This time, the competition caused by cherries was not named the second Kunyang Cup, mainly because Zhou Kun disliked that the last Kunyang Cup was too hasty, and the team of chefs involved was relatively small, so it did not meet his expectations.

Zhou Kun and Qian Lina completely wanted to use this competition to reasonably refuse William's request to buy goods, and wanted to make him retreat, but they didn't expect that when William drew the question, he felt a trace of ecstasy in his heart.

"Vegan? I didn't expect it, I didn't expect the proposition to be like this this time, it seems that cherries are definitely in my palm. Richard, go and help me get the morels, porcini mushrooms, matsutake mushrooms, and bamboo shoots ready. ”

Several of the ingredients William chooses are recognized as some of the freshness ingredients in Western cuisine. That's right, even Western chefs recognize the umami taste of bamboo shoots, calling it a delicious ingredient comparable to truffles.

This time, the venue for the competition between Longxing Temple and Chef William borrowed the Galaxy Hotel, because this was a communication competition, so the chef of Longxing Temple only borrowed the back kitchen of the Galaxy Hotel, and did not appear at the scene of the competition.

Seeing that William didn't show a trace of panic after getting the question, he started cooking after selecting the ingredients with ease, which made Qian Lina and Zhou Kun feel that something was wrong.

"Zhou Kun, that's what you said, no problem? I don't seem to be in the slightest panic on William's side, and he knows everything about the vegan feast, could you have made a mistake when you investigated?"

"It shouldn't be, his restaurant has never had a vegetarian banquet, all of them are meat-based, this can't be mistaken, is it possible that William was panicked in his heart, but he didn't show it?"

Even Zhou Kun himself felt that this explanation was very unreasonable, if he had never had a vegetarian banquet, why did William's response be so fast, or was this the basic quality of being a chef?

"Are you talking about Master William?" suddenly asked Mrs. Zhu Yuling and Mrs. Zhu on the side.

The Galaxy Hotel is her son's property, and it is natural for the old lady to appear on the judges' seat, and Zhu Yuling, who is a student of the baking classroom, is no stranger to chef William, and is even more familiar than Zhou Kun and Qian Lina.

"I just heard you say that Chef William's restaurant is all meat dishes, which is the same as when he taught us to make dim sum on weekdays, if it wasn't for Chef William, we wouldn't have known that there were so many meat dim sum in the pastry. But do you know why Chef William likes meat dishes so much?"

"Is there anything special about that?"

"When Master William was learning to cook, it seemed to be called vegetarianism in the United States, and the restaurant where he was located was a vegetarian restaurant, and William had nearly 10 years of apprenticeship in it, and it took William 10 years to cook vegetables alone, and at that time he made up his mind that when he could be the chef of a restaurant in the future, he must follow his heart's wishes and make the best meat!"

Feeling the eye knife thrown by Qian Lina, Zhou Kun didn't expect that this time his overturned car would come inexplicably, so William in front of him has ten years of experience in making vegetables, why doesn't this guy play cards according to the routine!

"Teacher, I didn't expect you to make vegetarian food!" William's apprentice Richard also sighed.

"This is still my apprentice's craft, it seems that I haven't been rusty until now, just today I will teach you a vegetarian all-purpose sauce, you are optimistic..." William was in a good mood, and even had the heart to teach Richard the recipe of the sauce.

"All kinds of mushrooms lose their water during the process of high temperatures, and these juices are the source of umami in vegetarian food, so it is very important to judge the heat, once the water in the mushrooms passes after overcooking, the taste will deteriorate a lot. ”

"Now it's ready to be plated. ”

Today, William prepared three dishes, a total of fried morels in the original sauce, fried rice with fresh bamboo shoots with porcini mushrooms, and matsutake tofu soup.

Judging from the aroma emanating from these three dishes, Chef William's previous ten years of hard work are still there, and he has not regressed at all.

"Today is really thanks to Xiao Zhou and Master William, I can taste such a delicious vegetarian dish. "It can be said that William's three-course meal satisfies the taste buds of the old ladies very well.

Qian Lina was a little unwilling, could it be that the cherries were going to fall into William's hands again in the end.

"Send someone to the back kitchen to ask if the meal prepared by Master Xingyu of Longxing Temple is good. ”

According to what was said at the beginning, Master Xingyu would not show up during the whole process, just prepare a meal, and as for the result, Qian Lina could directly notify Longxing Temple.

A few minutes later, the waiter arrived with a bowl of somen noodles and three side dishes.

"Zhou Kun, can this bowl of noodles really win over Chef William's vegetarian food?"

Qian Lina looked at the somen noodles in front of her, there was almost no oil and water, and the three side dishes were stewed seasonal vegetables, vegetarian chicken, and vinegared radish.

Just looking at the color, it is very bland, and there is no basic thickening and thick soy sauce seasoning in it.

"Tut-tut, Xiao Zhou is really a good skill, I have never heard of a person who can let Master Xingyu go down the mountain to cook food for one person, I didn't expect this treatment to be enjoyed by us today. ”

"Isn't this the most famous vegetable noodle in Longxing Temple?"

"This light soup base and just the right amount of fresh flavor must be the seasonal vegetable noodles of Longxing Temple. ”

The old ladies seem to have forgotten the quality of the dishes made by William, and they have turned against each other because of a bowl of noodles.

"Zhou Kun, what is the origin of this?"

"You taste it first, this noodle was tasted by my mother when I was a child, and I can't forget that taste until now. ”

Saying that, Zhou Kun no longer paid attention to Qian Lina, and began to eat vegetable noodles at this time.

Qian Lina followed Zhou Kun's example and buckled the three toppings on the noodles, but even so, there was still not too much oil on the noodle soup.

She picked up a piece of dried tofu and couldn't even imagine what it tasted like when she looked at its pale white color. But when the dried tofu was eaten, the faint but just right flavor shocked Qian Lina.

Dried tofu, all kinds of mushrooms, cabbage, carrot slices and other common ingredients can be put together to bring out such a fresh and sweet taste, and the light soup contains all the ingredients well, and the sour and crisp radish pieces make her appetite even more open.

After that, all the judges, including Qian Lina, ate the vegetable noodles in one go, and Zhou Kun even drank the soup clean.

"That's the taste, and it would be great if you could taste this somen noodles like this every day without climbing a mountain. This is also a big wish of Zhou Kun when he was a child.

"Now let's talk about the voting results!" Qian Lina did not forget to get down to business at this time.

"Somen noodles from Longxing Temple!"

"Somen noodles!"

The five judges present unanimously agreed that the noodles won, which made William a little unacceptable, the vegetarian dishes he made were so bad?

"Mr. Zhou, can you let me meet my opponent and taste the vegetarian dishes he makes?" What made William feel most unwilling was that he didn't know who he lost to.

"Well, the other party is a monk, so it may be a little inconvenient. ”

"I didn't mean anything other than to try his food. ”

In the end, the persistent William found Master Xingyu in the back kitchen of the Galaxy Hotel, and he was cleaning up the kitchen stove with the little novice who accompanied him.

"This... Monk, I wonder if I can taste the somen noodles you just made?"

"Naturally. ”

"But Master, that's us..."Xiao Shami originally wanted to say that it was their lunch, but was stopped by Master Xingyu.

William unskillfully picked up the toppings in front of him with his chopsticks, and he didn't speak for a long time after he took his mouth. The impact of the somen noodles in front of him was greater than the impact of the first time he tasted vegetarian food when he was learning to cook.

He now fully understood why he had lost, he had used so many precious ingredients, and the effect and taste he made could not be compared to the monk in front of him, there were no precious ingredients in the noodles, but every bite of William could taste the most delicious taste of the food.

"Master, I want to learn cooking from you!"

"Don't be impulsive, this benefactor!"

"Really, since I took charge of the kitchen, no one has made such a big impact on me, I used to use precious, high-end ingredients in cooking, but today in front of the master I found out that I was so wrong, so I am serious, please let me be your student!"

"Donor, have you thought it through?"

"Of course, as long as I become your student, I can agree to any conditions!" William really gave up in order to study with Xingyu.

"The temple recruits social volunteers all year round, and anyone who is interested in Buddhism can become a volunteer at Xingryuji Temple to help us manage the daily activities of the temple and discuss Buddhism together. Yuanfan, give this donor a QR code, ask him to fill out the online registration form, and then you go back and wait for the news, if you successfully admit the volunteers of this temple, there will be a reply within two weeks!"

Liang Guoyun didn't see William in the baking classroom for the next two weeks: "What, you said that William went to become a monk for the sake of cherries?"

"Tsk, it seems that William must have lost the game that day, and this old guy was able to do this for the sake of Cherry, which is really scary. ”

Liang Guoyun also thought that William went to Longxing Temple like he appeared in the baking classroom, for the sake of Kunyang's cherries.

The old ladies only knew that William lost the game about cherries to Master Xingyu, but they didn't know what happened in the kitchen after that, but in the end, William followed Master Xingyu up the mountain after the game, so I don't know how the rumors intensified, and finally evolved into a version, which became William because he failed to compete for cherries and couldn't think of becoming a monk.

This also surprised more Michelin chefs, and William couldn't think about what the cherry tasted like this?