Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"This, this feeling is..."

"The wildness of bear meat is completely released!"

"And did not feel any uncomfortable fishy smell?"

"It seems that there is a taste, combined with the bear meat, which reduces its fishy smell, and the unique wild flavor without any attenuation. This is..."

"Genievre." Dojima Gin said with his eyes closed.

"Genievre? Does it mean... juniper berries? That's right! So speaking, it does have the taste of juniper berries!" another gourmet judge said brightly.

Although other ramen masters also have a spirit of openness, innovation and continuous improvement, many uncommon spices and ingredients are still unfamiliar to them and far less familiar to gourmets. It is for this reason that the competition is usually in addition to professional counterparts. In addition to the master chefs, they usually mix and match some gourmets in...

Because I don't know which player has an open mind, it is possible that these master chefs who specialize in one can be dazed.

In particular, the juniper berries used by Ye Shanliang are more often used for their medicinal value, and they are also used in some ancient religious ceremonies. When they are used to process food materials, they are mostly used for antiseptic Features: It is very rare that it is used to preserve food and directly used in spices.

As a shrub fruit, juniper berries usually have a layer of resin on the surface, which is generally considered to be part of the juniper berries.When used as a spice, the taste of juniper berries is bitter, astringent, and spicy. A small amount can be added to preserve food when pickling food. It can also be ground and simmered for drinking. It is not easy to use directly...

"Wait, in addition to the juniper berries, which are the main force to harmonize the taste of bear meat, the'Cajun Spice' is also added..."

Cajun spices, similar to the authentic "Orleans" flavor, but not much like the inexplicable version of K's Orleans.

"This large piece of bear meat does not have the slightest fishy smell. When the mouthful of bear meat is chewed, the irritation of juniper berries and the unique wild flavor of bear meat, as well as the full taste, continue to burst and spread in the mouth. , And stimulate the sense of smell and taste!"

Gudong Gudong...

"Mr. Asai?"

At this moment, Asai actually started to take a bowl of soup!

"Sure enough, this kind of'subduing' taste requires a big mouthful to be enjoyable! Alright... Nono, don't stare at me, I will control my appetite!" Asai smiled.

"That's true! It's great to eat soup and meat, with a slightly sour ramen!"

"Yes, after this ramen, white wine should be rubbed in... No, not only white wine, but also a flavor that goes well with bear meat. This is..."

"The bone marrow, it should be the bone marrow of the bear also slightly added in." Dojima Gin said.

"That's it! The bone marrow is often the heaviest part of'game'. Adding some bone marrow to the noodles can make the taste of the noodles'live' in the bear broth!"

Seeing that the judges turned into small animals, and they were constantly "eating", Noono gave the staff on the side a frantic wink and removed Ye Shanliang's bear meat ramen...

Although just smelling the smell made Nono a little addicted, but now the judges can't eat too much!

"Next, please judges, give points to Ye Shanliang...Oh my God! It appeared! The highest score so far! Four 9 points, two 7 points, four 8 points, a total score of 82 points! Over 80 points! And it surpassed the 78 points of the previous Kurokiba players!" Nono said hard.

Fortunately, Kurokiba's turban has been confiscated, otherwise I am afraid there will be trouble now...

At the moment Ye Shanliang announced the score, he was slightly dissatisfied, but immediately changed to a "mature and serious face" and said a few words that he would continue to work hard!

Obviously because I have always taken care of the "Scent Research Association" with Shiomi Jun (it can also be written as "Take care of Shiomi Jun and the Spice Research Association"),

After the competition, it seems that it has entered a quiet period again. Although some elite students from the far month and other dark horses in the second to tenth divisions, more than ten people have scored more than 70 points, but Ye Shanliang's 82 points are the highest. Points, but has not wavered!

After that was Xingping Chuangzhen's "gluten noodles", unexpectedly scored 78 points, similar to Kurokiba...

This made Kurokiba almost ran away in the "normal mode", breaking through the restrictions of the turban...

Liu Maoxing felt that Chuangzhen's noodles were familiar from the beginning, but then suddenly realized that this is the legendary "spicy noodles"?

It’s just that Chuangzhen’s "Spicy Bar" is not a product sold by "Dragon", but a homemade and exclusive "Jiji" recipe!

Can use a form other than "noodle soup" to get such a high score...

Besides, Chuang Zhen was the only player who "drew out" recipes other than noodle soup without hesitation.

The reason why Liu Subaru chooses fried noodles is because of his confidence in his "new skills", and Xingping Chuangzhen is more because he is not bound by anything other than cooking and his heart of free cooking!

It can be seen that Chuangzhen now has the style of some wandering chef Seiichiro Caiha!

There are also Takumi rice-shaped pasta that looks like "soup rice", and Alice’s self-proclaimed "all-in-one" ramen is a kind of gooey-like thing, although they also have the sign of soup noodles, but in fact how Don't look like...

But in the end Takumi also scored 72 points, and Alice scored 77 points, reaching the first echelon!

Mito Yumei's beef ramen is also very good...

For the pure beef stock, from the bottom of the bowl to the edge of the bowl, a layer of thinly sliced ​​raw beef is spread. The topping is also two-cooked fried beef, which maximizes the taste and texture of the beef, and also obtained 77 Minute!

Because the order of the finals is related to the number of preliminaries, the top 200 players are all those who were shortlisted in the preliminaries from the 2nd to the 10th regions, and the players from the 1st region are ranked last.

Except for a few “accidentally” players in Division One who were eliminated by accident, the 92 finalists in Division One were still ranked last in the previous order...

Therefore, the scores of the previous players are generally "not high", which is actually what everyone expected. This time because of the "spoiler" of the first-year students of Yuanyue Academy, there will be so many more than 60 points, even seven or eight. The very players have surprised everyone!

We must know that there were even many in the past, and the championship score was only 80 points...

Of course, in addition to all kinds of "grotesque" ramen, there are also traditional ramen of five contestants who scored more than 75 points, and the highest one reached 81 points second only to Hayama Liang!

Moreover, this player who scored 81 points in a relatively traditional ramen format is not a player from Sapporo Ramen Street, but a student from Totsuki Academy!

Except for her, among Yuanyue’s students, either the grades are average or even low, or they are all "strange and weird" ramen. This stream of Yuanyue Academy is naturally silent in the preliminaries. Tian Suohui...

Probably many people have forgotten the advantages of Tian Suohui in this competition. Tian Suohui is best at local cuisine, and the best at local cuisine is the local cuisine in her hometown, Aizu...

The other city in Fukushima prefecture along with Aizu is Sapporo in Hokkaido and Hakata in Fukuoka prefecture, and Kitakata is the "Three Ramen Sacred Places in the Island"

From this point of view, Xiaohui is the one who is closest to ramen in his own cooking system among all the elite students, and in the first game of the "Autumn Trials", he also "practised" with Kurokiba in ramen. At that time, he was eliminated by Hei Muchang because he could not stably stimulate the heart of the kitchen...

Compared with other students, Xiaohui's advantage in "ramen" is obvious. Even most of the students of Yuanyue Academy are insulated from the civilian cuisine of "ramen".

In the final, Xiaohui also combined her own advantages to come up with an Aizu-style Kitakata ramen!

The double broth made from pork bone broth and dried seafood made from Aizu's specialty is a more obvious improvement than the "Aizu Soup Chicken Soy Sauce Ramen" during the autumn trials.

And even though Liu Subaru did not try her final product, he felt that Tian Suohui had inspired the power of "Cooking Heart"!

A kind of "cooking heart" that makes diners feel warmth like the gentle afternoon sun in autumn...

And as a result of the "crit", he rushed to the second place for the time being. At this time, Kurokiba, who was not wearing a turban, had already circled the corner...

Obviously, Tian Suohui, who had lost to himself, seemed a little gloomy when he surpassed himself this time. It is estimated that during the winter vacation, he would arrange a "hell training" for himself.

"Now let's invite contestant No. 201 to present our own ramen to the judges!"

After the previous warm-up, the real "seeded players" finally came to show their power...

However, there are obviously a lot of "dark horses" this year. There are already more than 20 players who have scored more than 70 points. There are also a few who have scored more than 80 points. Most of them are finalists in Division 1. Even the current player from Sapporo's No. 1 Ramen Street can't reach the score!

Most of the so-called No. 1 players only have 60 points. Even if 70 points are more outstanding, 80 points are still not many, but the average strength is indeed much better than before...

Knowing that they can win against Ye Shanliang, Tian Suohui, Kurokiba, etc., there is nothing to show off. After all, the ramen of the former is the result of their own creation in the past few days, and they are only thanks to their predecessors. ...

Although this is also one of the advantages that chefs can borrow, at least they know that if they don't use the secret recipe in the store, they may not be able to compare with these elite students in the distant month!

You must know their average age, which is five or six years old than Yuanyue's one year old. You must also know that compared to Yuanyue's students, they are ramen masters who specialize in ramen!

This also made the audience who originally thought that the judges of this session gave a looser score, or that the latter players would have higher scores, gave up their original guesses.

"What's the matter with these guys? Is it slack?"

"That is, judging from the current results, will Sapporo No. 1 Ramen Street be reshuffled next year?"

"No, have you noticed that many of the players who suddenly broke out in their grades seem to be Yuanyue students...that is, those who look very young, not the representatives of the ramen shop."

"So...it seems to make sense..."

"But it's too early to praise them now. Those who are really capable players have not yet played!"

"But in Yuanyue College's one-year student, the two strongest top ten also seem to be behind, right?"

"Yes, and like the'Hitori Ramen' player, it's at the end!"

In the discussion of the audience, the players in the first division of the preliminary rounds also began to be confident that they were hit by violent attacks...

Naturally, they have not forgotten the gambling agreement with Liu Maoxing!

In the preliminaries, they did not use the secret ramen from their own store. In addition, during the preliminaries, the judges did not score. So although the judges’ reaction showed that there is a gap between Liu Subaru and himself, The perception of this gap is not sensitive.

Up to now, although Liu Subaru hasn't taken a shot, the performance of Yuanyue's other students has already put a lot of pressure on them!

In particular, Ye Shanliang's score of 82 points has suppressed most of the players. Even if they call themselves "seed players", few of them have higher scores than Ye Shanliang.

What's more, Liu Subaru, as a top ten, is unreasonably worse than an "ordinary student", right?

In other words, I am afraid that 85 points or even less than 90 points are not considered safe...

And until the final stage, when it was the turn of the "Sapporo Ramen Three Heavenly Kings" shop, the score finally appeared above 90 points!

The first player with a score of 90 points or more is Aso contestant No. 287, who presented Aso Ramen's signature noodle "Salt Ramen".

As one of the most common traditional ramen, among the 292 people in the final, many contestants chose "Shio Ramen", just as many of the Ramen restaurants in Sapporo use "Shio Ramen" as their signature!

However, even in terms of appearance, Aso's salt-flavored ramen has already shown the difference from other people's "shio-flavored ramen."

While the soup is crystal clear, it is densely covered with a layer of golden transparent shiny grease, which is particularly attractive.

"Salt Ramen" is usually made of pork bones, kelp and other vegetables, boiled into a soup base, and then added "salt" to taste, it seems very simple...

However, in this "simple", there is a gap between "ordinary" and "delicious"!

Of course, Contestant Aso will not explain his recipe in detail. This is the result of his family’s secret recipe passed down from his ancestors and improvements over the past generations. No matter how open it is, there is no reason to announce this...

But he probably didn't know it himself, there was another person present who knew his formula, and that was Liu Subaru!

Liu Subaru's "Taste Ramen All Over" event the other day...No!He didn't want to participate in any activities at all, just tasted the ramen on No. 1 Ramen Street!

Anyway, at that time, he naturally tasted the signature noodles of Aso Ramen...

In addition, although last year, the Aso ramen master Aso Souji asked Erina to taste ramen once, but even now Erina’s taste "recognition" is not as good as Liu Subaru, let alone a year ago. , There is no time to lift the restrictions.

Although you can follow Aso's improvement ideas and accurately push forward one step, the exact formula can only be imitated at best, unless Erina is willing to study it for a few months... but she is obviously not that idle!

In addition, Ye Shanliang smelled sea salt, rock salt, and snow salt, at least three kinds of salt when Aso passed by, but it was definitely not good to use for a while...

Then came Fujie's Miso Ramen. "Fujie Ramen" is a long-established Sapporo ramen, as old as the "Sapporo No. 1 Ramen Street", and Miso Ramen is the representative of Sapporo's local ramen!

It is said that the ramen master often asked customers to add noodles to the pork miso soup, which inspired him...

The age of "Miso" is much longer than that of the ramen that only became popular in Chinatown more than a hundred years ago. Even the birth of it has been controversial. The ancient sauce that was introduced to Japan was derived from a certain ancient sauce similar to soybean paste. Another theory is that a derivative developed when the salt-making technology first appeared in the island country during the Jomon period.

However, there is still a certain difference between "Miso" in the island country today and "Miso" in a broad sense. Although both beans are fermented, miso is usually fermented with other grains, and depends on the fermentation koji used and the fermentation time. The added spices are different, and there are different types...

The most intuitive difference is that the taste of miso soup and miso soup is completely different.

And "Fujie Ramen" every year in the youth competition, the results are very good, which is often criticized, because his miso is ready!

The miso used in "Fujie Ramen" is "three-year miso", and even if you are not too picky, it takes at least half a year to ferment to complete the real miso. It is impossible to make it in any case in only three days...

Therefore, "Fujie Ramen" took some advantage in the competition!

Regarding the review of these non-Yuanyue Academy players, the judges' attitude is also very simple, because most of them are not the first time to participate, and the judges are also familiar with the taste of these players and their signature face...

Most of them are compliments such as "a great improvement compared to last year", "have mastered the essence of seven or eight points"!

Whenever the judges speak, they seem to have their eyes erratic. They think of the contestants from Yuan Yue Academy. Although their ramen was worked out within a few days, they suffered a lot from the effect, such as so far. The strongest Ye Shanliang was surpassed by some people...

But did they really win?

At least in the hearts of these judges, Ye Shanliang’s "bear meat ramen" is still the most impressive. Even if it is ranked in the top ten, it is the "weird-looking" ramen of Yuan Yue that impressed them the most!

Although the masters of the ramen industry all boast of daring to innovate and cultivate the innovative consciousness of their successors, they are still far behind the students of Yuanyue Academy in this respect...

Especially for the top dozen elite students, their strength has deeply shocked them, and even instinctively blocked them. These students are on average five or six years younger than other players, and even the judges are in their hearts. , I don’t want to believe that these students are only one year old!(.)