After lunch yesterday, when they were leaving Taoxi Road, Leader Zhao couldn't help but talk to Gao Fei and Secretary Fang while walking. It was probably because he had eaten too many delicacies.
"Let's not talk about Head Chef Yuan's culinary skills. I think his personal charisma is definitely the highest in Asia." Leader Zhao gave a thumbs up and praised, "Although there are many talents in our country, those who can really drive the development of the block where they are located by themselves and attract so many talents. It would be great if we could open a Michelin food city with so many foreign chefs living in it."
Taoxi Road and Wu Yungui's Food City had become a good cycle.
Have you ever seen a Food City with over a dozen Michelin Three Star Chefs?
"But the reason why the gourmet city can reach its current scale is because of Head Chef Yuan," Secretary Fang said. Simply speaking, he was going back to the original topic.
Leader Zhao was obviously quite happy today. He had called the provincial government and received their full support. Lu Province's tourism industry might reach its peak soon. How could he not be happy?
Therefore, Leader Zhao waved his hand and said, "I feel that the leaders of Chengdu don't know enough about Head Chef Yuan. Therefore, I believe there is a chance. The provincial government has also said that they will give us the greatest support."
Usually, when people passed by each other on Taoxi Road, no one would pay much attention to each other. Coincidentally, Officer Ge had come to Taoxi Road to investigate the start of the month. When he passed by Leader Zhao, he didn't pay much attention to them. But when he heard the words "Head Chef Yuan" and "Province of Lu", he sensed that something was wrong. Therefore, he followed them and heard the whole process.
"How can there be such a shameless person?" Officer Ge was furious and instantly became a villager.
But Officer Ge was a very calm person. Otherwise, he wouldn't be the sole person in charge of such an important place like Taoxi Road.
Ever since Yuan Zhou became famous and brought about the economic growth of Taoxi Road, the leaders attached great importance to it. They were worried that their subordinates might have bad ideas and affect Yuan Zhou. Therefore, a special group was set up to record and observe the situation so that they could adjust the policies at any time.
Therefore, it was conceivable that the Chengdu government and even the Sichuan government attached great importance to Taoxi Road and Yuan Zhou, which was not as superficial as what Leader Zhao thought.
After confirming the facts, Secretary General Ge went back to report the situation, which immediately attracted everyone's attention. Then, the officials of Chengdu stopped Leader Zhao and his group from poaching Leader Zhao. Of course, they couldn't have any physical conflict. They just invited Leader Zhao for tea.
Both of them were thousand-year-old foxes. They didn't talk about Yuan Zhou during tea time, but the more they didn't, the more important this matter was.
In the end, Leader Zhao was indeed unreasonable, so he gave up on his wishful thinking and left Chengdu dejectedly.
Leader Zhao called Zhou Shijie before he left. Unfortunately, he was misunderstood by Chairman Zhou before he could finish speaking. He rushed back overnight, but Zhou Shijie didn't meet him at all. Of course, he was relieved.
He hurried over to the Kitchen God to take a look.
Yuan Zhou raised his head and saw the familiar figure of Zhou Shijie. He immediately walked out of the kitchen and greeted him, "Uncle Zhou, you're here. Is there anything I can help you with?"
While asking, he led Zhou Shijie to the table beside and sat down. He even poured a cup of water in front of him sincerely.
"Has Yuan been affected by anything recently?" Zhou Shijie first asked for confirmation.
"No. I'm still opening the restaurant as usual and practicing my culinary skills when I'm free. If there's anything different, I brewed a very famous wine." Yuan Zhou added, "It's a relatively old wine."
"Famous wine?" Zhou Shijie also asked expectantly, "Dukang?"
Yuan Zhou didn't keep him guessing and said directly, "Monkey wine."
"What?" Zhou Shijie raised his tone immediately, "You mean — there are many apes in the deep mountains of Pingle Prefecture. They are good at picking hundreds of fruits to brew wine. When a woodcutter entered the mountain and found their lair, the amount of wine they made was as much as several stones. It's extraordinarily fragrant, so it's called Monkey Wine. "
He spoke very fast and even recited this long paragraph, which made Yuan Zhou quite surprised.
"Yes, it's the legendary Monkey Wine." Yuan Zhou nodded his head.
Monkey Wine, Monkey Wine, Orangutan Wine and so on were all other names of Monkey Wine.
Zhou Shijie looked at Yuan Zhou as if he had just known Yuan Zhou. Then, he smiled helplessly and said, "Monkey Wine has always been the research topic of our Chef's Alliance. I didn't expect that you, Yuan, would develop it first. I don't even know whether I should be happy or not."
"Yuan, are you going to hold a Monkey Wine Appraisal Meeting?" If others said that they brewed Monkey Wine, Zhou Shijie would slap them. But since Yuan Zhou said it, he believed it very much.
"It's just a wine. I don't think it's necessary to hold an Appraisal Meeting with such great fanfare." Yuan Zhou said hesitantly.
"…" Zhou Shijie said, "Yuan, you probably don't know how influential Monkey Wine is in the circle of chefs."
"Let me describe it to you this way. You have restored the Skillful Butcher Dismembering a Cow. Actually, the influence is almost the same as restoring the Monkey Wine."
In that case, it was indeed time to hold one.
"I know you don't like to hold grand events, Yuan. But I don't come here for no reason." Zhou Shijie drank a mouthful of water to moisten his throat and then said.
"Uncle Zhou is usually busy. I haven't come here for a long time." Yuan Zhou said.
"It's not a big deal. Here's the thing. Recently, the Chef's Alliance is going to hold a large-scale activity. Each cuisine will recommend the Top Ten Beauties. Of course, the Top Ten Beauties refers to the dishes. We think these award-winning dishes can represent each cuisine. In this way, at least people who are not familiar with the cuisine can say the Top Ten Beauties subconsciously when they hear the name of the cuisine." Zhou Shijie didn't keep Yuan Zhou guessing and said straightforwardly.
What he said was actually a series of related activities to promote each cuisine. The significance of this activity was relatively great. At least, it could make people familiar with some dishes. That was a success.
"This activity is quite good. Let those disciples also participate in it." Yuan Zhou thought for a while and then said.
"Those disciples of yours are the leaders and the backbone of each cuisine. They definitely need to participate in it. This time, I mainly come here to invite you to be the judge of the final competition. In this way, it can improve everyone's enthusiasm and motivation." Zhou Shijie was a little embarrassed when he said that in the end.
If he didn't usually treat Yuan Zhou as his own nephew, he wouldn't have said that in any case.
Although it sounded nice, it was actually to expand the influence by taking advantage of Yuan Zhou's fame and status. Looking at the whole Asia, only Yuan Zhou had such strength and no one else could do that.
In Zhou Shijie's opinion, Yuan Zhou would suffer losses in this matter. However, as the chairman of the Chef's Alliance, it was something he had to do. Therefore, he was in a bit of a dilemma.
"Uncle Zhou, how can you say that? It's every chef's duty to promote a cuisine. I'm very happy that Uncle Zhou can come to me. Just send me the time and place. I will be there on time." Yuan Zhou agreed readily.
"Then, after the Top Ten Beauties Competition ends, we can conveniently release the news of the Monkey Wine and hold an impromptu appraisal meeting. It can also be a surprise. Besides, Yuan, you don't need to ask for leave again." Zhou Shijie brought out his idea.
On hearing that, Yuan Zhou felt it was pretty good. He could kill two birds with one stone, so he nodded and agreed.
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