At eight o'clock in the evening, in the banquet hall on the 12th floor of Donghuang Hotel, the opening ceremony of the 5th National Culinary Competition officially kicked off here.
The melodious sound of music came from the splendid banquet hall, and the bright crystal chandelier above the hall rotated and emitted a soft and gorgeous golden light.
On both sides of the venue's door, the welcoming ladies in red evening gowns smiled as warmly as the spring breeze to every guest who entered the banquet hall.
And tonight, in order to welcome this grand game, the entire Donghuang Hotel is fully lit!
Five minutes ago, that is, at 7:55, Dongfang Qing turned on the main switch in the dispatch room. Looking from the outside, he saw the towering Donghuang Building with the lights gradually dimming layer by layer.
When it lit up, the whole building slowly bloomed with golden light in the dark night, extremely bright!
Looking from a distance, the Donghuang Building shrouded in night is like a luminous pyramid, standing in the center of the city. The faint light of the nearby tall buildings is completely incomparable. It stands like a towering chicken among the city.
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Pedestrians coming and going all stopped to look up and admire the brilliant golden building.
"Bang bang bang!"
At eight o'clock, the banquet hall door officially opened. It was at the same moment that the contestants and guests entered the venue one after another, and the twenty-four fireworks in front of the hotel door were lit at the same time!
The fireworks that went straight into the sky illuminated the fountain statue with the word "Donghuang" engraved on it. The colorful fireworks also made the black sky extremely shiny. The luminous golden building was set off by the fireworks, and it looked like the world.
The center point is general.
At the end, after the last explosion, the brilliant fireworks suddenly scattered into countless light rains in the night sky. In the dark night sky, the colorful light rain slowly formed the four characters "Donghuang Hotel".
In the air, it refused to disperse for a long time.
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At this moment, the splendid banquet hall has been properly decorated. Amidst the welcome of the reception ladies, the guests entered the venue with smiles one by one. The red and comfortable carpet covered the entire banquet hall, and the bright chandeliers exuded beige.
of soft light.
On the left side of the banquet hall, music sounded melodiously. The sound of piano was accompanied by the gentle sound of violin, and the cello and harp were playing together. On the left side of the banquet hall, a whole symphony orchestra was playing rhythm under the command of the conductor.
Beautiful waltz.
On the left and right sides of the banquet hall, the delicacies prepared by the Donghuang Hotel in the afternoon were placed on the tables for tonight's guests to enjoy. At the same time, each waiter held a bottle of champagne in his hand and smiled.
of champagne filling guests' glasses.
At the front of the banquet hall, there is a podium made of pure crystal. The podium is crystal clear and extremely beautiful. There is also a pure gold microphone placed on it. On the right side of the podium, a champagne tower has also been installed.
The preparations are complete, just waiting for the end of the ceremony to be opened by Dongfang Qing and all important guests.
As for the one requested by Commissioner Huang, the banner "Warmly celebrating the official opening of the 5th National Culinary Competition" also appeared above the curtain in the banquet hall, but Donghuang also specially used "
A golden dragon and a phoenix were embroidered with gold thread, which made me feel taller.
In the lively banquet hall, dance music was melodious and people came and went. Waiters in black and white costumes walked among the crowd. The guests sipped the champagne in their hands, listened to the dance music in their ears, and talked enthusiastically.
Tonight, all participating chefs from the thirty-six hotels are present, including the owners of each hotel, the presidents and vice presidents of the catering associations in five provinces, and more than ten famous food critics.
Everyone attended tonight's opening ceremony.
Looking around, there are probably more than a hundred well-known people in the industry chatting with each other in the entire banquet hall. Almost half of the famous people in the Tianchao Food industry are here tonight, so it can be said that there are a lot of talents.
In addition, there are also reporters in the banquet hall. They are interviewing the seed players of this competition and important guests one by one. The atmosphere is extremely lively.
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Because the opening ceremony has not officially started yet, the guests present are holding wine glasses and chatting, laughing and complimenting each other. However, the atmosphere in the venue is far from as friendly as it seems on the surface.
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The bosses of various hotels, as soon as they entered the banquet hall, smiled and walked towards their nemesis. In their polite smiles and friendly conversations, they all contained the words "My people this time"
"If I don't beat you out of Xiang, I will close the door." There is a strong smell of fire and medicine. And the other party basically has the feeling of, "Wake up and stop daydreaming."
It seems that they are all beings who have made enemies in previous competitions.
The top chefs from major hotels who came to participate in the competition also smiled and greeted their familiar old friends. Some people gathered together to talk about the last competition, saying that I didn't sleep well last time, otherwise
You definitely can't do it.
Some people were holding wine glasses and said shyly, "I had a state banquet two days ago. Oh, I'm so ashamed. I almost made the foreign leaders cry. It's so shameful, so shameful."
There is another master chef who is even more exaggerated. His neck is covered with golden medals, ranging from municipal competitions to provincial competitions. The chef said that after so many years of debut, he is just short of a national level. Well, this time
I won't be polite.
The chefs next to me had smiles on their faces, but they all squinted their eyes slightly, thinking to themselves, who the hell are you? It’s your turn to show off your authority over kebabs in this competition.
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Looking at the banquet hall with a strong smell of fire and medicine, and listening to the sarcastic chatter, those present, namely the food critics, were quite happy.
While listening to the slightly flattering conversations of hotel owners around me, I glanced at each contestant and saw many familiar old faces, as well as many who had won honors in recent years.
After being featured as a new face in various TV magazines, the critics all nodded secretly, knowing that this time they would be lucky again.
A gourmet surnamed Wang in his sixties, wearing a suit and ties, pointed to the middle-aged chef in front of him who was surrounded by a group of cooks, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect Master Zheng to come this time, haha, he is a three-time winner."
King."
Another gourmet named Li also smiled and nodded, "It is said that a few days ago he personally made a lion's head for the Italian Prime Minister, which was highly praised by the Italian Prime Minister. This time the championship may be his."
Next to me, the president of a female catering association in her fifties sighed and said, "Yes, this time there are not only chefs from this province, but also many masters from all over the country. I think it will be an exciting event."
Contest, of course, we have to thank ** for its promotional cooperation.”
Mayor Zhao of this city held a champagne glass and nodded gently, with a professional smile on his old face, "What should be done should be done. I only hope that this competition can bring us many different surprises. In this way,
It can be regarded as living up to the hard work of our *** personnel for such a long time.”
Listening to Mayor Zhao's words, everyone around him nodded and smiled in agreement, but the chairman of a nearby Beijing five-star hotel was unhappy.
Holding the wine glass, the chairman and several other Beijing bosses murmured coldly.
"Listen to this, it's so irritating. To repay them for their hard work for so long, you don't know, but you think he fought for this competition."
Another boss sneered coldly, "That's right, if the Donghuang Hotel hadn't been so good, could they have won the market in such a big competition? Oh, he's still pretending to be a good person here."
"Just say a few words less. It won't be good if others hear it. In this way, we will see the results when we wait for the competition. After all, a small place is a small place after all. How can it be compared with these guys?" said Zhao from Beijing Maolin Hotel.
The boss was very proud.
Boss Wang of Jingxuan Hotel smiled disdainfully, "What are you talking about? What happened to Donghuang Hotel? It's just a Buddha Jumping over the Wall. Without Buddha Jumping Over the Wall, they are just an ordinary hotel."
"Hey, having said that, they took away the right to host this competition, so we have to hug each other and take care of each other during the competition." Boss Sun of Fuyuan Hotel quickly joined forces to form a gang.
Boss Wu of Zhiyuan Hotel smiled proudly, "Don't worry, I'll leave it to you here. If my hotel doesn't win first place in this competition, I'll give each of you five million!"
All the hotel owners in Beijing looked at him together.
"Wait a minute? Your hotel takes first place? Let me tell you, Old Wu, what do you think of my hotel? Do you really think that the few garlic bulbs you have are as good as my chef?"
"Haha, I'm just too lazy to say that. Why don't you look at your turnover in the past two years and compare it with me? You are all more than one level behind, right?"
"Hehehehe, why have you forgotten me too? Are the rotten cooks under you two worthy of competing with my people? You haven't been taught enough in the last competition, right?!"
As they were talking, several hotel owners in the capital began to curse, and they were clearly discussing a group meeting just now...
It was also near several capital hotel owners that at this moment, two food critics were muttering something ulterior.
After chatting with the chefs around them for a while, the two relatively young food critics, who were only in their forties, looked at each other, and then got together like each other.
He muttered.
"Lao Li, I knew you had to come too. To be honest, you will make a lot of money this time, right?"
Judge Li waved his hands with an upright look on his face.
"How can we get rich? I'm telling you, Lao Zhao, we are regular judges and we don't want to engage in those evil practices."
"Hey, you're still out of breath. Let me tell you, don't do this in front of me. You two don't know who is who."
"Hahaha, you bastard, oh, it's easy to say, I just met a fool two days ago. He raised his hand and gave me 500,000 yuan and asked me to help them with the hotel. Hey, what about you? You must have made a lot of money, right?
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"Okay, okay, I also met a fool named Zhang who gave me 600,000 yuan and told me to take care of their hotel. But I can't remember the name of that hotel. It seems to have the character dragon?
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"Hey, what a coincidence, my silly boss is also named Zhang, and that hotel seems to have a dragon character in it too."
My surname is Zhang, and the name of the hotel contains the character dragon. Everything is so fitting for Dao Ye.
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"boom."
Just as the guests were chatting ill-intentionedly about the public and shady things, the door of the banquet hall was slowly pushed open. Under the gaze of the guests, Mr. Dao and Mr. Sun, Mr. Carl Liu,
As well as the hotel's master chefs, they walked into the banquet hall majestically.
Well, walking on the big red carpet in the banquet hall, Mr. Dao and his group walked vigorously. Everyone’s head was raised high, and their eyes were full of pride. Don’t say, just these few steps
When I left, I really showed off the momentum of a host.
But looking at the participating teams at Tianlong Hotel, many people present were a little dazed, especially the dozen or so critics who have been active in the food industry all year round. Their eyes were even more stunned when they stared at Dao Master, and they were a little stupid.
Like looking at something strange.
Looking at Master Dao and his entourage entering the banquet hall, many guests who didn't know much about the situation began to whisper, wondering which hotel this was from, and why hadn't they seen it before? The cooks seemed quite familiar.
, two of them participated in the last competition and achieved very good results, but why haven’t you seen that boss? Oh no, it’s not that I haven’t seen him before, he seems a bit familiar, but why doesn’t he feel like that?
Do you look familiar to people in this circle?
Just when many people were a little curious about the identity of Master Dao and his group, an old man who was blind in one eye in the crowd kindly reminded him.
"You don't know him? Have you heard of Tianlong? This is the team of Tianlong Hotel. Yes, yes, and that man who doesn't look like a good guy at first glance, doesn't he look familiar? That person in the news a few days ago is
It’s him! Oh my, why can’t you remember it? Have you forgotten about the anti-pornography news in the next city a few days ago?”
As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar.
"Oh, it turns out it's them, the hotel that was raided by the anti-pornography brigade, right?"
"Hey, isn't that a kiln? Can a kiln also participate in cooking competitions?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this boss really doesn't feel embarrassed. Is he trying to make a hype or something?"
Listening to the hateful comments in his ears and the unabashed gossip of all the guests, the veins on Master Dao's forehead jumped out.
Damn, don’t worry about anything else. Why does that reminder sound so familiar?! (To be continued)