Chapter 355 Lyon Food Festival

"Thank you Sir Brown for me!"

Gu Zheng said lightly. At this moment, he also understood why his father had such an attitude when he mentioned this food festival, but he was already here and could only do as the Romans did.

"Thank you for your understanding!"

Hao Sen breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he was worried before Gu Zheng arrived, worried that Gu Zheng would not be able to accept the fact that he was actually invited privately. After all, Gu Zheng was also one of the top chefs in China, especially this year. The winner of the Chinese Food Competition must be cooked.

Hao Sen is from China and understands the arrogance of talented Chinese people.

A top person, no matter what industry he is at, is proud of himself. He originally came to participate in a public food festival, but after arriving, it actually turned into a private invitation. Especially in the chef industry, it was as if he was invited alone. It's strange for a cook to have a good temper.

Gu Zheng agreed so quickly, but Hao Sen actually felt strange.

But no matter what, this is a good thing. If Gu Zheng can accept it and leaves without anger, he has completed most of the things assigned by his boss.

"Please come this way!"

Hao Sen respected Gu Zheng very much. He was sent to serve Gu Zheng, and he could also be said to be the person who served Gu Zheng. If Gu Zheng was angry, he would not be able to eat and walk away.

Sir Brown was very generous to Gu Zheng and gave him the most luxurious presidential suite. There were only three such rooms near the entire event. Sir Brown grabbed one and gave it back to Gu Zheng. This also shows his strength. and the emphasis on ancient disputes.

The Brown family has been prosperous in Europe for hundreds of years, and the contemporary Sir Brown is also a viscount, who is much better than those ordinary nobles.

Gu Zheng was not polite. Since the public invitation became private, there was no need for him to save money for the other party.

The opening ceremony was held at ten o'clock. Gu Zheng put away his gifts and simply packed up before going out. This time the food scene was held at the International Convention and Exhibition Center in Lyon, which was nearby. Even though it was very close, Hao Sen still opened the door. He got a car and drove it directly in to see Gu Zheng off.

There are a lot of people in the Convention and Exhibition Center. Many people have already arrived. There are dozens of people on the highest platform. Most are in their thirties, with a few in their forties and twenties. A few are still obvious. Middle East ministry.

"Mr. Gu, please wait a moment, Sir Brown will come to entertain you in person later!"

Hao Sen led Gu Zheng to the guest seat, asked Gu Zheng to sit down first, and said politely that Gu Zheng was a distinguished guest invited by Sir Brown with great difficulty, so he would not neglect his attitude.

In fact, Sir Brown himself did not expect that Gu Zheng would agree to come. Their event had already deteriorated and turned into a game between nobles. Many truly famous chefs were unwilling to come.

When he originally sent the invitation to Gu Zheng, he also thought that Gu Zheng would give it a try because he was young. Chefs of Gu Zheng's level would basically not accept the invitation unless they had a particularly good relationship or the other party was short of money.

If you can reach the top level of a country, no matter what industry you are in, you will basically not be short of money.

Because of this, Sir Brown attaches great importance to Gu Zheng's arrival. If Gu Zheng had not come by private plane, he would have sent someone to pick him up and entertain him the whole time. However, Gu Zheng would not let him pick him up, and he also sent someone to wait in Lyon. , and also let the people sent to follow the service 24 hours a day.

"Hello, Mr. Gu, nice to meet you!"

After a while, a middle-aged man in his thirties walked over with Hao Sen. The man even stretched out his arms, eager to hug Gu Zheng.

"Thank you, are you Sir Brown?"

Gu Zheng skillfully blocked it. This man was young, but he had a beard on his face, which was not his type.

"That's right, you can just call me Brown from now on!"

Sir Brown was stunned for a moment, but he still laughed, shook hands with Gu Zheng, and then sat here and chatted with Gu Zheng for a while before leaving.

He has already told Hao Sen that no matter what Gu Zheng's request is, he must satisfy it, unless it is something that Sir Brown can't do. This attitude is indeed good, but Gu Zheng really doesn't need him to do anything.

There is no shortage of money in Guzheng. Although he is not a top rich man, it is enough for his own use.

Gu Zheng is not picky about food and accommodation. Besides, no one can beat him in terms of food. Accommodation has been arranged. As for having fun, Gu Zheng has never been interested. Sir Brown just said directly that he could send him some top beauties. Enjoyment was directly rejected by Gu Zheng.

Giving him a woman is not something he likes.

The opening ceremony began soon. The mayor of Lyon and a deputy prime minister of France participated in the opening ceremony. From this point of view, the government still attaches great importance to this event. Although the Lyon Food Festival is still a local event, its influence has spread all over the world. , they don’t care what the nature of the food festival is, as long as it can bring benefits to the city.

Every food festival will drive a lot of tourism industry, allowing the city to increase some revenue and even some investment.

After all, most of those nobles were wealthy owners. Especially this time, several princes from the Middle East came, which made the government pay more attention to it. That's why the deputy prime minister came to preside over the opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony was very elaborate and well done. A large number of exquisite delicacies were also placed at the opening ceremony for the guests and spectators who came to attend the opening ceremony.

I also tried these foods in Guzheng, and they tasted okay. Although the ingredients were average, they were made with great care, and they are considered good delicacies in China.

After the opening ceremony, all kinds of food began to be served. Many tourists who came here began to taste the food here, drinking red wine and eating delicious food, which was very comfortable.

The opening ceremony of the food festival was held at the convention and exhibition center, but the venue was not just here. There were tens of thousands of food stalls all around the outside, which looked very spectacular. These food stalls were all French local specialties. Although they were simple, they tasted really good, which made many tourists very happy and enjoyable.

For ordinary tourists, this is the food festival they participated in, a very good food festival.

From this point of view alone, the Lyon Food Festival is still good. If there were no nobles participating, perhaps this would be the purest food event.

However, with the participation of nobles, the food festival has a greater influence on the upper class, which can be regarded as both advantages and disadvantages.

There was nothing to do with Gu Zheng on the first day of the event. Under the leadership of Hao Sen, he kept wandering outside and ate a lot of French specialties. Although he could find many problems with each one, these were all representatives of foreign snacks after all, and they also had their merits.

It was a pity that I didn't meet Shu Yu. There were so many people participating in the food festival, a full 100,000 people. It was not easy for Gu Zheng to find someone he knew among so many people, not to mention that he didn't deliberately look for him.

The Lyon Food Festival lasted for a total of ten days. The first three days were very leisurely, no different from the traditional food festival. The key was the next seven days.

There were 23 real nobles and 15 disciples of wealthy people participating in this food festival. These 38 people were the real backbone of the food festival, because the real top chefs were invited by them, and the stalls outside were just street stalls.

It's not that there are no delicacies in the street stalls. Compared with the real professional masters, they are indeed far behind.

Thirty-eight people invited 56 chefs, all of whom were chefs above the master level. It was a shame for them to invite low-status chefs with their status.

Fifty-six people came from all over the world and were well-known in their respective countries. Among them were the British Royal Chef, the most famous and most powerful chef in Florida, the No. 1 chef in Argentina, the top ten chefs in Japan, and Gu Zheng, the newly promoted No. 1 chef in China.

Although many chefs knew the nature of this event, some had to come because of relationships, money, and other reasons. There were also a few people like Gu Zheng who were not very clear about the nature of the event and were deceived. In the end, there were more than fifty-six chefs who were masters.

Fifty-six people sounded like a lot, but it was not in line with the identity of the Lyon Food Festival. There would not be so few master chefs at any food festival held in any big city.

For example, the Shanghai Food Festival never had less than one hundred master chefs, and sometimes there were more than two hundred master chefs. Some international food festivals, such as the Canadian International Food Festival and the New York International Food Festival, had thousands of master chefs participating.

Fifty-six, although a little less, is much better than none.

The real home and battlefield of this food festival are all on these fifty-six people.

Thirty-eight people, fifty-six chefs came. Some invited one, some invited two, some invited three, and some did not invite any, just to join in the fun and see how everyone played.

Gu Zheng did not ask what to do next. Anyway, it was time to eat and play. In addition, he contacted the country and asked Ouyang Hai to pay attention to whether there were any immortal cultivators from India. He was very interested in the immortal cultivator who instilled immortal power into the Indians. There were not many such immortal cultivators who could lend their immortal power to others.

At least Shushan and Kunlun could not do it. If they could, they could use their immortal power to create a group of fifth-level strongmen.

Unfortunately, three days passed and there was no movement in Emei, which made Gu Zheng a little disappointed.

But it didn't matter. He had already done something to the five people. If the immortal cultivator did not show up, he would take the initiative to find him, but not now.

Now he has not reached the realm of immortal cultivators, and is not their opponent at all. Going there would only cause trouble for himself. It is better to improve his own strength and then pull Ouyang Hai to go.

Gu Zheng believed that as long as he reached the realm of a cultivator and was with Ouyang Hai, there would not be many people in the world who could keep them.

Within three days, Gu Zheng tasted a lot of snacks here and was inspired.

Any kind of cooking skill does not come out of thin air. Really good cooking skills have their own stories. Even these snacks, their birth, their development, their improvement, each of them has many stories. Gu Zheng ate and asked, and heard a lot of stories about French food.

These stories include love, comedy, and tragedy. Of course, they cannot all be true. It should be said that most of them are false, but the birth and development of some foods are indeed true.

There are actually many such things in China.

There are more delicacies in China. Many inconspicuous things have many stories, such as tofu. Who would have thought that tofu was invented by a prince, and the reason why this prince invented tofu was because he himself was a foodie. Because there were few delicacies in his time, he studied it himself and invented tofu.

Some people also say that tofu was invented accidentally by him while making alchemy, but no matter what, tofu is inseparable from this prince, who is the grandson of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, and the King of Huainan, Liu An.

Gu Zheng liked to listen to these stories when he was young, and now he heard a lot of such stories at the food festival, which made him very satisfied.

"Mr. Gu, I'm going to trouble you today!"

Early in the morning of the fourth day, Hao Sen was waiting at the door of Gu Zheng, and he went forward to salute as soon as Gu Zheng came out.

"No trouble, tell me, what should I do?"

Gu Zheng was invited to come, and he must show his skills. As long as the other party's request is not too excessive, he will agree.

But this is only this time, he will not participate in such activities in the future. If there are similar activities, he must find out clearly first, don't come blindly like this time.

"You don't need to do anything, Sir Brown has a high prestige, he doesn't need to find others, but if someone comes forward to provoke, you just have to fight back!"

Hao Sen lowered his head and said with a smile.

"Fight back, how to fight back?" Gu Zheng asked again.

"It's very simple. You just need to make food that tastes better than theirs to fight back!"

"So simple?"

"Yes, that's it!"

"That's fine. Let's go!"

Gu Zheng didn't ask any more questions. He wasn't interested in asking about the specifics. Anyway, he wouldn't cook too many dishes, and it was absolutely impossible for him to be forced to cook.

No one here or in China could force Gu Zheng to cook anything. Not to mention the nobles, even the president of the United States couldn't do it. He didn't have the qualifications. Even if he forced him, it wouldn't work. No one could really force Gu Zheng.

The food festival continued. There were still many delicious snacks outside, which continued to attract many tourists. These tourists included French, many Europeans, and people from all over the world.

A main venue of the convention and exhibition center. When Gu Zheng arrived, there were already quite a few people here. The fifty-six chefs invited this time were also here. Most of the chefs stood with the people who invited them, talking and laughing, and looked very harmonious.

There were no cooking utensils here. Gu Zheng just glanced at it and walked towards Sir Brown.

"Mr. Gu, thank you!"

Sir Brown did not hug this time, but shook hands instead. He invited Gu Zheng, a chef, and there was no one else beside him except Gu Zheng. Hao Sen just sent Gu Zheng here and did not come in.

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