Chapter 360: About the Buffet
"Your idea is good, it sounds interesting, but it's too casual to let everyone take food from the same plate", Jia Lao scratched his back with the cigarette pouch rod in his hand and bowed his head.
"The purpose of the buffet is to allow everyone to take it at will, as I just said, everyone can eat according to their own preferences, these are for the sake of randomness", Hua Mian was a little puzzled, Jia Lao agreed with the free behavior of the buffet on the one hand, and opposed it at the same time, which is very contradictory in itself.
Seeing that she didn't understand what she meant, Jia Lao knocked the cigarette pouch on the side of the table and said, "Think about it yourself, the New Year's banquet, such a formal banquet occasion, let the emperor's family and his courtiers and even foreign visiting envoys take dishes from the same tableware?" ”
It seems that there is no problem, in the past, the company's bosses at the company's annual meeting will also sit at the tables of the employees, in the name of having fun with the people, think about although the employees may be a little uncomfortable, but their bosses are very natural, thinking of letting people like Emperor Deyuan and Lord Zhu grab vegetables, it is indeed not easy to see the picture.
Maybe this is the difference between 'country' and 'enterprise', Hua Mian feels that she can accept it probably because she originally lived in that kind of equal society, and this is a different world after all, although it seems that the emperor's family can eat at the same table, which is quite different from the costume dramas I have watched, but it has not yet been opened to the point that the emperor can allow courtiers to share the table with him.
Since this is the case, "Then we will divide the emperor's concubines and princesses into one area, and the officials and envoys will not be able to be in another area", Huamian refers to the price area that often appears when ordering buffets.
"That's fine, but everyone in Your Majesty's area has to be in charge of picking up the food," Jia Lao agreed that he would come forward to explain the new form of the New Year's banquet to His Majesty, and at the same time knew that there were some rules that could not be broken.
"Then it's decided", at least he can approve of the idea, and Hua Mian is already very satisfied.
Hua Mian has always been curious, Jia Lao's position is good to call the head of the imperial dining room, generally speaking, he is the head of the chef, and the most he can manage is the chef and the person in charge of purchasing, when can a person with such an identity say that he can go directly to see the emperor if he wants to.
"I'm more powerful, I can do what others can't do in this palace"
Hua Mian didn't believe Jia Lao's not very serious explanation, but Jia Lao didn't continue to explain the reason, and Hua Mian had to talk about gossip from Aunt Jinyue, when she heard that it was because Emperor Deyuan was still just an ordinary prince, Jia Lao played a key role in his stay in the East Palace, which was similar to what Manager Ling once said, but neither of them knew what Jia Lao did back then.
Jia Lao brought the recipes and the dishes that Huamian tried to make to Emperor Deyuan, and the expected Emperor Deyuan showed interest in the proposal of a buffet, and after eating the dishes made by Huamian using the unique ingredients of various countries, including Beilin, he was even more appreciative.
Hua Mian was originally worried that the other party, as the emperor, would not taste the dishes he made so easily, but when Emperor Deyuan learned that this table of dishes was made by the female chef who made boiled fish during the moon viewing banquet, he not only ate the dishes brought by Jia Lao, but also asked Jia Lao to bring back the reward given to her, a peach-pink velvet palace flower.