Hot kitchen.
Seven or eight kitchen staff attended to Ouyang Lin as he sampled a dish of Twice Cooked Pork.
Twice Cooked Pork was a common dish and was not on the birthday banquet menu.
But Ouyang Lin had suddenly informed the kitchen that he wanted to try adding Twice Cooked Pork to the menu.
Naturally, it had to be tasted before being added.
Master Gu Tielin, a chef well versed in Sichuan Cuisine, made a dish of Twice Cooked Pork.
Twice Cooked Pork was one of his signature dishes, as well as a required dish for every Sichuan chef.
Ouyang Lin took a taste and shook his head.
"Not good enough. It's still far from it!"
That seemingly random remark stunned Gu Tielin.
It also shocked the other kitchen staff.
President Ouyang had actually said Chef Gu's Twice Cooked Pork was no good—he had even said it was far from good enough!
That couldn't be right, could it?
Chef Gu's abilities were obvious to all!
Gu Tielin came back to his senses and thought, What's with President Ouyang being so careless with his words today?
What was wrong with his Twice Cooked Pork?
And far from good enough compared to whom?
If not for Ouyang Lin's status, Gu Tielin would have snapped back at him.
After cooking for so many years, he had never received such an outrageous evaluation.
Gu Tielin was a chef from a renowned school. In his early years, he had studied under Sichuan Cuisine master Yang Huaian and inherited all of his teachings.
Although Gu Tielin had since begun studying fusion cuisine and new Chinese-Western dishes, his traditional fundamentals remained solid.
It was already quite restrained of him not to lose his temper after hearing Ouyang Lin say that.
"President Ouyang, what exactly is wrong