A Bite of Douluo Continent

"Wait a minute." Qi Han's face showed surprise. "What are the last two dishes?"

“It’s Longjing Shrimp and Swallow Wontons…” Ping Xinyan said softly, “Seventh on the list is Dingyu Longzhen from Jiulongxiu, and ninth on the list is Baihua Xianniang from Linlangfang.”

Kowloon Cuisine and Lin Lang Fang?

Qi Han's face showed a thoughtful expression.

These two restaurants are the leading restaurants on Shrek Food Street. Both have a history of over a hundred years, so it's not surprising that they can offer some amazing dishes.

The restaurant called Nine Dragons Cuisine is a restaurant that specializes in using various dragon-type soul beasts as ingredients. Of course, these so-called dragons cannot be noble races such as true dragons, but are just some ordinary sub-dragons.

But that's still pretty impressive, considering that the dragon is also a powerful soul beast.

As for Linlangfang, it's more like a wine bar than a restaurant, specializing in wine and various juices. Although it also sells dishes, the taste is just average.

When Qi Han first arrived at Shrek Academy, he had a mission to sample local delicacies. Being new to the area, he was unfamiliar with the place and ate his fill before even reaching the two restaurants located deep within the food street. Therefore, his knowledge of these two restaurants is limited to various rumors…

"boss?"

Fuya's soft call pulled Qi Han back from his thoughts. He looked at the nervous and worried expressions on the faces of the shop assistants, and a blank look appeared on his face. "Why are you all looking at me like that?"

“Boss…” Fuya glanced at Qi Han cautiously, “Aren’t you angry?”

"Huh?" Qi Han scratched his head. "What are you angry about?"

It took him a while to understand what Fuya meant. "You want to ask why I wasn't angry when someone overtook me?"

Seeing Fuya nod, he chuckled, "With so many restaurants, it's quite normal for someone to come up with a dish that's better than mine, right? Besides... isn't first place still mine?"

To be honest, he admired these restaurants quite a bit, since they didn't have a system.

"Besides, there shouldn't be many people voting yet, right? How many votes does my jade dragon tendon have?"

“More than 40,000 votes,” Ji Yunruo said hurriedly.

"That's right! It's still early, don't rush." ​​Qi Han showed a relaxed expression.

Shrek City has a permanent population of eight million. On special days like the food festival, many diners from other places come to visit, so the population at this moment is as high as ten million.

Of these tens of millions of people, not all are willing to participate in the food festival; only about three to four million are willing to vote.

Most of these diners wait until they have tasted most of the dishes that interest them at the food festival before deciding which ones to vote for, just before the festival is about to end.

There were some diners who voted in the early stages, but not many.

The jade dragon tendon, which is currently ranked first, only has a little over 40,000 votes, which is enough to illustrate this point.

Therefore, Qi Han was not in a hurry.

Seeing that Qi Han really didn't care about it, the employees breathed a sigh of relief. Now that business was over, they were all leaving.

Watching everyone leave, Qi Han suddenly remembered something and called out to the Qin sisters and Ke Ke, "Where are you three staying now?"

The three of them had traveled a long way to Shrek City to help out, so Qi Han, as the boss, naturally had to be concerned about their accommodation.

Speaking of this, the Qin sisters had strange expressions and glanced at Keke in unison.

Keke looked embarrassed. "My second uncle also owns a property in Shrek City. It has many rooms, and my sister Qin Yue, sister Qin Yao, and I live there now."

Hearing this, Qi Han showed a relieved expression.

It's good that the three of them have a place to stay. After all, there have been too many tourists coming to Shrek City recently, and all the hotels are already fully booked. It's not easy to find a suitable hotel.

Keke is no longer the little beggar who used to live a life of hardship and needed Qi Han to provide him with shelter. As the nephew of Duke Dai Youyuan of the White Tiger Clan, and even rumored to be the next heir to the Grand Duke's title because Dai Youyuan had no plans to marry or have children, his living conditions are much better than before, to the point that…

You could own a property in Shrek City.

Qi Han expressed his heartfelt satisfaction at this.

After seeing the three off, Qi Han closed the shop door, picked up Gulu, petted the cat, and started talking to Ruyi.

"Ruyi, how's the progress on main quest seven?"

"7223/100000 has been completed so far." Ruyi quickly gave her reply.

Upon hearing this progress, Qi Han showed a satisfied expression.

After returning to Shrek City, he basically didn't pay much attention to the progress of the mission.

The reason is simple: under normal circumstances, completing this task would be a long way off.

He had checked the number of visitors yesterday, just before the food festival, and it showed that there were over 5,000 visitors.

Don't be fooled by the large number of people; this is the total for the entire past two weeks, and it's only because the food festival is approaching and more and more out-of-town diners are coming.

Our business increased by more than two thousand in just one lunch break today.

And this is just the beginning.

After all, there is a food delivery service available for the Cold Food Festival. People from other places who were unaware of it before are quite likely to want to try it once they find out about the food delivery service.

Therefore, the progress of the task will increase even faster in the future.

Qi Han said he was really looking forward to it!

Chapter 288 Nine Dragon Delight (Bonus chapter for the eighth helmsman of this book, Qinghui Mingyueye)

"Gulu, I'm planning to go out later, do you want to come with me?"

"Meow~"

Hearing this, the little creature in my arms nodded gently, indicating that it wanted to go too.

"Let's go together then."

A smile appeared on Qi Han's face.

The decision was not made on a whim.

Another reason he looked forward to the Shrek Food Festival was that it would give him the opportunity to sample food from other restaurants.

So he decided to take a three-day break and try out the dishes from other restaurants participating in the food festival between the end of the day's business hours and the start of the afternoon business hours.

After going upstairs to change out of his chef's uniform and into regular clothes, Qi Han carried Gulu out of the store.

He first walked to the food association and asked for a list of dishes to be included in the food festival, then turned and headed towards the food street.

Although not all of them, most of the restaurants participating in the food festival came from the food street.

The Shrek Food Festival is open to restaurants from all over the continent, not just those within Shrek City.

Even with its current high level of influence, there are still not many restaurants from other places participating.

On the one hand, as the number one city on the continent, the restaurants that can survive in Shrek City are generally of a higher standard than those in other cities, and other restaurants have a very low chance of success here.

On the other hand, the storefront and the supply of ingredients are both very important for the operation of a restaurant, and restaurants from other places find it difficult to meet these two conditions, so they naturally face difficulties.

As soon as Qi Han arrived at the food street, he was startled.

The sheer number of people in front of him exceeded his expectations, almost completely blocking the entire street.

The air was filled with the aromas of various delicacies, and the streets were filled with all sorts of vendors' cries.

Although no single restaurant here can compare to the number of customers at Hanshi, there are just so many restaurants here!

The combined diners of all the restaurants created this terrifying crowd.

With a helpless expression on his face, Qi Han followed the flow of people towards the depths of the food street with some difficulty. Several times along the way, he saw some food that he really wanted to try, but he was pushed forward by the crowd and could not do so.

Goodness, there are so many people!

Forget it, let's go to Kowloon Cuisine and Linlangfang first.

Yes, that's exactly what Qi Han was aiming for this afternoon.

Although he said he didn't care and it was okay, Qi Han was actually quite upset about his dish being surpassed...

There's still a tiny bit of something I care about.

So he decided to come and try the two dishes at these two restaurants that were better than his own, and see how they were.

There was no intention to find a loophole; it was purely out of curiosity.

Following the flow of people, Qi Han, holding Gulu, soon saw the Nine Dragons Cuisine plaque hanging high in the distance.

And diagonally opposite it is Linlangfang.

There were long queues outside both stores, indicating that business was booming.

Unlike Qi Han, they don't take holidays, especially during special festivals like the food festival, when they are open from morning till night.

Fortunately, there weren't many customers queuing in front of the two stores, and Qi Han didn't have to wait long in the queue in front of Kowloon Cuisine before it was his turn.

"Welcome..." The servant standing at the door, who was in charge of greeting guests, had just started to speak when he saw Qi Han's face and suddenly paused, a look of surprise on his face.

Boss Qi?

Qi Han didn't notice anything amiss. He carefully examined the interior of the Nine Dragons Restaurant and nodded.

As expected of the leading restaurant in the food street, Kowloon Restaurant boasts exquisite and luxurious interior decoration.

"Where should I sit?" Qi Han turned to the servant and asked.

"Please... come this way with me." After saying this, the servant bowed slightly and led Qi Han into a private room.

The decor of Kowloon Restaurant is somewhat similar to that of ancient China, with its green-tiled roofs and flying eaves, mainly consisting of pavilions and private rooms, and the building materials are mostly solid wood rather than brick and stone.

Of course, there are still many differences between the two, and their considerations are also quite different.

This style of decoration actually originated from the style of the Heaven Dou Empire.

It seems that the owner of Kowloon Cuisine is most likely a citizen of the Heavenly Dou Empire.

After leading Qi Han into the private room, the servant respectfully handed over the menu, asking Qi Han to look through it while he waited a moment, before leaving.

Not long after, rhythmic knocking began.

"Please come in!" Qi Han put down the menu in his hand and spoke loudly.

He had just skimmed through the restaurant's menu and found that, just as rumored, all the food was closely related to dragon-type spirit beasts, and even the drinks they sold were a homemade brew called Dragon Blood Wine.

Sometimes, focusing on one direction and developing your own unique characteristics is also a way to succeed.

Kowloon Restaurant is clearly such an example.