High-priced "raw noodles"
In 2008, in the first list of "Chongqing Top 50 Small Noodles" spontaneously selected by Chongqing netizens, "Mao Mao Noodles" ranked 16th, confirming its status as a jianghu in the minds of local "delicious dogs". But what is intriguing is that in the same year, in the list of "black heart noodles" also spontaneously commented by netizens, "mao mao noodles" were also impressively listed in the ——— 48 yuan a bowl of "high-priced noodles", which attracted public criticism for a while, at that time, in the face of questions from all sides, "mao mao noodles" once again raised the price to 128 yuan a bowl!
After 8 years, where is the controversial "hairy face" now? Is there still a similar "high-priced" noodle market in Chongqing? What do people on all sides think of this incident? The reporter conducted a field visit.
Visitation: The old "high-priced small noodles" have failed
According to the data, "Mao Mao Noodles" is a small noodle sold by a restaurant called "Mao Jia Stir-fry Restaurant" in California Garden, Yubei District, on February 27, the reporter came to Yubei California Garden when the "Mao Mao Noodles" operated a storefront, and the field visit found that the "Mao Family Stir-fry Restaurant" of that year no longer exists, the storefront is divided into two, one sells red wine, and one is a real estate intermediary company.
According to the staff of the real estate agency, the "Maojia Stir-fry Restaurant" closed in September last year, for unknown reasons. A lady owner of a restaurant next to the store said: "The noodles are too expensive, the neighbors have never eaten it for so many years." Not many people usually come to eat. ”
Subsequently, the reporter dialed the contact number of the "Maojia Stir-fry Restaurant" marked on the Baidu map, and before he could fully express his intentions, he hung up the phone for convenience.
Memories: The price is too expensive to attract controversy among diners
Regarding the past life of "Mao Mao Noodles", Li Jieping, the initiator and secretary general of the "Chongqing Small Noodles Association", has a deep understanding of this. Li Jieping introduced that the door number of California Mao Mao Noodles at that time was "Mao Family Stir-fry Restaurant", and Mao Mao Noodles was only one of the noodle dishes launched by this restaurant. On January 7, 2013, he set off from the Liberation Monument to taste "Mao Mao Noodles" in Northern California, and the feeling at that time was: the portion is sufficient, one bowl of noodles is equivalent to two bowls of other noodle restaurants, the appearance and taste are not bad, after all, it is so expensive. "When I went, he was the only diner in the noodle restaurant, and when he went into the kitchen to take pictures, he was stopped by the hostess." According to the price tag in the store menu at that time, the cheapest small noodles were 20 yuan, and the most expensive braised beef noodles were 68 yuan. Why is it so expensive to sell? The explanation given by the hostess Mao Yanbi is that the way the store operates is that "the material is good and the price is high, from the decoration to the ingredients, it is a solid and good material."
In the era when the average price of a bowl of Small Noodles in Chongqing was about 3 yuan, California's "Mao Mao Noodles" became synonymous with "high prices", "huge profits" and "black heart noodles" in the eyes of many ordinary people. So far, through Baidu's search for "Chongqing Mao Mao Noodles", you can still see a large number of negative reviews posted by diners online.
Tracking: High-priced small noodles are not extinct
According to Li Jieping, there is another "high-priced small noodle" in Chongqing, located in Longhua Avenue, Yubei District. On February 27, the reporter went to the field visit - the small storefront was placed with several tables, simple decoration, the waiter was uniformly dressed, and the price list on the wall showed that the sour and spicy powder and small noodles were 158 yuan / bowl, the fresh yellow beef whip soup pot was 488 yuan / pot, and the fresh oxtail soup pot was 388 yuan / pot. Such a price is dozens of yuan higher than when Li Jieping last visited. The waiter told reporters that this is the recently adjusted price, small noodles are the cheapest, there are also 10 yuan a bowl, but the ingredients and ingredients are naturally different. During the reporter's 15-minute stop, from time to time, diners entered, glanced at the price list, shook their heads and left.
For the question of the price, the waiter in the store said that all the ingredients were bought at the slaughterhouse at 4 a.m., and after the hair, foaming, and cooking, they were sold within a day to ensure freshness, natural taste, and the price was slightly more expensive.
Opinion: Why are high-priced foods always on the tip of the tongue?
Ms. Yuan of the Jiazhou Area Industrial and Commercial Institute in Yubei District said that although the small noodles and bone soup in the Mao Mao Noodle Village were sold at a high price, because the prices were marked on the menu, they belonged to the clear real price, and consumers could know the price before consumption, so it did not violate the relevant regulations of the industrial and commercial administration.
The staff of the 12358 hotline of the Chongqing Municipal Price Bureau said that because the catering industry to which the raw noodles belong is self-priced, the price bureau does not have unlimited prices for the industry, so it does not violate the relevant regulations of the price department.
Tang Xinyu, vice president of the Chongqing Small Noodle Association and one of the founders of cup noodles, also believes that "whether it is 48 yuan or 158 yuan a bowl, according to the different materials and formulas to price, this is to take a differentiated route, to give consumers a richer choice, there is nothing wrong, the catering market should be a hundred flowers, each wonderful." According to Hualong