Chapter 832 - The Exquisite Backup Plan (1/2)

Although Dean was unaware that Yuan Zhou had a rule of not speaking when cooking, as a chef, a three-star Michelin chef at that, he still knew how to behave himself.

He stood to the side and after several minutes of waiting, Yuan Zhou finally came out from the kitchen with a finished dish. He spoke, “Chef Yuan, can I borrow your kitchen so I can cook something?”

Dean was asking politely, but it was unfortunate for him as Yuan Zhou’s answer was:

“Sorry but no.”

Seeing how firm Yuan Zhou’s tone of voice was, Dean did not keep asking. From this, one could see that Dean was quite similar to Yuan Zhou. They believed that for a chef, his cooking utensils and kitchen were his personal possession that could not be borrowed to others.

Dean walked out and was met with three pairs of hopeful eyes.

“Chef Yuan is not borrowing his kitchen,” Dean said, breathed deeply and continued, “But I still have a backup plan.”

Their hearts chilled when they heard the first half of Dean’s sentence. But when they heard the latter half, flames of hope were reignited in their hearts.

“What is the backup plan?” Bai Guo asked.

“We can first buy some ingredients. Since there is a restaurant next door, we can get the filming crew to go borrow some cooking utensils there. I will cook something right here.” Dean added, “Normally, restaurants won’t prohibit outside food.”

This was truly a splendid plan. Most restaurants would only prohibit outside liquor. Very rarely would outside food be prohibited. However, they couldn’t be sure seeing that Yuan Zhou’s restaurant had so many rules. Therefore, they decided to first do their research.

Jiang Meisi took charge and asked a random person that was standing there looking at them while they were filming.

“Is outside food prohibited in this restaurant?”

The person blanked out slightly when he noticed that a celebrity was asking him a question. After thinking about it, he found out that he had no idea.

“I don’t think so? I have never seen anyone bringing outside food into Yuan Zhou’s restaurant.”

“I think you can. I once saw Yuan Yuan brought some Shengjian during breakfast to eat with the Blueberry Jam of the restaurant.”

“True, yeah. Now I remembered. I have seen someone bringing outside food into the restaurant before.”

“Yeah. The reason people rarely bring their own food in is because Boss Yuan’s food is too good.”

From this conversation, Jiang Meisi obtained an accurate answer. Outside food was not prohibited in Yuan Zhou’s restaurant. Since the Yuan Zhou’s food was too good, people would rarely bring outside food. Happily, Jiang Meisi ran back and told the others what she found out.

With this, Dean’s backup plan was good to go. When the three looked at Dean, they felt like apart from the halo hovering above him, his entire body was shining with the radiance of a saint.

With a plan, they started acting on it. Li He told the filming crew their plan and the crew started helping them with borrowing cooking utensils and so on.

Alas, the gathered ingredients and cooking utensils were all not up to Dean’s standards. While cooking, he had extremely high requirements as well.

Dean decided to make a call to Chu Xiao. After all, China was Chu Xiao’s turf. He should know where one could buy good ingredients in Chengdu.

Thus the phone call was made.

“Du… Du… Du… The number you have dialed is currently busy. Please try again later.”

The call was cut off before it was answered. After thinking for a bit, Dean concluded that Chu Xiao might be in the midst of researching a new dish and would return the call later.

And thus, Dean stood there staring at his phone. After three minutes, there was no call. Therefore, he redialed Chu Xiao’s number.

Based on Dean’s temperament, he would never redial if his call was rejected by someone else. However, Chu Xiao was his rival of a lifetime. He did not mind redialing Chu Xiao’s number.