Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 314 - 197: Luxurious Lineup

Chapter 314: Chapter 197: Luxurious Lineup

Huang Shengli and Zheng Da, who were originally in the opposite room eating melon, were suddenly plucked out for an interview.

Qin Huai wasn’t idle either. He initially wanted to check if there was any staff meal in the kitchen, but before that, he needed to message Cheng Gong to apologize.

By this point in the plot, does anyone still remember that Qin Huai’s original plan for today was to have Cheng Gong try some dishes?

Qin Huai hadn’t even seen Cheng Gong today.

Qin Huai started editing a message.

Qin Huai: Assistant Chen, I’m really sorry, there have been too many sudden events today. I was supposed to wait until you finished eating, to talk to you about the snacks, but now I haven’t even had the chance to meet you. Were you satisfied with what you ate at lunch today? Was there any snack you particularly liked? When are you heading to Hangzhou, do you have time to come over for lunch tomorrow?

Cheng Gong didn’t reply.

But the door to room 777 next door opened.

Cheng Gong stepped out from room 777 in a formal suit and said with a smile: "Master Qin, I knew you were busy and stayed in the room without leaving. I heard you talking outside before and thought you had official business, so I didn’t come out to disturb you. If you’re free now, we can chat."

Qin Huai was stunned.

Qin Huai wanted to scratch his head but restrained himself, followed Cheng Gong into the room, and found that Ouyang was also in there.

Ouyang was even sitting at the dining table with a bowl of Dried Tangerine Peel Tea in front of him.

Dude, you didn’t eat from noon until now, did you?

Ouyang gave Qin Huai a look that said, "Don’t worry, I’ve already bragged about you as much as I could."

Qin Huai: ?

Qin Huai carefully sat down, Cheng Gong switched to work mode, and his smile became business-like.

"Master Qin, your situation and the price for outside catering, your friend just explained it to me."

Qin Huai: ...What price for outside catering?

Had he ever done outside catering?

If going to Huang Ji counts as outside catering, it wouldn’t be Ouyang setting the price for Cheng Gong, right? The menu is clearly marked with prices.

"You previously customized a batch of high-end dumplings for Mr. Chen Yingjun’s property company, priced at 288 each," Cheng Gong said.

"This is a local acquaintance price, and since our President Han wants to invite you to A City, out of province, the price will definitely have to go up. I understand the market."

"Also, I overhead a bit of the waitstaff chatting at the door just now — was Mr. Xu Cheng here?"

"You know Xu Cheng?" Qin Huai was a bit surprised.

He had only recently learned who Xu Cheng was. Cheng Gong was just a life assistant to the CEO of a listed company, theoretically unlikely to pay attention to a food critic.

Could Cheng Gong be a fan of Xu Cheng?

Is there a love for gourmet food hidden beneath his obsessive nature?

"Of course, Mr. Xu is a friend of our President Han," Cheng Gong nodded, "Our President Han learned about you from Mr. Xu. To be candid, before finding you, our President Han also contacted a few heads of well-known restaurants to see if their chefs could do outside catering."

"Since our President Han is in A City, the birthday banquet must also be held in A City. A City doesn’t have any particularly famous restaurants, so they can only invite chefs from other places for the outside catering."

"Only Beiping’s Babaozhai accepted the invitation; other restaurants politely declined."

"In fact, we also contacted Huang Ji, but it seems Master Huang Shengli has some back issues."

"Master Pei Shenghua from Chengfang Inn was interested, but he’s going abroad for exchanges in mid-March and doesn’t have time, so he recommended his friend Zang Mu. Master Zang said there’s no problem and he’s willing to cooperate with Master Tong De Yan from Babaozhai."

"The only issue is that both of these masters are solely meat cooking chefs and aren’t skilled in pastry cooking. Master Zang suggested our President Han look for a pastry chef to handle the snacks at the birthday banquet, as the snacks at a birthday banquet are more important than those at a wedding from a certain perspective."

"Our President Han and Mr. Xu are friends, and President Han wanted to ask Mr. Xu which pastry chefs in the country were willing to do this kind of outside catering, and he heard Mr. Xu mention you as a very outstanding pastry chef in Shan City whose skills he wanted to try."

"That’s why I came to find you."

"I’ve already tasted your skills at lunch, no problems at all. You’re more than capable of handling the birthday banquet, and you’re the most straightforward chef to agree among all the ones I contacted!"

"Rest assured, Master Qin, when it comes to pricing, our President Han is absolutely sincere and will add a 20% increase over the highest market price!"

"You won’t be at a loss!"

Qin Huai already felt the sincerity of Han Guishan, the boss he had never met before, through Cheng Gong. Too sincere, overly sincere.

He could also guess that Cheng Gong was saying all this to emphasize President Han’s seriousness about the birthday banquet, hinting at his full commitment.

Mentioning those names was meant to showcase the luxury lineup of chefs for the birthday banquet.

But Qin Huai kind of wanted to ask, who were all those people mentioned earlier, besides Pei Shenghua?

He knew Pei Shenghua, Pei Xing’s distant uncle, a high-ranking chef in the Chef Record.

But they didn’t manage to invite him.

Who were Tong De Yan and Zang Mu?

Qin Huai felt he needed to go back and review the Chef Record, especially among the chefs ranked 30th to 60th, as there were quite a few Chinese cuisine chefs. Last time, he only focused on checking who the top few were and glanced over the middle, mainly looking at Huang Shengli and Huang Jia’s rankings, and even wondered why Zheng Da wasn’t on it. He asked who the master chef at Zhiwei Restaurant was, but didn’t really pay attention to the others.

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