Hong Kong men moved to Cambodia to open shops, sell thousands of bowls of wonton noodles every month, open three shops in less than three years, and the first two shops have already returned to the cost in half a year: when you feel that you have made money, you are hungry, and you have a house to live in, you feel that returning to Hong Kong is meaningless, and I can only start from scratch when I go back to development!
The stomach has nostalgia, and after a long time of travel, Hong Kong-style food will always quietly come to mind and linger. Phnom Penh has a tea restaurant with a full taste of Hong Kong and authentic food, and wonton noodles sell more than 1,000 bowls a month, because the ingredients are mostly flown in from Hong Kong, and the bosses are also Hong Kong people. Tea is remembered in Cambodia like a cloud, three shops opened in three years, because most of the diners are foreigners, naturally hope to taste the taste of home.
The cheerful Chen Shenjie was originally engaged in logistics in Hong Kong, with great competition and passive, always thinking of jumping out of the box. In 2011, a friend said that Cambodian business opportunities are everywhere, he went to Phnom Penh to play a white pigeon turn, less than ten days after returning to Hong Kong, he packed up and ran there to develop, "open a shop to try to sell, with the living knowledge of more people, there are under the eyes can do it." I tried to promote LED bulbs, but unfortunately the market was not affected, and it lost 600,000 Hong Kong dollars in the first year. I was preparing to return to Hong Kong after finishing my business, and I made friends with designers to invite me to purchase decoration and construction materials on my behalf, so I became a buyer, and my business gradually improved, and later I got to know my wife who opened a tea restaurant, and I pushed the boat ginseng into the water.
The restaurant is decorated with nostalgia, paper-paper stone floor tiles, shutters, and local feelings everywhere, but the restaurant still has a taste to matter. Chan said that the taste must adhere to the Hong Kong style to stand up, "Even if it is a piece of lunch meat, I insist on carrying Hong Kong through the mouth; In the past, Zhong exaggerated, and a piece of intestinal powder flew over."
At first, Hong Kong-funded manufacturers came to comfort the taste buds, and later Malaysians and locals also came to visit. The best sales volume is wonton noodles, which sell for $4.80 per bowl, which is not cheap in Phnom Penh, but the goods are expensive, and the freight cost of the noodles alone is 1.5 US dollars.
Ingredients are expensive, but other costs are low: Employees earn $200 a month and $3,000 a month rent for a 3,000-foot shop. The latest branch has a total investment of about US$120,000, and the same size is estimated to cost more than six times in Hong Kong. At the same time, there is less competition, "ring a sandy fish to grow up in the city, out to the (business) all the easy", less than three years in Phnom Penh to open three shops, the first two shops half a year to return the cost, the future hope to use ten years to open enough ten stores, will consider expanding to Siem Reap and so on.
Finding the right opportunity, the number of returns to Hong Kong has gradually decreased, Chen Shenjie bluntly said that he has settled in Cambodia, "When you feel that you have money, and you are hungry, and you have a house to carve, you feel that returning to Hong Kong is a bad idea... Tell me to go back to (develop) mi from scratch." Although he intends to develop in the local area for a long time, he feels that the supply of new buildings is large and the second-hand market is not mature, so he still chooses to rent the building, with an area of 2,000 square feet and a monthly lease of about US$1,400.
