"Ladies and gentlemen, the finals of the 13th Huaxia Chef Cup Competition will start immediately, and we would like to invite our two contestants in the first round today, Mr. Li Mingqiao from Dongyue Building and Chef He Donglin from Minghuangxuan!"

"Boss, have you noticed that Yang Yan is particularly beautiful today. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info" The five-eyed thief sitting next to Liu Mang smiled.

"No, I've only noticed your special color today. Liu Mang glared at him angrily.

"Mr. Li Mingqiao, what kind of dishes are you making today?" asked Yang Yan, who was wearing a sexy red dress in high heels.

"The name of the dish I made today is 'Dragon Travels the World'!" replied Li Mingqiao, who was thin and tall with two small beards.

"Wow, that's a very domineering dish name! What about you? Chef He Donglin, what dishes did you bring to you today?"

"Oh, my dish is called 'Su Nian Jinshi'. He Donglin wore a pair of glasses, giving people the feeling of Sven.

"The name of the poem is really exciting!" Yang Yan smiled: "Then let's start our game immediately!"

"Liu Mang, who do you like?" asked Li Ruonan, who was sitting in the audience.

"Liu Mang, what are you looking at?" Li Ruonan found that Liu Mang did not answer her words, but stared directly at the judges' seat.

"Ah......" Liu Mang came back to his senses.

Li Ruonan followed Liu Mang's gaze to look at the judges' seat over there, and found that there was a middle-aged man in a white suit, chatting and laughing with the people around him.

"Han Shaobai?"

"Yes, he did. ”

"Liu Mang, you don't have to worry about this. After entering the finals, the judges' scoring rules have also changed, the main judge has been cancelled, and the jury composed of 30 gourmets from all walks of life and celebrities votes together. ”

"Then there are no rules for the dishes made by the contestants, right?"

"No, let the contestants play, as long as they can impress the judges, and you can use the ingredients you bring. ”

"Well, that's good, there's no question to bring out the best in a chef. Liu Mang nodded.

"By the way, I have prepared the ingredients you asked me to buy for you last time, and they are all top-notch good things. Think about it, is there anything else you need?"

"Almost, I prepared a little myself, it's nothing more than a few dishes, it's enough. ”

"Good fellow, such a big lobster!" "Five Eyes next to him suddenly let out an exclamation.

Liu Mang looked at the platform of the competition and found that Li Mingqiao grabbed a huge lobster with a body length of nearly one meter and an orange-red body from a water tank and put it on the cutting board.

"This is the American crayfish, commonly known as the Boston lobster, distributed in the Atlantic Ocean on the North American coast and the Canadian Ocean, the largest crayfish weighs more than 20 kilograms, and the total length is 1.06 meters from the tail to the tip of the large cray. Feeds on fish, other small crustaceans and shellfish. Li Ruonan explained.

"This lobster is not easy to buy, is it?"

"Well, a big one like Li Mingqiao's hand is really hard to buy, extremely rare. However, Dongyue Building originally started as a seafood, and there are purchase channels all over the world, and the rare goods in the eyes of others are really nothing to them. ”

Now Liu Mang also understands that if he didn't get the kitchen god space at that time, and without Li Ruonan's support, even if he reached the finals, it would be difficult to win the title of kitchen god.

No one knows the difference between the good and the bad of cooking ingredients better than Liu Mang, who won the "Food Treasures".

It's like the same Yangzhou fried rice, one is only eggs with chopped green onions, and the other is ham, fresh mushrooms and various condiments, and the taste of the fried rice is different.

But most chefs don't have a superfluous choice, because high-quality ingredients don't fly in front of them on their own.

Moreover, some ingredients are not something you can do with money, and you also need specific channels. Like the lobster in Li Mingqiao's hand, can you expect to buy it at farmers' markets and ordinary supermarkets? Impossible, right?

"He Donglin's 'Su Nian Jinshi' is going to be made with bird's nest?"

Li Ruonan said after seeing He Donglin take out something that looked like a human ear from a box.

"This is Blood Swallow, right? Liu Mang saw that the bird's nest in He Donglin's hand was red, and he was a little emotional.

"Boss, what is a blood bird's nest? I know that bird's nest is a nest made of swift saliva and dried in the sun. I've eaten at other people's wedding receptions before, but it's all white. ”

"The swift's nest sometimes adsorbs on the special red rock wall, and is infiltrated by the red liquid oozing from the rock wall, and the part of the bird's nest close to the rock wall will gradually turn red, so it is called "blood bird's nest" or "red bird's nest". The blood bird's nest is made of maroon and unbroken quality, and the longer it is stored, the darker the maroon will become. It is rich in mineral elements, nutrition, food therapy effect is better, the doctor regards it as a treasure, and because the yield is extremely rare, so the price is more than ten times higher than that of Gong Yan. Li Ruonan explained.

"How could He Donglin have thought of using bird's nest to cook? Liu Mang asked very strangely.

"I'm also surprised that in previous chef competitions, few people used bird's nest and shark fin in their dishes. Li Ruonan is also very strange.

"Ah, why is that? Haven't bird's nest and shark fin always been famous and precious ingredients in China? Why is it that no one uses them?"

"That's what some laypeople think is the case, but both of these ingredients don't have any flavor and need to be seasoned with good stock. And the method is also very simple, and it is difficult to give the chef room to use his imagination. Liu Mang explained.

"It seems that this He Donglin must have another way to take care of these bird's nests. Those who can reach the finals are all top masters in the Chinese culinary industry, and they must have their own unique characteristics. ”

"Well, that's right, especially in the last few games of this final, which are all eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing their magical powers, is getting more and more interesting. Li Ruonan nodded.

Li Mingqiao, who was on the stage, wrapped a dry towel around the lobster's body, then took out a knife and plunged it into the lobster's chest, and a stream of blue liquid splashed out of the wound.

"Hey, is that lobster blood? "Five Eyes saw someone kill a lobster for the first time, and it was a great thing to watch.

"That's right, the blood of lobsters is a protein that contains copper, and when combined with oxygen, it turns blue. ”

Liu Mang was also staring, and he hadn't dealt with the lobster, so he just had to learn.

"What's the purpose of sticking a bamboo stick from behind?"

Seeing He Donglin insert a long skewer from the tail of the lobster and twist it gently, Liu Mang asked.

"The tail of the lobster contains a stream of liquid, and if you don't release it, the meat will have a fishy smell. ”

Li Ruonan, who often studies abroad, is obviously an expert in this area, and it is rare to have something that Liu Mang does not know, she explained with great interest.

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