Chapter 449

Qin Huai doesn't know what a normal exchange meeting is like, but he has his own arrangements.

At 8:50 the next morning, Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan went to Eight Treasures House together. As an old brand in Beiping, Eight Treasures House is also a two-story detached restaurant. The exterior looks antique, but the interior decoration style is very new, and one can tell at a glance that it has been renovated in the last two years.

For this exchange meeting, Eight Treasures House even specially suspended the banquet hall's business for a day. Considering the scale of Eight Treasures House's banquet hall, it can be said that they attach great importance to it.

"Qin Huai, why do you think Eight Treasures House is making such a big fuss to hold this exchange meeting? They actually stopped business for a day. When our Zhi Wei Ju holds an exchange meeting, it's just for new dim sum, and the turnover is even better than usual," Zhao Chengan complained in a low voice.

Qin Huai: Zhi Wei Ju's exchange meeting is mainly about grabbing dim sum chefs from all over the country into their own kitchen to make dim sum. How could the turnover not be good?

"I don't know," Qin Huai said. "I only care if they provide dim sum and tea at the exchange meeting in the banquet hall."

Facts proved that the wealthy Proprietor Ling provided them.

Not only did they provide dim sum and tea, but they also provided various drinks. Cola, Sprite, sparkling water, and various fruit juices and coffees were all available. The drink menu was even more complete than the one on the plane.

Each restaurant's attendees were arranged with special seats, basically with savory chefs at one table and pastry chefs at another. Under normal circumstances, for this kind of exchange meeting, either the proprietor of each restaurant comes, or the second-in-command or third-in-command chef who is not the head chef comes.

Because Eight Treasures House is an old brand in Beiping and has been in the limelight in the last two years, and they are generous with their money, and it is the first time they have held such a large-scale exchange meeting, many restaurants gave Ling Guangzhao face and sent their head chefs.

Sitting next to Qin Huai was the legendary head chef of Cheng Fang Ju, the Melon King Pei Shenghua.

Qin Huai looked at Pei Shenghua with some curiosity.

Pei Shenghua is currently at the peak age for a savory chef and is the top Huaiyang cuisine master among active Chinese chefs in the country, second only to Xia Mubing and Sun Jikai. Compared to Xia Mubing, who is so old that everyone keeps exclaiming why he hasn't retired yet, Pei Shenghua and Sun Jikai, these two who might not have even reached their peak, are obviously promising and are the light of Chinese cuisine with high hopes of outlasting the chefs ranked high on the Famous Chef Record and squeezing into the top ten.

According to common sense, when people mention such a top master, the first thing they should think of is his super-high culinary skills, his signature dishes that amaze the audience, his master's school that is worth digging into, and the inheritance that makes people marvel.

As a result...

When mentioning Pei Shenghua, the first thing everyone thinks of is his gossip-eating level, which is even more awesome than his culinary skills. Compared to newcomers like Tan Weian who hear things everywhere and make up gossip, gossip slackers like Dong Shi who chatter away without getting to the point, and gossip reporters like Zhao Chengan who emphasize seeking truth from facts and only pass things on when there is solid evidence, Pei Shenghua is undoubtedly the King of Gossip.

As long as it is in the chef circle, whether it is savory or pastry, real melon, fake melon, watered-down melon, or second-hand melon, there is no melon that the Melon King Pei Shenghua doesn't know about. Other masters use their reputation to establish their status in the culinary world, while Pei Shenghua uses his status in the culinary world to eat gossip everywhere.

After all, as a master ranked 24th in the Famous Chef Record, if Pei Shenghua wants to eat gossip, everyone has to give him some face, more or less.

Take the video from last night as an example. It is said that the proprietor and head chef of Wei Xian Lou gave a death order and even gave hush money just to prevent the video from spreading. In fact, it really didn't spread much, but the video was indeed obtained by Pei Shenghua.

This is the gold content of the Melon King.

Seeing Qin Huai looking at him quietly, Pei Shenghua appeared very generous and asked with a kind smile: "Little Master Qin from Huang Ji?"

Qin Huai didn't expect Pei Shenghua to know him. You know, the attendee from Huang Ji this time was actually Huang Anyao, and Qin Huai was a last-minute replacement last night.

Pei Shenghua said again: "I heard that Huang Anyao was hospitalized with gastroenteritis, and you were temporarily replaced to attend the meeting. Is Little Huang okay?"

Now Qin Huai has seen the level of the Melon King and exclaimed: "He's okay. Master... Master Pei, how did you know?"

"Little Zhao sent me a message last night to tell me."

Qin Huai:... He knew Tan Weian's mouth was leaky, but he didn't expect Zhao Chengan's to be too. He couldn't even wait until this morning; he said it last night.

Pei Shenghua smiled kindly: "Little Zhao told me that you, Assistant Xiao Qin, are relatively introverted and don't know anyone, so he asked me to take care of you more. Actually, I guessed it long ago. Everyone in your Huang Ji basically has this personality, except for Huang Jia, who is slightly more extroverted."

Hearing Pei Shenghua say this, Qin Huai thought about it carefully and found that it was indeed the case. However, there was one exception: Dong Shi was terrifyingly extroverted. It was just that Huang Shengli, who was annoyed by Dong Shi's chatter, didn't dare to send him out to socialize easily; he was too noisy.

"Assistant Xiao Qin, let me introduce you. The one in front who looks unkempt is Li Ming from Shendu Rong Ji. His beef and mutton are superb, but he is a bit too specialized and doesn't like marketing, so his name isn't on the Famous Chef Record. Don't look at him like this now; he was a famous handsome guy when he was young. There were girls who fought for him. Later, after he got married, he didn't pay attention to weight management and became this fat."

"Hey, Assistant Xiao Qin, I remember you are quite young. Are you in a relationship? If not, do you have any type of girl you like? You can go back and ask Little Zhao. I am a famous matchmaker in the Jiangnan area, and I make several pairs every year. I have quite a few girls here with very good conditions. You see..."

"This..."

10 minutes later, Qin Huai completely forgave Zhao Chengan's chatter and finally understood why Zhao Chengan didn't get any information yesterday and still stayed with Pei Shenghua for a long time.

Pei Shenghua is really too good at telling gossip. Whenever a chef is mentioned, Pei Shenghua can easily talk about the other party's experience, signature dishes, glorious achievements, and wonderful past. His memory is surprisingly good. Although I don't know why he likes to be a matchmaker, he is not annoying. It is more like a conditioned reflex to promote a few words, which is purely a personal hobby.

Qin Huai's ears pricked up to eat gossip, and he almost forgot what he was here for today. If it weren't for Ling Guangzhao taking the stage to speak, he would have almost forgotten that there was such a person as Ling Guangzhao.

Qin Huai had seen Ling Guangzhao's photo when he searched for Ling Guangzhao's information last night. Just by looking at the photo, Qin Huai could guess that Ling Guangzhao was a very confident and perhaps even a bit conceited person. The four characters "high-spirited" were almost carved on his face.

He himself is indeed like this, wearing a suit and leather shoes, dressed very spiritedly, plus he is young and looks quite good, and he even blew a hairstyle. At first glance, those who don't know would think he is the domineering president who just returned to the country in the novel next door.

"Fellow colleagues in the industry, senior masters in the culinary circle, good morning. I am Ling Guangzhao. Some seniors may recognize me. I am very happy that everyone here is willing to come from thousands of miles away to our Eight Treasures House in Beiping to participate in today's exchange meeting. The main purpose of our Eight Treasures House holding this exchange meeting is to gather the masters in the industry together to exchange culinary skills and insights, strengthen connections, and make our Chinese food better and better."

"..."

After saying about 15 minutes of nice words, Ling Guangzhao entered the theme. First, he pulled a large group to pull everyone into the group, and then proposed that different regions, different cuisines, and different restaurants could increase communication and contact, and send chefs to exchange with each other. Immediately after, he said some business philosophies and insights of Eight Treasures House in the past two years, whether true or false, revealed a little bit of the salary and treatment of Eight Treasures House chefs in a super casual way, and fiercely praised Tong Deyan's current culinary level, introducing the new dishes launched by Tong Deyan during this period with heavy strokes.

To Qin Huai, these words were Ling Guangzhao showing his muscles to the chefs present, indicating that Eight Treasures House has money, the salary and treatment are full, and as long as the strength is strong, every chef will be respected. Master Tong, who once had a bad reputation and was excluded by the industry, is also a respected existence in our Eight Treasures House, and his culinary skills have even improved and he can launch new dishes.

This is not an exchange meeting; this is simply a poaching conference.