From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 242 A foreign chef comes to visit

The arrival of the master really put a "tightening curse" on Feng Zhengming.

Under the supervision of his master, Feng Zhengming and his third senior brother Yang Bin made some rectifications in the back kitchen of the dry rice shop.

According to the master's request, the two brothers made the kitchen more disciplined.

Whether it is the two apprentices Xia Hui and Sun Hai, or Shen Rongsen and Chen Anbang, they must work in a disciplined manner.

Those who are responsible for cutting and mixing should do so carefully, and those who are responsible for cleaning and cleaning should be responsible.

In terms of teaching, although Xia Hui and Sun Haihai have fewer opportunities to study, they also have more opportunities to learn.

Especially Xia Hui, who goes to the food stalls with Feng Zhengming every night.

Following Feng Zhengming, being able to get guidance from Feng Zhengming and sometimes from Master Yan is a very rare opportunity for Xia Hui.

Of course, the more important thing for Master Yan during this trip is to participate in the provincial young chef cooking exchange competition.

Therefore, Master Yan still spends most of his time going to the Culinary Association.

Discuss the details of various competitions with people from the provincial and city cooking associations, as well as specially invited master chefs.

They will also go to the venue to take a look and help check the various configurations of the cooking competition venue.

This time, the province paid great attention to it and arranged the game in a newly built venue.

The site not only hired people to install a temporary stove, but also hired people from the fire brigade to adjust the firefighting facilities on site to ensure that all aspects of the site were safe.

In this review, in addition to the four masters including Master Yan from Quancheng, there were also some masters from other places.

In addition, several foreign business representatives were invited to serve as judges in this competition.

At the same time, provincial television stations and newspapers also vigorously carried out publicity.

As a result, the Shandong Province Young Chefs Cooking Exchange Competition not only attracted the attention of the whole province within Shandong Province, but also attracted the attention of many people from other provinces.

What made the province even more unexpected was that even the capital was alerted.

Not only did he specifically praise the Shandong Province Young Chefs Cooking Exchange Competition for the well-organized event.

Moreover, the Chinese Cuisine Federation specially came to attend.

The Ministry of Labor also sent a professional national cooking judge.

As a result, this cooking exchange competition for young chefs in Shandong Province has attracted attention from all over the country.

Young chefs from all over Shandong Province who signed up for the competition gathered in Quancheng.

It can be said that Quancheng suddenly became very lively.

In particular, the three most famous restaurants in Quancheng, Jubinyuan, Taifeng House and Jufengde, have become places where chefs, gourmets and food lovers who come to Quancheng gather.

Of course, when you arrive in Quancheng, how can you not hear rumors about the Feng Family Restaurant and Handful Meat?

So soon, some young chefs from all over the country came to Fengjiagan Restaurant one after another.

At the beginning, many young chefs from other places were somewhat arrogant and looked down upon the Feng Family Restaurant.

Some young chefs feel that it is just a handful of meat.

How can you "brag" that Quancheng is one of the best?

Young chefs from out of town naturally want to find Fengjiagang Restaurant.

As a result, a large number of people suddenly came to the Feng Family Restaurant, which only had ten tables. As a result, there was no room to stand inside the shop. Many people came to the door. When they opened the door, they found that they could not enter the shop. went.

Faced with this situation, Feng Zhengming simply put the cart selling box lunches back into use.

Set up a cart in front of the dry rice shop, so that people from out of town who come to eat meat will queue up at the door to buy it.

Then, at noon, all the meat was sold out, and even the meat intended to be sold in the evening was sold out at noon.

Having all the meat sold out is not a headache for Feng Zhengming.

In fact, he had expected it, so he informed the meat factory in advance and asked them to prepare more meat for him. The meat here was sold out, and the meat factory would deliver the meat with just a phone call.

So it was sold out at noon. Feng Zhengming only needed to push back the evening business hours so that he could make a lot of meat.

What really gave Feng Zhengming a headache was that some young chefs actually proposed to challenge him.

"Feng Zhengming, if you really have the ability, then accept our challenge and let us see if you, who is rumored to be the best young chef in Quan City, really have that ability."

"That's right, you're just a guy who runs a dry rice shop and sells meat. Why can you advance directly without the preliminary round?"

"Yeah, you're not a chef in a big restaurant. Are you cooking meat for the competition?"

"It's not impossible to make a handful of meat, right? After all, their pork is really delicious."

They are all young people, and every one of them is ready to challenge Feng Zhengming at the restaurant.

Who made Feng Zhengming so famous in Quancheng?

And his Feng Family Restaurant is not a restaurant.

From the perspective of this group of young chefs from out of town, it is impossible for such an ordinary dry rice shop to have a master chef or even a master chef in charge, right?

Not to mention letting them go to Jubinyuan, Taifeng House and Jufengde to challenge other young chefs.

Even some well-known restaurants in Quancheng may not dare to challenge it so blatantly.

After all, if you go there and a master-level chef comes out, wouldn’t you be embarrassed?

Therefore, in the eyes of young chefs from other places, Feng Zhengming is a "soft persimmon".

There are people who look down on Feng Zhengming and want to challenge him. Naturally, there are also people who admire Feng Zhengming, and there are even young cooks who want to stay in the dry rice shop and become Feng Zhengming's apprentice.

So when he saw Feng Zhengming being questioned, there was no need for him to come forward to defend himself.

There will soon be people who support Feng Zhengming to help him fight.

"You think it doesn't matter if you can cook a handful of pork? Then you can make a handful of pork and see?"

"That's right. Didn't you also eat a handful of Master Feng's meat? Why don't you also make a handful of meat for everyone to try? Let's see if you can do it better than Master Feng."

"If you don't do as well as Master Feng, then you are not qualified to challenge Master Feng here."

"You have no ability and you still want to pretend here? You are not overestimating your abilities."

"Master Feng will lose his status if he fights with you."

Feng Zhengming never expected that his small dry rice shop could attract so many young chefs from all over the world.

The most important thing is that these young chefs, who are only a few years older than him, and even many younger than him, can actually be divided into several factions here.

The two opposing factions are those who support themselves and those who want to challenge themselves.

But among those gathered in the restaurant, there were also people who wanted to meet Feng Zhengming and make friends.

There are even people who want to spend money through Feng Zhengming to see if they can buy someone who can skip the preliminary round directly.

At this moment, Feng Zhengming really felt like a gathering of ghosts, demons and snakes. The two factions on the line were getting a little excited as they talked, and it seemed that both sides were planning to take action.

Feng Zhengming quickly stood up to stop him: "What are you doing? Are you still a chef? As young chefs from our province, you didn't want to exchange ideas on cooking skills and learn to improve your skills. You actually wanted to fight in my shop. ?

Do you still look like a young chef? Can you represent the style of our young chefs in Shandong Province? "

Feng Zhengming's words really worked.

First, because he is tall and strong, he feels a bit oppressive to most people.

Secondly, because he was the main reason for the confrontation between the two sides, he spoke up and the two sides calmed down naturally.

Of course, Feng Zhengming's last two questions also made these young chefs feel a little embarrassed.

Several people stuck their heads out from the back kitchen to watch.

Xia Hui admired Feng Zhengming quite a bit and said: "Uncle Master is Uncle Master. He is full of momentum when he opens his mouth and takes control of the situation at once. He is worthy of being a representative of young chefs."

Sun Hai nodded seriously and agreed.

Chen Anbang said: "Master Feng is really full of aura."

Yang Bin pretended to be gloating: "Didn't this situation happen the last time he went to Jubin Garden for a duel? This is just the beginning of the follow-up."

Xia Hui turned to look at Yang Bin: "Uncle Yang, are you jealous of me because you are so gloating about others' misfortunes?"

Yang Bin still pretended to be honest and said: "You are really right. I am really jealous of my junior brother. You said that we were all taught by the same master. It is obvious that my third senior brother is more handsome than him. Why is he the one who steals the show?”

While saying this, Yang Bin reached out and touched his bald head, pretending to lift his hair.

At first, everyone thought Yang Bin was serious, but when they saw Yang Bin touching his bald head, they immediately understood that he was joking with everyone.

Several people couldn't help laughing.

Xia Hui laughed and said, "Uncle Yang, why don't you buy yourself a wig? It looks a bit funny with your bald head like this."

Yang Bin shook his bald head: "Why are you laughing? None of them are big or small. My bald head is my characteristic. What kind of wig should I wear? No need."

Everyone was amused by Yang Bin's actions again.

Several people laughed "hahahaha" non-stop.

After a long while, Xia Hui slowly stopped laughing, looked outside and asked, "Uncle Yang, can you help me in any way?"

Yang Bin walked out decisively: "This is a simple matter, just look at me."

Then everyone watched Yang Bin swaggering out.

Feng Zhengming was still thinking about how to get rid of these young chefs gathered in the dry rice shop.

Suddenly I saw Third Senior Brother Yang Bin walking out.

Yang Bin stood next to Feng Zhengming and said, "Are you all chefs from other places? Are you going to participate in this young chef cooking exchange competition?"

Although no one knew Yang Bin, seeing him walking out and standing with Feng Zhengming, the young people still did not dare to make a mistake and nodded and agreed that they were here to participate in the competition.

Yang Bin then asked: "Do you all think that my junior brother is just a dry rice shop and sells meat, something you can easily handle?"

No one spoke this time, but from the looks on everyone's faces, it seemed that Yang Bin's words had reached their hearts.

Yang Bin didn't need everyone to answer him, he continued: "Well, don't make trouble here. You can go to Jubinyuan or Taifeng Tower now, or you can just go to Jufengde, over there There’s no need for you to challenge or to order, just look at the menus of the three restaurants.”

Hearing what Yang Bin said, the young chefs from other places present were a little strange?

Yang Bin then said: "You can take a look, is there a dish of fried conch slices in vinegar and pepper fish soup on the menus of the three of them? Look at that dish. Is it written who created it? After reading it, you can consider whether to come here. Ganfanpu challenges my junior brother."

These words confused the young chefs who came from out of town.

Since Yang Bin said this, smart people will know that that dish was probably created by Feng Zhengming.

That dish was made after Feng Zhengming and Jubinyuan exchanged ideas.

Jubinyuan, Taifenglou and Jufengde all started research and development very quickly.

Since they didn't ask Feng Zhengming to buy the recipe, all three companies developed it based on the taste after tasting.

The taste is somewhat different from what Feng Zhengming had done at Jubinyuan before.

This is the first reason why that dish is not famous in Quancheng even though it is on the menu of three restaurants.

Another reason why it is not famous is that the dish uses large yellow croaker as soup and fresh conch slices. The price is really not affordable for ordinary people to order casually.

So that dish still has little reputation.

But three restaurants still put that dish on their menus.

Even according to Feng Zhengming's original request, Feng Zhengming's name was added to the dish.

The reason for this is that the master chefs of the three restaurants know very well that that dish not only tastes great, but also is a dish that showcases the culinary art of Shandong cuisine.

The most famous restaurant in Sanjiaquan City would certainly not abandon such a dish that can improve the restaurant's rank.

Or to put it more bluntly, guests may not order that dish, but it must be on the restaurant menu. If it is not on the menu, how can it be put out when needed...

Yang Bin now also brings out such a dish, which can be regarded as helping his junior brother to clear his name.

"Okay, you all go take a look and see if that dish is on the menu. If you have money, you can chip in and order that dish and see how the three of them serve it?

I can tell you that none of the three of them taste as good as my junior brother’s, but you can also try it and see if you can create a dish like that. "

Having said this, Yang Bin's expression instantly became serious.

"Now that you have the ability, come and challenge my junior brother again."

I have to say that Yang Bin's words really shocked the group of young chefs from out of town gathered in the dry rice shop.

Then the young chefs who were clamoring for a challenge left first.

The young chef who supported Feng Zhengming respectfully said goodbye to Feng Zhengming and left.

There are still young chefs from other places who want to stay in the dry rice shop, or even want to become apprentices.

This time Yang Bin didn't say anything else, but left it to Feng Zhengming to handle it himself.

"Do you want to apply for a job? How many of you want to be apprentices? I don't care about this matter, you just go to him yourself?"

As he said this, Yang Bin pushed Feng Zhengming and he quickly ran back to the kitchen.

Feng Zhengming was finally put in a position by the third senior brother. He also looked helpless. Looking at the sincere faces in front of him, he could only say: "Everyone should prepare for the Young Chefs Cooking Exchange Competition first. If you have passed the Cooking Exchange Competition, , if you are not attracted by some people watching the game and still want to apply, you can come again."

As for becoming a disciple, Feng Zhengming firmly stated that he would not accept a disciple now.

Finally, all the young chefs from out of town who gathered were sent away.

The Feng Family Restaurant has finally regained its composure.

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