70. New friends
The dish "cassoulet" is actually very famous among French snacks, and it is said that during the Hundred Years' War, the besieged residents put all the remaining ingredients into a pot to stew and simmer the delicacy. For a time, the scent of Casulé permeated the city and was invigorating. And this dish has been passed down from generation to generation.
I don't know whether the truth of the matter is true, but when Lee Jun-hyuk's dish stewed for 20 minutes, the whole store was filled with the fragrance of this stew, not only customers, but even Yang Lei was attracted by the fragrance and began to ask about the recipe of this dish.
Seeing that the customers who had already started to come to the door had already asked the clerk about the origin of the fragrance, Li Junhe simply made an exception and handed over the entire production process of this dish to Yang Lei. He didn't want to stay in the operation room all day for this dish.
New customers, some people have already recognized that it is Lee Byung-hun who is sitting at the bar and reading the newspaper, because Lee Jun-hyuk's restaurant is also a high-consumption restaurant, so there are few people who often come to dine that kind of pure star-chasers, maybe there will be some of them who like Lee Byung-hun, but relatively speaking, they will be more qualified, and they will not run forward desperately to ask for autographs or photos, which also makes the slightly nervous clerks relax a lot.
Just because they don't come forward to harass doesn't mean they won't be curious, so when these customers started to order, they all asked Li Bingxian what he ordered, and some regulars were also asking because they smelled a different aroma in the room.
Because when Lee Jun Hyuk was explaining this dish to Lee Byung-hun, the waiters were not present, so when the customers asked, they were also asked, but fortunately, Park Hwa-ja was experienced, and after hearing the situation, she directly told everyone that this was a new dish in the store, and then ran to the operation room to ask about specific things.
As you can guess, at noon that day, almost all the customers who came to the restaurant ordered this stew called "cassoulet". Moreover, Lee Byung-hun's soft spot for this dish was discovered by his fans, and as a result, "cassoulet" became the new signature dish of Lee Jun-hyuk's small restaurant overnight, and it was more popular than all other dishes.
But these are all later words, let's get down to business, and after a while, Lee Jun-hyuk put the prepared dish in front of Lee Byung-hun.
"Well, that's the taste, it's amazing." Back in the day, Lee Byung-hun was first attracted by this aroma when he was in France, and then after eating it once, he fell hopelessly in love with the taste of this food, and in the few days in France, he went back to eat almost every day, but after returning to Seoul, he never ate it again.
"Since it's the kind you like, then eat more, if it's not enough, a new round of "cassoulet" is being made in the operation room, but what we're going to do next, it's not for one person, you know, the bigger the stew, the stronger the fragrance, if it's not for the fear that you can't wait, I still want to stew for a while. Seeing Lee Byung-hun's appearance, Lee Jun-hyuk said with a smile.
"I'm already very satisfied with this taste, as for the better taste, let's wait for the next time." Lee Byung-hun gulped the stew in front of him. Although the food is very fragrant, his eating appearance has not lost his proper demeanor.
This dish is served with baguettes, which are baked with unbleached flour with salt and yeast. No preservatives, no grease blending. In terms of shape and weight, it is also unified to 76 cm long and 250 grams per strip, and it is also stipulated that there must be 7 cracks in the oblique cut to be standard. Although the French have very high requirements for this bread, in fact, the taste of the bread is not very good, because it is very the outside and inside, and it is a French specialty of hard bread, so except for the French locals, or some other people who often live in France, ordinary people are not used to eating that kind of bread.
Although Lee Jun-hyuk's shop does not have French bread. But his solution is also very simple, as long as the small bread that has been used for afternoon tea is made larger, it is also good to use it with this dish.
After a while, Li Bingxian eliminated a large bowl of stew and a few loaves of bread in front of him. Lee Jun-hyuk's coffee shop doesn't actually have a big bowl. And the so-called big bowl in front of Lee Byung-hun is only a little bigger than the rice bowl commonly used in South Korea.
"Ha Luha, thank you. I finally found a restaurant that I was satisfied with. I heard from a friend that your afternoon tea here is also very good, and I will come back to try it when I have the chance. After paying the money, Lee Byung-hun was ready to leave, and before leaving, he followed Lee Jun-hyuk and said.
As a big star, Lee Byung-hun actually doesn't have much personal time, and he can have time to dine here at noon that day, which is still thanks to the crew, it just so happens that the "allin" he is filming needs to be filmed near Cheongdam-dong, and there is almost no scene for him at noon today, so he took the time to run to Lee Jun-hyuk's café.
may be because of his relationship with Lee Jun-hyuk, or it may be because of Lee Jun-hyuk's good cooking skills, Lee Byung-hun took the initiative to exchange contact information with Lee Jun-hyuk when he was leaving.
Lee Jun-hyuk didn't feel anything about this, in the UK, not to mention Beckham, even Prince Charles, he didn't feel any different from others when they met.
But to others, it's different. You must know that as an ordinary person, it is definitely a thing worth showing off to be able to make friends with big stars, so when Lee Byung-hun walked out of the restaurant, some customers who were more familiar with Lee Jun-hyuk began to congratulate him.
Regardless, it's a good thing to be friends with Lee Byung-hun. After all, the two of them chatted quite happily just now, and they will get along if they become friends.
Sometimes the friendship between men is like this, as long as you feel that you are in love with each other, then it is possible to become good brothers directly.
After Lee Byung-hun left, Lee Jun-hyuk watched Yang Lei make a large pot of new "cassoulet" step by step in the operation room, and Park Hwa-ja, who was nimble-minded, had already found a large material and wrote the word "cassoulet" on the restaurant's new signature dish with a signal ratio, and pasted it on the window outside the main entrance. He also explained that as long as the clerks received customers, they would introduce the name and origin of this dish at the appropriate time, and highlight that this dish is Li Bingxian's favorite dish.
Lee Jun-hyuk didn't say anything about Park Hwa-ja's actions, because this is the case, and Park Hwa-ja's introduction was neither fabricated nor exaggerated.
In fact, there are not only so many dishes that Lee Junhyuk can cook in his hands, in fact, the dishes he takes out and uses in the coffee shop are just random dishes. The real big new cuisine has not been brought out at all. If it weren't for Lee Byung-hun making this request this time, Lee Jun-hyuk would not have taken the initiative to make this "cassoulet". Therefore, there is nothing wrong with Park Hwaja's arrangement in Lee Jun-hyuk's opinion.
After the lunch time passed, Kim Soon-ae finished today's business and returned to the small shop, because of Park Hwa-ja's outstanding performance, Kim Soon-ae now completely put down the management of the small shop, and concentrated all his energy to start preparing for the pork processing and distribution.
Although the three of them are quite simple when they say it, but in practice, it is actually a very troublesome thing, Li Junhyuk is okay, he only needs to come up with funds and contact technical matters, but the specific things on the Korean side, especially all kinds of trivial matters, can not be done by opening their mouths and talking, but they need to run back and forth one by one, and after opening up all the joints up and down, they can slowly stabilize themselves.
Although things are more cumbersome, for Jin Shunai, who has served as the general manager of many listed companies, these things are easy to do. You only need to make two more trips.
As soon as she entered the house, Kim Soon-ae smelled a different aroma than usual.
"Why, Jun Hyuk is in such a good mood today, and he has made a new dish." Jin Shunai still knows her son very well, she knows that even if Yang Lei has a high talent for cooking, she can't make dishes with such a big aroma in such a short time, not to mention, she also saw the main publicity posted by Park Huazi before entering the door.
"Aunt Jin, you're back. Let me tell you, there is a big star in our store today, and that dish is made by Jun Hyuk Oppa for him......" Seeing Kim Soon-ae enter the house, Park Hwa-ja excitedly stepped forward to take her coat, and said what happened at noon word in her mouth.