The test in the last week not only disrupted Jiang Feng's plan, but also disrupted the plan of many contestants. For these contestants who knew that they must be here to accompany them, they originally thought that it was time to go back to their respective homes to find their own mothers and happily end this reality show that has no money but can make their restaurant business better. The program team suddenly told them, congratulations on having one more opportunity to really show your talents, please seize the opportunity to have a real cooking competition.

In order to allow the participants to fully adjust and prepare for the final test, the test time has been changed from Sunday to 10 a.m. next Wednesday. The venue was a relatively remote venue that Jiang Feng had never heard of, and it was said to be a venue prepared for the semifinals and finals, and it was taken out in advance for this test.

In this way, this last test is a bit like a warm-up match before the semi-finals and finals.

It also provoked the fighting spirit that everyone didn't have originally.

Since you didn't qualify, why not get a good place in the last test. This can also tell everyone that it's not that Lao Tzu's strength is not good, it's just that Lao Tzu is unlucky.

With this in mind, a total of 28 contestants from the seven participating restaurants prepared for the test with an unprecedented seriousness, which would not affect the final result.

Wednesday at ten a.m.

Jiang Feng and the four arrived at the competition venue on time.

This competition location is so remote that Jiang Feng always thought that this place did not belong to Beiping. Because of the distance, even if the program team sent a special car to pick up and leave at 7 o'clock in the morning, the four people of Taifeng Building were still the latest group to arrive - the car was blocked on the road for an hour.

Removing the lots, if the place where the show is prepared is reviewed only by the competition venue, Jiang Feng feels that this is definitely a venue that can play more than 90 points.

Big.

This venue is very large, large enough to accommodate seven groups of contestants at the same time, seven sets of expensive kitchen counters, aquatic product area, frozen food area, fruit and vegetable area, and all kinds of dry seasonings, like a super luxurious large vegetable market.

Let every chef play to their heart's content.

The official start time is 12 p.m. and the deadline is 5 p.m., for a total of five hours. For such a long time, if you are willing and don't pursue quality too much, it is okay to temporarily hang a pot of soup stock.

The two hours before the start are the preparation time for the contestants, and during these two hours, the contestants need to choose the ingredients, determine the recipe, discuss the division of labor, and even do a little basic processing of the ingredients.

If the other contestants don't mind, one group really wants to adjust the soup stock, and they can also start hanging the stock.

Two hours may seem like a long time, but if you really have to prepare a dish carefully, it's still very time-sensitive.

"This test is the last test of the points competition, and the theme of the test is the signature dish, the variety of dishes is not limited, the number is not limited, as long as it meets the theme to reflect the signboard of the respective restaurant. The staff finally reiterated the rules of the game.

"What is the judging criteria, and who will be the judge?" Pei Shenghua asked.

"I'm sorry that we can't announce the list of judges before the end of the competition due to the relevant regulations, but please believe that the judges of this competition are absolutely professional and impartial, and we also believe that they will judge your dishes from a fair and impartial perspective. The staff glanced at the time, "It's 10:15 a.m., and the game will officially start at 12 o'clock and end at 5 p.m." From now on, you can choose the ingredients and make some preparations. If there is a player who needs to make soup stock in advance, please contact the staff and we will ask for suggestions from other players and discuss whether it is possible. ”

As soon as the staff finished speaking, everyone began to discuss or go directly to the ingredient area to select ingredients.

Chef Arnold is one of the actioners, and without saying a word, he went to the aquatic area to pick lobsters.

The competition venue is huge, and each contestant has their own cooking station and their own area. Jiang Feng and Sun Maocai first studied all the tableware and seasonings on the kitchen table, basically they were all good taste, there was no problem, and they were even very familiar, and then they began to discuss the related matters of the dishes.

"The theme this time is the signature dish, do you have any ideas?" Sun Maocai asked with a smile, obviously not in a hurry at all.

"Since it's a signature dish, I think it should be you and Chef Jiang Feng, and Sun Jikai and I can give you two a hand. Wu Minqi said, and Sun Jikai nodded in agreement on the side.

If you mention the signature dishes in Taifeng Building, it must be Sun Maocai and Jiang Feng.

Sun Maocai looked at Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng shook his head blankly.

He doesn't have any ideas at all, it's not modesty, he really has an empty brain right now, and he doesn't have any thoughts at all.

If he had been asked to cook Taifeng Lou's signature dish in the past, Jiang Feng would have felt that he had a lot of options, such as chicken bean curd, eight-treasure chestnut pigeons, shredded yams, crab stuffed oranges, and even chopped pepper fish head and Li Hongzhang's chowder.

But since he had a little realization two days ago, Jiang Feng began to be a little dazed.

In his opinion, there is only one real signature dish of Taifeng Building, which is Jiang's ginseng soup.

But this is the killer weapon he left for the finals, and it is impossible to get the warm-up game to do, and the most important thing is that he has not yet made Jiang's ginseng soup a signature dish.

Jiang Feng knew that this test was actually an opportunity for the program team to show their true talents to major restaurants, and it was also an opportunity for them to cut materials and stir up the topic. Master Xu from Yongheju next door went to chat with them after the staff finished speaking, and instructed his apprentice to find the relevant ingredients for hanging broth, which was obviously to make soup dishes.

From now until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, it will take more than six hours, and although the time is a little tight, I can still barely make a pot of chicken bean curd.

As long as he wants to, Chicken Bean Flower is definitely an answer sheet that can be very satisfactory to many people in this test Taifeng Building, not to mention that he can get 100 points, but at least he can get a high score of more than 90 points.

But he didn't want to.

Jiang Feng felt that he had never been so sober as he knew what he wanted and wanted to do.

He is already a third grandmaster, and it stands to reason that there is no dish in this world that can stop him. He didn't need to imitate, now it was someone else's turn to imitate him.

He wants to be himself.

It sounded a bit like some inexplicable words, but Jiang Feng just wanted to be himself now.

Thinking like this, Jiang Feng's thoughts drifted farther and farther, and even began to be a little empty, until Sun Maocai's words pulled him back to the game.

"Don't have any ideas?" Sun Maocai asked.

"It's really not an idea. Jiang Feng showed a slightly embarrassed smile, "I feel like I'm ...... now It seems that there are no signature dishes anymore. ”

Sun Maocai: ?

Sun Maocai couldn't figure out what kind of wind Jiang Feng was suddenly smoking.

A person full of signature dishes now suddenly ran out and said that I don't have a signature dish, I don't know how to make a signature dish, if it weren't for Sun Maocai being a grandmaster, and at the same time a genius who realized what bottleneck Jiang Feng might have fallen into, or was looking for some lost self that he couldn't figure out, he might have jumped up and hammered people now.

"Let me tell you my opinion, I just looked at the food area and there are no snakes, Taishi snake soup will definitely not be able to do it. If you want to say that everyone thinks that the signature dish, it may be more suitable for Dinghu vegetarian, but the frequency of this dish is too high, I don't think there is anything new, and you don't have to choose Dinghu vegetarian if you want to choose a signature dish. Sun Maocai said.

"Then what to choose?" asked Sun Jikai.

"Wenchang chicken and baked lobster in soup. Sun Maocai said.

Sun Jikai was stunned.

Not only him, Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi were also a little surprised, although these two dishes were good dishes, if they were made by Sun Maocai, they didn't seem to be like the signature dishes.

It's all too common.

If Sun Maocai said that the pigeon swallows the swallow or the abalone juice deducts the Liao cucumber, Jiang Feng feels that it is a little more forced, at least the raw materials are expensive.

"Why these two dishes?" Jiang Feng asked.

"Because these two dishes were the signature dishes of Jubaolou 40 years ago. Sun Maocai smiled and looked at Sun Jikai, "This is your grandfather's signature dish." ”

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Sun Maocai continued: "Don't you think it's surprising that the signature dishes of a generation of Cantonese cuisine masters are not abalone, shark fin, sea cucumber, fish maw, and fish maw, but baked lobster and Wenchang chicken in soup." ”

"Actually, these two dishes are also good dishes, but the difficulty is not so high, and the cost is not so expensive, so they are very popular. Master's best dishes weren't actually these two dishes, but these two dishes were the most popular dishes among the guests, and gradually became the signature dishes of Jubaolou. Sun Maocai began to explain the reason why he chose these two dishes, "It's not that better dishes can't be made, but better dishes have higher requirements for broth." ”

"We only had more than six hours, and from the selection of ingredients to the serving, no one could guarantee that the stock would be hoisted in such a short time. The requirements for baked lobster in soup are not so high and it is not easy to make mistakes. Of course, this is just my idea, if you have any other better ideas, you can also put forward them, it is still in the discussion stage, and we had better discuss the results in twenty minutes. ”

Of course, others have no opinion, Wu Minqi and Sun Jikai are ready to start the whole process, and Jiang Feng, another Jiang Feng who should theoretically come up with an idea, is in the confused life stage of finding himself.

After what Sun Maocai said, Jiang Feng, who had been confused for several days, suddenly had some ideas.

"Let's make a package. ”

"Package?" the three of them said in unison.

"He doesn't limit the number of dishes, nor does he limit the types, why don't we just make a set meal with a full range of meat and vegetables, staple food, meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, soups, and even desserts?" Jiang Feng proposed.

Sun Maocai propped his head and thought about it, thinking that this was a good idea.

In order to make it easier for customers to order, basically every restaurant will have a corresponding set meal, for example, Taifeng Lou once had a spring limited set meal, and the set meal that is still hanging is Jiang Feng's marriage set and fried sauce noodle set.

If you want to say that the set meal is a signature dish, it is not off-topic.

"This idea is good, if it is a set meal, it is enough to have Wenchang chicken and lobster in the soup bureau, one poultry, one seafood, then we are still short of soup, vegetarian dishes and desserts. ”

"And staples. Jiang Feng emphasized.

"Yes, and staple foods. Sun Maocai didn't understand why Jiang Feng wanted to emphasize that there were staple foods.

"Actually, Lao Sun and Kiki can each be responsible for a part, except for the hanging broth, six and a half hours for us to make a set meal is more than enough. Today is just a test and it's not a regular semi-final or final, so there's no need for them to play for us, even if we lose today's test, we just need to get back on the pitch in the finals and semi-finals. Jiang Feng said.

Sun Maocai didn't expect Jiang Feng to have this idea, he is actually not a person who cares too much about winning or losing, after all, he has never won in cooking competitions outside for so many years, as long as he faces Chef Arnold, he is used to losing.

"I think it's good. Sun Maocai agreed.

In this way, the decision is in the hands of Wu Minqi and Sun Jikai, to see which part they want to be responsible for.

The two glanced at each other, and both saw hesitation in each other's eyes.

They are all a little afraid, afraid that the person who will drag their feet and drop the chain will be themselves.

Sun Jikai thought for a while and took the lead in speaking: "If that's the case, then I'll be in charge of the soup." ”

As a Cantonese chef, making soup is naturally what he is good at.

"Any ideas?" Sun Maocai felt that he still had a lot of say in the matter of soup, although the radish pork rib soup he drank most at home on weekdays was the soup with turnips.

Sun Jikai shook his head.

To make a set meal, the combination of dishes is very important, to be harmonious, to be unified, to be unique, but not abrupt.

A set meal can't have all the five flavors of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty, but it can't be all sweet and salty, or all spicy and boring.

"How about the Four Divine Soup?" Sun Maocai said.

"Four Divine Soup?" Jiang Feng couldn't help but sigh, he hadn't heard of this soup.

"It is a therapeutic soup, clear the fire and detoxify and nourish the skin, the taste is very light, with Poria cocos, Huaishan, lotus seeds and gourd soup. Sun Maocai explained.

After listening to it, Jiang Feng felt that it was okay, and Sun Jikai also said that there was no problem.

In this way, the ball is kicked in front of Wu Minqi, who must choose between vegetarian dishes, desserts and staple dishes.

Of course, she can also choose not to choose.

Wu Minqi hesitated for a long time.

"Then I'll ...... Let's be in charge of vegetarian dishes. Wu Minqi said, "What do you think of fish-flavored eggplant?"

"It's not bad, it's a good match. Sun Maocai still expressed his affirmation, and finally looked at Jiang Feng.

He is also one of the chefs.

Jiang Feng already had the answer in his heart.

"I make desserts and staples!"

"Staple food?!" Sun Mao was really shocked at this time, in fact, he didn't list the staple food in the set meal from the beginning, because the staple food of the set meal is usually white rice, even if it is cooked with good white rice and good mountain spring water, it is also white rice with no technical content.

Sun Maocai thought that Jiang Feng would add another meat dish or vegetarian dish, and then be in charge of the dessert, or let this set meal directly have no desserts, and the Chinese set meal can do without desserts.

Jiang Feng nodded affirmatively.

"What are you going to do?" asked Sun Maocai.

"As for desserts, in fact, the almond juice that I learned from Chef Peng for a while in Yongheju is quite good, and it is very good to use as an after-dinner snack. ”

"As for the staple food, I'm going to make it-" Jiang Feng showed a confident smile.

"Preserved egg and lean porridge!"

Just when he proposed to make a set meal, he suddenly realized in the morning that he actually had his own dishes, and he had them from the beginning.

Where you start, you have it.

When he first got the game, the first dish he was affirmed by Chen Xiuxiu was preserved egg and lean pork porridge, and the second dish he made was preserved egg and lean pork porridge (the first was eight-treasure porridge), and the final dish of the Good Taste Cooking Competition was preserved egg and lean pork porridge, which made him famous in A Food Street was also preserved egg and lean pork porridge.

When was he, he was also a generation of porridge kings.

It's just that his cooking skills have improved, he has more memories, more dishes to learn, and more and more dishes that are more famous than porridge to cover up his title of porridge king, and for various reasons, Jiang Feng rarely cooks porridge.

Despite this, there are still many people who remember that Jiang Feng's porridge is delicious.

Zhang Qian remembers, Liu Qian also remembers, and many A students remember.

No, the chicken bean curd is delicious, nor is the crab stuffed orange very distinctive, nor is it the eight treasure chestnut pigeons that have the taste of the treasure building.

It's Jiang Feng's porridge, which is very delicious.

The prefix is Jiang Feng.

He's had his own style for a long time, but it's just a little off-track.

And now—

Jiang Feng smiled confidently.

He wants everyone to know that he, Jiang Feng, the name of the King of Porridge is not taken for nothing!

No one knows preserved egg and lean porridge better than him!