The time for the cooking showdown is approaching, and some of the guests have already arrived in advance.

The staff at the entrance of the food hall dutifully checked the admission tickets of the guests and then led them to their respective places.

On both sides of the referee's seat, with their backs to the gate of the food hall and diagonally facing the referee's seat, the staff set up two and a half three-tiered trapezoidal stands around the ring as spectator seats. A one-and-a-half-metre gap was left between the spectator seats and the duel ring as an aisle.

The leaders were placed in the front row of the left stand, and the exhibitor guests sat behind them. The position of the stands on the right is reserved for the lucky tourists who are drawn.

Before the leader entered the venue, there was a small commotion, and the arrival of Mu Xueqi, a popular online anchor invited by Shuxianglou, made some fans who love her try to squeeze into the food hall and get close to the "goddess". Fortunately, the staff of the food hall stopped the excited fans in time, otherwise the scene would have been even more chaotic.

Mu Xueqi is very good at communication as a first-line network anchor, and as soon as she entered the food hall, she first contacted Manager Chu, and then greeted the guests in turn under the introduction of Manager Chu. Even the staff of the venue greeted her with a smile and took the trouble to meet every staff member who requested a group photo

Qian Duoduo was also very excited when he saw Mu Xueqi coming, as a cute fat house, he was also a fan of Mu Xueqi. Because the three of them were arranged to sit in the seats of the on-site staff, he took the opportunity to mix a group photo of Mu Xueqi with those staff who liked Mu Xueqi, which made him excited.

Lin Qiao has always had no good impression of these online anchors, so he didn't come over and take the initiative to greet Mu Xueqi, but deliberately picked up the flow chart of the cooking duel made by the Organizing Committee of the Expo and walked aside to watch it carefully.

In this culinary showdown, she and the team not only had to record enough material to facilitate the post-production of special programs, but also were responsible for providing live video signals for the LED screens of each exhibition hall.

Although she often made guest appearances as the executive director of the scene when she was doing food shows before, it was the first time that such a large-scale event was scheduled on the spot. She's not afraid of a challenge, but she feels it's always good to be a little more prepared.

In order to facilitate the leaders, guests and staff who came to participate in this cooking showdown to accurately understand the situation, the flow chart explained in detail each link and specific content of this cooking showdown.

The Organising Committee of the Expo divided the culinary showdown into five parts.

In the first session, 50 lucky visitors were selected by computer, and the results were displayed directly on the big screen at the viewing points of each pavilion. The battery cart at each viewing point will send the lucky visitors directly to the entrance of the food hall.

In the second session, while waiting for the lucky tourists to be in place, the participating leaders will give speeches and introduce the results of the Expo.

In the third session, after 100 judges and spectators were in place, the three referees read out the rules of the culinary duel, and Fang Yu and Ma Hao signed the "Agreement" drafted by the Shudu Cuisine Association in public. The two will write down the demands they will make to each other if they win, and this request will not be disclosed to each other and the audience until the end of the matchup, and only the referee will check whether there is any violation of national laws and the relevant industry regulations of the culinary association.

In the fourth session, two people make food separately and hand it over to the staff in groups of five. The staff will deliver the goods to the audience in order of left and right, front to back.

The fifth part is a secret ballot after the 100-member panel of judges has tasted the food of the two. There is a voting machine in each auditorium, and there are two buttons of different colors on the voting machine, representing Fang Yu and Ma Hao.

When the 100-member panel presses the button, the number of votes for the two will be displayed on the screens of all stadium viewing points.

In the sixth part, after the voting is over, the three referees will check the results and finally announce the results of the cooking showdown and announce the conditions of the winner in the "Letter of Agreement".

As soon as the scheduled time arrived, the big screen of each exhibition hall first broadcast an opening trailer made by Shudu TV for this cooking showdown, and then after a countdown, all the visitors waiting at the viewing point saw the director of the organizing committee press the button, and the computer began to randomly select the picture of lucky tourists.

At this time, Mu Xueqi took the opportunity to take her handheld gimbal and interviewed the invited exhibitors in the guest seat.

Most of the exhibitors were foreigners who had tasted the cold pot fish on the first day, and because they didn't have time to go to the food hall the next day, no one tasted the Qingfeng rice of Guofangyu.

As Du Feibai expected, they were almost one-sided in favor of Ma Hao.

At this time, Fang Yu had just finished making glutinous rice, and unhurriedly broke up the glutinous rice and put it aside to dissipate heat, and then began to prepare coconut milk sauce.

The base soup of Mahao's cold pot fish is also just boiling, and as Mahao keeps stirring, the strong and aggressive aroma once again permeates the food hall.

Fang Yu gently sniffed the fragrance in the air, and his eyes froze, this aroma today is very unusual.

Previously, Fang Yu had tried to guess the ingredients of the soup base of the cold pot fish by the wafting aroma. Of course, he didn't want to replicate the recipe through the scent, which was basically impossible. It's just that as a chef who loves food, smelling and reading the ingredients is a fun game in itself.

On the first day, Fang Yu preliminarily listed more than 30 kinds of ingredients and spices that might be used in the soup base through the aroma, but unfortunately one-third of them could not be determined.

Yesterday, because Ma Hao secretly used additives, the fragrance changed, although Fang Yu disliked this behavior, but also took the opportunity to confirm some of the ingredients.

Today's scent is completely different from the previous two days, the scent has changed slightly at different levels, and Ma Hao seems to have made a major adjustment to the recipe.

The top taste does not change much, and the flavors of celery and chives are very recognizable.

Although the middle flavor is still dominated by spicy flavor, there is a clear difference in structure. Among them, Fang Yu will never admit the rich fragrance of the two vitex, but he feels that the overall dosage has increased.

What's even more interesting is that the smell that makes up the hemp fragrance has changed a lot. The pepper flavor of the first two days was fragrant and refreshing, but today the pepper flavor is more mellow and rich.

Fang Yu preliminarily judged that the soup base two days ago should have used green peppercorns, but today's soup base is mixed with a lot of red peppercorns, and it is very likely that it is a tribute pepper from Hanyuan.

In the end, the aroma is still dominated by a thick and mellow soybean flavor, mixed with the flavors of more than a dozen common spices such as bay leaves and pickled ginger. Fang Yu carefully distinguished it a few times, and felt that the sour aroma inside seemed to be a little more aggravated than before, and guessed that it might be that Ma Hao added some pickled peppers to it in order to cater to the habits of the Shudu people.

These changes are not really significant, but the most important thing is that the taste of the soup itself, which carries all the ingredients and spices, has changed dramatically.

The base used to make the soup base two days ago should have been made with rapeseed oil stir-fried spices, and then added to the bone broth, and the aroma of meat was very obvious and undisguised.

The distinct aroma of animal fat in today's soup is not obvious, but a strong mellow aroma is more prominent.

Fang Yu was a few meters away, and looked at the cauldron that Ma Hao was stirring with all his eyes. I saw that the boiling soup in the middle of the cauldron pushed away the red oil on the surface, revealing a milky white soup, which was thicker in appearance than in the previous two days.

Good soup!

Fang Yu secretly admired, just looking at the color and texture of the soup, Fang Yu knew that it must be a top-notch fresh soup condensed with a large number of ingredients.

This concentration of fresh soup is not to mention fish fillets, even if you throw a piece of wood into it, it can be extremely delicious when you cook it for a while.

Under normal circumstances, no one would ever use this fresh soup to make dishes directly, and it is almost the same as diluting it for seasoning.

Could this be the secret weapon that Ma Hao prepared against himself?

Fang Yu felt that this hand was really powerful, giving full play to the advantages of Shuxianglou's wealth and large manpower, and also making full use of the loopholes in the duel rules.

But Fang Yu instinctively felt that he seemed to have ignored something, and there seemed to be a kind of smell hidden in the fragrance that was wafting around.

The smell was very flirtatious but a little tempting, which made Fang Yu smell more and more good...

Ma Hao looked at Fang Yu squinting and sniffing the aroma in the air, and sneered in his heart.

This Fang Yu seems to have discovered the power of his pot of soup. If he had been smart, he should have surrendered now, at least to save some face. Otherwise, when the duel officially begins, I'm afraid that I'm going to lose, and even my underwear will be turned out, and I won't be able to see anyone.

Ma Hao hadn't thought that Du Feibai's support would be so strong before, and Shu Xianghui's strength was completely beyond his expectations.

Yesterday, Du Feibai went out on a phone call, and in less than four hours, Shu Xianghui transported a full 100 silver carp all from the pure water source of the upper reaches of the river for him overnight.

In addition to the ten fish selected to prepare for the on-site production of cold pot fish, the other fish were removed from the fish meat and only the fish head and bones were boiled into soup with the efforts of more than ten people in Shuxianglou.

During the boiling process, Ma Hao also added the fish gelatin made from the fish meat to the soup several times, and finally finished it this morning.

This is a pot of fresh soup that can be said to have been unprecedented since the invention of cold pot fish, and probably no one has ever come after.

If it is an ordinary opponent, Ma Hao feels that it is already a big fuss to use such a fresh soup.

But yesterday, not only Du Changfeng showed his fear of Fang Yu's cooking skills, but even Du Feibai repeatedly emphasized to him that he could not take it lightly, and that he could use ten percent of his strength, but he could never use nine points.

Seeing that even Du Feibai attached so much importance to Fang Yu, Ma Hao was still a little uneasy about his lore fresh soup.

After thinking about it, Ma Hao gritted his teeth and drove out all the staff of Shuxianglou, and adjusted the recipe of the cold pot fish soup base in the kitchen by himself, and added a special condiment.

Watching those finely chopped powders melt into the soup, and after a few tumbling without a trace, Ma Hao's eyes showed a fierce light of victory.