Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 338 Life is Everywhere in Versailles
After looking at the ingredients used in this soup for a while, they finally couldn't hold back and started to taste it.

I have eaten a total of dishes prepared by seventeen chefs before. Among those dishes, some tastes are more serious, and some tastes are lighter. It is inevitable to feel thirsty.

And although I ate a lot before, those portions were very small, and each one was basically a mouthful, so I have almost just opened my appetite and I am getting excited.

At this time, Chen Nian brought a cup of soup at the right time.

Both mutton and fish can be eaten, and there is also a full soup to fill their stomachs at the end.

The fish soup made by Chen Nian this time is as white as milk, with a thin layer of oil droplets floating on it, and it rolled mischievously to the side when he blew gently with his mouth.

"If you don't follow the dragon, come back with the mortal fish."

This poem from the Tang Dynasty shows to a great extent the delicacy of the fish.

"Then teachers, please." One of the judges finally couldn't bear it anymore, and after saying a word, he scooped up a spoonful of soup and put it into his mouth.

fresh!

delicious!

Bright!

The soup is rich, although not too much seasoning is added, but this does not make this bowl of soup lose its color, but it highlights the original taste of the ingredients to a great extent.

Pucai is also a seasonal dish in the Jianghuai area. It is known as the tender bamboo shoots in water. It tastes sweet and crispy in the mouth. Even if it is used for soup, there is no special extra taste to cover up the limelight of the main dish.

Once boiled and crispy, Si Pu Cai is tender and full of freshness, and this Pu Cai also has certain medicinal value, whether it is children, pregnant women or the elderly, it has certain benefits.

Adding a small amount of gorgon and cooking together, this soup is not only delicious, but also has high nutritional value. This is not just an ordinary dish. It is not an exaggeration to call it a medicinal diet. Whether it's fish or mutton, or the Gorgon fruit and cattail vegetables added later, or even the seasoning pepper in the middle, all of these have certain medicinal value.

It's light and slightly sweet, so they can't help but score twice and take another spoonful after taking a sip. After drinking it, they even feel comfortable all over their bodies, and even their fatigue has subsided a lot.

Of course, this is just their psychological effect.

It belongs to the same principle as Wangmei quenches thirst.

Most of the mutton in the south is to keep the skin of the mutton, that is, the skin of the mutton is cooked together when cooking.

Of course, this is also because the weather in the north is cold, and sheepskins are usually left to make jackets.

The thicker sliced ​​mutton will not look greasy in the mouth, and there is no need to use too much energy to solve it. The soft mutton is full of juice, not fishy or showy, and only retains the purest mutton taste.

Although the Huaibai fish has many thorns, which one of them is not a master who has experienced many battles, and what kind of food has not been eaten?
So when he put a piece of fish into his mouth, he just moved his tongue, and the fishbone spit out one by one from the corner of his mouth.

After eating, their faces also showed a very satisfied look.

When Chen Nian saw their expressions, he already felt stable in his heart. Now, the biggest competition for him is the fried white fish made by the tall and thin young man, and the crab and fish made by another person. The dish that swaps souls.

But it depends on what criteria the judges use to make the selection.

When Chen Nian was dividing the dishes, he also shared a portion for each of the two people.

After the judges had eaten here, he turned his gaze to the other side.

And the eyes of those two people followed suit.

There was nothing about Chen Nian here, so Chen Nian raised his leg and walked towards the two of them.

"Brother, the crab and fish you just showed really amazed me!" Chen Nian said with admiration from the bottom of his heart.

"No, no. In fact, I made some mistakes this time. It could have been better. I have tasted both of your dishes, and they both taste better than mine. My dish is at most a little creative. When the time comes It should be behind you."

Listening to the other party's modest words, Chen Nian also saw clearly the name written on the plaque on the other party's chest: "Huang Yi."

The tall, thin man next to him was named Fang Han.

I didn't know their identities when I only looked at their faces before, but now that I saw their names, I remembered that one of them is from a private kitchen restaurant, and the other is from Lihua Hotel.

"No way, I think you two are doing better than me." Chen Nian said quickly, pushing and pulling politely, he asked himself that he would not lose to anyone!

After Huang Yi's voice fell, Fang Han on the side sighed: "I don't know what you are being modest about. You are invincible in creativity, ingredients and taste, and my dish is not as creative as Huang Yi's." Brother, it’s not as good as Brother Chen in terms of taste, so it’s probably going to hit the street.”

As the three of them humbled each other here, the judges were also discussing.

The other dishes have been arranged according to the score, but it is the top three that make them a little controversial.

Because the creativity of Huang Yi's fish and crab dish is really amazing, and its production difficulty is quite high. Although the taste is slightly unsatisfactory, it is not that bad taste.

To be more precise, it should belong to the kind of delicious state, but it is still a little bit far from super delicious.

Moreover, the fried white fish made by Fang Han is not as good as the other one in terms of taste and creativity, but his usage of rice wine and fragrant grains is very unique.

So in the end, the score is even only a little lower than that of the crab.

The fresh fish and sheep made in the final aging are impeccable in terms of creativity and taste, and its medicinal value and the significance of using seasonal ingredients are also very exciting.

"But this Chen Nian is from another place after all, and he is not a chef of Huaiyang cuisine..." suddenly one of the judges said.

If a chef from out of town took away the championship on their territory, wouldn't that mean that their level is not good enough?

Not to mention that there are two excellent players, Fang Han and Huang Yi, among them. They also know the chef of Lihua Hotel and Fang Han's father.

But at this moment, a voice suddenly came: "So what? We are an open competition, and the taste and creativity can be seen at a glance after seeing and eating. They are all shady, so how can those young chefs improve in the future? We simply don’t invite chefs from other places! We just need to see who’s behind the scenes and who’s a local chef, and then award them directly.”

"I agree!" Suddenly another judge nodded, expressing that he agreed with this opinion.

"Because the opponent is from other places, we have to award him the championship. Otherwise, our colleagues in Sichuan will think that we can't afford it."

"Indeed... I agree too!"

Soon several judges expressed that they agreed with this view, and finally they looked at the judge who spoke at the beginning, and saw the other party's face full of helplessness: "I just want to say, you are doing it like this, I seem to like it." It’s like a shady scene, isn’t it because I’m afraid that some people above won’t want it?”

"What are they unwilling to do? Anyway, they are now cooking Huaiyang cuisine. No matter who wins the championship, it has already served the purpose of promoting Huaiyang cuisine for us. People who want to eat Huaiyang cuisine will not because of Sichuan. If a chef cooks well, he won’t come to Jiangsu but go to Sichuan to eat Huaiyang cuisine, isn’t that the opposite?”

In the end, several of them made a unanimous decision to determine the ranking of the competition.

Chen Nian won the No.1 Platinum Award and a cash reward of 10 yuan.

Huang Yi and Fang Han won the second and third special gold awards respectively, and each received a cash reward of 5 yuan.

After that, another five people won the gold medal, and each of them could get a cash reward of 3 yuan.

The remaining ten people will receive silver awards, each with 1 yuan.

Huang Yi also won the No. 1 popularity with his crab and fish, nothing else, it is because this dish is so creative.

As for Chen Nian, he won No. 2 in this popularity rating and was more than 20 votes behind Huang Yi.

Afterwards, the organizing committee invited them to have dinner together. The top eight had dinner with the judges, while the latter contestants sat at a table alone.

And those guests divided the tables by themselves, and sat at five tables in total.

Chen Nian sat together with Huang Yi and Fang Han. They were very familiar with each other through previous exchanges, and the other two learned from the later conversation that Chen Nian had only been learning to cook for less than a year, and they had been cooking for a long time. In school, the school I attended is one of the top food professional institutions in China.

"It's amazing, I really want to go to school, but it's because my studies are not very good. The college entrance examination scores can only go to a junior college, but I don't want to take another year of tutoring, so I thought that anyway, I will find a job after college. I won’t be able to learn how to cook with my dad,” Fang Han said.

"I have been learning this since I was a child. Anyway, I also like cooking, and I have been learning it for almost ten years now." Huang Yi also said.

Chen Nian looked at Huang Yi's arm and couldn't help but nodded, thinking that if he only studied for a few months like himself, it would be impossible to train such a unicorn arm, and his arm was obviously stronger than Fang Han's.

The more the three chatted, the more speculative they became. Even the ranking in today's competition is not important. The difference between the prize money for No.1 and the second and third places is only 5 yuan. For like-minded friends of the same level, this kind of network is the greatest wealth.

"When you have time to come to Sichuan in the future, come and sit with me. I will treat you to dinner, and then I will invite you to taste authentic Sichuan cuisine." After the banquet, Chen Nian and the two of them added WeChat to say goodbye said when.

"No problem, then when you come to Yangzhou in the future, you can call me and come directly to my restaurant for dinner. I will ask my dad to make you some of his best dishes." Fang Han also said with a smile.

"What do you mean by that? If you come to Yangzhou, you must go to our place. I still have a little face in Lihua, and I will make good arrangements for you when the time comes. You don't have to worry about food and lodging." Huang Yi said unwillingly.

He doesn't care about money, what he values ​​is Chen Nian's potential, and after getting along with him today, he really wants to make friends with Chen Nian.

"Isn't it? The executive chef's apprentice has such a big face?" Chen Nian was a little unbelievable. Although he had never been in contact with the staff of these high-end restaurants, he would not go to such a star-rated hotel even for dinner. But he always felt that it was just a chef's apprentice, and it might be the same if he was an executive chef.

"It's not because of my master, it's mainly because my father opened the Lihua Hotel."

"Good guy, I'm starting to hate the rich a little bit now." Fang Han said to the side after hearing this, "This is a proper rich second generation. Compared with you, my house looks like a village, even though it is also open in the city center. , but the area is much worse than your home!"

Listening to the Versailles of the two of them, Chen Nian felt as if he had squeezed a lemon into his mouth: "Don't talk about it, my house will become a latrine if you talk about it."

Really annoying!
But even though they said so, the two of them still quite recognized Chen Nian's strength, and they were even more envious of Chen Nian's talent in cooking.

When they learned that Chen Nian's plane was around ten o'clock in the evening, they wanted to have dinner together at night, but Chen Nian declined because he had something to do at night.

"I have to go to an elder's house to sit and have a meal."

When the two heard that they were elders, they didn't say any more.

The elder Chen Nian was talking about was naturally Teacher Yu Fuchun Yu, who had had a meal at Teacher Yu's house before, and everyone had a good chat, and now that Chen Nian is here, he naturally has to go to visit again.

He called in advance and said that he would go there in the afternoon, and finally Chen Nian bought some fruit and milk. At around five o'clock, he took a taxi directly to the gate of the other's community, and then found the unit and floor where Teacher Yu's house was located with ease.

"Dangdangdang."

"Here we come." A kind voice came from inside, and Chen Nian recognized that it was Teacher Yu's wife, Teacher He Huihe.

After opening the door, He Hui sighed when he saw what Chen Nian was carrying, and said with a bit of complaint: "You come here as soon as you see it, what else do you bring?"

When Chen Nian heard this, he smiled knowingly: "It's okay, it's kind of a wish." While talking, he took off his shoes and entered the door.

"You don't need to change your shoes, just come in."

He Hui led Chen Nian to sit on the sofa, and then called Mr. Yu who was reading in the study to come out to greet the guests.

"Xiao Chen is here!" Yu Fuchun was still wearing reading glasses, and when he came out, he saw Chen Nian with a smile on his face, "But I didn't expect Xiao Chen to know Mr. Bai, and he called me a while ago to ask You are here."

"Mr. Bai?"

Chen Nian soon realized that the Bai people he knew seemed to be Bai Jingsheng and his family, and the one who could make Mr. Yu call Mr. Bai must also be Bai Jingsheng, Mr. Bai.

"Ah, that's how it is. Mr. Bai came to my place for a meal during his birthday banquet. Later, I sang a song to him to celebrate his birthday. It happened to be about this matter. This is also fate."

"Yeah, we are so destined. You must know that Mr. Bai's ancestors have a lot to do with our family's ancestors."

(End of this chapter)