Chapter 57: The Four Seas

"The final is a limited-time tournament with a time limit of half an hour, the theme of the four seas, and each contestant chooses four ingredients to form a sashimi platter, but this sashimi platter is only allowed to use one dipping sauce." The president of the Qinzhou Cuisine Association announced the rules.

Zhang Mingchuan, who was sitting in the audience, also thought about it after hearing the rules, and the reason why the mackerel in the Shanhai Food Garden was able to arouse unanimous praise was more due to the special charm of mackerel, a unique ingredient in the desolate world.

Today, seeing the display of the entire Qinzhou special chef, as well as the unique insight of Saito Shinya on sashimi, Zhang Mingchuan feels that he has made this trip worthwhile, and his knife skills have reached a bottleneck, and he has seen the infinite imagination of the chef as a chef from Saito Shinya.

"What would I do if it were me? At the moment, the ten commonly used sashimi ingredients, Saidao really have all done the top processing, and the remaining five challengers are only one of them can draw with the battle, and the situation seems not optimistic. In fact, not only Zhang Mingchuan, but everyone noticed this problem, including the president of the Qinzhou Cuisine Association, who was the main judge.

"Now I can only hope that the Chinese chef is better at matching the ingredients, after all, the Chinese chef emphasizes the combination of the main and the auxiliary, and the monarch and the minister complement each other, this deep culture is the essence that the Dongying island country will never learn." This is also the final plan of the president of the Qinzhou Cuisine Association.

"Let's take a look at Chef He Xiaowang of Baishui Lou first, sure enough, his first choice is sea urchin, mainly sea urchin, and the other three ingredients are Arctic shellfish, Australian lobster, and pufferfish!" "Fugu! He actually chose pufferfish! The host said excitedly.

Because whether it is sea urchin, arctic shellfish or Australian lobster, the requirements for knife work are relaxed, but the puffer fish, because of its small body, thin flesh and many spines, the difficulty of handling is also the highest requirement for knife work among all sashimi ingredients.

Therefore, He Xiaowang's choice of puffer fish for the last ingredient was beyond everyone's expectations.

"So let's take a look at what ingredients Chef Liu Weijian of Duyang Building has chosen, it turns out to be geoduck, oysters, red shellfish and abalone!" "It seems that Chef Liu is very fond of shellfish, and I hope he can handle all kinds of shellfish perfectly." The host said after seeing Liu Weijian's choice.

"This Liu Weijian is very stable, and he has played the greatest role in the field he is good at." The president of the Qinzhou Cuisine Association said.

"Okay, Chef Xu Yunzhen of Fenglingdu next to him has also selected the ingredients, Fenglingdu is close to the ferry, and it can be said that it is the place where the most seafood river fresh in Qinzhou is gathered, so Chef Xu is also the most anticipated candidate this time, oh, it turns out that Chef Xu chose real sea bream, sweet shrimp, tuna, and oysters" "I hope Chef Xu can be as real as the real sea bream he chose." ”

"As the oldest player in the finals, Chef Gu Jiatian of Xunchuan Building entered the final with Australian lobster, fully showing his unaged state, and his choice is Australian lobster, frosted beef, guinea fowl, and abalone." This choice made the host a little confused.

"Chef Hui Xiqing of Yu'erjian is also the only female chef present, who passed the special chef examination at the age of less than 30, and today she is even more beautiful and does not let her eyebrows, and perfectly makes that puffer fish sashimi with delicate and smooth knife work. She is the idol of countless female chefs in Qinzhou, and her choices are pufferfish, yellow anchovy, conch and Antarctic deep-sea crayfish! "It can be seen that these four ingredients are extremely particular about knife work, and I hope that Chef Hui will come on." The host cheered for Chef Hui Xiqing.

"Finally, the initiator of this open challenge, Shinya Saidao from Hidden Sushi, studied under the sashimi god of Toei Island Country, what will be the ingredients he chooses." The host came to Shinya Saito and handed him the microphone.

"I chose salmon, tuna, snapper, salamander." Saidao Shinya also said his choice, and everyone felt unremarkable when they heard it, except for salamanders, which are relatively rare, the other three are the most common sashimi ingredients.

After hearing this, everyone muttered one after another: "Dongying Island Country is really short-sighted, and I don't even understand the combination of ingredients, but I just selected a few of the most common ingredients and put them together." ”

Saidao Shinya didn't care when he heard the talk on the scene, and began to process the ingredients intently.

"Something is wrong, judging from the performance of Saidao Shinya before, he must not be willing to be so mediocre, especially his understanding and use of ingredients, it must not be as simple as just putting it together, what is the problem, why can't even I understand." Zhang Mingchuan thought secretly in his heart.

Tong Yuechan, who was beside her, saw Zhang Mingchuan frowning slightly, so she asked, "Chef Zhang, is there anything to worry about?" ”

"Saidao Shinya's move must not be simple!" Zhang Mingchuan replied.

"No, can these ingredients still be turned into flowers?" Although Tong Yuechan didn't believe that Zhai Daozhen also hid any secrets, she still quietly kept this matter in her heart out of trust in Zhang Mingchuan.

Half an hour is long and short, for the contestants, time is urgent, every knife can not tolerate half a minute of hesitation, a mistake will lead to a full loss.

The first to finish was Chef Liu Weijian of Duyang Building, and this was also the only time in the whole competition that someone completed the dish before Zhaidao Zhenya.

"Okay, we see that Chef Liu Weijian of Duyang House has finished a sashimi platter, which is a plate of four shellfish: geoduck, oysters, red shellfish and abalone."

"Oh, Saiya's sashimi platter is also complete, and the four seas made up of salmon, tuna, sea bream, and salamanders are not placed separately, but layered on top of each other!"

"Chef Hui Xiqing of Yuerjian has also completed it, but I didn't expect this chef to choose the four most difficult ingredients to handle, and it can be completed so quickly, composed of puffer fish, yellow anchovy, conch and Antarctic deep-sea crayfish, the color is elegant, full of feminine gentleness."

"Chef He Xiaowang of Baishui Lou has also completed, consisting of sea urchins, arctic shellfish, Australian lobsters, and puffer fish, four categories of ingredients, and indeed the sea is included, and Chef He's cleverness is that three easy-to-handle ingredients are combined with a difficult ingredient, and most of the time is spent on processing pufferfish, fully promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses."

"Chef Xu Yunzhen of Fenglingdu has also finished, this is a dish of sea bream, sweet shrimp, tuna, and oysters, and finally completed the dish in the last two minutes, so let's stay tuned."

"Finally, the old man Gu Jiatian of the Chuanlou chose Australian lobster, frosted beef, guinea fowl, and abalone. Unfortunately, there was too much time in handling guinea fowl, which led to the discourse not being completed in the required time. I'm sorry, old man. In the end, the host said regretfully.

"Next, in the order of completion, the chief judges are invited to taste it." Under the announcement of the host, the competition has also entered the final stage.

"Actually, I'm quite curious about the sea, land and air version of the four seas sashimi of the old man Gu Jiatian who patrols the Sichuan Tower." Zhang Mingchuan said.

"Ah, eating raw beef and chicken, it's a bit ...... when I think about it yue…… Yue ......" Tong Yuechan said.

"Hahahaha, let's see what the chief judges say, whether you can suppress the arrogance of Saito Shinya is at this time." Zhang Mingchuan, as a native of Qinzhou, was also nervous at this time.

"Liu Weijian's selection of four shellfish, it is indeed full of its own advantages, the speed is also very fast, and each shellfish is handled very well, but he ignores the most important point of this competition, which is the combination and matching!" The president of the Qinzhou Cuisine Association put down his chopsticks after only tasting one bite of each ingredient, in fact, he had already eliminated Liu Weijian since he saw the ingredients he chose.

Liu Weijian also had nothing to say after hearing the comments.

"Sasato Shinya's sashimi platter...... I want to wait until the end in the evaluation. The president of the Qinzhou Cuisine Association said after tasting the four seas of Saidao Shinya.

"Hui fine and clear four seas, let me eat the gentleness of the sea, the three ingredients are delicate taste, but the addition of a conch, is really rich in the taste of this sashimi, pufferfish, yellow anchovy and Antarctic deep-sea crayfish soft and tender taste wrapped in a strong and solid conch, good, really good." The president of the Qinzhou Cuisine Association said that two were good.

"He Xiaowang's four seas, from the perspective of the combination of ingredients, he did take into account that there are different kinds of seafood, but the problem is that he chose the arctic shellfish, and did not complete the layer by layer progression of the taste, resulting in a trace of incongruity. And the main problem is this dipping sauce, so try it for yourselves. The president of the Qinzhou Cuisine Association mercilessly pointed out the problem.