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In traditional Chinese cuisine, a delicious dish is always described as delicious, delicious, and delicious.

And "color" ranks first among them, which is enough to show how important the first impression of a dish's appearance is.

The twelve steamed chestnut-colored pears on Su Chen's plate at this moment are the best examples.

After twenty minutes of steaming, the peeled pears have become soft and rotten, and the pear flesh has taken on a maroon color. The rock sugar water inside is soaked in jujube paste, and the thickened soup, wolfberry and green beans are adhered to the outside of the pear flesh.

"This rock sugar snow pear looks like it can clear the lungs and relieve coughs."

"I can't even imagine that if a long-time smoker like me could eat a pear like this every day, wouldn't I be able to live at least ten more years?"

Liu Guochu actually didn't feel cold about this whole pear with honey sauce.

When he first looked at the menu, he thought the first seven dishes were very interesting, but the eighth dish felt like a make-up.

Because in Hunan cuisine, beets have always been a weak point.

The beets available in Hunan Province are very limited, including this honey-glazed whole pear dish, which can hardly be called Hunan cuisine.

It's just that there were a few time-honored brands that made it better back then, and this dish has been passed down in Hunan recipes.

At this moment, when Su Chen put the big plate on the table, everyone got a whole pear first.

Su Chen put his hands on his hips, "What were we talking about just now, so passionately?"

Lu Yongliang opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly realized something.

Damn it, I have been working on it for a long time to talk about the plan to create a god, but now others dare not say it, at least what are these people who are trying to become gods doing?

I'm working for Su Chen at Delicious Food!

If one day in the future the best candidate for this god-making plan will appear among all of you here, then who is the most qualified?

Is it his little-known national chef of Hubei cuisine, Lu Yongliang?

Or is it Cui Yufen who has worked at the International Hotel all his life?

Or the Jiang brothers who couldn't even get into the state banquet?

It can't be Liu Guochu, the national chef of Hunan cuisine who is currently weak, right?

After all this, who else can be the final qualified person?

When Lu Yongliang's words reached his lips, he suddenly couldn't say them out. For a moment, he felt a little bitter in his heart. He hurriedly dug some pear with a spoon and put it in his mouth. It was very sweet.

This relieved the bitterness in my heart.

It turns out that the clown is actually me?

It wasn't just Lu Yongliang who thought of this.

Everyone who was originally going to start chatting with Su Chen lowered their heads and ate snow pears silently without saying a word.

Su Chen looked at everyone's silence and was a little confused, so he simply sat down next to Cai Sirong.

"Teacher Liu, how was your chat with Wang Tai?"

Wang Jianguo didn't belong to their circle of chefs. He fucked two pears and felt that his lungs were much calmer.

"I thought about it carefully while eating just now. Mr. Ling's theme of the collision between the state banquet and the private banquet is definitely interesting! But... I feel that it would be wrong not to invite a celebrity."

Su Chen reached out and interrupted Wang Jianguo, "The question now is not whether you have the talent or not, but whether you can hire a star? When I was just cooking, Shu Yu contacted me and said that the decoration team would be able to come in this afternoon. Wang Tai, Please hurry up here, the teachers and I won’t have time to play with you until the famous cuisine is finished.”

Wang Jianguo nodded with a sad face.

He decided to give it one last try, targeting an evergreen figure in the entertainment industry: Liu Yifei.

In fact, Wang Jianguo has thought about this candidate before. Compared with other celebrities, Liu Yifei does not have a brokerage company behind her, and Liu Yifei has basically nothing to prepare for recently except for the endorsement of several world-class brands.

In addition, this fairy has rarely filmed any serious variety shows. If she can be invited, the gimmick of "fairy sister's first variety show" is enough to make people think.

‘Three million won’t work, let’s add another one million to the budget! At worst, I’ll dig it out from other places when the time comes.’

For Jingzhou TV station, this program is a bit of a sinking pot.

Yes, eat meat during the Chinese New Year.

Defeated, no salary during the Chinese New Year.

"Thank you, Boss Su, and Teacher Liu for your hospitality today. In that case, I won't stay any longer. Now I'm going back to the station to get in touch with this matter. Let's try to start recording the program as soon as possible!"

Su Chen nodded, "Slow down on the road."

Wang Jianguo carried his briefcase and was about to leave in a hurry. Halfway through, he turned back and pointed at the last pear on the table, "If none of you can eat it, can I pack it?"

The teachers at the table were all stunned.

You are such a slacker. You just want to eat, but you still want to pack before leaving?

Is there anyone who does things like this?

Seeing that everyone was silent, Wang Jianguotian shamelessly took a bowl by himself, put the pear in the bowl and grinned, "This bowl will still be good when I come over next time!"

Then, without waiting for anyone else to say anything, he hurriedly took the bowl and left.

At this time, the remaining people at the dinner table, except for Cai Sirong and Zhang Maolin, were basically employees of the delicious food department. Liu Guochu was considered a new employee.

Mr. Maolin rubbed his belly with satisfaction, "Boss Su, the association is waiting for you to take the evaluation. When will you take the time to register?"

Su Chen was still the same as before, waving his hands in a panic, "No. I don't like those things. What's the use of registering for that, and I don't give you any money."

If you pay, you can still register.

After all, the vending machine is now placed in the practice room, and the price of that thing is comparable to ten times the market price. It is really a bit unbearable to eat this and that every day.

Others only spend ten yuan on a plate of fried rice, but Su Chen spends a hundred yuan!

Not to mention that when you are greedy, you can secretly get some precious ingredients from it, such as cordyceps and other things, and the price is directly running into tens of thousands of yuan.

Zhang Maolin didn't say much, just smiled, and then said, "But let's be honest. Master Liu, there is a reason why Hunan cuisine is declining. Look at these eight dishes today. To be honest, although they are delicious, the overall experience is not as good as the Sichuan cuisine that Master Wang had a few days ago."

This is Hunan cuisine.

It is definitely delicious, but the characteristics are not distinct enough, and people can't think it is Hunan cuisine at a glance.

And the delicious Hunan dishes that are well-known to the public are too homely.

For example, stir-fried yellow beef and stir-fried pork with peppers are very popular dishes on the third floor.

Liu Guochu also knows this truth, "Well. Thanks to Boss Su's personal cooking, I am lucky to be able to eat these dishes today. When the famous cuisine restaurant is ready, I will do my best to formulate the menu of our Hunan cuisine restaurant!"

In this way, Su Chen is more satisfied.

In fact, although Su Chen's selection of dishes seems to be random, it has been repeatedly thought about for a long time in the practice room.

Some words are too uncomfortable to say: Hunan cuisine is not included in Su Chen's system "Fragments of Chinese Famous Recipes".

So all the dishes selected by Su Chen are found in "A General History of the World of Gourmet", which are more in line with local tastes and more cater to the tastes of the public.

"Then, welcome to join us, Mr. Liu!"

Su Chen shook hands with Liu Guochu seriously. This handshake, coupled with the entry of the decoration team, also officially announced the establishment of the Delicious Famous Cuisine Restaurant!

After instructing Aunt Fang to arrange accommodation for Liu Guochu, Su Chen started another job.

Aunt Fang's husband had submitted several banquet hall plans. Ling Shuyu said that this matter was too big and it was no longer something she could decide on her own.

So Su Chen still needed to go and finalize the design plan with Ling Shuyu in person.

Unconsciously, the leisurely days quietly passed, and Su Chen began to enter a busy life again.

The entire Jingzhou TV station was also busy.

It had been a week since the day when he had eaten Boss Su's Hunan cuisine, and Wang Jianguo's business cooperation with Liu Yifei's team had fallen into the sea without any movement.

At this moment, the old director who was over fifty years old finally realized that the times had changed.

If this was thirty years ago, when he had just started working at the TV station, let alone the remuneration of four million per episode.

Even if there was no money, as long as the TV station made a program, there would be countless stars who would join in succession!

But now.

Those stars would rather go to some Internet celebrities to make programs than to come to local traditional TV stations to make programs.

The idea of ​​inviting celebrities would eventually come to naught.

In this case, Wang Jianguo could only adopt the plan sent by Ling Shuyu, and use only amateurs for this program recording!

Among them, the one with the most fans is the long-legged girl He Shuting, who has more than 100,000 fans, but those fans are all old perverts. Judging from the response in the comment area, they are all going for the fans. Wang Jianguo has no idea whether it can be converted into ratings.

After the plan was finalized, the next step was to organize people to start recording.

Because there was no participation of celebrities, this matter was much easier to handle.

Wang Jianguo and Cai Sirong were already familiar with the employees and boss of Delicious. In addition, because of the recent discussion and research on the program plan (freeloading), many employees of the TV station have also become more familiar with Delicious.

Wang Jianguo immediately called the TV station program team to the conference room for a brief meeting.

And the name of this variety show was named "State Banquet and People's Banquet" according to Ling Shuyu's plan.

The first episode of the program in the plan was to be held in the form of a competition.

This is a common and relatively safe plot mode in variety shows. Both sides form their own teams and decide the winner through competition.

After the meeting, Wang Jianguo sent Cai Sirong to contact Delicious and set the recording time for the program on Monday morning.

Development Zone, Delicious.

"Am I really going to be on TV?" He Shuting scratched the back of his head hard, feeling like a dream.

Although it is not a large local satellite TV station like the toilet station, Jingzhou TV still has some weight in the hearts of Jingzhou locals.

And... In the hearts of many people born in the 1990s, there is a mysterious and dreamy feeling about "being on TV".

When the people born in the 1990s were young, television had just become popular, and being able to appear on TV was a big deal!

He Shuting saw Su Chen nod, and immediately said in confusion, "It's still a variety show?"

Su Chen continued to nod.

"Oh my god! Boss, why didn't you say so earlier? You guys chat first."

After that, everyone just saw He Shuting holding her phone to make a call, and they could vaguely hear her saying something like "I'm going to be on TV, remember to watch it then."

On the contrary, several state banquet chefs were relatively calm.

First, they had known about this for a long time, and second, they had done activities in front of the camera many times, this was just a different way.

"Boss, I am a driver, can I participate in the program?" Zhang Jiayi was a little unconvinced.

Ling Shuyu explained, "Although the program plan is like this, in fact, making a program does not mean that everyone needs to know a certain skill. Some people are responsible for [not knowing]."

It is impossible for a group of people to make a program. Everyone is a master of cooking.

At least someone must be responsible for making fun, someone must be good-looking, and someone must be extremely smart.

Only in this way can a team be established, and the program effect will be better.

After notifying everyone about the recording of the program, the employees of Delicious are still a little at a loss.

Zhang Li and Zhang Jiayi even took a leave to go home, saying that they needed to prepare in advance.

However, the old national chefs still went back to rest and think about the menu step by step.

After everything was arranged, Su Chen also returned to the office and started to think about it.

Now everyone has a script in their hands.

So many viewers like to take the variety shows on TV seriously, but in fact they are all plots. Of course, some of the content is unexpected situations that happened during the recording, which depends on the editing skills in the later stage.

The first episode of the plot that Su Chen got was a very simple competition.

The specific participating teams were divided into four groups.

Su Chen and Jiang Wusheng each led a group, representing the folk banquet.

Jiang Wensheng regretfully went back to his hometown to arrange work in the restaurant. In his heart, he still wanted to join the famous cuisine of Delicious.

After all, this is the only chance for him to be included in the state banquet in his life!

On the state banquet side, Lu Yongliang and Cui Yufen led a group each.

Originally, Liu Guochu wanted to be the leader, but Cui Yufen said that if the leader failed in the competition, he would have to bear certain responsibilities.

Liu Guochu thought about it and felt that he could not bear this responsibility.

Su Chen is the boss, Lu Yongliang and Cui Yufen are both veterans of Delicious, and they have a good personal relationship with Boss Su. Whatever responsibility they say, it's just a matter of words. But it's different for me. If I really lose the game with the state banquet team, I don't know how I will suffer.

I simply became a member of Lu Yongliang's team.

After an afternoon of preparation, the next morning, the group of Delicious came to the TV station early.

He Shuting held up her mobile phone, kept recording a short video, and talked to the phone from time to time.

"See? We're already at the TV station!"

"Aunt? Hey, we're just starting to record today, and we don't know when it can be broadcast. Don't worry, I'll let you know in the group."

"Hey, Third Uncle? What big star? Where is the big star? Hey, no, no, I'm busy now, I'll tell you later!"

Putting away her phone, He Shuting was still curiously wandering around the TV station building, looking at some equipment she had never seen before, feeling like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden for the first time.

The TV station had already prepared it.

Because Cai Sirong has always been in charge of these things, although recording a program has nothing to do with her as a reporter, the station still let Cai Sirong take full charge of the docking work for this project.

Not only that.

In order to make the docking more convenient, Cai Sirong directly became one of the guests of this program. It is hard to say that this is not Wang Jianguo's attempt to secretly train a host and reporter with traffic for the TV station.

Cai Sirong led everyone to a room.

"This is the studio. We'll just record an opening speech on the stage later."

The crowd, who were a little curious at first, became a little nervous for no reason after seeing several recording devices placed under the stage.

Zhang Jiayi, a lady from a wealthy family, couldn't help but take out her makeup mirror and tried to ease her nervousness by touching up her makeup.

"Let me introduce you. This is the general director of our show, Sun Xiaoting, Director Sun."

Sun Xiaoting smiled and shook hands with Su Chen, "Boss Su, I've heard of your name for a long time! A few days ago, I took my family to your company for dinner. My family knew that I was recording a show with you these days, and they clamored for autographs. When you are not busy later, you must take a photo with me and sign my name!"

Su Chen was a little flattered.

Aren't directors supposed to be awesome? This Director Sun was so polite to me and asked for an autograph?

If you didn't ask me to cook a meal for you, I would think it was normal. What the hell is asking for an autograph?

Sun Xiaoting said again, "We have a lot of tasks today." Letting go of Su Chen's hand, he faced everyone, "Don't be nervous, just ignore these machines. There will be a host to guide everyone, just play together as usual."

Su Chen looked around.

This program recording scene is really different from what he imagined.

Cai Sirong led everyone to stand on the stage, and after several lights were turned on, a girl in a pink dress walked onto the stage.

"Boss Su! Hello, my name is Liu Meng, and I am the host of our program this time.

Last time when you were at the highway service area, my husband happened to be stuck in traffic. When he came back, he praised the delicious knife-cut noodles you made. Now our family is a frequent visitor to your place. I just don't know when I will be lucky enough to eat the dishes you cook yourself!"

Su Chen smiled and shook hands with the host, "Not really. I'll treat everyone to a meal after the recording of the program is finished."

Liu Meng blinked, "Really? Then I have to work hard."

After that, Liu Meng took everyone to find a place on the stage, "Don't be nervous, Director Sun, shall we start?"

Sun Xiaoting nodded.

Liu Meng's expression instantly calmed down, revealing a very professional but sweet smile.

"Hello, audience friends! What you are watching now is from Jingzhou TV."

Liu Meng stood there and spoke for a minute. After he finished speaking, Sun Xiaoting waved his hand and said, "Continue."

Liu Meng came to the opposite side of the delicious people.

"Today, it is the first episode of our national banquet and folk banquet. Before the national banquet and folk banquet collide, we must first prove our strength to the audience friends!"

"Let's start drawing lots! Players with the same color will compete in the same group."

Cai Sirong quickly carried a cardboard box to the stage.

Su Chen was still a little curious. When he looked down, he found that the inside of the cardboard box was actually made into a grid with small partitions, and the side of each grid was written with a name.

‘Oh my god, this is too fake. ’

However, everyone still drew their own sticks according to the host’s guidance, and then looked at the colors one by one and finally divided into groups.

Sun Xiaoting watched the performance of these guests with satisfaction from the audience.

Sure enough, when recording a program with amateurs, you have to prepare some inexplicable surprises. In fact, before coming here, Su Chen and his friends only knew that they would be divided into groups, and they also knew who the leader of each group was.

But no one knew how to divide them specifically.

Now after getting their own sticks according to their names.

When He Shuting found that her color was the same as Su Chen's, she jumped up excitedly.

When Zhang Jiayi found that her stick was in the same group as Cui Yufen, she stood beside Teacher Cui with a sad face.

Cui Yufen also asked coldly: "Have you been wronged by me?"

Zhang Jiayi was so scared that she hurriedly waved her hands and shook her head, and the show effect was instantly maximized.

Su Chen and his team were only responsible for recording these clips, and the rest of the content was basically completed independently by Liu Meng on the stage.

After the grouping was completed.

The indoor recording was temporarily over.

"Boss Su, now we have to set off according to the plan. Do you have any other arrangements?"

Su Chen thought for a while, "I do have an arrangement."

Sun Xiaoting stopped packing and said, "You say."

"Isn't the first episode about the four groups using their own abilities, regardless of any means, for three days and then determining the winner based on the turnover?"

Sun Xiaoting nodded.

Only the first plot can be played like this. When the subsequent plots begin, these amateurs will also be recognized by some viewers because of the broadcast of the program.

At that time, it will be difficult to record this kind of "anonymous" program content.

Su Chen continued, "Since that's the case, I personally suggest that we just make a real show. We agreed on a hundred yuan, so let's do a hundred yuan!"

After that, Su Chen looked at Cui Yufen, Lu Yongliang, and Jiang Wusheng with a sly look, "What do you think? Do you dare to play this game with me?"

Lu Yongliang took a breath and frowned, "You mean, let's really compete? Just follow the rules of the program team?"

Su Chen nodded.

According to the rules, before the game, each team can get a hundred yuan of start-up funds from the program team.

Then you can also choose five tools from a large number of kitchen utensils to use.

The original plan was that on the surface everyone only had a hundred yuan, but in fact it didn't matter if they exceeded the limit a little when buying things. It felt more like everyone was acting.

But when Su Chen said this, Lu Yongliang was a little stunned.

After reading the plan, Lu Yongliang's idea was to take out his best steamed sea bass and apply for a job at the hotel first, and then discuss with the hotel owner to work for only three days to see how to get a commission or something.

But if Su Chen is serious.

This method will not work.

Originally it was just a show, but now it's serious. Who knows how Su Chen will win the game?

If he loses then, it won't be a show, but a real loss!

Old Lu frowned and thought about this problem.

Cui Yufen was more straightforward, "Interesting. I think we should do as Xiao Su said. We only have 100 yuan of start-up capital. We will rely on this 100 yuan for food, drink and defecation in the next three days. Everyone should rely on their own ability! Old Lu, you are not afraid, right?"

"Afraid?" Lu Yongliang, who frowned, suddenly stared, "Would I be afraid? Just play, who is afraid of who?"

Jiang Wusheng quietly hid at the end of the crowd.

100 yuan, three days.

Not only do you have to make money with money, but you also have to make money around food. This is not the point. The key is that this money also includes food and accommodation for these three days.

Hiss!

It seems a bit tricky!

Sun Xiaoting suddenly clapped his hands, "Very good, this is better. If this is the case, everything that is about to happen is unknown! Of course, everyone can raise any difficulties during the recording of the program."

Su Chen waved his hand, "Since we are going to play for real, we can't rely on the program team to solve the difficulties. If everyone has no objection, let's get started?"

A group of people looked at each other.

Silence for a moment.

"Get started!!!"

Especially Cui Yufen, thinking secretly, I have lost to Su Chen in the kitchen several times, this time we all rely on our own skills, can I lose to you?

When I was in my hometown, I followed my master to set up stalls on the street. I am good at this!

Lu Yongliang was slightly uneasy.

He started to learn cooking by himself. He started in a state-owned restaurant. After the reform, he went to a big restaurant in Hubei Province. Later, he started to participate in competitions and teach.

This kind of grassroots entrepreneurship is really tricky!

Jiang Wusheng didn't know what he was thinking, but he looked ambitious.

Sun Xiaoting happily directed everyone to move things, and said to a young man, "In the later stage, cut the previous part in! It's real, too real!"

The group soon got on the bus.

The location for the first episode of the program was set in Qinzhou City, 100 kilometers away from Jingzhou City. It is an ordinary third-tier city with a population density not as high as Jingzhou.

On the bus, everyone had already started to discuss the strategy for this competition in a low voice, for fear of being overheard by other groups.

The current grouping is:

Group A, team leader Su Chen, team members He Shuting and Ling Shuyu.

Group B, team leader Jiang Wusheng, team members Zhang Li and Liu Shengnan.

Group C, team leader Cui Yufen, team members Zhang Jiayi and Bai Xiaobo.

Group D, team leader Lu Yongliang, team members Liu Guochu and Cai Sirong.

As the staff prepared the follow-up equipment, the bus drove onto the highway.

"State Banquet and People's Banquet", officially started recording!