Mr. Minguo's kitchen

The competition time is set at [-]:[-] in the morning. The whole competition is divided into three rounds. The first is knife skills, the second is the part of the lottery that reveals the most suspenseful questions, and the last is to refer to the desserts of foreigners.It lasted about an hour, and it ended at noon. At this time, those hungry diners could just eat at the nearby Zhongxin Restaurant, and some lucky ones could also receive the finished products of the two chefs' competition today.

Just like the last chef competition held by foreigners in Beiping, there was also a banker outside the competition that set bets. There is no doubt that the current winner is Huixiantang, the number one restaurant in Beiping, and Fenglaiju has the highest odds, a match five.Of course, there are also some individuals who saw such disparity in odds, and they beat Fengtian's Youfeng Laiju, and planned to take all from the banker.

Before the opening, the auditorium in the auditorium was noisy. If you listen carefully, you can find that most of the people are discussing who the boss Lin who lives in Fenglai is.

"It is said that Boss Lin is very young, and I don't know if he has any real kung fu in his hands. Today's young people may not have any skills in doing things, but they just talk about kung fu. In fact, it is not reliable at all." Said this The person who spoke shook his head, as if he was relying on the old to sell the old.

The young man next to him listened and laughed and sneered: "I don't know if this elderly gentleman knows that the young man you mentioned is a Ph.D. from MIT and Cornell Universities in the United States. After that, he successfully improved new types of grain? Oh, by the way, cooking is just his hobby. I heard that he is also quite accomplished in music and drama, and he is a close friend with Yuan Xiaolan, the "Queen of Lan" in Liyuan. I don't know about this Which university did you get your diploma from? Where is your high school now? What achievements have you made?"

The middle-aged man who spoke just now was blushed by his call at the moment, and the embarrassment was not enough to express his ugliness.Even if this sarcastic young man was given ten more guts, he wouldn't dare to provoke and contradict him. He didn't even dare to fart at this moment. After packing up his things, he hurried away while the young man wasn't paying attention. up.

The people next to him suddenly burst into laughter, and they all said to the young man who exited: "As expected of Chang Dashao! Amazing!" Some people boldly asked curiously: "Is what Chang Dashao said just now true? Mr. Lin is so powerful?"

After someone asked the question that everyone present wanted to know, no matter whether they were sitting close or far away, they all pricked up their ears, intending to hear what Young Master Chang had to say.

The young people surrounded by others are naturally Chang Yanxi.The competition between these two restaurants was quite a big deal in the capital, and Chang Dashao, who has always been an expert in food and entertainment, has naturally heard of it.So today everyone in the auditorium saw again that they hadn't come out to eat, drink and have fun alone for a long time—in fact, it was the young master Chang who was forced by his mother to accompany his cousin.

Chang Yanxi crossed his legs, sat or not, and looked like a libertine, when he heard this question, he said jokingly: "There can be lies in what I said, and there are more things I haven't said yet. Mr. Lin is amazing, he doesn't know Taishan with his eyes, and he is self-righteous and boastful. He doesn't even look in the mirror to see what qualifications he has, scoff!" His words can be said to be a map bomb, according to the Lin he said Mr.'s resume, there is really no one present who is qualified to comment on others.People who can think about having fun all day, how can they pay attention to the food varieties in the newspaper? It can be said that few of these people know about Lin Weirui.

Everyone got a definite answer, and they were amazed on the surface, but they were all crazy in their hearts: such a great talent, if he doesn't do a good job in a big career, what is the purpose of coming here to participate in the cooking competition! !Didn't you scholars say that the gentleman stays away from the kitchen?I heard that his culinary skills are even appreciated by the emperor...

People are more angry than others.

No matter what kind of baptism everyone has endured before the start of the competition, Lin Weirui, who is on the stage at this moment, doesn't know.The host of the competition is the big treasurer of Huixian Hall, and Duan Fangyuan from Huixian Hall has already taken the lead in the stage.He was wearing a white long robe with a Chinese-style stand-up collar, and the three words Huixiantang embroidered with gold thread on the collar. He was in his early forties, and his figure was slightly fat.Maybe it's because of his irritability, the lines between his eyebrows are very obvious, and when he's not smiling, he looks a little gloomy.

He first made a speech to welcome Youfeng Laiju to settle in Beiping City, and then, relying on his age being nearly two rounds older than Lin Weirui, he had a faint gesture of pointing out the younger generation.

Seeing his hypocrisy with a hidden knife on his smiling face, Xiao Bao on the opposite side muttered softly: "It's a dignified appearance."

Lin Weirui on the stage was tall and tall, with exquisite facial features. If his face was not too young, he would have looked like a champion in terms of height and momentum.He didn't fluctuate, the young master who was standing lazily just returned a casual look when Duan Fangyuan looked at it.This look was really contemptuous, making Duan Fangyuan who was standing opposite lost the smirk on his face just now.

Lin Weirui: That's right, don't laugh if you don't know how to smile, it hurts your eyes if you smile so ugly.

Under the special instructions of the owner, the head shopkeeper of Zhongxin Restaurant understood the master's temperament, so without further ado, he announced the start of the competition.

"The first item—knife competition." This is a link that everyone knows in advance. "A special requirement is: the main ingredient is limited to tofu. The time limit is two quarters of an hour." He picked up the small stick in front of him , lightly knocked the bell to show the start, and someone next to him turned the hourglass upside down.

In addition to tofu, Duan Fangyuan chose other ingredients without hesitation, a pot of high-quality broth, a serving of wolfberry, etc. Obviously, he came with a well-prepared plan.

Xiaobao looked at the opposite side, and whispered to the young and old: "It seems that the other side wants to make chrysanthemum tofu soup. What should we do, young and old?" Thinking about it, Xiaobao felt that there was probably another difficulty that was worthy of his young master Wensi tofu can be made.Who knows that Lin Weirui looked at the opposite side, the corner of her mouth slightly raised, "No hurry, we also make chrysanthemum tofu."

"Would this be too risky?" Chrysanthemum tofu is a dish specially designed to test the knife skills of school chefs. No one can cut chrysanthemum tofu as thin as a hair without five or six years of special practice.If Duan Fangyuan didn't have this foundation, he wouldn't be able to be the head chef in a top restaurant like Huixiantang.Xiaobao is worried that if they choose the same dish, they will lose points as latecomers.

Duan Fangyuan also thought the same way, Lin Weirui was young and a scholar, his left and right knife skills would definitely not surpass him, so he simply raised the difficulty to the highest level, intending to win the first round in one fell swoop.

Lin Weirui was not in a hurry, he called a clerk under the stands, gave a few instructions, and then said slowly: "Just do this. You put a bowl of high soup and I'll try it." Be anxious, but also feel at ease, and do it quickly.Anyway, there is always a way.

Lin Weirui dipped some soup into his mouth with his chopsticks and sucked it, frowning: "This soup is too thick, not suitable for making chrysanthemum tofu." Chrysanthemum tofu is a clear soup dish. Too rich.Although this soup looks quite clear, there is a problem when you taste it.

"But the time is only a quarter of an hour, so it's too late for us to get back on our own?"

Lin Weirui cast him a sideways glance, "Who said we have to do it all over again? I'll check it out, let's just use it."

The audience in the audience had already been discussing, "Why didn't Boss Lin start? Look at the things they brought, it seems to be the same dish."

"Huh? What is he doing with the soup? Isn't this soup provided by the restaurant?" Lin Weirui threw something into the soup that had been boiled long ago, and turned on the fire to cook again.

"Hey, will it be too late to cook the soup now?"

"It can't be that he couldn't think of what to do. After all, Huixiantang showed his housekeeping skills from the very beginning. It is indeed a bit difficult to surpass his chrysanthemum tofu. Youfenglaiju lost its advantage in the dishes first. "

Even the jury couldn't figure out what he was up to.

But it would be even better if Feng Laiju was stage frightened. A group of people exchanged a calculating look with each other.

"It's all right now, it's not that we are partial, if Feng Laiju is inferior to others and loses, that master can't blame us."

There are eight judges, so at least eight bowls of chrysanthemum tofu soup should be made.Seeing that four pieces of tofu had been cut on the opposite side, and the snow-white tofu bloomed in the clear water into the shape of thousands of petals of chrysanthemums, the audience with open windows on the second floor and the audience sitting in the higher seats let out a sound of wonder.

It is the first time for most people to see this kind of skill. In the past, they only wanted to eat, so they would not go to the back kitchen to see how the dish is made.The audience's exclamation and admiration showed that Youfeng Laiju, who had not started on the opposite side of Huixian Hall, was somewhat lost.

At this time, what Lin Weirui wanted finally arrived. It was a plain white silk ribbon. Everyone didn't understand it for a while, so they saw him take the ribbon and completely cover their eyes...

"Is he... wanting to cut blindly?" There was an exclamation from the judges.The spectators also instantly understood what Lin Weirui was doing.

"It's impossible for him to do it! I've read about such magical skills in books before, but I've never seen them before. What's more, with his 20 years of age, it's absolutely impossible for him to have such a sword skill behind him."

Chang Yanxi didn't care about their disbelief, but praised them all: "Hahahahahahaha! Cousin Lin is really amazing! This is simply the audacity of a skilled person who doesn't leave a way for others to survive! If this is successful If you don’t need the judges to give points, you will win without a doubt. You must also be convinced by Huixiantang on the stage. You can also cut chrysanthemum tofu, but one cuts with open eyes and the other blindly. Outperformed?"

When critics of later generations commented on Mr. Lin, they would sometimes refer to such an anecdote. They thought that from this, they could see the unique stubborn temper of this figure who occupied half of the research topics of the history of the Republic of China.

In fact, being able to host the adult banquet in the palace is of great significance to a chef and even the industry he runs-after all, it is labeled as a royal, and any chef with the ability and pursuit will not refuse. The same is true for Lin Weirui of the state banquet. This is more challenging than hosting a state banquet, so when Yi Jun first proposed it, Lin Weirui was very interested.But this doesn't mean that Lin Weirui must get the right to host this time.

But it was agreed to give it to Youfeng Laiju, but a prince intervened halfway and wanted to give the right to undertake this time to Huixian Hall. The reason turned out to be that Youfeng Laiju was incapable.Now it's all right, if it was said that the young master still had a dispensable attitude towards this matter before, now it is inevitable.Not only did Lin Weirui want to win today's game, but she also wanted to take the bottom line, win beautifully, and slap that prince in the face severely.Yes, he is not targeting this section of Fang Yuan, but that Prince Chun.

The secret to cutting chrysanthemum tofu is to have no distractions, the knife moves with the eyes, and the heart moves with the knife.Duan Fangyuan on the opposite side was cutting the fifth piece of tofu, but was shocked by Lin Weirui's astonishing action, his heart was restless, the knife was unstable, and a piece of tofu that was about to be cut was badly damaged.He simply put down the knife and looked at the opposite side. He wanted to see if this young man had this ability.

It's been 10 minutes now.Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Lin Weirui was blindfolded, and did not even use the traditional chopsticks. After smoothing the tofu into a square shape, after the first knife, the pair of hands that were dazzlingly white were approaching. Become a phantom afterimage.

There are two difficulties in Wensi tofu. One is on the top. The distance between each knife is extremely short, but it must be cut to the point. The tofu that will be broken with a light pinch is cut into hair strands; the other difficulty is on the bottom layer. A small section should be left at the bottom as a "receptacle". Without the aid of chopsticks, it is necessary to ensure that the depth of each cut is exactly the same. Even when there are eyes watching the cut, it cannot be guaranteed, let alone blind cutting.

Contrary to the lively scene of cutting tofu at Huixian Hall just now, this time, everyone, whether they were optimistic or not, closed their mouths, opened their eyes wide, and stared intently at the pair that was about to become disabled. Shadow hands look.

After crosscutting, vertical cutting is still blind cutting.

Such an interesting scene appeared in all the scenes: everyone held their breaths, and even the sound of breathing was subconsciously lightened. Most of the people followed Lin Weirui's speed up—the blossoming "chrysanthemums" When it bloomed in the clear soup, it unconsciously opened its mouth wide, and the whole audience interpreted the word dumbfounded.

When he put down the knife in his hand, the hourglass just showed that a quarter of an hour had passed.

The whole audience was silent, it was an indescribable shock, as if seeing a miracle.

In the No. [-] Tianzi box on the second floor, the youngsters who were patrolling in micro-clothes also opened their eyes wide and looked at the youngsters on the stage downstairs, and it took half a salary to recover.

"A lonely eye is indeed the best."

The old steward next to him also nodded in agreement with his master, "The prince should not be able to stop you now."