Crossover in the Anime World

The bear meat is simply fried until mature. It looks delicious, but after one bite, the fishy smell of bear meat fills the mouth and nasal cavity, which is really addictive.

"Sure enough, it's not that simple to process bear meat. The fishy smell is too strong." Xing Ping Soma felt that he was under great pressure just after taking one bite, and realized that the use of spices in this competition was crucial.

And spices are Ko Hayama’s domain.

"Spices, spices, star anise, cinnamon, pepper..." Xingping Soma scratched his head. Although he could bring these things by himself, he didn't prepare them. And there is none in the kitchen, because the kitchen only uses local ingredients and spices from Hokkaido.

"Star anise, cinnamon, pepper..." Someone was repeating Souma Yukihira's words.

Then Souma Yukihira smelled a burst of fragrance, and when he turned around, he found that it was Teruki Kuga, who he had fought with in the moon festival before.

"Why are seniors here?"

"Of course I'm here to support my junior."

Yukihira Souma directly exposed it and said: "Senior, don't you feel guilty when you say this?"

"Hahaha, I am indeed here to support you. As long as you defeat the ninth seat and then lose to me, I will be able to resume my status as a top ten hero again, hahahaha——" Teruki Kuga said with a smile.

"But as far as I know, I'm not the only one who was fighting against the Ten Heroes at the same time. In the third exam, those who were identified as rebels all met the Ten Heroes. Now that we are separated, they must also be thinking about ways to defeat the Ten Heroes. ." Xingping Chuangzhen knew that everyone was in a hard fight now, because the third exam was specially prepared for them by the Central Food Agency.

"Of course it's because you have the greatest potential. Regardless of this, it's very complicated to deal with bear meat. If you just maintain the current level and lose, just use the spices I support." Teruki Kuga said hoarsely. smiled.

Although I don’t believe that the senior would be so kind, he does need spices now: “Okay, I will make a hot pot bear meat now.”

"It's a great idea to remove the smell of bear meat by marinating, steaming, and dipping it, so I'll give it a try." Teruki Kuga said with a smile.

The bear meat hot pot does remove the strange smell of bear meat, but it is just simple meat with no special characteristics at all.

"Junior, this is not acceptable."

Xingping Soma also knew that it couldn't be done and had to think about it, but he didn't have any ideas. He suddenly asked the senior: "Senior, how did you come into contact with Sichuan cuisine?"

"Because I have money."

"??" Xingping Sozhen couldn't think of any direct relationship between money and cooking.

The senior said: "Because I have money, I have traveled around the world with my parents since I was a child, and I have had the opportunity to taste cuisine from all over the world. The first time I came into contact with Sichuan cuisine was when I traveled to the local area, and I became addicted as soon as I ate it. You know? It's different. Different regions and seasons have different cuisine flavors. To understand the evolution of delicious food, it is necessary to delve into the source of the cuisine. ”

The origin of the cuisine? Yukihira Soma had a flash of inspiration and said, "Senior, can you please arrange to go into the mountain? I want to see where the bears are."

"Junior has a great idea. Leave it to me. The permission to enter the mountain, the equipment to enter the mountain, and the best guide will be prepared for you before tomorrow." Jiuga followed the instructions and showed off his cashing ability.

Xing Ping Soma can be regarded as seeing the ability of the second ancestor.

We made arrangements early the next morning and found a local hunter to take everyone to hunt black bears.

The hunter is very experienced. He has hunted many bears and even dissected a bear himself. He originally wanted to go into the mountains and catch one to show Souma Yukihira, but hunting depends on luck, and it is impossible to catch it accurately.

However, Yukihira Soma relied on his social skills to get along with the hunters and learned a lot of knowledge. The hunter also gave Kuuga Teruki and Yukihei a real face, especially for Kuaga Teruki's ability, and he also knew everything and talked about it.

Yukihira Sou sincerely thought that the ingredients to stimulate the delicious taste of bear meat might be in the mountains, and he had to find them himself.

The hunter said regretfully: "If you want to know the taste of bear meat, it is best to kill, cook and eat it freshly. It is definitely more delicious than frozen bear meat. Unfortunately, hunting does not always yield a harvest. I think if I could You can hunt bears if you stay in the mountains for a week, but you only have one day, so I can’t guarantee you’ll catch a bear.”

"It doesn't matter, I have learned a lot." The young man discovered that there were many spice plants in the mountains and said: "In very ancient times, hunters who caught bears would only use the limited materials in the mountains to cook bear meat. Bear meat is more delicious, so we need to make flexible use of materials in the mountains. This trip to the mountains really taught me a lot. Not only did I know that bears eat mainly acorns, berries, and nuts because they are omnivorous animals. Birds and fish. This ingredient is becoming more abundant in my mind. It is no longer just a piece of meat, but a delicious food nourished by the environment. "

"Haha, you young man can talk. If you want to learn, I can teach you more on the way down the mountain. And you need a lot of bear meat to cook. I have a way to get more bear meat, if necessary. , I can give it to you at a low price. "The hunter is also very good at doing business. He rarely meets a wealthy customer and takes the opportunity to sell his prey.

This is exactly what Yukihira Souma needs. He is worried because there is too little bear meat in the trial. Now that he can get bear meat directly from the source, he is naturally happy.

This is what the food chaebols have always wanted to avoid. The food chaebols form a valve, which pleads for farmers and hunters at the bottom and checks for chefs and diners at the top. As a middleman, it protects farmers and hunters, chefs and diners, and also makes huge profits, mastering the pricing power and the right to speak.

This is how the chaebols control the entire society by controlling the valves above and below.

At the beginning, the emergence of chaebols must be to protect everyone. After all, there is no trust relationship between farmers, hunters, chefs and diners, and a guarantee is needed to ensure everyone's interests.

Chefs and diners don't want to buy rotten vegetables, and farmers and hunters don't want to be cheated. The chaebols as middlemen are a good guarantee. If someone sells rotten vegetables and fruits, the customer has to find arbitration. If the customer is bullying the store, lowering the price, and forcing buying and selling, farmers and hunters also have to find arbitration. The chaebols set rules and are also arbitration institutions.

But as the food chaebols become larger and larger, in order to maintain the operation of the chaebols themselves, they will continuously absorb resources from both ends.

Controlling the pricing power from below, farmers and hunters have little room for development. They have the right to speak, and chefs and diners have to listen to their arrangements, otherwise the resources will be blocked and they will fend for themselves.

It is naturally good for Soma Yukihira to get bear meat directly from the hunters, but the price and quality cannot be guaranteed.

The hunter told the boy: "If it is the bear meat provided by Totsuki Academy, the quality is absolutely fine. It must be processed by the most skilled butchers and there will be no smell of bears." That is to tell the boy that the bear meat in the hunter's hands is not so good, but it is enough to fill the two big bags.

The resources flowing in the chaebol are only a small part, and the remaining resources can't be delivered to the chefs and guests even if they are dumped or rotten.

If they want, chefs and diners can only go to the countryside to find them themselves, but the cost is high.

There is a big difference in time cost and trust cost between chefs getting ingredients from supermarkets and going to the countryside to get ingredients. If the cost is high, the price of food will be expensive, and customers will not consume it frequently. Therefore, chefs must lower costs and can only go to supermarkets to choose ingredients.

It can be said that the existence of food chaebols definitely has advantages, such as ensuring the circulation of upstream and downstream, and arbitration when necessary. The disadvantage is that the food chaebol maintains its own operation, but its own operating costs are getting higher and higher, so it must extort money through the valves that control the circulation to obtain tolls.

Now that Soma Yukihira has obtained enough ingredients, he can make various attempts drastically. Of course, the price of the meat sold by the hunter is not low, but fortunately there is a rich man named Teruki Kuga.

He helped Soma Yukihira not because he wanted to eliminate the Ten, but because he wanted to become one of the Ten again and become a part of the chaebol game.