Dare to cook

Chapter 67 First place in Shencheng team competition
The lights are on, and night falls.

It was quite cold in Shanghai at the end of March.

But the event organizers are more thoughtful.

Not only a dense windproof tent was built in the competition venue, but also some open-air heaters were prepared inside the tent.

With the entry of thousands of sanitation workers, the dinner venue was soon full of people.

These sanitation workers are basically middle-aged men and women over forty.

Perhaps because of being exposed to the sun all year round on the streets, many people have weather-beaten faces.

He looks older than his actual age.

Today's dinner is a buffet.

All the dishes cooked by the culinary art team on the spot can be tasted at will.

However, everyone's food intake is limited.

Therefore, for the contestants, they have another challenge at this time.

That is - how to solicit customers.

The number of diners attracted will directly affect the praise rate.

The higher the praise rate, the higher the score, and the easier it is to advance.

Each group of temporary stoves is a booth.

Next to each stove, there are neatly stacked dinner plates.

When the contestants saw that the diners had come in, they lifted off the covered dishes one after another.

All of a sudden, a variety of meat and vegetables appeared in front of these diners.

Some diners were not too picky. They took the plate and saw which dishes were good, so they went forward to order some.

Some people were not in a hurry, and walked back and forth in front of each group of stoves twice before choosing the dishes they wanted to eat under the yelling of some contestants.

The presentation of the dishes in Yao Yu's group is undoubtedly the best.

Moreover, Yao Yu deliberately added more white wine when making twice-cooked pork and fried pork belly potato chips.

In this way, the dishes made are full of wine and wine, which is more attractive than the dishes of other groups.

Seeing that more and more diners flocked to Yao Yu's group booth, the contestants in other booths couldn't sit still and began to solicit customers in various ways.

"Beijing sauce elbow, five-spice hoof flower, fragrant and crispy, come and try it..."

"Brothers and sisters, it's so cold today. Let's drink some pork ribs and barley soup to warm up your body."

"Brother, come and try our orange-based prawns and spiced lamb. It's delicious..."

Among the several groups, the voices of soliciting customers kept coming and going.

Seeing that the number of diners around his stall gradually decreased, Mao Yuan couldn't help being anxious: "Yao Yu, Xu Lin, you should think of a way. Otherwise, everyone will be dragged away by them."

Seeing this, Xu Lin quickly yelled loudly:

"Brothers and sisters, please try our cooking."

"Look, we have hot and cold dishes here, and it took us a whole afternoon to make them. If no one eats them, it would be really disappointing!"

Xu Lin had a sweet voice, and her yelling, paired with a pitiful, weeping expression, immediately attracted many diners back.

Mao Yuan was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered food for them with Xie Zhixuan:

"Come here, everyone has worked hard all day, eat more. This uncle likes to eat braised duck. I'll give you an extra spoonful."

Yao Yu looked at the time and felt that the time was just right, so he lifted the soup pot in front of him.

Stewed in the soup pot is radish and mutton soup.

In order to stew this pot of mutton soup with a rich and attractive taste, Yao Yu also put in a lot of effort.

While cooking the big pot of mutton soup, Yao Yu not only added thirteen kinds of seasonings, but also asked Mao Yuan to go to the pool on the east side of the square and poke at a dozen pebbles.

At the end of the game, Yao Yu asked Mao Yuan to wash and burn the pebbles, and then threw them into a large pot of mutton soup.

After the game was over and all stoves were ordered to turn off the fire, Yao Yu's mutton soup could continue to be cooked with the help of the high temperature emitted by the cobblestones.

It was precisely because of the extra ten minutes of cooking time that Yao Yu's mutton soup, which was slightly undercooked, was completely tasty.

Yao Yu's move was obviously inspired by the cobblestone hot pot.

He didn't reheat the food with an open flame after game time, so it wasn't a foul.

After Yao Yu's careful cooking, the thoroughly flavorful mutton soup is far more attractive than other soups.

As soon as Yao Yu lifted the lid of the pot, the mouth-watering aroma quickly penetrated into the nostrils of the diners.

A large number of diners flocked and huddled together in front of Yao Yu's booth.

Yao Yu himself was taken aback, and quickly picked up a spoon to make soup for the diners.

This buffet dinner lasted for an hour and a half before it was considered over.

Because the mutton soup cooked by Yao Yu was so delicious, the dishes cooked by their group were divided up by a thousand sanitation workers within half an hour.

The culinary team led by Yao Yu also scored a terrifying high score of 823 points.

In other words, among the thousand sanitation workers, 823 voted for Yao Yu's group.

However, since each sanitation worker can cast two votes, it would not be too embarrassing for several other groups to receive votes.

Whether it is Yao Yu's team or the other five culinary teams, the dishes cooked are actually more delicious than those prepared by ordinary big hotels.

After all, none of the participating chefs who can make it to the second round of the team competition is mediocre.

Urban sanitation workers are really a very hard profession.

Going out early and going to bed late every day, in the wind and rain, doing dirty and tiring work, and usually not having the opportunity to eat too delicious meals.

But today, they enjoyed their meal.

Whether it is the contestants or the on-site staff, they have shown enough respect and enthusiasm for them.

In fact, some people and some groups don’t want too much.

As long as it can be respected and recognized, in the eyes of many people, it is a happy thing.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Yao Yu's team, which had successfully advanced, was pulled back to the center of the arena.

After two consecutive rounds of team competition, the temporary group will be disbanded.

The remaining players who have advanced will have a one-on-one PK duel within five days until the [-] national league qualifying places and the top three in the Shencheng Division are determined.

But before that, the organizers have one more work to do.

That is to count the cumulative points of each cooking group, and then rank the top three in the Shencheng team competition.

There is no substantial reward for finishing in the top three in the team competition.

However, the organizer will issue a certificate as a commemoration.

Yao Yu is not interested in that certificate, what he expects is what kind of task reward the system will give him after completing the task.

At night, 08:30.

In the event center of the Shencheng Famous Selection Competition, the top three names of the regional team competition of this Famous Selection Competition are displayed on the big screen.

They are:
Champion team: Yao Yu, Chu Xinmei, Xie Zhixuan, Mao Yuan, Xu Lin.

The runner-up team: Yang Rui, Mu Shaoran, Li Ke, Fang Nuo, Song Zhe.

Third place team: Misaka Mie, Chen Shaoyong, Zhang Pingzhi, Wei Wei, Ouyang Qing.

After the announcement of the top three places in the team competition, new information popped up on Yao Yu's system panel:

[Second round of the mission "The Return of the Famous Chef": 2. Please win the No.1 in the team competition and individual competition in the Shencheng competition area! (Achieved 50%)]

[At present, the total progress of the S-level mission has been completed by 20%, and the details of the remaining missions can be folded/expanded...]

(End of this chapter)