From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

After the participating chefs finished preparing the ingredients and put them away, they returned to their respective rooms to rest.

But the TV stations cannot rest like the participating chefs and event organizers.

In the Shanghai TV station, people from the Beijing and even Hong Kong TV stations gathered in the large conference room.

After the live broadcast of the first game, the three parties mainly responsible for the live broadcast also sat down to review and sort out the live broadcast process.

The person from Shanghai TV Station spoke first: "The live broadcast of the first game was very successful. Our hotline received calls from all over the country. Everyone liked the live broadcast of the national competition very much..."

After talking about the popularity brought by the live broadcast, Shanghai TV also expressed its gratitude to all the people from Beijing and Hong Kong who came to assist in the live broadcast.

"I really want to thank Beijing and Hong Kong for their help in our live broadcast."

The person from the TV station in Beijing smiled and responded, "You're welcome. Although this national competition is held in your city of Shanghai, the National Chef Cooking Skills Exchange Competition is, after all, an exchange and competition between the best chefs in the country.

Our headquarters should send people to participate in the live broadcast, which can achieve good live broadcast effects and is also a respect for the outstanding chefs participating in the competition to showcase their cooking skills.

It also has a very good effect in promoting our Chinese cuisine.”

At this time, the person from Hong Kong City suddenly spoke.

"Everyone, we feel that in this competition, you seem to have promoted the mainland chefs too much and promoted our Hong Kong chefs too little."

I heard the person from Hongcheng TV station speak so bluntly.

The atmosphere in the meeting room suddenly became awkward.

The people at the main station laughed and said, "How can you say that? During our live broadcast, we give close-ups to almost every chef. There is no favoritism."

The people from Gangcheng TV said immediately: "You gave a lot of publicity to that young Shandong cuisine chef, but you didn't give that much publicity to the young chef from Gangcheng this time."

Seeing that the people from the headquarters had set an example, the people from Shanghai TV also knew how to respond.

"It's hard to explain. Chef Feng Zhengming and Chef Jiang Chengzhe are both the youngest chefs participating in this competition. Their performances were very good. When we broadcast live, we also gave them close-ups."

The person from Hongcheng TV continued, “But today we received a call from Hongcheng. Our colleagues there went out to the streets today to do some interviews on yesterday’s game.

As a result, everyone was impressed by the young chef Feng Zhengming, but had no impression of many chefs in Hong Kong. "

This made the Shanghai TV station laugh.

"I think Chef Feng Zhengming's performance on the second dish should be better, right?"

Before the Hong Kong TV station could speak, the Shanghai TV station rushed to say, "His second dish received the highest score and was praised by Mr. Cai. This was not something we planned in advance."

The people at Gangcheng TV were speechless for a moment.

Just as people in Shanghai said, Feng Zhengming's second dish did win Mr. Cai's praise.

More importantly, his second dish was really great.

When at the scene yesterday, reporters from Hongcheng TV also tasted it themselves.

The sour, spicy and delicious fish jelly, paired with the fish roll, the crispy chrysanthemum fish on the other side, and the shrimps shaped into little hummingbirds, is so beautiful and delicious.

The key point is that the dish received extremely high praise from Mr. Cai, and people in Hong Kong really couldn't find any fault with it.

So it is an inevitable result that the TV stations in Hong Kong City conducted random interviews on the streets today and that people in Hong Kong City were impressed by Feng Zhengming.

After all, Mr. Cai is still quite influential in Hong Kong.

I was speechless when I saw the people from Hongcheng TV Station.

The person from Beijing Central Station smiled and said, “Everyone, our tripartite cooperation this time is to do a good job of live broadcasting the national competition and let everyone know more about our Chinese cuisine.

In the competition, chefs can have different regions and cuisines, but there should not be such differences between us.

No matter which chef? No matter where he is from? No matter how old he is?
As long as he performs well, we should give him some key close-up shots, and give him more introductions and promotions.

And in this competition, I think the two young chefs Feng Zhengming and Jiang Chengzhe should be the most outstanding ones.

In tomorrow's banquet exchange, we should pay more attention to the two young chefs and see how much ability they can demonstrate in cooking banquets."

After hearing what the people from the headquarters said, the people from Gangcheng TV had no objections this time.

"We think so too. We should promote young chefs more. Chef Jiang Chengzhe just won the Southeast Asian Chef Award. He deserves more publicity and should be known by more people."

The person from Shanghai TV said immediately, "Chef Feng Zhengming is also the top winner of the Shandong young chef competition, and he also performed very well in the Shandong cuisine selection competition. His cooking skills should not be much worse than Chef Jiang Chengzhe."

If people from Qilu TV were present at this time, they would probably praise Feng Zhengming even more.

However, the TV stations mainly responsible for the live broadcast this time are the CCTV and the TV stations in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

No one from Qilu TV was present.

Naturally, the people from Shanghai TV Station would speak on Feng Zhengming's side.

After all, Hong Kong has not yet returned, and they now have some prejudices against other parts of the country.

In this situation, it is difficult for the CCTV to take a clear stand.

Shanghai TV naturally wants to stand on the side of all the chefs in the country.

The people at the main station continued to play peacemaker with a smile.

"Everyone is working hard to make the live broadcast a success. The two young chefs, Feng Zhengming and Jiang Chengzhe, are indeed worthy of our publicity. We will definitely pay attention to their performance tomorrow."

After the headquarters spoke, the TV stations in Shanghai and Hong Kong stopped arguing and started discussing the details of tomorrow's live broadcast.

Because tomorrow each province will prepare a banquet representing the local characteristics.

Therefore, some shooting points on the scene also need to be allocated.

In this regard, the China Media Group and both Shanghai and Hong Kong have prepared several plans.

The Shanghai and Hong Kong cities also cooperated with each other, mainly to film the cooking processes of chefs from different regions on site.

The headquarters is responsible for scheduling and switching the images from different camera positions.

In order to make the live broadcast effect better.

After everyone finished discussing, it was already very late.

After returning to the hotel, the people from Gangcheng TV station sent someone to find the Gangcheng chef team.

Normally, the chefs should be sleeping at this time.

But because there is a banquet tomorrow, the chefs are discussing the details together and have not slept at this time.

The Hong Kong City Chefs Group was somewhat surprised when the people from Hong Kong City TV came to them.

Then the people from Hongcheng TV came in and explained their purpose in a very mysterious manner.

"We have just discussed the details of tomorrow's live broadcast with the people from Shanghai and Beijing stations. Our suggestion is that when everyone in Hong Kong prepares the banquet tomorrow, you can let Chef Jiang Chengzhe show more." After hearing what the TV station people said, the chefs in Hong Kong felt a little strange?
Dai Long asked curiously: "Why do you want Azhe to perform more?"

Long Kunbao quickly thought of a possibility.

"Are you guys trying to take this opportunity to promote A-Zhe more? But tomorrow isn't a competition day. It's a banquet cooking exchange for all of us, which will test our ability to cooperate with each other, right?"

Li Guansheng also said: “Yes, tomorrow will mainly be about communication, and it will mainly depend on the cooperation of the chefs.

If Ah Zhe wants to show off, he can do so in the next competition. Tomorrow he should work with other chefs to prepare the banquet."

The people at the TV station were stunned. They wanted to say something.
But seeing that Li Guansheng had already spoken, they could only honestly tell him some of the news they had received.

After listening to the people from Gangcheng TV, I received a call from Gangcheng in the evening and learned that during the street interviews in Gangcheng today, everyone had a better impression of Feng Zhengming.

Li Guansheng was silent for a while and then laughed: "Aren't you too impatient? It's just a basic skills test, there are still competitions to come."

This time Jiang Chengzhe also spoke up: “In yesterday’s competition, Chef Feng’s performance was indeed better than mine.

Especially his second dish, considering that the dish might have cooled down by the time the judges tasted it, he made the fish soup into fish jelly, which was a great design.”

After a brief pause, Jiang Chengzhe said frankly: "To be honest, I am indeed unwilling to accept it, but I still admire his ability and creativity."

When Jiang Chengzhe said this, everyone at Hongcheng TV realized it all at once.

These chefs from Hong Kong City are all proud of themselves.

If he could convince them, then it must mean that the other person is indeed an outstanding culinary artist.

After Jiang Chengzhe praised Feng Zhengming, he said seriously: "I will beat him with my skills in the official competition."

Li Guansheng was very satisfied with the words of his young apprentice.

In Li Guansheng's opinion, it's nothing if one or two dishes are not as good as the other.

As long as you refuse to admit defeat and have the confidence that you can catch up with others in cooking skills.

So the final outcome is still unknown.

As for letting Jiang Chengzhe perform more and giving him more publicity.

Li Guansheng felt that there was no need to promote it deliberately.

If Jiang Chengzhe really has the ability and shows his strengths, he will be well-known without any publicity.

Of course, Li Guansheng thought this way because he led the team to participate in the national competition this time.

It was also a chance to truly witness the amazing skills of chefs from all over the world.

In the past, Li Guansheng always felt that except for the old chefs, the level of the middle-aged and young generation of chefs in the mainland was definitely not as good as that in Hong Kong.

But this time at the national competition, Li Guansheng was able to witness the style and level of young and middle-aged chefs from the mainland.

It can be said that in every aspect, they are not inferior to the chefs in Hong Kong.

Especially seeing the sudden emergence of Feng Zhengming.

In the past, Hong Kong chefs have always been proud of themselves compared to mainland chefs.

The main thing is that they not only have excellent skills, but more importantly, the creativity of some of their dishes can be said to be far ahead of many chefs in the mainland.

Including Li Guansheng, chefs in Hong Kong all recognize the superb skills and techniques of the masters from all over the country.

However, in the minds of Hong Kong chefs, in order to better keep pace with the international standards, Hong Kong chefs should be superior to mainland chefs in terms of creativity and aesthetics.

In the eyes of Hong Kong chefs, many chefs from the mainland are just doing a good job of what has been passed down for many years.

Most of the time, the cooking lacks the spirit that the old chefs used to have.

This is naturally not taken seriously by many chefs in Hong Kong.

However, at this year's national competition, we saw many young and middle-aged chefs showing off their creativity.

The creativity and aesthetics they displayed surprised the chefs in Hong Kong.

The appearance of Feng Zhengming made the chefs in Hong Kong even more convinced.

Even Li Guansheng was impressed by Feng Zhengming’s creativity when he saw his second fish dish yesterday.

That unique form of cooking fish jelly is something that some chefs in Hong Kong have never thought of.

He also adds a thinly sliced ​​conch into the fish roll.

Then cut the pre-cooked vegetables into small strips and roll them in.

Finally, the dish was cooked using the Shandong cuisine soup method.

It can be said that the delicious taste of fish and conch slices is retained to the greatest extent.

The conception of the whole dish has already suppressed the chefs from Hong Kong.

So that dish deserves the highest score.

This is also a wake-up call for chefs in Hong Kong.

They realized that there are many creative chefs in the mainland.

A young chef like Feng Zhengming who has both skills and innovative ideas is no less capable than any other chef in Hong Kong.

So Jiang Chengzhe put away his original pride and was willing to communicate more with Feng Zhengming.

Li Guansheng also appreciated and supported his determination to compete fairly with Feng Zhengming in the competition.

"Azhe, if you want to defeat Feng Zhengming, you have to prepare seriously."

Jiang Chengzhe listened to what his master said and nodded seriously: "Master, don't worry, I will prepare well."

Everyone at Hongcheng TV saw that the Hongcheng chefs had their own plans.

They knew that disturbing them in the middle of the night did seem a bit unnecessary.

"Since everyone has their own ideas and Chef Jiang has his own confidence, it seems that we are worrying too much. We will not disturb the chefs and look forward to your performance tomorrow."

After seeing off the TV station staff, Li Guansheng smiled and said to everyone: "Don't feel pressured, and don't be influenced by their TV station.

Tomorrow is a banquet exchange. What you need to do is to prepare the banquet well and show our Hong Kong city’s unique banquet cooking to more people in the mainland through the live broadcast of this competition.

Remember one thing, you are a point of publicity for Hong Kong to the mainland, you must do it seriously. "

After listening to Li Guansheng's instructions, the chefs in Gangcheng all expressed their understanding.

Jiang Chengzhe also made up his mind that he would perform well at the banquet tomorrow and take the subsequent competition seriously to compete with Feng Zhengming. (End of this chapter)