Chapter 373: The Food Appreciation Meeting Begins
The food appreciation will eventually be held among the five major restaurants in Beijing. The foreign restaurants and restaurants, although they have all come up with their own unique skills, are not on their home turf, and after a period of trying, they still failed to have the most difficult showdown.
But they are very famous in the capital, and some people also have a place in the renovated food street.
Zuixian Building, Yipinge, Zuojia Restaurant, Zhiweiguan and Fumanlou have become the five most eye-catching restaurants.
In order to convince people, a famous gourmand in the capital was specially invited to be in charge of this tasting, and even Mrs. Su, who has always been low-key, was invited over, so the owners of the five restaurants were very relieved about whether the appreciation was fair.
For this food appreciation meeting, the five restaurants have done their best. The daily flow of visitors from each restaurant is a good indication of which restaurant is the most popular.
People think that the drunken immortal building, which is the initiator, should have the most passengers. But after a period of statistics, it was found that like Zuixianlou, Zhiweiguan, which is also an industry under the prince, has become the restaurant with the largest number of visitors, and Zuixianlou is only ranked second.
Could it be that the new high-end beef dishes launched by Zuixian Mansion are not as delicious as advertised? Some people have such thoughts in their hearts.
For this reason, Mu Qingqi also went to the Zhiwei Hall to taste it once, but it was not as expected, both in terms of dishes and ingredients, it was slightly inferior to Zuixianlou. Prince Qi had doubts in his heart, so he sent someone to check, only to find that the passenger flow of the Zhiwei Pavilion actually had a lot of moisture.
It turned out that the shopkeeper of the Zhiwei Pavilion found some people in order to make the reputation of the restaurant better. Pay for them to eat in the museum every day. That's how the moisture comes out of the passenger flow.
It's just a good face, if it's really the day of the food appreciation, it's not necessarily who will kill the deer?
Finally on this day, five restaurants and five famous gourmets in Beijing were all displayed in front of the people of Beijing.
Because there were too many people who came to watch, Mu Qiyue deliberately found a spacious place as the scene of the game.
This square-like place has long been arranged by the people he sent, and the five restaurants are lined up in front of everyone in turn. Each restaurant is assigned a long table. For them to set up ingredients and finished products.
Two masters from each family brought three suitable subordinates, using the ingredients they brought to their own hands, each made fifteen servings, and five servings were tasted by the five famous people in the capital who sat on the high seats. Five servings are tasted by five people randomly selected on site. Another five were tasted by the owners behind the five restaurants. Look at the restaurant. Which dish gets the most points.
Each restaurant prepares its own ingredients to use, and all dishes are made on site, so some dishes are time-consuming and labor-intensive. It doesn't fit here. This limits the preparation of some dishes. However, because everyone is the same, no one has any problem with them.
Although each chef took the competition very seriously, they were all clean and tidy. However, the Drunken Immortal Tower is obviously the most outstanding among them. Whether it is a master or an assistant, they are all dressed in a uniform manner, although the clothes of the master and the assistant are different, it is only a difference in the difference of level.
Among the more than 20 people in complicated clothes, the navy blue clothes of the five people in the Drunken Immortal Building were still conspicuous. Some of the people who stood outside the venue came to join in the fun, and they all felt that the people in the drunken fairy building were obviously a grade higher than the people in other restaurants, and they unconsciously praised them.
"Hmph, grandstanding, I don't know what to say." The sound of people talking is not small, and it will naturally be heard by the people sitting on the appreciation seat on the stage, and the others are fine, but the owners of the four restaurants except Mu Qingqi don't like to listen to it, especially when they find that there is really a big difference, they don't feel good in their hearts, and they will naturally make dissatisfied voices.
Mu Qingqi looked at Prince Yuan, the owner of the Zhiwei Pavilion, who was disdainful of this, and laughed in his heart that he was even jealous of this kind of thing. In order to maintain his proper demeanor, Mu Qingqi did not pay attention to Prince Yuan.
In fact, this kind of thing was originally not used by them in person, but because the food appreciation will cause a great response, even the emperor is very interested, and he actually asked a few times, and specially handwritten five big characters, the first floor of the capital. Ready to be given to the restaurant with the highest rating.
The emperor's words have been ordered to be carved into a plaque, which is placed in the center of the venue. It can be said that everyone in the restaurant is looking at this plaque. This represents the emperor's recognition and supreme glory.
In addition to the two restaurants backed by Prince Qi and Prince Yuan, the other three also have deep backgrounds, otherwise it is difficult to fall down a brick and smash ten people in the capital, and nine and a half people are officials.
Therefore, the people who can sit at the tasting table are also people with backgrounds. In addition to Mrs. Su, there is also the imperial chef Jiang Da, Wei Wen, the head of the Beijing Academy, Jiang Ye, the recognized glutton, and the last one is Old Man Du.
In fact, General Chang wanted to join in the excitement the most, but the ingredients for the Drunken Immortal Building were provided by Lin Zhu's Zhuangzi, so in order not to fall into the mouth, he could only avoid it.
Mu Qiyue is the one who made suggestions for this food appreciation meeting, so he appointed Lu Mingtao to preside over this appreciation meeting, Lu Mingtao is also a delicious person, and he is also quite famous in the capital, if it is not for the relationship with the drunken immortal building is too close, he is also qualified to sit on the tasting table.
So he came to call the shots, and no one objected.
Lu Mingtao stood in front of the stage and first introduced a few connoisseurs who were seated, and as for the owners of the restaurant, in order not to put pressure on the people who came to join in the fun, they omitted to mention it.
After that, he explained the way of the game.
Each restaurant should make five dishes, with meat and vegetarian dishes, fish and meat. No one is allowed to step out of the enclosure during the cooking period, and there must be no sign of their own restaurant that is instantly recognizable.
Within the specified time, the dishes that are prepared will be served by a special person, and no one will be told which dish comes from which restaurant until the results are announced. Whichever dish the taster likes, he or she will cast a silver medal of approval before that dish.
As soon as the rules came out, everyone nodded in approval. The owners of the five restaurants also signed the contract to represent their recognition.
So, in anticipation, the food appreciation began.
General Chang brought Lin Zhu and others over to join in the fun. Of course, for people with a higher status like General Chang, Lu Mingtao had already arranged a seat, although they did not participate in the tasting, but they also had the opportunity to taste the dishes made by each chef.
Lin Zhu looked around, and there were many people sitting in the same seats as himself and the others. The Lin family, the Wang family, the Hui'an Hou Zhao family, and so on that she knew all came to cheer.
The place where the food appreciation will be located is next to the renovated food street, and this street is also very lively, and some people are looking for something they are interested in eating while waiting for the news of the food appreciation meeting, killing two birds with one stone, which is very pleasant. (To be continued......)