Chapter 159 The Great Games Began Merry Christmas
After finishing the discussion, Qin Mian called Manager Sun to the resting area.
"Manager Sun, send an order. You must carefully receive all the guests in the Shuangzhuan Restaurant for the next few days. Tea, snacks, fruits, as well as three meals a day, all must be refined to the best of their abilities. Also, bring me the list of pastries from the pastry shop. We supply them with whatever they order. Of course, the fees were still the same as usual, but he gave them a 10% discount. As for the three of them in Elder Liu, they will all get 20% off the discount. "
"Yes!" Don't worry Little Boss, we will definitely do our best! " Manager Sun left with high morale.
A doorman knocked on the door and reported, "Reporting to Little Boss, Young Master Nie is here."
"Quick, invite him in."
Nie Heng walked in, dressed in white, with a face full of happiness.
Qin Mian sized him up from head to toe, and teased: "Why are you willing to go out today?"
"You dare to say that." Nie Heng sat down and ate the cherry on the plate, "I got married but you and Lei Tia actually didn't appear. I had originally thought of letting Yuan Yuan and his be my rolling boy, but it's such a pity. "
"You understand us too." Qin Mian whined, "If our Shuangzhuan Restaurant accepts the challenges of several restaurants at the same time, how easy will it be for Tia and I? "Of course I have to hurry up and train harder."
Nie Heng hit the nail on the head, "Is it your Shuangzhuan Restaurant challenging all the restaurants?"
Qin Mian laughed without saying a word.
"You should have seen it, right? My family's restaurant is also participating. " Nie Heng said again.
Qin Mian nodded, "I saw it. You guys can join as well. You probably don't know this, but Liu Yun came. I heard he used to be a chef? "
Nie Heng's mind shook, "Really? Of course, the Elder Liu was a legendary figure in the culinary world. It was rumored that he had initially set up his stall by the roadside. When he was young, he had accidentally discovered him and brought him to the palace. Afterwards, he had become famous just like that. Although he did not know whether this matter was true or false, the Elder Liu was a truly capable person. In this competition, even if our restaurant ca
ot win the championship, it would be great fortune if we could get some pointers from the Elder Liu. "
Qin Mian agreed. Just as he was about to speak, the door was pushed open.
"Wife ??" Lei Tia carried two sleepy little fellows in and nodded at the sight of Nie Heng, "Congratulations. "Early son."
Nie Heng's forehead twitched. Did he really have no intention of showing off?
"Many thanks ??"
"Father." The voice that had just woken up was so soft it hurt.
Yuan Yuan extended his hand out towards Qin Mian. Because he had been sleeping for too long, his face was as red as an apple.
Qin Mian walked over quickly, "What's wrong?"
"Your son wants you when he wakes up." Lei Tia passed Yuan Yuan to him.
Nie Heng snickered on the side, the cold guy seemed to have become his father.
Qin Mian hugged one of them with one arm, Yuan Yuan and his whole body rubbed against his chest, drowsily falling asleep.
Nie Heng stood up, "You guys are busy, I'm going out to eat."
"You didn't say anything." Qin Mian had an apologetic face, "I and Tia will treat you to a meal another day. Right, is Mu Chen still in Zhaoyang? Call him. "
Yuan Yuan couldn't sleep well, so he frowned. Lei Tia lightly patted their backs.
The scene of the family of four together exuded boundless warmth.
Nie Heng said, "Half a month ago, he had already returned to the capital due to an urgent matter."
Qin Mian was very regretful.
After Nie Heng left the room, he sat down on the sofa and adjusted the posture of the two little fellows. Lei Tia patiently struck the beat for them.
After Yuan Yuan and the others were fully asleep, the two of them started to talk in low voices.
"My wife, did the discussion go smoothly?"
"Yes." Qin Mian smiled and nodded, with a pleased look on his face, "Tia, it seems like the heavens are on my side this time. I did not expect the former chef Liu Yunwei and his two famous friends to appear. The three of them would make the result more convincing. This time, it will be hard for our Shuangzhuan Restaurant to not become famous! "
"So confident?" Lei Tia leaned over and kissed him.
"Of course!" Qin Mian turned slightly, and leaned on his body. "Tomorrow night, let's prepare the ingredients together with me."
Lei Tia nodded, and deepened the kiss.
After Nie Heng left the resting room, he prepared to go to the second floor's private room for a meal. When he passed by the lobby, he noticed that there were some customers who had never seen such exquisite pastries before.
"If there's any new snacks today, please give me a serving of each."
"Yes."
Elder Liu, Elder Gu, and Elder Wen sat at a seat close to the window, looking at the dim sum on the table. They were silent for a moment. The first was a rainbow cake, cut into rhombus and placed on a white china plate. The split was so large that the red, orange, yellow, green, green, green, blue, and purple colors made one feel pleased just by looking at it. The second was a biscuit, a red, light green, peach, pear-yellow, with a sweet fruity aroma. "Either way, they were pleasing to the eyes, and their appearance alone gave them a favorable impression.
After a long while, Elder Liu had a face full of contemplation, and laughed: "The two bosses of Shuangzhuan Restaurant truly are two extraordinary people."
Old Gu spoke in a more serious tone, "It's hard to say for now."
Elder Wen picked up a piece of biscuit and placed it in his mouth. "We'll know very soon."
"..."
The night before the tournament, after Yuan Yuan and Lei Tia had fallen asleep, they came to the space together and prepared the ingredients needed for the competition. Because in the Shuangzhuan Restaurant, other than the small kitchen, there were only four stove, and there were a few participants. Every cook had to compete at least twice, so he had to prepare more dishes.
There was nothing to prepare specifically for vegetarian dishes; meat was even harder. The required lamb elbow, chicken breast, duck breast, duck gizzard, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and so on are all taken from space.
After dawn, Lei Tia got up first to boil the porridge before calling the two kids to wake up. After breakfast, he loaded all the ingredients into the carriage and went to the restaurant with his family of four.
Yuan Yuan knew that his father was going to participate in the competition today and had always been very obedient.
The place where the chefs would cook would be in Shuangzhuan Restaurant's kitchen. After cooking, they would take the dishes to the main hall and ask Elder Liu and the other two to comment publicly.
In order to prevent too many people from interfering with the competition, other than participants, fire burners who were specially designed for participants, and the people in charge of the various restaurants, only the one hundred spectators who arrived first were allowed to enter the Shuangzhuan Restaurant, and those who were late were not allowed to enter.
Qin Mian thought carefully. Anyone who came late would be able to get a bag of pastries from a Heaven Realm pastry shop for free. As the saying goes, eating a person's mouth is too short. If you get any benefits, then these people would be too embarrassed to complain.
The match began. The first part of the competition was to distinguish which seasonings were used in a particular dish. All the cooks placed ink and paper in front of them. After tasting the dishes, they wrote down the types of seasonings on paper.
Elder Liu and the other two went to the kitchen and brought out a bowl of soup. The soup looked more like water with all sorts of seasonings added on it.
Two waiters carried dozens of small bowls to the contestants.
The Elder Liu laughed: "This soup was cooked using various spices randomly by this old man, Elder Wen, and Old Gu. The taste might not be too good. All three of us knew what we had added, and we didn't know what the other two had added. When you're done, we'll a
ounce the answers together. In addition, please write your names on the paper. "Please."
Qin Mian scooped up a spoonful of soup, took a small sip, carefully studied it, picked up the brush, and wrote.
Lei Tia, Yuan Yuan and the others were sitting around the wall watching the competition.
"Dad," seeing that my father was writing, he went close to Lei Tia's ear and covered his mouth with his small hand, saying in a small voice, "Daddy's words are ugly."
Lei Tia glanced at his wife with a smile in his eyes. It was no wonder that both Man Man and Yuan worshipped him even more, his wife's calligraphy had not improved at all. Maybe he should teach his wife in the future.
"Can I let dad learn calligraphy with all of you?"
Yuan Yuan and Man nodded their heads repeatedly. Their two identical faces had sneaky smiles on them, exactly the same as their father's sneaky smiles.
Qin Mian was completely unaware that he was being schemed against by his own man and his son.
The three Elder Liu s looked at each other, each with their own thoughts.
After another moment, everyone stopped writing.
The waiter took the paper and gave it to the three of them.
Elder Liu and the other two talked about the seasonings they had added.
"This old man has added Octagon Aniseed, Soy Sauce and Grass Fruit ??"
"What this old man has added is Chen peel, wine, salt, ci
amon ??"
"This old man has added sugar, ginger, garlic ??"
A chef cried out involuntarily, "It is impossible for there to be wine. I did not taste the wine."
Elder Liu and the other two smiled and shook their heads, they quickly flipped through all the papers and found the correct answer.
"Why did you not taste it, and yet so many people tasted it?"
The cook sat down, speechless.
Elder Gu read out the names of those who answered correctly, "Wang Fusheng, Liu Zongxian... Wu Dewang... Qin Mian... "Zheng Xiangui ??"
Qin Mian looked at Lei Tia, Yuan Yuan and Full Moon.
Yuan Yuan smiled merrily and gave him a thumbs up, using his urging gaze, he signaled Lei Tia to do as he was told.
Lei Tia's face was stiff as he gave a thumbs up.
Qin Mian's smile suddenly bloomed, his spirits soaring and his charisma shooting in all directions.
There were a total of 79 participants, with only 22 passing the first round. However, the first stage wasn't too hard. He could still reverse the second and third stages.
The second competition was to make vegetarian dishes. Each group would have two people eliminated first. The eliminated participants still had a chance to compete after the competition. If they were eliminated once again, they would lose the second match. In that case, it didn't matter if the third test ended in victory or defeat. There was no turning back the tide.