The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 190: Famous Chefs (Special update for the Iron-armored Alliance Leader Xingchen Still on Top!)

Although I am happy to unlock a new illustration, what to eat tonight is more important.

Qin Huai changed his clothes and went into the kitchen, where he found only Wang Jun, Dong Shi and a few others were cutting side dishes. Huang Jia and Master Huang were not there either.

After asking, I found out that Huang's is having a wedding banquet tomorrow night. Huang Shengli will cook the special dishes for the banquet himself. At this time, he is still doing physical therapy to warm up for tomorrow's banquet.

Huang Jia was worried that Huang Anyao's professional skills were not up to par and that he could not get the best ingredients from the supplier, so he went to check on him during the afternoon break. It was uncertain when he would be back, and if he did not make it back by the evening business hours, Huang Shengli would most likely be randomly dropped as the chef to replace Huang Jia.

I can only say that the guests who come to Huang Ji for dinner tonight are blessed.

"Dong Shi, do you know which restaurants Mr. Gong ate at in Peking? Why did he take so long? I looked at his circle of friends today and it seems that he has no intention of coming back." Qin Huai rarely stayed in the Huang's kitchen without working, so he stood next to Dong Shi and gossiped.

Dong Shi replied as he cut the meat: "We ate at a restaurant, the most famous private restaurant in Peking."

"Fen Garden."

"Fenyuan?" Qin Huai took out his mobile phone and searched it, and found that it was indeed very famous. A search turned up many posts, some good and some bad.

The positive reviews are basically about the food, saying it is delicious and worthy of the reputation as the craftsmanship of a master who is one of the top ten chefs in the celebrity chef directory.

The negative reviews are basically insulting the prices, saying they are profiteers, black-hearted, the vegetable prices are crazy, are they selling vegetables or gold, you can add a table without making a reservation in advance and pay extra, there is no master style, the chef is only interested in money.

"What are the skills of the top ten chefs?" Qin Huai asked curiously.

"A contemporary master, one-of-a-kind, the pinnacle." Dong Shi used very few words to give the highest compliment, "Let alone making it into the top ten of the celebrity chefs list, as long as I can make it into the top 50, even if smoke is rising from my family's graves, I will have no regrets in this life."

"So powerful." Qin Huai was a little surprised.

He knew about the existence of the celebrity chef directory when Huang Anyao introduced him to Xu Cheng's "Taste". He said that Xu Cheng founded a mechanism similar to Michelin, but only for ranking chefs.

The world's top 100 chefs are selected every five years. At first, 5 chefs were selected worldwide. During the second selection, the number of chefs was increased to 50, perhaps because the number of chefs in the top 50 was too small.

According to Huang Anyao, the main reason why the list of famous chefs was increased from 50 to 100 is because the selection cycle is too long, only once every five years, and those on the list are basically famous chefs, and white-collar chefs are very rare.

The peak period of a famous chef is only a few years, and many chefs are listed in the list of famous chefs at the end of their peak period. By the time of the next selection, they have retired or semi-retired. The list of famous chefs itself does not stipulate that only active chefs can be listed. As long as the chef himself is not dead, he can stay on the list.

This resulted in only about 2 active chefs among the top 50 in the second re-selection.

This has led to the birth of many classic jokes about the Master Chefs List, such as so-and-so is ranked third in the Master Chefs List, but he is the active number one. As for why he cannot become the number one in the Master Chefs List, it is because the first two have retired and he cannot compete with the first two.

Of course, Huang Anyao, a loyal fan of "Taste", has clarified this rumor, saying that such an absurd situation is absolutely impossible. The top 50 rankings of the celebrity chef record require a professional team to carefully consider before they can be determined, and the top 30 require the personal approval of Xu Ben.

As one of the most famous gourmets in the world, Xu Cheng's credibility in food is absolutely obvious to all. It is precisely because of this that the value of his celebrity chefs' list has remained high.

The top 50 are very valuable, while 51 to 100 are relatively not. The bottom 50 do not need Xu Cheng's approval, and the judging team is different from the top 50, so there will be more water in the rankings, which has become a way for some rising culinary stars to gain fame.

This name-brushing is very particular.

How can a new chef make a name for himself in the chef community?
The answer is to be listed in the list of famous chefs.

There are some barriers for ordinary chefs to become famous chefs. There are so many restaurants around the world, and the judging team of the famous chefs directory cannot notice the chefs in every restaurant. You must become famous first to be noticed by the judging team, and then they will go to his restaurant to taste his cooking skills and have the opportunity to be on the famous chef directory.

Therefore, the usual way for ordinary chefs to be included in the list of famous chefs is to spend money to build momentum, buy advertisements, and buy interviews with food magazines, so as to accumulate a certain amount of fame and attract the attention of the selection team. Then, with their decent cooking skills, they can barely make it to the top 90 of the list of famous chefs, get a last-place ranking, and get a ticket to the next selection.

This kind of selection method has a lot of room for loopholes and shady operations, which will result in some chefs with average skills being included in the list of famous chefs because they spent money and got lucky, and many chefs with good skills will miss the opportunity to be selected because they are not famous.

It is for this reason that the recognition of chefs ranked outside the 50s and 30s is not high. Generally, only the top 20 are recognized by the industry, the top 10 are recognized masters, the top are industry benchmarks, and the top are shining leaders.

The last time Huang Anyao and Qin Huai were doing science popularization, Qin Huai had no idea about these rankings, masters, craftsmanship, etc. He just listened to the story and forgot about it.

Now that Dong Shi recognized Gong Liang's attitude and told him that he had indeed enjoyed eating at the private restaurant of one of the top 10 chefs in the celebrity chefs list and didn't want to go back to Gusu, Qin Huai became interested in the ranking and looked it up.

Judging from the names, two of the top ten should be Chinese chefs, namely Peng Changping ranked first and Xia Muqi ranked tenth.

The fifteenth one is named Sun Maocai, and he should also be a Chinese chef.

Qin Huai had heard of the twenty-fourth person, Pei Shenghua, Pei Xing’s distant cousin.

As time went on, there were more Chinese chefs. Qin Huai looked carefully and found that Huang Shengli was ranked 50th, which was considered among the top goalkeepers.

Huang Jia was even worse off, ranking seventy-eight, a lowly recognized counterfeit ranking in Huang Anyao's eyes.

There is no Zheng Siyuan, and no Zheng Da.

"Why is Master Zheng Da not on this list of famous chefs?" Qin Huai asked.

Huang Jia was ranked 78th, and with Zheng Da's level, it should be easy for him to rank around 50th. According to Qin Huai's judgment, Zheng Da's cooking skills were only slightly worse than Huang Shengli's, and Zheng Da was not a chef, so being ranked 50th in the famous chef list should be a very prestigious thing.

"Uncle Zheng refused to participate in the ranking." Dong Shidao looked around and explained in a low voice, "In fact, he participated once and ranked fifty-third, one place lower than Master Tan of Zhiweiju. Uncle Zheng thought this ranking was too low, and he thought his cooking skills were not worse than Master Tan's. If he participated in the ranking, he would be suppressed by Master Tan, so he simply refused to participate." "But I think these are all excuses. The most important thing is that Uncle Zheng's ranking was much lower than Master's that time."

"When Master was first listed on the celebrity chef list, he was ranked 1th. Now he has dropped to 37th because of his back injury, which has caused his performance to be unstable."

"So is the head chef of Fenyuan Peng Changping, who ranks first, or Xia Muqi, who ranks tenth?" Qin Huai asked.

"It's Master Xia. Master Peng Changping has been retired in the United States for many years."

"How high are the prices of vegetables at Fenyuan? They are ranked tenth in the celebrity chef list and yet they are still called black-hearted." Qin Huai became even more curious.

Huang Shengli, who was ranked 37th at his peak, had such cooking skills. Qin Huai couldn’t even imagine how delicious the dishes cooked by the chef ranked th were.

Dong Shi thought for a moment and said, "I haven't eaten it, but I heard that it has one more zero than our Huang Ji."

Qin Huai:!
"If you don't make a reservation in advance, the price will be doubled."

Qin Huai: ! !

"Mr. Gong has been eating extra food these days. I estimate that he has spent more than a year's salary on it in just a few days."

Qin Huai had a completely new understanding of Gong Liang's wealth.

It's bad. I want to inherit 10% of his inheritance. Can the game system issue more side quests related to Gong Liang? He loves to do them.

"By the way, Qin Huai, Senior Brother said that you will not make Wu Ding Bao but Sanding Bao in the future. Why? Is it because sea cucumbers are difficult to process? You don't have to process it yourself." Dong Shi asked.

“I went back to the Yunzhong Canteen these few days to practice the Three-Ding Bao, and I felt that I had some insights and a big breakthrough. I think the Three-Ding Bao is more worthy of practice than the Five-Ding Bao, and I am better at making the Three-Ding Bao now, so I will only make the Three-Ding Bao in the future.” Qin Huai explained with a serious face.

Dong Shi: ?
I only took 6 days of vacation in total, what can I learn from it?
Cooking is not like practicing internal skills that you can't achieve overnight breakthrough to a whole realm of perfection. Cooking is something that is acquired through daily practice. Unless you reach a bottleneck, it is not possible to have an epiphany.

Qin Huai obviously has never encountered any bottleneck. He is just like a character in a game. He levels up when he has enough experience and has never been stuck at a level.

"Is that so?" Dong Shi didn't understand, but accepted it. "Then will you still make chicken noodle soup tomorrow morning?"

"Of course I will. Zheng Siyuan loves chicken noodle soup the most. Now that I can't make crab roe steamed buns, I will definitely make chicken noodle soup in the morning." Qin Huai said.

Dong Shi was confused again: "Zheng Siyuan likes to eat chicken noodle soup? Is that true? Did he tell you? How did you know? How come I have never heard of it? Although I don't talk to him very often, to be precise, he doesn't talk to us very often, but who spread his hobby?"

Dong Shiyi had an expression that said, "It's impossible for there to be another chef in Huang's kitchen who is more gossipy and better at gathering information than me."

"I guessed." Qin Huai said calmly, "I discovered a long time ago that Zheng Siyuan always seemed happier when I made chicken noodle soup in the morning. It was obvious that he liked chicken noodle soup more."

"Especially when he meets Huang Jia Diao Tang, he always drinks up all the soup."

"And I can also guess that although Huang Anyao says he likes to eat crab roe steamed buns, he actually prefers to eat fruit."

"Huang Jia likes the crab shell yellow with sweet filling."

"You like fermented rice steamed buns."

"Your brother's favorite is the Dream-Fulfilling Pancake, but he kind of dislikes the stuffing I make. Sometimes he'll secretly make his own stuffing to eat with the pancake."

Dong Shi was shocked again. It turned out that the person in Huang's kitchen who was better at finding out gossip than him was Qin Huai.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. Who will prepare the staff meal tonight?" Qin Huai asked.

"My brother." Dong Shi hadn't recovered from his shock yet. "It turns out that last time my brother fried the meat filling to go with Yuanmeng Shaobing. I explained why he suddenly fried the meat filling when there was no such dish."

Qin Huai nodded: "Then I'll go to the bone-setting shop to get my bones fixed first, and come over later to enjoy the staff meal."

Dong Shi watched Qin Huai leave and muttered, "Is it me who has worked at Huang Ji for eight years, or is it Qin Huai who has worked at Huang Ji for eight years? Why do I feel that he knows Huang Ji better than I do?"

Wang Jun silently divided the cut vegetables and said, "Qin Huai has the habit of observing other people's eating and memorizing their tastes. Don't you know that?"

Dong Shi suffered another critical hit.

"Why do you think Mr. Gong likes him so much?" Wang Jun said, "It's hard to find a chef with this level of skill and habit who can put it into practice."

"Not to mention that Qin Huai has a good relationship with Mr. Gong and is willing to give him some private lessons."

Dong Shi realized it. He put down the kitchen knife and chased after him: "Qin Huai, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll ask my brother to cook it for you!"

Wang Jun: …

It always feels like someone is rolling up in a strange direction.

(End of this chapter)