Chapter 344: Silent Protest
As time went on, the atmosphere at the scene became more and more enthusiastic.
The 82 chefs are all the leaders of the young generation in China. Therefore, no one wants to be sent home in the first round, and everyone does their best to come up with their own unique skills to impress the judges and the audience.
Of course, not every chef is so deliberately showing off their skills, for example, the 21 students from the Huaxia Academy of Gastronomy are all calm, no one makes noise, and no one shows off their stunts.
There is nothing special about their technique of handling saury, which is to disembowel, remove the internal organs, deduct the gills, and clean the fish in a step-by-step manner, as if they are practicing the prescribed movements in a textbook.
Or rather, they really are like being in a classroom.
Seeing their techniques, the audience at the scene felt a little boring, like warm boiled water.
But everyone knows that their strength should definitely not be underestimated. Perhaps in their opinion, mere show-off skills will not increase the deliciousness of saury, so it is better to cook fish honestly.
Chen Qiling had already become the focus of the audience at this time, and the camera lens gave him the most. In contrast, the students of the Huaxia Food Academy, which are mostly located in the corners, rarely go to the screen once.
Just as Chen Qiling pinched out the first fish ball and put it in boiling water to boil, the scene suddenly raised his hand in unison, no more, no less, exactly 21 people.
There was an immediate boom at the scene, and the audience thought that there had been an accident.
The audience in front of the TV also wondered why so many people raised their hands before the end of the game.
The host was also taken aback, thinking that there was an accident at the scene, and was just about to speak, when the director's voice came in through the headphones in a timely manner.
"You don't have to be nervous, the person who raised his hand is the chef who has finished the dish, make an announcement immediately. ”
She breathed a sigh of relief and made the announcement.
The people at the scene were also a little stunned, and they exploded in an instant.
"Awesome, it's done so quickly!"
"Why do you still raise your hands together? ”
"Oh, they all seem to be students of Huaxia Food Academy!"
"Tsk...... It deserves to be a national gastronomic school, amazing!"
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If Chen Qiling's show-off skills kicked off the prelude to the competition, then the scene of these 21 people raising their hands together obviously set off a small climax.
Wu Tianba threw a look at the referee on the scene, and the referee immediately understood and asked them to bring the dishes to the judges in turn.
The 21 dishes, lined up, are spectacular.
From the beginning to the end, the camera was transmitted to the large screen and TV screen on the scene in real time. After everyone saw it, most people were in a trance, thinking that they had seen it wrong, and a few people began to discuss.
Because they're seeing the same dish!
From start to finish, every plate is filled with exactly the same thing: salt-grilled saury!
Moreover, the head of each fish is facing the judges' seats, which must be carefully placed.
The expressions on the judges' faces were rich, to be exact, they wanted to be angry but couldn't show it, a little blushing and pretending not to take it to heart, in short, they were embarrassed.
It was also the first time Wu Tianba had seen such a scene, his brows furrowed, and his eyes projected a fine light. But in an instant, he regained his impassive appearance, waved his hand, and asked people to divide the fish and present them to the judges.
In the food shop, everyone is also confused.
Yan Cuishan coughed several times in a row, and his face was red, "I've really lived for a long time, and it's the first time I've seen this." ”
Murphy pondered for a moment and said, "They're protesting. ”
Yan Cuishan thought for a while, nodded, and expressed his approval of Mo Fei's statement.
Seeing that Yan and Mo no longer explained the reason, Yu Xiaoyu raised his little face and asked, "Boss, what are they protesting for?"
Gao Hua knocked her on the head. Yu Xiaoyu said "ouch", looked back at Gao Hua, and said happily: "You must also know the reason, tell me about it." ”
"They are protesting against the Food Association and Wu Tianba arbitrarily changing the date of the competition, protesting against Wu Tianba's substitution of interviews for competitions, brushing off more than 100 people, and engaging in 'Yiyantang'. Gao Hua said.
Yan Cuishan nodded and said, "That is, the Huaxia Academy of Gastronomy dares to do this! If it were someone else, I am afraid that I would be driven out on the spot." ”
Mo Fei thought to himself, it is true, who let there be so many big stars in the culinary world standing behind the Huaxia Food Academy, especially the principal, who has learned everything and is now a four-star master. The previous headmaster, now the honorary headmaster, was promoted to a five-star master two years ago.
With so many powerful backers, these students are indeed not afraid of anyone, even if the other party is Wu Tianba.
While everyone was talking, the 21 dishes had already been tasted one by one.
The judges, including Wu Tianba, all showed strange expressions. After tasting it repeatedly, they found that the taste of these 21 salt-grilled saury was exactly the same!
In other words, these 21 dishes are actually just one dish, and the standard is quite high.
That's a bit unusual.
Looking at the whole country, chefs below the star level will make 21 of the same dishes in a row, and the taste will be slightly different. Either the heat is different each time, or the seasoning is slightly different each time, or the chef's attention changes.
In short, apart from perverts like Murphy, few people can do this.
But students of Huaxia Academy of Gastronomy can. It can be imagined that the level and strength of Huaxia Food College are high.
Now, the question before the judges is: how do you score them?
Not only to satisfy the students of Huaxia Food College, but also to satisfy the other contestants on the scene, and to convince the audience.
This is a difficult problem for the students of Huaxia Academy of Gastronomy, to today's judges, and also to Wu Tianba.
I'm afraid that only they have the strength to recover even a little bit of fairness in this way for the unfairness they have encountered and those players who have been brushed down at will.
The six judges couldn't sit still any longer, they got up one after another, gathered around Wu Tianba, bowed their heads and whispered something.
Two minutes later, the judges were in their places. The referee stepped forward and took a note from Wu Tianba, and after unfolding it, he was stunned, thinking that he had seen it wrong, and rubbed his eyes and looked at it again, only to know that he had not read it wrong.
This is the first time since he became the referee that he has announced such an "absurd" score, because the scores of each dish are almost the same, or even almost none, between 96.001 and 96.005 points.
The scores came out of his mouth, and the more the audience listened, the more they felt that something was wrong, and the scores that were announced made no difference at all. In this category of competition, the gap is generally more than 0.5 points.
Is a difference of 0.001 points still called a gap?
Everyone thinks it's boring, but it's not. This is what the students of Huaxia Gastronomy College want to achieve - to make the jury bitter and unspeakable, and to confirm their suspicion of manipulating the competition.