Liuxiang

The first thing to be put on the table must be cold dishes, but the fish walks among the graceful peonies, as if it is not an appetizer, but the peonies in full bloom were picked off by the whimsical chef in the kitchen and placed on the table. On the plate, it is for people to enjoy, and it seems that the only thing that can be eaten on this plate is the silly glutinous rice and fat head fish.

But this illusion was quickly broken by the first person to taste the petals.

The well-dressed lady picked up the first petals with chopsticks. The petals were light yellow and trembled slightly when they left the flower.

She put the many petals into her mouth uncertainly, tasted the first bite, and exclaimed: "This is vinegar-stuffed radish!"

A mouthful of crunchy vinegar-stuffed radish, the sleepy spleen and stomach suddenly awakened, hunger rushed to the mind, the aroma around, the shape in front of the eyes, all like an invisible hook, penetrating into the bottom of my heart, making people tickle stand up.

The serving of the first cold dish officially kicked off the curtain of this competition.

Afterwards, the waiters kept walking, and exquisite dishes were brought to the table.The round table is filled with porcelain plates of peonies with blue background, displayed in sequence on the frosted turntable in front of the guests, each plate is sung one by one, and each color is one color: "Fish wears peony flowers in the play, five-color agate blooms in the palm, rich and noble Nestle shrimp Goo, a cup of precious mushrooms in fragrant melons, a dendrobium white jade and a dendrobium bead!"

After reading the five sentences, the five dishes from Yuan Hui were served one by one.

The first dish is cold dish, and the second dish is soup.

The soup is served in the same peony flower bowl, and there are red, white, pink, purple and black meatballs in it. Although it is a simple dish, the soup is as clear as water. The meatballs in the soup are gathered into flowers according to the color depth. One meatball is black, and outwards are purple, red, pink, and white in sequence. There are ten meatballs in total. They are round and round, which is perfect.

The third course is a meat dish.

A whole flower-like Nestle is used as the base, and the lobster meat and sweet and sour meat are placed in the slightly concave place in the middle. The lobster meat and sweet and sour meat are fried separately. The combination of the two is just right.

For the fourth course it was the turn of the vegetables.

Dig out the flesh and heart of the ripe golden melon, add various mushrooms, bamboo shoots and other mountain delicacies one by one, and cook it in a pot with a specially prepared soup base. It is also like the smell of flowers, which is fragrant and tangy.

The last dish of white jade beads was much simpler. After cooking so many eye-catching dishes, Yuan Hui served a simple bowl of rice, the grains of rice were like white jade.

Ten dishes per table, five dishes per person, whether it is Yi Baitang or Yuan Hui, the general arrangement of the menu is the same: one cold dish, one seafood, one meat, one vegetarian, and one staple food. This time, Yi Baitang didn't make too many changes to Hui's whole table of dishes with peonies as the core.

He chose a set of all-white bone china that he often used. According to the fine tradition of not being too lazy to name it, after each dish, he pointed to the main ingredients of the dish and said simply: "Shrimp slices, mullet egg soup, three treasures Duck, two dishes in soup, and jiaozi noodles."

The waiter who came to get the dishes looked down: Although every dish continued Yi Baitang's usual style and looked very beautiful, but today's Yi Baitang is obviously a simple Yi Baitang, neither did he make the last "Old Man" "Godmother" came here to shoot the balloon food, and I didn't make the rainbow noodles that competed with Ted House...

She cautiously suggested: "Chu Yi, should we also choose a nicer name? We can work together..."

Yi Baitang glanced at this person coldly.

The person who spoke: "It's okay, it's okay! I'll take it out!"

Within half an hour, a total of ten delicious dishes were served one by one.

Whether it is the dishes from Yi Baitang or the dishes from Yuan Hui, they are all directly liquidated by the guests present as soon as they are served on the table.

When the hot noodles were finally served, everyone ate a mouthful of noodles first, and then drank a mouthful of thick soup. They felt a rush of heat nourishing their internal organs and lungs, and everyone who had enjoyed a delicious meal leaned back on their chairs one after another. , Holding his full belly, he took a comfortable "sigh" breath.

Wow——It's really comfortable. I don't have the embarrassment of having a table full of good food at ordinary banquets, but I have to cook porridge and noodles to fill my stomach when I go home. I didn't expect to come here to try it, but I could have such a good banquet , no matter the ingredients or the taste, they are all extraordinary... Anyway, it tastes better than those chef banquets in big restaurants with tens of thousands of tables.

Is this the old saying that the master is among the people?

At a table, diners who didn't know each other thought to themselves.

Perhaps it was this delicious banquet that brought them closer.

Even though they had never met before, these strangers couldn't help discussing in a low voice: "I wonder if the chef of this restaurant is in the banquet business?"

"This restaurant is too small. It's okay to host some ultra-small birthday parties or other things, but it probably won't work if it opens dozens of tables."

"Don't think so, we can hire the chef team outside, as long as we bring our own venue."

"It makes sense..."

The others suddenly realized, nodded one after another, and looked at the messy cups and plates on the table with unsatisfactory eyes... Then, they saw the waiters who had just delivered the dishes on the left and right, handing out questionnaires.

When everyone looked at it, they saw that the survey form sent to them was simple, with the names of ten dishes on the top, and a horizontal line for people to fill in on the horizontal line. a dish.

When the diners got the survey form, half of them flashed the most impressive dish in their hearts immediately, and half of them hesitated, thinking that this is good or that, why do they have to choose a favorite?Is it okay to comment on the top three likes...

Then they searched the menu according to the dish they remember most, and saw: I like the original peony cold dish - fish wearing peony.

I like the last jiaozi noodles - jiaozi noodles.

I love that meatball soup - tuanhua agate.

I like the duck this time - Sambo Duck.

Diners: "..."

They looked at the obviously different dishes with the surprised menu name, slowly figured out the taste, covered their faces with the questionnaire, and discussed in a low voice: "Do you think this banquet was served by two chefs who were fighting against each other?" , this style is a bit different..."

"If it's not served by the chef on the right table, then it's served by a chef who is good at fine points."

"I said, isn't your imagination too rich? Maybe one set of dishes is served by the chef, and another set of dishes is served by the second chef. Haven't you seen that their tastes are actually very unified? They are all unique to Huaiyang cuisine." The light taste." The person who spoke was a diner with a fat head and big ears. Generally, people with this kind of body can't control their mouths more or less. Now he is shaking his head and patting his stomach in waves. "It's clear but not overwhelming, bland and flavorful. I haven't eaten such beautiful and authentic Huaiyang cuisine for many years!"

The person next to him said happily: "You are still a glutton? Then tell me, which dish on this table is the most difficult to cook?"

The fat man smiled: "Don't dare, the dishes are all beautiful, and the first peony is the most beautiful. Just pick the one you like the most. The mouth is your own, and no one else can taste it for you, right?"

Everyone at the table started talking and laughing, and some people started talking to Lu Sen.

Lu Sen responded with a smile, but did not participate in the topic. He only held the pen and the questionnaire, and seriously thought about which dish attracted him the most.

To be honest, it's a bit hard to judge.

Lucerne pondered.

He is a programmer in a nearby company, and he has heard of the name of a tree for a long time, but the company is late from work, and there is no place for him every time he passes by. Make a reservation... Although I heard that reservations are now at least three days away, it's not the legendary chef's table in this restaurant... No, it's getting far away, let's continue to think about business.

Anyway, today he was working overtime temporarily, and he just wanted to eat a bowl of noodles at a snack bar outside, but unexpectedly ran into a tree that was doing an event, and invited people to come in and try it.

His eyes flicked across the table.

According to his understanding of the legendary chef in this restaurant... the current situation must be a battle between two people, and Yi Baitang must be the one who uses the white porcelain plate!

But here comes the problem.

Just like what the fat man said just now, the dishes of the two chefs are delicious, and they feel very harmonious. To decide which is the tastiest...

Lu Sen hesitated and hesitated, and finally wrote Qingshan into the bowl with some uncertainty—it was the rare mushroom melon.

After finishing writing, even though he still felt a little inexplicably weird, but continuing the habit of amateur Go hobby, he got up and handed the list to the waiter at the side, and just collided with a chubby hand.

Following that hand, he first glanced at the favorite written on the other party's list: jiaozi noodles; then glanced at the person who wrote the list, and found that it was the fat man who was very active on the table just now.

The fat man looked kindly like Maitreya Buddha, he smiled at Lu Sen and nodded friendly.

Lu Sen also smiled.

He turned and left, thinking as he left:

Although I used to think that the name of the dish didn't matter, but no matter how you look at it, the Qingshan into the bowl is more powerful than the noisy noodles.

Listening to this fat man just now, I thought that the fat man would prefer the peony-based dishes, but I didn't expect to choose the last and least surprising noise noodle...

It is said that the head chef is really capricious. Obviously he can make the dishes look good and arrange them more delicately. Of course, it doesn't matter to ordinary opponents, but against opponents of the same level as himself, wouldn't he lose first?

He felt that it was about time for him to let go of his obsession with having a tree, since he had already had this big meal anyway.

But I don't know why, the more he walks, the more he can't forget the dishes on that table, he can't forget, it seems that there is always something that he didn't notice before breaking out of the ground...

He walked for a long time, and when he returned home, his mother asked, "Are you back? What do you want to eat tonight?"

Lu Sen blurted out: "Noisy noodles."

Mom was stunned: "Oh? I want to eat noodles today. Didn't you not like noodles very much before?"

Lu Sen finally understood what he had done wrong!

He slapped his thigh and said angrily, "Oh my God, I shouldn't have written about green hills and bowls. My real favorite is obviously—"

The lunch people in the restaurant all dispersed around two o'clock.

All questionnaires are also counted at the same time and the results are published.

The results came out, out of 49 votes, Yi Baitang had seven votes less than Yuan Hui.