As the number one restaurant in Wujiang on a certain travel software, no matter what the reputation of this place is in the eyes of locals, when you are in the hotel, there are definitely many outsiders who come to eat.
The decoration in the store looks a bit luxurious, but if you look closely, you can see that only gold paint is used in the gold-painted areas.
This requires long-term maintenance. This kind of thing is definitely not like gold, which can be left alone for a long time. It will become shiny with a little cleaning.
The entrance area was full of people. Chen Xing waited for the waiter to take him in, only to find out that the occupancy rate inside was only about seventy or eighty.
"Is it okay for you to sit here?"
"Okay." Although the location she brought Chen Xing to was not by the window, there was a window in the direction she was facing. She could also see the Taihu Lake in the distance. It was because this building was relatively tall. If the height could not be reached, from What this window looks out of is just a group of evergreen trees.
The greening in Wujiang is pretty good. You can see many street trees along the way where the driver sent Chen Xing.
Chen Xing looked at the menu for a while. The dishes here are very cheap, crispy smoked fish is 20 yuan, Dongpo pork is 48, Qingsong soup dumplings are 28... I estimate that a meal only costs about a hundred yuan.
Most Internet celebrity stores are not expensive. If they are too expensive, fewer people will come and they will not be able to create a lively atmosphere.
Since the driver and master have never heard of this place, it is probably a store that was just opened due to the use of this pedestrian street.
Generally speaking, the taste of new stores is not bad. Chen Xing was ordering food here, and several waiters behind him were still discussing him in low voices.
"is it him?"
"Kinda like, even with a camera."
"You're not here to record a video, are you? I saw that his video of visiting the store was watched by many people. Should we tell the supervisor?" Several little girls who had just come to the store discussed it back and forth, and finally decided not to tell the supervisor. I didn’t tell the chef either.
Just pretend you don’t know about it. Just admire the handsome guy's appearance. Although Chen Xing only has more than a million fans and has never opened Weibo, Chen Xing's reputation in China is really not low.
Especially in some Internet celebrity restaurants, the employees there have nothing to do at night to watch videos, and they will always see Chen Xing's videos.
After all, big data. There are two types of internet celebrities who visit restaurants. One type is invited by restaurants to put on a show. They usually get paid to work, but the food they eat is actually not too bad.
After all, they are guests invited by the owner or manager of the restaurant, so the chef will pay more attention to the cooking. This type of internet celebrity is the most common, so you have to be careful when browsing.
Another small number of restaurant tours that are not primarily for profit are the real restaurant tours where you can truly experience the quality of a restaurant.
Just like Chen Xing's days in Xi'an, he caused many restaurants that had good traffic to reduce their sales by nearly half in a short period of time, causing a simple reshuffle of Xi'an's catering industry.
These are all things that happened in real store visits. Fortunately, there are relatively few such people. After all, everyone comes here to make money when they become Internet celebrities. Those who are really not short of money usually don’t engage in shop shopping, but instead go to other high-end industries that are out of reach of ordinary people.
Therefore, to sum up, those who run restaurants, especially restaurants that are Internet celebrities and attract a lot of local media traffic, must be aware of the online anchors who are "exploring restaurants" who harm others and do not benefit themselves.
The waiter's discovery quietly flowed to the work group. The foreman in the lobby broke out in a cold sweat, and the kitchen quickly redid the work. The entire restaurant was as well-behaved as if the leader had come to inspect.
Chen Xing really didn't want to do anything else. He didn't even take out his camera, he just came to eat. After browsing the site for nearly half an hour, with the R-star background music looping in my head, the first dish was finally served.
It was difficult to pay attention to the time when watching the video. When the waiter said this to him, he subconsciously glanced at the time displayed on his phone. It was a little faster now, and it took nearly half an hour for a dish to be served.
"You guys are a bit slow. Have you finished the dishes behind me?"
"It will be served to you right away." They didn't recognize Chen Xing before, and after they recognized it, it took a while for it to ferment in the work group. At this time, they were almost ready to serve Chen Xing.
Then I go back and redo it at this time, which of course takes longer. The first dish that arrived was crispy smoked fish. The fish is not the usual small fish used for frying, but large chunks of fish. It tastes all crispy and you can't tell what kind of fish it is.
All I know is that there are no fish bones, and it tastes quite delicious after being soaked in a slightly sweet sauce.
Chen Xing ate two pieces. When he saw that the waiter was still around, he asked, "What kind of fish is this?" The waiter felt nervous and said to himself, "It's really here!"
"It's bass."
"Oh, it's not bad." Then the Dongpo Pork was served. This dish is a dish that is difficult to avoid after coming to Jiangnan. It is a special dish in the entire Jiangnan region.
Basically every restaurant has it on their menu, and they are all pretty good. Interestingly, this dish is also famous in Meishan, Sichuan Province, and every household has its own unique understanding of it.
Chen Xing has eaten both. Dongpo pork from Sichuan Province looks more beautiful, has a nice color, and tastes sweet, meaty, and has the fragrance of bamboo.
The Dongpo pork here in Jiangnan is softer and more juicy. In addition to rock sugar, soy sauce is added to make the meat more rosy.
Chen Xing doesn't cook himself, but when it comes to tasting, few people can match him. When you take a bite, the fat meat doesn't taste like fat at all, it just tastes like meat sauce. It melts in your mouth, leaving only a little bit of meat aroma.
This is also the reason why Chen Xing doesn't like eating fatty meat very much, but gradually gets to eat Dongpo meat. If anyone tastes the fat in Dongpo Pork and feels tired after eating a piece of it, then the dish is not cooked well.
This dish is simmered for a long time, and the lean meat part is a bit woody. But it still shattered after one sip. Delicious too.
Afterwards, the dishes gradually came out. Since the prices in this restaurant were relatively cheap, Chen Xing ordered four dishes and one soup. Now he was very surprised after trying the first two dishes. He didn't expect that a random restaurant would taste like this. good.
The key is cheap, cheap! These dishes only cost about a hundred yuan in total, but they are more delicious than dishes costing hundreds of yuan a meal.
Steamed eggs with minced pork cost 20 yuan. It is a big bowl with a lot of meat in it. The minced meat and egg custard are blended together. The color is darker than the ones steamed at home because the minced meat itself has A little soy sauce flavor.
Fortunately, the tables here are far apart, otherwise Chen Xing would find that someone else's bowl said it was egg custard, so he probably had to search for a while to find some minced meat in this dish.
When Chen Xing had almost finished eating and was going to check out with great satisfaction, a tall, thin man with slicked-back hair and oily hair came over with a smile. The iron card on the chest of his white shirt said foreman.
"Hello, Mr. Chen?" Chen Xing was stunned for a moment, shook his hand with his right hand, and asked, "Do you know me?"
"A lot of people know you, a famous photographer. There are also many people in our store who are your fans." Chen Xing glanced at them again.
He wasn't stupid, he understood something instantly... He thought the food in this restaurant was so solid. There was so much meat in the egg custard for 20 yuan, and the smoked fish for 20 yuan was also a big portion. , if it is doubled elsewhere, some people will say it is affordable.
"So you have discovered me a long time ago?" the foreman said with a smile: "We were also reminded by the waiter. Many of them are your fans and like to watch your videos. Please help Mr. Chen if you think the taste is good. Let's put in a nice word." He didn't say not to let Chen Xing pay.
This meal cost over 100 yuan. They gave Chen Xing a free meal and then asked him to praise the restaurant online. It was like buying a publicity opportunity from Chen Xing for 100 yuan. Who could this be? yes?
He quite understands people like Chen Xing, and sometimes things can be accomplished more easily if relationships are not based on benefits.
However, Chen Xing said a little helplessly: "You don't think I'm here to shoot a video, do you? I didn't think so. I just felt hungry and came to have a meal." He didn't have much hope for this place.
After all, the driver said so. Chen Xing's first reaction must have been that this was a scam restaurant. He didn't expect that the food here was cheap and delicious... I would have recorded it if I had known.
The foreman also smiled and said: "That's what we said. If Mr. Chen thinks it's delicious, just come here more often." Chen Xing nodded.
He suspected that they had discovered him a long time ago and made a table of dishes for him. But to be honest, in such a location and in such a well-decorated restaurant, four dishes and one soup only cost more than 100 yuan. What kind of bicycle do you need when you have this?
After all, it’s a market economy now, and you get what you pay for. Chen Xing still agreed and promised them to mention it in their travel notes later.
He often updates Bee Nest's travel notes. After all, his millions are not for nothing... The traffic of Bee Nest is really lower than that of Bizhan. One of his videos on Bizhan will earn at least 600,000 yuan. Play.
But I worked so hard to write a travelogue and sent it to the honeycomb, and it ended up being read by 10,000 to 20,000 people. The key is that with these tens of thousands of views, it can already be uploaded to the official homepage of Bee Nest.
How do they make money? Chen Xing was thinking as he walked, and then he realized with surprise... They couldn't be cooperating with these restaurants, right?
Otherwise, Chen Xing really couldn't figure out what they would use to pay the signing fees and wages of the contracted travelers. They would have to spend money to subscribe, but the travel notes are free to watch, and the audience is not asked to pay a penny at all.
Forget it, don’t think about it anymore. The travel notes on the Internet are actually written casually by him, and they are no more serious than when writing physical books.
When he was living in Xitang, Chen Xing had already sent the book to several publishing houses that often travel. If everything goes well, the travel notes will be published by the end of this year. By then, he can also be called a writer. Traveler, travel writer, travel photographer ...These professions sound like a good match.
After dinner, the sun was at its hottest outside, and it was difficult to take any good photos at this time. Chen Xing took a car to the Grand Theater in Suzhou Bay to see if there would be a Yue Opera performance in the evening.
This commercial street is already on the edge of East Taihu Lake, and it only takes ten minutes to get to Suzhou Bay Grand Theater by car.
He saw the huge building from a distance. Huge, ribbon-like buildings. The two o'clock sun shone on her body, shining brightly. As the traffic slowly moved forward, the reflected light also moved its position, looking like a silver ribbon fluttering in the air.
"Is that the Grand Theater? Master?"
"Yes." The driver didn't say much, but he answered Chen Xing's question affirmatively.
"Is there any Shaoxing opera?"
"There are some here, but they are few. There are usually more musicals and some operas. There is nothing interesting to watch." He looked sideways at Chen Xing and felt that there were very few people of Chen Xing's age who liked to watch Shaoxing opera. , he showed him a clear path and said,
"If you want to see it, you can go to Wujiang Culture and Art Center. There are often Yue Opera performances there, as well as the Yue Theater. The Culture and Art Center is not far from here, about half an hour's walk." We've arrived.
Chen Xing paid and got out of the car. He thanked his brother for the reminder and remembered the places he mentioned. Seeing the Suzhou Bay Grand Theater up close is even more shocking.
This can really be regarded as a landmark building in a big city. It is full of creativity and its appearance is definitely not inferior to any theater in Europe.
From the other side of the street, all you can see are long streamers. The shape is the infinity symbol in numbers, roughly like ∞, winding from one wing at the top of the building to the other, then crossing the facade and intersecting at a height of 40 meters above the ground.
This unique shape makes his roof and side walls form a whole. They are all materials that are relatively easy to reflect. They are piece by piece, just like the sparkling waves on the water, even avoiding the road. vehicles, this light will not affect people driving on the highway.
The designer is such a genius. Chen Xing walked from the overpass to the Grand Theater. There are also many tourists here. There is a poster at the entrance of the Grand Theater, which shows a woman and a peacock... The dance drama "Peacock" will be held from August 6th to August 10th, so stay tuned.
There is also the name of the choreographer on the lower right. This name is very familiar, it is teacher Yang Liping. However, Chen Xing was a little disappointed.
It's a dance drama... He can't watch dance dramas. Musicals and operas are a little better. He also has some aesthetic foundation for melody. He knows what kind of melody expresses what kind of feelings. Even if it is not good, he can still listen to others singing.
But he really couldn't understand the dance drama. If Chen Xing is asked to understand a story from other people's dance, he might as well lie down and scroll through Douyin. Although this is meaningless, at least he is happy.
Happiness is hard to find in this society. In front of the Grand Theater is Taihu Lake, to be precise, East Taihu Lake. Taihu Lake is really big and cannot be seen from here, but on the mobile map, you can see that there are even many small islands used for tourism in the depths of Taihu Lake.
The Taihu Lake here in Wujiang is only a small piece. If the entire Taihu Lake is a mermaid, then the East Taihu Lake on the Wujiang side may only be regarded as one raised tail fin of the mermaid... Yes, it is not a tail, it is a tail fin, just such a small one, one piece, not two.
But looking out from here, she is as big as a sea.
