Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 295

Li Xiao chatted with Qianbenqiao for a few more words, and the two chatted more and more speculatively. Seeing that the timing was almost there, Li Xiao also straight to the point and put forward his request for a live broadcast.

Looking at the number of fans in Li Xiao's live broadcast room, Qian Benqiaoshang discussed with the chef Shang Yuanchun for a while.

Although Shang Yuanchun felt that this seemed inappropriate, after all, such high-end restaurants in Sakura Country are not allowed to conduct live shooting.

Because I am worried that other sushi chefs will find out the tricks of their own special techniques through repeated observations.

Therefore, most high-end restaurants will reject the host's request for live broadcast or video recording. Of course, this is a rule that does not exist in some low-level restaurants.

Those low-end restaurants are eager to let you come to the live broadcast to promote more, and they will never refuse a free promotion opportunity.

However, the well-informed Qianbenqiaoshang understands what it means to be an anchor with more than 400 million fans.

So he agreed without hesitation, and also persuaded Shang Yuanchun, who is the chef.

After all, although his authority is even greater than Shang Yuanchun.

But after all, the head chef of this Xingheju is Shang Yuanchun, not Hashimoto. He is just a temporary technical instructor, and he will leave after 20 days of teaching.

Shang Yuanchun's reaction speed was not too slow. After a brief exchange, he immediately agreed to the other party's live broadcast.

After all, the price of Xinheju is now comparable to many high-end restaurants, but there is still a huge difference in reputation and status from those established restaurants.

So letting an anchor with such a huge number of fans live broadcast seems to be of some help.

With the approval of the chef, Li Xiao turned on his mobile phone and clicked on the live broadcast on the mobile phone. He had checked the relevant information before, and many chefs in the Sakura Country have the habit of cherishing their brooms.

He doesn't want his skills to leak out, after all, there is a strict master-student inheritance and promotion system in Sakura Country.

It is not that simple to become a chef who can perform sushi making on the workbench.

The normal process is to start studying after finishing high school at the age of 17 or 18, because the number of university places in Sakura Country is very tight.

In Sakura Country, unless the family is very rich or has excellent academic performance, it is impossible to go to university.

So many people need to start working at the age of 17 or 18. If you want to become a chef, the first step is to do chores.

First of all, newcomers need to do chores in the kitchen, clean tools, tidy up, and carry sundries. This process will take about 1 to 3 years.

This miscellaneous stage is used to sharpen the patience of those who want to learn, and at the same time polish the temperament of these young people to make them more obedient.

At this stage, about [-]% to [-]% of the candidates can be eliminated. Because there are too many things to do in the chore stage, the hardest and most tiring work in the kitchen will be contracted to these chore children.

After torturing these newcomers for two or three years, they would become true apprentices.

And their original work will be handed over to the next batch of newcomers, and the task of torturing these newcomers will naturally fall on the new batch of apprentices.

Then this batch of new apprentices will start to get in touch with the real content about chefs. They can start to help kill fish, cut fish, help cook soup, adjust sauce, and start learning cooking and bibimbap.

But don't underestimate the work that these apprentices need to learn. These few jobs are actually very good at training the basic skills of newcomers.

Apprentices will take longer to study, and this time will take about 3 to 10 years.

It is very likely that some people will wonder why the learning span is so long. The short one only takes three years, while the long one actually takes 10 years.

This is because everyone's learning speed is different. Those with poor talent will naturally slow down their learning speed, while those with good talent will be able to learn a little bit at a time.

And because the wages of employees during the apprenticeship and odd jobs are low, many unscrupulous bosses will deliberately extend their odd jobs in order to obtain greater benefits.

Therefore, in the Cherry Blossom Country, there will often be an apprenticeship period of 10 or even more than ten years, because apprentices do the same work as ordinary masters during this period, but their wages are only 1/3 of theirs or even less.

However, since apprentices are not recognized in other restaurants, once they leave this restaurant and work in other restaurants, they will probably start from odd jobs again.

Even if you don't need to start from odd jobs, you will start from the apprenticeship period again.

So many apprentices have no choice but to stay in the original shop and continue to work until they are approved by the chef and officially become chefs, and they can start making sushi on the table.

After the camera appeared, some technology leaks occurred in Sakura Country.

Some chefs, unwilling to waste time in the necessary processes of chores and apprenticeships, filmed in public or private situations.

In this way, I learned some techniques that need to be approved by the head chef.

As a result, some chefs who have been famous for a long time feel offended by their hard work, and feel that their years of hard work and hard work are actually plagiarized in vain, which is a kind of denial of their own efforts.

So those long-established chefs joined forces to make such a rule that video and filming are not allowed in high-end restaurants.

And Shang Yuanchun has worked in a high-end restaurant for too long, and he also very much agrees with this rule.

After all, he himself went through three years of doing odd jobs and seven years of apprenticeship before he really became a chef.

After 10 years of hard work, he is unwilling to be learned in vain by others, but he has forgotten that the place where he is now is the big man, not the country of cherry blossoms.

Although becoming a chef in Dahan Kingdom requires step-by-step advancement, it does not require such a long period of suffering.

It usually only takes a few months to become an apprentice, and you only need to perform better during the apprenticeship.

It only takes about one or two years to start learning the real skills, and the complexity of the cooking skills of the Han Dynasty is not something that can be learned in two or three times.

Even if you study in a serious manner, it may take several years. If you want to learn by video, you can only learn superficially.

Although it can barely make things, the taste and texture must be very different, unlike sushi, which does not require too much tedious cooking.

After setting up the tripod for shooting, Li Xiao logged into his live broadcast room.

The news on the broadcast was quickly sent in the background, and the number of people who went out increased rapidly.

不到1分钟直播间就突破了10万人，2分钟，直播间就突破了25万，到了第3分钟直播间已经有30万人了。

"What delicious food will the host take us to eat today?"

"By the way, what happened to the anchor yesterday was a big mess?"

"What happened yesterday? I worked overtime yesterday and didn't watch it!"

"You can tell that you are not a die-hard fan at a glance upstairs, why don't you watch the replay?"

"I guess the big brother upstairs is the same as me. He only likes to watch live broadcasts, not replays."

"Yesterday the anchor ate a spoiled shrimp in Quanjude, and the chef of Quanjude came out to apologize."

"Since they can come out and apologize, does it prove that they really use spoiled shrimp for cooking?"

"Didn't you read the news? The news is out, but it's not the spoiled shrimp they used on purpose, but someone ordered the chef in the back kitchen to deliberately spoil the shrimp."

"I went to use spoiled shrimp on purpose. Isn't this a serious crime?"

"That's right, now Quanjude has released the video, related data, and their filing receipt."

"Hey, I know about this. The group of chefs in the capital circle had a quarrel yesterday. It was the former chef of Quanjude who held a grudge and ordered his former subordinates to do it."

Seeing what the audience said, Li Xiao explained:
"That's right, I also checked the relevant information. Someone from Quanjude came to me yesterday, apologized to me again, and explained what happened."

"However, it is still in the case-handling stage of the Security Division. I have no way to explain the situation in more detail. I can only say that this matter is indeed not the cause of Quanjude."

"After the dust settles on this matter, I will follow up and explain the ins and outs of the matter to everyone."

"Okay, let's stop talking about Quanjude today, and now let's go back to Xinheju."

"Today, I will bring you the set menu of Xinheju. Xinheju is a newly opened cherry blossom restaurant."

"Because the chef is a 3-star chef from Sakura Country, and the boss hired a 5-star senior chef with a lot of money to come here, it became famous here."

"The ingredients here are all imported ingredients, most of which are deep-sea fish."

"And in order to keep the food fresh, they specially used a special refrigerator worth 10,000+."

It seems that in order to cooperate with Li Xiao's live broadcast, when he talked about the 10,000+ special refrigerator.

The girl standing next to the Qianben Bridge, with her hair in a bun, went to the refrigerator and opened it.

The young lady put her left hand in front of the refrigerator and made an invitation, but approached Li Xiao with some words and asked:
"Are you asking me to go and take pictures?"

He nodded on Qianbenqiao who was doing preparations, and said in very standard Chinese:
"Of course, but please don't get too close."

Li Xiao also understood the meaning of the other party's words. After all, he knew the working principle of this refrigerator very well, and it was different from ordinary refrigerators.

Moreover, guests are too close to the refrigerator where the ingredients are stored, which may also cause food contamination.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Xiao is an anchor with more than 400 million fans, he probably wouldn't be allowed to approach.

Li Xiao took two steps closer to the refrigerator and pointed the camera at the inside of the refrigerator.

"This refrigerator does not have a refrigeration system. It relies on the upper and lower layers of ice cubes. After the ice cubes melt, they will take away a lot of heat and keep the refrigerator at a suitable temperature."

"And because there is no refrigeration system and no fan to circulate the cold air, there is less air flow inside, reducing the water loss of the fish and keeping the freshness of the fish as much as possible."

"After all, everyone knows that sashimi is a fresh food. With the same price and the same quality, the fresher the better."

Li Xiao quickly nodded to the young lady, thanking her for her help.

After all, this kind of 10,000+ refrigerators, I am afraid that the audience will not have many chances to see them.

Ordinary anchors probably don't have this kind of treatment, so they can take this close-up of themselves.

After all, every time the refrigerator is opened, the freshness of the food inside will drop by one point.

Even when they are making food normally, they will take out all the food in the set meal at one time to avoid the freshness of other food from decreasing.

Li Xiao introduced:
"Xinheju has two packages here, one is 2500 packages, the other is 1500 packages, and both are single-person packages."

"The reason why the prices of the two packages are different is because of the materials used at different prices. In order to make it easier for everyone to see, I chose the 2500 package this time."

Li Xiao is not short of money now, so of course he chose the 2500 set meal. This kind of set meal has a local name in Sakura Country, Omakase.

"Omakase is pronounced in Sakura language. It literally translates into Chinese as 'chef faban', which means please."

"Everyone can understand that this meal is at your request."

"Guests don't need to order, the types and portions of the products are all up to the chef's arrangement."

"An Omakase meal usually includes appetizers, sashimi, grilled food, fried food, sushi, soup, main course and dessert, all handled by the chef."

After listening to Li Xiao's introduction, many people gasped in the live broadcast room.

"Good guy, this cherry blossom meal actually costs 2500 yuan? Isn't it very poor over there? Why are the things sold so expensive?"

"It's true that it is much poorer than Dahan, but high-end cuisine is also very expensive, but there are also many low-end cherry blossom cuisine, and the price is not very high."

"Omakase cuisine, for people with choice syndrome like me, this form of dining is more intimate, which is simply good news."

"Omakase dishes vary depending on the set meal. Some set meals may cover forty or fifty ingredients. If you have any taboos, you can discuss it with the chef in advance, and he will directly help you replace the unappetizing ingredients. "

While speaking, Li Xiao had already completed the payment.

Because of the understanding of the young lady, he took a camera around the workbench and took a close-up.

"The workbench where sushi chefs work now also has a special name in Sakura Cuisine, that is Itamae."

"The cooks who are often able to work in Banqian are the most experienced and highest-level cooks in the store. As for other cooks, they can only do some other auxiliary work in the back kitchen."

"The chefs who showed us in Banqian today are Senbon Bridge from the Sakura Country, and Kamimoto Haru who is also from the Sakura Country."

Sitting in front of the workbench again, Qian Benqiaoshang and Shang Yuanchun had completed the preparations.

Using standard Chinese pronunciation on Qianben Bridge, he asked:

"I don't know if Mr. Li Xiao has any taboos here? Or some preferences?"

Li Xiao hesitated for a while, then said:
"I am a Cantonese from the Han Dynasty. I prefer to drink soup. I also like the taste of fresh and sweet food, and I like the original taste of food."

After listening to Li Xiao's statement, Qianbenqiao nodded slightly
"Okay, I understand."

He didn't make him wait long, and the appetizers were served soon.

【Hokkaido hairy crab gravy soup】

The first appetizer is actually soup, which is really bold.

I am also very confident. Usually, the appetizers will be light, fresh appetizers with some flavors.

The purpose is to allow diners to open their taste buds to better taste the food that follows.

Usually it will be sweet and sour food, but this Senbon Bridge boldly uses seafood soup.

It's a bit interesting, but I don't know. He is overconfident in his cooking skills and feels that he can open up his taste buds with a seafood soup.

Or blindly arrange and make today's menu according to the preferences provided by yourself?

【Hokkaido Hairy Crab Gravy Soup】Put it in a small silver-gray porcelain cup. The surface of the small porcelain cup is painted with tiny white flowers, which looks a bit elegant.

When the soup inside the lid was opened, a faint white smoke came out immediately, and a strong seafood aroma came out.

At the same time, the system's check-in reminder arrived as scheduled.

[Ding dong, check in successfully, the gourmet restaurant you checked in is: [Xinheju]]

【New Store, New People, New Atmosphere】

【Using top quality seafood as ingredients】

[The boss goes all out to let his wife eat the food from his hometown]

[Because Senmoto Hashigami has studied under the famous chef of Dahan Kingdom for a long time, so his cooking is more abundant]

[Shang Yuanchun has studied the usage of sauces for a long time, so he has unique insights into sushi sauces]

【Taiichi Sasaki, who studied under Cook Taro, has a deep understanding of how to cook a pot of home-made rice】

[Tanimura Yamashita's 10 years of dedicated practice of swordsmanship has allowed him to have a level of swordsmanship far beyond his peers]

[Since Yinhua Country has been lagging behind for a long time, the requirements for the service industry are more stringent]

[Technical guidance: 5-star senior chef: Senbon Bridge]

[Chef: 3-star senior chef: Shang Yuanchun]

[Sous chef: 2-star senior chef: Taichi Sasaki]

[Sous Chef: 1-star Senior Chef: Hayashi Tamoto]

[Sous Chef: 1-star Senior Chef: Tanimura Yamashita]

"Ding dong, the system scores, [Xinheju] has a star rating of 4 stars."

"Ding Dong, you have received a 4-star gourmet store check-in reward"

[Ability: Mastery of sushi making]

[Ability introduction: You have learned how to make all sushi. 】

[Ability: Advanced Sword Technique]

[Ability introduction: Your knife skills have become more mature. 】

[Ability: Food Ripening]

[Ability introduction: You have learned how to make food taste better after it is cooked. 】

[Ability: Sushi sauce making proficiency]

[Ability introduction: You have learned how to make sushi sauce. 】

[Ability: Proficiency in making rice]

[Ability introduction: You have learned how to cook a pot of delicious rice. 】

[Money: 10000 yuan]

【Fame: 40】

[Fame introduction: 1 point of fame will allow 10 strangers to know you through different channels]

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Thanks to the big brothers for the rewards and monthly tickets, I feel endless.

(End of this chapter)