Chapter 1303: Celebrity Chef, I Have Other Career Plans (70)
Fu Qingyu is not a holy father, and he has no intention of letting go of "the blue fox who has been thinking about his wife more than once". What he wants is that Lan Zhaoyu can't hold his head up in public.
Just like Lan Zhaoyu himself said, he can't lose to Fu Qingyu, once he loses in public, his soon-to-be-opened restaurant in country F is about to face an extremely serious dilemma.
What Fu Qingyu didn't know was that Lan Zhaoyu's career plan for himself was far more than just a branch in country F, and his store in the Upper East Side, the largest city in country M, had also begun to be renovated and would soon enter the publicity stage. Lan Zhaoyu's success in plagiarizing the famous dishes in his previous life was too easy, and the smooth sailing after his rebirth had already carried away his mind, making him eager to achieve business expansion that he had not achieved in his previous life.
Fu Qingyu is very famous in the Western food industry, and this variety show showdown has attracted the attention of some foreign media and food critics. That's why he took the risk and gave Fu Qingyu's seasoning tricks.
But it's all over. Lan Zhaoyu knew that the beautiful blueprint he had planned for himself had once again come to naught. So, what exactly is the meaning of his rebirth?! Could it be that God gave him a chance to be reborn just because he wanted him to fail again? Lan Zhaoyu, who was sitting alone in the lounge, lowered his head and was silent for a long time......
Fu Qingyu, who had already begun to prepare, looked relaxed, and even had time to chat with Yu Yangxian, a food critic who came up. For cooking, Fu Qingyu has absolute confidence, and after a few duels with Lan Zhaoyu, he already knows the level of his opponent. Fu Qingyu knows very well that Lan Zhaoyu is an excellent chef, but he is definitely not his opponent.
Fu Qingyu knows that Lan Zhaoyu is most suitable for taking the route of fine grinding techniques, if he inherits the imperial kitchen skills at home in a down-to-earth manner and delves into traditional techniques, he will definitely become a famous chef such as a master of traditional imperial cuisine. He is suitable for inheritance, not innovation, Lan Zhaoyu is not a chef who is good at creative dishes, his adaptability is not strong, and the study of ingredients is not a happy child, and his creative celebrity chef name is suspicious.
Food critic Yu Yangxian has now completely defected, and in his mind, the number one creative celebrity chef in Chinese cuisine has changed from Lan Zhaoyu to Fu Qingyu. The "fish and sheep fresh", which is known for its poisonous tongue, turned into a rebellion so quickly, and Qian Qian didn't expect that Fu Qingyu actually used a plate of fish soup protein steamed crab claws to quickly accept a die-hard fan.
Yu Yangxian's poisonous tongue is not for nothing, he admired Lan Zhaoyu before, and he inevitably picked bones in eggs, and picked one or two small faults in Lan Zhaoyu's creative dishes.
However, Yu Yangxian, who was so picky that he was a little hypocritical, actually shut up to deal with Qingyu's dishes, and he couldn't find fault with it at all, which made Qian Qian feel amazing. Could this be the legendary protagonist's aura shining on the earth, and all beings are equal and must be affected? is really because Fu Qingyu is strong, so Yu Yangxian has to admit that there is indeed a perfect dish in the world.
In fact, Qian Qian thinks that most of it is due to the influence of the protagonist's aura. Because he has been a chef for so many years, Qian Qian actually believes that there is no perfect dish in the world. It's not a Chinese master, where are there so many perfect dishes that make people cry? Taste is a very personal sensory experience, everyone's taste is different, what is perfect for one person is probably not perfect for another, and no chef can fully adapt to everyone's tastes, not even geniuses like Fu Qingyu and Xia Yeliang!
As for Lan Zhaoyu, compared with Fu Qingyu, he is not only a little bit of talent, he and Fu Qingyu's career pursuit is not the same, one is to pursue the limit of skills, the other is to want fame and status, and want to build his own business empire. The fundamental purpose itself is not the same, so what if Lan Zhaoyu works harder? It can never be compared to Fu Qingyu, who has no clutter and devotes himself to the culinary career with all his enthusiasm.
Where a person spends their time and energy, it is ultimately visible. Lan Zhaoyu, who spends his time on opportunism and calculation, how can he compare to Fu Qingyu, who seriously studies cooking in the kitchen? So Qian Qian knew very well that Lan Zhaoyu would lose this last showdown.
But Qian Qian didn't expect that Lan Zhaoyu didn't even have the courage to fight the last battle. The last one was indeed quite difficult, and the long table that had been filled before was only a piece of pork belly, a basket of beans, a few pieces of ginger and a box of supermarket tofu.
These things are divided between two people, and I am afraid that even the genius chef Fu Qingyu will have to spend a lot of brains to make decent dishes with these simple materials.
Qian Qian was still waiting for Fu Qingyu to use these things to show his skills to overpower Lan Zhaoyu, but he didn't expect that there was no chance, Lan Zhaoyu left the shooting scene directly, and didn't even leave a word.
This move is tantamount to admitting defeat in public, the ending is so dramatic, and the show has a chance to stir up the topic, of course, I can't be happy, and I edited the filmed tidbits and put them on social media.
And then...... Fu Qingyu and Lan Zhaoyu became popular again, but unfortunately the praise was Fu Qingyu's, Lan Zhaoyu didn't say anything else, just said that the last game of war avoidance behavior had made him lose most of his reputation as a celebrity chef, the more hype Lan Zhaoyu had before, the more violent the word-of-mouth backlash was now.
Although the public's forgetfulness is great, and the hot topics have passed for a while, for Lan Zhaoyu, who has to open his doors every day, the decline in turnover caused by the negative impact has made him unbearable.
To add insult to injury, as Lan Zhaoyu expected before, the media in country F had a large number of reprints for the duel between him and Fu Qingyu, his store in country F had just opened, but the media was full of ridicule, almost no one patronized, and the huge operating costs made him almost unable to afford it, so he had to sell the half-renovated country M store.
But the funds repatriated from the store in country M did not make Lan Zhaoyu's business situation better, Fu Qingyu's Qingyuyan has almost completely replaced the status of his domestic store, the more popular the business of Qingyuyan, the more cold his business is, the operating income has declined sharply, and he has begun to lose money, not to mention relying on domestic turnover to raise the new store in country F, and even self-insurance has become a problem.
A month later, Lan Zhaoyu finally gave up on selling the store in country F. And most of the returned funds have repaid bank loans, and his domestic store can only barely reach the balance of revenue at present, Lan Zhaoyu knows very well that he can't turn over, just like in his previous life, he was defeated by Fu Qingyu again.