The contestants left the stage and hundreds of carriages began to dismantle the stalls.
The meeting adjourned at five o'clock in the afternoon. These things must be cleared within four hours, so as not to delay the appearance of the contestants the next day.
As soon as Zhang Wei left the stage, Mo Du transformed into a giant moth and descended from the sky, hugging Zhang Wei.
"Brother, you are so awesome!"
"I originally wanted to lose easily, but I didn't expect you to get first place!"
"It's just a qualifying round. Once you enter the next stage, the points will be meaningless."
Mo Du smiled and said: "That's not true. The points earned can be exchanged for money from the organizer. The 650,000 points can be exchanged for 65 million Baileys!"
Sixty-five million beli, equivalent to the price of 15-18 kilograms of salt essence, is already a huge fortune.
After all, the contestants have brought their own materials for the competition, and they cannot be allowed to lose money and make a profit.
Most of the ingredients Zhang Wei purchased were around grade 1-3, with only 20 beli per kilogram. It can be said that he made a lot of money this time.
"Brother, you can get first place even with those low-level ingredients. You are so awesome! With this score, the taste is absolutely crushing."
"No, it's just a little trick. I didn't care about the taste at all. I can only say it's just so-so."
"Six hundred and fifty thousand votes, still saying it's just average? Brother, hello Versailles (pretending to be modest)!"
Zhang Wei explained: "The taste of the dishes is really average. Do you still remember my poem?"
"Hmm, I don't understand a bit."
"The meaning of this poem is that after eating my food, other dishes will be hard to stomach!"
"Domineering!"
Mo Du gave a thumbs up.
Looking at the chefs in the North, how many dare to say such a thing!
And this is not blind confidence. In terms of results, this poem is well deserved!
"However, the reason for this is not simply taste."
"Not the taste?"
Mo Du wondered: "What else could it be if it wasn't the taste? Did you cheat? Added addictive ingredients?"
"Have you ever eaten sweet watermelon and cream ice cream?"
This question was very abrupt. Although he was confused, Mo Du still answered truthfully: "Then I must have eaten it. Watermelon and ice cream are not uncommon things."
"Ripe watermelon is very sweet and delicious. But if you eat the sweeter cream ice cream first, the watermelon will taste like chewing gum."
"The taste of cream will remain in the mouth, which will affect the taste of watermelon. When the sweetness of watermelon is not highlighted, the taste will not be as good as pig food."
"The principle of this dish is the same. It uses the richness of the belly meat and the soup to create a huge impact, and adds a few special ingredients to make the meat aroma last for a long time..."
After being strengthened by Zhang Wei, Mo Du suddenly realized.
"This...it turns out that this is what I mean when the flowers bloom and I kill them all!"
"It's not about the taste, it's about using the strong taste to impress diners and make them less interested in other foods."
"But, it's difficult to do this, right? And with such a strong taste, won't it be boring to eat?"
Zhang Wei smiled and said: "Of course I will get tired of it, so I used a lot of vegetables and fruits as side dishes. And I specially paired it with a big bowl of stock..."
"Soup?"
"Yes, due to the volume of customers, the portions of our dishes are very small, usually around 100 grams."
“And I only have 200 grams of meat slices, plus a larger amount of stock, which is enough to keep the strong flavor for a long time!”
It is not easy to do this because the passenger flow is so huge.
Not counting soup, one serving is over 300 grams.
If you make more than 200,000 servings a day, that’s 20 tons of food!
These dishes are made by Zhang Wei alone, which cannot be imitated by other chefs!
If he were not a person with awakened cells, Zhang Wei would be seven-tenths full with just this portion.
Mo Du was shocked and speechless by this clever calculation.
"Brother, you are so smart."
"However, just based on these, you can't get so many points."
"Is there anything else you can say?"
Zhang Weidao: "What do you think will attract diners when visiting the food court?"
"Store? Customer flow?"
"Both are correct, but they don't hit the point, or they don't apply to the current situation. In this situation, what I grasp is the two words color, shape and fragrance."
"Color... shape... fragrance..."
"Yes, a dish needs to have both color, flavor and taste. The most important thing is taste, but cooking is not just about taste."
"Use fresh fruits and tender meat to create a strong visual impact, this is color!"
Zhang Wei continued to explain: "And I took over all the work in the kitchen not to show off, but to let the assistants focus all their energy on the exquisite presentation and highlight a single character!"
"What about the fragrance?"
"steam."
"ah?"
Zhang Wei pointed to the stone in the stove and said: "You don't think that pouring soup on the stone is a necessary part of cooking, do you?"
"Could it be that... that's a way to deceive others?"
Mo Du watched the whole game, and Zhang Wei's cooking techniques were very enjoyable to watch.
Every time new meat is steamed, hot stones are used to pour the soup, and the rising steam is extremely gorgeous.
Zhang Wei cooked soup in more than a dozen large pots, but only 10% of it was used for diners to drink, and 90% was used to pour stones.
Mo Du was shocked and said, "It's steam!"
“Use hot stones to vaporize the stock, and the rich aroma of the stock will spread throughout the venue!”
How much naturally evaporated flavor can there be?
There are fifty stalls in the entire arena, and the aromas have long been mixed together and are indistinguishable from each other.
If you want to take advantage of the aroma, you need extremely terrifying quantities! And all customers who have eaten at Zhang Wei's stall will feel a strange sense of familiarity...
Ninety percent of the soup stock has been vaporized. It can be said that all the spectators and players in the stadium have smelled it!
even!
Smelled it all day long!
As long as the aroma can be evaporated, customers will naturally be attracted.
The impact of the color of the ingredients, the farthest-spreading aroma, the smell of traps, the most attention-grabbing presentation, and the poem...
Color, aroma, taste, shape, meaning...
Everything!
"elder brother……"
"What?"
"without……"
Mo Du didn't know what to say at this time.
I want to express my admiration, but I feel that those words are too simple.
Although I have seen many chefs, I have never had anyone plan their cooking so clearly.
Even if you don't rely on taste, you can still achieve such terrifying results.
Zhang Wei's words kept echoing in my mind.
‘Color, aroma, shape and meaning, food is more than just taste.’
There are many chefs who know this sentence, but few actually do it!
"I think it makes sense for the Deer God to choose you. I don't think it's because of your bloodline. Brother...do you really not have a chef star rating?"