As night fell, the red-faced Maserati sports car parked at the door of the Yang Family Banquet. Yang Dongxu, who got off the car, looked at his sports car and couldn't help scratching his head.
I remember that he was very fond of this first sports car in his life. Driving it on Chang'an Avenue felt very dignified. But when I drive such a sports car on the street again after so many years, I always feel a sense of boredom.
"Perhaps it's because the mentality of becoming a father has become more mature." Yang Dongxu couldn't help but murmured in his heart, and then gave the car key in his hand to the younger brother who parked the car at the Yang Jiayan.
At this time, night had just fallen and the lanterns were starting to go on, but there were already a large number of cars parked in the parking lot in front of the Yang Family Banquet, and more than 70% of them were luxury cars.
With the continuous development of the domestic economy, the catering industry is actually also developing rapidly, especially in an international metropolis like Yanjing, if you are slightly late, you will be eliminated in an instant.
Therefore, competition in industries such as the catering industry is actually very cruel. Have you not seen that the state-owned canteens have closed down one after another, and even Beijing hotels have begun to open to the outside world?
In this fiercely competitive catering industry, Yang Jiayan is definitely unique. It never promotes like some old restaurants. For example, Quanjude’s roast duck has become known throughout the country and has become a must-try dish for tourists coming to Yanjing. As a result, old Yanjing people seem to be becoming more and more resistant to roast duck. .
It's not like other newly emerging restaurants, with all kinds of Western food and European and American decoration styles. From the opening to the present, Yang Jiayan has always adhered to only one decoration style - classical.
At the same time, there is only one thing that we adhere to when cooking - authentic.
Many people know that after Chinese food arrives in foreign countries, they have to make some changes according to the tastes of foreigners in order to open their own restaurant business.
Even in China, due to the differences between the north and the south, many restaurants will make slight changes to suit the tastes of local people. But Yang Jiayan never makes these changes, whether at home or abroad.
Yang Jiayan said he cooks Sichuan cuisine, which is definitely the most authentic Sichuan cuisine without any discount. It is said that it is Cantonese food, and it is definitely Cantonese food. Even if it does not suit the taste of Yanjing people here in Yanjing, and it can only entertain some guests from the south, it will not change.
In short, if you want to eat hometown food, then Yang Jiayan is the right place. It is definitely an authentic hometown taste, not fake hometown food.
In the eyes of many colleagues, a restaurant like this is seeking death. If it weren't for the palace dishes that have made it famous in the first place, the Yang Family Banquet might have been ruined long ago.
After all, you are in the north and a large group of customers like to eat steamed buns, but you want to sell pastries, and those disgustingly greasy southern pastries, how can you possibly have a business?
But what shocked these people who wanted to see a joke was that the Yang Family Banquet was obviously so uninteresting, but the business was so good.
If a foreigner comes to Yanjing to work and wants to have a bite of hometown food, ask friends where the food is more low-key. At least eight out of ten people will recommend Yang Jiayan.
However, what is slightly different from the unified recommendation of 'Yang Family Banquet' is that they may add a few words in front. For example, if you want to eat authentic Anhui cuisine, then going to Wangfujing Yangjiayan would be your first choice.
It is said that the boss of Yang Jiayan is from Anhui Province, so Yang Jiayan in Wangfujing is the first head office. In addition to the signature palace dishes, Anhui cuisine is the most authentic and can definitely give you the taste of hometown.
If you want to eat Cantonese food, Yang Jiayan at Daqianmen is your first choice. For Sichuan food, Yang Jiayan at West Third Ring Road has always had a good reputation.
In short, if you want to eat hometown food in Yanjing, just look for Yang Jia Yan. As long as you don’t go to the wrong Yang Jia Yan branch, you will definitely be able to find a taste that satisfies you.
And seeing how successful the Yang Family Banquet is, it’s not like no one is imitating it. But all these imitations have failed. One is a restaurant that wants to cover all cuisines. After a period of operation, not only the kitchen expenses rise sharply, but it is also easy to behave in a different way.
Even if there is capital to catch up with the scale of the Yang Family Banquet in Yanjing, it cannot catch up with the scale of the Yang Family Banquet nationwide. You must know that in order to ensure that the dishes made by Yang Jiayan are absolutely authentic, the chef in the back kitchen is transferred every three years.
For example, chefs who cook Anhui cuisine will obviously have some subtle effects on their cooking because they have worked in Yanjing for a long time. In order to avoid these influences, the Anhui cuisine chef will work in Yanjing for three years and then be transferred back to Yangjiayan in Anhui Province, and then a local Anhui cuisine chef will be transferred from Anhui Province to take over.
This keeps the taste of the Yang Family Banquet dishes at a high level of authenticity. If you eat the Inner Mongolia style Yang Family Banquet roasted whole lamb, what you eat will definitely be exactly the same as the roasted whole lamb on the grassland. There will be no difference at all, no matter the sheep, ingredients, The chef is absolutely from Inner Mongolia.
Therefore, the authentic flavor, which was originally not favored and did not know how to adapt it, not only did not hinder Yang Jiayan's retreat, but became Yang Jiayan's signature.
Especially as Yanjing becomes more and more internationalized, more and more outsiders come to Yanjing for development. The business of many low-key Yang Jiayan restaurants has been very good since they opened. Although the price is very expensive, some ordinary working-class people go there once a month. With such a large base guaranteed, Yang Jiayan's business is still booming.
The Yang Family Banquet that Yang Dongxu came to today is not the main store in Wangfujing, but a branch on Chang'an Street. Chang'an is now Xi'an, so the main focus is naturally Shaanxi-style specialties.
Dinner is the most difficult time to get a reservation for the Yang Family Banquet. As soon as you enter the door, you can feel the booming business of the Yang Family Banquet. Not only is the hall full of people, but there are also many party guests in the sitting area next to it.
Especially the top-level private rooms upstairs may not be available even if booked a week in advance. There are even many real big guys who directly give some top-level boxes to annual subscriptions. Yes, they are not monthly subscriptions but direct annual subscriptions. They are rich and willful.
Instead of staying on the first floor, the waiter led me directly to the back and then up to the attic on the second floor. Every year, some branches of Yangjiayan have to choose to expand because the location at that time is too small.
Some bought nearby land for expansion, while some who couldn't buy the land simply moved directly without fear of losing old customers because of the move.
When he arrived at the luxurious private room, Yang Dongxu originally thought that he had arrived ten minutes early, but he didn't expect that today's guests had already arrived, and there were already three people in the private room.
Haina's general manager Liu Zongsheng, New Picture's boss Zhang Weiping, and now well-known domestic director Zhang Yimou.
To be honest, not only Zhang Yimou but also Zhang Weiping was very surprised when they heard that Haina's big boss invited them to dinner. After all, ever since Yang Dongxu went to Hangzhou to attend college.
There are only legends about him in Yanjing. Every time he returns to Yanjing, he has dinner with old friends like Li Yihang. He has never heard of inviting others to dinner.
Many people who want to get into Yang Dongxu's relationship and enter his circle can only get in touch with Li Yihang's level with a lot of effort. As for the inner circle, it seems that it has remained unchanged since it was settled many years ago.
It's not like there aren't some people with status and background using their brains, but even if they come into contact with Zhu Hengyi, they can even meet Lai Tianqing. But for Yang Dongxu, he is still so indifferent.
So when Liu Zongsheng called Zhang Weiping to make an appointment for dinner, he specifically mentioned that it was his boss who invited him and he wanted to bring Zhang Yimou with him. This made Zhang Weiping extremely nervous at the time, thinking that Heiner was trying to catch Zhang Yimou's attention. This was the pillar of his own platform, the kind of load-bearing pillar that could be poached and the new scene would be finished in an instant.
But when I thought about it again, I felt it was impossible. After all, Haina wanted to poach Zhang Yimou, but it was because she had direct contact with Zhang Yimou. It was impossible to inform her boss first and poach people in front of his big boss. Such humiliation really didn't happen to him. Is Mr. Zhang made of clay? Let alone Heina, China Film Group would not dare to be so arrogant.
So after thinking for a moment, he figured out that the other party was probably here for the new movie "Hero". After insinuating, Liu Zongsheng didn't use any tricks to hide it.
This made Zhang Weiping, who had not yet prepared funds for the film, turn from surprise to joy. If Hainer is really interested in "Hero", Hainer can take all the funds, not to mention the remaining half of the funds.
"Sit down and don't stand. We are all elder brothers in terms of age. This is a bit embarrassing for me." Yang Dongxu quickly pressed his hands as he walked into the box.
He didn't have any humility to sit on the vacated main seat. Although he was younger, he had no problem sitting on the main seat due to his status and capital.
"Have you ordered anything?" Yang Dongxu asked casually, signaling for everyone to sit down.
"Not yet. We have just arrived and are talking about the movie." Liu Zongsheng said with a smile.
"Then I'll order. I'm not polite. I didn't order your favorite dishes. Don't blame me for not being full." Yang Dongxu half-jokingly took the menu and ordered two of Yang's family banquet staples. I also ordered some very distinctive Shaanxi dishes.
The reason why I chose this Yang family restaurant to entertain guests was actually because of the Shaanxi cuisine, or in other words, because of Zhang Yimou. As the chief director of the movie "The Future National Master", Zhang Yimou's status in his heart is higher than Zhang Weiping.
After all, as capital, he is more profitable than Zhang Weiping. He doesn't need to please anything, but the other party has to rely on him. But although he also has good results in making movies, half of the credit must be attributed to cheating. And Zhang Yimou is a true national teacher who must be respected.
Zhang Yimou is from Xi'an. Although he went to university in Yanjing, he was assigned to Guangxi directly after graduation. In fact, he didn't stay in Yanjing for a long time. It was only in the past few years that he came to Yanjing to cooperate with New Picture. .
But because he spends most of his time traveling around the country for filming, coming to this Yang Family Banquet, which has a very authentic Shaanxi flavor, shows Yang Dongxu's respect for the future national master.
