Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"I think there are some things that I should settle while the old man is still awake!" Xie Yunlong stopped Liu Maoxing from trying to get away.

"You, you are..." Liu Maoxing couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the other party's "immortal cultivation face".

"As you get older, you can always bear some things." Xie Yunlong said.

"That's right, old people feel less...cough, I mean, what do you know?"

"Actually, I don't know anything. I just suddenly discovered that the 'Magic Holy Bronze Vessel' was always whispering something in my heart, and...it was difficult to be discovered. At first, I thought it was my own idea."

"..."

"Among the murmurs of 'Magic Holy Bronze Ware', I became interested in 'Yulong Pot', and developed unreasonable hostility towards you and Liu Weihui, especially when Liu Weihui played in the qualifying team, And after you played against Paul yesterday, this kind of hostility has become more and more serious."

Liu Maoxing's way of nature, the two timings mentioned by Master Xie are when the two of them officially revealed that they own the "Jade Dragon Pot"!

"And with this subjective impression, I found out that Lin Yi and Cheng Yilang, the two dragon chefs who had a good relationship with you, also began to have this feeling, but they didn't find anything by themselves...In addition Although I don't know too much about the prophecy of the ancestors announced by the Liu family, I can still understand that the "God Tribulation Eighth Coming" is related to the legendary kitchen utensils, and it is also related to you!" Xie Yunlong said.

It seems that although Xie Yunlong usually looks a little crazy and behaves quite wildly, he is actually very smart!

Not only did he overcome the influence of the curse to a certain extent, but he also deduced part of the facts from the source of his confusion and the prophecies of the ancestors of the Liu family.

"I don't know how to explain it to you... To be precise, do you really have time to listen to my explanation?" Liu Maoxing said helplessly.

Perhaps because of being too close to Liu Maoxing, Xie Yunlong was about to develop into a state of "failing to cultivate immortality and falling into the devil's way" at any time...

"In short, because of some supernatural reason, there must be a battle between us, and the outcome may lead to the result of 'reversal of heaven and earth', right?" Xie Yunlong said succinctly.

"That's right."

"Then I think it's better to put that battle now! Since all the dragon chefs are affected, it's impossible for you to fight three against one?"

"Wait! Do you really understand what this battle will represent? This is no ordinary cooking duel..."

"Of course I understand... it's a 'Dark Cuisine Showdown', right? Don't forget, the Bailuo family's succession began at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there were already family records even earlier! Although I don't know whether it is true or not, it was always I have heard of this, and it was mentioned in a few words in the inheritance. When you and Paul competed yesterday, did you start the "Dark Cuisine Showdown"? I seem to have seen something strange."

As Xie Yunlong said, the effect of "clothes ripping" began to appear all over his body, and his shriveled body under the flowery shirt swelled up little by little.

It seems that not only when he tastes delicious food, but if Xie Yunlong is serious, this effect will also be triggered.

When Xie Yunlong defeated the players of the "Italian Royal Cuisine Team" in the individual competition before, there was no such phenomenon. It seems that Xie Yunlong is only now fully serious!

Liu Maoxing was also very conflicted, facing three "Dragon Chefs" at once was indeed troublesome, but now he was directly facing Xie Yunlong, and it was not easy...

It can be said that among the six dragon chefs, the one Liu Maoxing is most unwilling to meet is Master Xie.

Although Liu Maoxing did not know the strength of the six "Dragon Chefs", but from the age of Master Xie, Liu Maoxing understood that this old man who usually looks not very serious is definitely not so easy to deal with!

But when Liu Maoxing was wondering whether to jump out of the window and escape, he suddenly found that the scenery outside the window had become a "black and white photo"...

Liu Maoxing didn't dare to confirm whether it was because Master Xie wanted to save himself some troubles, or because he had been facing himself for too long and the curse was out of control... At this time, the "Dark Cuisine Showdown" had already started!

It is estimated that there should be two reasons.

Originally, Master Xie was able to force the impulse brought by the "curse", but when his original intention was to confront Liu Maoxing as soon as possible, the impulse brought about by the curse was finally irresistible...

Of course, it is also possible that the impulsiveness brought about by the curse made Xie Yunlong, who remained somewhat sober, choose the simplest and crudest way to solve the problem!

The specific truth is not important anymore, Liu Maoxing can confirm that the "Dark Cuisine Showdown" has already begun!

"Wait, the topic and time of our duel haven't been determined yet..." Liu Maoxing said suddenly.

"The time limit is three hours. After three hours, the 'All? Blue' individual competition is over. If there is no team competition, some people may come back one after another. The ingredients are these in the kitchen... As for For the topic, just use a traditional confrontation method! Let me talk about two topic restrictions. After each one, you can propose more detailed restrictions based on the topic restrictions I mentioned, and then use this as the topic! "

Xie Yunlong mentioned a seemingly ancient way of confrontation, and it seems that the Bai Luo family really has records in this regard.

"Okay..." Liu Maoxing agreed after thinking about it.

"Some pasta." Old Jie really meant to let go of the water, and set the topic on his "home field" as soon as he came up.

"... dead face." Liu Maoxing said after thinking about it.

Well, Liu Maoxing is not too polite. Although Xie Yunlong set the topic on noodles, Liu Maoxing backhanded that the noodles must be "dead noodles", that is, kicked his "Old Shu Han noodles" out of the stage.

Dead noodles, that is, there is no "fermentation" step, neither yeast nor old noodles are added!

The "old noodles" itself is a means of preserving the fermentation bacteria. Since "dead noodles" are required, the Shuhan old noodles are useless.

"Meat!" The commentary explained the second restriction, which was also a restricted ingredient.

Liu Maoxing couldn't help hesitating for a moment, and after a while, he suddenly said brightly: "Vegetarian meat."

This is obviously a bit "targeted". The further restrictions on "meat" are actually "vegetarian meat"...

"..." Xie Yunlong was speechless about this kind of additional restriction that was almost rogue. Vegetarian meat...is it a restriction of "meat"?

But from the "Dark Cuisine Showdown", this restriction is definitely recognized!

Just after the two finished talking about the two restrictions they proposed, a bell rang in the venue designated as "Dark Cuisine Showdown"...

Liu Maoxing heard from Linger that when the "Dark Cuisine Showdown" is launched, there are usually two situations.

One is to rely on the existing rules in the game, just like Liu Maoxing's previous duel with Paul, in the "All? Blue" individual competition, directly "nested" the dark cooking duel.

There is also a "Dark Cuisine Showdown" that starts alone, just like Liu Maoxing's experience now, the bell represents the signal of "starting cooking", and also means that the topic of the showdown is recognized by the "Dark Cooking Showdown".

If Xie Yunlong had anything else to say, he could only hold back...

Liu Maoxing is quite satisfied with the final topic!

Liu Maoxing's cooking is not very biased, and he already has the "noodle essence", which means that the topic of "noodles" is not just Xie Yunlong's home field.

More importantly, a "dead noodle" and a "vegetarian meat", the former "seals" Xie Yunlong's old Shu Han noodles, and the latter is aimed at Xie Yunlong's heart of cooking!

Xie Yunlong's cooking heart is a "comfort soul". Although he is the head of two pastry masters, his father Xie Lu and pastry king Luogen, in terms of cooking heart, he still inherits the "comfort soul" inherited from the Bai Luo family. , perhaps this has something to do with his frequent contact with the Shu Han old noodles, and it is this kind of heart that keeps Xie Yunlong awake under the curse.

And the first owner of the "comfort soul" kitchen heart was Zhuge Kongming's army cook at that time, and he also invented "steamed buns" to replace the heads of barbarians to calm the evil spirits in the water...that is, a large number of human beings Another form of life after death.

To a certain extent, "comforting spirits" requires sincerity, just like offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors. Using "steamed buns" instead of "mantou" is to prevent more killings, but I don't even have any meat, so I just want to show my strength. The effect of "comforting the soul" is a bit like "burning newspapers on graves"!

Even Zhuge Wuhou's army at the time used "steamed buns" to achieve the effect by pasting poultry meat on the outside of the dough to "pretend" human heads, and adding the effect of "comforting souls".

"Comfort" kitchen heart and "vegetarian meat" can be said to be a natural mismatch, and it is even better to use "vegetarian dishes" as ingredients!

This is the reason why Xie Yunlong's face became tangled after hearing the restrictions on "vegetarian meat"...

Liu Maoxing only guessed that the "comfort soul" kitchen needs meat, so in order to prohibit Xie Yunlong from using "meat", he announced the additional restriction of "vegetarian meat", but he didn't know that this restriction had more impact on Xie Yunlong than he imagined. bigger...

When he was apprenticed to Luo Gen, Xie Yunlong once heard Luo Gen talk about many past events of the Bai Luo family.

Since the Three Kingdoms period, the founders of the Luo family used "comfort to the soul" to cook their hearts and helped Zhuge Kongming to cross the river and return to the army without hurting the feelings of the barbarians who had just surrendered. The secular dynasties maintained ties, and could even be said to be a sacrificial clan.

And the vegetarian meat is also very "destined" with the Luo family, but it's just a bad relationship!

It is generally believed that the origin of "vegetarian meat" is in the Northern and Southern Dynasties three hundred years after the appearance of "steamed bread"...

The founder of the Liang Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, believed in Buddhism and had some special understanding of the teachings. For example, the monks in the civilization circle of Chinese cuisine began not to eat meat. It was from the edict issued by Emperor Wu of Liang. Without such constraints...

Moreover, Emperor Wu of Liang not only forbade the monks to eat meat, he himself did not eat it, and he even urged the people under his rule not to eat it. The most important thing is that he did not even want to use real meat for the three sacrificed animals!

At that time, there were also descendants of the Luo family who were assisting Emperor Wu of Liang, so this unlucky task fell to the Luo family.

At that time, Emperor Wu of Liang built a pagoda in Shushan for this "unique" vegetarian sacrifice to heaven.

However, at that time, the royal cooks of Liang State, headed by the Luo family, brainstormed and researched "vegetarian meat", which is to use soybean products and other materials to simulate the taste and texture of "meat".

But in the end, after the cook of the Luo family personally performed the cooking in the Shushan Buddhist Pagoda, I don’t know whether it was a coincidence or the number of days in the dark.

As a result, not only "vegetarian meat sacrifices to heaven" became a joke, but also the cooks who originally rejected vegetarian meat sacrifices to heaven and opposed Emperor Wudi's recipe reform took the opportunity to gather in Shushan to reprimand "vegetarian meat sacrifices" on the grounds of "destiny". "Heaven" is equivalent to "demon meat offering sacrifices to heaven", and the chefs of the Liang Kingdom started cooking battles one after another in the pagoda.

It is said that at that time, the chefs of the Shushan League found an ancient sword that could start the "Dark Cuisine Showdown". Although it is not as high-end as the legendary kitchen utensils, it can also be used as an opening tool for the "Dark Cuisine Showdown"...

In the end, the Shushan League expelled Liang Guo's forces from Shushan through a series of dark cuisine duels, and created the Shushan Food School. The ancient sword used in "Dark Cuisine Showdown" is named "Suppressing Demon Sword"...

And the ancestor of the Luo family, as the chief chef of Emperor Wu of Liang, also played as the leader of the chefs of Liang State in the duel on the top of Shu Mountain, but because of Emperor Wu of Liang's order, he could only use "vegetarian meat" as ingredients , and could not use real meat, but was defeated by Taiqing, the leader of the Shushan League and a famous chef, and the Luo family's reputation has been greatly damaged since then.

More than 500 years later, in the Shenzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the reputation of the Luo family has been restored at this time, and in order to "get up from where you fall", generations of "sparse soldiers and horses" have prepared countless vegetarian meat recipes, and once again provoked Wen Ce, the son of the great general at that time, sent troops to Shushan...

At this time, under the leadership of the 23rd generation chief chef and famous chef Xu Changqing, the Shushan Food School has developed to an unprecedented level. Although at the beginning of the duel, the Luo family beat the cooks of the Shushan Food School several times. But later, he was defeated by the famous chef Zhonglou passing by, and he was alone, facing off all the cooks accompanying the Luo family!

And later, the Luo family knew that the head of the Shushan Food School at that time was not unable to defeat the Luo family, but wanted to settle the grievances left over from history. After the Luo family was defeated by the famous chef Chonglou, Xu Changqing hurt himself as a chef , so that Zhonglou did not continue to activate the effect of "Dark Cuisine Showdown". Since then, the Luo family and the Shushan Shipai have reconciled...

At the same time, the Luo family also realized one thing, that is, "vegetarian meat" has its advantages, but it is a natural offense to use vegetarian meat to carry the "soul comfort" kitchen. The behavior of the heart can only be described as "cheating father"!

Since then, the Luo family no longer studies vegetarian meat recipes, and the descendants of the Luo family hardly touch this kind of ingredients...

(The above content is the historical setting of the Xianjian series of stories "Shushan League won the victory and built the pagoda Emperor Liang Wu's army, and the Shushan Sword Sect rose", and "Wen Ce rushed to Shushan and threatened to hand over the demon tower in the fairy tale" Wen Hui, ended up being abused by Chonglou blood"... For the magic version of the two events, please refer to the original fairy sword setting, the TV drama party may not understand, it is only for entertainment, no need to delve into it.)

Of course, as a well-known family in the culinary world, the Luo family is not too self-styled and self-confident. The past generations have only warned the descendants not to be too obsessed with vegetarian meat, but they have not prohibited future generations from using vegetarian meat.

And Xie Yunlong, as a cook whose life has spanned the entire "era of fusion of world cuisines", has actually done some research on vegetarian meat during his cooking career of more than a hundred years...

Even the vegetarian recipes that Bai Luo's family was still fighting with Shushan Shipai Mou Jiner thousands of years ago have all been inherited from Luo Gen.

Moreover, during Xie Yunlong's more than 100 years as a cook, he had too much time. Even if these "vegetarian meat recipes" were ignored by the Bailuo Patriarchs for thousands of years, Xie Yunlong also studied them.

But even so, Xie Yunlong still did not break through the natural discord between the "comfort soul" kitchen heart and "vegetarian meat".

More importantly, Xie Yunlong never thought that he would use "vegetarian meat" as a topic to compete with other people in the "dark cooking showdown" that was only seen in the secret history records and was always regarded as a legend before.

Therefore, Xie Yunlong did not put too much thought into "vegetarian meat"...

Seeing that Liu Maoxing was skillfully breaking the eggs into the wheat flour, Xie Yunlong couldn't help muttering: "Although the topic is very unfavorable...but if you think that such an advantage is enough to defeat me, then you may be disappointed!"

I only saw that Yunlong directly tore off the already bulging floral shirt, revealing muscles that were several times stronger than the commander in chief...

While washing his hands, he glanced left and right at the ingredients in the cooking room. This is probably where Xie Yunlong deliberately gave Liu Maoxing a step... The "location" here belongs to Liu Maoxing!

Because as I said before, the ingredients in the cooking room can be used at will during the duel, and Liu Maoxing certainly knows what is in his cooking room, but Xie Yunlong needs to check it on the spot!

After washing his hands, Xie Yunlong seemed to have an idea. He went straight to the refrigerator, took out a large piece of ice, put it in the basin, and directly hammered it into crushed ice...

Add water to the crushed ice and stir until the ice is no longer dissolved, then filter out the crushed ice, and then use this zero-degree water to knead the dough directly!

Liu Maoxing was also taken aback by the act of kneading dough with water close to freezing point, but the movements in his hands did not stop...

In addition to the egg liquid, Liu Maoxing used a small amount of oil and high-grade white wine to knead the dough, and then kneaded the dough until the alcohol was completely evaporated before starting to knead the dough.

Some people would think that "饧面", that is, the step of letting the reconciled noodles stand for a period of time, means secondary fermentation, but this is not the case.

"饧面" is usually divided into two types, one is for fermented noodles, which is indeed for secondary fermentation at this time, and the other is non-fermented noodles, which are usually "饧面"!

The latter is to fully combine the large particles of flour with water molecules. Otherwise, from the microscopic point of view, there will still be many subtleties after kneading, and the situation of keeping the water and large particles of flour "clear and clear". "Steaming noodles" for a period of time is conducive to making the noodles more chewy.

Especially now that Liu Maoxing is directly using egg liquid to knead noodles, the water in the egg liquid accounts for about one-third, and the rest is large molecular protein, which needs more time to combine.

Afterwards, Liu Maoxing used the bean curd, bean dregs, and dried bean curd in the cooking room to prepare vegetarian meat...

Xie Yunlong first used some bamboo shoots, beans, fungi, and cauliflower...

After the two started cooking, they obviously showed no mercy to each other!

It is estimated that Xie Yunlong, who was able to resist the "curse" temporarily, has become more and more superior after starting to cook, and he has fully entered the state at this time!

After more than half of the time, when the "vegetarian meat" of the two seemed to be almost ready, a yellow dragon and a white jade canopy appeared around Liu Maoxing's body and above Xie Yunlong's head respectively. ...

Although one uses eggs and noodles, and the other uses ice water to mix noodles, but at this time they both use the "manual" method, so they can "easily" stretch or spread the noodles!

Even Carlo, the former leader of the "Italian Royal Cuisine Team", was not as "easy" as Liu Maoxing.

That's right, Liu Maoxing's dough is obviously closer to "spaghetti". When stretching into "noodles", he swung the golden dough around his body like a dragon.

Both the color and the luster were more dazzling than the spaghetti Carlo used in the team competition of the qualifiers.

As for the ice water surface of Jieyunlong, because the protein in the flour has no heat reaction at low temperature, more gluten is formed, and the starch gelatinization is less at low temperature, so the "white jade dough" is "tough". , not inferior to "golden dough"!

The characteristic of cold water noodles is that the color is whiter and brighter. If the noodles made by Liu Maoxing are "golden", then the noodles made by Xie Yunlong should be described as "white jade"...

Soon after, the bright golden dough, in Liu Maoxing's hands, turned into shiny golden noodles that seemed to have added fluorescent agents, while the white jade-colored dough, in Xie Yunlong's hands, turned into pieces of dough that looked like white jade plates.

Obviously Liu Maoxing was planning to make some kind of noodles similar to spaghetti, while Xie Yunlong was still planning to make some kind of pasta with dough and fillings!

Three hours passed in the blink of an eye, and in the "All? Blue" venue, Erina and Dojima Yin defeated their opponents, Hiromi Seto lost...

However, Erina's opponent is not the opponent's team leader, and the "Dark Cuisine Showdown" has not yet started. Decide in the afternoon "team game"...

At the same time, in Liu Maoxing's cooking room, a bell rang again from nowhere.

And Liu Maoxing and Xie Yunlong have already stood on both sides of the table in the middle of the cooking room, pushing their respective dishes in front of each other...