Seeing Xiao Cai's reaction, Wu Ming basically had a bottom in his heart, this Xiao Cai was really a brainless fan of Gu Xingzhi, no matter what Gu Xingzhi's situation was, he could make an interpretation of 'Chef Gu is too awesome'.

Seeing that it was almost over, Wu Ming said: "Okay, Xiao Cai, I told you this secret when you were your own, and you must not pass it on." ”

Xiao Cai looked puzzled: "Wow, I feel that as a chef, a three-star Michelin chef, this problem is even cooler than any other disease."

Boss, you think, it's like an invisible person, but a sharpshooter with a hundred shots, Beethoven can't hear, but he is the most famous musician, such a talent is a real master, a master!

There's no shame in that, so why can't you tell someone about it? ”

Wu Ming smiled bitterly, this little guy was still a little too naïve: "You're right, a master-level chef with no sense of taste, this matter is indeed quite cool."

But think about it, Beethoven was a very good musician, but when he lost his hearing, what happened to his life?

Poverty! Yes, after all, there are still the majority of the laity in this world, and once others know about this matter, how much negative impact it will have on Chef Gu's career is self-evident, you say yes.

So, you can't expect those laymen to understand Chef Gu's awesomeness like you, so this matter is only known to our own people. ”

Hearing Wu Ming say that he was Chef Gu's own person, Xiao Cai was excited at the time: "Wu understands, those laymen can't understand Chef Gu's fork at all, so I can't tell this matter, don't worry, I won't say it if this matter rots in my stomach." ”

"Well, that's right. Wu Ming said: "Not only can't you say it, but you have to help Chef Gu hide it, you think, after all, when the Chef King Championship is later, there will definitely be some links such as tasting dishes, and at this time, Chef Gu will inevitably show some horses' feet."

At this time, what should you do......"

Xiao Cai thought about it, and his eyes lit up: "I understand, at that time, I will be Chef Gu's tongue, I will help Chef Gu try the dishes, but wherever I can use my tongue, I can do it for me." ”

"No problem, you're really smart. Wu Ming was overjoyed: "Then this matter, please leave it to you." ”

The next day, the semi-finals began, unlike the previous audition, which only needed to make pastries, hot dishes, and only one soup was needed in the preliminary round, this time, the hotel directly feasted on 100 tables, and the whole semi-finals lasted for three days, and each participating chef needed to complete a series of dishes such as four cold and four hot, soups, staple dishes, pastries and even including meal aftertastes within three hours, and then let the well-known food commentators invited by the local area comment on them one by one.

In addition, this time we also invited a lot of invited commentators, who are basically composed of local media, industry insiders, and some people who have voluntarily signed up in the society, and the size of the review panel has reached more than hundreds of people, who will vote and select the final 20 from these nearly 100 chefs to enter the semi-finals of the next stage.

Fortunately, Wu Ming helped Gu Xingzhi choose Xiao Cai as an assistant this time, after all, Wu Ming and Bai Bin are both laymen, and it is okay to do things such as peeling potatoes, washing vegetables, and boiling water.

After Gu Xingzhi got the question, he used the fastest time to design a complete set of dishes for himself on the spot, and then went to the cold storage in the back kitchen of the hotel to select the materials he needed.

Their competition time was scheduled for noon the next day, and everyone hurried all the time to process these ingredients, and it took nearly three hours to complete the banquet at this table.

Three days later, the voting results were announced on the water sign in the lobby of the hotel, and Wu Ming was informed very early that Gu Xingzhi's table banquet was elected as one of the best three-table banquets with a high vote.

For this matter, Wu Ming was happy for a long time, and asked Bai Bin to contact Lu Fei'er's team on the same day to stir up this matter on the Internet.

The attention of this matter in the online world has skyrocketed, and even the organizers of this competition feel strange, they are holding this King of Chef Competition, which is nothing more than hoping to attract attention, and then advertise their own edible oil sponsors for publicity.

They actually paid for some Internet promoters, but what they didn't expect was that the attention of the game far exceeded their estimates, and insiders could see at a glance that this time someone was taking advantage of this opportunity to constantly push Xingzhi to the outside world.

If someone else is in this position, it is possible that the organizer will be very unhappy, after all, this is obviously using the other party's resources to fry other people's people, but after all, Gu Xingzhi's reputation in the industry is not said, the Michelin three-star chef, known as only one of the three people in the world who connects Chinese and Western food practices, such a person to participate in the competition, itself has a certain help to the attention of the competition, and it is really hard to say who rubbed whose east wind at will.

If you really evaluate it objectively, this time it was at most everyone borrowing from each other, so the organizers also maintained a tacit attitude towards such a situation.

In the end, through the semi-finals, a total of 20 chefs entered the semi-finals, and the competition has reached this point, and all those who can stay are the leaders in the industry, the shallowest one, and the second chef of a five-star hotel.

Of course, there are also those who are really famous, Gu Xingzhi, a three-star Michelin chef, is one, and in addition, there is also a chef named Jing Wenqing, who is said to be very popular.

That night, after Wu Ming got the list of chefs who entered the semi-finals, he held a small meeting with Xiao Cai Baibin and Gu Xingzhi, wanting to analyze the situation of these opponents to be encountered later.

Gu Xingzhi glanced at the list and recognized this Jing Wenqing at a glance.

Wu Ming frowned and asked, "Jing Wenqing, is this person very good?" Chef Gu, I remember you didn't say that this kind of Chef King Contest is very commercial in nature, and even more in nature for show, and generally speaking, there are few real masters to participate?"

Gu Xingzhi smiled bitterly: "I'm talking about the general situation, now the situation, it's obvious that it's not ordinary, I don't know Jing Wenqing, but this person's reputation is definitely not below me, and it can even be said that it is higher than me, and it is much higher."

I just disappeared for a while because of some personal matters, and now the media is using this point to hype me up and attract the public's attention.

But the story behind this Jing Wenqing is much more complicated than mine, it is said that this person is a descendant of the former Qing imperial chef, and he is the only person in the world who knows the Manchu and Han full banquet practices. ”

Wu Ming was stunned for a moment: "Manchu and Han Quanxi, doesn't it mean that this kind of thing has been lost?"

Gu Xingzhi shook his head and said: "Who told you that the Manchu and Han full seats were lost, you must know that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu and Han full seats were still being made in the palace."

Now it's only been a hundred years, and how can such an awesome craft be lost if people continue to pay attention to it within a hundred years.

When the Qing court collapsed, Feng Yuxiang expelled the abolished emperor Puyi from the Forbidden City, and those imperial kitchens also went to the people.

Later, the people of Fangshan were divided into Zhao faction and Niu faction, this Jing Wenqing, known as the master of the two factions, was later in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, as the leader of the state banquet group, responsible for handling the state banquet.

In the Olympic Games a few years ago, the feast of the century was handled by him, but after that, he suddenly retired and opened a restaurant in the people, but less than two months after the restaurant opened, it was closed mysteriously. ”

Wu Ming suddenly took a deep breath: "Oh my God, this person is a character at all, but I think this person should be the same as you before, and he is also a well-known person in the upper niche circle, but in the real public eye, he is a relatively low-key person." ”

"That's right, after all, being a chef has never been a glamorous profession. Gu Xingzhi said.

"Okay, no matter what, we will prepare well for the next game, and there will definitely be a way to win this Jing Wenqing." Wu Ming said.

After the semi-finals, there was no open way to ask questions, the organizers provided everyone with certain materials, requiring them to make the corresponding dishes within a limited time, such a form of competition is a bit like the audition, but the degree of difficulty and attention is much higher than the audition, which everyone tacitly understands.

Fortunately, Xiao Cai was found, although Gu Xingzhi didn't say it directly in the past few days, he has been training Xiao Cai's sense of taste, and he found that Xiao Cai, although his skills are immature when cooking, and he looks very clumsy many times, but he naturally has a good tongue.

This kid's sense of taste can be described as tricky, Gu Xingzhi tried to make a dish every time he tried to make it and handed it to Xiao Cai, basically within five minutes, Xiao Cai could guess the seasoning, dosage, and even the order of adding seasonings.

Based on this, Wu Ming felt that he had not looked away, and not only that, Xiao Cai's performance in the semifinals could also be said to be remarkable.

This kind of competition, of course, is different from the audition, for the question of the organizer, Gu Xingzhi needs to repeatedly try to deploy when doing every step, at this time, Xiao Cai's tongue comes in handy, every time Xiao Cai tastes it with his tongue, he tells Gu Xingzhi the problem, as long as the two people cooperate well, they can always make a satisfying dish.

The final result was that Gu Xingzhi and Jing Wenqing advanced to the finals at the same time, while the other chefs inevitably turned into green leaves that accompanied the flowers, and they were finally eliminated in the semifinals.

And the final has become a battle between Gu Xingzhi and Jing Wenqing, two legendary chefs, to fight the top of the Forbidden City.

One is Gu Xingzhi, who has won three Michelin stars for Chinese food and is known as the practice of Chinese and Western food, and the other is a family of chefs, the former leader of the state banquet team of the state guesthouse, and the legendary chef Jing Wenqing, who has cooked countless state banquets.

The duel between these two people, and has become the biggest conversation among the people of the Demon Capital at this stage, after the people meet now, the first question is no longer hello, have you eaten, but how is it? Have you watched the game recently? Who do you think Jing Wenqing and Gu Xingzhi can win.

The finals were scheduled for three days after the semi-finals, and this time, the organizers asked both sides to come up with their own banquet menus, and considering that chefs of this level are extremely strict in terms of ingredients, they were given the power to source their own ingredients.

In three days, Wu Ming's task was to accompany Gu Xingzhi to run through the vegetable markets in the entire magic capital and find things that could be qualified as ingredients for the finals.

(End of chapter)