Food Wars: Taste Buds Reversal

085. A dish that makes people lose even though they are not defeated [Fourth update]

Shiraki, who finished cooking first, did not immediately bring his hot pot to the judging table, but instead covered it with a lid and stood in front of the cooking table to wait.

Kawashima Rei naturally noticed Shiraki's action at the first time, and immediately said in a somewhat strange tone,"Huh? Shiraki didn't bring the dish immediately? What is he waiting for? Is he waiting for Mito's dish to be finished?"

As the theme and ingredients of each"food battle" are different, the rules will also change slightly.

Sometimes, both contestants are required to finish the dish within the specified time and then serve it to the judges for review at the same time, and sometimes, the party that finishes the dish first is allowed to submit it for review first.

In addition to the cooking competition, the speed and mentality of both sides of the food battle are also included in the key to victory or defeat.

In this kind of food battle, the order of serving the dishes also needs to be particular, because the review process of the previous person will inevitably affect the next person.

For dishes like hot pot, it is most common to eat them immediately after they are cooked. Although some"cold food hot pots" have appeared in recent years, Shiraki's hot pot is obviously not in that category.

Mito Yumei, who was slicing beef, heard this and subconsciously looked back at Baimu.

"Transfer student, aren't you going to serve the food?"

Mito Yumei frowned slightly, seeming to be concerned about Kawashima Rei's words, and asked Bai Mu

"Ladies first."

Bai Mu made a 'please' gesture to her, and then continued to stand there waiting. It looked like he wanted to wait until Mito Yumei finished cooking the hot pot before serving it.

Bai Mu's actions were purely out of goodwill. After all, the two ingredients he used were not easy to deal with. Bai Mu had not seen the effects of the chili peppers that were said to make people 'unable to move for a whole year'. If he served the hot pot first and the judges were collectively paralyzed, wouldn't Mito Yumei be defeated without a fight? So in order to avoid such possible troubles, Bai Mu naturally chose to wait.

As for the flavor of the dish? What flavor does this 'fruit chili hot pot' have? It's the same whether you eat it early or late, Bai Mu decided to punish these judges later.

He had just used the Eye of Insight to see that this dish was rated very highly in the system.

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Fruit Chili Hotpot (?)

Taste: L-grade

Flavor: M-grade

Cooking Effect: None

Special Effect: Can make a person unable to move for a year

Overall Rating: L-grade

Rating: Uses completely rotten sweet whole fruit, the wrong amount of Yawana chili, and the other ingredients are completely infected by the taste of the first two. This dish will definitely give you diarrhea after eating it

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This is a dish that was rated by the system as‘L-’Bai Mu didn't know what effect would be produced after eating this dish of the same level. He couldn't let the three judges pour a piece of Mito Yumei's dish before it was served, right? So of course Bai Mu didn't make any move.

But his"kindness" made Mito Yumei completely misunderstand. Seeing Bai Mu's"you go first" expression, the veins on Mito Yumei's forehead popped out,"Asshole! How much do you underestimate me!" Mito Yumei turned around and pointed a finger at Bai Mu,"I don't need the sympathy of my opponent! When you're done, serve it to the judges for review. There's no way my dish will lose to yours!"

"……Are you sure?" Baimu gave Mito Yumei a strange look as she started to lose her temper for some reason,"I don't mean to sympathize with you, but if you serve the dishes after me, you will be at a disadvantage."

Baimu meant that he was afraid that the three judges would lose their taste buds due to the spicy 'Yawana Pepper', and then Mito Yumei's A5 beef might not get the most fair judgment. But Mito Yumei heard these words with a different meaning. What does it mean that she will suffer a loss? Isn't it obvious that her cooking is not at the same level as the other party's?

Mito Yumei suppressed her inner anger, as well as the appetite that she had ignored for a long time, and tried her best to make her tone sound less stiff.

"Thank you for your kindness, but I don't need it. Even if you serve the dishes after me, I won't suffer any loss."

Seeing that Mito Yumei said so, Bai Mu no longer insisted and brought three small hot pots that were still on fire to the three judges.

"Bai Mu has entered the review stage, so what kind of evaluation will the three-dimensional judges give next?"

Kawashima Rei, who was behind, immediately ran up and stood next to Bai Mu and the three judges, staring at Bai Mu who was lifting the lid of the hot pot.

At the moment the lid was lifted, as everyone expected, a fragrance that seemed to devour people completely burst out as if it had been accumulated for a long time.

"This is……"

When one of the judges, Kuraki Shigeno, smelled this violent aroma, her body suddenly softened. She felt that her body had been completely dominated before she even tasted the dish. The surging aroma directly poured into her body from her nose, eyes, and mouth. This smell... was like being swallowed up by magma unexpectedly in the polar ice. It was so delicious that one would be defeated without even tasting it!

"What an amazing dish! Is this really a hot pot?"

Another judge, Oto Yoshiki, was sweating as he looked at the small hot pot in front of him.

He was a food critic, and usually at this time he would inevitably comment on the dishes served by the students, either praising them or pointing out their shortcomings, but now...

he felt that he was completely unqualified to judge this dish, because just sitting in front of this dish, he felt that he was facing a lot of pressure.

This pressure was very intuitive and came from his body.

Not to mention judging the appearance of the hot pot, he was able to control himself from being dominated by appetite immediately and become a chewing machine with only this dish in his mind.

This was already a strong control.

"I...I want to vote for this student!"

The last judge was even more direct.

As early as when he was sitting up there watching the game, he couldn't hold back his appetite.

If it weren't for the two people beside him pressing him, he would have rushed over.

Now that he saw the delicious food in front of him, how could he resist? However, he still remembered his duty as a judge.

Before he ate his fill, he pressed the button that belonged to Bai Mu.

Anyway, Mito Yumei...

he couldn't muster up any appetite just by looking at her.

He would talk about the consequences later.

"I also vote for Bai Mu"

"Me too! I'm ready to eat!"

The other two judges saw that the people next to them had lost their minds. They originally wanted to force themselves to restrain themselves and wait until Mito Yumei served the food before judging it, but now they no longer suppressed their appetites. They quickly pressed the button on their tables, picked up chopsticks and soup spoons, and started to eat the hot pot in front of them without caring about their image.

""Wait, wait a minute, three judges, this is against the rules!" Seeing the three judges acting so recklessly, Kawashima Rei, who was standing by, immediately rushed forward to stop them,"The scoring can only be done after both contestants' dishes have been tasted, this is the basic rule of 'Shokugeki'!"

However, it was obviously too late for her to say that. At this time, on the big screen above the competition stage, because the three judges had already pressed the button for the final decision, a big '3:0' score appeared behind the avatars of Shiraki and Mito Yumei.

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