Chapter 78 The first day of arriving in Seoul (Part 1)

Author: Waiting for reincarnation

Chapter 78 The first day of arriving in Seoul (Part 1)

The Western food in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul is just like that. It’s not delicious and it’s not bad. After all, the food he chose is very ordinary simple Western food, a pasta and a steak. They can make it in a regular way, but the price is a bit expensive.

A portion of pasta, 18,000 won, is a small amount of 100 yuan to convert to Chinese coins. As for a portion of steak, Zhang Junyi didn’t even know what part they were using. He dared to buy him 58,000 won at 150g, which translates to more than 300 soft girls.

Of course, Zhang Junyi can understand the price, after all, this is the most prosperous area in Seoul... Just like you are having a meal on the Bund in the Magic City.

The rent of the store already shows that the food here cannot be cheap, and their skills are average from Zhang Junyi's professional perspective, so the price is not outrageous.

After all, this is not a famous chef's store, nor is it recommended by Michelin. Even if the dishes are a little more ordinary, as long as they don't make a mistake, it is reasonable. After all, people who come to eat pay attention to the environment.

After coming out of the store, Zhang Junyi shook his head and sighed in his heart: "Sure enough, this place in Seoul is a food desert. Eating a simple Western food is really not as good as those ramen shops in Tokyo with high ratings."

While walking towards his home, he took out his mobile phone to check the address of the store that made the shop. The address displayed on the website is in Chengbei District. He opened the map and searched. It was still a bit far away.

Then he searched for nearby supermarkets, but after opening the search, it was revealed that there were several large supermarkets in Qingtandong. Zhang Junyi planned to go to the supermarket here to discover the prices. After all, there are many things to prepare in the early stage of opening, but the most important thing is to choose ingredients.

No matter what he makes, the freshness of the ingredients, and the quality of the ingredients, they all need to be investigated in advance. And even the same ingredients have different textures.

Take simple potatoes as an example. Some potatoes have very floury texture, but some potatoes do not belong to the floury type. The lotus roots all have the same appearance, and there are also the difference between pink lotus root and crisp lotus root.

Pork, fed from ordinary markets, and raised in rural areas, and even Tibetan fragrant pigs that are free-range like those in the Western Regions.

Therefore, each food may be in a different geographical environment, or in a different breeding method, and the texture will be different.

So if Zhang Junyi wants to cook, the ingredients must first find a source of goods that satisfy him. Moreover, the decoration style of his store, coupled with the location in which the store is located, is destined to be impossible to follow the mass route, and it must be high-end!

Zhang Junyi first came to a supermarket ‘SSG’ not far from his home.

After entering the supermarket, Zhang Junyi discovered that this is a supermarket selling high-end products. Because all vegetables and fruits are organic products from South Korea, the imported ones include the island king, Shizuoka honeydew melon, etc. Pork has the top black pork in Jeju, South Korea, and the top Korean beef.

The ingredients and seasonings in the supermarket are very complete, and even various cheeses from Europe can be found here. Not only that, there are many top imported ingredients here, such as Australian Wagyu beef, Spanish black pig, French foie gras, Bres chicken, Russian caviar, truffle... and so on.

Of course there are also a lot of fresh seafood served freshly today!

Although the price of this supermarket is much more expensive than that of ordinary supermarkets, Zhang Junyi feels that his restaurant will take the high-end route in the future, so purchasing top-quality ingredients here is a good choice.

Of course, the final choice of ingredients still needs to be compared. Just like the black pig in South Korea and the black pig in Spain, what is the right choice between them?

After visiting the supermarket, Zhang Junyi felt that there was still something missing, such as the dry seafood that Chinese people prefer, such as dried abalone, shark fin, sea cucumber, etc. These "dry goods" have always been top-notch in Chinese cuisine ingredients.

It seems that these top-notch practical things still need to go to places like Chinatown to find hope.

Zhang Junyi visited this high-end supermarket and bought nothing, and even bought a bottle of water. Because he not only had to look at supermarkets with high-end ingredients, but also had to look for ordinary supermarkets, traditional markets and seafood markets.

After Zhang Junyi came out of the supermarket, he thought about getting the shop guide ready first. When he was looking for the address on the website, he hesitated and said, "Why don't you buy a car?"

Because he needs to keep looking for food purchase points for opening a restaurant, so it is quite appropriate to buy a car. However, before buying a car, he needs to go to the driving academy to register to change his driver's license, and replace the Chinese one with Korean one.

Why don’t you just use an international driver’s license? In fact, Zhang Junyi’s international driver’s license was bought on Taotao. Is it true? He himself is not sure.

Although there is no problem when renting a car in Hawaii, because the car rental company does not have strict inquiries about these things, if you meet a traffic policeman who is serious and carefully examined it, it will be a false certificate, the consequences will be very serious.

So just in case, he decided to change his driver's license. Because he heard that changing his driver's license in Seoul is very fast, after all, it only takes one week to get his driver's license.

It was said in the past that many Chinese people came to Korea to learn a driver's license because they were done in one week, traveled again, and learned to drive again. After going back, they just need to take the fourth subject (traffic rules) to get a driver's license.

It takes as soon as one month to learn driving in China.

Before applying for a driver's license, Zhang Junyi took a taxi to Chengbei District honestly. He had to order his own store sign first. The store sign is the two Chinese characters "Suyuan" as the main sign of the restaurant. Write a "fate" in the lower right corner of Suyuan.

At the place where the shop is being made, the boss asked Zhang Junyi what store it opened. When he learned that it was a cooking shop, he asked Zhang Junyi if he wanted to make the menu? They could be responsible for making it together.

After the shop owner asked, Zhang Junyi remembered that he had forgotten the very important thing of "menu". In the end, Zhang Junyi decided not to do it because he had not even made the final decision on what he needed to cook. Then he would write on the blackboard, "Top Chinese Cuisine: Omakase, as long as the set price is enough."

After ordering the store sign, it will take four days for the boss to make it. At that time, they will contact Zhang Junyi and be responsible for the installation.

After coming out of the shop-making shop, Zhang Junyi took a taxi to an ordinary supermarket in the north of Chengbei again, and he had to check out the affordable supermarkets.

Sitting in the taxi, Zhang Junyi was thinking about what car he wanted to buy. After looking at it, Zhang Junyi finally chose the Wrangler because it was cheap!

Buy a luxury sports car? I am not here to install it. In addition, the restaurant occasionally needs to purchase goods, so the sports car cannot load anything. His money is not enough to own hundreds of billions of Chinese coins, so he can't spend it.

He didn't think about sports cars and luxury cars. After all, he didn't think he would live here for a long time. So when choosing between more than 100,000 or 200,000, it was either a Korean car, an American or Japanese car, and the only one who could catch Zhang Junyi's eyes was the Wrangler.

Because the price of Wrangler in South Korea is about 200,000 yuan, and he thinks that driving a Wrangler is at least more elegant than driving a BMW.

He visited an ordinary supermarket in the north of the city. This supermarket is a very affordable mass supermarket. Pork is a very ordinary feed pig, and there are no black pigs.

Moreover, the beef in the supermarket is not of high quality. Compared with the so-called '1++' level Korean beef I saw in high-end supermarkets, the marble patterns here are much less, and of course the price is much cheaper.

What makes Zhang Junyi feel most strange is the leg meat, the double-cooked pork in Sichuan cuisine, the white garlic meat, and these meats that are used in large quantities are the cheapest type in Seoul, and there is no pork butter in the supermarket!

You should know that adding lard to fried rice is actually more fragrant than adding vegetable oil. And isn’t there a very classic lard bibimbap? Seeing such a cheap part, Zhang Junyi decided that he would cook Sichuan cuisine for the first time when he opened it!

After leaving the ordinary supermarket, Zhang Junyi ran to Jeep without stopping and ordered a new Wrangler. The vehicle had to wait three or five days before it could be delivered.

After paying the deposit to buy a car, Zhang Junyi went to the driving school again to ask about changing his driver's license. After paying the money, he came to study the traffic rules for three hours tomorrow morning and could take the traffic rules in the afternoon. If he passed the traffic rules exam successfully, he would take the road test immediately. It would be like if it went well, he would get the certificate in one day!

It is worthy of being a South Korea that only takes one week to learn driving! It only takes one day to change the certificate. When I was in Tokyo, Zhang Junyi also asked about changing the certificate. If you make a smooth appointment there, it will take one week to get the certificate as soon as possible. In comparison, South Korea is much more efficient.

After completing the procedures at the driving school, I made an appointment for tomorrow's study. It was already dinner time after leaving the driving school. Zhang Junyi rushed to the famous Hanniu restaurant in Cheongtandong.

He had to personally taste the difference between the so-called Korean beef and the Wagyu beef in the island country. After entering the store, he was facing an open kitchen, where the chef was cutting the Korean beef. Zhang Junyi was curious and looked at it.

In fact, when he was in the supermarket, he had already seen the highest and top snow pattern of Korean beef. In fact, in A4, which is what we often call M7. It does not have the exaggerated fat as top Wagyu beef, but for Zhang Junyi, this fat content is actually the most delicious.

Of course, eating too much ‘M7’ will make you feel tired, but it is not as exaggerated as above M9, and you will feel like you have a tight chest after taking a few bites.

After sitting down, Zhang Junyi looked at the price of the Korean beef, 100g, 43,000 yuan. Zhang Junyi chose a 300g platter and ordered raw beef and a soy sauce soup.

(End of this chapter)
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