Gourmet: Midnight Vending-Chapter 346 - 323: Yu Hongtao’s Long-Awaited Revenge!

Chapter 346: Chapter 323: Yu Hongtao’s Long-Awaited Revenge!

All other questions are easy to discuss.

But there’s a question now, even an old hand like Qin Zhenhai, who has been in the chef circle for many years, couldn’t help asking.

"Little boss."

"Hmm." Chen Mo wiped his hands while tidying up the stove, "What instructions does the old gentleman have?"

Qin Zhenhai didn’t bother to interpret the undertones in Chen Mo’s words and pointed at the stir-fried rice, "Is this fried rice?"

"Yes, it is."

"Then why is there a picture of dumplings on the box outside holding the rice?"

Speaking of how this fried rice is made, Qin Zhenhai could see the craft, but why the fried rice is put in a box with dumplings painted on it, that really leaves one baffled.

Is this reasonable?

It’s reasonable for you to be young and create a world-class taste, but putting fried rice in a box painted with dumplings, I find it completely unreasonable!

Upon hearing this, others then realized.

Everyone was also very curious, why is this little boss doing this?

Even someone like Gao Hao imagined a whole epic story in his mind!

Chen Mo sighed leisurely.

Slightly raised his head, looking into the distance.

"Back in the day."

Indeed!

Gao Hao immediately tensed up, eager to hear more of the juicy iceberg behind the scene!

"When I first set up the stall, I sold egg dumplings and had a lot of these boxes specially made at one go. Later, I switched to other dishes quickly, but I still had these boxes. To avoid wasting, I just continued to use them."

Gao Hao: ???

Qin Zhenhai: ???

Those present were a bit confused and dizzy as things weren’t turning out as they imagined at all.

Qin Zhenhai awkwardly laughed twice, "Good, good, not wasting is good."

But any sharp-eyed person could see, Old Qin’s mouth twitched several times uncontrollably.

Yu Hongtao held his bowl, ready to leave, as this was the fried rice he bought with 188 yuan, and he must sit down comfortably, slowly and delicately taste it.

If it’s indeed delicious, his pocket money would be enough for another round.

If it wasn’t particularly stunning, he’d admit defeat! Then order two lion’s head meatballs to console his injured soul.

As soon as Yu Hongtao sat down, extending the spoon just as he was about to start, he heard the elderly man speaking to him.

"Comrade, I am a member of the Yangzhou City Culinary Association," Qin Zhenhai stated his identity and said, "I’m a bit interested in this fried rice too, how about this, I’ll pay double the price and you go buy another one, can you let me have this one?"

At Qin Zhenhai’s level, whether 200 yuan or 400 yuan makes no difference in his concept.

As long as he can achieve his goal, that’s all that matters.

Initially, he didn’t think much of Chen Mo’s fried rice, but after witnessing Chen Mo’s flamboyant skills and techniques, Qin Zhenhai indeed grew curious about how this fried rice would taste.

How it compared to the traditional Yangzhou Fried Rice.

Upon hearing this, Yu Hongtao was visibly stunned, not focused on the double paying but on Old Qin’s identity.

Frankly speaking, although Yu Hongtao is a gourmet fanatic, he doesn’t have much pocket money. But he’s not short of money... Otherwise, he wouldn’t plan at least two to three family trips every year.

In this country, his level is solidly middle-class.

"You said you’re from the Culinary Association? So you came here today because of that video online?"

Qin Zhenhai nodded, affirming it.

Yu Hongtao grinned, feeling enlightened.

Since the other is from the Culinary Association, it means they are looking down on Boss Xiao Chen, so they came, and now they’re curious about his fried rice, even willing to pay double for it?

If it were usual days, Yu Hongtao would have agreed.

But thinking about last night, where so many people argued with him online, the Culinary Association must have criticized him too!

Yu Hongtao thought, no way it would be so easy to agree with you?

"Well, it’s possible, but the problem is, I’ve waited for a long time, and I’m hungry."

Qin Zhenhai didn’t expect this brother to refuse so simply and was about to suggest triple the price?

Then Yu Hongtao said, "How about this, just give me the original price, I won’t ask for double from you."

"I’ll eat some of this, and share some with you, okay?"

Qin Zhenhai immediately put away his earlier thoughts, feeling he met a good person, hurriedly said, "Thank you very much."

He didn’t need to act; the local cultural and tourism leader beside him directly took out his phone and transferred 188 yuan to Yu Hongtao via scan.

Old Yu giggled.

He happily trotted to the food truck, "Little boss, another empty lunchbox, please."

"Here you go." Chen Mo thought this brother must have some mischievous intention.

Yu Hongtao ran back, scooped a full spoonful from his bowl, and Qin Zhenhai was quite satisfied with this share, as with another two spoons it would be almost half shared.

It seemed this brother was very...

"Here." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

No... Qin Zhenhai was dumbfounded looking at Yu Hongtao, "Just one spoon?"

"I didn’t say how much I would share, did I? Isn’t one spoon enough? You said you were just curious, didn’t you? Isn’t one spoon enough to satisfy your curiosity?"

Pfft!

Chen Mo almost couldn’t help but laugh in the food truck, quickly turned his head, and muttered, "Order another cup of solid juice."

Such an interesting big brother, please have another drink.

[Received! (p≧w≦q)]

Chen Mo:...

Why does it feel like the system is a bit excited?

Qin Zhenhai was a bit speechless, stopping the tourism leader from getting mad, "One spoon is a spoon, I’m not that hungry, a taste is enough."

But this loss, Qin Zhenhai remembered it well!

Yu Hongtao felt joyous inside, not because he earned 188, but because he felt he avenged an overnight grudge. It felt so satisfying for him when he remembers how people criticized him online.

He took that lunchbox.

Qin Zhenhai held the spoon, indeed a full spoon, took a whiff first.

His professional habit couldn’t help but lead him to a few instinctive comments.

"Three fresh flavors, quite interesting."

"The animal freshness of ham and sausage, the plant freshness of beans and green peas, and the seafood aroma of shrimp head oil. Not bad, smells layered distinctively, let’s see how the taste is though."

For a chef at Qin Zhenhai’s level, smelling layered flavors is already a high compliment.

After sniffing a few more times, only then did Qin Zhenhai finally put the full spoon of fried rice into his mouth.

The cultural and tourism officials closely observed the food authority. His attitude would largely decide the narrative of this online fermentation event.

Why bring Gao Hao today?

While the leader forcibly asked Gao Hao to submit an inspection report, this lad slipped a sentence.

"Whatever the taste, I’m speaking based on my conscience! But leader, don’t forget, our current urgent work is to generate traffic, isn’t this traffic arriving now?"

"Don’t see traffic as a flood or beast, as long as we guide it, maybe this thing can turn into a good event!"

Thus there’s today’s scene.

If Elder Qin gives a nod, acknowledging that this little boss’s dish is really fine, quite good, then the cultural and tourism side would naturally give it a push.

But if Elder Qin says it’s actually an insult to Huaiyang Cuisine...

Even if the cultural and tourism folks have the appetite to ride this wave, they definitely wouldn’t dare to.

So at this moment, including Gao Hao, Zhang Huixiang, the tourism leaders, everyone watching Qin Zhenhai’s expressions got a bit nervous.