Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"As a professional halberd chef, I allow you to question my qualifications. Let's have a sumo match here first. It's okay to have a cooking competition after I win!" Liu Maoxing said with a smile.

"Hmph! The people of the Sumo Hot Pot Research Institute are really timid enough to let an 'outsider' come forward, and if this 'outsider' is willing to embarrass 'Xiangyan', I have nothing to say." Erina said coldly said with a snort.

Qin Guangxi couldn't help but wanted to say something, but was stopped by Hao Tianlin, and said to Erina: "The Sumo Hot Pot Research Institute chose to invite Liu Maoxing's classmate 'Shiji', and it has passed the approval of the Shiji Management Committee, and Liu Maoxing Classmate, you have indeed just joined Xiangyan!"

This time, in the name of the "Sumo Hot Pot Research Society", the challenge to the top ten is different from the last time Liu Maoxing and Yu Mei's eating halberd was essentially initiated by the two in their own names. Fan Research Society" is willing to pay chips.

But this time it was under the name of "Xiangyan", so Liu Maoxing temporarily joined Xiangyan in name...

Hao Tianlin and Erina, under the notarization of the food halberd administration, signed the contract of food halberd, after which the accompanying personnel left the venue one after another.

When he was about to leave the stage, Hao Tianlin whispered, "I'll leave it to you later!"

Reya Kawashima announced in a timely manner: "Now, please enter the respective cooking tables...'Sumo Nabe Pot Research Club' vs. 'Ten Outstanding Tenth Seat' Shiji, the theme is 'Shrimp Cuisine'... Now Officially begin!"

The audience was still surprised by the change of players, but most of the audience still didn't like Liu Maoxing. Although he had won Yu Mei once, Yu Mei and Erina were definitely not on the same level!

For the first-year students, "Nakiri Erina" is like a god, and Liu Maoxing is that blasphemer...

In particular, there are still some students who have been slapped in the face by Liu Maoxing unintentionally for various reasons, and at this time they are also slandering him with a grudge.

Words such as "overthinking one's own strength" and "hitting a pebble against a rock" kept coming from the audience.

In fact, Liu Maoxing didn't know them, but they had wishful thinking and kept slandering Liu Maoxing. Afterwards, the duel with Yu Mei and their usual performance in class made them feel like they were being slapped in the face. In fact, they wanted to Being slapped in the face, Liu Maoxing didn't have time to pay attention...

Liu Maoxing naturally blocked all these "noises" in his brain. At this time, he and Erina not only used the common seasonings and basic ingredients provided by the Food Administration Bureau, but also prepared the ingredients to be used.

The former assistants of both sides brought up a small box. Among them, Fei Shazi, Erina’s assistant, only brought a live seafood box for offering, while Liu Maoxing’s side, Hao Tianlin and Qin Guangxi, had the same seafood box. , and a wooden storage box...

Just as the two sides opened the seafood box, a close-up was shown on the big screen at the venue.

Both parties chose fresh and live shrimps as ingredients for cooking. In the seafood preservation box, there were several shrimps swimming around flexibly, obviously very energetic.

The body and head of the prawns Erina chose are similar to those of ordinary sea prawns, only bigger, but the two front claws are extraordinarily slender, almost as long as the body of the prawns!

"That's... Norwegian langoustine?" Ryoko recognized the ingredients chosen by the other party.

Zenji pushed his glasses and said: "That's right, it's also called 'Berlin Bay Spoon Finger Shrimp' and 'Norwegian Lobster'. Although its body and head look similar to ordinary sea shrimp, it belongs to the lobster family. It is found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. , the seabed survival in the Mediterranean Sea, Western European countries are used to using it as food.”

"Huh? Ah Xing's is..." At this time, everyone also saw the ingredients Liu Maoxing chose.

Compared with "Norwegian langoustine", which is an ingredient that can't be seen as lobster at first glance, Liu Maoxing's selection of materials is very "open and honest". Its body and body shape are cylindrical, with a pair of huge front claws, and a huge tail fan at the tail. It is obviously the most common lobster... a big lobster!

"This... should be Dongshan lobster, a relatively common type of lobster, and the most common lobster in East Asia." Shanji said.

"Really! This is a bit inferior in terms of anticipation! Those guys from 'Xiangyan' can't find more eye-catching ingredients?" Yuji said dissatisfied.

In the eyes of ordinary people, big lobster may be considered a more exquisite ingredient, but in the eyes of the veterans who can serve as "food halberd" judges, there is nothing new...

Especially this time because there are ten elites participating in the food halberd, the lineup of judges is also more luxurious than the last time Liu Maoxing and Yu Mei competed. Among the three judges are "Kawaragi Koji" from the aquatic business with a net worth of tens of billions, and Oedo Seafood. "Nari Haili", editor-in-chief of cooking magazine, and "Sawaguchi Yuhiko", head chef of Sawaguchi Sashimi restaurant.

Sure enough, the three judges were all frowning at this time. Although Liu Maoxing's reputation had spread widely among the first-year students, no one recognized him when he was far away.

The judges who originally had some expectations for Yuanyue's old club "Sumo Hot Pot Research Club" were somewhat resistant to the appearance of Liu Maoxing's representative, especially when they saw the uncreative Dongshan Lobster.

"I remember when I was still in junior high school, 'Xiangyan' was also a big club with ten elites. It should be Ah Xing who chose this kind of lobster himself, so choose to trust him!" Yisehui said.

And when Liu Maoxing opened the wooden box, the judges, who were a little disappointed before, raised their eyebrows slightly.

I saw that the wooden box was actually filled with water, but it wasn't that there was any seafood in it, but that it was soaking dry goods!

It is allowed to prepare in advance for "dry goods", which require a long time and do not have too much technical content.

And now Liu Maoxing's wooden box contains dry goods that have softened!

At this time, the bamboo fungus, chicken fir paste, phoenix mushroom, matsutake, Hericium erinaceus, and boletus are all being fished out. The wooden box still has two layers. The bottom layer is not "dry goods", but There are root ingredients such as yams, yams, and burdock...

"Huh? What's that green vegetable?" Yuuji asked suspiciously.

Ordinarily, as an elite academy of Yuanyue Academy, there shouldn't be such a situation where they can't recognize the names of vegetables...

Marui Zenji looked at it for a long time, and then said: "That should not be an artificially cultivated vegetable, but a kind of 'wild vegetable'. 'Asparagus' grows only in mountainous areas with high altitude and high precipitation..."

"Wild vegetables?" You Ji frowned, becoming more puzzled.

The treatment of wild vegetables and wild game is not the same. The latter mostly refers to wild or semi-wild animal ingredients, which have a different texture and umami taste from highly poultry meat, but for wild vegetables...in high-end cuisine, There are still relatively few applications!

After Liu Maoxing fished out the dry goods, the two parties started to process the prawns almost at the same time. At this time, both parties chose to peel the prawns raw.

It is said that when peeling raw shrimp, it is most convenient to freeze them for a while and then peel them. With the size of "Norwegian langoustines", this can also be done. However, in order to ensure the taste, Erina still chose fresh shrimps.

And this is not a trouble for Erina at all. Taking out a small carving knife from the kitchen utensils, I saw "Norwegian langoustine" turning over in his hand, turning into a whole Norway shrimp Meat……

On the other side, Liu Maoxing is in the shape of a pair of knives again. His right hand is a sharp boned knife commonly used when opening lobster shells, while his left hand is a small paring knife!

The paring knife, which is usually used when finely processing fruits and vegetables, was used by Liu Maoxing on the lobster at this time...

Liu Maoxing once again demonstrated his amazing knife skills, with two hands and two knives, using a paring knife to insert some joints to fix it, and a sharp bone-eviscating knife to pry open the hard shell of the lobster!

The combination of the two is just right. The paring knife always uses ingenuity to cut into the position where the boning knife needs the most force. After a few strokes, the shell on the back of the Dongshan lobster has been completely opened...

Afterwards, the "active" and "driven" of the left and right hands were reversed, and the unsharp side of the boning knife fixed the lobster, while the peeling knife went deep into the joint between the shrimp meat and the shell, and the knife moved like a snake.

In ancient times, there was "Paoding Jieniu", which paid attention to "entering space with no thickness", but in fact, a kitchen knife cannot be "no thickness", and no matter how sharp the blade is, it has thickness, but the "space" in the meat is not good. Grasp, so the kitchen knife can't blindly pursue "no thickness", otherwise it will not only be inconvenient to use force, but also easy to break the blade.

A paring knife is a typical knife that is not suitable for cutting meat. Not only is it useless, but it will curl the blade after a few strokes. When the paring knife really can't handle it, the boning knife will become "active" again...

After a whole lobster is peeled out, the lobster meat can still be seen to be in the shape of a lobster, and because the meat of the lobster is compact, it is faintly larger than the removed lobster shell!

Being able to peel raw lobster meat like this, the three judges couldn't help being very interested after seeing it, especially Sawaguchi, who runs a sashimi restaurant, couldn't help saying: "If someone in my family has this kind of knife skill, I will definitely To add a performance project, let him peel the lobster meat in front of the guests, this cutscene just looks like a kind of enjoyment!"

"Editor Cheng Hai, last time your magazine had an article about the Hokkaido seafood knife master. I wonder how the knife skill compares with the boy in front of you?" Kawaharaki asked.

"That master of sword skills...should not be able to do it! But this student can handle several kinds of seafood, and how well he handles other seafood is still unknown." Cheng Hai said after thinking about it.

But even so, there is no doubt that Liu Maoxing has once again used his knife skills to attract the attention of the judges...

Even some of the audience who couldn't help ridiculing after seeing the Dongshan lobster before, all gritted their teeth and stopped.

However, after Liu Maoxing peeled off the three lobsters, facing the three lumps of lobster meat that had been removed from the sand line and was still in the shape of a lobster, they were mashed!

Obviously, the previous knife skills were just for show...