Fenghou BBQ
"Lin"'s store exploration video received unprecedented high likes and clicks.
With the added traffic from the Little Green Book, Zheng Cheng’s D-site fans exceeded 110,000.
What surprised him even more was that Little Green Book's followers had already reached 30,000. His tweet about No. 72 Jiangkou Old Street had over 3,000 comments.
Zhou Min explained that Little Green Book's traffic is driven by discussion, so if the comments section is highly interactive, it will be shared with more people. He then asked a question about childhood, which inadvertently resonated with many people.
[Uniform reply: My friend’s new store is open for trial operation. I went there to have fun. I will notify everyone when it officially opens.]
He pinned a post and it actually got thousands of likes. Quite a few people were squatting and kicking it below.
"How come Hu Hanyu happened to meet you? Is everything really okay?" Xiao Ming was a little worried because he knew that he had followed Hu Hanyu to No. 72 Jiangkou Old Street alone and was planning to invest.
"People in Jiangkou Old Street, it's better to be careful." Zhou Ren also added, "Let our lawyer review the contract. It's safer."
"It's only 200,000 yuan. I just bought one less piece of clothing. Is it that serious?" Zheng Cheng calculated the purchase cost. 200,000 yuan was enough for the store to last for two months, which was almost the end of Hu Hanyu's contract. If there was really a problem, he could cut it cleanly at that time.
"Oh, only 200,000? That's okay." Zhou Min picked up the book.
Only? Xiao Ming's jaw dropped. It was almost half a year's salary.
"By the way, you can also cut out a clip of the behind-the-scenes footage from the D-site video and put it in your little green book. You can also put some background sound of talking or something." Zheng Cheng carefully studied Taozhi Yaoyao's little green book with his trumpet and found that he often diverted traffic from both sides in this way, so he copied it.
"Okay, I happened to have a few shots of you and Hu Hanyu chatting happily." Xiao Ming immediately took note. "By the way, Brother Cheng, you are dressed so casually today. It's a bit different from your usual style."
Today, Zheng Cheng wore a large T-shirt and tied his hair loosely in a low, warrior-like bun. He looked completely different from the gentleman he had portrayed in the video. The reason for this was that Hu Hanyu had sent him a message early this morning:
[Eat and drink: The place we went to today is a bit shabby, so don't dress too fancy. It's fine as it is today.]
When he went to see Dr. Yin, he just did whatever he felt comfortable with, a big T-shirt and overalls. Zheng Cheng looked very petite in them, and through the video, you probably wouldn't notice that he actually had a big boob.
"Isn't this a transformation?" He didn't intend to say it was because of Hu Hanyu. It just happened to be a bit of a contrast and it was quite fresh.
Following Hu Hanyu's instructions, they did not drive but took a taxi to the intersection.
Fenghou BBQ is located in a fork road under the Jiangdu Road overpass. Hu Hanyu stood at the intersection, leaning against the road sign and scratching the mosquito bite on his arm. It blends in perfectly with the surrounding old city.
"I know the boss of this store. I gave him a heads-up, so the branch is open to us today and there's no one else there." Hu Hanyu explained as he led them there.
"Is it a chain? Does it have branches?" Xiao Ming was a little confused.
"It's not a chain store. You'll know what it's like when you get there." Hu Hanyu said with a smile, "The environment in the branch store is slightly better. As for the old store... I'm afraid you won't be used to it."
"If it's dirty, I'll leave immediately." Zheng Cheng warned.
Fenghou BBQ is a shop along the street. There is a charcoal stove at the door. The owner is adding charcoal to the stove with his upper body naked. Hu Hanyu walked up to say hello.
"You only have one hour, don't affect my future business." The boss threw him a key.
"Is this a secret room? You talk to NPCs to get items." Xiao Ming had a big question mark on his head.
Just a few steps forward along the old store, Hu Hanyu inserted the key into a liver-colored security door, opened the door and invited them in.
No matter how you look at it, this door looks like an entrance door, and there should be a living room or something inside.
When you walk in, it is indeed a living room.
"This is the branch." said Hu Hanyu.
"Is this the branch with a slightly better environment?" Zheng Cheng asked.
"Just take a look next door..."
"No, I believe it. Okay, I believe it." Zheng Cheng took a deep breath.
There is a large round table in the middle of the 20-square-meter area. The boss probably had his New Year's Eve dinner here. There was a round table and red lanterns and couplets hanging on the wall.
Very good, I can still use it next year.
The branch is relatively clean, but the smoky and sticky smell of barbecue is unavoidable, and the floor is a bit creaky.
Yan Xiaoming had been driving the GoPro since he was on the road. He secretly glanced at Zheng Cheng to see if he was suitable to continue filming, fearing that he couldn't handle it.
He often ate this kind of barbecue during his break, but when filming with Zheng Cheng, he never stepped on this kind of creaking white tile floor.
Fortunately, Zheng Cheng's expression was still calm. He just tried hard to avoid touching the dusty walls and the mismatched tables and chairs when walking.
"What do you want to drink?" Hu Hanyu opened the refrigerator in the corner. "Coke, soy milk, iced black tea, orange juice, and beer."
"I'll just drink Coke, but Brother Cheng doesn't drink these." Xiao Ming leaned over to take a look.
"... Let's have a Coke, I'm the tallest among the short ones." Zheng Cheng picked a wooden chair with a backrest from the tables and chairs, touched it with his fingertips before sitting down.
"Don't you want to drink some Orange Juice?" Hu Hanyu asked him, "You smell a lot like Orange Juice."
"Mine is Capri Orange! Yours is Pulpy Orange, yours is FamilyMart Pulpy Orange!" Zheng Cheng controlled the volume politely. The security door didn't seem to be very soundproof.
Hu Hanyu took three glass bottles of Coke, opened them one by one with the bottle opener hanging on the handle of the refrigerator, inserted a straw and handed it to them.
"Don't you have a cup or something?" Zheng Cheng finally couldn't control the expression he had been trying so hard to control, and frowned.
"Glass bottle, straw, glass cup, straw, think about it." Hu Hanyu flicked the bottle and knocked his head.
GoPro recorded Zheng Cheng's silent cursing.
The menu at Fenghou BBQ was simple, with only ten items. They gave him a pencil to choose from: beef and mutton skewers, chicken wings, and crispy bones. Hu Hanyu ordered nine skewers of each. He tore off a piece of the ordering menu and took it to the boss next door.
"Brother Cheng, I'm taking a picture, do you want to control your expression?" Zheng Cheng looked like a pissed-off kitten in an emoticon pack, with his unhappiness written all over his face. Xiao Ming asked while trying to hold back his laughter.
"Hmm? I'm fine." He squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, "If it doesn't taste good, I'll skewer Hu Hanyu and grill him."
This expression is so cute, I have to edit it in. Xiao Ming thought, this sentence must be muted.
"You'll have to wait a while. They're all freshly baked." Hu Hanyu returned to sit across from them and drank half a bottle of Coke in one gulp. Then he looked up at the two people sitting there doing nothing.
"Drink some first, so you don't get hypoglycemia later," he said.
Zheng Cheng touched the bottle with his fingertips. It was a bit sticky and he didn't want to touch it. He straightened his back and raised his head to reach for the straw.
The Coke was carbonated and the straw kept rising. He pressed it with his hand and then tried to find it with his mouth, going back and forth several times but still couldn't drink it.
What a piece of crap!
Just as he was about to get angry, Hu Hanyu tilted his bottle of Coke towards him.
"Drink it." He said, obviously amused.
"Are you crazy? Do I need you to feed me a drink?" Zheng Cheng glared at him.
"It's not the first time I've fed you." Hu Hanyu smiled.
"Hmm? Cough cough cough &@*)" Xiao Ming choked on a mouthful of Coke and nearly spilled it on the machine. He quickly took out a tissue to wipe it off and handed another to Zheng Cheng, "Brother Cheng, if you think it's dirty, just wrap it with paper."
Zheng Cheng took the tissue, folded it and wrapped the bottle, being careful not to touch the table the whole time.
"I'll get you a pack of tissues." Hu Hanyu stood up again. "I don't think this will be enough when the skewers come."
"You should have told me there were tissues here! Hu Hanyu, you did this on purpose, didn't you?" Zheng Cheng shouted at Hu Hanyu's back.
"Is this guy Mai Shiranui's brother? He doesn't know what's good for him." Zheng Cheng was still cursing when he walked out of the security door. "I'm really impressed. How dare you bring me to a place like this?"
"Brother Cheng, you may disagree." Xiao Ming hesitated whether to turn off the GoPro first.
"Then wouldn't I be curious too? Who would normally come to a place like this to eat?" Zheng Cheng took another sip of Coke.
"Us... ordinary people?" Xiao Ming whispered back, "Us college classmates and I go out for a late-night snack, and we go to small places like this. The food is really delicious, but the environment is a bit bad."
After hearing what he said, Zheng Cheng opened his mouth but didn't say anything.
The barbecues Zheng Cheng had eaten were either in teppanyaki or yakitori restaurants, or in places where he invited a chef to come to his home to grill. He would never go to such a restaurant unless he was playing a game with someone like Gu Zichen and was being punished for losing.
"Then why don't you recommend this kind of store to me?" he asked finally.
Yan Xiaoming scratched his head. "We're so casual. As long as it has cumin flavor and doesn't give me diarrhea, we're happy. That kind of restaurant wouldn't even be worthy of Brother Cheng's approval."
"Stereotype. Gu Zichen and I have also been to cheap restaurants, right?"
"I sat in the store for 3 minutes, took the first bite and then slammed the table and left. I don't think I've eaten there, right?" Xiao Ming remembered this because Zheng Cheng came back and scolded him for an hour.
"You wouldn't be able to eat in that crappy place of his!"
"What can't you eat?"
Hu Hanyu came back with two packs of new toilet paper, followed by a waiter who brought a stainless steel plate with the skewers and placed it on the table for them without saying a word.
"You don't even mention the meat?" Zheng Cheng yelled at the waiter.
"Mutton." The waiter said without turning around before the door closed.
"If there is no service fee, then there will be no service at all, right?" After Hanyu opened the tissue paper, Zheng Cheng quickly took out two pieces of paper and put them on the table, then put down the phone with a thud.
"No, stop, Brother Cheng, I'm still filming." Xiao Ming pointed at the GoPro facing Zheng Cheng.
"Okay, eat it while it's hot." Hu Hanyu ignored Zheng Cheng, took a string and handed it to Xiao Ming, and took another string for himself.
Zheng Cheng took out another piece of paper wrapped around the skewer, picked it up and smelled it first, and there was no cumin smell.
"Eat it, it's not poisonous." Hu Hanyu had already bitten a big piece and advised him with a smile.
"It's not hot, it's just baked." Zheng Cheng tested it with his lips, and only took a bite after finding it was not hot.
The moment the meat entered his mouth, his eyes widened. He pulled off a piece and chewed it carefully. As soon as he swallowed it, he immediately opened his mouth to eat the second piece. His eyes widened again and looked at Hu Hanyu.
"Is it delicious? I'm not lying to you." Hu Hanyu finished one string of food and moved on to the next one.
Zheng Cheng did some research before coming. The barbecue made by Fenghou is not Xinjiang barbecue or Brazilian barbecue, but local Shanghai barbecue, so the biggest feature is that there is no cumin.
Because the spices are used very sparingly, the quality of the meat itself is very high, and it needs to be marinated in advance, which takes a lot of time.
It smells like the burnt aroma of charcoal grilling and the aroma of mutton fat, and the mutton smell is just enough to recognize it as mutton.
When you take a bite, the aroma of the meat and the crispy skin burst directly in your mouth. The tasty gravy has its own salty and fresh taste, rushing in your mouth. As your teeth bite, it becomes more fragrant the more you chew.
"The meat is so tender, not sticky at all." Xiao Ming finished one skewer and reached out for another.
While chewing, Hu Hanyu looked at Zheng Cheng who was eating attentively across from him.
It was such a pleasure to watch him eat, especially when he ate something he liked, his eyes would light up. Hu Hanyu finished the Coke in his hand and went into the refrigerator to get himself a bottle of Orange Juice.
The waiter brought in ten more skewers of beef and chicken wings, and sprinkled green onions on the beef.
"There's chili powder on the side. If you think it's too bland, add it yourself." As he left, he pointed to a yellowed bottle on the table next to him.
Finally, some service awareness, no, service instructions.
"Who dips it in chili powder? The flavor of the meat will be covered up once it is applied. Only meat that is not fresh needs to be heavily seasoned." Zheng Cheng also picked up the second skewer. There was not enough food for him to eat a second bite, let alone a second skewer.
Xiao Ming was a little disappointed. He had been hoping to get some free lunch by waiting for Zheng Cheng to stop eating, but now that was out of the question.
The beef is the same, fresh and tender, with a distinct beef aroma and the aroma of green onions, which is different from barbecue in other places.
The chicken wings and chicken cartilage that were served later also had slightly crispy skin and tender, juicy and tasty meat. The three of them didn't bother to chat about anything else and just counted and finished their portions.
"Do you want to add more?" Hu Hanyu asked them.
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