At the end of the day, it's a process of sifting through diners.

There is no doubt that diners who want to eat authentic food and diners who want to eat haute cuisine will undoubtedly conflict.

Authentic local cuisine, which is something that non-locals can't make, no matter how well the chef from other places learns, how exquisite the technique, and how solid the theory is, they just can't make that taste.

The chefs don't know which flavor it is, but Liu Qianqian understands that it is the taste of life.

I haven't lived here, I haven't grown up here, and the local food culture is not integrated into my blood.

What does it mean to be authentic?

Only the things that the locals are used to eating from childhood to adulthood will feel that they are authentic, and nothing is authentic except for the set he eats.

It's hard to cater to the authenticity of the world, and it's one thing that big hotels don't have to do.

What they have to do is to create new dishes, make them popular, and become "authentic" for the new generation.

There are also such dishes in international restaurants, which can only be eaten in international restaurants, and it is not considered an authentic way to do it outside.

For such a dish, only two or three dishes are sufficient.

The rest is to make the existing dishes high-end.

It doesn't have to be authentic, but it needs to be upscale.

If you tell someone who sells beef noodles seriously outside that the soup base for beef noodles should be made of chicken, duck and kelp, the other party will definitely think that this person is mentally retarded.

But in a five-star hotel, that's the foundation.

Chicken and duck elbow, large bones, kelp and ham are used as the soup base, which is the foundation of the foundation.

If the soup can be clear, it should not be cloudy, and boiling soup is almost always a must.

The layering of the palate should also be taken into account.

Of course, these cold chefs know that she is even Liu Qianqian's senior sister, and her experience as a chef is richer than Liu Qianqian, who was thrown into the showbiz not long after returning to China.

In Liu Qianqian's view, Chef Leng just fell into a misunderstanding all of a sudden, that is, to do authentic.

Actually, there is no need at all.

As soon as she mentioned the matter of mustard, Chef Leng also understood, and looked at her with some gratitude in his eyes: "I'll take care of the rest." ”

Liu Qianqian nodded and took a few steps back, she was just coming over to take a look, but when Chef Leng asked, she helped answer.

"Before entering the International Hotel, did the senior sister open the store by herself?"

Although she had already heard of it, Liu Qianqian still asked herself.

Obviously she didn't say anything, but she knew that she must have listened to what others said, some people don't care about their own things being told by others, and some people will care a lot, there is no doubt that Chef Leng is the type who cares.

Chef Leng carefully picked up the radish slices: "After a few years, it was poured." ”

Liu Qianqian didn't ask why it fell.

If a restaurant can't survive, it may not be unpalatable, and the cooking skills of a cold chef can't be unpalatable.

Probably a marketing and operational issue.

Thinking about Chef Leng's personality, it could also be a relationship problem.

None of this should be asked.

She is the identity of a school girl, Chef Leng came to ask her, she replied yes, she didn't ask, Liu Qianqian didn't need to get an axe.

Liu Qianqian opened her mouth, she wanted to ask a lot, but she might not be able to get an answer by asking Chef Leng, so she might as well go home and ask Du Xiao.

When Chef Leng's noodles were ready, it was almost evening, so Liu Qianqian ate one by herself, packed some more, and went home with Chef Leng.

Du Xiao was naturally at home, he was at home most of the time, Liu Qianqian went to the kitchen to get him dinner first, watched Du Xiao eat, and then followed into the study.

"Is Chef Leng going to stay for three months?"

Du Xiao smiled: "What do you want?"

"What do I think," Liu Qianqian was puzzled, "I don't really understand what you're going to do?"

Du Xiao said: "I just don't think something is right. ”

"Something is wrong. ”

Du Xiao knocked on the table, as if thinking about what to say.

Liu Qianqian was not in a hurry, she even had time to go out and make herself a pot of tea.

After she drank half a cup, Du Xiao said: "Just the two of us, I'll just say it directly, don't you think that those idiots in the Imperial Hotel can't do this method?"

Liu Qianqian was stunned: "Is this a very complicated technique?"

"If you secretly put the materials into the international hotel, it is indeed something that can be imagined and done by the other side," Du Xiao said, "but it is not the case with upstream suppliers directly." ”

Liu Qianqian noticed another detail: "It has been determined that the Imperial Hotel did it?"

Du Xiao said: "It's confirmed, it's not accurate to say that the Imperial Hotel, this matter has little to do with their boss, it is mainly done by their chef, but for the sake of convenience, we still call it the Imperial Hotel." ”

Liu Qianqian nodded.

"You must know very well what the supplier of the big hotel is. ”

Liu Qianqian continued to nod, although she had never been the head chef of a big hotel, she had also been taught in school, supply channels, how to operate, these are all included in the course.

The big hotels are basically exclusive suppliers, the kind that signs the contract, how to supply, and what quality of goods are clearly written.

It's not a collaboration between two merchants, it's a collaboration between two companies.

The catering company owned by the hotel and the trading company owned by the supplier.

When the hotel needs to provide the details of the purchase channel, the supplier must be able to provide, after all, the hotel also shoulders the responsibility of food safety, they must know how the things they use come from, what is it, in order to serve the table to the guests.

The international hotel in the capital, they can't investigate, but the city can investigate at will, and Du Xiao quickly checked it.

The suppliers directly under the international hotel do not know the situation of this batch of materials, the other party still uses mutton, a material that does not need too complicated purchase channels, the suppliers will directly cooperate with the major ranches, the demand for mutton in the international hotel here in the city has not been high, a ranch is enough to provide, so it is not difficult to find which one.

The rancher was also very inexplicable, and after careful investigation, he found that it was the small worker hired by his family who secretly exchanged for materials, and soon after the police took the small worker away for interrogation, the small worker was all recruited.

"He said that he was a foreigner he didn't know and wanted to change the materials," Du Xiao said, "I gave a lot of money, tens of thousands, almost two years' wages for a small worker, and he didn't resist the temptation to understand." ”

Liu Qianqian said: "I probably think that as long as you don't eat dead people, you'll be fine." ”

Du Xiao said: "With the confession of the small worker, it is not difficult to find the person who contacted him, and the police are still investigating." ”

Liu Qianqian thought for a moment: "But what does this have to do with Chef Leng's coming to this city?"

Du Xiao smiled and said: "This city is easy to check, but the capital is not easy to check." ”

The capital is not only difficult to check, but also impossible to check.

The police in this city can't go to the capital across the province to investigate, even if it passes, the capital says that it has been sealed and punished, just a piece of meat, what else?

One of them will directly beat people back if they want to.

"Since the official doesn't give an investigation, then we will investigate it ourselves," Du Xiao said, "their biggest failure is to bring the city with them, if they only operate in the capital, not only without the assistance of the police, we also have no power in the capital, and there is no way to investigate, but unfortunately, they also attacked the city's international hotel, since both sides are the same frame-up, I am afraid the same method." ”

Du Xiao wants to check again, as long as he starts from the supplier's ranch, he doesn't even need to check, Chef Leng is the chef of the international hotel, which supplier is used, and which ranch does she buy the goods from, can she still know?

It's just that once Du Xiao starts to move, I'm afraid that the capital side will also find out, so he took Chef Leng to the city in advance to protect it.

Liu Qianqian also recalled: "You're right, this is not like the caution that the Imperial Hotel can do." ”

Liu Qianqian also had a few contacts with them, and listened to Qi Feiyang and Yang Shulin chatting with them, and they were very rude in doing things over there.

If you can spend money to buy it, you will spend money, and if you can make connections, it is like sealing an international hotel, which is not reasonable at all.

If it's the Imperial Hotel to do it, I'm afraid that the **** will directly find someone to stuff into the back kitchen of the International Hotel, saying that it is heavily guarded, but in the end it is just a kitchen, when it is busy, the waiter can also go in, and it is not so difficult to really stuff things in.

This is the quickest way and the safest thing to do.

On the contrary, from the ranch to the supplier to the international restaurant, there are too many variables in between.

For example, there is no pasture near the capital, the ranch dismantles the mutton to be put into the refrigerator on the same day, the supplier comes to collect the point, and then drives the long-distance bus to bring it back, and the meat of several families is collected on the way, and finally arrives in the capital, it is also necessary to count the storage, get it done, and then send it to the international hotel, this process takes several hours.

Not to mention anything else, if there is a problem with the car halfway, or the refrigerator is faulty, the piece of beast meat will be wasted, and the tens of thousands of yuan in dotting fees will also be wasted.

Du Xiao said: "I'm afraid this matter is handed over to someone else to do." ”

Liu Qianqian said: "Who is the other person?"

Du Xiao shook his head: "I just want to know who this other person is." ”

Liu Qianqian recalled: "The Imperial Hotel is the property of the Wang family. ”

"The Wang family......" Du Xiao said in a low voice, "It's one of the four families in the capital, although there are only three families now." ”

Naturally, it is the Duch that leaves.

Du Xiao said: "Wang's business has not been very good in recent years. ”

Times are constantly changing, and it is naturally difficult to do only traditional business, and it is because of this that Du Shi discovered this, so he migrated to the city with better policies and a higher degree of freedom.

The capital, good, not good.

As the capital, it naturally has its own advantages, not only has a large permanent population, but also a huge flow of people, and people from all over the country will rush to the capital.

The disadvantage is that he is not destined to be a pure economic city, but a political center.

It can be said that it is also a network of success, and it is also a network of failure.

If you have connections in the capital, many things are relatively easy to do.

But a lot of times, I also have to do something that I don't really want to do.