Yuan Zhou's room was on the 21st floor, but the banquet hall of the meeting was on the 7th floor and on the 6th floor was the western restaurant . Chairman Zhou was quite generous this time . He directly booked both the 6th and 7th floor .
Of course, the 7th floor was used for the meeting place while the 6th was a place to have discussions and rest . The 6th floor had already been decorated, but Yuan Zhou didn't go there .
The elevator carried him directly to the 7th floor .
After a sound of "Ding", the door of the elevator opened and Yuan Zhou walked out .
"This hotel looks quite magnificent . " Yuan Zhou looked at the conspicuous slogan in front of him and sighed with emotion .
Jiali Hotel was indeed quite magnificent . A conspicuous signboard stating "Sino-Japan Exchange Meeting" in both Chinese and Japanese was hung right in front of the door of the elevator . Moreover, the characters were all large bronze letters .
The slogan was in the middle while at both sides, were two big open wooden doors, which were also decorated with the cotton flannel and hence looked beautiful and magnificent .
With his decidophobia, Yuan Zhou walked to the left side habitually and took out his entrance card .
"Ding" . Yuan Zhou swiped the card gently and then, the door opened instantly .
"There seems to be nobody here," Looking at the dark spacious hall, Yuan Zhou couldn't help muttering .
Along with the sound of "Pa", the lights were all turned on by Yuan Zhou . As a result, bright lamplight suddenly illuminated the whole banquet hall .
The arrangement of the banquet hall was similar to the one in Japan . The kitchen range and azure stone countertops were also arranged in a circle .
However, the meeting place in China was much larger . There were a total of 18 kitchen ranges for 18 chefs and each of them was equipped with an energy-saving gas furnace and an appropriate wok over it .
Yuan Zhou's place was quite conspicuous . It was one of the best places, usually prepared for chefs of the highest status .
And there were two places of the same kind . Apart from Yuan Zhou's place, there was another kitchen range at the side .
At the very edge of every kitchen range was the knife holder to put knives for cleaving, chopping or both . Of them, the cleaving knife was for processing boneless meat and vegetables while the chopping knife was for meat with bones or very hard ingredients .
Among all the kitchen ranges, 17 of them had these three knives in the knife holder, including Yuan Zhou's kitchen range . Only the one beside Yuan Zhou's was different . There were two knife holders on it .
"There really are a lot of knives . " Yuan Zhou observed the knives very carefully .
There was a chef's knife, a boning knife for slicing meat and deboning, a small cutting knife for processing vegetables and steak as well as wavy-edged tomato knife especially for cutting the tomatoes .
All these were knives prepared for western chefs and each of them shone with a cold light .
"This is definitely Chu Xiao's place . " Without looking at the nameplate, Yuan Zhou knew it was Chu Xiao's .
In the eyes of Yuan Zhou, only Chu Xiao knew how to use so many knives . Of course, the reason was that Yuan Zhou didn't know other western chefs besides Chu Xiao who was qualified to come to attend the meeting .
He had absolutely no idea that Li Li from the neighboring restaurant would also come to attend the meeting .
Yuan Zhou leaned forward to look at the nameplate in front and really found Chu Xiao's name written in both Chinese and Japanese on it .
"It turns out to be so . " Yuan Zhou was quite proud of himself .
"What does my nameplate look like?" Yuan Zhou suddenly remembered that he hadn't looked at his own nameplate carefully .
He reached out his hand to grab it, but nevertheless misestimated the length of his arms and thus didn't bend down . As a result, he ended up grabbing nothing . Well, such short arms .
He only managed to get his nameplate on the second try and start to check it .
Name: Yuan Zhou
Age: 24
Working experience: three years of official working experience
Good at cooking: freshwater fish, meat, main courses, and Chinese dim sum .
"Three years of official working experience?" Yuan Zhou was quite puzzled about this working experience .
"Did it start from the year when I worked in that restaurant?" Yuan Zhou suddenly thought of the hotel where he had worked before .
"If calculated in that way, the working experience would be correct . However, the dishes shown are really different from those shown in the exchange meeting in Japan . None of them have a specific name . " Yuan Zhou put his own nameplate down and then looked at Chu Xiao's .
The dishes shown on his nameplate were easier . There were only a few words, Creative Cuisine .
"Haha . As expected, this guy really has a lot of years of working experience, but the creative cuisine sounds pretty interesting . " Yuan Zhou first saw the dishes that Chu Xiao was good at before he saw his working experience .
After that, Yuan Zhou directly started to familiarize himself with his own kitchen range instead of checking the rest .
He stayed put and took up every piece of the kitchenware, no matter if it was the spatula or spoon or the frying pan .
He even took up the portable stove and weighed it on his hand for a while before he put it down .
"Well, both the weight and quality are good . It's quite convenient and easy to use . Now I'm going to try it personally . " Yuan Zhou nodded his head . He was quite satisfied with the stove .
This time, he turned on the portable stove to check the temperature of the flame and how long it would take to heat the frying pan and spatula .
Every detail was carefully noticed and then borne in mind by Yuan Zhou .
After that, he cleaned each and every piece of the kitchen range including all knives, frying pan, and even the chopping board .
"The chopping board is comparatively inferior . It even has the scent of new bamboos . Nevertheless, it can be mitigated . " Yuan Zhou smelled it carefully .
The whole process took Yuan Zhou about one and a half hours . When he finished, it was already 2:00 a . m .
Compared with other chefs, Yuan Zhou's method was quite strange .
Before Yuan Zhou arrived, the other 16 chefs had to familiarize themselves with the kitchen range respectively by cooking a dish that they were best at in order to examine the kitchenware and knives .
However, Yuan Zhou didn't cook a single dish even after he examined the flame .
"In this way, I don't need to tidy them up . The kitchenware is fairly good . " Having put things back where he found them, Yuan Zhou took a look at them contentedly again before he left .
That's right . The reason why Yuan Zhou didn't cook a single dish was very simple . There will be oil and smoke if he did that and thus, more work had to be done to remove it . However, there were only guards on the night shift at that time .
Therefore, Yuan Zhou straightforwardly changed a familiarization method that neither delayed him getting familiar with the kitchenware nor caused extra inconvenience .
According to Yuan Zhou's principle, he will never bring others trouble because of his own problems .
"It's almost time to sleep . " Yuan Zhou checked the time and then turned off the light before he left .
He needed to get up early . Even if he was in Shanghai now, Yuan Zhou didn't intend to quit exercising . After all, the unpleasant taste of the medicine and the tinnitus on the plane constantly reminded him of the importance of the exercise .
Therefore, Yuan Zhou was more reluctant to halt his own exercise .
Having returned to his room, Yuan Zhou washed up and then went to sleep following his usual .
At 5:00 the next morning, Yuan Zhou woke up on time .
"It feels like I didn't sleep for long before getting up . " Yuan Zhou covered his head with the quilt and didn't feel like getting up .
"Xi Xi Suo Suo" . Yuan Zhou directly rolled about the bed and then caught sight of the medicine for airsickness . Immediately, he became clear-headed .
"I should get up . " Thinking of the painful tinnitus, Yuan Zhou sat up and put on his sportswear at once, preparing to go downstairs and exercise .
The first time will be strange but the second time will be easier . Yuan Zhou was already quite familiar with looking for places to exercise at the hotel . Therefore, he returned as scheduled after exercising .
After he finished washing up, Yuan Zhou didn't change into his casual clothes anymore . Instead, he took out a set of gorgeous clothes from his suitcase .
It was a complete set of blue Flying Fish Clothes with cloud patterns, even including the hat and shoes .
"Chairman Zhou said quite a few reporters would come to live broadcast the whole process this time . A prince charming like me naturally must make an entrance . Or else, I should stay inconspicuous and behave cultured . It's also a nice choice," Yuan Zhou said that quite naturally while tidying the lower hems of the cuffs carefully .
…Flying Fish Clothes(飞鱼服) is a kind of traditional Han Chinese Clothing granted to others by the emperor in Ming Dynasty .
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