Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"What a mess to meet the parents, I just...forget it, I can't explain it for a while!" Liu Maoxing said helplessly.

Especially Mito's gloomy and resentful eyes, as well as Tian Suohui's lost but forced smile, all gave him a headache...

And at this moment, behind Liu Maoxing, there was a sudden sound of unfamiliar footsteps.

Liu Maoxing looked back, only to find a "familiar" guy standing behind him...

"Excuse me, is this the 'Ji Xing Room'? Senior Liu Maoxing."

Looking at the squint-eyed boy in front of him, Liu Maoxing suddenly remembered something, and immediately asked, "Are you... a pheasant? Why are you here?"

The squint-eyed boy couldn't help grinning, and corrected at the same time: "It's not a pheasant, it's Sugiyama-kichi, Sugiyama-ji!"

That's right, the one from the Sugiyama family who met once at the Hokkaido Seafood Pastry Contest.

"What are you doing here?" Liu Maoxing asked suspiciously.

"Huh? Don't you guys know? After I passed the external recruitment assessment yesterday, I was told that I was assigned to the 'Jixing Room'? Unexpectedly, Senior Liu Maoxing is also in the Jixing Room. Please take care of me in the future."

From the beginning to the end, Sugiyama Yoshi was always smiling with his eyes squinted, and the words he said were obviously just "scene talk" in a tone that made it impossible to tell the slightest sincerity.

"Oh, by the way, I did say that three new students were assigned this year, two were recruited from outside, and one was transferred..." Wen Xu said.

"The transferee has gone to go through the formalities, and he should report later." Liu Maoxing said.

"Transfer student" naturally refers to Liu Maoyuan.

Hearing what Liu Maoxing said, everyone's eyes lit up with gossip again...

And at this moment, another voice came from behind Liu Maoxing: "Get out of the way, it's blocking the way!"

Hearing this arrogant tone, Liu Maoxing and Sugiyama behind Liu Maoxing all looked back... Afterwards, Sugiyama, who always had eyes above the top, decided to get out of the way!

I saw that the person who came was a girl with waist-length hair that was mostly new gray and only the middle one was pure black. She was about 1.78 meters tall and looked about the same height as Liu Maoxing, but her facial features were very delicate.

But now on the girl's face, there is an expression of "I am here, Long Aotian"...

Of course, what really made Sugiyama immediately decide to "ladies first" was that this girl with long silver-gray hair was carrying a long knife on her shoulder and holding the scabbard with one hand.

The moment Sugiyama saw the knife, she decided to step aside, and only Liu Maoxing stood in front of her...

"Boy, is this Jixing Liao?" the girl asked.

"Little boy?" Liu Maoxing couldn't help shaking the corners of his mouth.

"That's right, this is Jixingliao, but who are you?" Liu Maoxing suspected that she was here to cause trouble!

"That's good, it seems that you have found the right one, step aside, you are in the way!" the girl said bluntly.

Liu Maoxing didn't want to get out of the way at first, but the opponent directly used the "proud place" to charge forward. Facing this horrific double attack chariot, Liu Maoxing chose to avoid it...

When she passed by him, Liu Maoxing realized that there was actually a luggage in the shape of a "baggage" hanging on the handle of the knife? Does anyone still use "baggage" now?

"This mother-in-law, who looks very old, is the dormitory auntie, right? I belong to Saito Sakura, and I will be recruiting foreign students who will live here this year." The girl said and handed out the proof of occupancy to Wenxu.

"What a disrespect! Everyone calls me 'Maria of Jixingliao'!" Wen Xu said dissatisfied.

In fact, only Liu Maoxing calls you Wenxu Maria! Everyone complained in their hearts.

"Wait, Saitou... so..."

Liu Maoxing took a closer look at the girl with silver and black hair. Before that, he felt that the first sight of this girl was a bit "familiar".

Now hearing her self-introduction of her family, Liu Maoxing suddenly remembered that from hair color to knife-resistant appearance, this girl is very similar to the former fifth seat Zongming Saito!

It's just that Saito Zongming has a mohawk comb haircut, the pinch in the middle is black, and the sides are silver gray...

Liu Maoxing used to think that part of this guy should be dyed, but seeing Saito Sakura's long hair, the middle one is pure black, and the rest is silver-gray, Liu Maoxing had a new idea.

Sugiyama Kichi also handed over the check-in certificate, but Wen Xu said: "Okay, don't rush to put your luggage, the rules of Jixing Liao, you should have seen it on the check-in notice, right? This kind of check-in certificate is a restriction. It’s not mine, if you can’t cook something that satisfies me, just find a place to camp outside!”

"Don't worry, I have brought ingredients..." Sugiyama said.

"Well, I have one too."

Sugiyama Yoshi just wanted to ask her, how does such a small burden look like it has ingredients? But when he turned his head and saw the knife on Saito Sakura's shoulder, he gave up the idea of ​​getting in touch with her more.

"Wait a little longer, and finally one more person arrives, let's start together." Wen Xu said.

"By the way, I heard that the better the occupancy assessment is, the better the room you can choose, right?" Saito Sakura asked.

"That's right."

After Saito Sakura nodded, she walked straight to the side without saying hello to the others, just sat down cross-legged, pulled out the long knife, put it across her knees, and closed her eyes...

It made Liu Maoxing wonder if she was talking to the strange uncle who lived in the knife or something!

Of course, the complaints in my heart are all complaints. After Saito Sakura entered the state of "sword Zen meditation", Liu Maoxing saw that this sword skill must not be simple!

This is what Liu Maoxing, who already possesses the "essence of sword skills", can feel.

But in other people's eyes, it was a certain Xing who was insane, and immediately set his sights on the new school girl...

"Hmph, someone really has 'wide range of hobbies'!" Mito Yumei said dissatisfiedly on the side.

It was only then that Liu Maoxing noticed something was wrong, and asked Saito Sakura in a sly voice, "Who is Saito Zongming?"

Saito Sakura opened her eyes in dissatisfaction, and said unhappily: "Brother trash."

"Saito Zongming? Ah! It's the fifth seat..."

"No wonder! Just now I think her appearance is a bit familiar... The last name is also very familiar..."

"Sister Saito-senpai?"

"But what you say about 'Brother Trash' is really capricious! Saito-senpai is one of the top ten..."

Only then did everyone know what Liu Maoxing was looking at, but Mito Yumei turned her head away in embarrassment.

"Then what are you doing in 'Ji Xing Liao'? Doesn't the Central Gourmet Agency have its own dormitory?" Liu Maoxing frowned.

Others also realized at this time that Saito Zongmei was a staunch supporter of Nakiriji at that time!

"Huh? He supports the Central Gourmet Organization, what does it matter to me? Don't compare me to that trash, he joined the Central Gourmet Organization after graduation... It should be to prove that he is not a trash, and can even be compared with me? Hehe, the purpose of my coming here is to tell him 'stop dreaming', trash is trash!"

Saito Sakura declared proudly.

Obviously, her previous "trash brother" was not arrogant or anything like that, but blatantly discriminatory!

Among the original supporters of Naginakiji, Kobayashi Gendan and Akakubo Momo belonged to the nature of paddling, while Si Yingshi, Saito Zongmei, and Ji Zhiguo Ningning were staunch supporters.

Liu Maoxing had probably guessed the reason why Si Yingshi turned to Nina and Jiji before, while Ji Zhiguo Ningning was working hard in the direction of "tools" for unknown reasons. As for what Saito Zongming thought There has been no eyebrows.

Seeing his arrogant Saito-like sister now, Liu Maoxing has already automatically made up hundreds of thousands of words of the plot...

It is probably Saito Zongming who came from the same big family, but he has been suppressed, despised, discriminated against by his younger sister, and may even be involved in other things. After that, he left the family "Don't bully the young and poor" and came to Yuanyue College to "rely on his own". up.

During the period, he won the honor of "Ten Excellent Yuanyue", and also joined Nakiri Ji, planning to "reform" the situation in the culinary world with him, but at the graduation ceremony, after a wave of "beep" just happily, immediately His younger sister passed the external recruitment exam and entered Yuanyue, as if she wanted to completely crush his pride...

As for how did Liu Maoxing think of "family grievances"?

Originally, he remembered that there was a "five-petal flower" pattern at the mouth of Saito Zongming's scabbard, next to the knife grid. I also saw the same pattern on the website, it seems that it will not be as simple as "decoration", but should be "family crest"!

Excluding the factors of the central gourmet agency, no matter how you look at it, it seems that the "Saito Sakura" in front of you belongs to the evil forces?

But no matter how you say it, Saito Sakura's appearance can't tell that she is lying, at least she is not a member of the "central food agency".

"Have you been practicing cooking at home?" Liu Maoxing asked curiously.

If this is the case, then Saito Sakura... I'm afraid it's not as good as Liu Maoyuan!

Although the Liu family, which has a history of more than a hundred years, is not in the forefront of the world's culinary families in terms of historical heritage, but there used to be a dragon-level cook "Liu Maoxing", and the Liu family's family heritage is definitely one of the best.

In addition, Liu Maoyuan is also a "genius" that meets once in ten years in the Liu family. If Saito Sakura also has this kind of education model, I am afraid...it is much worse than Saito Zongming!

Saito Sakura seemed a little upset, this person always asked herself, but still replied: "Of course not! Since I was ten years old, I have been traveling around the world's famous stores and famous schools!"

"Ten years old?" Liu Maoxing looked at her in surprise.

Well, Xiaozhi also took Pikachu on the road when he was ten years old, there is nothing impossible...

And at this moment, Liu Maoyuan who went to go through the formalities also came back.

"This is 'Ji Xing Liao', right? Hello everyone, my name is Liu Maoyuan, and I'm a transfer student directly to the third grade. I hope you can get along well in the next year!" Liu Maoyuan said.

While speaking with a mini headset, the effect of the translation into the island language came out from the arms of the jacket.

Liu Maoyuan is far from being able to communicate freely without the aid of props, and it may take a long time to learn to adapt...

"Liu Maoyuan?" Everyone couldn't help repeating the name, and then looked at Liu Maoxing who had just denied certain things.

"Ah! Don't worry, my name and Ah Xing's name just happen to be similar!" Liu Maoyuan explained.

But apparently it only had the opposite effect...

"A Xing?"

That's not like addressing someone who "just" happens to have a name like me!

"Ahem, well, since the three of you are all here, let's prepare for the check-in assessment." Wen Xu interrupted Liu Maoyuan's words to explain.

Liu Maoyuan had already been reminded by Liu Maoxing, and the ingredients were also prepared.

As for the other people in Ji Xing Liao, although they are all preparing for the "Contest for the Top Ten Seats", they are not very nervous because the topic has not yet been announced, and they all come to watch the excitement...

At this time, Mito Yumei also pretended not to care and walked to Liu Maoxing's side, pretending to be natural and asking, "Did you have a good winter vacation?"

"Hey, it's hard to describe!" Liu Maoxing exclaimed.

"It's not a happy trouble, is it?"

"There is also happiness, and there are also troubles..."

While the two were talking at the side, Liu Maoyuan, Sugiyama Yoshi and Saito Sakura had already taken out the ingredients they had prepared.

At this moment, when the three of them saw each other's prepared ingredients, they couldn't help being taken aback...

All three of them took out the fresh-keeping box from the luggage (burden). After that, what Liu Maoyuan took out was a piece of frozen sea bream, and what Sugiyama took out was a 30-40cm sockeye salmon. As for Saito Sakura’s safe , it contained a slender sweetfish about 20 centimeters in size!

The ingredients for the three of them are all fish?

Needless to say, the sea bream prepared by Liu Maoyuan is known as the "king of fish", and Sugiyama's sockeye salmon is a sockeye salmon native to Alaska. It is famous for its dark red meat and high oil content, even if it has not been peeled yet. , You can also see that the whole body is red.

As for sweetfish, it belongs to freshwater fish. It is known as “the head of freshwater fish” in island countries. Usually, freshwater fish is considered to have a strong fishy smell, but sweetfish is different, because wild sweetfish has a fragrance similar to cucumber, so Also known as "cucumber fish".

It is also called "catfish", but it has nothing to do with "catfish" in terms of body shape and blood relationship. It just means that both have a strong habit of occupying space...

Usually wild sweetfish is slender and farmed sweetfish is short and thick, but this one of Saito Sakura should be wild.

"Ayu? I once ate grilled ayu in Hozugawa, Kyoto... Ah, the crispy texture, and the deliciousness of the specially preserved fish sausage after being grilled... Tsk tsk." Wen Xu said .

"Oh? Grandma, do you like grilled sweetfish with fish sausage? You really know what to eat! Then I'll make a grilled sweetfish for you to relive... No, it's better than the one you tasted before. It's delicious!" Saito Sakura said.

At the same time, I really gave up the various spices I had prepared, but only took some coarse-grained salt from the kitchen cabinet, and dug out the small charcoal stove under the cooking table...

To actually change the original preparation because of Wen Xu's words, this undoubtedly shows Saito Sakura's confidence!

"By the way, but this is not the sweetfish from the Hozu River in Kyoto, but the sweetfish from the Nagara River in Gifu." Saito Sakura explained.

What Saito Sakura is going to do is obviously the simplest and most authentic salt-grilled sweetfish, except for salt, do not use any other spices!

"Oh? Then I'm looking forward to it." Wen Xu said.

Liu Maoyuan and Sugiyama Yoshi chose "Snap Spring Rolls" and "Fried Red Salmon" respectively...

At this time, Liu Maoyuan's "Snap Spring Rolls" did not copy the "Reincarnation Spring Rolls". Firstly, it was because they did not want to continue to "eat their old roots", and secondly, it was because the sea bream was originally frozen. Without the "Yonglin Knife", there is no Fa reincarnated.

Liu Maoxing noticed that she also added mint leaves and lemon juice to the sea bream filling, using the sourness of the lemon juice to further enhance the freshness of the sea bream filling, which is quite a bit like Thai spring rolls.

As for Sugiyama Yoshi's red salmon, after taking it out, he didn't move the knife, but moved the "needle" first!

I saw Sugiyama Kichi flying his hands first, and after inserting more than ten acupuncture needles of three types on the red salmon, he went straight to the side and made spices first.

After the spices were prepared, Sugiyama Kichicai came back and pulled out all the needles, and everyone saw the sockeye jumping a few times!

It actually stimulated some of the only remaining nerve reactions of red salmon!

Then start to slice the front and back two whole pieces of meat, marinate, smear spices... and start injecting spices?

That's right, it is using a syringe to inject some kind of sauce, while pushing it carefully, while slowly pulling out the needle...

Liu Maoxing used a similar method when cooking "Flame Roast Suckling Pig" in the "Autumn Trials".

This is not Liu Maoxing's original creation... The roast turkey that is usually eaten at Christmas is a typical baked product that needs to be injected with spices!

But normally, there is no need to inject the sauce for the small salmon meat. Although Sugiyama Yoshi sliced ​​the whole salmon meat, it is not to the extent that it needs to be injected...

And it's not a turkey needle for injecting sauce, but something that looks like a medical syringe!

On the other side, Saito Sakura's actions are the most ordinary, just using the charcoal, charcoal stove, and coarse-grained salt in the kitchen to slowly roast sweetfish...

About an hour later, the "Snap Spring Rolls" and "Fried Red Salmon" were ready. Neither Liu Maoyuan nor Sugiyama Kichi obviously cooked more than one portion.

Although Sugiyama Yoshi's "Fried Sockeye Salmon" is fried whole, it is sliced ​​before serving, and it is accompanied by some grilled mushrooms and vegetables that have been blanched and chilled before serving. .

Except for Wen Xu, everyone else was also given some spring rolls and small pieces of fried fish...

"Hoohoo, while the freshness of sea bream is preserved in this spring roll, it also has a cool feeling!"

"That's right, the crispy batter, fish skin double spring roll skin, plus this sea bream filling, is different from Ah Xing's 'Reincarnation Spring Roll', but it is also very refreshing."

"The taste of this pan-fried fish...why is it so 'bouncy'? It's almost like a freshly slaughtered live salmon!"

"There is also the feeling that the sauce and the fish are completely integrated, which is also very lingering..."

"Very good! Pass all the levels...Welcome to Pole Star Room!"

Wen Xu was obviously also very satisfied, announcing that the two had passed the check-in examination.

But at this moment, a scent suddenly came over...

"You're done!"

As Saito Sakura said, she directly tore off a piece of kitchen paper, wrapped the grilled sweetfish into a place where she could hold it, and handed it to Wenxu...Obviously no one else has a share!

But for some reason, everyone felt in a trance that this simple "salt grilled sweetfish" seemed to have the momentum to swallow all the previous "bream spring rolls" and "fried red salmon".

Wen Xu is also a person who knows how to eat. Looking at the salt-grilled sweetfish that has been roasted into a yellowish brown color, the belly of the fish is slightly burnt, but the tail is still intact. bit down...

Start with the roasted crispy and delicious brains, and then shave the fish bones while gnawing down on the fish meat...

"Sure enough, it is pure wild Nagaragawa ayu. The fish has a faint cucumber flavor, and it is perfectly preserved during roasting..."

"Hmm! The crispy fish head, tender brains, slightly charred fish meat, delicious fish intestines... are indeed the same as back then!"

"No, although it only uses coarse-grained salt, it has a fuller and more original flavor than the grilled sweetfish with special sauce that I tasted back then!"

After a while, Wen Xu, with a happy expression on his face, had already finished eating the whole grilled sweetfish!

In the end, although all three of them passed the test, no matter who can see the superiority among them...

The faces of everyone present were different, but Liu Maoxing was full of interest, and secretly said: It seems that this "Ten Elite Seat Competition" will not be too boring... I don’t know how many other people besides Erina Can you be my opponent?