Since the Spring Festival Transport is an important event in the Han Dynasty every year, it is difficult to get a ticket for most means of transportation during the Spring Festival Transport period.
Li Xiao didn't buy a ticket originally, but later one of the first-class passengers on this flight temporarily refunded the ticket, so he missed it and bought it.
Of course, first class is indeed much more expensive than ordinary economy class, but the price difference of a thousand or several hundred is not worth mentioning to Li Xiao now.
Since he was traveling in first class, he could check in his tickets in advance. Li Xiao entered the VIP waiting room early. The environment here was more luxurious than that in the airport.
Snacks, snacks and drinks are all available, and two young ladies are enthusiastically providing all kinds of help in the waiting room at any time.
There were many people sitting in the waiting room, most of them were elites in suits, working in the waiting room with tablets or laptops.
Although there were many people, no one made a sound. Occasionally, a few people who needed to answer the phone would quickly get up and walk out of the waiting room to avoid affecting other people's work.
Quietness and busyness seem to have long been the customary rules for these elites in the waiting room.
Although there were no slogans on the wall, and the two young ladies did not prevent everyone from communicating, no one spoke and they worked quietly.
Seeing this scene, Li Xiao couldn't help but secretly rejoice. Fortunately, he had just bought a few books in the bookstore. Otherwise, in such a serious work atmosphere, taking out his mobile phone to watch short videos would seem a bit excessive.
Soon all his attention fell on books. What he was holding now was a monthly magazine called "The Food of the Month". As the name suggests, the monthly magazine is a publication that is published once every month.
This issue of [Food of the Month] just talks about matters related to this star chef competition.
Li Xiao took a look and saw that there were a total of 100 judges in this one-star chef competition, which can be said to be quite large. Every 10 judges were divided into a group, that is, 10 groups.
The highest and lowest scores from each group of judges will be eliminated, and then the average will be calculated. This is the chef's final score.
This can try to avoid the situation where acquaintances and enemies deliberately give high or low scores.
Of course, some people may say, what should you do if the 10 judges you randomly encounter are your enemies and deliberately give you low scores?
If ten random judges out of 100 are your enemies, you probably won’t be able to survive in this industry.
Packing your bags early and going home to find another job may be a better way out.
Li Xiao also saw a lot of information about chefs in magazines, but none of these lists had low stars.
The lowest one named Wu Haodong already has 4 stars. After all, his level is so low that others don’t even have the will to pay attention.
And four-star senior chefs can serve as head chefs in some well-known high-end restaurants.
Mr. Wu Haodong himself is a chef with one Michelin star in the capital. He is quite young, only 32 years old this year.
He graduated from a professional chef academy at the age of 20 and was promoted to a 4-star chef in just 8 years at the age of 28. This year is his second challenge as a five-star chef.
This journal also specifically noted that Wu Haodong is the favorite in this year's five-star chef competition, and many judges are very optimistic about it.
If the level of the contestants was not too high in the last evaluation, in other years they would have been successfully promoted in the first exam.
Li Xiao even saw an acquaintance in these lists, the gray-haired head chef of Jinsha Restaurant, Cai Rongsheng.
Of course, this old gentleman is not here to compete, but to be a judge.
Moreover, the evaluation content of star chefs above six stars is more complicated, so what Secretary Zhang said yesterday was to help him find recommenders below six stars.
Mr. Cai Rongsheng served as the main judge this time, and an old man named Yuan Lidong served as the deputy judge.
The main judges and deputy judges are not included in the 100-member jury. They are responsible for ensuring the fairness and impartiality of the entire competition.
Anyone who feels that any unfair situation has occurred during the game can immediately report it to these two people.
And two 6-star senior chefs are fully sufficient to serve as notaries for the previous evaluation.
In addition, Li Xiao also saw just now that there were only more than 50 people signing up for this year's six-star senior chef competition before the deadline.
According to the practice of previous years, there are only about 5 to 6 people selected in the end. Of course, if the overall results are different, the number may be even less, but at least one person will be selected and there will be no zero points.
Just as he was watching intently, a voice of greeting suddenly came from the side. Li Xiao looked up and saw a beautiful stewardess pushing a dining cart and standing next to Li Xiao.
He quickly came to his senses. He had been so engrossed in reading just now that he didn't even notice the person coming next to him. He quickly sat upright, trying to pretend that he was very experienced in flying.
The young lady showed a shy smile and nodded slightly:
"Hello, sir, it's cabin time now. Today our crew members have prepared 8 kinds of set meals for the first-class VIPs. The main dishes are herb steak, black pepper beef short ribs, smoked salmon, cheese-baked Boston lobster, and cumin braised lobster.
Lamb chops, potato braised short ribs, Russian pastrami sausage and finally Orleans grilled chicken legs.”
After listening to the flight attendant's introduction, Li Xiao couldn't help but his eyes lit up, my dear, the first-class airplane food is so rich?
There are 8 choices for the staple food alone, and each one seems to be quite good?
In the past, he saw that the airplane meals posted by others on WeChat Moments were terrible. A tin foil box with a few messy things in it was considered a meal.
What's more, some airlines will use some bread and stewed noodles as staple food, which is simply chilling and scary.
In addition, some low-cost airlines have appeared in recent years. Since the ticket prices are quite low, not to mention in-flight meals, even if you need to drink water during the flight, you need to pay extra for it.
Li Xiao hesitated for a moment before ordering the most expensive one, and said to the flight attendant in as low a voice as possible:
"Then bring me a cheese-baked lobster."
The waitress smiled sweetly and took out a huge box wrapped in tin foil from the cart.
The height of this box is similar to that of ordinary rolling paper, and the area is about the same size as two palms. It feels very thick when held in the hand. It is also wrapped with a layer of plastic sealing film, which shows that it is very sophisticated.
In addition to a large box of Boston lobster, the stewardess gently put down the other food items that came with the flight meal, including three small tin foil boxes and a small bottle of yogurt. For drinks, Li Xiao asked for ordinary mineral water.
He opened the oversized box of Boston lobster with excitement and anticipation. After all, it was his first time to eat airplane food, and it was such a good airplane meal, so he was still looking forward to it.
The Boston lobster in the tin foil box was different from what he imagined. He thought it was a complete Boston lobster, but at the worst, it was probably a baked lobster with both sides broken.
However, what appeared in front of him was in pieces. Even the red shell of the lobster had been removed, leaving only the red and white lobster meat wrapped in cheese.
Good guy, this is too much to give up. After all, the lobster shell can take up a lot of space. If the shell is not removed, the amount of meat that needs to be put down will be reduced by half.
The cost has been drastically reduced, but now, in order to make it easier for guests to use it on the plane, the shell has been removed, leaving only big mouthfuls of lobster meat, which is so considerate.
Li Xiao couldn't help feeling that the extra 1,000 yuan spent on this first-class cabin was indeed worth it. Not only did it not require queuing, the environment and service in the terminal were also quite good, and the seats on the plane were also very spacious.
This airport is great during the Chinese New Year. It seems that if you have to fly next time, you can still choose to fly first class. After all, you get what you pay for. You can buy so many services for more than 1,000. Li Xiao thinks it’s still good.
Quite worth it.
He picked up a plastic fork and forked a piece of plump lobster meat into his mouth. His eyes lit up. The lobster meat was actually quite well cooked.
The cheese sauce uses two types of cheese, mozzarella cheese and cheddar cheese.
The former makes the cheese rich in texture and can be easily pulled, while the latter provides a rich flavor.
Cheddar cheese is considered one of the finest cheeses in the world and is made from pasteurized semi-skimmed milk.
The firm texture, full and delicate milk flavor, and strong aroma are the characteristics of this cheese.
Most baked rice, baked spaghetti, and baked lobster often contain a large amount of cheddar cheese as a seasoning.
The semi-fluid cheese was also mixed with some green powder. Li Xiao thought it was rosemary powder at first, but unexpectedly it turned out to be basil powder.
Although the flavors of the two spices are very close, basil powder has a stronger flavor than rosemary powder, and the basil powder is slightly spicy.
The super high-calorie cheese sauce doesn't taste so greasy, and you won't feel full after just two bites. The slight spiciness can also stimulate the tongue's taste buds, making the taste richer.
A little sea salt is added to the cheese to make the cheese taste salty.
The lobster meat also tastes quite good. The shrimp meat is very plump and the meat is very elastic. It looks very fresh at first glance. It is probably that it was cut into pieces while it was still alive.
The taste of the lobster meat is relatively bland, but it is easy to taste the freshness and sweetness of the shrimp meat itself. Mixed with the rich cheese sauce on the surface, it is unexpectedly soft and salty.
After finishing a mouthful of lobster meat, Li Xiao looked a little shocked. He didn't expect that an airport could achieve such a level. It was really beyond his expectation.
Usually, what he hears most from others is how shabby, unpalatable, and perfunctory airplane food is, but he has never heard anyone say that airplane food is delicious.
Perhaps it is also because of this subconscious feeling that it is not delicious, so the psychological expectations have been jumped to a very low level.
After lowering your psychological expectations, you encounter a pretty good product, and you will have this feeling of surprise and amazement.
Maybe if this cheese-baked lobster appears in an ordinary high-end restaurant, Li Xiao can find all kinds of little problems with it.
But if such quality appears in an airplane meal prepared several hours in advance, then he really can't make too many demands.
You should know that most food needs to be cooked and eaten immediately. After many dishes are prepared, they even need to be eaten within ten or dozens of minutes.
For example, the most common specialty of Sakura Country is sushi. It is best to pack it and eat it now, otherwise the taste and texture of the dish will drop rapidly.
However, the cheese-baked lobster in front of me was made several hours in advance and placed in a sealed tinfoil container, but it did not greatly affect its taste and quality.
This alone is very powerful. The head chef who controls this central kitchen must have a very high star rating and have high professionalism.
After all, this airplane meal needs to be prepared several hours in advance and transported to the plane. After that, it will be heated continuously and multiple times.
After going through this tortuous and bizarre process, the food taken out must taste completely different from the food put in.
However, the chef can make the food still delicious after hours of tossing, which requires quite terrifying control.
Li Xiao thinks that if it is a few box lunches, he can still easily make them for several hours and still keep the dishes as delicious as possible.
But if it is a large-scale production, it will require a long period of research, and the final result is still unknown.
The other three tin foil boxes contained assorted nuts, assorted fruits, and a small portion of spaghetti with meat sauce.
The fruits are not too expensive, just two pieces of pears, two pieces of apples, two grapes, and a few cherry tomatoes.
The apples and pears were cut into pieces and neatly placed together, looking quite appetizing.
Both pears and apples have a slightly salty taste, because apples and pears that have been cut in advance will easily oxidize if they are not soaked in salt water.
Of course, the taste is not as good as freshly cut fruit, but overall it is not too bad, just acceptable.
However, this baked spaghetti with meat sauce is a bit unsatisfactory. The beef in the meat sauce is too dry, and there is too much tomato sauce in the meat sauce.
As a result, the entire noodles smelled like tomatoes. If it weren't for the black beef cubes inside, Li Xiao would have thought it was a box of tomato-baked spaghetti.
After eating and drinking, Li Xiao took out the newly bought book and started reading.
I finished reading all of [The Food of the Month] and the plane just landed.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the plane is about to arrive at Nanyuan Airport in the capital. Please put away the small table in front of the table, put on your seat belt, and turn off the mobile signals of mobile phones, tablets and other electronic devices. Please do not use it until the plane stops.
Walking in the aisle, thank you for your cooperation."
...
The plane landed safely. As soon as Li Xiao walked out of the terminal with her luggage, she was distracted by a breath.
"Mr. Li Xiao, I'm here."
Li Xiao followed the voice and saw that the speaker was a tall man of 1.9 meters and close to 2 meters. Although he was very tall, he looked a bit thin, like a bamboo pole.
Li Xiao quickly raised his hand to say hello to the other party. This should be the person Xie Bing and the others said was coming to pick him up.
In fact, he originally refused to let others pick him up at the airport because he felt that it seemed too big-name.
In TV and novels, the treatment is only given to big bosses or protagonists. A small person like him can just get through by himself.
However, Xie Bing and others said that the management of the national sports team is very strict. If no acquaintances are brought in, it will not be useful even if they have documents, so he has no choice but to agree.
"Hello, you are Zhou Qingfeng, right?"
"Yes, hello. I'm glad to see my compatriots from my hometown in the capital."
The two shook hands and walked toward the parking lot.
Zhou Qingfeng looked at Li Xiao curiously as he walked.
He had heard of Li Xiao's name some time ago, but it only had a bad reputation because there was no such a maverick in the national team.
Did you start serving the national team in your 20s?
As a food anchor but want to work part-time as a national team athlete?
A connection through the back door?
A drugged athlete who overdosed on doping drugs?
Test fraud?
It was all hearsay, and it even made countries like them from Guangdong feel ashamed of their athletes.
Because from the professional perspective of a professional athlete, it is almost impossible for an untrained ordinary person to achieve such results.
Unless the person's physical fitness is different from ordinary people, and this specificity must be quite strong, only then can the gap between amateurs and professionals be bridged.
For example, it is very possible for an amateur basketball player who is 2.8 meters tall to guard a professional basketball forward who is 1.8 meters tall.
Because an amateur athlete who is 2.8 meters tall has a crushing advantage in height and physique, with a little proper training, he can still cope with ordinary professional forwards.
Of course, this is just about general professions. If a forward encounters some professional players with strong physical qualities, their height advantage will be crushed by their strong professional qualities.
However, among the rumors received by the athletes of the national team, they did not hear that this amateur athlete had any special qualities.
Weight, height, arm length, and leg length are all within the scope of ordinary people.
Of course, in fact, video materials and electronic data are reported together with the results and news.
There is basically no way to fake this information, but ordinary athletes like them have no way of accessing such confidential things.
Therefore, as hearsay spreads, the information becomes more and more mysterious.
He drank nine bottles of stimulants in a row, bribed four referees, and a sports team in Guangdong Province was given a gag order.
Later, some people even said eloquently that the other party had a certain big shot background, and he only came to the national team to play and make up for the regrets of the past.
Especially since people are worse than dogs, after the incident broke out, Li Xiao, as the second party involved, also appeared in public.
The athletes of the national team immediately recognized this incident. The person involved was the amateur player who had been rumored a while ago.
As the incident fermented and developed, Zhao Buhui was quickly arrested, a boss with a market value of over 100 million, a man who once dominated the world and committed all kinds of evil.
After meeting Li Xiao, he was sentenced to more than ten years in prison just for biting and beating people with dogs.
Such a heroic figure was crushed to death in an instant as if he had no power to fight back.
Not only was he angrily denounced by the entire Internet, but he was actually imprisoned in real life, which is even more fantasy than a fantasy TV series.
Some people who originally did not believe the rumors have also changed their tune. After all, everyone knows that in this money-oriented society, it is impossible for such a thing to happen without sufficient rights and more money.
