Chapter 172: The Book Has Its Own Golden House
There was a carton on the dinner table, and Johnson originally guessed that it was candy, but the waiter replied that it was a packing bag?
According to the local saying, Taiwanese banquets focus on showing the sincerity of the host, if the dishes are all eaten and there are no dishes that can be packed, it means that the host's sincerity is insufficient.
Only if the guests can't finish eating, the more food they pack, the sincerity of the treat is the best manifestation, and the host will be very face-saving.
The waiter brought a few red canned food and introduced that the guests who had eaten in the past knew the price and grade of today's banquet as long as they saw the canned snail meat brand on the table when they first entered the door.
Because snail meat is not abundant locally, it is mainly imported, with a few brands from the island country being the best.
Johnson laughed, similar to the mainland. But when you eat a high-priced meal, what kind of wine do you drink first?
And then see what fish is the finale at the end?
A large tabletop platter is served, good guys, a large cold dish platter with a five-story tower. Put snail meat on the top, and braised pork tongue, abalone slices, meat sausages, braised pork, duck reward, dried scallop lips, mullet roe, powdered liver......
Help the guests pour a full of special red wine, Johnson tastes a sip, using rice and red yeast rice as raw materials, the taste is a bit like Shaoxing rice wine, full of charm.
Five willow branch fresh fish, the fish is slightly fried, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, the taste of vegetables is mixed and matched, different vegetables and fish are mixed and sent to the mouth, I feel that the taste is very resistant, and each bite of different side dishes is mixed and matched, there will be a new sense of taste.
Fugui braised shrimp, which is served with fried dough sticks in thick red sauce, the whole dish has a rich flavor and is full of wealth.
Roasted macaroni eel with green onions, the first time SC Johnson has seen such a large eel......
Take a bite, the stomach is filled with various ingredients, the eel juice is absorbed, and the meat and vegetable combination is not greasy, which is good.
Silver-clad gold whole chicken, tin foil-wrapped stuffing whole chicken, silver shining. Immediately afterwards, the Buddha jumped over the wall, and he didn't even give a chance to rest and catch his breath in the middle?
The penultimate dish is the Fu Lu Shou platter, full of more than a dozen, I heard that the chrysanthemum cake is the gold medal recommendation, the pie crust is baked and loose, the crisp layer is rolled up, like chrysanthemum petals, the color and flavor are complete.
The finale debuted, squid snails, meat and shallots, a famous representative of Taiwanese cuisine, Johnson looked at a big pot full of seafood stewed, and actually felt like vomiting......
Usually the finale dish is to present the original flavor of the ingredients, and try to avoid too artificial and heavy seasoning, but this dish does the opposite. The main ingredient is canned snail meat with heavy seasoning, plus dried squid, which has also been air-dried.
This large pot dish, snails, squid, garlic sprouts, shallots, pork ribs, pork, shiitake mushrooms, radish......
It's so greasy!
The belly is full of intestinal fat, and the taste is too heavy, so I can only take a walk and eliminate food. Along the street, a brightly lit shop appears in front of you.
Eslite bookstore?
I seem to have seen this name on the Internet, claiming to be a holy place of Wenqing, curious to walk in the door, a big white rabbit stood at the door stupidly, looking at the label called Nini?
It should be a mascot, go up the stairs to the second floor, the whole wooden decoration, the lighting is soft, there are a lot of people, but it is quiet.
Elegant classical music rings in the ears, the volume is just right, different from the mainland bookstores, the space is very spacious, and there are even a few rows of sofa benches for readers to read for free, the environment is very pleasant.
Pick up a book casually, the price is not expensive, and there are many bestsellers on sale next to it, dozens of copies each, which is really not expensive.
On the edge of the ceiling atrium dome, poems are written, and the glass fiber reinforced plastic roof with diamond-shaped triangles intertwined is very beautiful in modern art.
There is a café on the third floor, as well as a children's activity area, which is more of a leisure and entertainment center than a bookstore.
I heard that Eslite Bookstore adheres to the business philosophy of chain rather than copy, requiring each store to have its own characteristics, and will be specially designed according to the location, environment and readership.
It is a pity that the founder died a few months ago, and it is reported that 43 chain stores have lost money for fifteen years.
Wu Qingyou was born in Tainan in 1950, his hometown is a small fishing village, and after graduation, he joined Chengjian Company, which sells kitchenware and equipment. He works very diligently and is appreciated by his boss.
Before immigrating, I sold his shares to him, and it was smooth sailing, and I made persistent efforts and soon won 80% of the tableware market.
At that time, real estate was in a round of undervaluation for five years, and Wu Qingyou overrode public opinion and purchased real estate on a large scale. As a result, the house price exploded again in the second year, soaring to an incredible level, and he earned a wealth that he could not have imagined before.
Yangmingshan buys a mansion, goes in and out of high society, staggers and money, and is drunk and gold-obsessed. Just when he was drunk and dreamed of dying, he was suddenly hospitalized with a heart attack, and he picked up a life from the hands of death in a hurry.
instantly had an epiphany of life, and pretended to be forced: "I have tasted the taste of making money from Chengjian, but I eat the same and wear the same, my life has not changed, and having money will not make me happier." I'm not afraid of death, but I'm afraid that nothing will be left after death. ”
It was decided to leave a bookstore, one that was not designed to make money.
And then it's a mess, and God knows how expensive the rent is near the 101 building!
After fifteen years, I finally found that it was not profitable to buy books and kill them, so I simply returned to my old business and became a second landlord.
Rent a shopping mall and choose two floors to open a bookstore, and other sales areas are to introduce clothing, bags and leather goods, stationery, furniture, cosmetics, handicrafts, toys, parent-child playgrounds and other formats. With the gold-lettered signboard that has been losing money and making money for more than ten years, many merchants are willing to settle in, and customers are like clouds.
Some people analyze him as a heterogeneous real estate developer, using culture to complete the stage, singing for real estate leasing, cleverly combining the light asset of culture and the heavy asset of real estate, and digging deep into the profit model of cross-subsidy.
Therefore, Eslite, who has already rented enough houses here, does not want to be a nomad anymore, entered the mainland the year before last, and finally settled in Suzhou to develop the first humanistic life residence - Eslite Residence, with a unit price of up to 65,000 per square meter.
Before dying, he left a sentence: Eslite cannot live without culture and creativity!
No matter what the outside world says, it is not easy to persist until now. It is no wonder that literary and artistic young people like to linger here, the environment is stylish, the atmosphere is relaxed and comfortable, they have nothing to do to read books, they can buy if they want to, and they don't buy it.
Even if you're in a daze, you seem to be pretending to be forced.
The later the more people come, the more visitors Eslite has more than 120 million visitors per year, compared to a population of 23 million, which is a staggering number.
These days, Taipei has played almost, tomorrow I am going to Kenting, I heard that diving there is very cool, the scenery is good, I did not have fun in Sanya last time, this time I had a good time for a few days.
Called Song Qiao to arrange a takeaway, a third-line small model, her voice was very loud, her blood was boiling, and she had a kind of pleasure of conquest.
Set off the next day, drive straight to Kenting, come to the Turtle Mountain Trail, and look at the entire Hengchun Town, as well as the blue bay.
The beautiful sight of green mountains, blue sea, and blue sky in the distance is fascinating. Slowly climb up along the wooden plank road and stand at the highest point of the Yingxi Pavilion, which is the southernmost view of the treasure island.