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Chapter 48 Melon Ice Cream Cake
Matsutake itself is rich in nutritional value. After being sliced and fried separately in a butter pan, it can bring out its own taste.
While Cheng Youyou was handling the matsutake alone, Ying on the other side was already preparing the final ingredients and decorations for the plate.
A thin layer of watercress puree was spread under the large snow-white disc, and the large white disc made the green color of the puree more vivid.
After that, Ying added a little bit of pickled pepper milk to the vegetable puree one after another, dripped a little coriander oil, and the colors of the base material of the same color system blended together perfectly. The fresh and tender green itself will make diners recognize the ingredients more visually freshness.
She used long chopsticks to gently pick up the golden-eyed sea bream meat that had been processed before, and placed the roughly diamond-shaped pieces of fish with a golden-orange skin and pale white flesh underneath in order on the disc covered with juice. .
Then, a layer of ginger-based colorless sauce was poured on it, which made the surface of the light pink fish dipped in transparent sauce more delicious under the light.
As if it wasn't enough, Ying casually squeezed a handful of finely crushed chili powder and sprinkled some red powder on the fish——
The surface of the golden orange fish skin has a little bit more red.
The overall color is layered, from the dotted red paprika to the orange-gold skin, followed by the pale pink-white fatty, fine-textured fish, and finally the grass-green sauce underneath, and finally the clean white plate.
From the whole to the part, the appearance of this dish is almost perfect.
After the final seasoning of the main ingredients, she tackles the garnishes.
The light blonde hair was bundled up and gathered inside the chef's hat, making her facial features more obvious, slender and light-colored beauty, blue eyes, high nose bridge, and thin dark lips— —
When she concentrates on cooking with no smile on her face, there is almost no trace of her usual laid-back attitude, but her expression looks very similar to Mitchell's.
She cut the white radish into almost transparent slices, pinched the radish slices into flower shapes and placed them in the blank space on the edge of the disc, and garnished a small piece of coriander leaves on the side. Her face was very close to the plate, but she held her breath, as if The distance between the decorative ingredients and the main ingredients must be accurate to the nearest centimetre, as if paying attention to perfection.
……
the same moment.
The fish soup in Cheng Youyou's pot was also stewed, and the matsutake was also fried in butter to produce the unique aroma of fungi.
She raised her hand to lift the lid of the pot, and in the face of the fragrant white water mist, she also began to prepare for the final arrangement.
It was a round soup plate with a concave bowl-shaped part in the middle to present the soup. It looked like a white flower basket.
The tofu pressed into the shape of a flower is spread on the bottom of the plate first, and then the day lily, peas and crab-flavored mushrooms are placed around it in turn, and then a spoonful of fish soup is poured from the top to the bottom. After the ingredients are just immersed, put the previous Matsutake fried in butter is spread on top of the tofu.
The two finished their cooking one after another. Standing behind the cooking table with their hands behind their backs, Mitchell rang the bell on the table, and special personnel helped the two of them present the finished products to the judges.
Xie Tiao and Mitchell sat in the middle two seats, and Luo Lijia and Alfred were on both sides of them.The food was presented, divided into four portions and poured into the judges' bowls.
——Because they watched the whole process of their production, each judge has already figured out the step of arranging the appearance.
The next step is the most critical part: taste.
Xie Tiao looked at the two dishes in front of him, one Cheng Youyou's fish soup, one Ying's fish fillet, and finally picked up the chopsticks and reached for the one that belonged to Ying.
She has always known Cheng Youyou's level, but...
Xie Tiao sighed inwardly.
Afterwards, I focused on the current dishes. After the golden eye sea bream meat was cut to a size that was picked up with chopsticks, it could be divided into two bites and eaten in one bite——
The sauce at the bottom is slightly soaked into the fish, and the aroma of coriander oil, watercress and slightly spicy pickled pepper milk extend the taste of the fish.
The sauce poured from top to bottom tastes the fish skin, so the taste level is divided into two parts, the fish skin, ginger juice, chili powder and the fresh and tender fish on the upper layer, and the lower half soaked in the bottom juice.
The local flavors are very coordinated, and the overall attention is paid to using other flavors to enhance the deliciousness of the kinmeme sea bream itself. The ingredients are spicy, and even the spicy flavor highlights the layering.
However, Xie Tiao still couldn't be satisfied with this dish.
She swallowed the fish in her mouth, without any trace on her expression, paused for a few seconds, and took a sip from the water glass next to her.
After confirming that the taste in her mouth had faded, she picked up the soup bowl.
Crucian carp tofu soup can be classified as a type of home cooking in this country, but it is not so troublesome for ordinary people to make this soup. Crucian carp and tofu are all the ingredients that can be eaten.
It contains fresh day lily, crab mushrooms and peas.
However, neither crucian carp nor carp is a common ingredient on the American table, including day lily.
Although Cheng Youyou's act of adding fresh matsutake in season can add points, but Xie Yi believes that if there is any part of this dish that is slightly flawed and tasted by these guys with sensitive tongues, then Cheng Youyou The result of the first game has already been decided.
The tofu is specially selected and boiled in the soup for enough time. The fish soup cooks the thin tofu so tasty that it almost burns the tongue.
The peas with glutinous flour taste, the slightly crunchy daylily, and the refreshing crab-flavored mushrooms are equally rich in taste.
Especially the matsutake that is dotted on top at the end, the matsutake that catches the end of summer is still fresh and brings out the best flavor, which can be said to be a miracle in the process of development.
Xie Yi scooped up a spoonful of soup with a spoon, blew lightly to lower the heat, then slowly brought the nutritious snow-white thick soup to his lips, and took a sip——
She closed her eyes, tasted the taste in her mouth, then slowly opened her eyes, covering up all her emotions, and put down the spoon almost expressionlessly.
Cheng Youyou, who always focused on her, slowly lifted it up.
But it is estimated that Ying next to her is in the same mood as her.
Because her master Mitchell also tasted the two dishes with a serious attitude, as if he was not tasting mouth-watering food, but monitoring some precise measuring instrument.
Lolija and Alfred next to them have also finished tasting two dishes.
The four looked at each other, drew a blank card from the blank card prepared in front of them, then pulled out the cap of the signature pen, wrote down their decision on the paper, and handed it to the person invited next to them.
After receiving the votes from the four judges one by one, the man looked at the names displayed on it, and announced in a flat voice:
"In the first round, the number of votes Ying got was—"
The man's voice paused in due course.
Cheng Youyou's heart rose.
Although it wasn't her votes that were announced, if Ying got four points, that would have already determined her result.
"Five votes."
The announcer's voice fell.
Ying had an incredulous expression on his face, and turned his head to look at Cheng Youyou in surprise, as if he didn't expect her simple and rough fish soup to win the remaining three votes.
However, after Cheng Youyou and Xie Tiao glanced at each other, there was no smile on their faces, and their hearts sank instead.
She subconsciously twisted the fingers of both hands behind her back.
Intuition told her——
"The number of votes Cheng got is, 1 vote."
After the results came out, Lolija and Alfred looked at the two people in the center in surprise at the same time. It was this action that exposed the voting results.
Neither Xie Tiao nor Mitchell voted.
The staff who announced the results unfolded the cards in their hands to the two of them, indicating that the results of their statistics are absolutely fair.
Sure enough, Xie Tiao only wrote an Arabic numeral '0' on it, while Mitchell's one had a simpler word:
"do not"
Lolija and Alfred looked at each other, seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.
Well, the two of them gave each other votes, but the masters of the two contestants became critical.
Luo Lijia started the topic first.
She is a slightly fat woman, with fleshy five fingers, her chin is supported by interlaced fingers, her plump red lips are open, and she speaks her own evaluation in not-so-fluent English:
"Well, let me say something first, I voted for Ying."
"Her handling of the ingredients perfectly meets Michelin's selection criteria, including the layering of taste and texture, and even distinguishes the spicy taste. I can't think of any faults in this dish."
After that, she shrugged, apparently not knowing what Xie Tiao and Mitchell were thinking.
After Loriga finished speaking, Alfred nodded slightly. This cheerful American man had a sunny and cheerful charm just in his eyebrows and eyes, including his tone of voice when he spoke.
"My reason is a bit more complicated than Lorica's."
He stretched out his right thumb and index finger, making a slight pinch gesture.
"Although I can't see her main ingredients, the taste is quite obvious in the work-I mean, whether it's tofu or this light yellow dish, you can taste the umami of fish."
"Everyone knows we don't eat this type of fish, but my philosophy has always been to try new things."
Having said that, he hooked his lips, obviously satisfied with the taste of the new product he tasted.
After thinking about it, he quickly added another sentence: "Whether it's the processing of ingredients, or the idea of adding matsutake, a seasonal ingredient, it's all worth my vote."
After the two of them finished speaking, they both had doubts in their eyes, wanting to know the reason why Xie Tiao and Mitchell abstained from voting.
Mitchell looked at Ying with extremely pale eyes, and his voice sounded in the room:
"You are too conceited."
Lolija and Alfred next to him: "???"
The corner of Xie Li's lips curled up, agreeing with Mitchell's words.
Hearing this, Ying's breath was suffocated, apparently she didn't think there was anything wrong with her overconfidence.
Mitchell beckoned to the man who announced the result just now, and the man approached suspiciously, and heard Mitchell whisper something to him.
Then, he took a pair of clean chopsticks, picked up the fish dish that Ying made suspiciously, chewed it in his mouth, and replied truthfully:
"hot."
His voice was neither high nor low, and could be heard by everyone in the room, including Cheng Youyou and Ying in the distance.
The spiciness in Ying’s Hokkaido golden-meshed sea bream dish is slightly heavier, and it also refers to some spiciness designs of Huaguo. Whether it is the addition of pickled pepper milk or the pepper powder sprinkled on top, the spiciness is created It can be said to be vivid.
Mitchell looked at Ying and saw that she still didn't understand, so he had to say another sentence:
"The main ingredient of this dish is fish, not chili. You can come and taste it yourself."
The presence of pickled pepper milk and chili powder is too strong, and the taste of the main ingredient fish is overwhelmed.
The reason why I say Ying is too conceited is because everyone here is an expert in the sense of taste. The layered sense of taste designed by Ying can make their tongues be satisfied by the spiciness, and they can definitely taste the taste of fish inside. .
but--
Compared with them, other guests who dine in the restaurant may not be able to find the unique taste of this fish from the spicy taste.
But this dish itself should highlight the taste of the fish, and all the other hype is just a foil.
So for this dish, Mitchell couldn't give his vote.
In addition, many of the ingredients in this dish are not what Ying is used to, such as coriander, pickled peppers, and dried chili powder, all of which are common types in Chinese cuisine. Obviously, she is Mainly Western-style, adding a little unique Huaguo elements.
In terms of approach, she wanted to defeat her in the way Cheng Youyou was good at.
But, too much.
As for Cheng Youyou——
After hearing what he said, Xie Yi also looked at her apprentice. Since she sat in the judges' seat, the expression on her face became much lighter.
The more enchanting tear mole that can embellish her appearance when she smiles can only bring out her glamorous aura when she is cold.
She said to Cheng Youyou in Chinese unhurriedly:
"Apprentice, among the judges here, how many Chinese people are there?"
Cheng Youyou was stunned for a moment.
Xie Tiao asked again: "If you are in a restaurant in the United States or France, how many people do you think will consider trying your dishes?"
not much.
Because first of all, the fish she uses does not appear on other people's menus.
Secondly, she should choose different ingredients according to people from different places.
In the final analysis, although food is borderless and can be communicated across regions, a food still needs to be recognized by the majority of people. However, people grow up in different environments and their taste preferences vary from region to region.
Her dish was placed in Huaguo, and many people, from the judges to the audience, would think that this was the freshest crucian carp tofu soup they had ever tasted.
But in the competition she is participating in now, three of the judges who try this dish are not from the Hua Kingdom.
Xie Tie didn't give her any points to remind her——
Never forget that the taste of your diners is the most important thing in your cooking.
Cheng Youyou nodded after listening to her two questions, indicating that she understood.
She subconsciously exchanged glances with Ying who was next to her, and for a moment, the two of them saw in each other's eyes the bitterness of having a critical master.
Suddenly, there was a sense of sympathy for each other.
……
Not long after, their second match began.
This time the question is: Dessert.
Cheng Youyou and Ying unconsciously took a deep breath and began to prepare for this competition.
Compared with the form of the main material specified in the previous round, this round has more room for development. The range of desserts is very wide. Cakes, biscuits and other sweet snacks are included in this question. .
When Cheng Youyou saw the topic, he had already thought about the content of this competition.
At the same time as the judges were scoring, Cheng Youyou's cooking table had also been placed with new cooking tools, which were several cylindrical metal rings.
In front of her was an unopened bag of high-gluten flour.
Cheng Youyou took a small iron basin, poured water and flour into it, then put in salt and salad oil in turn, picked up an egg with one hand and knocked on the edge of the basin, and added egg whites into it.
After mixing them evenly, let them stand for 10 minutes, then open the index finger-long cylinder from the middle to form two oval shapes, then take a special brush and brush the flour paste on the metal center part One layer filled.
Close the cylinder again, add vegetable oil to the iron pan, and after heating, put the hollow metal cylinder with a layer of flour paste in the middle and fry it in the oil.
After a while, the flour was fried into a thin layer of light yellow crispy skin.
After being slowly peeled off from the cylinder, the hollowed-out crispy skin looks like the shell of an egg roll.
——This dessert is an idea that appeared in Cheng Youyou's mind in a flash from the moment she got the test questions of the three competitions. Whether it is the shape, method or the summer materials that are necessary for summer, she thinks that blameless.
And also avoided the problem pointed out by Xie Yi in the first competition.
This time... it should be accepted by the judges, right?
When Cheng Youyou was thinking this way, she suddenly smelled a familiar sweet smell on the tip of her nose. She turned her head and looked, and there were several honeydew melons on Ying's cooking table next to her.
She withdrew her gaze in time, but was a little surprised in her heart for a moment:
...inspiration crashed.
Cheng Youyou also used honeydew melon for dessert this time.
Her strength lies in her ability to select seasonal ingredients, so this time is not surprising. In terms of seasonal sweetness in summer, besides frozen watermelon, honeydew melon is the sweetest.
It is sweet, no matter whether it has been refrigerated in the refrigerator or not, the taste is cool and sweet, and the water content is still high. Just one bite at a summer night can satisfy people's hearts.
But now, Cheng Youyou saw that Ying next to her was removing the seeds from the honeydew melon, and then used a special digging spoon to dig the honeydew melon into balls and put them on the empty plate beside her.
In a cooking competition, competitors use the same ingredients, and it is easy to see who is superior.
Thinking of this, Cheng Youyou took a breath slowly, discarding the distracting thoughts in his mind, knowing that concentration is the most important thing for him at this time.
……
Ying is a person with a very high talent for cooking, and she can learn everything very quickly. As long as it is something that Mitchell has demonstrated, she can learn it after just one look.
Including the amount of seasoning and the processing of ingredients, she can reproduce it exactly.
It's like she was born for this line of work.
Whether it is the cooking habits of Americans or the characteristics of French cuisine that Mitchell learned in Europe, she will be digested and absorbed by her with a strong learning talent. As long as she wants, she can easily make dishes containing these elements and dishes. A work of cooking habits.
Before starting this competition with Cheng Youyou, she had challenged two contestants, one from Southeast Asia and the other from South America, and the way Ying defeated them was to use ingredients that their own country was good at.
For her, the sense of accomplishment obtained by defeating others in a field that the other party is particularly good at is unparalleled.
So this time, after studying Cheng Youyou's cooking habits, in the first round, she used the spiciness preferred by Chinese people, combined with Western-style meals and ingredients. Being picked on by Mitchell and Xie Tiao.
But it didn't affect her mood.
After learning about Huaguo's eating habits, she could even predict the ingredients Cheng Youyou would use in this scene, so she deliberately chose honeydew melon as the main ingredient for dessert.
The problem her teacher Mitchell mentioned is her weakness, but it is also her strength. As long as she pays more attention to this match, Ying doesn't think she will lose again.
……
Four 10 minutes later.
Two desserts were presented to the judges.
On the small white plate, the chocolate sauce draws a few coherent circles randomly on the blank space of the plate, right for decoration.
A piece of light green ice cream cake cut into small triangles is placed on top, with a few halves of light-colored honeydew melon balls on the surface, and occasionally a few mint leaves. The whole dessert looks cool and lovely.
It seems that just by looking at it, the meaning of summer's iciness reaches the bottom of my heart, dispelling the dryness and heat caused by the high temperature.
The top layer is dark green, with a layer of fluffy light yellow chiffon cake in the middle, and the bottom layer is pre-frozen honeydew melon ice cream.
After all, it is during the competition, some methods that need more than several hours of cooling process are too late, so the buyer in the villa informed the two of them in advance of the cold products in the refrigerator, and some taste effects can be improved during the competition Use cold products from the refrigerator instead.
Xie Tiao still chooses to taste Ying's works first.
She picked up a spoon, dug out a corner of the cake, and put it in her mouth——
The first thing I tasted was the honeydew melon ice cream at the bottom. The ice-cold sliced on the tip of the tongue. After the coolness went down, the sweet taste of honeydew melon spread in the mouth.
Then the second layer of soft and fluffy chiffon cake naturally fell on the tongue as the melon ice cream melted, almost melting in the mouth, with a slight sweetness blooming, and then the sweetness gradually increased.
The taste of the first layer of well-whipped whipped cream is also suppressed. Before people feel the greasy taste, the taste of the matcha added in it fades away, so the subtle bitterness is more attractive than the sweetness. Note that the moisturizer melts the sweetness silently.
But there are still some traces of the coldness that was sent into the mouth at the beginning.
Overall, this honeydew melon ice cream cake is cool and smooth, whether it is the taste of each layer or the integrated texture, it has achieved harmony.
Xie Tiao's expression unknowingly relaxed, he was delighted by this dessert.
If there is no other dessert that she needs to compare and evaluate at this moment, then she will vote for Ying without hesitation.
Xie Tiao waited for the taste in his mouth to subside as usual, then drank some of the warm water next to him.
After that, they began to taste Cheng Youyou's dessert.
In terms of portion size and presentation, Cheng Youyou’s dessert can be used as an appetizer in Western food settings.
On the almost dark black wooden plate, there is a small figure of a fisherman, with only a small depression at the corner, where the shell of the egg roll that Cheng Youyou fried with metal cylinders stood there, and the top was dotted. A piece of pale white honeydew melon flesh.
But it's the part close to the skin, where the sweetness is almost gone.
A crispy, light-yellow egg crust stuffed with a delightful grass-green fava bean sauce is all there is to see on the surface, and there are other surprises lurking inside.
Xie Yi picked up the chopsticks and gently picked up the spring roll that seemed to have shrunk and looked at it. The pocket-sized one was just right for putting it into his mouth in one bite.
The broad bean puree did not leak out from the bottom of the small roll that was picked up. Xie Yi moved his wrist slightly, and the rolled skin picked up by the chopsticks turned upside down, with a piece of dark translucent jelly inlaid on the bottom.
This is the key to keep the ingredients from leaking out after the diners pick it up.
Xie Tiao likes these flashes of inspiration in Cheng Youyou's creation.
After observing the shape, she slowly put it into her mouth to taste.
After the teeth bite down, the crispy and thin outer layer of the skin makes a slight crisp sound in the mouth, and then the fragrant broad bean paste wrapped inside rushes out from the bitten shell.
The fragrance overflows every corner of the mouth.
It makes people feel like stepping into the forest in the early morning, and the breeze blows across the face, bringing the fresh fragrance of leaves and grass.
The teeth continued to bite down, and the honeydew diced in it was broken.
The sweetest part of the honeydew melon is selected, which is as sweet as honey.
I was so pleasantly surprised as if after walking through the jungle, I suddenly saw the splendid valley of flowers blooming in the depths of the forest in front of me.
It is a beauty that has never been visited by anyone.
After walking through the forest for a few steps, it suddenly appeared in people's sight. The sun passed through the mist that had not yet dissipated on the top of the forest, and the golden beams of light fell sparsely, but inadvertently gathered a warmly blooming white flower in the beam of light .
That was a pleasant surprise.
Xie Tiao even closed her eyes subconsciously. It didn't take any effort at all, the taste that came out naturally between her lips and teeth could put her into such an artistic conception.
She chewed again.
What she bit into was not the diced honeydew melon this time, but the smooth jelly underneath. It wasn't until the delicious and slightly salty taste was tasted by her tongue that she realized what Cheng Youyou used to fill the bottom——
Ham jelly.
And it must be the famous Jinhua ham in China.
From the crispy egg roll after the outer layer is crushed, to the fresh broad bean puree in the center, and the sweet honeydew melon, all the way to the ham jelly that transitions suddenly at the bottom, after being fused together, it is almost tasteless but equally The melon flesh is rich in juice, and the taste is the best.
Xie Tiao opened his eyes again, and slowly pulled himself back to reality from the imagery, looking at the card next to his hand, he already had calculations in his heart.
After 3 minutes, the answers of the four judges arrived in the hands of the person who announced the results who had been standing next to him.
His eyes swept across Cheng Youyou and Ying, and he looked at the card in his hand, his voice was still flat:
"In the second session, the number of votes Ying got was—"
After a barely noticeable pause, he continued:
"Five votes."
History is always strikingly similar.
When Cheng Youyou heard the '1', her shoulders involuntarily collapsed.
It's over, Ying has the same creativity as her, but she can only get 1 vote from the strict judges, so her inspiration crashed, and it seems that the work was tasted only by the four judges in the second round. Certainly the slightest advantage is gone.
Cheng Youyou subconsciously stopped her breathing, and looked at Xie Tiao nervously.
The hands behind his back were twisted so that the fingertips turned white, and even the scene after losing the game couldn't help appearing in his mind...
Master must be very disappointed with her, right?
Such an excellent person, but accepted such a self as an apprentice, and even lost to the apprentice of the opponent she had defeated.
Cheng Youyou's expression was tense, she had never been so nervous in the previous 'cooking competition'.
At this time, the announcer had already read her name:
"The number of votes Cheng got was—"
"Five votes."
Cheng Youyou subconsciously said, "I'm sorry!"
Mitchell, who can understand some Chinese, looked at her with a little doubt in his pale eyes.
It seems that I have doubts about the context in which I have learned about the use of this sentence.
Xie Tiao was much more straightforward, and burst out laughing, a natural smile appeared in her beautiful eyes, amused by Cheng Youyou's foolishness.
Cheng Youyou's face turned pale, she opened her eyes wide and looked at Xie Yi, with a little panic in her eyes.
Xie Tiao tapped the judges' table lightly with the back of his right index finger, and asked with a smile:
"What are you sorry for?"
Cheng Youyou obviously didn't expect her reaction to be like this, and recalled his slightly fragmented memory when the result was announced.
How many votes does she have?
1 or 0?
Cheng Youyou's gaze unconsciously looked at the announcer standing next to the judges' seat.
The man repeated the English numbers that he had read out in a clear voice.
three.
Three votes.
As if he understood why Cheng Youyou's English level suddenly dropped, he even gestured three fingers to her intimately.
Cheng Youyou: "!"
She pointed at herself, subconsciously looked at Ying on the other side, and then at the four judges:
"I... have I won this round?"
Xie Tiao laughed out loud, fell back on the back of the chair, and shook his head helplessly.
Lorica and Alfred compared their thumbs to her, which meant, yes, you won this round, girl.
Mitchell's expression remained unchanged, and his gaze towards Ying was as flat as ever, including the tone of the reminder:
"Like the last game, I said, you are too conceited."
Xie Tiao raised his hand to caress the tear mole at the end of his eyes, and then looked at Ying.
There is a saying in Huaguo, which is called, cleverness is misunderstood by cleverness.
Inspiration crash is not terrible, whoever has no characteristics will be embarrassed.
"Then what's wrong with me this time?" Ying stared straight at the judges on the field, fluent English came out of her mouth, but this time it lacked the usual leisurely sense of jumping, It looked colder and sharper.
Alfred raised his hand, looked at her innocently with wide eyes and said:
"Hey, I don't think you are bad, after all, my vote was for you."
Luo Lijia touched her nose, showed her a bright smile, compared the two desserts in front of her, and said to her:
"Honey, maybe you can find out the answer yourself—but I have to say, in fact, your desserts are not flawed at all."
So……?
Ying walked around the cooking table and strode towards the judges' seats. Before she picked up the chopsticks, Mitchell's thin lips parted slightly, and he uttered a word:
"Creativity."
Both are excellent desserts, but honeydew melon ice cream cake is everywhere, with matcha powder on top and honeydew melon flavored ice cream on the base, which is not unique.
Ying just took the taste of this cake to the extreme.
If she was compared to someone else's honeydew melon ice cream cake, she would undoubtedly blow the competition ten blocks away.
But her opponent is better than her in the combination of ingredients.
That's why Mitchell said she was too conceited.
In the field of food ingredients that her opponent is good at, being able to beat him once or twice does not mean that she will be invincible every time, especially this time her opponent is from Huaguo, a country with a thousand-year-old food culture. Fresh inspiration and ideas are more likely to appear.
If Ying really abandons what she is good at and competes with Cheng Youyou in Huaguo cuisine, it will undoubtedly be an egg against a stone.
"You still know too little about the food culture of Huaguo."
When Ying put the honeydew melon broad bean egg roll into her mouth, Mitchell added another sentence.
It is intended to remind her that if she still does not intend to give up this mode in the third game, then only failure awaits her.
Xie Tiao also waved to Cheng Youyou, asking her to try Ying's cake.
Cheng Youyou walked over quickly, picked up a spoon and took a bite out of the cake, and then faced the smiling Xie Tie beside him.
"Do you know how strong your opponent is?"
But if Cheng Youyou didn't come up with an original idea this time, but used any dessert making method that everyone can see everywhere, she would definitely lose to Ying.
Because her opponent is such a person who can perfect what he has learned.
After a moment-
Ying opened her eyes, put down her chopsticks, and raised the corners of her lips, showing a wicked smile.
She knew where she had lost.
However, such an opponent is also really interesting. For the first time in her life, she felt that her whole body began to boil.
She looked at Cheng Youyou who put down the spoon on the other side, and the eyes of the two met——
The blue eyes that are as bright as ice and flames are opposite to those beautiful black peach blossom eyes.
There seemed to be a fizzing sound of sparks in the air.
There is one last match left.
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While Cheng Youyou was handling the matsutake alone, Ying on the other side was already preparing the final ingredients and decorations for the plate.
A thin layer of watercress puree was spread under the large snow-white disc, and the large white disc made the green color of the puree more vivid.
After that, Ying added a little bit of pickled pepper milk to the vegetable puree one after another, dripped a little coriander oil, and the colors of the base material of the same color system blended together perfectly. The fresh and tender green itself will make diners recognize the ingredients more visually freshness.
She used long chopsticks to gently pick up the golden-eyed sea bream meat that had been processed before, and placed the roughly diamond-shaped pieces of fish with a golden-orange skin and pale white flesh underneath in order on the disc covered with juice. .
Then, a layer of ginger-based colorless sauce was poured on it, which made the surface of the light pink fish dipped in transparent sauce more delicious under the light.
As if it wasn't enough, Ying casually squeezed a handful of finely crushed chili powder and sprinkled some red powder on the fish——
The surface of the golden orange fish skin has a little bit more red.
The overall color is layered, from the dotted red paprika to the orange-gold skin, followed by the pale pink-white fatty, fine-textured fish, and finally the grass-green sauce underneath, and finally the clean white plate.
From the whole to the part, the appearance of this dish is almost perfect.
After the final seasoning of the main ingredients, she tackles the garnishes.
The light blonde hair was bundled up and gathered inside the chef's hat, making her facial features more obvious, slender and light-colored beauty, blue eyes, high nose bridge, and thin dark lips— —
When she concentrates on cooking with no smile on her face, there is almost no trace of her usual laid-back attitude, but her expression looks very similar to Mitchell's.
She cut the white radish into almost transparent slices, pinched the radish slices into flower shapes and placed them in the blank space on the edge of the disc, and garnished a small piece of coriander leaves on the side. Her face was very close to the plate, but she held her breath, as if The distance between the decorative ingredients and the main ingredients must be accurate to the nearest centimetre, as if paying attention to perfection.
……
the same moment.
The fish soup in Cheng Youyou's pot was also stewed, and the matsutake was also fried in butter to produce the unique aroma of fungi.
She raised her hand to lift the lid of the pot, and in the face of the fragrant white water mist, she also began to prepare for the final arrangement.
It was a round soup plate with a concave bowl-shaped part in the middle to present the soup. It looked like a white flower basket.
The tofu pressed into the shape of a flower is spread on the bottom of the plate first, and then the day lily, peas and crab-flavored mushrooms are placed around it in turn, and then a spoonful of fish soup is poured from the top to the bottom. After the ingredients are just immersed, put the previous Matsutake fried in butter is spread on top of the tofu.
The two finished their cooking one after another. Standing behind the cooking table with their hands behind their backs, Mitchell rang the bell on the table, and special personnel helped the two of them present the finished products to the judges.
Xie Tiao and Mitchell sat in the middle two seats, and Luo Lijia and Alfred were on both sides of them.The food was presented, divided into four portions and poured into the judges' bowls.
——Because they watched the whole process of their production, each judge has already figured out the step of arranging the appearance.
The next step is the most critical part: taste.
Xie Tiao looked at the two dishes in front of him, one Cheng Youyou's fish soup, one Ying's fish fillet, and finally picked up the chopsticks and reached for the one that belonged to Ying.
She has always known Cheng Youyou's level, but...
Xie Tiao sighed inwardly.
Afterwards, I focused on the current dishes. After the golden eye sea bream meat was cut to a size that was picked up with chopsticks, it could be divided into two bites and eaten in one bite——
The sauce at the bottom is slightly soaked into the fish, and the aroma of coriander oil, watercress and slightly spicy pickled pepper milk extend the taste of the fish.
The sauce poured from top to bottom tastes the fish skin, so the taste level is divided into two parts, the fish skin, ginger juice, chili powder and the fresh and tender fish on the upper layer, and the lower half soaked in the bottom juice.
The local flavors are very coordinated, and the overall attention is paid to using other flavors to enhance the deliciousness of the kinmeme sea bream itself. The ingredients are spicy, and even the spicy flavor highlights the layering.
However, Xie Tiao still couldn't be satisfied with this dish.
She swallowed the fish in her mouth, without any trace on her expression, paused for a few seconds, and took a sip from the water glass next to her.
After confirming that the taste in her mouth had faded, she picked up the soup bowl.
Crucian carp tofu soup can be classified as a type of home cooking in this country, but it is not so troublesome for ordinary people to make this soup. Crucian carp and tofu are all the ingredients that can be eaten.
It contains fresh day lily, crab mushrooms and peas.
However, neither crucian carp nor carp is a common ingredient on the American table, including day lily.
Although Cheng Youyou's act of adding fresh matsutake in season can add points, but Xie Yi believes that if there is any part of this dish that is slightly flawed and tasted by these guys with sensitive tongues, then Cheng Youyou The result of the first game has already been decided.
The tofu is specially selected and boiled in the soup for enough time. The fish soup cooks the thin tofu so tasty that it almost burns the tongue.
The peas with glutinous flour taste, the slightly crunchy daylily, and the refreshing crab-flavored mushrooms are equally rich in taste.
Especially the matsutake that is dotted on top at the end, the matsutake that catches the end of summer is still fresh and brings out the best flavor, which can be said to be a miracle in the process of development.
Xie Yi scooped up a spoonful of soup with a spoon, blew lightly to lower the heat, then slowly brought the nutritious snow-white thick soup to his lips, and took a sip——
She closed her eyes, tasted the taste in her mouth, then slowly opened her eyes, covering up all her emotions, and put down the spoon almost expressionlessly.
Cheng Youyou, who always focused on her, slowly lifted it up.
But it is estimated that Ying next to her is in the same mood as her.
Because her master Mitchell also tasted the two dishes with a serious attitude, as if he was not tasting mouth-watering food, but monitoring some precise measuring instrument.
Lolija and Alfred next to them have also finished tasting two dishes.
The four looked at each other, drew a blank card from the blank card prepared in front of them, then pulled out the cap of the signature pen, wrote down their decision on the paper, and handed it to the person invited next to them.
After receiving the votes from the four judges one by one, the man looked at the names displayed on it, and announced in a flat voice:
"In the first round, the number of votes Ying got was—"
The man's voice paused in due course.
Cheng Youyou's heart rose.
Although it wasn't her votes that were announced, if Ying got four points, that would have already determined her result.
"Five votes."
The announcer's voice fell.
Ying had an incredulous expression on his face, and turned his head to look at Cheng Youyou in surprise, as if he didn't expect her simple and rough fish soup to win the remaining three votes.
However, after Cheng Youyou and Xie Tiao glanced at each other, there was no smile on their faces, and their hearts sank instead.
She subconsciously twisted the fingers of both hands behind her back.
Intuition told her——
"The number of votes Cheng got is, 1 vote."
After the results came out, Lolija and Alfred looked at the two people in the center in surprise at the same time. It was this action that exposed the voting results.
Neither Xie Tiao nor Mitchell voted.
The staff who announced the results unfolded the cards in their hands to the two of them, indicating that the results of their statistics are absolutely fair.
Sure enough, Xie Tiao only wrote an Arabic numeral '0' on it, while Mitchell's one had a simpler word:
"do not"
Lolija and Alfred looked at each other, seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.
Well, the two of them gave each other votes, but the masters of the two contestants became critical.
Luo Lijia started the topic first.
She is a slightly fat woman, with fleshy five fingers, her chin is supported by interlaced fingers, her plump red lips are open, and she speaks her own evaluation in not-so-fluent English:
"Well, let me say something first, I voted for Ying."
"Her handling of the ingredients perfectly meets Michelin's selection criteria, including the layering of taste and texture, and even distinguishes the spicy taste. I can't think of any faults in this dish."
After that, she shrugged, apparently not knowing what Xie Tiao and Mitchell were thinking.
After Loriga finished speaking, Alfred nodded slightly. This cheerful American man had a sunny and cheerful charm just in his eyebrows and eyes, including his tone of voice when he spoke.
"My reason is a bit more complicated than Lorica's."
He stretched out his right thumb and index finger, making a slight pinch gesture.
"Although I can't see her main ingredients, the taste is quite obvious in the work-I mean, whether it's tofu or this light yellow dish, you can taste the umami of fish."
"Everyone knows we don't eat this type of fish, but my philosophy has always been to try new things."
Having said that, he hooked his lips, obviously satisfied with the taste of the new product he tasted.
After thinking about it, he quickly added another sentence: "Whether it's the processing of ingredients, or the idea of adding matsutake, a seasonal ingredient, it's all worth my vote."
After the two of them finished speaking, they both had doubts in their eyes, wanting to know the reason why Xie Tiao and Mitchell abstained from voting.
Mitchell looked at Ying with extremely pale eyes, and his voice sounded in the room:
"You are too conceited."
Lolija and Alfred next to him: "???"
The corner of Xie Li's lips curled up, agreeing with Mitchell's words.
Hearing this, Ying's breath was suffocated, apparently she didn't think there was anything wrong with her overconfidence.
Mitchell beckoned to the man who announced the result just now, and the man approached suspiciously, and heard Mitchell whisper something to him.
Then, he took a pair of clean chopsticks, picked up the fish dish that Ying made suspiciously, chewed it in his mouth, and replied truthfully:
"hot."
His voice was neither high nor low, and could be heard by everyone in the room, including Cheng Youyou and Ying in the distance.
The spiciness in Ying’s Hokkaido golden-meshed sea bream dish is slightly heavier, and it also refers to some spiciness designs of Huaguo. Whether it is the addition of pickled pepper milk or the pepper powder sprinkled on top, the spiciness is created It can be said to be vivid.
Mitchell looked at Ying and saw that she still didn't understand, so he had to say another sentence:
"The main ingredient of this dish is fish, not chili. You can come and taste it yourself."
The presence of pickled pepper milk and chili powder is too strong, and the taste of the main ingredient fish is overwhelmed.
The reason why I say Ying is too conceited is because everyone here is an expert in the sense of taste. The layered sense of taste designed by Ying can make their tongues be satisfied by the spiciness, and they can definitely taste the taste of fish inside. .
but--
Compared with them, other guests who dine in the restaurant may not be able to find the unique taste of this fish from the spicy taste.
But this dish itself should highlight the taste of the fish, and all the other hype is just a foil.
So for this dish, Mitchell couldn't give his vote.
In addition, many of the ingredients in this dish are not what Ying is used to, such as coriander, pickled peppers, and dried chili powder, all of which are common types in Chinese cuisine. Obviously, she is Mainly Western-style, adding a little unique Huaguo elements.
In terms of approach, she wanted to defeat her in the way Cheng Youyou was good at.
But, too much.
As for Cheng Youyou——
After hearing what he said, Xie Yi also looked at her apprentice. Since she sat in the judges' seat, the expression on her face became much lighter.
The more enchanting tear mole that can embellish her appearance when she smiles can only bring out her glamorous aura when she is cold.
She said to Cheng Youyou in Chinese unhurriedly:
"Apprentice, among the judges here, how many Chinese people are there?"
Cheng Youyou was stunned for a moment.
Xie Tiao asked again: "If you are in a restaurant in the United States or France, how many people do you think will consider trying your dishes?"
not much.
Because first of all, the fish she uses does not appear on other people's menus.
Secondly, she should choose different ingredients according to people from different places.
In the final analysis, although food is borderless and can be communicated across regions, a food still needs to be recognized by the majority of people. However, people grow up in different environments and their taste preferences vary from region to region.
Her dish was placed in Huaguo, and many people, from the judges to the audience, would think that this was the freshest crucian carp tofu soup they had ever tasted.
But in the competition she is participating in now, three of the judges who try this dish are not from the Hua Kingdom.
Xie Tie didn't give her any points to remind her——
Never forget that the taste of your diners is the most important thing in your cooking.
Cheng Youyou nodded after listening to her two questions, indicating that she understood.
She subconsciously exchanged glances with Ying who was next to her, and for a moment, the two of them saw in each other's eyes the bitterness of having a critical master.
Suddenly, there was a sense of sympathy for each other.
……
Not long after, their second match began.
This time the question is: Dessert.
Cheng Youyou and Ying unconsciously took a deep breath and began to prepare for this competition.
Compared with the form of the main material specified in the previous round, this round has more room for development. The range of desserts is very wide. Cakes, biscuits and other sweet snacks are included in this question. .
When Cheng Youyou saw the topic, he had already thought about the content of this competition.
At the same time as the judges were scoring, Cheng Youyou's cooking table had also been placed with new cooking tools, which were several cylindrical metal rings.
In front of her was an unopened bag of high-gluten flour.
Cheng Youyou took a small iron basin, poured water and flour into it, then put in salt and salad oil in turn, picked up an egg with one hand and knocked on the edge of the basin, and added egg whites into it.
After mixing them evenly, let them stand for 10 minutes, then open the index finger-long cylinder from the middle to form two oval shapes, then take a special brush and brush the flour paste on the metal center part One layer filled.
Close the cylinder again, add vegetable oil to the iron pan, and after heating, put the hollow metal cylinder with a layer of flour paste in the middle and fry it in the oil.
After a while, the flour was fried into a thin layer of light yellow crispy skin.
After being slowly peeled off from the cylinder, the hollowed-out crispy skin looks like the shell of an egg roll.
——This dessert is an idea that appeared in Cheng Youyou's mind in a flash from the moment she got the test questions of the three competitions. Whether it is the shape, method or the summer materials that are necessary for summer, she thinks that blameless.
And also avoided the problem pointed out by Xie Yi in the first competition.
This time... it should be accepted by the judges, right?
When Cheng Youyou was thinking this way, she suddenly smelled a familiar sweet smell on the tip of her nose. She turned her head and looked, and there were several honeydew melons on Ying's cooking table next to her.
She withdrew her gaze in time, but was a little surprised in her heart for a moment:
...inspiration crashed.
Cheng Youyou also used honeydew melon for dessert this time.
Her strength lies in her ability to select seasonal ingredients, so this time is not surprising. In terms of seasonal sweetness in summer, besides frozen watermelon, honeydew melon is the sweetest.
It is sweet, no matter whether it has been refrigerated in the refrigerator or not, the taste is cool and sweet, and the water content is still high. Just one bite at a summer night can satisfy people's hearts.
But now, Cheng Youyou saw that Ying next to her was removing the seeds from the honeydew melon, and then used a special digging spoon to dig the honeydew melon into balls and put them on the empty plate beside her.
In a cooking competition, competitors use the same ingredients, and it is easy to see who is superior.
Thinking of this, Cheng Youyou took a breath slowly, discarding the distracting thoughts in his mind, knowing that concentration is the most important thing for him at this time.
……
Ying is a person with a very high talent for cooking, and she can learn everything very quickly. As long as it is something that Mitchell has demonstrated, she can learn it after just one look.
Including the amount of seasoning and the processing of ingredients, she can reproduce it exactly.
It's like she was born for this line of work.
Whether it is the cooking habits of Americans or the characteristics of French cuisine that Mitchell learned in Europe, she will be digested and absorbed by her with a strong learning talent. As long as she wants, she can easily make dishes containing these elements and dishes. A work of cooking habits.
Before starting this competition with Cheng Youyou, she had challenged two contestants, one from Southeast Asia and the other from South America, and the way Ying defeated them was to use ingredients that their own country was good at.
For her, the sense of accomplishment obtained by defeating others in a field that the other party is particularly good at is unparalleled.
So this time, after studying Cheng Youyou's cooking habits, in the first round, she used the spiciness preferred by Chinese people, combined with Western-style meals and ingredients. Being picked on by Mitchell and Xie Tiao.
But it didn't affect her mood.
After learning about Huaguo's eating habits, she could even predict the ingredients Cheng Youyou would use in this scene, so she deliberately chose honeydew melon as the main ingredient for dessert.
The problem her teacher Mitchell mentioned is her weakness, but it is also her strength. As long as she pays more attention to this match, Ying doesn't think she will lose again.
……
Four 10 minutes later.
Two desserts were presented to the judges.
On the small white plate, the chocolate sauce draws a few coherent circles randomly on the blank space of the plate, right for decoration.
A piece of light green ice cream cake cut into small triangles is placed on top, with a few halves of light-colored honeydew melon balls on the surface, and occasionally a few mint leaves. The whole dessert looks cool and lovely.
It seems that just by looking at it, the meaning of summer's iciness reaches the bottom of my heart, dispelling the dryness and heat caused by the high temperature.
The top layer is dark green, with a layer of fluffy light yellow chiffon cake in the middle, and the bottom layer is pre-frozen honeydew melon ice cream.
After all, it is during the competition, some methods that need more than several hours of cooling process are too late, so the buyer in the villa informed the two of them in advance of the cold products in the refrigerator, and some taste effects can be improved during the competition Use cold products from the refrigerator instead.
Xie Tiao still chooses to taste Ying's works first.
She picked up a spoon, dug out a corner of the cake, and put it in her mouth——
The first thing I tasted was the honeydew melon ice cream at the bottom. The ice-cold sliced on the tip of the tongue. After the coolness went down, the sweet taste of honeydew melon spread in the mouth.
Then the second layer of soft and fluffy chiffon cake naturally fell on the tongue as the melon ice cream melted, almost melting in the mouth, with a slight sweetness blooming, and then the sweetness gradually increased.
The taste of the first layer of well-whipped whipped cream is also suppressed. Before people feel the greasy taste, the taste of the matcha added in it fades away, so the subtle bitterness is more attractive than the sweetness. Note that the moisturizer melts the sweetness silently.
But there are still some traces of the coldness that was sent into the mouth at the beginning.
Overall, this honeydew melon ice cream cake is cool and smooth, whether it is the taste of each layer or the integrated texture, it has achieved harmony.
Xie Tiao's expression unknowingly relaxed, he was delighted by this dessert.
If there is no other dessert that she needs to compare and evaluate at this moment, then she will vote for Ying without hesitation.
Xie Tiao waited for the taste in his mouth to subside as usual, then drank some of the warm water next to him.
After that, they began to taste Cheng Youyou's dessert.
In terms of portion size and presentation, Cheng Youyou’s dessert can be used as an appetizer in Western food settings.
On the almost dark black wooden plate, there is a small figure of a fisherman, with only a small depression at the corner, where the shell of the egg roll that Cheng Youyou fried with metal cylinders stood there, and the top was dotted. A piece of pale white honeydew melon flesh.
But it's the part close to the skin, where the sweetness is almost gone.
A crispy, light-yellow egg crust stuffed with a delightful grass-green fava bean sauce is all there is to see on the surface, and there are other surprises lurking inside.
Xie Yi picked up the chopsticks and gently picked up the spring roll that seemed to have shrunk and looked at it. The pocket-sized one was just right for putting it into his mouth in one bite.
The broad bean puree did not leak out from the bottom of the small roll that was picked up. Xie Yi moved his wrist slightly, and the rolled skin picked up by the chopsticks turned upside down, with a piece of dark translucent jelly inlaid on the bottom.
This is the key to keep the ingredients from leaking out after the diners pick it up.
Xie Tiao likes these flashes of inspiration in Cheng Youyou's creation.
After observing the shape, she slowly put it into her mouth to taste.
After the teeth bite down, the crispy and thin outer layer of the skin makes a slight crisp sound in the mouth, and then the fragrant broad bean paste wrapped inside rushes out from the bitten shell.
The fragrance overflows every corner of the mouth.
It makes people feel like stepping into the forest in the early morning, and the breeze blows across the face, bringing the fresh fragrance of leaves and grass.
The teeth continued to bite down, and the honeydew diced in it was broken.
The sweetest part of the honeydew melon is selected, which is as sweet as honey.
I was so pleasantly surprised as if after walking through the jungle, I suddenly saw the splendid valley of flowers blooming in the depths of the forest in front of me.
It is a beauty that has never been visited by anyone.
After walking through the forest for a few steps, it suddenly appeared in people's sight. The sun passed through the mist that had not yet dissipated on the top of the forest, and the golden beams of light fell sparsely, but inadvertently gathered a warmly blooming white flower in the beam of light .
That was a pleasant surprise.
Xie Tiao even closed her eyes subconsciously. It didn't take any effort at all, the taste that came out naturally between her lips and teeth could put her into such an artistic conception.
She chewed again.
What she bit into was not the diced honeydew melon this time, but the smooth jelly underneath. It wasn't until the delicious and slightly salty taste was tasted by her tongue that she realized what Cheng Youyou used to fill the bottom——
Ham jelly.
And it must be the famous Jinhua ham in China.
From the crispy egg roll after the outer layer is crushed, to the fresh broad bean puree in the center, and the sweet honeydew melon, all the way to the ham jelly that transitions suddenly at the bottom, after being fused together, it is almost tasteless but equally The melon flesh is rich in juice, and the taste is the best.
Xie Tiao opened his eyes again, and slowly pulled himself back to reality from the imagery, looking at the card next to his hand, he already had calculations in his heart.
After 3 minutes, the answers of the four judges arrived in the hands of the person who announced the results who had been standing next to him.
His eyes swept across Cheng Youyou and Ying, and he looked at the card in his hand, his voice was still flat:
"In the second session, the number of votes Ying got was—"
After a barely noticeable pause, he continued:
"Five votes."
History is always strikingly similar.
When Cheng Youyou heard the '1', her shoulders involuntarily collapsed.
It's over, Ying has the same creativity as her, but she can only get 1 vote from the strict judges, so her inspiration crashed, and it seems that the work was tasted only by the four judges in the second round. Certainly the slightest advantage is gone.
Cheng Youyou subconsciously stopped her breathing, and looked at Xie Tiao nervously.
The hands behind his back were twisted so that the fingertips turned white, and even the scene after losing the game couldn't help appearing in his mind...
Master must be very disappointed with her, right?
Such an excellent person, but accepted such a self as an apprentice, and even lost to the apprentice of the opponent she had defeated.
Cheng Youyou's expression was tense, she had never been so nervous in the previous 'cooking competition'.
At this time, the announcer had already read her name:
"The number of votes Cheng got was—"
"Five votes."
Cheng Youyou subconsciously said, "I'm sorry!"
Mitchell, who can understand some Chinese, looked at her with a little doubt in his pale eyes.
It seems that I have doubts about the context in which I have learned about the use of this sentence.
Xie Tiao was much more straightforward, and burst out laughing, a natural smile appeared in her beautiful eyes, amused by Cheng Youyou's foolishness.
Cheng Youyou's face turned pale, she opened her eyes wide and looked at Xie Yi, with a little panic in her eyes.
Xie Tiao tapped the judges' table lightly with the back of his right index finger, and asked with a smile:
"What are you sorry for?"
Cheng Youyou obviously didn't expect her reaction to be like this, and recalled his slightly fragmented memory when the result was announced.
How many votes does she have?
1 or 0?
Cheng Youyou's gaze unconsciously looked at the announcer standing next to the judges' seat.
The man repeated the English numbers that he had read out in a clear voice.
three.
Three votes.
As if he understood why Cheng Youyou's English level suddenly dropped, he even gestured three fingers to her intimately.
Cheng Youyou: "!"
She pointed at herself, subconsciously looked at Ying on the other side, and then at the four judges:
"I... have I won this round?"
Xie Tiao laughed out loud, fell back on the back of the chair, and shook his head helplessly.
Lorica and Alfred compared their thumbs to her, which meant, yes, you won this round, girl.
Mitchell's expression remained unchanged, and his gaze towards Ying was as flat as ever, including the tone of the reminder:
"Like the last game, I said, you are too conceited."
Xie Tiao raised his hand to caress the tear mole at the end of his eyes, and then looked at Ying.
There is a saying in Huaguo, which is called, cleverness is misunderstood by cleverness.
Inspiration crash is not terrible, whoever has no characteristics will be embarrassed.
"Then what's wrong with me this time?" Ying stared straight at the judges on the field, fluent English came out of her mouth, but this time it lacked the usual leisurely sense of jumping, It looked colder and sharper.
Alfred raised his hand, looked at her innocently with wide eyes and said:
"Hey, I don't think you are bad, after all, my vote was for you."
Luo Lijia touched her nose, showed her a bright smile, compared the two desserts in front of her, and said to her:
"Honey, maybe you can find out the answer yourself—but I have to say, in fact, your desserts are not flawed at all."
So……?
Ying walked around the cooking table and strode towards the judges' seats. Before she picked up the chopsticks, Mitchell's thin lips parted slightly, and he uttered a word:
"Creativity."
Both are excellent desserts, but honeydew melon ice cream cake is everywhere, with matcha powder on top and honeydew melon flavored ice cream on the base, which is not unique.
Ying just took the taste of this cake to the extreme.
If she was compared to someone else's honeydew melon ice cream cake, she would undoubtedly blow the competition ten blocks away.
But her opponent is better than her in the combination of ingredients.
That's why Mitchell said she was too conceited.
In the field of food ingredients that her opponent is good at, being able to beat him once or twice does not mean that she will be invincible every time, especially this time her opponent is from Huaguo, a country with a thousand-year-old food culture. Fresh inspiration and ideas are more likely to appear.
If Ying really abandons what she is good at and competes with Cheng Youyou in Huaguo cuisine, it will undoubtedly be an egg against a stone.
"You still know too little about the food culture of Huaguo."
When Ying put the honeydew melon broad bean egg roll into her mouth, Mitchell added another sentence.
It is intended to remind her that if she still does not intend to give up this mode in the third game, then only failure awaits her.
Xie Tiao also waved to Cheng Youyou, asking her to try Ying's cake.
Cheng Youyou walked over quickly, picked up a spoon and took a bite out of the cake, and then faced the smiling Xie Tie beside him.
"Do you know how strong your opponent is?"
But if Cheng Youyou didn't come up with an original idea this time, but used any dessert making method that everyone can see everywhere, she would definitely lose to Ying.
Because her opponent is such a person who can perfect what he has learned.
After a moment-
Ying opened her eyes, put down her chopsticks, and raised the corners of her lips, showing a wicked smile.
She knew where she had lost.
However, such an opponent is also really interesting. For the first time in her life, she felt that her whole body began to boil.
She looked at Cheng Youyou who put down the spoon on the other side, and the eyes of the two met——
The blue eyes that are as bright as ice and flames are opposite to those beautiful black peach blossom eyes.
There seemed to be a fizzing sound of sparks in the air.
There is one last match left.
The author has something to say: Woohoo!It's the last game!
Then, I want to say that Cheng Youyou's second dish, my idea comes from the third season of "House Canteen", a pre-dinner dessert in Shanghai style cuisine, just changed a little hhh The overall inspiration is the chef of!
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