Shiji Starts from the Beginning of the Month

"It's simple, just tired."

Hojo Takisan did not shy away from expressing his true thoughts.

"I'm almost 80 years old. I may not be able to enter the kitchen for several days after finishing five dishes on this table today. What can I compare with young people? Why don't I retire early and enjoy the time of my life?" The feeling of throwing away the shopkeeper."

After speaking, the old man added: "If those shareholders knew that I was still alive, I'm afraid they wouldn't let me retire so easily, so I can only declare to the public that I'm missing."

Jiang Xia can understand this. If there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, the same is true for the kitchen. If an experienced old man sits in charge, the kitchen will probably be very stable and there will be few problems.

Even if Takizo Hojo couldn't handle the pot anymore, those people would still force him to sit in the kitchen as a supervisor.

Obviously, Hojo Takizo didn't want this, and simply asked his son to tell those shareholders that he had disappeared. In desperation, the shareholders could only agree with Hojo Takashi to take over the Hojo building.

"I've been a chef all my life, and I'm about to die. At this last time, I don't want to cook anymore. I just want to be a diner and taste the dishes made by others."

Hojo Takizo expressed his wish.

"Then these dishes?"

Changing Jiang Xia this time is a bit confusing, since they have decided to retire, why are they still making these dishes for their own demonstrations.

"Oh, I heard at the time that you belittled the improved Chinese cuisine to nothing. Of course I was angry. Anyway, I have been doing improved cuisine all my life, and my field has been belittled. If it is not convenient to show my face, I will directly Going to Yuanyue to challenge you. Kid, you have been tricked."

Hojo Takizo said with a cold snort.

Jiang Xia suddenly realized that it seemed that someone was intentionally spreading her own rumors to sow discord between herself and the line of improving Chinese cuisine, but she didn't know what their purpose was.

Afterwards, due to a misunderstanding, Takashi Hojo led Jiang Xia and Jiugao to the specially arranged room.

"The two of you will rest here tonight, and tomorrow is the time for the official match."

"Excuse me."

Jiang Xia thanked Hojo Takashi, it can be seen that the middle-aged man in front of him is a very meticulous and meticulous person, and he attaches great importance to rules in every move.

When Hojo Takashi left, Jiugao asked: "Senior Jiang Xia, do you know who deliberately discredited you?"

Jiang Xia smiled unhappily when he heard the words: "How could I know this, but this person can easily spread rumors, most of them are inside the Improved Cuisine Association, I guess, the relationship with Wei Gong should be good. "

This behavior, combined with the development of the incident at that time, it can be seen that this person is avenging Wei Gong.

"Then Grandpa Hojo should know this person?"

After a long time I asked again.

"It should be. There is no reason why these people who maintain one side cannot find out the source of the news."

Jiang Xia thought for a while, Hojo Takisan only told him that he was being spread rumors, but did not reveal the specific identity of that person.

This kind of operation is obviously that neither side wants to offend. From this point of view, the identity and background of that person should not be simple.

"I'll go find them and ask them!"

Immediately, Jiu Wo Zhaoji wanted to go out, but was stopped by Jiang Xia before he got up.

"It's not bad for someone to disclose the news to us. After all, they are not familiar with each other, so naturally they won't tell us everything at the risk of offending others."

Jiang Xia said, he felt that Jiu Wo seemed extra impulsive today.

"Senior Jiang Xia, Miyoko must have been ignorant of this matter. If she knew, according to her character full of justice, she would definitely say it without hesitation."

For a long time, I was worried that Jiang Xia would hate the entire Hojo family because of this, so I explained.

"Wait a minute, this is your purpose, Kuga, are you worried that I will anger Miyoko because of this, and then not teach her sword skills?"

Jiang Xia looked at Jiu I Zhaoji carefully, and then said: "You seem to be very concerned about this school girl. Speaking of which, the Chinese Cuisine Research Association is Miyoko who you invited on your own initiative. You don't care about others. Like this!"

Jiang Xia felt that she was getting closer to the truth.

"Senior Jiang Xia, what nonsense are you talking about? I just, I just don't think that irrelevant people can be involved in the matter. Hojo-sister is all about proving herself in Chinese cuisine, so every opportunity to become stronger must be seized. Absolutely not. affected by this kind of thing."

Jiuwo Zhaoji explained in a panic, but his performance made Jiang Xia more sure of his previous guess.

Kuga Teruki and Hojo Miyoko, the relationship between these two people is very unusual.

"Sleep, no matter what kind of ghosts and snakes, they will all jump out tomorrow, so you have to keep your spirits up and prepare for the panic that may occur tomorrow."

Jiang Xia ordered that there will be time to talk about the matter between Kui and Miyoko in the future, and the most important thing at the moment is to catch the black hand behind the improvement of the Huaxia Cuisine Association.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day soon arrived. The venue for the competition was the open-air area in the middle of the Hojo building.

Chapter 166

At this time, a lot of people had gathered on the field, most of them were dressed in chef's clothes, they were today's contestants, chefs from Hojo Building.

Not far away, a middle-aged man was arguing with a gray-haired grandmother.

"Minghe mother-in-law, if we miss this opportunity, we will have no chance. As long as we kill him and improve the reputation of the Huaxia Cuisine Association, we will naturally save it."

The middle-aged man argued angrily that the person he wanted to kill was Jiang Xia.

"Is this your method? It was the same way decades ago. What happened? Now no one dares to mention the previous incident, because each of you is being tortured by your conscience."

The old lady yelled at the middle-aged man directly. Although the middle-aged man who was scolded seemed very angry, he didn't dare to speak back, because the old man in front of him had a very high status.

The old man named Minghe continued to scold: "Using junk food to spoil other people's sense of taste, you can't even think of such a dirty method, and you don't even care what it is called a limit-for-one change. Decades ago, it was true. I was succeeded by you, but today, as long as I have a breath, you will sit down for me honestly."

"Ming and mother-in-law!"

The middle-aged man couldn't hold back when he heard the words, and wanted to get up and say something, but Ming and her mother-in-law stared back at him again, and could only sit on the stool decadently.

Jiang Xia didn't know, the conspiracy he thought there might be was gone.

Ming and her mother-in-law squinted their eyes and looked towards the attic in front of the middle of the arena. There, Jiang Xia had already boarded the judge's platform on the second floor, although she did not agree to use these insidious methods.

However, she does not intend to let Jiang Xia go easily, because she is the improved Huaxia Cuisine Association, and she is older than the president.

It is her responsibility and obligation to maintain the reputation of the Improved Huaxia Cuisine Association.

At this time, Hojo Takashi also walked up to the second floor, and he said slowly: "Today is still the annual Hojo Building internal chef competition day, you are all young chefs under the age of 20, what you have to do is Show off your culinary skills, serve the dishes you think are the best, and conquer the judges."

Needless to say the scope of the competition, everyone present knows that it is improved Chinese cuisine, because Hojo Building is a restaurant that operates improved Chinese cuisine.

Every apprentice here has been working in the Hojo Building since they were very young, learning cooking skills. This way of teaching courses independently without going through the school is somewhat similar to the previous Huaxia Hotel.

Among a group of male chefs, Kitajo Miyoko is very conspicuous, but there is no embarrassment on her face, and her eyes are full of determination.

With the official start of the competition, all the chefs started to move. The process of the competition was not that complicated. Everyone had a dish and the best one was selected.

There are only champions in the competition, and there is no No.2. This is also the purpose of Hojo House.

If you want to become a new star in the culinary world, you have to be the best and the strongest. No one will remember No.2, except...

In fact, the scope of improving Chinese cuisine is not large, because the time for Chinese cuisine to be introduced to Sakura Country is not too long, so the development is very limited.

The menus given by most Chinese restaurants are very similar. The most famous ones should be the five dishes made by the old owner of Hojo that Jiang Xia tasted yesterday.

Therefore, the contestants who participated in the competition this time cooked most of these dishes.

It's not that simple dishes are not suitable for competitions. Sometimes, the simpler they are, the more they can show the chef's unsimpleness.

Moreover, the improved Chinese cuisine itself is actually a kind of cuisine with simple process and emphasis on efficiency.

When Chinese cuisine was first introduced to Sakura Country, it was mainly spread in the market and alleys. If those banquet dishes that are as exquisite as works of art are really put on the dining table.

Not to mention whether ordinary diners in this country of cherry blossoms can afford the high prices of those dishes, the difficulty of learning this dish alone will make most chefs of the country of cherry blossoms quit.

Therefore, these chefs chose Huaxia's simple home-cooked stir-fries to introduce first, which is why most of the Chinese restaurants in Sakura Country serve stir-fried dishes.

Before the Jiangxia crossing in the last world, in fact, more complicated Chinese cuisines have begun to appear in the Sakura Kingdom, and they have received unanimous praise from the locals.

But in this world of the Spirit of Halberd Eater.

Over the years, because of the closure of China, the chefs of the Sakura Country in this world can no longer learn more Chinese cuisine, improve one, and stop here.

It's not that there is something wrong with the improvement of Huaxia cuisine itself, but that their vision, along with the closure of Huaxia, has also been completely locked.

However, this competition is not about the vision, but more about the test of one's cooking skills, heat, frying technique, time and ratio of adding ingredients, etc.

Because cooking doesn't take much time, so not too long after the game started, a chef had already prepared the dishes.

Jiang Xia saw that the served dishes were placed at the far left of the jury.

"From left to right, the judges tasted and scored in turn, and finally took the average score as the final score of the contestants."

Um?Didn't Jiuwo Zhaoji say that those people may use various means to exchange one with their own limit?

This doesn't look like it.

If a plate of "poisonous" dishes is brought up, I'm afraid it's not one for one, but one for many.

The judges on the field are almost the backbone of the entire Improved Huaxia Cuisine Association. If they really want to annihilate with Jiang Xia, I am afraid that this association will disappear completely.

It seems that the other party does not intend to do anything during the review process.

Jiang Xia breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, he was still a little panicked at first. After all, he knew that someone was plotting against him in the dark. Looking at every young chef serving food, he felt that he was an insider.

Really, participating in the cooking review at the beginning, the contestants are all ghosts.

Now, since he knows that the other party will not do anything in this step, Jiang Xia can properly complete the review work.

Eating is always more comfortable than cooking.

No wonder, the old head of the Hojo family, in the last few years of his life, would choose to retire and taste other people's dishes.

Because, no matter how immature and unskilled young chefs are, the taste they cook must be unique in this world.

It is a taste that I cannot copy by imitation. Every dish reflects the hard work of a chef.

Eating is like savoring other people's lives, and the improvement of the realm is no lower than cooking, especially for cooks like Jiang Xia whose basic skills are already against the sky.

Chapter 167 Conflict

The dishes of the chef who served first were tasted in turn, and the first few judges gave scores of 60, 70, and 65 respectively after tasting.

This competition is a [-]-point scoring system. The meaning of these judges is that this dish is barely qualified.

Until the dish was passed on to Jiang Xia, it was a fried noodle with pork, green onions and other ingredients.

In the improved Chinese cuisine of Sakura Country, chow mein is used as a dish, so the taste will be relatively strong, and it is usually seasoned with heavy oil and stir-fried over high heat.

Picking up a handful with serving chopsticks and putting it in the middle of the bowl in front of her, Jiang Xia frowned as soon as she finished eating.

10 points, this is the score given by Jiang Xia.

Seeing Jiang Xia's score, the judges next to him and the chef who served the food were all surprised, because compared to the previous ones, Jiang Xia's score was really too low.

However, Jiang Xia was the judge and Yuan Yue's teacher, so everyone didn't say much, and the dish continued to be passed on.