Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 756 Thailand Tourism

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   Xie Family Mansion

   In order to welcome Yang Chen and his party, Xie Guoming invited Bangkok's most famous Cantonese chef and several famous Thai chefs to his home.

   Most of the Chinese in Thailand are from Chaoshan. According to statistics, nearly one-third of the overseas Chinese are from Chaozhou, mainly distributed in more than 100 countries and regions in the world such as Southeast Asia, Western Europe, North America, and Australia.

  Due to the flow of Chinese, Cantonese cuisine has also become one of the most important foods in many Chinese gathering places.

  In Bangkok, there are many Cantonese restaurants opened by Chinese people everywhere. The Chinese people are unparalleled in their attention to food.

   In addition to Cantonese cuisine, Xie Guoming also prepared hearty Thai dishes. Thailand has a very rich cooking tradition, but it has not been known to outsiders for a long time.

   In Thailand, there are four major cuisines, namely Northern Thai Cuisine, Northeastern Thai Cuisine, Thai Chinese Cuisine, and Southern Thai Cuisine. The four major cuisines reflect the different geographical cultures of Thailand.

  Eating styles and habits vary from place to place, but Thailand and Southeast Asian countries have one thing in common, that is, they have a soft spot for curry.

   Fortunately, the habit of third brother eating with his hands is not popular in Thailand, otherwise Yang Chen really couldn't use his chopsticks.

   In Thailand, curry is a common seasoning, and many dishes are mixed with curry, such as red curry, yellow curry and green curry.

   Especially red curry, the main material is Chaotian pepper. There is a saying in later generations that one can measure whether a person can eat spicy or not, depending on whether he can adapt to Chaotian pepper.

  Chaotian pepper is a very spicy pepper. Thailand is known as the "spicy country". It is similar to Sichuan and Sichuan in the Great Celestial Dynasty. They are very keen to eat spicy food.

   Ordinary people must be so spicy that they burst into tears when they take a bite.

  摁, as a member of the people of the Great Heaven Dynasty, Boss Yang did not exaggerate to the extent of tears, at most, the sweat kept coming out of his forehead.

   After taking the first bite, Yang Chen didn't stop his chopsticks very much. It's not that he can eat spicy food, but this level of spicy food. Once people stop, it will make your taste buds more difficult to adapt to.

  The more spicy it is, the better it will be eaten. As long as the initial period has passed, when the tongue is fully used to it and becomes numb, it will not feel spicy anymore.

   After seeing Yang Chen's good appetite, the Xie family's juniors looked at each other, as if there were 11,000 grass and mud horses galloping past in their heads, and for some reason, they suddenly lost their appetite.

   This kind of reverse contrast is really too big, and everyone has a feeling that the idol is collapsing.

   Unlike the rest of the Xie family, the four brothers of the Xie family are very happy. The Chinese hospitality is a long-standing tradition. The host will be happy when the guests come home and eat more.

   Yang Chen ate a meal, and suddenly shortened the distance between the two sides, making Xie Guoming more and more satisfied.

   There is no estrangement, and the big guys naturally chat casually. Yang Chen is going to enter Thailand next, so he naturally needs to have a comprehensive understanding of Thailand.

  The Xie family, as one of the richest families in Thailand, is very familiar with the major forces in Thailand.

   After learning about the general situation of the internal forces in Thailand, Yang Chen stopped his chopsticks and asked, "Uncle Xie, what do you think of Thailand's tourism industry?"

"Tourism" Xie Guoming heard the words and was stunned for a moment, then frowned slightly, and after a while, he slowly said: "In recent years, the number of foreigners visiting Thailand has increased, but this The increase is not significant.”

   said, Xie Guoming raised his head and asked, "Achen, are you interested in tourism?"

   Yang Chen didn't deny it, smiled and nodded: "I'm a little interested. I think Thailand's tourism industry will have a lot of room for development in the future."

   "This..." Xie Guoming was a little puzzled when he heard this.

  According to his understanding, although the global tourism industry has been increasing continuously in recent years, most of the places where big guys travel are concentrated in developed countries such as Europe and the United States.

   In Asia, most tourists are concentrated in island countries and economically developed regions such as Singapore and Hong Kong.

  In Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, the tourism industry has just started, and the environmental facilities have not been greatly improved. The big consortium like the Xie family naturally does not take tourism seriously.

   Another is that the tourism industry has invested too much in the early stage. Before seeing the benefits, everyone is reluctant to be the first to test the waters.

   "Uncle Xie, since the rise of the island country economy in the 1960s, the Asian regional economy has begun to develop relatively rapidly. After the island country, Hong Kong, Singapore, Wanwan, South Korea and other regions and countries have also achieved rapid economic development.

   Now Thailand is also affected by it, and the economy has begun to grow significantly, but this growth is much weaker than the above-mentioned regions and countries.

  When people watch the tourism industry in Europe and America, it is not difficult to find a problem, that is, when people in a region and country are rich, people like to go out and hang out.

  Tourism rises along with economic development, and even becomes the economic pillar of a certain country or region…”

  For a region to develop tourism, it must have eye-catching features. Compared with other countries in Southeast Asia, Thailand’s biggest advantage lies in the integrity of its cultural preservation.

  In modern history, Thailand has become the only independent country in Southeast Asia that has not been colonized by relying on its flexible diplomacy and its special geographical location in a special period.

During World War I and World War II, many countries in Southeast Asia were reduced to colonies of Britain and France due to Western aggression. As one of the largest powers in Europe, in order to avoid military conflict, Britain and France in Southeast Asia did not have a tacit understanding of what was placed in the middle. Thailand hands-on.

   Based on this, Thailand luckily escaped the fate of being colonized, and most of its cultural heritage has been preserved.

  Due to its special cultural system, Thailand will develop into a major tourist country in later generations, and its tourism has become the largest pillar industry of Thailand's domestic economy.

   After hearing Yang Chen's words, the Xie brothers' eyes lit up, they looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of emotion in each other's eyes.

   Yang Chen didn't remind them, they really didn't think of these things. As he said, Thai culture is relatively unique in Southeast Asia, and it is the best preserved.

   To a certain extent, it can greatly attract the attention of tourism enthusiasts. Tourism brings more than tourists, tickets and the like.

  Among them, the most important thing is to expand the scale of the service industry.

  The service industry has developed well and can largely drive the development of all walks of life.

  The industries with the largest number of occupiers in various tourist hot cities in the West are service industries.

  The prosperity of tourism, the service industry will follow, and then drive the economic development of the whole region.

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   (end of this chapter)