At 9 a.m. on June 28, the first round of the team competition of the 5th National Culinary Competition officially kicked off.
As we all know, a total of 36 hotels from all over the country participated in this competition. In the first round of preliminary rounds, the competition organizing committee divided the 36 teams into nine groups, with a total of four teams in each group, and adopted a points elimination system.
In other words, after all the dishes in each group are completed, they will be scored by the six judges present at the same time. Finally, the two teams with the highest scores in the group will advance.
It is worth mentioning that any hotel that was eliminated in the first two rounds will have a chance to be resurrected after the second round. However, it needs to defeat all the hotels that were eliminated in the first two rounds to obtain this.
A chance for resurrection.
Today is the first round of the team competition. The competition times are at nine o'clock in the morning and eight o'clock in the evening. According to the competition procedures, there are five teams participating this morning, and the rest will compete in the evening. Well, Group H of Tianlong Hotel is
Located in the morning.
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The Group H competition is located in a banquet hall on the 18th floor of Donghuang Hotel. The competition venue has been fully decorated as early as two days ago.
Looking around, all the original tables and chairs in Nuoda's venue were taken away, leaving only four silver chef's work tables in the center of the venue, and four load tables for cutting vegetables and ingredients. The tops of the load tables were covered with hangings.
Knives, frying spoons, and many other strange kitchen utensils that to ordinary people cannot even be named.
The silver dining shelves on the left and right sides of the venue were already filled with three full rows of fruits and vegetables, all of which were the freshest fruits and vegetables of this season. Some of them were even delivered just this morning, and many of the fruits and vegetables were still fresh.
With a few drops of crystal dew.
Four giant refrigerated display cabinets were placed on both sides of the entrance to the venue. The cabinets were filled with all kinds of refrigerated fresh meat. There were even labels underneath each piece of meat, indicating how much the piece of meat weighed and how much it cost.
How old is the meat of an animal, how long has it been since the animal died, and so on? It's so meticulous.
Not only that, there are also many limbs of animals such as sheep's hooves and cow's tails in the display cabinets. Most of them are bloody, and they look fresh at first glance. They may have been freshly chopped off.
And because the test question of Group H is porridge culture, there are more than twenty bags of rice with different grains piled under the silver dining rack on the left for the contestants to use.
There is still half an hour before the start of the game, but the game scene is not as lively as expected, and the shouts are deafening. On the contrary, the venue of Nuo University is extremely quiet, except for the two reporters who came here to interview and the people from Donghuang Hotel.
Apart from the staff, there was almost no one around in the venue. Even the cheerleaders and family and friends groups often seen on TV were absent. It was very deserted.
This is normal, because for this kind of competition, almost no audience is invited to sit on the stage. After all, it is not a singing and dancing competition. The audience needs to shout slogans and cheer up the atmosphere... On the contrary, the chef
If the art competition really attracts spectators, the competition organizing committee is still worried that the spectators will affect the performance of the contestants.
Right now, there are less than twenty minutes left before the start of the competition. The contestants from the four hotels have not yet appeared. However, the judges of Group H entered the venue first and sat down on the white and clean judges' seats one by one.
The judges' seat is located in the innermost part of the banquet hall, facing the chef's workbench. You can clearly see every move of the chefs in the audience. Behind the judges' seat, a large LED display is slowly playing.
A promotional video for this competition and a promotional video for Donghuang Hotel.
Seeing that the judges were all present, the two reporters in charge of the H-group competition quickly walked up and began their routine pre-match interviews. Several judges were also sitting on the judges' bench, drinking tea and accepting the reporters with smiles.
Pre-game interviews with friends.
It is worth mentioning that in order to promote friendly exchanges among the major participating hotels, the chairman of the 36 hotels actually got an opportunity to be elected as a judge. For example, in front of me, Mr. Dao’s old friend
Chairman Wang is now sitting next to the female president surnamed Liu of the Provincial Catering Association, smiling and nodding to the camera in front of him.
Dao Ye, who was participating in the Group E competition on the 32nd floor, happily wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with the white cloth on the judges' table, saying that he was quite lucky and finally saved a judge's money.
Let me briefly talk about the six judges of Group H. In addition to Chairman Wang and Chairman Liu who are smiling and being interviewed by reporters, there is also Dongfang Qing who is inspecting the chef's workbench. She is also one of the six judges in this group.
.It is reported that Dongfang Qing was originally going to be in Group A, which is to serve as the chief judge for a group known as the Death Group that gathers together in Beijing and Shanghai famous brand hotels, but for some reason she was temporarily switched to Group H, which has no bright spots (if Yao Zi also
Can be regarded as a highlight) group as judges.
As for the reason... maybe only the white-haired young man sitting quietly at the edge of the judges' table can explain it all.
However, although she is the host, Dongfang Qing is only a deputy judge of this group of competitions. The real main judge is President Liu who sits in the center of the podium.
In addition to Dongfang Qing, among the remaining three judges in Group H, there is also a food critic from this province. He is relatively young, only in his forties. Well, his surname is Li. He is a middle-aged uncle with a big belly and a bald head.
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That's right, Judge Li has actually appeared once before, right? He is staring at the four words "Tianlong Hotel" on the score sheet in his hand and whispering in a low voice.
"Tianlong Hotel? Is it the hotel that paid me the money? Wait, with the word "dragon", that seems to be it, right? But how did I hear that there is a Feilong Hotel in this competition? No, I have to ask their boss later.
If you don’t have the surname Zhang, you can’t open up a way out for others.”
Judge Li thought very responsibly, and completely demonstrated his good professionalism of doing things after getting paid, and absolutely doing them well and accurately.
But, in fact, the owners of those two hotels were the fool who paid him off...
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"Well, the strength of Group H is still very good, and it is not as insignificant as everyone thinks. For example, Jiufeng Hotel from Anhui and Tianyue Hotel from Hebei are both teams worth looking forward to. Of course,
And Tianlong Hotel, as half the host of this competition, I believe Tianlong Hotel will also give us a big surprise."
President Liu, who is in his fifties, is wearing a purple dress today. Although he is very old, it is not difficult to tell from his facial features that he must have been a beauty when he was young.
But unfortunately, while Chairman Liu was talking about the situation, he accidentally forgot about the Shanghai SIPG Hotel of the Devil Party. It was impossible not to forget it. After all, SIPG...the hotel just built by Pao Ye was in
There is no such thing as a bullshit reputation in the food industry of China. It is not as well-known as Daoye’s Tianlong. Of course, that kind of popularity is quite magical...
But Pao Ye, who was watching the live broadcast of the game in the VIP lounge on the top floor of Donghuang Building, looked at President Liu in the broadcast and listened to her extremely irritating words. He almost threw the ashtray in his hand at the TV.
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"Damn it, how dare these old ladies not mention our hotel? Xiaofeng, go and give me 10 million seniors, you guys just got a big deal today!"
Brother Feng stood next to Master Pao's sofa and asked worriedly, "Uncle Liu, do you want a little less, just in case..."
"What if something happens, will the seniors lose? Hurry up, hurry up, you can't bet half an hour after the game starts."
"Oh, okay Uncle Liu."
After walking out of Pao Ye's lounge, Brother Feng went downstairs to place his bets.
"Ten million, SIPG Hotel." Brother Feng reported his bet to the employees of Donghuang Hotel, and then in the surprised eyes of the bosses beside him, Brother Feng secretly took out a bank card.
Holding his private money tightly, Brother Feng hesitated, but soon, Brother Feng looked up at the 52-inch high-hanging TV above the VIP room, and then looked at the various words written on the TV.
The current odds of the Grand Hotel. When he saw that the current odds of the SIPG Hotel were 1 to 7, Brother Feng gritted his teeth and took pictures of all his private money in front of the staff.
"Another five hundred thousand, still at the SIPG Hotel!"
After receiving the two bills that the staff called Brother Feng, Brother Feng smiled excitedly.
Can it be done? Haha, then there is no need to ask, will the seniors lose? Are you kidding me?
Holding the two bills in hand, Brother Feng happily walked up to the second floor of the VIP room and returned to Pao Ye's exclusive lounge.
Well, that's right. The reason why this competition attracted so many hotel owners is mainly because there are many entertainment projects. For example, Donghuang Hotel opened a gambling market privately... Don't mention it, this trick
It’s really easy to use, otherwise it wouldn’t be able to attract so many hotel owners, isn’t it? Mr. Liu is now on the first floor of the VIP room, huddled among a bunch of bosses who don’t have to be judges today, where he is studying who to buy today.
Better.
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At this moment, in the competition hall of Group H, Chairman Liu is sitting in the center of the podium. On the right are Chairman Wang and Judge Li, as well as a hotel owner from the province. The seat on the left is empty, obviously reserved for Dongfang Qing.
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And next to Dongfang Qingkong's seat, sat the last judge of this group of competitions. Unexpectedly, he was just a young man.
Perhaps he can't be said to be young anymore. Although he is nearly thirty years old, he still looks like a young man on the surface. He has a delicate appearance and big eyes, but his eyes are always empty... And on the other side
With his dry and white hair, it is even more difficult for people to describe him as young.
Wearing a black T-shirt, he sat on a chair with his arms folded and remained silent from the moment he entered the venue.
He has eye-catching withered white hair, not the kind of beautiful and elegant white hair...but the kind of withered white hair that seems to have lost all vitality, like an old man.
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His face was very white, sickly white, and his hair was white and dry and as hard as weeds. This young man who was only in his twenties had a strong aura of death on his body, and there was no trace of it.
vitality.
He is very silent and quiet. Compared to Judge Li who is muttering about Tianlong and Feilong next to him, and Chairman Liu and others who are being interviewed by reporters, he has just sat quietly in his seat from the moment he entered the venue until now.
He was not talking to anyone, and there was no trace of emotion in his deep black eyes, just like his dry white hair, which was lifeless.
It's just that in the depths of those deep and calm eyes, there is occasionally a weathered vicissitude.
He is like an old man who has lost everything, silently guarding his home, waiting for the day when death comes to take him away... (To be continued)