In addition to the phoenix, which is made from strawberry syrup, Basad and his assistants also placed a variety of brightly colored fruit fragments and flower petals around the plate to decorate it.

"Lao Liu, what would you do if you set the plate?" asked Lin Xiao, who was watching from the audience.

"Me?" Liu Mang thought for a while: "Since it is foie gras, then I will use dough or ingredients to carve it into the shape of a goose, and then use lotus leaves and lotus flowers to outline the artistic conception of the pond and the water of the small bridge." ”

"yes! Lin Xiao clenched his fists: "Although the presentation of this Basad is beautiful, it is too fancy, it is not in the middle, the west is not in the west, and it is very cheesy." ”

After Basad and his assistant finished plating, it was time for the frozen foie gras in the refrigerator.

Basad snapped it on the board and took a Western chef's knife and cut it into large square pieces.

"Don't think about it, it must be fried. Lin Xiao, who was staring at the big screen above the hall, pouted.

"Well, it can only be fried. In fact, foie gras in France is fatty liver, with a fat content of about 50%. This amount is on par with the cream that garnishes the cake. If you don't force some of the fat out of it, it will be very greasy to eat. Liu Mang said.

"How did the French foie gras come about? I just saw the piece of foie gras that Bassard's assistant took out, it weighs two or three pounds, right? It's not much different from pig liver, and how can an ordinary goose grow such a big liver?"

"Hehe...... Lin Xiao smiled: "Fat man, do you know? Although France is the largest consumer of foie gras, it is not the largest country in the production of foie gras, and generally the foie gras imported from abroad is produced in Hungary." In recent years, China has been exporting more and more foie gras to France, and there is a trend of replacing Hungary as the largest producer of foie gras. ”

"Ah, why don't you give birth if you love to eat?"

"Load the calf!" Lin Xiao sneered disdainfully: "Do you know how cruel the production of foie gras is?"

"How cruel?"

"Not long after a goose comes out, it is stuffed into an iron cage by the farmer, leaving only its neck and fixed to a rack dedicated to training its neck muscles. The farmer then increases the amount of food he feeds every day and tries to make the goose's stomach into a noodle bag. Let the goose's neck muscles and stomach be trained to be as strong as steel. ”

"Damn!" Five Eyes scolded.

"And that's just the beginning. Next, in order to ensure the fatty and tender taste of the whole foie gras, the farmer also needs to minimize the calcium content in the food. If there is not enough calcium during development, the goose will suffer from "hypochondriasis", squatting lazily in the cage and not moving, and the weight will "explode" in a geometric progression. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Xiao paused: "Think about it, in order to get foie gras that is many times larger than normal, these geese are forced to eat every day. Workers on the farm use high-pressure cannulation to insert a high-pressure cannula directly into the goose's esophagus, pressing in far more food than the goose needs, and the liver is abnormally enlarged due to overwork. Under such torture, many geese have not even touched a drop of water from birth to death, and it is almost worse than death. ”

"Damn! I don't even dare to eat when you say that!" Goyan glanced at Basad, who was frying foie gras on the stage, and made a vomited expression.

"That's why I said that the French are calves! The strong opposition of the animal protection organization in my own country does not allow the production of foie gras, so I go to other countries to buy it. Think about it! If you don't eat it, who will give birth? Full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but behind the scenes, there are a belly full of men stealing and prostitutes. Isn't it that we still have the face to accuse us of animal cruelty?"

"Brother Lin, you seem to have a lot of opinions about the French. Liu Mang looked surprised.

"Well, when I was studying at Le Cordon Bleu College, those Frenchmen attacked us Chinese, saying that we eat everything, and we can't compare with them Westerners, which makes me really unhappy!" Lin Xiao looked resentful.

"Haha, you should recommend them to watch "The Silence of the Lambs" - America on the tip of the tongue!" Liu Mang smiled and leaned back.

The cake is mixed with tofu and foie gras, which squeaks in the pan.

When the oil is golden brown on both sides, the bassard is served on a plate and the sauce prepared in the morning is poured over. Sprinkle with chopped basil leaves and white sesame seeds.

"Mr. Bassard, is your dish finished?" Andy asked, holding up the microphone when Bassard stopped.

"Yes, it's done!"

The cameraman of the program team immediately approached with a camera and gave a big close-up of the dish made by Basad.

Colorful plates, phoenixes ready to fly, golden foie gras, emerald green basil leaves......

As soon as the dish was displayed on the screen in the hall, it immediately won bursts of applause from the audience.

"It's so beautiful! it makes you want to eat it when you see it!" Andy exclaimed.

"Please taste it. Basad stood with his hands down, a smug look on his face.

"Master Liu Mang, please come to the stage. Andy held up the microphone.

"It's my turn, Brother Lin and Xiao Wu, do you want to go up and try it together?" Liu Mang stood up and asked.

"Well, no. Five-eyed waved his hand: "I heard Xiao Linzi say that just now, so I don't have any appetite at all." ”

"I'm not going either, I'd better wait until I eat what you made. Lin Xiao also replied.

"Oh well. Liu Mang nodded and walked on stage with his suitcase.

"Master Liu Mang, what do you think of Mr. Bassard's dish?" Andy handed over a microphone.

"The presentation was beautiful and the colours were well matched. Liu Mang took a closer look and said politely.

To be honest, Barsad's plating is really not flattering, and it is indeed beautiful in the eyes of others, but in Liu Mang's eyes, forcibly combining the two ways of plating, Chinese and Western, there is a feeling of being a toddler.

If Barsard had made a strawberry syrup not with a phoenix, but with a geometric pattern commonly used in Western plating, it would have been much more visually appealing.

"Mr. Liu Mang, please taste the taste, how about it?" Basad did not hear the deliberate compliment in Liu Mang's words, and said with a happy face.

Liu Mang took the metal spoon handed by Basad, scooped a spoonful from the cake on the plate, and put it into his mouth.

"Hey, it tastes so good!"

Foie gras is mixed with crushed tofu and fried to retain the delicacy of the foie gras, while the excess fat in the foie gras is absorbed by the tofu, giving the tofu a layer of oiliness that usually tastes dry.

As soon as you take a sip of it, it gently melts on the tip of the tongue, and the faint chestnut aroma unique to foie gras continues to linger in the mouth, making people taste fragrant.

"How's it going?, Mr. Liu Mang?" asked Basad.

"It tasted like I could have imagined. This time, Liu Mang is telling the truth.

The taste of Barsad's foie gras is not top-notch, but it can be considered a good quality.

"Well, let the audience try it too. ”