Coquettish Rebirth

In this part of New York, the zip code of a person's home address actually represents the person's class.Why do you say that?Because the upper class in traditional New York basically live in the Upper East Side.An area like New York, especially on the island of Manhattan, is divided into "Uptown", "Midtown" and "Downtown".And the word "downtown" in American English, which is translated into "urban area", comes from New York.New York's Uptown is divided into the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side, which are basically where the upper class lives.Then Midtown is basically a skyscraper area of ​​various commercial centers, such as Times Square, which is a piece of Midtown next to the Upper Town.As for the downtown area, it is a gathering area for all kinds of ordinary people. There is Chinatown, Little Italy, and Koreatown.Logically speaking, the downtown area should be a place where three religions and nine streams are mixed. Why do people in other parts of the United States imitate New Yorkers and say "go to the downtown area" and it is translated into Chinese as "go to the downtown area"? ?

Because other people live in the suburbs!For ordinary people, isn't the lower city within the city limits a place where they can entertain?Isn't that what "go downtown" means?Or work in New York and live in New Jersey, and they go to Times Square for entertainment?They go to have fun under skyscrapers?Or head to the high-society Uptown for fun?The zip codes of New York are divided according to the area, so in fact, by looking at the code, you can know which area the person lives in, and also know the class of the person.For example, if the zip code is 10021, that means you live on the Upper East Side of New York!The Upper East Side is an area in the southeast part of Uptown. To be precise, it is such a central park that runs from southwest to northeast, and the right side, or east side, is the Upper East Side.And to the west is the Upper West Side.

This Upper East Side is where the traditional upper class lives. In the earliest days, the houses built here were all imitating European castles. Later, many foreign embassies bought them as foreign consulates in New York.So some upper-class people who sold this house had no other houses to buy in the Upper East Side, so they gradually moved to the Upper West Side to live.So now the Upper West Side.It was also where the upper class gathered.The location of Jia Hongjian's small building is Times Square, which can be regarded as the central area, but the central area itself is not bad, after all, it is a place where skyscrapers gather.And over the past few decades, some real estate developers have also tried to build high-end apartments in places like the Central District where every inch of land is expensive.It’s like the one with a floor of one hundred and ten square meters, and the elevator directly enters the house, and the one floor costs tens of millions of dollars.So many upstarts in technology bought apartments in this central area.Therefore, the people who live in the central area are basically regarded as the reserve army of the upper class.Therefore, is there any obstacle for Jia Hongjian to enter the upper class?

Jia Hongjian wanted to ask Murdoch and the others for help, so of course he couldn't just go to them and say, "Brother, help me."After all, we are not good friends who don't know each other well, and the relationship is good only because we cooperate, so we can't just say that we want to be introduced by the other party.But we are Chinese.It's so easy to find an excuse to build a relationship, it just exists in the blood!Who hasn't seen their parents interacting with others since childhood.It can be said that just looking at some practices in such a kind of interpersonal communication, then you know how to do things!What did Jia Hongjian and the others do?It's very simple. When we had dinner with Murdoch and his wife, didn't we say we wanted to buy a restaurant in front of them?

Now that the restaurant has been bought and is being renovated, all kinds of chefs are almost in place, and the dishes are almost ready.Let's invite people over to try it out, okay?Come to ask Murdoch for advice or something, is that okay?Then, Jia Hongjian still had a plan in his mind, so that Murdoch could justifiably ask Murdoch to come forward and pull a group of people over to help try the food!Here Jia Hongjian is ready.As soon as he greeted Murdoch and said that he wanted to invite Murdoch and his wife to dinner, Murdoch quickly agreed.A few days later, when the appointed time came, Murdoch and his wife brought a bottle of champagne and arrived at Jia Hongjian's small building in Times Square.

This time, Jia Hongjian hired Lao Zhang and the others to be cooks, and of course they cooked Chinese dishes.After this side was ready, it was served in front of Murdoch and Wendi Deng. The two people's eyes widened as soon as they ate it!Murdoch's eyes widened because he had never eaten such a delicious Chinese food, and Wendi Deng was surprised that the Chinese food tasted very authentic, and at the same time, it was very in line with the taste of the United States!And the overall dishes are small dishes with small quantities and large quantities, and the presentation of the dishes has a certain style of Chinese food, and at the same time it is closer to Western food. "Hung-chien, if your restaurant can achieve this level, it will definitely flourish!" Murdoch said to Jia Hongjian with a thumbs up.After finishing speaking, he also said appreciatively, "And what you cook is really in line with our Jewish eating habits! We Jews who are very particular about it all say that you can't eat meat and milk at the same time, and even put it out." In different places. When other white people usually eat, there are dairy products such as cheese on top of a lot of meat. We Jews really can’t eat it. But your Chinese food is much better. If I remember correctly, your Chinese food is very good. What is the use of less milk? No wonder the Jews here in the United States are used to eating at your Chinese restaurant during Hanukkah..."

Jia Hongjian knew about this. In the United States, especially in New York, the Jews celebrate Hanukkah on December 12th in the Jewish calendar. This day is different from the Gregorian calendar. Basically, it is December 25th. The beginning of the month or the end of December coincides with Christmas.When the end of December coincided with Christmas, these Jews should have gone out to eat with their families according to the custom, but because it was Christmas at that time, it can be said that there were no restaurants open except Chinese restaurants!And the eating habits of the Chinese are generally in tune with the Jews. Apart from not eating meat and milk together, the Jews also have a lot of specialties, such as not eating pork, or eating mutton without tendons or something messy. Fish must also eat scales.Although many Jews are not so particular about it these days, they are still a little awkward when they eat Western food outside and the meat and milk are served first.Therefore, the Jews in the United States have basically developed the habit of going to Chinese restaurants to eat during Hanukkah.Of course, these habits belong to the middle- and lower-class Jews. High-level Jews, such as Murdoch, have their own cooks at home, so they don’t need to go out to eat at all.

After Murdoch mentioned this matter, Jia Hongjian decided to seize the opportunity to hit the snake with the stick! "Rupert, I have an issue here. You know, in New York's current high society, many people are Jews. So of course we have to try our best to meet the tastes of Jews, so I was thinking, should we find Some of the Jewish people with more status will come over, and our restaurant will hold a tasting meeting to see if our Chinese food can maintain our own characteristics, meet the tastes and needs of Jewish daily diet, and not offend Jewish customs..." Is this polite enough to be respectful?It seems that they value the Jews very much, and seem to respect the Jews very much. The Jews must be very happy to hear this?But in fact, didn't Jia Hongjian just want to find a group of rich people to try it out?Didn't he just want to make a name for himself in advance so that rich people know that Jia Hongjian's restaurant tastes good?

The same thing, said in different ways, is obviously to find someone to come and taste the food to gain fame, but if you say it in another way, it becomes a special respect for the Jews!An old man like Murdoch became happy when he heard Jia Hongjian's words at that time. He didn't think too much, so he just smiled and said, "Okay! I think it can be obtained from our News Corporation. I'll find it first. What do you think of the Jews in our News Corporation and other executives coming to such a tasting session?" Although Murdoch didn't seem to think too much, he didn't immediately agree to use his influence to attract Follow the rest of New York's high society to come and try it.But although he didn't fully achieve his goal, Jia Hongjian didn't feel that he had hit a snag.Because these News Corporation executives, isn't that also the target consumer of their restaurant?These people may not be from the upper class, but they have a lot of money!That is also the kind of high-end restaurant without blinking!So in this way, although I didn't get pulled into the upper class immediately, I didn't integrate into the upper class, but at least the matter of promoting the wealthy group has a clue, and we can take the rest step by step!

At this time, Jia Hongjian thanked the old man very happily, and on the other hand, he also felt sensitively that the old man Murdoch really belonged to the rich generation. After decades of hard work, he created his own news. The old man of the kingdom, he really can't just be a spearman casually!Even if people may not think about it so much, they can be very cautious when making subconscious decisions, avoiding themselves as guarantees for others!But this is not important, as long as our initial publicity is successful, even if we fail to attract the guys from the Upper East Side and attract a piece of upper middle class living on Long Island, that's fine!At least this sign is opened, at least we can have a lot of customers in the restaurant at the beginning, isn't it? (To be continued..)