From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Time flies, and four years have passed in the blink of an eye.

2008 was a very special year for the Chinese people.

It's not just that the Olympics will be held in the country this year.

This was also because many major events happened in China that year.

Even after reopening Yanxilou in Beijing four years ago, Feng Zhengming has not allowed himself to relax at all.

Thanks to his efforts, the Asian Food Festival was successfully held in Shanghai.

Renowned chefs from various Asian countries were invited to Shanghai to participate, and they had the opportunity to exchange culinary skills.

Afterwards, Feng Zhengming led a tour of various Asian countries with renowned chefs.

Wherever they go, they truly captivate foodies from all over the world.

Moreover, because the team is composed of renowned chefs from various Asian countries, they have received a great welcome and hospitality wherever they go.

It not only provided Feng Zhengming and his group with various visa conveniences.

They arranged hotel accommodations for them, as well as provided a venue and prepared various ingredients.

The goal is to enable renowned Asian chefs to create their signature dishes and to spark trends in cuisines from around the world.

What Feng Zhengming did truly resonated with countries across Asia.

Even the government specially commissioned a professional team to follow Feng Zhengming.

Before Feng Zhengming, the internationally recognized famous Chinese chefs were almost all from Hong Kong, or were Chinese chefs living in various countries overseas.

This time, Feng Zhengming took the lead, bringing together renowned chefs from across the country.

It has allowed people from Asian countries and even around the world to truly appreciate the skills of renowned Chinese chefs.

This trip also helped promote the cuisines of various Asian countries.

Finally, Feng Zhengming and his entourage completed their tour of Asia and returned to Beijing.

Together they founded an Asian Culinary Association in Beijing.

From now on, the evaluation of cuisines and restaurants in Asian countries will be conducted by this Asian Culinary Association.

Feng Zhengming naturally became the first president of the Asian Culinary Association.

The vice president is one of the most recognized chefs in Asia.

The impact of this event can be said to have truly shaken the Western-dominated standards in the culinary world for the first time.

Because of this incident, Feng Zhengming was also warned by the International Gastronomy Association.

However, Feng Zhengming no longer cared. He even bypassed the Food Association and invited more renowned Western chefs to Asia for exchanges, together with famous chefs from various Asian countries.

After this commotion, the International Gastronomy Association eventually compromised.

They had Kaufman speak with Feng Zhengming and acknowledged the existence of the Asian Culinary Association.

They also stated that the International Gastronomy Association will take into account the culinary cultures of different countries in its subsequent evaluations.

Even the International Gastronomy Association has officially admitted many famous Asian chefs, including Feng Zhengming, to the association.

This happened when the internet was becoming increasingly popular in China, and blogs were on the rise.

Feng Zhengming asked his brother-in-law and junior uncle Huang Tao to help him apply for a blog account early on.

Then his Asian celebrity chef tour and subsequent activities were almost all updated on his blog.

This also led to a rapid surge in the number of followers on Feng Zhengming's blog.

His every move is exposed to everyone.

Of course, some people also specifically came with a magnifying glass, trying to find his problems.

The more carefully the magnifying glass was used to look for problems, the less problems were found.

Not only could no problems be found in Feng Zhengming, but it also made more people realize that Feng Zhengming was practically a perfect person.

He doesn't smoke and drinks very little.

Moreover, he is a family-oriented man with a very good relationship with his wife and children.

Even those who wanted to spread rumors about him couldn't find anything to talk about.

Someone even secretly sent a woman to try and frame Feng Zhengming.

To everyone's surprise, Feng Zhengming himself called the police.

After the incident came to light, the person behind the scheme to frame and extort Feng Zhengming was exposed online and almost became a public enemy worldwide.

By this time, Feng Zhengming's global reputation was extremely high.

It's really hard to hate such a perfect man.

Perhaps the only thing that people from other countries can criticize him for is that he is not as skilled at cooking other countries' cuisine as he is at cooking Chinese food.

In addition, he also received support domestically, as well as from other Asian countries.

After all, his organization of tours for renowned Asian chefs across various Asian countries truly promoted the cuisines of those countries.

A tour that is free of discrimination and genuinely respects the food culture of every country.

It's truly impossible not to be loved by people from all over Asia.

In addition, to get closer to the children, Feng Zhengming also specially built a children's kitchen and children's restaurant in each city of the Asian countries he visited.

It provides healthy and nutritious food for children from all countries, and caters to the dietary cultures of each country.

Feng Zhengming initiated this project, and renowned chefs and governments from various countries have given it their utmost support.

Feng Zhengming donated all the restaurant's profits to impoverished children in various countries.

Newspapers and media outlets from various countries have all praised Feng Zhengming in their reports.

They even praised him as a true representative of the god of food on earth.

As for Feng Zhengming's branch restaurants, they have already opened in various Asian countries, and even in Europe and America.

Of course, he still respects the local food culture of each country and will make some adjustments to the dishes made by each branch according to the local food characteristics.

To this end, Feng Zhengming has also opened culinary training centers in various countries, inviting renowned chefs from those countries to help train chefs.

This allows his restaurants in various countries to gain recognition in those countries.

With Feng Zhengming's restaurants in various countries gradually opening.

Some people began to express their determination to eat at all the restaurants Feng Zhengming had visited in various countries.

I want to sample the local specialties at different branches in various countries.

For four whole years, Feng Zhengming was extremely busy.

He has to personally supervise many things.

Fortunately, information is readily available, and with the internet, Feng Zhengming can learn about many issues immediately and then deal with them quickly.

When the year came to 2008, some disasters occurred in the country.

Feng Zhengming was among the first to respond.

First, he donated a large amount of money, and then he used some of his restaurants in various countries to help purchase urgently needed supplies from those countries and transport them back.

Then, when the disaster-stricken areas became accessible, Feng Zhengming immediately organized a convoy and personally followed the convoy into the disaster-stricken areas.

During the support mission, Feng Zhengming also experienced various dangerous situations.

He didn't even publicize his personal involvement in the disaster relief efforts, not even telling his wife and children.

Luo Qing had a nightmare and felt something was wrong, so she called everyone she knew to ask for their opinions.

Only then was it finally confirmed that Feng Zhengming had gone to the disaster area.

This made Luo Qing live in constant fear.

On the contrary, it was the teenage Feng Nuanyou who comforted her mother every day.

Her daughter's words of comfort reassured Luo Qing somewhat.

All their relatives and friends waited silently.

Until I received a call back from Feng Zhengming.

At that moment, everyone was truly moved to tears.

Feng Nuanyou, who had never cried in front of her mother before, cried the most heartbrokenly on the phone.

Feng Zhengming narrowly escaped death. He apologized to his family over the phone and asked them not to tell anyone that he had gone to help with disaster relief.

With disaster relief efforts over, the next big event is naturally the Olympics.

Feng Zhengming was also invited to return to Jinan to be a torchbearer.

Even at this point, no one knew that he had gone to the disaster area.

Feng Zhengming was originally invited to be the head chef for the Olympics, but he declined.

His reply to the people in Beijing was: "There are many chefs more skilled than me. I am just an ordinary Shandong cuisine chef. I am not suitable to be the head chef of the Olympics."

After several rounds of back and forth, Feng Zhengming finally managed to refuse.

However, he took his wife and children to Beijing and went to the Bird's Nest to watch the opening ceremony.

When he actually went to the opening ceremony, he experienced a shock that he had never felt in his previous life.

As he watched the flashing countdown, Feng Zhengming burst into tears.

He hugged his wife and children.

"Thank you all. You know what? Having you by my side, accompanying me to witness such a magnificent and prosperous world, is the greatest happiness of my life."

Luo Qing and the children also hugged Feng Zhengming.

Luo Qing shouted, "I'm very happy too!"

The children shouted in unison, "We are all so happy!"

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After the Olympics, Feng Zhengming gradually faded from public view.

All his shops are still in front of everyone, and the food festivals he organizes still attract a lot of participants.

However, he himself did not continue to appear in the public eye or seek the limelight.

This period has truly made many people miss him.

Feng Zhengming, on the other hand, spent a lot of time with his family.

He even picks up and drops off his children from school every day, and goes to the market to buy groceries to cook for them.

On the contrary, his wife Luo Qing was freed from the house and continued to supervise the children's kitchen and children's restaurant.

They have already opened various branches in many cities across the country.

This kept Luo Qing extremely busy.

Fortunately, Feng Zhengming stays at home to take care of the children, so Luo Qing can enjoy her husband's delicious cooking when she gets home after a hard day's work.

This made her feel truly happy and blessed.

In addition to taking care of his family, Feng Zhengming is also dedicated to training new chefs.

He specially organized renowned chefs to hold classes together.

They even provide tuition-free instruction to some outstanding students.

This ensures that Feng Zhengming's branches always have a constant influx of new talent.

This puts considerable pressure on all the chefs in the restaurant.

This meant that the kitchen staff in each store dared not slack off in the slightest.

This is why all of Feng Zhengming's shops have always maintained a thriving business.

Finally, with enough funds accumulated, Feng Zhengming simply started his own cooking competition.

The prize money for this competition is the profits from all of Feng Zhengming's stores worldwide.

One can imagine how substantial this first bonus must have been.

Naturally, this attracts renowned chefs from all over the world to participate.

However, Feng Zhengming directly set an age limit.

All participating chefs must be no older than forty.

In other words, only chefs under the age of forty can participate in this competition.

After this rule was introduced, everyone naturally understood that Feng Zhengming wanted to give young chefs more opportunities.

The first competition was truly a battle of wits and talents.

Young celebrity chefs from all over the world gathered together.

Everyone was engaged in a fierce competition of culinary skills within the allotted time.

During the competition, Feng Zhengming also made a cameo appearance, causing some trouble for everyone, which was quite an interesting segment.

As a result, Feng Zhengming's impromptu performance achieved very good results.

It even became a staple of the competition.

Feng Zhengming has finally become a truly top-tier chef in the international culinary industry, respected by chefs from all over the world.

……

Feng Zhengming's story should now be considered to have officially come to an end.

Just like the author's comment at the end of the previous chapter, it should be said that the previous chapter was the end of this book.

It begins at Yanxi Tower and ends at Yanxi Tower.

This chapter can be considered a collection of various imaginings.

This is just a little bit of my own wishful thinking.

Because many things are simply impossible to accomplish; they only exist in beautiful fantasies.

The impetus for writing this book came from seeing an old chef online teaching people how to cook Shandong cuisine and promoting it.

Unexpectedly, before I could finish writing my book, the old chef's house collapsed.

At that moment, I suddenly felt that it might be like my book. At the beginning, it was written very simply, just to introduce Shandong cuisine to everyone in the form of a novel.

Then I achieved very good results at the beginning.

This book once had nearly 17,000 high-end subscriptions.

This might be the best result I've achieved in all the years I've been writing novels.

But much of the writing later on was poor.

It should be said that this book was never designed to have such a long plot from the beginning.

So the protagonist was made to grow too fast at the beginning, without giving him any time to mature, and then he was pushed all the way to become the champion of the national cooking competition.

I've actually considered writing more about business aspects in the later parts of the story, such as how to open a store and how to solve the problems encountered by each branch one by one.

But it wasn't actually written well, so the book's subsequent subscriptions dropped terribly.

I feel like I really shouldn't have written such a long book; I should have finished it at the peak of my career earlier.

Now that we've come this far, it's a complete ending, and a way of giving closure to the readers who have been subscribing to and supporting this book.

Finally, let me talk about the new book. Actually, I didn't initially plan to write about food in the new book.

I'm not very good at writing system-based novels, so when I write food-themed stories, I research the recipes for various dishes thoroughly and then write down the specific details of the recipes in the novel.

Perhaps it's just my own unrealistic fantasy that I think having a system is like having pre-made food, which negates the efforts of every chef who has grown step by step from the basics.

So the initial idea for the new book was actually to write a historical novel.

Opening a restaurant is just the beginning for the protagonist.

Unfortunately, he failed to truly grasp the writing style of historical fiction, resulting in the new book being somewhat incongruous and its performance was not very good.

The new book will be released this Friday, and I don't dare to expect that all the friends who have subscribed to this book will support the new book.

But regardless of how well or poorly the new book performs, I will still try my best to write a complete story.

People always need to grow gradually; we can't back down when we encounter setbacks.

……

Finally, I would like to thank every reader who has supported this book. I am truly grateful for your love and support.

I hope to have the opportunity to see your continued support in future books.

Goodbye... (End of Chapter)