Food: I Am A Cartoonist In Totsuki

Chapter 142: Resort Cuisine Innovation Competition

Today is the sixth day of Tong Yu’s field study at Tōtsuki Resort.

In the second kitchen lounge of Tōtsuki Resort, Tong Yu and Matsuhara Hiromoto are sitting at a table talking about the past few days.

“The method of patience training is probably like this. Everything that can teach you has been handed over to you. Whether you can break through is up to you.” Song Yuan lit a cigarette and held it in his mouth.

One of Matsubara’s hobbies is smoking, and he always likes to have one in his spare time.

After taking a deep breath, Song Yuan exhaled the smoke with a refreshing look on his face, and said again: “To be honest, I have been a chef for so many years, and this is the first time I have seen such talent as you, and others in their 30s and 50s may not necessarily touch it. The threshold of “heart”, you should wake up now, and your knife skills and heating skills have reached the level of star chefs. I really don’t know what kind of freak you are.

It was not the first time that Songyuan had praised Tong Yu like this in the past few days. Tong Yu was a little embarrassed to hear it, and this praise of “120” was not the point, the next sentence was what he wanted to say.

After taking another puff of cigarettes, Matsubara said again: “Boy, don’t you really think about it? With your strength, there is no need to waste time in places like Tōtsuki. I can give you the position of the head chef, and then I can also enjoy the happiness.”

If it were someone else, after hearing Matsumoto say this, he would be happy that he couldn’t find it, and then he agreed.

But Tong Yu has his own ideas. Even if he wants to be a chef, he will be in his own restaurant instead of working with others.

“Senior Matsubara, thank you again for your kindness. I said that I don’t want to tie my life to a fixed kitchen. My goal is to travel all over the world and learn cooking knowledge from all over the world. The road to food is endless. Only continuous exploration can continue to grow. The process of moving forward may be long, but the scenery passing by is worth it.

Hearing Tong Yu say this, Songyuan didn’t say much. After smoking the rest of the cigarette, he put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray and stood up.

“That’s right, with your talent and future accomplishments far above mine, staying here will only limit your growth. Forget it, but you suddenly want to come to Tōtsuki Resort. You can come to me anytime, before I retire. The chef’s seat is reserved for you.” Song Yuan said to Tong Yu.

From these words alone, it can be seen that Songyuan greatly appreciates Tong Yu, and also recognizes his strength and talent very much.

Fortunately, there are only the two of them in the lounge now. If this remark is heard by the sous chef Legotay and other kitchen staff, it will definitely cause some dissatisfaction.

Zhang Yu was also very grateful to Songyuan, and secretly decided in his heart that he would repay him for this kindness if he had the opportunity in the future.

“I’m done smoking, and I’m going to start working again. Boy, when are you leaving here?” Songyuan turned around and asked again.

Tong Yu found out the problem of the sauce ratio on the first day and improved it in the way of “sauce cup”. In fact, he has already left “seeing is believing. Even if he left here on the first day, I believe Tōtsuki’s “Tooth” doesn’t say much.

Continuing to stay here, naturally, is to let Matsubara guide him to practice majesty.

However, I have learned a lot in the past few days, and I can really consider leaving the resort and going to the next “field study” place.

After thinking for a while, Tong Yu said: “The field study time is one week. According to the time, you can leave the day after tomorrow at the latest. Senior Song Yuan has something for me to do?”

“Do you want to challenge yourself?”

“Challenge yourself, what do you mean?”

Matsubara explained: “Tōtsuki Resort’s annual ‘Innovation Contest’ is about to start, starting tomorrow, Tōtsuki Resort’s three major kitchens will provide recently created recipes to VIP guests,

In Matsubara’s explanation, Tong Yu knew that there was such a “cooking innovation competition” at Tōtsuki Resort.

This contest is held every year from time to time, and its purpose is to remove the old and promote the new, and to update the recipes of each kitchen.

You must know that Tōtsuki Resort is a rare five-star restaurant in Japan, and there are countless guests who come every day, many of whom are prominent and even the heads of some major powers.

In order to satisfy the discerning appetite and demanding requirements of the guests, the innovation of the recipes is inevitable.

Not only the chefs of the three major kitchens need to create refreshing recipes every year, but also Dojima Gin and Hiroshi Sena.

Tong Yu was a little surprised after hearing this, and said, “There is still such a thing, which means that Senior Songyuan, you have prepared a new recipe?”

“My new recipe was added to the kitchen’s menu a month ago, as were the chefs in the other two kitchens. Tomorrow’s event is mainly to showcase the dishes created by the staff outside the main house, if you dare to Prepare a dish to participate. But again, if you serve a dishonest dish in front of VIP guests, you should know what the consequences are…”

After Songyuan finished speaking, he let out a hey hey laugh, which was obviously very wretched in line with the horizontal flesh on his face.

“The cooking innovation competition at Tōtsuki Resort is really interesting. Then I will participate as the No. 2 kitchen employee,” Dong Yu said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

It’s not surprising that Tong Yu wants to participate in Songyuan.

“Have you figured it out? But you only have one day to prepare.

“Enough, I’m going to use all the essence of what I’ve learned in the past few days in this dish that I’m going to create next!”

The next day came quickly, and by the time noon was approaching, a lot of customers had gathered in the VIP cafeteria of Tōtsuki Resort.

The guests who can enter this place are all distinguished people, including two sisters known as “Queen of Curry” by Tong Yu.

Chimyo Natsumi and Chiyo Oriyo were sitting by the window, the two sisters chatted and waited for the dishes to be presented.

Having been to “many star-rated restaurants, only the cuisine of Tōtsuki Resort can satisfy our taste buds to the greatest extent.”

“It’s a pity that I can’t taste the chef’s set menu at this time, it’s just the dishes made by the lower-level staff, which is a bit boring.

“The sous chef of Tōtsuki Resort is also very capable, and the dishes he cooks will not disappoint you. Have you already started serving dishes?”

I saw that the waiters at Tōtsuki Resort began to bring the appetizers completed by the three major kitchens to the self-service counter.

Although today is the “Cooking Innovation Competition” of the three major kitchens, the dishes are presented in the form of “buffet”, and they are provided as a set menu of appetizers, soups, side dishes, main dishes, salads, and desserts.

Since the three major kitchen dishes are served at the same time, there are more than a dozen different styles of “appetizers”.

A variety of appetizers with caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, chicken 4.4 tail cup, butter chicken crisp box, baked snails, etc. as the main ingredients are presented in front of many VIP guests.

Guests can choose to taste according to their own preferences, or they can taste multiple dishes.

If a certain dish is particularly well-received and the supply exceeds demand, the waiter will make additional preparations in the corresponding kitchen in the first time.

After ensuring that every VIP guest tasted the appetizers, the second batch of soup dishes began to be delivered.

There are also more than a dozen different kinds of soup dishes, which makes the guests dazzled and don’t know which one to choose to taste.

However, the dishes such as appetizers, soups, and side dishes, many guests also stopped trying, because they all knew that the main dish that was about to be presented was the highlight.

Soon, the steaming main dishes were delivered to the buffet, including an original dish that Tong Yu devoted a lot of energy to.

(To be continued..),