Chapter 800 First (4000)
Although no one could understand Jiang Feng's hunger marketing, and even Jiang Feng himself didn't understand his own hunger marketing, he still convinced the program team with this nonsense, at least on the surface.
The second week of games is destined to be uneventful.
Because the variety show has already started.
In the Sino-US Chef King Competition, the eight restaurants on the Chinese side are updated every Monday at 8 o'clock as an online variety show. Because it is an online variety show, it is more willful and can cut one issue into a three-hour long version. In the United States, it is broadcast on pay TV. It is broadcast in episodes like a TV series. Each episode is only more than 40 minutes. Two episodes are updated a week. Due to the time difference, the broadcast time is Sunday at 8 pm.
Since it takes time to translate and re-produce subtitles, the Chinese side will update the variety shows on the other side of the ocean every Wednesday night, and the American side will also update the Chinese side’s variety shows every Wednesday night, also in the form of online variety shows.
Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi watched the updated variety show immediately on Monday night. In their opinion, although this variety show is not very exciting, it is definitely not an ugly variety show.
The breaking point is that the first episode was not aired later. What was aired in the first episode was just the daily operations of eight restaurants and some minor frictions between the chefs. It was originally supposed to be boring, but with the photographer's unique sense of lens capture, the scenes of the chefs cooking were captured in a picturesque and wonderful way.
Basically, the image that comes to mind of every viewer who has watched the first episode in its entirety is food.
Still delicious.
Sizzling pan-fried veal steak.
As soft as clouds, small and delicate, white and delicious, you can wrap it up in one bite.
It's so green, blanch it in boiling water and serve it out, then top it with the extra-tender fresh vegetables.
The thick oily red sauce is constantly tumbling in the iron pot, and the surface of the large chunks of pork belly tightly wrapped in the sauce is floating with beautiful fat and thin pork belly.
Gengen tofu is as thin as hair and scattered in the bowl like daisies in full bloom. It is afraid of breaking when you pick it up and melts in your mouth. You can tell at a glance that Wensi tofu needs careful care, careful eating and careful tasting.
The amber-shaped squirrel mandarin fish looks like a work of art after thickening, sparkling and extremely dazzling.
Chickpea pudding, two-color prawns, double crispy fried in oil, crab meat lion head, braised silver carp head...
All the dishes that I have heard of, have not heard of, have eaten, and have not eaten all appeared in the first episode of the variety show.
The main reason is that things progressed too blandly, with no quarrels or struggles. Even Tai Feng Tower, which was in poor business, could only capture Jiang Feng's dejection and Sun Jikai's struggling to stir up the bull river in the background.
There is nothing to film in terms of story, so we can only put some effort into the dishes.
Chicken, duck, fish, delicacies from the mountains and sea, basically the food that comes to mind when an ordinary person thinks of delicious food, these eight restaurants have it all.
We can even give them something better than they could have imagined.
Just imagine, on an ordinary Monday, an ordinary office worker returns home after a busy day of work, dragging his tired body and the cheap fried rice bought at the door of the community. I wanted to relax and watch a variety show while eating, but then I accidentally clicked on this variety show.
White pastries, hot dishes, slender fingers, and a noisy kitchen.
The flavor of the world is all here.
Office workers watching the variety show suddenly felt that the fried rice was no longer fragrant, the ham sausage was no longer fragrant, and the instant noodles in the distance were no longer fragrant.
You can only see it on the screen, you can't touch it, you can't smell it, but you can imagine that the dishes are very fragrant.
Very fragrant.
Damn, I really want to eat it.
Want to eat everything.
Even if it seems like I can’t afford it, I still want to eat it.
Damn, how can there be anything in this world that looks so delicious!
Of course, the contestants did not expect that this cooking reality show would be viewed as a food documentary by the audience, and even the program team did not expect it. Since domestic variety shows cannot be broadcast on stars and can only be broadcast in the form of online variety shows, the focus of their early promotion has always been on the United States. After all, this reality show is a veteran reality show in the United States. It has a reputation and a stable audience that it has accumulated for many years.
Although Han Guishan is the main investor on the Chinese side, the main funds are still provided by the United States. After all, the production cost of a single episode of American variety shows is too high, mainly due to high labor costs. Boss Han was not taken advantage of. He didn't have the leisure and elegance to bear all the expenses on his own, and then he was cheated by the other party and lost all his money because he didn't know the business.
The professional spends most of his money to eat the meat, and he just invests some money in the back to drink the soup.
This led to the program team spending a large amount of money to promote it in the United States. The domestic promotion was just to buy relevant recommendation spots on video websites a week in advance. In fact, it’s not that bad, it’s just that the publicity is not as careful as those in the United States. Many people have seen the relevant publicity, but they have not clicked on it.
After all, no matter how you look at it, this is not an attractive variety show. There are no celebrities, pure people, neither a relationship nor a high IQ competition. Cooking variety shows do not have as wide an audience as other types of variety shows, so it is normal for them not to be noticed or taken seriously.
Nearly ten years have passed since Chef Arnold's last big hit. His popularity in the United States is very high, but it is very sluggish in China.
But what no one expected was that the reputations of China and the United States were extremely polarized.
Although the Chinese website has a lot of clicks, and after the first day it was launched, the number of clicks did not even exceed 10 million, only more than 3 million, but it has a very good reputation. All the comments below are all about wanting to eat it, it looks delicious, is it really that delicious? Where is the restaurant? Is it still open for business? If anything, I obviously wasn't watching this as a variety show, but as a food documentary.
The reputation in the United States is very low, but the ratings are extremely high. The show crew has been falsely promoting the name Chef Arnold for so long, and it has already whetted everyone's appetite. On Monday night, I don’t know how many families gathered in front of the TV just to hear Chef Arnold’s shit. But after watching it, I found that not to mention shit, Chef Arnold didn’t even exist.
That's it?
That's it? ? ?
For a time, there was a flood of bad reviews, the rating dropped to an all-time low, and the reviews were all liars, disgusting, false propaganda, garbage, and a lot of **** that cannot be written.
Later, the program team released the news in time, saying that Chef Arnold's part would be broadcast in the form of a web variety show on Wednesday night, which somewhat calmed the anger of viewers across the United States.
In order to better compensate, the program team decided to record another interview for each contestant and broadcast it in the form of a preview, in order to win back the love of the audience and the ratings.
It was seven o'clock in the morning on Tuesday when Jiang Feng saw the news. At that time, he had just gotten up. When he received the news, he was brushing his teeth with his eyes on the chicken coop. After reading the news, I immediately became energetic. After brushing my teeth, I rushed into the room to pick out clothes without even washing my face.
After twenty minutes of careful selection, Jiang Feng finally chose the same outfit as the last time he prepared.
After getting dressed, washing his face, and even washing his hair again, Jiang Feng looked at his human-looking self in the mirror and felt that he was very OK. He already had the attitude of a winner.
A new look, a new beginning, this week he will definitely lead Tai Feng Tower to make a comeback against the wind.
Then Jiang Feng saw him in the living room wearing a light yellow dress that he bought this year and had never worn it a few times. He also had a butterfly tied around his waist that Jiang Feng had never seen before, and there were cherries in his hair that were not necessary at all. Wu Minqi has hairpins and makeup but no highlights.
When Jiang Feng got closer, he noticed that the collar of Wu Minqi's yellow skirt seemed to be different from before. Could it be that she had bought a new skirt?
"Qiqi, is this skirt you bought new?" Jiang Feng pointed to Wu Minqi's collar.
"It's still the same skirt as before." Wu Minqi looked down at the collar, suddenly realized, and lifted it with the handbag to show that it could move, "This is a fake collar, specially used to match my hairpin today."
Jiang Feng:?
"Yeah, they look really good together." Jiang Feng's face was filled with sincerity.
Wu Minqi originally planned to get up early to make breakfast, but after seeing the news, she changed to getting up early to pick out clothes and accessories. As a result, she and Jiang Feng had no food to eat this morning and had to go downstairs to buy steamed buns.
Two people who were dressed not as if they were going to work but to attend a dinner took the elevator downstairs. As soon as they got out of the elevator, they were intercepted by the staff of the program team. The people who intercepted them were two interns and a director. One planner and three photographers. Without giving Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi time to react, they were pulled into the car and headed straight to the TV station.
As soon as they arrived at the TV station, they discovered that Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai had been intercepted a long time ago. After asking, they found out that Sun Maocai was the worst. He was intercepted directly during his morning jog. If it weren't for him, he would rather die than go home and take a shower. After changing his clothes, he might have been dragged to the TV station in his morning jogging clothes.
Jiang Feng:?
Were the show crew held at gunpoint by the audience to watch the show? Why are you so anxious?
In fact, it is no different from being pointed at a gun. Due to the time difference, when Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi were watching a variety show last night, the American production team was already attacked by angry netizens. The reputation has dropped to an all-time low, negative reviews are flooding in, phone calls are being blasted by angry viewers, the sponsor’s dad doesn’t know the situation, and he doesn’t need to understand the situation.
He simply informed the program team to resolve it or I withdraw funding.
Since funds are at stake, the program team attaches great importance to this preparation. Even if the time is short, they are fully prepared and tailor-made the problem of being stepped on for each contestant. It is completely different from the almost perfunctory preparation last time.
This can be seen from the fact that this preparation must come to the TV station specifically.
Jiang Feng asked the staff if they were the first to arrive, and the staff told them that the top-floor restaurant had already finished recording and left. Chef Arnold gets up early. He goes to the restaurant at five o'clock every morning to check the freshness of the ingredients. If there are any problems, he can immediately return them and scold the boss.
Now the post-production side is already producing and editing.
Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai's preparations have been completed. The two of them did not leave because it was not yet work time and they could have breakfast here while waiting for Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi.
The TV station has prepared four preparation rooms, which can allow four contestants to work at the same time to save time.
The person in charge of Jiang Feng's preparation was an Eastern European beauty with blond hair and blue eyes, a good-looking face but a lot of wrinkles on her face, obviously caused by hard work, and a translator.
After confirming that Jiang Feng's English level was sufficient to understand the questions asked, and informing Jiang Feng that he could answer in Chinese, so that it would be in line with the theme of the competition on the Chinese side, the preparation began.
"After the first week of competition, I believe that player Jiang Feng has adapted well to the competition. It can be seen from the competition results that Taifeng Tower's operating points in the first week were very bleak, but the last day's test achieved Coming back against the odds, do you think the last day’s test was due to luck or because of your strength?”
Jiang Feng was stunned when he heard this question. He felt that this was not a preliminary interview but an exclusive interview. He thought for a moment and said, "It's because we had bad luck at the beginning and accumulated all the good luck at the end."
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The Eastern European beauty nodded, and the question was passed.
"Now that the lottery results for the second week are out, do you think your restaurant is lucky this week?"
"Not bad." Jiang Feng smiled.
"Then where do you think your restaurant will rank in the points competition this week?" The Eastern European beauties may not be able to say the word Tai Feng Lou, so they all refer to the restaurant as your restaurant.
"Top three, I think there should be no problem with the top three."
"Isn't it number one?"
Jiang Feng waved his hand quickly: "We don't dare to think about the first place. This week's first place will definitely be Zhiweiju. If we want to compete for the most, we will compete for the second place."
"Then do you think your restaurant can qualify after these four weeks of competition?"
"Of course." Jiang Feng was extremely confident.
"So you should be looking forward to meeting Chef Arnold in the semi-finals." The Eastern European beauty said with a smile.
Jiang Feng paused for a moment, feeling that something was wrong with her question: "Why do you ask that?"
The translator might have some problems when translating. The Eastern European beauty thought that Jiang Feng didn't hear her question clearly, so she repeated the question just now.
This time Jiang Feng asked her directly in English why she mentioned Chef Arnold.
Now the Eastern European beauty was stunned. She used the headset to communicate with the staff, obviously asking if they could tell the reason, and then told Jiang Feng.
"That's right, because when we were preparing for the selection just now, we asked Chef Arnold which chef he most wanted to meet in the finals, and the person he said was you."
Jiang Feng didn't expect Chef Arnold to be so upright, so he was in a big spotlight now. If the show team made any headlines, his name would become the person Chef Arnold wanted to defeat most in his life.
Rounding off, he is on the same level as Peng Changping.
"Really? I'd be honored."
"So do you think you can beat Chef Arnold?"
Jiang Feng felt that this question was probably a trap and laughed without answering.
"Okay, let's change the question. If your restaurant can qualify, what kind of ranking do you hope Tai Feng Restaurant will achieve in this competition?" The Eastern European beauty seemed a little difficult when she said the three words Tai Feng Restaurant. .
"First."
And also
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