Chef at the University Canteen

Chapter 571 310: The Clown Turns Out to Be Me

The band members were briefly bewildered, but soon asked some classmates they usually got along with for more information.

We're just too curious, why has the Seventh Dining Hall become so popular?

After all, it's just a student dining hall, can it really be that extraordinary?

After digging a little deeper, they found out the food at the Seventh Dining Hall is really delicious? Senior Brother Jiang's culinary skills are actually a family heirloom? The reason Senior Brother Jiang stayed at Jiang University's dining hall was just so the underclassmen could have a tasty meal?

"You guys better believe it, Senior Brother Jiang first opened a 'Jiang Family Soup Dumplings' booth at the First Dining Hall, and once it opened, the queues were enormous!

It's said that a president from a big corporation in another province even came over and offered an annual salary of a million to poach Senior Brother Jiang to their dining hall to make the soup dumplings. But Senior Brother Jiang preferred to stay with our own people, he didn't even consider it!"

Seeing the disbelief on everyone's faces as they sat in a circle, the classmate waved hands, stood up, and said while walking out,

"With how advanced electronic information is now, you can check out 'Jiang University Seventh Dining Hall' and 'Jiangzhou University' official accounts on Douyin yourself. Just taking a look at the follower count, you'll roughly understand why the Seventh Dining Hall is so popular.

Senior Brother Jiang and the Seventh Dining Hall are not just famous at our Jiang University, he's also a definite internet celebrity on Douyin!"

After the classmate left, the band members looked at each other and quickly took out their phones, opened the Douyin app, and soon found the official accounts of 'Jiang University Seventh Dining Hall' and 'Jiangzhou University'. It was a shocker!

"Wow! There are actually hundreds of thousands of followers, even more than our school's followers! And this is just a student dining hall!"

"Tsk tsk, look at this, look at this! We thought the Seventh Dining Hall was just a dining hall, but it turns out they've already renovated the second floor into the Seventh Restaurant with raving reviews!"

"Absolutely! Seventh Restaurant only opens four or five private dining rooms each meal, requiring reservations a week in advance. They don't accommodate walk-ins. Grabbing a reservation for these dining rooms is like getting train tickets during Spring Festival, it's near impossible to get!"

"All the pictures and videos of the dishes look so mouth-watering!"

"..."

A group gathered together, seriously discussing the Seventh Dining Hall for once.

Since they had free time over the weekend, and everyone talked about Senior Brother Jiang's exceptional cooking skills, they decided to taste it themselves, and maybe give a performance for their classmates, just to join the fun.

Soon after, they agreed to the Seventh Dining Hall's invitation to perform, not caring much for money as long as they got a night snack.

By now, the beer and barbecue carnival event was halfway through, several bands took their turns performing, and soon they were drooling over the strong barbecue smell filling the dining hall.

It's true they've had tasty food before, but the barbecue aroma was irresistible, and surrounded by students enjoying their food with joy around them, how could they possibly resist?

Their mouths might resist, but their stomachs couldn't!

Besides, the band's performance was about done, right?

Look at that, all the students were focused only on the food, who would pay attention to a performance?

With that in mind, the band members were suddenly energized, quickly finishing their current song, exchanged a look, and with the silent understanding developed over years of companionship, knew exactly what each other was thinking.

Immediately, they tossed their instruments aside on stage, as if propelled by fire, they jumped off and made a dash towards the dining hall windows.

"Senior Brother Jiang, I'll have 10 lamb skewers, 10 beef skewers, and 2 each of garlic chives, mushrooms, and eggplants!"

"Senior Brother Jiang, I want the same, I want the same!"

"Fellow student, do you have snails and crayfish? Give me a portion of each!"

"..."

They were evidently famished, ordering large amounts of food right away, and once the barbecue, snails, and crayfish were ready, they eagerly carried trays filled to the brim to the empty seats in the dining area.

Of course, the essential summer refreshment, chilled beer, was not to be missed.

Once everyone sat down at the dining area, wasting no time, they immediately grabbed the irresistibly fragrant barbecues, completely focused on devouring them, not even wanting to waste a single breath.

It was unclear how much time passed, but after half the food on the trays were gone, someone finally couldn't resist, took a bottle of beer, bit open the cap, poured it down his throat, and let out a satisfied sigh, exclaiming:

"Seeing is believing indeed, Senior Brother Jiang's skills surpass the praise he receives, even these barbecues and crayfish are the most delicious things I've ever tasted!"

Another long-haired boy nodded with a bitter smile:

"Indeed! It's laughable how I thought those praising Senior Brother Jiang were just frogs in a well, who hadn't tasted real good food… only to realize now, I was the clown all along!"

Another person laughed and said:

"I heard earlier, Senior Brother Jiang prepared a banquet on the second floor of Seventh Restaurant, priced at a whopping 100,000! I was astounded then, if the dining rooms at Seventh Restaurant weren't so hard to reserve, I would've long wanted to taste Senior Brother Jiang's cooking to see how good it is!"

This statement immediately sparked everyone's amazement, as the topic shifted to this revelation:

"A banquet costing 100,000? Oh my, even among the renowned chefs of Great Huaxia, I doubt many can sell a banquet at such a high price?"

"If guests are willing to pay such an amount, the food must not be simple, it must be incredibly delicious… thinking about it, I envy those people who could eat a banquet so meticulously prepared by Senior Brother Jiang, just thinking about it makes my mouth water!"

"Hey, hey, hey! Let's stop this nonsense, just envying others is pointless. We can try getting a reservation to taste Senior Brother Jiang's cooking too!"

"Good point! Isn't tomorrow Monday the day for reservation? With our band of more than ten people all trying, I don't believe we can't get even one reservation!"

"..."

While eating skewers and drinking beer, they enthusiastically discussed their 'strategy' for reserving a dining room tomorrow. Unbeknownst to them, this once-proud group of aspiring musicians quietly became another batch of 'fans' of Jiang Yu and the Seventh Dining Hall.