Chapter 965 - Zhou Coward (1/2)

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The person that interrupted him was Ao Pi, the chief chef from White Mansion which was well-known for cooking seawater fish. Of course, Ao Pi took several apprentices after he became famous.

He hadn’t cooked personally in White Mansion for a long time. Though he didn’t do the job himself, his score of 0.2 Yuan on the Gourmet Appraisal Website still made him feel very angry.

Therefore, he got enraged immediately and then said with anger when he heard Chef Li from Shrimp And Crab Gathering constantly complimenting Yuan Zhou.

“That’s right. Don’t you think you have overestimated Yuan Zhou too much, Chef Li? I once went there and had a look. He’s indeed competent in Sichuan Cuisine, but not so excellent in everything else as you said.”

“I’ve also been to that tiny restaurant for meals. Apart from Sichuan Cuisine, he can cook only a few series of cuisines.”

People who gathered here all had issues with Yuan Zhou, so they all stated their views as soon as Ao Pi talked. Luckily, there wasn’t anyone that blindly said that Yuan Zhou’s dishes weren’t up to standard, either.

However, not everyone on site was dim-witted. For example, one of them said,

“Chef Li, did you bring all these people together today to tell us how awesome Yuan Zhou is, don’t you?”

The question happened to give Chef Li a way out. He said, “I have studied for a very long time and I realized that Yuan Zhou has never cooked seafood.”

As soon as he said that, all of them began to think over it carefully. Many people had been to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant secretly and they found it was indeed so.

There wasn’t a seafood dish on the menu of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant.

“The fact that he hasn’t cooked seafood before doesn’t necessarily mean he can’t cook it. Though Yuan Zhou is very young, he is actually quite sophisticated. When he opened the restaurant at the beginning, he said he could only cook Egg Fried Rice and then, he focused on cooked wheaten food and then Sichuan Cuisine gradually. God knows how many things he is hiding from us.”

Once the chief chef from Fragrant And Spicy Prawns said that, many people had a sense of identity.

“That makes sense. Yuan Zhou is so skilled in cooking Sichuan Cuisine, but at the very beginning, he said he could only cook Egg Fried Rice and Clear Broth Noodle Soup. He’s a liar,” said Ao Pi contemptuously.

“Egg Fried Rice and Clear Broth Noodle Soup are just the bait. This step by step method is better than telling others all at once. He’s really smart.”

“I remember that Yuan Zhou is younger than 30. Such a young person surprisingly has such deep cunning thoughts. That’s really horrible!”

The crowd all discussed and talked at once. With their joint effort, they successfully shaped Yuan Zhou to be quite a cunning person that had evil thoughts and high EQ.

Chef Li continued, “I naturally wouldn’t be so certain just from the fact that he has not cooked those dishes before only. Do you still remember that exchange meeting between China and Japan?”

To speak bluntly, these chefs might enjoy some reputation in Sichuan Province, but for the exchange meeting between China and Japan, they were absolutely unqualified to attend it.

Therefore, what they knew about mainly came from the newspaper or others who had attended the exchange meeting.

When he found others all nod their head to show consent, Chef Li continued, “In the exchange meeting held in Shanghai, Yuan Zhou successfully conquered the famous food critic Tengyuan from Japan with the Steamed Rice Served With Japanese Grenadier Anchovies.”

“Actually, seawater fish was the best choice to conquer the Japanese, but Yuan Zhou chose freshwater fish in the end,” Chef Li continued, “If he only wanted to show off his craftsmanship by choosing the freshwater fish, he could have prepared the sashimi when he was called in question in Japan.”

“Whichever it is, it clearly shows the fact that Yuan Zhou isn’t able to cook seafood cuisines.” Chef Li came to a conclusion.

“After all, sashimi is just something from which you slice the meat with your excellent knife skills. It doesn’t require any particular craftsmanship on cooking,” Chef Li emphasized.

People were only willing to believe what they wanted to. Everybody there today was good at preparing seafood cuisines, thus they liked to believe very much that this was something that Yuan Zhou couldn’t do as well as them.

Furthermore, Chef Li’s analysis indeed made sense. Judging from the situation at the exchange meeting between China and Japan, Yuan Zhou was indeed not good at cooking seafood cuisines.

“Great. Chef Li, what plan do you have?” Ao Pi asked.