As soon as he returned to the store, he saw Cai Ji and Shan Ji talking to Cao Xun, and the latter's eyes lit up, "Cai Ji, he's back." ”

Wei Laicai turned around in shock, and immediately smiled, "Brother Li, you're back!" I'm waiting for me! Come, let me introduce you, I told you last time, Seventh Brother, Seventh Brother, this is Brother Li. Mr. Lu from the mainland, don't look at Mr. Lu's young age, he is really a hero and a teenager! In the future, we have to be affectionate and affectionate. ”

He shouted a whoa, Lu Li smiled politely, and looked at Bao Qi, who was standing up, he had a small face, but he was wearing a pair of big sunglasses, covering most of the part above the tip of his nose, as if he was wearing a huge mask, "Can you listen to Cantonese?" ”

"Yes, Brother Qi, please take a seat. Cao Xun, pour tea. ”

Bao Qi sat across from him, and Wei Laicai sat at a nearby dining table, smoking a cigarette with his head down, as if he didn't care about their side of the matter at all, "...... I heard Cai Ji and I talk about you, the ...... of the fine road, you are very bold, you don't know the depth of the water, you dare to come to Hong Kong alone to break into the world? ”

"Brother Seven, you are holding me up too much, I'm only in my early twenties this year, and I'm still a half-grown kid with no hair on my mouth, what are you talking about breaking into the world? It's just the end of the green fly, attached to a thousand miles - relying on Caiji and other predecessors in the rivers and lakes, oh, of course, there is also Brother Qi to reward me with a bowl of rice to eat. ”

An allusion is used in this sentence, most of the others don't understand, including Bao Qi, but although he was born ugly, he is not stupid, guessing that this is a good saying, "Well," he said with emotion on his face: "I have seen something you shipped through a relationship in Caiji, I can only say so-so, but it is a bit of a pound." The victory is that it was shipped back from the mainland,...... Caiji, you come and talk to him. ”

"Hey!" Wei Laicai stood up like a fire and sat down next to him, "Brother Li......"

"Cai Ji, don't call me that, Seventh Brother Zhenlong is in front, you call me Brother Li, isn't this my birthday? Just, just call me Lee Kee. ”

Bao Qi suddenly looked up to the sky and snorted, looking at him, as if he was about to say something, but his mouth snorted a few times, and finally swallowed it back. This contrived made everyone look at each other, not knowing what he was going to do? "Cai Ji, since the people have said it, you can do whatever you want, right?" Lee Kee and dysentery have the same sound, so they are deliberately humiliated,

"Okay, I'll tell you to remember it later." The smile on Wei Laicai's face has not faded since he entered the door, and he doesn't know why he is so happy, but Lu Li thinks that the vegetables that were transported over last time have indeed been well received. The facts were similar to what he had guessed, and through Wei Laicai's narration, he knew what was going on——。

Kowloon Court is one of Hong Kong's premier restaurants, although it is not as good as Xiangyunju, backed by the huge capital of Jingwei Group, but because of the name of the intention, it also has a large and wide range of diners in Hong Kong, especially the Kowloon Pavilion in the store - this is the name of the largest private room in Kowloon - because the room has a relief made of imitation of the Nine Dragons Wall of the Forbidden City, and has become the first choice for many Hong Kong wealthy and gate giants every red and white wedding banquet. Every year in September and October, guests want to book a private room in Kowloon Pavilion, which can be described as difficult.

The grandeur of the business of Jiulong Garden, far from being comparable to such a small hot pot restaurant as Luli, it is needless to say that it is said that the gold is going to be entered, and as the owner of the restaurant, Ning Ningnan from Taiwan, is naturally the happiest, Jiulong Yuan has been open for 26 months, and the total cost of more than 10 million yuan invested in the early stage has earned back one-third, and with the Hong Kong British political axe to take advantage of the global economic take-off of the East, large-scale construction of Hong Kong, Kowloon, the New Territories and other regions, hot money from all over the world continues to pour in, It also adds to the prospects of Hong Kong's various industries. According to his calculations, by the end of 83 years at the latest, all the costs can be successfully recovered, and the rest will be all fucking earned!

But as a practitioner in the catering industry, Ning Ningnan knows very well that the only way to retain old customers and attract new customers is to innovate in the dishes, so he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to poach chef Shi Tingyuan from another famous restaurant in Hong Kong, called Qilin Pavilion, because of this incident, Ye Feifei, the owner of Qilin Pavilion, who is also a member of the industry association, was very dissatisfied with him! People scolded Ning Ningnan before and after, but the latter didn't pay attention to it at all, economic and social, poaching is also normal, you Ye someone can't afford to pay, people want to go with me, who do you complain about?

After Shi Tingyuan arrived at Kowloon Garden, he quickly developed new dishes, such as Baihua Dayu, stir-fried shrimp balls with sauce, abalone sauce buckle snails, iron plate onion and grouper, etc.; Among them, there is a special dish, called prawn vegetable gall bamboo sunflower stewed pigeon eggs, using excellent prawns, green cabbage heart, bamboo sun, pigeon eggs and other things, first the prawns to the head, back shell, tail, back cut knife to the abdomen, and then after the process of patting, wrapping starch, blanching, etc., you can enter the cup and wait for standby.

Although the processing of prawns is a bit troublesome, the main ingredient of this dish is not it, but the green cabbage heart and bamboo sunflower that appear in a noisy manner, especially the latter, the selection of the best bamboo sun, is the most important. Bamboo sunflower is a kind of precious plant that can only be seen in the bamboo forest in the south, when it is fresh, its dark green fungus cap, ** color fungus stalk, pink fungus holder, and at the top of the fungus stalk there is a delicate white mesh skirt spread down from the fungus cover, like a beautiful woman wearing a hat and not daring to show her delicate appearance, shy and timidly waiting for people to pick.

Bamboo sunflower is one of the eight treasures of grass recognized by industry experts, and it has considerable nutritional value - in fact, the nutritional value of any edible mushroom is quite high. In the Greater China region, in addition to the mainland, it is mainly produced in Taiwan Province, but the output is not very large, and most of them are supplied to the island and the capital, and the Hong Kong market can get a limited share. Fortunately, Ning Ningnan himself is Taiwanese, and with such natural conditions, most of them can get more output than others. So he doesn't have to worry about not having enough to eat, the only question he is concerned about is: How much can you eat?

This situation changed slightly after Jiulongyuan got the dishes shipped from Wei Laicai, the quality of the various dishes transported from the north was far greater than the same color dishes stored in the warehouse, at the beginning, even Shi Tingyuan didn't care, but after the usual processes such as water hair and blanching, they were put in a cup and made into a table, but after the eaters, especially those experienced diners, ate it, and immediately found the problem.

On June 22, it was Xiao Yuan's birth, and he specially invited some friends in the business field to dine in Kowloon Garden, including Ou Pei Linying's mother and daughter and some people from Ou's Enterprise, such as Ou Zihao, Ou Jiahai, etc. Xiao Yuan himself is a native of Guangdong Province, and has lived in the mainland until the end of the year, before coming to Hong Kong, for his hometown, in addition to the tombs of his parents and two elders, is some local products produced in Southern Province. This also includes the Bamboo Sunflower. Occasionally, in the course of a business banquet, Xiao Yuan tasted it once through the recommendation of Jiulong Yuan, and at that time he was really excited to be able to eat the taste of his hometown again after being absent from his homeland for a long time, and even the guests who were originally invited were left out in the cold, and immediately called Ning Ningnan and Shi Tingyuan over and inquired in detail.

The two of them didn't know where the dishes and other raw materials came from, so they replied vaguely and put the matter on a perfunctory note. didn't delve into it afterwards, but after Chef Shi's skillful work, even Xiao Yuan, who has always paid attention to the way of drinking food, was conquered, and Ning Ningnan also specially rewarded Shi Tingyuan with two months' salary for this; Unexpectedly, when he held a birthday dinner here for the second time to taste this dish, Xiao Yuan could no longer find that old taste!

Xiao Yuan has a good appreciation for food, he asked himself if the tip of his tongue would not deceive himself, and immediately asked people to find Ning Ningnan and the two again and question them in public; Ning Ningnan was at a loss for the second monk, 'Hao Er......' He called Xiao Yuan's English name - Xiao Yuan's English name was originally Howard, and Hao Er was his nickname - and said with a smile: "What's the matter, with your identity as the head (seat) of the board of directors of the Liangda Group, you actually came to eat the overlord meal?" didn't say it, as long as you Haul said a word, today's meal, even if I invite you, it will be considered as your birthday! ’

When Wei Laicai said this, he sighed, "This was originally a joke, but Xiao Yuan was really angry, and he had a big attack during the banquet!" It is said that the table was almost overturned! The guests made him unhappy, and the most important thing is that in order to taste the wrong taste of the stewed pigeon eggs with prawns and vegetables, gall and bamboo sun, Xiao Yuan only said that Kowloon Court is not authentic, shoddy, and harms customers, and even sued the restaurant industry association - with his status in Hong Kong's business circle, if Kowloon Court can't come up with a reasonable explanation, it may really have a great impact on its business. ”

"That's not right," Cao Xun spoke first, not as Lu Li spoke, "The so-called justice is in the hearts of the people, and it is common sense that the tastes of diners occasionally change a little. How could he talk like that? ”

Qi Qi twitched his nose and sneered, "You little road boy, you can't make a mistake when you speak." But don't forget, people come to eat with you, and they pay for it! This is the customer, you only know the problem of finding others, how to do things? ”

Cao Xun was not convinced, and wanted to say more, but Lu Li waved his hand and stopped him. He knew that Wei Laicai and a few people came here not to tell him and others stories, so why bother? "So, what about later?"

"Later, after Mr. Ning's inquiry, he learned what happened, and I ...... Brother Seven, will you tell me? You're a first-hand witness to the rest of the story, right? ”

Bao Qi nodded, took his words and said, "Mr. Ning went to find Simon, that is, Shi Tingyuan, with me, and asked me in detail, I won't tell you, when I heard that Mr. Xiao made a big fuss about the banquet, I probably guessed what the reason was, but this kind of thing, I am soft-spoken, how dare I talk more?" Now that I have asked the big boss of the family, I naturally ask and answer ten ......,"

Lu Li sneered in his heart, and he was soft-spoken? In front of us, you see what a big shelf and panache! It can be seen that Meng Ziyun: Those who are arrogant will be flattered in things, which is really a wise saying!

Bao Qi naturally didn't know that he was slandering himself in his heart, so he said to himself: "...... At this time, Mr. Ning knew what was going on, and then asked Simon and me to go to the cold storage to find it, and it was funny to say that the bamboo sunflower that Cai Ji shipped over this time was exactly the same as what could be seen in Taiwan, and it was not clear which one was which. ”

Lu Li laughed and said, "Seventh brother, Cai Ji, you can't distinguish your majors, why do you expect me to become a monk halfway?" ”

"No, no, no, it's not like that." Cai Ji said: "Because they can't divide it, so the seventh brother and they simply don't divide it, and finally decided to use all these bamboo sunflowers for other purposes, and wait until the bamboo sunflower is transported from the mainland, and then arrange to make prawn vegetable gall bamboo sunflower stewed pigeon eggs." Until then, remove the dish from the menu. So, Brother Qi took the time to come with me this time, just to ask Li Kee, when will the new batch of vegetables be shipped? ”

Lu Li pondered for a while, and asked with some confusion: "Seventh Brother, Cai Ji, Shan Ji, let me ask, for the sake of a bamboo sun, it will not be condescending to Seventh Brother in vain, right?" This thing, to say something ugly, what is the use of the number? ”

Bao Qi looked at each other and smiled, "That's exactly what this sentence is, Zhusun is just one of them, and the other vegetables transported from the mainland are consumed very quickly in the kitchen waste, let me tell you the truth, Li Kee, the more than 3,000 pounds of vegetables we shipped over last time have only been sold in Jiulong Yuan for less than four days, and the green onions are all gone." ”

"Green onions? I remember more than 1,600 pounds, right? ”

Wei Laicai snapped his fingers, "That's right! How is it, Li Kee, now you know that my wealth has not gone in vain for so many years, right? This kind of thing, when I look at it, I know it's a good thing. It's a pity that it's too little, otherwise, I will want as much as you can talk about. ”

Lu Li smiled silently and said to Bao Qi: "Seventh brother, is that so?" ”

Bao Qi raised his chin arrogantly, Lu Li couldn't guess the meaning of his actions, and still looked at him with a pair of black and white eyes, "Big nephew ......" At this moment, Bao Qi changed his name again, and said: "Don't say that Uncle doesn't take care of you when you first arrive, it's not easy for young people to come to Hong Kong to break into the world, so let's do it, no matter how many pounds of vegetables you transport, you have to pick it first, you can rest assured, I can't lose you in terms of price - Hong Kong and Kowloon, New Territories, who doesn't know that I use seven teeth as gold?" ”

"Then, Brother Seven, let me ask, since you want to pick first, you must have picked all the good ones, and what should I do with the rest?"

"What do I care about you?" Bao Qi said: "So, eldest nephew, uncle teaches you to be good, this kind of fresh fish and vegetables business, the most important thing is to keep it fresh." Without that, nothing else should be mentioned. ”

Lu Li scolded in his heart, do you still need to teach me?

Bao Qi didn't know how disgusting his behavior was, and said in a big way: "Big nephew, this matter is settled, you have no opinion, right?" ”

"No, how can you say it's good."

"Good boy, talk fast! What time do you set to leave? I'll go with you. ”

"No problem, when I'm sure, I'll go and invite Seventh Brother in person."

At this time, a few people walked in at the door, led by Yan Guoen, who had a mixed-race appearance, and there were also Shanji and a few other people beside him, one of whom had a mouth moving around, and he didn't know what he was eating.

Lu Li didn't know him, but he didn't know him, his face tightened, the corners of his mouth tightened, and he arched his hand as if he hated and cowered, "Where don't you meet in life, Brother Tong, Brother Li." (To be continued.) )