Chapter 171 There is always a mountain below the other

Unexpectedly, Su Yun revealed her true colors not long after the filming started. Tan Yunlun was a little amused and asked quietly when the camera was not filming them: "Tell me honestly, is there anything worth eating in this show?"

"Of course there are. Chef Yang will prepare some demonstration dishes. As for the rest...it depends on the level of the contestants." Su Yun quietly looked away.

“Isn’t this a mixture of heaven on one side and hell on the other?!” Tan Yunlun looked at Chef Yang, then at the group of contestants who looked unreliable, and his heart shuddered.

Chef Yang’s cooking skills have been proven by his many culinary competition awards, and his special abalone is well-known to be top-notch, so he named it “Ah De Abalone” after one of his characters in his name, meaning that everyone who tastes this special abalone can’t stop praising it, saying “Ah, De!” (In both Chinese and Cantonese, “De” and “De” have the same pronunciation, which means it’s worth it) - of course, the special dishes of this level of chef are also very expensive.

After all, abalone is a luxury food for the rich. The raw materials are expensive and it is specially made by famous chefs. Even if this rich home-cooked dish is popularized among ordinary people, it is still expensive and unacceptable to ordinary people.

Even though Wynners has been quite popular in recent years and they have made a lot of money, good quality seafood has always been very expensive. They have only just started out, so no matter how much you love to eat, you can only enjoy it occasionally and cannot eat at Chef Yang's restaurant anytime and anywhere.

Besides, he has a physique that makes him gain weight easily, and he loves to eat. Every time after a big meal, he has to increase the intensity of his daily basic exercises... If he is not really greedy, Tan Yunlun would not be willing to do this, which not only requires spending a lot of money but also increasing the training method.

That is why, after hearing Su Yun say that she was going to make a variety show about food and that many of the dishes were high-priced premium seafood and that the invited chef guest was the famous "Abalone King" Yang Guande, Tan Yunlun happily accepted the invitation: food shows at this time have always invited famous chefs to teach cooking. Even if the sample dishes may be a little cold after filming, they are not much different in the end because of the raw materials and the chef's skills. Just heat it up and it will be a fresh and hot delicious meal...

How great it is! You can enjoy the cooking skills of a famous chef without spending any money. It’s no problem for him to be a regular food-tasting guest!

At worst, I can just do double the amount of exercise after each recording to lose the fat I eat!

Until the moment he arrived at the scene and learned the truth, Tan Yunlun was happily fantasizing about the "good" days ahead...

Then he saw a group of contestants that made him silent instantly.

Seeing the struggling expression on Alan Tam's face, Vincent Su stood very steadily without any conscience: because she knew that there were many inexperienced chefs participating in the competition, and this was only the first episode after all, so the guests who wanted to come up to taste the dishes naturally needed to be able to pick up the gags, have a passion for food, and most importantly, be in good physical condition.

That is why Su Yun chose Tan Yunlun, the evergreen in the music industry, after careful consideration. As the most senior, most experienced and longest-serving big shot among the "Three Kings and One Queen" in the 1980s, he is still active on the green field and leads the star football team to play football. He can also hold concerts at an advanced age and still ensure quality. He must have superb physical fitness!

Of course, he would post an emoji on Weibo from time to time showing his face looking so happy while holding a seafood feast that his facial features were about to fly out of the sky. This was also one of the reasons why Su Yun dared to use sweet words to trick him into joining the program production crew...

Who else but him is an artist who has excellent health, is not prone to eating problems, is very passionate about food and is not picky about food!

Furthermore, in the prototype of this program, “Beauty Kitchen”, the guests in the first episode were also him and his bandmates. If the program is re-enacted in the future, he can be invited to come up and “make a second appearance”…

"Speaking of which, why is this program called "How to Cook"? " Tan Yunlun asked in confusion as he was asked to sit at the food tasting table.

"Because men who can cook are always called 'little men' with prejudice." Su Yun turned half of her face to the camera and patiently explained the reason for the name to Alan Tam and the audience. "In fact, cooking requires a lot of physical strength. Most of the famous chefs are men, which is because men are naturally stronger than women. So I think entering the kitchen is not a shameful thing. Food is the first necessity of the people. Both mother's home-cooked dishes and chefs' professional dishes can bring people delicious food and a good feeling."

"Of course. If there weren't so many delicious foods in the world, how could I have such a plump and beautiful figure?" Shen Dingxia laughed.

"This is called eating a blessed meal..." Zheng Yuting smiled, then turned to look at Zhong Bu Luo, "But I remember that this name means more than just this, right?"

"Yes, why don't you explain it again, Mary?" Zhong Buluo quickly threw the conversation back.

"Another meaning is, of course, that '大老公' is also a homophonic translation of Japanese, meaning 'no problem' - so the name of this program also means 'going to the kitchen is no problem for men'." Su Yun finished explaining, and then watched the appearance of the "delicious messengers" who were on-site staff with others.

Since they were male contestants, the delicious messengers who assisted them were naturally newcomers who had undergone some emergency training in kitchen knowledge. Under Su Yun's deliberate arrangement, these four newcomers were all young and handsome men in their twenties who worked part-time. They included Zhang Hanyou, Liang Shaowei and Zhou Xingyi, who were previously invited by her to film. In addition, she also found Liu Dihua, who had just graduated from high school and was working part-time to earn money to support his family.

While big stars are still cheap, she can not only reap some profits, but also help them, who are currently paid low wages, gain performance experience and earn a little more money to support their families.

These four basically all come from poor backgrounds. In addition to their regular full-time jobs, they also have to work odd jobs from time to time to supplement their family income. Being able to work part-time at a TV station will definitely earn them more than delivering newspapers, milk, or working as a supermarket salesperson.

After introducing the delicious young ambassadors, the show started with a warm-up game: pancake tossing.

Considering that these guys learn the craft on the spot, it’s really just a matter of kneading and tossing, and the team that makes the biggest pancake in the end wins. There’s no need to fry it before eating it.

After the pancake chef who was demonstrating went down, just as Su Yun expected, the first banana group to come on stage threw the pancakes to the ground.

"What about you heroes? Do you guys eat without paying attention to hygiene?" Zheng Yuting teased them in a very impolite manner as they were from the Banana Team: Zheng Zhaoqiu and Liu Chongyin.

"No, they were just shaking their hands. I saw that they were using their internal energy to throw the cake. The cake was weak and couldn't be replenished, so it burrowed into the ground in shame." Zhong Buluo continued.

"But the posture is still somewhat desirable..." Zheng Zhaoqiu had worked hard to practice his fan-wielding skills when he played Chu Liuxiang, and Shen Dingxia finally found a point to exaggerate.

"Don't help Qiu Guan all the time!" It was common knowledge in Hong Kong that Shen Dingxia and Zheng Zhaoqiu were dating, and everyone else told her not to speak up to help them anymore.

After the second pineapple group came up, Zhou Yuanfa, who had worked a lot of odd jobs before, volunteered to be the main player of the tossing pancakes because he had experience as a waiter in a coffee shop.

"Can you do it?" Lu Qiangwei asked worriedly.

“Absolutely!” Zhou Yuanfa made a V sign with a playful smile, then flattened the dough with both hands and rolled it out, as if he was about to pick it up and toss it. “I guarantee that the gesture will be not much different from that of the master!”

Before anyone could start praising him for his good looks, he had already torn a thin pancake crust into a piece full of holes.

"Wow - does this thing look like the clothes you were wearing when someone shot you in the face when you went out that day?" In the movie "Shanghai Beach", the male protagonist Xu Wenqiang, played by Zhou Yuanfa, died in a random shooting when he went out. Coincidentally, in the movie, he was wearing a white suit jacket that was as white as flour...

"Really?" When he was not filming, Zhou Yuanfa was like a shrimp. He immediately put on the thin pancake skin with thousands of holes, waved his hands as if he was shot, and screamed wildly. Finally, with his burly figure of more than 1.8 meters tall, he flew like a big bird to the stunned Lu Qiangwei next to him, and almost knocked Lu Qiangwei to the ground.

However, this fall also made Lu Qiangwei react, and he immediately supported Zhou Yuanfa as if he had taken over his body: "Brother Wen, who hurt you?!"

"No one else, it's just me. It's better to die in my own hands than in the hands of others..." Zhou Yuan howled with great emotion, making not only the audience present but also the audience in front of the TV unable to stop laughing.

After much difficulty, we invited this group of self-made Shanghai Beach bosses to come down. Next, Chen Boyang and Zhang Querong looked much more obedient. They really followed the instructions of the pancake master conscientiously, and spread the pancake skin on the table and kneaded it.

"It seems that I can't lift it..." Young and beautiful boys are the most lovable. When Chen Baiyang whispered in a low voice, Shen Dingxia and Zheng Yuting immediately spoke up, "You can lift it up if you sprinkle some more flour."

"Oh oh." Zhang Querong reached out and sprinkled some flour on the dough. After kneading it, he felt that there was too much flour, so he turned around and asked Chen Boyang to bring some water to dilute it...

So young people are quick and efficient. Without waiting for others to stop him, Chen Boyang simply took a glass of water from the sink and poured it over.

With the tomato group's batter as the base, the other two groups immediately became good examples of comparison and finished products.

If this round was not just a warm-up and not counted towards the total score, these two would have been far behind the other groups...

"Without further delay, we are now ready to move on to the designated dishes. Tonight, we have prepared a very simple yet skill-intensive dish for the three groups of contestants - stir-fried lotus pond!" Zhong Buluo opened the lid and displayed the contents of the designated dish.

"Yes, the so-called 'Stir-fried in the Lotus Pond' is made by stir-frying freshly peeled tender water chestnuts, lotus roots, lilies, black fungus, Dutch beans and other ingredients over high heat. It is a Cantonese side dish that requires a lot of effort to prepare." Shen Dingxia added.

"And because of the wide variety of ingredients and colors, including green, red, yellow, green, white and black, the color is particularly fresh and bright. It can be called the best summer appetizer." Zheng Yuting looked at the plate of sample dishes and said with satisfaction, " It’s the best time to watch and eat at the same time.”

"I hope so." After the farce of throwing pancake crusts, Tan Yunlun said without much hope.

"Give them some confidence, maybe they will give us a surprise." Su Yun forced a smile to comfort herself.

"You can't pretend to be calm anymore. I've seen you hide a stomach medicine in your palm under the table..." Tan Yunlun said as he reached out, "Do you have any extra?"

"Hey! You said you were good friends!" Seeing that the two were so disrespectful, Chen Boyang and Zhang Querong were the first to make a scene, "You guys should at least support us!"

"Because we are good friends, I can't let you bear the crime of poisoning me!" Tan Yunlun decisively took a stomach medicine from Su Yun, and then called out, "Hurry up and get the materials. Start the timer. The other two groups have already opened fire!"

Turning around, they saw that people had already started working on the other two open stoves. Chen Boyang and Zhang Querong didn't care about it anymore and hurriedly took the materials and ran to the tomato-themed stove belonging to their group.

"Blanch the water, put it in the pan, and stir-fry over high heat!" In this room, Shen Dingxia was teaching the Banana Group how to cook remotely.

"I report the host Da Xichao!" Zhou Yuan raised his hand angrily.

The so-called "big and small" means unfairness in colloquial language. Shen Dingxia always takes sides, so he immediately joined in the fun without any hesitation.

"Okay, okay, I'm scared of you. I won't say anything!" TBB's variety shows are always particularly noisy when acquaintances come on. After all, everyone has not seen each other for a long time, and they are not really quarreling, they are just making trouble for fun.

"Put more salt in it, otherwise it will have no taste!" At the end, Shen Dingxia looked at Zhou Yuanfa's pot and made another suggestion.

"It's not pickled fish, why put so much salt in it?" Zhou Yuanfa refused decisively.

"But you only put two grains of salt!" Zheng Yuting slammed the table and stood up. "Although I said that we should eat light food to maintain our figure, you don't have to eat so light food, do you?"

Looking at the noise of the people around him, Chen Boyang, who was a step behind in progress, was a little confused: "Then how much salt should we put in?"

“Well, of course I put more. This dish is already so salty that there is no meat at all. How can it be delicious if it has no taste?” Zhang Querong came over carrying a large salt can with a capacity of 1.5kg.

"Where's the spoon?" He looked around but couldn't find it. So he just tilted the can and aimed the mouth of the can into the pot and was about to pour it directly. At the same time, he called out to Chen Boyang who was cooking, signaling him to move aside. "Hey!"

"Ah?" Chen Boyang, who was struggling to stir-fry lotus root slices, turned around and saw a splash of white - Zhang Querong was unable to stop in time and had poured even the lid of the salt pot into the pot.

“Wow——”

Not only the food tasting area, but also the audience were cheering.

"This time it is really the daughter of King Yama who is getting married - the devil is here!" Su Yun looked at the pot of things submerged in salt, and then at the two bewildered initiators, heartbroken, "Look at their pot. 'Salt-baked seasonal vegetables'!"