Chapter 357 Exclusive Chef
Charlie was praising Mianmian, and his eyes were full of approval. The little boy was really smart. When he heard that he liked to be direct, he laid out the matter.
Moreover, he should have realized that the person brought in by Su Chenjin's secretary was not ordinary? After all, the contact between the richest men of two countries would indeed make some people nervous.
After exchanging gifts, the next step was to have lunch.
Su Chenjin arranged an antique restaurant, where the food was all classical cuisine. In order to welcome Charlie, the menu was a full banquet. The kitchen had already prepared semi-finished products, and now it was just waiting for Charlie to order the dishes he liked.
Obviously, Charlie also knew something about Longguo’s recipes. When he saw that it was a Manchu-Han banquet, he couldn’t help but say directly to Su Chenjin: “Jin, you made me feel your sincerity in entertaining me. These dishes are difficult to make, right?”
Su Chenjin was not modest and nodded slightly, saying, "Well, the most difficult one is Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. I especially recommend that you must try it."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Charlie put down the menu and said, "Let's skip the ordering process and taste the food together. Let my bodyguards taste it too."
Su Chenjin said gentlemanly: "Okay, then please take a seat."
There are a total of 108 dishes in the Manchu-Han Banquet. The hotel has been booked and the dining table is placed in the most central location of the hotel. All the waiters in the entire hotel only need to serve this table of guests.
When Mianmian heard about the Manchu-Han banquet, her mouth was watering.
In the mountains, there is a grandma who can cook a full banquet, but due to limited ingredients, she can only make a part of the dishes. But that is enough to make her, a little foodie, miss it very much.
When the chefs serve the dishes, the hotel's head chef will come out with them and introduce to the guests what the dishes are and how to eat them.
The chef could not speak Mexican. After each paragraph, he would pause and let the translator relay his speech to his foreign friends.
After all the dishes were introduced, Charlie asked some questions about the chef and then took the initiative to applaud.
The boss clapped, and those tall and strong American bodyguards followed suit, and everyone at the table clapped together.
Mianmian clapped very vigorously, but when she saw the chef's face clearly, her eyes immediately widened.
"Oh, you are Grandma Gao's junior."
The chef was a middle-aged woman. She opened her eyes wide when she heard this and couldn't help asking, "Little aunt, the grandma Gao you mentioned, is her name Gao Xiuxia?"
Mianmian nodded: "Yes, yes, Grandma Gao Xiuxia."
The female chef's eyes became more and more surprised. After a long while, she nodded and said, "Gao Xiuxia is my great aunt. Our ancestors were imperial chefs. I heard that my great aunt met a nobleman. Although she was a girl, she also followed the nobleman to enjoy happiness. You, do you know her?"
The chef didn't say much.
Because the story of her great aunt was too legendary and had a fantasy element, no one would believe it even if she told it. She didn't believe it at first, but now that she heard the Su family's young aunt, who was said to be a descendant of the Xuanmen sect, mention this great aunt, she felt that the family legend might be true.
"Yes, Grandma Gao also made a full banquet for Mianmian, and it tasted delicious."
The chef listened and was filled with emotion.
Nowadays, if a girl becomes a chef, she may be looked down upon by male chefs. They will use the fact that flipping the pan requires a lot of strength to attack the fact that it is not suitable for women to be chefs.
In Aunt Zeng’s time, life was more difficult for women.
It is said that Aunt Zeng learned cooking skills secretly at home in the middle of the night because she was afraid of being scolded by the elders, who said that girls should learn embroidery and find a good family. They only needed to know how to cook, and it would be best if they could become the wives of wealthy families.
Later, Aunt Zeng was spotted and taken away. The family seemed to have witnessed some mysterious tricks, so they were proud of Aunt Zeng and passed the matter down as a rumor within the clan.
It was also because of Aunt Zeng’s experience that many female chefs emerged from their family.
The clan leader at that time also said that in fact, it’s not just the flipping of the wok that women learn to cook much faster than men.
"Thank you for telling me about Aunt Zeng." The female chef bowed to Mianmian, "What else do you want to eat? I will make another one specially for you."
When Mianmian heard this, she said, "I want to eat sesame dumplings. Grandma Gao always makes small dumplings for me."
The female chef nodded: "Okay, I'll make it for you right away."
After she left, everyone started eating.
Charlie praised it as soon as he took a bite: "I've heard that Longguo pays attention to the inheritance of civilization. This dish has been passed down from ancient times to the present. It's really delicious. My tongue is about to melt."
The tall bodyguard who was closest to Charlie heard Charlie's praise, cut a piece of meat with the knife and fork beside him and put it into his mouth with a look of doubt on his face.
After just one bite, the male bodyguard's eyes lit up and he started eating with big mouthfuls.
When Mianmian saw the male bodyguard's expression, she couldn't help but mutter in her heart: He really looks like Baibai, but they are both wolves, so it's normal to look alike, right? Thanks to the bodyguards on both sides, the table of dishes was completely wiped out.
Americans pay attention to dining etiquette, especially Charlie who comes from a big family. But today, because the food is so delicious, these people use all kinds of tools for eating, such as knives, forks, chopsticks, and spoons, and they use whatever they have, and they eat very quickly, for fear that the food will be snatched away.
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Charlie even burped, causing the waiters present to burst out laughing.
Who hasn't read some foreign novels about blond princes? When Charlie first walked into the hotel, he was so gentlemanly and elegant. Now that he's overfed, isn't he still burping like a normal person?
In comparison, the handsome guy from his own country was more calm. He still sat on the chair calmly and composedly, and even used a wet tissue to help wipe the dirt off the little boy's mouth.
Mianmian was actually very full.
The child has a small appetite, so she also ate the sesame dumplings specially prepared by the chef.
"Can you ask that lady to come out again?" Charlie asked after he burped. "I want to talk to your head chef. She said she is not working in any restaurant at the moment. I want to talk to her again."
Others don’t know, but Su Chenjin knows.
The chef originally didn't want to cook for foreigners, or rather, he had already wanted to retire and didn't want to take on this kind of job anymore.
Their family had previously wanted to hire this chef to cook at the Su family manor, and they offered him an annual salary of tens of millions, but was rejected.
For this banquet, he said he could provide all the ingredients, guaranteed freshness and completeness, as well as some other things, so he invited people over.
Even if foreigners take the initiative to see her now, she may not be willing to come out.
Just as Su Chenjin was thinking this, he saw the female chef appear in front of the table again.
She asked Charlie very politely what he wanted. Charlie said directly, "Dear Madam, if I want to hire you as my exclusive chef, what will I have to pay? Just tell me, my sincerity will definitely satisfy you."
After listening to the translation, the chef smiled and refused straightforwardly: "Sorry, I have decided to accept the Su family's invitation and go to the Su family manor to become the Su family's exclusive chef."
(End of this chapter)