Following Zhou Jinnan’s seemingly unreasonable but very reasonable line of thought, Huo Xuan opened up a new world: “So in fact, the reason you gave up selling privately brewed wine should not be because you are afraid of trouble? But the Gourmet Association taking a commission from the price of privately brewed wine? There will be no commission for fruit juice drinks.” Zhou Jinnan is stingy, and his nitpicking attitude when it comes to cooking is obvious to all. It is unreasonable for Zhou Jinnan to give up so easily just to spend more time and experience to match the most suitable wine with spiritual food – 

Unless there is force majeure.

Needless to say, this force majeure for Zhou Jinnan is the Gourmet Association. Letting the Gourmet Association, which does not have to pay anything, take the profit share of wine and water for nothing is obviously not Zhou Jinnan’s style.

 “They want to take away half of the profit without doing anything, are they robbers?” When Huo Xuan mentioned this, Zhou Jinnan’s mouth twitched, and the dissatisfaction in his words was about to overflow, “Even if I don’t sell alcohol, I won’t give them money for nothing!” Huo Xuan looked at Zhou Jinnan expressionless: “I am amazed at how stingy you are.” Huo Xuan didn’t even have the energy to explain to Zhou Jinnan why the Gourmet Association would take a commission on alcohol. As a giant organization spanning the Federation, the Empire and other small countries in other regions, the Gourmet Association is responsible for supervising the food market of the entire galaxy. Every star region has its branches. The huge manpower and material resources in between cannot be achieved without the support of money, and most of their financial sources come from the chef’s assessment registration fee and the commission on alcohol. This commission on alcohol is not only for private brewing, but also for any alcoholic products that enter the market, which is supervised by the Gourmet Association. Unlike medicine, food cannot be patented. As a giant organization in the interstellar, the Pharmacists Association can make a fortune from the patent fees of the pharmacists in its association, but the Gourmet Association cannot own food patents. Moreover, most of the chefs in the association open restaurants on their own. This income belongs entirely to the chefs themselves and the Gourmet Association cannot covet it. If it loses the income from the commission on alcohol, the Gourmet Association will probably close down.

“Thank you for the compliment.” Zhou Jinnan accepted Huo Xuan’s praise frankly.

“In fact, there is a way to exempt this commission,” Huo Xuan said. In order to taste the fine wine as soon as possible, he contributed his information, “As far as I know, as long as the chef’s level is raised to a certain level, he can enjoy certain benefits and conveniences, including exemption from the commission for privately brewed wine. These conveniences are notified by the Gourmet Association when the chef reaches the level, and the chef is not allowed to leak them.” So Zhou Shudi and the others didn’t know.

Zhou Jinnan:? ! “There is such a rule? What level of chef do you need to be to have such benefits?”

“Level eight is the master level.” Huo Xuan gave a number, “This level is difficult to reach.” Looking at the entire Federation, even including the Empire, there are only a handful of chefs who can reach the master level. Even the president of the Gourmet Association headquarters is only at level eight.

“I will take the chef level test tomorrow!” Zhou Jinnan decided decisively. Isn’t it just a chef level certificate? Was he afraid? Compared with the half-free wine profit, it’s nothing to bleed a little tomorrow!

 Aquamarine Gourmet Association Branch.

This is a very gorgeous and simple building. The whole building adopts the strong Baroque architectural style of ancient Earth, but there is an ancient Chinese plaque hanging above the gate, with a few official script characters on it: Gourmet Association – Aquamarine Branch.

Zhou Jinnan was accompanied by Qin Kai and Huo Xuan, as well as Tao Bo, who had nothing to do. As for the others, they were locked up in the kitchen by Zhou Jinnan to practice cooking.

Stepping into the gate of the branch, Zhou Jinnan looked around in the hall with curiosity, and was taken to the office in the center of the hall by the staff: “Hello, I’m here to sign up for the chef level assessment.”

The person in charge of the registration was a young and beautiful lady. She clicked on the blue screen in front of Zhou Jinnan: “Please enter your information and the level to be assessed.”

Zhou Jinnan submitted them one by one as he was told.

 The staff reviewed the information Zhou Jinnan submitted, looked up at Zhou Jinnan again, and asked uncertainly: “Are you sure the assessment information is correct? The assessment level is from one to eight?” She has worked in the Gourmet Association for so many years and has never heard of a chef who has passed eight levels in one year, even in the entire galaxy for so many years, it is estimated that there is not one.

Zhou Jinnan nodded: “I am sure. When can I start?”

“Wait a minute, I need to contact the examiner and the examination room for you.” The staff said. The eight-level master examiner is not so easy to contact. More than half an hour later, the staff notified Zhou Jinnan: “Okay, please follow the staff to the examination room. The registration fee and the examination fee are 2,800 star coins in total. The ingredients required for the assessment from level 1 to 8 are 40,000 star coins in total, a total of 42,800 star coins.”

Although Zhou Jinnan was informed in advance that there would be a fee for registration, he still looked unhappy when paying the fee. More than 40,000 star coins were gone!

 “Come on, Nannan, you will definitely pass!” Qin Kai saw that Zhou Jinnan looked unhappy and thought that Zhou Jinnan was nervous, so he cheered Zhou Jinnan up cheerfully.

“Chef Zhou, you will definitely pass it.” Tao Bo, who didn’t know Zhou Jinnan’s true face very well, also said.

Zhou Jinnan followed the staff into the first examination room. In the center of the examination room was a simple but well-equipped cooking table, on which the ingredients needed for the test dishes were already placed. At the same time, there were real-time surveillance cameras on all four sides of the cooking table. When he finished the test dish, the examiner would come out,

Regardless of the level of the assessment, the Gourmet Association will record it. If the assessor is willing, the Gourmet Association’s exclusive Star Network official homepage can also allow the assessment process to be broadcast live for Star Network netizens to watch. Knowing this, Zhou Jinnan simply clicked on the authorized live broadcast option.

If you want to do it, make it big news!

Thus, today, netizens who are used to browsing the various assessment live broadcasts on the Gourmet Association’s homepage were all stunned after seeing the title of the Gourmet Association’s latest assessment live broadcast.

The Gourmet Association’s assessment live broadcast is very simple and crude. It was directly named after the assessor’s name and assessment level, but if you want, you can hide your name.

Zhou Jinnan did not hide his name, but chose to blur his image as usual.

[Chef Zhou Jinnan’s assessment is level one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight? Did I count wrong? ]

[A great god appeared! ]

[This guy is awesome. This is the first time I have seen so many assessments at one time. ]

[Making history. ]

[Squatting history! I don’t know if he is really awesome or just pretending.  ]

[This image! It’s him again!! Why do I always see him in the food section recently!!!]

[Chef Zhou’s original name is Zhou Jinnan, what a nice name!]