Chinese chef

Chapter 94 Chinese Chef

94 Chinese Chef's Day

Time flies in the blink of an eye, and the Chinese Chef's Day is coming as scheduled.

Early in the morning, Mu Feng and Shi Nancheng took Gao Kai and the others to the green city square.

This time, the Chinese Chef Festival will start at [-]:[-] am and end at [-]:[-] pm.

Today, chefs from all over the country will gather for a grand event.

After arriving at Lucui City Plaza, Mu Feng, Shi Nancheng and the others entered the venue with the certificates issued by the organizer.

This time, because the number of chefs who came to participate in the Chinese Chefs Festival is very large, and one of the major processes of the Chefs Festival is that chefs from all over the world exchange their cooking experience with each other.

Therefore, it is inevitable for chefs to show off their skills in front of their peers.Therefore, the event venue of the Chef's Festival is directly set in the open-air square.

Lucui City Plaza is a comprehensive square integrating business and leisure.

There are various shops inside the city square, and a very wide leisure square outside.

At this time, densely packed awnings were built in the square, and under the awnings were all kinds of fully equipped kitchen utensils.

In addition, there is a stage on the east side of the square, and a wide variety of ingredients are placed on the west side.

At about nine o'clock, the Chinese Chef's Festival officially begins.

At nine o'clock sharp, the city leaders of Fengze City upheld their usual characteristics and traditions to speak on stage. After speaking for half an hour, it was considered as an end.

Mu Feng and Shi Nancheng were sitting under the stage, almost dozing off from listening.

Very bored, Mu Feng looked around and suddenly saw the faces of several foreigners.

Because the chefs who came today are all dressed in handsome chef uniforms, the scene is full of white flowers, and those foreigners are sitting in the front row. As long as they don't look back, others may not be able to see it.

Although Mu Feng and the others were also sitting in the front row, they were far apart from each other. If it wasn't for Mu Feng's sharp eyes, they might not be able to spot it.

"Hey, why are there foreign chefs today?" Mu Feng poked Shi Nancheng with his elbow.

When Shi Nancheng heard this, he regained his energy, and followed Mu Feng's prompt to look over.

"Wearing a chef's hat, if you don't look carefully, you really can't find it." Shi Nancheng said while looking around.

At this time, the leaders on the stage talked about those foreign chefs.

It turned out that they came from Florida, USA, and they also came to exchange cooking skills.

The other chefs on the scene, those who were close had already spotted these foreigners, and those who were far away looked curiously in the direction of the foreigners after listening to the words of the city leaders.

After much difficulty, the leader finally finished speaking, and Mu Feng and the others thought they could move about freely.

As a result, the host invited Pan Deming to speak on behalf of all the catering workers in Fengze City.

Fuxing Restaurant is the leader of Fengze City's catering industry, and Pan Deming, as the founder of Fuxing Restaurant, has no objection that he represents all the chefs in Fengze City.

It's just that no one in the audience would like this kind of boring meeting except for the person who gave the speech.

Mu Feng took a deep breath and pursed his lips helplessly.

Shi Nancheng crossed his hands and stared at Pan Deming.

"Only he can represent all the chefs in Fortress? Cut." Shi Nancheng rolled his eyes and muttered in a low voice.

"Why, is it possible that you also want to speak on stage?" Mu Feng teased.

In fact, if Mu Feng hadn't been away all the time for the past ten years, even though Zhonghua Restaurant became more and more famous, the chief chef was not in the restaurant all the year round, so the overall strength was still a bit worse than that of Fuxing Restaurant.

In addition, Pan Deming has always been very close to the leadership, otherwise Mu Feng or Shi Nancheng might be on stage now.

"I don't want to! When will this bad habit get rid of? Isn't this a waste of time?" Shi Nancheng shook his head speechlessly.

After Pan Deming finished his speech, well-known chefs from other cities came to the stage to introduce themselves to everyone.

After the process of the meeting went through, it was almost eleven o'clock.

After the host announced the start of the cooking session, the chefs on the scene came back to life.

One by one, they started to stand up and walked to the ingredients area in the west.

Mu Feng and Shi Nancheng stomped their feet to relieve their numb thighs, and then followed them to the ingredients area.

In this Chinese Chef's Festival, each restaurant cooks [-] dishes respectively, and the themes vary. Chefs can cook special dishes according to their own strengths.

After the cooking is finished, the chefs can taste each other's craftsmanship and exchange experiences with each other.

Mu Feng and Shi Nancheng led a group of chefs to the ingredients area to choose ingredients.

The ingredients area occupies a very large area, and it is full of all kinds of ingredients, flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, everything that one expects to find.

At this time, chefs from all over the world surrounded the ingredients area. They each selected their own ingredients. From time to time, they nodded and greeted familiar chefs.

In the ingredients area, besides Chinese chefs, there are also some foreign chefs.

Some Chinese chefs with bold personalities came forward to say hello, but because of the language barrier, the two sides exchanged a few words, and finally they could only smile and nod to each other awkwardly.

Because the Chinese Chef Festival focuses on communication, the atmosphere at the scene is relatively harmonious, and there is no sense of tension like cooking competitions.

After Mu Feng and the others selected the ingredients, they returned to the cooking area.

The cooking area is a shelter for the rain, and the sheds are connected to each other and separated from each other with blue thick cloth.

When they came to the stall in Zhonghua Building, Mu Feng ordered Gao Kai and the others to start cleaning the ingredients immediately.

----

On the other side, after Pan Deming finished speaking on stage, he was lured by He Jiashan, the president of Fengze City Catering Association, to meet a foreigner.

"Mr. Douglas, this is Pan Deming, the chef of Fuxing Restaurant, the most famous restaurant in Fengze City." He Jiashan said to Andrew Douglas in English with a smile.

Then, he said to Pan Deming: "Lao Pan, this is Andrew Douglas, the president of the American Florida Catering Association. , communicate with our domestic chefs and learn from each other."

Pan Deming smiled and wanted to say hello to Andrew, but because he really didn't speak English very well, he couldn't hold back a word after opening his mouth for a long time.

There are a lot of foreign tourists visiting China now, and every year Fuxing Restaurant also receives many foreigners who come here admiringly.

Therefore, Pan Deming also deliberately learned English, but his English talent is too poor, so far he can only read but cannot speak.

Andrew saw Pan Deming's embarrassment, and said quickly: "Master Pan, hello, I can speak Chinese."

Although Andrew's Chinese has a strange accent, it is a familiar language after all, and Pan Deming relaxes as soon as he hears it.

"Welcome Mr. Andrew to come to the Chinese Chef Festival." Pan Deming extended his hand and shook Andrew's hand.

Before the two chatted a few words, the little girl next to Andrew grabbed Andrew's hand and said, "Dad, let's watch the Chinese chef cook!"

Because the little girl spoke English, Pan Deming didn't understand well, so he looked at Andrew with a questioning expression, and then at He Jiashan.

He Jiashan was about to translate for Pan Deming, but Andrew spoke first.

He smiled and said to Pan Deming and He Jiashan, "My daughter said that she wants to see a Chinese chef cook."

When Pan Deming heard this, he smiled and said, "That's great, let's go, I'll take you with me."

For Pan Deming, talking about cooking is worse than talking about anything, and talking about cooking makes him happier.

Andrew nodded, then bowed his head and said a few words to his daughter Emily, who immediately cheered.

"Old Pan, please take them to have a look, I still have something to do." He Jiashan said.

Then, after saying hello to Andrew, he left to do things.

Originally, given the status of Fuxing Restaurant in Fengze City's catering industry today, Pan Deming should be the chairman of the catering association.

However, because there are too many practitioners in the catering industry in Fengze City, and the things inside are very complicated, Pan Deming didn't want to waste time on these things, so he recommended He Jiashan to be the president.

However, the two of them are usually as good as wearing the same trousers. He Jiashan's being the president is no different from Pan Deming's own.

Even, sometimes He Jiashan would specifically ask Pan Deming what he meant before doing something.

This time, the reason why the Chinese Chef's Festival was held in Fengze was that Pan Deming asked He Jiashan to fight for it with all his strength.

The purpose is naturally to further consolidate the leading position of Fuxing Restaurant in the catering industry of Fengze City.

In the past ten years, although Zhonghualou has not made any major moves, the reputation of Zhonghualou is still better than every year.

Pan Deming reluctantly accepted the rise of Zhonghualou.

He didn't want to use messy methods to deal with Zhonghualou, so he had to find another way.

Pan Deming saw that Fuxing Restaurant couldn't beat Zhonghua Restaurant in terms of food, so he brought his idea to the Chinese Chef's Festival.

As long as Fuxing Restaurant can participate as a leader in the Chef's Festival, then for those social celebrities, Fuxing Restaurant is the best place for them to dine, and it is a symbol of status and status.

In this way, no matter how fast the Zhonghua Building is, Fuxing Restaurant will be able to secure its leading position.

Although Pan Deming tried his best to promote this Chinese Chef's Day, he was a little surprised by the visit of foreign chefs.

However, this is even better. If he shows his face in front of foreign chefs, won't the leading position of Fuxing Restaurant be more stable?

Deming Pan led Andrew and his daughter to the cooking area.

In the cooking area, the kitchens of foreign chefs and Chinese chefs are next to each other.

However, Emily was obviously not interested in chefs from her own country, but ran directly to the Chinese chef's booth.

Seeing that Emily was running towards the booth of Fuxing Restaurant, Pan Deming was quite smug.

"Mr. Andrew, these are the chefs of our Fuxing Restaurant." Pan Deming introduced Andrew with a smile.

"Everyone, this is Mr. Andrew Douglas, the president of the Florida Catering Association." Pan Deming introduced to the chefs.

The chefs of Fuxing Restaurant greeted Andrew one after another.

"This is Emily, Mr. Andrew's daughter. She said she wants to see our Chinese chef cook." Pan Delu said with a smile.

"Want to watch us cook? Then let me show you how to cut vegetables!" Yan Shenghe said with a smile.

Emily opened her two big black eyes and nodded vigorously.

So Yan Shenghe took a cucumber and quickly cut it up.

What Yan Shenghe made was [Cucumber in Coir Raincoat].

His knife skills are very fast, and he cut the cucumber in a short while.

Then, he grabbed both ends of the cucumber with both hands and lifted it lightly, and the cucumber was stretched several times in an instant.

The most important thing is that although the cucumber is elongated, it is still tightly connected and has not been disconnected.

"Every time I see your Chinese chefs cutting something, I feel very magical." Andrew said with a smile.

In the United States, it is rare to see any chef who can specialize in knife skills to this level, so the knife skills of Chinese chefs always have such a magical feeling in the eyes of Americans.

After hearing Andrew's praise, Pan Delu and Yan Shenghe both smiled.

"Does it look good?" Yan Shenghe said to Emily with a smile.

"Nice." Emily nodded.

Although Emily said she was pretty, her eyes were looking around.

After looking around for a while, she turned and looked at the booth opposite.

Then, seeing something, she suddenly ran over in ecstasy.

At the same time, she kept shouting two words: "Mu Feng, Mu Feng..."

Pan Deming, Yan Shenghe, and Andrew were stunned for a moment.

Then, when Andrew was still confused, Pan Deming and Yan Shenghe were the first to react.

They finally heard what Emily was shouting.

They watched as Emily happily ran towards the opposite side.

Although the two of them still had pleasant smiles on their faces, they couldn't help cursing MMP secretly in their hearts.

The booth facing Fuxing Restaurant happens to be the booth of Zhonghua Building.

Seeing his daughter running over, Andrew followed.

Mu Feng was directing Gao Kai and the others to process the ingredients, when he suddenly heard someone calling him, he looked up and found that it was a cute little foreign girl.

"Chef Mu Feng, hello, I'm Emily." Emily greeted Mu Feng in broken Chinese.

Mu Feng was stunned for a moment, and then realized that it should be the daughter of a chef!

He responded with a smile, "Hello."

"Chef Mufeng, can you carve rabbits today?" Emily asked.

rabbit?

Mu Feng was taken aback.

Seeing that Mu Feng didn't respond, Emily took out her phone from her pocket, swiped a few times on the screen, opened a video and handed it to Mu Feng.

Mu Feng saw it and understood.

When traveling outside these years, Mu Feng would take carrots or cucumbers and other vegetables to carve things when he had nothing to do. From animals to figures and buildings, he sculpted almost everything.

When Shi Nancheng watched him carving carrots, he took pictures with his mobile phone from time to time and posted them on the Internet.

For some reason, these videos were posted on foreign websites.

Mu Feng has good looks and good craftsmanship, so he has attracted many foreign fans without knowing it.

This Emily is one of them.

"Hello, you are the chief chef of Zhonghua Building, Mu Feng, right?" Andrew came over and greeted Mu Feng with a smile.

"Hello." Mu Feng smiled and nodded.

"Mu Feng, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Andrew Douglas, the president of the Florida Catering Association. This little girl is Mr. Andrew's daughter." Pan Deming walked over and said to Mu Feng with a smile.

"Hello, Mr. Andrew." Mu Feng said with a smile.

"Chef Pan, long time no see! The business of Fuxing Restaurant is good recently, isn't it?" Shi Nancheng greeted Pan Deming with a smile when he saw Pan Deming approaching.

"It's okay, the business of Zhonghua Building is also very good recently!" Pan Deming said with a smile.

Although the two of them did not fight each other secretly, they were still in harmony on the surface.

"Emily has the best eyes. I didn't recognize her at first. Master Mu's carrot carving skills are amazing!" Andrew said with a smile.

After hearing what Andrew said, Pan Deming smiled and said, "That's right, Master Mu's craftsmanship has always been good."

"Chef Mufeng, will you carve rabbits later?" Emily asked again.

Emily looks very cute, people love it unconsciously after watching it.

Mu Feng smiled after hearing this: "Do you want to see the carved rabbit?"

Emily nodded expectantly.

"Shall I carve one for you now?" Mu Feng asked.

Emily nodded immediately.

Mu Feng took out a carrot from the basket on the side, then picked up the knife and began to carve.

He saw a small knife flying up and down.

After a while, a lifelike little rabbit appeared in Mu Feng's hand.

"Here you are." Mu Feng smiled and handed the carrot rabbit to Emily.

Emily took the rabbit over with joy and said thank you repeatedly.

Pan Deming watched from the side, with the kind look of an old senior on his face, but rolled his eyes with disdain in his heart.

This is too childish!

It's not that he looks down on Mu Feng, it's that Mu Feng's skill in carving carrots and rabbits is actually not surprising.

He has mastered this skill more than 20 years ago.

----

Yan Shenghe looked at Mu Fengdiao Carrot Rabbit opposite, and smiled disdainfully in his heart.

"Ayue, bring me a wax gourd." Yan Shenghe shouted to the young people beside him.

"Okay." Ah Yue responded.

Then, he quickly took a winter melon and placed it in front of Yan Shenghe.

Yan Shenghe supported the wax gourd, picked up the carving knife, and slashed like a god.

In less than 3 minutes, a basic outline has come out.

Seeing that his knife skills are really extraordinary, several chefs passing by unconsciously stopped to watch.

On the side of Zhonghua Building, Andrew and Pan Deming also noticed the situation on the other side.

Andrew looked at Pan Deming with questioning eyes.

Pan Deming smiled and said, "It's the chef in our shop who is carving wax gourds. Would Mr. Andrew be interested in going over to have a look?"

Andrew nodded and touched Emily's head, and said, "Winter melons are being carved over there, do you want to go and have a look?"

Emily was playing with the rabbit in her hand. After hearing what her father said, she looked over curiously and nodded repeatedly.

"Please." Pan Deming said to Andrew.

Andrew then walked towards the booth of Fuxing Restaurant.

Pan Deming walked two steps with a smile, then suddenly stopped thinking about something, turned to Mu Feng and Shi Nancheng and said, "Both of you, do you want to go over there together? Today is Chef's Day, let's chat together!" "

"No need, we still have to hurry up and cook." Mu Feng said with a smile.

Shi Nancheng looked at him with a bland smile, and indicated with his eyes that he was not interested at all.

Pan Deming shrugged and walked over with a smile.

Mu Feng looked at Pan Deming's back, thought for a moment, looked at Shi Nancheng and said jokingly: "How about we steal the limelight from Fu Xing today?"

Shi Nancheng smiled, raised his eyebrows, pulled up the shopping cart and ran to the ingredients section to bring back a big wax gourd.

After carrying the winter melon back, Mu Feng touched the winter melon, and then supported the winter melon with one hand and the carving knife with the other.

In the next second, his eyes sharpened suddenly.

The carving knife in his hand danced extremely fast, and a big wax gourd began to change within a few minutes.

----

Yan Shenghe caught a glimpse of Mu Feng on the opposite side who was also carving winter melons, and subconsciously speeded up his hands.

As time went by, the winter melon in Yan Shenghe's hands gradually took shape.

Experts can tell at a glance that this is a sculpture of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea".

This [Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea] is not difficult, and many experienced chefs can do it.

The difficult thing is that Yan Shenghe's hands are very steady. He is worthy of being the second in command of Fuxing Restaurant, and his strength should not be underestimated.

Unknowingly, a circle of people surrounded the booth of Fuxing Restaurant.

----

the other side.

In front of the booth of Zhonghua Building.

Under Mu Feng's hands, Big Winter Melon also undergoes earth-shaking changes.

Nine five-clawed dragons swallowing clouds and fog gradually appeared on Donggua's body.