What, an "expert little beauty"?
Hearing this poser call Xu Yanxia in such a sarcastic tone, Lu Jingxi was so angry that she immediately wanted to snap back.
Xu Yanxia, however, smiled carelessly and said, "Sure."
Then she actually went over to take a bite.
After tasting it, she nodded generously and said, "The quality of the foie gras is very good, and the saltiness and umami of the caviar are also excellent."
"It's just that there is one very important problem."
"What problem?"
That Jason He immediately looked alert.
Xu Yanxia smiled and said, "The ingredients you used today, whether it's the foie gras, the caviar, or the steak from earlier, are all domestically produced. You shouldn't lie."
What?
Domestically produced?
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone on the scene looked toward them, and several cameras simultaneously focused on Xu Yanxia and that Jason He.
Jason He frowned quickly, but then immediately smiled again and said to Xu Yanxia, "Little girl, I have been in the catering industry for over twenty years. I wouldn't dare say I'm world-famous, but I do have some reputation both at home and abroad. Today, in front of the production crew and so many guests, would I publicly lie about something as important as ingredients?"
Saying that, he smiled at everyone with feigned ease and said, "You don't think I can't afford these things, do you?"
Xu Yanxia also smiled and said, "I don't know whether you can afford them or not, but the country has clear regulations. Foreign fresh ingredients cannot possibly enter the country quickly in a short period of time through any personal carrying or mailing methods."
"Even for professional food companies, under compliant conditions with a full cold chain entry, it takes at least a month of customs declaration and quarantine procedures. It is impossible to achieve the level of freshness we have today. So when you keep saying these are ingredients flown in from France today, you are one hundred percent lying."
"Unless you went through the customs approval process for today's show at least a month or two in advance."
"That's impossible."
The host immediately looked at the directing team off-camera and said, "Didn't we just come up with this content a few days ago?"
"Yeah!"
Cheng Yiran, Lin Lin, Xiao Chen, and several other guests also nodded in agreement.
Several members of the friends and family group also muttered, "He just said he rushed back after receiving a temporary notice, making us wait for him all day!"
"Exactly!"
"If this really is domestic, he's just deliberately putting on airs! Making us wait so long."
As for the off-camera directing staff, they had already hurriedly started checking the relevant epidemic prevention regulations.
Seeing this, Xu Yanxia added another sentence for them, "There is one more thing to remind the staff. As early as when the mad cow disease broke out in Japan, our country had already banned the import of Japanese beef. Although attempts were made to resume imports in July of this year, it is still in the process of advancing the access procedures."
"If the steak he just served was truly Wagyu beef originating from Japan, it definitely violates national epidemic prevention regulations, and there are likely safety risks."
"Oh my god!"
As soon as these words came out, the host, whose face had just returned to normal, was on the verge of tears. He looked at his colleagues off-camera in panic and asked, "That steak wasn't even fully cooked, it was still bloody inside! I won't get sick, will I???"
Fortunately, Cheng Yiran came up in time to comfort him, "You won't. Didn't Director Xia just say it? It's domestically produced."
As she finished speaking, the chief director, who had already found the results, hurriedly looked at the producer and said, "The beautiful Director Xia is telling the truth. The country currently does not allow fresh ingredients like foie gras and black truffles to be brought into the country privately."
"So... these are all domestic?"
The host breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the producer was about to cry. He immediately looked at Xu Xinghe and the fake foreigner Jason He, and said with a look of heartache, "I say, you two, if it's domestic, just say it's domestic. We are just an entertainment show, there's no need to pretend like this!"
"If this gets broadcasted, not only will you guys ruin your reputations, but we will also be in big trouble! There is nothing the netizens can't dig up!!!"
Everyone almost burst out laughing.
What absolute truth!
However, looking again at the two culprits who were putting on an act, neither of them said a word.
Instead, Xu Yanxia spoke up again, "That's right, actually, telling the truth is fine. After all, many of our domestic ingredients are now at the top level in the world. Not to mention anything else, take caviar for example. Currently, the world's largest and second-largest production bases are both in China, and both the annual output and market share occupy over half of the global position. The output of the two largest French foie gras production bases in China combined already accounts for forty-five percent of the global total."
"Right now, twenty-one out of the twenty-six Michelin three-star restaurants in Paris are using Chinese caviar, and sixty percent of the caviar imported by the United States comes from our country."
She looked at the two men and said, "Besides, the fact that you could use domestic ingredients to cook today shows that you inherently recognize the quality of domestic products. Why insist on telling lies?"
"Exactly,"
Everyone else started echoing in agreement.
"Taking a foreign name and really thinking of yourself as a foreigner!"
"What era is this, still playing that blind worship of foreign things game!"
"Don't say that, there really are a lot of people who buy into this. Seeing how they are today, it's probably so they can sell foreign goods in the future."
"Then again, it's fine if we laymen don't know, but if he really is a French head chef, it's impossible for him not to know this basic common sense..."
Seeing that even his deepest secrets were about to be exposed, the "sharp-tongued divine chef" Jason He finally couldn't save face anymore. He coldly dropped a sentence to his partner Xu Qinghe, "I can't record this show anymore, handle it yourself."
Then he left.
That Xu Qinghe let out a sigh and went to chase after him.
Seeing that he couldn't catch up after a few steps, he came back and frowned at the producer, saying, "Couldn't you have just talked nicely? I'm somewhat of a respectable figure in the industry, what am I supposed to do now?"
What?
This guy was actually blaming the victims now?
Both the guests on camera and the staff off camera were completely dumbfounded by this audacity.
Who knew that immediately after, he would sneer at Xu Yanxia and say, "You shouldn't be so ruthless, little girl. Clinging to a rich man's thigh is nothing. If you have the ability, get him to marry you and become Mrs. Lu..."
"Hey, what did you say!"
Before Xu Qinghe could finish his sentence, Lu Jingxi immediately rushed up to confront him.
Her two assistants off-camera also hurriedly tried to rush in.
But right at this moment, another voice sounded from the side, "What happened?"
This voice was a bit familiar.
Xu Yanxia froze for a moment, and following everyone's gaze, she was surprised to find that Lu Jingming, whom she hadn't seen all day, had appeared in the crowd outside the cameras.
