On August 28, the fangshan restaurant standing on the north shore of Beihai Park ushered in its 95th birthday. "95Th Anniversary Birthday Imperial Meal", the birthday feast scene jade palm offering, flowers blossoming rich and noble, imperial bag offering treasure, court four happy dumplings, dream baked cake... Classic court delicacies bring not only good wishes, but also the essence of the Manchu chinese full table dishes. At the same time, Fangshan specially launched the 95th anniversary commemorative mooncake and three court dim sum gift boxes, allowing diners to feel the chef's ingenuity and heritage in the process of tasting exquisite dim sum.
A mooncake that is both beautiful and delicious
Scene: The 95th anniversary of the new mooncake presentation
In the rich and ancient palace building, a woman dressed in Chinese-style Chinese costumes is brewing fragrant tea for the guests present. As soon as you enter the imitation dining, you can look for a faint tea fragrance to see the ongoing court tea art performance. At the scene of the celebration of the 95th anniversary of the Fangshan Restaurant, the exhibition boards told the story of the brand in the past hundred years with old photos and words; the culinary masters also changed the normal here and became cross-border calligraphers.
In order to allow customers to have a distinguished experience, on the occasion of the 95th birthday banquet, Fangshan Restaurant specially launched a 3999 yuan one table suitable for family reunion birthday banquet packages, including cans of braised mountain treasures, oolong spit pearls, jade palm peach picking, royal bag offering, jade royal fan, dream roast cake, pea yellow, kidney bean rolls and other good products are displayed on the spot; if there are few people, diners can also choose two to three people set menu, four to six people package, etc., can also taste the cost-effective and authentic court taste.
Also on display at the scene were a variety of 95th anniversary mooncakes specially launched by Fangshan Restaurant. The commemorative mooncake gift box is made of flowing core mooncakes, which is also a lot of effort in taste innovation. Toffee Brown Sugar Flowing Core Mooncake, Crispy Mango Flowing Mooncake, Cream Yellow Mooncake, Mulberry Grapefruit Flowing Core Mooncake are all rare new flavors on the market, showing the brand tone of the heritage culture of the imitation food brand. In addition to the commemorative model, the Fangshan brand mooncake also launched a Shengshi Mid-Autumn Mooncake gift box with the classic Cantonese mooncake flavors such as the classic Pine Nut Bean Paste Mooncake and the White Lotus Egg Yolk, which contains both classic Cantonese mooncakes and new mooncakes, such as milk yellow mooncakes and lemon cheese mooncakes; small pieces of mooncake series Longzhang Ji mooncake gift box for young people; specially launched Haoyue sugar alcohol mooncake gift box, which contains new fillings, using apples, apricots, prunes, Fruit ingredients such as lemons are made to ensure that consumers consume fewer carbohydrates and enjoy more delicious and healthy. There are also Royal Dragon MoonCake Gift Box and Imperial Moon Cake Gift Box, which are also available. The newly launched mooncakes were presented on the stand on a dragon boat, symbolizing the leading position of the fangshan restaurant.
Pastry: Handcrafted to highlight court craftsmanship
In the evening, Li Wen, the head chef of Fangshan Noodles, and zhou Tong, an apprentice, presented the palace birthday peach to celebrate the 95th anniversary of Fangshan. The appearance of the palace big birthday peach is atmospheric and beautiful, and the auspicious big birthday character means that the blessing life is long. This shou peach is a work jointly completed by Li Wen and his apprentice Zhou Tong, and it also contains mysteries, while the master and apprentice work together to uncover the big shou peach, 95 small shou peaches flock out, which not only represent the 95th birthday of fangshan, but also let diners feel the unique skills, skills and technical content of fangshan restaurant.
Speaking of fangshan, it is necessary to mention its very representative pastries, on the occasion of the 95th anniversary celebration, fangshan restaurant specially launched three dim sum gift boxes. There are many traditional pastries in Beijing, and the imitation of dim sum is exquisitely made, with beautiful color and exquisite taste. Among the three gift boxes launched this time, one is the Royal Sea Bafang Gift Box, which contains sugar alcohol peach skin apple apricot peach cake, sugar alcohol peach skin walnut cheese cake, peach mountain skin matcha red bean cake, peach mountain skin red wine cranberry cake, etc.; one is a Nan crisp Sirui gift box, which contains pretzel cake, kumquat snowflake cake, red bean banana charcoal black cake, pine nut jujube peat black cake, etc. These two gift boxes can be purchased and tasted at the market. There is also a gift box called Yuhai Dining Edge, which is a joint product with Beihai Park, which contains 8 kinds of snacks such as pea yellow, bergamot crisp, donkey rolling, small nest head, emerald peach heart, etc. This gift box is the most special, which needs to be customized in the imitation restaurant, pure handmade, without any additives.
Zhang Zhongyuan, secretary of the party committee of Quanjude Group, and Zhou Yanlong, general manager, introduced the new mooncake developed to the master
Cuisine: Classic heritage quality imperial cuisine
At the scene of the event, the master team of the Fangshan Restaurant led the presentation of "one banquet, two dishes and three products". The first banquet refers to the quality birthday banquet launched by the fangshan restaurant, the two dishes are the two old dishes restored this time, and the three products refer to the dinner party that integrates the three life-giving dishes of Quanjude, Fortress Garden and Sichuan Hotel, which are also under the brand of Quanjude Group.
Jade palm offering, blossoming riches, imperial bags offering treasures, court four joy dumplings, dream baked cakes... These famous dishes of imitation cuisine appeared in the "One Feast" of the evening, including many court dishes with quite origins and allusions.
Li Wen, head chef of Fangshan Restaurant, said that there are many kinds of noodles involved in the Manchu Han table, with more than 300 kinds, and The Fangshan Restaurant will adjust at any time according to the changes of the four seasons and the needs of customers. This court four joy dumplings is one of the restored Manchu han full table dishes, and its production technique has been listed as a national intangible cultural heritage, with four different ingredients dotted on the four corners of the dumplings to show festive, auspicious, ruyi and beautiful meaning. From hot noodles, rolling out the skin, wrapping the filling, to pinching the corners, decorating... Handmade and delicate, it takes about 1 hour to make a well-defined, beautiful shape, salty and delicious steamed dumplings.
With the development of the times and the changes in the tastes of diners, the imitation restaurant is also constantly innovating in the shape, color and fancy of the dishes on the basis of the same color and fragrance. Sun Xinmin said: "Among the Manchu and Han people, the Manchus are mostly famous for their food, while the 'dishes' are mostly taken from the Han people, mainly Shandong cuisine. ”
The Luohan prawns, chrysanthemum fish, pocket tofu, etc., which can often be eaten in the fangshan restaurant, are also innovated on the basis of the old dishes of the court. Sun Xinmin introduced: "These dishes are more beautiful, the nutritional value is more abundant, the shape is good, more suitable for modern people to eat, it can be said that through the chef's cooking, customers eat not only food, but also craftsmanship." ”
At the 95th anniversary celebration, Fangshan Restaurant also paid special attention to the social responsibility of "strict conservation". That night, the banquet toast does not touch the cup, the meal should be disc-served, and all the dishes are in the form of separate meals, so that everyone can taste the imperial meal dishes and feel the best cultural etiquette of the imitation restaurant.
Source: China News Network