Between the flats (about 20 mins or so by bike along their very broad cycle lanes - even Eve has done the journey by bike a few times!) there is the cafe where the guys and younger lady work. We've spent a fair amount of our time at the cafe - Eve has obviously been working her magic in the kitchen and adding some more desserts to an already impressive menu. My job has been to help with the new marketing drive. We need to make the menu a little more Chinese - not in terms of the dish selection, but rather having a photo for each dish so that the Chinese customers know what they're ordering (the menu is in Chinese too, but the dishes are pretty unfamiliar to local palettes)! Although a picture menu makes me immediately suspicious, apparently it's necessary here. The sheer size of the menu is making the whole thing more protracted than anticipated. They've got something like 60 dishes on the menu - again, apparently this is necessary in China as your cook can't be very good if he can only do, say, 20 dishes.
We're also trying to make up some new banners for the outside of the cafe - the last lot had to come down after some local officials out of the blue decided (after it had been up for about 3 years) that a "registration fee" was payable.
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