Chapter 87 Public Demonstration (1/2)
Chapter 87 – Public Demonstration
Within the auction hall, many merchants and wealthy men from yesterday auction were present. They were attracted by the advertised ”New Products” which was written in the schedule board at the side of the auction hall.
The Yuan family representatives and the five merchant alliance were here as well. They returned to their VIP section that they had been assigned with yesterday.
Meanwhile, the one hundred civilian representatives, who were invited by Tong, were being intimidated by the environment and sat in groups while they looked around in nervousness.
On the stage, the workers arranged tables, cooking stoves, pots, utensils, and pans as if they were building a kitchen.
The crowd gazed at the stage in confusion. They were wondering if they were trying to cook a food on the stage.
Tong walked up on the stage later after the setting was completed.
He did not talk to any staffs or the audience. Tong simply brought out vegetables, raw chickens, dough, and spice then started to cook. He ordered his staffs to help him with the basic boiling, cutting and other mundane tasks as if he were Gord*n Rams*y.
The crowd was puzzled. Tong really cooked on the stage! They had no idea what to think anymore.
Suddenly, the tempting scent of fried chicken got into the noses of everyone. They stopped talking with each other and concentrated of the event on the stage.
For an hour, Tong cooked 10 different kinds of dishes. Each dish was poured into a 60x30cm size tray and was placed on the narrow table in front of the stage.
The audience drooled while their stomach growled. The aroma was unbearable. They wanted to jump out of their seats and ate everything on the table. If it was not for the scary security guards patrolling at the side and in front of the table, they would not hesitate to rush out.
The staffs walked out with hundreds of small empty plates. They put a small amount of food on each dish onto the plates and served them to the drooling crowd.
The merchant, who had been focusing his attention on the buffet trays, got impatient. He grabbed the plate and took a spicy chicken wing into his mouth. The moment he took a bite, he moaned out in ecstasy. He hallucinated about himself wearing a chicken suit and danced around in the grassland.
The person nearby saw his friend reaction and was shocked. He questioned in his mind if this food could make his idiotic friend turn even more stupid. Then he took a piece of strange bread with a sticky yellowish thing on top of it into his mouth. The sensation of cheese, bread, ketchup, and various spice made his eyes opened wide. He also hallucinated that he was wearing strange black and white clothes and was propelling a small boat on the river which had town building on both sides.
The two of them came back to their sense after a minute. They noticed a writing on a sign beside the tray. The first one said ”New Orleans Chicken Wings”, and the second one was ”Super Cheese Pizza”.
The staffs continued to serve the food sample to everyone until the food in the 10 trays was empty.
Ten minutes later, the auction hall was in chaos. Although the sample food that Tong distributed to the audience had run out, the spoiled merchants and nobles demanded a second serving. Meanwhile, the timid merchants and the citizen representatives only glanced around at the empty food trays with pitiful eyes.
Tong clapped his hands to get their attention.
”May I have your attention, please?”
The ruckus stopped and all eyes were on Tong on the stage. They calmed themselves down and paid attention to the speaker.
”What I cooked and served all of you just now was part of the demonstration of the new products that the city hall will sell.”
The ears of the merchants perked up. The food just now was otherworldly. They had never had eaten something like those before in their lives. If the food was the new product, they would totally buy it for themselves.
”Are you selling that food?”
”Those chicken wings, are you selling them?”
”I'll buy the noodles. I meant the ”Pasta”!”
”I'll reserve ”Pizza”, ”French Fries”, and ”Donuts”!”
Tong had not finished talking yet, but these people were already this impatience. He raised his both hands forward and tried to appease the crowd.
”Please calm down everyone. I haven't finished yet. Please listen carefully. What we are selling is not the finished food that you have eaten, but the ingredients and the recipes.”
The uproar got worse. Half of the audience stood up and began shouting, trying to buy the recipes and ingredients. Tong had to signal the guards to step forward and control the crowd.