(Girls' Literature)

This night, in the Lyon district, the hotel was not as full as before, and most of the chefs who failed to participate in the competition had already left this sad place. Some of them are in their first year of competition, and some of them have been receiving invitations for several years, but they stop here.

The hotel where the chefs of Su's Restaurant live also has many rooms vacated, and when people are ready to wash up and fall asleep, an Asian man checks in with a suitcase.

Although the front desk lady is an authentic Frenchman, and the appearance of Asians, like most Europeans, is not very clear, but the scene when Kobayashi made a big fuss in the hotel on Monday made her too impressed, as soon as she saw Kobayashi on Monday, the front desk lady knew that there was a counter in front of her, but she still took two steps back.

"Excuse me, what can I do to help you. The front desk lady took a deep breath and was ready to call the police as soon as this Asian man dared to speak out again.

"I came to check in. Kobayashi raised his eyebrows arrogantly and said.

He couldn't stand the filthy and lazy French, probably because of the tournament in France this year, and he clearly felt that there were fewer and fewer non-European faces left in his field, black players had been largely excluded, and only a few Asian faces remained. And in their arena, there are two chefs who are sought after to the horizon, and when they communicate with the judges, they have a mouth and are fluent in French. This competition is simply not called the Global Cooking Competition, but the All-French Cooking Competition.

Hearing that he was here to check in, instead of finding fault, the front desk lady was greatly relieved and began to check him in, everything went smoothly, until Xiao Lin left on Monday, the front desk lady showed a sly smile.

The arrogant Japanese had insulted several other Huaxia players before he left last time, but now that he was alone, she deliberately arranged his room near those Huaxia players to give him a taste of what it would be like to kick an iron plate.

Early the next morning, several contestants from Su's Restaurant went to the hotel's cafeteria for breakfast together, everyone you wait for me, I wait for you, almost all the doors of the room were wide open, and Bao Ruwen and Li Hongxing were leaning on the corridor to chat.

They didn't notice that the door of a nearby room was quietly cracked.

Kobayashi looked gloomily at the people laughing in the corridor on Monday, and he recognized it, among these people there was not only the woman surnamed Su who he hated to take revenge on, but also the Frenchman who was praised to the sky by the judges in their arena, who seemed to be called Charlie!

They actually know each other!

Although he couldn't understand Huaxia, it could be seen from their interaction that this Charlie knew that Sue, as well as the Huaxia chef they were with.

There must be a shady scene in this competition, otherwise why are all the rest of the Asian faces eliminated, and the only ones left are those who are familiar with Charlie. He didn't believe that they all had the ability to survive this part of the game.

There are still a lot of people in today's game, but fortunately, there are all the remaining players.

Draw the seat number, each in place, test whether there is a problem with the stove, plus the judges announced the topic, each selected the material, such a chaotic fuss, stunned for more than two hours, as soon as there are many people, it is easy to mess up, everyone is like a headless fly, and they don't even care to greet the people around them.

What makes Su Ruotong feel more amazing is that all the players in Su's Restaurant are actually divided into the first three rows of stoves.

She was the most front, in the first row, with two people in the middle, Charlie, and then Bread Ruwen, Li Hongxing and Li Weining in the second and third rows respectively.

Moreover, after her observation, the photographers and fixed shooting machines arranged next to the first five rows are the most, and the more they go to the back, the fewer they are, and they probably understand in their hearts that the seating arrangement this time is probably based on the results of the previous game, and the players who come in at the back of the edge balls are probably getting closer and closer to the fate of elimination. But because everyone is a carefully selected celebrity chef from all over the world, each with their own specialty dishes, it is impossible to say who can be among the top in the sudden outbreak.

She didn't feel sad for others, she just thought about cooking with peace of mind.

Far away, in the sixth row behind them, Kobayashi's eyes were burning with rage.

In last year's competition, he also stood in the first row of the stove in the competition, and even rushed to the 50-20 race, and this year's goal is to enter the 20-in-10. But God didn't fulfill people's wishes, if according to the number of seats, he actually fell behind fifty!

This is impossible! His level has obviously not decreased, and even this year he has studied carefully, and he feels that he has improved, it must be that there is a shady curtain in this broken game, otherwise, how could he see that Charlie and his Chinese companions are actually in the first three rows.

You must know that everyone in the first three rows has always chased the score very closely, and everyone has the potential to win the championship.

"Damn the Chinese pigs, damn the Gallic chickens. Xiao Lin scolded in Japanese on Monday, how could these races be obviously inferior races, how could they make delicious meals!

With a whistle, the game officially began.

Compared with the previous two days, today's competition is much more diverse, and the chef can play as he pleases, but the ingredients are relatively limited, only one poultry - duck is provided as the main dish, and the remaining vegetables and various seasonings are not limited.

Duck is a very cheap and common ingredient no matter where in the world, duck is even cheaper than chicken, but the usual sales are not as good as chicken, because for ordinary people, duck is difficult to make fragrant, and it is not as easy to cook as chicken.

For chefs, these two questions are also problems.

Looking at the ducks they received, almost all of them fell into deep thought. The fierce competition in the first two days made these chefs realize that it is impossible to fool the judges with their usual specialty dishes, and they must be brilliant and innovative, and at the same time, they must also take into account the taste, how can they do it well?

Today's judges are selected by the judges of their respective arenas, and they have communicated with each other, although they have recommended their favorite people in their respective arenas to each other, but they still think that the talents they have come out of their own arenas are the best, and no one is willing to convince anyone.

A woman in her fifties wearing glasses looked at Su Ruotong's stove fixedly, wearing a warm smile on her face, secretly cheering for Su Ruotong.

She was one of the judges of Su Ruotong's competition yesterday, and she is also a rare woman among the judges. She is not only cheering for Su Ruotong, but also cheering for women in the sparse group of chefs! She hopes that Su Ruotong will win the championship, and then let everyone in the world know that female chefs can also do everything that men can do.

Will she still cook roast duck today? Just like she made roast goose yesterday. The female judge named Sophie looked at Su Ruotong excitedly. As long as Su Ruotong uses the method of roasting the goose yesterday to roast a duck, he will definitely conquer the taste of all the judges. God knows, when she went to bed in the middle of the night last night, she dreamed of the perfect roast goose, which must have been blessed by God's hand to come to this world.

Su Ruotong looked at the side, Charlie had already started to do it, it seemed that he needed to use the oven.

In this competition, Su's Restaurant set itself a relatively big goal, striving for all of them to enter the top ten, so for the sake of the rest of the contestants in Su's Restaurant, Su Ruotong decided to avoid their cooking methods.

So, she didn't move at first, and sat quietly in her chair, as if she was not here to compete at all, but to visit.

Sophie looked at Su Ruotong and didn't move at all, while the chefs around her were all in full swing, and couldn't help but become more and more anxious, and even recruited a staff member to say a few words to him.

The staff member came to Su Ruotong's board and asked in English, "Miss, are you feeling unwell?"

"Nope. Su Ruotong said to him: "I'm fine, I just want to wait a while before I start cooking." ”

The staff shrugged, anyway, whether this contestant cooks or not, and when he cooks, it has nothing to do with him, it's just that the judges above asked her to ask.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Su Ruotong finally determined that Charlie was going to cook in the oven, Bao Ruwen should be doing lo-mei cold cutting, Li Hongxing was steaming, Li Weining was more angry, using red wine to soak and combine steaming and roasting, such a cooking method can perfectly get rid of the fishy smell of duck and make the duck meat tender.

Su Ruotong looked at their cooking method and smiled slightly, then, today she wants everyone to see a special cooking method in China: stir-frying!

The duck on the cooking table was picked up by Su Ruotong and placed in the center of the board, and then, Su Ruotong raised the knife and fell, I don't know how she cut it, the duck meat was sliced into pieces, at first glance, these duck meat was cut into pieces, but if you look closely, these duck meat is actually cut along the joints of the duck, and the cut surface is very smooth, that is to say, anyone who is a little good at playing puzzles and models can easily put them back together into a whole duck.

It's simply amazing.

Sophie has been paying attention to Su Ruotong's movements, but it is too far away, she can't see it too clearly, she can only see that Su Ruotong cut the duck into different sizes, but she can't see the real mystery in it, and she can't even sit on the chair in a hurry.

A wave of frustration couldn't help but rise in Sophie's heart.

She remembers decades ago, when she first competed in a global cooking competition, when the world was not so tolerant of women. She became more and more courageous in the competition, but there were more and more doubts and abuse. Eventually, she lost the battle for the top three and only got the third place, when the champion chef, a tall man, said to her: "Ma'am, a professional kitchen is not a place for a woman, go back to your mother's kitchen and cook onion soup for her, that's where you should be." ”

These words were like a magic spell, and she followed her all her life, and so far, through her hands, she has made thousands of dishes, but she has never cooked onion soup again.

She expects someone to win the championship and wash away the stigma that people have imposed on women. But after waiting for so many years, none of the women participating in the competition have ever been able to enter the top three like her, let alone win the championship. Could it be that this time she is going to be disappointed again?