Shokuki: My daughter is Erina

Listening to Erina's little by little elaboration of her cooking ideas, the five judges had already set off waves in their hearts.

They never imagined that a dish could be so meticulous.

Even the world's top chefs will never be able to create so many flavor variations in one dish.

Nagi Shinaki-sama's daughter,Is it so powerful?

...........

The five judges wanted to say something, but Erina said directly:

"Now that you've tasted my food, can you rate us?"

"Which one is the best dish between me and Alice?"

"In the hearts of the five judges, I'm afraid they already have the answer...."

Hearing Erina's words, the five judges immediately fell into deep thought.

Seeing their expressions, Alice's originally relaxed state of mind also became nervous.

Could it be that you have refined the salmon to such a point that the five judges cannot make a decision in a short period of time?

.........

There was silence for three minutes before one of the judges opened his eyes.

With a wry smile and a tangled look on his face, he said:

"To be honest, today's tasting was the most difficult thing I've ever felt in my life. "

"The deliciousness of both dishes almost broke my perception of the deliciousness of the food. "

"Qianye Alice uses the characteristics of molecular gastronomy to achieve the concept of repeated superposition of delicious food that cannot be achieved by traditional gastronomy.... I can't forget the mellow and delicious impact until now..."

"No, to be precise, I'm afraid that in my life, I will never forget the double impact of this dish on my soul and body!"

"But... Today's decision vote, I want to vote for Erina Nagikiri-san..."

At this time, the other four judges also opened their eyes and said:

"We... I also decided to vote for Erina Nagikiri...."

After hearing the words of the five judges, Alice was stunned.

"For. Why is this happening?"

"Could it be... Isn't the taste of my food inferior to Erina's?"

"No.. It's impossible, no matter how much Erina she uses, there is absolutely no way to make the taste of salmon surpass the level of my cooking, but I am a gastronomy, and the mellow taste of salmon is more than 10 times higher...

"Why would you...."

Seeing Alice's look of disbelief, the judge who spoke first said with some complexity:

"Chiya Alice-san's is indeed very good and very mellow, but in terms of the quality of the taste, the food made by Erina-san is really not as pure and delicious as the one you have refined. "

"But.... I don't know why, but I prefer Erina's cuisine. "

"But I don't know how to express this feeling..."

Another judge went on to say:

"I feel the same way, obviously Alice-san's food tastes more mellow and fragrant, but... The instinctive impulse in my body told me that my soul liked Erina-san's cooking even more. "

.......

Alice didn't understand what the five judges meant, and just as she was about to continue arguing, Erina's gentle voice came to her ears.

"That's enough, Alice!"

"Let me tell you the answer...."

Hearing Erina's voice, Alice subconsciously looked at Erina.

I saw Erina looking at herself, slowly speaking her words.

"Alice, since we were young, we have lived together and studied together, so in a way, I may know you better than you do. "

"Because I know you well enough, I already anticipated what kind of food you would bring to this showdown before the match started. "

"You care too much about the taste of the food.... That's why I've made a very specific menu based on the taste of the food you might make. "

"On the surface, it is true that the quality of the taste of my dish is not as deep as that of your dish, and using the particularity of molecular gastronomy, you directly multiply the deliciousness of salmon by several times the superposition. It's really hard to make dishes that beat the taste of your cuisine with purely traditional cooking methods.... It's so hard that I can't even find the answer. "

"However, you still haven't noticed that the strengths of the cooking you care about and value the most are actually the biggest flaws in your cooking?"

Hearing Erina's words, Alice's expression froze.

"I cooked... The biggest flaw?"

"That's right, the repeated refinement and fusion of salmon can indeed create an incredibly thick taste... But this taste... At the same time, it tastes of loneliness...."

Erina looked at Alice, and she said word by word:

"The attraction of cuisine lies in the variability of its taste, and it is true that molecular gastronomy has the possibility of changing the essence of any ingredient and thus giving it an infinite number of evolutionary postures, but once a certain evolutionary direction is decided, its taste is determined to die there. "

"Before the competition, I expected that you would use molecular gastronomy to refine the mellow beauty of salmon over and over again, and it was like, Alice, you were building a tall building.....

"When you're standing at the very top of this tall building, looking down... Don't you feel like there's nothing around you?"

Erina's gaze shifted from Alice to her own cooking.

Her voice continued:

"If you rate salmon on a score of 1 for its deliciousness, you can rate the taste of your dish on a 10 point if you refine and blend it over and over again. This score has broken the limit of salmon's deliciousness by 10 times. "

"My cuisine is different!"

"Instead of refining the salmon itself, I chose to use different flavors to present a dish that is colorful and varied. "

"I think you can understand what I mean when I say this..."

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