From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Feng Zhengming and his family lived in the island city for a longer time.

This is because the economic environment in the island city is better, so there are more large restaurants and hotels in the island city.

In order to take care of the health of the two grandfathers and the masters.

Feng Zhengming extended the judging process by communicating with local chefs in the island city, such as Gao Fengyi.

The judging panel was not asked to taste each restaurant consecutively, but to judge at different times.

During these days in the island city, Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing often took their daughter to the beach to play.

It can be said that Feng Zhengming and his family of three lived a rather leisurely life during their time in the island city.

Of course, in addition to playing, Feng Zhengming and his wife would take their daughter to some small street restaurants.

Provide advice to some bosses who work very hard but whose business is not that good.

Make some improvements to the dishes in the street restaurants.

After Feng Zhengming's improvements, the dishes served in many small restaurants have become more distinctive.

It is no longer just blanched or steamed dishes as in the past.

Feng Zhengming even comes up with some new twists on the most traditional steamed dishes in his small restaurant.

For example, when steaming, Feng Zhengming teaches the restaurant to stew clear chicken soup in advance, and when steaming seafood, add the prepared clear chicken soup to steam together.

This will make the steamed seafood more flavorful.

Or after steaming, prepare the scallion shreds, heat the sesame oil and pour it on the scallion shreds.

Bring out the aroma of chopped green onion, allowing the onion flavor to blend with the steamed seafood.

After Feng Zhengming's improvements, the dishes served in many small restaurants have become more authentic.

In such days, Feng Zhengming feels very relaxed and happy.

This was the first time in such a long time that he felt so relaxed.

Luo Qing also noticed her husband's ease and comfort.

So when she returned to the hotel that night and put her daughter to sleep, she ordered a bottle of red wine and some food and had a drink with her husband in the room.

"What do you think? Should we take some time out every year to bring our daughter to live in the island city for a while?"

Feng Zhengming smiled and asked, "Do you also like this kind of life?"

Luo Qing: "Yes, I like it very much. Finally you don't have to be so busy and can be with me and my daughter."

Feng Zhengming raised his glass to his wife, and the couple clinked their glasses.

He took a sip of red wine and said, "This kind of life is really comfortable. I haven't felt this relaxed for a long time."

Luo Qing: "You don't need to put too much pressure on yourself. You are already very successful. You are the pride of my daughter and me."

Feng Zhengming: "Thank you, my wife. I know it's been hard for you to follow me all these years."

Luo Qing smiled: "I'm not tired, it's you who makes money to support the family. Sometimes I feel useless."

Feng Zhengming: "How could that be? You have done a great job in helping me keep the accounts of the four stores in Shanghai, and you have also done a great job in contacting those suppliers. My stores in Shanghai cannot do without you."

Luo Qing: "It's not hard for me to do those things. You do all the hard work."

Feng Zhengming reached out and held his wife's hand: "We have different divisions of labor. I can't do it well without you."

Luo Qing shook hands with her husband and raised her glass with her other hand again.

The couple clinked their glasses again, and this time Luo Qing drank the red wine in the glass in one gulp.

Seeing this, Feng Zhengming said: "Don't drink so much, the aftereffect of red wine is still very strong."

Luo Qing smiled: "You drink it too."

Feng Zhengming had no choice but to raise his head and drink the wine in the glass.

Then Luo Qing stood up and sat in Feng Zhengming's arms.

At this moment, he looked down at his wife's drunken eyes in his arms.

Feng Zhengming also felt the alcohol rising up.

The couple put down their wine glasses and lay down gently on the big bed next to their sleeping daughter, trying their best not to make any noise and wake their daughter.

The next morning, Feng Nuanyu woke up in bed, twisting her little head around in search.

Soon, I saw mom and dad hugging each other on the big bed next door.

"Dad, Dad, Mom, Mom."

Feng Zhengming and his wife woke up immediately after hearing their daughter's call.

Then Feng Zhengming quickly put on his clothes and went over to pick up his daughter.

It just blocked my daughter's view and gave my wife time to tidy up.

Luo Qing also quickly tidied herself up and came over to take her daughter from her husband.

The couple tidied up their daughter's clothes together.

The little girl smiled happily when she saw her father and mother dressing her together.

Seeing his daughter's smile, Feng Zhengming reached out and gently pinched her little face.

"You little girl, you are always so happy."

Luo Qing: "She doesn't understand anything, so she doesn't have any worries. Isn't she happy all day long?"

Feng Zhengming: "It would be great if we could be free of worries."

Luo Qing kissed her husband and said, "Don't think too much. We have enough stores now. If you don't judge restaurants and hotels, we can still live a good life.

If you really think it's too hard, then don't bother with the judges. At worst, we can just do our own store well."

Luo Qing was still very clear about the pressure Feng Zhengming was under now.

This time the recommendation guide has a separate recommendation list for large restaurants and hotels.

It is bound to offend some master chefs.

Maybe many people are even waiting to see Feng Zhengming make a fool of himself.

Thinking that Feng Zhengming would be boycotted by some big restaurants and hotels.

Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing have already received some information about this matter.

In Shanghai, some newspapers and magazines were waiting to make a big news.

So Luo Qing has been worried about Feng Zhengming these days.

Although he appeared to be very relaxed outside, Luo Qing still understood the tremendous pressure her husband was facing.

After listening to his wife's words, Feng Zhengming smiled and kissed her.

"Don't worry, I won't be influenced by those guys. The more they wait to see me make a fool of myself, the more I will do my best to make the recommendation guide better, and I will let them know that what I am doing is right."

Feng Nuanyu saw her mother kiss her father, and then she saw her father kiss her mother as well.

The little girl was immediately unhappy: "Daddy, Mommy, kiss, kiss, You..."

Hearing their daughter's words, Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing smiled at each other.

Then the couple lowered their heads together and kissed their daughter on both cheeks.

Being kissed by both mom and dad at the same time made the little girl feel very happy.

"Hehehe, kiss, kiss."

Although there were some upsetting things, Feng Zhengming's mood would instantly improve when he saw his daughter's cute smile.

The review in the island city over the next few days also went quite smoothly.

After all, with the masters coming forward, the restaurants in the island city dare not say that the masters' evaluation is inappropriate.

As expected, Gao Fengyi's Seafood Restaurant received high scores from all three groups of judges.

Therefore, Gao Fengyi's seafood restaurant undoubtedly gets five stars. Although the advantages in ingredients do exist, Gao Fengyi also demonstrated his skills to the old chefs when they came to his restaurant.

In addition to seafood, Gao Fengyi also showed off his special dish of fried snail slices in soup and a unique meatball.

This meatball was developed by Gao Fengyi based on an old recipe.

Generally speaking, whether it is Four-Happiness Meatballs or Huaiyang cuisine's Lion's Head, the ratio is three parts fat and seven parts lean. If there is more fat, the ratio is four parts fat and six parts lean.

Gao Fengyi's meatball is completely the opposite.

The meatballs are made of 70% fat and only 30% lean meat.

The most classic thing is that Gao Fengyi can still make the meatballs quite round and they don’t collapse due to excess fat.

When you eat it, you won’t feel that the meatballs are greasy at all.

The feeling of the food melting in the mouth after taking a bite also amazed the old masters.

Thanks to his self-developed meatballs, Gao Fengyi has gained a new respect among the old masters.

Coupled with his unique cooking method of seafood which combines Shandong cuisine techniques, his seafood restaurant truly deserves the five stars.

Several other restaurants in the island city also meet the standards of the recommended guide.

However, compared with Gao Fengyi's Seafood Restaurant, the other restaurants are indeed much worse.

Based on the comprehensive scores of the three groups of judges and the local judges.

The other restaurants in the island city are basically rated at two stars.

The two slightly better ones can only barely get three stars.

After the review was completed, Feng Zhengming and his team did not stay in the island city, but continued to head to the next city along the coastline.

After Feng Zhengming and others left, Gao Fengyi, as the president of the Island City Chefs Association, also specially convened a meeting.

At the meeting, Gao Fengyi directly told everyone the scores in advance.

"Feng Zhuangyuan didn't say anything before he left, but I called everyone together today because I want to talk to you about it."

The restaurant chefs present felt a little guilty when they saw the ratings of their respective restaurants.

In fact, before seeing the ratings, they were basically aware of their own problems.

After working in the island city for so many years, if you are not clear about the problems of your own restaurant, you are really like a person pretending to be asleep and cannot be awakened.

If Feng Zhengming had not brought the master chefs here, these restaurants might have continued to pretend to be asleep.

But the influence of Feng Zhengming and Feng Zhuangyuan is there.

In addition, he invited the most famous chefs of Shandong cuisine to take charge.

This has led to restaurants from all over the country wanting to be included in his recommendation guide.

If you want to go up, you must expose your own problems.

Gao Fengyi said in a serious tone: "You should have all received the news that your restaurant can be included in the first issue of the recommendation guide this year, but I think you should also know the difference between a five-star or four-star recommendation guide and a one-star or two-star recommendation guide."

Hearing this, the chefs from other restaurants present lowered their heads.

They are all recommended guides, and the restaurants are rated five or four stars.

At the very least, it can get three stars, which is considered average.

When I got to your restaurant, it only had one or two stars.

With this comparison, even three-star restaurants may not be doing well in the island city.

Seeing that no one said anything, Gao Fengyi continued speaking.

"I believe you all know the problems of each of your restaurants. I will talk to your boss later, but first I want to warn you that no matter how good your restaurant's service is, you have to cook your own dishes well."

Gao Fengyi still knew that Feng Zhengming left after the judging was over and did not personally communicate with the chefs in the island city.

In fact, it was to save face for Gao Fengyi, the president of the island city chefs association.

I hope Gao Fengyi can control the chefs in Island City by himself.

It also helps Gao Fengyi to raise his status in the island city.

Gao Fengyi kept this feeling in mind.

So he decided to conduct some self-inspection and self-correction on the restaurants and large restaurants in the island city.

The first step is to restrain the chefs in the kitchens of each restaurant.

We need to make sure all the chefs are aware of this.

That is to improve your cooking skills and make your own dishes well.

In fact, most chefs know very well how to cook well?

It’s just that people are lazy. In the absence of constraints, they tend to just get by and not be very strict with themselves.

This has led to quality control issues with dishes in many restaurants and hotels.

In the final analysis, it’s because the chef is not serious.

Now with Feng Zhengming coming along, his recommended guidelines set the standard.

Any chef who cares about his reputation will not allow his restaurant to score too low or even be included in the recommendation guide.

Gao Fengyi thinks this is a good thing. Only with constraints can the chefs be more serious.

"Don't be silent, tell me, what are you going to do next? Continue like this?"

When asked this question, all the chefs present immediately looked up.

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

A chef took the lead and said, "President, rest assured, we will definitely not be the same as before. From now on, we will seriously conduct self-examination and improve the quality control of each of our restaurants."

With one chef taking the lead, other chefs also expressed their opinions.

"Yes, we will definitely do a good job of quality control."

"Next, we will reorganize our restaurant and improve some of the problems."

"President Gao, rest assured, we will not give up on the promotion. We will strive to get more stars next year."

"That's right, we will definitely improve our own problems."

Seeing that the chefs had expressed their opinions, Gao Fengyi nodded.

"Okay, as long as everyone has this intention, then our island city's catering industry will get better and better. At least our restaurants can't be outdone by those Western restaurants and those Japanese and Korean restaurants."

After hearing Gao Fengyi's words, the chefs present suddenly felt a little unwilling.

In recent years, as the island city's import and export trade has become better and better, a large amount of overseas investment has poured into the island city.

There are indeed quite a few overseas restaurants in the island city.

Especially with the influx of Japanese and Korean food, many Chinese restaurants have really surpassed them.

Many people would rather eat Japanese or Korean food than go to a Shandong cuisine restaurant.

Gao Fengyi raised this question as a reminder to everyone.

Not only do people in the island city have to compete with each other, but they also have to face the impact of many overseas restaurants.

If the food can't even compare to Japanese and Korean food, then the restaurant is really bad.

With the blessing of this national and national pride.

The chefs in the island city have really worked together to ensure quality control.

At this time, Feng Zhengming was on the bus, chatting about the island city with the two grandfathers and masters.

His views are basically similar to Gao Fengyi's, and the restaurants in the island city should be urged to do better.

Moreover, Feng Zhengming still has great confidence in Gao Fengyi's management ability in the island city.

"Senior Brother Gao is very capable. I believe he will understand our intention and will personally take charge of the quality control of the restaurants in Island City. Maybe next year there will be more restaurants in Island City that will get three stars or even more." (End of this chapter)