Cities: Start with street stalls

Chapter 115 Dilemma
The chairman's speech was very simple, and even the judges didn't introduce it, which is normal. After all, the competition is not officially started yet, and the official opening will not begin until the audience is all together.

The sharp-eyed Luo Fan found an old acquaintance Guo Youming on the judging panel. Being able to come and be a judge, it seems that his status in the Food Association is not low.

In fact, Luo Fan misunderstood this point. The reason why Guo Youming was able to be a judge was mainly related to his usual style. Guo Youming is an upright person, and the dishes he evaluated were basically worthy of his scores.

This competition seemed to be deliberately arranged by the organizers. Luo Fan saw several contestants making stinky tofu nearby. Not to mention the famous brand Black Impression, Luo Fan even saw Chaofan stinky tofu.

Speaking of this extraordinary stinky tofu, it can be said that he has an indissoluble bond with Luo Fan. At first, he planned to register this brand, but the industry and commerce bureau indicated that it had already been registered, so the brand of Yifan stinky tofu came into being.

Luo Fan first went to the ingredients to choose some ginger, onion, garlic and peppers he needed, and then took some seasonings, and he was ready.

It's just that other people are completely different from Luo Fan. They are basically secret sauces prepared in advance. Only some fresh ingredients are prepared on the spot. Not long after, someone has already prepared a stinky tofu.

Looking at it like that, Luo Fan instantly felt that the ordinary bottled seasonings in his hands were a bit too ordinary. Although these standard ingredients can meet ordinary cooking needs, they lack unique charm.

It's just that Luo Fan is already on the verge of firing, and it's too late to make temporary preparations now.

It's not that Luo Fan doesn't want to prepare secret sauces, it's just that it takes a long time to ferment all kinds of sauces, and it may not be successful at the first time, so Luo Fan had to give up in the end.

The reason why the contestants are given such a long time is not that it takes so much time to actually cook, the most is to let everyone get familiar with the kitchen utensils here, you must know that no matter what you are cooking, a slight mistake in the heat will affect the final product .

I can't usually see the influence of this, but at this critical time, every detail is compared.

Luo Fan didn't directly fry the stinky tofu he brought. After all, he only had a jar of black and white stinky tofu, and he couldn't bear the consumption of the experiment.

However, Luo Fan has an alternative. The competition party provides ordinary hard tofu, that is, stinky tofu before fermentation. It is the best thing to use for experiments.

When Luo Fan was experimenting with hard tofu, Chaofan stinky tofu also found Luofan’s Yifan stinky tofu, and one of the assistants sneered:
"I didn't expect that there was a Yifan stinky tofu here, and the heat came to us."

The chef was very calm, and said indifferently: "You can't do anything if people want to gossip. The only blame is that when we first registered, we didn't catch all the exhausted trademarks."

"However, he entered the competition anyway, so you don't need to say that. Maybe he is very good, and then we will be the ones taking advantage of his popularity?"

The assistant smiled contemptuously: "How is it possible? You didn't see that they are just chefs from a small place like JS City. They are probably here to make up the numbers."

"The goal of our extraordinary stinky tofu is black impression and harmony, not a random stinky tofu that can touch porcelain."

It's not unreasonable for the assistant to say that. Let's take JS City as an example. Except for the evil Luo Fan who appeared this year, the rest of them are basically here to make up the numbers. There are always so many cannon fodder to participate in the competition every year.

The chef said unhappily: "Okay, just do your job seriously. Whether he is good or not has nothing to do with us."

"And you also said that our goal is black impression and harmony. Don't let these insignificant things affect your rhythm."

The assistant also realized his mistake at this time, and quickly bowed his head to admit his mistake: "Sorry, I was impetuous."

Looking at the assistant, the chef thought with some regret, when will his assistant really get rid of this impetuous bad habit, and then he can truly pass on his mantle, so he can rest early.

To be honest, after making stinky tofu for so many years, the head chef is also a little tired. I don’t know how many years ago, my cooking skills have not improved a bit, and I always stand still.

He felt that he was only one step away from his breakthrough, but it was this step that was the real despair. It took him 20 years, but he still didn't take this seemingly simple step.

Luo Fan didn't know that he had become cannon fodder for Pengci in the eyes of others, but even if he knew, Luo Fan didn't bother to argue with them, he would use his own strength to smash them into scum in seconds.

After one or two hours of familiarization, Luo Fan finally got acquainted with the whole set of kitchen utensils. Now, these tools are incomparably tame in Luo Fan's hands, not at all violent at the beginning.

Finally, this time came, Luo Fan carefully opened the lid of the stinky tofu jar, and now it's time for the protagonist.

This time, Luo Fan still used peanut oil. The quality of the peanut oil provided by the organizer was not bad, but it was very suitable for Luo Fan's work this time.

Peanut oil is different from ordinary soybean oil. Its unique fragrance is its advantage and disadvantage. If you can't tame this fragrance, it is not as suitable as soybean oil.

This is naturally not a problem for Luo Fan. With the experience provided by the super learning machine and his many times of practice, peanut oil has already been tamed and docile.

Luo Fan planned to process black and white tofu in two different ways, new and old, and then choose the one that is most suitable for this competition. Thinking of this, Luo Fan put two pieces of black and white stinky tofu into the oil pan respectively.

Different from Luo Fan, the other stinky tofu shops participating in the competition all chose black stinky tofu. This is also the tradition pursued by the older generation of people in City C. Seeing this familiar black color, it seems that one can feel the unique historical atmosphere in it .

As for their cooking methods, they are similar, just simple frying, and then served with carefully prepared soup sauces, but due to the difference between tofu and soup sauces, the final taste of the finished product is still different.

Moreover, it is completely different from the running water stinky tofu sold in the shops outside. The entries representing the brands here are carefully prepared in every part of the body.

If Luo Fan had to use the black impression he had at the night market as the competition standard, then he would definitely lose terribly.

But Luo Fan has always known this truth, so he won't roll over so easily.

(End of this chapter)