Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Today is the last day of the qualifiers... Is there any team worth watching?"

"Of course there are! There are two seed teams for today's game, one of which is the super strong team, the 'Italian Royal Cuisine Team' who declared before the game that they would challenge the 'Michelin Food Federation Representative Team'! Another team is also promising The top four seeded team 'Central Gourmet Team'!"

"Oh? What time are the two teams? I need to set the alarm when I get back..."

Because the time period of the game is too long, the tickets for the scene are divided into time periods, and most people still watch the broadcast.

"Coincidentally, the 'Italian Royal Gourmet Team' enters the arena at 3 pm, and the 'Central Gourmet Team' enters the arena at 5 pm... In addition, the 'Germinate Team' among them is also worth seeing!"

"Team Germinate? Is it a seeded team?"

"It wasn't before! But in the individual competition, he got the fourth overall score."

"Isn't that more powerful than the 'Central Food Team'? Wait, where did I hear this name..."

"It's really powerful, and what's more interesting is that one of their main players was previously lured by Mr. Ji of the 'Central Gourmet Organ' and injured someone. As a result, they were suspended for this game...Let them fight with the 'Central Gourmet Organ'." Food team' on the same stage, isn't it interesting?"

"Speaking of which, the guy from the 'Central Gourmet Agency' is so despicable..."

Similar dialogues are constantly spreading among ordinary audiences.

For a while, the four-hour "Sura Field" that started at 3:00 p.m. became particularly eye-catching!

By the way, there are also many people who don't forget to hack the "American Development Association"!

In this regard, the people from the American Development Association also held a special meeting to discuss how to deal with the reputation damage caused by the "accident" during the lottery...

"Mr. Ji, please think about it for the 'American Development Association'. Now as long as you speak, we can specifically revoke Kojiro Shinomiya's suspension. In this way, the public opinion against us will be greatly eased!"

"That's right, and as long as we act 'begging for perfection', everyone will notice that it was Shinomiya Kojiro who did it first... It will be of great benefit to improving our image. Having a perfect image in the eyes of the world's chefs is very important for us. It is very important to become the fourth largest culinary organization."

"And Mr. Ji, think about it, they will have a match soon, and now Kojiro Shinomiya's suspension has been revoked, they were not prepared before, in fact, they will not get much benefit..."

Many people tend to withdraw the suspension punishment to restore their image, and some even claim to be from the perspective of cutting thistle.

However, as the "quasi-boss" of the "American Development Association", Naki Jiji naturally didn't need to speak for himself at this time. Immediately, a member of parliament who supported him spoke for him: "Let Mr. Ji consider for the "American Development Association" What? Has someone already forgotten, who is responsible for holding 'All Blue' here this time?"

"I don't think so either! Don't forget that if you want to become the fourth largest culinary organization, a perfect image is very important, but authority is also very important... This punishment is not too much, why should it be revoked?"

The people on both sides basically couldn't convince anyone, and it was only at this time that Nakiriji stood up and said... can't be changed!

In fact, Nakiriji himself couldn’t say why he did this, it was just his “instinctive” feeling that if Liu Maoxing continued to participate in “All Blue”, things would develop in a direction that was not good for him...

Otherwise, he might not have teased Liu Maoxing and the others during the lottery draw.

How this "instinct" came about, Nakiri Ji couldn't tell.

Of course, if Liu Maoxing and Erina knew, they might be able to guess that this so-called "instinct" means that the "curse" is gradually taking effect!

Other dragon chefs began to be inexplicably interested in the "Jade Dragon Pot", but Nakiriji didn't feel this because he knew that the "Jade Dragon Pot" was fake.

But at the same time, the "curse" seems to be guiding Long Chefs to pay more attention to Liu Maoxing...

I am afraid that the curse of the Neanderthal incarnation has already felt that Liu Maoxing has an aura similar to that of the dragon chef who destroyed their "good deed" a hundred years ago!

And the other dragon chefs are either very unfamiliar with Liu Maoxing, or they are optimistic about Liu Maoxing, so the effect of the "curse" in this aspect is not very prominent, but it is very obvious on the Ningqiji who is originally hostile to Liu Maoxing...

Until Liu Maoxing and others were about to enter the stage, they had already entered the preparation room and saw the ingredients prepared for them by the competition party, the meeting here could only come to an end, and the cutting thistle did not satisfy their demands in the end...

Nakiri Ji looked at the time, and turned on the TV in the conference room. What was playing was the live broadcast of the qualifier team competition!

"Okay, that's the end of the meeting. Everyone, let's see together what kind of performance the 'Germinate team' we were discussing just now will have." Nakiri Ji said.

"Next, the 'An Wang Lou Team' will be invited to present the dishes, and the members of the 'Germinate Team' are welcome to come on stage!" The voice of the master of ceremonies was broadcast live on TV.

Under the announcement of the on-site master of ceremonies, the "An Wang Lou representative team" who had completed the "meal" began to present the dishes.

Although not all of the "Anwanglou Representative Team" are of yellow race, it is clear that this is a team that focuses on "Chinese Cuisine"...

The dishes presented at this time are not presented one by one in the Western style, but they are not the common banquet style of modern Chinese cuisine, but more similar to the meal sharing style of ancient Chinese cuisine.

Before the Tang Dynasty, high tables and chairs were not introduced into the land of China. At that time, people paid attention to sitting on their knees and used low, small tables.

Just as spices are one of the important conditions to limit cooking, "tableware" and dining environment seem to be completely auxiliary to cooking, but in fact they also have a great influence on cooking.

In Yuanyue's course, there is also a special course, which is to teach everyone how to use tableware and restaurant facilities that match the dishes, so that diners can get the best possible experience.

In ancient Chinese cuisine, because of the etiquette of kneeling and the low table, people did not have the conditions to "share meals". Just imagine, kneeling in a circle and eating at a table at the height of a computer bed table, and because of etiquette, the thighs cannot leave Calf, how troublesome it will be to eat...

So before the popularity of high tables and chairs, the eating habit of Chinese cuisine was to "share meals", that is, the bed table in front of everyone... Ah no, it was a low table, where various dishes and drinks for one person were placed.

In the era of "Zhongming Ding Shi", if the host's identity is sufficient, it may be that everyone gathers around a cauldron for cooking meat, and after cooking, people will cut and share the food.

However, what is placed in front of the judges now are common ordinary bowls and dishes, not the common tall tableware in ancient Chinese cuisine.

After all, the height of everyone's table is just right now, and there is no need to use high tableware to bring food closer to the mouth.

After Liu Maoxing and the others came in, they first glanced at the dishes presented by the "Anwanglou representative team", and then immediately checked the kitchen utensils and ingredients that had been placed on the cooking table prepared for them!

Before deciding on the recipe, looking too much at the finished products of other teams will limit the thinking.

The time limit for the team competition is only two hours, because only a short time can reflect the value of the team...

And this is two hours from seeing the ingredients, that is to say, the time for them to discuss and finalize the final recipe is also within these two hours!

Now members of the "Germinate Team", except for the suspended Kojiro Shinomiya, the other six, including Jun Shiomi, all played.

If it weren't for Kojiro Shinomiya's suspension, they could have played as seven.

But now they can only stay outside the cooking counter, watching what ingredients, kitchen utensils and equipment are inside...

It is not accurate to say that the "cooking table" is actually prepared for each team by the competition. It can be said to be a cooking area, or even a small cooking room without walls, which is small but complete!

In addition to tableware and counter tables, although not all kinds of equipment are available, they are more complete than ordinary star-rated restaurants.

As long as you are not a cook who specializes in "molecular cuisine" like Alice, you don't have to worry about your cooking skills being limited by equipment here. As for Alice... Molecular cuisine covers a wide range, and there are countless types of equipment involved. In molecular cuisine Today, it is not yet popular, it is impossible for any competition to prepare such complete equipment.

Now Liu Maoxing and the others can only stay on the outside and see what is prepared inside, but only five people can enter in the end. This is why they specially brought Xi Jianjun...

Before finally entering, Jun Xijian can help with suggestions.

At this time, she was squatting outside the spice area, looking at the various spices prepared, muttering words, Liu Maoxing estimated that her ability might be similar to the "spice inequality"!

There are a total of three "cooking areas" on the field, one is about to be used by Liu Maoxing and others, one is being used by the "Italian Royal Cuisine Team", and the other is where the staff are cleaning up the scene...

Apparently the last one is the cooking room used by the "An Wang Lou Representative Team". Now they are in the cooking presentation area, and the staff will tidy up the cooking room and replenish the ingredients within an hour for the next group to use!

"Is this the 'Germinate Team'? Sure enough, one person is missing..."

"The situation is very unfavorable for them. It's a pity... In the individual competition, the total score is fourth!"

"Why is there a child inside?"

"I heard that three of them are still students of Yuanyue College..."

"Student? Oh! That's their leader, and the girl with the red hair and the ponytail with glasses?"

"By the way, that ponytail...couldn't be a junior high school student from the middle school?"

Fortunately, Jun Xijian and Subaru Misaku were fully focused on the field at this time, so they didn't notice the two shots lying on the ground...

But it is true that if any normal person who does not know them chooses three high school students from the six members of the "Germinate Team", they will choose Liu Maoxing, Xingping Chuangzhen, and Xijian Jun, and the only suspicious one is Xijian Jun Looks like it's not in high school yet...

"Wait! Do you feel...they look strange?"

"Strange? What you said seems to be true... When other teams go on stage, most of them get together with seven people and agree on a plan for ten to twenty minutes. After that, two people leave the field and five people enter the cooking area. The five people who will participate in the team competition are determined before going on stage, and the five people will enter the cooking area first and then agree on a strategy..."

But the "Germinate team" is now in a completely different situation!

Of the six on stage, five of them gathered together to study something, and the remaining one, Liu Maoxing, had no communication with the others at all, but faced the direction of the "Italian Royal Cuisine Team", staring straight at... as if The agreed part of the team competition has nothing to do with him!

But if he won't play, then the five people have already been determined, wouldn't it be good to go directly to the cooking area?

Although it is designed so that the chefs can see the ingredients prepared inside, but they can't directly touch the ingredients without going in. It is more convenient to go in and discuss, right?

Just when the audience was wondering, Liu Maoxing was the first to enter the cooking area, obviously he was one of the five people who were going to appear!

And until now, the other five people are still discussing something...

If the other contestants hadn't stopped Liu Maoxing when he entered, everyone would have suspected that they were fighting among themselves...

No one noticed that when Liu Maoxing was staring at the "Royal Italian Cuisine Team" motionless, Carlo, the chef on the opponent's field and also the leader of the "Royal Italian Cuisine Team", was also stunned. After a while, I couldn't help turning my head to look at Liu Maoxing...

The referees on the field also found it strange, but according to the rules, the five people who finally participated in the team competition can enter in batches, but after entering, they cannot go back on their word!

What happened next was even more incomprehensible to everyone. After Liu Maoxing entered the cooking area, he began to... move things around?

That's right, the placed pots, stoves, kitchen utensils and equipment, ingredients and spices... In short, all the food and use have changed their positions!

"He...he's too strong, right? The entire cooking table just now weighed at least two hundred catties!"

"And the vertical oven next to it, which is taller than a person, was actually lifted up gently?"

"I remember reading it in the tabloids. It is said that this 'National Treasure-level Saber Master' has great strength, and some people speculate that 'strength' is a necessary condition for a 'National Treasure-level Saber Master', but I didn't expect it to be so strong..."

"But what is he doing? Is it necessary?"

"Who knows... Maybe it's the female constellation Chu."

Liu Maoxing was still on the court, not knowing what he was doing, and once again made Chu Nuzuo lie down, but obviously he didn't intend to stop.

After the other five people also agreed on the final recipe, Liu Maoxing's "renovation" of the cooking area was also completed.

At the beginning, everyone didn't see why Liu Maoxing suddenly showed off his muscles.

But now the situation has become clear, I saw that under Liu Maoxing's move, the cooking area was divided into two parts, one big and one small, as if to be divided into two groups of cooking!

Of course, because "All Blue" is a world-class competition, in order to take care of all cuisines as much as possible, the equipment and kitchen utensils are very comprehensive. Even if it is divided into two parts, any part is enough for five people.

And at this moment, among the other five members of the "Germinate Team", the little girl with the ponytail finally encouraged the other four before leaving the arena, and the other four moved towards Liu Maoxing. In the cooking area, only Liu Maoxing was left alone in the larger side.

"Sure enough, that little girl went down!" Many viewers thought they had guessed correctly.

But at this moment in the conference room, watching the live broadcast of Nakiri Ji, he couldn't help but frowned.

Previously, he felt that Liu Maoxing's "Germinate Team" had already fallen into an extremely unfavorable situation due to the suspension of Kojiro Shinomiya. As long as the normal procedures were followed, the "Germinate Team" would most likely be eliminated before the main match!

However, now suddenly Liu Maoxing did not play the game according to the "normal level", which made Ning Qieji worry.

Chef Carlo, the leader of the "Italian Royal Cuisine Team", couldn't help but glance at Liu Maoxing at this time, and found that he looked like he was going to do it alone, and he became more and more puzzled.

That's right, just now Liu Maoxing used the "Food Domain" that he had just mastered... a "Food Domain" that combines "Food Control" and "Culinary Heart"!

The moment the "food domain" enveloped him, Chef Carlo also noticed something unusual.

It's not that he didn't concentrate on cooking, but that he was shocked by a sixteen-year-old boy who actually mastered the "food domain"!

Even Carlo himself only discovered this ability ten years ago, when he was already forty and his skills reached the peak!

Of course, Carlo would not know that if he was also "nurtured" by a beautiful girl with a 7,000-year-old "grandmother", he could actually master the "food domain" earlier, but he couldn't master it at a young age like Liu Maoxing ...

For Liu Maoxing, a "National Treasure Sword Master" who was only sixteen years old, Carlo had always paid attention to him, but after discovering "Food Domain", he couldn't help being stunned.

But then Carlo discovered that Liu Maoxing...didn't stop?

Think about it, after Carlo mastered the "food domain", didn't he spend several years in order to train chefs who can match his own "food domain"?

And Liu Maoxing obviously lacks this kind of time...

But this made Carlo even more confused. If there is no cook... what is the use of "food domain"?

Carlo is also a little interested at this time. If Liu Maoxing develops other functions of "Food Domain", it will be an unexpected gain for him!

Of course, Carlo's thoughts were just a flash, and he still maintained enough concentration on the cooking at hand.

At the same time, Carlo was also complaining about his own whimsy, because he found that Liu Maoxing's control over the "food domain" was actually very poor. He was so far away from him, and Liu Maoxing's "food domain" had spread over. This was a very energy-consuming thing.

"It seems that he still can't control the scope of the 'food domain' freely..." Carlo thought to himself.

Until now, Chef Carlo didn't know that it wasn't that Liu Maoxing couldn't control the scope of the "food domain", but that he was intentionally spreading the "food domain" over!

The only thing that makes Carlo a little depressed is that he always feels that Liu Maoxing is staring at him...

In fact, Liu Maoxing was clearly looking in his direction, but when Carlo looked over, he only found Liu Maoxing's eyes were empty.

Usually when others look at themselves, if they look back at the past, the two should meet their eyes, but Carlo doesn't feel this way at all.

It’s just that he has been “looking” in such a blank way, and Carlo also feels a little uncomfortable... At the same time, he also faintly feels that the cooking area and ingredients chosen by Liu Maoxing for him make him feel a little awkward, but he hasn’t realized it for a while. Where is awkward.

The audience off the court also speculated about the actions of the "Germinate team".

Most people suspected that it was Liu Maoxing, the team leader, who fell out with his team members.

"Hey, you are still young and vigorous..."

"It may also be that the main player was suspended before, which put him under too much pressure."

"Hmph! I think it's conceited."

"If you are a 'National Treasure Level Sword Master', you can also be proud of yourself."

"you……"

However, no matter what the people on and off the court said, Liu Maoxing was staring straight at the direction of Chef Carlo. cooking team".

That's right! Liu Maoxing has already succeeded...

Just last night, Liu Maoxing finally integrated the "heart of cooking" into the "food domain"!

Although there is no chef who has a tacit understanding, he can borrow the "cooking heart" spread by Liu Maoxing at this time, but at this time within the scope of the "food domain", Liu Maoxing's sense of taste and touch knows everything!

Obviously, the taste nerve has not touched the food, and the touch nerve has not been touched, but there are already countless information analyzed by Liu Maoxing...

This is exactly the special ability of Liu Maoxing's "Heart of Cooking" after forming the "Food Domain"!

Just like his previous feeling, his "cooking heart" also has super perception, and when it spreads out as a domain, it is equivalent to making his perception spread in the domain.

If Liu Maoxing's "Heart of Cooking" is not a fake, even his own "super vision" can be saved, and there is no need to stare at the other party so stupidly...

But Liu Maoxing's "heart of cooking" is "heart of cooking in the mirror".

Because "Heart of Cooking" itself is a fake copied with the ability of "super vision", it cannot play the role of "super vision".

Therefore, Liu Maoxing had to use "super vision" to lock on to Carlo, who is a better cook than him, to simulate his cooking heart and copy everything about him...

There is another more troublesome thing, that is, when using the "Food Domain", the "Cooking Heart" is constantly being consumed. If Liu Maoxing has mastered the "Cooking Heart", this consumption has not been replenished quickly, but now But it is rootless water.

However, there is no need to worry during the competition. Although Sigong was banned from the competition, he was not banned from entering. At this moment, he is sitting on the candidate seat, and Liu Maoxing can "pump water" at any time...

Time passed by little by little. At the beginning, many people still laughed at Liu Maoxing's "self-willedness" that they imagined, but Liu Maoxing's superb skills shocked everyone...

Even if he didn't look at him, Liu Maoxing's movements were too fast to be accepted.

And even more unacceptable things were gradually discovered!

"Do you feel... what he's doing seems... familiar?"

Some people in the audience have already begun to speculate. Although Liu Maoxing's actions combined the efforts of the five members of the "Italian Royal Cuisine Team", so there was no mystery at first, but after he had some results, people gradually discovered that, The result of Liu Maoxing's shallow processing of ingredients is exactly the same as the previous "Italian Royal Cuisine Team"!

After having this kind of thought, looking at Liu Maoxing's actions, a guess that can scare people into stupidity immediately emerged in everyone's mind...

And Carlo no longer wants to look at Liu Maoxing anymore!

He was worried that if he watched it again, he would not be able to keep his focus on the cooking in progress...

As a "copied" person, of course he discovered this earlier than others, and he finally understood why he felt that the cooking area arranged by Liu Maoxing and the preparation of ingredients were awkward... because those are the kitchen utensils he used now, The equipment and ingredients were listed separately by Liu Maoxing!