Time passed bit by bit, and the expressions of the two people in the kitchen who still hadn't served food became more relaxed than the other.

Chef Bao just pays attention to the time, and occasionally looks into the pot through the glassy transparent position of the pot cover to confirm the soup and heat of the ingredients in the pot.

George's side is more leisurely. The sea bass is already steaming in the pot, and he just needs to pay attention to the time. He is now stirring the gravy that will be used in the pot, while humming that only he can understand, I don't know the foreign ditty in which language.

10 minutes before the end of the game, Chef Bao opened the stew pot, poured the stewed catfish, side dishes, and soup into the bowl, and finally decorated the fish with coriander, and then signaled The service staff can serve food.

After his catfish and eggplant were brought out, Chef Bao glanced back when he left the kitchen, and saw George open the lid of the steamer and use the tongs to remove the steamed sea bass with the plate.

He then sprinkles shallots on the plate, pours a spoonful of hot oil directly over the fish, and then comes his special steamed fish sauce.

George was the last chef to leave the kitchen. After he walked out of the kitchen, Master Zou made a final check, came out and closed the door.

In the box on the third floor, 'Old Pea Xiao' was tasting the stewed eggplant with catfish. After eating catfish and eggplant, he nodded again and again, then stood up unexpectedly, stretched out his body and peeled off the catfish's belly with chopsticks.

If the catfish stewed eggplant dish is prepared normally, the catfish should be cleaned of the internal organs and gills of the abdomen like other fish.

But Chef Bao did not do that. He kept the space in the belly of the fish and chose to use the laborious and unsafe method of removing the guts from the whole fish.

The old people who were sitting in the box and couldn't go out were all guessing why he did this. Now after Lao Xiao separated the belly of the fish, everyone discovered that the belly of this catfish was actually stuffed with things.

Lao Xiao took out those long leaf-shaped things, looked at them and sniffed them, then smiled and said, "It's lemongrass grass, and the trickster came up with such a way."

After saying this, he threw the citronella grass aside, deliberately picked up a piece of catfish belly, and chewed it in his mouth.

As one of the eight major stews in Northeast China, stewed eggplant with catfish retains the unique sauce flavor of Northeast cuisine.

In order to increase the aroma, a little pork belly is added to the stewed fish in this pot, which makes the fish moist with oil, tender and delicious, and you can't stop chopsticks after eating a piece.

"Well, this lemongrass is well used. It is worthy of its nickname of lemongrass. It really has a long-lasting fragrance and a lingering aftertaste. The most wonderful thing is that the lemongrass not only completely suppresses the fishy smell of catfish, but also brings the sour taste of lemon in the dish. People who are not used to the taste of heavy oil and sauce in Northeast cuisine will not be able to taste the greasy taste under the flavor of lemon."

Mr. Zou, who had already been impatient for a long time, didn't even ask this time. He picked up a piece of fish with his chopsticks, put it in his mouth, chewed it for a while, and then put down his chopsticks with a chuckle. There was no worry on his face anymore. expression.

Seeing this, Mr. Qi also took a sip, and then he widened his eyes with experience and said: "How is this fish made? It is soft, soft and delicious, without any peculiar smell, and there is no peculiar smell from the bottom of the river. The fish is full of meat. The smell of lemongrass in the fish sauce, I actually tasted the taste of grilled fish in the stewed fish?"

During the conversation, the last dish among the ten people was served, which was the steamed sea bass that troubled everyone all morning, and they enjoyed nearly two hours of very professional massage.

Seeing the steamed sea bass served on the table, Mr. Qi smiled and said: "Dare to make steamed dishes at this time, this foreign devil is either stupid and bold or has real kung fu."

After hearing this, Mr. Zou asked his younger brother: "Do you think he looks stupid and bold?"

The two old men who asked and answered looked at each other, and then turned their eyes to Lao Xiao at the same time.

Old Xiao over there has already picked up the fish proficiently, dipped the soup around the plate a few times, and sent it into his mouth.

Lao Zou and Lao Qi were staring at his expression at this moment, to see whether he was enjoying the food or spitting out the fish in his mouth.

Old Xiao ate the piece of fish, not only ate one piece but also picked up the second piece. After that, he brought the plate of steamed sea bass in front of him and studied it attentively.

He first carefully looked at the positions of the two knife cuts where the blood was let out on the fish, and then lifted the fish to look at the things that were laid under the fish and stuffed in the belly of the fish.

After tossing and turning, he found a plant leaf with oval leaves, pointed edges and jagged edges from ginger slices, scallions, and perilla leaves.

"Is this a basil leaf?" Seeing that Lao Xiao was looking at it so carefully, Mr. Qi was not only very curious, he leaned over and took a few glances and said so.

"Well, it's the basil basil. This thing has the reputation of fish parsley, and it's perfect for fish."

"That being said, it's too strong, and it's easy to steal the show if you don't use it properly. Not many people use it when making steamed dishes."

"That's why the foreigner sandwiched it inside the perilla, and chose the fresh leaves instead of the common dried stems."

Mr. Qi also steamed the perch with chopsticks when he heard the words, and he was immediately overwhelmed by the extreme freshness of the fish, but he frowned, because if he mentioned the umami taste again, it would be over, too fresh and bitter, others might not be able to eat it Come out, but definitely can't escape Lao Xiao's tongue.

However, just when the umami taste in the mouth of the sea bass reached its peak and was about to be uncontrollable, a light mixed fragrance suddenly burst out from the seam of the meat, and the taste of spicy fragrance instantly opened up people's appetite , and at the same time control the umami on that line, and resolutely do not cross the line.

"No, basil leaves and perilla have the function of removing fishy smell and improving freshness, but they can't take away the peculiar smell of fish. This soy sauce also improves freshness, without heavy smell. Where does the peculiar smell on fish go? ? And the dish of Ah Wan, even if it is pressed with sauce, there should be lingering fishiness in the aftertaste, but the strange thing is that it is gone, how did they do it?"

Lao Xiao didn't care about Qi Lao's self-talk, he was staring at the ten dishes on the table in a daze, he unconsciously pushed the long chopsticks in his hand back and forth, it seemed that his heart fluctuated violently .

Seeing this, the two old men knew that this was the time to see the outcome, so they stared at him nervously to see what choice he would make in the end.

However, Lao Xiao's soliloquy was finally heard by him, so "Old Pea Xiao" actually pulled over stewed eggplant with catfish, took out the lemongrass stuffed in the belly of the fish, and inspected it carefully.

After peeling away the clumps of lemongrass, everyone discovered that there were other things hidden in the clumps of grass.

It was a stained caramel-colored thing that had been cut into sections. Lao Xiao poked it a few times with his chopsticks. The thing was soft and soft, but it was still hollow in the middle.

After Lao Xiao found this thing, he patted the table and laughed loudly and said: "Good boy, he was almost tricked by him, and he actually played for me to play Mingxiu plank road and sneak through Chencang."

After saying this, Lao Xiao seemed to have made up his mind. He pulled all the ten dishes on the table over and quickly rearranged them.

Then he said to the service staff outside the door: "Amei, the results of the second round of Doucai are out, please call everyone over."

Soon the people on the first and second floors were called to the third floor, and the doors and windows of the box on the third floor were fully opened to ensure that everyone could see the situation inside the box clearly.

At the dining table, Lao Xiao divided the ten dishes into three groups, one group of four dishes, one group of three dishes and the other group of three dishes.

Faced with everyone's puzzled expressions, Lao Xiao tapped the plate with his chopsticks and said, "There are some words that are too much to talk about. You guys should taste the dishes made by others first."

The ten chefs picked up their chopsticks and began to taste other people's dishes silently and in an orderly manner.

There were only ten dishes on the table, and they tasted them all quickly, but the expressions on their faces were completely different, ever-changing and wonderful.

"Now you should be able to understand why I ordered the dishes on the table in this way? These four dishes are very good, and the color, aroma, and shape are all included in them. If others eat them, there should be no problem. But it's a pity to eat them. It happened to be me who served the dishes, and I still tasted nasty in them, so I'm sorry, you were eliminated."

The owners of the four dishes bowed their heads silently when they heard the words. After eating the dishes made by others, they already knew the result.

Lao Xiao ordered the three dishes on his right and said: "These three dishes are very good, especially the snail stuffed meat and river clam salted fish soup. Before and after the snail stuffed meat, I used various methods to remove the fishy smell at least three times. Fresh, clam soup is no less than four times, the reason why you choose the smelly snail fish and mussels when you know that I hate the smell is because you have already thought about removing the fishy smell repeatedly, so you choose the strong smell Yes. Because other ingredients cannot withstand such a toss. If it is fish, it is so repeatedly pressed with heavy ingredients, not to mention the smell of the ingredients themselves, which will be completely removed. clever."

"Of these three dishes, I give fish cake 95 points. The deduction item is that there is a small mistake in the proportion of pig fat and fish meat, which makes the taste of fish cake dry and the smell comes out. I give snail stuffed meat. [-] points, the deduction item is what I just said, although you have been very careful, you used too much heavy flavor, while suppressing the smell, it also covered some snail meat taste, not much, but it did cover it."

After speaking, he shifted his gaze to the bacon and clam soup, sighed and said, "This dish is the one I regret the most. It's really a pity. I enjoy the soup very much. I think This dish can be given 98 points. It is a dish that is qualified to break through, but I hesitated when I ate the clam meat. Probably in order to keep the clam meat fresh and tender and make a milky white soup, you stew it again Deep-fried the clam meat before the soup. There is nothing wrong with it, but when you boiled the soup, you did not control the oil content during frying, so the clam meat was soft. This dish has [-] points, and this is your deduction item.”

Junior Brother Dou was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "You're right, my eagerness to win has superimposed the snake. In the end, it's still not enough. I'm too far behind senior brother and them."

"It's good that you know, son, you are very talented and have great ideas, if you persist, you will succeed, don't be discouraged."

After saying this, Lao Xiao looked at the three dishes closest to his place, with very complicated expressions, ranging from admiration to astonishment, but in the end it turned into the kind of relief and surprise of seeing his apprentice succeed in his studies.

He ordered the three dishes and said: "These three dishes can only be said to be awesome for future generations, you three liars, I have been deceived so hard."

After Lao Xiao finished saying this, the crowd immediately exploded. How could there be a liar after a good review of the dishes?

On the other hand, Mr. Zou, who was sitting on the side as steady as Mount Tai, lowered his head after hearing these words, holding a teacup as if he wanted to drink water, but in fact he was using the teacup to cover the corners of his slightly raised mouth.

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