At 9 o'clock in the morning of June 28, the first round of the team competition of the 5th National Culinary Arts Competition officially kicked off.

As we all know, a total of 36 hotels across the country participated in the competition, and in the first round of the preliminary round, the organizing committee of the competition will also divide the 36 teams into nine groups, each group has a total of four teams, using the point elimination system, that is, after all the dishes in each group are completed, the six judges present will score at the same time, and finally, the two teams with the highest scores in the group will qualify.

It is worth mentioning that all hotels that were eliminated from the first two rounds will have a chance to repechage after the second round, but all the hotels that were eliminated from the first two rounds need to be defeated to have this chance of repechage.

Today is the first round of the team competition, the competition time is at 9 am and 8 pm today, according to the competition process, a total of five teams participated this morning, the rest are all in the evening, and unfortunately, the H group where the Tianlong Hotel is located was drawn in the morning.......

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The Group H match was held in a ballroom on the 18th floor of the Donghuang Hotel, which had been set up two days earlier.

As far as the eye can see, in the venue of Nuoda, the original tables and chairs have been carried away, and only four silver chef's workbenches are left in the center of the venue, as well as four lotus tables responsible for cutting vegetables and ingredients, and the lotus tables are full of knives and spoons and many strange kitchen utensils that ordinary people can't name at all.......

On the silver shelves on the left and right sides of the venue, there are already three rows of vegetables and fruits, all of which are the freshest fruits and vegetables of this season, and some of them have just been delivered this morning, and many of them still have a few drops of crystal dew.

Four giant refrigerated display cabinets were placed on both sides of the main gate of the venue, and the cabinets were filled with all kinds of refrigerated fresh meat, and even labels were attached to the bottom of each piece of meat, indicating how much the meat weighed, how old the animal was, and how long the animal had been dead.

Not only that, but there are also many animal limbs such as sheep's hooves, ox tails, etc., most of which are bloody and fresh at first glance, and they may have just been cut off.

And because the question in Group H is porridge culture, there are more than 20 bags of different rice piled up under the silver rack on the left side for the contestants to use.

There is still half an hour before the start of the game, but the game scene is not as hot as imagined, the shouting is deafening, on the contrary, the venue of the University is very quiet, except for a few reporters who came here to interview, and the staff of the Donghuang Hotel, there is hardly any idle people in the venue, even the cheerleaders often seen on TV, there is no family and friend group, it is very deserted.

This is normal, because in this kind of competition, almost no audience will be invited to sit on the stage, after all, it is not a singing and dancing competition, the audience needs to shout some slogans and create an atmosphere, on the contrary, if the cooking competition really brings the audience, the organizing committee of the competition is also worried that the audience will affect the performance of the contestants.

At present, there are less than 20 minutes before the start of the competition, and the contestants from the four hotels have not yet appeared, but the judges of Group H are the first to enter the venue and sit on the white and neat judges' seats in turn.

The position of the judges' bench is located in the innermost part of the banquet hall, facing the chef's workbench, you can clearly see the chefs' every move in the audience, and behind the judges' bench, a large LED display screen is also slowly playing the promotional video of the competition, as well as the promotional video of Donghuang Hotel.

Seeing that the judges were all present, the five reporters in charge of the H group competition walked up quickly and began the routine pre-game interview, while several judges were also sitting on the judges' seat, drinking tea and smiling to accept the pre-game interview with reporter friends.

It is worth mentioning that in order to promote friendly exchanges between the major participating hotels in this competition, the chairmen of the 36 hotels actually got a chance to participate in the judges, for example, at present, Chairman Wang, an old friend of Daoye, is now sitting next to the female president surnamed Liu of the Provincial Catering Association, smiling and nodding to the camera in front of her.

Daoye, who was participating in the Group E competition on the 32nd floor, wiped the old tears from the corners of his eyes with the white cloth on the judges' table, saying that his luck was not bad, and he finally saved a judge's money.

Briefly talking about the six judges of Group H, in addition to Chairman Wang and Chairman Liu, who are smiling and being interviewed by reporters, Dongfang Qing, who is inspecting the chef's workbench, is also one of the six judges of this group, but Dongfang Qing is only a deputy judge of this group of competitions, and the real chief judge is still Chairman Liu who is sitting in the center of the rostrum.

But it is said that the decision to come to Group H to be a judge was specially revised by Dongfang Qing last night after reading the group table, because according to the original plan, she was actually going to be the chief judge of Group A, the group of famous brand hotels in Beijing and Shanghai, known as the group of the Grim Reaper.

However, due to some unspeakable reasons, Dongfang Qing gave up the position of the chief judge of Group A to her dear old father, and she took her husband to Group H, which has no highlights at all (if Tianlong's kiln is not a highlight) to be a judge.

Well, the poor Oriental old man is currently dozing off on the rostrum, fantasizing about how comfortable the afternoon nap will be after the game.

In addition to Dongfang Qing, among the remaining three judges in Group H, there is also a food critic from this province, who is relatively young, only in his forties, well, surnamed Li, is a middle-aged uncle with a big belly and a bald head.

That's right, Judge Li has actually appeared once before, no, he is now staring at the score sheet in his hand, the four words of Tianlong Hotel muttering quietly.

"Denon Hotel? Is it the hotel that gave me the money? Wait, with a dragon word, it seems to be, right? But how did I hear about the Wyvern Hotel for this competition? No, I'll have to ask them if their boss is surnamed Zhang in a while, but I can't open a way for others. ”

Judge Li thought very responsibly, and completely showed the good professionalism of doing things when he got the money, and he absolutely had to do it well and accurately.

But, in fact, the owners of those two hotels paid him for the fool.......

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"Well, the strength of Group H is still very good, and it is not as insignificant as everyone feels, for example, Jiufeng Hotel from Anhui, and Tianyue Hotel from Hebei are all teams worth looking forward to, ah, of course, there is also Tianlong Hotel, as half of the host of this competition, I believe that Tianlong Hotel will also give us a big surprise."

Chairman Liu, who is in his fifties, is wearing a purple dress today, although he is very old, it is not difficult to see from President Liu's facial features that he must have been a beauty when he was young.

But it's a pity that Chairman Liu accidentally forgot the Shanghai Port Hotel of the Demon Party, and it is impossible not to forget it, after all, Shanghai Port ....... The hotel that this robe has just built has no reputation in the food industry of the Celestial Empire, and it is not as well-known as the Taoist Tianlong, of course, that kind of popularity is quite magical.......

But Paoye, who was watching the live broadcast of the game in the VIP lounge on the top floor of the Donghuang Building, looked at President Liu in the broadcast, and listened to her extremely angry words, Pao Ye almost smashed the ashtray in his hand into the TV.

"Damn, this old lady dares not to mention the hotel! Xiaofeng, go, press me 10 million seniors, why don't you just hug me hard today! ”

Brother Feng stood next to the sofa of the robe master, and asked with some concern, "Uncle Liu, do you want to be less, in case you .......?"

"What if, what if, will the seniors lose? Hurry up and hurry up, you can't bet half an hour after the game starts. ”

"Oh, okay Uncle Liu."

Walking out of the rest room of the robe master, Brother Feng went to bet.

"Ten million, Shanghai Port Hotel." Brother Feng reported his bet to the employees of Donghuang Hotel, and then in the surprised eyes of the bosses beside him, Brother Feng secretly took out a bank card.

Holding his private money tightly, Brother Feng hesitated a little, but soon, Brother Feng looked up at the fifty-two-inch high-hanging TV above the VIP room, and then looked at the current odds of various hotels written on the TV, when he saw that the current odds of Shanghai Port Hotel were 1 to 7, Brother Feng gritted his teeth and slapped all his private money in front of the staff.

"Another 500,000 yuan, it's still the Shanghai Port Hotel!"

After receiving the two bills that the staff had called Brother Feng, Brother Feng smiled a little excitedly.

"Hehe, I can make a deal this time."

Holding the two bills, Brother Feng happily walked up to the second floor of the VIP hall and returned to the exclusive lounge of the robe master.

Well, that's right, the reason why this competition attracts so many hotel owners is mainly because there are more entertainment items, such as the Donghuang Hotel privately opened a gambling market...... Not to mention, this trick is really easy to use, otherwise it wouldn't have attracted so many hotel owners, isn't it, the sixth master is now on the first floor of the VIP hall, crowded in the center of a bunch of bosses who don't need to be judges, and where it is better to study who to buy today.

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In the competition venue of Group H at the moment, President Liu sat in the center of the rostrum, on the right was Chairman Wang and a hotel owner in the province, and the position on the left was empty, obviously reserved for Dongfang Qing, as for Judge Li, he just sat at the edge of the left side of the rostrum, which can also see his status.

And on the right hand side of Judge Li, there was the last judge of this group of competitions, unexpectedly, just a young man.

The young man had a very delicate appearance and big eyes, but compared to the judges in suits and leather shoes around him, he looked much out of place, because he only wore a very ordinary black T-shirt, and he looked like an ordinary passerby.

But sitting on the chair, with his arms folded and silent, he had a withered white hair, not the kind of beautiful and flowing white hair, but the kind of gray that seemed to have lost all vitality, like an old man.

His face was very white, sickly white, and with the white and dry hair like weeds, this young man who was only in his twenties seemed to have a thick sense of death on his body, and he couldn't see the slightest vitality.

He was very silent and quiet, compared to Judge Li, who was muttering about Tianlong and Feilong next to him, and Chairman Liu and others, who were being interviewed by reporters, from entering the venue to the present, he just sat quietly in his place, not talking to anyone, and there was not the slightest emotional fluctuation in his deep black eyes, just like his withered white hair, lifeless.

It's just that in the depths of those deep and calm eyes, there is occasionally a kind of weathered vicissitudes.