Chapter 114: When the game is in progress
Time flies. Ice @ Fire #δΈ%ζ.
Shu Nuan originally thought that so many days would be enough time to go home by herself.
And when she was busy with all kinds of preparations, it was time to go to the competition.
In order to understand what the most popular dishes were during this period, she also went to various restaurants and food stalls to investigate.
Rongcheng has a spicy taste, and almost all the dishes are spicy, but she Shu Jinwen helped her get the news from the competition, but for the sake of the fairness of the competition, she found four food judges, two of whom are spicy, and the other two don't like chili peppers.
However, these are not the point, the point is that the organizers of this competition do not seem to attach much importance to this competition, and do not design too many competition links.
From the preliminary round to the end of the competition, it only takes one day to select the rankings.
Shu Jinwen sent the person to the competition venue and gently raised his right hand.
"Come on, I'll wait outside for your results."
"Okay, I'll go in first."
Shu Nuan said goodbye to the person behind him, took his belongings, and walked slowly into the door.
Under the guidance of the staff, she arrived at her destination smoothly, a spacious classroom.
There are not too many fancy things in the morning game, the competition party directly stipulates the number of dishes to be made, and only needs to follow the official process, follow the instructions, and then evaluate and score to select the winner.
"Why are there so few people coming to the game today?"
Shu Nuan muttered secretly in her heart, and couldn't help but look around her.
In her imagination, even if the number of participants this time is small, there should not be only so many dozens of people.
In this spacious classroom, there is no competition atmosphere as she imagined.
"Dangdangdang......"
The sound of the gong striking sounded, attracting the attention of everyone present.
"All the people who participated in the competition, go back to their workstations and don't walk around. Staff, clean up the irrelevant people who are present. β
The person who is speaking at the moment is the fat chef who wore a chef's hat some time ago and explained the rules to all the contestants.
Because everyone had seen this one, the other people who had originally gathered together in twos and threes quickly returned to where they should be.
Shu Nuan stood in his own position, like everyone else present, quietly looking at the person who spoke.
"I think you already know the rules of our game, so I'm not going to repeat them anymore."
"The competition lasted for one day, with a cooking competition in the morning and scoring and awards in the afternoon. For the sake of efficiency, I want everyone to be able to cook quietly and not do other things that are not related to the game. β
"Regarding this competition, the final interpretation right belongs to the organizer......"
It took a few minutes for the fat chef to babble before he finished speaking.
Shu Nuan looked at the food judges, and under the leadership of other staff, slowly came to the position and sat down.
Although she listened to the fat chef's introduction, there was a hint of doubt in her eyes.
"Why aren't these judges the ones I heard in the news?"
This question is not only her, but the other contestants who know a little bit of gossip are also secretly muttering in their hearts.
After the judges made their own remarks as usual, the staff slowly entered the venue with a cart containing ingredients.
"The first dish to be made today is squirrel mandarin fish, give everyone half an hour to cook, now start ......"
As the conclusion fell, most of the contestants picked up the mandarin fish that was fresh in the wooden basin, picked up the knife and began to deal with it quickly.
Shu Nuan is not among the vast majority of people, she belongs to the very few.
"Half an hour is enough."
She thought silently in her heart, and her first reaction was to check the seasoning provided by the organizer before turning her eyes to the mandarin fish in the wooden basin.
As the name suggests, squirrel mandarin fish should resemble a squirrel in the shape of the dish. To do this, when handling fish with a knife, it is a great test of the chef's knife skills.
Because it will be fried in the pan for a while, it must not be cut when cutting.
Shu Nuan didn't start cooking for the first time, but because of her good knife skills, she was not slower than the others next to her, but she had a feeling of being behind.
After the fish is processed, it is necessary to prepare hot oil to fry the fish in the pan until it is set, and the heat must be mastered at this time, otherwise after the dish is finished, it will not reflect the delicacy at all.
Remove from the pan and quickly stir-fry the sauce.
When the sweet and sour sauce is poured over the freshly fried fish, the meat squeaks, much like a squirrel's cry.
After a short period of frying, the fish is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the sweet and sour taste is very appetizing, and the aroma is also very strong.
When the first person has done it, the others have also begun to make the dish one after another, and put on the beautiful vegetable carving.
However, the taste of the same dish will be very subtle in the taste of each chef, and there will naturally be differences in aroma.
When Shu Nuan was plating her dishes, several people next to her turned their heads to look at her.
"Her share, why is it so fragrant, the smell has wafted to me."
"I don't know, there should be some cooking secrets, and people won't tell you."
"Yes, even if it's the same dish, everyone makes it differently."
While a few people over there were muttering, Shu Nuan faintly skimmed a few people not far away with his afterglow, and quickly completed the work at hand. Then, with the iron cover provided by the organizer, the plate and the dish are completely buckled to isolate the smell, and their own number plate is placed on the tray.
After she completed this action, the staff who had been waiting next to her for a long time quickly took the dishes away, delivered them to the food judges, and placed them on the long table in the order of the number plates.
The sauce and the fish meat are perfectly blended, and the crispy skin is gently peeled open with chopsticks, and the snow-white fish exudes a rich aroma.
A dish that seemed simple at once has a mouth-watering flavor that is perfect in both color and flavor.
However, although the judges scored on the spot, they only recorded it on a small list to inform everyone of the scoring results.
"Why don't you say who won the first place?"
The contestants, who were silently waiting for the results, showed puzzled expressions.
Shu Nuan stared at the food judges walking back and forth in front of the dishes, scoring them on the color and flavor.
"Looks like you're really serious."
However, she also wondered why she didn't score points on the spot and let everyone know the result.
At this time, the fat chef, who had been on stage as the host, spoke.
"The contestants now have a fifteen-minute break, and after fifteen minutes, we start making the next dish. Now I ask the staff to clean up the site and then replace it with another ingredient. β
After everyone rested for a while, they started cooking again.
When the last dish was finished, the judges began to score them one by one, and the top three were quickly selected.