Chapter 706 - Chengdu School and Chongqing School (1/2)

Lu Cheng started working again while his father left feeling relieved. Meanwhile, Yuan Zhou’s restaurant was still packed with customers.

As KFC had always been called this name or Fried Chicken, nobody remembered what his real name was. As Sun Ming’s best friend, KFC had once came supported Yuan Zhou’s business. Beef mince and plain white rice of the 100 Styles of Rice Cuisine was his favorite. Of course, the price wasn’t low so he couldn’t exactly come here frequently.

The two people that had arrived when Lu Cheng and his father were leaving were introduced here by KFC. Of course, what he told them when introducing this place was unknown. In any case, the two had cheerfully arrived.

To make their name easier to remember, they were respectively called Happy and Brain. Happy was the taller person with short hair. His face was brimming with a smile and was someone working for a consulting company. As for Brain, he was the shorter person with spectacles that looked very scholarly. He was truly a person with brains and was an old-timer at the consulting company. In fact, Happy was brought into the company by him.

“Steamed Rice Powder and Twice Cooked Pork,” Brain ordered two dishes. Since the dishes had been ordered, Happy proceeded to order two bowls of plain white rice from the 100 Styles of Rice Cuisine and one Jin’ling Grass.

Two meat and one vegetable were sufficient for a full meal. Happy and Brain had decent intelligence and thus did not form their own judgments before eating. But they were sure that this Yuan Zhou’s restaurant wouldn’t fail to cook those dishes properly with its reputation.

In truth, there was a reason Brain ordered what he ordered. He had a friend that was a self-proclaimed Chengdu School of Sichuan Cuisine Master Chef. Whenever Brain cooked, this friend would be bossing him around and commenting without stop. An incident that stuck out was that one time when Brain made a Twice Cooked Pork dish and was harshly critiqued by his friend.

Therefore, Brain wanted to challenge his friend with an authority in the food industry. However, if he used other chefs or restaurants as an example to rebuke his friend, his friend would be spinning all sorts of excuses against him.

It was different with Boss Yuan. His nickname was Compass, and he did things very strictly. Therefore, Brain came after KFC’s recommendation.

The Twice Cooked Pork was one of the renowned dishes in the Sichuan Cuisine while both Chongqing School and Chengdu School were subcategories of the Sichuan Cuisine. Therefore, both Chongqing School and Chengdu School would have this dish in their list of dishes. Even the Salt Cuisine had this dish as part of its dishes. The general method of cooking this dish was similar for all cuisines, but there was also a huge difference in the details.

Simply put, the Chengdu School was the subcategory of Sichuan Cuisine that adhered to the traditions the most. As for the Chongqing School, it pursued innovation. This difference from the two cuisines was especially pronounced when it came to Twice Cooked Pork.

Chongqing School’s Twice Cooked Pork had lower requirements on the meat used. Even the ingredients in the recipe were interchangeable. As for the Chengdu School of Sichuan Cuisine, the meat had to be the pork belly, while not a single one of the other ingredients such as the Pixian Soy Bean Sauce, sweet bean sauce, and the others could be excluded. Currently, Yuan Zhou was adhering closely to the strictness of the Chengdu School of Sichuan Cuisine. He was meticulously preparing the green garlic sprouts that were one of the required ingredients.

Both Brain and Happy waited in anticipation. Soon, they would know if that guy was right or not. By the way, the one paying for today was Happy.

Although these two had a great relationship with each other, they had always followed a strict rule when treating each other to meals. If today one of them treated the other to a meal, tomorrow, the other would treat him to a meal of similar value. On and on, they would alternate treating each other to meals. Therefore, none of them would be impacted financially.

This had always been how Brain would do things. Among friends, it was still better to keep everything fair. A friendship could only be maintained if both sides were contributing equally. If only one party was giving, the friendship would not last long.

Meanwhile, Unworried Mulberry, who had his intelligence greatly challenged, was making his way out of this place in grief. He acted in a straightforward manner and did not drag on once he made his mind.

Three hours later, Unworried Mulberry reached home. After logging in to his Weibo, he found that Marshal Canopy’s spam army was still showing off their prowess. Unworried Mulberry was still able to see the similar never-ending arguments on Weibo.