Universe Infinite Canteen

“The theme for the second round is – street food.”

The female host said, "I know that you are all chefs in top restaurants, and many of your restaurants have successfully achieved stars. The guests you receive every day are either celebrities, rich people, celebrities, or even royal families.

“But this time you need to challenge more popular street food.

“Every city has its own street food, which is like the city’s business card. Integration carries the local culture, connects people in the entire city, and heals their tired hearts and stomachs.

"Street food is the most egalitarian and inclusive of food, and this time we are handing the judgment back to the public."

"The 500 hungry public judges each hold 5 snack coupons in their hands. They will use the snack coupons to buy their favorite food, and they will advance if they get 100 votes."

"What are you laughing at?" Sun Mei asked Ma Lu.

"Do you know what I did before I opened a restaurant?"

"You are so young, you must be a college student."

"That's true, but between being a student and running a restaurant, I also ran a food stall for a while." Ma Lu said, "It's right in front of the school."

Sun Mei was indeed a little surprised, because Ma Lu's cooking skills are very strong. A chef of this level can easily earn a monthly salary of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan by just finding a job in a big hotel, and he will not be reduced to setting up a stall at all. the point.

In addition, Sun Mei once again saw Ma Lu's strong psychological quality, and he actually went back to his alma mater to set up a stall.

This guy's face is unusually thick.

There was no time to talk more, the second round had already begun.

This time, the contestants selected ingredients faster than in the previous round, just like collecting food during the epidemic.

This is because each public judge only has 5 votes in hand, and 100 votes are needed to advance. In other words, in the most optimistic case, only 25 people can advance in this round.

And because those who are eliminated will also share some of their votes, there will actually be fewer people who can advance.

In addition, many people can see that the person who cooks the meal first in this round will have a considerable advantage.

Because there were no other competitors at that time, and the 500 public judges all had snack coupons in their hands.

The host used the word "hungry" when introducing them before, indicating that they probably did not have breakfast.

At this time, most people will tend to buy a piece of food first, no matter it is good or bad, eat it and wait for the next one.

Therefore, being the first to win becomes extremely important in this round of competition, and this is also a major feature of street food.

Many office workers buy food on their way to or from get off work. If the chef can't cook it fast enough, they will go to other stalls that can cook it faster.

Some contestants noticed this and took a few large trays of eggs and fried them on the iron plate. The aroma of fried eggs spread out.

Indeed, some people could not help but swallow their saliva, but no one came to buy his fried eggs.

The reason is simple. Although the public reviewers are ordinary people, they are not office workers who are in a hurry to get to work.

Everyone who has been selected to watch this MasterChef competition must still want to see and eat some delicacies that are different from those in daily life.

It's not unbearable to be hungry for a while for this reason.

Not only fried eggs, but also some other people who want to take shortcuts, the sales of noodles and ordinary meat skewers are only in single digits.

This also makes more and more contestants realize that in addition to speed, creativity and taste cannot be inferior.

In the end, the first sales volume was the stir-fried tom yam cooked by a Thai contestant.

Traditional Thai Tom Yum Goong requires the use of stock, but the cooking time of the stock takes too long.

So the Thai contestant abandoned the stock and directly stir-fried shrimps, squid and scallops with lemongrass, chili, lime leaves, lime juice, onions, tomatoes, coconut milk, ginger slices and other condiments.

The Tom Yum Goong is also very delicious, and seafood is obviously much more attractive to diners than omelettes and pancakes.

In addition, he filled the plate very full, putting three or four kilograms of seafood in one pot, but only divided it into four plates.

As soon as it came out of the pot, more than a dozen diners gathered around and took out their snack coupons.

The Thai chef grinned when he saw this, took four coupons, and immediately started cooking the next pot.

Kawano Zhengming, who was hesitant and indecisive in the last round, was also uncharacteristic of himself in this round and became the fastest to complete the assignment.

He chose tempura, one of Japan's four major cuisines and one of the most common street snacks in Japan.

In addition to the traditional shrimp, fish, shellfish, perilla and sea urchin tempura, Kawano Zhengming also tried tempura such as coconut meat, flowers, Wuzhishan wild vegetables, sweet potato leaves, mint leaves, etc.

Coupled with his melancholic temperament that resembles Joe Odagiri, he immediately attracted the attention of a large number of female fans.

With many years of experience in sea fishing, he selects the freshest ingredients, coats them with just the right amount of flour, and strictly controls the oil temperature and frying time.

The cooked tempura was crispy and delicious, and the combination of meat and vegetables could effectively relieve the greasiness of fried food, and soon the business was booming.

Sun Mei originally planned to make fried beef, but when she was halfway through the preparation, she suddenly remembered something.

The preliminary round of the Asian region of the MasterChef Competition was held in Sanya, so the public judges invited were all locals.

This is both a good and a bad thing.

The good thing is that as a fellow Chinese, Sun Mei will understand their tastes and dietary preferences better. The bad thing is that domestic snacks may not be as tempting to them as foreign snacks.

It's not because domestic snacks are not delicious, but people naturally like to try new things, especially when they come to the scene of the God of Cooking Competition, they will naturally be more inclined to eat something they haven't eaten before.

So now the best-selling snacks are basically foreign snacks.

Sun Mei has been studying in Europe for many years, and she has eaten a lot of European snacks.

With her cooking skills, it is not difficult to replicate these snacks. But Sun Mei didn't do so, because she just glanced and found that the other contestants chose almost all snacks from their own countries.

And the female host also said before that every city has its own street food, just like a city business card.

It's not appropriate for her to use European snacks again.

But this doesn't bother Sun Mei.

China has a land area of ​​9.6 million square kilometers, ranking third in the world, and it is a multi-ethnic country. In addition to those national snacks that everyone is familiar with, there are also many regional snacks that are not so famous.

For example, the spicy pot she is making now is a snack of the Xibe ethnic group, and the cooking method is a bit like stuffing green peppers with meat.

In addition, Sun Mei also prepared the Tu ethnic group's Halihai and the Hani ethnic group's bamboo tube chicken.