Chapter 8 Take the Camel Princess to eat at a street stall?

The streets and alleys are bustling with people, and advertisements for pancakes, roast duck, roast chicken legs, etc. are heard one after another.

Martha sat in a street stall, looking at the small stalls and tables connected in front of her, her mouth wide open:

"Yan, you brought me here..."

"Of course it's eating."

Lin Yan hurriedly ordered some dishes and explained to Martha as a matter of course: "You took such a long flight to get here, and you just encountered such a thing, you must eat something to calm your nerves. No matter where you go next, filling your stomach is always the first priority."

"But……"

Martha hesitated to speak, and the Arab League audience in the live broadcast room immediately opened fire:

"You bastard! You invited Martha to dinner and you brought her to a place like this?"

"A bunch of street vendors cooking, are the things they make worthy of Martha's taste?"

"Even if you can't afford a Michelin five-star restaurant, at least find a decent normal restaurant!"

"What a shabby place! You let Martha eat these street food? God Almighty! In such a dirty and messy place, can the food made here be eaten???"

"I remember there was a news story in China that these places like to use that... ditch oil? I even heard that they use corpses to make oil! It's so unhygienic!"

"Martha! Don't believe this kid's lies! Leave here! Go to a regular restaurant! Don't eat here! What if you get a stomachache or even... I don't dare to think about it!!!"

The bodyguard who was secretly following Martha was equally furious!
It was a small, low-rise building. The paint on the outside of the wall hadn’t been painted in years. It was tattered.

These places! Do they have the business license? Do they have food safety guarantees? No! Definitely not!

The princess' stomach is very precious. The low-end diet of these untouchables will only harm the princess's body!
"Yan...is this place...hygienic?"

Even Martha herself expressed her opinion tactfully.

All her meals in China are specially provided by the royal family. Not only are the selection of ingredients extremely strict, but even the process of cooking the dishes is carefully supervised by the world's top chefs.

Not to mention the taste, she didn't even think that she would have to worry about hygiene issues one day.

Lin Yan held her hand and said with a smile:

"Don't worry. Even if I harm myself, I won't harm you. You don't want to come to China with great difficulty, only to eat soulless and boring food, right? Since I want to take you to travel all over China, the first stop must be the most soulful place in China!"

The most soulful place? This food stall?

Martha asked in surprise: "Yan, is this restaurant famous? Is the chef of this restaurant a world-famous chef? I have heard that there is a saying in China that 'great people hide in the city'. Is this restaurant the same?"

Lin Yan smiled and shook his head.

"It's true that great people hide in plain sight, but it's not what you think. The owner of this restaurant - the chef himself - is actually very ordinary. Not to mention world-famous, he didn't even take the chef certification exam and got it through someone with connections."

Martha: “Huh?”

The audience of Alian Chieftain became even angrier after hearing this - Great! How dare you bring the princess to such a place!
"But here, in this seemingly remote and backward alley, he is the best chef in the world. Only he can let you see the soul of the Chinese people's 'food is the first priority'!"

Listening to Lin Yan's solemn promise, Martha tilted her head, with a puzzled look on her little face.

"Yan, you have confused me. On the one hand, you say that this chef's cooking skills are very poor and he can't even pass the chef's certificate exam, but on the other hand, you say that he is the best chef in the world. Why can a person be very good and not very good at the same time? I don't understand." The audience outside the venue were also all confused and couldn't figure out what Lin Yan was up to.

Lin Yan explained: "Martha, I didn't say that his cooking skills were bad, I just said that he didn't pass the chef exam. But, isn't a chef who didn't pass the exam a good chef?"

Martha tilted her head: "What else?"

Lin Yan laughed: "There is no such saying. I can guarantee that if those Michelin five-star chefs were to take over this food stall, it would probably go bankrupt in a month. Do you believe it?"

"what?"

"Guess how many customers a street food stall like Jinghai serves every day?"

Martha scratched her head and guessed, "I don't know. I know China has a large population, so a restaurant like this should hold... 30 people?"

In fact, she really wanted to say "0".

After all, if this kind of place was in Alian Chieftaincy, she wouldn't even look at it. Even if China had a large population, there shouldn't be too many people willing to patronize this kind of street restaurant.

I'm sure everyone goes to those luxurious hotels to enjoy the sumptuous meals prepared by top chefs.

But the lively atmosphere around doesn't seem to be the case?

"30 people? Haha, add a zero at the end, Martha. Even though the decoration of this food stall is not very beautiful, this store serves more than 0 customers every day. During the peak period of holidays, the number may even reach 200!"

Martha's eyes widened. "What? 300 people? Even 500? Yan, are you kidding me? How can such a shabby little street shop have so many people dining in every day?"

Lin Yan smiled and said, "Every day and every night, there are quite a few diners who even drive dozens of miles to come here to enjoy a feast. It's hard to imagine, right? Such a small food stall is so tempting to them."

Martha looked through the window at the busy boss and chef and nodded with difficulty:

"I really can't imagine it. Yan, is his craftsmanship really that good?"

"When the first alarm rings at 3 a.m., the owner starts his day's business."

Lin Yan said slowly: "He gets up very early every day, even an hour earlier than all his colleagues. The purpose of getting up early is to be the first one to line up in the farmer's market and the first one to choose the best raw materials of the day."

"Then, he alone washes, processes, and plates the food for hundreds of people that day, and then cleans and opens the store. By the time he's done with all this, the sky is no longer dark in the early morning, and his first customer will arrive on time."

"He personally handles all the dishes and does all the cleaning. He has been running the restaurant for 1 years and serves hundreds of customers every day. If there is even one hygiene or safety issue, he will be responsible for it."

Martha's eyes suddenly widened:

"20 years? Yan? Do you mean... this store has been around for 20 years?"

Lin Yan laughed out loud:

"Of course. Please allow me to introduce you to this alley that looks shabby to you. This is the famous Old Taste Alley in Jinghai! All the businesses that can open a business here are 20-year-old time-honored brands! The old house is a bit shabby, but can you see a fly? A bit of dirt?"

"So, of course there won't be these hygiene issues! Otherwise, how could we have maintained our reputation for 20 years!"

"Take this restaurant for example. The owner of this restaurant was indeed a rookie who almost failed to pass the chef exam 20 years ago. But think about it, a rookie like this has been running a restaurant for 20 consecutive years, serving hundreds of diners every day, and preparing nearly a thousand dishes by himself. At the same time, the food safety accident rate has been extremely stable at 20 for 0 years!"

"Guess what kind of skills this 'greenhorn' who once couldn't pass the chef exam has now acquired after so many trials and tribulations?"

　Please give me the data, dears. The data of the new book period is very important.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)