Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Oh? So the sauce is in it?" The judges asked with a bright eye.

After all, it was only the preliminaries. The three judges in the third competition area were all internal staff of the main committee of the competition. They were all in their 40s or 50s, so they should be cadres.

After each of the three judges took a piece, the judge on the left, looking at the thick white viscous sauce inside, couldn't help but wondered: "If such a thick sauce is fried in oil, it will be cooked only by the walnut crumbs." Yi, can’t stop the flow of the sauce, right?”

"It's seaweed. There is a layer of seaweed between the walnut dough and the sauce!" Another judge next to him had already seen the clue.

"But let's try it first! Milky fried lobster..."

Although I don't know the specific recipe of the sauce, but the bursts of sweet and milky aroma cannot be concealed from the sense of smell of the judges.

Accompanied by the crunchy "creak" sound of the walnut coating, three pieces of "Yunlong Fried Shrimp" have entered the mouths of the judges!

"This, this taste is... white chocolate?"

"But it's not as greasy as white chocolate, and you can still feel the deliciousness of the lobster meat inside!"

"It's slightly viscous on the palate, but it's easy to swallow. Is this... mousse? White chocolate mousse?"

Seeing the three judges talking and eating the lobsters on the plate, Liu Maoxing heaved a sigh of relief. What satisfied him most was that the three judges were obviously not interested in the remaining white sauce on the plate. After eating the fried lobster, it has died down.

It can be seen that what really attracts them is still the fried lobster with sauce, not the sauce...

Liu Maoxing was always worried that the sauce he made would overwhelm the audience!

Hearing the doubts from the judges, Liu Maoxing also replied directly: "That's right, it is 'white chocolate mousse'. Under the high temperature of frying, the mousse takes on the shape of sauce."

"But we probably didn't provide mousse powder..."

"It's not mousse powder. I use a relatively primitive mousse viscous agent, which is the gelatin of the fish maw! Although it is not as good as the dried fish gelatin, after all, I don't need to really make it. mousse, just need a sauce similar to mousse!" Liu Maoxing said.

Swim bladders are rich in collagen, especially the swim bladders of marine fish, which are usually rich in colloids. If they are dried in the sun, they can be made into valuable isinglass.

Fish gelatin powder processed from fish glue is one of the common raw materials of old-fashioned mousse...

And Liu Maoxing sent Kurokiba to get two eels back to get the swim bladder, and directly smashed out some of the usable gelatin with the back of a knife, and then mixed it with milk, cocoa powder and other ingredients to make a relatively thin milk chocolate slurry, Later, as a substitute for the original sauce, it was added to the "Yunlong Fried Shrimp"!

From the perspective of the word "cloud", the white milk chocolate sauce is indeed more appropriate than the original sauce, which is light yellow because of the addition of egg yolk.

In terms of texture and taste, the milk chocolate mousse is more viscous, and the taste is sweet and bitter, and it has a fishy taste because of the fish gelatin.

Compared with real milk hot cocoa, it has much less sugar and more milk, which is marinated by isinglass.

The bitterness of cocoa powder blends with the sweetness and bitterness of the walnuts used as the coating, and the fish-flavored isinglass and sweet milk further set off the original taste of lobster!

Prior to this, Liu Maoxing had been worried that the taste of the sauce would overpower the lobster, making the "Yunlong Fried Shrimp" a mixture of dessert and seafood dishes, and the dish would fail more than half.

Although it has been calculated by the "spice inequality", milk, fish gelatin and other protein raw materials that cannot be regarded as pure spices will have far more flavor changes than spices due to differences in temperature, processing methods, etc., so use "spice Inequalities" to calculate these, there is no guarantee of performance.

So before this, Liu Maoxing was still a little uncertain, because Liu Maoxing only used the "Super God Tongue" to perceive their odor particles, but did not taste the finished product as a whole!

After all, in just 20 minutes, Liu Maoxing only finished one portion, and there was no way to divide this fried product into pieces for tasting...

"Hot cocoa mousse sauce made from isinglass? Bitter, sweet, and fresh, the three flavors are perfectly combined with fried lobster meat! Are you a dessert chef?" asked the oldest judge among them.

"No, about desserts... It was a friend of mine who went to try various desserts in Hokkaido yesterday, including white lover chocolate and cheese mousse, so it gave me inspiration." Liu Maoxing said.

At this time, the conversations between the judges and the contestants were broadcasted on the big screen. Hearing Liu Maoxing's words, the judges and other audience members were still a little puzzled. Why did "a friend" taste the dessert and give him inspiration? Shouldn't you be inspired by tasting it yourself?

Only Alice heard what Liu Maoxing was saying, and she couldn't help but feel ashamed and annoyed. Luckily, Liu Maoxing didn't continue to explain any shocking words...

"An unexpected dark horse has appeared! The cooking of the fifteen-year-old Liu Maoxing and Kurokiba's team has been highly praised by the judges! Then, next, they can get the same score as the other five teams with more than 15 points." Is it a high score? Let's wait and see!" The master of ceremonies was still working hard on the super-hot atmosphere.

The three judges showed the score board, and it was clearly written on it, two 8 points and one 10 points!

The master of ceremonies' voice faltered obviously. After all, he had no contact with the three judges, and the commentary was completely impromptu.

Because of Liu Maoxing's age, he didn't think about the fact that Liu Maoxing's group would qualify...

But now the three numbers on the scoreboard really shocked him. It was no longer a question of whether to qualify, but the highest score with absolute advantage!

"10 points! 10 points have appeared! 8 points, 8 points, 10 points, this is also the highest score in this competition area, 26 points!" The master of ceremonies immediately reacted, and immediately after the announcement, he found out that he hadn't paid attention to it before, Liu Maoxing's group Later, I will introduce the fact that they are first-year students of Yuanyue College.

The emcee's afterthought praise was not interested in the audience's amazement when they learned that he was only 15 years old. After confirming his promotion, Liu Maoxing left the venue.

Although some tabloids wanted to interview, but in the battle state of Kurokiba, the two left easily...

After coming out, join Alice immediately, and then is the biggest test!

"What? Aren't you going to celebrate being shortlisted?" Alice said intentionally.

"Stay after winning the championship! The real test begins now. If I can't buy what I need this afternoon, I don't guarantee that I can produce satisfactory dishes tomorrow." Liu Maoxing didn't intend to relax.

Regarding the raw materials to be purchased today, Liu Maoxing told Alice and Kurokiba yesterday...

"For dried seafood, I have already asked someone to send it from the branch of Yuanyue Hotel in Hokkaido. As for the other item... It is common and common, but I don't know if it meets your requirements. Let's go to the local shop Find it!" Alice said.

Only Liu Maoxing knows in his heart that it is impossible to find raw materials that "completely meet" the requirements. If he can find some raw materials that meet the requirements as much as possible, he is already lucky!

That's right, what Liu Maoxing is looking for is the old noodles that are indispensable for making "Sishen Seafood Eight Treasures Zhenhun Man"!

According to legend, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang went out to march south, captured and attacked the barbarian leader Meng Huo seven times and pacified the southern barbarians. The barbaric wizard said that it was because the two armies were fighting and killing too much, and countless innocent souls who died in battle were here, so they couldn't pass through. ...

Zhuge Liang originally felt guilty because of the casualties of the Southern Expedition. Now that the Southern Land has been pacified, he should regard it as the people and is unwilling to kill people as sacrifices.

So people were sent to take mutton and pork, wrap them on the outside, make them look like human heads, and throw them into the river instead of real heads. At the same time, they set up altars to mourn the dead.

Because this kind of "sacrifice" wrapped in mutton and pork was used to replace human heads, and according to the concept of the people in the South at that time, they would definitely use their own heads as sacrifices, so in this kind of sacrifice After the product developed into a kind of pastry, it was called "mantou" and later "steamed buns".

At the beginning, "steamed buns" were also divided into meat steamed buns, vegetable steamed buns, and white flour steamed buns. Since the Song Dynasty, steamed buns have been called "baozi". ", but there are still many areas in the south that retain the sayings of meat steamed buns and vegetable steamed buns.

In island countries that are deeply influenced by Chinese culture, the term "steamed buns" has always been retained. On the contrary, white-faced steamed buns that have no fillings and are not sweet noodles are very rare in island countries.

During the "Zhonghua Yiyi" period, Luo Gen, the patriarch of the Bai Luo family, was invited by the dark culinary world to compete with the group of Xiaodangjia with "Four Gods Seafood and Eight Treasures Soul-Suppressing Steamed Buns". It belongs to the most authentic seafood steamed buns with stuffing inside and no folds on the outside!

Moreover, the origin of the Luo family is also astonishing. It was exactly 1,800 years ago, Zhuge Liang's pastry family who followed the army. It can be said that the first generation of steamed buns came from the ancestors of the Luo family.

It's just that because of the factional dispute between Bai Luo and He Luo, the decline of the family is not obvious to the world...

But this time Liu Maoxing wants to use Logan's soul-suppressing steamed buns, but there is an obstacle that cannot be avoided, and that is "thousand-year-old noodles"!

In Luo Gen's hand, there is a piece of old noodles handed down from the end of Han Dynasty. It can be said that this old noodle even has a part of the noodles of the early generation of steamed buns!

Of course, old noodles don’t mean picking out a piece of noodles from that year and not using it for thousands of years, so I probably don’t know what it will become. Instead, we have to make noodles every few days. , add a piece of old noodles from the previous time, and then pick out a piece of noodles from this time after use, and keep it in use all the time...

It was impossible for Liu Maoxing to find a thousand-year-old face, after all, it was not known whether the island country had started to grow wheat at that time.

What Liu Maoxing is looking for now is an old noodle that is as old as possible, otherwise Zhenhun Man will lose its color...