Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 335 Returning to Yangzhou (Ask for a monthly pass at the beginning of the month!)
If Chen Nian was a member of the industry, he might try to persuade him.

After all, for artists, announcements are all about money and traffic, and they also need constant exposure in order to gain greater fame.

If such a representative figure can be introduced, it will be a good opportunity for Chen Nian and the Kunqu opera industry.

But it is a pity that Chen Nian is not in the circle, and Zhang Fangyuan also found out through the conversation with the other party that the other party is not the kind who likes to compete for fame.

His job is a cook.

Compared to actors who can bring him more benefits and fame, Chen Nian is still more willing to choose to cook.

So he didn't need to bother anymore.

Moreover, he believes that the communication between people is not a one-off. If he said the name of Chen Nian this time, then they probably won't cooperate next time.

Conversely, if I can build a good relationship with Chen Nian, I can also ask Chen Nian for help if I need to make a film or need advice on Kunqu opera.

On the contrary, Zhang Fangyuan, the boss in the circle, felt that it was okay to say or not, and they would not think that they would really turn their backs if they didn't tell them a name.

Everyone has signed a non-disclosure agreement. This is a rule in the circle and must be followed.

That video became more and more popular under the continuous operation of Liu Qingsong's team, and they also took the initiative to spend money to find many bloggers in various fields to do fake makeup, cover songs, dance, and popularize science.

Even some well-known game bloggers are also their targets. Although game bloggers may not be as talented as those professional ones in this regard, at least they play this song when playing games or pretend to see this on the bullet screen. Video, and then go to search to have a look, boast.

This is also not a small exposure.

Of course, in the process of finding people, they also found some foreign bloggers who are more popular in China to praise.

In short, it is all-round publicity, but it is as inconspicuous as possible.

In this way, on the second night, the video became a trending search on several platforms.

Chen Nian was stunned for a while, is it so awesome to use Brother Kong Fang to open the way?
Of course, it is undeniable that the quality of this video is indeed good, but he, An Hongdou, and even Zhang Fangyuan never thought that the impact would be so great. Sure enough, the power of capital is hard.

And this video was actually forwarded by the newspaper.

This makes Chen Nian feel a little outrageous.

Of course, newspapers often repost some positive things. Now this video is so popular, and it mainly promotes culture. The combination of Huaiyang cuisine and Kunqu opera is very innovative.

In addition, the plot of the video was shot quite creatively, so it is reasonable for newspapers to forward it.

And Liu Qingsong is very smart. When shooting the video, he did not embed his company and brand in it at all. Instead, he chose to find some people to conduct science popularization in those popular comment areas, telling everyone that this is actually an advertisement.

But the more this is the case, the more difficult it is for Chen Nian to admit that he is the Mecha Tyrannosaurus Rex, the great general who destroys the world. Now everyone knows that there may be a girl behind this name, and everyone on the Internet is yelling at his wife.

If someone found out that it was actually him, wouldn't he die on the spot?

If he went out and was recognized by others, and then both men and women rushed towards him and shouted his wife, would he still have to live?

Just the day before Chen Nian was going to Yangzhou, everyone in Honghong Hotel also saw this video, and of course He Hai was the first to know about it.

He is very familiar with An Hongdou, because his girlfriend was one of the more than 20 fans of An Hongdou when it was not popular. Later, Chen Nian helped him get An Hongdou's autographed album.

This made He Hai even more desperate.

So when his girlfriend sent this video, he immediately showed it to everyone in the Red Hotel.

"These two girls are so good-looking." Feng Honghong couldn't help but praised, and she even recognized that one of the girls inside was An Hongdou.

But he didn't recognize the other as his own son at all.

"Son, is this girl the one who often comes to our store? The one who comes to you every day after we leave?"

Empress Chen Nian thumped in her heart, thinking how could my mother know everything?
But of course he couldn't admit it to himself.

"She does come sometimes, but she doesn't come often, and she comes late because she is a star after all, and she comes to eat during the day when there are many people. If she is recognized by someone, how can she eat?"

Chen Nian explained.

But Feng Honghong was a little skeptical: "I remember she came to the store to ask you to go out for dinner."

"Oh, that's because she has something to do with me." Chen Nian replied fluently, without revealing the slightest flaw.

Feng Honghong couldn't get anything out of Chen Nian, so she stopped asking.

Anyway, my son will definitely show his feet in the future.

Let the bullets fly a little longer.

In this way, on the day when Chen Nian was about to leave, he got up early to pack his luggage, and then went out to take a taxi to the gate of Miao Miaowu and An Hongdou's community.

This is Miao Miao Wu has not yet come out.

Chen Nian also took advantage of this time to send a WeChat message to Hongdou, saying that he was going to Yangzhou again soon, and this time he was going to participate in a competition.

But the competition committee invited Miao Miaowu to be a guest. After all, they knew each other, so the two planned to set off together.

Chen Nian didn't know why he wanted to explain it emphatically.

Not to mention that I always feel a little uncomfortable and a little worried.

But he didn't expect that An Hongdou already knew about this, because Miao Miaowu had told her about it before.

Obviously, Miao Miao Wu knows much more than Chen Nian.

So he didn't want An Hongdou to be distracted, so he told An Hongdou the news early.

Then Miao Miaowu came out and took a taxi and the two rushed to the airport.

After getting on the plane, Chen Nian started to catch up on sleep.

I have to be busy all day today, and I have to compete with my peers. The pressure is no less than when I am cooking in the store.

So you have to recharge your batteries and review the game in your mind, so as not to make any mistakes when you get there.

So much so that Chen Nian was still asleep when the stewardess came to deliver the snacks, so the stewardess had no choice but to put the food at Chen Nian's side, and eat it when he woke up.

The plane landed a few hours later.

There is a special car to pick you up when you leave the station.

And while in the car, the driver gave Chen Nian more detailed information about the competition.

It includes the name, origin and cuisine of each contestant.

And all the ingredients they can provide for this competition.

Although Chen Nian was going back and forth today, they still arranged a room for Chen Nian to rest.

At that time, the progress of the game may add up to three or four hours.

It would be a fool if the players were to doze off on the court.

When I came to Yangzhou again, after more than half a month, I found that it was much colder here.

Fortunately, he brought an extra coat when he came here, so he wouldn't be cold.

After being brought to the hotel, Chen Nian kept looking at the information given to him by the organizing committee. There were various kinds of ingredients on it. I haven't heard of it.

So much so that after watching him, he suddenly had some new ideas.

He wants to change the ingredients he ordered earlier!
It is a very risky act to replace the dish before the battle, because Chen Nian has made 100% of that dish before, that is to say, although there is still room for improvement in that dish, it can be called perfect at the current level .

But Chen Nian finally set his sights on a fish after reading the details of the ingredients above.

Huaibai fish, a special product in the Huai'an area of ​​Jiangsu Province, has become famous in the Tang and Song Dynasties and is very popular among literati.

Although there are many types of whitefish, Huaibaiyu still has geographical characteristics among the whitefish.

"In the past three years, Jing has hated Artemisia annua, and Changxian Huai fish has been crushed."

This is a poem by Su Dongpo, and it is about Huai Baiyu.

Moreover, compared with crucian carp, which has a wider breeding range, Chen Nian thinks that Huaibai fish may be more representative of the culture of Huaiyang area, and when it comes to historical origin, Huaibai fish seems to be more in line with the preferences of people in Huaiyang area.

But the biggest problem now is that Chen Nian doesn't know anything about this fish.

All I know is that there are some soft spines in this fish too.

But this time, all the people here are experts. In other words, everyone is a foodie. For those who have eaten it, the more fish bones, the more delicious the taste.

So for the next period of time, while resting, Chen Nian began to frantically search for various information about Huaibai fish on the Internet.

After an hour or so, the competition side began to inform them that they could go to the venue.

The venue for the game is also in this hotel.

Just go downstairs to get there.

The hotel side is also the main sponsor, and they have vacated a large area for the players to use.

Since this is a youth competition, all the contestants came alone without any assistants.

As with any game of scale, there is always a process to get started.

For example, the host came to the stage to introduce Yangzhou.

Let me introduce Huaiyang cuisine.

Let me introduce which famous people came here in ancient times, and what kind of poems and legends they left behind.

Then came the introduction of the sponsors of the competition, followed by the introduction of the leaders, judges, and guests who attended this time.

Miao Miao Wu is naturally also included in the introduction.

When Miao Miao Wu was introduced, she was also introduced to her more than 800 million fans and some of the most representative foods she had ever made.

Finally, introduce the players.

The length of the contestants is not long, and each of them can spend a few sentences, but when the host mentioned that Chen Nian is from Sichuan, it still attracted many people's attention, and the host also said that Chen Nian is good at dishes. "Ma Po Tofu", "Wensi Tofu", "Guo Bao Rou" and so on, this made everyone even more confused.

Although they had all seen the roster before, they still couldn't help being a little surprised when they saw it with their own eyes.

"Why did a cook from Sichuan go to the Huaiyang area to compete, and the cuisines he knows are so complicated."

But even with such discussions, none of the contestants and judges underestimated Chen Nian.

After all, there must be something special about being invited here.

Is there still a dish of Vance Tofu in the old resume?
Although this dish is not difficult for them, it cannot be made without a certain talent, and even if it is made, the thickness of the tofu also represents the level of a chef's knife skills.

But Miao Miaowu at the guest table knew that Chen Nian now serves more than those types of Huaiyang cuisine, and 90.00% of the banquets at Honghong Restaurant are Huaiyang cuisine.

Who knows if there is anything else that hasn't been brought out in the old age besides those?

Soon, after another short speech by the leader, the game officially started.

They can use all the ingredients in the ingredients area at will, but the fish, shrimp, and crabs in the meat are all live.

If you want to choose, you have to kill yourself to deal with it.

The game time is three hours.

Although it looks very generous, it is actually a little nervous.

After the voice fell, everyone started to move, and went to the ingredients to find the ingredients they wanted.

Originally, Chen Nian was a little worried that someone would trip him up. After all, it was often said in novels, and since he was from another place, most of the cooks here were local chefs, and they might be xenophobic.

But during the whole process, that kind of situation didn't happen.

On the contrary, after everyone meets each other, they will say hello and smile friendlyly.

Even when a tall and thin chef saw that Chen Nian also wanted to catch a Huaibai fish, he took the initiative to help Chen Nian choose a good-looking one, and then fished it out with a net.

"Thank you." Chen Nian was flattered.

It seems that the atmosphere in this circle is still very harmonious.

After choosing the crab, fish, mutton, vegetables, and various seasonings, the old man returned to his place.

There is a lot of space here, leaving enough space for handling ingredients and cooking.

There are also all kinds of pots and utensils.

In short, some of them look very arrogant.

First of all, we still have to deal with fish and crabs.

Pick up the Huaibai fish in the basket. This fish is narrow and long, with plump flesh, silver in appearance, and its head is slightly upturned.

Open the mouth and you can see some small teeth inside, the tail is not big, so the muscles near the tail are also very strong and elastic.

Although it is the first time to process Huaibai fish, I still have some experience in processing fish for aging.

Especially after communicating with Miaomiaowu, I learned a lot of strange knowledge and skills about handling fish.

Therefore, Chen Nian began to kill fish according to some information he found on the Internet yesterday, combined with the skills he learned from Miaomiaowu and his own experience.

But when it comes to processing, it is mainly to disembowel the belly, take out the internal organs, wash the blood, remove the fishy film on the outside and inside, and some inedible things inside the head.

There was no muddy water in the whole process, and this fish was easier to handle than Chen Nian imagined.

He was not in a hurry, three hours was about the same, and if there were no major mistakes in the middle, it was completely enough for Chen Nian.

Just when all the chefs were busy, everyone in the judges' table also started chatting.

They got the list of players first-hand, and they also have a certain understanding of everyone.

There are indeed many dark horses in this competition.

For example, the young chef Huang Yi from Yangzhou Li'an Hotel is the apprentice of the executive chef of Li'an Hotel. The executive chef won No.1 in the chef competition before.

Therefore, the apprentices he taught would naturally not be bad.

There is also Fang Han from Hanjiang's private restaurant, and he is the son of the chef there.

As well as a self-media blogger with more than 500 million fans on the Internet, he is quite famous for making Huaiyang cuisine, and he has restored many extremely difficult ancient royal dishes.

In fact, if Miao Miaowu guesses correctly and there are more Huaiyang dishes, maybe she will be selected as one of today's contestants.

Others also have some background.

In contrast, old age may be a bit unremarkable.

But even so, Chen Nian still attracted the attention of many people with his outstanding foreign trade appearance.

After all, the most important thing in cooking is to have good color, fragrance and taste, but watching the chef competition, if the chef is colorful, it is quite eye-catching.

(End of this chapter)