From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Feng Zhengming and his group arrived in Qufu and received a very grand reception from the Xia family.

Xia Hui held Luo Qing's arm, and the two of them looked like two sisters.

Master Xia even personally welcomed Mr. Feng and Mr. Situ.

Xia Hui and Xia Mingye's father, Xia Zhennan, came out personally, along with his younger brothers and sisters, as well as their husbands and sisters-in-law, to welcome Feng Zhengming.

Now Xia Zhennan is completely convinced by Feng Zhengming.

The last time Feng Zhengming came to Qufu, he took down all the signs that advertised Confucius Mansion cuisine on the street.

This incident really forced Xia Zhennan to admit defeat.

You have to know that Xia Zhennan and Master Xia, father and son, had coordinated many times with people from the Kong family, local people in Qufu, and some people from the cooking association on this matter.

They are also unable to take down the signs of restaurants and hotels that claim to serve Confucius cuisine but actually do not serve Confucius cuisine at all.

Xia Zhennan has personally experienced all the parties involved and knows too well how deep the water is.

But when Feng Zhengming arrived in Qufu, he went straight to the city and even used his identity to pressure them.

And contact the provincial government and wait for the province to send someone specifically to arrive.

All the signs for Confucius cuisine were taken down immediately.

Whether it is claiming that he is the successor of Confucius cuisine?

Or do you say that you are from the Kong family?

In short, it was all useless, and the province simply took back the brand of Confucius cuisine.

It is clearly stated that the Confucius Mansion cuisine signature dish will be temporarily kept by the province.

After that, we need to evaluate the restaurants in Qufu that can truly make Confucius Mansion cuisine, and then decide who can hang the Confucius Mansion cuisine sign.

Feng Zhengming saw Xia Zhennan leading his peers from the Xia family, as well as Xia Mingye, to greet him.

He smiled and asked, "Brother Xia, is there any Confucius Mansion cuisine on the street now?"

Hearing this, Xia Zhennan was stunned for a moment, then he laughed: "Hahaha, Junior Brother Feng, you are indeed capable. As soon as your status as the top scholar was revealed, everyone was immediately shocked. Now there is no restaurant on the street that sells Confucius cuisine."

Feng Zhengming nodded, put away his smile, and said very seriously: "Brother Xia, now it depends on your Xia family to show their true ability and put up the sign of Confucius Mansion cuisine."

These words made Xia Zhennan immediately put away the smile on his face.

The other members of the Xia family also looked serious.

After a long while, Xia Zhennan nodded very seriously: "Okay, top scholar, please rest assured that our Xia family will definitely hang up the Kongfu cuisine sign."

Master Xia and Grandpa Feng Zhengming looked over here together.

Master Xia said softly to the two old men.

"Thank you. Without Zhengming's help, our Kongfu cuisine would never be restrained."

Grandpa Feng responded with a smile: "You're welcome. Confucius Mansion cuisine should be a golden signboard of our Qilu. It can't be ruined by some people who don't understand it at all."

Grandpa Situ was even more serious: "That's right, Confucius cuisine is known as one of the three major official cuisines. How can its reputation be ruined so easily?"

Master Xia responded, "Yes, we can't let anyone destroy our golden signboard."

Surrounded by the Xia family, Feng Zhengming and others entered the Xia family's restaurant together.

Standing in front of the restaurant, Zhang Hongwei couldn't help asking, "Sister Xia Hui, doesn't your family make Confucius Mansion cuisine? Why isn't your signature dish Confucius Mansion cuisine?"

Xia Hui explained with a smile: "Because we haven't got the sign back yet."

Feng Shengnan also asked curiously: "Do we need to take the sign back?"

Feng Yucheng was also very curious, and he tried his best to ask in Chinese: "The sign is hung here? Why do you want to take it back?"

Xia Hui continued to explain: "The sign is hung here, but as you just heard, the Kongfu cuisine sign has been taken back by the province, and it is not allowed to be hung casually.

If we want to put up the Confucius Mansion cuisine sign, we also need to pass the review. Only after passing the review can we put up the Confucius Mansion cuisine sign."

Zhang Hongwei asked after hearing this: "Judge? Do you want my brother to judge?"

Xia Hui looked at Feng Zhengming who was surrounded by her father and others.

"Yes, it should be the uncle who is in charge of judging."

But after Xia Hui said this, Zhang Hongwei immediately turned his head and looked at Feng Zhengming.

"Brother, since you are the judge, you might as well just ask Sister Xia Hui to put up the sign."

Feng Zhengming immediately responded seriously: "Don't talk nonsense, the judging is very strict. The Kongfu cuisine signboard is not allowed to be hung casually, so the judging must be strictly implemented and there can be no sloppiness."

Everyone was a little surprised to see Feng Zhengming so serious.

Luo Qing explained to the three children who were traveling with her with a smile.

"You don't understand. You can joke with your brother about other things, but you can't joke with him about cooking."

Xia Hui also nodded: "Yes, Master Uncle is very strict about cooking."

Feng Shengnan immediately remembered that when they were in Taicheng, her brother also gave very serious guidance to the young couple in the restaurant.

"Yes, when we were in Aunt Liang's restaurant, my brother was very serious and taught Aunt Liang and her family many things."

Luo Qing responded: "Yes, so your brother is very serious about cooking."

Zhang Hongwei muttered in a low voice: "No wonder my brother can become the national champion in cooking."

At this time, Feng Zhengming and the people from the Xia family were also talking about the subsequent evaluation and taking back the signature dish of Confucius Mansion cuisine.

"Brother Xia, if I am to be a judge, I may be more strict. In addition to the dishes, I will also consider the layout of the entire restaurant, the tables and chairs, tablecloths, and various tableware.

These will be the places for assessment, especially the kitchen, which must be ensured to be clean enough.

The most important thing is that the container for each dish of Confucius cuisine has fixed specifications.

I will not ask your Xia family to restore the original appearance of Confucius Mansion cuisine.

But your tableware must be of uniform specifications, and the key is that there must be no damage."

After hearing what Feng Zhengming said, Xia Zhennan quickly wrote it down carefully.

"Okay, Junior Brother Feng, don't worry. We will definitely check it ourselves first, and then submit it to the provincial government for evaluation. In the end, it must be qualified before we hang up the Kongfu cuisine sign."

Feng Zhengming nodded: "Senior Brother Xia, you must prepare well and not be careless."

After entering the Xia family's restaurant, Feng Zhengming and his friends first took a tour.

After Feng Zhengming came last time, the Xia family's restaurant was indeed renovated both inside and out.

The tables and chairs, the tablecloth on the dining table, and the plates on the table have already been placed.

All kinds of things have been replaced by the Xia family.

It seems that the Xia family really listened to the various problems that Feng Zhengming pointed out last time.

Afterwards, Feng Zhengming also went into the kitchen to take a look.

The Xia family also renovated the kitchen.

The kitchen of Xia's Restaurant is indeed very tidy now.

It doesn’t mean that there can’t be dirt in the kitchen.

After all, the kitchen is where food is cooked, and cooking will inevitably produce various oil stains.

But the kitchen must be kept tidy and not messy.

And when not cooking, the kitchen must be cleaned.

The Xia family did a very good job in this regard. The kitchen was enough to reflect the heritage of the Xia family.

Grandpa Feng and Grandpa Situ were chatting with Master Xia.

The three old men still have a lot to talk about.

Grandpa Situ also talked to Master Xia about the overseas expansion of Confucius cuisine.

"Many overseas Chinese still have a certain respect for Confucius Mansion, so Confucius Mansion cuisine can be promoted overseas."

Master Xia responded with a smile: "If we want to promote overseas, then we definitely need Zhengming to lead the team."

Grandpa Feng immediately smiled and waved his hands: "It is clear that he is not the descendant of Confucius cuisine either."

Master Xia was very firm: "Although Zhengming is not the descendant of Confucius cuisine, he is the national champion of Shandong cuisine after all. Confucius cuisine is also a branch of Shandong cuisine, so Zhengming must come forward."

Grandpa Situ agreed with what Master Xia said.

"What Lao Xia said is correct. He is the national champion of Shandong cuisine, and Confucius cuisine is also a branch of Shandong cuisine, so it is okay for him to lead the team."

Grandpa Feng then asked, "But this kind of overseas publicity also requires the government to step in, right?"

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Grandpa Situ nodded: "Yes, for this matter, when the sign of Confucius cuisine can be hung up again, there should be some corresponding publicity activities. The province and the country will definitely support it strongly."

Grandpa Situ is quite looking forward to the overseas promotion of Confucius cuisine.

In Grandpa Situ’s opinion, the overseas spread of Confucius cuisine will allow people outside of China to learn more about Chinese cuisine.

This will allow Chinese cuisine to gradually appear in the eyes of some people abroad.

Of course, Grandpa Situ was also very clear about it.

For foreigners, not all Chinese food suits their taste.

However, there are still differences between Confucius cuisine and Shandong cuisine.

Shandong cuisine itself is not very flavorful, and Confucius Mansion cuisine is even more refined.

Therefore, if only some slight changes are made, the taste may be more easily accepted abroad.

This kind of food exchange is also part of cultural exchange.

In Grandpa Situ’s opinion, it is still necessary to maintain equal exchanges between China and foreign countries.

Feng Zhengming came back at this time.

Then the three old men also mentioned to him some things about overseas publicity.

Feng Zhengming thought about it after hearing this.

“It is indeed necessary to go overseas for publicity and exchange, but we cannot rush into it. If we want to promote our own products, we should first make them good enough.

In particular, we need to have a good standard of our own that is recognized by all of us.

Once we have our own good standards, we can go overseas and communicate with others.

This also makes it easier for others to understand our stuff.

We don’t have to conform to other people’s standards.”

When Feng Zhengming said this, Grandpa Situ immediately agreed.

"That's right, your idea is absolutely right. Perhaps in some other areas, we may need to conform to other people's standards first.

But when it comes to the exchange of culture and food, we must stick to our own standards.

If we lose our own standards, we will become passive when communicating with others.”

Feng Zhengming and Grandpa Situ reached a consensus again in an instant.

"We don't force others to accept our standards. We just want others to know that according to our standards, our food is like this and is recognized by most of us."

Master Xia suddenly asked, "Zhengming, so this is also the purpose of your proposal to establish a set of rating standards for Shandong cuisine restaurants and hotels in the province?"

Feng Zhengming nodded: "Yes, that's the purpose, to establish our standards.

This way, when we communicate with overseas people in the future, they will know more intuitively what is good about the things we promote. "

Grandpa Feng said seriously: "This is necessary. We can't wait for others to decide whether our things are good or not."

During this period, Grandpa Feng and Grandpa Situ lived together.

So the two old men talked about a lot of things at home and abroad.

Grandpa Feng also learned about some foreign situations through Grandpa Situ.

I learned that there is a restaurant rating standard abroad.

And it is very famous abroad.

But that rating standard is a French cuisine standard.

Grandpa Situ predicted that as domestic and international standards gradually converge, that set of restaurant standards will definitely be introduced into the country.

Grandpa Feng was very firm in stating that foreigners should not be allowed to set standards for domestic restaurants and hotels.

Knowing this, Grandpa Feng strongly supported Feng Zhengming's initiative to establish a set of standards for Shandong cuisine restaurants and hotels.

He hopes that Feng Zhengming can set the standards in advance so that restaurants and hotels across Qi and Lu can implement them.

Then, when foreign standards come in, the market has already been occupied.

At least within the territory of Shandong, Shandong cuisine is not defined as good or bad by foreigners.

This may be what Feng Zhengming can do now.

However, if applied to the whole country, Feng Zhengming's standards may not necessarily be applicable.

After all, China is truly vast and rich in resources, and each place has different customs and cultures.

The tastes of people from different places vary greatly.

It is obviously biased to use the same set of standards to define the cuisines across the country.

But if Feng Zhengming had experience in setting standards for Shandong cuisine in Qilu.

It will also be easier to determine standards for different cuisines across the country later.

The food must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step.

Grandpa Feng believes that as long as Feng Zhengming can stick to his original passion for cooking and food, he will be able to do everything well.

Grandpa Situ and Master Xia also agree with this point.

Next, Master Xia carefully introduced the Confucius Mansion cuisine to Feng Zhengming and his two grandfathers.

Feng Zhengming said something and went out to find Luo Qing and the children.

When we found them, we discovered that they were playing in the backyard.

Seeing Feng Zhengming coming, Luo Qing immediately waved.

"Hurry up and take out your camera and take some pictures for us. The scenery here is so beautiful."

Feng Zhengming smiled and agreed: "Okay, everyone stand still, I will take pictures of you."

In the following time, Feng Zhengming took photos of Luo Qing, Xia Hui and several children separately, and also took a group photo of everyone.

Under Feng Zhengming's guidance, Xia Hui also took a photo of him and Luo Qing.

When taking pictures, I saw Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing standing together.

Xia Hui was really envious of the perfect match between the two. (End of this chapter)