gourmet food

Chapter 1444 The special test of the organizing committee
"Brother Wang, why are you here?"

Seeing Lao Wang waving the number plate on his hand, Chu Yunfeng was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that he would sneak in.

Lao Wang admired Chu Yunfeng's slightly surprised expression and replied with a smile: "Brother Long and I came here to cheer you on. If something hadn't delayed us, we would have arrived the day before yesterday."

He came here to cheer, so Chu Yunfeng looked around and asked curiously: "What about Brother Long and others?"

As soon as Longma was mentioned, Old Wang suddenly laughed unkindly: "He is not as lucky as me. I saw that he was assigned to an African team just now. How is it? Brother, do you accept this luck?"

I have to say that Lao Wang was really lucky. He happened to be assigned to the venue of the Chinese team. This made Chu Yunfeng immediately give a thumbs up, and the other guests also sat down one after another in surprise.

Especially the British aunt who came over in exclaim at the beginning was chatting animatedly with Peng Yue, asking about Chinese delicacies.

The guests were seated very quickly. In the blink of an eye, all 12 guests were seated. Chu Yunfeng looked at it and found that besides Lao Wang, there were two Asian faces and one African face. The rest were basically European face.

Therefore, the dishes we cook today have to be mainly European-style, but maybe it depends on what kind of dishes and taste the customers like.

When the game time came, the host committee immediately announced the start of the game, but it was not officially started because according to the game regulations, everyone was left with 20 minutes.

The 20 minutes is divided into two parts. The first 10 minutes are reserved for the contestants to communicate with the guests and understand their tastes.

The remaining 10 minutes are for the contestants to determine the ingredients according to the guests' tastes, hand the ingredient list to the staff next to them, and then deliver the required ingredients within 10 minutes.

Once the ingredients are selected, they cannot be changed, and all of these ingredients must be used, and the waste rate is assessed.

If the utilization rate of the ingredients is very high, the judges will also get extra points. These are the details of the competition and the key to winning the competition.

Then Chu Yunfeng led everyone to welcome the guests, which was also the beginning of giving a good impression to the guests.

Lao Wang applauded immediately, and the other guests also applauded enthusiastically and looked forward to it.

At this time, no national team players started cooking. Everyone rushed to ask the guests. First, they needed to understand the guests' preferences, especially to confirm the taste.

As an old acquaintance, Lao Wang didn't wait for Chu Yunfeng to ask questions, and immediately said: "I don't need to ask, I will eat whatever you do, no matter what."

This is the truth, no matter what Chu Yunfeng does, there is no problem for Lao Wang, because there is nothing bad in what he makes, the key is to eat it.

There was only one guest from Africa. Chu Yunfeng signaled to Liang Yihai, and immediately let him understand. He heard this guest speak just now, and there is no problem in communicating in English.

As for the British aunt, Chu Yunfeng handed her over to Song Shaochen. Song Shaochen's English is also good, and he is handsome, so it is the most suitable for communication.

In addition, Wu Junjie's English should be the best among all, so Chu Yunfeng asked him to act as his translator and began to communicate with the European guests.

In addition, the two guests from Asia are in charge of Bei Bei and the others, and their English is not bad. If there are any problems with communication, just ask Pan Liang or Ren Tingting to assist at any time.

At this time, Chu Yunfeng did not adopt the method of asking one by one, but adopted a very interesting method, asking the eight European guests to do multiple-choice questions.

First of all, he introduced himself. Chu Yunfeng immediately said with a smile: "I am Chu Yunfeng, the captain of the Huaxia team. I am very happy to share the delicious time with you here. Welcome everyone."

After Wu Junjie translated, Chu Yunfeng began to check the expressions on the faces of the guests. After receiving smiles from all of them, Chu Yunfeng nodded immediately.

Although he was chatting warmly with the guests, Chu Yunfeng never relaxed his attention to all the guests. Seeing that they were relatively easy to talk to, he felt a lot more at ease. The kind of picky guests he was most afraid of meeting.

It seems that the guests are quite easy-going, so let’s move on to the next step.

"Very good, so in order to know what kind of food you like as soon as possible, I will do a survey now. If you are interested in the food I mentioned, please raise your hand, OK?"

This is a very good and fast method. It is much better than asking the guests to recall it for a long time to explain, and it can also save time.

After Wu Junjie translated, the guests naturally nodded one by one, and then Chu Yunfeng immediately asked, "French fries?"

uh~?

Why is it something that everyone is very familiar with right from the start?

The customer thought that Chu Yunfeng would talk about relatively remote delicacies, so after being slightly stunned, a middle-aged man in gentleman's clothing raised his hand immediately.

The remaining seven guests all raised their hands, and all eight guests raised their hands. It seemed that everyone had the same taste. Ren Tingting and the others behind Chu Yunfeng immediately recorded it.

"cheese!"

Only six people raised their hands. One of the remaining two people was hesitant, and the other person had an unimpressed expression. The hesitant person was a young man with glasses and a lot of acne on his face.

Chu Yunfeng secretly remembered the details in his mind, and also had some guesses in his mind, but it was not time to ask questions immediately. He would naturally have arrangements for it later, and there would be no deviations in the details.

"Cheese?"

"coffee?"

"Ham?"

The questions during the snack session ended quickly, allowing Chu Yunfeng to gain first-hand information. Next came the cold dishes!
"bacon?"

"sausage?"

"Baguette?"

"cherry?"

"tomato?"

After continuing to obtain first-hand information, the next step is to inquire about hot dishes. This hot dish is different from the stir-fried dishes made by Huaxia. Huaxia often pays attention to the word "stir-fried" when making hot dishes.

Hot dishes in Europe and the United States are basically "stewed", which means stewed or stewed, so you can often see them eating a portion of soup, many of which are made from beans.

So what Chu Yunfeng asked was different from just now. What he asked now was not simple ingredients, but the name of the dish.

"Roasted tomato risotto?"

“Pasta with watercress and pea sauce?”

“Parsip and butter fish pie?”

“Spicy bean soup with creamy cheese garlic bread?”

"Cornish pasties?"

"Churro dipped in chocolate?"

"Romesco sauce?"

"Chocolate chips with bread?"

"Currywurst?"

"Potato egg sandwich?"

"Ham and butter baguette?"

"Chimney roll?"

Chu Yunfeng talked about more than thirty dishes in succession, all of which were carefully selected. As the results were recorded, Ren Tingting and the others gradually frowned, and Chu Yunfeng also discovered some problems.

These dishes are not chosen randomly, but are very distinctive dishes from each country. Take churros dipped in chocolate, for example, which is a classic Spanish delicacy.

Cornish meat pie is a meat pie from Cornwall, England. It is wrapped with beef, potatoes and other ingredients in a crispy crust, and is made into a size that can be held in one hand. It will definitely make people fall in love with it as soon as it is eaten.

Romesque sauce is a traditional Spanish dipping sauce that is often used with various meals. It is a tomato-based sauce with hazelnuts, roasted red peppers and garlic. You will never want to eat Romesque sauce again. Want to dip in tomato sauce!

Chimney rolls are the oldest kind of pastry in Hungary. The simple soft dough with a slightly burnt crispy skin is an excellent walking dessert and very unique.

Chocolate chips with bread, this is one of the most unique delicacies in the Netherlands. It is rare in other countries because few people eat chocolate chips with bread.

But the Dutch are different. They usually sprinkle chocolate chips directly on the buttered bread. Although it seems strange when I first see it, it is really a wonderful combination!

After this round of collection was completed, Chu Yunfeng once again found that when he mentioned two dishes, the young man he had just noticed was extremely conspicuous. He was the only one among everyone who did not raise his hand.

And there was a hesitant look on his face again, which made Chu Yunfeng pay more attention to him. Is there really a problem?
Next was the dessert. During this round of investigation, Chu Yunfeng found that the young man almost never raised his hand. This scene also made the others discover the problem.

After everyone signaled to Chu Yunfeng, they saw him nodding, indicating that he understood and everything was under control.

As for the all-vegetarian dish stipulated in the competition, this is even simpler. There are two options, one is the Dinghu vegetarian dish in Cantonese cuisine, and the other is the eight-treasure vegetarian stew in Sichuan cuisine.

However, although this eight-treasure vegetarian stew in Sichuan cuisine seems to be a vegetarian dish, it requires stock, that is, milk soup, to enhance the flavor, so it is not a vegetarian dish in the complete sense.

Therefore, in order to avoid any controversy, everyone decided early on to use Dinghu Shangsu for this dish.

The communication time with the guests has been going on for 8 minutes. Currently, there are 5 national teams on the field who have completed the communication and have begun to arrange to pick up the ingredients.

This extra time is naturally beneficial, and the rules also count it as game time, so whichever team spends less time communicating with guests will naturally have some advantages.

Although Chu Yunfeng also wanted to save time, this communication was too important and he did not think that this time needed to be saved. While Ren Tingting and the others were nervously counting the final data, there was another very important thing that needed to be confirmed with the guests.

"How may I call you?"

The young man who had hesitated several times before was suddenly a little stunned when he was called. After pointing at himself, he smiled and replied: "Dennis, my name is Dennis!"

"Hello Dennis!"

Chu Yunfeng reached out to shake his hand, and then began to ask: "Are you allergic to dairy products and chocolate?"

what?
allergy?

Under normal circumstances, there are very few guests with food allergies. However, after so many cooking competitions, there has never been an incident of guests having allergies, so everyone ignores this factor.

hiss~!

Chu Yunfeng's question immediately caused Ren Tingting and the others to stop their statistical work. Everyone quickly gathered around and stared at Dennis nervously, waiting for his answer.

Even the guests sitting around him were staring at him nervously, and after receiving such attention from everyone, Dennis was obviously a little nervous.

"Uh~!

Yes, yes, I am allergic to these things, but it is not just these, I am allergic to many foods! "

I wipe~!

what's the situation?
Judging from what this means, he is allergic to many more than just milk and chocolate, so this will be troublesome!
Ren Tingting and the others took a deep breath of cold air, while Beibei patted herself on the forehead, meaning why are you so unlucky?
Chu Yunfeng didn't think so, and had a feeling in his heart that the appearance of this allergic guest was definitely not a coincidence, maybe it was deliberately set up by the organizing committee.

It is very likely that every guest of the national team will have such an allergic guest. If this is neglected and the food that the guest is allergic to is made, then the score will be deducted badly.

In this way, it will definitely be impossible to get a good ranking, and these special guests will definitely not eat the food prepared by the contestants. By the time they find out, it is already too late.

So just now I saw that a national team had already started to select ingredients. Maybe this was overlooked at such a fast speed. Even if a problem was slightly discovered, it was too late.

Ingredients cannot be replaced once they are selected. Even if you do not use them according to the guests' allergens, points will still be deducted for the utilization rate of the ingredients, so it is really hard to prevent. This trick of the organizing committee is really high enough.

Trying to keep his tone as easy-going as possible so as not to make Dennis so nervous, Chu Yunfeng asked softly: "So what other foods are you allergic to?"

I gave Wu Junjie a look and asked him to speak a little slower and softer, so as not to scare this kid. Judging from his reaction just now, this kid is a little timid.

Beibei and the others have a bit of a cannibalistic look in their eyes. Look how frightened others are. They almost stutter when they speak?
Under Chu Yunfeng's cough, Beibei and the others restrained themselves a little, and then Dennis breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Peanuts, eggs, shrimps, crabs, scallops, mangoes, pineapples, mushrooms, peaches, cashews , soybeans, beef and mutton”

After talking about more than [-] allergens in a row, Beibei and the others were immediately shocked, wondering if this guy was sent by God to be an undercover agent?

Chu Yunfeng was also shocked. This whole thing was a walking time bomb. He probably had to be careful what he ate every day. If he wasn't careful, he might have burped.

And it was a miracle that he could grow so big and be able to run around like this. Not to mention Chu Yunfeng and the others, even the other guests around him were amazed.

Lao Wang was also frightened. When he looked at Chu Yunfeng, he showed a questioning look, meaning to ask him if he wanted to confirm with the organizing committee.

confirm?

There was no need to confirm at all. Chu Yunfeng knew very well that this was what the organizing committee had arranged, because all the guests who were selected would be asked to fill out a questionnaire.

There are various questions on this questionnaire, such as food allergies, past medical history, etc. There are also some statements and terms that need to be confirmed by the customer.

It is impossible to be let in without signing, so this kind of special guest is a test given by the organizing committee to the players. It is quite tricky to encounter this situation.

Because it is impossible to make special dishes for such a special guest, all the prepared dishes are required to be tasted by the guests.

So the question is, there are so many allergens in Dennis, so the range of ingredients for making dishes has been narrowed to the extreme. How do you choose?
(End of this chapter)