· Restaurants full of flowers ·
An office building in Sanlitun, Beijing, the gray tone everywhere reveals its coldness and seriousness. What people did not expect was that the office building actually hid a "paradise" with flowers.
At the entrance, you will be greeted by countless flowers on the table, red roses, pink roses, violets... Like cute kids huddled together and smiling at you.
Looking around, every table, in the window, and even the ceiling basket is full of flowers. The floral fragrance is overflowing and refreshing. The busy heart begins to become quiet and gentle from this moment.
Everyone thought it was a flower shop, but they didn't expect it to be a restaurant. Many people do not understand: is it really necessary for a restaurant to decorate with so many flowers?
Founder Karen told me:
Beauty should be an indispensable sense of ritual in life.
This restaurant called "Flower Kitchen" not only puts flowers on the table, but even every dish, dessert, and drink is put into the seasonal edible flowers, including pansies, peony flowers, osmanthus flowers, cherry blossoms, and lavender.
They all have different flower languages, pansies imply picking up the drops of happiness in the midst of troubles and noises, and lavender symbolizes the romance of love.
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Bees roast pumpkin salad
Benedict eggs
Little Jasmine
Why do we feel romantic and warm when we see flowers? Not only because they are beautiful, but also because we don't have flowers.
Cold desks, crowded sidewalks, and a day-to-day routine, so when we see a tuft of delicate flowers on the side of the road, we stop and gently stop for it.
When beauty fills the air around you, hidden in the taste buds of your food, the warmth will enrich your heart little by little.
This is the charm of a good food, it can warm your heart through your eyes and your stomach.
· When love transmits warmth, the wandering heart comes to the shore ·
In fact, Karen is also a special chef, most of the dishes of the flower kitchen are developed by Karen and the chef, she said that this is probably the inheritance of her mother's talent to cook.
When I was a child, my parents incorporated all their love into three meals a day. Fish in sour soup, pickled meat, and rice noodles are always available for each season.
After growing up to study abroad and choosing to work in Beijing, Karen only returned home for the New Year. Often, as soon as you enter the house, the table is already full of hot meals.
It turns out that parents, who are not good at words on weekdays, put all their care into this meal. The small reunion of the family, reflected in the dim yellow light, is full of warm taste.
Flower Kitchen founder Karen
Karen is also a parent, and her most beloved daughter is often sick and does not like to eat. Karen was in a hurry, so he bought some cute tableware from the Internet, studied nutritional collocations, and made a lot of foods that were both nutritious and good-looking.
The daughter was very appetized when she saw these foods,
I'll eat it happily every time.
Sakura sticky rice dumplings that Karen made for her daughter.
Since then, Karen has learned that love can transmit warmth. Karen has been in the financial industry for many years, dealing with cold data. This time, Karen bravely resigned and founded Flower Kitchen to pass on the warmth.
She wrote on the menu of the flower kitchen: Love is companionship, three meals a day, and it is a watery age piled up with time.
All of The Flower Kitchen's dishes are commissioned months before opening. As large as the raw materials of roast chicken, from the taste, meat quality, cooking method, tried for several months; small to the choice of edible flowers, both healthy and good-looking.
Magnolia vegetable prawn salad
Roast chicken
Food is a particularly great thing, it can melt the frost to bring emotion, can shorten the distance between the hometown and the other place, day after day to transmit warmth and love. I once read a sentence in a book: When love transmits warmth, the wandering heart rests on the shore.
· Enjoy the warmth in time, and remember the blossoms in the flow of years ·
Not only food, the attentive Karen values every corner of the flower kitchen. The waiting area is always full of fresh fruits and snacks, there are menus tailored for children, pregnant women will be sent to a waist pillow and throw pillow in time when they come to eat, and on the day of the meal is the birthday of the guests, you can also receive a bouquet of flowers.
Flower kitchen waiting area
The flower kitchen gives the children floral lessons.
Karen said that he was particularly impressed by the pair of regular customers in the flower kitchen, whose hair was completely white, but still held hands to come to the restaurant to eat. At Tanabata, Karen invited Grandpa and Grandma to the restaurant for dinner, and prepared roses for them.
Grandma said with some prevarication that she never paid attention to these things, and she had never had Valentine's Day in more than sixty years of marriage, but her face was smiling like a flower. Although the old man did not speak, his eyes were smiling, and his eyes fell on the face of the grandmother.
After a long time, the grandmother turned into a person, still sitting in the same position where she had eaten with the grandfather before. Karen went to ask her, and the grandmother said: The old man left a week ago, a couple of more than sixty years, reluctant to ah.
Now that grandma wants to have a wife, she will come to the flower kitchen and sit down. This is the place that carries the last happy time of grandma and grandpa.
On Tanabata, the flower kitchen prepared roses for the grandparents.
There was once a Miss Zhong from Taiwan who came to Beijing and was not familiar with life, and felt that the city was very cold and strange. But when she accidentally came to the flower kitchen, she found that there was such a warm restaurant in Beijing.
Before leaving Beijing, I braved the heavy rain to come to the flower kitchen and left a card: Thank you flower kitchen, you have made me feel the warmth of home.
Single girls often come to the store alone,
Buy yourself a bouquet of flowers.
Even if it is a person, there should be no flowers missing in life.
In addition, there are some celebrities who are also regular customers in the store. Chen Jieyi especially likes the flower kitchen, once brought her own biscuits to the clerk and karen to taste, and also brought her good friend Li Jian to the store as a guest. This singer, who is recognized as a "man of literary science and engineering", can't help but praise the "good literature and art" of the flower kitchen.
There are also grandpa Wu Zun, singer Yu Quan, thai princess have come to the flower kitchen as a guest, they have withdrawn all titles at this time, like everyone else, quietly enjoy the beauty of food and the warmth brought by the flower kitchen for a moment.
Perhaps, this is what people often say, a hundred good futures, can not withstand a warm present. All the glory is not as good as enjoying the warmth of time and remembering the blossoming of flowers in the flow of years.
Feng Xiaogang starred in the movie "Fanghua" Li Xiaofeng.
➋ Left: Li Jian and Hu Haiquan, signatures left on the [Meiruo Dawn] menu; Right: Wu Zunlai Flower Kitchen dining, left signatures on the menu.
We often expect:
May we all be embraced by the warmth of the world.
There are many memories of a person's life, or pain or pleasure.
But only those warm moments in memory,
In order to make people warm a past.