Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Are you sure you're leaving tomorrow morning?"

"No, I'll rush there at night, and I can take a rest, and then I will take the 'recruitment assessment' at ten o'clock in the morning... If I leave tomorrow morning, I will be a bit rushed, and I won't be able to rest well," Liu Maoxing said.

It is now a three-day continuous holiday, and on the evening of the last day, Liu Maoxing is already preparing to take the regular long-distance bus between the academy and Yuanyue Resort and leave.

"You... really have the money to spend a night at the Yuanyue Hotel?" Erina looked at Liu Maoxing strangely.

Obviously the subtext is, didn't you have no money to open a house when you "eloped" with Mu Jiuzhi Yuanguo before?

"No...but I can discuss it with Senior Dojima!" Liu Maoxing said bravely.

If you have already entered the job, Yuanyue Hotel will naturally arrange room accommodation, but Liu Maoxing has not started the internship yet...

Erina rolled his eyes at him, and said pretending to be disdainful: "Don't embarrass Yuanyue Academy! The money will be transferred to your card later, and you can check in normally then!"

"Is this considered nurturing?"

"Yes, do you want to show your dignity?"

"No, I choose to accept..."

After Liu Maoxing agreed without any morals, he took the luggage and boarded the long-distance bus.

When I got off the bus, it was already past 11 o'clock at night, and I checked in at the front desk of Yuanyue Hotel normally, and the balance was sufficient when I swiped the card!

"That guy Zhongmozu... when will he give me the first money? There is no salary for 'field training', so relying on someone's 'support' every day is not an option!" Liu Maoxing muttered to himself.

But now, in addition to Zhongmozu, there will also be an income from Shino's. According to the rules of SHINO'S, after a new dish of an employee is selected into the menu, every time it is ordered by a customer, there will be a certain amount of income. divided into

Although Liu Maoxing is no longer an employee of SHINO'S, Sigong said that the money will still be credited to the account every month. Even if considering the palatability of the crispy rice, only the recipes of the SHINO'S Tokyo branch are added, at least there are some Pocket money is right!

This also inspired Liu Maoxing. Most high-end restaurants have a similar system. This is also the reason why many wandering chefs can wander around instead of working in fixed restaurants...

In addition to the occasional temporary kitchen income, there is also this menu income.

It’s just that high-end restaurants usually select the dishes of wandering chefs, and the requirements are much higher than those of their own chefs. After all, the fat and water don’t flow to outsiders. For restaurants like SHINO’S, usually foreign chefs can only cook dishes that are easy to learn and fit the atmosphere of the restaurant. The tiger-level cuisine, probably Shinomiya will select it into the menu.

Because Liu Maoxing was in a special situation this time, firstly, it happened to be a "field study". Liu Maoxing was still an intern at SHINO'S Tokyo at that time.

After the recipe of a dish is selected into the menu by the restaurant, it will also be registered with the three major organizations and cannot be delivered repeatedly, but a wandering chef like Jo Ichiro is probably enough to do nothing.

"Maybe I should also look for an opportunity to find a restaurant to rely on some cooking recipes?" Liu Maoxing muttered to himself.

He dare not say this to Erina, otherwise Erina will complain that he is not doing his job properly. As an elite student of Yuanyue, he should concentrate on improving his cooking skills instead of thinking about making money, and then throw money in his face ...

Liu Maoxing had a night's rest, and after getting up the next day, he changed into a chef's uniform. At 9:30, for the first time, he took the kitchen utensils and waited at the "recruitment assessment" place.

Although it was only half an hour early, most of the applicants for the job had already arrived, but with Liu Maoxing's character, it was inconceivable that he knew to arrive "early"!

Of course, Liu Maoxing didn't get up early if he had nothing to do. The reason why he arrived early was to know about the situation of Yuanyue Resort first...

Suddenly, Liu Maoxing's eyes lit up, and he saw Dojima Gin's assistant, Hiromi's assistant chef, who was on the scene.

"Senior Bosi!" Seeing that Bosi was just observing the cooks present and not doing anything serious, Liu Maoxing walked over carelessly.

The other cooks around were a little strange when they saw Liu Maoxing. After all, compared with other cooks who applied for the job, Liu Maoxing was too young.

If it was during the first test, maybe they would still think that Liu Maoxing is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers... But now it is the final interview, how did he get shortlisted for the previous assessment?

It wasn't until this time that many of the cooks who applied for the job realized that Liu Maoxing went to say hello to Bosi.

"Student Liu Maoxing, we meet again. When Mr. Dojima said he wanted you to come to Yuanyue Hotel for 'field training', I was taken aback!" Hiromi sighed.

He is also from Yuanyue Academy, so he naturally knows the rules of "field training", and he knows what it means to come to Yuanyue Hotel during "field training"...

At least Bosi thinks that if he came to Yuanyue Hotel for "field training" when he was a student, he would have to spend seven days of soy sauce in all likelihood, and he would be lucky if he didn't delay. , not sure at all.

"I didn't expect that after only half a year, I will participate in another recruitment assessment, and this time I will be an applicant... By the way, Bosi senior, when I was a guest judge last time, that person was called 'Joya' How is your great cook now?" Liu Maoxing asked.

Bosi guessed what Liu Maoxing should know, hesitated for a while and said: "Joya is now the chef in charge of the dinner of the fourth VIP cafeteria..."

"Chef...ah." Liu Maoxing frowned slightly.

But it's no wonder that Dojima Yinhui arranged this way. Although he is the chief chef of Yuanyue Resort and a member of Yuanyue's board of directors, after all, he still has to consider the views of other shareholders!

If Joya is forced to suppress him just because he suspects that he has something to do with Nakiriji, it will be counterproductive, and it will damage Dojima Gin's prestige in Yuanyue Resort.

Liu Maoxing had already discovered before that in the resort, there were already many working cooks who used Ruishan as a broker and were related to the Nakiri Ji Group. It was even possible that Qiao Ya was originally an attraction for firepower, so Dojima Yin didn't have too much trouble. overreaction.

However, even though he was appointed as the head chef, he was only in charge of managing the dinner time of a VIP cafeteria. This is probably the position with the least role and the lowest authority among the head chefs!

The VIP self-service hall is the holy place where Liu Maoxing "gained experience" during his "residence and training" before!

Different self-service dishes are served seven days a week, 100 dishes per day, all of which are high-end four-five-star dishes, and the VIP cafeteria that Liu Maoxing went to at that time had 76 special-grade one-star to special-grade three-star dishes...

There are a total of six VIP buffet halls. The number of dishes ordered may vary, but it will not be too big!

In other words, the highest level is only "super three-star" cooking. For Yuanyue's students, and even for most of the cooks outside, this is already an admirable level.

The same was true for Liu Maoxing half a year ago. Although there were only three special three-star dishes in the VIP buffet hall, Liu Maoxing was very satisfied at that time.

But for the chef, this kind of place is too "leisure"!

For chefs who have mastered the highest level of "tiger-level" cuisine, and can at least stably display the strength of "super five-star" in the cuisine they are good at, in the VIP buffet hall, there is no need to do it yourself...

The chef in charge of the VIP buffet hall is mainly responsible for evaluating the chefs under his command. Usually, a VIP buffet hall will be equipped with two second-class chefs as assistants, ten third-class chefs, and a number of prospective chefs and kitchen workers during a meal period. , not even a first-class chef!

The task of the head chef is to discover those full-time chefs and prospective chefs who have progressed or have potential, and apply for promotion and regularization for them.

Even the current Liu Maoxing doesn't value super-three-star food very much anymore...Of course, if there is an opportunity to raid, Liu Maoxing will not let it go! To upgrade his culinary skills, he must have a solid accumulation. Although these "experience bottles" are small to him, they are worth drinking!

As for doing it yourself, cooking a "tiger-level" dish in the VIP buffet hall to shock the audience?

This behavior of disrupting the normal operation order of Yuanyue Hotel will only give Dojima Yin a chance to make trouble!

Dojima Yin "assigned" Qiao Ya to the VIP self-service hall, which is equivalent to isolating him...

At ten o'clock, Dojima Gin, six other head chefs from Yuanyue Resort, and three official chefs walked into the recruitment assessment hall on time, and Liu Maoxing immediately found a cooking table with tools at hand.

The six official chefs also each chose a cooking station...

Dojima Gin also talked about the recruitment rules. Same as half a year ago, there is no limit to cuisines, and each prepares a specialty dish. Afterwards, the applicants' dishes will be compared with the three third-class chefs and two second-class chefs sent by Yuanyue Resort. Comparing the dishes of other chefs and a first-class chef to determine whether they are selected or not, as well as their professional titles after entry.

At this time, among the six sent by Yuanyue Resort, three of Liu Maoxing are still familiar, and they are the three who also appeared half a year ago.

However, because the cooks who appeared on the stage were all at the bottom of their professional titles, it was not an honor to be at the bottom twice in a row, so they all pretended not to know Liu Maoxing.

After Dojima Gin explained the rules and introduced the five judges including himself and Hiromi, he announced: "... the cooking begins!"

Looking at the cooking table he had chosen, Liu Maoxing couldn't help thinking to himself: Although there are no restrictions on cuisines and ingredients, they are not purely self-selected dishes...at least "Tianxiong moxibustion fish" and the like can't be made!

After all, everyone's cooking table is only this big, if Liu Maoxing wants to light a fire here, I'm afraid Dojima Gin will be the first to throw him out...

However, Liu Maoxing was a judge half a year ago, so he was naturally prepared to use the recipe at this time...