After deciding to open a store in the urban area, Liu Yifeng spent three days investigating the situation in Moucheng District, Shangcheng District and Wicheng District, and finally decided to open a non-dine-in gourmet restaurant in Shangcheng District.

Li Hongji was opposed to this decision. The main reason was that they had never seen a restaurant that did not offer dine-in service. If they did not offer dine-in service, they could only sell some snacks. Can snacks make money?

But Liu Yifeng and Lao Wang spent one night making more than a dozen kinds of snacks that they had never heard of, and no one objected anymore.

Just kidding, there shouldn’t be too many street snacks in later generations. More than half of them can be made in this era, but no one in this era knows that food can be cooked in this way.

In the first week, Liu Yifeng also implemented a buy-one-get-one-free service. It only took 3 days, and he just relied on the taste to make a name for himself. Soon a high-ranking official in Fifty City appeared and asked his servants to ride over and buy the goods.

After cooking all kinds of delicacies, he rode back on horseback.

Liu Yifeng looked at the horse galloping away and gave up the idea of ​​takeout. Takeout was impossible to achieve with the technology of this era and the cost was too high.

As for Zhang Jun, he appeared half a month ago. At that time, Liu Yifeng's Liu's Food Restaurant was already well-known in Tuoshan City. Zhang Jun had just returned from an overseas acting performance. His colleagues who stayed behind said they would help him pick up the slack, but they brought him with him.

He came to Liu Yifeng's shop.

Liu Yifeng's main food that day was fried vegetable dough, fried fish cakes, multi-grain pancakes, pot stickers and meat buns. As a result, Zhang Jun stood outside the store guarding two pots, and was pulled away after eating until he was full.

drink wine.

After that, he came here basically every day, and soon became familiar with Liu Yifeng and the others.

Liu Yifeng's store engages in hunger marketing. It sells only one pot of each kind of food at midnight every day, then sells a second pot at noon, and a third pot at midnight, and then calls it a day.

These three hours are exactly the time when most people in this era eat three meals.

Because the taste is really good, and it is a snack or meal that has never been seen before, the first thing many people think of when they arrive at this time is to go shopping at Liu Yifeng. Of course, they are happy if they get it, but they can only curse secretly if they don't.

Those who grabbed it then looked at the blackboard Liu Yifeng placed outside with tomorrow's food menu written on it, leaving the thought "I must grab it tomorrow" in their brains.

These marketing methods that were so sparse and ordinary in later generations crushed all his competitors in this era. Two restaurants in Fifty City District have come to contact them and sincerely want to hire Liu Yifeng at a high price. He neither agreed nor objected.

, and sent them away by promising to provide them with special food for 20 people every day.

In this way, he didn't offend anyone, but also made a favor. After all, he was a local snake, and Liu Yifeng didn't want to be targeted by local snakes so early.

Anyway, he only needs to tow it until there is a boat to Jinshan City.

One day, Zhang Jun came late. Not only did Liu Yifeng and the others close the shop, they were already having dinner. Zhang Jun, who was extremely depressed, smelled the fragrance wafting from the backyard, and this guy actually climbed over the wall and came in.

They were eating fried rice that day. Zhang Jun, who had climbed over the wall, kicked away Feng Shuo who was coming towards him, knocked Zheng Zhilong over, put a firecracker against Li Hongji's head, and then threw away his money bag while everyone was stunned.

It was given to Liu Yifeng, who had already picked up the stool and was ready to fight, grabbed a bowl of fried rice and buried it in it.

To be honest, at that time Liu Yifeng thought that his selling of firecrackers had been exposed, and he was completely stunned after receiving the money bag.

That's how they met.

Until now, Zhang Jun often comes here to eat at night, and his favorite is fried rice because he is from Yangzhou.

Fried rice is said to have originated in Yangzhou in the Sui Dynasty. Its prototype was Broken Gold Rice, which can be understood as egg fried rice. However, in fact, the fried rice that later generations were accustomed to only existed in the Qing Dynasty.

Although there is no literature research, a qualified chef understands one truth: the cooking method of stir-frying can only rely on iron pots.

Ceramic pots and metal kettles are heated unevenly, and the heat transfer efficiency is difficult to control. To achieve the stir-frying effect and ensure that the ingredients are not burnt, a large amount of medium, that is, oil is required.

But if there is too much oil, it is called frying, which is essentially two different things from stir-frying. What’s more, the systematic use of fats and oils in diet was only in the Song Dynasty, after the appearance of iron pots. Although fats and oils were often used in previous dynasties,

But the most common cooking method is steaming, roasting and stewing.

Therefore, in addition to oil, the cooking medium before the Song Dynasty was generally water. As for the prototype of fried rice: the egg in the broken gold rice in the Sui Dynasty, there is a theory that it is actually a scrambled egg in water.

Scrambled eggs in water are still made in many places in later generations. The appearance of the scrambled eggs is really not much different from that of scrambled eggs in oil. They even look better and are golden. They taste fresh, smooth and fragrant and are famous for their tenderness.

The fish is different. In that era when cooking methods were mainly boiled and grilled, the texture of the ingredients was very easy to burn, and the texture of the scrambled eggs was rare.

As for the rice in Broken Gold Rice, it is very likely that the surface of the leftover rice itself has been dried. After being poured into the cauldron and heated, the grains will become distinct, and the surface will be crispy and chewy. Pair it with fresh and tender scrambled eggs, and the two will be delicious.

This complex taste makes Broken Gold Rice famous in history.

Liu Yifeng used to believe this statement. Firstly, he admitted that it was really difficult to complete stir-frying before the iron pot was used as a cooking utensil. Secondly, it is said that the broken gold rice was invented by farmers, and the Sui Dynasty was a prosperous period.

time, but Liu Yifeng still doesn’t think that ordinary farmers can afford fat.

In that era, records of the use of fats and oils in cooking were almost always held at dinners for royal relatives or state banquets.

When Liu Yifeng made fried rice here for the first time, the shocked looks and gobbling behavior of the Han people around him made him even more convinced that later generations of fried rice with oil originated from the Qing Dynasty.

The fried rice of later generations has been rolled to the extreme, and the ingredients are also added in a variety of ways. The fried rice they ate that day was fried rice with pickled cabbage and shredded pork. Zhang Jun was attracted to it by the unique sour aroma after heating the pickled cabbage. He had never tasted it before.

There was such a rich amount of fried rice, one person showed off 3 bowls, and after drinking a bowl of delicious fish soup, he realized that the people around him were holding pots, pans, stools and kitchen knives, staring at me stupidly.

Later, Zhang Jun relied on his thick skin and his status as a naval officer to forcefully blend in. But Liu Yifeng and the others really stopped being wary of him. It was he who stepped in to stop a dozen gangsters from causing trouble.

In fact, Feng Shuo had already gathered people in the backyard who were processing ingredients, and when they were about to rush out, they heard the sound of firecrackers. They thought it was Liu Yifeng who fired the gun, but when they rushed out, they saw Zhang Jun stepping on a person.

Holding a gun in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, he drove away the troublemaking gangsters.

"Liu Yifeng, I don't understand, why don't you open a restaurant?"

"Swallow what's in your mouth before you speak."

Because Zhang Jun is really easy to talk to and has no official airs at all, Liu Yifeng and the other Han people no longer use honorifics when talking to him. Especially Zheng Zhilong, who originally yearned for the navy and had the best relationship with Zhang Jun. If it weren't for the navy's regulations

Visiting brothels is not allowed. I guess Zheng Zhilong had already taken Zhang Jun to experience one of the three most powerful men in prostitution.

"I mean, why don't you open a regular restaurant?"

"When I opened a snack shop, some gangsters came to cause trouble. I thought for a time that Dongshan Prefecture had no government. How dare I open a regular restaurant?"

"They're here again?"

"No, no one has come since the time you caused trouble."

Feng Shuo has already investigated clearly. The time he came to cause trouble was a jealous competitor who hired thugs from the black market at the port. He didn't even think about smashing up Liu Yifeng's shop, he just wanted to teach him a lesson, but he didn't expect to meet Zhang Jun.

This hard letter.

He was a mid-level officer in the Navy, and he opened fire on the street to stop the gangsters from causing trouble. After the Maritime Safety Administration came and learned about the situation, they arrested the dozen gangsters without any hesitation. They never asked Zhang Jun about the shooting.

Regarding the people behind the gangsters, Feng Shuo advocated an eye for an eye. Li Hongji and Zheng Zhilong were opposed, as was Liu Yifeng. They did not open a store for a long time, so there was no need to cause trouble.

Zheng Zhilong had already contacted a trading firm, and the two parties agreed to take his boat to Dongshanzhou in 20 days. Liu Yifeng paid a deposit and reluctantly went there.

"By the way, the day before yesterday, a business owner named Zhang came to deliver a post. Is he one of yours?"

Zhang Jun, who was drinking brown sugar bean curd, visibly paused for a moment, then continued to drink while asking: "Yes, he is mine."

"oh."

Liu Yifeng did not argue, and Zhang Jun did not explain. The two of them acted as if the incident had never happened.

As a mid-level naval officer, Zhang Jun had to stay in Dongshan Prefecture for five years. This year was his second year, so he simply asked his family to come here and open a business.

He was actually from a small aristocratic family, and his ancestors had served as officials in Nanzhili. Although he was not a high-ranking official, he still had a family business in Nanzhili. After the maritime ban was implemented in this dynasty, his family was among the group of people who actively embraced the policy.

When the traditional forces spurned them, his family had already sent their children to the Maritime Safety Administration, the Navy, and the Annan Protectorate. Now that the Maritime Safety Administration, the Annan Protectorate, and the Navy have all grown up, his family is no ordinary person in Nanzhili.

They are a small aristocratic family, and their success depends on their generation.

Although the family agreed to his proposal and came to Dongshan Prefecture to open a trading company, there was never any good business to do, so Zhang Jun asked the trading company to send posts to Liu Yifeng.

Now it seems that if you want to conquer Liu Yifeng, you still need some time.
Chapter completed!