Since we are going to compete, it will definitely not be in front of people. Zhou Jinnan and Qin Kai, together with the chefs at the same table, Wang Tianliang, curiously followed Deng Yingzhi into the back kitchen of Zhenxiu Pavilion. After the renovation, the place is more spacious and brighter than before. A group of people are working in an orderly manner with clear division of labor.

Deng Yingzhi looked at Zhou Jinnan with a show-off look: “Is this place nice?”

“It’s okay,” Zhou Jinnan nodded indifferently. The place is indeed nice, but it is too big and Jushanlou can’t use it. “Qin Kai, go and try.” He was very curious about what Qin Kai said.

The square dried tofu and chicken breasts used for the shredded dried tofu chicken were ready in the kitchen. Deng Yingzhi asked his apprentice to take out the ingredients, and Qin Kai only needed to cut them.

 Deng Yingzhi’s favorite opponent was Zhou Jinnan. Qin Kai didn’t look like a chef. Deng Yingzhi thought Qin Kai was just bragging, so he didn’t take it seriously. Even Zhou Jinnan didn’t take Qin Kai’s words seriously, and just thought Qin Kai was playing a joke.

Deng Yingzhi and Zhou Jinnan were like this, not to mention the others. When Qin Kai was cutting the dried tofu and chicken shreds for the shredded dried tofu chicken, everyone was still nonchalant.

When Qin Kai was cutting the shreds, Deng Yingzhi was doing the same thing beside him, and the cutting time was almost the same. The thin shreds cut by the two people were arranged into small clusters on the table, and they looked no different. Wang Tianliang and the others went to see Deng Yingzhi’s small pile first, while Zhou Jinnan casually picked up Qin Kai’s work. Suddenly, he looked at Qin Kai differently: “When did you learn it?”

“I see you teaching them in the kitchen every day, so I tried it myself. It seems that I’m naturally talented.” Qin Kai frowned and thought hard. He couldn’t figure out why, “But I can only cut vegetables, Nannan, do you think I can help you?”

Zhou Jinnan couldn’t help but think of Qin Kai’s identity and experience. His memory regressed to the age of six, but his physical instincts were still there. Qin Kai was able to fight and achieve great military exploits on the battlefield with only B-level qualifications, relying on huge combat experience, skilled techniques and a flexible mind. Knife skills certainly require the accumulation of experience to achieve a small success, but Qin Kai’s experience on the battlefield may also be interchangeable? After all, they also need to use cold weapons? Zhou Jinnan pondered for a long time and reluctantly came up with this explanation that was not really an explanation…

However, the fact that Qin Kai was a good knife worker still made Zhou Jinnan happy.

After watching Deng Yingzhi’s knife skills, the chefs began to observe Qin Kai’s. But no matter how they looked at it, it seemed that Qin Kai’s was much better than Chef Deng’s? Several people secretly exchanged opinions with their eyes, and when they found that others had the same idea, they all felt that it was a bit unreal. No one dared to speak first to draw conclusions. Who knew what Qin Kai’s status was in Jushanlou? Jushanlou was in the limelight and they didn’t want to offend them; Chef Deng was a senior chef who reached level six, and they were not willing to provoke him.

“What’s wrong? Can’t you tell who cuts the dried shreds better?” Deng Yingzhi waited for a long time but didn’t get a word from the chefs, so he couldn’t help but ask curiously.

“Uh…that…” The chefs hesitated and said, “Or, Chef Deng, you should see it yourself?”

The chefs’ words made Deng Yingzhi have a guess that he didn’t want to believe. His face sank, and he took two steps forward to take a look. Without careful observation, Deng Yingzhi had already made a judgment in his heart. His chef level was there, and his eyesight was naturally better than Wang Tianliang and others. The more so that he didn’t want to believe that a layman’s knife skills could actually be better than his! No, not better, but much better than his own, which was visible to the naked eye.

Like Wensi tofu, shredded dried tofu chicken is a classic knife-cutting dish that chefs are familiar with. No chef who practices knife skills has not made it, so they are very familiar with the judging criteria for it. The dried shreds must not only be neat and uniform, but also have extremely strict requirements for thickness. Too thick or too thin are unqualified.

If chefs with different tastes have different preferences and different judging criteria, knife skills are a standard that everyone agrees on. With two finished products in front of them, no one can pretend to be blind and say that Qin Kai’s cut dried shreds are not as good as Deng Yingzhi’s.

 When leaving Zhenxiu Pavilion, Zhou Jinnan and Qin Kai were almost kicked out by Deng Yingzhi, who was trying to hold back his composure and was polite on the surface.

“However, the opening of Zhenxiu Pavilion today made me think of what we lacked before we opened.” Zhou Jinnan thought to himself on the way back.