From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Because it was the last game of the challenge, there was a two-day gap in between.

This also gives the TV station that has been filming the challenge time to edit and produce the recorded challenge process.

The TV station is busy editing and broadcasting the competition videos of the first two rounds of the challenge.

On the other hand, we sent out filming crews to follow the ten challenging chefs to Master Cui’s cooking school.

When the filming process of the first two rounds of the challenge was broadcast.

It also attracted many viewers from inside and outside the province.

After watching the video broadcast by TV station, it also sparked discussion among many people.

Everyone was first shocked by the scene of more than 1000 chefs competing.

Then, in the first round, different chefs demonstrated their skills with knives, fire and spoons, which made many TV viewers marvel at the chefs’ great skills.

Many people also expressed this after watching TV.

"I really underestimated the chef before."

"Yes, it turns out the chef's skills are so amazing."

"This scene is even bigger than the national competition that year."

"It really deserves to be the province where Shandong cuisine originated. Look at the chef's skills."

“It’s so cool to watch people cook.”

"It's so smooth. After seeing this, I want to learn to be a chef."

"Mom and Dad, I've decided. I want to learn cooking."

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After watching the TV program, quite a few young people really wanted to learn how to cook.

After the TV program was broadcast, the focus was naturally on the cold dishes of Qiu Zhonghui and Feng Zhengming.

A lot of special features were given, and even when all the dishes were put together for the judges to judge, two dishes were given a lot of close-ups.

People watching TV won’t feel that there are too many close-ups because these two dishes are indeed so beautiful.

“Is it possible to cook dishes so beautifully?”

"I've seen this kind of beautiful dish on TV before, but I've never seen the chef cook it on the spot."

“This beautiful dish can really be made on the spot.”

"Did you see the judges eat them while they were reviewing? Not only were they beautifully prepared, but the dishes were actually edible."

"Yes, you can really eat it. You can eat everything on the plate."

"That Bright Future is the most beautiful one, and it deserves to be the highest scorer."

"The dish of Bright Future is not only beautiful, but also the flowers on the plate are all edible."

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After the TV program was broadcast, the dish that received the most discussion was naturally "Bright Future".

Because this dish is so unique and beautiful.

And through TV, everyone can clearly see that every ingredient in this dish is edible.

This design gives everyone watching TV a new understanding of cooking.

Everyone suddenly realized that they might have been fooled by some restaurants in the past.

It turns out that if a person is a real master chef, anything on the plate can be eaten.

Perhaps Feng Zhengming himself did not realize that his dish had been broadcast publicly on TV.

This suddenly posed a big problem for large restaurants and well-known restaurants across the country.

In the past, everyone assumed that some decorations on the plate were definitely not edible.

Now that Feng Zhengming has done this, people who watch TV will naturally ask about big restaurants and famous eateries.

Don’t you claim that you hired top chefs?

Then why do the top chefs on TV cook such beautiful dishes, and why is it that everything on the plate is edible?
What top chef did you hire?
Can't you even compare to a young chef who specializes in Shandong cuisine?

This kind of questioning may slowly ferment after being broadcast on TV.

Chefs in large restaurants across the country will gradually face such questions.

The TV station broadcast both rounds of competition together.

So everyone was amazed at Feng Zhengming's brilliant idea and design of a bright future as well as his amazing knife skills in the first round of the competition.

Then we saw that in the second round, all the chefs had to slaughter and clean live chickens on the spot.

After that, the whole chicken needs to be deboned on site.

There was actually someone timing the whole chicken deboning process.

Soon everyone was shocked by how Feng Zhengming could debone a whole chicken in just 50 seconds.

It really doesn't take even a minute.

Some people want to get a glass of water or go to the toilet while watching.

Maybe people who live far away from the toilet have not even reached the toilet yet, but Feng Zhengming has already finished deboning the whole chicken.

The smooth and flowing bone-breaking skills shocked everyone watching on TV.

Many children who watched TV with their families were full of admiration for Feng Zhengming.

Perhaps many years later, many people will realize how great an impact this chef competition broadcast on television has had on the domestic culinary and catering industries, as well as on the spread of Chinese cuisine.

In an era when television was filled with movie and TV stars and the streets were filled with posters of various singers.

The broadcast of this cooking competition on TV seemed to have ignited the foodie nature of the entire nation.

Many people suddenly stopped chasing stars and started to pursue food more.

Especially some young people and children began to admire great chefs like Feng Zhengming.

Qilu TV was also very happy.

The TV ratings soared due to the cooking competition broadcast on TV.

The key point was not only that the ratings within the province increased, they soon discovered that the ratings across the country were also climbing.

Such a result really gave great encouragement to the TV station.

Therefore, the TV station has also increased its investment.

We sent more people to Master Cui's cooking school to film Feng Zhengming and his team preparing for the third round.

The two young kitchen helpers Feng Zhengming picked could hardly conceal the excitement on their faces when they saw him.

One of them was even so excited that he wanted to hug Feng Zhengming.

However, Feng Zhengming naturally did not give the other party a chance to hug.

"It looks like you two are very happy that I picked you?" Feng Zhengming asked with a smile.

The two young kitchen helpers immediately nodded and said, "Yes, yes, we are very happy to be chosen by Chef Feng."

Feng Zhengming continued with a smile: "Please introduce yourselves first. After all, we are going to compete together. I have to know your names."

"Zhang Zhiwei." "Lin Haidong."

Feng Zhengming nodded: "Okay, Zhang Zhiwei, Lin Haidong, first of all, I have to tell you that being picked by me may not be a good thing for you, because I am a rather demanding person.

And we need to prepare for the game together, so I may not have that much time for you to adapt to my rhythm.

So I don't want to explain too much to you. I only have one request for you two.

You do whatever I say, and you should never do anything on your own if I don’t say it.

Do you two understand?"

After hearing these words, the smiles on the faces of the two excited young kitchen helpers slowly froze.

Turning around to look at the other chefs in the competition, they were generally very polite to those who were chosen as the assistant chefs.

Feng Zhengming's request was obviously not so polite.

And while the two were hesitating, Feng Zhengming had already spoken first.

"If you can't follow my instructions, then I can only ask for a substitution. I don't want my game to be affected."

After hearing this, the two men quickly said to Feng Zhengming, "We will obey."

Feng Zhengming was satisfied: "As long as you are willing to listen, let's get started."

Next, in the back kitchen of the cooking school, the other chefs had various discussions with the kitchen assistants.

Many times, when they decide on a dish and discuss it with the kitchen helper, the helper may raise some different opinions, and they will make some changes after referring to the opinions.

So the way the other nine chefs and their kitchen helpers get along seems a little bit chaotic.

After being seen by the masters, their collective evaluation was.

“I can’t tell the difference between the primary and the secondary.”

It was a completely different scene on Feng Zhengming's side. He basically didn't discuss anything with his two kitchen helpers.

He seemed to be giving orders, and each time he would give specific tasks very simply and clearly.

For example, what kind of dish do you want to make and what ingredients does one need to prepare?
Then what seasoning does the other person need to prepare?
Do you want it sliced, diced, or cubed?
Feng Zhengming always gave very clear orders.

Let the two kitchen helpers know what they should do? What should they do?
There was basically not much confusion on Feng Zhengming's side. He had quickly finalized the menu and was practicing the coordination procedures for the competition with his two kitchen helpers.

Following Feng Zhengming's orders, Zhang Zhiwei and Lin Haidong soon discovered that it was not as hard as they had imagined.

Moreover, Feng Zhengming would not hesitate to give praise when they did a good job.

Perhaps it was Feng Zhengming's praise that made the two of them more confident.

And both of them felt that there was nothing wrong in doing things according to Feng Zhengming's orders.

The table of dishes prepared by Feng Zhengming was nothing special, and there were not many complicated dishes.

What’s more, there are none of the innovative dishes made by Huiquanlou.

The two cold dishes are just a simple platter of meat and vegetable cold dishes.

Even Feng Zhengming didn't prepare any fancy plating like the one for the Bright Future dish.

There are six hot dishes, and Feng Zhengming has arranged all of them to be classic Shandong cuisine.

And there is neither scallion-fried sea cucumber, nine-turn large intestine, nor sweet and sour carp.

He went straight to the braised pomfret.

Even among the dishes served, Feng Zhengming had prepared several home-cooked dishes, such as osmanthus meat, flavored eggplant, and cabbage and shrimp.

Perhaps the only thing that tests the two kitchen helpers’ knife skills is stir-frying liver tips.

Then add a dish of braised chestnut chicken.

Tang Feng Zhengming prepared a dish of water chestnuts in milk soup and a simpler seaweed egg drop soup.

When Feng Zhengming reported this menu.

Several old masters were watching in a state of confusion.

Master Su, who always had a hot temper, said directly: "Did Feng Zhengming do this on purpose? This menu clearly asked him to prepare a banquet, but he went ahead and ordered a home-style menu."

Master Su was still a little unsatisfied, and even cursed directly: "Damn it, can the seaweed egg drop soup be served?"

After hearing what Master Su said, several masters couldn't help laughing.

Master Wang said: "We didn't give any requirements, so we can't say Zhengming made anything wrong with this menu."

Master Cui also said: "Yes, his menu includes fish, meat, chicken, as well as a combination of meat and vegetables, and even seaweed egg drop soup, making the overall nutritional combination very balanced."

After hearing this, Master Su couldn't help but ask, "You really let him make this menu?"

Master Sun said: "We can't stop them. In the final round, we are testing their command and dispatch capabilities. As long as they can prepare this table of dishes with their helpers, it will be a success."

After hearing this, Master Su also felt that there was really nothing to complain about.

The point is, the dishes on a menu like this cannot be said to be completely home-cooked meals.

Among them, dry-fried pomfret is also a classic Shandong dish, which also tests the chef's ability.

There are also dishes like fried osmanthus meat and stir-fried cabbage with prawns, which will also test the chefs' skills in cooking.

Especially stir-fried liver tips, which indeed has extremely high requirements for knife skills, fire skills, and spoon skills, and also tests the cooperation with the kitchen helpers.

Master Yan finally said with a smile: "I understand why Zhengming chose this way. After all, he has to work with two kitchen helpers. If he does it alone, he will definitely be able to make better dishes.

But the two kitchen helpers were only working with him temporarily, and after only one day, he could not fully understand their abilities.

So he chose the safest dish, on the one hand because the two kitchen helpers would definitely be able to do it and would not be disappointed.

On the other hand, he was able to successfully complete a table of dishes in the competition.”

Master Cui said: "On this point, Zhengming is still calmer and clearer."

This time, Master Su thought it through and agreed with this judgment.

Because compared to Feng Zhengming, the chefs in the other competitions were obviously in chaos.

In fact, it is not difficult to see from some of their performances.

Just like Xia Mingye, who stood out and successfully broke through the first two rounds.

He probably has no problem cooking for himself.

But when he was required to command and dispatch staff, he obviously had never given orders in the kitchen before, so many times he didn't know how to command and dispatch?
The communication between Xia Mingye and the two kitchen helpers often seemed not so smooth.

Or it should be said that Xia Mingye is too young after all, younger than Feng Zhengming.

Many times he was even embarrassed to direct the kitchen helpers to do their work.

But he couldn't give any effective orders, which made the kitchen helpers feel a little confused.

The two kitchen helpers who followed him often didn't understand what he wanted them to do?
Among the ten chefs who made it to the final round.

Apart from Feng Zhengming, perhaps only Liu Dewei and the kitchen helper cooperate better.

Xia Mingye is currently the worst performer among the ten people.

Fortunately, after Feng Zhengming finalized the menu, he saw the trouble he was facing and took the time to teach him.

This helped Xia Mingye understand how to command and dispatch things, and how to get along with the kitchen helpers in a simpler and clearer way.

Finally, Xia Mingye gave a menu, and they were ready to compete. (End of this chapter)