Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Huh? That's..." Liu Maoxing couldn't help being taken aback when he saw what Changpu was carrying.

"Hehe, pretending to be stupid, didn't you stay with her last night?" Erina sneered from the side, her eyes full of seductive and dangerous brilliance.

"Cough cough cough, why stay with her... I only stayed in her cooking room for five minutes, and I just tasted her noodles!" Liu Subaru quickly explained in a low voice.

"Well, you meant to say that she gave you food last night, and you only went in for five minutes?"

"...Why do I think the statement has become more weird? Can you emphasize that it is to'pulling' the noodles and entering the'to the cooking room' for five minutes?" Liu Subaru said helplessly.

"Huh?" Erina didn't seem to realize what he said, nor did he realize the difference between the two statements!

"Well, let's not talk about these dirty things, the work she made first, and the one I tasted yesterday, seems to be different... At that time, she gave me a'bowl' of ramen." Liu Subaru said in doubt.

"Didn't you say that she was still in the cooking room when you left? Maybe something has been improved... and from regular ramen to tsukemen, it's just a change in the way of eating!"

That's right, the reason why Liu Subaru can see the difference at a glance is precisely because he tasted "one bowl" of ramen last night, but now Changpu presented to the judges, five servings, two bowls each...

One of the bowls contained the "noodles" itself with toppings on it, and the soup was left alone for another night, seeming to keep it warm. After the soup was served, a small bowl was placed on it.

Liu Subaru has also recognized it. This is obviously "dipping noodles", which can be regarded as a type of Japanese-style ramen, but the difference from ordinary ramen is that when it is presented to customers, the noodles and soup are separated.

When eating, put the noodles and toppings in the soup and eat them...

There is a kind of Shaanxi noodle snack "Dipping noodles" in Chinese cuisine. It is similar to this "dipping noodles" in the way of eating. However, the noodles of Dipping noodles are also served in clear water soup with simple side dishes, just when they are eaten. , Just go through it in a small bowl of red oil dip.

At the same time, the noodles of Shaanxi Zhushui noodles are usually very wide belted noodles, and there is a long noodle in a bowl. When eating, use chopsticks to slap the noodles, find one end from the clear soup, and put it in the dipping bowl You can eat while dipping in the middle, even between the dipping bowl and the noodle bowl, there is always a noodle connected...

On the other hand, the tsukemen noodles and toppings are left empty, and the dipping soup separately placed is not a heavy-flavored red oil dip, but is also the broth for ramen.

Compared with ordinary ramen, the advantage is obvious, that is, it avoids the mutual influence of soup and noodles for a long time together, which destroys the taste and taste of the noodles.

Instead, the soup noodles are separated and eaten and dipped. Some restaurants also provide equipment for heating the soup bowl to ensure that every bite is the best taste...

Others are still a little bit puzzled. They don't understand why tsukemen is used in a competition where the jury immediately scores points after this submission?

And Liu Subaru, who had tasted her "ramen" before, had faintly guessed some of the reasons...

"Huh? These are pasta toppings? Will the pasta toppings with ramen noodles be too bland?"

"No, I saw her before..."

"Wait... the surface under this topping is..."

The dipping noodles of calamus made the judges very puzzled as soon as they appeared on the scene, because in the bowl of noodles and toppings, the toppings on top were two small rectangular, pie-shaped pasta products, and a small cylinder. It seems that some kind of noodles are rolled with vegetables!

From the point of view of the toppings of ramen, it is a bit strange. After all, using noodles to match the noodles is too monotonous.

However, immediately after their attention, they looked at the toppings with chopsticks, and when they saw the "ramen" below, they shifted to the past together with the "doubt"...

I saw the cooked "ramen" below, not the white noodles or the light yellow with more gluten, but a cloudy and transparent color!

Compared with normal noodles, it can be said to be translucent, but compared with vermicelli, it is too turbid, and it is farther from the completely transparent "shadowless noodles"...

But at the "Ramen Contest", seeing this kind of "noodles" still surprised the judges.

After the chopsticks are placed, you can feel the touch from the chopsticks, and this thing is obviously different from "noodles"!

"Huh? What is that?" Erina wondered. From a distance, Erina couldn't determine the texture of this special "noodle".

Of course, she was not talking to herself, but was asking the prestigious Liu Subaru. Erina believed that since Liu Subaru had tasted the noodles of calamus last night, she would definitely know what's magical inside...

"It is a product of minced pork and a small amount of glutinous rice flour, kneaded together with sweet potato flour, then rolled into skins and dried, and finally cut into strips and boiled... In Chinese cuisine, it is similar to'yanpi' Very similar!" Liu Subaru said.

Yanpi, also known as meat yanpi, is not only made with lean pork meat, but also made from fresh fish and pork belly. It is usually used to make "yanpi flat food", that is, as the skin of dumplings and wontons. Also like now, it is made directly into noodles!That is, "yanpi noodles".

"Pork minced? So that's the case, plain noodles, vegetarian toppings... Didn't you mention noodles? Unexpectedly, this guy can actually think of this. The descendant of the small ramen restaurant in the'district' area, it is not bad to do this. Rina said pretendingly.

The descendants of these folk snack restaurants with their own recipes and secret recipes usually do not enter the cooking school to learn, but are taught skills by their elders at home.

Because when you are young, you will come into contact with the secret recipes handed down from the family, and then work hard to study highly targeted techniques...

After the era of "Great Fusion of Cuisine", because the speed of innovation of various recipes is very fast, when the elders reform the recipes, they will also bring the descendants with them, so they can cultivate some innovative spirit.

However, compared with the same academy, most of them have solid basic skills and superb professional cooking skills, but their innovative ability is lower...

For many restaurant players, "heavy soup but not noodles" like "Japanese-style ramen" is a common-sense blind spot, but Changpu jumped out of this blind spot to see the problem!

That's why she was able to make this kind of ramen similar to "yanpi noodles" to combine with the "dipping noodles" form.

At the same time, Liu Subaru also felt that the reason why Changpu used the form of "dipping noodles" was not only for the best taste, but also to further circumvent the rules...

The theme of the competition is "Vegetarian Soup, Veggie Toppings". It is true that there is no requirement for noodles to be vegetarian, but if you really put "Yanpi Noodles" in the soup, more or less, there will be a material exchange!

If there is a trace of meat oil flowing into the soup, then is it still a "vegetarian soup"?

Liu Maoxing had this question before, but because it was delicious enough, he thought that the judges would not care about this small error, after all, this kind of material exchange had very little effect on the soup...

And now using the form of "dipping noodles" undoubtedly avoids the possibility of disputes even more.

Because until the finished product is presented, the soup is still vegan. Even if it is contaminated with meat when it is eaten, it has nothing to do with the cook...

"By the way, roasted carrot cake and roasted pepper cake can be soaked in the soup and tasted, but the fresh vegetable pancake rolls, please don't put it in the soup, as a snack!" Shiratorichangpu reminded.

The so-called "roasted carrot cake" and "roasted pepper cake" are all rectangular, and the size and thickness are similar to those of Wangwang Senbei in the words of Liu Maoxing.

The former is to make carrots boiled with various salty and spicy spices, knead them with flour, and press them into the shape of small biscuits...

The latter is pepper, green onion, sesame and salt, mixed with flour and kneaded, both of which are baked in the oven to dryness and hard!

If you eat it empty, the palatability is slightly worse, but after a little soaking in the soup base prepared by the calamus, you can immediately show the astounding fresh aroma and the crispy taste after absorbing the soup.

Served with soft, sticky, meaty noodles that are completely different from ordinary ramen noodles. Five judges including Dojima Gin did not control food intake for the first time in the preliminaries.

"Is this the blend of minced meat and sweet potato flour into'ramen'? This soft and chewy texture... and it's not as sticky as you might think!"

"Yes, because spices have been added to the minced meat, even if I eat it empty, I can eat a big bowl!"

"Not only the noodle itself, but also the carrot cake and pepper cake. At first, I felt a little too hard when it was not covered with the soup, but after pressing it into the soup and filling it with the soup, it was almost I want to ask the boss to add more toppings..."

"This pancake fresh vegetable roll is also good, it balances the thick kelp broth which is slightly greasy."

"I don't know Nitori Ramen, did you add this'Vegetarian Soup Meat Noodle' to the menu?"

Seeing his "ramen", Shiratori Changpu was widely praised by the judges, and smiled heartily. At the same time, he said: "After I go back, I must suggest that grandpa add this ramen to the menu. If grandpa disagrees, you must Support me!"

Obviously I have tasted 97 servings before. Although each serving is just a bite, I should feel quite full now, but at this time the "Vegetarian Soup and Meat Noodles" has once again stirred up the judges. appetite!

Don't forget Dojima Gin, it's normal to see his size eat more, and two of the old men have to worry about whether they will last!

"Hahaha, I think it's impossible for your grandpa to refuse... If you really refuse, just add it to the menu of my ramen restaurant!"

"In Division 1, Contestant No. 98 Shiratori Changpu, pass!"

And at this time, Erina, who is number 99, is naturally ready to present the "ramen"...

At the same time, the judges originally thought they had done it. They tasted the ramen of Erina, one of the ten masters of Tomotsu Academy and the blood relative of the Demon King of Food, who was more accomplished than himself in the taste of God Tongue owner Erina!

However, just after Erina presented her "ramen", four of the five judges still had their eyes widened, and the only calm Dojima Gin was also showing a look of interest!

Because Shiratori Ayame, Erina, and Liu Subaru are on the 98th, 99th, and 100th respectively, and the branches of the counter are arranged in order of numbers. All three are in the back row. Therefore, the judges were also curious about the cooking process of the three people. On the contrary, the audience saw more through the broadcast screen...

So of course the judges will be surprised...

When the Shiratori calamus is served, it can be seen that it is a kind of tsukemen, which can be regarded as a kind of Japanese ramen.

But the things that Erina pushed up from the dining trolley can't see any connection with the ramen...

I saw that Erina pushed up. It was a cylindrical deep pot with a diameter of about forty centimeters and a depth of thirty or forty centimeters. At first, everyone thought it was for her to make soup!

But now Erina is like this, pushing the pot directly in front of the judges, and then bringing the pot to the judges.

That's right, it's a pot, and the mouth of the pot is still leaning on the handle of five wooden drills...

"this is……"

"Well, this is my'Starry Star Ramen'."

"Huh? Skystars? Ramen?"

The judges looked at the five drills and wondered if they should pick them up...

After all, in the ramen contest, seeing this scene is really weird. It seems that as long as there are large-scale competitions with Yuanyue students participating in the competition, the style of painting will become "weird"?

Originally, they thought that Shiratori Changpu's "Vegetarian Soup Meat Noodles" had a strange style of painting. They couldn't think of what Erina's "Starry Ramen" would be surpassed in a strange degree!

Several judges were also worried about whether this thing was a brazier or not, and after taking it up, Erina said, "Huh? Why are you grabbing the noodles with your hands? You should suck it with your mouth" or something...

Even though this thing looks like a wood brazier, but... it is already very strange to see this in the ramen contest, and even more strange, it seems that it is not impossible!

Seeing the five judges lingering, Erina couldn't help but said: "Everyone, please hurry up and taste! Otherwise the taste of the ramen will be affected."

"This...Are there any special tasting suggestions?" Masato Asai asked changing directions.

As the current master of "Asai Ramen", one of the first ramen restaurants in Sapporo Ramen Street, Masato Asai never expected that he would ask others "how to eat ramen" in his later years...

"There is no special way of tasting, and there are no restrictions on toppings, some to be dipped in soup, and some that do not need to be dipped in soup. Just pick up the wood drill and taste it! The order does not have to be from front to back!"

"Hey...it must be troublesome to be this guy's secretary?" Shiratori Ayus whispered to Liu Subaru underneath Erina. Everyone could hear that the sentence after Erina was aimed at her previous "meatmeat noodles". of.

It seems that she really thinks that Liu Subaru is Erina's male secretary?

"Ahem, remind you that I am the ninth seat of the top ten, and Erina is only the tenth seat!" Liu Subaru said.

"so what?"

"So how could I be her secretary?"

"My brother was in the store, and he also helped me!"

Well, although Shiratori Acorus is at home, he is neither the oldest nor a man, but because of his talent, and his exploration and pursuit of ramen, he is now the next-generation successor of Shiratori Hitori's "hand-selected"!

As for her father and two older brothers, they are no longer in "Nitori Ramen", but as chefs or chefs, working in other star-rated restaurants. Only her third brother is still helping with "Nitori Ramen", and they usually do. Give her a hand...

"...I and Erina are just friends." Liu Subaru always felt it was weird to explain this with another woman.

"Then why don't you dare to admit that you asked me to strike up a conversation last night in front of her?"

"I'm not going to strike up a conversation, it's just... forget it, anyway, you know I am not... wait, why dare you not confess to strike up you in front of her, it must be her secretary? How did you reason about this result? "Liu Subaru wondered.

"Eh? Isn't it only bosses and employers who care about this kind of thing? Grandpa often criticizes the third brother, telling him not to strike up a conversation with girls during work!" Changpu said, "I have a good point." .

Liu Subaru was speechless, and at the same time he silently supported him. Erina's description of Changpu... Ramen in his mind!

At this time, the five judges all had "a piece of ramen" in their hands...

Well, since Erina claimed that this is "Starry Ramen", the judges also thought it was ramen for the first time!

On this five-root ramen brazier, there are five "ramen" that are two circles smaller than walnuts. Some are light yellow, 0-color, and look very gluten ramen, some are wheat-yellow, and are initially judged to be Italian durum wheat. The noodles are pure white, two-finger-wide wide noodles, and there is also a section with a few cut faces that are interspersed, and finally there is a very thick white noodle... Liu Subaru knows that it is actually rice noodles!

Except for the two relatively wide noodles, cut noodles and wide noodles, which are folded and worn on the drill, the other noodles are woven into the shape of multiple bows or hemp rope knots and then worn on the drill...

And the five kinds of noodles are also separated from each other, and there are six kinds of intervals...should you say "toppings"?

If this thing can really be regarded as ramen, then these six interspersed side dishes should indeed be called "toppings"!

Diced matsutake, white radish, tofu, small pieces of Brussels sprouts, thick-looking kelp, and a large pitted cherry on top...

When the other contestants saw that the five judges were going to "struck strings" in public, they couldn't help but talk...

"Does this really count as ramen?"

"It should be... well, okay... right? After all, soup, noodles and toppings are available!"

"I feel that compared to the minced meat noodles before, Nakiri-san's'Skewer Ramen' is actually more like ramen. After all, the noodles and toppings are available, but they are tasted with braziers..."

"Hehe, I guess the judges will not be very satisfied. This is the'Sapporo Ramen Contest'. She deviated too far from Japanese Ramen, right?"

"Yes, I also think... it doesn't seem to be the case!"

"What, what's going on?"

"The judges, this is..."

All the skepticism disappeared after the judges began to yell at them, replaced by shocked eyes and full of doubts!

Although the actions of the five judges did not look like they were eating ramen at all, this kind of chewing and heroic skewers is obviously a high appreciation for the chef!(To be continued.):