Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Matsutake should have been cooked for a long time, the 'meat' is full of soup, and there is even a feeling of soup splashing in the mouth..."

"The white radish is still crispy. It should be the same as 'Ramen'. After being boiled in light salt water, it has just been put on the skewer and immersed in the soup!"

"The brussels sprouts, which are just a mouthful, are filled with soup between the leaves, and they are cooked just right..."

"It's unexpected that such a large piece of seaweed head can be handled so well. It doesn't have the original jerky taste of seaweed head, and it still maintains a chewy texture."

"Wait, don't focus on the 'toppings' all the time. The five noodles themselves are not just for decoration!"

"That's right, fluffy thin noodles, thick wide noodles... and this chewy one, isn't it pasta?"

"Well, there's also this white, slippery one. It's not udon noodles as I imagined at the beginning, but 'rice noodles'! A Chinese-style snack made from fermented rice..."

There are roughly two types of rice noodles. One is relatively old-fashioned. It is made from fermented rice. Because it has been fermented, it will have a slightly sour taste, so it is called "physalis rice noodles". Modern rice noodles are mostly It is to grind the rice directly, and then press it with a machine, that is, "dry rice noodles".

In contrast, the former has the unique aroma of rice, smooth and refreshing, but because it takes time to make, many fast food rice noodle shops use dry rice noodles...even many of them are not even dry rice noodles, but "Rice noodles" with added potato flour, sweet potato flour...

Of course, what Erina uses is naturally "physalis rice noodles".

The five judges instantly changed the painting style of the "Ramen Contest" into a skewering meeting, with the sticks sideways eating and eating, and soon there was only one stick left in their hands...

I have to say that this form is very convenient for eating, each piece is a bite size, and each has a different taste and texture, attracting diners to keep eating!

In Erina's "root" ramen, five kinds of "ramen" and six kinds of "toppings" were cooked separately before, after all, they require different degrees of heat.

For example, matsutake has been boiled for a long time, while white radish is just blanched...

Afterwards, the processed "ramen" and "toppings" are alternately strung together and placed in the final broth.

In this way, it is not only convenient to cook the ingredients separately, but also avoids mixing them all together. When diners are tasting, there will be a situation where ingredients of different tastes are mixed together...

"I see, because each 'Ramen' and 'Topping' has a unique taste, so it is called 'Mantianxing Ramen'?"

"As expected of the owner of the Tongue of God..."

"Is this the strength of Yuanyue Shijie? I can't imagine that the chef who made this kind of 'Ramen' is only 16 years old, and he is not a professional ramen chef!"

"It seems that the result is already obvious... It's a pity that it's only the preliminaries, and we can't give you specific scores other than 'passing'!"

"Competition No. 1, contestant Nakiri Erina No. 99, pass!"

"It's really a pity. If there are points, a guy whose mind is full of ramen now will have a wonderful expression... Oh, yes! If it's just a test of your cooking skills, you don't have much confidence in the first place, right? I just want to try the secret recipe handed down by my family, if I happen to be able to beat me, I will make a lot of money..." Erina looked like a female version of Long Aotian.

Shiratori Iris, who is Erina's main "target", is just generally upset, and is saying something like "make her look good" with his teeth and claws waving his claws, while the other contestants who are lying on the gun seem to have been trampled on. Like a darling, I suddenly became excited...

Of course, Erina put on a "queen face" to ignore the clamor of other contestants.

Seeing this scene, Liu Maoxing couldn't help but understand a little bit, probably because Shiratori Calamus is also very confident in himself, so he is not very sensitive to Erina's ridicule, while the others... are somewhat exposed He was scheming, so he seemed even more excited.

Seeing other contestants, the crowd was already excited, and the judges couldn't help but change the subject: "Ahem, let's invite contestant No. 100 to present ramen!"

Liu Maoxing was also ready at this time, his is the real "pulled" noodles. When Erina was presenting the dishes, Liu Maoxing had already started to work, knocking the dough that had been resting before, and the outer layer of noodles that had dried up. Peel it off, tear off the lotus leaf inside, take out the dough inside, and then let the lotus petals on the top fall off with a flick.

Gently kneaded a few times, then "pulled" up, and stretched more than 30 times by mistake, so that the noodles were as thin as hair, and then fried in a 100-degree oil pan at low temperature, gently Stir it with the same short stick a few times, and when you take it out, the hair-thin dragon beard noodles are hardened...

Afterwards, put the longxu noodles in water, put them into a bowl, pour in the soup that has been prepared, and put on the fish-shaped "small dim sum", and pickled bamboo shoots as toppings!

When the judges saw that Liu Maoxing served "ordinary" ramen, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

They were really worried just now that Liu Maoxing would bring some unknown things...

However, although the ramen served by Liu Maoxing looked normal, it still made them feel a little bit of disobedience!

"Is the topping on it 'Taiyaki'?" Asai asked, he always felt that this Taiyaki was a bit weird.

Taiyaki is a folk snack in the island country. It is usually made of flour, sugar, milk and baking soda in a mold to make a sea bream shape. Most of them will also have red bean filling, and some will be egg yolk filling and black sesame. Stuffing and more.

But Liu Maoxing said at this time: "No, I carved out a carp! And the raw materials are a little different from Taiyaki, and milk and cream are not used."

Only then Asai nodded knowingly, and finally realized that what he always thought was wrong was the shape of the taiyaki, but the sense of disobedience was still there...

"Why did you think of making it look like a carp?" Another judge wondered.

"Because of my ramen, I named it 'Guanyin sitting lotus noodles'! For Guanyin, it is easier to connect with Guanyin in a basket and carp?"

"Avalokitesvara... sitting on a lotus... face? Well, is it a trick or is it worthy of the name, let's try it!" Asai said.

"Wait...the temperature here...is this cold noodle?"

Finally, some of the judges came to their senses and realized that the sense of disobedience just now was what happened. The bowl of noodles had already arrived in front of him, but he still couldn't see any heat!

The five judges looked at each other. Having experienced the excitement of "Vegetarian Meat Noodles in Vegetarian Soup" and "Starry Noodles", it seems that cold noodles are no longer able to amaze them!

When I put the chopsticks together, the first thing I discovered was that the noodles of the "Guanyin sitting lotus noodles" are as thin as a hair...

"This is... dragon beard noodles? And judging by the toughness, it's real dragon beard noodles, not the stuff pressed by machines in the factory!"

"That's right, and the slenderness of this noodle is far better than the so-called 'dragon beard noodle' which is only 'thin noodle'. It's hard to imagine that the cook who made this noodle was only sixteen years old. And I'm not a professional ramen chef..."

"That's not necessarily true. Contestant Liu Maoxing won the seafood noodle contest before, maybe... he is the one who specializes in noodle dishes!"

"Because it is at a low temperature, the dragon beard noodles actually have the feeling of 'strength'! It coexists with this soft taste...it is also the top grade in the dragon beard noodles, and there is a slight appetite-stimulating fruit. The sour taste... is it because of the addition of grapefruit juice?"

"The soup is also sweet and sour. Is this... a blend of mango, grapefruit and coconut juice?"

"Wait! There's another looming flavor!"

"That's right, have you tasted it too? It's just echoing between your lips and teeth, but it's not easy to catch..."

The moment the judges tasted it, they felt that they were surrounded by clusters of flowers, and there was a relaxed expression on their faces as if they were on vacation, not at all like they were sitting on the judges' table.

And accompanied by the sweet and sour fruity taste and soft taste, they could faintly feel a fragrance hidden among the flowers, hidden between their mouths at some point...

"It's lotus! It's the scent of lotus. It seems that after kneading the dough, it has been left for a long time with lotus and lotus leaves... But in the competition, the time should not meet the conditions." Dojima Gin first confirmed The source of this faint fragrance.

"That's right, after kneading the noodles, the lotus leaves are used to wrap the noodles and lotus petals together, because another layer is wrapped around the outside to completely seal the lotus leaves and the inner dough, and in the outer dough, I sprinkled some yeast, so that the sealed dough is also fermenting and warming up, which speeds up the taste of the lotus leaves inside the dough!" Liu Maoxing explained.

The creativity of this dragon beard noodle is also inspired by the "peerless beauty noodle"...

In the era of China, "Liu Maoxing" and Lan Feihong participated in the selection competition for the special chef, and the topic of the preselection was "National Scholars Without Double Sides".

At that time, "Liu Maoxing" made alkaline water noodles kneaded without water, and conquered the judges with the strong taste of noodles, implying that "the reason why the national warriors are unparalleled is because of their own strength", and the alkaline noodles he made at that time The surface of the water can best reflect the quality of the noodles itself, without relying on soup, toppings...

But Lan Feihong made a sweet and sour dragon beard noodle, which also contains the fragrance of lotus!

It feels "feminine", although delicious, but not imposing noodles, but Lan Feihong explained that his noodles are "peerless beauty noodles"!

Since ancient times, people have often praised the newlyweds. The husband is "a peerless scholar" and the wife is a "peerless beauty".

And Liu Maoxing's "Avalokitesvara Sitting Lotus Noodles" is based on the "Peerless Beauty Noodles" and made improvements!

A small amount of yuzu juice was added to the water for kneading noodles, which I learned from Joichiro's "Yanma King Ramen"...

"That's right! In the soup base, the juice of mango, orange, strawberry and other tree fruits should be used to refer to "poplar branches", and the coconut juice as the main raw material of the soup base is naturally" Manna! Is that why it is called 'Guanyin sitting lotus noodles'?"

"By the way! There are also snacks with the shape of 'carp' on it, pickled bamboo shoots... Carp and bamboo can also be associated with Guanyin."

"But it's not just a moral! I have to confirm the taste of these toppings!" Asai said.

Liu Maoxing continued to look at him with a smile, and the judges also tasted the "carp burnt" and bamboo shoots one after another...

The moment he took a bite, the five judges couldn't help but froze, and after a pause of two or three seconds, they suddenly started to move on!

The actions of the five judges were exactly the same, that is, to put down the remaining half of "Kiyuyaki", then sucked a mouthful of Longxu noodles, and then stuffed the remaining half of "Kiyuyaki" into their mouths again inside……

Careful people have already noticed that it is still steaming inside the "carp burnt"!

Although the ramen and soup of "Kannon Zuolian Noodles" are cold, the "Koyaki" as a topping is actually fresh out of the pot?

"Huh? Is it spicy? Why do the judges suddenly have a big appetite?" Calamus asked suspiciously.

"Hmph! Want to know? That's not easy..." Erina glanced at her beside her.

"Don't you know?"

Erina silently walked to Liu Maoxing's cooking counter, and then took out some leftover "carp burnt" from the oven.

Given her relationship with Liu Maoxing, naturally she wouldn't shy away from anything.

There is only a rough shape, and no carving has been done yet, but the taste will obviously not make any difference!

Calamus couldn't help curling his lips for a while, expressing his speechlessness to Erina's simple and straightforward way of distinguishing...

But when Erina opened the "Koyaki", she still probed curiously...

Erina tasted a little bit from the cut, and couldn't help but froze, and then said with a reddish face: "Ginger juice, pepper, minced garlic... This looks like a dessert of 'koi yaki', but it's spicy. Delicious! And it goes really well with the dragon beard noodles as a real 'dessert'!"

"Bamboo shoots are also the result of salting. The taste... how should I put it! At first, when you talk about salty and spicy things, it seems that it doesn't match the sweet and sour, dessert-oriented Longxu noodles, but in fact, as long as the taste is affected by this spicy and salty Stimulated by the taste, one will naturally think of the dragon beard noodles below... This should be an effect that only he and I can achieve!" Erina said.

Indeed, this requires an extraordinary ability to analyze taste, and probably only Erina and Liu Maoxing, who have a super sense of taste, can build dishes from this level!

Even if other people's culinary skills are higher than the two of them, they are destined not to be able to stand at such a height, it's just an innate gap...

"Hey, I'm really proud to say that only you and him can do it... Wait, should I praise you? At least now I know how to compare myself with other people, instead of being completely alone." Calamus pouted.

The judges had already announced at this time: "Competition No. 1, contestant No. 100, Liu Maoxing, passed!"

At the same time, the preliminaries in the second competition area have also ended. There is a Yuanyue student in the competition area who unfortunately failed to pass. Not only did he fail to enter the finals, it also meant that he failed to pass the "grade assessment" at the same time.

But the good news is that the other students in the second competition area have all passed the preliminaries...

Many people are still thanking Yiwu Qijun, but Yiwu Qijun, who has always been dull, is obviously not suitable for this kind of thing, just standing there silently, nodding from time to time...

Those who thanked him were all players who passed the preliminaries after him.

The reason is simple. Nao Sadazuka's number is still ahead of Jun Ibuzaki's, and her "stinky ramen" has also caused trouble for the next two contestants while she passed the preliminaries. Smelly! And it's not as smelly as when I tasted "smelly ramen" before...

Stinky Ramen, with natto and Houttuynia cordata as the main ingredients, a strange-flavored broth, and "stinky tofu" as a topping...

Liu Maoxing also taught her the method of fermenting mung beans and cooking soybean juice last night, which made Zhenzuo go a step further by using fermented products similar to soybean juice as the original soup base!

Although Sadazuka's personality has become less gloomy than before, her cooking habit of being obsessed with obsessive ingredients has been fixed.

In the end, the judges gave her the grade of "pass" with unwilling eyes, but the smell of "strangeness" lingered on the court and in the taste cells of the judges for a long time!

Fortunately, after only two people were separated, I went to Ibuzaki to deliver ramen...

Ibuzaki's "smoked noodles" are all smoked from the ramen itself, to the dried tofu, vegetarian chicken, and dried bamboo shoots used as toppings, and they are all smoked with salt.

This broke through the effect of "stinky ramen" and made the judges give a "pass" evaluation, but also weakened the curse-like effect of "smelly ramen" a lot, and then someone began to "pass" later!

To some extent, this is also an explanation of "salt can ward off evil spirits"...

In the third competition area, Ha Shanliang made the onion ramen that made the judges "tearful"!

Note that this is a declarative sentence!

The five judges burst into tears after tasting it, but this onion ramen was the one they ate the most...

When kneading the noodles, a considerable amount of onion juice was kneaded, and the clear fungus broth was used to build a soup base that could accommodate this "terrible noodles".

When Ye Shanliang usually cooks, he is best at dealing with some ingredients with strong flavor or special flavor, because his mastery of spices can balance these special flavors...

But now he is asked to make "ramen". As the main ramen itself, it can be said that its taste is controllable, so his "tactics" are very simple, that is, to create the most stimulating ramen, and then use his own Master the essence of spices, come to control it!

As for the outcome of Kurokiba Ryo and Hayama Ryo, the judges did not give an answer, so Kurokiba was almost disqualified because of a conflict with the judges!

Fortunately, at a critical moment, his turban fell off...

After Liu Maoxing and Erina came out of the No. 1 competition area and joined the students from each competition area, they calculated that a total of twelve students were eliminated...

This also means that their grade assessment can only end with "failure".

Liu Maoxing also said that the twelve eliminated students, whether they join the Chinese Cuisine Research Institute as on-campus cooks or join the Yuanyue Hotel as cooks, can receive "priority" for continued training, but it's up to them whether they accept it or not. It's my own choice.

At the same time, Liu Maoxing also announced good news for other students!

"The subject of the third assessment has come out, that is... do your best to participate in the final!" Liu Maoxing said.

"ah?"

"What? Final?"

"How could we... wait, what we just said is..."

"Do your best? How can you do your best?"

After the students complained instinctively, they couldn't help but became confused.

"It's very simple, you can just feel that you are 'doing your best'...Of course, if someone is obviously relaxed, I will directly deny his own illusion!"

The remaining 80 or so students, after listening to Liu Maoxing's words, were stunned for a while, and then suddenly reacted, many of them couldn't help cheering.

That's right, to a certain extent, their "grade assessment" has already passed, and the next thing to do is not to slack off...

The questions for the third round of assessment were naturally the result of changes.

The reason is very simple, because according to Yuanyue's college plan, the winter vacation will start in three days, and the finals in three days will not be able to participate, so the third round of assessment is canceled...

Of course, during these three days, it is impossible for anyone to slack off, because for ordinary students, they must implement the things that pass the assessment, and for a small number of top students, they have to be divided in the finals. Competing, even aiming at the champion!