Chapter 434

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

His voice wasn't quiet; the diners at the nearby tables all heard it. They exchanged glances with each other and couldn't help but snicker secretly.

The first time An Liang came to eat at Lu Feng's shop, his demeanor was quite arrogant; many people haven't forgotten it.

Afterwards, when he came to the shop to eat again, he also rarely paid attention to anyone; everyone felt this person was somewhat mean.

Now that he's suffered a small loss, seeing him looking a bit helpless right now has balanced many people's hearts considerably.

However, An Liang wasn't truly angry; he merely voiced a complaint.

What he cares about most right now isn't the diners' "teasing" just now, but this Food Ingredient Manual compiled by Lu Feng sitting in front of him.

Some of the ingredients recorded in this manual are unheard of even by him, a Food Expert.

In his eyes, this manual is like a martial arts secret manual in a wuxia novel; holding it in his hand makes him not want to put it down.

While continuing to eat, An Liang held the manual and carefully read it through from beginning to end again.

After reading it once more, he still felt it wasn't enough, and had Assistant Xiao Yue, sitting opposite him, use her mobile phone to photograph the content of every single page.

In An Liang's eyes, this is fundamentally not an ordinary Food Ingredient Introduction Manual; it is clearly precious data recording the blend of ingredients and culinary skill.

In the past, every time An Liang finished eating at Lu Feng's shop, he would stay in the shop for a while longer.

However, this time after finishing his meal, he casually picked up the tissue on the table, quickly wiped his mouth, stood up directly, and left in quick steps.

After returning to the hotel he was staying at, An Liang instructed Xiao Yue, who was just preparing to return to her room: "Xiao Yue, one hour from now, come to my place to get the manuscript. You wait a moment and help me send it directly to the Food Column."

Hearing An Liang's words, Xiao Yue's steps paused, and she felt some doubt in her heart.

She had followed An Liang these past few days and hadn't seen him write a food review for any restaurant.

In the past, when writing reviews for other restaurants, An Liang took at least one or two days to write.

And after finishing, he often still needed to spend half a day revising.

Today he actually wanted her to submit the manuscript in one hour; she had never seen An Liang this hurried before.

Xiao Yue blinked, suppressed the doubt in her heart, and replied respectfully: "Okay, Teacher An Liang. I'll come to your place to get the manuscript in one hour."

An Liang nodded, pushed open his room door, and walked straight to the table in the room, sitting down with a serious face.

After opening his laptop, his fingers began dancing rapidly across the keyboard.

"Click-clack..."

The sound of fingers striking keys rang out in the quiet room. On the computer screen, the document's title was "Lu Family Restaurant: The Exquisite Blend of Ingredients and Culinary Skill."

Having eaten at Lu Family Restaurant so many times, An Liang finally couldn't help but evaluate it.

Those hotel bosses who invited him to their shops to taste dishes often had to expend great effort and make full preparations just to get An Liang to write a review for their hotels in his column.

Although An Liang's reviews have always been venomously sharp, pointing out many shortcomings and deficiencies in their hotels.

But as long as the article contained even a few sentences of praise, it could bring quite a few customers to those hotels.

However, this time An Liang writing a review for Lu Family Restaurant, Lu Feng himself didn't know at all, because he never requested An Liang to do so.

This time it was entirely An Liang himself voluntarily writing a review for Lu Family Restaurant.

On the computer screen in front of An Liang, text displayed rapidly.

"I once mentioned in articles I wrote before that a good Chef should be able to bring out the best flavor of the ingredients themselves. This viewpoint, until today, remains one I personally have always persisted in."

"However, today I want to add a new viewpoint on the basis of this one: a Chef whose culinary skill has reached the peak, besides bringing out the most perfect flavor of the ingredients themselves, should also have sufficient understanding of every ingredient used, including the ingredient's origin, growth characteristics, breeding conditions, etc. Only then can one more profoundly grasp the most subtle flavors and changes of the ingredients."

"I know, perhaps some people will feel such conditions are somewhat harsh, beyond what ordinary people can achieve. But during this period, I was fortunate to encounter such a Chef. For every ingredient he has handled, it can be said he knows it like the back of his hand."

"A Chef being able to reach this level, such pursuit and attitude of striving for perfection in culinary skill and ingredients, I believe is worth every Chef who wants to make their culinary skill more refined learning from. It can be said, with such an attitude, even if not a Chef, but engaged in any other industry, one would inevitably be a top-tier craftsman."

"......"

In the hotel's quiet room, the sound of An Liang striking keys was incessant.

An Liang's gaze stared fixedly at the computer screen before him, his mind constantly replaying every detail of dining at Lu Family Restaurant.

From the bowls and dishes used to serve food at Lu Family Restaurant, to the restaurant's unique decoration, to the color, fragrance, and taste of every dish — everything that could be praised was praised thoroughly.

This evaluation of Lu Family Restaurant is the highest evaluation An Liang has ever given since becoming a Food Critic.

In less than an hour, he had already written over four thousand words in one flowing go.

Throughout the entire article, almost all of it is praise for Lu Family Restaurant.

The only shortcoming An Liang pointed out was that there are too many customers going to the shop every day, and every time one has to queue for a long time to eat Lu Family Restaurant's delicacies.

After typing the last character, An Liang leaned back against the chair back, stretched lazily, rubbed his somewhat sore wrists, and browsed through the finished document from beginning to end.

The text had no flowery rhetoric, but reading it was vivid and interesting, giving one a sense of immersion from between the lines.

This is also the reason why An Liang's Food Critic column has always been deeply sought after by the vast number of food lovers.

This article is also the first time in these years of An Liang writing food reviews that he completed one in a single breath.

After reading this review he wrote himself, An Liang couldn't help but think: If this article is published in his column, those readers will definitely be able to feel the taste of Lu Family Restaurant through the text; estimated tonight there will be people rushing to Jiangcheng overnight.

"Thump-thump-thump—"

A few knocks on the door came from outside An Liang's room.

An Liang moved his wrist and said toward the door: "Come in."

The room door was gently pushed open. Xiao Yue walked in from outside. Her gaze swept across the computer screen in front of An Liang. Seeing the article was already finished, she said softly: "Teacher An Liang, I've come to take the manuscript you mentioned."

An Liang nodded, picked up the U-disk placed beside the computer, plugged it into the computer, copied the article into it, and handed it to Xiao Yue: "The manuscript is already written. You take it and publish it."