From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 283 The awards ceremony begins

The next day, it was finally the day when the final results and closing of the Shandong Province Young Chefs Cooking Exchange Competition were announced.

Grandpa Feng announced at the close of business last night that the restaurant would be closed for the day.

Everyone at the Feng Jia Gan Restaurant was at the competition together to witness Feng Zhengming’s final results.

Even the second aunt and third uncle's family came over in the morning, and the third uncle even found a few cars.

Feng Zhengming asked one of the cars to turn to Luo Qing's uncle's house, pick up Luo Qing and her aunt, and then pick up Luo Qing's parents and rush to the stadium.

Sitting in the van, Aunt Luo Qing said to Luo Qing's parents.

"Sister, brother-in-law, you go together today to see what kind of boyfriend Qingqing has found."

Luo's mother said: "Aunt Qing'er, we all know it. We saw the news on TV."

Luo's father said to Feng Zhengming: "Xiao Feng, you are really good. Your aunt and I saw it on the news. The news report showed you several scenes. You should be able to take first place this time, right?"

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Feng Zhengming responded with a smile: "That means the masters are commending me. I am still young and need more experience."

After some speeches, the rankings and awards in this competition began to be announced.

Silver Award: Mullet Egg Soup, Three Shreds of Scallops.

The first to be announced were the winning individual dishes.

Later, leaders from the province and city present also spoke, expressing their congratulations on the success of this young chef cooking exchange competition.

Bronze Award: Donglai Seafood Soup, Cabbage Rolls in Milk Soup, Braised Baby Cabbage with Flower Drum, Silver Lung in Milk Soup, Yuan Yu in Milk Soup, Chicken Breast in Milk Soup.

Luo Qing's parents originally thought that Feng Zhengming was an orphan, and Mr. Feng thought that they had no background at all.

Luo Qing couldn't help but said: "If you are not the number one scholar, there must be something shady."

Grandpa Feng introduced his daughter, son-in-law, and son-in-law to each other.

When Luo Qing's parents and aunt saw Grandpa Feng, they greeted him very politely.

In the end, Shi Yongjin’s mullet egg soup from Tai Fung House was only awarded the silver medal, missing by one point.

Luo Qing responded in a low voice: "You didn't ask, and Zhengming is Grandpa Feng's grandson. I don't think my relationship with my aunt and uncle is very close."

My aunt smiled and said, "Xiao Feng is so humble. I heard from Qingqing that your three dishes all scored very high. You should be the number one among young chefs in the province this time."

At this point, Feng Zhengming's Bazhen Bag Chicken and Xia Mingye's Ear Kongfu Yipin Bazhen Cup both made their own innovations based on tradition, so they both won the gold medal.

At this point, the aunt patted her niece's hand gently: "My family also regards you as Xiao Feng's prospective wife. You went to Xiao Feng's third uncle's company, but you must study hard and help Xiao Feng run his store in the future." ."

Luo Qing's parents were a little surprised when they met other members of the Feng family.

Luo Qing's parents were shocked when they heard that Feng Suying and her husband were both in the army.

Here we sincerely hope that in the future, Shandong cuisine can be further promoted in the hands of our younger generation of chefs, stick to the tradition of our Shandong cuisine, and make some improvements that keep pace with the times on the basis of tradition, so that our Shandong cuisine can achieve better innovation and improvement, can go beyond our province, and can truly go nationwide. "

Aunt Luo Qing was also a little surprised and asked Luo Qing in a low voice.

Feng Zhengming sat in the passenger seat, turned around and said with a smile: "Auntie, don't say that. We still have to wait until the results are announced. Maybe the judges will decide that I am not qualified to be the top pick after review."

After judging, the judges took out the soup dishes individually for evaluation, and selected three awards: gold, silver and bronze.

"Dear leaders and guests, thank you all for taking the time out of your busy schedule to attend the closing ceremony of the Shandong Province Young Chefs Culinary Exchange Competition. After five days of exchanges and competitions, we all witnessed that our Shandong cuisine youth The skill of the chefs also allowed us to see the beauty of our Shandong cuisine.

Feng Zhengming arranged for his family, tidied up his chef clothes and walked towards the queue of participating chefs.

Luo Qing nodded seriously and agreed: "I will definitely study hard."

At the same time, he also expressed his expectations for the inheritance, innovation, promotion and globalization of Shandong cuisine.

Feng Zhengming responded with a smile: "Uncle, aunt, aunt, I was able to get so many shots this time because of my master. Whether I can get first place may depend on today's final results."

"You didn't tell me or your second uncle before that Aunt Xiao Feng's family is from the army."

A group of people rushed to the scene by car, and Feng Zhengming led them in to meet his grandfather and family members.

It shows that this young chef cooking exchange competition is still valued by the province.

Not to mention that the car that picked them up today was arranged by Mr. Feng’s son.

After hearing this, my aunt said in a low voice: "You girl, can't you see? They are here today, which means they care about Xiao Feng, but you still think they are not close to me."

But when they met the Feng family's children today, Luo Qing's parents realized that although Mr. Feng seemed to be very ordinary, his children were actually very powerful.

Provincial and city leaders were present at the scene.

Luo's mother said: "Xiao Feng, Uncle You and I have heard from many people that many master chefs in big restaurants are very impressed with you."

Li Zhifeng's speech can be said to be sincere and truly expresses everyone's expectations for the future development of Shandong cuisine.

Soup gold medal: Kongfu's first-class Bazhen cup, Bazhen bag chicken.

Li Zhifeng still stood up as the host and spoke first.

Feng Zhengming laughed: "You can't say that. In fact, after this competition, I still met many powerful chefs, and because this is a young chef competition, there is an age limit. Some powerful chefs who have just exceeded the age did not participate. So even if I get first place, it’s just a coincidence.”

Of course, the mullet egg soup won the silver medal, mainly because it didn’t have much innovation. It basically followed the old recipe of the classic mullet egg soup, so even though it was excellent, it still had to settle for the silver medal.

The aunt then said: "If we are not intimate, his third uncle will let you work in his company?"

After the announcement, ten master chefs took the stage to present awards to the ten winning soup chefs.

Feng Zhengming and Xia Mingye won the gold medal, and the awards were given to them by Master Yan and Master Xia.

Master Yan handed the certificate and trophy to Feng Zhengming, his face full of joy and relief.

This gold medal was won by Feng Zhengming who stood out from many contestants by relying on his own ability.

At this moment, Master Yan was really proud of his little apprentice.

Chef Yan smiled and encouraged: "You still have to keep working hard, understand? You can't give up research just because you won the gold medal. You have to continue to improve your cooking skills so that you can truly win a grand prize when you face greater challenges in the future."

Feng Zhengming held the certificate and trophy in his arms and bowed deeply to Master.

"Thank you Master, I will remember it."

Then Feng Zhengming turned around and bowed to the rostrum and the judges respectively. When Mr. Xia saw his grandson winning the award, his face was naturally full of smiles, and he did not hide his pride.

"Xiao Ye, you performed very well and did not disappoint grandpa. Although your first dish was not that amazing and did not earn you a high rating, but with the next two dishes, you showed the essence of our Kong family cuisine. When I came out, I didn’t disappoint grandpa and lived up to the reputation of Kongfu cuisine. Grandpa was very happy.”

Xia Mingye took the certificate and trophy from his grandfather and responded with a smile: "Grandpa, I will do better in the future."

Then, Xia Mingye bowed to his grandfather, and also bowed to the rostrum and the judges.

After the awards for soup dishes were awarded separately, the next step was the gold, silver and bronze awards for the main dishes.

Li Zhifeng started with the bronze medal dishes this time.

This time, there were actually ten dishes that won the Bronze Award, including the braised mutton with sea cucumber made by Sun Hai.

One of Yang Peng's dishes also won a bronze medal.

This really made Yang Peng very happy, and he even jumped up from his chair with joy on the spot.

When he went on stage to receive the award, Yang Peng almost tripped himself.

Many people at the scene laughed.

On the one hand, Li Huidong was happy that his apprentice could win the bronze medal, but on the other hand, he was also a little bit dumbfounded by his apprentice's excitement.

However, Li Huidong still took care of Zhang Lei's emotions.

"It's okay, don't be discouraged, your dishes for this competition are also very good."

It is impossible for Zhang Lei not to feel disappointed.

Zhang Lei has indeed put in a lot of effort for this competition.

Although during the live competition, he saw the skills of some other young chefs, especially the amazing skills of the young chefs such as Junior Master Uncle, and already knew that he would not be able to get any ranking.

But now that I saw that Yang Peng's dish won a bronze medal, I couldn't even get a bronze medal.

It made Zhang Lei feel a little disappointed and unwilling.

At this time, Zhang Lei's cousin Zhang Liqiang came to sit next to him.

"Are you unwilling? Are you still very disappointed?"

Zhang Lei raised his head and looked at his uncle when he heard his voice.

Zhang Liqiang continued: "I have experienced such a situation before. I really couldn't accept it at the time. I even thought about giving up being a chef. I felt that the judges were all blind."

Zhang Lei didn't expect his cousin to speak so directly.

Zhang Liqiang did not stop, but continued.

"But then I calmed down and understood the gap between myself and others. The judges at that time were all older masters than today's masters. They were a group of people who couldn't get rid of the dirt in their eyes, so I couldn't win the award. , that means I’m not good enough, I shouldn’t complain, I should continue to work hard to hone my cooking skills.”

Zhang Lei understood what his uncle said.

"Uncle, I know, I will not give up, I will continue to work hard and learn from my master."

Zhang Liqiang looked at Li Huidong: "Senior brother, my nephew really appreciates your trouble."

Li Huidong smiled and said: "You're welcome, this time can be regarded as teaching him some lessons, letting him understand that no matter when, if he doesn't learn the craft well and practice the basic skills solidly, it will be impossible to achieve the success he wants."

Zhang Lei turned to look at Master and said seriously: "Thank you Master, I will remember this lesson."

Zhang Liqiang saw that his nephew had accepted the reality and whispered: "You have a good master and a powerful uncle. You will have more opportunities than me in the future. I believe that your achievements will be higher than mine."

Zhang Lei secretly clenched his fists and became more determined to learn his craft.

After Yang Peng got the certificate and trophy, he came down.

He first bowed to his master to express his gratitude, and then he couldn't wait to come to He Xiaona.

"Look, I finally, I finally won an award and I really learned my craft."

He Xiaona is also very happy for Yang Peng. She has been nervous about Yang Peng these days.

I saw that Yang Peng was seriously thinking about the dishes he was going to cook every day.

It really took a lot of effort, to the point where I didn’t even think about food or tea.

He Xiaona was once very worried about Yang Peng, worried that if he could not get a good ranking, he would feel very disappointed?

Fortunately, Yang Peng's dish finally won an award. Although it was only a bronze award, it really lived up to his efforts.

He Xiaona stood up and took the initiative to hug Yang Peng.

"You are awesome. My parents will be happy. If we take these home during the Chinese New Year, my parents will be happy and they will get married."

Li Huidong also came over at this time, smiled and said to the two of them: "That's right, go back with the bronze medal. After the New Year, you two get married, and then come back together."

Yang Peng and He Xiaona quickly let go of each other when they heard the sound, and He Xiaona was also very embarrassed.

Yang Peng said to Master again: "Thank you Master for teaching me so much. Without Master, I would not have been able to get this award."

At the same time, Zhang Lei also came over and took the initiative to express congratulations to Yang Peng.

Yang Peng was naturally very happy when he received Zhang Lei's congratulations: "Thank you, senior brother. You just made a mistake this time, senior brother. I believe you will definitely win awards in the future."

Zhang Lei laughed when he heard this: "Hahaha, it doesn't matter. Master and my uncle both told me just now. I know that I didn't perform well this time. You can get this bronze medal because you performed well. I don't I will be jealous, and I will regard you as a spur to myself. I will continue to work hard, learn my skills well, and cook well."

Zhang Lei's brother and sister-in-law who came today also expressed encouragement to him and hoped that he could continue to learn cooking well in the future.

After the bronze medals were awarded, the next step was today’s silver medal dishes, a total of six dishes.

Among them, Xia Hui's fried hairtail with tomato sauce, a combination of Chinese and Western dishes, won the silver medal.

In addition, Feng Zhengming’s braised chestnut pigeon also won the silver medal.

There are four other dishes, one from Duan Jinsheng of Jufeng De, and the remaining three award-winning dishes are all made by chefs other than those from Quancheng.

However, Zhang Minghai, the sixth brother of Feng Zhengming, failed to win the silver medal for his dish.

Seeing that Feng Zhengming's braised chestnut pigeon also won the silver medal, many people at the scene suddenly realized that Feng Zhengming's three dishes seemed to be winning awards.

Because of his one-fish-two-eat dish, on the first day, he had already outperformed the others and was designated as the gold medal dish.

Watching Feng Zhengming take the stage to accept the award, those who realized that all three of his dishes would win the prize looked at him completely differently at this moment.

(End of this chapter)