Chapter 182: Cooking Competition.
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"I think you should need to find the person in charge here, not us." Yi Yue decisively kicked the ball to a bunch of strong men in the imperial dining room, no matter how the imperial dining room belongs to the royal family, according to the temperament of these people, they should not have the courage to offend the royal family.
However, what Yi Yue didn't expect was that the burly man sneered and said after hearing this, "Do you really think I don't know anything? In fact, you are the person in the imperial dining room, seeking personal interests through false public and private means, so that the people who have worked hard to wait here can only watch you eat in the end. β
"Sister Yi is not from the imperial dining room, she is our tour guide." The snow-haired girl opened her mouth to retort, and at the same time pulled Yi Yue's sleeve and raised her big watery eyes to glare at the burly man, "I know you envy that we have Sister Yi as a tour guide, but we will never give you Sister Yi." β
"Tour guide?" The burly man sneered and said, "Can you make up an excuse seriously?" Everyone knows that today is the first day of the opening of the palace to the outside world, and who dares to say that they are familiar with the palace except for the daily staff of the palace. β
Then the burly man looked at Yi Yue and smiled and said, "I almost forgot, since you are a person from the imperial dining room, you are indeed much more familiar with the imperial palace than us, but when did the imperial dining room start working as a part-time tour guide?" β
"I'm not-" Yi Yue subconsciously wanted to refute, but in order not to reveal her true identity, Yi Yue finally chose to remain silent.
Seeing that the girl in the long skirt was silent, the burly man sneered and mocked slightly, "What, is this an admission?" Even if the Imperial Dining Room is under the jurisdiction of Her Majesty the Queen, even Her Majesty will never allow such a thing as the abuse of power for personal gain, and I will appeal to the Supreme Court of the Empire on this matter later, and we must be treated most fairly as ordinary tourists. β
Yi Yue bit her lip tightly, the situation is still developing in the worst direction, if she is found to be Her Majesty's maid but smears Her Majesty, thus making the royal family lose face, she will be responsible even if she dies.
It's just that at this moment, she seems to have walked into a dead end, and she can't find any direction to go.
However, then a ray of light shone in, leading her to a new exit.
"She is indeed from the Imperial Dining Room." Gong Tachibana stood up, walked up to the burly man and said with a smile.
"It's too late to admit it now, and I won't change my decision just now." The burly man replied with a blank face.
"That's not what I'm trying to talk about." Gong Tang smiled and said, "You seem to have some misunderstanding about us serving the food in advance." β
"Misunderstanding?" The burly man sneered and said, "Then you say, what did I misunderstand?" β
"You're right about one thing, you're ordinary tourists who come here just to taste the food, but I'm different." Miyatachi looked at the delicate dishes on the wooden table and said with a faint smile, "I'm here just to prove that the food here is really bad." β
The burly man frowned slightly when he heard this, and his whole head couldn't help but become confused.
"What do you mean?"
"It means that the dishes you see are not just dishes, but specially made by the Imperial Dining Room for cooking competitions." Gong Tachibana said lightly to the burly man, "The reason why you can see two dishes served one after the other is because the dishes served one after the other are made by two different chefs in order to show off their respective cooking skills. β
Gong Tachibana spread out a finger and said to the neatly arranged dishes on the wooden table, "As you can see, the dishes on the wooden table are all the same two servings, and this is the best proof. β
The burly man glanced at the delicate dishes on the wooden table, believing what the Sakura-haired girl had said, but still remaining skeptical, asked, "The dishes on this table are almost identical, and I think it's very likely that they were made by one person." β
"Yes or no, you won't know if you taste it." Gong Tang smiled slightly, stretched out his jade hand and picked up two plates of bright braised fish and handed them to the burly man and said, "This dish is called braised puffer fish, and the method is not difficult, it is almost the same as that of ordinary fish, but the meat of puffer fish is extremely delicious and tender, so on the basis of excellent quality ingredients, the deliciousness of this dish can be fully reflected." However, don't look at the two puffer fish as they are the same on the surface, in fact, you can only taste the difference by eating them separately. β
"Try it, I don't think you mind what we've eaten."
Looking at the innocent smile on the beautiful face of the cherry-haired girl, the burly man couldn't help but blush, and subconsciously took the chopsticks and picked up a piece of puffer fish meat and stuffed it into his mouth, and the mellow fragrance suddenly splashed in his mouth, as if it was about to come out of his nose.
The tender and juicy puffer fish meat melts in your mouth, and the fat but not greasy taste will definitely make many vegetarians fall into it.
It wasn't until the puffer fish meat was chewed that the burly man slowly swallowed it into his belly, and even so, the burly man still showed a look of unfinished business.
However, the burly man quickly broke free from this feeling, quickly regained his composure, and stretched his chopsticks towards the puffer fish meat on another plate, which looked equally delicate and perfect.
However, this time, after a piece of puffer fish meat was eaten, the burly man couldn't help frowning, although this piece of puffer fish meat was also delicious, but it always made him feel that something was wrong.
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"Don't you feel like you're missing something?" Miyazu smiled and continued the burly man's words.
The burly man nodded, this was indeed what he was thinking at the moment.
"You're right, this plate of braised puffer fish on my right hand is indeed missing something that causes it to taste a little different from the one on the left."
"What's missing?" The burly man, who was becoming more and more puzzled in his heart, couldn't help but ask, although the taste of the two pieces of puffer fish meat was a rare delicacy, but this imperceptible difference made him uncomfortable like a fish bone, and he was haunted.
However, Gong Tang smiled and did not answer the burly man's question directly, but instead said, "Actually, if you taste these two dishes from the beginning, you will not find any difference between these two dishes, because not only are the two dishes exactly the same in terms of ingredients, but there is no difference in the methods. Only after it comes out of the pot, the braised puffer fish on the left has an extra process, which prolongs the time for the flavor loss of the puffer fish meat. So what you think is less is actually due to the fact that the taste on the right has become lighter than the braised puffer fish on the left. β
"What process?"
Miyazaka smiled mysteriously, "Syringe." β