Rebirth of the third-rate cook

The Chef King Contest was held as scheduled. Dongyang Group managed to make it to the finals relying on an unknown British chef. The total score of the previous preliminaries was also at the bottom, but Wu's was far ahead with the help of Japanese chef Ichiro Sada.

In the first round of the final, Wu Hang and his elder brother Wu Xiang sat at the far left of the first row of the guest seats. Wu Xiang looked at Wu's head chef and sous chef expressionlessly without squinting.Wu Hang crossed his legs, smiled smugly, and raised his eyebrows at Li Mingyue on the right, "What? Could it be that the chef Alex of your group also encountered an accident like the first two? Oh, no, he doesn't need to be surprised, even if he comes to compete, he won't be able to win the championship..."

Li Mingyue squinted his eyes, made a gesture of baring his teeth at Wu Hang, turned his head and didn't bother to talk to him, and looked at his father who couldn't see him like a mountain, feeling a little anxious in his heart.

Just when the host and the judges were ready to go on stage, the door of the chef's entrance channel on the other side suddenly opened. Liu Guo was wearing a chef's uniform and bowed to the judges apologetically, while Qin Yan stood Not far behind, his eyes swept over everyone in the Wu family.

Liu Guo smiled, "There was a traffic jam on the road, sorry for being late."

Wu Hang sat up straight immediately, and his expression changed. Although Wu Xiang didn't change much, he squinted his eyes in an instant.

The two brothers looked at each other, and Wu Hang raised his hand to signal, "The competition stipulates that the participating chefs cannot be replaced midway. Dongyang Group seems to have violated the rules."

The host was a little dazed, and hurriedly compared with the staff around him. After confirmation, he smiled and said, "Thank you for the supervision of the representative of the Wu Group, but the Dongyang Group's entry list is indeed Chef Alex and Sous Chef Ding Wei. There is no illegal change of chef."

Wu Hang narrowed his eyes, "As far as I know, the chef who appears now is named Liu Guo, and he is not qualified to sign up."

Liu Guo smiled apologetically at the host, and then looked at Wu Hang with a smile, "Second Master Wu, my Chinese name is indeed Liu Guo, but the contest did not say that registration with an English name is not allowed. In addition, if Er Shao Wu suspects that I am I don’t mind showing my certificate to the second young master, it must be obtained before the deadline for registration.”

After Wu Hang paused, he realized in an instant that when they saw Liu Guo entered the hospital, they relaxed their vigilance. They only glanced at the names on the entry list, but didn't check the photos one by one, taking advantage of each other's loopholes.

In the previous preliminaries, when they saw a British chef appearing on the stage, they took it for granted that it was Alex, but Wu Hang sneered, "Let's wait and see how Chef Liu turns defeat into victory!"

Seeing that there were no more objections, the host entered the opening stage, and after enlivening the atmosphere, he entered the topic.

"Next, I would like to briefly introduce the process and rules of our final. After discussion by the main committee, our final will no longer start from the basic skills of the participating chefs like the preliminaries, but decide that the final will be divided into three rounds. Each game has a theme, on-the-spot proposition, on-site selection and cooking, and is scored by seven judges. The full score of each game is ten. The champion of the King of Chefs Competition. The catering group where the champion is located will receive the highest gourmet award issued by the International Gastronomy Organization. At the same time, the group will also be designated as the Queen’s Land of the International Gourmet Organization, and will be featured in the next month’s "Gourmet" magazine, Introduction to the whole book."

Such a title may seem like nothing, but to people in the catering industry, they know that it is supreme. For chefs, it can be said to become famous in one battle. For the group, to be recognized by the International Gastronomy Organization means to expand its territory in the world will be easier.

"Okay, next, I invite William, one of the members of the competition organizing committee, to announce the theme and requirements of the first round of the final."

The theme of the first game was set as "Four Seasons", and the requirement was that no heating method should be used throughout.

Liu Guo was not in a hurry to choose ingredients, but just meditated quietly for a while, not using any heating method, but mainly raw food or iced, but such a single cooking method, but also to highlight the theme of the four seasons, really need to think carefully one time.

Liu Guo stood in front of the table, tapping on the cutting board with one hand, looking down to think. On the other side, Ichiro Sada smiled contemptuously, and went straight to the raw material area to select the required materials.

When he came back, he passed behind Liu Guo, and snorted in a low voice, "Our Japanese Empire's cooking of raw food is unparalleled by any other country. Even if you lose, you are not embarrassed." After speaking, he swaggered back to his table The case begins to prepare.

However, Liu Guo didn't even raise his head when facing Zuotian Ichiro's provocation. It wasn't that he didn't take it seriously, but that he was immersed in his own thoughts and couldn't hear what someone was saying next to him.

Immediately, as if thinking of something, Liu Guo raised his head with a smile, turned his face to Qin Yan and said, "It's a pity that the organizing committee failed to prepare the stone mill, so we can only make do with what it provided." Said and went to the raw material area Choose the ingredients you need.

Not long after, all the contestants on the field had already selected their own materials and began to prepare their own dishes wholeheartedly.

After the host announced that the time was up, each contestant stopped, and a special etiquette staff divided the finished products of each team into small dishes, and then presented them to the judges.

The first few dishes almost all chose salad-like mixed vegetables. Except for the difference in the selection of ingredients, there was really no special feature. When the Yuyue Four Seasons dish by Zuotian Ichiro was presented, it was obvious that several judges were impressed.

"For this dish, fresh sea fish from four seasons are selected, and sliced ​​on the ice table with four different knife methods. Different fish fillet methods determine the different tastes of various fish fillets. Warm, strong, tingly, cold taste with simple dipping ingredients, no matter eating directly or dipping ingredients, you can feel the changes in the taste of the four seasons in the mouth."

Ichiro Zuotian looked like he was going to win, and introduced his dishes firmly. Seeing the judges nodding frequently, he even sneered at Liu Guo.

Liu Guo shrugged indifferently, and took a step forward to degrade his own dishes.

The judge closest to Liu Guo stared at the stack in front of him for a long time, but still asked uncertainly, "What are the ingredients of this dish?"

"Tofu."

Liu Guo replied with a smile, some guests in the audience started whispering, the judges also exchanged glances with each other, Ichiro Sada even scoffed, thinking that he wanted to use a piece of tofu to win the sashimi he had carefully selected was simply ridiculous.

"The raw material is very simple. It is a piece of tofu. Select seasonal flowers, such as peach blossom, lotus, osmanthus and wintersweet, and season them separately. Then soak the tofu in the flower juice for flavor and color. With cold green tea, lotus with ice mint, sweet-scented osmanthus with honey, and wintersweet with warm black tea, there are four layers of taste, and the four seasons rotate, whether it is color or taste, they all respond to the theme of the four seasons."

Zuotian Ichiro muttered in a low voice, "No matter how extravagantly you say it, it's just a piece of tofu." But behind him, Chen Lu shook his head with a wry smile, as if he had foreseen it.

Sure enough, Liu Guo won this game with a perfect score of [-], while Satian Ichiro only scored [-] points.

The main judge explained, "The two dishes of Dongyang Group and Wu's Group are evenly matched in terms of taste, but the reason why Dongyang Group is judged to win is because the taste of Wu's Group comes from the selection of materials. It determines the distinct taste, and Dongyang Group chooses the most common tofu, and all the color, aroma and taste are prepared by the chef, so it is slightly better."

Liu Guo thanked and left the stage indifferently, Li Mingyue immediately ran over, "I knew you were fine. You must have never seen Wu Hang's constipated face when you came out, hahaha, it's really cool , Oops, I've been aggrieved for so long, but it's worth the fare..."

Liu Guo smiled, and was about to say something when she saw Chen Lu timidly walking over, "Brother Guo, you are fine, I..."

Liu Guo smiled politely, pulled Qin Yan and left with Li Mingyue.

In the car, Li Dongmo was waiting for Liu Guo, Li Mingyue got into another car, and Qin Yan got into the co-pilot.

"I still think it's too early to hang up the cards."

"Indeed, it would be safer for me to appear again in the second round. However, our results in the preliminaries are not satisfactory. If I appear again in the second round, I am worried that it will be difficult to win."

Li Dongmo was silent for a moment, "Young man, it's inevitable to be competitive, but, seeing the expressions of Wu Xiang and Wu Hang who are present today, I'm afraid they will jump over the wall in a hurry."

Liu Guo looked at the back of Qin Yan's head, "Before, I was always afraid of wolves and tigers, so I chose to leave Dongyang..."

Liu Guo didn't continue talking, and Li Dongmo also chose to remain silent. Instead, Qin Yan, who was sitting in front, said, "Even if they have any plans, they can't make it before the second round, but before the third round, we have to do it." Get ready."

Just as Qin Yan expected, the second sentence of the competition on the second day was completed without any disturbances. After the competition, the group fell into an unspeakable atmosphere.

"Don't be so dull, why don't Mingyue tell a joke?" Liu Guo pushed Li Mingyue.

"A joke? My mind is full of nervousness now, and I can't laugh." Li Mingyue rolled his eyes, "Your main goal, don't take it lightly, okay?"

Liu Guo spread his hands, "The one who should come will always come, and the one who doesn't come, you won't come if you don't, I can't change anything if I worry about it or not, just let nature take its course, besides, I believe in Qin Yan, everything will be fine. "

When they arrived at the hotel where they were staying, the two did not continue their conversation and went back to their rooms.

"Qin Yan, tell me, what method will Mrs. Wu use at this juncture? I can't quite imagine..."

Qin Yan took off his coat, "Didn't you just say let nature take its course?"

"Hey... that's for Ming Yue. Didn't you see how nervous he is? I can't let him think I'm nervous too."

Qin Yan wrapped Liu Guo into his arms, "Don't worry, I'm in charge of everything."

Liu Guo stroked Qin Yan's prickly stubble with his backhand, "I'm not worried that they will attack me directly. I believe you can settle it. I'm worried that they will come to hell. It's hard to guard against."