Chinese chef

Chapter 96 Extra Story: A Special Restaurant That Cannot Be Recorded

96 Fanwai: A special restaurant that cannot be recorded

Fortress City.

Sail Hotel.

Martin Park pulled the suitcase, took the room card, and walked to the room.

Martin Parker is a Michelin inspector, nicknamed "Gourmet Agent".

His job is to secretly visit and monitor those delicious restaurants all over the world.

This is his first time in Huaxia, and he came to Fengze City to taste the dishes of Fuxing Restaurant.

Because Fuxing Restaurant is well-known in China, the Michelin headquarters is very interested in it and wants to include it in the "Michelin Guide", so they specially sent inspector Martin Parker to Fengze City.

Earlier, the Michelin headquarters had already sent people from Huaxia Kingdom to Fuxing Restaurant once.

Martin came here mainly to double-check.

Arriving at the door, Martin was about to open the door when there was a conversation not far away.

"Mufeng is going to Suji today, have you got the ticket yet?"

"I can't get it. The tickets for today and tomorrow were sold out a week ago. The first batch will be released tonight, and the tickets will be in three days' time. Let's try again then."

"Master Mu Feng only comes back for three months every year. It's really hard to go to Suji to eat his dishes once!"

"I ate Pingqiao Tofu Soup three months ago just the day before Master Mu left. The taste is really..."

Martin leaned back slightly, turned his head to look at the past, just in time to see the waitress's face full of thought.

He is a food spy, so he is naturally more sensitive to the topic of food than ordinary people. The conversation between the two waiters has already aroused his curiosity.

"Hello, may I ask who is this Master Mu you mentioned just now?" Martin stepped forward and asked with a smile.

Before he came to China, he had spent a whole year asking a Chinese teacher to make up his Chinese, so his Chinese was not bad.

The two waiters were stunned for a moment, one of them paused, and said to Martin with a smile: "Master Mu, whose name is Mu Feng, is the head chef of Zhonghua Building, but he doesn't cook in Zhonghua Building now, but cooks in Suji. vegetable."

Zhonghua Building?

Martin paused for a moment, thought for a while, and remembered that he had seen the name of Zhonghua Lou when he checked the information of Fuxing Restaurant when he was at the headquarters.

He thought about it carefully, and vaguely remembered that Mu Feng's name had been mentioned in the materials of Zhonghua Building.

However, according to the information, this Mu Feng left Zhonghua Building three years ago.

Because the Michelin rating standard has always been based on the overall rating of the restaurant, there are only Michelin restaurants, and there is no such thing as a Michelin chef.

Therefore, he didn't pay much attention to Mu Feng who had left Zhonghua Building.

"What do you mean by tickets?" Martin asked.

"Master Mu will cook at Suji for three months every year, because there are too many people who want to eat his dishes, so Suji sells tickets in advance online. Without tickets, there is no way to eat Master Mu's dishes. " said the waiter.

"A ticket for a meal?" Martin was taken aback, and said, "Is this Su Ji so famous?"

"Of course, Su Ji has been rated as the most down-to-earth top restaurant on the Internet." The waiter said excitedly, "...the reputation is great."

The most down-to-earth?

Although Martin had learned Chinese, he still had only a half-knowledge of the meaning of many words. He was confused and frowned.

However, he understood the four words 'top restaurant' right away.

"Excuse me, where is this Su Ji?" Martin asked, his curiosity about Su Ji was getting stronger and stronger.

The waiter immediately told him the location of Su Ji.

However, after listening to Martin, he was still at a loss. He is a foreigner, so how could he know the map of Fortress.

The waiter couldn't understand it for a while, so he said, "You can use the navigation software to look it up, just enter the word Su Ji like this."

The waiter took out his mobile phone, opened the navigation software, entered the word 'Su Ji' in the search bar, and handed the map to Martin.

Martin nodded after reading it, and said with a smile, "Thank you."

After returning to the room, Martin put the suitcase aside, and then couldn't wait to check the information of Su Ji and Mu Feng online.

He has always paid special attention to food matters.

The reason why he didn't know about Su Ji and Mu Feng was because he had been abroad before and didn't know much about restaurants and restaurants in Huaxia.

This time, he came to Fengze City to monitor Fuxing Restaurant, so he had a relatively deep understanding of the information about Fuxing Restaurant.

As for other restaurants and restaurants, he only knows about some top restaurants.

There is no Mufeng in Zhonghualou, and it is not considered a top-notch restaurant at present, so he didn't know too much about it.

After doing some research on the Internet, his interest in Su Ji and Mu Feng became more and more intense.

So, he added Su Ji's official account according to the method written on the Internet, and then bought tickets on it.

Maybe it was because of the novice's luck that he actually got the ticket.Of course, it's a ticket for three days later.

During these three days, he went to Fuxing Restaurant twice, and he already had a comprehensive understanding of Fuxing Restaurant, from the environment and service to the taste of the dishes.

It is a certainty that Fuxing Restaurant will be included in the Michelin Guide.

In fact, if it weren’t for the fact that Michelin has always only focused on Western food and didn’t know much about Chinese food, with the ever-changing food in China, Chinese restaurants would have been strong enough to occupy half of the country in the "Michelin Guide".

However, although the various indicators of Fuxing Restaurant have reached the three-star standard, Martin is not too surprised. On the contrary, he is more and more interested in Su Ji.

I didn't know about it before, so I didn't investigate it. After I checked it now, I found that there are countless information about Su Ji and Mu Feng on the Internet.

The more Martin watched, the more his mouth watered for Su Ji's food.

Three days later, Martin came to Suji.

Although there are tickets, but still have to line up.

When he arrived at Suji, there was already a long queue at the door.

Finally, it was his turn to come in for dinner.

When we arrived at Su Ji, there was a strong fragrance in the air.

Martin looked at Su Ji's decoration and felt hesitant, although he had already learned that Su Ji was an ordinary small restaurant on the Internet.

But after arriving at Suji, I was still shocked by the ordinary decoration.

Although he knows whether the food is delicious or not has nothing to do with the decoration of the restaurant, but the decoration of Su Ji is too simple, right?

If it was really an ordinary street shop, Martin would not have any doubts. The key is that Su Ji is almost praised by others on the Internet.

Martin frowned when he saw that there were no empty tables in the store.

Martin doesn't want to share a table with others, he is used to having a table by himself, and then enjoy the food quietly.

The waiter wanted to greet him to come in and sit down, but he immediately waved his hand and refused.

The waiter, who had seen this situation a lot, explained it, and it was useless to tell Martin to wait any longer.

However, Martin still insisted on his own opinion, and the waiter stopped persuading, and turned around to greet other guests.

Martin wanted to wait until the number of customers dwindled before sitting at a table by himself.

However, Suji has an endless stream of diners, and the tables and chairs inside are like carrots and pits. When one person gets up, another person will sit down immediately.

After waiting for nearly an hour, Martin saw that there was still a long queue outside the door, and the length of the queue did not seem to have been reduced by half after such a long time.

Helpless, he had no choice but to step forward and talk to the waiter.

The waiter smiled and teased a few words, then took him to a seat.

Martin was led by the waiter to sit down at a table that could seat four people in total, and three people were already sitting there at this time.

When the three guests saw a foreigner coming to Suji, they all felt very novel and greeted him one after another.

Martin originally thought that these three people were in the same group, but after talking for a while, he realized that the three of them were also strangers to each other.

It turns out that because Su Ji is hard to get a ticket, table sharing has become the norm for Su Ji.

Soon, the waiter brought the dishes.

Today Su Ji's dishes are [Ants Climbing a Tree] and [Fried Stuffed Eggplant].

Martin already knew from the Internet that Su Ji's rule is two dishes per person, and the chef can eat whatever he prepares, without a choice.

Although Martin is not used to this method, Su Ji's food is all well received on the Internet without exception, so Martin is still very curious.

[Fried Stuffed Eggplant] It is made of fried eggplant and fish, which belongs to Lu cuisine.

[Ants climbing a tree] is minced meat vermicelli, minced meat is an ant, and vermicelli is a tree, which belongs to Sichuan cuisine.

Martin looked at the two dishes in front of him, and frowned slightly. The appearance was pretty good, but it didn't feel that brilliant.

Martin always felt that Su Ji's dishes seemed to be different from what was said on the Internet, which was a bit exaggerated.

He picked some minced meat vermicelli and tried it.

Um......

The taste of this dish...

Just this one try, Martin's hand never stopped.

Although he still can't use chopsticks proficiently, it doesn't affect his enjoyment in the slightest.

After eating until there were only two empty plates left, Martin put down his chopsticks.

In the past two days, he had just eaten at Fuxing Restaurant, and he already had a basic idea of ​​the deliciousness of Chinese food.

However, after eating the dishes made by Mu Feng, his impression of the deliciousness of Chinese food has been refreshed in his mind.

Chinese food is so delicious!

I can't believe it at all! ! !

"Oh, my God! Is this Chinese cuisine? Is this a dish made by God himself? Why is it so delicious?" Martin exclaimed.

"This is China." The guest next to him said with a smile.

"Oh, I know, so is this dish cooked by the Jade Emperor himself?" Martin nodded and said.

"The Jade Emperor doesn't cook." The guests next to him were all amused and joked.

......

Because Su Ji's food was so delicious, Martin deliberately stayed in Fortress for an extra week, thinking of eating there again.

However, he has not been able to get a ticket, because Martin can only temporarily leave Huaxia due to work reasons.

After returning to the Michelin headquarters, Martin immediately told his boss about Su Ji, and suggested that Su Ji be included in the Michelin Guide.

Although Su Ji's decoration is too simple, the taste is definitely not worth mentioning. He must recommend such delicious food to more people.

It's a mania that you can't help but want to share.

After Martin's boss had a preliminary understanding of Su Ji, he rejected Martin's proposal to include Su Ji in the "Michelin Guide".

Even if Su Ji's dishes are really as delicious as Martin said, the decoration of Su Ji is too simple, and the service is not up to standard.

The most important thing is that Mu Feng's time in Suji is too short every year, which leads to the unstable quality of Suji's dishes, and it really can't meet the minimum standard for being included in the guide.

In desperation, Martin had to give up.

However, this does not affect him in the slightest to recommend Su Ji to his colleagues around him.

Once or twice, colleagues don't care much, after all, they are all people who have eaten global cuisine.

However, when Martin kept repeating in their ears, their curiosity was aroused.

Therefore, those inspectors who just happened to be sent to Huaxia stopped by Suji Xiaodian in Fengze City for dinner.

Because Mu Feng's time in charge of Su Ji was very short, and the ticket system was adopted, so there were not many inspectors who actually ate the dishes made by Mu Feng himself.

However, every inspector who was lucky enough to eat the dishes cooked by Mu Feng was full of praise.This further deepened the Michelin inspectors' curiosity about Su Ji and Mu Feng.

Because of the special nature of Su Ji, the supervisors' proposals were rejected every time.

However, due to word of mouth among Michelin headquarters staff, Suji has unknowingly become a must-see restaurant for Michelin inspectors in China.

Therefore, Su Ji has become a special existence that cannot be recorded in the "Michelin Guide", but it is a special existence that all Michelin inspectors will never forget.