Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Little friend, so you are also interested in the Jade Dragon Pot? It's a pity that it has been sealed up as a prize. I can only lend it to you after I win." Nakieji said.

Although there was still a fake smile on his face, Liu Maoxing could naturally notice that his complexion had changed, and there was also a look of "hate" in his smiling eyes...

It seems that Nakiriji also knows that if the fake kitchen utensils he provided are dismantled, there will be a lot of trouble!

And what he made up his mind before was to "put all his eggs in one basket"!

Liu Maoxing estimated that he should have trained a "professional" team in advance, at least it should be an elite cook like Ji Zhiguo Ningning who was actively parasitized by demons, and his experience and level would only be better than Ji Zhiguo Ningning's. higher.

In this way, although he can't go off in person, he can use the "devil" chef's heart to make the players of the professional competition team show their strength far superior to that of ordinary three-star chefs...

In addition, what Nakiri Ji is good at is to "build" people into tools, and the cooperation in the team will definitely be seamless!

It doesn't matter if the prize is fake, as long as the prize can be won back, who else will know whether it is real or fake?

Liu Maoxing's guess is indeed correct, this is Nakieji's "Plan 2" after losing the opportunity to take Yuanyue lightly...

On the one hand, he has a certain understanding of "legendary kitchen utensils" because of his relationship with the family, and he is sure. With "Jade Dragon Pot" as a prize, the "Dragon Chef Alliance" may follow suit and agree to the "American Development Council" "The right to host.

The "Michelin Gastronomy Federation" has been persuaded by the "American Development Association". As long as the Dragon Chef Alliance is persuaded, the right to host this competition will be no problem.

On the other hand, Nakie Ji also has confidence in the professional competition team that he has been hiding all along, and he will wait for the blockbuster in this year's competition to cover up the "fake jade dragon pot" at the beginning...

At that time, the "Central Gourmet Organ" who won this opportunity will be the biggest contributor to the "American Development Association". If they win the championship again, the influence of the "Central Gourmet Organ" will be further enhanced.

In this way, the "Central Gourmet Organization", which was originally a hero in the "American Development Association", can take this opportunity to win the biggest voice in the "American Development Association" in one fell swoop!

Looking back on what happened four months ago, Nakie Jiji was very complacent at the time, and he was very proud of Long Aotian. He promised to the other veterans of the "American Development Association" that he would be able to win the support of the Dragon Chef Alliance...

Afterwards, it was indeed successful, sweeping away the decline of the "Central Gourmet Organization" in the "American Development Conference" due to the collapse of the halberd, and even faintly had the meaning of occupying a dominant position.

At that time, Nakieji was quite happy, but he didn't expect that "Dragon Chef Alliance" would care so much about "Jade Dragon Pot".

As for whether the "Jade Dragon Pot" is real or not... as long as the "Central Gourmet Machine" wins in the end, no one will be able to see through it, and everything will be fine!

Of course, this plan is not insurance, otherwise, if you have the confidence to take charge of the "American Development Association", you will not plan Yuanyue before cutting thistle...

Nakieji himself was not very optimistic about this plan. First of all, he was not sure whether the "Dragon Chef Alliance" would take the bait for a jade dragon pot.

Moreover, Yuanyue's plan failed, he could still retreat to the American base camp of the central gastronomic organization, but if he failed this time, he and the "central gastronomic organization" would lose their position in the American Development Association. Before liberation, he was farther and farther away from his dream of revolutionizing the culinary world...

Fortunately for him, the plan went more smoothly than he had imagined, until later... it went too smoothly!

Natsukiji still doesn't understand why those dragon chefs are so crazy that they went to such great lengths for "Jade Dragon Pot" that they even changed the basic registration rules of "The Blue".

As a result, Nakie Ji didn't dare to be as confident as before, thinking that the team he had trained could be compared with other dragon chefs who personally ended up...

But there is also good news, that is, Nakiriji himself has finally taken the last step in cooking and has become one of the top cooks!

Although I haven't turned the "American Development Association" into my own, but it is indeed in the "American Development Association" now, and its status is even more grand...

As long as he can win in the end, Nakiriji's "Plan 2" can be said to be carried out perfectly, but if he loses, even if he is the Dragon Chef himself, he may suffer a fatal blow to his reputation. The Jade Dragon Pot is an imitation, he just didn't recognize it, but it is inevitable that he will be regarded as a "liar" by the whole world, and it can even be said that he is completely far away from his dream.

Seeing the subtle reaction of Nina Cutji, Liu Maoxing knew that this person should also be depressed. Obviously, the reactions of Long Chefs had exceeded his plan!

"There are so many top chefs participating... I heard that there are three top chefs in the world in the Dragon Chef Alliance. If not, they will be very disappointed, right?" Liu Maoxing said.

"How could there be no..."

Without waiting for Nina Cutji to refute, Liu Maoxing interrupted again: "If you don't win the championship, don't you have 'nothing' and just return empty-handed?"

Seeing Liu Maoxing's smiling face, Nakie Ji wanted to punch him.

He has already heard that there is something in Liu Maoxing's words. It seems that he learned from some channel that the "Jade Dragon Pot" is fake!

But now Liu Maoxing has no evidence to challenge it directly, and Nakieji is unwilling to take the initiative to bring it up. He smiled a little coldly and said: "That's a pity, but the top teams also have some consolation prizes... ...And I believe that everyone is here to promote the spirit of cooking, don't think of the masters so materially!"

This is what Nakiri Ji wants to say most now!

Are you too "material"? Just for a piece of "Jade Dragon Pot", you put down your face and change the rules to participate in the competition?

Behind Liu Maoxing, Erina stabbed him in the waist, as if to remind him not to talk so much "nonsense" and tell him to go away...

Seeing this scene, Nakieji felt even colder in his heart, and left with a cold snort.

Seizing the opportunity to "be alone" with Erina, Liu Maoxing asked specifically: "Ling'er, is Nagina Ji not affected by the 'curse'? He seems... also very puzzled by the behavior of other dragon chefs, unlike It's fake."

With super five senses, Liu Maoxing is confident that he can see through any loopholes.

"Now the 'curse' hasn't fully exploded, it just has some impact on their psychology, for example, the interest in 'Jade Dragon Pot' is the main impact! That guy already knew that 'Jade Dragon Pot' was fake, of course It won't show any strangeness." Ling'er said disdainfully.

Suddenly, Liu Maoxing felt that Ning Qie Ji should be the most direct victim after the harbinger of the "curse" appeared...

Originally, his "fake pot" plan was to identify everyone's psychological blind spots, thinking that it was impossible for someone to be stupid enough to use a fake pot as a cover, so he had an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Now his first goal has been exceeded, but at the same time, it has become more difficult for him to destroy the evidence!

"Don't put all your attention on him, don't forget that you have more important things... In the individual competition of this qualifier, the representatives of the 'Germinate Team' are you, Senpai Shinomiya and Mizuhara Gaku Miss?

With the level of the 'All Blue' contestants this time, I am afraid that if one person makes a mistake, the whole team will miss the main match. " Erina reminded.

Now the candidates for the individual competition of the two teams have been determined.

The "Germinate Team" led by Liu Maoxing is composed of Liu Maoxing, Shinomiya Kojiro, and Mizuhara Fuyumi in the individual competition, while Kanhiko can only wait for the team competition...

In terms of cooking with sausage as raw material, the Western cooking system is indeed more complete. The director of the restaurant is Japanese cuisine. At this time, although the weather is full of snow, it is also expected.

And the "Seed Team" who participated in the individual competition was naturally Erina, Dojima Gin and Hiromi Seto...

After a few days of "rest" in the hotel, on the night before the start of the game, Senzaemon also made his last pre-war mobilization.

Of course, it is said to be "rest", but in fact no one rests every day. There are many contestants staying in the hotel, and there are many rented cooking rooms around, and the Yuanyue Group has already given it to itself The three teams of players have rented the cooking room.

During the three days, the contestants in the individual competition were basically in the cooking room, further practicing and perfecting their own recipes, while the other contestants were also doing running-in training...

Even in this year's "All·Blue" competition with many strong players, the individual players of "Team Germinate" and "Team Seed" are not weak.

But there is one biggest flaw, and that is the cooperation of the team competition!

The three teams are all temporary team formations, compared to other teams of the same session, many of them are old collabs who worked together in a star-rated restaurant...

"You guys have to work hard! If the result is too bad, it will affect our mood in the team competition later, don't let me have no chance to make a move..." Gan Ri Xiangzi repeated orders.

Until Sigong held his head and threw him out of the waiting room of the contestants.

But as the team leader, Liu Maoxing has to say a few more words!

"I know that you two have actually participated in the 'The Blue' competition, but the difficulty of the 'All Blue' competition this time is definitely different from the previous ones. Many of the world's top chefs are already gearing up, and the judges are also in terms of scoring standards. Will reach the world's leading level!

I am afraid that no one will be able to get full marks, because in this competition, the meaning of full marks will be 'I no longer believe that I can taste more delicious food'...Our goal now is to advance to the top four in the qualifiers, and the three of us A score of at least 18 points, or even 18.5 points or more, will have a "chance" to enter the semi-finals and join the recommended teams from other organizations for the main match. "Liu Maoxing said in a deep voice.

There are a total of 102 participating teams that signed up this time. One round of qualifiers has to eliminate 98 teams and only take the top four. One can imagine how difficult it is!

"Actually, the number of participants this time is not as many as expected. In the last competition I participated in, there were more than 80 teams." Kojiro Shinomiya participated in the competition as a substitute for Totsuki's representative team in the previous competition.

"That's right, I've read the registration form. About half of them are culinary heroes who have entered the main competition and even won the championship in the past, but there are also some... polarized! The strength of the other part is not so good. It's not just the "Yuanyue Three Team" that has a hard-won star number." Liu Maoxing said.

Suwon said blankly at this time: "It's normal, because of the change of the registration rules, those chefs who are really at the top of the culinary world can participate in the competition, which has led many cooks who were not qualified to form a temporary team to join the competition." To join in the fun with the number of stars, but the original goal is to be a strong team in the main match and the championship, but because of the change of the rules, they will give up this competition.”

Indeed, after the news of changing the rules came out, rumors and gossips indeed arose in the culinary world...

If it wasn't for the "curse" that silently changed the mentality of Chef Long of the three major culinary organizations, I'm afraid they wouldn't do it rashly.

However, after the change of registration rules for this year, "All Blue" does not restrict the former Haoxiong to participate again, which makes the competition, which was originally a grand event in the culinary world, become the focus of the world's attention, and the degree of attention is far higher than that of previous years.

Therefore, many teams that had the opportunity to enter the main competition this year, it is not easy to offend the old people all over the world. In addition, the authority of the three major cooking organizations is still there, so they did not insist on opposing...

However, most of these teams did not participate in the competition!

Because in their opinion, they had hope to enter the main match, but according to the rules of this year, there was no hope at all, so they didn't come to embarrass their record.

On the contrary, many underdogs who have no hope of entering the main match and are hovering on the edge of registration qualifications, registered desperately this time, hoping to join in the fun, which can be regarded as competing with the heroes.

One increase and one decrease, the size of the registration team this time did not increase as much as expected.

But the scoring standards and the difficulty of qualifying for the main match are absolutely worlds apart!

Not to mention, from the 102 teams participating in the qualifiers, the good people selected ten seed teams, such as the Italian Royal Cuisine Team, the Hundred Stars Sanying Team, and the New Molecular Cuisine Team...

(Ahem, don’t ask me why other people’s team names are in Chinese, this is the effect of translation and translation~~)

Some are alliances based on cuisines, some are to promote new cooking concepts, and even the "Hundred Stars Sanying Team" first. The three core chefs are all veteran three-star cooks. The three have won more than one hundred stars. class!

Some even came with the goal of defeating the representative teams of the "Three Major Cuisine Organizations", becoming famous in one fell swoop, and even fighting for "orthodoxy"!

To break free from these people, even Liu Maoxing is under pressure...

The competition is divided into ten venues, with 30 contestants in each venue. The three major culinary organizations, the American Development Association, and well-known gourmets recruited from all over the world, a total of 55 people will serve as judges for the individual competition of the preliminaries!

There are five judges in each venue. At the same time, five judges will randomly check each venue to ensure that the scoring standards of each venue are consistent. Players who have opinions on the scoring can also report it at any time.

In other words, each contestant's cooking is scored by five judges, with a maximum score of 20 points, accurate to one decimal place, and the final score is the average of the scores given by the five judges, determined to two decimal places...

All the gourmets this time are definitely on full fire, any dissatisfaction will become a point of deduction, and according to Liu Maoxing's estimation, even under such an extreme standard, the scores of the top four will not be low At 90 points, that is to say, in individual battles, the score must be above 18 points!

Considering that the "Germinate team" is weak in team battles, it is best to score more than 18.5 points to be considered safe!

The morning was the part of the opening ceremony. After the master of ceremonies announced the entry of the "Germinate team", Liu Maoxing and others went to the field to assemble under the guidance of the staff.

Seeing audiences with all kinds of skin colors in all directions, Liu Maoxing suddenly understood why Nakieji was so "angry" with the dragon chefs of the other three major culinary organizations.

Although "All·Blue" is the successor to the previous "The·Blue", due to the change of the registration rules, the attention it received is not the same...

In the eyes of normal people, unless the three major culinary organizations are crazy, they shouldn't have made such a change when "The Blue" was held by the "American Development Association" and let it get such a high honor!

But the three families did so by coincidence...

In Nakiri Ji's view, these people are the representatives of "harming others and benefiting oneself".

Sitting in the VIP seat, Nakiriji really wants to ask now, are you paying such a high price and would rather the "American Development Association" get such a big benefit, and also disrupt my plan?

But now he still has to pretend that nothing is wrong, carefully avoiding the insinuating inquiries from the members of the "Dragon Chef Alliance" who are also at the VIP table...

The players of each team also stood up until the end of the opening ceremony.

Although the emcees were all first-line stars from various countries, and representatives of the three major culinary organizations cameo, the audience responded enthusiastically, but the hearts of the contestants were no longer here!

At noon, most of the contestants had a hasty lunch and began to wait for the afternoon qualifiers...

Standing in the venue where tens of thousands of people were watching, Liu Maoxing found his own cooking table, and began to place the ingredients and kitchen utensils in a convenient position.

Liu Maoxing could actually hear booing against him... In fact, it was even more obvious during the opening ceremony in the morning. It was discovered that there were some "noises" mixed in with the cheers!

Liu Maoxing's super-acoustic ability enabled him to hear the main reason for the booing from countless noises...

That's right, exactly three days ago, the words of Liu Maoxing's tit-for-tat confrontation with Nakie Ji have been artificially publicized.

The boos were mainly made by the Americans at home, because what Liu Maoxing said to Nakiri Ji before did mean to underestimate American cuisine and the American Development Association...

Of course, Liu Maoxing himself didn't have this kind of thought, it was just for the purpose of attacking Xia Qieji.

But it is inevitable that many people think that Liu Maoxing, and even all Yuanyue's students, are too arrogant and conceited, and even the veteran chefs are not in their eyes!

However, in the eyes of most people, Yuanyue's three teams are not strong.

If Yuanyue came up with the best lineup, he would actually be selected as one of the top ten favorites, but the students from Yuanyue College were mixed in, and most of them showed disdain for the three teams of Yuanyue College.

Even though they knew that "Team Germinate" had Liu Maoxing, a national treasure sword master, and "Team Seed" had talented chef Erina Nakiri, they still didn't change their impression...

After all, most of the people are just "guests". The cooks who have really entered the room have some confidence in the "Germinate Team". They understand that Liu Maoxing, whose knife skills have reached the "National Treasure Level", will definitely not hold anyone back!

Thanks to the master of ceremonies in more than ten languages, the voice of "cooking starts" sounded at the same time, and the players in the ten arenas started to move their hands at the same time at their cooking tables.

Liu Maoxing's "Sixth Stadium" is ranked among the top three in terms of popularity among the ten arenas, not because of the number of seeded players here, but because of Liu Maoxing here!

Apparently what he said when he satirized Natsu and thistle offended these Americans greatly, and the irony in various languages ​​was endless...

"Huh? You also came to stage six? Isn't Chef Brad the one you want to see the most, in stage ten?"

"I'm here to see that arrogant brat! Chef Brad will be able to see it until the main game, but I'm afraid there's only one chance to see this brat."

"Yes, good bye..."

"What do you think? With so many master chefs, it's obvious that Yuanyue's three teams have no chance."

"Hey, it's actually because the 'Food Demon King' in the east is too stubborn, because before the registration rules were changed, he announced that he would use school students for the competition, but the rules were suddenly changed..."

"Yes! The registration rules have been changed, and he changed his words accordingly, and no one will say anything. The talents of Chef Dojima and Chef Shinomiya were wasted. I am afraid that he will be dragged down by those 'children' and stop at the preliminary selection It's a race!"

"They have no chance at all? In the individual competition, only three players are required to participate, and in the team competition that follows..."

"Impossible! The scores at the top this time must be very close, even 0.1 points can't be careless, even if there is a brat holding them back, they can be blocked from the main match!"

Liu Maoxing took a deep breath, completely unaffected by the doubts from the surrounding audience, and took out various prepared ingredients...

A lot of people were paying attention to him at this time, some wanted to see the strength of the "National Treasure Level Sword Master", and some were waiting to see a joke.

"Huh? What are those soaked in water? Seafood? Why not just use live ones?"

"Stupid, that's dry food! Chinese cuisine is very particular about this, it should be dried seafood that has been soaked in advance..."

"And the red meat, is it the ham in Chinese cuisine? I don't know which one of the three major Chinese hams."

"What sausage are these with? Wait... did you see the sausage he used?"

"..."