Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Chef Liu, are you still pre-processing the ingredients normally today? There was no room for room service all day yesterday..." Dagu asked hesitantly.

Liu Maoxing came to Yuanyue College on Monday. On Tuesday afternoon, Guihezi and Meihezi discovered that the rooms on the 12th floor had changed. It is now Thursday morning...

All day on Wednesday, none of the guests in the thirty-nine rooms ordered room service, it was like the calm before the storm.

"Normal preparations!" Liu Maoxing said without hesitation.

Although the shelf life of the ingredients will be shortened to tens of minutes to a few hours after pretreatment, but if they are not prepared at all, they will definitely be unable to cope with it when the time comes, and Liu Maoxing can only be careful.

"However... when the freshness period of all pre-processed ingredients exceeds half, contact other departments and replace them if necessary." Liu Maoxing added, which can be regarded as reducing some losses.

"I'm really calm. It seems that I'm really waiting for tomorrow's quarterly audit results... What are you going to do?" Guihezi asked.

Tomorrow is the day of the quarterly review. Obviously, Liu Maoxing's attitude at that time will determine whether the 12th floor will continue to be calm or dark clouds will overwhelm the city!

Liu Maoxing's last week's internship didn't end until Sunday night, that is to say, it was likely to start on Friday night, and after that for two consecutive days, he would be hit like a storm.

"How are you going to do it? No preparation! As a cook, you won't lie to the cook." Liu Maoxing said.

"If it's really that simple, Kojima that bastard...I mean Chef Kojima wouldn't ask for leave at this time." Guihezi said with blank eyes.

"En? What do you mean?" Liu Maoxing seemed to hear what Guihezi meant.

"I don't know the specifics, but if the culinary skills of those who really participated in the quarterly evaluation can pass or fail, I don't think Chef Kojima will be so embarrassed that he needs to ask for leave. Joya should also understand. If the real culinary skills can really pass, there is no need to use any other means, and the five judging chefs will not force him to suppress him for other reasons. If it is obvious that he cannot pass, no means will be used!" Guihezi said .

"Could it be that...the other party's cooking skills are just between passing and failing?" Liu Maoxing asked doubtfully.

"It's possible for one person to be like this, but judging from the battle, it should... not be a person who is pending review." Guihezi said.

"It's really impossible for such a coincidence..." Liu Maoxing also reacted after being reminded by Guihezi.

"That's right, that is to say, the other party's culinary skills should not be criticized on the level, but... there is a problem! And this 'problem' has also divided the opinions of the five judges." Guihezi said.

Not only did Liu Maoxing think that in the original plot, the members of the "Gourmet Central Organization" formed by Nina Cutji, besides their own superb cooking skills, everyone had "must-kill dishes", but everyone's "must-kill dishes" It also made the face of Nakiriji appear in the hearts of the diners...

Judging from the cooking that Joichiro demonstrated for himself before, it should represent "cooking heart", right?

Although there were a lot of doubts, but thinking that he would get a glimpse of it tomorrow, Liu Maoxing simply didn't have a headache, and returned to room 1201 on time, waiting for the people from the high-end VIP Chinese restaurant to deliver the food!

Because two days ago, Liu Maoxing had tried his "tongue" in a high-end VIP western restaurant, so after going to a Chinese restaurant of the same level yesterday, he immediately offered a feast of tasting...

It's a feast for both parties!

Liu Maoxing can take this opportunity to improve his cooking skills and collect the other party's recipes, and the chef of the high-end VIP Chinese restaurant can also take the opportunity to greatly shorten the research cycle of new recipes with Liu Maoxing's help...

Of course, after these recipes are collected, Liu Maoxing can't use them directly, at most he can learn from them.

Because most of these recipes are not ordinary recipes, but new recipes developed by the chefs themselves, which are protected by the three major cooking organizations in terms of rules, and Liu Maoxing, as a taster, is not good at directly stealing recipes.

So the recipes of these new dishes are fine for Liu Maoxing to use by himself, but they must not be used to make money.

Of course, cutting out the essence and integrating them is the biggest gain of these recipes. Liu Maoxing didn't use the method of stealing recipes to make money.

Today's tasting feast is obviously of higher quality than yesterday's. Liu Maoxing secretly guessed that his hint had worked...

Because the main role of the appraiser is to shorten the development cycle of new dishes, so when he was in the high-end VIP western restaurant two days ago, most of the dishes that Liu Maoxing tasted were semi-finished products!

Although there were 12 chefs in the end, the proportion of tiger-level cuisine was not large. Waiting for the chefs to prepare two dishes each...

Some chefs have taken out some perfected or even perfected recipes just for the sake of "eating more and taking more".

Although it feels like a waste of opportunity, but at the same time it can be regarded as a reward for Liu Maoxing who tasted it for free, and Liu Maoxing is naturally so happy.

In the high-end VIP Chinese restaurant, compared to the people in the western restaurant, these chefs are more open-minded, giving most of the opportunities to the official chefs who have not yet finished the new recipes...even the prospective chefs!

But in this way, their quality is worthy of affirmation, but Liu Maoxing is not happy... In the beginning, most of them were "super three-star" dishes, but there are also super one-star, two-star, and semi-finished products that are still far behind!

Although this has indeed maximized the role of the "appraiser", Liu Maoxing is very dissatisfied... You didn't spend any money in the first place, and there is no benefit in torturing me like this?

So yesterday, Liu Maoxing didn't even give any comments on the special four-star dishes, only the few special five-star and tiger-level dishes, he gave pointers.

At that time, the head chef of a Chinese restaurant was still a little dissatisfied and asked Liu Maoxing to reason: "Chef Liu, why don't you say a word about these dishes that are easier to see improvements?"

Liu Maoxing let out a "huh" and only replied: "Who said I am a taster? Which of you invited me here? As for why you only taste one bite... It's not that I want to waste food, it's because you insist on giving it to me." I cook so much, is it my fault?"

"Chef Liu, you are good at Chinese cuisine, and you are also Chinese, so we should be closer, but... I also asked the people in the western restaurant, and your criteria for judging the past two days is not like this... "

Indeed, four of the twelve chefs in the high-end VIP Chinese restaurant are Chinese...

But Liu Maoxing thought to himself: Then you can't kill him well! Although it is indeed useless to use me now, you can't hold the mentality of not using it for nothing...

There are two high-end five-star dishes, which are not even semi-finished dishes. Although from the perspective of the cook, this is indeed to maximize the use of the ability of the "appreciator", but it has caused Liu Maoxing to have an unappreciated Feeling of respect.

Even the appraisers who paid for it, many of them are unwilling to taste bad dishes...

Although most of the people in the western restaurant are not caring for Liu Maoxing, but a few chefs "eat more and take more money", but for Liu Maoxing, the chefs of the Chinese restaurant are "like a grain of humility", and even the chefs "use it" Seeing Liu Maoxing's chance will undoubtedly make Liu Maoxing even more unhappy...

"That's right, everyone in the western restaurant knows to reward me with some finished products, tsk tsk... If this is still the case tomorrow, I'd better change the itinerary!" Liu Maoxing left after finishing speaking.

Sure enough, today they also had an understanding of Liu Maoxing's bottom line. The dishes they tasted were all interspersed with several special dishes, interspersed with tiger-level dishes. Some of them were obviously finished products, which were regarded as rewards.

Only then did Liu Maoxing lower the standard of tasting to the super three-star, and there are not many super two-star and one-star below, but Liu Maoxing still ignored it!

When people took all the comments back, Liu Maoxing also reminded: "Tonight is the last time for the high-end VIP Chinese restaurant...cough cough, I mean to eat at the high-end VIP Chinese restaurant."

I'm afraid Liu Maoxing said it was "tasting", and the other party "don't use it for nothing"...

However, Liu Maoxing didn't know that his actions these past few days, while many cooks were grateful to him, had indeed aroused the anger of many cooks!

Those who are grateful to him are naturally those cooks who have made great progress in new recipes and even improved their cooking skills under his tasting. Most of these people are chefs, first-class chefs and the like.

And those who are dissatisfied are the cooks who were "abandoned" by Liu Maoxing and refused to taste, most of them are third-class chefs, quasi-cooks and the like...

After all, the specialty dishes of third-class chefs are usually only "super three-star". If it is a semi-finished product, it is likely to be less than super three-star. Of course, Liu Maoxing will not give a comment.

Among them, the latter are mostly cooks in high-end VIP Chinese restaurants, because they were refused to taste by Liu Maoxing when the chef gave him a chance, while in the western restaurant, these people were directly deprived by the chefs to present the dishes. Naturally, Liu Maoxing's power cannot be blamed.

Liu Maoxing didn't realize this at this time, and subconsciously didn't realize that someone would resent him instead. After all, he was only sixteen years old, and he couldn't understand the complexity of people's hearts...

After all, from Liu Maoxing's point of view, he was originally helping with free services, and those who were helped should thank him, and those who were not helped should not feel resentful!

As for the reason why some people's cooking is obviously easy to point out, but he didn't do so, it is because if he points out these people, I am afraid that for the sake of "efficiency" in the future, all of them will be super one or two stars, or even high-end. High-end cuisine... So Liu Maoxing must let them know their bottom line!

What they don't know is that someone has already filed a complaint with Li Yuan. Although Li Yuan is no longer working in the high-end VIP Chinese restaurant, many chefs who specialize in Chinese cuisine are considered half of his students.

Of course, Li Yuan didn't look for Liu Maoxing, but directly reprimanded the complainant...

It’s true that people come to practice for a week, but their position is "chef", so it is the duty of the chef in the room service kitchen to give you a tasting? What kind of "negligence of duty" is this?

In short, without Liu Maoxing's awareness, the number of potential "enemies" has increased again...