The Counterfeit Little Master of the Halberd

"The next player to appear is Shiratori Ayame No. 290! Everyone should be familiar with the surname Shiratori... Yes, contestant Shiratori is from the nation's first star-rated specialty ramen restaurant'Hitori Ramen'! "

As soon as Nono came up, he solemnly introduced Shiratori calamus, which is obviously one of the "important links" of the competition!

If you don't build momentum first, how will it reflect that there are "many" ramen shops in Sapporo's No. 1 Ramen Street, which also have star power?

Of course, after experiencing the previous blow from Totsuki Academy, although Changpu is not a student of Totsuki, the local players in Sapporo have also been frustrated with confidence...

We must know that at the beginning, we wanted to use the "Frustrated Shiratori Ayame" high-ranking player, I was afraid that there would be 20 or 30 players, but now there are only less than 10 people who still have such expectations.

On the board of judges, a master of Ramen Street also asked Asai, "Mr. Asai, do you think these boys can win against Shiratori's girls this time?"

Except for Yuanyue's students, most of the contestants are men. This is also related to the fact that most of the heirs of shops on "Ramen No. 1 Street" are men...

Hearing this, Asai closed his eyes and said, "I have tasted the craftsmanship of the old man Shiratori Hitori, but his granddaughter...I only heard him praise a few times, and I haven't really tasted her ramen! Shiratori! The signature noodle of the house is soy sauce ramen, and whether this girl can beat the crowd, the key lies in whether she can make use of her, or inspire the secret soy sauce made by Shiratori Family!

However, with the character of Shiratori Hitori, since he admired his granddaughter so much, coupled with the excellent "Shiratori Soy Sauce Ramen", I think the Fujie kid has the best chance of surpassing her. In addition, the boys from Aso and Negishi, There are also opportunities, others... Ha ha."Asai said and shook his head.

"You have so much confidence in her?"

Asai said with a deep gaze: "You don't understand... I'm talking about the fact that she can'only' make use of the secret soy sauce without being dragged down by the secret soy sauce. If she really shows off the deliciousness of the secret soy sauce, I'm afraid someone else She can't be shaken! You know, Shiratori's secret soy sauce is something more wonderful than Fujie's miso."

Fujie's "Miso Ramen" received the highest score of 92 points so far!

Aso and Negishi's salt ramen and tonkotsu ramen are only 90 points...

92 points, which means that two referees gave full marks!

As for the two people with 90 points, Shio Ramen received 10 9 points, while Tonkotsu Ramen received a full score, but at the same time it also got an 8 point...

After all, the slight smell of pure pork bone soup is not acceptable to everyone, and Negishi himself is not surprised.

Because five of the judges are not professional gourmets, but other famous masters in the ramen world, they will be inclined because of their own taste, which is expected!

"Huh? Spiritual ingredients?" Liu Subaru starred suddenly, and glanced in the direction of the white bird calamus.

Prior to this, Liu Subaru did not feel that Shiratori Acorus showed signs of using the heart of cooking and possessing the heart of cooking, but after her "Shiratori Secret Soy Sauce Ramen" was filled with broth and seasoned with soy sauce, Liu Subaru immediately felt similar The existence of Yu Chuxin!

Pleiades understands that this feeling is probably due to the ingredients!

And now Liu Maoxing already knows that this kind of cooking heart that belongs to the "food" is called the "source"...

Whether it is "source" or "cooking mind", only top chefs can come into contact with it.

Although rare and special "spiritual ingredients" can more easily stimulate the "source", at the same time, Liu Subaru has also noticed that while "spiritual ingredients" are easy to stimulate the "source", they also have defects that are difficult to control!

For example, if the cooking method of "Shuhan old noodles" is improper or improperly preserved, it will have a peculiar smell due to the out-of-control bacteria reproduction. For example, if the cooking method of "giant eel" is inappropriate, the meat quality will be extremely poor and the fishy smell will be worse than ordinary eel Bigger.

The way that Naginari thistle taught the four-person group of the "central gourmet organization" was only to cover up all the advantages of the "giant eel" and the "defects" that it was difficult to deal with...

In contrast, "ordinary" ingredients, although it is difficult to stimulate the "source", as long as the cooking skills are not too bad, there will be no negative effects.

As for the limitation of "Shiratori's secret soy sauce", Liu Subaru is still unclear, but at this moment, Liu Subaru does feel the existence of "source". As for the nature of "source", Liu Subaru cannot judge.

"How? Does it look good? I am after her, and you after me, hurry up and get ready!" Erina reminded Liu Subaru, who was staring at the iris in a daze.

"By the way, how much do you know about Shiratori's secret soy sauce?" Liu Subaru asked immediately, arguing a few words on the question of "is it good-looking?"

"Soy sauce? You can smell that soy sauce...yes, after all, your sense of smell...even Scarlet Sand!" Erina seemed to remember something again, staring at Liu Subaru before continuing. Explanation……

Liu Subaru also found that Erina's emotions when facing him are always fluctuating!

For example, before, Erina would definitely say, "Your sense of smell is similar to that of Hayama Liang", but now suddenly he uses the case of Scarlettto as an example?

"That soy sauce is indeed the key to the signature soy sauce ramen of'Hitori Ramen'. It is said that it is stored and fermented in a special wooden barrel made by Shiratoriya, and then mixed with soy sauce that has been fermented for two years and three years. Enough to make'Shiratori Ramen'...

As for what other spices are added during the fermentation process, and what special environment needs to be maintained, it is not possible to taste it."Erina said.

"Huh? Is it soy sauce is the secret to her ramen?"

"There's nothing wrong with saying that, but it's not just soy sauce... The broth of Shiratori's soy sauce ramen is a whole chicken, pork knuckle, clams, shiitake mushrooms, wild vegetables, several kinds of mushrooms, and dried seafood. It's cooked, it's...has a sense of hierarchy!

"This is not a sense of hierarchy, this is too mixed!" Liu Subaru said.

"Theoretically, this is the case, but...it did reconcile." Erina shrugged.

"Does the Shiratori family also have a gene that enhances the sense of smell... No! Is it because of the special Shiratori soy sauce?" Liu Subaru suddenly reacted.

If it is like Liu Maoxing or Ye Shanliang, you can use smell to monitor the cooking process of the broth in real time. It is indeed possible to reconcile this multi-material broth.

But thinking of what Erina said before, Liu Subaru immediately reacted, this may be the effect of "secret soy sauce"!

"I guess it is the same, but how to put it... you know that they even add a small amount of truffles when making the soup base, but the aroma of Shiratori soy sauce, even truffles, can’t be concealed, and it’s even “mixed”. The broth becomes a'layered' soup base, and at the same time it always captures the taste of all spices...It is a fragrance that is difficult to describe in words." Erina finally shook his head.

Truffles grow in a special environment and cannot be cultivated artificially. At the same time, they have high medicinal value. When used in cooking, they are known as the three most famous delicacies with "caviar" and "foie gras" in Europe. They only use "soy sauce". The scent of glutinous rice can cover up and even guide truffles, which is incredible in the eyes of most cooks.

"But it shouldn't be easy to use, right?" Liu Subaru asked casually.

Unexpectedly, Erina actually answered...

"Yes, it should be that when using soy sauce, the temperature control is very strict. A slight omission may have an adverse effect." Erina nodded.

"Huh? You can even taste this...?" Liu Subaru was surprised.

"Well, it was the second year when Mr. Shiratori came to me for tasting. Changpu was dissatisfied with what I said the previous year and quietly asked to make his own ramen to'ridicule' me, but it failed... At that time she When I was scolded by Mr. Shiratori, I heard something like'too naive to temperature control'." Erina recalled.

"What did you do then?"

I saw Erina smiled and said: "Hehe, I deliberately tasted her failed product, and then reprimanded her for being'the shame of the ramen world', and received an extra payment before I went to taste Shiratori's ramen!"

"..." Liu Subaru finally knew the origin of Changpu's resentment.

On the other hand, the judges have also praised Shiratori Changpu's "soy sauce ramen". The secret of "truffle" is added to the soup, which was also tasted by Dojima Gin...

Of course, this is not a secret at all. What can be called the secret in "soy sauce ramen", everyone knows, that is "soy sauce"!

But the secret is unknown to outsiders.

Even the specific production process of soy sauce should be known only by Shiratori Hitori and Shiratori calamus at Shiratori's house.

This is something that Liu Maoxing can't taste, just like he can't know how to preserve and proliferate the "Shuhan Ramen" just because he has tasted the "Four Gods Seafood and Eight Treasures Zhenhun Man".

"In your ramen, I feel like I'm in a strong storm!"

"Yes, there is a feeling of being torn apart by'delicious'..."

"Is this the'Nitori Secret Soy Sauce Ramen" that the founder of Nitori Ramen improved during the typhoon?"

For a while, the judges were affected by the "source", which seemed to be a kind of "source" that is reminiscent of a storm or typhoon!

Even a ramen master who had been very silent before suddenly jumped onto the table and shouted: "Kunfeng! Listen to my orders!"

Everyone did not laugh at him, as if no one except Liu Subaru seemed to think that the commander’s "clothes ripped" was worth complaining...

The judges sighed how they felt after tasting the ramen, but Shiratori Ayame said, "No, from the formula, this is not just the ramen that the great-grandfather improved during the typhoon, but the Shiratori family for generations. The result of the improvement... As far as the effect is concerned, what I have done is far from good enough!"

Although he said so, Shiratori Ayame smiled with satisfaction when he saw the super high score of 96.

"What? 96 points? Really?"

"Except for Mr. Asai, Mr. Dojima, and two other gourmets, all actually gave full marks?"

"Oh my God! Fujie, who was the highest before, only had 92 points...The gap between them and the only star-rated ramen restaurant was so big!"

"What are the guys on Ramen Street No. 1 doing? I eat ramen twenty times a month in vain, you guys give me a bit of confidence!"

"I think it is necessary to take time off to Tokyo next week..."

The audience was more excited than the other players after seeing Changpu's score.

But obviously it can't change Changpu's 4 points advantage to occupy the top of the list!

You must know that more than 90 points, every additional point means a big gap...

Because every extra point almost means that a judge has given full marks, that is, it has reached the image of "perfect among ramen chefs under 25" in the eyes of the judge!

Dojima Gin also said at this time: "Although your performance is better than the 9 points I have given before, it is still far from the perfect score in my heart... If you taste your ramen earlier, maybe before There will be no other 9 points!"

"Thank you for your compliment," Changpu said politely.

"The Shiratori Ayame player from'Hitori Ramen' is temporarily in the lead. The next one is the student from Totsuki Academy and one of the top ten players, Nagiri Erina!"

Following Nono's declaration, the audiences off the court were finally temporarily attracted from Shiratori Changpu's riding in the dust...

After all, it’s not the first time that ramen masters from other regions took away the championship in the youth category...Of course, it’s not unheard of that young ramen masters from Sapporo went to other regions to compete and killed all local players. .

So for the locals, although the former will be depressed and the latter will be excited, for most people, it will not lose control of their emotions.

After all, although there is a sense of regional honor, the admiration of food and the worship of excellent cooks are the main theme of the world...

As for a small number of emotionally out of control, the security will temporarily help him control it!

On the contrary, for Nagiri Erina, the audience was talking about it.

"It turns out that Miss Erina is so young!"

"Yeah, the legendary'God's Tongue'...If only I had one too! I didn't do anything, there were countless chefs who lined up to cook for me..."

"Don't dream, I don't know if you work hard, the taste will taste the taste, and I don't know what those tastes mean."

"By the way, her younger sister also appeared on the stage before? Silver-white hair...is it different from her blond hair?"

"Nagiri...Is that the descendant of the Great Demon King, right?"

"Uncle, why do you all call that'Nagiri Senzaemon' the Great Demon King and Food Demon King?"

Indeed, the young people in the audience pay more attention to the talent of Erina's "Tongue of God" and the identity of the "Ten Moon Stars", while the older people are more concerned with the "blood relatives of the Demon King of Food". care!

Although Nageri Alice was also surnamed "Nageri" before, and Senzaemon had never said that Erina was his successor, but in everyone’s impression, he already had a sense of existence. Erina, who surpassed Alice, is the descendant of Nageri Senzaemon...

"Ah, you haven't experienced it. Fifty years ago, Totsuki Academy...or the era when the Totsuki Group began to rise! At that time, the Nagiri Senzaemon used the form of a'cooking showdown' in the cooking world of the island country When I was only 20 years old, I dared to challenge the famous chef...

As a result, I won the favor of countless investors to inject capital, and I also tore a big piece of cake from the island cuisine world that has been divided up by major schools!It is said that the Great Devil’s cooking skills grew the fastest during that time, so he set it at Yuanyue Academy. It was similar to a culinary showdown, but it also emphasized the'equivalence' food halberd system."

Some people talked about what happened back then, and Liu Maoxing also heard some of it sporadically...

But they didn't care too much, or what was more concerned, when Erina was on the stage and the calamus who was off the stage passed by, the two really laughed at each other again.

"Hey, is someone ready? After the game, remember to come to Tokyo to participate in our "Hitori Ramen" event of "Great Savoury King"! At that time, your huge bowl of soy sauce ramen, I will make it for you myself !" Ayame said around Erina.

"Don't worry, when you come to Yuanyue to sign up as a kitchen worker on campus, I will greet the person at the registration office and assign you directly to me!" Erina also replied unceremoniously.

Because the judges were still waiting, and the two did not entangle for too long, Erina immediately put ten bowls of bright red ramen in front of the judges...

The topping is three red prawns, both ends, but the skin in the middle has been peeled off.

The ramen below is also faintly red, and the soup base is completely red!

"This is... Hokkaido grape prawns? As expected of Tomotsu Group, it can actually get grape prawns at this time..." Asai recognized the prawns at a glance.

Grape shrimp, a kind of wild shrimp that grows in the deep sea of ​​Hokkaido and Sendai, has a very small output. In restaurants outside the island country, almost no restaurant can provide a fixed supply. Grape shrimp is more common in spring and summer, and Erina can be found in winter It can be seen that the strength of Yuanyue Group is used!

Although some people in the Hokkaido branch seem to be connected to the central food authority, since Dojima Gin is here, it is natural to hold the scene, it is not difficult for Erina to get grape shrimp.

"From the perspective of smell...is it a soup base similar to Southeast Asia's'Tom Yum Soup'?"

"But the soup base of Tom Yum Goong Soup, isn't it so red?"

The judges could smell the unique hot and sour taste of "Tom Yum Goong Soup" from the scent of ramen, but the soup was obviously red too exaggerated...

The spicy taste of Tom Yum Goong soup comes from the "Thai Chaotian Pepper". It is small and spicy. It is not seasoned with chili oil, so even if it is red, it will only be the color of shrimp oil. However, what is in front of the judges Ramen, the soup base is red!

"Is this with tomato juice? It doesn't smell like..."

"Okay, let's try it first!" Asai said.

Speaking of ten judges one after another, some picked up grape shrimp first, some tasted the reddish ramen first...

The Pleiades Liu below said to Changpu, who looked a little nervous, "What? You don't seem as confident as you think?"

"...You're hitting up with me again while Erina is not here!" Changpu's eyes panicked a little, and he immediately took a bite.

Liu Maoxing had no choice but to go back to the "glass cage" and start steaming his own fried noodles...

Not just to heat up the fried noodles, but originally this is the last step of your own fried noodles!

At this moment, Nono’s exclamation sounded, and after a little taste of Erina’s "Red Soup Ramen", the ten judges immediately made a gesture of bowing their heads and eating hard!

Liu Subaru was not surprised at this, after all, after Erina's taste limit was lifted, the growth rate of her cooking skills was much faster than that of Liu Subaru, who was completely awakened at the same time as the "super taste".

In the past, Erina or as a top ten, did not take care of things other than cooking, or did not take it seriously during the preliminaries, so she did not show much strength. Others did not know it. Erina could almost be called "transformation." "The cooking skills grow!"

Liu Subaru thinks that this may not only be the result of progress during this period...

The essence of this "growth" should be that Erina's "God's Tongue" has been constrained, and part of the restricted abilities, finally concentrated and began to burst out!

It can be said to have accumulated thin hair, or it can be said that a person who has been practicing running with a sandbag tied up finally took the sandbag off...

At this time, the increase in running speed is not the increase after the sandbag is taken off, but the speed that is usually suppressed!

Under the stimulation of the strong hot and sour taste, the judges had just eaten two mouthfuls, sweating on their foreheads, but at the same time they were still making a "crawling" sound...

In the island country, the sound of ramen used to be loud, which is considered to be a kind of respect for the ramen master. However, in the era of "big fusion of cuisines", various food cultures influence each other, even if you make a sound, it will not be considered rude , But usually no one makes a sound on purpose.

But now the performance of the judges is very obvious... this is not a deliberate voice!