“Because I’m a Billionaire”
Cake soup shop hiding in the alley “cheap” price
“What is a billionaire? A billionaire is a very rich person, a lot of money. I’m also a billionaire, but a billionaire has no money, just a billionaire of love, humanity, compassion, and kindness. The market price has gone up a lot, but if I also go up, how can you use it“, Mr. Tran Thanh Phuong, owner of My Tho cake shop in Ho Chi Minh City explained.
The couple’s shop “hid” in a small alley near Pham The Hien market (District 8, Ho Chi Minh City), selling a super popular dish, rice flour soup, with a price that is difficult to be cheaper: 10 thousand/bowl. This is the price he has kept for 4 years, from when the shop only had 2-3 tables to now 10 tables, since the corner of Pham The Hien street is 1.5m wide, muddy with sewage, and now has doubled in size.
Phuong’s 10,000-thousand cake shop is very famous on social media
At that time, Mr. Phuong moved from My Tho to Ho Chi Minh City to set up a business. He kept going around looking for a place to open a shop. He chose a small alley with a lot of working people in District 8 as a place to stop, because he believed that it would be easy to sell, easy to be accepted, if it was cheap, the food would be good enough to live.
And also because this rice flour soup is easy to eat, anyone can eat it, from adults to children. He said, how can you get rich if you only sell for 10 thousand/bowl, but sell about 700 bowls a day, that’s enough to live on.
Before, when his wife went to work, Mr. Phuong was alone with the restaurant. At 5 a.m., he went to the market to choose groceries, made broth, stewed meat, at 9 o’clock, the meat was cooked, ribs, and sausages were cooked at 10 o’clock, and then sold the goods. . The shop was crowded, he found an extra person, but he couldn’t find many people with the same “nature” as himself.
“That’s how many times I want to rest now, I’m short of money for accommodation, then the price of ingredients increases, the whole pork leg from 50,000 VND but later increased to 150 thousand. But I think, if the price is high, then cut it off a bit, improve it, but if I raise the price, it’s also a crime.
Here, I sell at any price, sometimes people are too poor, 2 thousand 5 thousand also sell. Sales, you have to pay attention to customers, for example, guys who build and work hard come to eat, I scoop a lot of cakes, and the office girls just take it. Or the old aunts, instead of 3 pieces of meat, put 5 pieces. There are a few people who are so poor with lottery tickets and bottles, I don’t charge or take 2 thousand, 5 thousand only.
But the sales assistants, sometimes very frustrated. I told them to give it the right amount, but they kept reducing it, resisting me: How can you make a profit if you sell it? Well, I’ll bear the loss on my own, I won’t reduce their salary. When I meet these people, I give them a break“.
After all, he couldn’t find anyone to help, when his wife lost her job after the pandemic, he lured her to stay at home to sell. Phuong’s wife has thyroid disease. When she was new, she and her husband ran a bakery, holding a bowl with trembling hands. Now taking medicine for a while, happy with work again, she is much better.
“If I eat, I will cook for others”
All day struggling with the bakery, Mr. Phuong’s family almost does not cook at home, rarely stores rice. The family eats banh chung constantly, which he jokingly says is “the best cake soup”.
It is hard to say that Phuong’s banh chung is the best cooked in HCMC. That city has thousands of banh chung shops, from street stalls, hiding in alleys like his to luxury restaurants. But he is always confident that his cake soup is very close to the taste of the family, each ingredient is taken care of.
Mr. Phuong has never attended a cooking school, only cooks rustically like some mothers in the countryside cook for the family. Loose water, he cooks from dried shrimp, dried shrimp, stewed dried squid with “ginseng” (as he jokingly calls pickled radish), duck blood, added sweetness from lean meat, ham, and stewed ribs. All create a unique blend and flavor.
Eating with soup cake, Mr. Phuong is also very indulgent, presenting many dishes, including shrimp and squid for guests who like protein, but the price is only 30, 35 thousand. The basic bowl (lean meat, pork skin, duck blood, ribs) is only 10, 15 thousand, the price is “unbelievable” in the time of escalating prices.
Maybe that’s why many people came to eat and were very impressed with Phuong’s bakery. Many YouTubers and TikTokers have come to taste, review and share about the shop on many platforms. In addition to those who come to try it out of curiosity, the shop also has a team of “smooth-faced” patrons, most of which are poor laborers, workers, builders, lottery ticket sellers or students…
Also because it is so popular, sometimes Mr. Phuong’s shop is also denigrated, is said to be devaluing the market, is questioned about the quality of the food. For his part, the owner just laughed: “I sell cheap, customers support a lot, my shop is famous. Now, if anyone sees that and imitates it and sells it cheap, that’s good, if it’s cheap, people can ask for more.
I consider life like a game, really, nothing stressful at all, just leisurely in joy. I rent a house, I don’t have money to save, but I’m happy every day because I can give it to others, because I can serve people. This life does not bring anything, only bring blessings.“.
(Reference: Ut Phuong Vlog, Billionaire in everyday life)
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