No matter Zhou Shijie, Zhang Yan, or even Wang Huai and Mr. Ma, they all believed that Yuan Zhou's Qi-Cultivating Kung Fu was also at the grandmaster level.
As a matter of fact, Yuan Zhou's Qi-Cultivating Kung Fu wasn't as good as his culinary skills, but the reason was that his culinary skills were too high and too strong.
Just like a certain bald man's martial arts, Yuan Zhou had never lost since he started his career.
To be honest, because of the teachings of Zhou Shijie and some other masters, plus the fact that he really liked culinary skills, Yuan Zhou's breadth of mind and self-restraint could really be called at the grandmaster level now.
Not to mention other things, Yuan Zhou didn't have any sectarian bias and would guide anyone, which made him surpass many chefs.
The next day, as usual, Yuan Zhou got up early, jogged in the morning and then prepared breakfast.
After breakfast time ended, Yuan Zhou called Zheng Jiawei and Cheng Ying.
The former was very easy to communicate with. As soon as Yuan Zhou told Yuan Zhou his idea, Zheng Jiawei not only answered him quickly but also provided some useful suggestions.
As for the latter …
"Teacher's father, are you looking for my dad?" It was the first thing Cheng Ying said when she received the call.
"Could it be that my dad is in closed-door training again, so Teacher's father can't find me and calls me?" Cheng Ying muttered and guessed.
"But I don't think so. My dad has saved Teacher's father's phone number as a special contact. Even if it's on silent mode, he can still get it." The footsteps of Cheng Ying passed from the other end of the phone. It seemed that she was looking for Engineer Cheng while making guesses.
That's right. Before Yuan Zhou said anything, Cheng Ying had said the above three paragraphs.
Yuan Zhou fell silent for a while and then said directly, "I'm looking for you."
On the other side of the phone, Cheng Ying realized that she had spoken too much and felt a little embarrassed. She coughed twice and stopped to ease the awkwardness before saying, "Teacher's father, what's the matter?"
"Yuan Shop Tan, and also the Food Review Website. Are you managing them, Xiaosu?" Yuan Zhou asked.
"That's right." Cheng Ying nodded and then reported the business situation of the two websites in a well-practiced manner.
As a website that mainly focused on leaving comments, sharing, and ridiculing, the traffic of Yuan Zhou Restaurant was quite good. Needless to say, it had already become the most authoritative food review website in the country. Numerous foodies would share their findings on the website. As for foodies, when they were traveling somewhere, it was already a habit for them to go to Yuan Zhou Food Review website to find good restaurants.
Unbeknownst to Yuan Zhou, many big companies had waved money to buy this website. However, Jiang Changxi had stepped forward to stop them. After all, Queen Jiang had invested in this website.
Yuan Zhou told Cheng Ying about the general plan that he had discussed with Zheng Jiawei. Her first reaction after hearing it was to open her eyes wide.
She hurriedly asked, "Teacher's father, is there a need to play such a big game in promoting Cantonese cuisine this time?"
Yuan Zhou's plan was very simple. They would organize a vote with the theme "The Kitchen God's Cantonese Soup, Most Popular Selection".
Regardless of whether they logged into the Food Review Website or Yuan Shop Tan, they could vote for their favorite Cantonese cuisine soup. Each IP address only had one vote.
Why was the target soup? Speaking of Cantonese cuisine, the most well-known were Cantonese dim sum and old fire soup.
It couldn't be helped. People of Yuan Zhou's generation watched movies and dramas where soup was often boiled and delicious Cantonese dim sum was eaten in the morning.
It was just that a few days ago, Yuan Zhou made Suzhou Boat Cakes. The cake party was even on the news for a period of time. Although Cantonese dim sum and boat cakes were two completely different things, there might be some repetition of preconceived notions.
Therefore, Cantonese soup was the best choice.
The old fire soup should be called Guangfu soup. It was created by Guangfu people and carried forward.
There was a saying, "It's better to eat without vegetables than to eat without soup." This soup was referring to Guangfu soup.
The activity lasted for a week. After the end of the activity, the soup with the most votes would receive a 50% discount for half a month in Yuanzhou shop.
Yes, you didn't hear it wrong. 50% discount for half a month.
Other than the price, there was another point that the customers of The Kitchen God had been complaining about. It didn't matter if it was Valentine's Day in the West or Mid-Autumn Festival in China. No matter what festival it was, The Kitchen God would never give a discount.
Just as the netizens said, "No matter what, Boss Yuan will always be here waiting for you. The US dollar will depreciate, housing prices will fall, but The Kitchen God will never give a discount. "
According to the "Chronicles of The Kitchen God" written by Wang Hong, up to the fourth volume, The Kitchen God had only given a discount three times. The first time was when the shop opened for business, the second time was when it was 10% off, and the last time was when The Kitchen God was listed.
No matter which of the three times, there was a sea of people rubbing shoulders with each other. Moreover, it was a 50% discount this time. Although it was only one dish, one could totally imagine the passion of the customers.
Therefore, Cheng Ying's first reaction was to ask if there was a need to make it so big.
"Teacher's father, don't worry. I promise to complete this task. I also have a friend who is Marshal Tian Peng. If I can't make this news popular on the Internet in three days, then … then I won't be able to find a boyfriend in the future." Cheng Ying was full of fighting spirit and made a military pledge.
Yuan Zhou really wanted to tell Cheng Ying not to make such a flag. After all, until now, Cheng Ying had never been in a serious relationship. However, after thinking about it carefully, it didn't seem too good to say that. Therefore, he could only respond with silence.
After that, Yuan Zhou hung up the phone. Cheng Ying was deeply influenced by her father. As long as Yuan Zhou didn't take the initiative to hang up the phone, she wouldn't hang up.
Since it was the activity proposed by Yuan Zhou, all the expenses and labor would be borne by Yuan Zhou. Therefore, Yuan Zhou transferred money to Zheng Jiawei and Cheng Ying. Things were different. This was Yuan Zhou's usual style.
Strictly speaking, this promotion activity didn't belong to the government. However, Yuan Zhou still informed Zhou Shijie and Song Ming and went to that position.
As the chairman of the Chef's Association, Zhou Shijie definitely supported Yuan Zhou's promotion activity 100%. However, as a famous chef of Shandong Cuisine, Zhou Shijie was a little bit careful.
Naturally, he was thinking about how to make Yuan Zhou interested in Shandong Cuisine.
"Yuan, what do you think of Shandong Cuisine?" Zhou Shijie answered his own question, "Our Shandong Cuisine can be said to be the cuisine with the longest history and the highest foundation. Yuan, if you have any ideas about Shandong Cuisine, you must tell me."
"Uh … I don't have any ideas. I also look forward to Shandong Cuisine very much." Yuan Zhou answered.
"Since you don't have any ideas, why hasn't your The Kitchen God, Yuan, served Shandong Cuisine yet?" Zhou Shijie asked on the phone.
Speaking of which, Zhou Shijie had wanted to ask this question for a long time. At the beginning, he didn't mention Sichuan Cuisine. After all, Yuan Zhou was from Sichuan.
Then, he didn't mention Yunnan Cuisine and Qianzhou Cuisine. Yunnan and Qianzhou Cuisine were geographically the closest to Sichuan Province. This couldn't be changed.
However, why were Cantonese Cuisine and Suzhou Cuisine ranked before Shandong Cuisine? It should be known that Chairman Zhou had specially calculated the distance between Chengdu and Shunde and Zibo. Both of them were more than 1,600 kilometers!
Today, after listening to Yuan Zhou's plan to promote Cantonese Cuisine, Chairman Zhou finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Among them, Zhou Shijie had never considered whether Yuan Zhou knew Shandong Cuisine.
After all, in Zhou Shijie's opinion, there was nothing that Yuan Zhou didn't know.
Facing Chairman Zhou's hidden bitterness, Yuan Zhou really didn't know how to answer. He could only bite the bullet and said, "I'm already thinking about Shandong Cuisine."
"Really?" Zhou Shijie was delighted.
"Yes. Shandong Cuisine mainly has five branches: Southwest Shandong, Confucius Cuisine, Jiaodong, Boshan, and Jinan. Currently, I'm studying Confucius Cuisine." Yuan Zhou wasn't bluffing.
Yuan Zhou had already begun to absorb culinary knowledge independently. After studying the existing ancient books, Yuan Zhou had already begun to study Japanese Cuisine and Confucius Cuisine.
"That's good. I can rest assured that Shandong Cuisine has you." Zhou Shijie hung up the phone with satisfaction.
Compared to Zhou Shijie, Song Ming was so happy that he jumped up when he heard the news.
Of course, Song Ming restrained himself. After all, he was the chairman of the Cantonese Cuisine Association.
"Chairman Song, what made you so happy?" Li He, the vice chairman of the Cantonese Cuisine Association, saw Song Ming's smile like a blooming chrysanthemum after receiving a call.
"Cough." Song Ming coughed and said, "Nothing much. It's just that Head Chef Yuan is preparing an event to promote Cantonese Cuisine."
Li He didn't ask who Head Chef Yuan was. There were many chefs with the surname Yuan in the country, but only one person could be addressed as Head Chef by Song Ming.
Song Ming then informed Li He of the general content of the event.
Li He instantly realized that this was a great opportunity, "If this event is organized by other chefs, they won't even get a chance. But if it's organized by Head Chef Yuan, the probability will be different. Do we, the Cantonese Cuisine Association, need to cooperate?"
"No need. Since Head Chef Yuan is planning this event, he doesn't want it to be too official," Song Ming said, "More importantly, Head Chef Yuan is the honorary vice chairman of the Cantonese Cuisine Association."
Li He nodded and said, "Then we really don't need the association to send an official letter to express our gratitude?"
"Of course not. Yuan Zhou is also a member of our association," Song Ming repeated. Song Ming repeated his words again. After a while, he said, "I heard that Head Chef Yuan likes ancient books. I have prepared a gift for his birthday soon."
Several years later, the world's number one ancient book museum, the Yuan Zhou Museum of Ancient Books of Culinary Arts, would be built bit by bit.
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