Communicate friendly with food

After returning home and talking about it with my parents, the two said happily: "Let's go sign up too."

Zheng Bai repeatedly waved his hands to stop their eager thoughts: "I beg you, give your daughter a chance to earn pocket money."

Zheng and his wife had no choice but to give up.

After Zheng Bai and Jiu Zhaoji ate a little at noon, they went to the competition venue.

The venue was unexpectedly an outdoor sports field, and the number of onlookers was unexpectedly large. China had a summer vacation a month earlier, and the children were almost free. Plus, today was the weekend, and most of the huge venue was filled with Children accompanied by their parents came over, and the place where a bunch of children were present was like a market, buzzing and noisy.

Zheng Bai took the admission card he had signed up for and entered Hou's arena. He originally thought that the two minors would be very abrupt in this place, but after entering the arena, Zheng Bai calmed down.

There are more than one or two younger than them. There are parent-child groups who can tell at a glance that they are here to join in the fun. The children may be six or seven years old. I don't know if it's some kind of cooking class for them to practice, and some are a combination of old grandma and grandpa. Needless to say, they are here to distribute dog food.

Of course, there are a lot of long-experienced dog food for the fun that I just mentioned, and more chefs who seem to be very serious. Everyone is full of confidence and seems confident that they will win the 8000 yuan.

Not long after entering and waiting, someone came to lead the contestants into the arena.

Following the commotion in the auditorium, the contestants entered the arena one after another.

Only then did Zheng Bai see the appearance of the competition field. This field is a sports field, in a concave shape, surrounded by auditoriums, and the place where the track and field field was originally occupied has been filled with cooking tables. At the cooking table, Zheng Bai made a rough count and found that there were more than 80 groups of people participating in the competition. It is estimated that there are more than 200 people.

"Ahem." The broadcast sounded, "Dear judges, contestants and audience friends, good afternoon everyone..." followed by the same opening remarks.

After a long time I couldn't understand, so I asked Zheng Bai.

Zheng Bai got up early this morning, and now he is terribly sleepy. Thinking that he will not be able to take a nap in the afternoon, he suddenly feels haggard. Hearing Jiu Wo's question, he yawned lazily and replied: "It's just nonsense, I'll translate it for you when I get to the point. "

The person on the stage has been talking nonsense for nearly 5 minutes - it is also difficult, it takes a lot of words to come up with 5 minutes of nonsense - and finally said the main point.

"The topic of the competition is squirrel fish! Participants are not allowed to ask for outside help. Outside help includes looking up recipes on the Internet. If you have any questions, please press the bell in the upper left corner of the cooking table, and someone will come to help."

Cooking fish, this Zheng Bai is not curious, because when he came here from Hou Saichang, he passed by a place where ingredients should be placed, and he heard some fish complaining [Why are there so many fish, they squeeze me to death, I am about to become a fish. Salted fish. 】

It’s just that I didn’t expect it to be squirrel fish. After all, squirrel fish is not a Guangdong cuisine, but a Jiangsu cuisine. It has high requirements for knife skills and fire control.

Zheng Bai and Jiu Wo translated the topic, and Jiu I seemed a little surprised: "I didn't expect it to be so simple."

Zheng Bai said: "After all, it is an audition. Look at so many children. If it is too difficult to do it, it will be a shame." However, if you want to kill fish, you have to fry it. Just be cowardly.

The topic was very simple for Zheng Baijiu and me, so after a little discussion, we began to divide and cooperate.

The fish was mandarin fish, and the staff had already put fresh live fish in the small pots on the side of each cooking table. Zheng Bai used the excuse of "girls don't do such bloody work" to simply put the butcher's fish on the ground. It took me a long time to do the work.

Knock out the mandarin fish, scrape the scales, remove the gills, open the belly, remove the internal organs, cut off the fish head, slice off the whole piece of fish on both sides, remove the big spines around the fish, and take the rest of the fish just sliced The big fish bones and big fish spines are cut into pieces.The movements were crisp and neat, and Zheng Bai watched as he finished cutting the chopped green onion and shredded ginger, thinking that he might not be able to perform such perfect movements when he came to slaughter.

Zheng Bai took the two pieces of fish, scraped off the black film, and began to slice the fish, first slice to the left to the tail, then slice to the right, and finally formed a cross X shape.Rinse with water, place on a long plate, blot dry, sprinkle with salt and marinate for 15 minutes.Break apart the jaws of the fish head, remove the teeth, wash and marinate with salt for 15 minutes.

For a long time over there, I have turned on the fire and put in the oil, poured in the diced fish bones and fish spines, after cooking, add a little cooking wine, simmer for a few seconds, continue to fry, stir fry, add shredded ginger, stir fry, pour Pour in water, simmer until it turns into milky white fish soup, filter out the soup for later use.

Zheng Bai poured raw powder on the marinated fish meat, fish head, and fish chin, and after spreading the raw powder evenly on each place, handed it to Jiuga Zhaoji.

For a long time, I have poured oil into the pan, heated it to a high temperature, put the fish meat side down and the fish skin up, pinched both ends of the fish meat, put it into the oil pan, don’t let go, let go of one hand after the fish meat is formed , turn over the hand holding the fish tail, put the fish skin side down completely into the oil pan, put in the fish head, fry the fish chin, wait until the fish is fried hard, take it out, and burn the oil again To high temperature, put the fish, fry until golden brown and remove.Arrangement.

While Jiu Wo was frying fish, Zheng Bai was not idle. He took a small amount of oil in another pot, poured in sugar, and simmered on a low heat until the sugar bubbled and turned into caramel. Fish soup, add salt, vinegar, dark soy sauce, chicken essence, stir evenly, add cornstarch water, make it into gravy, pour in an appropriate amount of oil, and stir.

Finally, pour the Gorgon juice on the prepared fish, sprinkle with a little green onion, and it's done.

The first cooperation between the two did not expect to be much better than expected, and there were no accidents. Zheng Bai attributed the reason to the fact that he had been helping Jiuga all the time and knew his cooking habits very well.

It is precisely because they cooperated very well that they finished it very early. Although they were not the first to do it, they were among the top five.After all, the judges will feel hungry when they smell the fragrance all the time. When they are hungry, they will feel that the taste is higher. After eating, they will be full of those flavors, and the score will tend to be average.

The judges use the average score system, ten judges, each with a maximum of ten points, decimal points are allowed, the total is added to get the average value, and the two digits after the decimal point are rounded off.The staff will specially pick up a piece of fish for them, and then the fish will be taken out for the audience to try.

They cook quickly, the presentation is good, and the taste is probably not bad. It is only natural that they get a score of 9.4 in the end.

The author has something to say:

Hahaha I was kicked out before I set off to go back to my hometown. I don’t care if there are typos. I’m so tired OTZ. Let’s take a vaccination first. I can’t be sure that the next chapter can be updated before 9 o’clock. It may be timed out, but I will try my best!