Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 687: The Wok Hei of Precooked Dishes

"That's how it is, Mr. Chen," explained the person in charge of Sicily Restaurant to Chen Yiyang.

"Recently, our Sicily Restaurant applied for a patent, and the specific content of the patent is a device capable of quickly defrosting specific items.

Our patent application was approved.

Then, recently Xibei also applied for a patent called 'Quick Frozen and Reheated Spicy Stir-Fried Pork Dish and Its Preparation Method.'

However, their patent was rejected. So Xibei, trying to exert influence and salvage their application, roped in our patent for comparison.

This is standard commercial practice, not really an act of war against us. So I think we don't need to pay too much attention to it."

"I see."

Chen Yiyang nodded.

Then he continued to ask curiously, "Do you know the content of Xibei's patent? Send it to me; I'm a bit curious."

Since the patent application was publicly available online, they quickly sent over the specific content of the patent.

Spicy stir-fried pork has always been a high-turnover, low-profit draw-in dish in the restaurant industry.

The general content of Xibei's patent application is,

Xibei has mastered a process of blanching peppers, performing a first dehydration, soaking treatment, and a second dehydration, then freezing them together with stir-fried pork slices to ensure that the peppers can retain their vivid green color and crisp texture after reheating.

The patent application details the blanching time, precise dose of blanching ingredients, the composition of the soaking solution, and soaking time.

The soaking solution is made up of water, citric acid, calcium hydroxide, and carrageenan.

And after reheating, flavor-enhancing agents and oils are introduced.

This way, the pre-prepared spicy stir-fried pork, after being pre-prepared, frozen, reheated, and served on the table, can perfectly mimic the unique 'wok hei' of stir-fried dishes.

The final descriptive effect in this patent is that after processing, the peppers, even after being frozen at minus eighteen degrees for about a month, can, after reheating, still present an appetizing tender green color and retain a crunchy texture, staying as fresh as ever.

After reading this patent application, Chen Yiyang was stunned.

Although the patent does not mention any pre-made dishes throughout,

but according to the description, this completely represents the advanced industrial technology of the current pre-made food industry.

Countless experts and researchers,

after a lot of experiments and effort, what have they achieved?

That is to allow a spicy stir-fried pork dish made a month in advance, frozen for a month in the refrigerator,

When you walk into a restaurant and order a spicy stir-fried pork dish, full of expectations hoping to eat a freshly stir-fried dish,

kitchen staff without even a chef's certificate put the dish into a microwave for a few minutes and served it to you.

Then you pleasantly discover that this dish, costing dozens, served in a mid-to-high-end restaurant, does have the wok hei you anticipated.

Chen Yiyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this point.

So, you restaurant folks have worked so hard just to deceive me?

Moreover, silicon dioxide was used in it.

Although silicon dioxide is indeed a legal food additive,

but this stuff is also the raw material for chips.

The era of flesh and blood weakness and mechanical ascension has already arrived apparently.

Everyone has already started eating chips together.

Anyway, looking on the bright side, it's like experiencing the treatment of an astronaut in a space station here on Earth.

After all, astronauts get their food shipped once every six months and can't avoid pre-preparation.

In space, if you want to experience wok hei, you can only rely on this kind of technology, can't you?

However, Chen Yiyang feels one huge reason why this patent didn't get approved is.

Pre-made foods do indeed have a place for survival.

But pre-made dishes should be clearly distinguished from freshly cooked dishes, allowing consumers to choose for themselves.

Using technical means to let pre-made food mimic the feeling of stir-frying...

If this is approved, the restaurant industry will be in utter chaos in the future.

By that time, no matter how much money you spend on dishes, they're all just being microwaved from the kitchen.

The only difference would be that everyone knows cheap dishes are pre-made.

At expensive restaurants, customers would eat with nervous anticipation, guessing whether their dish is freshly cooked or pre-made.

Time quickly passed.

After more than a month of overtime work,

Tengxu finally launched its break-through variety show game,

Star of Yuan Meng.

"The name already sounds awkward, what were they thinking at Tengxu, giving it such a name."

In his office, Chen Yiyang muttered while perusing the game's materials.

"Indeed," Jiang Ming said from his seat below. "From a communication perspective, such a name isn't conducive to advertising and promotion.

I've heard that Wangyi is also working on a break-through variety show game called 'Eggie Fiesta.'

From the name, Tengxu's choice isn't as good as Wangyi's."

Originally, Chen Yiyang thought there would be a showdown with Tengxu in the break-through variety game segment.

But unexpectedly, just when Tengxu publicly announced recruitment testing for their Star of Yuan Meng,

Wangyi silently launched a break-through variety game named 'Eggie Fiesta.'

Both games are based on the PC game 'The Great Sugar Bean Adventure' and made into mobile games.

However, Chen Yiyang didn't bother with fussing over this with the two companies.

Mutual borrowing in the gaming industry is very common, as long as they don't plagiarize material identically, it's tough to win lawsuits.

But to say there aren't any fools plagiarizing outright, taking someone else's materials and code to copy...

That's not unheard of either.

For instance, one of Yingkumi's three founders, Cai Wei.

He made a fantastic break-through game early on, which unexpectedly got plagiarized by a studio under Tengxu.

And then he actually won the lawsuit.

And the reason he could win against Pizza Hut was because the evidence was undeniable.

Cai Wei had hidden quite a few Easter eggs in the game's code.

So when the other side copied the code directly, the Easter eggs were extracted straight from the game.

There was no way to deny it then; they had to honestly accept the penalty.

However, whether it's Star of Yuan Meng or Eggie Fiesta, these are the flagship products of major companies, unlikely to make such a simple error this time.

Besides, although break-through variety games have emerged recently, they're called variety games because such variety shows have existed for a long time.

Therefore, the first team to adapt it into a game can't claim that this game genre is their original creation.

So, borrowing is borrowing.

Chen Yiyang doesn't really mind.

Having had such a considerable head-start, he feels no problem in defeating Eggie Fiesta.

The only concern is Tengxu's formidable publicity.