After the identification was completed, before entering the venue, the person in charge handed Bai Xiaobai a card, which was written as the position of the competition - No. 44.

It's this number again.

The Bai Xiaobai Food Festival is this booth number.

Hope for good luck.

Before entering the venue, the contestants must wash their hands with a special hand sanitizer in order to find their respective positions according to the competition number.

After Bai Xiaobai washed his hands, he also came to the No. 44 cooking table.

The table is a long table with a variety of ingredients and a row of knives.

It's almost the same as Bai Xiaobai imagined.

Most of the food on the table is made of fish.

Bai Xiaobai had already practiced once last night, so he was still very confident.

However, it was a little strange that Bai Xiaobai did not see the cutting board on the table.

It stands to reason that when the Japanese people cut the ingredients, they should also put on a cutting board.

Does it have something to do with the rules of the game?

Bai Xiaobai was thinking.

The crowd outside the safety line boiled.

Another big guy is on the scene.

The race square is listed separately

Soon, the Miyaji of Toba Shrine came out to preside over the game.

Miyaji is a kind of position at the Nippon Shrine. Generally, it is the highest priest of the shrine, and it is the highest authority responsible for managing and deciding the affairs of the shrine, somewhat similar to the abbot of the great temple of Huaxia.

The Miyaji of Toba Shrine is an old man, he has a lot of folds on his skin, he doesn't walk very steadily, his steps are a little weak, but his eyes are bright, and the whole person is also very majestic.

Regarding the palace secretary of Toba Shrine, Bai Xiaobai learned some about Sakura before.

This person's name is Nara Shigemitsu, nearly 90 years old, in addition to the status of the palace secretary, he is also a famous local gourmet.

It is said that he has a very sensitive sense of taste and good cooking skills, but no one has ever seen him show his hand.

Shigemitsu Nara glanced at the contestants, cleared his throat, and announced the rules of the knife competition in hoarse Japanese.

The title is simple, make a sashimi platter.

The time limit is half an hour.

However, for a limited time, contestants will have to incorporate their own creativity and make a unique sashimi platter.

Of course, not all the ingredients on the table are used, and it is entirely up to the contestants to mix and match.

When Bai Xiaobai heard this, he glanced at the contestants connected to the left and right.

In fact, the ingredients on each contestant's table are the same, and there is no difference.

To make a unique sashimi platter with the same ingredients, it is the creativity of the contestants to be tested, and this is the difficulty of this knife competition.

But.

Shigemitsu Nara announced another contest rule, causing an uproar among most of the contestants present.

It turns out that in the competition, when cutting all the ingredients, a balloon is placed underneath.

In other words, the ingredients are cut directly on the balloon.

No wonder no cutting board is provided on the table.

Bai Xiaobai was also slightly shocked when he heard this regulation.

Cutting ingredients on balloons is not the first time Bai Xiaobai has heard of it.

There are some Niu X chefs in Huaxia who have done this, but most of the balloons they use are thickened balloons, which have good stability and are not easy to cut and burst.

If it is an ordinary thin balloon, then this game is very difficult.

Bai Xiaobai's expression was a little dignified.

In fact, if you cut soft tofu or hard corn on a balloon, it is easy to do.

However, shredded meat and fish fillets are soft and tough ingredients, and it is difficult to control the force, so cutting them on a balloon is completely difficult.

Bai Xiaobai analyzes the prescribed at the same time.

The support staff on the field have been distributing balloons to the contestants one after another.

According to the regulations, each participant can get five balloons.

In the game, no matter what ingredient you cut, you have to put a balloon underneath.

If all five balloons are popped, the contestant is eliminated.

Bai Xiaobai originally thought it was an ordinary knife competition, but he really didn't expect such a perverted rule.

Time is limited and there are a lot of ingredients, so you need to make sure that you don't cut the balloon and finish the creative sashimi platter on time.

It's a tough knife competition that tests a chef's ability, endurance, and creativity.

Look at the thin balloons that have been blown up by five.

On a cold day, Bai Xiaobai's palms were sweating slightly.

In addition to being a little nervous, he actually felt very excited.

There are competitors like Hattori Sota, and there are such strict regulations, which is just to test the degree of mastery of their knife skills.

Bai Xiaobai took a deep breath and was completely ready.

With a loud sound.

The half-hour countdown began, and the game officially began.

There's plenty of time.

Bai Xiaobai didn't move the knife immediately, but fell into thought.

There are five main ingredients on the table: tuna, salmon, yellowtail, sea bream, and arctic shellfish.

In addition, there are white radish, onion, seaweed, kelp, dried seaweed, autumn dendrobium flowers, lotus and celery.

How do you make a creative platter out of the existing ingredients?

Although Bai Xiaobai has mastered the knife technique of sashimi cooking, he has never done sashimi before after all.

Even if it can be cut into slices, how do you put it on a plate at the end?

……

Some of the contestants came purely out of interest, they are not professional chefs, and they do not know much about cooking.

Some people don't have an idea at all, so they just pick up a knife and start cutting.

Bang Bang Bang –

The rings on the field came and went, and soon some of the contestants directly popped the five balloons.

Because it was the day of the festival, there were many people watching the excitement outside the security line.

Many people are surprised that this year's knife competition can be operated in such a way.

Testing your knife skills on a balloon is really the first time that Toba Shrine has held a cooking competition.

Many of the onlookers frowned and began to talk in Japanese.

The crowd of onlookers also included three Chinese tourists, who naturally spoke in Huaxia.

A Chinese female tourist with a backpack shook her head, "It's incredible, I happened to watch the Toba Shrine's cooking competition three years ago, I didn't expect this year's cooking competition to have such perverted rules, ...... cut ingredients on the balloon"

"This is really too difficult, how to cut this? Our chef Niu X in Dahuaxia may not be able to handle it. A male tourist also attached to the road.

The rest of the young man and tourist, with a lively expression, smiled and said, "Xiao Ri Ben is really good at playing, you see that this balloon is too thin, and it is blown so full, the sharp knife edge must have exploded when touched." They pit their own people, let's enjoy watching the excitement. ”

The backpack Chinese female tourist noticed Bai Xiaobai, who was standing without moving her hands on the field, and casually asked the two people around her:

"Hey, look, on the field, the little brother in the black down jacket is a little familiar? It looks like we are from China, and I seem to have seen him somewhere in Jianghai. ”

The male tourist quipped, "Xiao Chen, can you see this? I don't think you are handsome to look at people's parents, right?"

Xiao Chen's face turned red and scolded, "Seriously, look at it again, it's really familiar." ”

The male tourist and another young man took a closer look.

After a while, the two of them said in unison, "I'll go, isn't that the white boss of Xiaobai Restaurant???"