From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 354: Receive the prize first and then serve the food (please vote for me)

On the day of the dinner, Feng Zhengming and the young chefs got up almost at the same time early in the morning and went to the hotel kitchen.

When everyone came to the kitchen at the same time and looked at each other, they all laughed almost at the same time.

Zhu Xu was the first to speak: "Today may be the last time we all cook together. We may not have such an opportunity to cook together in the future."

Xia Mingye then said: "Brother Xu, this is not necessarily true. Maybe the chef will become a master chef in the future and open a top-notch Shandong cuisine restaurant. Then we will all join the chef together. Maybe we will cook together in the future."

These words caused all the young chefs at the scene to instantly focus their attention on Feng Zhengming.

Although no one spoke, Feng Zhengming could still feel their expectations for him from everyone's enthusiastic eyes.

Working together for two consecutive weeks at the Youth Conference really made all the young chefs identify with Chef Feng Zhengming.

Working with Feng Zhengming this time not only gave everyone a lot of room for free expression, but the young chefs also learned a lot from Feng Zhengming.

Xia Mingye's words gave everyone a bolder idea.

He asked everyone to accept interviews and communicate with young people at home and abroad.

The key is that everyone will check it carefully over and over again.

After hearing Feng Zhengming's words, the young chefs present were instantly excited and full of energy.

Facing everyone's enthusiastic and expectant eyes, Feng Zhengming smiled and said: "Thank you everyone for trusting me. I feel very lucky and happy in these two weeks. I really like working with you all. If summer comes true in the future, If the opportunity comes as the chef said, I will formally invite you to join my team.”

There are performances on the live stage, which are programs prepared by young people at home and abroad.

The young chefs are thinking in their hearts that maybe one day they will be willing to continue to follow Feng Zhengming.

To Feng Zhengming's surprise, they prepared the dishes while waiting for the dinner to begin.

Although dinner was more important, the lunch meal was still as sumptuous as usual.

Shi Yongjin also said: "Yes, it must be the best Shandong cuisine restaurant."

Surprised, Feng Zhengming glanced at the bright eyes in the kitchen.

Feng Zhengming asked in disbelief: "Why are we suddenly allowed to appear on the stage?"

Feng Zhengming said seriously: "Tonight, we will use our cooking skills to completely conquer them, let young people at home and abroad see the splendor of our Shandong cuisine, and let them know that Shandong cuisine is unparalleled whether at home or abroad. "

Duan Jinsheng said: "If there is such an opportunity, I believe that the restaurant we all build together will definitely become the best restaurant in the world."

Feng Zhengming took the lead and led a team of more than 30 chefs onto the stage.

During a break in the performance, the host came on stage and announced the awards given by the International Youth Federation to those who performed this service.

This process allowed the young chefs to discover that their good craftsmanship could gain such great recognition.

One morning, Feng Zhengming and the others worked together to prepare all the ingredients for the dinner.

Chen Zhiheng suddenly came to the kitchen: "Zhengming, please get ready. All the kitchen staff will come with me to the dinner venue. I need you to go on stage."

The top twenty in the province's young chef competition, as well as Lu Chongshan and several Bai An chefs, a total of about thirty people, followed Chen Zhiheng to the dinner venue with Feng Zhengming.

The young chefs were all very excited, but they still did their jobs well.

The Best Team Award and the Appreciation Award were both awarded to Feng Zhengming and his kitchen team.

Chen Zhiheng led them into the dinner party and arranged for them to come to the backstage of the live stage.

Many service staff in the hotel, as well as the staff responsible for this youth conference, saw the young chef team and all looked at them with smiles and applauded them.

More than thirty young chefs lined up and walked all the way to the banquet hall of the hotel.

As the dinner approached, Feng Zhengming and the others started to get busy in the kitchen.

In addition to preparing ingredients for the dinner, Feng Zhengming and others also prepared the dishes for the young people's luncheon.

He smiled and said, "Okay, everyone, stop what you are doing, pack your clothes and hats, and let's go and receive the award together."

The kitchen was temporarily taken over by the hotel's original chef.

Such sudden news shocked Feng Zhengming and everyone in the kitchen.

Especially during the exchanges with some foreign youths, I felt that foreign youths admired their cooking skills, which further enhanced the confidence of the young chefs.

Make sure everything is well prepared and nothing goes wrong.

The biggest thing Feng Zhengming has given young chefs during this period is to improve the confidence of all young chefs.

Feng Zhengming also checked in the kitchen to make sure there was nothing wrong.

After the announcement, Chen Zhiheng arranged for Feng Zhengming and others to come on stage together.

Chen Zhiheng explained seriously: "Everyone has seen your efforts as chefs these days. Many youth groups from abroad speak highly of you, so they arranged for you to be on stage at the dinner. The International Youth Federation wants to give you a A thank you award is given to thank you for your contribution to the catering of this youth conference.”

Hearing Feng Zhengming's words, the young chefs all laughed and almost all expressed that they were looking forward to joining.

No one thought that not only would their hard work be remembered by everyone, but they would also be awarded awards.

I believe that with this kind of confidence, no matter what position you take in the future or what kind of trough you experience, you will have the firm belief to get out of the predicament.

Feng Zhengming and the others were somewhat surprised to receive such a notification suddenly.

The first thing is to prepare most of the dishes properly so that the food can be delivered to the dinner party smoothly when the dinner officially begins.

The young chefs present also agreed with this.

When they appeared at the dinner party, there was a very warm applause.

Most people applauded them sincerely.

In the past two weeks, the dishes Feng Zhengming and his team prepared for everyone really left a deep impression on everyone.

And their majors are also remembered by young people at home and abroad.

Of course, what everyone talks about most is the deliciousness of the dishes made by Feng Zhengming and others.

Stand under the live stage spotlight.

Not to mention other young chefs, even Feng Zhengming felt like a dream at this moment. He never thought that one day he would lead a team of chefs to stand on such a stage.

The chairman of the International Youth Federation and leaders from the capital and province came to the stage and presented awards to Feng Zhengming and others.

A team certificate and each person also received an International Youth Federation medal.

Medals are not worth much, but getting such a medal is the best recognition for every young chef.

After the awards were given, a representative from Feng Zhengming and others was asked to come out and say a few words.

Then everyone agreed to let the chef Feng Zhengming speak.

Seeing that he couldn't shirk it, Feng Zhengming could only take the microphone and speak to everyone present. "First of all, I would like to thank you for awarding us the award. This award is the best recognition of our cooking skills. We are a group of very ordinary chefs. Like everyone here, we are also young people. This time we can cook for young friends from all over the world. , is something that makes us all very happy.

I would like to say that what we cook is Shandong cuisine. Every dish we cook these days uses Shandong cuisine techniques. We combine different seasonings from all over the world to create different flavors that everyone can like. We I am really happy and hope that I can serve you more delicious Shandong cuisine in the future. "

What Feng Zhengming said is really very simple.

The first is to express gratitude for the recognition of their young chef team, and the second is to seize this opportunity to once again deepen everyone's impression of Shandong cuisine.

After hearing Feng Zhengming's speech, the happiest people at the scene were naturally the leaders of the province and the old masters present.

Master Cui said to Master Yan: "Yes, Zhengming has not forgotten our Shandong cuisine."

Master Su smiled and said: "Hahaha, this guy really goes out of his way to introduce our Shandong cuisine to everyone."

Chef Wang said: "It's good. There are young chefs like Zhengming and others. I believe that Shandong cuisine will be carried forward and get better and better in their hands in the future."

Master Sun said: "Each generation is getting stronger than each generation. These young people must be better than us."

Master Yan looked at his young apprentice on the stage, feeling filled with pride.

He smiled and said: "You are all right. With such a group of young chefs here, our Shandong cuisine will definitely be passed on."

After accepting the award, Feng Zhengming and the others exited the banquet hall, and a group of people hurried back to the kitchen.

Return to the kitchen and take over the kitchen work from the hotel kitchen staff.

Feng Zhengming asked everyone to confirm the dishes.

Get accurate responses and make sure the dishes are prepared.

Feng Zhengming felt relieved and waited with everyone for the dinner to begin.

They didn't have to wait long. A message came from the dinner party, telling them to start serving food.

The service staff came to wait outside the kitchen one after another. Feng Zhengming led the young chefs to start the final arrangement of the dishes, sending out the dishes one by one and placing them on the service staff's cart.

After the first appetizer was sent away, Feng Zhengming and the others continued to prepare the fried conch slices in vinegar and pepper fish soup.

This dish must be boiled and eaten immediately, and cannot be prepared in advance.

Feng Zhengming, Xia Mingye, Zhu Xu, Duan Jinsheng, Shi Yongjin, and Zhang Minghai worked separately.

After blanching the conch slices one by one, they put them all in small soup cups. Another group of chefs poured vinegar, pepper and fish soup into them, and finally garnished them with some beautiful side dishes.

The small soup cups were sent out one by one and placed identically on the cart, and then the service staff sent them to the dinner venue.

Starting from the appetizer of broad beans and shrimps, we went to this fried conch slices in vinegar and pepper fish soup.

The dinner scene was constantly filled with exclamations from young people at home and abroad.

Hearing the exclamations at the scene, several old masters looked at each other and then smiled knowingly.

They were also very satisfied with Feng Zhengming's arrangement of these dishes.

Especially the plating at the dinner party has greatly improved the quality of the dishes.

Combined with Feng Zhengming’s speech when receiving the award.

Many young people at the scene deeply remembered the delicacy of Shandong cuisine.

After the appetizers and soups were served, the next main course was seared fish.

This dish was served and once again conquered the young people at home and abroad.

The beautiful and exquisite presentation, as well as the sweet and sour seasonings, and even the side dishes on the plate made the young people at the scene feel quite delicious.

After the charred fish, there is a vegetarian dish prepared by Feng Zhengming.

And he also made some changes based on everyone's suggestions. In addition to chestnuts and cabbage, he added pitted red dates and a few ginkgo nuts.

This soup with chestnuts, ginkgo, red dates and cabbage sum made the crowd gasp in amazement from the moment it was served.

Even the master chefs at the scene were amazed by Feng Zhengming's carving of the cabbage.

Master Cui sighed: "This Feng Zhengming is really amazing. He also made such an ordinary vegetarian dish come up with tricks."

Master Su said: "Zhengming is really spiritual, and there will always be something unexpected revealed."

Master Wang agreed: "Yes, it's just wonderful."

"Young people should be like him and dare to try something." Master Sun commented.

When he heard the senior chefs praising Feng Zhengming and looking at the dish in front of him, Master Yan felt very proud of his young apprentice.

Cooking itself is not difficult. After some study and training, most people can always make dishes that are not unpleasant to eat.

But if you are a chef, especially if you want to become a famous chef and a master chef.

Then you can't just cook the most basic dishes.

Being able to combine different materials with some artistic beautification to make the food not only delicious, but also very beautiful. This is real food.

Four dishes were served at this dinner, each of which surprised the young people at home and abroad.

Before the dinner, for the young people at home and abroad, the catering reception of this Youth Conference made them feel delicious.

Let everyone know that Shandong cuisine actually has so many different combinations of flavors.

And now the dinner party in front of us made everyone know it all at once.

It turns out that Shandong cuisine can be made so delicate and beautiful.

Even very simple cabbage sum, chestnuts, red dates and ginkgo can be so beautiful when combined.

For most young people, this may be the first time they have seen such beautiful dishes.

And the taste of these dishes also makes everyone feel delicious.

The appetizer of broad beans and shrimps is refreshing.

The soup is fried conch slices in vinegar and pepper fish soup. The fish soup is delicious, and the vinegar and pepper flavor stimulates people's appetite. The conch slices are smooth, tender and crispy. It is quite appetizing when paired with the vinegar and pepper fish soup.

The fried fish is sweet and sour, the fish shell remains crispy, and the fish inside is very tender.

The chestnut, red date and ginkgo cabbage sum is quite unique. It has four different colors and textures: chestnut, red date, ginkgo and cabbage sum. Together with the salty seasoning, it is really delicious and you will look forward to the subsequent dishes.

The next dish is considered a representative dish of Shandong cuisine, sea cucumber roasted with green onion.

Feng Zhengming still made more refined arrangements in the presentation.

The sea cucumbers were sliced ​​with a knife, and then assembled together. The burnt-yellow scallions were placed on the side, some soup was poured on them, and green cabbage hearts were prepared on the side.

(End of this chapter)