This small basement flower shop is a hit in Beijing, even singer Li Jian came to check it out

Opening a small shop

seems to be every girl's dream

This shop in Sanlitun, Beijing

can be called a flower shop

because everywhere you look

there are brilliant blooming flowers

It can also be called a restaurant

because it is full of photogenic food

that satisfies all your food wishes

This shop is tucked away in the busy streets of Sanlitun, Beijing

The storefront is not big, just a few dozen sq m

but inside it is a riot of flowers

Many girls, as soon as they walk in

the first thought in their hearts is:

"My god, isn't this exactly the flower-filled restaurant I've always wanted to open?"

Karen is the owner of this flower shop

She is 33 years old this year

Her résumé is seriously impressive

She once studied in the UK

and spent 7 years fighting her way through the financial circles of the capital

Decisive and efficient, a proper white-collar elite

Yet every day she went in and out of high-end office buildings

and every day by the time she got off work it was already dark

Looking at the city's night view outside the window

she would always think

"In the dimming lights, we are all kindred spirits"

Beijing, Beijing...

Is there really the life I want here?

In her 7th year of feeling nothing for the finance industry

she decided to make some changes

Karen had always wanted to open a small shop

"Worst case, my dream hits a wall and I go find another finance job, I won't starve..."

When she quit, that was how she encouraged herself

Leaving the job others envied

she instead felt that the Beijing sky

had become bright and clear

But the road to dreams is never smooth sailing

At the beginning, when choosing a location, she was cheated out of money by a sublessor

After searching for several months

she finally found this basement level of an office building in Sanlitun

After finding the place

"But the catering service license just wouldn't come through,

It got so bad that I almost gave up on the plan to open the shop."

Opening a shop means a mountain of trivial matters

Karen drew the design plans herself

She didn't know CAD, so she did it by hand

She searched online for every piece of furniture and decoration

and also went to find them in person

In the end, just for all kinds of supplies and fresh flowers

there were several hundred rows in the Excel spreadsheet

Absolutely enough to make your eyes spin

When she first opened the shop

Karen had a plan

to connect flowers and food together

So just tasting dishes with the team took a year

all to create the most perfect menu

She also insisted that beautiful food

must be carried by beautiful vessels

So for a while

this girl turned her home into something like a general store

filled with all kinds of tableware she had hunted down

After 10 months of work

the small shop finally gradually took shape

Karen always remembers tearing open the construction barrier

and the moment she turned on the first light

At that time, her eyes welled up with tears

"I felt like this shop was like my newborn child"

All the hardship of the renovation process was worth it

But reality kept hitting her hard

First the shop sign LOGO, on the very first day it actually went completely black

"Opening a shop is all about a good start, and this happened, not a good sign..."

Many people shook their heads

Then, less than a month after opening

a water pipe actually burst and flooded the whole shop

Everyone in the shop had to evacuate urgently

Opening a shop for the first time in her life

she ran into almost every frustrating thing possible

The effort involved in all this

only those who have been through it can understand

Carrying large buckets of water, cloth bags, and dirt

messy from head to toe

Even the once-a-month manicure

became a luxury after opening the flower shop

Her fingernails were often packed with mud, became rough, grew hangnails, got scraped and wounded...

In those moments when she wanted to give up

she would grit her teeth and say, just hold on a little longer

She knew it would be easy to go back to finance

but if she went back, the rest of her life would truly be so boring

Doing something you love

and letting others feel your passion

that is the real joy of doing things

Fortunately, all the effort was not in vain

What she didn't expect was

that this tiny flower kitchen opened on the basement level of an office building

actually became profitable in just the first few months

And on top of that, a wave of big names came...

Li Jian left his signature beside a bottle of wine

Kit Chan especially loves the flower kitchen

She couldn't resist bringing cookies she made herself for the staff and Karen to try

But what moved her even more

were the ordinary people who came here to eat...

What left the deepest impression on her was an elderly couple whose ages add up to 180

From just after opening to Qixi Valentine's Day

the two of them always came hand in hand and left hand in hand

The certainty of love for the grandmother shining in the grandfather's eyes

made everyone who saw it deeply moved

"In 70 years of marriage we have never once argued

because Grandpa has a pretty good temper." said the grandmother

Miss Zhong, who had just come to Beijing from Taiwan, China

was unfamiliar with everything and everyone

She accidentally "stumbled" into the flower kitchen

and discovered that the capital actually had such a warm restaurant

Before she was about to leave Beijing

she came to the flower kitchen in the heavy rain

and left a card

on which was written, "It is you who gave me the warmth of home"

A girl named Kodi who loves illustration also fell in love with this place

She likes to use her brush to record every signature dish of the flower kitchen

She said: "One day I want to publish a food illustration book."

There's Mr. A, who comes down to eat every other day after working overtime

Miss L, who encourages Karen to keep going when business is slow

Mr. H, who successfully proposed here and treated everyone to beer......

Little fragments that make up the small certain happiness in ordinary days

More and more people have fallen in love with this place

After finishing a day's work

They come here, have a meal, and leave with a bouquet of flowers

Flower breakfast

Flower lunch

Flower dinner

The most romantic thing is

Every dish, every dessert

Every drink

Has seasonal edible flowers added to it......

Everything got better

That's how life is

If you treat it with care

It will surely treat you with care in return

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