Food: I Am A Cartoonist In Totsuki

Chapter 100: The “heart” in the toilet

“I’ve made you wait for a long time. Next, the quarter-finals of the autumn trials will begin. The competition is divided into four rounds. Now, the two players from the first group are invited to appear.”

In the introduction of Kawashima Rei, the first group of the competition began.

Tong Yu was not in the audience seat. As a contestant, he was watching the live broadcast in the special private room between Yuetian.

Along with Tong Yu in the room was Ryoko, who was also a contestant. At this time, their eyes fell on Sōma, who was slowly walking towards the cooking area on the TV screen.

Sōma held the kitchen utensils box in his hand, and walked slowly out of the player’s passage with a calm expression on his face.

After the debut, there were cheers from the audience, but the cheering sound was from the Polar Star Dorm crowd in the audience.

“Speaking of which, it is rare for transfer students to enter the finals of the autumn trials.

“Indeed, he has three years less time to study at Tōtsuki Academy than others, and it is indeed rare to be able to enter the finals. This also shows that he has a certain cooking ability.”

It was the two spectators in the specially-invited seats who were discussing this at this time.

Indeed, the transfer students have obvious disadvantages compared with the students who are normally promoted from the junior high school to the senior high school.

Therefore, in the history of Tōtsuki’s autumn trials, there have been almost no cases where transfer students have reached the finals.

Soon, Nakiri Alice070, who is Sōma’s opponent, also appeared in the public eye.

Since only a few contestants know the name list for the group matchup, the audience is unaware. Therefore, many people exclaimed when they saw that the real opponent was Nakiri Alice.

“Yes, it’s Nakiri Alice, she’s the number one in District B!”

“At the very beginning, in the showdown of the best girls in the field of molecular gastronomy, the luck of this transfer student is really bad.”

Sure enough, “It’s hard to cut Alice still brought her equipment.”

Everyone looked and saw that at the same time as Nakiri Alice entered the venue, there was a truck driving into the moon sky behind her.

The carriage of the truck opened, and various molecular cooking instruments of various sizes and varieties appeared in everyone’s sight.

Sōma, who only held a kitchen box, seemed so weak in front of this luxurious molecular cooking instrument, as if he had already overwhelmed his momentum.

In the private room, Shen Ryoko couldn’t help but worry when she saw the situation on the scene: “Tong Yu-kun, do you think Sōma has a chance to win against Nakiri Alice?”

“Well, if I’m not wrong in the qualifiers, Sōma already has a “concentric.” In addition, the theme of the duel is “Bento”, Nakiri Alice has no chance of winning. It can’t be said that there is no chance of winning, as long as there are no special circumstances, the result of this game is basically finalized. ” Dong Yu said.

Shen Liangzi also learned about the “heart” in detail from Tong Yu’s mouth. According to Tong Yu’s speculation, Shen Liangzi also awakened the “heart”, but it is only a prototype, and it will take a long time for it to be fully formed.

Shen Ryoko felt relieved when he heard Tong Yu say this. After all, Sōma is Polar Star Dorm’s roommate, and whether it’s Kami Ryoko or Tong Yu, hope he can win.

Soon, the game begins.

The theme of the showdown is “Bento”, and the cooking time is limited to 2 hours.

Cooking officially started. Sōma showed the advantages of working in the kitchen for ten years. The smooth handling of ingredients and the skillful knife skills in cutting ingredients made everyone in the auditorium happy to watch.

Compared with Sōma’s “normal” cooking techniques, Nakiri Alice is an alternative existence.

No way, most of the people present didn’t know anything about molecular cooking. Seeing Nakiri Alice taking out various containers and fiddling with it, the audience felt like she was doing chemical experiments, not cooking.

Except for the simple work of slicing beef and cooking rice, other cooking processes are all done in the molecular cooking apparatus.

Not to mention that ordinary audiences can’t understand it, even Marui, who has the title of “taste know-how”, can’t understand what she’s cooking…

The cooking time passed quickly, and Sōma and Alice also finished their respective dishes.

As expected by Tong Yu, Alice made “Temari Bento,” a bento dish that combines twelve kinds of Temari sushi to be tasted in order.

Twelve different sushis are made up of three types of ingredients: tomatoes for vegetables, sea bream for seafood (ccee), and beef for meat.

Seafood, vegetables, and meat dishes will be tasted in an orderly manner, which will give the tasters a gradually increasing taste, and at the same time, there will be stimulatory molecular reactions between each other. This gradually increasing sense of hierarchy brings different feelings to the judges.

Finally, for the perfect finish, Alice will mix the solidified broth with sea bream to form a “crocodile tea rice” on the tip of her tongue.

The small sushi contains a variety of delicious foods, and the combination of vegetables, seafood, and meat is nutritious and healthy. Such dishes are naturally praised by the judges.

Even Nakiri Senzaemon’s black kimono has come off his shoulders, and there are already signs of “ripped clothing”.

Next to Nakiri Alice’s cooking is Sōma’s cooking, and a “Yukihira Variation Nori Bento” was presented to everyone.

This bento has a surprising three-layer structure. The top layer is three kinds of side dishes: seaweed fish cake, deep-fried cod, and beef shoulder.

The soup in the middle is miso soup with bacon and onions.

The bottom layer is made with alginic acid and calcium chloride to make seaweed bombs, and Tsukudani and Kuzufenkan are added with tuna flowers.

The three-layer structure is layer by layer, and the delicacy is gradually improved, but the feelings brought to the judges are completely different from Alice’s cooking just now, because they tasted the “heart” in Sōma cuisine.

In the end, even Nakiri Senzaemon showed a “ripped shirt” in full form.

Nakiri Saebsenmon also said about the insufficiency of Alice’s cooking and her own shortcomings: Alice, “Even if the theme of your dish today is ‘sushi’, I think you will bring out the same work. The dishes you make are very delicious, but in fact you are just stuffing your own technology into your own bento box.

Only the bento can convey the delicious taste to the diners, and the fun and freshness of the bento can be further improved. Is this reflected in your cooking? There is one very important thing missing in your cooking, that is What a chef needs to convey to diners. To put it simply, it is the sense of surprise and surprise in cooking.

Nakiri Alice didn’t understand the meaning of this sentence at first, but it wasn’t until she tasted the food made by Sōma that she had an epiphany.

Then, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Nakiri Saemon picked up a huge brush over 2 meters and wrote the winner’s name – Yukihira Sōma – on the huge blank scroll paper with a strong and powerful style.

After Sōma won, the staff also came to the private room to inform Kan Ryoko to prepare.

“Tai Ryoko, the second round will start in 15 minutes, please prepare accordingly.

Shen Liangzi calmed down a little excited and stood up and said to Tong Yu: “Mr. Tong Yu, I’m going.

“Come on, I’ll go to the audience to watch the battle, don’t have any psychological pressure, just concentrate on cooking.” Dong Yu also stood up and said.

(To be continued..),