Chapter 776: Ancient Dishes and Kitchenware
At night, Tang Hai followed Mr. Yang Kaitai to his collection room to pick up things, and many people accompanied him.
Xiao Tang originally thought that Yang Kaitai's purpose was to learn from experience, and then also run a league in China, but the result was very unexpected.
The profit method of domestic restaurants is different from that of the United States, mainly based on location, price, and taste, while hotels are based on fame.
The final result of running a food league in China is likely to be that no one watches it, or if someone sees it, it will become the official control of the food association......
Restaurants or hotels form a team to participate in the competition, and the attention of the restaurant will not be much improved, and many people have no hobbies due to their busy life.
The low-rise restaurants are just selling things casually, looking at the location to make money, and the slightly higher-rise ones are similar, all by location, even if the online score is less than 3.5, the full score is 5, and the sale is expensive, and the customers are still not worried......
Whether the league is held in China or not has almost no impact on general restaurants.
But if it is a super restaurant, such as the level of the × Hotel, if the chef defeats a famous chef in the world in the American Culinary League, it will have a lot of influence on the hotel, such as the Four Seasons Hotel in the United States, many people just go to see the celebrity chef show, and the country is now slowly developing to this point.
Exports and then domestic sales, as long as the Americans say good, whether they are good or not, the Chinese people will definitely think it is good, this is the habit of thinking of many people, whether poor or rich, a large number of people think so.
Tang Hai was thinking all the way, sure enough, he was a closed disciple of Mr. Yang, he had never seen cooking skills, at least he should be able to win himself by making abalone. Strong management skills and can see farther than the average person.
However, it has a stake in the company that holds the league. It still has to be thought about if he wants to take a stake in the Kaitai Hotel in exchange. Tang Hai was quite happy, but people were not happy......
When he arrived at the collection library, Tang Hai realized that he couldn't play.
A bunch of modern knives are just that......
In the Qing Dynasty, sweet potatoes were widely planted, so the common people were not as bitter as the late Ming Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty.
Kangxi's armed suppression, Yongzheng's bloody purge, and then the maturity of sweet potato cultivation technology, only then did Qianlong have the boundless conditions for pleasure.
In order to weaken the Manchu-Han contradictions......
It should be said that it is a contradiction between the Manchus and all the rest of the peoples, and all sides try some exchanges that seem to be friendly. When it comes to the most famous feast in Chinese history, at least seven or eight out of ten people will immediately think of 'Manchu and Han full banquets', and all kinds of imperial chefs in costume dramas are basically from the Qing Dynasty. I have to say that it was the sweet potato that saved the life of the Qing Dynasty.
But as a chef, Tang Hai still recognizes the cuisine of the Qing Dynasty......
There are ordinary old-fashioned steamed buns in the steamer, and there is also an oil pot for making noodles, and the clip that opens things is generally not recognized by others, which is taken from monkey brains......
There are also tools for skinning elephant trunks, and a steamer for making honey bear's paws!
Fifty or sixty pieces of utensils in the Qing Dynasty. There are many things that Tang Hai has only heard of in the mouths of a few teachers, or he has seen them in books, and the real thing is really ......
"In fact, we Chinese used to be the best at playing, and we have thousands of years of gate valve history. There are 5,000 years of culture, but many things are gone when the four olds are broken.
Over the years, I have some small money and time in my hands, so I have found ways to go to South Korea, Japan, Xiangjiang, Treasure Island, Southeast Asia and other places. One by one, I visited the celebrity chefs and collected the bits and pieces of Chinese food culture in history. Later, he returned to the country. I also asked people to ask some old people and some cultural successors in depth, and I finally got these together. It's all imitations. After all, the real thing can't be used until now, and I can't afford to buy so many antiques. There are a total of 892 types of kitchen utensils, including 205 types of knives alone.
My master and I both like the Green Water Villa you built in the United States, and some of the ancient dishes are really delicious and full of cultural flavors.
But in order to make excellent ancient dishes, it must also be paired with excellent ancient kitchen utensils, so that the taste is the most authentic, the best, and the most promotional of our food culture.
Even if you don't come to me, I'll find you sooner or later. ”
Yang Kaitai took Tang Hai and his party to select kitchen utensils and talked about the origin of these things.
If it's ours, we can't throw it away, and what we once threw away, we have to get it back, what is rich is not more than three generations, what China is nouveau riche and no aristocrats, they are all learning how to play in Europe and the United States......
These words seem to cultural researchers such as Tang Hai and Yang Kaitai to be very nonsense.
Although it is not right to blindly worship the ancients, and the times are changing, many things can actually not be 'abandoned', but 'improved', just like Tang Hai, he rarely eats hamburgers, all kinds of meat buns, soup buns, vegetable buns, he thinks it is much more delicious and nutritious than hamburgers......
The Qing Dynasty collected a lot of utensils, because this was the period when the food industry was gradually maturing, and there was a Ming Dynasty when you went inside! Mainly anti-some pottery!
Go further in......
Under the golden light, all the utensils seemed to be gilded, some of the large pieces were extremely luxurious, and the small pieces also looked beautiful, and then there were actually ancient pre-Qin ......
"Wait! Brother Yang, you actually have these here! ”
Not only the king of kitchenware, but also the king of antiques, a symbol of power and power!
"Hehe, take it if you like, there's nothing here that can't be borrowed from you, and you can get one for you when the time comes. If your idea is on fire, it makes sense for me to have people make these things. ”
"Then thank you, Brother Yang."
The next day, Zhang Canhui's son accompanied Tang Hai to the market to have a look.
After all, the imperial capital is the capital of a country, one of the cities where the highest leaders and people from all walks of life live in the city, next to it is Tianjin, which is the main port of the United States, Canada, Russia, Japan and many other countries to sell things to China by sea.
There should be the best things in the country in the market of the imperial capital, Tang Hai thought so, however......
Holding a prawn in front of the small stall, Tang Hai's expression was a little serious, but then he put it down again, and said that it would not affect other people's business if he took it for a long time, and said that it just did not meet Tang Hai's requirements......
"Is there any place where I can fish?" Tang Hai asked Xiao Zhang on the side.
Coincidentally, Xiao Zhang is a person from the fishing circle in the Beijing-Tianjin-Yi area, so he took Tang Hai to a place for paid fishing......
Jennifer looked at the water in front of her......
Xiao Zhang said that this is already the best fishing spot in this area, and the environment is okay, what sand reservoir is very pitted, the water quality is poor, and these places in Qinglong Lake are too far away......
Tang Hai then remembered that the imperial capital is not an ingredient production area! The food is transported from other places, and he can't get good goods, and there is a lack of the word 'fresh' on the market!
"Do you have to make domestic ingredients?" Xiao Zhang asked.
"Well, you must use the motherland's, if you use it elsewhere, you will be judged to lose directly."
Xiao Zhang thought for a while: "If you are willing to spend two or three days, I will take you to the place where I work, where there are the best ingredients in China." ”
…… (To be continued.) )