Chapter 164: Chapter 164: Trouble Comes Knocking_1
Yu Keqing’s little expression made Qin Feng laugh.
"It’s my own money; it’s not your family’s. I can spend as much as I like and invite whoever I want to dinner. What’s it to you?"
While bantering with this woman, Qin Feng cut a piece of foie gras and put it into his mouth.
As he chewed, he sensed something was off.
The foie gras was problematic!
After tasting a few more dishes, Qin Feng was certain.
All the ingredients at Greenland Restaurant were problematic.
This place claimed to be the most upscale Western restaurant in Zhonghai, using only imported top-grade ingredients.
But after tasting, Qin Feng realized it wasn’t the case at all.
Whether it was top-grade was beside the point.
The ingredients didn’t even meet the most basic standard of freshness.
Whether it was the foie gras or the salmon, there was an odd taste to them.
This was a high-end Western restaurant with a per capita cost in the thousands, yet the ingredients were on par with those of a cheap buffet?
For such a business to be doing well would be strange.
Even though people who dine at high-end Western restaurants aren’t short of money, they are not idiots!
Could the customers not taste the problem with even the most basic ingredients?
Qin Feng called Liu Jiameng over.
"Mr. Qin, may I help you with something?"
Qin Feng couldn’t be bothered to explain and just pointed at the dishes on the table, "Try these."
Liu Jiameng was a bit confused and asked with a puzzled face, "Mr. Qin, is there something wrong with these dishes?"
"Just try them first."
Liu Jiameng, not daring to go against Qin Feng’s wishes, hurriedly took a small taste.
"Do you taste anything off?" Qin Feng asked.
Liu Jiameng shook her head, replying, "I didn’t taste anything wrong. It seems normal to me."
"You call this normal? The foie gras even smells bad."
Qin Feng’s words were loud enough to startle the neighboring diners.
After hearing what Qin Feng said, the diners seemed to have a sudden realization.
"This foie gras does taste a bit off, different from other places. I thought it was just my taste buds playing tricks, but it actually smells bad!"
"I also noticed this foie gras isn’t fresh."
"It’s not just the foie gras, this lobster meat isn’t springy at all, it also doesn’t taste fresh."
"And this so-called top-grade caviar, it doesn’t have the quality of top-grade at all, it tastes too ordinary, like it’s just cheap stuff."
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The diners began to buzz with conversation, and the entire hall suddenly became chaotic.
Liu Jiameng was dumbfounded.
After collecting herself for a good while, she calmed down.
With a dark expression, she looked at Qin Feng and warned, "Mr. Qin, are you doing this because you’re not happy about spending nearly eighteen million at our restaurant, so you’re deliberately picking faults? Greenland Restaurant is not a place for you to make trouble. Be careful, or you might bite off more than you can chew!"
Qin Feng was taken aback by her comment.
"The restaurant’s ingredients are not fresh, and I just pointed it out. How does that become making trouble? Just because it’s Greenland Restaurant, can you sell spoiled and deteriorated food at high prices? Is this your so-called hospitality?"
"Mr. Qin, you can’t just say whatever you like. Defaming Greenland Restaurant like this and ruining our reputation, be careful or you might bring disaster upon yourself, biting off more than you can chew!"
"What do you mean by ’bringing disaster upon myself’?"
"Do you know who invested in Greenland Restaurant?"
Liu Jiameng was ready to pull out the big guns to intimidate Qin Feng.
Qin Feng certainly knew who the investors of the restaurant were, but he still asked knowingly, "Who invested in it?"
"Haiyun Group, invested by the Xue Family. Mr. Qin, if you cause trouble here, you’re looking for trouble with the Xue Family of the Capital."
"So just because they’re the Xue Family of the Capital, they can bully customers and sell spoiled food?"
"This food is not spoiled! Mr. Qin, you probably have never been to an upscale Western restaurant and are used to eating at food stalls, so you’re not accustomed to this taste. Greenland Restaurant’s head chef is from France, a top-notch chef with three Michelin stars. Every dish in the restaurant is unique, with a taste unlike any other.
This is our restaurant’s style! I dare to guarantee it with my integrity, with the reputation of Greenland Restaurant. Every dish we serve is made with the world’s top fresh ingredients, absolutely no sign of spoilage."
Liu Jiameng adamantly refused to admit it and still stubbornly defended her point.
Qin Feng was too lazy to continue arguing with her. Today, he had to resolve this matter.
The issues with Greenland Restaurant were serious and needed to be thoroughly addressed.
If things continued this way, the restaurant’s business would inevitably decline.
In the end, it would only be able to close its doors for good!
With such high prices at the restaurant, they had to provide dishes and services that justified those prices.
"Call your head chef over, I’d like to have a word with him."
"Just a moment!"
Liu Jiameng picked up the walkie-talkie and said a few words.
Soon, a man with blue eyes and a high nose bridge, wearing a tall chef’s hat, came out.
He was Rickaz, the head chef at Greenland Restaurant, and a Frenchman.
It was Greenland Restaurant that had paid a high price to lure him from a famous Parisian three-star Michelin restaurant.
All of the restaurant’s ingredients were personally selected by Rickaz; he was in charge of them.
Whichever supplier he said to use, that was the only supplier whose ingredients could be used.
Having worked at Greenland Restaurant for a few years, Rickaz had become quite familiar with Dragon Country and spoke fairly good Chinese.
Upon seeing Qin Feng, he courteously greeted him first.
"Mr. Qin, hello!"
"Are you the head chef here?"
"Yes, I am Head Chef Rickaz."
"You’re in charge of the restaurant’s ingredients?"
"Yes, it’s all my responsibility. All of Greenland Restaurant’s ingredients have been carefully selected by me, top-quality ingredients from around the world."
Qin Feng pointed to the dish and said, "Then try this for me."
He wanted to see if this Rickaz was normal or not.
Or if he was hiding something.
Rickaz cut a small piece of foie gras, tasted it, and then showed a face full of satisfaction, exclaiming, "Delicious! This is the most delicious foie gras in the world! Even in France, one cannot find foie gras as tasty as this! Thanks to Greenland Restaurant for offering such delicious foie gras to the foodies of Dragon Country."
This sudden self-praise left Qin Feng completely baffled.
Do all foreigners boast like this?
Or are they just shameless enough?
"This, delicious? Can’t you taste that this foie gras is slightly rotten, completely not fresh?"
"NO! NO! NO!"
Rickaz denied it by saying "NO" three times in a row, and then explained.
"Mr. Qin, you’re mistaken, this foie gras is not unfresh, but rather a unique flavor of Greenland Restaurant. Every dish here is different from other restaurants. Customers who come to Greenland Restaurant for the first time might not be used to it. However, if you come here a few more times, you’ll definitely fall in love with the unique flavors of Greenland Restaurant."
