From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

The news that Feng Zhengming had set up a food stall next to the train station again quickly spread throughout Quancheng.

Then in the evenings of the next few days, many people rushed to the train station to wait.

Feng Zhengming also knows that everyone has high expectations for him running a food stall.

So he arrived at the train station on time the next day and set up a food stall.

But tonight, Feng Zhengming brought his wife and daughter along.

Although the little girl didn't understand anything yet, she felt very novel about being held by her mother and sitting on the tricycle pedaled by her father.

In the past, she was always carried by her mother and rode in the car driven by her father.

Today I rode in a car without a roof.

Although the weather was a bit cold, the little girl was wrapped tightly and didn't feel cold at all.

Although this kind of car without a roof runs slower, the little girl can see more people.

There were many people around me waving and greeting me.

This made the little girl feel particularly interesting.

So along the way, the little girl would smile at everyone she saw passing by.

When people on the street see the little girl's happy smile, they will stop unconsciously and then return the same happy smile to her.

Seeing someone smiling at her made Feng Nuanyu feel even happier, and she even laughed out loud in her mother's arms.

Hearing his daughter's laughter behind him, Feng Zhengming turned around.

"Hey, you can't tell, my girl actually likes this feeling."

Luo Qing smiled and responded: "You just can't sit still. When you have nothing to do at home, you start to think of ideas. There are so many stores, but you insist on taking people to run a food stall."

When Feng Zhengming heard his wife's words, he laughed and responded loudly.

"Hahaha, isn't this just bringing those newcomers together to experience what it was like when I started out?"

Then Feng Zhengming turned around and asked the young chefs who were riding the tricycle with him.

"Talk to your sister-in-law, are you willing to follow me and do this?"

Naturally, several young chefs answered loudly and immediately.

"willing."

"Sister-in-law, we are all willing to do this with the chef."

"Yes, yes, we are willing to run a food stall with our uncle."

"In fact, working at a food stall is a good way to train yourself."

Feng Zhengming turned his head and looked at his wife again with satisfaction: "Look, are they all happy? I didn't think of this before. If I had thought about it earlier, I would have started to lead people to do this."

Luo Qing smiled and reached out to gently pat her husband's back.

"Just show off. How dare they say they don't want to do anything with you in front of you?"

The little girl saw her mother patting the back of her tricycle father.

The thick clothes made a crisp sound when my mother slapped them, and a palm print was left on the clothes.

Soon the palm print will slowly disappear.

This made the little girl feel very interesting.

Then the little girl tried hard to raise her little hands, which were wearing warm clothes and the gloves knitted by her grandma.

I also want to imitate my mother and pat my father on the back.

But in my mother's arms, I couldn't touch my father's back at all.

The little girl tried for a few times, but found that she still couldn't touch it, so she could only babble to protest to her mother.

At first Luo Qing didn't understand what her daughter meant.

For a long time, I saw my daughter trying to raise her little hands to reach her father's back.

Luo Qing gradually understood what her daughter meant.

She grabbed her daughter's little hand and leaned forward together.

Just enough for the daughter's little hand to rest on the father's back.

"ah."

The little girl was very surprised.

Luo Qing smiled and responded to her daughter: "Yeah, you bumped into me."

The little girl calmed down and continued to touch her father's back.

The mother held the little hand and leaned forward a little.

Sure enough, she pressed on Dad's back again.

This made the little girl feel even more interesting.

While pedaling the tricycle, Feng Zhengming felt his wife massaging his back again and again.

He couldn't help but feel a little strange.

I turned around and saw that my wife was holding my daughter's hand and pressing it together.

Every time my daughter pressed it, she found it very interesting and the little girl laughed even more happily.

Feng Zhengming simply began to lean back to make it easier for his daughter to press on his back.

This back and forth made the little girl feel even happier.

The young chefs who were traveling with Feng Zhengming saw the scene of Feng Zhengming's family of three, and they all smiled knowingly, thinking that this scene was really interesting.

Some pedestrians on the road couldn't help but stop and take a look after seeing it.

Feng Zhengming brought his wife and daughter to the train station on a tricycle.

There were already quite a few people waiting at his stall.

Feng Zhengming saw it from a distance and turned to his wife and said, "Look, so many people are looking forward to it."

The young chef next to him also echoed.

"Yes, everyone is looking forward to the chef setting up the stall."

"That's right. It's a real treat to be able to eat at a food stall run by a chef."

“I’m afraid that Master Uncle wants to charge more money so that they are willing to come and eat.”

“It feels like there are more people today than yesterday.”

Feng Zhengming pushed his tricycle to the place and saw the crowd of onlookers.

He quickly shouted, "Don't be anxious, please make way for us to set up the stalls. Once we have set up the stalls, everyone can line up. We have brought enough food today, so everyone will definitely have enough to eat."

After Feng Zhengming shouted like this, naturally everyone quickly made way.

However, when Feng Zhengming and his team were setting up the tent, many people took the initiative to help.

There were also people moving tables and chairs, and others helping Feng Zhengming set up the stove.

Feng Zhengming set up a stall and a bunch of people showed up to help him.

Luo Qing, on the other hand, was relatively free. She just had to hold her daughter and watch from the side.

The little girl saw that many people were surrounding her father and she couldn't see him anymore.

He was still twisting his little body in his mother's arms, babbling and pointing at his father who was surrounded.

It seemed to be saying, Dad is surrounded by people, go and save him quickly.

Luo Qing roughly guessed what her daughter meant, and hugged her daughter and comforted her with a smile.

"Don't worry, they're not trying to take Dad away. They're helping Dad with his work. We'll be there in a while, okay?"

The little girl was still a little unhappy and continued to point at her father and babbled.

There was no other choice, so Luo Qing had to carry her daughter forward and push through the crowd to get to her husband's side.

When she came to her father, the little girl stretched out her hands and asked her father to hug her.

Seeing his daughter like this, Feng Zhengming had no choice but to take his daughter from his wife's arms. When her father hugged her, the little girl quickly hugged her father's neck.

It was like he was declaring his sovereignty to the people around him, saying that his father was his father.

This scene also amused Luo Qing and the people around who came to eat at the food stall.

Feng Zhengming asked the young chef to come with him to work, and he had to hold his daughter and comfort her.

Fortunately, the little girl was relatively easy to coax and soon was willing to return to her mother's arms.

In this way, Feng Zhengming can go to the stove and cook for the people in line.

A long queue soon formed next to the square in front of the train station.

Many people are waiting to eat the dishes cooked by Feng Zhengming himself.

Feng Zhengming did prepare enough ingredients today, so even though there were many people queuing, he was still able to handle it.

Many people who got off the train and left the station saw so many people queuing next to the train station and came over.

Some of the people who came to Quancheng from other places were curious and asked the locals.

"What's going on? Why are so many of you lining up?"

"It looks like a food stall? Is this food stall so popular?"

"Who runs this food stall? Is it really that delicious? Why are there so many people queuing up?"

The locals answered the outsiders.

"This is a food stall run by our number one scholar. He cooks the food himself, so how can it not be popular?"

The outsiders looked incredulous when they heard this: "Number one scholar? Which number one scholar?"

The locals immediately replied: "Who else could be the champion? Of course it's our national champion of Shandong cuisine, Feng Zhuangyuan."

Most outsiders were confused after hearing this.

Who across the country doesn’t know Feng Zhengming, the national top scholar?

Many people from other places who come to Quancheng plan to try Feng Zhengming’s restaurants.

But they didn't expect to run into the top scholar setting up a food stall next to the train station.

A group of people were shocked.

Some outsiders hurried to queue up at the back.

There were also some outsiders who were curious and wanted to come closer to take a look. Was it Feng Zhengming?

There were even some people from other places who came to visit the Spring City with cameras, and they hurriedly tried to squeeze in to take pictures.

This made the area in front of the food stall a bit chaotic.

Then Luo Qing stepped forward and asked everyone to line up and not cut in line.

"Please be patient, my husband needs time to cook. You can also try the cooking skills of several young chefs my husband brought with him. They were all selected by my husband and their skills are not bad."

After hearing what Luo Qing said, some locals were willing to give the young chef a chance and lined up at the stove next door.

In this way, the queue became much shorter after being diverted.

Those outsiders finally saw Feng Zhengming's true face.

After confirming that it was Feng Zhengming, more people from other places followed suit and lined up.

Many local people, seeing outsiders queuing up, took the initiative to give their Feng Zhengming stove to them as much as possible.

So that outsiders can taste the cooking skills of Shandong cuisine.

Feng Zhengming worked on it for a few days and the news spread among people from other places.

Soon more and more people knew that Feng Zhengming had set up a food stall again next to Quancheng Railway Station.

This led many people to speculate why he did this?
Some people made up a story, saying that Feng Zhengming's store was about to go bankrupt, so he started running a food stall again.

Some people also said that Feng Zhengming wanted to experience the food stalls again on the street.

Some people even thought that Feng Zhengming went bankrupt and his store was bought by someone else, so he could only set up a street stall again.

In short, there are all kinds of speculations.

It finally attracted the attention of many media.

The provincial television station and newspaper, as well as some other out-of-town media made a special trip to interview Feng Zhengming.

Feng Zhengming's answer was very direct.

"I think street food is the real food for ordinary people. I started a food stall next to the train station again just to find my original intention of being a chef.

I hope to find my original intention and make more delicious food for every customer in my restaurant."

This answer made Feng Zhengming famous again.

Many people say that Feng Zhengming is worthy of being the national top scholar as he has stayed true to his original aspiration and has taken this step.

Many people also linked it to the previous national competition.

I feel it’s no wonder that there is no top scorer in the national competition, because others are indeed not worthy of the title of “top scorer”.

Of course, there are also some doubts, some people think that Feng Zhengming feels threatened because the new national competition has ended and new chefs have emerged.

So he used this method to create some gimmicks and take the opportunity to hype himself.

But this voice did not convince many people.

After all, everyone knows that the dishes cooked in street stalls require real ingredients and real skills.

If it's hype, why don't other chefs hype it up like this?
However, Feng Zhengming's reopening of a food stall next to the train station did cause quite a bit of chaos.

For example, many media reporters heard the news and came to take pictures of Feng Zhengming.

This caused the already congested queue to become even more crowded.

In the end, Feng Zhengming himself stepped in and told people who were not there to eat not to cut in line or in front of others.

However, this incident did make Feng Zhengming even more famous.

The controversy over the chef who gave up the national competition was completely suppressed because he returned to running a food stall.

At the same time, after Feng Zhengming's actions, many chefs who wanted to pretend to be sophisticated were no longer able to do so in front of others.

Because they are often criticized.

"Look at Feng Zhuangyuan? He is a national champion, but he can set up a street stall or cook in the open air, and he can cook so well.

You call yourselves great chefs, why don't you show us your real skills by cooking well? "

In the eyes of many old masters, they all praised Feng Zhengming's approach.

Those chefs who try to make a living by doing things without any qualifications are gradually becoming less and less popular.

And because of Feng Zhengming, more people began to respect the skills of chefs.

As for the restaurants recommended by Feng Zhengming's recommended guide.

They have also gained more popularity.

Feng Zhengming set up a food stall at Quancheng Railway Station and worked there until the end of January.

Although it only lasted about twenty days, many people still talked about it with great relish.

After finishing his business at the food stall, friends and family could finally sit down and have a good chat with Feng Zhengming.

Especially the two grandfathers, they are really proud of Feng Zhengming.

Grandpa Situ even directly pointed out the subsequent benefits that Feng Zhengming would gain from setting up a food stall.

"Zhengming, you have really confirmed your status as the national champion. No matter when, people will always remember you as the national champion chef."

Feng Zhengming was a little embarrassed by what he said: "I really didn't think too much about it. I just wanted to take those newly recruited young chefs in the store to experience the feeling of running a food stall."

Grandpa Situ smiled and said, "This is what we call an accidental planting of willows that eventually leads to a good harvest."

Grandpa Feng also nodded: "Yes, if you really try hard, you may not be able to achieve such results."

Feng Zhengming spoke calmly with a smile about his expectations for the future.

"I hope that the domestic cooking industry will get better and better, and I hope everyone can respect the hard work of every chef who cooks with heart." (End of this chapter)