Huang Shengli is not bad, but after all, Huang Ji is just a restaurant focusing on meat cooking, and they can’t find anyone who truly understands pastry.
For exchanges between pastry chefs, they still have to rely on their Zhiwei Restaurant. Their Zhiwei Restaurant is undoubtedly the largest faction in Bai’an Road, the Whampoa Military Academy of the pastry world, a regular army filled with renowned chefs, and with visible and guaranteed teaching strength.
By the end of the conversation, Boss Su even sent out the glorious resumes of all the master chefs at Zhiwei Restaurant, just short of directly advertising to Qin Huai. He even thought of the slogan: For exchanges and learning, Zhiwei Restaurant is your best choice.
Qin Huai’s feedback on this was: ...
Qin Huai wasn’t particularly concerned about the master chefs’ resumes and slogans sent by Boss Su. In fact, even without Boss Su’s sendout, in the past few days at Huang Ji, Tan Wei’an would casually promote them. As a direct affiliate of Zhiwei Restaurant, Tan Wei’an was well-versed in the skills of the master chefs at Zhiwei Restaurant. He knew what each chef specialized in and what their signature snacks were, often recommending them. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel⸺fire.net
What shocked Qin Huai was the deep-seated grudge between Boss Su and Zheng Da. Even when promoting their own restaurant, they didn’t forget to disparage Zheng Da a bit.
According to Tan Wei’an’s description of Master Zhou, Qin Huai felt that the above statements were not said by Master Zhou.
Master Zhou would definitely think this way, but he certainly wouldn’t say it.
Considering Boss Su’s insulting style, which Qin Huai had come to appreciate in recent days, when combined with his cursing style, Qin Huai felt that the above words were what Boss Su wanted to say to curse Zheng Da.
In the end, Qin Huai didn’t settle on a specific exchange time with Boss Su, but Qin Huai was more inclined to the period from July to September.
During this time, Qin Luo happens to be on his summer break work, and the tutoring teachers recommended by Gong Liang are all in Gusu. Zhiwei Restaurant is in Hangzhou, which is relatively close to Gusu, so by then Qin Huai can take Qin Luo along, making it more convenient for Qin Luo to attend tutoring classes.
After all, if the teacher were to come from Gusu to Shan City, considering the distance, some teachers might be reluctant.
Moreover, by September, the crabs will be on the market, when the crab roe is the most delectable, and the original Double Crab Bun and Crab Dumplings can be put on the agenda. Qin Huai just happens to seamlessly go to Huang Ji in September for the exchange, giving the patrons of Huang Ji a big surprise.
Just thinking about it makes Qin Huai feel he truly is too considerate.
Oh, he really is a considerate good brother.
Once things were decided, Boss Su promptly stated that he would assign staff the next day, arrange the exchange personnel to depart the day after tomorrow, and the exchange students would be on duty the day after that.
That’s just how efficient it is.
In the evening, Qin Huai briefly discussed the issue in the employee group, informing everyone that a batch of exchange students from Zhiwei Restaurant would be arriving the day after tomorrow, and told everyone to prepare to welcome the new colleagues.
As the boss, Qin Huai rarely spoke in the employee group, which he usually muted for years. After sending the message, Qin Huai didn’t bother with the group, played with his phone for a bit, and chatted with Tan Wei’an, asking if Guli would come during the exchange.
Qin Huai quite liked Guli’s character, who didn’t talk much and just focused on working hard. With a lack of talent made up by hard work, Guli was a king of diligence among the diligent kings at Zhiwei Restaurant, and no boss would dislike such a diligent king.
Tan Wei’an stated that if Qin Huai asked for him by name, then Guli would certainly come. After all, Guli’s position at Zhiwei Restaurant was quite awkward. His master had passed away, and although he was indeed a direct disciple, the other master chefs would only occasionally give Guli a few pointers out of respect for the late Master Tan, but that’s about it.
After all, since he wasn’t their own disciple, teaching him like a direct disciple didn’t seem proper. Not to mention, many master chefs were unwilling to teach since Guli’s talent wasn’t quite there.
While chatting with Tan Wei’an, Qin Huai understood why Cao Guixiang said Qin Huai was better suited for exchanges without a master. A famous teacher’s disciple would have the halo of the famous teacher and could also be constrained by them. Casually directing others’ direct disciples sometimes could lead to unnecessary troubles, so to avoid these troubles, many people simply chose not to guide.
After gossiping with Tan Wei’an for a while, Qin Huai, thinking he had to get up early to make crab roe noodles the next day, put down his phone and fell deeply asleep, continuing to research sea cucumbers in his dreams.
What Qin Huai didn’t know was that while he slept, someone couldn’t fall asleep.
That person was Pei Xing.
When Pei Xing saw the message sent by Qin Huai, he felt as if the sky was falling.
Due to his basic upbringing as an apprentice at Zhiwei Restaurant, Pei Xing was deeply aware that apprentices shouldn’t pry into the personal lives of master chefs, especially when it involves culinary exchange techniques. Therefore, whenever Qin Huai made a video call and attended an online class, Pei Xing and Li Hua would stay far away.
Of course, even staying far away, they would occasionally still hear some things.
Pei Xing swore he wasn’t eavesdropping on purpose.
Okay, maybe a little on purpose.
But his eavesdropping skills weren’t great, and he couldn’t read lips, so the amount of information he got was very limited, always just catching a few keywords.
This afternoon, Pei Xing felt like Qin Huai was saying something about Zhiwei Restaurant, but Pei Xing paid no mind.
Working as a pastry chef, it’s truly hard not to get associated with Zhiwei Restaurant. Whether another new product’s been released, a genius apprentice at Zhiwei got noticed by a master chef, or a master chef there made further progress, Zhiwei Restaurant is the eternal gossip center of the pastry chef circle. Not to mention Pei Xing, being unable to keep up at Zhiwei, voluntarily left to find a job, still often cares about the alma mater, eating up the gossip from his alma mater.