At 8 o'clock in the evening, in the banquet hall on the twelfth floor of the Donghuang Hotel, the opening ceremony of the 5th National Culinary Competition officially kicked off here.

Melodious music emanates from the glittering ballroom, where the crystal chandeliers above the hall rotate and emit a soft golden glow.

On both sides of the door of the venue, the welcome ladies dressed in red evening dresses smiled and sent a warm smile like a spring breeze to every guest who walked into the banquet hall.

And tonight, in order to welcome this grand game, the entire Donghuang Hotel is fully lit!

Five minutes ago, that is, at 7:55, as Dongfang Qing pressed the main switch in the dispatch room, from the outside, I saw the towering Donghuang Building gradually lit up with the lights layer by layer, and the whole building slowly bloomed with a golden light in the dark night, which was extremely bright!

From a distance, the Donghuang Mansion under the cover of night, like a glowing pyramid, stands in the center of the city, and the faint light of the nearby high-rise buildings cannot match it at all, as if standing out from the crowd between the cities.

Pedestrians who came and went all paused to admire the glorious golden edifice.

"Bang bang bang!"

At eight o'clock, the door of the banquet hall was officially opened, and at the same moment when the contestants and guests walked into the venue one after another, the 24 doors in front of the hotel gate were lit at the same time!

The fireworks that go straight into the sky illuminate the fountain statue engraved with the word "Donghuang", and the colorful fireworks also render the black sky extremely shiny, and the glowing golden edifice is set off by the fireworks, like the center point of the world.

In the end, the brilliant fireworks were scattered in the night sky after the last explosion, and the colorful light and rain slowly constituted the four big characters of "Donghuang Hotel" in the dark night sky, staying in the air and refusing to disperse for a long time.

——————————

At this moment, the splendid banquet hall has already been set up, and the guests enter the venue with a smile in turn amid the welcome of the welcome ladies, the red and comfortable carpet covers the entire banquet hall, and the bright chandelier exudes a beige soft glow.

On the left side of the ballroom, the music sounded melodiously, the piano accompanied by the soft sound of the violin, the cello and the harp rose together, and on the left side of the ballroom, a whole symphony orchestra was playing a beautiful waltz under the conductor's direction.

On the left and right sides of the banquet hall, the delicious dishes prepared by the Donghuang Hotel in the afternoon were put on the table for tonight's guests to enjoy, and at the same time, each waiter held a bottle of champagne in his hand and poured the champagne in his hand to fill the guests' wine glasses with a smile.

At the front of the banquet hall, there is also a lectern made of pure crystal, the podium as a whole is crystal clear, extremely beautiful, and a pure gold microphone is placed on it, on the right side of the podium, the champagne tower has already been prepared, just waiting for the end of the ceremony to be opened by Dongfang Qing and all the important guests.

As for the banner requested by Commissioner Huang, "Warmly celebrate the official opening of the Fifth National Culinary Cooking Competition", it also appeared above the curtain in the banquet hall, but the Donghuang also deliberately embroidered a golden dragon and a phoenix with gold thread on both sides of the banner, and he felt suddenly tall.

In the lively banquet hall, the melodious dance music is full of people, the waiters in black and white costumes walk through the crowd, and the guests sip champagne in their hands, listen to the dance music in their ears, and talk eagerly.

Tonight, all 36 participating chefs were present, including the owners of each hotel, the presidents and vice presidents of the restaurant associations of the five provinces, and more than a dozen famous food critics, all attended the opening ceremony tonight.

As far as the eye can see, in the entire banquet hall, there are about more than 100 well-known people in the industry talking to each other, and there are many people in the food industry of the Celestial Empire, almost half of them are here tonight, which can be described as a lot of talents.

In addition, there are also reporters in the banquet hall, carrying long guns and short cannons, who are interviewing the seeded players and important guests of the competition in turn.

Because the opening ceremony has not officially begun, the guests present are chatting with each other with wine glasses, laughing and praising each other, but the atmosphere in this venue is ..... But it's nowhere near as friendly as it seems.

As soon as the owners of the hotels entered the banquet hall, they walked towards their rivals with a smile, and in the polite smiles and friendly words, it was all implied that "if my people don't beat you out this time, Lao Tzu will close the door". The smell of medicine, and the other party is basically all about, "Wake up, don't daydream," this feeling.

It seems that they have all had a grudge in the previous competitions.

The top chefs from major hotels who came to participate in the competition were also smiling and greeting those old friends who were very familiar with each other, and some people got together to talk about how the last competition was, saying that I didn't sleep well last time, otherwise you would definitely not be able to.

Some people held wine glasses and said very shyly, "I had a state banquet two days ago, and I was very ashamed, but I almost ate the tears of foreign leaders, I am really ashamed and ashamed." ”

There is also a master chef who is even more exaggerated, wearing golden medals around his neck, from municipal competitions to provincial competitions, the chef said, after debuting for so many years, it is just a national level, yes, this time I am not welcome.

Several chefs next to him had smiles on their faces, but they all narrowed their eyes slightly, thinking to themselves, what kind of temple are you? Is this contest still your turn to shake the majesty of this kebab?

Looking at the fire. In the banquet hall, where the smell of medicine was very strong, listening to the chatter full of cynicism, the food critics present, that is, those who were more happy, did not close their mouths together.

Listening to the slightly sycophant chatter of the hoteliers around them, the critics nodded their heads as they swept past each of the contestants, and after seeing many familiar old faces, as well as many new faces that have appeared in various TV magazines in recent years, the critics nodded secretly, knowing that this time there was another mouthful.

A gourmet, surnamed Wang, who was in his sixties and wore leather shoes, pointed to the middle-aged chef who was surrounded by a group of cooks in front of him, and said with a smile, "I really didn't expect Master Zheng to come this time, haha, he is the triple crown winner." ”

The president of a female restaurant association in her fifties next to her sighed and said, "Yes, this time not only chefs from this province, but also chefs from all over the country have come, and I think it will be an exciting competition, of course, thanks to the government's publicity and cooperation." ”

Mayor Zhao of this city held a champagne glass, nodded slightly, and a professional smile appeared on his old face, "What should be done should be done, haha, I just hope that this competition can bring us a lot of different surprises, so that it can be regarded as living up to the hard work of our government personnel for so long." ”

Listening to Mayor Zhao's words, the people around him nodded again and again, smiling in agreement, but the chairman of a nearby five-star hotel in Beijing was unhappy.

Holding a wine glass, the chairman and several other bosses in Beijing muttered coldly.

"Listen to this, how angry it is, and they have worked hard for so long, and those who don't know think that he won this competition."

"That is, if it weren't for the fact that the Donghuang Hotel was powerful enough, such a big competition would be able to win their turn? Heh, he's pretending to be a man here. ”

"Let's say a few words, it's not good for people to hear the impact, so let's see each other when we play, after all, a small place is a small place after all, how can it be compared with us?"

"What are you talking about, what's wrong with the Donghuang Hotel? It's just a Buddha jumping over the wall, and they are just an ordinary hotel without the Buddha jumping over the wall. ”

"Hey, having said that, they snatched the right to hold this competition, why don't you hug the group, everyone must take care of it during the competition."

"Don't worry, I'll leave you here, if my hotel can't win the first place in this competition, I'll give you five million each!"

"Wait a minute? Is your hotel number one? I said Lao Wu, what do you think of my hotel? Do you really think that the garlic you have under your hand is as good as my chef? ”

"Hey, hey, what's the matter, forget about Lao Tzu? Even those rotten cooks under the two of you deserve to be compared to my people? You haven't been taught enough lessons from the last competition, have you?! ”

As they spoke, several hotel owners in the capital scolded, and they were obviously discussing the group just now......

It was also in the vicinity of several hotel owners in the capital, and at this moment, there were also two food critics muttering something unspeakable.

After exchanging pleasantries with the chefs around them for a while, the two relatively young, only forty-something-year-old food critics looked at each other, and then they came together in a similar smell, looked at each other, and the two of them hooked their shoulders and muttered.

"Lao Li, I knew you had to come too, to be honest, this time you didn't get rich, right?"

Judge Li waved his hand with a righteous face.

"What kind of wealth to make a fortune, I said Lao Zhao, why are they regular judges, don't you want to engage in those unhealthy trends."

"Yo Yo Yo, I'm still panting, why don't you know who, I can tell you, don't come to this set in front of me, otherwise be careful I'll report you."

"Hahaha, you old bastard, oops, it's easy to say, I met a fool two days ago, and he gave me 500,000 yuan when he raised his hand, and said let me help them in the hotel, hey, what about you? Surely he didn't get rich, right? ”

"Fortunately, I also met a fool surnamed Zhang, who gave me 600,000 yuan, and said that I should take care of their hotel, but I can't remember the name of that hotel, it seems to have a dragon character?"

"Hey, what a coincidence, my stupid boss is also surnamed Zhang, and that hotel seems to have a dragon character."

The surname is Zhang, the name of the hotel has a dragon character, everything is so appropriate to the Taoist.

——————————

"Bang."

Just when the guests were chatting about those things that could see the light and those things that did not see the light, the door of the banquet hall was slowly pushed open, and under the gaze of the guests, the Taoist master took Master Sun Carl Liuye and the master of the hotel into the banquet hall with great dignity.

Well, walking on the red carpet of the banquet hall, Dao Ye and his party can be described as vigorous, everyone's head is raised high, and their eyes are full of pride, not to mention, just these few steps, they really walked out of the momentum of the host.

Looking at the participating teams of Tianlong Hotel, many people present were a little stunned, especially the dozen or so critics who have been active in the food industry all year round, staring at Dao Ye, their eyes were even more stupid, as if they were looking at something strange.

Looking at the figure of Dao Ye and his entourage walking into the banquet hall, many guests who didn't know much about the situation whispered, thinking to themselves which hotel this is, why haven't they seen it before? The cooks are quite familiar, and two of them have participated in the last competition and achieved very good results, but why hasn't the boss seen them? Hey, no, it's not that I haven't seen it, it seems to be a little familiar, but why doesn't it feel like the kind of familiarity that looks like people in the circle?

Just when many people were a little strange about the identity of Dao Ye's party, in the crowd, an old man who was blind in one eye kindly reminded him at this moment.

"You don't know him, huh? Have you heard of Tianlong? This is the team of Denon Hotel. ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar.

"Ao, it turned out to be them, it's the hotel that was broken out by the anti-pornography brigade, right?"

"Hey, isn't that a kiln? Can a kiln also participate in a cooking competition? ”

"Tut-tut, this boss really doesn't feel ashamed, but he wants to hype up or what?"

Listening to the hateful discussions in his ears, and listening to the undisguised rumors of all the guests, the green tendons on Dao Ye's forehead jumped out.

Damn, don't worry about anything else, why does that reminder sound so familiar?!