Chapter 46: Semi-finals!
When the Chinese Sichuan cuisine team won the game, the top four were all born.
Due to the format, a draw ceremony will be held that night.
But there is also a passive condition for this draw ceremony, which means that it is impossible for the two Chinese teams to meet before the final.
So, the actual draw pattern is to choose the opponent between Burgundy and RB in France.
The results of the draw were born that night.
That is Burgundy vs Chinese Hui cuisine team, RB team vs Chinese Sichuan cuisine team!
The first to play was the match between the Burgundy team and the Huicai team.
It was the day after the draw, December 19.
Therefore, on the 20th, it is the Chinese Sichuan cuisine team vs. RB team.
On this day, it was rumored that the two Chinese teams were likely to gather in the finals.
The three teams from the Greater China Food Zone will meet in the semi-finals, and it is very likely that they will win the finals.
But in reality, every team in the competition knows that it is impossible to topple the French Burgundy team in the semi-finals.
As the hosts, they will definitely let one team enter the final, and whoever draws Burgundy will basically lose half of it, and in the referee's favor, it will be a total loss.
Unless you can completely crush your opponent in terms of dishes, the referee will definitely be biased.
Hui cuisine has many characteristics, but it does not include the amazing explosiveness.
If it is compared to sports, then Sichuan cuisine is a talented player with a strong physique and amazing bouncing, while the Huicai team is a technical flexible player, but the key to the problem is that Burgundy is also such a team.
In fact, only Sichuan cuisine is an explosive team that has entered the final four, and the Taihai and Kenya teams, which can compete with the Sichuan cuisine team, have already been out.
On the first day, Fang Hong didn't want to watch the game, because the result was already predicted.
It's like in football, continent-level events and World Cups, as long as the organizer reaches the final, it's hard to lose.
It's not necessarily a black-box operation, but the bias of the referee and the bias of the audience cannot be avoided.
This tournament is held so exaggeratedly, if it is held once a year, it is considered excessive consumption, it is impossible, so the Food World Cup should also be held every four years.
Then, if you lose the opportunity this time, it will be difficult to come back next time.
After all, the four major cuisines in China, the eight major cuisines, and the representatives of different dishes in dozens of provinces all want to participate in international competitions.
There may also be domestic tryouts, and this kind of event is not necessarily.
In a word, Zhang Guangshun's Hui cuisine team was very unlucky, and when he met the host French team, it may no longer be possible to win the Food World Cup championship in this life.
Sure enough, in the evening, the news came.
The Huicai team went to the next city first, and then lost three sets in a row, and the French Burgundy team entered the final, waiting for the second team to be born at the match site on December 23.
Many people in China have also paid attention to the game, on the one hand, they have entered the semi-finals, and on the other hand, the opponent is RB.
For example, famous musicians, commentators, and talk show hosts are short and tight.
"When I was at RB, an RB master told me that Chinese food is like fire, and RB cuisine is like water. I think that RB cuisine is used to subtraction, while Chinese cuisine is used to addition. ”
In this regard, the majority of netizens said: "The short and tight teacher is really easy to deceive, where is this master said, this is the line of the Chinese master......"
It is estimated that the so-called RB master is also secretly happy in his heart, and he used cartoon lines to bluff the short and tight interview.
The sunshine in the early morning is still quite good, although it is a big afternoon in China.
"It's time for Brother Gun's food estimation again. ”
Every time he competes, Fang Hong will estimate the opponent's menu person in advance, and then come up with a menu of similar or the same ingredients.
Except for Kenya, Fang Hong has never made ostrich meat and crocodile meat......
The menu given by Fang Hong is very ordinary, the first dish is fried food, and Fang Hong thought a lot about it in order to correspond to tempura.
The first thing that catches your eye is the eggplant box, but it was quickly dismissed because tempura is all about dryness, while dishes like eggplant box rely mainly on sauces, so you have to think of a suitable dish.
Next, Fang Hong thought of crispy meat, a crispy word, which can represent the characteristics of this dish, crispy and tender, charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
But it was still denied by Fang Hong, because the pork itself has a fishy smell, to avoid it, you have to use Sichuan pepper, use Sichuan pepper, and in the face of foreign judges, you naturally stand at a disadvantage.
In the long course that followed, Fang Hong had been thinking about what fried dishes could match the taste and freshness of the enemy tempura.
I've thought about shrimp balls, I've thought about spicy crabs, I've thought about spicy chicken, I've thought about a lot, and I've even thought about Deyang's silkworm potatoes and Leshan's wolf tooth potatoes.
In the end, they were all abandoned by Fang Hong one by one.
It wasn't until the old merchant mentioned the word weird taste to Fang Hong one day that Fang Hong accidentally remembered a kind of food that he loved to eat very much when he was a child, and then left his sight for many years.
Strange flavor of beans.
Strange flavor is a very complex compound flavor type, a crispy mixture of sweet and sour, bitter, spicy, salty, and crispy, which is a very popular flavor type in old-school Sichuan cuisine in the past.
With the retention of spicy, the strange taste has been eliminated from the market due to complex practices and other reasons.
The practice of strange beans is very exquisite, and this method should be called strange beans, but the beans are larger and easier to make, so you can only see strange beans on the market, and soybeans and peas can be made with strange flavors, plus strange peanuts, you can cooperate with strange nuts.
This is the trick used to combat tempura.
You use simple, single, pure flavors, and I use the most complex and mixed flavors in the world.
In addition to the strange smell, Fang Hong expects his opponent to bring out sushi or sashimi, as well as a soup dish.
Therefore, the entire menu given by Fang Hong is the strange flavor nuts of the appetizer, the side dish of the pot pork slices, the mullet slices, and the dessert peach slice paste.
Soon after Fang Hong handed over the menu, the Japanese menu came out.
"The appetizer is tempura, the side dish sushi mackerel, the main dish Genghis Khan, dessert and fruit. ”
Seeing this menu, Fang Hong didn't expect it.
First of all, tempura is fried food, and secondly, that sushi is actually rice balls with fish fillets, and that sushi is actually a way to eat in ancient Chinese cuisine, which is actually sashimi, which means that the other party has to use sushi and separate sashimi in the same dish.
Genghis Khan, on the other hand, is a kind of barbecue.
It is different from the statement that domestic people understand that RB cuisine is light, and anyone, even if it is an uncivilized nation, will not like to eat the food of a bird every day, so in the RB domestic survey, the top three foods are not sushi or sashimi, but Okonomiyaki, Ishikari pot, and Genghis Khan.
Among them, Okonomiyaki and Genghis Khan should actually belong to the yakiniku type.
It seems that RB people know that the so-called light and so-called original, and when it comes to the competition, this B can't be installed, so they have to come up with something heavy.
Fang Hong grinned, this is a coincidence, mullet fillet is the most original and light food, although Fang Hong was originally going to make it spicy, but now, Fang Hong is going to show his true skills.
How to use clean water to cook the fish without a fishy smell.
As for Wagashi, it is one of the Japanese pastries, and Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Zuoren likes Japanese pastries the most and looks down on the pastries in his hometown.
Those who don't know really think it's something delicious, and those who know know that Zhou Zuoren's amazing RB wife was sweeping the streets when she was in RB.
In essence, it is no different from the fruit, and when you go abroad, you are awesome, but in fact it is nothing in essence.
Peach slice paste is one of the two classics of Sichuan-style dim sum, and the other is rice cake.
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