Chapter 783 Preparation
The recording of the competition will officially start on October 15th. The contestants’ dishes will be released on the 13th. On the 14th, everyone can’t be idle and have to prepare the dishes.
The so-called preparation is the familiar dialogue with the guests before the official start of the variety show. This Jiang Feng is familiar with the world. Everyone had recorded it when he participated in the Good Taste Cooking Competition, so he has seen the world.
It's just that the preparation for the Good Taste Cooking Competition requires each contestant to go to the TV station to record. This time, the program team came to the door and set aside a small room in their respective restaurants for preparation. The contestants and their respective videographers should get familiar with each other first.
Because it is a production team in the United States, the photographers are all foreigners, and they are all strong men. Maybe they have to carry the photographers around, and the amount of exercise is comparable to that of long-distance runners. They must be strong men to be able to do it. .
Jiang Feng's photographer is a bearded, muscular man. At first glance, his back looks a bit like Chef Arnold, and Jiang Feng almost didn't notice that he was covered in cold sweat. He was very cold. After seeing Jiang Feng, he just nodded politely without even saying Hi. Jiang Feng seemed a little embarrassed after saying Hi.
The director of Bei Cai is a Chinese, probably to facilitate communication with the contestants, and looks very professional. When Jiang Feng entered Beicai's small room, the director smiled and motioned for him to sit down and asked him to relax. He just asked a few simple questions and didn't be nervous.
Not only was Jiang Feng not nervous, he also had a lot of questions he wanted to ask the program team. Since receiving the news that the show was about to start, his schedule has been very full, and he basically has something to do every day. After finishing my study at Yongheju, I returned to Tai Feng House and pondered the menu. After settling on the stir-fried shredded potatoes yesterday, I was still wondering what to do with this dish.
Ever since Jiang Feng's cooking skills improved, stir-fried shredded potatoes and scrambled eggs with tomatoes, which everyone knows and even Sang Ming can cook, are rarely on the menu. Especially later, Jiang Feng listened to Sun Maocai's advice and changed his menu to one that was unstable. The better-selling liquid dishes were sweet and sour pork ribs, ground three delicacies, and sauced elbows, which were either a bit special or not. For meat dishes, the fried shredded potatoes are just a decoration.
It's not easy to get Jiang Feng's food. Who would waste such a precious spot on stir-fried shredded potatoes?
Just when Jiang Feng was madly complaining about the pitfalls of stir-fried potato shreds, the director had already asked with a smile.
Seeing Jiang Feng's serious face and empty eyes, the director thought that he was tense and unnatural because he was too nervous, so he thought of making some digressions to lighten the atmosphere: "Master Jiang, you don't have to be too tight. Then we'll just ask some simple questions. Let's talk about something else first..."
"Can I ask a few questions?" Jiang Feng said.
The director was stunned and said: "Of course, you can ask anything you want."
"The recording will start tomorrow. Although the chefs from our participating restaurants will not meet each other in the first two weeks, I think we should at least tell us the names of the other contestants. Even if we don't announce the dishes, we should Tell us who the opponent is, why hasn’t the program team given us any news yet?”
Director: "Huh?"
"Also, I see that the documents related to the process clearly state that Monday to Saturday are the points days, and a small test will be conducted on Sunday, based on rankings and points. But what is the scope of this test and the specific content are not told to us. Since we will not meet each other, the test must be conducted separately. If so, how can we know for sure whether the ranking is fraudulent? ”
"The most critical issue is that when we start work, our kitchen will not be as sparsely populated as it is now. You all know the hotel's kitchen, and there will not be much free space. Look at these cameramen, they are tall and powerful. And carrying such a big camera, there probably won’t even be room in the kitchen. I think it’s too big for them to carry the camera, let alone four. If the cameraman accidentally knocks over any seasonings or marinated dishes, that’s too much. It greatly affects our normal business.”
Jiang Feng's mouth clicked like a machine gun, firing a series of bullets that stunned the director.
The director thought that I was just a director who was responsible for money. The specific program planning or content had nothing to do with her. She couldn’t solve these things if I asked her about them. She could only keep smiling and politely say: "I have asked you just these questions." I will report it to the program team and I believe there will be a reply soon.”
Jiang Feng:...
I think you still need to say: I wish you a happy life.
"I think we're almost done talking, can we start?" The editor could tell that Jiang Feng wasn't nervous at all. He was just thinking about something, so he immediately changed the subject.
Seeing that his question could not be answered or solved, Jiang Feng nodded, indicating that he could start.
Jiang Feng originally thought that Bei Cai would be casual and gentle, just like the previous Good Taste Cooking Competition, where everyone was called to the TV station to just record self-introductions and declarations of participation. Except that Ji Xue recorded her self-introduction as a recruitment advertisement, everyone was normal.
In his original idea, the questions he asked should be an introduction to the restaurant, an introduction to himself, his thoughts on the game and whether he was confident, and Beicai could end happily like this. But he didn't expect that the first question would be very sharp, even full of gunpowder.
"The competition in our program is very fierce. It is a points competition and only the top two can advance to the finals. I just looked at the menus of the four chefs at Tai Fung House for the first week. It can be said that they have no advantage at all. Do you think Tai Feng Tower still has a chance to qualify with such a disadvantage in the first week?" the director asked with a smile.
Jiang Feng:?
Making trouble?
However, the director's words actually reminded Jiang Feng that the dish they got was indeed not good.
In other words, some restaurants have selected very advantageous dishes.
"Of course." Jiang Feng raised his head confidently, rarely showing the confidence and aura of his three masters, "There are only chefs who have no advantage, and there are no dishes that are at a disadvantage."
"It is indeed a restaurant that appeared on the cover of "Zhiwei" this year. It is really confident. I think we should see a very good performance from Tai Feng Road next time."
"The second question is actually the last question. In the second stage of the exchange competition, is there a restaurant you really want to go to?"
Jiang Feng thought for a while: "Let's live in Yonghe."
Yonghe lives with him.
"Why?"
"Didn't you say that the question just now was the last question?"
Director:......
The director thought Jiang Feng didn't want to answer, smiled, got up and sent Jiang Feng away.
The preparation of the four people took almost an hour. After the preparation, the four people exchanged questions with each other and found that everyone was asked the same questions. The program team really wanted to cause trouble.
"Fengfeng, when the results of the first week's points competition come out, which one of our eight domestic restaurants will be ranked first?" Wu Minqi asked curiously.
"It should be Zhiweiju. If there is a single stack, no other restaurant can stack up with it." Jiang Feng said.
"Indeed, Zhiweiju should have the biggest advantage in the first round, but they are also the ones with the biggest disadvantage in the second round." Sun Maocai nodded in agreement, "After the second round of exchange, we have to cook according to the restaurant's original menu. Except for Babao Zhai, which is slightly famous for its pastries, some other restaurants don’t even do white dishes. ”
"Don't think about the second round. It seems we won't be able to do it in the first round now." Jiang Feng smiled bitterly. Although he was very arrogant when he was preparing to pick, he still had some doubts about whether the fried shredded potatoes were competitive. .
According to normal operations, tomorrow's menu will be chickpea curds, eight-treasure chestnut pigeon, crab-stuffed orange, shredded yam, pure meat wontons, Li Hongzhang chowder, marriage set meal, braised eel segments, pork sausage and stir-fried shredded potatoes.
Tomorrow's guests will have to think hard to order fried shredded potatoes!
The same is true for Sun Maocai. Tomorrow's guests will be so hard to think about, why can they order Sun Maocai's dishes and order the soup baby dishes?
Wu Minqi's Mapo Tofu is a little better. The Mapo Tofu she makes is spicy and spicy. Most customers may not be able to accept it, but some customers are very fond of it.
The best player is Sun Jikai. Whether Tai Feng Tower will be at the bottom this week depends on Sun's performance.
"Old Sun, come on!" Jiang Feng patted Sun Jikai on the shoulder with a heavy expression, "Show your true strength, we really have to rely on you this week."
"Fortunately, your fried beef is eight yuan cheaper than Ji Xue's. I almost want to take Ji Xue's fried beef off the shelves."
Sun Jikai:?
Although he understood what Jiang Feng meant, he still felt that Jiang Feng was mocking him.
I think my dry-fried beef river can be increased by eight yuan, thank you. (End of chapter)