The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

As night fell, the red-faced Maserati sports car was 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 think he liked the first sports car in front of him very much back then, and he felt honored to drive it on Chang'an Avenue. But when I drive such a sports car on the street again after many years, I always feel a kind of boring feeling.

"Perhaps it's because the mentality of becoming a father is more mature." Yang Dongxu couldn't help muttering in his heart, and then gave the car keys in his hand to the younger brother who parked at the Yang Family Banquet.

At this time, the night had just fallen and the lanterns were on, but there were already a lot 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 also developing rapidly, especially in an international metropolis like Yanjing.

Therefore, the competition in industries such as the catering industry is actually very cruel. Didn’t you see that the canteens of state-owned enterprises have closed down one after another, and even the BJ’s restaurant has opened to the outside world?

In this highly competitive catering industry, the Yang Family Banquet is definitely unique. It has never advertised like some old restaurants, such as Quanjude’s roast duck, which has become a must-try dish for tourists who come to Yanjing. As a result, old Yanjing people seem to be more and more resistant to roast duck. .

Unlike other newly emerging restaurants, there are all kinds of western food, and the European and American decoration styles are full of style. From the opening to the present, Yang Jiayan has only one decoration style - classical.

At the same time, there is only one principle of cooking - authenticity.

Many people know that after Chinese food arrives in a foreign country, they have to make some changes according to the tastes of foreigners, so as to open their own restaurant business.

Even in China, due to the surprise of the north and south regions, many restaurants will make slight changes to suit the tastes of the locals. But Yang Jiayan has never made these changes, whether at home or abroad.

Yang Jiayan said that they cook Sichuan cuisine, which is definitely the most authentic Sichuan cuisine without any discount. It is said that it is Cantonese cuisine, and it is definitely Cantonese cuisine. Even if it does not meet 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’s Banquet is the right place, it is definitely authentic hometown taste, not fake hometown food.

In the eyes of many colleagues, such a restaurant is looking for death. If it weren't for the well-known palace dishes, the Yang family banquet might have been cold long ago.

After all, you are in the north. A large group of customers like to eat steamed buns, but you want to sell pastries, and those greasy southern pastries, how can there be business?

But what surprised these people who wanted to see a joke was that the business of the Yang Family Banquet was so good that it was ridiculous.

If a foreigner comes to work in Yanjing and wants to have a bite of hometown food, ask a friend for a more low-key cooking, and at least eight out of ten people recommend Yang Jiayan.

However, it is a little different from the unified recommendation of 'Yang Family Banquet' in that they may add a few words in front. For example, if you want to eat authentic Anhui cuisine, then going to Wangfujing Yang’s Banquet is the first choice.

It is said that the boss of Yang Family Banquet is from Anhui Province. Therefore, Yang Family Banquet in Wangfujing is the first head office. Apart from the signature palace dishes, Anhui cuisine is the most authentic, which can definitely make you feel the taste of your hometown.

If you want to eat Cantonese cuisine, the Yang Family Banquet at Daqianmen is the first choice. For Sichuan cuisine, the Yang Family Banquet at the West Third Ring Road has always had a good reputation.

In short, if you want to eat hometown food in Yanjing, you can go directly to Yangjiayan. As long as you don’t go to the wrong branch of Yangjiayan, you can definitely find a taste that satisfies you.

Seeing that the Yang Family Banquet was so successful, it's not like no one imitated it. But all these imitations have failed. One is a restaurant that wants to include all kinds of cuisines. After a period of operation, not only the kitchen expenses have skyrocketed, but it is easy to play a four-way thing.

Even if they have the capital to catch up with the scale of the Yang Family Banquet in Yanjing, they cannot catch up with the scale of the Yang Family Banquet in the whole country. You must know that in order to ensure that the dishes prepared by the master of the Yang family banquet are absolutely authentic, the chef in the back kitchen is transferred every three years.

For example, a chef who cooks Anhui cuisine, because he has worked in Yanjing for a long time all year round, obviously has some subtle influence on cooking. In order to avoid these influences, the Anhui cuisine chef will be transferred back to Yangjiayan in Anhui Province after working in Yanjing for three years, and then a local Anhui cuisine chef will be transferred from Anhui Province to take over.

In this way, the taste of the Yangjiayan dishes is maintained at a high level of authenticity. If you eat roasted whole lamb at the Inner Mongolian-style Yangjiayan, what you eat will be exactly the same as the roasted whole lamb on the grassland. The chef is absolutely authentic from Inner Mongolia.

Therefore, the authentic flavor, which was not favored at first and did not know how to adapt it at all, not only did not drag the Yang family banquet back, but became the signature of the Yang family banquet.

Especially as the development of Yanjing is becoming more and more international, more and more foreigners come to Yanjing to develop. Many low-key Yangjiayan businesses have been doing very well since they opened their stores. Although the price is very expensive, some ordinary wage-earners go there once a month. With such a large base guarantee, the business of Yang Family Banquet is still booming.

The Yang Family Banquet that Yang Dongxu came to today is not the main store in Wangfujing, but a branch store on Chang'an Avenue. Chang'an is now Xi'an, so the main dishes are naturally Shaanxi-style specialties.

Dinner is the most difficult time for Yang’s banquet to be booked. As soon as you enter the gate, you can feel the booming business of Yang’s banquet. Not only is the hall full of people, but there are also many party guests in the rest area next to it.

Especially the top-level box upstairs, even if it is booked a week in advance, it may not be available. There are even quite a few real bigwigs who directly give some top-level boxes to yearly subscriptions. That's right, they are not monthly subscriptions but direct annual subscriptions. They are rich and self-willed.

I didn't stay on the first floor and walked directly to the back under the leadership of the waiter and then went up to the attic on the second floor. Every year, some branches of Yangjiayan had to choose to expand because the location was too small at that time.

Some bought the nearby land for expansion, and some of the land that could not be bought simply moved directly, not at all afraid of losing old customers because of the move.

When he arrived at the luxury private room, Yang Dongxu originally thought that he arrived ten minutes early, which was already considered early. Unexpectedly, today's guests had already arrived, and there were already three people in the private room.

Liu Zongsheng, the general manager of Haina, Zhang Weiping, the boss of New Screen, and Zhang Yimou, a well-known domestic director.

To be honest, not only Zhang Yimou, but also Zhang Weiping were very surprised when they heard that the big boss of Haina invited them to dinner. After all, since Yang Dongxu went to Hangzhou to attend university.

In Yanjing, there are only legends about him. Every time he returns to Yanjing, he just eats with old friends like Li Yihang. He has never heard of inviting others to dinner.

Many people who want to climb up to Yang Dongxu's level and enter his circle can get in touch with Li Yihang's level with a lot of effort. As for the inner circle, it seems that it has not been moved since it was set many years ago.

It's not that there are some people with status and background who use their brains, but even if they get in touch 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 he was invited by his big boss and that he would bring Zhang Yimou with him. This made Zhang Weiping very nervous at the time, thinking that Haina was trying to catch Zhang Yimou's attention, but this was a pillar of his own house, the kind of load-bearing pillar that was poached and finished in an instant in the new picture.

But after thinking about it, I feel that it is impossible. After all, Haina wants to poach Zhang Yimou, because he is in direct contact with Zhang Yimou. It is impossible to inform her boss first, and poach someone in front of him, a big boss. Such humiliation really makes him think Is someone Zhang made of mud? Not to mention Haina, China Film Group did not dare to be so arrogant.

So after thinking for a while, he figured out that the other party probably came for the new film "Hero", and Liu Zongsheng didn't play any tricks to hide it after making side-talks.

This made Zhang Weiping, who had never prepared funds for the film, change from surprise to joy in an instant. If Hainer is really interested in "Hero", let alone the remaining half of the funds, even Hainer can afford all the funds.

"Sit and sit, don't stand, everyone is a big brother regardless of age, this is a bit frustrating for me." Yang Dongxu who walked into the box quickly pressed his hand.

He didn't have any humility for the main seat that was vacant, and he sat on it directly. Although he was young at the scene, there was no problem at all for him to sit on the main seat based on his status and capital.

"Have you ordered anything?" Yang Dongxu asked casually after motioning everyone to sit down.

"Not yet. We've just arrived to talk about movies." Liu Zongsheng said with a smile.

"Then let me order. I'm not polite. I didn't order any of your favorite dishes. You can't blame me if you don't feel full." Yang Dongxu took the menu half-jokingly, and ordered two Yang family banquet main dishes. I also ordered a few very distinctive Shaanxi dishes.

The only reason why I chose this Yang’s banquet to treat guests is that I came here because of Shaanxi cuisine, or Zhang Yimou. As the future chief director of the movie National Teacher, Zhang Yimou has a higher status in his heart than Zhang Weiping.

After all, as a capital, he is better than Zhang Weiping, and 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 has to be counted in the promotion. And Zhang Yimou is a real national teacher who must be respected.

Zhang Yimou is a native of Xi’an. Although he studied in Yanjing, he was directly assigned to Guangxi after graduation. In fact, he didn’t stay in Yanjing for a long time. He came to Yanjing only after working with New Picture in the past few years. .

But because of filming, he spends most of his time strolling all over the country, so coming to this Yang family banquet with a very authentic Shaanxi flavor can also show Yang Dongxu's respect for this future national teacher.