Chapter 129: King Chef Competition
"Director Gao, may I ask if a chef who has been banned from his qualification certificate can get his title back?" asked Li Qingming.
"As long as you are not expelled by us, then you can take it. However, according to the regulations, he cannot receive any title for three years. This is also a punishment for those chefs who violate morality and do something harmful. Director Gao explained apologetically.
At the beginning, many chefs in the Federation disregarded the lives of diners in order to innovate and use all kinds of unknown things to concoct all kinds of strange flavors, which led to catastrophic food poisoning. In order to ensure the safety of the lives of the people of the Federation, quite severe penalties were enacted. Once discovered, the chef license is banned.
Initially, it was a lifetime revocation and could not be retaken. But then this kind of thing gradually became less and less common, almost extinct, but more of a variety of conspiracies between some cooks, or doves occupying magpies' nests and other things. In contrast, a lifetime ban is a little more cruel. Therefore, the punishment was set to be less severe, and it was lowered to once it was revoked, if there was no further violation of law and discipline within three years, it could be re-examined.
There was a sneer from the chefs all around. Li Qingming said this to help Sun Zhengyi get his title back. Unfortunately, you can't take the exam within three years.
"Then can I participate in the King of Chef Competition in these three months?" Li Qingming thought for a while and asked again.
Director Gao was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly explained.
"Master Li, in principle, there are no restrictions in this King Chef Competition, and everyone is encouraged to participate. However, in order to ensure the smooth running of its competition, each city can only send one representative. That is, in a month and a half, all city-states will hold a qualifying tournament for the King Chef Competition. However, as the inventor of golden fried rice and chicken soup for the soul, this time, Master Li was specially given the place to be automatically shortlisted on behalf of Jiang Cheng. I believe that no one in Jiangcheng is not convinced. But if he wants to compete, then Master Li, you have to give up your place! And he can't represent you, so you have to re-enter the competition!" explained Director Gao.
When the chefs heard this, their eyes lit up. But they remained silent for the moment, and did not say anything more.
This year's King Chef Competition is what they dream of participating in. However, a city can only send one person. Initially, anyone was allowed to participate. But there were too many applicants for the first few editions, and all the chefs who could go went. This resulted in games that were too long and too chaotic.
Later, rules were made. Each city can only send one chef to compete in the King Chef competition. In this way, 500 city-states and 500 chefs compete for the qualification of chef king. In this way, the time of the game can be controlled, and it will be more exciting.
According to Michelin's regulations, anyone who is awarded the title of Master will automatically be selected for the city's King Chef qualification and compete for the King Chef Qualifying Tournament of that year. After all, if you can become a master, then you must be ahead of the group of chefs. The chefs have no opinion on this.
Of course, what if there are more than one master in the same year in a city-state? It's very simple, according to the chronological order, the one who gets the title first participates in this year, and the one who gets the title later participates in the next year. As for the future, I will compete with my ability.
Such a system is to avoid a certain city-state where there are too many excellent chefs, resulting in some chefs being unable to participate in the King Chef Competition.
Of course, the King Chef Contest does not necessarily determine the King Chef. If you don't have new ideas, you don't have enough technology to crush the crowd, that's not good. After all, the title is the king of chefs, so he must be able to be called the king.
This year, the representative of Jiangcheng's King of Chef Qualifying Tournament is Li Qingming, and everyone knows this, so they all gave up. However, now Li Qingming wants Son to participate, which will give them hope.
Participating in the King Chef Competition, being a King Chef is of course very slim. But he was able to show his face. In case you are favored by some big conglomerates of big city-states and choose to cooperate with them, or some well-known chain restaurants, it is far better to be a chef than to nest in a small city-state.
"I understand, then I will give up the qualification to represent this year, but I will send my apprentice Masayoshi Son to compete. Li Qingming nodded and said.
"Master Li, are you sure you want to do this? I want you to be clear, although the Internet is developed now, the attention of the King Chef Contest is unparalleled, and this is a grand event in the entire Federation. As a new master, you are bound to attract attention from all sides. This is very good for your future. Especially when you're so young, the future is limitless. Director Gao couldn't help but remind.
Li Qingming is indeed very famous in Jiangcheng. But in the Federation, his fame was limited to being the founder of 'Golden Fried Rice' and 'Chicken Soup for the Soul'. If Li Qingming hadn't made it public, there would have been many consortia begging to cooperate with him. But when it's made public, that's another matter.
Especially these two dishes, after Li Qingming announced the know-how, the entire federation is studying, including Michelin. The results of the study are that these two dishes are not difficult and relatively simple. Of course, it's not easy to be top-notch, but it's not difficult to make it delicious. This is also the reason why so many ordinary families are now cooking at home.
This also makes many consortia have a doubt in their hearts. That is, does Li Qingming still have more potential to be tapped? Or is it just a coincidence that he created these two dishes. Although Li Qingming keeps talking about his inheritance. But I didn't see it, and no one knew.
Therefore, Li Qingming can only cooperate with more big consortia by going to the King of Chefs Competition and showing his talent. If he doesn't go, if there are no new dishes coming out in the future, then he will be unknown to everyone. Maybe you can also make a windfall with the patent right of golden fried rice.
However, compared to the original opportunity, that is a far cry.
Li Qingming nodded.
"I've already decided to give up this competition. Since he is my apprentice, then I, as a master, naturally have to protect my shortcomings. I deprived him of an international celebrity chef certificate, then I will return him the title of king chef!" Li Qinglang said.
After hearing about it again, many chefs were taken aback, and then they all laughed.
"Haha, King Chef, do you think King Chef is so easy to take. It's been almost thirty years since the Federation got the title of King Chef. You really should pick up cabbage!" laughed the many chefs.
"Also, this Sun Zhengyi is not even a master, and his cooking skills are not the top in Jiangcheng, and he has never represented Jiangcheng in the King Chef Competition before. It's a joke that you actually let him take the chef!" One of them laughed so much that he almost rolled on the ground.
Michelin connoisseurs and senior executives are all barred. This is a bit of a big tone. They just hope that Li Qingming can go to get the king of the chef, but this is just a hope, it does not mean that it will be feasible. But Li Qingming asked Sun Zhengyi to go, this, they are really not optimistic.
Especially Masayoshi Son still has this stain, which is easy to be attacked by others in the King of Chef Competition. Don't look at the King of Chef competition, the competition is cooking. But there are also many conspiracies and calculations. Michelin can't help this.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are people, there are conspiracy calculations. This cannot be avoided.