Chapter Eighty-Seven: Crab Shell Yellow and Plum Blossom Cake
As soon as Miss Manners finished speaking, the chefs on the various cooking tables immediately got busy.
Xiao Yu watched coldly, and found that this Tianlin Road is really a place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden, so to speak, the chefs of these ten shops are skilled and have excellent knife skills, and none of them are mediocre.
It seems that the information that Zhu Xiaohong gave herself is incomplete, and it is unknown which store may emerge.
In a short time, the various snacks on the cooking table have taken shape, this Liu Baocai should be a cake snack, while the snacks made by the chefs of 'Aunt Yang's Dumpling Shop' and 'Fuwang Noodle Restaurant' are clear at a glance, which are dumplings and noodles respectively.
After a while, the aroma of the cooking table was overflowing, the chefs were busy frying and frying, and each snack was extremely seductive to the audience's sense of smell, and from time to time someone could be heard gulping saliva.
Everyone is fascinated in their hearts, and the secret methods of the chefs of each store are revealed in front of their eyes, how can you usually see such a scene?
"Hey, Xiaoyu, look at the snacks made by this Fuwang noodle restaurant, it's not their signature onion oil noodles!" Xiaodao observed the situation in the field and said to Xiao Yu in surprise.
Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment, and looked carefully at the cooking table of Fuwang Noodle Restaurant.
Sure enough, one chef was peeling the shrimp, and the other two chefs were holding fresh bamboo shoots and shiitake mushrooms.
"Do they want to make shrimp fried noodles?"
Xiao Yu was a little confused, why didn't he eat his signature snacks in the first round?
Xiao Yu turned his head to look at Boss Wu at Fuwang Noodle Restaurant not far away, and saw that he was sitting there holding a small purple sand teapot, drinking tea slowly, as if everything was in his chest.
Boss Wu naturally has some calculations in his heart, in his opinion, this round of his team is a foregone conclusion, except for Tianlin Hot Pot City and Aunt Yang's dumpling shop, other opponents are not to worry.
In the first round, each group had three qualifiers, so he took special care of the chef, starting with the weakest one, fried noodles with shrimp, and then putting his signature snack on onion oil noodles for the second round of the competition.
In this way, after the second round, with the onion oil noodles and the secret weapon he developed - 'two-sided yellow', I am afraid that winning the championship may not be impossible, right?
Thinking of the smugness, Boss Wu couldn't help laughing.
"It's time!"
With the crisp voice of Miss Manners, the chefs of each shop stopped their work, and a bowl and a plate of steaming special snacks with a full range of colors and flavors were placed on the table.
Miss Etiquette took the three judges to the table of 'Tianlin Hot Pot City', and on his cooking table, there was a very exquisite porcelain plate, in which were placed four small round cakes with golden color and size like crab shells, and the cakes were glued with dense white sesame seeds, exuding a strong aroma.
"You made crab shell yellow?" Wang Jianguo, one of the judges, pointed to the round cake on the plate and asked.
Liu Baocai nodded and said with a smile, "Mr. Wang guessed correctly, it is the crab shell yellow, but my crab shell yellow is different from the crab shell yellow of other families, you can taste it and you will know." ”
"Oh? Not the same? Wang Jianguo thought to himself, some of the crab shells in the Huangchenghuang Temple are sold, one for one dollar, what's the difference?
Suspicious, he picked up a crab shell yellow and put it to his mouth, took a bite, looked stunned, and immediately froze.
After a while, he praised, "Yes, yes, your crab shell yellow is very crispy, and when you bite into it, the outer shell peels off layer by layer, and the mouth is full of fragrance, and this filling is really ...... How to put it, it's so delicious! ”
Wang Jianguo threw the remaining crab shell yellow in his hand into his mouth and chewed it heavily.
The other two judges, Cao Hong and Director Li, heard Wang Jianguo say this, and each picked up a piece of crab shell yellow and tasted it, and after tasting it, they couldn't help but nod secretly.
The new chef in this hot pot city really has two brushes.
Liu Baocai smiled and said proudly, "My filling is made of crab roe and fresh shrimp from Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, the freshness of shrimp, the crisp of crab roe and the fragrance of sesame, the combination of the three, this is a veritable 'best crab shell yellow'." ”
Li Jianguo and Cao Hong nodded secretly, this chef in hot pot city really has two brushes.
Director Li frowned and asked, "If this superb crab shell yellow is sold in your store, how much will it cost?" ”
"How much does it cost?" Liu Baocai was stuck, this snack was designed by him for the competition, if he really took it out and sold it, I am afraid that the cost of this crab roe alone will be twenty or thirty.
Director Li looked at Liu Baocai's expression, and said with a sneer on his face, "Needless to say, ordinary people shouldn't be able to afford it, right?" ”
Liu Baocai's face turned red, and he said in a snort, "Naturally, our upcoming food city is for high-end customers, and ordinary people naturally can't afford to eat this superb crab shell yellow." ”
Director Li snorted, stopped talking, threw down Liu Baocai, and walked straight to the next table.
The other two judges glanced at each other and followed Director Li to the next table.
Next to Tianlin Hot Pot Building is 'Fuwang Noodle Restaurant'.
Seeing Liu Baocai deflated, the chef of this Fuwang noodle restaurant couldn't help but be secretly happy, thinking to himself, it is best that Tianlin Hot Pot City can't get out of the line, so that his hope of winning the championship is greater.
The three judges tasted the fried noodles with shrimp.
Wang Jianguo and Director Li didn't react, but Cao Hong frowned, "You put a tablespoon more oil in your fried noodles than the standard, it's a little greasy, and the shrimp is too old, and this chili oil is added to the snake, and the umami of the shrimp is covered, and it fails." ”
The chef of Fuwang Noodle Restaurant immediately turned white.
'Boom', the purple sand teapot in Boss Wu's hand over there shattered on the ground.
Everyone is secretly happy in their hearts, this Boss Wu steals chickens and rice, he originally wanted to play Tianji horse racing, but now he is Cao Hong, and it is dangerous to even get out of the line.
The three judges walked through the tables of several shops, and in addition to expressing satisfaction with the three fresh dumplings of 'Aunt Yang's dumpling shop', the other snacks were rated as ordinary goods, which was difficult to enter the eyes of the judges.
'Aunt Yang's dumpling shop' is filled with fresh shellfish, shrimp and pork, and is made of special ingredients, which is really fresh to the bone, Xiaoyu took Xiaomei to try it a few days ago, and found that it was really good.
"Aunt Yang's three fresh dumplings, which can be eaten, reduce hunger and thirst by 25% for every 100 grams, immediately restore 30% of health, increase pleasure by 30%, and temporarily increase mental power by 10."
The surnames of these three fresh dumplings are almost on par with Xiaoyu's 'Gold Medal Hot Sauce Noodles', so it's no wonder that the business of this dumpling shop is also surprisingly good.
The last one in the first group is 'Lao Zhang Pastry Shop'.
This restaurant is not on Zhu Xiaohong's list, so Xiaoyu has never tried it, unlike others, there is only one chef in this place, and it is a dry little old man in his sixties.
The appearance of the snack he made is a plum blossom the size of a bowl, exuding a rich aroma, just from the appearance, it is already very exquisite.
The three judges were immediately attracted by the appearance of this snack, Rao is Wang Jianguo is well-informed, and he has never seen this kind of snack, so Director Li doesn't know it.
Want to ask, right? However, the old man closed his eyes at this time, standing there with his eyes closed, and the two had no choice but to put their questioning eyes on Cao Hong.
Cao Hong stepped forward to take a closer look, and said to the old man with some excitement, "Old man, you make plum blossom cakes, right?" ”
The old man's eyes opened, and his cloudy eyes suddenly showed a fine light, and he smiled, "It's not simple, it's not simple, you actually know plum blossom cake, try it!" I haven't made this plum cake for more than ten years, and I don't know if the craft has deteriorated. ”
Cao Hong picked up a piece of plum blossom cake and took a bite first, the top layer of plum blossom cake is a thin layer of caramel after fusion, covered with red dates, melon seeds, peanuts, walnut kernels, raisins, dates and other accessories, bite into it, the shell is fragrant and slightly flexible, and the indescribable taste lingers on the tip of the tongue.
Take another bite and eat the filling inside, which is red bean paste, and the soft sand slides through the throat, sweet and thick, and even the heart is warm.
Cao Hong slowly, one bite after eating the plum blossom cake in his hand, as if he was eating something extremely precious, his eyes moistened at some point, quietly wiped it with his hand, and said to the little old man, "I liked to eat sweets when I was a child, my mother often bought me plum blossom cake for me to eat, the plum blossom cake you made reminded me of my mother, remembered the scene of childhood, I hope you can continue to make this delicious snack, so that more people can eat." ”
The little old man glanced at Cao Hong meaningfully, looked down at the plum blossom cake he made, and sighed self-deprecatingly, "Nowadays, young people like to eat KFC McDonald's, where will they go to our snack bar to eat these traditional Shanghai snacks?" Even if I wanted to do it, I wouldn't be able to sell it! ”
Cao Hong smiled, "You don't have to worry about this, I promise that someone will come to your store to eat plum blossom cake." ”
Writing a short review in a food magazine is a no-brainer for her, and a Shanghainese snack like plum blossom cake is a great source of material for her writing.
With magazines as a medium, those treasure hunting teams will definitely flock to it, and it will be difficult for this little old man's business to be hot!
The first group tasted all the snacks, and the three judges returned to the judges' seats.
After a short discussion, the list of the top three in the first group was immediately released, and to everyone's surprise, the top three were 'Tianlin Hot Pot City', 'Aunt Yang's Dumpling Shop' and 'Lao Zhang Pastry Shop'.
Although Director Li has a lot of complaints about the cost of crab shell yellow, but after all, this is a food competition, and there is no precursor to how much the cost must be limited to, and this crab shell yellow does have its own uniqueness, relatively speaking, it is higher than the snacks of other stores.
'Fuwang Noodle Restaurant' was really eliminated.
Boss Wu of Fuwang Noodle Restaurant felt that he couldn't get up and down his face, and after scolding his chef fiercely, he didn't want to stay here for a long time, so he was embarrassed, so he left with three chefs.
Boss Yang of the hot pot building has a very flexible brain, and the extra snacks made by those shops were used by him to draw lots for the selected guests to taste, and the atmosphere was lively all of a sudden.
The guests who were drawn were smiling, while the guests who were not drawn were full of gluttony and had to hope for the next game.
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