The Game of Life-Chapter 811 - 810 Draw Results
Chapter 811: Chapter 810: Draw Results
Chapter 811: Chapter 810: Draw Results
On Wednesday evening, the program group announced the drawing results on time.
In this matter, the group heavily utilized modern technology for the online drawing, allowing the fate of each competing team to be controlled by themselves—by sending a representative to draw.
The final drawing results were as follows:
The top-floor restaurant drew Taifeng Building.
Taifeng Building drew Yonghe House.
Yonghe House drew Huaiyang Building.
Huaiyang Building drew Cheng Ji Restaurant.
Cheng Ji Restaurant drew the top-floor restaurant.
Taste House and Eight-treasure House drew each other.
These drawing results were final, meaning that Jiang Feng and his three companions would spend the next two weeks working at Yonghe House for Lu Sheng, while Chef Arno and his team would come to Taifeng Building to work for Jiang Feng. Thinking about it, it felt a bit exciting.
Along with the drawing results, the menus submitted by each restaurant were also announced. Jiang Feng briefly looked over them and realized that everyone’s approach was the same; two difficult dishes and two easy ones that probably wouldn’t sell well. He was very familiar with Yonghe House, so he immediately spotted the trickery in the four dishes provided by Yonghe House.
Two-color Shrimp, White Fungus Stew, Garlic Prawn, and Oyster Sauce Lettuce.
Two-color Shrimp and White Fungus Stew were signature dishes of Tan Family Cuisine at Yonghe House, usually on the VIP menu but temporarily moved to the regular menu during the competition. Garlic Prawn might seem like a nice dish, easy to make and garnered positive reviews, but its sales at Yonghe House were very poor, considering the myriad of standout shrimp dishes related to Yonghe House.
Kung Pao Shrimp Balls, Braised Large Prawns, Lily Fried Shrimp, and the recently introduced and well-received Thai Curry Shrimp, Fried River Shrimp, and Salt and Pepper River Shrimp were also very popular during the peak season of fresh river shrimp. With so many outstanding shrimp dishes that were popular among diners, they still chose Garlic Prawn, a dish with little fame and low popularity, showing their deliberate intent.
The situation of Oyster Sauce Lettuce was similar to that of Garlic Prawn. Yonghe House specialized in Tan Family Cuisine, and its chefs were particularly skilled in preparing vegetarian dishes, especially light-tasting ones, which made most Yonghe chefs adept at cooking vegetarian dishes. Oyster Sauce Lettuce didn’t rank high in the vegetarian menu at Yonghe House; if a restaurant other than Taifeng Building had drawn Yonghe House, facing such a menu would really be challenging, and there was a great possibility of losing two thousand points each week.
But this was not a problem for Taifeng Building.
Because Jiang Feng knew how to make Two-color Shrimp.
Very rarely and after a long absence, Jiang Feng experienced the thrill of excelling.
Was this what it felt like to excel by leaps and bounds? It was really awesome!
Once the drawing results were out, everyone had to start preparing. Especially those who were about to travel far, needed even more preparations.
Though the program group claimed they would help arrange accommodations, it was essential to check on one’s own. If one couldn’t guarantee even the most basic living conditions, it would definitely affect one’s work quality. Switching to a new environment and facing new colleagues would affect anyone’s performance.
Jiang Feng didn’t have this problem.
Yonghe House was his second place of employment. He was familiar with every colleague in this establishment, knew their preferences, the dishes they were good at, and even knew their work schedules and their salaries.
The second round of the competition hadn’t even started, and Jiang Feng felt he could celebrate his victory already.
Jiang Feng wasn’t the only one feeling this way; so did Lu Sheng. As the owner of Yonghe House, though there was little hope for Yonghe’s advancement, he still checked the drawing results immediately.
After all, Yonghe House was his restaurant. If the chef drawn was not used to the environment and performed poorly, it would be his Yonghe House’s reputation that suffered.
Regarding the fact that Taifeng Building had drawn Yonghe House, and the chefs from Yonghe House had to go south to Huaiyang Building, Lu Sheng felt both envious and slightly relieved.
Taifeng Building was powerful. Jiang Feng and Sun Maochai, these two chefs, were stars anywhere they went, always attracting diners like moths to a flame. Yonghe House’s main focus was Tan Family Cuisine, theoretically a Shandong cuisine restaurant. Taifeng Building’s specialty was undefined, and although the head chef was a Cantonese cuisine chef, it was theoretically also a Shandong cuisine restaurant.
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The chefs from Taifeng Building going to work at Yonghe House for two weeks unpaid, theoretically, could very well integrate seamlessly.
In stark contrast was the top-floor restaurant coming to Taifeng Building to work unpaid for two weeks. Jiang Feng felt that if Chef Arno and his team didn’t delve deeply into Chinese cuisine, then what they could do during those two weeks would likely be limited to Zhang Guanghang’s dishes.
Zhang Guanghang’s dishes, just by looking at their names, appeared purely Western, such as Shafu Roast Chicken, rosemary grilled lamb chops, and French thick soup, but in reality, once tasted, one would recognize all were authentic Shandong cuisine techniques.
A true fusion of Chinese and Western.
After the drawing results were out, Jiang Feng had been chatting with Lu Sheng on WeChat, where the two hypocritically complimented each other, then even more hypocritically praised each other, analyzed how each restaurant fared in the draw, and then maliciously wondered if Eight-treasure House hadn’t drawn Taste House, there might still been hope for him to battle it out with the top-floor restaurant for second place in the scoring.
The first was definitely Taifeng Building.
That said, if the top-floor restaurant really got hammered down by Eight-treasure House, not even making it to the semifinals, then the competition would indeed become interesting. The investors from the American side would probably go berserk and rip into the production team. Still, it was unsure if the production team would dare to play that game.
Drawing Taifeng Building actually was a good draw for the top-floor restaurant, at least Taifeng Building had Zhang Guanghang, which from the menu seemed to offer Western cuisine.
Apart from Taifeng Building, the top-floor restaurant drawing any other would mean shutting down. Of course, if Chef Arno had actually been devoting himself to intense study, enduring hardships and training diligently in Chinese cuisine over the years, pretending to be the foremost Western chef but actually a hidden Shandong cuisine expert, then ignore what Jiang Feng just said.
The real unfortunate ones were Eight-treasure House.
Eight-treasure House actually performed quite well in the first round of scoring, ranking fourth overall. They had Tong Deyan for Red Chef and Zheng Siyuan for Master White Chef. If Eight-treasure House had drawn Taifeng Building or Yonghe House, the second round might really have had some highlights, but unfortunately, Eight-treasure House drew Taste House.
Four chefs were essentially made useless in an instant.
Similarly disabled was Taste House. Eight-treasure House had already ended this week’s sale of their popular fresh meat mooncakes, this season’s most popular limited-edition product had been taken off the shelves. The chefs at Taste House were all legitimate Master White Chefs, and although Zheng Siyuan’s pastries were Suzhou-style, they differed from those sold at Taste House.
The biggest difference was probably that the pastries from Eight-treasure House were high-end and expensive, as seen from the fresh meat mooncakes crazy priced at one hundred ninety-nine a box this year. After all, they only had Zheng Siyuan as the Master White Chef, not needing to produce many pastries a day nor pursue high volume sales.
While the pastries at Taste House were mostly affordable, high-priced pastries could not achieve the sales volume of affordable pastries.
Jiang Feng and Lu Sheng had a discussion on WeChat about today’s drawing results, concluding with Lu Sheng lamenting to Jiang Feng about his beloved head chef going down south. The moment he finished lamenting, just as Jiang Feng was about to send a message to comfort him that it was only for two weeks, and after two weeks, the chef would still be his, Lu Sheng sent another message.
Lu Sheng, “Speaking of which, I remember your broth and clear soup are quite good. Are you interested in coming to our restaurant for these two weeks to challenge some braised shark fin and clear soup official swallow? It has been a long time since our restaurant had a full Swallow-wing Feast.”
Jiang Feng: …
Jiang Feng silently replied to Lu Sheng with three letters.
gun
I can’t do it!
