The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

The only large traditional Chinese restaurant in New York, USA, Yang Dongxu in casual attire let go of Zhou Ya, who clasped his fingers together, and stepped forward to give his aunt Ran Feifei a big hug.

"Are you going home for the Chinese New Year this year?" Yang Dongxu asked directly after the hug.

"It's just after the Chinese New Year, so don't disturb me, can you?" Ran Feifei reached out to knock Yang Dongxu on the head, but he dodged away.

Originally, when the Chinese restaurant opened in New York, Ran Feifei was very happy from the fact that there were few customers until now it was full of guests, but Yang Dongxu's words made her feel depressed instantly.

"Didn't I remind you in advance, a serious warning? If you don't go back this year, if my grandpa arrests someone, I can only book him a plane ticket."

Thinking about the long time since the New Year's Eve, my grandpa hasn't shown the look of wanting to beat me up. Yang Dongxu decided to take his aunt back to celebrate the New Year no matter what this year, even though it's not long after the New Year and the end of the year is still far away.

"I'm too lazy to care about you, and you don't care about him." Ran Feifei gave Yang Dongxu a sideways look, then walked into the restaurant with Zhou Ya's arm in her arms.

Opening a Chinese restaurant here in New York helped Zhou Ya a lot. In addition, both of them were abroad alone, so they got in touch with each other and gradually became good sisters. As for Ran Feifei is Yang Dongxu's aunt, and Zhou Ya is the wife Yang Dongxu is going to marry. Neither of them cared about this argument.

Yang Dongxu turned his head and looked at the restaurant while walking. To be honest, as the owner of Yang Jiayan, it is a bit too much for his restaurant to open a branch abroad for the first time without asking much. But the more he looked at it, the more he was satisfied. He instantly put this little guilt behind him.

The entire restaurant is similar to what was discussed with Ran Feifei before. It directly won a five-story building in the center of New York. It took a lot of time to train people and it took more than a year before it opened.

And it took such a long time to open at such a high price, the hardware facilities of the restaurant needless to say must be first-class. The shape of the restaurant has been transformed into a traditional Chinese octagonal structure with cornices. Needless to say, every decoration, whether it is tables, chairs, benches, columns, doors and windows, is all antique and traditional decorations.

There are no goblets, and no knives and forks, just to take care of foreigners who don't know how to use chopsticks to add spoons to the tableware. When you go to Starbucks to drink coffee, you must speak English. After all, it is too difficult not to force you to speak Chinese for business, but you must insist on eating with chopsticks.

The tableware is mainly made of white porcelain, and the meals must also be traditional Chinese meals, and there are a few streets of Western food that seem to be carefully decorated on the plate. The carving of Chinese food is not a plate, but an art, understand?

In the beginning, due to such and such regulations, and the fact that Chinese food does not meet the tastes of Europeans and Americans, the pre-opening performance can be said to be dismal.

But Chinese characteristics are really unique. If you are not used to it, you cannot say that she is not attractive. So at Ran Feifei's insistence, Zhou Ya's help.

First, some Chinese came to know about this restaurant and came to dine, and then some Americans who dared to try discovered this restaurant, and then the restaurant finally stopped losing money.

But now, as a Yangjiayan branch with the largest overseas investment, the restaurant is not making much money now. But Yang Dongxu and Ran Feifei are very satisfied with achieving a balance of payments. After all, it will take time for people who have never eaten Chinese food to accept the taste of Chinese food, so there is no rush.

"There are not many people now, and there are more people in the morning. Recently, I am thinking whether to extend the breakfast that is only sold in the morning to the whole day." Ran Feifei took Zhou Ya's arm, and walked forward while talking to the people who followed her. Yang Dongxu said.

Compared with the main meal in Chinese food, the restaurant’s main source of income is breakfast. Ran Feifei didn’t know whether to cry or laugh at this point. It was really hit by what Yang Dongxu said before, and the Yang family banquet was opened in the United States to sell steamed buns.

Of course, breakfast in the morning is definitely more than selling steamed buns. After discovering that breakfast is more popular and accepted by Americans. Then Ran Feifei transferred several excellent meal chefs from China.

Based on Cantonese-style breakfast and combined with breakfast features from all over the country, it opened the eyes of the American people for the first time to know that there are so many delicious things in the morning besides coffee, hot dogs and sandwiches. Especially some desserts are extremely popular.

"No change." Yang Dongxu twitched his lips, and said a little waywardly: "If you want to eat, you can buy it in the morning, and you don't sell it at other times."

Seeing Yang Dongxu's arrogant and willful face, Zhou Ya and Ran Feifei smiled and did not speak. If it is for the income of the restaurant, it must be changed, after all, no boss is too stupid not to do it in the face of profitable business.

However, the Yang family banquet in New York is obviously not just for making money, so Ran Feifei will not insist on Yang Dongxu's waywardness. Even combined with the actual situation of Americans rushing to work in the morning, changing it, for example, putting it at dinner time earlier will indeed make more money.

The restaurant on the first floor is very large, but there are not many dining seats, compared to the slightly crowded tables and chairs in domestic restaurants. The Yang family banquet in front of you can be regarded as a scenic spot to visit.

First, after entering the lobby, there is a feng shui pool in the middle that occupies almost the same area as the first floor. In the center of the pool is a huge Shoushan stone, which was specially airlifted from China.

Surrounded by carved railings and jade bricks, various sculptures and ancient buildings, such as vivid plank roads, octagonal pavilions, etc., condense several famous domestic scenic spots. The greenery and bonsai that have made great efforts are all around.

One step into the restaurant, people have a sense of isolation of the hustle and bustle of the metropolis and instantly step into the antique Chinese nature. When the restaurant first opened, because of the feng shui pool, a large number of guests came to take pictures but did not eat, which made Ran Feifei almost charge the entrance fee.

But you have to say that good things are good things, the quintessence of the ancestors left behind, even in the United States without any Chinese cultural heritage.

When faced with this kind of art, everyone still couldn't help being a little surprised, and they could also get the charm of Chinese civilization. For example, a person who is tired and irritable, suddenly feels the tranquility of walking into nature after stepping into the restaurant.

This seems to be the same as the familiar feeling of sitting in a coffee shop and watching the sunset enjoying the tranquility, but it feels different. Therefore, the restaurant on the first floor is often occupied by people, not for eating, but as if sitting in a cafe for leisure.

But what hurts some foreign guests is that there is no coffee in the restaurant, and the main drink is tea. Even though Ran Feifei invited several good tea art masters from China, some guests were not used to it because of the difference in taste, so besides tea, they also prepared fruit juice.

For many customers, coffee or cola is recommended. Ran Feifei accepted it humbly, but she had no intention of adding these things to the drink.

"The sound of running water should be turned down a bit, right?" Yang Dongxu said looking at the gurgling water on the Shoushan Stone.

In fact, the sound of running water is not very loud. In addition, a lot of money was spent on sound insulation when decorating the interior. Even though the first floor is a hall, the interval between tables is semi-open, and the sound of water will be small after passing through. a lot of.

"Yes?" Ran Feifei nodded and looked at Yang Dongxu.

"How about adjusting the sound of the water occasionally, and setting up a table here, where a little girl in Hanfu plays the zither, pipa, or flute?" Yang Dongxu stretched out his hand and gestured beside the Fengshui pool. one time.

"It's a very good proposal. I thought about it when a customer proposed to put a piano in the hall before. It's just that I have been a little busy recently, and I must hire someone from China for the guzheng and flute. Not a small expense."

Although she understands Yang Dongxu's meaning of promoting Chinese culture, Ran Feifei does not plan to use this restaurant to make money, but as a qualified manager, it is impossible for her to spend money in it regardless of cost, to promote Chinese culture while the restaurant's revenue and expenditure Questions are clearly one of the yardsticks that affect her decisions.

"You don't need to perform every day, just once in a while. Haina has a branch in the United States, and they are also doing a certain amount of promotion of Chinese folk musical instruments. I say hello to Haina, and occasionally let someone from there come over to perform. You reimburse people for air tickets and give some appearance fees. This is much more convenient than inviting people from China to perform."

"Okay, later I'll have someone tidy up the side, and then I'll buy some musical instruments from China. It's easy to talk about flutes, and the guqin is so big that it's too troublesome for people to carry it back and forth." Ran Feifei nodded and made some supplements.

Yang Dongxu gave a thumbs up and praised his aunt for her thoughtful consideration.

The landscape on the first floor, the eight main cuisines from the second to third floors, and the VIP boxes on the fourth and fifth floors. In addition, the waiters are dressed in different ethnic costumes every day. Don’t look at the suits and leather shoes or the guests dressed in various colors, but look at these waiters and the surrounding antique decorations, it is easy to feel whether you have stepped into an ancient Chinese civilization. in the history.

It's a pity that Americans don't like to be noisy when they eat. They want to go back to the bar to drink instead of punching at the table. Otherwise, it would be nice to come and listen to some opera.

"Occasionally, you can put on some skill performances at the entrance, just as a publicity for the restaurant. These people don't need to be invited from China. There are actually many traditional ethnic artists in Chinatown. Go to some associations in Chinatown to discuss it. I think they'd love to do those things."

"I'm already doing it." Ran Feifei said with a smile.

Some people say that one Chinese is a dragon and three Chinese are worms. They think that the Chinese like to fight among themselves. But when you go abroad, you will find that many Chinese are actually very united. Chinatown is not built just because there are too many Chinese living in it, nor can it be done by one person. It is the result of group cooperation.

There are dragon and lion dances during festivals, various celebrations when shops open, and sometimes the Chinese in Chinatown pay more attention to things handed down from their ancestors than domestic people.