Chapter 852: Teach these foreigners a lesson
After arriving in Bolin, Li Yi and his team repaired a bit before taking the bus and arriving in Stuttgart, the host city of this Olympiad.
It took two full days for Li Yi and his party to finally reach their destination.
But despite the exhaustion of traveling and traveling, they went to the competition site as soon as they put down their luggage after arriving, intending to check out the spots in advance.
The venue for this competition is the local exhibition center in Stuttgart, a large building covering an area of 100,000 square meters.
When Li Yi and his party arrived, there were already teams from several countries visiting the venue.
There is only one day left before the opening ceremony of the competition, but construction is still going on in the venue.
However, the site construction team has already set up and is installing on-site electronic equipment.
Looking at the construction team that was slow and leisurely installing equipment, Xie Yongcan in the team couldn't help but sigh: "The opening ceremony is tomorrow, and the venue has not been finished yet, so I'm not afraid of delaying things."
He is the chef of Neijiang’s office in Beijing and is also the contestant in charge of seasoning the cold dishes on this team.
In the second round of assessment, his seasoning score was the best and was recognized by Li Yi.
Hearing his emotion, Wu Honggui joked: "If we had used our construction team and paid enough money, it would have been done long ago."
He is a chef from the Chaozhou Liaison Office in Beijing and is good at making soup, so he was also selected for the representative team.
Li Yi glanced at the construction team, shook his head and said: "As long as the stove can be used, everything else doesn't matter."
The multi-functional hall is mainly responsible for the opening ceremony. The purpose of Li Yi's trip is to check the equipment of the competition venue and prepare for subsequent competitions.
In this competition, a total of 32 national teams, 19 youth teams, and 52 regional teams participated.
In order to provide operating space for these teams, the organizer transformed two adjacent exhibition halls into large kitchens, in which each team was provided with an operating area.
However, when they found the Chinese team's operating area, the chefs behind Li Yi immediately started complaining, and some even hurled foul language.
Although the Huaxia team is in the first row, it is the outermost position. It is far away from the food area, but very close to the public pool.
“Isn’t this location too small?”
The chefs present are all professionals, and they can identify a lot of problems at a glance.
“Isn’t this too far from the food section? You have to go far just to get things.”
“This place is close to the passage. If you serve food, you will definitely be crowded with people from other teams, which will make your life difficult.”
“That public pool is so close. If dirty water is spilled over, wouldn’t it contaminate all the vegetables?”
“The lighting is not good, so you are not allowed to use your hands when cutting meat?”
Not only was the chef behind him complaining, but Li Yi was also a little unhappy when he saw the location of this operating area.
So, he called a translator, contacted the organizer’s docking staff, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the operating area.
The organizer’s contact person was at the venue. After learning about the situation, he rushed to the scene.
They brought information indicating that the positions are sorted according to the first letter of the country name.
The first letter of Huaxia is C, so it is ranked first among all countries with the first letter C, and it happens to be at this position.
Organizers said that if the Chinese side has any objections to the position, they can discuss changing the position with other national teams.
After learning the organizer’s reply, the chefs present looked at each other and had no idea.
It is easy to find another country to switch to, but who is willing to change places?
The position they don’t like must be disliked by others, right?
If the organizer is forced to change, it may leave a source of bullying and affect the country's image.
However, Li Yi didn't intend to let it go.
With hundreds of years of experience, he could naturally tell that the organizers were shirking their responsibilities and trying to transfer the conflict to the participating teams. Therefore, Li Yi immediately asked the translator to tell them that this was a problem of unreasonable design of the operating area, which had health and safety risks and must be rectified.
If the organizer does not make corrections, he will disclose it to the media and report it to the government.
Seeing that Li Yi was serious, the organizers did not dare to shirk the situation anymore and immediately said they would find a way to solve the problem.
After some communication, the organizers hired a construction team to move the public pool five meters outward, widen the width of the channel, and add lighting equipment.
In this way, although the location is still the original location, most of the problems have been solved in disguise.
The only remaining trouble is that it is far from the food area.
But this is not the Huaxia team’s problem alone. All locations on the west side are relatively far from the food area.
If the food area is placed in the center of all operating areas, there will be no such problem.
But now it’s too late to change the location, so I can only overcome it artificially and make a few more trips.
After watching the construction team correct the problematic areas, Li Yi took people to the hotel where he was resting, brought all the kitchen utensils, washed them with water from the operating area, and then tested the fire.
Several chefs used eggs and tomatoes bought from the supermarket to fry several portions of scrambled eggs with tomatoes on the stove. Li Yi invited the workers of the construction team to taste them.
After all, after the rectification was proposed, they were the ones doing the busy work, which can be regarded as causing them some trouble.
The construction team workers were polite, then used the disposable chopsticks they brought with them to awkwardly pick up the tomatoes and scrambled eggs, and took a few bites.
When the eggs entered their mouths, their eyes all lit up. Some even took out the leftover bread from lunch, dipped it in the vegetable soup, and nodded while eating.
In the end, they ate all the vegetables, and even the soup on the plates was wiped clean with bread. It looked like they didn't need to wash it.
After eating, they shook hands with the chefs, smiled and said something.
The translator explained that they were praising the eggs as being particularly delicious and the best scrambled eggs they had ever tasted.
They also said that the Chinese team will definitely get good results in this competition.
After the compliments, the chefs present were in a good mood, and most of the fatigue along the way was dissipated.
On the way back to the hotel, the chefs were still joking: "Deguo people are so pitiful, they have never even eaten tomatoes and scrambled eggs."
“The national dish of De is mediocre. It’s either elbow, sausage, or sauerkraut. Any Northeastern cook can do it right in De.”
Seeing that they were getting carried away, Li Yi reminded: "Each region has its own eating habits. We must respect foreign cultures and not be too arrogant."
Hearing this, the chefs nodded in agreement.
Bu Haixian of the youth team was a joker and asked: "What do you think of the Chinese Eagle dish?"
…”
Li Yi glanced at him helplessly. Just when he was about to speak, the translator said quietly: "There are always exceptions to everything."
Her undergraduate degree was in Eagle Country, everyone knows it.
Hearing her resentful tone, everyone couldn't help but laugh.
For a time, the atmosphere in the carriage was very joyful.
After joking for a while, Li Yi opened his mouth to cheer everyone up: "We haven't participated in this competition for almost twenty years, but since we are here this time, we can't come in vain."
"necessary!"
The chefs laughed and echoed: “I’m just here for the gold medal!”
Seeing everyone's confidence, Li Yi also smiled: "Then I won't say anything superfluous. How many gold medals can you win with your abilities? How many gold medals can you win?
This time, let’s teach these foreigners a lesson! Let them know what fine chaff is! "
(End of this chapter)