Chapter 185: Preliminary Round: Who Are the Finalists?
Because Su Miao reversed and won in the fourth game, Su Miao's dishes in the fifth game had priority scoring.
"Crab soup goldfish ravioli!" The guy holding the large tray stood in front of the judges' seats, loudly announced the name of the dish, and placed eight blue and white porcelain soup cups in front of the judges one by one.
Because there are more men and fewer women in the judges' seat, Mother Jiang and Mrs. Chen are very concerned about Su Miao, a girl who is also crowded in the men's pile to participate in the competition, plus this girl is frank and lively, she has no pride when she wins, and she doesn't feel depressed when she loses, and there seems to be endless vitality in her body, even the people who look at her will be infected by her liveliness, and then become brighter, and the two of them like Su Miao very much.
The two couldn't wait to open the blue and white porcelain lid, and the fresh fragrance of the heat wave rushed to their faces, rich but not stinging. At first glance, the smell of this mild and humid aroma makes it seem that even the heart and lungs that have been dried up due to excessive exertion are moistened by this warm vapor, and then when I see the clear and delicious soup in the porcelain jar, five lifelike little red goldfish gather together and float under the huge and bright lotus flowers, their eyes are bright. The red goldfish, the green coriander, the pink lotus, and the golden fish playing lotus are vividly presented in the soup cup, delicate and bright, auspicious and gratifying, and people who like beauty can't help but smile after seeing it, because the skillful hands of the maker are amazed, because this bright and lively picture is also happy.
"This hand is really coincidental, it is nothing to be able to wrap up a goldfish, but this goldfish floats on the surface of the water like a living one, and I am reluctant to eat it when I look at it like this!" Mrs. Chen said with a smile and paused. But he was stunned, "Huh? ”
I don't know if it's because the eyes are spent, or if it's true, after staring at the little goldfish for a while because of reluctance to eat. But suddenly I felt that the little goldfish seemed to move in the steaming soup, as if it was swimming.
Mrs. Chen was feeling suspicious, only to hear Mother Jiang beside her suddenly ahhhhh
"Why do I think this goldfish swam a little just now!"
Madame Chen was stunned for a moment, looked at her suspiciously, and then glanced at the other people at the same table, who also stared at the soup cup in front of them motionlessly. Ge Yuanwai was puzzled and said:
"Why do I think it's swimming?"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, and then everyone lowered their heads. Even those who were already a little impatient because they had been sitting for five hours in a row couldn't help but fold their arms on the table, and stared at the little goldfish in the soup cup with their heads down.
Because it was already the last one, for five hours in a row, everyone was tired. Finally got through to the moment of the final round of scoring. The voices of speech decreased significantly, and the surroundings of the stage became very quiet, so the exclamations of Jiang's mother and Ge Yuanwai came out very clearly, causing the judges who were almost asleep at the next table to look back, and some people in the VIP seats craned their necks to look this way.
On the stage, Zhao He was stunned and asked Su Miao suspiciously:
"What's going on, how can a goldfish made of noodles swim?"
Su Miaoyan smiled: "I will do tricks." ”
"What's going on?" Chen Sheng was also surprised. Seeing that Su Miao's answer was too high and unfathomable, she turned her face to aftertaste. Be open-minded and seek advice.
"With two kinds of noodles, soaking in the hot soup will slowly swell, and then there is the problem of the eyes." The aftertaste said lightly. Standing on the stage for five hours in a row, his head became lazy just now when he was exposed to the sun and the stove, Su Miao didn't think much about it, and then he heard the audience shouting that the goldfish would move, and he thought for a while before he understood what she meant, "This is not an ordinary ravioli".
Under the stage, the judges were still staring at the soup cup, staring intently for a long time, and Wan Guoan on the stage was anxious for a while, afraid that their dishes would be cold if they stared at them for too long.
"What an evil sect!" This time it was the shopkeeper Li who spoke out, although he had eaten a lot of delicacies, but he couldn't figure it out, scratching his head and saying suspiciously, "That girl above not only knows how to cook, but also does tricks?" ”
"It's a problem with the eyes, keep staring until the eyes are dry, and if you shake your mind for a while, you will feel that the fish is moving, mainly because the fish is too much like the real thing." Sun Juren carefully analyzed.
Xia Chang picked up the spoon without saying a word, scooped a small goldfish and put it in his mouth, the right size, one bite was just right.
Everyone stared at him, it felt like he had swallowed a fish alive, and Mother Jiang couldn't help but say:
"Mr. Xia, you ate it so quickly, at least look at it for a while, it's so like a goldfish, you look weird and scary when you eat one bite."
Xia Chang chewed with his eyes closed, and said, "If you don't eat it again, it will be cold." ”
One sentence made the judges come back to their senses from feeling cruel, and they thought that it was right, so they picked up the spoons and ate them.
Mrs. Chen was reluctant to eat goldfish, so she simply scooped a spoonful of clear soup and drank it. Pure clear soup, it seems that no seasoning is added, what you eat is the umami of the crab itself, this thick umami will not make people feel fishy, there is no annoying fishy smell at all, but I feel delicious, except that umami is fresh. Even though I didn't use any seasoning, instead of feeling bland, I felt that if I used seasoning, I would ruin the perfect taste.
After drinking a spoonful of fresh soup, I felt a hot thread flowing straight into my stomach, and the soft warmth quickly spread to my limbs. The judges had been sitting stiffly in their seats for a full five hours, and now they were nourished by this fresh crab soup, and the fatigue in their bodies was swept away, replaced by new vitality, and the urgency to take another sip was never stronger, and one sip after another, only to feel that the body became comfortable from the inside out.
Mother Jiang glanced at her and couldn't help but remind: "Big sister, do you still have the stomach to eat wontons after the soup is drunk?" ”
"It's okay, this soup is really fresh, Mother Jiang, you can taste it more!" Mrs. Chen said happily.
The corners of Jiang's mother's eyes twitched fiercely, her ears were full of sucking and snorting, and when she looked back, Wu Zhizhou and Ge Yuanwai were eating hard with soup and water, and even Sun Juren didn't care about his image as a scholar, one bite after another, which provoked the spectators who were paying attention to their table couldn't help but discuss:
"Looks delicious!"
"Even the judges have that kind of food, it should be delicious!"
"I want to eat it too!"
Mother Jiang was embarrassed for a while, tried to pay attention to her appearance, scooped up a small red goldfish and put it in her mouth. The soft and elastic dough is smooth and glutinous, bite open a mouth, the delicate and smooth filling falls on the tip of the tongue, obviously it is not the season to eat crabs, but when you enter it, you feel that the crab roe and crab meat are not worse than the taste of the crab when the crab is fat in autumn, the meat is soft and tender, smooth as clotted fat, fresh but not fishy, and melts in the mouth. Delicious, just delicious, there is no slightest bit of crab mud and sand fishy smell, the delicious crab meat and soft glutinous dough are mixed together, as if melted between the lips and teeth, the taste is sweet, the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless.
Mother Jiang's eyes lit up!
This side is slowly tasting, the head of Xia Chang they have already eaten, Xia Chang took out a handkerchief, wiped his mouth and wiped the sweat on his head, stuffed it into his arms again, and said to himself:
"I said, it turned out to be glutinous rice flour and noodles, no wonder!"
The others didn't hear this self-talk, and even if they heard it, they didn't care, and everyone who finished eating the wontons felt a little depressed, and Wu Zhizhou smacked his mouth twice:
"It's not that I said, Miss Su is also stingy, every time she gets us such a little, I want to give her a point!"
"My lord, you're here to be a judge, not to go to the restaurant." Jiang's mother always met him in the flower building, and the two were old acquaintances, so she said unceremoniously.
"Of course this officer knows." Wu Zhizhou said solemnly, glancing at the soup cup in front of her, "What's left, don't you like to eat ......?"
Before she finished speaking, Mother Jiang had already eaten the last goldfish.
Wu Zhizhou touched his stomach and ate all morning's food, he really wanted to eat more rice or pasta to fill his stomach at this time!
"This dish is wolfberry cucumber stewed fish maw!" The first course is tasted, and the second course is served.
With the cinnabar mud stew cup as a container, the fish maw is rich in gelatin, has the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing the kidney, wolfberry nourishes the liver and moistens the lungs, and the cucumber is sweet and relieves fever, which is a rare nourishing dish.
However, the eight judges seemed to have no energy as if the power had suddenly cut off, Wu Zhizhou's mind was to get some soup and water pasta to eat, so that those who could fill their stomachs and moisturize would not feel dry, noon was just right, and everyone else thought about the same as him.
The aftertaste left by the last dish is still stored even after rinsing with tea, so delicious that people want to eat a bowl happily, and the unforgettable taste has been deeply engraved in the brain, so when I taste wolfberry cucumber stewed fish maw at this time, I only feel that the cucumber fragrance is strange, the wolfberry medicinal taste is too strong, and the umami of fish maw is too light, in short, something is wrong, even the shopkeeper Li, who has always supported Wan Guoan, also ate half a bowl and involuntarily put it down.
It's grading time!
Crab soup goldfish small wontons, starting from Wu Zhizhou, almost without hesitation, from beginning to end, one after another are three-point cards.
It was the turn of the shopkeeper Lee.
Su Miao looked at him, this person didn't seem to like her very much.
Shopkeeper Li lowered his head and fiddled with the score card in his hand under the attention of everyone, hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and suddenly raised a three-point card!
The scene was boiling, and the eight judges had eight highest scores, which was rare in the history of the King Chef Competition, especially since the person who won this result was still a little girl!
Su Miao's heart blossomed, she bent her eyebrows and smiled.
"This little girl, it's so cute to laugh!" Mother Jiang stroked her cheek and said, and went to look at Wan Guoan, whose face was green again, how unpleasant this old face was.
Goji berry cucumber stewed fish maw, also without hesitation, from beginning to end, everyone is holding a two-point card!
Wan Guoan's eyes widened in shock, his face was full of wrinkles, blue and white, and he trembled with anger.
The discussion in the audience is higher and higher, the veteran chef who has experienced a hundred battles loses to a fledgling little girl, is the old one too useless or the small one too powerful?
"Ridiculous! Absurd! Wan Guoan was furious, and left the stage angrily without waiting for the ceremonial officer to announce the end of the game.
Twenty-four points to sixteen points, Su Miao won the fifth game!
In the preliminary round, Su Miao defeated Hezhou celebrity chef Wan Guoan 3-2 and successfully advanced to the second round! (To be continued......)