Chapter 592 (1/2)

While Liu Tong praised Yuan Zhou’s capabilities of cooking fish in various ways, the chefs all walked towards the exchange meeting place slowly.

The meeting place was in the banquet hall of this Century Kaiyue Hotel.

The layout of the banquet hall today was totally different from that in normal times. There appeared an oval in the central part of the banquet hall. It was separated with many kitchen counters.

Standing behind them were the chefs dressed in brand-new and neat chef uniforms and every kitchen counter was facing a table.

The food ingredients were right behind the chefs for the sake of convenience.

The tables were all made of solid wood and the color was the natural wood color. On the tables, the stuff used for tasting the dishes were placed.

A series of kitchen tools like chopsticks, chopstick rests, tooth glass and five small plates to put dipping sauce. And the chairs were naturally the mating wooden chair.

Such layout was naturally to provide the chefs with the most convenience to taste the dishes.

Apart from the oval azure stone countertops and dining sets, there were also many chairs around, which appeared to be a place for people to have a rest.

“They are really arranged neatly.” Yuan Zhou had quite sharp eyes. Therefore, when he looked at the stuff on the tables and the distance between tables and chairs, he couldn’t help muttering.

“Tsk-tsk. The tables and chairs today must have been arranged by a person who has obsessions. It feels that every table and chair are exactly the same except the chefs. They are so neat and tidy. Wu Jun stroked his chin and said with great interest.

However, what he said was directly ignored. Lucky that a Japanese who was in charge of the reception arrived at that moment. It was the chairman of the Japanese Chefs’ Kabushiki Kaisha.

“Nice to meet you, everybody. You have gone through hardships and come a long way from China. I must say thank you for your kind support.” The chairman of the Japanese party appeared more or less the same age with Zhou Shijie. He was dressed in the traditional Japanese-style Kimono, on which the exquisite Pictures of The Floating World was painted. While he was saying that, he nodded the head slightly to express the apology and appeared rather sincere.

Of course, this chairman spoke Chinese though he didn’t speak as standard as Chengtian Yilang, who had received them at the airport.

“You are way too courteous, Chairman Masheng. Chairman Zhou told me to send his best wishes to you.” In such an occasion, it was definitely Li Minghui, the eldest apprentice of Zhou Shijie, that came up and greeted him.

“Mr. Li is so young and capable. Chairman Zhou is also so courteous. I hope we can learn from each other again by exchanging views next time when we go to China.” The Chairman Masheng of the Japanese party said with a smile.

“Of course. You and Chairman Zhou just have the same thoughts.” Li Minghui answered naturally.

“Alright. In that case, I won’t disturb your schedule. Please follow Mr. Chengtian to have a look around.” Since he achieved the goal, Chairman Masheng said immediately.

“Okay. Sorry to bother you.” Li Minghui nodded the head and answered.

It was another round of small talk right after that, but Yuan Zhou wasn’t interested in that anymore. He was quite curious about the culinary skills of these chefs.

“What are these chefs good at?” Yuan Zhou lifted the foot and prepared to walk towards those chefs.

He saw something like a small card on which something was written on every table and prepared to go and have a look.

“Hi, sirs. If you have finished the taste test, please remember to return to the chairs to have a rest.” Zhong Lili realized the intentions of Yuan Zhou and other Chinese chefs first.

“Um.” Yuan Zhou answered casually. As for another several chefs that didn’t like the small talk, they had already walked towards there.

That’s right. Not only Yuan Zhou himself but also quite a few people didn’t like those kinds of small talk, including the talkative Wu Jun and the grey-haired middle-aged man, etc.

After Zhong Lili said that, there were only Li Minghui, Liu Tong and the Japanese representatives left at this side.

“It’s really the introductions.” Yuan Zhou walked to a table and took up the small card on the table. Only then did he confirmed his own thoughts.

Only four kinds of information was written on the small card, for example, the one in front of Yuan Zhou.

Name: Song Benqing

Age: 39

Working years of being a chef: 19

Skilled in: balloonfish cuisines

“Wow, the working years of being a chef are really scary.” Yuan Zhou muttered to himself in a whisper.