Rebirth's Private Kitchen

Tang Lin looked amusedly at the surprised expressions of Su Zhi's subordinates. Su Zhi coughed, probably a little embarrassed by Tang Lin's joking gaze, and directly changed the subject.

"Aren't you hungry? Let's go up to eat." Su Zhi suggested that there was a buffet in the hotel.

Tang Lin was really hungry, and he hasn't eaten anything since he got off the plane.

Standing beside Secretary Qiao, a woman in her 30s wearing a black business attire and wearing black-rimmed glasses pushed her glasses, hesitated to speak, and said, "Boss, there are more in the afternoon..."

Secretary Qiao stood up before Su Zhi spoke, and said with a wink, "Boss, lady boss, have a nice meal. Let's go back to the company first." After speaking, he turned his head and urged others to follow him quickly, and the others looked at each other in blank dismay. , with some hesitation.

Tang Lin looked at them amusedly and said, "Secretary Qiao, don't you guys have a meal together?"

Secretary Qiao caught a glimpse of his boss staring at his face expressionlessly, and shook his head violently. He didn't want to be the boss's light bulb.

"The company still has some work to do. Thank you, lady boss, for the invitation. Let's go first." Secretary Qiao hurriedly pushed the others towards the parking lot with one hand in each hand.

Tang Lin looked at the subordinates who were walking away from them, whispering in whispers, looked back at Su Zhi and said, "Your company's employees... are quite interesting."

"Yeah." Su rubbed his forehead, wondering if he was too relaxed with them.

The hotel's buffet is on the twelfth floor, and the entire floor is directly opened up. One side mainly contains food from different countries, and the other side has seats near the floor-to-ceiling windows.There is also a revolving bar in the center of the lobby, which mainly serves some Japanese dishes.On the food side, in addition to Chinese cuisine, there are also some foreign large-scale barbecues. If you want to eat, you can order food. At that time, a foreign chef will push a small car to the guests' seats to perform barbecue performances.

Su Zhi is a member of this hotel, and today he originally planned to come here with his subordinates to solve the lunch problem, but he didn't expect that Tang Lin would be the one who would accompany him to have this meal in the end.

Tang Lin seldom came to this kind of place before. It's not that he has never been to a buffet, but there are very few such high-level ones. He suddenly realized that he was a little short-sighted.

In addition to the buffet here, you can also order food by yourself. Tang Lin and Su Zhi each ordered some, and they chatted while drinking the boiled water with lemon that was brought up just now.

The first ones were two servings of medium-rare steaks. Tang Lin didn't rush to eat them, but took the knife and fork and cut the steaks in front of him into small pieces.Pushing the cut to Su Zhi, he took Su Zhi's share and began to cut slowly.Su Zhi took a small piece, dipped it in some seasonings, and brought it directly to Tang Lin without eating it himself.

Tang Lin first looked up at Su Zhi who was staring at him with piercing eyes, smiled, lowered his head and ate the food he was feeding.The corner of Su Zhi's mouth curled up, and he took another small piece to feed Tang Lin. Tang Lin and he cut and fed each other, and finally both steaks fell into Tang Lin's stomach.

Su Zhi didn't seem to be fully enjoying himself yet, so he happened to serve up several more plates of pasta, macaroni and cheese, pancakes with caviar and sugar sauce. His eyes lingered on these dishes for a while, as if he was choosing the next dish to feed.

Tang Lin had no choice but to hold down Su Zhi's hand that had been moved to the pasta, and rolled a small roll of pasta with his hand, then turned to him, and said with a little doting: "Don't worry about feeding me, you can eat it yourself. Eat more too."

Su Zhi pursed his lips, his originally bright eyes dimmed a bit, and felt sorry for not being able to continue feeding.

Tang Lin couldn't see him like this, so he opened his mouth, okay, if you want to feed, just keep feeding.He sighed, got up and bent over, approached Su Zhi, and ate the small roll of pasta with his hand holding the fork.As soon as the pasta was in his mouth, before Su Zhi could react, he directly pulled the person opposite him, covered his lips, opened his teeth, and fed the pasta to the other party's mouth in a mouth-to-mouth manner. in the mouth.

There was a burst of exclamation from around, and the guests who were close to Tang Lin and Su Zhi frequently looked at them.Su Zhi's ears turned red from the scorching stares of other people beside him, but Tang Lin didn't care too much, touched Su Zhi's ears amusedly, and then sat back in his seat.

After such a move, Su Zhi didn't dare to continue feeding Tang Lin, as if he was deeply afraid that he would make that intimate gesture in public again.

It's a pity to switch to Tang Lin now, but watching Su Zhi lower his eyebrows and eat pasta little by little, but refuses to raise his face to look at himself, Tang Lin's dimples could not help crawling up.

After eating, the two were not in a hurry to leave. After Su Zhi asked the waiter to remove the food, he asked them to serve himself and Tang Lin another glass of boiled water.

"Are you going back to the company in the afternoon?" Tang Lin asked, flipping his watch and checking the time.

Su Zhi shook his head, Tang Lin is here, what company does he go to.And it's not like the company can't function without him as the boss.Speaking of this, Su Zhi wondered why Tang Lin came to Beijing.

"Why did you come to Beijing Province? Why didn't you call me when you came? I can pick you up." Su Zhi would not say that he was a little distracted these two days waiting for Tang Lin's call.

Tang Lin was asked such a question, and the image of Ah Huang coaxing and biting his mobile phone with one mouth appeared in his mind again.He told Su Zhi about this, and Su Zhi couldn't help curling his lips.

Seeing whether he was about to smile or not, Tang Lin couldn't help stretching out his hand to cover his hand on the table, and squeezed it.

"Then are you going to live in a hotel these days?"

Su Zhi also knew about the culinary competition, and it has been mentioned heavily in the news these days.This competition can be said to be the largest chef competition in China today. Three contestants will be selected from this competition and will be sent to France to participate in the world championship competition.And when it comes to this national competition, it doesn't mean that anyone can participate. The contestants are selected step by step from the grassroots, from the local area to the local provincial capital. , and finally keep the top ten, and then these ten can participate in the national competition, and finally establish the top three.

Moreover, this competition is a three-year round, and this year happens to be the national finals. According to historical judgments, it should travel across the ocean in the second half of the year to go to the world stage.In previous years, regional registration would start the second year after the end of the World Championships. If there are chefs who want to participate, then preparations will start in January next year.

Listening to the information Su Zhi told himself, Tang Lin nodded thoughtfully.He had heard of it before, but he never thought that this culinary competition would be so large. Hearing that from the region to the whole country, and then from the whole country to the world, he would meet many different opponents, Tang Lin became inexplicably excited.

Seeing Tang Lin's serious expression, Su Zhi knew that he was probably more interested in this culinary competition, so he continued to tell what he knew.

Although it sounds like ordinary chefs can participate in this regional competition, it is not.Regional competitions are also divided into recreational and professional competitions.The entertainment competition means that anyone can participate, no matter you are a housewife or a kitchen killer, as long as you sign up, you can participate.As the name says, for entertainment and entertainment, those who win will get a bonus at most, but they will not be able to go to the local provincial and city competition venues.

The professional competition is much more particular, and it is also the only way to directly pass the national competition.It's just that in this professional competition, many people have been rejected in the registration process.Contestants must be recommended by five judges who have served as judges for the Beijing Provincial and National Competitions in the past ten years, or be recommended by chefs who have won the championship of culinary arts competitions in France before they can enter the professional competition.And these judges and champions are relatively special and have status, and ordinary people can't get in touch with them at all.Of course, if you have money, you can buy their limited recommended places, and the competition will not reject such contestants (not all the recommended places from the judges can be bought if you want to buy them).

Anyway, it sounds unfair to ordinary chefs, but the culinary competition is arranged like this. No matter how others protest, this competition is more and more regarded as the dividing line between whether you have the ability to become a professional and top chef.

Su Zhi didn't pay much attention to cooking competitions before, so he didn't know much about it. Their family also had three recommended places. In previous years, they directly distributed the places to the catering chefs under their banner. Unfortunately, their Su family seemed to There is no advantage in this regard, and no one has entered the World Championship in the past ten years.

And when it comes to this, I have to sigh, Huaguo has not won the crown in the World Cooking Competition for nearly 20 years.

Tang Lin rubbed his chin. He didn't expect to recommend regional professional competitions, which is really a bit troublesome.

"According to what you said, most of the chefs who can participate in professional competitions will be contracted by the family."

Su Zhi nodded and said, "That's true."

"Sounds really unfriendly." Tang Lin shrugged.

The previous culinary competitions were not so strict, but since a certain chairperson took office many years ago, all the rules have been overthrown and changed.No matter how you criticize, more and more chefs are proud of being able to enter the culinary competition. If he can win the honor in it, his net worth will rise, and he will receive invitations from wealthy businessmen from all walks of life.

Just like an actor wants to win an Oscar, a symbol that represents a milestone.

Although Tang Lin was a little interested, he was very self-aware. For the time being, he couldn't touch the tail of this competition.He took a sip of water to end the topic.

The two sat for a while and decided to leave.

Su Zhi knew that Tang Lin was living in a small hotel, so he wanted to follow him to have a look. If possible, he wanted to take him back to his home.

Tang Lin didn't notice his thoughts, and was happy to show him where he lived.

The small hotel where Tang Lin lived was not very far from where they ate. Tang Lin had taken a taxi here before, and it took less than half an hour.Su Zhi's car was in the parking lot, Tang Lin followed him to pick up the car, and the two set off towards their destination.

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There is another chapter to be posted in the afternoon~