Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

After the "kidney-tonifying" turmoil passed, the students were still below, discussing in low voices the meaning of Yu Mei's handing the kidney-tonifying soup to Liu Maoxing, and why Liu Maoxing said "you know it too" to Erina and others...

The competition on the stage was still going on, and Tian Suohui also brought bowls of black porridge to the five judges.

"This is?"

"Yes, it's the black porridge I prepared for everyone!" Tian Suohui said nervously.

It's not the first time Tian Suohui has competed in the "Between the Moon and the Sky", but this time he has already stood here as one of the top ten, and it is also the first time Tian Suohui has stood in front of so many students as one of the top ten...

Although under Liu Maoxing's persuasion, Tian Suohui was ready to set an example for everyone as one of the ten heroes, but when he really stood here and accepted everyone's eyes as the top ten, he still showed some stage fright.

For a while, many freshmen of Tian Suohui who didn't know him and the invited guests had started talking about it.

After all, she is one of the ten heroes with the weakest aura since the competition started, and the simple name of "Black Porridge" also looks very imposing!

"Eh? Who is this native girl?"

"It seems that after Ji Zhiguo Ningning and Ruishan Zhijin were also cut off from their positions, the ten heroes who came in as substitutes..."

"Substitute? It seems that you didn't see this person during the finals?"

"Well, I was eliminated in the playoffs of the qualifiers."

"Is there something tricky about it? It feels so ordinary..."

"However, this time there are judges to score. If the final score is less than 60 points, it will be interesting!"

At this time, the judges stirred the porridge with spoons, and they could see that there were various black beans and grains in it...

"Let's try it first! It's fish, meat, and tonic soup... the stomach really needs to rest." Xiang Tian said.

As the five judges spoke, they began to sip the porridge.

But gradually, the voice of commenting did not appear, but the voice of drinking porridge became louder...

In the end, the five judges even raised the bowls in their hands and drank the "black porridge" directly from the bowls.

Seeing this scene, the audience who didn't take it seriously at first couldn't help being dumbfounded.

"This warm feeling... is completely different from the pitch black color!"

"This is... black beans, black lentils, black cowpeas, black mung beans... and black rice, black grains, rye, black corn, black sesame... a mixture of nine kinds of beans and grains!"

"Also added black garlic for seasoning, so that the porridge not only has a thick taste and mellow flavor, but also brings a hint of sweet and sour taste..."

Black garlic is not a plant, but a product of fresh garlic fermented in a high temperature and high humidity environment.

Compared with fresh garlic, the fat and water content of fermented black garlic is reduced, and the trace elements contained in it are significantly increased, and the protein and vitamins are more than twice that of fresh garlic.

And the taste will change from spicy to sweet and sour!

"The most important thing is this feeling of resting the body and mind... It seems that after nightfall, the god of sleep puts a dream quilt on everyone, which makes people feel warm and relaxed!"

"That's right, although it's 'dark cuisine', it's completely different from the 'darkness' used by other people to solve the problem. It is a kind of darkness that makes people feel comfortable, peaceful, and sleeps peacefully in the middle of the night!"

Liu Maoxing has also seen that Xiaohui's "angel" kitchen heart, after being eroded by a "demon", has now returned to normal, and after being tempered, the strength of the kitchen heart has also improved and become more flexible...

Originally, Xiaohui's "angel" is the same as Liu Maoxing's "sun", which is not suitable for deducting questions, but the transformed "angel" is no longer limited to light and darkness, even in darkness, he can also find darkness In the warmth!

The scores given by the judges also appeared on the screen at this time, 15, 16, 15, 15, 16...

"Tian Suohui's score has come out! The total score is 77 points! It is evenly divided with Kurokiba! Next, please show the score of Kurokiba..."

17, 17, 15, 12, 16, the previous scores of Kurokiba are displayed below the scores of Tian Suohui. Looking at the one-to-one correspondence, only the scores given by Oizumi, Xiaohui’s score is higher, and the score given by Horikoshi It was a tie, and everyone else gave Kurokiba a higher score.

Xiaohui's score did not exceed Liu Maoxing's expectations. Although she has a cooking heart that even Xinghei Chuangzhen and Kurokiba Ryo do not have, she is still inferior to others in terms of cooking skills and creativity. So with the addition of the kitchen heart, it only surpassed Alice and Feisha...

Of course, the total score of 77 points already represents that she is unquestionably qualified as one of the top ten, at least in terms of cooking!

"After comparing the scores of the five judges, Ryo Kurokiba is one step ahead of Megumi Tiansuo and continues to rank fifth, while Megumi Tasho ranks sixth!" Rei Kawashima announced.

Although it was tied with Ryo Kurokiba, Tian Suohui was very satisfied with the result, and even showed a downtime state because of being overly nervous and relaxing after hearing the score...

However, at the same time as the shutdown, Xiaohui's body seemed to instinctively make a mechanical gesture of thanking the judges and bowing to the audience.

Youji, who was already moved to the point of tears, waved the flag and cheered and said: "Xiaohui! We have seen your hard work! Woooooo..."

Seeing that Xiaohui seemed to be about to collapse at any moment, Liu Maoxing immediately went over to support her, and said, "Don't worry! You're doing very well..."

From worrying about being expelled, barely passing the dormitory and training, to being nominated for the autumn selection competition, being shortlisted for the main competition, and now becoming one of the "Ten Outstanding" standing at the top of Yuanyue Academy!

When she was nominated at the meeting before, Tian Suohui still felt that she lacked real sense, but now, under the witness of many students and guests, she has completed the top ten qualifying competition and won enough recognition for her status as one of the top ten. As a result, Tian Suohui was full of feelings, even confusion...

Especially after hearing Liu Maoxing's voice, Xiaohui suddenly relaxed from the upset, and suddenly felt drowsy, and fell asleep just leaning against Liu Maoxing!

After Liu Maoxing found out, he didn't wake her up, but picked her up and sent her to the sidelines to be taken care of by Youji and Ryoko...

Looking at Tian Suohui's nose, shaking, shaking, and the long breath seemed to echo in a dream, Liu Maoxing could imagine that she probably stayed up all night last night, choosing ingredients and preparing for today's competition all night .

However, this kind of silence can't last long, for example, everyone's strange eyes immediately made Liu Maoxing return to the court listlessly.

Erina had already started to present the dishes, and five hidden dishes were placed in front of the judges.

At this time, apart from Liu Maoxing and Erina, the other eight people have already presented the dishes...

Seeing Erina's appearance, the invited guests and audience finally refocused their attention!

That's right, most of the guests have been obsessed with Liu Maoxing's "Sword of Quick Healing" before. They were either discussing with each other or thinking about it. What kind of changes will it bring to myself and the cooking group behind me, and I have been contacting other people to inform them that I have seen the "Knife of Quick Healing".

Even Isshiki was forced to "steal the show". It is estimated that only hard fans like HUB's Chitara Orie have noticed Isshiki's cooking.

Although in the end Liu Maoxing hastily "retracted the knife" - taking out only one-tenth of the roe, healed the wound of the big sturgeon, it can be seen that his "quick healing knife" is effective in dealing with people over sixty years old. When Beluga was still weak, the wound stability was not good...

For Beluga over 60 years old, it is possible that the cells will gradually wake up before the roe is taken out, so Liu Maoxing will "close the knife" in advance.

But what does that matter? Liu Maoxing is only sixteen or seventeen years old now, and he still has a lot of time. With his progress rate, he may be able to fully master the "Sword of Quick Healing" in less than two years!

Even now, he can already be treated as the third national treasure sword master...

It wasn't until everyone gradually "digested" the news and refocused their energies on the field. After all, even if they wanted to contact Liu Maoxing, it was not a matter of now.

Moreover, as the heir of the Nakiri family and the Yuanyue Group, Erina's weight will not be lower than that of a national treasure-level sword master...

The five judges opened the cover of the plate in front of them, and there was a snail in the middle of it!

There are some cheeses and blanched vegetables around as decorations, but the main dish is obviously this snail, which is the size of a palm...

etc! What about the sea cucumber? Did Erina choose sea cucumbers before? Everyone remembers this!

I did not see the sea cucumber, but a large snail was replaced. From the size and color of the shell, it can be seen that this should be the white jade snail among the edible snails. The main place of origin is East Asia, and it belongs to the subspecies of the African large snail. The shell length is enough. up to twenty centimeters...

But it is said that I saw a snail, but in fact I only saw a snail shell!

As the national dish of France, snails have now become the "king of head dishes" in European and American banquets from the very beginning, a French folk home-cooked dish, a precious banquet dish, like when the family gathers for Christmas. Dishes tend to be snails.

In France, the birthplace of grilled snails, hundreds of millions of snails are consumed every year, but in Asia, except for western restaurants, eating snails is not common...

The staff has provided special clips and small forks for the judges in a timely manner. The five judges have started to fix the snail shell with snail clips, and skillfully used the small fork to take out the snail meat inside...etc. ! Isn't this snail meat?

The meat of the white jade snail is not so dark, and the texture is not right!

"This is... a sea cucumber? I see, did you put the sea cucumber in a snail shell?" Xiang Tian asked with a bright eye.

Speaking of which, the five judges will also take out the sea cucumber, fork it up and put it into their mouths...

Contrary to snails, in the circle of East Asian cuisine culture most deeply influenced by Chinese cuisines, many countries have the habit of eating sea cucumbers, but in European and American cuisines, the market for sea cucumbers is actually very small!

However, Erina's cuisine combines the two. The normal French-style baked snails also take out the snail meat, cut them into pieces, marinate them, fry them, and finally put them back into the shell and seal them with cheese or egg foam. Roasted, but what Erina finally put back into the shell was not the original snail meat, but sea cucumber pieces!

Sea cucumber and snails have a relatively light taste. Even for most people, they can be classified as "no taste, only taste", but there are some differences. For example, snail meat is "salty" , while sea cucumbers are "sweet and salty"...

Erina chose to pour cheese to seal the mouth. At this time, with the melted cheese, the five judges put black sea cucumber cubes into their mouths.

The faces of the five judges changed after the entrance of the sea cucumber, as if what they were chewing was not the sea cucumber, but something "scary"...

Looking at the Yan Yi of the judges, the audience below couldn't help discussing, as if they were guessing, what did they eat?

Liu Maoxing was also very curious, so he took the initiative to pick up a snail that Erina "made too much".

Although Erina didn't say it was for Liu Maoxing, he seemed to have acquiesced.

Originally, Liu Maoxing wanted to crush the shell directly, but after picking it up, he felt that there seemed to be something else in it besides the sea cucumber chunks?

So instead of using the most violent way of eating, he honestly used a shaving hook to take out the sea cucumber pieces inside.

When Liu Maoxing tasted the sea cucumber, his expression changed slightly. He could feel the colloidal taste of the sea cucumber, combined with Erina's "rich" sauce as the main sauce, steamed and then roasted in the snail shell...

tasty! But at the same time as it was delicious, Liu Maoxing felt a kind of loneliness and loneliness, as if he was locked in a small dark room while tasting this dish!

This is not the effect of the heart of the chef. Liu Maoxing, who is full of curiosity about "Linger", naturally pays attention to the changes in Erina's heart of cooking when he is cooking. This kind of impact on the soul is not the effect of Linger... …

To be precise, Ling'er did not show any ability to directly infuse will in the cooking, but exists as an extremely rare cooking heart that assists the cook himself, just like the "greedy cat".

Kobayashi Rindou's "greedy cat" can help her analyze the recipes of the dishes she tastes.

The function of "Ling'er" is to greatly improve Erina's food taste, and at the same time, it can temporarily use the essence of spices and firework. Liu Maoxing suspects that the reason why the essence of sword skill does not appear is because of this dish It doesn't really need knife skills!

At the same time, the most important thing is that Erina is also given the ability of "source cooking"!

Specifically, there was communication between "Linger" and Erina. Linger taught Erina this recipe, and Linger directly gave Erina the ability to perceive the "source" of the ingredients, and Liu Maoxing was asked to go back later. learn.

But as far as this dish is concerned, it is indeed "source cuisine"...that is, to stimulate the "source" of the ingredients themselves, to achieve the purpose of touching people's hearts.

And this kind of feeling that diners feel as if their hearts are locked in a small black room after tasting is not caused by the "source" of sea cucumbers, but the source of "snail shells" and "sea cucumbers". After the exchange of products!

The heart of the kitchen is the "source" to change the ingredients, and the source cuisine is the "source" to inspire the ingredients. It seems that the latter is more rigid, but in fact it is definitely not the case.

The combination of different ingredients will make the "source" produce wonderful changes!

"But even though the title is 'Dark Cuisine', this feeling is not very pleasant... Wait! This is..." Liu Maoxing was muttering softly, and suddenly seemed to have discovered something.

Sure enough, at the same time, Erina also made a new move. She took out five droppers filled with liquid and placed them in front of the five judges...

"After eating the sea cucumber, drop this into the snail shell, and then drink it in one gulp! There is also the broth curd I prepared..." Erina said.

Looking at the translucent liquid in the dropper, Xiang Tian took a closer look and said, "This is brandy-based soup, right? Is it dripping in the snail shell?"

Liu Maoxing was also on Erina's cooking table at this time, found the "leftover" dropper, poured all the liquid in it into the snail shell, and at the same time muttered in his mouth: "First fill you up." of……"

After all the liquid in the dropper was poured in, the snail shell was almost full. At the same time, Liu Maoxing could feel that the curd of broth in the snail shell had been mixed into the soup.

Using the shell of the white jade snail as a wine cup and soup cup, I drank down the soup that was much darker in color...

Liu Maoxing suddenly felt that the previous sense of isolation in his heart was instantly "broke the cocoon", and the previous process seemed to be "gathering strength". Under the influence of "brandy snail soup", the original feeling of a little suffocation was completely relieved. Go, only hearty heart left...

"This is... the so-called broth curd inside, but it is actually ground snail meat, boiled with spices, and then left to cool and condense?"

"Originally, it was at the back of the sea cucumber and the innermost part of the snail shell, so when the sea cucumber was taken out, it was not brought out. Then, it was mixed into the soup when it encountered a high-quality brandy-based soup!"

"After the soup enters the mouth... this feeling is like seeing the bright light of the dawn..."

"From the sea cucumber at the beginning to the snail soup at the end...perfect! Both the taste and the grasp of the topic are impeccable!"

Erina also said at this time: "That's right, I named this dish 'Breaking Dawn'! The moment of relief from the darkness..."

Erina's "Breaking Dawn" was highly praised by the judges, and Liu Maoxing felt that this "Breaking Dawn" was also in line with Erina's own mood and experience, and with the help of "Linger", it would have such an effect. Not surprising...