Chapter 382 (1/2)

Chapter 382: Presentation of Culinary Skills

Theoretically, conventions shouldn’t be rejected, but Yuan Zhou had his own consideration. Frankly speaking, his obsessive-compulsive disorder had already been in the late stages, but was now strengthened even more by the system.

“Respected Zhou, I don’t need any assistants. If you have any queries, you can come to my restaurant personally and I’ll prove to you.” Yuan Zhou said that with a seemingly euphemistic tone.

The silence lasted for a great while at the other end of the phone. Then, Zhou Shijie said, “Do you mean you want no one as your assistant?”

“Yes.” Yuan Zhou answered cleanly.

“Can you tell me the reason?” Zhou Shijie asked with puzzlement.

He just didn’t understand why this person who didn’t look prideful before was now even tougher than Chu Xiao.

At the very least, Chu Xiao chose two masters that were barely qualified.

“I’m just used to doing it all alone.” Yuan Zhou said with an indifferent tone.

“Some of the precious ingredients will have to be processed in very short time. How many apprentices are you prepared to bring along?” Zhou Shijie didn’t ask more, but changed the subject.

“I’m going to do it all alone.” Yuan Zhou answered positively and earnestly.

“Leaving aside other work, the work of vegetable washing and cutting as well as plate presentation has to be done by somebody.” Zhou Shijie immediately choked. Only after quite a while did he speak again.

“It’s going to be done by me alone, too.” There was puzzlement contained in Yuan Zhou’s tone.

In Yuan Zhou’s opinion, if he didn’t need an assistant, the work was naturally to be done by himself. Otherwise, why would he refuse an assistant?

“Are you sure?” Although Zhou Shijie was puzzled, he had nothing to say as the rule was like that.

“Wait a moment.” Yuan Zhou thought Zhou Shijie was going to hang up the phone and hence he uttered.

At the other end of the phone, Zhou Shijie contrarily felt relieved immediately. He thought Yuan Zhou would surely regret it and still needed the assistant, thinking inwardly, “Luckily, this guy knows to retract from the wrong path. He has to get one to help him.”

“I have no requirement on hotels as long as it’s not far from Taoxi Road. And for the time to cook, I want it to be 8:30 in the evening.” Yuan Zhou brought out his requirements altogether.

“Is that all? Got it. This old man will arrange everything.” Zhou Shijie then seriously choked and had to agree to Yuan Zhou’s requirements.

Having thought for a while, however, Zhou Shijie said persistently, “There are no problems with all your requirements. But I must tell you in advance that you need to cook in an open kitchen. If you don’t need an assistant, will there be any problems?” Zhou Shijie said earnestly.

“Ok. No problem.” Yuan Zhou nodded his head and agreed.

“One more thing. You will start cooking at 9:00. During the half an hour before that, you have to persuade those chefs that were unable to take part in the cooking activity.” Zhou Shijie stroked his beards and appeared quite solemn.

This convention was originally a kind of welfare to those chefs. Now that the winner was reluctant to offer them, he naturally had to explain to them by himself.

“Um, ok.” Yuan Zhou also gave an affirmative answer.

“Good. I’ll be looking forward to admiring Master Yuan’s culinary skills.” After saying that, Zhou Shijie hung up the phone.

After Yuan Zhou rested for a while, he suddenly asked in the quiet restaurant, “Whose food ingredients do you think are better, yours or theirs?

Naturally, he said that to the system. However, the system never paid attention to Yuan Zhou’s desire to chat with him and usually he had no reaction.

Yuan Zhou just waited peacefully. Three days later, he would try to cook the top-notch food ingredients provided by others. Even Yuan Zhou had not made some of those dishes before, so he was also quite expectant.