The genius villain's mother is going crazy in the kid's variety show by relying on food

Chapter 404: Destiny Changed by a Dish

Huang Fen is one of the intangible cultural heritage inheritors of Yushan Chicken Tofu.

She has been on television, interviewed by journalists, and featured in various magazines and books.

But these did not make much change to her living situation.

She still runs an ordinary small shop. What she sells is naturally not chicken tofu pudding, but ordinary Sichuan home-cooked dishes. The average price per person is about 20 yuan, and a bowl of garlic sprouts and twice-cooked pork with rice is enough to fill you up.

There is no way, the chicken tofu dish is too expensive, too high-end, and too out of touch with reality.

When she learned it from her biological father, she couldn't help but complain about it -

For this dish, you need to use a two-year-old free-range hen, and only cut off the breast meat;

20 free-range eggs, only use the egg whites, no yolks;
All the remaining bones and meat of the hen are thrown into the soup and cooked for at least 5 hours, and the essence is concentrated in the chicken tofu pudding;

The rest is just waste, which diners won't eat at all.

All in all, the cost of materials alone would be more than 200 yuan.

The common gross profit margin standard in the catering industry is 50%.

In other words, she would have to sell these materials for at least 400 yuan to make a profit.

A pot of chicken tofu pudding can produce about four bowls, which means one bowl costs 100 yuan.

...Who would be stupid enough to spend 100 yuan on a bowl of chicken tofu pudding?

The chicken tofu pudding looks no different from vegetarian tofu pudding made from soybeans!

Actually, some people around me have advised me over the years -

Just use a hen to stew several times the soup, add a little chicken fat to add flavor, and then buy a few dollars of frozen chicken breast from the supermarket, and 1 dollar of ordinary eggs...

Chicken tofu pudding made in this way is sold for 2 or 30 yuan per serving and is labeled as a state banquet delicacy. Coupled with its reputation as an intangible cultural heritage, there will definitely be many people willing to pay for it!
But Huang Fen didn't want to.

She has several brothers and sisters in the family, but she is the only one who learned how to make chicken tofu from her father and embarked on this path.

She has her own persistence and is absolutely unwilling to cut corners or do things that are not what she claims to be.

of course.

Sometimes when she wakes up in the middle of the night and opens her eyes to see her bare house and her shop burdened with heavy rent, she feels regretful.

I thought that if I was willing to be more ruthless and not stick to the ancestral principles, maybe my family would be better off. I could own my own house, open a shop that was completely my own, and my daughter wouldn't have to work outside to earn tuition...

In this way, she regretted day by day, but persisted day by day.

Until one sunny and ordinary day.

An old friend whom she hadn’t contacted for a long time called her and told her that chicken tofu pudding was going to be popular and asked her to seize this opportunity and make her chicken tofu pudding bigger and stronger!
This is not outrageous, because in recent years, there have been so many special foods that have become popular by accident.

What XX barbecue, what XX spicy hot pot...

That is a trend. As long as you catch the tail, you can make a lot of money. There are many bosses who became rich overnight because of this!
As a result, there are many restaurant owners who specialize in making trendy food and then switch to other food when the popularity dies down.

Huang Fen was moved at first, but she gradually calmed down and said with a wry smile:
"How can there be so many good things that fall from the sky? I'd better just sell my rice bowl honestly."

Her old friend knew her concerns and was afraid that a momentary decision would ruin her family.

So I sighed and comforted him, saying that it was okay and that selling rice bowls was also good.

But after Huang Fen hung up the phone, she couldn't help thinking about it.

Just then, her daughter came back from school and expressed the same idea as her old friend.

My daughter is studying business administration, so the suggestions she makes need to be more reliable and feasible.

Now not only Huang Fen's husband, but even her father in her hometown who couldn't even lift a spoon heard the news and called her to tell her to seize the opportunity and do it well!

Huang Fen finally made up her mind!

I didn’t invest too much, just bought a batch of free-range old hens and free-range eggs from my hometown, which only cost a few thousand yuan. As for the store, I simply painted and cleaned it to make it cleaner, because my daughter said that the environment should match the price.

Finally, we changed to Huang’s Chicken Tofu Pudding, the signature dish of intangible cultural heritage delicacy.

In this way, Huang Fen suppressed her excitement and made her first pot of chicken tofu.

She had already prepared herself for a few days without any customers, but she didn't expect that one hour after opening the store, a young man who was surfing on 1G saw the chicken tofu pudding shop and walked in.

Young man: "Is this the Sichuan chicken tofu pudding you sell? The one where you can eat the chicken but you can't see the chicken?"

Huang Fen nodded repeatedly, then rubbed her hands nervously and asked the other party if he wanted it.

"How much is it?"

"1...128."

When Huang Fen said this, her face turned red, for fear of being scolded.

As a result, the young man opened his eyes wide in surprise:
"so cheap?"

Huang Fen felt dizzy after hearing this.

A bowl of chicken tofu pudding for 128 yuan is still cheap?
Is today’s young people’s perception of prices so outrageous?

Huang Fen didn't know that this was because the 588 yuan chicken tofu pudding sold by Nanzhi in the variety show was too popular.

So much so that her chicken tofu pudding, which is several times cheaper, is easily accepted by people.

Out of conservative mentality, the young man only ordered a serving of chicken tofu pudding.

Soon, a big bowl of chicken tofu pudding was served.

The young people were so happy that their teeth were not visible:
"Oh, this is more substantial than what Sister Zhi did! Well, after all, she is just a stand-in, and cannot compare to Bai Yueguang..."

Huang Fen didn't understand the young man's strange muttering and just stared at his expression intently.

The young man quickly scooped a spoonful of chicken tofu and put it into his mouth.

His eyes widened:

"Oh my god! So fresh and delicious!"

Huang Fen breathed a sigh of relief.

I felt that at least I didn’t have to withdraw the 128 yuan I had just received.

Well, is this a good start?
Huang Fen doesn’t know yet, but this is not just a good start, but a turning point in her life!
The young man who came to her store happened to be a well-known store blogger. After eating her chicken tofu pudding, he casually posted a post online:

"Although Bai Yueguang is irreplaceable, it's still okay to find a substitute occasionally!"

Such a "scumbag" statement quickly attracted a lot of agreement.

Soon, Huang Fen’s Huang’s Chicken Tofu became popular.

It is no exaggeration to say that the shop is packed with customers and is bustling with people!

It’s because the threshold for making chicken tofu is so high that even if someone wants to follow the trend, they will only fail.

There are probably only a handful of people who can really do it well, and they are as insignificant as a drop in the ocean in such a big country.

Huang Fen happens to be one of them.

Afterwards, Huang’s Chicken Tofu Pudding became a local internet-famous food restaurant, and Huang Fen’s story became well-known.

Taste + story, this combination is simply unbeatable in the catering industry!
Huang Fen's store is also constantly expanding and opening branches...

Many years later, Huang Fen realized her midnight fantasy, and even exceeded it.

But looking back today, she is still grateful to Nanzhi for bringing her a turning point in life.