The Counterfeit Little Master of the Halberd

"Please divine weapon!" Master Jie said in a long voice.

On the side of the Nakiri family, Nakiri Zongwei walked to the stage holding the wooden box that had been carefully carved...

At this time, "Yangquan Restaurant" is closed for one day today. This is also a century-old tradition. At this time every ten years, it will be closed for one day, but outsiders don't know the reason.

The entire hall has been set up as a stadium. In addition to the super-large cooking table for both sides, there is also a not-so-large auditorium next to it. There are Liu's, Nagaki's, and Tang, Lei, Lan, and Xinhu. The core group of people.

Opposite the two super-large cooking tables, it is the long table where the five judges sit, and behind the judges seat, there is a raised table with an incense table on top, and now Nagiri Zongwei puts the wooden box. On the incense case.

The moment Nagiri Zongwei opened the wooden box, Liu Subaru felt the same feeling he had sensed in "Between Moon and Sky"!

really!The thing collected in "Between Moon and Sky" is Yonglin Dao!

That is to use the special rhythm of the "Yonglin Knife" to inspire the inspiration of the chefs fighting fiercely between the moon and the sky, but also to use the cooking enthusiasm of young chefs to raise the "Yonglin Knife"...

It sounds incredible, but as a "legendary kitchen utensil", it does have a variety of special functions that cannot be explained.

No one can say exactly why these abilities exist.

Even their creator, "Xu Ling", has now only left the name of "ancient chef", which is circulated at the top of the cooking world, and even the exact age of existence is uncertain...

But now Nagiri Zongwei carefully took the Yonglin sword out of the wooden box and placed it on the knife holder on the incense table...

This has been the case for every "Cooking Before God Showdown" in the past 100 years, which symbolizes the battle for the right to bet on the custody of the "Yonglin Knife" under the notarization of the "Yonglin Knife" to show respect for the "legendary kitchen utensils".

After the Yonglin Knife was placed, Master Jie announced again: "Representatives of both parties, please come forward and sign!"

I saw Zhao Ming, Zhao Liang, Alice, and Scarlet Sand, holding a scroll that looked very old in pairs, each holding one end, unfolding in front of Liu Subaru and Erina...

For this session, Pleiades Liu also practiced for several days, signing his name with a brush, after all, this thing must be kept!

At this time, Liu Subaru and Erina also saw the front part of the two sides. There were already ten names each...

Although the scroll has obviously been extended several times afterwards, the front part looks much older, but the writing is still clear. It is said that Liu's family is now using nitrogen to seal the scroll to preserve it.

In addition to the name, capitalized Chinese characters are used at the back to indicate each person’s score. The overall trend is that in the first five groups, the main house is leading, but the margin is getting smaller and smaller, and the last five groups are directly pressed by the main house. beated……

It can be seen from the side of Liu Subaru to himself, there are a total of eleven names, all of whom are surnamed Liu, and the names of Erinai are more messy, and there are actually two names that Liu Subaru recognizes!

One is on the line above the place where Erina signed, that is, the position of the representative of the Nagiri family ten years ago, and it says "Shinomiya Kojiro"...

Liu Subaru smashed his fingers. It is true that the 79th Shimiya Kojiro ten years ago should have just graduated for one year, and his youth just meets the restrictions. Moreover, as a graduate of the distant month department, he is only a few days of competition, believe him Even if he doesn't know what the competition is for, as long as Senzaemon invites him, he will not care about returning from France for a few days.

There is also the name of the person in the upper row, which is the representative of the Nagiri family 20 years ago, and it says "Seiba Seiichiro"!

This makes Liu Subaru a little strange. The 69th class of Pau Joichiro did meet the age limit, but he should have dropped out of school at that time, and both Dojima Gin and Nakamura, who was also named "Nakamura" at the time, also met the age limit... …

From the standpoint of stability, Dojima Gin is definitely more stable than Seiichiro, who would serve "dark dishes" from time to time. In terms of closeness, Nakamura Thistle should be about to become the son-in-law of the Nagiri family at that time...

Why is Seiichiro Caiha as the representative?

Liu Subaru feels there may be gossip in this!Unfortunately, now is not the time to explore.

At the same time, Pleiades Liu continued to follow the look, and as expected, on the scroll on Erina's side, the representative name 50 years ago was also Liu... Liu Kui, this should be the Chinese name before Nageki Senzaemon.

"Liu Kui... Kui... People... That's how it is..." Liu Subaru said in a low voice.

The Liu family's character generation is arranged according to the white tiger seven places, starting with the word "Pleiades", where the word "Kui" represents "Kui Su", which is of the same origin as the Kuixing in "Kui Xing Ki Dou".

It is usually considered to be the ancient ancestors. In order to understand the meaning of the text, "Kui" was written as "Ghost Fight", because Kui Xing is also regarded as a symbol of evil spirits. The most famous Kui Xing reincarnation is the legendary "Zhong Kui". And most of the door gods posted during the Dragon Boat Festival are Taoist door god Zhong Kui...

Senzhizuo means "human", while Eemon has the meaning of Zhongkui to ward off evil spirits, which means "Kui"...

The name of Nageri Senzaemon is really eighteen bends in the mountain road!

At the same time, Liu Subaru also noticed that Erina also signed the Chinese name, still arranged according to the Liu family's character generation, but she is the "stomach" character generation, writing "Liu Weihui".

Seeing Liu Subaru, he couldn't help but grin, and those who didn't know thought Erina was a generation older than him!

In fact, after the news that Erina had the "God Tongue" came out, the Liu family elders were also greatly shocked. After all, this is the same talent as the ancestors back then...

If it weren't for Erina's "stomach" generation, not "Pleiades" generation, it is estimated that they would reconcile with the separation of the family 16 years ago in spite of face, and cultivate her as a prophet!

However, because of a generation difference, the Liu family decided to observe again...

"Next, please select the two sea breams to be used in the food warehouse of the representative area of ​​the division, and then the representative of the main family will first choose which one to use." Master Xie continued.

Obviously, compared with the various assessments and halberds of Yuanyue, the "God Front Cooking Showdown" has different rules on the use of ingredients. It is neither the contestant's own ingredients nor the simultaneous use. It depends on who has the right vision and quick start. A more fair way of making the two sides at the same starting line in the choice of ingredients.

That is to say, the "Party A" first chooses the two sea breams to be used from the provided sea bream, and then the "Party B" first chooses the one it wants to use...

In this way, "Party A" will not take advantage of "Party B" and will definitely choose two sea breams that are almost the same!

This year, it was the turn of the division as the "Party A". Erina also ordered two sea breams from the seafood warehouse of the "Yangquan Restaurant". However, after seeing the sea bream she ordered, whether it was the judges Still one of the few viewers, they couldn't help but froze...

It seems that Erina had always designed the recipes by herself before, and even Senzaemon and others didn't know it.

"This is... frozen sea bream? Tsk tsk, Yangquan Restaurant has begun to control costs?" Lan Jialu said from the audience.

Liu Lousan glanced at him when he heard the words, and then said: "This is for the'low-price' buffet provided to the'Yangquan Hotel', and it is indicated in the dining instructions! Otherwise, if you use all fresh sea bream, buy it. The cost is no problem, but the amount is too large and the storage cost is too high..."

The price of "Yangquan Hotel" is much cheaper than "Yangquan Restaurant". For example, Liu Subaru's "Mapo Bomb" is priced at 188 yuan for the former and 68 yuan for the latter.

After all, there is still a gap at the level of chefs...

Of course, the buffet is the same, "low price" is only relative!

"Conservation costs? By the way, our Lans Group has recently developed a fresh storage mechanism. If we use this mechanism to relocate fresh storage, we can..."

When Lan Jialu tried to sell Liu Lousan's new products to Liu Lousan, Liu Subaru was already under the command of Master Jie to select sea bream.

Liu Subaru poked two hard sea breams with his fingers, and he grinned.

Well, it was frozen very solid, and Liu Maoxing also used a "super-tactile" heating method, and each of them thaw a small piece when they touched it. Sure enough... they are all sea bream that has passed the "best" taste period!

However, for ordinary cooking needs, it is actually satisfied and does not affect anything.

But if it is used as the "main ingredient" in a matchup of the level of Liu Subaru and Erina, the impact will be great.

For example, more than a hundred years ago, when the ancestor of the Liu family "Liu Subaru Star" and the ancestor of the Lei family, Ren, were in a duel under the witness of the Guangzhou Kitchen Federation, because the first match was a tie, the two sides They all use the "self-harm" method to ensure that the sea bream meat can preserve the umami taste during the best taste...

The reason why I did not hesitate to get my hands frostbitten or burned is because when the judges tasted the sea bream, it happened to exceed the best taste period, so the umami taste was fixed in advance.

But now this sea bream has missed the best taste period!

"Then this one!" Liu Subaru randomly picked one that looked pleasing to the eye.

Now that he has decided to compete, it is impossible for Liu Subaru to release the water. Even if his opponent is Erina, he will go all out, but the two frozen snappers in front of him are indeed no different...

"Erina has really become cunning..." Alice sighed from the audience.

"No, this is a reasonable strategy! You can't be merciful to this kind of guy!" Scarlett was naturally firmly standing on Erina's side.

That's right, most of the people present could see that Erina's choice seemed "fair", but it was actually in her favor.

The reason for choosing such frozen sea bream, Erina must have its own considerations and already has a recipe to use.

If Liu Subaru had prepared a recipe using fresh sea bream, he must reimagine it on the spot now!

It can be seen that Erina is also going all out, neither side intends to release water...

The two parties each pushed their own transfer cars and returned to the cooking table, and coincidentally refrigerated the frozen sea bream first, and then went to the warehouse to select auxiliary materials.

After the two came back with a trolley with auxiliary materials, they began to defrost the sea bream. Both sea breams were about one meter long, and it was enough to make four dishes.

However, the steps of thawing are obviously Liu Subaru's advantage.

In Erina, the sea bream is placed in a basin, and then rinsed and defrosted with three to five degrees of running water.

On the other hand, Liu Subaru directly put the frozen fish in the water, and then kept touching and pressing the frozen sea bream with his hands in the water!

Compared with the flow thaw, Liu Subaru's controllable body temperature thaw is obviously more advantageous!

After thawing, both of them first took the two pieces of meat on both sides of the sea bream belly, and then placed the remaining sea bream at a temperature of 3°C to continue refrigerating... At this temperature, there is no need to worry about the sea bream re-freezing. Will not further deteriorate in a short time.

And what the two did afterwards, the synchronization rate was also very high...

Seeing that both of them used knives to chop up the fish meat into fish paste, Liu Subaru and Erina didn't seem to expect that the two would have such a tacit understanding that they couldn't help but glance at each other from a distance.

However, Urina immediately turned his head with a cold snort, mixed the slurry-like auxiliary materials prepared during the thawing of the stream with the fish paste, and then put it in a blender to stir.

Pleiades Liu started to prepare on the spot, taking out the tapioca starch, corn starch, skimmed milk powder and a small amount of pork tenderloin he had brought before.

The pork tenderloin was also chopped, and some soybeans were ground on one side. The soybean milk was separated on a centrifuge to remove the residue, and then all these were mixed with sea bream puree, and several spices were added, as well as fried Scallion ginger oil...

But instead of using a mixer, he picked up two steel rods and smashed them in the basin!

Seeing this scene, many elderly people couldn't help but glance at Master Jie.

The cooking style of his old man is like this, with the ruggedness and delicacy, but now he rarely does it...

When Master Jie saw Liu Subaru waving an iron rod, his eyes flashed with reminiscence. He didn't know if he thought of himself or his father Jie Lu.

"Both of them are making'fish paste' in their own way. It seems that their first dishes are dishes similar to the products of'fish paste'..." Tang Zhu muttered in the audience.

Tang Zhu is one of the chefs of Shanghai Longzhen Restaurant, the chief chef of Longzhen Restaurant and the younger brother of Tang Song, the helm of the Tang family. He is a descendant of the famous Shanghai chef Tang Sanjie during the "China Ichiban" period. Tang Song is now a judge On the table.

However, in terms of genealogy, the Tang family is longer than the others, because Tang Sanjie himself is the N generation chef, the young master of Longzhen Restaurant...

As the first love of "Liu Subaru Star"...Ano, he was the first friend who studied art at the same time. Tang Sanjie once used "Bouncing Turtle Soup" to defeat the "Rock" chicken top soup in the dark cooking world. He also played in the Imperial Cuisine duel. Soy sauce.

In the Tang family’s generation, Tang Zhu’s cooking skills are actually the highest, slightly inferior to Liu Lousan, but theoretically it has surpassed the ordinary three-star.

However, I am not interested in restaurant management at all, so I only serve as a chef, named in Longzhen Restaurant. I don’t usually make a lot of shots. I spend most of my time thinking about new recipes, new techniques, or travel around the world...

Even so, Longzhen Restaurant is still one of the most famous three-star Chinese restaurants in Shanghai.

"Yes, and using sea bream to make surimi...It's really luxurious. Even frozen sea bream meat is more valuable than surimi? If it's just a gimmick, the judges won't buy it." Lan Jialu said.

Indeed, as the material of fish tofu, fish balls, fish plates and other products, fish milk is usually mashed with small "trash fish", added with salt, and mixed with auxiliary materials such as starch.

After all, the taste and taste of fish paste products are not greatly affected by raw fish, so commercial fish with too high cost will not be used.

Of course, this is indeed the case, the frozen sea bream has exceeded the optimal taste period, and the weakness of the umami and taste is not at its peak, and the "seeming" has been smoothed out.

But if the final result is not as good as using non-peak sea bream directly, the judges will obviously not be satisfied!

"But since it's a competition, and the starting point for both sides is the same, then Ah Xing is not considered weak, right?"

As soon as this voice appeared, no matter who was in the audience, they all cast attention to him, especially Alice and Scarlett's eyes were particularly sharp!

Now in the audience, Liu Subaru is called "A Xing", and the tone is still biased towards Liu Subaru, only Liu Subaru, who doesn't know when he will return to the scene...

As for Scarlet Sand and Alice... the former is Missy’s diehard, even if the relationship with Liu Subaru is close, she still puts Missy in the highest position, and Alice is because of the "happy relationship" before. The matter was feeling upset, but it was not as obvious as Erina showed.

Liu Maoyuan quickly used Liu Lousan to separate himself from the eyes of the two women...

Fortunately, Feisha and Alice's Chinese level is average. Liu Maoyuan said so anxiously before, they only heard the name "A Xing" clearly.

But seeing the other's age, the two women immediately had a guess.

Liu Lousan turned a blind eye to the affairs of these young people, only addressing Liu Subaru's problems and said: "In fact, I am even more worried about Liu Subaru. The separation is the ingredients of my own choice. With the effect of'super taste', I am afraid that I have already decided in my heart. It is unlikely that you will make any low-level mistakes, and Liu Subaru's words...Although he also has a'super taste', it was conceived on the spot after all. I can't guarantee whether there will be any problems."

I saw that Liu Maoxing used two steel rods to completely smash the fish paste and slurry in the basin into fish paste, and then took out the iron steaming plate he took before...

The steaming pan is about 20 cm long and is divided into two-finger-long grooves longitudinally. After Liu Subaru pours the sea bream fish paste into the grooves, it is steamed and grilled in a humidifying oven. !

At the same time, taking advantage of the steaming and roasting time, I started to add oil to the pot to heat up, and put the dried chili, chaotian chili, chili powder, Chinese pepper, sesame pepper, star anise, ginger powder, etc. into the oil to fry the pan...

It can be seen that every time a spice is added, Liu Subaru will taste it first, and then finally confirm the amount.

After frying for a while, the impurities in the pan were skimmed off, and the remaining paste was also separated in a centrifuge, and the red oil and a small amount of paste were specially taken out.

"Huh? That oven steaming plate seems to be used to make fish tofu, right?" After a month of assault, Liu Maoyuan can recognize basically all common cooking tools, modern kitchenware, and kitchenware from other cuisines. come out.

At the same time, she was thinking in her heart from the beginning, if she played on behalf of the main family this time, how would she deal with the snapper that was no longer at its peak.

Liu Maoyuan admitted that she had also "utilized" the knowledge of various cuisines that had been naughty during the past month, but she was a little frustrated by the conclusion...

In the end, Liu Maoyuan had to admit that if he were to become himself, he would not only have to think for a longer time, but also just "utilize" the knowledge of various cuisines that he had been embracing in the past month to help him deal with frozen sea bream. The four dishes I originally expected, but I will not really change the recipes and pursue the best recipes to realize the cooking!

This is not only a gap in knowledge, but also a difference in the way of thinking...

I saw that Liu Subaru would pay attention to the situation in the oven from time to time. When he felt that the time was almost the same, he began to put the previously extracted red oil and spicy paste into a large spoon, and added the ready-made bean paste and tempeh from "Yangquan Restaurant". Wait, and finally add warm water to simmer.

After a while, the "fish tofu" in the oven was also taken out by Liu Maoxing.

Ordinary "fish tofu" is usually made of freshwater fish paste after being steamed and deep-fried, so the outer skin is golden yellow and the inside is white, while the sea bream itself is white and red. Now the "fish tofu" made It is not fried, so the whole is pure white, with a little redness...

The roots of "sea bream tofu" were taken from the steaming plate by Pleiades Liu, cut into chunks, and placed directly on five plates!

Then, he added cornstarch to the simmering "red soup" to make it thick, and poured it on five plates of "sea bream tofu"!

"This...is it...mapo tofu? Mapo fish tofu?" Zhao Ming asked in surprise.

"Yes, just like'Giant Panda Mapo Tofu', the thickening juice is poured directly on the tofu..."

The Zhao brothers have been learning skills with Liu Lousan at "Yangquan Restaurant", and "Giant Panda Mapo Tofu" has always been one of the signature dishes of "Yangquan Restaurant"!Although the recipe has changed a lot, they are naturally familiar with this kind of mapo tofu.

What they are surprised is that they use "sea bream tofu" as an ingredient...

At the same time, Erina's first dish has reached the stage of thickening. I saw the reddish-brown thickening juice poured on five and a half fist-sized pale yellow balls...

"It seems that the first dish was basically done at the same time by both parties!" Lei Yu sighed on the board of judges.

"That's right, if it is from the head of the Liu family, it is estimated that it is still in the stage of thinking and meditation, or complaining that Erina chose the'inappropriate' ingredients?" Nitoshou said.

Although Nitoshou's remark seems very inclined, it is indeed the truth after all, so the other judges just laughed and did not answer.

The first round of the "traditional project" has a total of four dishes, but the contestants of both sides can choose the timing of the dishes. At this time, Liu Subaru and Erina have already served "looks like mapo tofu" and "looks like braised lion head" Jury seat...

Liu Subaru originally wanted to carry forward his style and let Erina give priority to submission, but Erina just snorted: "Since you do it first, submit it first! I won't find an excuse when I lose it..."