Chapter 148 Chinese Food Competition (Additional Chapter 3 for the Leader Yanhuiman)
At the end of the third day of the competition, Gu Zheng scored 9.5 points, which was a little low, but still the highest score.
For three consecutive days, Gu Zheng ranked first in the ninth venue and the whole venue. Not to mention many foodies and contestants, even the famous chefs who were recommended knew his existence and knew that there was a person who rushed in with the first place just by making fried eggs and competed with them.
Many recommended famous chefs also watched Gu Zheng's video of making fried eggs.
They are all knowledgeable people, and they understand how extraordinary the fried eggs made by Gu Zheng are. In other words, none of them can make fried eggs like Gu Zheng. Just looking at the appearance, Gu Zheng's first place is well deserved.
In addition to Gu Zheng, there are also many masters among the people this time. Many people's dishes taste good. The 200 people who finally advanced can be said to be their strong opponents.
In the evening, Gu Zheng and Wang Dong both received calls from the organizing committee.
The two of them advanced together. Tomorrow's competition will be held in three large venues. There are a total of 263 people recommended for this competition. Seven people failed to attend on time. Excluding these seven people, there are still 256 recommended chefs.
The number of recommended people is more than the number of people who made it out of thousands of people.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. Generally speaking, food competitions are invitation-based, that is, you have to have a certain reputation and a certain industry status to accept the invitation. Different people are invited according to the scale of the competition.
There are competitions that you sign up for yourself, but there are not many. Basically, they are small competitions held at the city and county level at most. If it weren't for the government's participation and so much prize money, it would not attract so many famous chefs to participate.
There are three venues, a total of 456 people competing, 150 people in each venue, and the third venue is the largest, with 156 people competing at the same time.
In today's competition, there will be 30 people competing at the same time each time, and they will be divided into five groups throughout the day. Each group is limited to one hour, but if they don't do well, they can be delayed for 20 minutes, which is equivalent to a maximum of 80 minutes per game.
For these famous chefs, we can't strictly limit the time like the previous two days.
Today's competition is more brutal than before. Only 30 people from each of the three venues advance. That is to say, out of more than 400 people, only 90 people will be able to enter the fifth day of the competition tomorrow. Even those famous chefs are under great pressure now. With such a high elimination rate, no one knows whether they can successfully advance.
Only 30 people are selected from 150 people. The one-fifth promotion also made the 200 people who fought through three days gasp.
Such a competition requires all-out efforts. If you are not careful, you will be eliminated and end the road of this food competition.
This is only the fourth day. On the fifth day, the 90 people who have advanced will compete again in a venue. Only 30 people will advance this time. The promotion of one out of three will eliminate two-thirds of the people again.
The 30 people on the fifth day are the real winners and can participate in the final. That is to say, there are only 30 people in the final.
It is a great honor to be among the top 30 after fighting out of thousands of troops.
The organizing committee did not create this model by themselves, but imitated the model of the Chinese Food Competition. In other words, the food competitions with some influence in China are basically of this model.
The Chinese Food Competition was founded thirty years ago and is held every two years. It has been continuously improved and has been held fifteen times so far. It is the most influential and largest competition in the domestic food industry.
Chefs cannot sign up for the Chinese Food Competition themselves. It adopts an invitation system. Every year, no more than three hundred famous chefs from all over the country are invited to participate in the preliminary round. In the end, only thirty people can enter the finals. The top ten will be selected in the finals, and the bottom twenty will not be ranked.
In the past thirty years, the first place in the Chinese Food Competition every year is basically the chef god of the session, the most famous chef in the country, without a doubt.
In thirty years, fifteen sessions have been held, and only fifteen people have received such a reputation. In fact, only nine people have received such an award in the past fifteen years. Some people have won the first place in more than one session. The most powerful one won three consecutive sessions and won the lifetime honorary title and never participated in the competition again.
Let alone the first place, even the top ten are well-known chefs in the country. Even the twenty people who are not ranked behind are also wanted by big hotels all over the country. Whoever can get one will definitely greatly enhance their fame and business.
Even being invited is also a kind of honor, a symbol of identity and status.
It can be said that the Chinese Food Competition is the most grand event in the minds of all chefs in the country. No other event can compare with it. Its status in the domestic chef community is equivalent to the World Cup in the football world and the Oscars in the film industry. It is the supreme existence.
Therefore, many food competitions are learning from their model, and this Hangzhou Food Competition is no exception.
In the final of the 30 people, the top ten will be selected, and the last 20 will not be ranked. In this way, the better ones among the 30 will be better, and the worse ones will not have the final ranking because there are 20 people tied, so that they can all get the best treatment in the end.
Gu Zheng knew all this a long time ago. His father Gu Ming had accepted the invitation of the Chinese Food Competition and had participated in the competition. Gu Ming participated in the 9th competition and won the third place. Since then, he became completely famous and then went abroad to continue his studies.
Gu Ming has a high reputation in the food industry in Shanghai, which is also related to the fact that he won the third place in the food competition. That is the third place in the country, a very valuable ranking.
Wang Dong did not understand these things, but he was watching with relish. However, only 30 people from one venue will advance tomorrow, which still puts him under a lot of pressure. In the past three days of competition, he has been in the top 100, but he has always been a little behind, about 60 or 70.
In today's competition, he is in the top 80.
There are so many famous chefs who will be recommended to participate tomorrow. It can be said that it is not easy for him to fight out in tomorrow's competition. There is a great possibility that he will be eliminated tomorrow.
But even if he is eliminated, he is very satisfied. It is an accident to be able to get to where he is today. Every extra step is progress for him.
"Wang Dong, can you use sesame oil to make fried rice?"
In the living room of the rented house at night, Gu Zheng suddenly asked Wang Dong. Wang Dong is very talented and has walked his own way. Gu Zheng does not want him to stop tomorrow, but according to his current situation, he will definitely not be able to advance tomorrow if he still uses the original ingredients.
His cooking skills are good, but there are too many good cooks in the country, and he is not the only one who has good ingredients. Those famous chefs have more ways and wider ways to get good ingredients than him. Wang Dong wants to continue. Gu Zheng can't help him with cooking skills. The two of them are on different paths, but he can still help him improve the ingredients.
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