2456 An exception invitation
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people and the moon would be reunited. It was a very common thing for friends and family to present mooncakes to each other. Apart from Yuan Zhou, many familiar customers, especially the skeletal ones of the queuing Committee, had also prepared mooncakes for Yuan Zhou. Some of them had bought the mooncakes and some had made the mooncakes themselves. Among them, Wu Hai had made the mooncakes himself.
Yuan Zhou didn’t dare to eat the rainbow-like mooncakes. As a kitchen monster, Wu Hai vividly demonstrated his super destructive ability.
Even the bear couldn’t save his cooking skills. The main reason was that he stubbornly believed that the color combination was the important role of the pigments. Even though he knew that the vivid colors of Yuan Zhou’s dishes weren’t actually the pigments, Wu Hai still wanted to create his own cooking path and use the pigments to pave them. As for whether they were edible or not, that was up to the people who ate them. Anyway, he never ate his own food.
Not only the customers, but even Yuan Zhou’s disciples had also personally made special mooncakes of their own cuisines as gifts, such as Cantonese, Jiangsu, Yunnan, and so on. They could even hold a fair and display the mooncakes.
These mooncakes were all eaten by Yuan Zhou himself. Therefore, the ones Yin ya ate were definitely made by him personally. He had to insist on this.
During the festival, Yuan Zhou couldn’t forget about the rice and the others. He specially developed a meat mooncake that could be eaten by cats and dogs for the rice and the others and made quite a lot of it.
Yuan Zhou knew that Romeo and meaty often came to visit. During festivals, they should prepare more food. If they came to visit, they would have food to eat. Rice was also a matter of face for them, right?
Everyone was quite satisfied with this Mid-Autumn Festival. When Yuan Zhou saw co-way Chu on the second day of the festival, he even wondered if he had come here specially to eat the mooncake.
When Chu Xiao arrived at the restaurant, the breakfast time had just ended and it was not yet time to prepare lunch. It could be said that the time was very precise.
In fact, Chu Xiao was supposed to arrive on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, he arrived on the second day. It must have been because of the bad weather that he arrived one day late.
I’ve already sent you the mooncakes.” Yuan Zhou said that reflexively.
The main reason was that the mooncakes were very popular this time. Not only did Wu Hai keep pestering Yuan Zhou for them, but other customers also wanted Yuan Zhou to sell some gift boxes of mooncakes. In that way, it wouldn’t be a problem to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival every day.
The thoughts of all foodies were surprisingly similar.
Even Li Li, who got a small mooncake made by Yuan Zhou, secretly wanted Yuan Zhou to make more mooncakes for sale. Maybe he could follow the trend and make some similar peripheral products for sale.
Yuan Zhou didn’t agree with him. As many people were asking about him, the first thing that came to his mind when he saw Chu Xiao was a mooncake.
“I know. I have something important to discuss with you.” Chu Xiao became stiff for a moment and then said.
He wouldn’t tell Yuan Zhou that his first sentence was indeed to ask about the mooncakes. It was a secret.
“What is it?” Seeing Chu Xiao speaking so seriously, Yuan Zhou also said with a serious look.
“Recently, the European famous chef’s Association is planning to hold a red wine and food appraisal conference. I think this is an opportunity to showcase our Chinese food to all European countries, so I came to ask if you would like to participate?” Chu Qi said.
Although he was cooking creative French cuisine, he still had deep feelings for his homeland. However, Chinese cuisines were just so-so, and with the Golden signboard of Yuan Zhou and the fact that Yuan Zhou had just made a name for himself in the European cooking circle not long ago, if he participated in the contest this time, he could strike while the iron was hot and consolidate Yuan Zhou’s reputation in Europe.
As soon as he got the news, Chu Xiao couldn’t wait to go back to Chengdu to ask Yuan Zhou about his thoughts before the public registration was even made. After all, his restaurant couldn’t do without him. As for how many meals he would have, it was definitely something he could do in passing.
Chu Xiao indicated that it wasn’t a problem for Yuan Zhou whether he could take part in the European activities in Asia or not.
As for whether the new assistant, Xiao Qiao, had fainted from crying in the toilet, it was a small matter. At most, he would just get a new assistant.
The conscientious Xiao Qiao could feel the deep malice from her boss.
When Yuan Zhou heard Chu Xiao mention this matter, he suddenly recalled that when he was in Singapore previously, he had received a call from August and ju man Li, both of whom had mentioned this matter and strongly invited Yuan Zhou to lead the Chinese team to participate in the activity.
In fact, this event was almost a reserved event of the European chef’s Association. It was held once every two or three years. The time was not fixed, but the scale of each event was very large. Before this, no Asian chefs or countries had been invited to participate. This was the European’s own business.
This time, August and ju man Li both invited Yuan Zhou to attend the contest. They were also impressed by Yuan Zhou’s cooking skills. It could be said that Yuan Zhou was not far from being the best in the world.
Even before Chu Xiao told him, Yuan Zhou had already known about it. However, he was still very grateful to Chu Xiao for specially coming here to tell him about this news.
“Okay, I’ll think about it carefully. Thank you.” Yuan Zhou expressed his gratitude.
“Yes.” Chu Xiao nodded his head to show that he got it. Then, he said goodbye to Yuan Zhou and went out to wait for the time to line up.
He had specially come back to talk to Yuan Zhou about this matter. Now that he had finished talking, it was naturally time for the second task, which was to eat in the restaurant. This was also a big matter.
Yuan Zhou didn’t find it strange at all. After seeing Chu Xiao off, he directly went into the kitchen. The Mid-Autumn Festival had already passed, but the National Day hadn ‘t. As for the hotpot, he set it on the last day of the holiday. In this way, even after the holiday was over, there would still be delicious food to comfort his busy mood.
Ever since he came back from Singapore, Yuan Zhou would continue to study how to stir-fry the ingredients of the hotpot and the preparation of some special sauces whenever he was free. However, as the hotpot was a big stall, he had not thought of a way to serve the dishes.
“It’s definitely not realistic to eat in the restaurant. Not only does it take a long time, but it also takes a lot of time to prepare the dishes. It’s not reasonable to distribute the food like this.” Yuan Zhou thought inwardly.
Previously, when the base ingredients of the spicy hotpot were sold, Yuan Zhou didn’t need to prepare the dishes and it was considered simple. Moreover, when he brought the dishes to boil, he only brought a lot of them and didn’t eat for a long time. However, when the hotpot Encyclopedia was released, it was almost a blessing for hotpot lovers. However, there were also many people who didn’t like to eat hotpot.
It wasn’t strange for everyone to have their own preferences. Yuan Zhou hadn’t thought of any way to have the best of both worlds.
Suppressing his impetuous thoughts, Yuan Zhou focused all his attention on familiarizing himself with the new dish. When he came back to his senses, the alarm had already rung and it was time to prepare the ingredients.
As time passed, lunchtime began on time, and the customers began to enter the restaurant one after another. There were still as many people as there were during the holidays. It could be seen that the living standard had improved year by year, and the frequency of people having a sumptuous meal had also increased.
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