Chapter 344: Golden Toad

"What do those people do?" Chunniang asked in surprise.

"Special Review." As soon as Hui Gan's words fell, fifty people had already rushed in, walking towards another newly opened seat in the northwest corner of the stage, and when everyone was seated, Master Jiang stood up from behind, struck the golden gong with a golden mallet, and loudly announced the rules of overtime.

This one is already the last game for Qin An, no matter whether the schedule of this competition is long or short, whenever it comes to the last game, people who have been chasing the game will have a trace of sigh and feeling in their hearts.

In the last game, there is only one dish, one dish that the players are best at, no restriction on the subject matter, no restriction on ingredients, you can play as much as you want, and play as much as you want. The finished product will be judged by a jury of 12 judges and a special jury composed of 50 people from all walks of life, the jury will still adopt a scoring system as usual, and the special jury will adopt a voting system, they will vote for their favorite contestants in their hands at the end, the score of each vote is one point, and the total score will be added together, whoever gets more points will be the final winner.

The reason for choosing the people's review is also to make the competition more fair and just, to evaluate the contestants' works from the perspective of non-professionals, no longer only to the personal preferences and professional vision of the professional judges, but also to reflect the fairness, impartiality and diversity of the competition.

Su Miao and Tong Ran both understand this truth, both of them are professionals. They have also participated in many competitions, and they have been in the industry for a long time, the same. After a long schedule to today, both of them are a little tired in their hearts, this game must be divided into a winner, whether it is their own victory or the other party's victory, there must always be a victory.

The food table is still standing in the center of the stage, and the stove is still the same stove, but the number of people is smaller. In the past, it was the contestants with assistants, but today it was Su Miao and Tong Ran who were separated on both sides, and there were only two people standing in front of the wide stove. It looks a little inexplicably lonely.

Today's ingredient table is no longer as before, the curtain is lifted on the spot to reveal what kind of ingredients are prepared on the spot, this game is the best dish for two people, the ingredients are naturally designated by two people in advance, and the long ingredient table is bounded by the red rope in the middle. The ingredients specified by the two people in advance have been prepared by the organizing committee of the competition. All neatly arranged in their respective baskets.

Obviously, this competition is even more difficult than the previous competitions, not to mention the creativity, subtlety, color, flavor, and shape of the works, and even the number of them, because today, in addition to the twelve judges, there is also a special judge composed of fifty ordinary people, and it is definitely a physical task for the chef to prepare the food for fifty people. What's more, there is no one to beat it today, relying only on one person's physical strength and craftsmanship. And these fifty people are not passers-by, they are the judges who hold the power of life and death of the players on the stage, and every vote is very important to the results of the contestants, so the works made must not be sloppy at all, which is not only a challenge in craftsmanship and patience, but also a test of being able to stably exert this control of one's own talent in the long-term competition.

This game, when you think about it, is quite difficult.

There are already many people worried that Su Miao, as a woman, is not strong, and her right hand is injured, whether such a delicate and poor little girl can win on the stage and looks like the best Tong Ran in every aspect.

"In the end, she is still a little girl, young and vigorous, and she pushes herself to death, how can she win Tong Sishao in her current state!" There was already such a discussion, of course, the person who said such a thing was not sarcastic about Su Miao, but more because of his worry about Su Miao.

Of course, there are also unpleasant remarks: "God dozed off and let her win, look at her arrogant and injured on stage, is this the intention of making people see her as a hero or what, in my opinion, this is a fool, what are you doing on stage when your hand is injured, embarrassing and making jokes?" ”

"That's it! What a stupidity! Laugh to death! ”

"I, I've hated that woman since she first appeared, and now I'm even more annoying!" Naturally, she was a girl who said this.

"I was okay at first, but the more I watched it, the more I didn't like it." Her accompaniment echoed.

"Me too, I liked it at first, but now the more I look at it, the more annoying it becomes."

"Your likes are so fickle!" A voice intervenes without yin or yang.

The three girls who were talking enthusiastically were startled by the sudden intervention, and they all looked over, and there was also a little girl standing beside them, fourteen or fifteen years old, with two braids, wearing a coarse cloth dress, and carrying a vegetable basket on her arm. The three of them were stunned for a moment, and then the girl in the lead said "oops" in a weird way, pursed her lips and smiled:

"Isn't this Feng Erniu of Feng Ji Wonton, why don't you cook wontons at home, what are you doing standing here stupidly?"

"I want you to take care of it, ugly bastard!" Feng Erniu snorted from her nose and made a grimace at the girl who was older than her, and then before the previous girl's anger could start, the person had already squeezed towards the more crowded place in front.

The girls who were left behind could only watch her go farther and farther, stomp her feet, and gritted her teeth in anger because they couldn't squeeze as much as she could.

"I hate these women who know how to quarrel when they have nothing to do, it's annoying!" Su Chan, who was sitting on the VIP seat, watching the six roads and listening to all directions, was quite unhappy at this time.

"Second sister, is she really fine?" Su Yan wrinkled a pair of beautiful eyebrows worriedly, and said with an uneasy face.

No one answered him, and everyone was staring intently at the stage.

On the stage, because the topic of the competition had already been decided, the confident contestants naturally did not have too much extra emotion, and walked steadily to the ingredient table in the center. Carry the basket by hand.

Su Miao's right hand was injured and wrapped in a thick bandage, so naturally it could not be used. However, there was no trace of embarrassment on her face, standing in front of the food table, calmly stretched out her left hand, lifted the food basket down and put it on the ground, her expression was calm and calm, making people have the illusion that it should be so, without paying too much attention to her injury.

When Su Miao put the two large food baskets on the ground. Tong Ran, who had already appeared opposite her and was smiling and checking whether the ingredients prepared for the competition were good, suddenly opened his mouth and asked with a smile:

"Miss Sue. You can use me to help, I can help you carry it. ”

This is quite a gentleman's inquiry, polite and not abrupt at all. There was no additional meaning in his tone other than the natural concern for women as a man. If it is on other occasions, this is definitely a very pleasing inquiry, as long as it is a woman, she will definitely have a good impression of him because of such an inquiry, but this does not include Su Miao at this time, the two are rivals on the stage, and it is never a pleasant thing to be sympathized with by the opponent, although Su Miao will not pretentiously think that he is sarcastic about her like this. Of course, she would not be angry and disgusted with him because of such an inquiry, but she would never have a good impression of him because of his polite inquiry.

She just gave him a faint look. Then he said with a calm expression:

"Thanks, but not necessary."

As he spoke, he was quite "bravely" lifted two large baskets that were almost half a person high with a lonely left hand, turned around, and walked towards his stove.

Tong Ran was a little stunned in the face of her "dashing departure" back, paused, raised her slender eyebrows, hooked the corners of her pale lips with a smile, and a pair of narrow willow eyes were full of playfulness and interest.

refused the help of others, but injured her right hand again, although Su Miao is powerful, she is a girl in the end, naturally she is not as good as Tong Ran, not to mention that Tong Ran can carry ingredients with two hands, so Su Miao, who carried the ingredients by himself again and again, was destined to have a longer stage of preparing ingredients than Tong Ran, and when Tong Ran had already started cooking, Su Miao had just moved all the ingredients to his own cooking table.

Gently wiping the corner of her forehead with her sleeve, she let out a long breath.

"It took so long to just move an ingredient basket, did Miss Su really succeed?" Some people have already started talking about it under the stage.

"In the end, he is young, although he looks old, he is also a reckless person." On the judges' seat, Master Cheng shook his head and sighed slightly regretfully.

A few judges chimed in.

Only Xia Chang didn't say a word, but the direction his eyes were staring at was not Su Miao, who was still preparing, but Tong Ran, who was looking at Tong Ran with an observing expression, and looked straight at him for a long time.

Tong Ran was very calm, he stood calmly in front of the cooking table, the lancet in his hand spun in the air in a chic circle, quickly tore half of the abalone's burrs from its gap, but did not tear it, and used the blade to slice two-thirds of the joint between the upper and lower shells.

Pour water into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, and then soak the shiitake mushrooms, magnolia slices, and fish maw separately.

The so-called magnolia slices are dried products made from fresh bamboo shoots, and because the shape and color resemble the petals of magnolia flowers, they are called "magnolia slices", which are not only a popular fried pastry in spring, but also a side dish.

Tong Ran chose the magnolia slice is the top "treasure tip" in the magnolia piece, the treasure tip is made of budding bamboo shoots before the beginning of spring, the tip of the slice is smooth, the color is yellow and white, the meat is delicate, the taste is fragrant, it is the top grade in the magnolia piece, because it is plump and fat, flexible and slightly brittle, similar to a pagoda, more like a dragon horn, so it is also called "golden pagoda" or "dragon horn".

Magnolia slices are a very common and also a good ingredient in the south, Tong Ran chose the magnolia slices that he purchased by himself, because the overtime test is the contestant's best dish, the competition may not necessarily be so comprehensive, so it is not forbidden for the contestants to bring their own ingredients, the competition will provide full help to the contestants in terms of ingredients, but it may not be able to provide the most hearty, so the most hearty is to rely on their own preparation.

So the gap emerged from here, and Tong Ran's financial resources were not comparable to ordinary people.

In addition to magnolia slices and fish maw, although the fish maw is called "fish maw", it is not the belly of the fish, but the swim bladder of the fish, and it is also the swim bladder of the catfish. The fish maw is also called "rice fish maw", it is the best product in the fish maw, it is oval, flake-shaped, the convex surface has a little ripple, the four sides are smooth, the color is light yellow, and there is a faint light red, translucent, bright and bright. Fish maw belongs to one of the four major seafood of Yueliang country, and rice fish maw is the best in fish maw, the price is expensive, ordinary people have not even seen it.

After removing the fishy smell and impurities, the soaked food was fished out by Tong Ran and slowly showered with clean water.

Abalone, magnolia slices, fish maw and the large ham marinated in the best pork leg meat are cut into inch-long shreds, and the ingredients of different shapes and sizes are all cut into equal filaments by Tong Ran's skillful hands, and they are laid together, so that the appearance of the ingredients themselves cannot be distinguished.

Immediately afterwards, Tong Ran filtered out the clear and viscous egg whites by hand, took only the clear upper half of the filtered and precipitated egg whites, poured them all into a plate, and pulled them up with chopsticks, and whipped the egg whites into a snow-white foam. At this time, put the minced fish into a bowl, cook in rice wine, refined salt, clear stock and cooked lard that is white like snow and not greasy, then add a little mung bean flour, then stir the minced fish vigorously, pour in the foamy egg white, and stir evenly into a paste.

It is difficult to see exactly how Tong Ran did this step by filling the fish paste into the opening of the abalone with a knife, because when people watched him cook it, they only thought that he was filling the fish paste like adding meat to the eggplant box, just to serve the taste and texture, and make the abalone taste more different, so that when Tong Ran stuffed two peas into the abalone shell at the end, and also dotted a little hair cabbage in the middle, no one guessed what he was doing.

Until Tong Ran put the processed abalone on the steaming drawer, and then took it out after the upper drawer was steamed-

What followed was a rather shocking picture, and a rather shocking follow-up suddenly appeared, although this wonderful and magical follow-up was not seen by everyone, but everyone in the front row who saw it was not shocked.

When the lid of the steamer was lifted, the smoke was steaming, and the outermost abalone shells of all the abalone on the steamer before all fell off, and the shape formed by the mixture of snow-white fish paste and golden abalone meat inside was vividly displayed in front of the eyes as if it had been enchanted. (To be continued.) )