Chapter 52: Spicy, Not Spicy
"Hello audience friends, what you are watching now is the first and third phase of K City's "Decide to Eat You", I am the host Ding Ding," the host introduced
"The four restaurants participating in today's competition are Chinese restaurants: Good Food Moment"
"Chinese Restaurant: Xiangxiangzhuang"
"Breakfast Shop: Delicious Bun Shop"
"Western Restaurant: TSM"
After the host introduced the four restaurants, Zhong Jing and the heads of the other three restaurants came to the stage one after another
The host faced Zhong Jing and others and said, "The director team just informed me that your theme today is 'spicy'"
As soon as the topic was introduced, the judges and diners discussed: "This time the topic is so simple? ”
"In the past, the topics were very abstract, why is this time so concrete?"
The host faced the audience at this time, "That's right, compared with the usual, the question of this competition is too straightforward and simple, but this also means that what you need to do is extraordinary, because the simpler the more ordinary"
The host continued, "Before we begin, do any of your four restaurants need to use the "Exclusive Offer"? ”
The four restaurant representatives, including Zhong Jing, shook their heads
Seeing Zhong Jing, the host shook his head and said, "As a breakfast restaurant, don't you use the privilege of the delicious bun shop?" ”
Zhong Jing said, "Why should we have privileges? Unspoken rules? ”
The host smiled awkwardly, "Well, because breakfast restaurants generally don't have many dishes, the use of privileges is almost an unspoken rule."
Zhong Jing replied "Oh, then it seems that we don't need it"
“……”
"Okay, since everyone doesn't use it, then don't say much, please ask four restaurant representatives to move into the kitchen with their own team, which has ingredients carefully selected by the director team, and in two hours, you need to serve ten judges and one hundred public diners, a total of 110 entries, which will test the quality of your cooking and the quantity of your cooking."
After the host finished speaking, Zhong Jing and others also walked into the kitchen, and the big screen on the scene began to show the VCR recorded by the four teams before the game, and some of the content of the four teams cooking in the kitchen will be heard from time to time on the big screen, but these contents will not specifically reveal what kind of dishes the four teams make
Sister Li came to the kitchen and looked at the dazzling array of ingredients, and she didn't know where to start for a while
"Xiao Zhong, you Sister Li, I can't do food and do problems, what kind of director team told us to make spicy, where can I make so many spicy dishes?"
Zhong Jing smiled: "You cook a non-spicy dish today, and put some chili peppers at the end."
As soon as Zhong Jing's words came out, the comprehension skeleton and others present were stunned
The skeleton said, "Brother Jing, why don't I understand, the director team has said let's take spicy as the topic, why do you tell us to put some chili pepper at the end, just mean it."
Zhong Jing said with a smile: "The title of the director team seems to be the simplest topic in these scenes, in fact, it is the most difficult one, there is only one word in this question, spicy, which means that everyone should take spicy as the core, but don't forget, spicy itself is a very domineering taste, it is easy to steal the limelight of other seasonings, if you take it as the main body, then except for people who love spicy, it is difficult for others to talk about deliciousness, at most, it can only be said to be exciting."
"In addition, this time the judges and diners in the competition will not have rice or other dishes to synthesize the spicy, and several other restaurants will also desperately reflect the spiciness, so the judges and diners will unconsciously resist the spicy taste under such a single and repeated stimulus, because spicy is different from other flavors, he is very irritating, and the short and high-intensity stimulation will be offensive, especially as the food judges, they are very protective of their tongues."
"So not only did we have to avoid the irritation of the spicy taste, but we also had to find ways to alleviate the irritation that other restaurants brought to them."
After Zhong Jing finished speaking, Sister Li and the skeleton were dumbfounded, but Wang Liuye nodded, "It makes sense, this time our dishes must be spicy but spicy."
"This ...... Is it possible?" said Skeleton
But Sister Li nodded, "Isn't it clear that you explain it like this, it can solve the spicy dishes, simple?"
“…… Where is clear, how do I think Brother Jing is still complicated after the end," the skeleton said
However, Sister Li had already started to cook the dishes at this time, after all, she had to make more than 100 servings in two hours
Sister Li's idea is actually very simple, that is, the main dish with soup
It is always the best choice to say that spicy hot food is always the best choice, but it is also very good to choose what kind of soup to relieve spicy
If it is just a simple sweet soup, it is the best choice, but if you choose sweet soup, then the taste of the previous main dish will be completely washed away, and it will clash with the taste of sweet soup
But if the spicy soup is just some green vegetable and tofu soup, and the soup is as light as water, it can't have a good anti-spicy effect, which is no different from drinking plain water, so Sister Li decided to use a fish soup full of umami
The delicious taste of fish soup can be perfectly relieved of spiciness, and it will not conflict with the spicy taste, making people feel uncomfortable, which is a perfect match
After solving the problem of soup, the main dish is not important, Sister Li plans to make a dish based on various mountain vegetables such as bamboo shoots, and the appearance of vegetarian dishes in the competition is a very bold decision, and meat dishes have natural advantages before vegetarian dishes, but if the taste of vegetarian dishes is done well, and then the heat and taste are perfect, then this so-called disadvantage will be invisibly filled by fish soup
Once everything is decided, all that's left is to wait for the dish to come out
After two hours passed, the program team invited Zhong Jing back to the stage, and the dishes from the four restaurants were also served to the judges' tables one after another
Zhong Jing looked at the participating dishes of other restaurants, and the corners of his mouth were the same, "It's won"
Perhaps this is the reason for the preliminary round, the strength of the participating teams is not very strong, and Zhong Jing found that none of the restaurants noticed the side effects of blindly highlighting the spicy taste
The dishes of the two Chinese restaurants are spicier than the other, and the waiter even heard the word devil pepper when he introduced the clock
The judges who ate these two dishes drank water again and again, and it seemed that these two restaurants regarded this competition as a spicy competition
As for the Western restaurant TSM, they paid attention to the degree of spiciness, and the dishes were quite good, but unfortunately the judges and diners were stimulated by the spicy dishes of the previous two restaurants, and their tongues could hardly taste the taste of the dishes carefully prepared by this small restaurant
When the judges finally tasted the dishes of the delicious steamed bun shop, they were not satisfied at first, the mountain vegetables were indeed delicious in the mouth, but the vegetarian dishes always felt that the strength was not enough, and there was no spicy taste at all, which was suspected of being off topic
But when the judges began to drink the soup, their senses of this dish came to a big reversal, the delicious fish soup before the mouth of the memory of the spicy taste of the dish to the tongue immediately swept away, and when after drinking the soup and then eating a bite of the wild vegetables, you can feel that the deliciousness of the wild vegetables is still a little slightly spicy, but this spicy is not overbearing, it can be said that the spicy is just right, this is the more you eat, the more people love