Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"SHINO'S·Tokyo...I found it, here it is! This is the branch of SHINO'S in Tokyo, right? Senpai Shinomiya's branch looks bigger than Chun Guoting..." Liu Maoxing sighed.

SHINO'S·Tokyo's exterior decoration has been completed, but it is still not open yet.

Liu Maoxing directly stepped forward and knocked on the door.

A young woman with black hair and black pupils, her hair tied up and wearing clothes suitable for work opened the door, and said politely: "Sorry, our store will start trial opening tomorrow, and it will start normal business next Monday. Reservations only."

"No, I'm a student of Yuanyue Academy. The 'field study' assigned to me by the academy this week is here, right? Senior Shinomiya's SHINO'S Tokyo... Besides, you are also Chinese, right?"

Liu Maoxing used Chinese in the last sentence, and the other party's Japanese was a little strange, and he had black hair and black eyes, so Liu Maoxing would naturally have some guesses.

"Huh? You are Liu Maoxing, right? My name is Gao Wei, a Chinese in France, come in quickly! We are short of manpower!" Gao Weiyi had the expression that he finally had labor force again.

It seems that Gao Wei should be in France usually, and his Chinese is a little rusty, but Liu Maoxing did guess right.

"En? Liu Maoxing, already here? Come on, don't be dazed! Put on your clothes quickly, the last carpentry and cleaning must be done today, otherwise tomorrow's business will be affected!"

After Shinomiya Kojiro saw Liu Maoxing, he didn't mean to be polite at all.

"It's such a differential treatment! Before at the 'Chunguo Pavilion', you only needed to stick out your tongue..." Liu Maoxing complained, but he had already put on the work apron, hat, and gloves handed over by Si Gong.

At this moment, a young woman with gray-blue hair like Mizuhara Fuyumi, but with a baby face, who seemed to be the opposite of Suwon's character, quietly approached Liu Maoxing and whispered while pretending to mop the floor Said: "Are you the junior who offended Chef Sigong?"

"Eh? Offended? No way..." Liu Maoxing looked like he didn't know what you were talking about.

At the same time, I also felt strange, Sigong's character, isn't the kind of person who would go around to promote with his subordinates after losing, right?

"That's weird. When Chef Shinomiya applied to the academy to transfer you, the aura on his body reminded me of Alfred..." The baby face seemed to be very talkative, but his Japanese was really bad.

Liu Maoxing originally wanted to remind her that speaking French is fine, but after hearing what she said later, he couldn't help but ask first: "Who is Alfred?"

"I used to be the deputy chef of SHINO'S."

"Before? What about now?"

"I was kicked out of the restaurant before Chef Shinomiya won the Prousp Medal. At that time, I was just a cook... Let me introduce myself! I am Lucy Hugo, the meat chef of SHINO'S main store Cook." Liu Shi said.

"..."

What a stingy guy, tsk tsk.

However, from Liu Shi's self-introduction, it can be seen that the scale of SHINO'S is indeed larger than "Chun Guo Ting".

Liu Maoxing could tell from the layout of the store that the "Chunguo Pavilion" only had ten tables, and it could accommodate up to six tables of guests at a time. The other four tables were for the early guests to rest and have a cup of coffee.

And this branch of Kojiro Shinomiya has 20 tables... SHINO'S's French cuisine is also a course-based set menu, which is more refined than Chun Guoting, and I don't know if they are busy.

At the same time, in the kitchen, besides the orchard fruit, there is only Die Yequan, a chef, and two chefs in the "Chunguo Pavilion", so there is no such thing as a chief chef.

And Liu Maoxing only found out after asking Liu Shi that in the SHINO'S main store, Shinomiya is the head chef in the kitchen. Besides him, there are also assistant chefs, and two head chefs for meat and fish dishes, and they are equipped one-on-one. Kitchen workers.

Of course, it doesn't mean that only "meat chefs" can cook meat, and "fish chefs" can cook fish, it's just that they are better at it...

"By the way, Chef Sigong, the menu for the trial operation hasn't been finalized yet, right? Can't we leave these to professionals?" Gao Weiyi complained while mopping the floor.

She is also an old employee who came from the main store to support the new branch. She is temporarily in charge of the task of the foreman. In terms of front office service, besides her, there are three waiters recruited locally, but they are not in the store now...

Sigong could only "skip" the old employees to reduce costs, and he was ashamed to use the newly recruited waiters to do this.

This time Gao Wei spoke fluent French, and it must have been a long time since I saw her travel in France.

"Considering our current budget, we can only do it ourselves... Ahem, the tables, chairs, and tableware I bought before seem to be a bit over budget." Sigong said helplessly.

"Huh? What about those sponsors who are following you?" Gao Wei asked suspiciously.

"They are dissatisfied with me opening a branch at this time, and they all want me to go back soon, how can they support me." Si Gong said angrily.

"With the current reputation of Chef Sigong, it's easy to find sponsors here, right?" Lucy asked puzzled.

"No, this will tarnish my image as a 'Prussian Medal Winner who successfully traveled to France'..." Sigong said with some embarrassment.

Indeed, in the past few days, various news reports have been reported about Kojiro Shinomiya, the "Magician of Vegetable Cuisine" who has been famous in Paris, returning to Tokyo to open a branch... In this world, the degree to which well-known cooks are paid attention to, No less than Liu Maoxing's super international movie star and football star before his time travel.

At this time, asking him to open his mouth to find sponsors locally will definitely give people a feeling of "whether he can't get along in France", so Shinomiya Kojiro can't open his mouth.

Of course, this kind of talk is to talk to these confidantes, otherwise he will not say it.

But at this moment, Kojiro Shinomiya noticed that Liu Maoxing was looking at him with a weird smile...

Huh? Did he understand? impossible! We clearly speak French... that's right! It must be this nasty kid, reminiscing about the despicable victory before... Shinomiya Kojiro speculated silently in his heart.

"The glue is back... huh? The intern I mentioned earlier has arrived?" A blond man with a Western face who looked about 30 years old brought it back from outside with a bag.

"This is 'Abel Blondin', the deputy head chef of the main store. After the branch is stabilized, he will also be the head chef of the branch." Liu Shi introduced to Liu Maoxing.

"I'm a first-year student at Yuanyue College, please take care of me for the next week!" Liu Maoxing said fluently in French.

Liu Maoxing took a closer look at Abel Blondin. Since he can be entrusted with important tasks by the fourth palace, he should at least have the ability of a two-star chef, right?

"Huh? Not bad French, but the taste is a bit... You haven't been to France, have you?" Abel said.

Hearing Abel's words, the other people who were surprised by the French that Liu Maoxing blurted out came back to their senses...except for the darkened Sigong!

"You're so smart! Boy, do you know how to learn a few polite words in French to impress yourself?" Liu Shi teased.

And it seems to be to test Liu Maoxing, still using French.

Liu Maoxing immediately understood and said: "Although the pronunciation may be a bit strange because of self-study, it is not just a greeting! If you are usually in the kitchen and are used to communicating in French, as long as there are no special uncommon words, I will No problem."

Hearing Liu Maoxing's French, several people were stunned, and then Abel frowned and said: "Are you sure? This is not a joke! Usually we are in the kitchen, and it is true that French is mostly used, but occasionally we also use Japanese, at least to communicate. No problem... If your progress in the kitchen is delayed because of your basic French..."

Sure enough, Liu Maoxing had been thinking before that in the kitchen of SHINO'S in Sigong, it is unreasonable for a group of French people to communicate in Japanese, even if they accommodate Sigong, who is the head chef and owner, there should be a limit.

If they had to communicate in Japanese because of the addition of Liu Maoxing, it would also affect efficiency, so he did make a surprise attack on French...

"Since I don't speak Chinese, I think my spoken French is not worse than my spoken Japanese except for my accent." Liu Maoxing said with a smile.

"Huh? You said you were self-taught... how long has it been since you learned French? Do you want to travel to France later?" Gao Wei asked.

"No, I don't intend to travel to France for the time being. I received a notice a week ago. This week, I will come to Senior Shinomiya's shop. I guess it would be more convenient for everyone to learn some French, so..."

This week's internship location was notified almost at the same time as last week. Those guys in the academy really had confidence in Liu Maoxing, and after the first week, they arranged for the next three weeks.

Erina was also very unruly, and directly told Liu Maoxing all the subsequent arrangements she saw.

When he was at Huayin's house before, Liu Maoxing often took advantage of his spare time to make a surprise attack on French.

"A week ago? Are you sure you can... Forget it, it's okay!" Abel said with twitching eyes.

Abel originally wanted to say that he felt that he could communicate in French in just a week, was he too blindly confident, but since he came in, Liu Maoxing has been saying that although he has a strange accent, his grammar is fine I don't know much French, so I can't say anything.

If you were a normal person, you would memorize some greetings and some common words in the kitchen at most in a week, right?

"However, the professional language used in the kitchen is different from ordinary communication!" Gao Wei reminded.

"Don't worry, I've checked it before!" Liu Maoxing said as he dug out a book called "Introduction to French Cooking" in pure French from his backpack...

At this moment, the voice of Sigong gnashing his teeth came over: "Hehe, I didn't realize it before, you are quite smart!"

If he had known that Liu Maoxing could understand, he would not have given Liu Maoxing this opportunity to laugh at him!

Thinking of Liu Maoxing's weird smile before, Sigong had the idea of ​​"killing people to silence her"...

But Liu Maoxing was still a little baffled, and didn't realize Sigong's thoughts...