The owner of this restaurant is Li. His business card is printed with traditional Chinese characters: "Li founder, consultant and professor of applied mathematics." The reason why I wrote the identity of "professor" was because the old man said that he didn't want others to think that he was "just a chef". Li Jiacai also belongs to private cuisine. In this small quadrangle, at first, only one table of dishes was cooked every day, only for a dozen people. All the diners accepted 200 yuan, and there were two small tables in the other wing, but it was enough for twenty people at most one night.
Li Jia's food has gone from court meals to the world, and Li Jiaren has made unremitting efforts. At first, there was only one table per week in 1 1 Yangfang Hutong. Even so, subscribers were still overwhelmed. Later, it was relaxed to two tables a week (Saturday and Sunday) and finally changed to one table a day.
One day, some foreigners came and said that they would order meals for three days after six months. Afterwards, relevant departments also carried out special safety supervision. Later, they learned that these reservations were specially arranged for former US President Bill Clinton's trip to China. As a result, due to Clinton's temporary change of itinerary, the banquet scheduled for six months ago was not completed. Even so, at that time, there were still three steps and one police in the alley, and the security guard was still standing on the house, which was unprecedented. In the end, the scheduled delicious meal was enjoyed by former US Treasury Secretary Rubin and other guests. After Clinton returned to China, he also wrote to the American Embassy in China and entrusted the secretary to send a thank-you letter to Li Jia Restaurant. At the same time, he attached photos taken by his family in Xi 'an Terracotta Warriors Museum as a souvenir.
Li Jia Cuisine has opened Li Jia Cuisine Hall in Melbourne, Australia and Japan. Because Japanese restaurants insisted on airlifting raw materials from Beijing, they won the honor of Michelin two-star cuisine.
In the north and south of Beijing Houhai, there are two largest palaces in the Qing Dynasty, namely Spring Palace and Gong Palace. There is a Yangfang Hutong on the east side of Gongwangfu. Although the place is not big, there is a well-known restaurant at home and abroad-Lijiacai Restaurant. The owner of the restaurant is Mr. Li and the owner is Ms. Wang. Li Jiacai is a court dish, and its formula and production technology have been passed down from generation to generation. Li's grandfather was in charge of internal affairs during the reign of Tongzhi and Guangxu in Qing Dynasty and won the trust of Cixi. Responsible for the food in the palace. Cixi listens to politics. She wants to have dinner with the emperor. There are about 100 kinds of dishes per meal. At this time, as long as a "pass rice" order is given, the mighty eunuch team immediately filed in with the dining table and lunch box. Li Zijia's task is to manage these meals in the palace in a unified way, make a list of meals every day, and check the cooking quality in the canteen. Every dish that Cixi and the emperor ate had to be tasted by him, so over time, he became a gourmet expert and a master cook.
Later, he taught his son many recipes and practices of court dishes, and then passed them on to his grandson Li. Li is very talented in cooking. On the basis of inheriting ancestral skills, he combined modern nutrition and his own experience to innovate. For example, the "swallow wing mat" he copied for Cixi's daily consumption is unique: the first dish is a side dish, including fried pickles, pickled cucumbers, shrimps, mustard tuber, Beijing bacon, dried chicken, amber peach kernel, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar lotus root, rose dates, fried red fruits, etc. The second course is cooked vegetables, including braised shark's fin, braised abalone, soft fried fresh shellfish, live fish in sauce, roast duck and anchovies in clear soup. The third way is soup and sweets, including birds, fish, eggs and chicken soup, scrambled egg soup, walnut sweet cheese and so on.
Once Li Jiacai was introduced, it quickly caused a sensation. When I participated in a banquet competition, I shocked the audience and won the first prize in the appraisal. The British ambassador said at his restaurant, "Great, you don't need to advertise. As long as I say it in the embassy district, there will be no door here. " Sure enough, in a few days, ambassadors from all over the world and CEOs of multinational companies flocked to China. If you don't book it half a month ago, you won't be able to eat it.