Food: I was a cartoonist in Totsuki

[The pictures in this chapter are for reference only. Because they are the dishes I have in mind, I couldn’t find a suitable picture]

Chapter 127 The New King

The "Sword Cod Fish Balls" made by Erina didn't feel too big when I took the first bite, but as the second fish ball was put into my mouth and I chewed the aftertaste, the deliciousness and texture obviously improved. Variety. “The meat of saury itself is not so soft, but because it is presented in the form of pureed meat and blended with cod and other ingredients, the texture becomes soft and chewy, and at the same time, there is a faint aroma of black tea lingering on the tip of the tongue. , further enhancing the flavor of the fish balls. As you continue to chew, the appetite deep in your heart is awakened little by little..." Leonora commented again at a super fast speed.

"Sturgeon roe, burdock, cod, and bonito are all mixed into this fish ball, and they appear in different forms. The delicious taste of various ingredients is completely stimulated. Especially burdock and bonito. The chewing sensation brought by the fish is simply unstoppable." Dojima Gin said and put another saury ball into his mouth.

As Leonora and Gin Dojima said, the biggest feature of Erina's dish is the chewiness, which is the stimulation that the fish balls bring to the senses.

The salmon roe stimulates appetite, the burdock and bonito enhance the chewiness (touch), and the cod makes the fish balls softer and further enhances the freshness (deliciousness) of the ingredients.

This is a dish that impacts the senses of taste, touch and smell at the same time. The three-pronged approach of the three senses allows the eater to experience the supreme deliciousness.

Soon Dojima Gin finished all the fish balls on the plate, then he put down his chopsticks and looked at Erina and said: "Cod and Nangui bonito are also seafood ingredients. If you mix them with saury, you won't be afraid of turning the tables and destroying it." Is the saury itself delicious?”

"There is no problem with the taste. I have tried this dish many times, and it was only the first time that there was a taste deviation." Erina said slowly.

Erina said it was easy, but Dojima Gin and others who had eaten this dish knew that it was very difficult to do it~.

Erina's dish has the same characteristics as the French foie gras she made before. They both use the talent of "God's Tongue" to fuse multiple ingredients together, which not only does not derive other miscellaneous flavors, but also highlights the -The deliciousness of the main ingredients.

And the main ingredients are only presented after "form transformation".

The original shape of saury is not in the form of meatballs, but Erina made it into this form and presented it in a more delicious way.

Such a cooking method is simply beyond the control of ordinary chefs.

The natural ability of "God's Tongue" is best reflected in this dish.

Although Leonora and Gin Dojima praised Tongyu's cooking and sighed inwardly at the power of the "God's Tongue" talent to present the dishes in such a delicious form, Senzaemon had never been able to do it before. After I started tasting it and made one comment, I never said anything else.

Maybe it’s because Gin Dojima and Leonora have already said what they want to say first, so they don’t want to repeat themselves.

However, this is not the case in fact. The question Senzaemon is thinking about at this time is about the unexpected incident of this dish...

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After Erina's cooking was tasted, Tong Yu still didn't present his creation.

Not only that, he was still cooking when the full moon was about to pass through the "Way of the Moon".

I saw a whole deboned saury placed in four Chinese iron pots.

Tong Yu picked up a spoon and poured the boiling soup on the fish. This process lasted about ten minutes.

When it was almost done, Tong Yu carefully took the four saury out of the pot and put them in the middle of the decorated plate.

After placing the saury on the plate, Tong Yu placed kale hearts cut into small discs on the saury, adding another layer of "color" beauty to it.

The plate is pre-plated with onions, cucumber slices, etc. as a base and decoration. After being arranged and decorated in this way, the beauty is no worse than Erina's just now.

"Welcome to try my dish 'Saury in Soup'!"

Tong Yu brought the completed dishes to the judging table, sent three of them to Senzaemon, Dojima Gin, and Leonora respectively, and sent another one to the side, staring at Erina looked at the finished dish.

"This portion is for you. I hope you can taste this dish. Maybe it will help you understand something..."

After Tong Yu placed the food in front of Erina, she returned to the judging table.

"Saury in soup. Is this the delicious soup stewed with the 'Eight Seafoods' just sealed in the belly of the saury? It's really a rare cooking method." Leonora said as she looked at the food in front of her. .

Dojima Gin stared at the food in front of him with a look of surprise on his face: "If I remember correctly, this dish should be one of the chief dishes of the 'Man-Han Banquet' in Chinese cuisine, right?"

"What Mr. Dojima said is absolutely correct. The inspiration for my dish comes from 'yellow croaker in soup', one of the top ten dishes in Chinese cuisine. I improved it on the basis of this dish and added my own creativity. and ideas." Tong Yu explained.

In addition to Leonora, Dojima Gin and Senzaemon both have a certain understanding of the dish "Yellow Croaker in Soup".

In particular, Senzaemon, who has eaten all kinds of delicacies from all over the world, has heard of this dish, but only just.

Yellow croaker in soup was the top dish at the Manchu-Han banquet in the Qing Dynasty where Liu Pleiades and others served.

The ingredients used in this dish are expensive and the workmanship is complicated. Even at that time, few people in the imperial kitchen could cook this dish.Although the preparation method has been passed down, there are very few chefs who want to make it well, and there are almost no places where you can eat this dish.

Because of this, the folk legends about this dish are even more magical. Even people like Senzaemon have only heard of it but have never eaten it.

"The chief dish of Chinese cuisine? It sounds very powerful..."

There was a hint of disdain in Leonora's words, and she picked up the chopsticks and poked the fish belly first.

The chopsticks pierced the fish belly, and the soup inside seemed to find a vent and slowly flowed out from the opened hole.

It is not accurate to say that this is soup, because the soup that flows out seems to be filled with small pearl balls.

As the soup flows out like pearls, a stream of white gas rises from the punctured hole, and an indescribable aroma penetrates the nostrils, deeply stimulating the taste buds.

............

After a while, the soup sealed inside the saury overflowed the entire bottom of the plate, merging with the onions and cucumbers that had just been spread on the bottom of the plate as decoration.

The fragrance has been enhanced even more, constantly impacting Leonora's defense line.

"Hmm."

Leonora made a strange sound just by smelling the fragrance.

Dojima Gin and Senzaemon also picked up their chopsticks and pierced the fish belly, and once again saw the clear soup filled with small pearl balls slowly gushing out. This scene happened to be captured by the camera, and they sat there Others in the audience can also see clearly.

"It's so beautiful. The fish maw soup is as beautiful as pearls!"

"The boneless saury is soaked in a top-quality soup made with eight kinds of high-grade seafood ingredients. Just thinking about it makes me feel delicious!"

"Huh, delicious? I don't think so. A lot of time was wasted in order to cook the delicious soup. Half of the cooking time passed before I started processing the saury. The deliciousness of the saury has been exhausted, no matter what I use It won’t be delicious even if soaked in soup..."

However, as soon as the student finished speaking, Leonora's exclamation came from the judging table.

"Ah~ The delicious taste of saury is completely integrated with the taste of this soup. The unprecedented delicious taste hits the taste buds. My... brain almost stopped thinking!"

After Leonora, there was also news from Dojima Gin and Senzaemon.

Senzaemon was more direct. The long black clothes on his upper body came off again, and with a look of shock on his face, he kept putting pieces of saury meat into his mouth with his right hand holding the chopsticks.

Dojima Ginya was shocked, and at the same time he couldn't think about it: "The deliciousness of the saury has not been lost at all. The moment you eat it, you feel a fresh saury beating in your mouth. The freshness and deliciousness are all the same as before." On top of the food!”

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Chapter 128 Dojima Gin’s reminder of Senzaemon’s concerns

"What's going on? Tong Yu obviously processed saury later than Erina. Why is the delicacy of saury still higher than Erina's?"

"And what Tong Yu chose was the 'Special Knife' saury. The meat quality is supposed to be worse than the 'Mid Knife' saury. What on earth did he do!"

Everyone in the audience was shocked and didn't understand what was going on.

At this time, Erina also tasted the dish made by Tong Yu. After putting a piece of fish meat into her mouth to taste, the expression on her face suddenly changed.

The next moment, her "God's Tongue" fed back three-dimensional cooking information.

fortress!

An impenetrable and invincible fortress appeared before his eyes.The ingredients used to build this fortress are shark fin, sea cucumber, fish maw, mussels, scallops, fish lips, abalone, squid, etc...

And at the top of this fortress is the saury, which reigns over all the ingredients like a king.

But the situation changed in the next second, and the fortress was attacked by fierce enemy artillery fire.

Boom boom boom!

The enemy's artillery fire was so fierce that the fortress instantly collapsed during the roaring attack. Then a group of enemies crossed the fortress and aimed their weapons at the unarmed Erina.

"Your fortress has been breached. Just go ahead and capture her. I will make you very comfortable..." The enemy leader stared at Erina and let out an evil laugh.

Erina, who was surrounded by enemies, looked at the scene in disbelief. She couldn't believe that this solid fortress was broken down so easily.

She didn't want to surrender, but she, a weak woman, couldn't stand up to these "strong men" armed with weapons...

"How's my cooking?"

At some point, Tong Yu came to Erina and said, "You are satisfied with the cooking this time. Is your 'God's Tongue' satisfied?"

Erina finally came back to her senses and found that Senzaemon had already tasted Dou Yu's food and was already discussing the outcome of this final showdown.

"You...what's the matter with the freshness of your saury? Why...why can it be preserved so perfectly?"

Erina held the cooking table with her right hand, controlling her legs that were a little weak due to the impact of delicious food, and looked at Tong Yu with the last trace of stubbornness in her expression and asked.

Tong Yu put her head next to Erina's cheek and said with a smile: "Do you really want to know this secret?"

Erina bit her lip and finally nodded with a blush.

"Okay, let me tell you then. The reason why the saury I made is so delicious is because... I am so handsome. Are you satisfied with this explanation?"

"you!"

Erina was so angry at Tong Yu's words that she blushed and pointed at Tong Yu with her right hand, speechless.

Seeing Erina like this, Tong Yu immediately said, "But if you can support my comics, I may be able to tell you this secret, and also show you different food fields."

"Who... who wants to support your illogical comics!" Erina returned to her tsundere look and snorted coldly.

Tong Yu did not lie to Erina this time, because if Erina could become his biggest fan, he could tell her the secret of the legendary kitchen utensils.

That's right, the reason why Tong Yu made the saury so delicious this time, surpassing Erina's saury in terms of freshness, is because he used the legendary kitchen utensil - the Eiling Knife - when processing the saury.

Yongling Knife specializes in processing seafood ingredients, which can completely "resurrect" the deliciousness of the ingredients.

To put it simply, Tong Yu used the Eiling Knife to return the delicacy of the saury back to when it was alive in the sea. In this way, no matter what method Erina used to seal it, the delicacy would certainly not be as good as his saury.

In addition, this time Tong Yu not only used the legendary kitchen utensil Yongling Knife, but also used the Zhuanlong Kettle.

There are not only "eight kinds of seafood" sealed in the saury soup, but also "Kikishita sauce" that is instantly made in a tsubo kettle.

Juxiajiang, this is the top brand sauce of the famous Sichuan restaurant "Juxialou" in China Ichiban. It has a unique and charming taste.However, making this sauce is not easy. Not to mention the many ingredients required, the first stage of fermentation alone takes half a year, and the second stage takes about a year.

Therefore, it will take about 2 years to complete using normal techniques.

But thanks to the power of the dragon dragon pot, it only takes a moment to complete.

The combination of Kiyoshita sauce and the soup made from "eight kinds of seafood" creates a new taste that is enough to conquer anyone.

The final showdown between the two top ten finally came to a close. About 10 minutes later, Nakiri Senzaemon appeared in the middle of the field, ready to announce the result of the final.

The champion of the 92nd "Autumn Selection" is about to be born.