Chapter 875 Extra 1: Ace Pigeon Xu stopped cooing (Part 1)
Not long after the game, it was time for the exciting annual meeting and annual vacation.
Even though Tai Feng Restaurant's business has exploded due to the Good Taste Sino-US Chef Competition, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as making money every day. It is like taking money in a basin. Wang Xiulian has been using this calculator all day long since morning. He kept pressing buttons till night, and broke two calculators in just ten days. Tai Feng Lou still decided not to forget his original intention, keep his mission in mind, and take annual holidays from the day before the first day until the Lantern Festival.
All the staff at Tai Fung House cried, they were moved to tears.
All the diners at Tai Fung House cried. They cried after not being able to eat for twenty days.
If you want to ask who cries the loudest, Boss Han has something to say.
No matter what the nature of the tears is, the holidays should still be taken, the annual meeting should be held, and the banners for Wang Xiulian's annual meeting have been customized.
The bright red banners and the bold black fonts are similar to the two banners that Wang Hao was dealt with during the finals.
As Tai Feng Tower's performance reached a new high this year, the evil capitalist Wang Xiulian decided to be generous. Not only did she give everyone an extra month of pay at the end of the year, but the annual meeting was also set in the morning instead of the afternoon, giving everyone an extra half-day of paid vacation. After the annual meeting in the afternoon, you can pack your bags and go home for the New Year.
Early in the morning on the day of the annual meeting, Jiang Feng was woken up by a call from his mother. He had to get out of bed, get dressed and go to Tai Feng Building to help decorate the annual meeting.
At first, Jiang Feng thought that he would be able to relax as soon as the game was over. It would be false to say that this game, which lasted for more than two months, was not tiring. Not to mention the physical burden brought by the ultra-long game, everyone was also mentally burdened. pressure.
As a result, Jiang Feng never expected that the psychological pressure would be gone at the end of the game. It was great to win the championship and gain both fame and fortune, but the consequences of gaining both fame and fortune would be a huge workload.
It's not that Wang Xiulian deliberately arranged an overloaded workload for him to make it difficult for her son in order to make money, but the business is really good.
On the first day after the game, local diners from Peiping who watched the live broadcast or read the news flocked to the restaurant.
On the second day after the competition, diners from nearby places and local diners flocked to the restaurant.
On the third day after the competition, diners from all over the country flocked to the restaurant.
On the fourth day, everyone from abroad came.
On the day before the annual meeting, looking around the lobby of Tai Feng Tower, it seemed like a harmonious scene of a great blend of Chinese and Western cultures, with all ethnic groups happily gathering together.
In order to prevent those diners who had traveled thousands of miles or even across the Atlantic from being disappointed, Wang Xiulian could only temporarily advance the lunch business hours to 11 o'clock and extend the evening business hours to 11 o'clock after discussing with Fang Mei. Everyone, including them, They all experienced the feeling of working overtime until they vomited blood.
Now all this is over, the wonderful annual meeting has arrived, and the happy paid annual leave is just around the corner.
Poor Jiang Feng still had to get up early.
It was rare to get up early without the pressure of going to work. Breathing in the not-so-fresh morning air, Jiang Feng decided to take a detour to the pancake and fruit stall to eat pancake and fruit after a long time. He could also go to the shop later to escape from work, killing two birds with one stone.
On the way to the pancake and fruit stall, Jiang Feng passed by a newsstand that sold grilled sausages better than magazines.
The first wave of grilled sausages is already sizzling and shiny. Instead of making people feel fat, you can smell the aroma of meat. Jiang Feng hesitated for a moment, then decisively walked towards the sausage, deciding to eat a piece of sausage first before eating the pancakes and fruit.
"Boss, let's have a grilled sausage." Jiang Feng skillfully scanned the QR code to pay, and out of the corner of his eye he caught sight of the glossy and unopened "Zhiwei" in the corner.
Alas, poor "Zhiwei", last year's issue actually sold until this year.
Jiang Feng mentally lit a candle for "Zhiwei", and as a result, he grilled the sausage. When he took a bite, the juice splashed out and his mouth was a little hot. He was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly he realized that something was wrong.
Wasn't this newsstand contracted by Tai Fung House to produce "Zhiwei" last year?
Jiang Feng took another closer look and saw that something was indeed wrong. The cover of this Zhiwei book was not Taifenglou. It was very unfamiliar. Jiang Feng had no recollection of it at all.
It's all because Xu Cheng is rich and willful. The cover of the magazine only contains pictures and the title of the magazine without other words. To tell which issue it is, you can only look at the side and back.
"Boss, how old is this book "Zhi Tao"? Why haven't I seen it before?" Jiang Feng asked.
The newsstand owner took a look at the magazine and said, "This is the latest one. It just arrived this morning."
Jiang Feng:! ! !
Xu's ace pigeon actually stopped pigeoning!
Because last year there was a selection of celebrity chefs, Xu Cheng had to write countless reviews, and there has been no news about "Zhiwei". Everyone thought that this issue of "Zhiwei" would definitely be a pigeon. After all, Xu Cheng had already exceeded his workload last year, so it was normal for him to be a pigeon in the first issue.
I didn’t expect that Zhiwei would be published normally!
It was published quietly the day before New Year's Eve.
"Here's a copy, thank you." Jiang Feng paid decisively, took out a copy, and read as he walked.
This issue of "Knowing the Taste" is very thin and not very long. Jiang Feng glanced at the catalog and found that there were only 9 articles, which should be the smallest "Knowing the Taste" in history.
Although the length is short, the content is not low at all.
Although there is only one article by Xu Cheng, it has 17 pages including pictures, which is a super double. One article is better than five articles.
Jiang Feng walked to the pancake and fruit stall, started to line up, and turned to Xu Cheng's article.
The title is astonishingly: What are your thoughts after watching the finals of the Chinese and American Chef King Competition?
Jiang Feng: Yo ho.
Boss Han’s advertising this time is very tough.
This 17-page review is not only tough in advertising, but also tough in content. Xu Cheng's writing style has rarely returned to the early realism. He no longer uses gorgeous rhetoric and many parallel sentences to fill up the space. The words and phrases describing food are all the simplest words. Although there is still a lot of nonsense, it is full of sincerity.
"According to the publication time of this magazine, it should have been more than ten days since the previous Good Taste Sino-US Chef Competition, but this review was written by me on the second day after the competition. It is actually my most recent review in recent years. Sincere, the most emotional, It is also the review that I put the most effort into. It has been revised six times, all based on what I felt at the time, and it is all written in one go. After writing the entire review, I wrote this opening chapter without any shame, so that readers will not laugh.”
"If you readers have watched this competition, which can be called the pinnacle showdown in the chef world in the past twenty years, you must be familiar with the four dishes and the two chefs I am going to write about today. If you haven't watched it, then I strongly recommend you to watch it. Look, this is definitely an unprecedented event cooking feast, if you have the patience, I recommend you watch the full version of the live broadcast of the finals. If you don’t have that much time, you can watch the later edited variety show (presumably the variety show will be online by the time this magazine is published).”
"After talking so much nonsense, let me talk about the main topic. I don't want to go into too much detail about the two chefs in this finals. Chef Arnold, who is ranked third on the Celebrity Chef List, and Mr. Jiang Feng, who is ranked sixth on the Celebrity Chef List. This is You can easily find dozens of information about these two top chefs, but you may have never heard of the four dishes I’m going to write about today, and it’s even hard to find them on the Internet.”
"These four dishes are: Jiang's Ginseng Soup, Jinyu Cabbage, Unknown Soup and Unknown Chowder. The names of the last two dishes are not randomly translated by me, but their real names are like this (unknownsoup and unknownchopsuey). I first heard this name. I was surprised at the time, but I understood it after listening to the explanation by the producer Chef Arnold. The reason why these two dishes have such weird names is that this is Chef Arnold’s family dish, passed down to him by his father. Chef Arnold’s father is also a slightly famous chef who once worked in a Michelin-starred restaurant. These two dishes are his specialty, but they are rarely known because the production process is too cumbersome and the ingredients are cheap and not suitable for sale, hence the name. ”
"Mr. Jiang Feng's two dishes are similar but both are passed down from his father's generation. However, his two dishes have a longer history. Jiang's ginseng soup can be traced back to the early 20th century and was once the signature dish of the Jiang family. The signature dishes attract countless diners. Jade cabbage is relatively unknown. Like Chef Arnold's dishes, it is little known because the steps are too complicated and not suitable for sale. It only appears as the finale of the Jiang family's New Year's Eve dinner, which is of great significance to contestant Jiang Feng. "< br>
"These four dishes are different but have many things in common. The biggest thing in common is that they all taste wonderful. I consider myself to have tasted all the delicacies in the world. I once arrogantly thought that I could taste all the top delicacies in the world. I had tasted them all, and it wasn’t until the day of the finals that I tasted four dishes in one go, and then I realized that I was just a frog in the well, and I felt like I was seeing the whole picture.”
"Having said so much, I must have aroused everyone's curiosity and want to know why these four dishes are so sacred that I can praise them so much. So now I will tell you in detail and share with you these four unknown dishes. When will I be able to taste this unparalleled delicacy for the second time?" (End of Chapter)