Chapter 15: Determined to Participate
The large and small restaurants in Beiling City received an invitation to the Wine and Fruit Club in advance this year.
It is strange that this morning's preliminaries and afternoon's semi-finals are still held in the center of Beiling City, but the most important finals in the evening are not the previous city lord's mansion, but the Juyuan Restaurant.
Beiling City didn't know about the Jin and Ding families, but the Ding family suddenly came to this hand, isn't this clearly competing with the Jin family for the center of power? A few days later, the invitation card of the Jin family was sent out, just to force them to make a choice among them.
After Jin Yunyao and his wife found out, their faces were pale, and there was a lot of anger in their chests.
"It's just too much of a deception! This is the ** bare ground and the Kim family are arguing. Mrs. Jin was angry in her heart, the Ding family, as the guardian family of the Jin family, had already made them very dissatisfied and annoyed by defecting from the Jin family and fighting in private, and now they were blatantly fighting for power with the Jin family, which was like adding fuel to the fire.
"Don't be a bully when our Jin family is easy to bully, let's understand the fight thoroughly this time." Jin Yunyao patted his wife's back and gave her relief, but his face was ruthless.
On the other hand, Jin Shuqing, who had already set off for Nandun City a few days ago, was angry for a while after receiving Jin Yunyao's letter, and he didn't care about resting, so he accelerated his trip again.
Ah Umbrella has been studying the silver hammer for the past two days, learning the plot in the novel and dripping blood, although the silver hammer has absorbed all the blood, Ah Umbrella has no sense of recognizing the treasure at all.
With a small hammer, he gently knocked the vase, and the vase broke into particles very powerfully, and Ah Umbrella used two more strength to knock on the stone table.
In the evening, when the steward saw that the stone table in the courtyard was broken, he ordered someone to replace it with a new one, and said, "Strange, why is this stone table broken?" ”
Ah Umbrella pretended not to understand on the side, his face was very innocent, but he was secretly happy in his heart, at least he had determined the extraordinary point of this hammer.
On the day when the Jin family sent the invitation, Ah Umbrella asked for an invitation in the name of Ah Umbrella Shop, which caused Jin Yunyao to be surprised.
Although this wine and fruit party, restaurants of all sizes in Beiling can participate, but not everyone has the ability to participate.
Speaking of the preliminaries and semi-finals, the people in the city will go to join in the fun, and the restaurants that are determined to participate in the competition must make at least 1,000 dishes for the people to taste, even if they divide the usual plate of dishes into ten small portions, it is a big deal to make thousands of servings, not to mention that the preliminaries and finals are only half a day. A small umbrella shop is actually just three or two people.
"You might as well go with Jufu Restaurant." Jin Yunyao suggested.
There are a total of 12 places in the finals, each of which has four dishes, plus five dishes from the first place in the previous session, which together constitute 49 dishes on the wine and fruit banquet, so there are often several restaurants sharing a place.
Among these twelve places, the top eight in the previous edition were directly qualified for the finals, and the remaining four were re-selected. If Ah Umbrella wants to enter the finals, he must beat the hundreds of restaurants that participate in the competition.
"No, I want to compete." Ah Umbrella rejected Jin Yunyao, her eyes were full of eagerness, and if she was with Jufu Restaurant, she could only cook two dishes at most.
"If there is a shortage of people, just tell your master that Jufu Restaurant has a lot of people." Jin Yunyao said.
"Sister Ah Umbrella said that having me is enough." Jin Ling on the side looked proud.
Ah Umbrella is helpless, in fact, even if you don't add Jin Ling, it's enough, but this girl is too sticky.
After getting the invitation, Ah Umbrella went to Wu's house, discussed with the Wu couple, and went to the fish market. After coming and going, after a few days of preparation, Ah Umbrella began to study the dishes, her target was the immortal, and one of the four dishes must be able to take him down.
The restaurants that have already decided to enter the finals are struggling with which party's invitation to accept, and the rest of the participating restaurants have no time to think about this, on the one hand, to concentrate on developing dishes, and on the other hand, to prepare enough manpower.
A month before the wine and fruit party, Jin Shuqing came back, with a happy face, and had a long talk with Jin Yunyao in a secret room.
However, Ah Umbrella had a headache, in addition to Jin Ling, and now there is a second person pestering her.
"Ah Umbrella, Ah Umbrella, what are you going to eat today?"
A boy of about fourteen years old, with round eyes and a baby fat baby face, is very cute.
A umbrella stroked his forehead, this Nan Leyang is the youngest son of the lord of Nandun City, and this time he learned that the wine and fruit meeting in Beiling City was coming, so he specially accompanied him.
Like Jin Ling, although she looks like she is fourteen or five years old, she is younger than Jin Ling, and she soon became familiar with Jin Ling.
"Sister Umbrella, what are you eating today?" Jin Ling, who was closely following Nan Leyang, also looked at Ah Umbrella with sparkling eyes.
Resignedly took out the mille-feuille cake that had been prepared a long time ago, and Ah Umbrella watched the two of you compete for me to eat, and his mood was very bright.
"Ah Umbrella, you're in a good mood now, keep it up." Nan Leyang said suddenly, winked at Ah Umbrella, and continued to fight with Jin Ling for food.
Ah Umbrella was stunned for a moment, and some couldn't turn around, so he had to smile, unlike Jin Ling, Nan Leyang is really smart, Ah Umbrella admits that even if he is eighteen-year-old, he is not as smart as Nan Leyang now, and he is good at hiding.
What a peculiar child. Ah Umbrella thinks so.
There are still three days before the wine and fruit meeting, I don't know how the Jin and Ding families negotiated, the venue of the finals is not the city lord's mansion, nor the Ding family's Juyuan Restaurant, it is still in the center of the city.
Ah Umbrella probably understood that this was a concession from the Jin family, and Jin Yunyao should not want to ruin this annual fruit wine party, so he discussed with the Ding family and changed the venue for the final of the wine and fruit party, and the host was replaced by a well-known old family in the city.
But none of this matters, like all the participating restaurants, Ah Umbrella is also busy, but her assistant has a little more child.
Qin Jiu learned that in addition to Ah Yu's three children, only the Wu family helped, and sighed in his heart, sure enough, he was still a child, such a small person, even ordinary judges couldn't feed it.
Every year, 2,000 people will be randomly selected as ordinary judges, and these judges will recommend dishes that they think are delicious, and only the most recommended 100 dishes will be eligible to be tasted by the final judges of the preliminary round, so as to enter the semi-finals.
Therefore, there are not only qualitative requirements for contestants, but also quantitative requirements, and most small restaurants choose to cooperate in the competition.
Before the competition day, except for the huge judging stand in the middle, the open space around the city center was occupied by restaurants, all of which were cooking stoves, and the eight main roads radiating around the city center were full of temporary stalls.
On the day of the competition, the competition table in the center of the city and the restaurant's own stove were built at the same time, and the food was delivered to its own temporary stalls on eight avenues for the people to taste.
Finally, if the dish is recommended, the gold medal chefs waiting at the competition table will prepare the dish and send it directly to the judging table.