Chapter 194: Famous Chef Record (Added for Iron Armor Alliance Leader

Unlocking a new illustrated handbook entry was certainly happy, but what to eat tonight was more important.

Qin Huai changed his clothes and entered the back kitchen, only to find that only Wang Jun, Dong Shi, and a few others were cutting and preparing vegetables in the back kitchen; Huang Jia was not there, and Master Huang was not there either.

Upon asking, he learned that there was a wedding banquet at Huang Ji tomorrow night, and Huang Shengli would personally cook the limited dishes for the banquet, and was still doing physical therapy at this time to warm up for tomorrow's banquet.

Huang Jia was worried that Huang Anyao's business level was not up to standard and couldn't get the best ingredients from the supplier, so he went to watch it himself during the afternoon break. It was uncertain when he would return. If he didn't rush back by the evening business hours, Huang Shengli would likely drop in randomly to replace Huang Jia as the head chef.

It could only be said that the customers who came to Huang Ji for dinner tonight were blessed.

"Dong Shi, do you know which restaurants Mr. Gong went to eat in Beiping? Why did he go for so long? I looked at his Moments today and felt that he had no intention of coming back at all." Qin Huai rarely stayed in Huang Ji's back kitchen without having to work, and stood directly next to Dong Shi to gossip.

Dong Shi responded while cutting meat: "He only ate at one restaurant, the most famous private kitchen in Beiping."

"Fenyuan."

"Fenyuan?" Qin Huai took out his mobile phone and searched it, finding that it was indeed very famous. A search could bring up many posts, mixed with good and bad.

The positive reviews were basically commenting on the food, saying it was very delicious, well-deserved, and worthy of the craftsmanship of a master in the top ten of the Famous Chef Record.

The negative reviews were basically cursing the price, saying it was a profiteer, black-hearted, the vegetable price was crazy, selling vegetables or gold, no advance booking, adding money to add a table, no master style, the head chef was in the eyes of money.

"What kind of craftsmanship is the top ten of the Famous Chef Record?" Qin Huai asked curiously.

"Contemporary master, unique, reaching the peak." Dong Shi used very short words to give the greatest praise, which was very rare. "Let alone entering the top ten of the Famous Chef Record, as long as I can enter the top 50 of the Famous Chef Record in my life, even if the ancestral grave smokes, I will have no regrets in this life."

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

He knew about the Famous Chef Record, which was popularized by Huang Anyao when he popularized Xu Cheng's *Zhi Wei* to him, saying it was a mechanism founded by Xu Cheng similar to Michelin, but only ranking chefs.

Selecting the top 100 well-known chefs in the world to be on the Famous Chef Record, selecting once every 5 years. At first, 50 were selected globally. During the second selection, perhaps it was felt that the top 50 globally were too few, so the quota was increased to 100.

According to Huang Anyao, the main reason why the selection of the Famous Chef Record would increase from 50 chefs to 100 was because the selection cycle was too long, once every 5 years, and most of those on the list were red-case chefs, while white-case chefs were very rare.

The peak period of red-case chefs was only those few years. Many chefs were on the Famous Chef Record at the end of their peak period, and had retired or semi-retired by the time of the next selection. And the Famous Chef Record itself did not stipulate that only active chefs could be on the list; as long as the chef himself had not passed away, he could stay on the list.

This led to the fact that when the second re-selection was made, there were only about 30 active chefs in the top 50.

This led to the birth of many classic jokes about the Famous Chef Record, such as so-and-so, although he was third on the Famous Chef Record, he was the first active chef. As for why he couldn't become the first on the Famous Chef Record, it was because the top two had retired, and he couldn't fight the top two.

Of course, Huang Anyao, a loyal fan of *Zhi Wei*, had clarified this rumor, saying that such an absurd situation absolutely could not happen. The ranking of the top 50 of the Famous Chef Record required a professional team to deliberate repeatedly before it could be determined, and the top 30 needed Xu Cheng's personal certification.

As the most well-known gourmet in the world, Xu Cheng's credibility in eating was absolutely obvious to all, and it was precisely because of him that the gold content of the Famous Chef Record had remained high.

The gold content of the top 50 was very high, and 51~100 was relatively not very good. The bottom 50 did not need Xu Cheng's nodding approval, and the review team was also different from the top 50, so relatively speaking, there would be more moisture, becoming a way for some new culinary stars to brush their names.

This name brushing was very particular.

How should a new chef become famous in the chef circle?

The answer is to get on the Famous Chef Record.

Ordinary chefs have a threshold to get on the Famous Chef Record. There are so many restaurants all over the world, and the selection team of the Famous Chef Record cannot notice every chef in every restaurant. You must be famous first to be noticed by the selection team, and then they will go to the restaurant where he is to taste his craftsmanship, and then there will be a chance to get on the Famous Chef Record.

Therefore, the conventional way for ordinary chefs to get on the Famous Chef Record is to spend money to create momentum, buy advertisements, buy food magazine interviews, and accumulate a certain amount of fame to attract the attention of the selection team. Then, with not-so-bad craftsmanship, they barely get on the 90th place of the Famous Chef Record, get a tail-hanging ranking, and get a ticket for the next selection.

This kind of selection method has a lot of room for loopholes and black-box operations, which will lead to some chefs whose level is actually average getting on the Famous Chef Record because they spent money and were lucky, and there will also be many chefs with good levels missing the opportunity for selection because they are not famous.

It is precisely because of this that the recognition of the ranking beyond 60 or 70 on the Famous Chef Record is not high. Generally, only the top 50 will be recognized by the industry. The top 30 are recognized masters, the top 20 are industry benchmarks, and the top 10 are shining leaders.

When Huang Anyao popularized this to Qin Huai last time, Qin Huai had no concept of this kind of ranking, masters, craftsmanship, etc., and completely listened to it as a story and forgot it.

Now listening to Dong Shi's recognition, and Gong Liang is indeed lingering in the private kitchen of the chef ranked in the top 10 of the Famous Chef Record and doesn't want to return to Gusu, Qin Huai has some interest in this ranking and checked it.

Looking at the names, there should be two Chinese chefs in the top ten, namely Peng Changping, who is ranked first, and Xia Mubing, who is ranked tenth.

The fifteenth name is Sun Maocai, who should also be a Chinese chef.

The twenty-fourth name Qin Huai has heard of, Pei Shenghua, Pei Xing's distant cousin.

Further back, there are more Chinese chefs. Qin Huai looked carefully, Huang Shengli is ranked forty-fourth, which is the position of the top 50 goalkeeper.

Huang Jia is even worse, seventy-eight, a water-product ranking that is not recognized in Huang Anyao's mouth.

There is no Zheng Siyuan, nor Zheng Da.

"Why is Master Zheng Da not on this Famous Chef Record?" Qin Huai asked.

Huang Jia can be ranked 78, and with Zheng Da's level, it should be very easy to rank around 50. According to Qin Huai's judgment, Zheng Da's cooking skills are only slightly worse than Huang Shengli's, and Zheng Da is not a chef. Being able to rank in the top 50 on the Famous Chef Record should be a very face-saving thing.

"Master Zheng Uncle refused to participate in the ranking." Dong Shi said, looked around, lowered his voice and explained, "Actually, he participated once, ranked fifty-third, one place lower than Master Tan of Does Zhi Wei Ju. Master Zheng Uncle disliked this ranking being low, and thought his craftsmanship was no worse than Master Tan's, and he had to be suppressed by Master Tan when participating in the ranking, so he directly refused to participate in the ranking." "But I think these are all excuses. The most critical thing is that Master Zheng Uncle's ranking that time was much lower than Master's."

"Master's ranking when he first got on the Famous Chef Record was 37. Now it has dropped to 44 because of the waist injury, which led to unstable performance."

"Then is the head chef of Fenyuan Peng Changping, who is ranked first, or Xia Mubing, who is ranked tenth?" Qin Huai asked.

"It is Master Xia, Master Peng Changping is in the United States and has retired for many years."

"How high is the price of Fenyuan's dishes? Even the chef ranked tenth on the Famous Chef Record will be scolded as black-hearted." Qin Huai was even more curious.

Huang Shengli's peak ranking was 37 and he had this cooking skill. Qin Huai didn't dare to think about how delicious the food made by the chef ranked tenth was.

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

Qin Huai:!

"If you don't book in advance and add a seat, it will double again."

Qin Huai:!!

"Mr. Gong has been eating added seats these few days, and it is estimated that he has eaten more than a year of my salary in a few days."

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

Broken, I want to inherit his 10% inheritance even more. Can the game system issue more side quests about Gong Liang? I love doing them.

"By the way, Qin Huai, Senior Brother said that you won't make *wu ding bao* in the future but will make *san ding bao*. Why? Is sea cucumber difficult to handle? You don't need to handle it, right?" Dong Shi asked.

"It's because I practiced *san ding bao* at Yunzhong Canteen these few days, felt that I had some insights, and had a great breakthrough. I feel that *san ding bao* is more worth practicing than *wu ding bao*, and I am relatively better at making *san ding bao* now, so I will only make *san ding bao* in the future." Qin Huai explained with a serious face.

Dong Shi:?

Adding up, it was only a 6-day vacation. What insights could he have?

Cooking is not practicing internal strength and mental methods, breaking through a whole realm of great perfection at once. Cooking is all practiced by accumulating over time, unless you practice to a bottleneck, it is possible to have a sudden enlightenment.

Qin Huai clearly hadn't encountered a bottleneck. He was like a game character, upgrading when the experience was full, and never stuck at a level.

"So that's it." Dong Shi didn't understand, but accepted it, "Then will you still make chicken soup noodles tomorrow morning?"

"Definitely, Zheng Siyuan loves chicken soup noodles the most. Now that he can't practice crab roe *shaomai*, he will definitely make chicken soup noodles in the morning." Qin Huai said.

Dong Shi was confused again: "Zheng Siyuan loves chicken soup noodles? Is there such a thing? Did he tell you? Where did you know it? Although I don't talk to him much, to be precise, he doesn't talk to us much, but who spread his hobby?"

Dong Shi had an expression that there couldn't be a chef in Huang Ji's back kitchen who could gossip and explore information better than him.

"I guessed it." Qin Huai said calmly, "I found out a long time ago that when I make chicken soup noodles in the morning, Zheng Siyuan always looks a little happier. It is clear that he loves chicken soup noodles more."

"Especially when encountering Huang Jia making soup, every time he will drink the soup clean."

"And I can also guess that although Huang Anyao says he loves to eat crab roe *shaomai*, he actually prefers to eat *guo'er*."

"Huang Jia likes sweet-filled crab shell yellow."

"You like fermented rice buns."

"Your brother loves dream-fulfilling flatbread the most, but he dislikes the filling I stir-fried. Sometimes he will secretly stir-fry the filling himself to match the flatbread."

Dong Shi was shocked again. The person who could explore gossip better than him in Huang Ji's back kitchen was actually Qin Huai.

"Don't talk about this, who is making the staff meal tonight?" Qin Huai asked.

"My brother." Dong Shi hadn't recovered from the shock, "So last time my brother stir-fried the meat filling to match the dream-fulfilling flatbread, I said that there was no such dish, why did he suddenly stir-fry the meat filling."

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

Dong Shi watched Qin Huai leave and muttered: "Is it that I have worked in Huang Ji for 8 years, or Qin Huai has worked in Huang Ji for 8 years? Why do I feel that he is more familiar with Huang Ji than I am?"

Wang Jun silently divided the cut vegetables and said: "Qin Huai has the habit of observing others eating and recording their tastes, don't you know?"

Dong Shi suffered another critical hit.

"Otherwise, why do you think Mr. Gong likes him so much?" Wang Jun said, "A chef with this level and this habit, and who can put it into action, can't be found even with a lantern."

"Not to mention that Qin Huai also has a good relationship with Mr. Gong and is willing to open a special meal for him alone."

Dong Shi realized it. He put down the kitchen knife and chased out: "Qin Huai, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll let my brother stir-fry it for you!"

Wang Jun:...

I always feel that someone has rolled up in a strange direction.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 195 =====