From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 207 The railway station food stall opens

Chen Anbang followed Feng Zhengming and set up a food stall curtain outside the train station square, then arranged tables and chairs inside, and finally erected a signboard next to the cart.

Although Chen Anbang worked conscientiously, he kept his head hanging and was not very interested.

Feng Zhengming saw this, and when the stall was set up, while there were no customers yet, he asked Chen Anbang to sit down and chat.

"Do you think it's embarrassing to come out with me to work at a food stall?"

Chen Anbang shook his head and said, "No."

Feng Zhengming smiled and said, "Then why do you look so uninterested?"

"I just don't understand. You are obviously the boss, why do you like to set up a stall on the street?" Chen Anbang asked tactfully.

"No reason." Feng Zhengming replied seriously, "What is the most important thing for a chef? The most important thing is craftsmanship, so what does it mean to be good at craftsmanship? Of course, it is to be able to make dishes that people like to eat. How can you make dishes that people like to eat? Favorite dish? The key is to understand other people’s tastes.”

Chen Anbang couldn't help but say: "Everyone has different tastes."

Feng Zhengming nodded: "Yes, everyone's taste will be different, but if you want to create a mass taste that most people will find delicious, you need to get close to the people eating."

Chen Anbang is not stupid. He basically understood what Feng Zhengming meant when he heard this.

"Boss, what do you mean, by setting up food stalls here, you can know other people's tastes up close?"

Feng Zhengming nodded: "On the one hand, I can get closer to understand the tastes of most people, and on the other hand, I can better improve my cooking skills in this kind of street market."

Chen Anbang was a little surprised: "Can I better improve my cooking skills here?"

At this moment, people began to leave the train station one after another.

Feng Zhengming did not answer Chen Anbang, but pulled him to stand up and said, "Someone has left the station to shout and attract customers."

Chen Anbang was pulled up, and when he heard what Feng Zhengming said, he suddenly looked incredulous.

"Still shouting? To attract customers?"

Feng Zhengming nodded: "Of course, louder."

Chen Anbang was pulled to stand in front of the stall. He saw many people walking out of the train station. He opened his mouth several times but was too embarrassed to shout.

Feng Zhengming was always embarrassed to speak when he saw Chen Anbang.

He could only take a step forward and start shouting at the crowd.

"If you are passing by, come and take a look. The most authentic Feng Jia Gan Rice Shop in Quancheng has meat, five-spice boneless pork trotters and Sixi Meatballs. Now you don’t have to go to Feng Jia Gan Rice Shop. You can eat it here. Our Feng Jia Gan Rice Shop The chef of the dry rice shop personally cooks the dishes, and there are various stir-fried dishes you can order. Do you want to eat? Come and have a look."

Chen Anbang was really shocked. He didn't expect Feng Zhengming to shout.

As Feng Zhengming shouted, he attracted the attention of many people outside the station.

Even some people who were originally walking in other directions in the square in front of the station were attracted by Feng Zhengming's shouting, and some even came over to take a look.

In a short period of time, a group of people came to the stall to watch Feng Zhengming and Chen Anbang.

Chen Anbang was surrounded by so many people, and he felt like he wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

The soles of my shoes were almost torn by my toes.

I can carve out a three-bedroom and one-living room on the cement floor under my feet.

Facing so many people watching in front of him, Chen Anbang really wanted to pull Feng Zhengming away first.

But Feng Zhengming not only did not flinch, nor was he embarrassed at all, but instead smiled at the onlookers.

"Do you want to eat? Our Fengjiagang Restaurant's pork is absolutely authentic. Look at my sign. If it's fake, you must eat the pork when you come to Quancheng. If you want to eat the pork, you must go to the Fengjiagang Restaurant. This is Everyone should have heard of this, right?"

Chen Anbang wanted to help the onlookers by saying, "Who has heard of this?"

Feng Zhengming saw that the onlookers were silent. He continued to greet everyone and continued to speak.

"No way? Haven't you guys heard of Quancheng Pork? Is this your first time in Quancheng? Our Feng family's restaurant's Pork is definitely the best in Quancheng. I've even been featured in newspapers and Where’s the TV news?”

Finally, someone in the crowd spoke.

"You are the one that was reported in the newspaper earlier, Master Xiao Feng, who went to Jubin Garden to compete with others on cooking skills, and competed alone with the three chefs in Jubin Garden, right?"

Seeing that someone recognized him, Feng Zhengming greeted him cheerfully.

"Yes, have you heard of me? Have you ever gone to our Feng Family Restaurant to eat our meat?"

The other party naturally nodded and said, "I've eaten there."

Feng Zhengming continued to ask: "What do you think of the taste? Is it the most authentic taste in Quancheng?"

The other party nodded again: "Yes, it tastes really good."

Feng Zhengming immediately turned around and reached out to lift the lid of the large pot on the cart.

"You don't have to go to Fengjiagang Restaurant today. From now on, you can eat the most authentic Fengjiagang Restaurant meat here at the train station."

The lid of the pot was lifted, and the onlookers immediately saw that the pot was full.

On one side of the pot are neatly stacked pieces of meat.

On one side are eggs that are already delicious.

Feng Zhengming then opened a pot next to him, which contained tofu, dried tofu, gluten and large green peppers.

Not long after seeing the contents of the pot, everyone smelled the aroma wafting from the pot.

When they smelled the aroma, the person who recognized Feng Zhengming immediately said, "Bring me a piece of meat, a piece of tofu, a green pepper, and a piece of rice."

Feng Zhengming smiled and agreed: "Okay, go in and sit down, I'll be here soon."

After acknowledging the other party, Feng Zhengming reached out and patted Chen Anbang, who was still dazed next to him.

"Don't be stunned. Don't you see any guests? Hurry up and ask the guests to sit down and serve them food."

Chen Anbang woke up immediately after being patted, and then he quickly turned around and quickly walked into the cart to serve the guests meat, tofu, green peppers and rice.

The first customer entered the food stall and sat down.

Feng Zhengming continued to greet other people watching.

"Would you like to try it? It's definitely the most authentic in Quancheng. In addition to the pork trotters, there are also Sixi meatballs. If you want to eat stir-fried dishes, we also have them here. They are all freshly fried."

After being greeted by Feng Zhengming, people finally began to enter the food stall one after another and take a seat.

Outside the station square, just like at the South Station, there are naturally other vendors setting up stalls.

Originally, because the Quancheng Old Railway Station was relatively large, the area outside the square was even larger, so the places where everyone set up stalls would be relatively far apart.

As a result, Feng Zhengming shouted like this and attracted people to him.

The vendors guarding other directions in the square were a little puzzled.

"Didn't a car just pull into the station? Why didn't anyone come out?"

With Feng Zhengming, the first wave of business was completed. Naturally, the movements on his side began to attract more curious people to come and take a look.

Being so curious and getting a closer look at the situation, most people who hadn't eaten couldn't resist the temptation.

If not, buy a handful of pork, five-spice boneless pork trotters or Sixi meatballs to take away.

Or just find a seat, sit down, order a stir-fry and have a good meal.

Chen Anbang had a look of disbelief on his face, watching helplessly as Feng Zhengming shouted and cooked, but he only received a few rounds of customers, and the meat, pig's trotters and Sixi meatballs were sold out first.

Most of the stir-fry dishes are also consumed quickly.

Just after eight o'clock in the evening, Feng Zhengming called to Chen Anbang: "Pack up, let's go back."

Chen Anbang was a little surprised: "Going back now?"

Feng Zhengming smiled: "Everything is sold out, why don't you go back? What are you doing here?"

Chen Anbang quickly raised his head to take a look and found that all the dishes he had brought tonight were almost used up, especially the various meats.

With the few vegetables left, even if the customers arrive, they won't be able to make a few dishes.

Chen Anbang couldn't help but sigh: "It's sold out so early."

Feng Zhengming asked: "What's so surprising?"

Without waiting for Chen Anbang to answer, Feng Zhengming continued: "Today is the first day here. We haven't prepared many things. We have been selling from 5:30 in the afternoon to more than 8 o'clock. You still think it's early?"

Chen Anbang said: "On the first day we came here, people didn't recognize us."

Feng Zhengming said: "Yes, if you don't recognize us, then you didn't say anything to help us. You are really cowardly. Let me see, I will bring Lao Shen here tomorrow night, and you stay in the shop."

Chen Anbang quickly said: "No, boss, I am willing to come to the stall with you."

Then seeing that Feng Zhengming remained silent, Chen Anbang promised: "I will definitely attract customers tomorrow."

Feng Zhengming urged: "Pack up your things quickly and clean up everything on the floor."

"Oh, okay." Chen Anbang responded, a little strange, "Why do we need to clean up the floor? Aren't there people cleaning here?"

Feng Zhengming said: "We borrowed someone else's place to set up a stall, so of course we have to clean it up, otherwise it will be dirty and messy. Wouldn't you feel uncomfortable if you come to set up a stall again tomorrow?"

Chen Anbang finally followed Feng Zhengming and cleaned up the floor.

Throw all kinds of garbage into the garbage truck on the roadside outside the square.

Then he came back to dismantle the shed, pack up all the tables and chairs, and load them into the car. Feng Zhengming led Chen Anbang out of the train station.

When Feng Zhengming and others returned to the shop, everyone in the dry rice shop was a little surprised.

Yang Bin exclaimed: "You came back so early?"

Shen Rongsen also felt incredible: "All sold out?"

Duan Sufen and Wei Xiuling, who had already come to work at the restaurant, both looked in disbelief.

Chen Anbang saw that everyone was surprised. He found it very interesting and said proudly: "It's all sold out. The boss stepped in and attracted a lot of people with just a shout. After a few waves of customers, everything was sold out."

Yang Bin said with a smile: "I thought you were going to stay there a little later. I also said that I would go over and have a look after the shop is finished."

Feng Zhengming said seriously: "Third brother, you don't trust my craftsmanship."

Yang Bin quickly said: "Don't dare, I'm impressed by your craftsmanship."

Shen Rongsen said with a smile: "Sure enough, once the boss takes action, it will be different."

Chen Anbang looked proud: "Old Shen, you haven't sold out yet? It seems that you can't do it here."

Seeing Chen Anbang's proud face, Shen Rongsen's smile froze, and then he said, "There are so many things in the shop, it's definitely not like you and the boss selling them as fast as you go to the train station."

Feng Zhengming saw Chen Anbang's proud face and couldn't help but expose his shorts.

"Are you embarrassed to be blustering here? I asked you to shout over there, but you just opened your mouth and didn't make a sound. Now you are really good at speaking."

Being exposed, Chen Anbang suddenly stopped.

Shen Rongsen burst out laughing after hearing this: "Hahaha, you just opened your mouth and didn't make a sound. It turns out that Xiao Chen, you didn't play your role at night?"

Chen Anbang was a little embarrassed, but he still argued with reason.

"I, I was embarrassed for the first time, but later I also helped to shout, and I helped serve the dishes and clear the table. It was not useless at all."

Seeing Chen Anbang argue hard for his role, everyone burst into laughter.

Feng Zonggu looked at everyone's happy appearance and couldn't help but feel that the atmosphere was really good.

In the old man's opinion, if this atmosphere is maintained, business will naturally get better and better in the future.

In the next period of time, the food stall business at Feng Zhengming Railway Station gradually stabilized.

It's not just train station passengers who go in and out of the station to eat.

Some people who live near the train station have learned that Feng Zhengming runs a food stall near the train station every night, so they simply no longer go to Feng's restaurant to get hungry for meat or pig's trotters, or to have a few drinks at a gathering. For wine, just go to the food stalls directly.

On the other side, Zhao Chaoxing found that the store at the train station had just opened and there were quite a lot of people.

The trains stopped running again at the old station, which caused the new store at the train station to have a booming business, and there were even queues during peak hours.

But it only lasted a week, and the business of the new store at the train station quickly began to decline.

Although there are still many people in the new store every day, the flow of people is obviously decreasing every day.

Xu Yingzhu and Liu Qing did not notice this.

The couple still feels that the business in the store is very good, and they feel lucky for the successful transformation.

So Zhao Chaoxing felt that there were fewer people when he told Xu Yingzhu and Liu Qing.

The couple looked confused, and both said they didn't notice there were fewer people.

Liu Qing said: "It's those people every day. Although there are many people coming and going at the train station, they don't all have time to eat. Cousin, do you feel wrong?"

Xu Yingzhu continued: "I still feel like I have to cook so much every day. Originally, our store didn't mainly focus on cooking. It would be better to sell meat."

Zhao Chaoxing heard both of them say this, and he himself began to have self-doubt.

"Is it really that I felt wrong? Or maybe everyone thought it was new at first, so they all wanted to try it. Now that the novelty has passed, they are no longer curious?"

Liu Qing immediately echoed: "Cousin-in-law, you are right. At first, there were many people who were not catching the train. They learned that our new store was opening, so they came here to try it. Now they may have tasted it, and others don't Maybe they come here to eat out every day, so don’t there seem to be fewer people than before?”

Xu Yingzhu also agreed with his wife: "Yes, cousin-in-law, our main business is the train station business."

Although Zhao Chaoxing always felt that something was wrong?

But looking at the happy faces of Xu Yingzhu and Liu Qing, he could only comfort himself by saying, "The new store opening period has passed."

(End of this chapter)