Chapter 161: Eight Legendary Crabs
"I didn't expect you to be so good at cooking at such a young age." Even though he had some prejudice against the Central Plains people in his heart, when Andrew saw the plate of rosemary salt-baked crabs with bursts of aroma, he couldn't help but praise Chang Le.
"Hmph, maybe it's just a faΓ§ade." The three members of the jury behind him said with some disdain.
Andrew didn't speak, silently picked up the chopsticks and stretched them out to the dishes, Chang Le saw this, and immediately stopped him and said, "Dear Mr. Andrew, please wait a moment." β
After speaking, he took out a complete set of eight crabs and spread them on the table, and said: "In our Tiantang Dynasty, eight crabs are used to eat crab meat, and these are the eight things, waist round hammer, small square table, tweezers, long-handled axe, spoon, long-handled fork, scraper, needle, use these tools to remove the crab meat, and the taste is better." β
"First cut the crab leg with scissors, the waist hammer gently knocks back and forth on the edge of the crab's back shell, this is to knock the crab shell loose first, easy to lift the cover, open the back shell and navel and then use a basin to hold the crab cover, and then hit it many times with a long-handled axe, and then use tweezers to remove the crab gills, which is a white thick piece, and there is a crab stomach covered with bones, the gills and stomach are extremely cold things, inedible, use a skewer to remove the crab belly of the crab meat, or poke out, hook out the crab leg meat, scrape off the paste or yellow with a long-handled spoon, and send it into the mouth."
Chang Le made a demonstration of how to do it, as a little chef of Xianheng Restaurant, he often picked crab meat for those big customers to eat.
He skillfully took out a steaming crab from the dishes, put it on the table, cut off two large claws and eight crab legs one by one with round-headed scissors, gently knocked the waist hammer around the crab shell, and then split the back shell and navel with a long-handled axe, and then took a drill, tweezers, fork, hammer, or pick or clip or fork or knock, take out the golden butter bright crab roe or milky white sticky crab paste, take out the snow-white and tender crab meat, and use the tools in turn, one function after another, as if playing a melody and frustration food song
The four jury members of the Xiyi Continent gathered together quite curiously, picked up the eight crabs and studied them carefully, even if they wanted to break their heads, they couldn't figure it out, eating a crab actually needed so many complicated tools.
Andrew smiled, the wrinkles on his face suddenly relaxed, and said, "Interesting! He picked up the tools on the table according to the demonstration made by Chang Le just now, and began to pick up the crab meat little by little, and the other three saw Andrew do it, and they also picked up the tools on the table and learned.
"In our Tiantang Dynasty, eating crab is an elegant and chic food enjoyment, eating crabs with small and exquisite gold, silver, copper tableware, full of fun, very popular among our aristocracy, take my hometown Jiangnan as an example, when the literati appreciate the chrysanthemum and poetry crabs, everyone has a set of special crab eight pieces." When Andrew and the others were picking crab meat, Chang Le patiently explained on the side.
But at this time, no one paid attention to Chang Le, because the jury was busy eating hard, and soon a large plate of rosemary salt-baked crabs was only left on the plate, and even he didn't have time to eat a bite, what was surprising was that Andrew actually relied on his high moral status and high status, and snatched half of the rosemary salt-baked crab from others and ate it.
In the audience on the side, Gabriel's face was blue when he saw this scene, and it was already very ugly.
"That...... Mr. Andrew, I can make it for you at any time if you like, but for now...... Looks like it's still playing! Chang Le really couldn't bear to disturb Andrew, who was indulging in food, but at the moment, the eyes of the audience were staring at him, and this feeling was still quite uncomfortable.
"Ahem, please forgive me for being rude." Andrew coughed lightly, wiped his mouth stained with crab roe and hands dripping with crab juice with a tissue, and said rather embarrassedly.
"It's okay, it's my pleasure." Chang Le had an idea, and bent down to salute Andrew according to the American and British dramas he watched in his previous life.
"You actually know the etiquette of our Xiyi Continent?" Everyone in the jury was dazzled, and they felt that the original kid in front of them was a little more pleasing to the eye.
"Hey, I understand, I understand." Chang Le put on a humble look and scratched his head.
Andrew smiled and nodded, and after discussing with the three people behind him, he gave a high score of ten points for color and flavor!
As soon as this result came out, the audience immediately boiled, this is the first time that the Central Plains people have obtained such good results in the Chef God Competition!
Andrew smiled and said: "Young man, in terms of cooking, you are really talented, and I just saw that you are quite fancy when cooking, as if you are combining the so-called magic and cooking skills of your original plains, what a great imagination, bless you, young man!" β
Chang Le looked at Andrew, who was kindly sending sincere blessings to him, and said in his heart: "It seems that not all the people in the Xiyi Continent are so annoying!" β
"My cooking skills are still a little lacking in the heat, if it weren't for the opportunistic tricks of spells, I wouldn't have gotten such good results, this time it can only be said to be a fluke, but I still want to thank you for your encouragement." Chang Le said modestly, Li Wuyan in the audience on the side put his hands across his chest, a smile appeared on his face, and he sighed: "Chang Le, this kid, can still pretend to be so pure, hahaha." β
Andrew shook hands with Chang Le cordially, and then walked towards the other contestants, but unfortunately after eating the rosemary salt-baked crab made by Chang Le, the people of the jury didn't seem to have much interest in the dishes made by other contestants.
"It seems that this preliminary round is stable!" Chang Le saw that the scores of other players were so low, and he couldn't help but be happy in his heart.
He folded his hands, waved towards the sky, and said: "Fat cat, I can win this time but it all depends on the gourmet gourd you sent, it seems that you are not so unreliable as you seem on the outside, I really want to thank you, I wish you a hundred sons and grandchildren as soon as possible!" β
About an hour later, after the jury led by Andrew tried every contestant's cooking, the four of them handed in the score sheet in their hands, and after some statistics, most of the losing contestants had been cleared out of the arena, including Chang Le, only ten contestants remained in the competition area.
Andrew stood at the front desk, looked at the remaining ten players condescendingly, his eyes swept slightly, and when his gaze swept over Chang Le, he nodded slightly, and said loudly: "Congratulations to you who are still in the field, you have successfully passed the first test of the Chef God Competition, but everything is not over, I hope that in the next round of the competition, you can come up with better results, and finally ...... Congratulations again! β