The sad topic didn't talk much, a few people entered the house and sat down, Huo Shuyi and Huo Shufen sisters hurriedly made tea and poured water, and followed their cousin Huo Yaoguang to hone for more than two months.

"Brother Yaowen. Huo Shuyi walked up to Huo Yaowen with tea.

"Well, thank you. Huo Yaowen looked at Huo Shuyi, who had cut her hair short, smiled slightly, took a sip of tea, turned her head to look at Director Liu and asked, "I don't know why Director Liu is in such a hurry this time?"

"That's Mr. Huo. Director Liu paused and continued: "The production equipment for oyster sauce was introduced by Mr. Huo from abroad, and it must have taken a lot of effort to get it......

Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows, and when he saw Director Liu's vague speech, he couldn't help but say: "Director Liu, we have known each other for so long, and the food factory also cooperates with the county government, so it doesn't hurt if you have anything to say." ”

"In that case, I'll get straight to the point. ”

Director Liu is an official person, and he likes to speak vaguely, but he saw that Huo Yaowen didn't mean it, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "That's Mr. Huo, not long ago, I went to Guangzhou with the county magistrate for a meeting, and met the leaders of Foshan City at the meeting. They are very interested in the oyster sauce produced by our food factory, and want to ask Mr. Huo to introduce a batch of advanced oyster sauce production equipment from abroad. ”

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Although Lee Kum Sheung, the inventor of oyster sauce, was a native of Nanshui Town, Zhuhai, Guangdong, Lee Kum Kee actually started in Macau and later moved to Hong Kong.

At that time, it was not uncommon in Guangdong to make homemade oyster sauce, but it was far inferior to Lee Kum Kee in terms of quality and production scale. With the war, Lee Kum Kee successively closed its production sites and stores in the Mainland, and mainly operated in Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia.

However, due to the lack of many key secret ingredients in the mainland, the taste of the prepared oyster sauce is very ordinary, and the most important problem is "oyster sauce into water".

I believe that most people have eaten oyster sauce and have seen oyster sauce, which is nothing more than a semi-congealed dark brown liquid, but if there is no corresponding thickener and stabilizer in the formula, it will turn into a liquid like water after a period of time. At that point, the taste of the oyster sauce will be greatly reduced, and you should not eat too much.

Therefore, "oyster sauce water" has become one of the most difficult steps in the production of oyster sauce.

As the founder of oyster sauce, Lee Kum Kee has overcome this difficulty early after nearly 100 years of research and development. This is also the factor why Lee Kum Kee can dominate the entire Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and even most of the Southeast Asian market.

The batch of oyster sauce production equipment introduced by Huo Yaowen could not solve the problem of "oyster sauce turning water", let alone the mainland at this time.

If it cannot solve the problem of "oyster sauce turning into water", it does not mean that the oyster sauce produced is defective. The equipment he bought was purchased from Japan's Ajinomoto Corporation, one of Japan's largest condiment manufacturers and one of the world's top 10 food companies.

Those of you who know Ajinomoto know this company should know that Ajinomoto is involved in almost all condiment fields, which naturally includes oyster sauce. However, despite the fact that Ajinomoto is one of the top 10 condiment companies in the world, they entered the oyster sauce market and studied for several years, but they still failed to solve the problem of "oyster sauce and water".

Although the problem was not overcome, Ajinomoto is not a vegetarian either, and has extended the time of "oyster sauce to water" to three months as much as possible, which means that the oyster sauce produced has a shelf life of at least three months.

Compared with other condiments, which have a shelf life of one or two years at every turn, three months is too short. Coupled with the high labor costs in Japan, Ajinomoto did not enter the oyster sauce market on a large scale and only produced a small amount of oyster sauce in Japan to resist the invasion of Lee Kum Kee oyster sauce.

In order to want Lee Kum Kee, it had to spend a lot of money to overcome the problem of "turning oyster oil into water", and then it had to spend a lot of money on publicity, which is why Ajinomoto did not continue to develop oyster sauce.

At the same time, this is also the reason why Fok Yiu-man was able to buy the production equipment from Ajinomoto Company, on the one hand, because the shelf life of the oyster sauce produced is too short, and on the other hand, Lee Kum Kee's dominance in the Asian oyster sauce market is almost equivalent to Ajinomoto's dominance in the field of MSG.

The reason why Ajinomoto was unable to produce oyster sauce on a large scale before solving the problem of "oyster sauce and water" was based on labor costs and material costs.

Oysters, the main ingredient of oyster sauce, are very common in the coastal areas of Guangdong, and almost all other provinces come to buy them, except for the locals who go to the sea to fish and eat, which also makes the price of oysters cheap in the local area.

"Production equipment?" Huo Yaowen frowned, glanced at Director Liu, who was embarrassed, thought for a while and said: "Director Liu, you have to think clearly, I can get the production equipment, but whether the Zhongshan Food Factory can get up in the future has become an unknown factor." ”

Director Liu heard the seriousness of his words, but he didn't know what the seriousness was, so he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Mr. Huo, it's just a set of oyster sauce production equipment, I don't think it will cause problems in our food factory." ”

"It's not that it won't, but it's definitely going to go wrong. ”

Huo Yaowen shook his head and said seriously: "Director Liu doesn't know about the situation overseas in the mainland. In Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, the biggest brand of oyster sauce is Lee Kum Kee, which was founded by the founder of oyster sauce. I think Director Liu of this brand should have heard of it. ”

"I know a little bit about this, I heard the old people in my family say in the early years that the taste of oyster sauce is not authentic, and it is not as good as Lee Kum Kee's oyster sauce. "Director Liu is a native of Guangdong, so he has naturally heard of Lee Kum Kee, an old brand that existed during the Republic of China.

"The quality of Lee Kum Kee's oyster sauce is indeed very good, and at the same time, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the best in the world in terms of oyster sauce brand. But because of the high price, not everyone in Southeast Asia can afford it. Our food factory focuses on low-to-medium grade oyster sauce, which can be sold in Southeast Asia, otherwise I would not choose to let the food factory make oyster sauce. ”

Mr. Lau grew up in the mainland and did not understand the influence of Lee Kum Kee's "Old Village Oyster Sauce" overseas, but Fok Yiu-man investigated it clearly. Hong Kong and Macau are largely free of foreign oyster sauce markets, and Lee Kum Kee is one of the dominant markets.

But in Southeast Asia, the economic level of many countries and regions here is not as good as that of Hong Kong, and oyster sauce is too expensive, and only wealthy families or restaurants will choose to buy it.

The Zhongshan oyster sauce produced by the food factory is cheap, of good quality, and can be called good quality and low price, and is very popular with local ordinary families, and only 70,000 boxes were sold last year.

As long as you buy a few more production lines and firmly grasp the low-grade oyster sauce market, Zhongshan Food Factory will start with oyster sauce sooner or later, just like Haitian in later generations.

But now Director Liu actually wants to purchase oyster sauce production equipment for Foshan, isn't this self-destructive! Huo Yaowen knows very well that Foshan is not only the hometown of Haitian Sauce Garden, but also the hometown of one of the best sauce gardens in Guangdong since ancient times.

If you get the equipment for Foshan, you really have to earn foreign exchange for the country to study oyster sauce, and if you can't keep it, you can bring forth the new and make oyster sauce that is better than Zhongshan!

At that time, whether it is sold at home or abroad, Zhongshan oyster sauce may collapse sooner or later in the future.

This is not to say that Zhongshan Food Factory is not good, but that area of Foshan has always had a tradition of producing sauces, and the 25 sauce gardens with a long history are not general.

After Huo Yaowen said this, Director Liu understood the seriousness of the situation, Zhongshan Food Factory is located in Zhongshan, and he is the leader of Zhongshan, so he will definitely not be biased towards Foshan. It's just that he boasted that Haikou agreed, and he didn't know how to respond to others for a while, so it can't be said that we are afraid that you will rob the business and not help you get equipment.

Huo Yaowen looked at Director Liu's embarrassed face, and thought about it in his heart, probably guessing that Director Liu had promised others before, but now that he knows the seriousness, he doesn't know how to give an explanation to Foshan.

Alas.

Huo Yaowen sighed in his heart, in his mind, as long as the food factory develops slowly and recruits more people who understand sauces, it will definitely become a condiment company that is not weaker than Haitian in the future, but Huo Yaowen did not try his best to put his heart on the food factory.

At this time, Foshan has begun to pay attention to oyster sauce again, and Director Liu has also agreed to others, Huo Yaowen thought about it, I am afraid that he can only take the cooperation route.

Otherwise, if you don't agree, if Foshan finds a way to get the equipment, it will not only offend the leaders there, but also make it difficult for Zhongshan Food Factory to develop in the future.

"Director Liu. ”

"In!"

Director Liu woke up suddenly.

"Although the introduction of equipment to Foshan is not conducive to the development of our Zhongshan Food Factory, we can cooperate. ”

"Cooperation?"

"Yes, cooperation. ”

Huo Yaowen sorted out his thoughts and said: "Foshan has been the hometown of sauce gardens since ancient times, and the sauces there have always been the most in Guangdong, and the main production of our food factory is also sauce-based, they have sauce recipes, we have production technology and equipment, and there are channels to sell products abroad, and it is also a good choice for the two to cooperate." ”

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