Chapter 83

Upon learning that the branch was about to open, diners were particularly excited.

The milk tea shop at the corner of the street: [Wow! I finally waited for it to open. I must go there on Saturday to support it! ]

BoshuiBB: [After waiting for so long, the branch is finally here. I must be there. 】

The hole fell: [Saturday! Saturday! There are still a few days left. The address of the branch is very close to my home. Then I don’t have to go all the way to Jiangdong New District to eat boxed lunches. Just thinking about it makes me happy. ]

With the opening approaching, Xiang Yunting, as the manager of the branch, began to feel a little nervous. This was the first time in his life that he managed a box lunch restaurant. Without Chen Kangle by his side, he was worried that he would make mistakes.

Fortunately, Chen Kangle gave him enough confidence. Chen Kangle believed that he could handle it on his own and let him go ahead and do it. In order not to disappoint Chen Kangle's trust, Xiang Yunting forced himself to calm down.

Almost everything for the branch has been arranged. The menu of the branch is exactly the same as that of the main store, and all dishes must be approved by Chen Kangle.

The most feared issue when opening a branch is quality control, which is also the issue that Chen Kangle pays most attention to when inspecting branches. Every dish that can be sold has been tasted by Chen Kangle himself and can only be sold with Chen Kangle's permission.

While they were preparing for the branch, the second round of food expert tasting session of the "Searching for Food in Haishi" event was almost coming to an end.

Chen Kangle was busy with the opening of the branch and had no time to pay close attention to the food experts' tasting. In her opinion, she didn't need to prepare anything special, as all the dishes at Kangle Box Restaurant were delicious. When the food experts came, they could eat whatever they wanted.

Hua Tianyi, president of Shanghai Food Association, is one of the three food experts in this food expert tasting session. He is a professional judge. There are a total of ten food stores in this food expert tasting session. Every time he goes to a food store, he will carefully taste the food there, earnestly score each food store, and then list the advantages and disadvantages of each food store.

At the same time, Hua Tianyi is also a very strict judge. He can list many shortcomings in several food restaurants he has tasted. He even listed several shortcomings for the most famous Lihua Hotel in Hai City, such as the roast duck was not tender enough, the braised pork was a bit greasy, and the skin of the fried chicken legs was not crispy enough.

Hua Tianyi has tried nine out of the ten gourmet restaurants, and currently only one box-type rice restaurant in the suburbs has not been tried.

Among the nine restaurants he tasted, Hua Tianyi’s current favorite is the Lihua Hotel. Although the Lihua Hotel has some shortcomings, compared with other restaurants, the Lihua Hotel is already the best, and the restaurant he is going to recommend is also the Lihua Hotel.

The organizers required that they must taste all ten food restaurants before they could recommend their favorite food restaurant. Hua Tianyi planned to go to the boxed lunch restaurant in Jiangdong New District this afternoon. Although he had not tasted the food at Kangle Boxed Lunch Restaurant, he felt that it was impossible for this boxed lunch restaurant to beat Lihua Hotel.

In order to complete the process arranged by the organizer, Hua Tianyi came to Kangle Box Restaurant as scheduled. Kangle Box Restaurant was the most ordinary-looking of the ten food restaurants in the second round.

However, the food in this box restaurant is not ordinary. When Hua Tianyi arrived at Kangle Box Restaurant, he ordered three dishes: sweet and sour pork, fried chicken legs and braised pork. It just so happened that the Lihua Hotel he wanted to recommend also had these three dishes. Just by tasting them, you can see the difference between a small box restaurant and a big hotel.

He originally thought that there would be a big gap between the dishes in a small restaurant and those in a big hotel. After tasting the food at the Kangle Box Restaurant, he found that there was indeed a gap, but there was a gap between the dishes at the Lihua Hotel and those at the Kangle Box Restaurant.

The braised pork at the Kanglehe Restaurant is not greasy at all, even if you eat several pieces in a row, while the braised pork at the Lihua Hotel feels a bit greasy if you eat more than three pieces.

There are also fried chicken legs. The fried chicken legs of the Kangle Box Hotel are not only crispy on the outside, but also very tender and tasty inside. However, the fried chicken legs of the Lihua Hotel are not as crispy on the outside as those of the Kangle Box Hotel.

The sweet and sour pork at Lihua Hotel is not as good as the sweet and sour pork at Kanglehe Restaurant.

After tasting the three dishes and making comparisons, it was clear that Lihua Hotel lost.

Hua Tianyi never expected that the last Xiaohe Restaurant would be the ultimate winner. Originally, he was going to recommend the Lihua Hotel, but now he has changed his mind.

Kanglehe Restaurant is his favorite. Hua Tianyi couldn't wait to send the event organizer a list of his recommended food restaurants: Kanglehe Restaurant.

The organizer responded to him that an expert had already recommended the Kanglehe Restaurant and asked him to recommend a new restaurant.

The organizer stipulates that the food restaurants recommended by the three food experts cannot be the same. If there are two identical ones, the later one to recommend will have to change one.

Hua Tianyi didn't expect that he was a step too slow and that a food expert had already recommended the Kangle lunch box.

If you think about it carefully, any expert who has tasted the Kangle Box Restaurant will definitely recommend it. I am just late.

There was no other way, Hua Tianyi had to reluctantly change the recommended list to Lihua Hotel.

The first food expert to recommend the Kangle Box Restaurant was the world-renowned top chef Yang Ming. Yang Ming didn’t try the Kangle Box Restaurant until the very end, but he was convinced by the restaurant as soon as he tasted it.

After the second round of food expert tasting, the organizer announced three food restaurants that entered the third round of finals: Lihua Hotel, Kanglehe Hotel, and Fengling Restaurant.

The food restaurant recommended by Hua Tianyi, the president of Shanghai Food Association, is Lihua Hotel; the food restaurant recommended by world-renowned top chef Yang Ming is Kangle Box Hotel; the food restaurant recommended by Zhu Linlin, the editor-in-chief of Food Magazine, is Fengling Restaurant.

After tasting ten gourmet restaurants, if she put aside her personal feelings, Zhu Linlin's favorite is the Kangle Box Restaurant. The food at the Kangle Box Restaurant is indeed very delicious.

But she finally recommended Fengling Restaurant because the owner of Fengling Restaurant, Qu Xuanye, had helped her before.

Zhu Linlin thought about it and felt that a box lunch restaurant as delicious as Kangle Box Lucky Restaurant must have been recommended by experts, so it wouldn’t have much impact even if she didn’t recommend it, so she chose to recommend Qu Xuanye’s Fengling Restaurant.

When Chen Kangle saw the shortlist, she was not surprised. She was very confident in her Kangle Box Restaurant.

When Qu Xuanye saw the shortlist, he was shocked. He didn't expect that the Kangle Box Restaurant, which he hated the most, was also on the shortlist. He was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

I originally thought that the food experts’ tasting session was a competition of taste. If it was a competition of taste, Kangle Box Restaurant would definitely not be in the top three and would be eliminated early.

"Damn! Which expert recommended the Kang Le He Restaurant? Is there something wrong with this expert's taste?"

Seeing her brother going crazy because of the shortlist of the Kang Le He Restaurant, Qu Mengqi didn't dare to say a word. In fact, it was expected that the Kang Le He Restaurant could be shortlisted. The reason why her brother was surprised was that he had never eaten the food of the Kang Le He Restaurant.

Now Qu Mengqi has become a regular customer of the Kang Le He Restaurant, and she often goes there secretly. Because her brother doesn't like the Kang Le He Restaurant, she has never dared to let her brother know that she went there.

The more Qu Xuanye thought about it, the angrier he got. Even Haishi Restaurant was not shortlisted, but this shabby lunch box restaurant was. Qu Xuanye couldn't help but suspect that there was an inside story. After all, the shortlist was recommended by food experts, and it was possible that some of the food experts had selfish motives.

Therefore, the second round of food expert tasting may not necessarily rely on taste to win, but may also rely on relationships.

It seems that the truth about the Kangle Box Restaurant will only be revealed in the third round of the finals.

The third round is the final round, and the ranking of the final round is determined by the votes of the expert judges plus the votes of the public judges. The gourmet restaurant with the highest number of votes is the champion of "Searching for Food in Haishi". The champion will have the opportunity to shoot an exclusive gourmet documentary for the platform.

On the other side, Chen Kangle and Xiang Yunting were preparing for the final stages of opening the branch.

Tomorrow is the opening day of the branch. To celebrate the opening, Chen Kangle is preparing to launch new dishes.