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With all eight cooking duels coming to an end. The top eight list of the food festival was also officially determined.

Early the next morning.

Gourmet Cauldron Stadium was filled early with crowds coming to watch the game.

Standing in the middle of the field, Chest Hair held up a microphone in his hand and shouted passionately.

"Good morning! Dear viewers in front of the TV! After a night's rest, I believe all of you are looking forward to today's game as much as I do!"

"After the last round of brutal elimination! The top eight chefs of this food festival have been born!"

"Who among them can win the final championship! Please pick up your mobile phone and take a guess on where the chef you support will get the best results!"

"By the way, the grand prize for this round of guessing is a free ticket to the Gourmet Shrine for one year! The competition time is only ten minutes. As long as you can guess the winner of this Gourmet Festival Contest, you will get the final grand prize!"

“Let us thank the Gourmet Shrine for its generous sponsorship!”

"Okay, let's get down to business, let's invite all the celebrity chefs to make their debut!"

As the words fell, content about the next round of competition came from Chest Hair's earphones.

At the same time, in the chef's lounge.

After hearing the announcement of the assembly. Qin Hao, who was still drinking with Blanche, drank all the wine in his glass.

Qin Hao said after putting down his wine glass and activating his food cells to completely metabolize the alcohol in his body.

"Let's go, Blanche. It's time to gather."

"Don't be late again."

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Wait until all the chefs who have advanced to the top eight have arrived. Chest Hair raised the microphone and continued.

"Oh! I just received the news that the content of the next round of competition that everyone is most concerned about has been decided!"

“The content of this food festival’s knockout round for the eight finalists is – swapping, swapping food cooking competition!”

"Next, I would like to invite Mr. Patch, one of the G7 members, to explain to you the specific rules of the competition!"

On the rostrum, Patch arrived here at some point.

He coughed twice into the microphone to make sure there was no noise in the broadcast. Patch spoke slowly.

"Ahem~ To all participating chefs, first of all, I would like to congratulate you for entering the top eight of this food festival. Next, I will announce to you the rules of the knockout round for the top eight."

"You will choose ten ingredients from thousands of ingredients to cook."

"But before you start cooking! Among the ten ingredients you selected, three random ingredients will be randomly exchanged with the ingredients selected by your opponent."

"After the exchange is over, each party has an opportunity to use the ingredients in their hands to force the other party to exchange ingredients."

"At the same time, you must use all ten ingredients you have in the cooking process. Otherwise, it will be considered eliminated."

"The above are the specific rules of this competition. Chefs please choose your ingredients carefully."

As Patch finished speaking, serious expressions appeared on the faces of all the cooks present.

Qin Hao touched his chin and whispered to himself.

"The random exchange is three ingredients. My opponent and I each have to exchange ingredients once, a total of two ingredients."

"That is to say, in this round of competition, half of the ingredients used to make the dishes may be the ingredients chosen by the opponent."

"Even if during the exchange, my opponent and I both choose the ingredients that we are randomly replaced by, then there will be at least one ingredient in our hands that is the ingredient chosen by the opponent."

"So this match is all about improvisation... I guess this is the area where Yukihira Souma is best at. If the content of the last round of the match was this, I'm afraid the loser would be Komatsu."

As Patch finished explaining the rules of the game, Chest Hair raised the microphone in his hand again.

"Okay, let's thank Mr. Patch for explaining the rules of the game to us."

"Then, the next step is the grouping of the contestants!"

"The first one to appear is Qin Hao vs. Damalaskain XIII."

"Then it's the second round, Komatsu vs. Si Yingshi."

"The third round, Qianliu vs Blanche."

"The fourth round, Setsuno vs. Jutta."

After saying that, Chest Hair snapped his fingers.

As the chest hair sent a signal, the backstage staff quickly activated the mechanism.

The central area of ​​Gourmet Cauldron Stadium began to sink again.

Then ten extended cooking tables filled with various kinds of ingredients, totaling thousands of ingredients, rose up from the bottom.

"It's coming, it's coming, it's coming! It's finally here!"

"The showdown of the eight semi-finals of the Food Festival has finally begun!"

"The first game, Chef Qin Hao versus Damaskain XIII!"

"On one side is Chef Qin Hao, who unexpectedly defeated King of Cooking Zeus in the last round of cooking showdown."

"On one side is the king of curry, Damalaskaine XIII, who is ranked fourth in the world's top chef rankings!"

"Who will be the final winner of this game? Let's wait and see!"

"I announce that the competition has officially begun! Please enter the competition room and start selecting ingredients!"

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Looking at the ingredients on the surrounding cooking tables, Damalaskain XIII showed a helpless smile on his face.

Although the competition provides a wide variety of ingredients, there are only ten types to choose from.

You must know that the curry he is best at usually uses hundreds of spices.

Here, there are only ten kinds of ingredients to choose from, and only two of them are salt and oil, which are the most basic ingredients for cooking.

This basically means that he can only choose some existing curry ingredients. Natural curry ingredients such as curry coconut and meteorite curry chips are used to make dishes.

It is impossible to make curry according to your own ancestral secret recipe.

What troubled him the most was the rules for swapping and exchanging ingredients.

If even the last natural curry ingredients were replaced because of this rule. Then there is no need to play the next game at all, just admit defeat.

And not far from Damalaskain XIII.

Looking at the mountains of ingredients surrounding him, Qin Hao touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Considering that there is too much randomness in this round of competition.

So Qin Hao planned to make some versatile dishes.

fried rice.

In this case, even if the curry ingredients are randomly picked up by the opponent, Qin Hao can still make them into curry fried rice. No need to worry about ingredient matching.

Afterwards, Qin Hao selected Morse oil, egg yolk rice, bliss rice, crystal rose salt, pepper salt, tiger eggs, sausage and eggplant, pork belly from pork belly beef, mussels, shrimp and bullet pine nuts.

Among them, Qin Hao chose two types each: rice and salt.

After all, there is a rule for exchanging ingredients. But what if your rice or salt is exchanged for the other party?

And if the ingredient the other party chooses to exchange is not rice or salt.

My own cooking can basically be declared a failure.

Therefore, it is necessary to choose one more ingredient to ensure the base.

Besides, the rules of the competition say that you must use every ingredient you choose, but they don’t say that you must use them all.

Therefore, salt and Mi Qinhao can be used together. As long as there is salt and rice, other ingredients can be made into fried rice as long as they are not too outrageous.

Even if the oil is replaced, Qin Hao can still use beef belly to make butter.

After Qin Hao selected the ingredients, Damalaskain XIII also selected the ingredients he would use.

Potatoes, carrots, onions, chicken, curry beef, curry meteorites, strengthening garlic, pork potatoes, curry leaves, turmeric cinnamon, golden oil, curry salt, bliss rice.

After both parties selected the ingredients, the machine started running. The ingredients selected by Qin Hao and Damalaskain XIII were randomly selected by drawing lots.

Qin Hao was exchanged for egg yolk rice, pepper salt and bullet pine nuts.

Damalaskain XIII was even more miserable.

The potatoes, carrots, onions, chicken, curry beef and curry meteorite in his hand were replaced by Qin Hao's hands.

Curried meteorite is at the heart of his cuisine. After all, without enough spices. Curry meteorite is the guarantee for making curry with rich aroma.

Potatoes, carrots, onions, chicken and curry beef are very suitable ingredients for making curry.

After the exchange of ingredients was completed, Damalaskain XIII's face turned green when he saw this result.

There are only two choices before him now, either choose meat ingredients. But this will also make your curry taste bland.

Either choose curry meteorite, but pork and potatoes are technically considered vegetables.

Damalaskain XIII himself had never tried curry without meat.

In desperation, he chose to exchange the egg yolk rice for the curry meteorite.

After all, compared to meat side dishes, the taste of curry is the most important.

While looking at the ingredients in the opponent's hands, Qin Hao touched his nose. An idea soon came to mind.

“I’ll trade egg yolk rice for bliss rice!”

Although egg yolk rice itself is golden in color and tastes close to fried egg yolk, it is very suitable for making fried rice.

But yolk rice itself is not suitable for making curry.

On the other hand, Paradise Rice is more versatile and very delicious.

As for Qin Hao, he used ingredients to replace the curry meteorite in the opponent's hand. This method seemed a bit too underhanded, and Qin Hao felt that he still wanted to save face.

Seeing that Qin Hao only exchanged his rice, Damalaskain Thirteenth was relieved.

Although it made him a little uncomfortable to be replaced with rice that was not suitable for making curry rice. But overall it's acceptable.

After all, the ingredients for making your own curry are still there. If these ingredients were gone, he would really cry to death.

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