At the end of the third day of the competition, Gu Zheng scored 9.5 points. His score was a little low, but it was still the highest score.
For three consecutive days, Gu Zheng was the first in the ninth venue and the first in the whole competition. Not to mention many foodies and contestants who participated in the competition, even those famous chefs who were guaranteed to enter the competition knew of his existence. They knew that there was a person who rushed all the way to the first place just by making fried eggs and competed with them in the same venue.
Many famous chefs who were guaranteed to enter the competition also watched the video of Gu Zheng making fried eggs.
They were all knowledgeable people. They knew how extraordinary Gu Zheng's fried eggs were. In other words, none of them could make fried eggs like Gu Zheng's. Just by looking at the appearance, Gu Zheng deserved to be the first place.
In addition to Gu Zheng, there were also many experts among the people this time. Many of them made good dishes. The last 200 people who advanced could be said to be their strong opponents.
In the evening, Gu Zheng and Wang Dong both received a call from the organizing committee.
The two advanced together. Tomorrow's competition would be held in three big venues. There were a total of 263 people who were guaranteed to enter the competition this time. Seven people couldn't participate in the competition on time. Excluding these seven people, there were 256 famous chefs who were guaranteed to enter the competition.
The number of people who were guaranteed to enter the competition was more than the number of people who killed their way out of thousands of people.
However, this couldn't be helped. Generally speaking, gourmet competitions were based on invitation. You had to have a certain reputation and a certain status in the industry to accept the invitation. According to the scale of the competition, different people were invited.
It wasn't that there weren't any competitions that they signed up for, but there weren't many of them. Basically, at most, they were small competitions held at the city or county level. If it weren't for the participation of the government and so much prize money, it wouldn't have attracted so many famous chefs to participate.
There were a total of 456 people competing in the three venues. There were 150 people in each venue. The third venue was the largest, with 156 people competing at the same time.
In today's competition, there would be 30 people competing at the same time. The whole day, they would be divided into five groups. Each group was limited to one hour, but if they didn't do well, they could delay it by 20 minutes, which was equivalent to a maximum of 80 minutes per match.
For these famous chefs, they couldn't be as strict as the previous two days.
Today's competition was even crueler than the previous ones. There were three venues, and only thirty people could advance to the next round. In other words, out of the four hundred contestants, only ninety would be able to enter the fifth day of the competition. Even those famous chefs were under a lot of pressure. With such a high elimination rate, no one knew if they could successfully advance to the next round.
Out of 150 people, only 30 were selected. That was one-fifth of the total number of people who had advanced. This made the two hundred people who had gone through three days of battles gasp.
A competition like this required one to go all out. If they were not careful, they would be eliminated and their road to the Gourmet Food Competition would end.
This was only the fourth day. On the fifth day, the ninety people who had advanced to the next round would compete again in the same venue. This time, only thirty people would advance to the next round. Once again, two-thirds of the people would be eliminated.
The 30 people on the fifth day were the real winners and could participate in the finals. In other words, there were only 30 people in the finals.
It was already a great honor to be able to be ranked within the top 30 after killing their way out of an army of thousands.
The organizing committee's model was not created by them. Instead, it was an imitation of the Chinese Food Competition. In other words, all the influential food competitions in the country were basically this model.
The Chinese Food Competition was founded thirty years ago. It was held every two years and was constantly improving. It had been held fifteen times since then. It was the most influential and largest competition in the country's culinary world.
The Chinese Food Competition's chefs could not sign up themselves. It used an invitation system. Every year, no more than three hundred famous chefs from all over the country were invited to participate in the preliminary round. In the end, only thirty people could enter the finals. The top ten would be judged in the finals, and the bottom twenty would not be ranked.
In the past thirty years, those who could win the first place in the Chinese Food Competition every year were basically the God of Cooking of that year. They were the most famous chefs in the country.
In thirty years, it had been held fifteen times, and only fifteen people had received such a good reputation. In fact, only nine people had received such a reward in the past fifteen years. Some people had won first place more than once. The most powerful one had won three times in a row. After receiving the title of lifetime honor, he never participated in the competition again.
Not to mention the first place, even the top ten chefs were all famous chefs in the country. Even the twenty chefs who were not ranked at the back were chefs that big restaurants all over the country wanted. Whoever could get one of them would definitely greatly increase their fame and business.
Even being able to accept the invitation was also an honor, a symbol of identity and status.
It could be said that the Chinese Food Competition was the most grand event in the hearts of all the chefs in the country. No other event could compare to it. Its status in the domestic cooking world was equivalent to the World Cup in the football world and the Oscars in the film world. It was a supreme existence.
Therefore, many food competitions were learning from their model. This time's Hangzhou Food Competition was no exception.
In the final thirty people's finals, the top ten would be judged. The bottom twenty people would not be ranked. In this way, those who were better among the thirty people would be better. Those who were worse, because there were twenty people tied, there would be no final ranking, so they could all get the best treatment in the end.
Gu Zheng had known this for a long time. His father, Gu Ming, had received the invitation to the Chinese Food Competition and participated in the competition. Gu Ming participated in the ninth competition and won the third place in that competition. Since then, he had been completely famous and went abroad to continue his studies.
In the food industry of Shen City, Gu Ming had a high prestige. It also had something to do with him winning the third place in the food competition. That was the third place in the country, a very high ranking.
Wang Dong didn't understand this, but he was watching with great interest. However, only thirty people would advance in a venue tomorrow, which still gave him a lot of pressure. In the past three days of the competition, he was in the top one hundred, but he was always a little behind. He was always in the sixties or seventies.
In today's competition, he was in the eighties.
There were so many famous chefs who were guaranteed to enter the competition tomorrow. It was not easy for him to fight his way out in the competition tomorrow. There was a great possibility that he would be eliminated tomorrow.
However, even if he was eliminated, he was very satisfied. It was already an accident that he could get to where he was today. Every step he took was progress for him.
"Wang Dong, can you use sesame oil to cook fried rice?"
In the evening, in the living room of the rented house, Gu Zheng suddenly asked Wang Dong. Wang Dong was very talented and had walked his own path. Gu Zheng didn't want him to stop tomorrow. However, according to his current situation, if he still used the original ingredients, he would definitely not be able to advance tomorrow.
His culinary skills were not bad, but there were too many people in the country who were good at cooking. He was not the only one who had good ingredients. Those famous chefs who wanted to obtain good ingredients had more and more connections than him. Wang Dong wanted to continue walking down this path. He could not help him much in terms of culinary skills. The two of them walked different paths, but he could still help him improve on the ingredients.
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