Chapter 426

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

"Lu Boss, are you satisfied with my explanation just now?"

After the debunking streamer Xi Xi left, An Liang looked at Lu Feng behind the counter and asked with a smile.

Lu Feng was just about to return to the kitchen to continue cooking; hearing this, he stopped his steps, turned around with a hearty smile on his face: "Satisfied. What you said just now is actually pretty much the same as what I think in my heart. Thanks."

"Uncle, so you're actually a food critic!"

A somewhat surprised voice came from the hall side.

Ma Wenliang still had noodles clamped on his chopsticks, his eyes staring round and wide, staring at An Liang looking him over repeatedly: "I saw you come here several times last week, every time you ordered several dishes and ate them clean, I thought you were the same as us!"

"He's not the same as us."

Xiao Feilong next to him, eating the red braised pork in his mouth, chimed in indistinctly: "He's the famous food critic An Liang from the capital, everyone in the circle knows him. Any shop he's evaluated can casually explode in popularity. As long as someone's been in the catering industry for a while, there's no one who doesn't know him."

Xiao Feilong had been a food blogger for several years after all. Although he didn't run a restaurant, he more or less knew about An Liang's reputation.

"From the capital?"

Ma Wenliang's focus wasn't on An Liang's identity as a foodie, but rather he was very interested in An Liang coming all the way from the capital to Jiangcheng: "Lu Boss's influence is something else! Even a capital foodie got attracted. I estimate before long, Lu Boss's fame will probably spread nationwide!"

Listening to everyone's discussion, An Liang didn't put on any airs either. He stood calmly among the queuing diners, his face unwavering.

"Hey, I heard when foodies taste dishes, don't they only eat a few bites of each dish and stop? Look at this uncle, every time he comes to eat, he cleans his plate even more than me. Is he really a foodie?"

Ma Wenliang leaned over next to Xiao Feilong, asking softly with a curious face.

"I come here to eat, not to taste dishes. Same as you guys."

Ma Wenliang's speaking voice wasn't loud, but it was still heard by An Liang. He couldn't help but frown slightly and spoke a sentence.

His quiet muttering behind his back heard by the person himself, Ma Wenliang's face didn't feel embarrassed at all. Instead, he looked at An Liang with a curious face and asked: "Uncle, why did you come all the way from the capital to our small place to eat?"

"Because the food made here is delicious."

An Liang responded faintly with a sentence.

Ma Wenliang was still somewhat curious, couldn't help but pursue and ask: "Could it be that among the so many restaurants in the capital, none of the food made compares to Lu Boss? The capital doesn't have many Michelin three-stars, and old-brand private kitchen dishes and such? I saw them when I traveled to the capital before, but I didn't go in to taste. Those shops' renovations were all extremely luxurious. Heard a few shops' chefs were even hired from abroad. Isn't there a single one that can be mentioned in the same breath as Lu Boss?"

An Liang shook his head and didn't directly answer Ma Wenliang's question about whether the capital has restaurants that can compare to Lu Feng's culinary skill. Instead, he said seriously.

"There are many high-end restaurants and old-brand restaurants in the capital. There's no small number with decent taste either. But the per capita consumption there isn't low. Some shops, per capita several thousand or even ten thousand isn't considered much. And even if you can afford it, if you want to go eat at some shops, you have to reserve a week or even a month in advance. For ordinary people, being able to go eat once a month is already not bad."

As he spoke, he pointed at the pig trotter noodles in front of Ma Wenliang: "For example, this bowl of pig trotter noodles you're eating, at Lu Boss's place you eat it for less than a hundred yuan. If it were at a private kitchen shop in the capital, just this bowl of pig trotter noodles would be more than five hundred yuan."

"Good thing when I went to the capital that time, I didn't impulsively go eat."

Ma Wenliang listened with his eyes going straight, then said with a face full of emotion: "You put it like that, I suddenly feel Lu Boss's stuff here is simply all conscience prices! Before I still felt Lu Boss's stuff here, although delicious, was a bit expensive. Now hearing you say it, compared to those high-end restaurants and private kitchens, the cost-performance here is too high. It's simply cheap and worry-free!"

"Mm, my place is indeed very cheap."

Lu Feng heard Ma Wenliang's words, smiled and nodded in agreement.

Just now the moment Ma Wenliang finished that sentence, he noticed the system task progress bar in his mind advanced a small notch.

Looks like this exclamation came from the heart.

"Mm, compared to those high-end restaurants, your place is indeed cheap and convenient by a lot."

An Liang looked at Lu Feng, his eyes carrying a few parts acknowledgment as he nodded.

As a food critic who shuttles through high-end restaurants nationwide year-round, he knows the hidden costs of those places all too well.

By comparison, the cost-performance of Lu Feng's little shop is indeed very outstanding.

"Actually I feel, no need to compare with high-end restaurants. My place counts as pretty cheap too. You guys agree, right?"

Lu Feng heard An Liang's words, smoothly followed up with another sentence.

His gaze swept a circle over the other diners eating and queuing in the hall, expecting to hear a few agreeing responses.

Right now the system task progress had only moved two notches. If he could get a few more diners' genuine acknowledgment, maybe the progress bar could move forward quite a bit more.

However, what responded to him was a subtle silence.

However, regarding what Lu Feng said, many diners just hummed a couple times and nodded.

The meaning they expressed was very obvious. Although they heard it, they clearly weren't very agreeable.

The reason isn't hard to understand.

Although diners feel Lu Feng's shop dishes are worth the price, to say cheap, that really can't be said.

Many office workers who come to the shop to eat only come once every few days.

After all, most of them are just ordinary foodies.

For the food ingredients Lu Feng uses to cook, they only feel the taste is better than other places. They can't taste what ingredients were used to make them.

The most intuitive thing they can feel is that Lu Boss's prices here are higher than ordinary restaurants, but worth the money.

Seeing this situation, Lu Feng didn't feel discouraged in his heart.

He knew very well in his heart his shop's pricing, although it uses the system's guide price.

But the ingredients used in production, most are top-grade ingredients from the System Mall.

From the Algae Flower Fragrant Pig, Top-grade Qimen Black Tea, to various seasonings, those costs compared to other ordinary restaurants originally far exceeded them by a lot.

But diners don't know these now. Lu Feng didn't force them either.

After all, not everyone grows a foodie's tongue that can taste ingredients at once.

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Two hours of business hours quickly passed.

After the last diner in the hall put down their empty bowl and left, Lu Feng stood in the kitchen, tilting his head, pondering.