of people and it is in a mess, freedom will not be freedom.

At that time, Ning Weimin still has to worry about whether the high-end furnishings here will be damaged.

But the reverse is also true. Foreigners are not familiar with the teahouses in the capital, so they may not have such a taste.

As for the people in the capital, nowadays there are not many wealthy masters who are willing to spend five yuan to buy a cup of clear tea and a plate of melon seeds.

If this makes the side hall deserted and no one comes, it will also be a failure.

It's not shameful to say that it's shameful, you can't waste such a good hardware condition in vain.

Therefore, Ning Weimin had to do some tricks to make customers willing to pay the money.

After much deliberation, he decided on retro.

I plan to restore the old style of the old teahouse as much as possible according to the appearance of the movie "Teahouse".

Let people here, can appreciate the customs and customs of the old days, in order to bring customers a full range of fresh experience.

Of course, I must ask the opinions of the "experts" at home. As a result, I talked with Kang Shude in detail, and the operation of the teahouse became completely clear.

According to the old man, there were several kinds of teahouses in Beijing in the past.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there was a teahouse called a big teahouse, which was dedicated to eating banner people's meals and for a group of banner uncles to walk birds, play with songbirds and fight crickets.

It must have a large place, which can withstand the noise, and it must provide a variety of baked snacks, pasta snacks, as well as simple stir-fried vegetables and rotten meat noodles.

The Yutai Teahouse in Lao She's "Teahouse" is just like this.

In addition, there is also a "book tea house" that performs two kinds of storytelling in the morning and evening performances every day.

This kind of teahouse does not sell clear tea when the book is opened, and once the book is read, it has to be charged for the book.

The "tea tavern" sells both tea and wine, as well as peanuts and flowering beans.

The "Qing Teahouse" is specially designed for businessmen from all walks of life to meet and get work.

The "wild tea house" is the place where people can rest temporarily in the wilderness village.

There are also teahouses that serve special groups of customers, such as chess teahouses where chess games are set up in teahouses, and martial arts teahouses where friends are met through martial arts.

According to the old man, the teahouse in Beishenchu ​​actually functions as a "wild teahouse".

But according to Ning Weimin's current conditions, he is in charge of the altar palace, and there is no need to worry about the supply of tea and food, so it can be compared to the specifications of the big teahouse.

You can also introduce the characteristics of book teahouse and chess teahouse to satisfy customers.

So, when the three from the local altar walked into Beishenchu, what did they see?

At the entrance of the shrine in the main hall, there are two women in palace attire and flag heads, standing on both sides of the gate to greet and send them off.

Every time a guest speaks, he must give a Wanfu gift first, just like acting in a movie.

Inside is still the same, in the brightly lit glass windows, there are Republican-style waiters in long robes and gowns, serving dishes and hot pots to the guests.

At the entrance of the side hall on the right, a doorman wearing a big-brimmed hat, a red coat, and a Western-style concierge uniform is welcoming and seeing off the guests.

Inside the glass window is a dazzling array of things, like a buffet table in a gourmet paradise.

The staff are all dressed in ceremonial tuxedos, busy for the guests.

At the entrance of the side hall on the left, a waiter in a padded gown is warmly inviting tea guests to take a rest.

The Eight Immortals table inside is full of tea guests drinking tea with covered bowls in their hands.

The waiters, shopkeepers, and accountants are all in ancient costumes.

It really restored the scene of Yutai Teahouse in the movie a lot.

Even the entrances of these three halls are not empty.

In the warm shed at the entrance of the Shenku, a woman in palace attire sells gift boxes of altar pastries.

In the warm shed at the door of the chef on the right, a white-clothed chef sells Maxim’s baguettes, fazons, and puffs.

At the entrance of Zuo Shenchu, there is an open-air stall, under the guise of "Tea Soup Li", and a big copper pot with a dragon's mouth is shining golden and attracts everyone's attention.Dozens of tea ingredients and tea fruits are attractively placed on the stall.

And Li Lianzhong, the third-generation heir of "Tea Tang Li", who is well-known in the south of the capital, guards the big copper pot and operates it himself.

Customers make what they want, and every time they lower their backs to make tea, the vigorous posture of moving the big copper pot can attract tourists to take pictures.

How can this situation not make people yearn for it?

Especially since the drum book was still open in the teahouse, the courtyard was soon filled with the singing of Jingyun Dagu's "Wind and Rain Returning to the Boat".

"Passing through the mountains and forests, the wind is howling and cold, and the heavy rain is approaching. Looking at the sky in the river, there are lightning, thunder, and bursts of wind and thunder. When the golden scales are caught, the fisherman swings his oars and returns to the boat..."

In this way, Sanxianer, Dagushu, teahouses, palace costumes, gowns, Chinese ancient buildings, Chinese and Western pastries, Chinese and Western food...

Together with the laughing, bustling, and endless stream of tourists in the yard, they form a vivid and wonderful picture scroll that is disordered in time and space.

It really makes people feel an illusion, as if they have crossed the tunnel of time and space, and traveled through unknown decades and hundreds of years ago.

That would be so much fun!

The three people in the Ditan didn't expect that there would be so many people here, they were almost all fascinated, and they didn't know where to look when they walked into the courtyard.

Especially the secretary, after reading it for a long time, such a sentence came out unexpectedly.

"We all know 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)