Chapter 817 Chance Encounter
In fact, Sun Maocai and the other three have almost finished their analysis and have selected the dishes they are going to be responsible for. Yongheju specializes in Shandong cuisine, but also dabbles in other cuisines, such as Cantonese cuisine, Subang cuisine, local cuisine and even a few Southeast Asian dishes, but they are not very well made and the sales are mediocre.
After Jiang Feng looked at the dishes selected by the three of them, he helped them remove a few that usually had poor sales and were just printed on the menu to make up the numbers. This was considered to be the menu for the next two weeks.
This is the benefit of understanding the Exchange Restaurant. If Jiang Feng and the others knew nothing about Yongheju, they would definitely step on the trap in the first two days and then make adjustments to the menu. This would waste a few days of earning points and falling behind others. .
It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when the menu was completely decided. Lu Sheng originally wanted to stay with Jiang Feng and the four of them for dinner at Yonghe Residence, but all the private rooms for today have been booked. Variety shows are popular during this period, and many locals in Peiping have watched the variety show. Jiang Feng and the four of them may not be recognized when walking alone on the street, but if four people are together, it is inevitable that the audience will recognize them and cause unnecessary confusion. trouble.
After weighing the situation, Lu Sheng led Jiang Feng and the four of them to a fly restaurant in the village in the city for dinner.
Although the hygiene of the Fly Restaurant is not very good, the chef's skills are good. In Wu Minqi's words, it has the flavor of Jianghu cuisine. This restaurant also specializes in Sichuan cuisine.
Jianghu cuisine with a Jianghu flavor is more atmospheric when eaten in this kind of fly restaurant than in a big restaurant.
Lu Sheng invited four people to dinner because he wanted to take this opportunity to get acquainted with the other three. Yongheju had no chance of qualifying, and he had a good relationship with Taifeng Tower, so there was no need to get in trouble. It was also a great opportunity to make friends. .
In the next few days, Jiang Feng and the four of them went to Yongheju every day during non-business hours. Without disturbing the normal operation of Yongheju, they got to know the other chefs in the back kitchen of Yongheju and got to know the structure of the kitchen and some kitchen utensils. There is no need for Jiang Feng to get familiar with him. Every time he goes to Yongheju, as long as Peng Changping is around, he will be arrested to show how well Jiang's ginseng soup and phoenix eggs are made, to see if he has neglected cooking due to variety show competitions during this period. art.
There is no desolation, but there is no progress either.
The rest period between games is a window period for variety shows. Yongheju's camera continued to shoot as usual but there was no photographer Fu following. The program team will cut off half an hour of the material captured this week for daily life and post-game rest. Jiang Feng didn't mind being photographed on many things, but they couldn't be broadcast anyway.
Tai Fung House is making good progress, and so is the top-floor restaurant. Although Jiang Feng was not in Taifeng Building, Ji Yue, Ji Xia and Comrade Wang Xiulian would enthusiastically convey to him every day what Chef Arnold did in Taifeng Building today.
On Thursday, Chef Arnold, like Jiang Feng and others, went to Tai Feng Building to finalize the menu. The four chefs Arnold undertook all of Zhang Guanghang's menus. This caused Zhang Guanghang to take a long vacation in the next two weeks because he had no dishes to cook.
Zhang Guanghang was very happy about this and booked a flight back to France to visit relatives.
Jiang Feng felt that visiting relatives was a lie and that he didn't want to meet Chef Arnold.
In addition to Zhang Guanghang's dishes, Chef Arnold's team also contracted some desserts and some Cantonese dishes from Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai. It is obvious that some of these four pure-bred foreign chefs are involved in Cantonese cuisine.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Chef Arnold led his boys to stay at Taifeng Building. Like Jiang Feng and the others, it did not affect the normal business of Taifeng Building. If it is business hours, they will not do anything, but just watch and observe each chef's situation. During non-business hours, Chef Arnold will use the ingredients and kitchenware of Tai Feng House to make the dishes they finalized on Thursday, making sure that each dish is cooked to perfection. No problem, the production can be made smoothly and the fit is correct.
It can be said to be quite professional.
As for why the four-person group in the top-floor restaurant are called Chef Arnold and his younger brother, according to Ji Yue’s observation, Chef Arnold is an absolute tyrant in the kitchen. He is very good at commanding people and can smoothly control three people. The command goes round and round. It gives the impression that Chef Arnold brought his three younger brothers to work for free at Tai Fung House.
The language barrier is a problem for Arnold's chef team, but it's not a problem. Theoretically speaking, when contestants switch to the other restaurant, they need to cooperate with the chef in the other restaurant's back kitchen. This is the path Jiang Feng and the four took. In the past few days, they have been familiar with the chefs in Yongheju to get familiar with their methods and habits, so that they can better cooperate in operation.
Chef Arnold took another route. He also cooperated, but instead of cooperating with the chefs at Tai Fung House, he asked his three younger brothers to cooperate with him.
According to reports from informants, Chef Arnold’s method is also very easy to use. With the cooperation of three outstanding and familiar chefs, Chef Arnold can produce dishes quickly and with high quality without the help of other chefs at Tai Fung House. The only drawback is that four chefs become one and a half, and Roland is also considered half a chef.
However, their problem is that they don’t understand the language and have difficulty communicating. It would be a good idea to just choose not to communicate.
Everyone is actively preparing for the second round, whether they are expected to qualify or those who are not expected to qualify, but attitude becomes particularly important when the result seems to be a foregone conclusion.
Even if you are destined to lose, as long as you lose with an attitude, it will be a glorious defeat.
With such a positive attitude and progress, the second round of competition began.
At this time, the diners did not realize that the chef of their favorite restaurant had quietly been replaced. Some guests who watched the variety show and went out to support their favorite restaurants did not realize that they might not be supporting their favorite chef.
They are capitalizing on the enemy.
For example, Liu Qian and Zhang Qian came to Tai Feng Building at a very untimely time to join forces with their enemies. They were also Tai Feng House’s sworn enemies and enemies in the restaurant on the top floor.
In fact, we can’t blame them. Variety shows require a series of post-editing and review issues. There is a large time gap between the broadcast time and the shooting time. However, many viewers are not aware of how long this time gap is.
It was always broadcast in the snack street episode, and the program crew used real money to tell the audience how awesome the chef they hired became really popular. As a direct beneficiary, Liu Qian reacted immediately after the program aired and became popular. It turned out that the variety show Jiang Jiangfeng and the others recorded that day was a competition, and the competition lasted for a long time and is probably still competing now.
She really wanted to go to Tai Feng Tower immediately to support Jiang Feng, but she had just started an internship and had not yet mastered a lot of work. She was so busy in the first two weeks that she couldn't even spare time on her days off. It was almost a week until the second round started, and it was Saturday before I found time to go to Tai Feng Tower for dinner.
Then he bumped into Zhang Qian, who also had time to go to Tai Feng Building to eat and support Jiang Feng because school was not in session on weekends.
Zhang Qian originally wanted to bring her roommates with her, but the influence of Jiang Feng's pure meat wontons last time was so great that her three good roommates were psychologically affected and refused to come, so she could only come alone.
Business at Tai Feng Building was booming. Zhang Qian and Liu Qian both arrived late and were alone, but there was only one table for four left. The waiter suggested that they share a table, and they both readily agreed.
Liu Qian has never eaten at Tai Feng Restaurant before and doesn't know the menu, so don't let Zhang Qian order first. In fact, the two of them had met each other a long time ago. After the Tasty Cooking Competition, Liu Qian had met Zhang Qian when she went to eat at a normal stir-fry restaurant, but only a few times, and they had already met her after such a long time. Can't remember who the other party is.
As soon as Zhang Qian started ordering, she realized something was not right with the menu.
Her father is also a chef, and the head chef of a large hotel. Zhang Qian knew as soon as she looked at the menu that Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi most likely did not go to work today.
In order to prevent diners from noticing that the chef had been transferred, Tai Fung House’s menu has also been tactically adjusted, canceling the chef’s ordering method and replacing it with the traditional a la carte ordering method. It was announced that there was something wrong with the system. During maintenance and debugging, all limited edition dishes are temporarily cancelled.
These days, no matter what system it is, problems can occur. Most diners haven't noticed any clues yet. A small number of diners guessed that Jiang Feng was not in the store and didn't care.
This is not the first time Jiang Feng has been away from the store. He has been away from the store for most of this year.
Zhang Qian didn't expect that the chef had changed. Zhang Qian thought that today was a day off and everyone was not working. She was a little disappointed and ordered a few dishes, including French pan-fried veal.
After ordering two dishes, Zhang Qian handed the tablet to Liu Qian. Liu Qian's ordering was not as normal as Zhang Qian's. She ordered four main dishes, three vegetarian dishes, and four desserts in one go. While ordering, I asked myself which dishes were cooked by Jiang Feng and the others. She stopped worrying after ordering. In Liu Qian's opinion, as long as she ordered enough, she would definitely be able to order Jiang Feng's dishes.
Little did he know that all the dishes ordered were Chef Arnold's dishes.
Zhang Qian was frightened by Liu Qian's ordering manner, and then she realized that Liu Qian looked familiar. After thinking about it for a moment, she remembered that Liu Qian was the one named President Jiang Feng on the variety show.
"Are you... the food anchor from the last variety show?" Zhang Qian asked tentatively.
"Yes." Liu Qian nodded, "I have long wanted to support the business of our president's store, but I have been very busy these past two weeks and I only have time to go out for dinner today."
Zhang Qian smiled and said: "I am also here to support the Tai Feng Building business, but I may not be able to support it today. They should be on break today and not go to work."
"How do you know?" Liu Qian was puzzled.
"You can tell from the menu that Jiang Feng's signature dishes and main dishes are not available. It is obvious that the main chef is not here."
Liu Qian suddenly said: "You are so amazing, you can actually tell it from the menu."
"Because my dad is also a chef, so I know a little bit about it."
Hearing what Zhang Qian said, Liu Qian stared at Zhang Qian for a long time. The more she looked, the more she felt like she had seen her somewhere before. After thinking for a long time, she asked uncertainly: "Did you participate in a cooking competition with our president before?" The player who cooks porridge.”
Zhang Qian didn't expect that Liu Qian actually knew about her, and admitted generously: "Yes, it's me."
"I was watching the competition at the scene. At that time, I felt that your cooking skills were actually very good. You were the youngest and the dishes you cooked looked delicious. It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to taste it." Liu Qian started business They boasted to each other, "What a coincidence. I didn't expect that I would be sharing the same table with you."
As she said this, Liu Qian took out her mobile phone: "That's it. Let's take a photo together and I'll send it to the president. He will definitely be surprised too!"
Zhang Qian agreed, took a group photo with Liu Qian, and added each other on WeChat.
"Oh, by the way, are you going to college in Peking?" Liu Qian remembered that Zhang Qian was still a high school student when she participated in the competition.
"Yes." Zhang Qian nodded, "I am studying Chinese."
"Wow, that's such a coincidence. I also study Chinese." Liu Qian exclaimed and began to have an in-depth exchange with Zhang Qian, chatting about some things.
Maybe it was because the two of them were really destined to talk to each other, and Zhang Qian really told Liu Qian a lot of things. They were talking about the current situation, Liu Qian was talking about internship, and Zhang Qian was talking about admission, which happened to be the two stages of university.
"Actually, our major is not as easy to find a job as some engineering majors, but it is not that difficult to find. Have you thought about what job you want to do in the future?" In just ten minutes, the topic of the two people's chat has already risen. When it comes to future work, imagining the future is about dreams.
Zhang Qian shook her head: "I don't know, and the language I applied for at the beginning was not Chinese, so I didn't get enough points to be transferred."
Zhang Qian thought for a moment and smiled: "I want to do what I like."
"What do you like?"
"I like cooking porridge."
"Then you can open a porridge shop. I think the porridge shop is very good. It's air-conditioned and the business is good." Liu Qian was talking about the porridge shop chosen by Jiang Feng when she saw it in the snack street. "I think it's good." The porridge is very good, and the porridge cooked by our dormitory master is very delicious.”
"Yes." Zhang Qian nodded in agreement, "The porridge he cooks is indeed delicious."
The two stopped chatting when the food was served. Liu Qian ate more food slowly. Zhang Qian obviously had something to do in the afternoon, so she transferred her food money to Liu Qian and left first. The two also made an appointment if they had time next week. Come to Tai Feng House and share a table for dinner together.
After dinner, Liu Qian edited the photo and sent it to Jiang Feng with her face a little smaller.
Liu Qian: President, I came to your restaurant for dinner today to support your business. Guess who I met while sharing a table? ~\(≧▽≦)/~
Liu Qian: [Picture]
Liu Qian: [Picture]
Liu Qian: I gave them all good reviews!
The first picture is a photo of her and Zhang Qian, and the second picture is the checkout form.
When Liu Qian sent Jiang Feng a WeChat message, Jiang Feng's office happened to be closing for lunch, and she immediately saw the message from Liu Qian.
Jiang Feng was stunned when he saw the photo.
Liu Qian and Zhang Qian.
How did these two people get together?
Then Jiang Feng saw the second checkout picture.
Dinghu vegetarian food, black forest cake, French pan-fried veal steak, saffron chicken...
Damn, it’s all chef Arnold’s food.
Jiang Feng silently returned a look to Liu Qian.
Jiang Feng: (Pan｀)
Liu Qian:? Did the president send the wrong expression?
Should she share her emoticon with the president?
(End of chapter)