If you want to keep a person's heart, please first keep a person's stomach. For millions of "foodies", try all the tourist destinations of food, may be the biggest motivation for them to travel.

A bed and breakfast, if the food and drink do have characteristics, it is definitely a major highlight, Ctrip score may brush on the ground. After all, in the "eat, drink and play", "eat" is in the first place.

Chicken soup wontons

In the past two years, we have run a lot of B&Bs, leaving an impression of the food is really quite a lot, and all the time by the circle of friends in the B&B hosts sent out food pictures temptation: high like the Bodhi Valley of Japanese food, the west slope of Qiandao Lake lakeside dinners, the Australian Wagyu M9 steak and French pan-fried foie gras of the ANADU Manor, watery waste of the Western-style food, the vegetarian food of the one-leafed mountain house, etc.

The first time we saw this, it was the first time that I saw it, but I'm sure that we will see it again.

There are even more localized ones, such as Hangzhou Jane Elephant's lard bibimbap, Listening to the Stream's chicken soup, Distant Mountain's noodles with shredded bamboo shoots and snow peas, Tasha Dudo's nine-panel breakfast, and Cui's homemade Yangmei wine at Linshuiguyinyin, as well as Cui's dad's own bowl of authentic Henan chow mein ...

There are many more...

They're not the only ones who are localized. ...

Sometimes, your memory of a place may be fixed in a certain moment, or just a simple dish. After years, you may not be able to recall most of the details of that B&B, but you often miss the flavor of that memory. That's why it's so important for B&Bs to do a good job of catering.

Editor | Lu Yan

Writer | Wang Ye Ma Zuo Bo Liu Li Lu Yan

Xin Junmin | Chef at Shangpo Holiday Villa in Moganshan

Food and beauty*** together

A wonderful vacation experience

Food is one of the main features of Shangpo. The food is one of the specialties of Shang Po. While most of the neighboring lodges are run by local aunts, Shangpo's 7 rooms are equipped with 2 regular chefs from star hotels, and the introduction of standard hotel kitchen management, which can be said to have spared no expense. Considering that most of the guests have the need to go out during the day, Shangpo's catering focuses on dinner, alternating between Chinese and Western food, which has earned it a good reputation in the Moganshan area.

Shangpo's host culture is light and romantic, and western food is naturally the best match. We strictly select the best imported ingredients, Shangpo also configured a large number of high-end foreign wines. The crystal glass is brought back from the Czech Republic by the owner himself, and the seasoned salt sprinkled on the steak is also carried back from the foot of the Himalayas by the owner.

Chinese food is also all local original and healthy ingredients, winter, spring and summer fresh bamboo shoots, watery seasonal vegetables, bamboo forest chicken, braised pork, soy sauce duck, lamb casserole ...... is not a feast of delicacies. Even the lunch market simple meal, but also the golden signboard town, how many people just for our "handmade oil splash noodles", come back again and again.

Shang Po is located in the mountainous area sometimes due to power overload temporary power outages, the white moon in the sky, wine and grapes in the evening cups, accidental candlelight dinner, often become the guests unforgettable memories. Sangpo also provides customized energy lunches for guests to take with them when hiking or other outdoor sports. In addition, roasted whole lamb and suckling pig are all available. There is an additional charge for these, but they are not revenue-generating and simply provide guests with a wider range of choices.

Shang Po has always believed that tasteful food and beverage service is a key differentiator from other B&Bs. In order to enhance the attractiveness, Shang Po includes meals in the room rate, such cost-effective in the local precedent, has not been surpassed.

Azer | Chief of Operations at Bodhi Valley

Customized dining events

Created a new revenue stream

Most guests at Bodhi Valley eat all three meals at the B&B. We specialize in Japanese cuisine and creative Chinese dishes, all of which are made to maximize the use of seasonal and local organic ingredients.

Multi-cuisine chef paschy from Taiwan presides over our Japanese restaurant, and the hot pot dishes we offer every winter are highly acclaimed, with many guests coming back specifically for our dining. In addition, dishes like braised earth pork, earth chicken soup, steamed reservoir fish, etc. in Chinese food are must-order for regular guests.

In addition to the two daily dishes, we also have a higher-specification Bodhi Family Feast, which is also booked by local guests from Hangzhou. The Bodhi Family Feast and Spring Picnic are already part of our daily activities, and we recently had an outdoor catering event where we made wildfire bamboo rice, and our guests participated in the whole process of making it and had a great time. These types of events are now part of customized events and a revenue generator.

The difficulty for a B&B like ours to do catering may be that it is located in the mountains, where ingredients are not as abundant and diverse. At first we tried to do the same as the city B&B to do the ingredients reserve, but the result is that it caused a lot of waste, in the freshness of the ingredients is also greatly reduced. So now we are ordering in advance, and most of the ingredients are sourced locally, and the organic fruits and vegetables from our vegetable farms are an important source. On the one hand, such ingredients are closer to the local dietary system, and there is a kind of uniqueness in the mountains; on the other hand, it also guarantees the freshness of the raw materials to the greatest extent possible.

If the attractiveness of the B&B is 10 points, I think the food and beverage accounted for about 4 points, "clothing, food, housing and transportation", in fact, "food" is ranked in the "live" before. But our guests come to the mountains is mainly to relax on vacation, experience the mountains, so the environment is also an important part of the attraction of the B&B.

Yao Jiangbo | Founder of Moganshan Lodging Brand

"Eating" is the first entry point for guests to experience

local culture

The significance of "food" for a B&B is not limited to eating. In terms of the starting point of a B&B, the earliest English name 'BnB' means 'Bad and Breakfast', and eating takes up half of it. Chinese people are especially fond of food, and one of the most direct entrances to experiencing local culture in a B&B is eating!

The lodging has five main settings for food and drink. The first is to choose the top chef, from Shanghai to find a five-star chef to sit down. But the chef to the mountains, but also requires his techniques and local specialties to do a combination of practices that emphasize the production of native methods. In the production process to the guests to bring earthy flavor, local characteristics at the same time, burning vegetables cooking, plating, modeling to maintain the high level of five-star chef.

The second is to choose the "meal system" to ensure that guests eat the freshest ingredients, but at the same time more environmentally friendly, will not cause too much waste. In general, the store will communicate with the booking guests a day in advance, ask the guests about what time to arrive, what meals they need to use, what are the taboos, and provide some dishes for the guests to choose.

Third, the source of ingredients is guaranteed. When purchasing ingredients, the store will prioritize what the village can provide, and what the village can't provide will be purchased in the market. The fish must be sourced from the wild, while the hostel also has a long-term cooperation with local suppliers in Deqing, providing free-range chickens and eggs.

The fourth is that the restaurant will introduce different dishes according to the season. In winter, emphasizing on tonic, it will provide simmered soup and make hanging pot roasted chicken and tripe wrapped chicken, while in spring and summer, it will be accompanied by more seasonal vegetables and so on.

The fifth is to provide customized restaurant services. According to the needs of the guests can help arrange personalized restaurants and services, such as hosting birthday parties, candlelight dinners, wedding dining, and outdoor dining.

Cheryl | Founder of Nanjing Watery Wastes

I hope you remember

The taste of happiness

In my concept, people should be the center of a B&B, and food is the first thing to be taken care of. Food has become the most important thing that Watery's has long been insisting on and constantly innovating. We provide breakfast service to our guests, and for those who need to have lunch and dinner, we implement a meal ordering system.

They are the only ones who have ever been able to eat at a restaurant in the city.

As a native of Jiangsu, I am good at Huaiyang cuisine, but of course I also like Cantonese cuisine, Southern Fujian cuisine, and now Western cuisine, so I often mix and match, hoping to present healthy and nutritious meals. Most of our customers come to us for our food, and I've been told that my beans in sauce have reached the "five-star" standard. When our public app is ready, we will share small videos of our dishes with our members.

We basically organize an event every month, and each month has a theme. For example, this month, I share the "taste of the mountains", I hope to share our food with you in nature, and even participate in the production, the spring breeze as a companion, the grass as a seat, the bamboo as a vessel, I like this light romance.

We will also undertake some small parties, such as birthday parties, departmental activities, small proposal party, in short, do something that makes me feel happy. Catering in a B&B is harder to do, the capacity itself is not big, and B&Bs are usually only busy on weekends and holidays, so it's impossible to hire a good team of chefs, so you have to do everything yourself.

"Xuelian's kitchen" is now open to the public only two days a week, and the rest of the time is reserved for Xuelian herself, laze around, read books, photography, and do sports.

Zhou Lei | General Manager, Suzhou, Hidden Lodge

A Private Kitchen at the One Table

Delivering a Fine Dining Culture

At the Hidden Lodge, food is the most important thing. "Eating" is a very important part, our "one table" private kitchen is not only welcomed by guests, many locals will also come to order.

Exquisite is the biggest feature of the Hidden Lodge family feast. The chef is a Cantonese chef with many years of rich experience in Su Gang Cuisine, cooking a blend of Cantonese cuisine, light and nutritious and Suzhou cuisine, thick oil and red sauce. The ingredients are not only seasonal, but more importantly of the moment. We don't stock our refrigerator, and all ingredients are hand-picked by the chef for the best quality based on what's available in the market that day, so we can't offer an à la carte system.

For example, the scholar's hooves, the elbows are required to be fat and thin, and the white fish, in addition to being fresh and wild, must be of a certain weight before it can be served on the table of the Hidden Lodge. Craft is also very careful, lion head by the chef handmade, first cut a small shredded and then diced, and then with fresh diced lotus root made of meatballs. All the ingredients ratio accurate to grams, for which the kitchen is also specially equipped with a gram scale.

Hidden Lodge regular meals per capita consumption of at least 300 yuan, but eaten to feel value for money. In addition to the Su Gang cuisine, we will also be based on guest demand, combined with Cantonese cuisine, Western food to do some fusion cuisine, listening to kunqu, eating caviar, drinking red wine, with Su-style snacks, but also Valentine's Day candlelight dinner. At present, Hidden Lodge Private Kitchen has gradually made a reputation, 70% of the guests will eat at least one meal in the store.

Tongli Buyeon has only five rooms, why do you have to work so hard on the food and beverage? First of all, of course, can not be separated from our customized service. The Tongli Villa provides a "ritualistic lifestyle", and food is indispensable. At the same time, we believe that for high-end boutique B&Bs and hotels, food and beverage is essential, and must be refined, elegant and healthy! Regardless of whether it makes money or not, otherwise it's like a person's upper body is bright and shiny, and the lower body is tattered, there will be a sense of imbalance.

Zhou Fenghuang, founder of Anji Pinecone Garden Bed and Breakfast

A restaurant without a menu

There are always people who drive long distances for dinner

In my opinion, if the attractiveness of a bed and breakfast is 10 points, then the food can be 8 points. I'm a food lover myself, I've opened a cafe, I've run a western restaurant, and the reason why Pinecone B&B was born is also related to food. After I tasted so many food, I found that I missed the taste of my childhood more and more, which was the vegetables grown by my grandpa's hand with water to drive away insects, and the unique taste of my grandma's cooking with firewood at the stove.

I specifically built a nearly 200-square-meter independent restaurant in Songo, but also in the village contracted 30 acres of land planting vegetables, do not use a little bit of pesticides and fertilizers, to ensure that the ingredients are fresh and healthy, chickens, ducks and other poultry and the villagers signed an agreement to ask them to carefully feed, and here are free-range poultry, now catching the kill.

In order to the best taste and experience, pinecone dining is the need to make reservations, only 10 people per day, but also need to be booked 2 days in advance. Each season, Pine Nut only makes 12 dishes, and every time you change the season, you change 1/3 of the dishes. All the dishes are made by the owner, mainly western food and home cooking, which is a combination of "Chinese and western", making the farm food feel like western food, and adding Chinese elements to the western food.

The restaurant is open to the public, charged by the seat, no menu, according to the seasonal ingredients, every meal has a surprise, every dish is the heart. Each meal is a surprise, and each dish is heartfelt. Every day, people drive two hours from Shanghai to have this meal.

Pinecone will also often host parties, where you can light a bonfire, have a barbecue and drink beer in the beautiful nature. This is a piece of service we plan to focus on in 2019, with a goal of doing 30. Catering is not only a major feature of Pinecone, but also a growing contribution to the operation, accounting for 1/5 of earnings last year and expected to rise to 40% in 2019.

Li Yu | Owner of Cloudbank Mountain Residence in Moganshan

Make tea cakes with stories

And medicinal meals with specialties

Among the three meals in a day, I personally feel that breakfast needs the most sense of ceremony. Our breakfast here is based on local specialties, including eggs, freshly ground soymilk, mountain round rice, with local tea cakes, different flavors, different nutrients with each other, abundance and frugality.

As an aside, our local tea cakes have a special story to tell. The older local farmers get up at 2:00 in the morning. What are they doing up so early? In fact, they go to the breakfast restaurant in the nearest small market, drink a few cups of glutinous rice wine, make a pot of strong tea, eat a few pieces of tea cakes, and then depart back to the village with satisfaction, the whole process takes about 2 to 3 hours.

As far as I can see, they basically go there every day, and the farmers don't really go there for breakfast, but purely to find a place to meet and chat about national issues or bits and pieces of their daily lives, and rush back home just in time for farming.

Cloudbank Mountain Residence does not provide Chinese food, but the dinner is very special, with the main dish of medicinal food, local specialties as a supplementary dish. The winter medicinal meals are based on tonic, the spring and fall seasons are about conditioning, and the summer is based on strengthening the spleen and removing dampness. There are many guests like our family's Sharen beef, generally reflecting a light medicinal flavor, eat up the aftertaste.

Dried bamboo shoots with roast pork is also our specialty. Dried bamboo shoots are made from the highest sea level and naturally grown bamboo shoots in Moganshan, and can be steamed and dried in the sun. You should know that the dried bamboo shoots sold in the market are salted and cured, and the taste is much worse than ours. Because of the difference in altitude and soil quality, the dried bamboo shoots from Cloudbank Mountain Residence are especially soft and very popular with our guests.

Ding Tao | Master of Xiaoman's Yard

Retaining guests' stomachs