Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Simply put, aside from 'going to Yuanyue to join the class' and 'Shenqian Cuisine Showdown', the two of you guys are here for the same purpose, and that is to improve your cooking skills, right? Hey, those old guys It really gave me a problem!

Ever since I came to 'Yangquan Restaurant', the restaurant's apprenticeship system has been cancelled, and now two little guys have come over..." Lou San muttered in the office, completely ignoring the other two parties, just talking to himself before!

But the fact is indeed true. A long time ago, the usual teaching mode in the Chinese culinary industry was the "apprentice system", that is, like Liu Maoxing and Tang Sanjie in the Chinese era, they first did small jobs in "Yangquan Restaurant" and passed the final exam. The basic test is to stay for a few years and "steal" some skills before you can officially become a teacher...

Of course, most of this so-called "stealth learning" is also carried out under the deliberate actions of the chef, that is, to screen out "apprentices" who will learn actively and have certain talents.

However, with the development of the culinary world, this "apprenticeship" is too inefficient and easily arouses resentment. If it is true, it is an illegal employment of child labor, so gradually everyone began to abandon this system, and "Yangquan" Restaurant" was almost the first group to abandon the "apprenticeship system".

Liu Maoxing and Liu Maoyuan didn't speak, Lou San continued to talk to himself: "Although the 'Yangquan Restaurant' now does take 'potential' as the content of the investigation when recruiting cooks, there are also some mechanisms for cultivating cooks.

But it's all subtly cultivated, and I'm afraid there won't be any progress in just one month, and the object of training is already a professional cook... hey..."

Seeing Lou San's headache, Liu Maoxing couldn't help but said: "You always think about these few words, so let us retreat? Although I don't care much about this month, how much can I really improve?" , but I'm not used to being driven back!"

Lou San stared at Liu Maoxing with big eyes like copper bells, and said, "So you must stay here for a month of training? That's fine too, but we have to make an agreement..."

Obviously Lou Sanyi's purpose at the beginning was to "make three rules" first, so as not to be able to implement his training plan at that time.

It can be seen that Lou San first started to plan psychologically, so that Liu Maoxing and Liu Maoyuan were passively "assigned" to train here, and transformed into actively "wanting" to train here, which is completely different from what he said, in fact, it is very There may be a suitable type of teaching!

Otherwise, the clan elders would not be so reassuring about him...

However, he was interrupted by Liu Maoxing, who never played cards according to the routine: "It's not necessary to stay here for training. If you really find it troublesome, you can help me prepare a platinum five-star room... I'll go back after playing for a month!"

"...Your shameless appearance is quite similar to when I was young, why don't you come and learn to cook with me!" Lou San pretended to be surprised, and his performance was very exaggerated.

Immediately, he became serious again, and said solemnly: "Do you really think that you are sure to win against all cooks...or cooks of the same age?"

"I don't dare to say 'sure to win', but I'm just a little confident." Liu Maoxing replied.

"I have read your information, and there are two game videos in Hokkaido...Fire, knife skills, and spices, in the most important areas of these three cooking skills, you really have extraordinary strength!

That's right, with these three powerful weapons, a cook is almost invincible, but... you probably still have a kind of "spiritual essence" that you don't understand, and you are just squandering your "ability" ? "

Lou San said, with a serious expression on his face, he used his index finger to point the position above the bridge of his nose...

"There are no glasses there, don't use them..."

"Hmph." Lou San snorted coldly, and immediately began to stroke his beard, and found that his beard was not a beard, so he began to stroke his "sexy beard" in a circular manner.

However, Liu Maoxing's complaints are all complaints, but he still admires Lou San's eyesight very much!

Not to mention sword skills, although usually in Yuanyue, when talking about Liu Maoxing, the first thing that everyone thinks of (except for "harem man") is "sword skill master", followed by "God's Tongue", "Arsonist" ", "Spice Freak" and the like...

But in fact, Liu Maoxing's knife skills are the easiest to be seen as true or false. Although it is considered top-notch among cooking masters of all ages, coupled with various special skills in knife skills, it can be called desperate, but in reality Even a real expert in the world can easily see that Liu Maoxing has not mastered the "essence of sword skills"!

Although there is only a small gap in the soul, there is still a gap!

However, in terms of the mastery of the fire and the use of spices, because of the existence of "super touch", "super smell" and "super taste", even if you really master the "firework essence" and "spice essence" At best, the cooks are only as good as Liu Maoxing, or even worse.

As long as you master the "spiritual essence", you can reach the limit in this project, but Liu Maoxing's "talent" can make him surpass the opponent who has the "spiritual essence" without the "spiritual essence".

But Lou San saw at a glance that Liu Maoxing's seemingly crazy "three sharp weapons" are actually missing the soul, that is, the essence!

"That's true, but...could I be able to grasp the essence within this month?" Liu Maoxing asked suspiciously.

"It's you, not me, who want to break through the marrow. My knife skills, pyrotechnics, and the use of spices have already possessed the 'spiritual marrow'! Why do you ask me? Didn't I feel confident just now?" Lou Sanyi said in a tone that had nothing to do with him.

That's right, if he can really be promoted to the level of "spiritual marrow", Liu Maoxing's ability to use swords, pyrotechnics, and spices will be greatly improved again!

Now Liu Maoxing already has a super three-star in his usual cooking skills, and will reach a super five-star in the state of using "Food Control". As for the four super-sensing and special skills, it is not counted for the time being, because the influence of other abilities is related to the dishes. of.

If Liu Maoxing can master a kind of essence, at least he can make his cooking skills surpass the ordinary "super five-star" without considering other special skills, and he can cook tiger-level recipes whose difficulty focuses on the essence of comprehension !

For example, some tiger-level recipes, as long as the demand for sword skills is tiger-level, and the requirements for other aspects are not high, then as long as the current Liu Maoxing masters the essence of knife skills, the recipes can be completed!

If he can master the three, then Liu Maoxing can stably display the ability of a one-star chef even in the state of "blank board". Once combined with super-perception and other abilities, Liu Maoxing's "two-star chef" qualification will be worthy of the name. Coupled with other abilities, even a three-star, that is, the pinnacle of the tiger class, is not impossible to spy on...

"Could it be that the Liu family has some quick tricks on the 'spiritual marrow'?" Liu Maoxing couldn't help asking.

"Tricks? If 'thinking more and practicing more' is a trick, then it does exist."

Think hard and practice more...

Just relying on these, do you want Liu Maoxing to master the "essence" within a month?

Liu Maoxing couldn't help looking at Lou San suspiciously.

As if he understood his gaze, Lou San couldn't help but said: "You are the one who is being trained, so I don't have any certainty or confidence. It's not a strange thing to have a 'spirit' when you're here!"

normal?

Liu Maoxing couldn't help asking back: "Then I don't know when Senior Lou San mastered the 'spiritual essence'?"

Lou San scratched his head when he heard the words and said, "My words... the first thing I mastered was the 'Fire Art Essence'. It was when I was 23 or 33 years old, and then I mastered the 'Sword Skill' when I was 35 years old. "Spiritual Essence", mastered "Spice Essence" at the age of thirty-six. Well, after that, at the age of forty, he mastered the "Spirit of Cooking"!"

Compared to the opponent's identity, this record is... shockingly bad!

When Liu Maoxing was about to say, "Can you also set high standards and be strict with yourself?" Lou San turned and said, "However, if I said 'talent is like yours now', I would definitely understand the three great essences before the age of eighteen. Already!"

Liu Maoxing curled his lips even more when he heard the words. If he didn't know that Lou San in front of him was the first person in the Liu family's "Louzi generation", hearing what he said now, Liu Maoxing would definitely think of him as a bitch...

"No, I'm not complaining, but I want to say... Let's just say it! I left the ancestral house when I was thirty." Liu Lousan said.

"Is this the reason why he's become perverted now?" Liu Maoxing looked at him sympathetically upon hearing this.

"...I warn you, I can fight very well!"

Well, Liu Maoxing believed this point. When he saw him for the first time before, Liu Maoxing didn't notice that he was approaching behind him!

Liu Lousan couldn't help looking at Liu Maoyuan, and then said: "You should have heard Liu Maoyuan talk about the system of the Liu family, right? All clan members who want to be chefs must either train in the ancestral home until they are thirty, or some clan members with good talents can Early independence...

Subaru Yuan is the most talented person in this generation, in terms of age, even if there is no special instruction from the elders, it is estimated that he can pass the examination and become independent at the age of twenty! And only the clansman with the worst talent will delay until they reach thirty years old before becoming independent! "

"Wait, I heard that you have to understand the 'heart of cooking' to be able to be independent? This... Even at the age of thirty, it's not considered a bad talent, right?" Liu Maoxing questioned.

"No, you are a student of Yuanyue College, so you don't realize this...According to the Liu family's training method, it is completely different from Yuanyue's way of cultivating cooks. It can even be said that the improvement speed is far inferior to Yuanyue's method, but it is It is most suitable for awakening 'food sense', 'food control' and then awakening 'cooking heart'! More than half of the tribe will be able to be independent before the age of thirty." Liu Lousan said.

Liu Maoxing recalled those three guys from the Wei family who were not very good at cooking, but had a "sensitivity to food" early on, and nodded comprehensibly...

Liu Lousan then continued: "That is to say, even I, who is 'so' stupid with talent, can comprehend the essence in my thirties. I think that if you comprehend all kinds of essence in this month No, if you don’t comprehend the three spirits before the age of eighteen, you must be lazy!”

What he said seems to make sense, but Liu Maoxing still feels that this is not a problem that "Chicken Soup for the Soul" can solve. It's as if playing lol is not as good as many people with hand disabilities before time travel...

But at the same time, I feel that Liu Lousan's words seem to have someone else's meaning, which makes me feel weird!

To be more precise, since the other party mentioned the topic of "talent", his tone has been a little strange...

"Okay, let me remind you again. Although I realized the 'spiritual essence' very late, the interval between my comprehension of the three kinds of 'spiritual essence' is very short! Many people in their twenties have mastered one kind of divine essence. Most of the 'genius' of the essence, it takes ten years or even longer to accumulate to be able to master the second..."

"What does that mean?" Liu Maoxing's expression suddenly changed, as if he had grasped something.

"You still don't understand? That is to say, a real genius is able to almost instinctively have some judgment in the field he is good at, when his skills are not very good. This is unreasonable, and This is the basis of the 'Divine Essence'..."

What Liu Lousan said was not very clear, but Liu Maoxing understood it!

Because this kind of "genius" exists in Yuanyue Academy, like Ye Shanliang, his talent for spices is not only in the sense of smell, Liu Maoxing has a clear understanding of himself before...

If the two of them want to complete a combination of spices that they have never seen before to achieve the target effect, and Liu Maoxing needs to try tens of thousands of times, then Ye Shanliang probably only needs a few hundred or even dozens of attempts. !

That was a near-intuitive judgment. Although it was not a 100% correct intuition, it was better than Liu Maoxing who could only "enumerate" slowly...

The reason why Liu Maoxing was able to suppress Ye Shanliang in this respect was that his "super sense of smell" was more sensitive and discernible than his "sense of smell of God", and it had its own memory function; The ability of multiple inequalities makes Liu Maoxing's processing speed faster!

When Ye Shanliang experimented dozens of times, Liu Maoxing had already simulated thousands of experiments in his mind...

But this cannot be changed, at least in terms of this intuitive "talent", Liu Maoxing is indeed far inferior to Ye Shanliang!

It's just that Liu Maoxing's hardware is too powerful, and Ye Shanliang's software is more advanced, but it still has to be crushed...

Of course, what Liu Lousan said is also quite exaggerated. As far as Ye Shanliang is concerned, the hardware is by no means "not good".

"It seems that you have already understood!" Lou San showed an awkward smile.

Liu Maoxing twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "You mean...Actually, you want to say that my 'talent' is worse than yours? That's why I should understand the essence earlier?"

"That's right, that's what I meant... Don't deny it, I saw it in the video! But don't worry, as long as you understand the 'essence'...everything will be fine!"

"Why do you have such a comforting tone? Do I have any intention of expressing lovelessness?" Liu Maoxing said weakly.

Indeed, since I traveled through time, it was the first time I was given... No, it was the first time someone other than Erina gave me the words "Your talent is so bad that I'm too embarrassed to tell you directly" evaluate!

"The talent is much worse than yours, so I should have comprehended the 'essence' earlier than you?" Liu Maoxing couldn't tell what the flavor of this "chicken soup" was.

"That's right! From my point of view, whether your 'super taste', knife skill, or mastery of heat, these are all 'ability', not talent! A truly gifted cook has already With your ability... or in other words, when it is far inferior to your current ability, you have already touched the edge of the 'spirit'!

There should be many students like this in Yuanyue Academy, right? "

Liu Maoxing nodded when he heard the words. Before the holiday, it can be confirmed that Ye Shanliang has mastered the "essence of spices", and in many other elite students, he can more or less see the shadow of "spirit" ...

As for Liu Maoxing himself, he doesn't feel this way at all. For him, intuition is still just another way of saying "random guessing".

Even in the state of "food control", the "intuition" can be greatly improved, but it seems that Liu Maoxing's intuition base is "0", in any state, he can't understand how Ye Shanliang and the others did it!

Of course, this does not affect Liu Maoxing, being able to rub them against the ground...

However, according to Liu Lousan's statement, this kind of friction on the ground is like stupid Xuzhu who has acquired Wu Yazi's 80-year skill, and then hangs and beats other geniuses... It's just a coincidence!

The only thing that can't be broken is Erina.

Liu Maoxing originally thought that whether it was "Liu Maoxing" in the Chinese era or the current Erina, they could use "super-taste" to construct the virtual sense of taste because their "super-taste" was more developed. high.

But later, I gradually realized that this is obviously the same as Ye Shanliang's instinct for the ratio of spices, and it is also a talent!

And although I also have "super taste", but only hardware, no such "app" installed...

"What does that mean? Since my talent is so poor... No! It's 'in your mouth'. Since my talent is so poor, why do you still say that I should be able to master the essence faster?"

Liu Maoxing felt that this bearded man would be brainwashed, so he had to accept the setting of his poor talent so soon!

And he did admit this statement in his heart, because so far, although his cooking skills have improved rapidly, it is the result of the help of the system, and what the system bestows on him is skills and special abilities, not talents. , Qualifications!

"Because someone with slightly better aptitude, it is impossible to reach your current level of skill, and you have not yet comprehended the essence. You... can no longer say that your aptitude is not good, you simply have no aptitude!" Liu Lousan said furiously. The look of stomping.

Liu Maoxing was quite skeptical that the exaggerated acting skills of the other party were just to stimulate himself.

"Ahem, don't mind, I finally met someone who is less qualified than me in this area, I'm a little excited..."

"Actually, your words are what I want to care about the most!"

Liu Lousan finally said righteously: "Let's put it this way! Although you seem to have no entry at all now, in fact, in terms of skill level, there is only a thin line between you and the 'spiritual essence'! Normally, you have not reached This level, or even people with poor aptitude like yours shouldn't exist... Ahem, okay, okay, let's not talk about this problem!

In short, you are now standing in front of the gate of the 'Divine Essence', and you are only a step away from it! And according to my experience...'Divine Essence' is like an end point, when it arrives, it is arrived! No matter how poor your talent in this area is, as long as you have mastered the 'spiritual essence', you will be indistinguishable from others!

At that time, coupled with your various special skills, you will definitely be able to easily crush your current self...or when you look at your current self, it will be like looking at a stupid pig! "

"I think if you can't describe it, you don't need to say 'or'..."