gourmet chef

Chapter 385 Jiang Wei's Humbly Asking for Advice
Seeing the last delicacy being eaten by Bai Xiaobai, Gao Chao and Lan Weihao could only watch dryly while swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

Bai Xiaobai completely ignored the 'hungry and thirsty' gazes of the two, finished the last steamed dumpling, rubbed oil on the soles of his feet, and slipped away.

Back in the glass kitchen, Bai Xiaobai brought out a special lotus leaf porridge with lean meat, as well as boiled Supreme Tea Eggs.

This is the breakfast he prepared for three people.

After the three of them had a hasty breakfast, the driver of the pickup truck honked the horn twice at the door.

Bai Xiaobai and the others loaded the equipment and ingredients needed for the food festival into the truck one by one.

Due to the introduction of new products, the required equipment has increased, especially the glass tank for Aolong is relatively large, and it is very troublesome to run.

Therefore, it took significantly longer to move the equipment than yesterday.

After the efforts of the three of them, everything was finally settled.

Bai Xiaobai pulled down the shutter in the shop and closed it, and then got on the passenger seat of the pickup truck to escort him.

But Gao Chao and Lan Weihao still took a taxi to XX Square.

The warm sun in early winter was slowly rising, and the warm sunlight shone on Bai Xiaobai's body, making him very comfortable and warm.

Without too many troubles in life, Bai Xiaobai feels relaxed and happy with all his heart devoted to gourmet cooking.

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The second day of the food festival is Sunday.

Some companies in Jianghai City have a rule of going to work on Saturdays, but on Sunday, basically all companies will have a holiday.

The first day of the food festival is crowded with people, so some food lovers will stagger the day and wait until the second day of the food festival.

When Bai Xiaobai arrived at the periphery of XX Square by car, many people already came to the square one after another.

It seems that the flow of people is not worse than yesterday.

Gao Chao and Lan Weihao were already waiting at the old place, and the three of them unloaded the equipment and ingredients from the small truck to the booth one by one.

Several booth owners next to Bai Xiaobai had already arrived, and they were all busy preparing for the opening of the food festival.

Only Boss Jiang, who was making 'Jianghai Fish Balls', smiled and said, "Boss Bai, here we come. See if you have a lot of equipment. Do you want to help?"

After finishing speaking, Boss Jiang stepped forward to help Bai Xiaobai move things.

Because there are so many things, one more person will definitely give more strength, and Bai Xiaobai has no reason to refuse.

Boss Jiang's full name is Jiang Wei. He is tall and thin, with slightly dark skin, and his short-cut hair is a little messy due to careful grooming every day.

Jiang Wei was dressed plainly today, even a bit abrupt.

He was obviously a young man in his early twenties, but he was wearing a very old black coat.

This style of jacket is generally worn by middle-aged people in their 50s and [-]s.

And his lower body is wearing washed white jeans.From the degree of whitishness, this pair of jeans has obviously been worn for more than a year.

As far as his outfit is concerned, it is really very shabby, and the total is estimated to be less than 100 yuan.

Bai Xiaobai would not judge a person by his clothes, let alone look down on Jiang Wei because of it.

Just judging from his clothes, Bai Xiaobai's first instinct was that this person should live a relatively poor life.

In fact, it was exactly as Bai Xiaobai thought.

Jiang Wei's father died of illness when he was young, and he was brought up by his mother's hard work on the farm.

The nine-year compulsory education was not finished, and Jiang Wei left the countryside to go out to work because of his poor family.

From the age of seventeen or eighteen to now, the young Jiang Wei has already done various jobs, such as hotel waiter, factory turner... also dispatched express mail and delivered takeaway.

Originally life was comforting, but Jiang Wei didn't want to be mediocre for the rest of his life. He had ambitions in life and wanted to start his own business and become his own boss.

Since he only had a junior high school education, it was impossible to do high-tech entrepreneurship, so Jiang Wei aimed at the catering industry as his first choice of entrepreneurial direction.

The threshold of this industry is relatively low, and the funds required for start-up are also within his tolerance.

However, the catering industry seems to be easy to get started, but it is not easy to gain a firm foothold.

If you don't have any skills in this industry, you will basically be unable to continue driving in less than two or three months.

Jiang Wei is no exception. He is not a professional chef. He is a half-way monk. He has only taken a crash course in gourmet snacks for two months. It can be said that he has no theoretical basis for gourmet cooking.

The hot-headed Jiang Wei borrowed money from relatives and friends, and opened a snack bar in X County in his hometown county.

It just didn't take long before it closed down due to poor management, and owed a debt because of it.

Misfortunes never come singly, his mother was hospitalized for chemotherapy for breast cancer at this time.

Hades wants you to die on the third watch, how can you keep him until the fifth watch.

After many times of chemotherapy and treatment, Jiang Wei's mother's life was not saved in the end. At the same time, the disease took up Jiang Wei's savings from working part-time for many years.

The impoverished Jiang Wei took care of his mother's funeral, but did not give up his dream of starting a catering business.

With what little savings he had left, he sold his ancestral home and the mountains and forests of his hometown, and bravely ventured across the river and sea alone.

It has only been less than two months since I came to Jianghai, and I heard at the beginning of this month that there will be a Jianghai Food Festival on NO.20 at the end of the month.

Although the organizer of this year's food festival announced to the outside world, all participating merchants are well-known catering industries or famous restaurants in Jianghai Province.

In fact, it is not always the case.

The organizer will still reserve a small number of booths and sell them to the outside world at a high price. The main purpose of course is to make money.

Jiang Wei took advantage of this opportunity and managed to get a booth with great difficulty.

These booths sold to the outside world are often more expensive.

For example, Boss Jiang's booth has a similar location to Bai Xiaobai's, and the floor space is almost the same, but the daily rent is nearly double.

It was hard for Jiang Wei to make a decision because of the high rent, but he gritted his teeth and rented this booth in order to have a chance.

He plans to make fish ball snacks at the food festival booth to earn a little living money.

But his thinking was too naive.

Everything was not as easy as he thought.

Although Jiang Wei had taken a crash course on professional fish ball snacks for half a month before the food festival, he hadn't mastered the essence.

Food crash courses mostly make money under the guise of 'food crash'.

They set up these food and snack trainings, and all kinds of materials and practical operations will be fully provided.

However, due to the time slot, tight curriculum, and large class teaching, it is impossible to provide one-on-one professional guidance to students, so how much you can learn depends on your own comprehension ability and acquired efforts.

Jiang Wei, who is half-baked, has no idea about the fish ball snacks he was training until now. His operation is very unfamiliar. Despite his many efforts, the taste of the fish ball snacks he cooks can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, not amazing enough.

Because the taste of fish balls is very ordinary, it is obviously not enough to look at in the gourmet food festival, and it is reasonable to be neglected by customers.

On the first day of the opening of the food festival yesterday, the sales of Jiang Wei's fishball snacks can only be described as 'disastrous'.

The hard-earned money in a day is not worth the daily rent of the booth, and it has never been posted on this day...

For this reason, Jiang Wei had the idea of ​​giving up, maybe he was really not suitable for the catering industry.

Just when he lost himself and wanted to give up catering business completely, he saw the booth next door, which was the booth of Xiaobai Restaurant.

It was as deserted as my own booth in the morning, why did it suddenly counterattack at noon, and there were so many more customers?Become so hot?
The miracle of Xiaobai's booth gave Jiang Wei hope.

He knew that the owner of this booth was definitely not an ordinary person, and a bowl of 300 yuan noodles in clear soup could make customers buy it wholeheartedly.

This little brother must be a good cook, with top cooking skills that can turn decay into magic.

Therefore, Jiang Wei decided to find an opportunity to humbly ask Bai Xiaobai for advice.

Hence, the scene of Jiang Wei coming over to talk to Bai Xiaobai early this morning, and helping Bai Xiaobai unload the cooking equipment and ingredients.

(End of this chapter)