Fang Yu listened to the selection of materials, cooking, seasoning, plating and other skills of these two dishes while tasting them, and carefully experienced the characteristics and essence of Qilu cuisine contained in them.

Referee Zhong said seriously, Fang Yu was also fascinated by what he listened, and time passed unconsciously. When Fang Yu came back to his senses, he found that this time was no longer suitable to visit Master Huang, and when he arrived at the Summer Palace, it was estimated that it was time for people to have dinner, so he went like this without saying hello in advance, which was too rude.

Referee Zhong saw Fang Yu's thoughts, and said to Fang Yu with a smile:

"It's rare for you to come, if you don't have something urgent to go to, you might as well just stay for dinner, and I just happened to explain the matter of the Quancheng exchange group to you at one time."

Fang Yu thought that he was really not in such a hurry about what he wanted to ask Master Huang about, so he simply sat down and continued to ask Judge Zhong about some specific things about this exchange.

"Brother Zhong, you just said that this kind of exchange will end in the form of a cooking showdown, which is generally in the form of an individual round-robin competition or a team competition, do you need to prepare lottery heads, bonuses, etc.?"

Referee Zhong smiled and waved his hand:

"Brother Fang, things are not what you think, after all, we and the Quancheng Cooking Association are brother units, there is no contradiction, the main thing to fight for is face, so it is absolutely impossible to engage in that kind of competition with a clear carriage and horse.

In the end, this culinary duel was just a farewell dinner for the exchange teams of the two sides. Because it is a dinner party, everyone who participates must contribute at least one of their own specialty dishes to each other to taste. However, those who can participate in this exchange group, theoretically, even new members are the choice of the moment, which one is not a stunt.

Don't we Chinese people often say, "If you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of comparing goods". Everyone is outstanding, and no one is necessarily convinced, so doesn't this kind of dinner naturally become an invisible culinary showdown. ”

Fang Yu also smiled dumbly, "Oh, it turned out to be such a culinary duel." However, how can no referee judge the winner in this way? ”

"It's very easy to judge the winner and loser, it depends on how much is left in the dish. Everyone wants to taste and study more good dishes, and they will naturally consume quickly. Inferior dishes will be clear to everyone after tasting them, and no one will care about them. ”

Fang Yu's mind turned quickly, and a question immediately came to mind:

"If you want to ensure that you win, you don't just have to eat all your dishes."

Referee Zhong just picked up the teacup and drank tea, and when he heard Fang Yu's words, he couldn't help laughing, and he almost choked on the tea.

Referee Zhong coughed a few times, smoothed out, and replied with a smile:

"It's not that there are no such people before, but the people on the table are all connoisseurs, and everyone knows if the food is good or bad. If you have to win in this way, people usually won't say anything on the spot, but the reputation in this circle is not good.

After all, if you are slightly inferior in cooking, you can continue to improve through learning and exercise, and if you are not qualified, you will be looked down upon by others for the rest of your life. This informal culinary duel was originally about face, and if you do this kind of thing, don't talk about face, even the lining will be damaged. ”

Fang Yu touched his nose embarrassedly, and laughed twice.

"But I think it's bad, I don't think there will be such a person anymore."

Referee Zhong shook his head and said:

"There were quite a lot of people like 'the same rice raising a hundred kinds of people' in the past, and one year there were dozens of them in the exchange activities across the country.

"How can there be so many?" Fang Yu felt completely incredible.

"There's nothing surprising about that. Didn't you just ask if there was a prize for this culinary showdown? There really is, but it's not a public cash, it's issued in the form of membership points from the association. ”

Referee Zhong paused, and then said:

"It is customary for this exchange to be announced in the form of a regular daily task of the association, which can be applied for by members of the local association. It's just that the last participants are all screened and determined by the standing council of the association.

This kind of task has always been favored by the members of the association, not only to be able to have face-to-face discussions with their counterparts in other provinces, but also to get rich points, who doesn't like it. Especially if your team succeeds in overpowering your opponent in the end, the local association will give you extra bonus points at the end of the mission, which even I will love.

Those who swept away their dishes on the spot were all aiming for these points. ”

Referee Zhong glanced at Fang Yu and continued:

"One of those people was a new member. Most of them were fooled by the clever field commissioners of the equipment department into ordering a bunch of useless equipment and services when they were receiving the benefits of the association, so that they were stretched thin on hand, and there was even little left.

Seeing that they may face point deduction and demotion or direct withdrawal next year, then they naturally can't care about face, and the most important thing is to keep their membership first. ”

Speaking of this, Referee Zhong seemed to remember something, and his face was a little ugly. This made Fang Yu couldn't help but wonder if Referee Zhong had also met an ace salesman like Bai Hua back then, so that he left a lifelong memory, and now he feels terrified when he thinks about it.

"Judge Zhong, you just said that new members are one of them, that is, there are other types."

Hearing Fang Yu's question, Referee Zhong's face was a little ugly.

"Yes, there is indeed another kind, which is the real 'family' people you asked about today. Some of their unscrupulous children are not very good at cooking, but they always want to get closer. This kind of exchange activity with rich points and easy to cheat is their favorite.

They joined the task not to communicate and improve their cooking skills at all, but purely to use the last event to earn more points. In the past, there were even cases where two teams scored each other's scores, and it ended up being the biggest scandal within the association.

According to the way those people did at that time, this kind of activity was a piece of fat, and a member like you who didn't have a heel didn't have the opportunity to participate in it at all. ”

"And now things are getting better?" Fang Yu asked.

Referee Zhong snorted coldly and said:

"It's a little better, after all, with external competition, if it continues like this, new talents will not be able to take the lead, and the old guys will not be able to sit still."

Fang Yu looked at Referee Zhong's head mixed with a lot of white hair, and thought: How old should it be to make Referee Zhong say "old guy". He just said that the real 'family', is there still a fake?

Walker Meow: I didn't work overtime today, I finished writing two chapters during the day, I want to take a break at night, and I'll see if I can write more tomorrow. It's so uncomfortable to be sick, everyone must take care of their health. When you were young, you didn't care about looking for a doctor on your own, but as you get older, the disease will come to you

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