Originally, there was no qualifier for this "World's No. 1 Chef Fight".

But according to the new explanation added by the organizer Heishui Chaebol today, because there are too many players who have signed up for the competition.

In order to decide the winner within the original three-day schedule without affecting the viewing effect, players must get a ticket in the qualifiers two days before the main event.

Regarding the matter of participating in the qualifiers in advance, Jiang Yan naturally has no opinion.

Anyway, for him, it makes no difference whether it is the qualifiers or the main match, and there are basically few people who are his opponents.

It's just that the next day, when the three of them came to the door of the "Gold Coast Expo", which is also the venue for the preliminaries, Jiang Yan's mentality changed subtly.

As we all know, the "Gold Coast Expo" is a landmark building in Blackwater Harbour.

In this expo hall, almost all the important moments of the thousand-year-old history of the entire Blackwater Port are condensed.

From the first anchor left behind when Blackwater Harbor was first built, to the statues and relics of countless participants in its development.

It can be said that after a few walks around this museum, you can get a good impression of the city of Blackwater Harbor.

The reason why this cooking competition is held here is that the museum is big enough and empty enough.

The biggest reason is that it is now fully managed by the Blackwater chaebol, which is convenient enough for them.

However, when Ember took Lannaser and Kassandra to the players' rest area, he watched many chefs with pots and pans, knives, forks and sticks pouring in.

Jiang Yan subconsciously raised his eyebrows, and a strange light seemed to flash in his eyes.

Lannathel quickly noticed the change in him and quickly asked, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong?"

「...... Yes, I felt a very cloudy smell."

"Very cloudy breath? What kind of strong enemy is here?"

"It's a strong enemy, yes, but maybe not the kind of enemy you remember, but a strong enemy in cooking."

"Culinary rivals? You're talking about a very strong chef?"

"It's not just tough, it's a very unpleasant feeling...... It's the same smell I've felt in the fog."

Jiang Yan said as he looked around at the group of cooks from all over the world in the surrounding rest area.

There are now at least forty or fifty chefs sitting in the player's lounge, all of whom are preparing for the morning qualifiers.

And the chef, who was thought by Jiang Ember to be very turbid and very unpleasant, mixed in and hid in the sea of people.

What kind of chef would be very unpleasant? So far, Jiang Ember has only seen two.

The first is Hannibal, the "Special Investigator of the Fog Capital Cooking Association" who came to "Neverwinter Town" a long time ago and was killed by Jiang Ember himself.

The other is that Jiang Shen and Kassandra went to the fog capital and met a strange middle-aged gentleman in the beast shop.

It wasn't until later that Jiang Ember knew that the middle-aged gentleman who was in the beast shop at the time was still the head chef of the "Fog Capital Cooking Association", and he gave Jack, nicknamed "The Ripper".

Hearing this, Kassandra also frowned, and whispered, "You mean, the people from the Fog Cooking Association have come here?"

"It's normal to come, after all, this kind of cooking competition is also their old business, they specialize in this, not to mention that there are artificial spirit costumes to win."

Jiang Yan kept talking, and his eyes quickly observed the group of chefs staying here.

It wasn't until he swept his gaze to a rickety old man sitting in the corner that he settled and nodded.

Lannathel on the side also followed the gaze towards the old chef, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Is that him?"

"It's him." Jiang Ember replied affirmatively, "It should have been some disguise, and the aura on his body is very obvious

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Just like Hannibal before him, the members of the Fog Capital Culinary Association have been exposed to "artificial spiritual costumes" for a long time. Mentor's Blade", which is basically stained with dark signs of ghostly energy.

If Jiang Ember seriously used the ability of the "Pupil of Truth" to search, it would be easy to find them out of the crowd.

The old chef, who looked to be at least sixty or seventy years old, gave the first impression of being kind and immobile.

But in Jiang Yan's eyes, his energy fluctuations were strong and powerful, not at all like what an old man in his twilight years could have.

Coming to participate in a contest actually had to be deliberately disguised, it seems that they also know that they are very unpopular in this industry.

Just as Jiang Yan was thinking so, several staff members not far away came to the player's rest area and announced the topic of the preliminary round this time.

When it comes to this kind of cooking competition, each round of the competition has a different topic.

It's normal for chefs to test their knowledge of different ingredients and cooking methods.

Under the expectant gaze of all the contestants, the staff member also loudly announced the title of the first round of qualifiers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the topic of today's qualifiers is 'Fish, please enter the preliminaries in an orderly manner according to the numbers we read out in a while, and conduct a round of preliminaries for six people, only one player in each round of assessment can advance to the main competition, please show your best state and show your highest culinary skills in a dignified manner."

After listening to the staff's words, the expressions of many chefs in the audience became solemn.

Good guys, there are six people in one round, and only one of them can make it to the main game, and the other five people have to be eliminated.

This elimination rate is so high, which also shows from the side how many participants in this competition are, and in the end, those who remain must be ruthless.

Suddenly, Lannassel smiled and poked Ginger Ember in the waist and said with a smile, "Fish dishes, have you thought of what to do?"

"I don't know." Jiang Yan also shrugged his shoulders easily, shook his head and said, "Let's go in and take a look, whatever ingredients are fresh, do whatever is fresh."

Since this Blackwater Port is a seaport, the vast majority of the fish used should be seafood-based marine fish.

The gap between the quality of fresh and unfresh marine fish is too huge.

So the best option is to be unsure of the ingredients first, wait a while and go in to see what is the freshest in the food section.

Anyway, for Jiang Yan, who has mastered many cooking techniques and how to handle ingredients, he doesn't need to worry about thinking about what to cook at all.

In this way, it didn't take long for Lannacel and the other spectators to leave the lounge and wait for their seats to be seated outside.

Jiang Yan and five other chefs were also lucky enough to be the first batch of lucky ones to be selected and came to the competition venue outside.

Should it be said that it is worthy of the cooking competition prepared by the world's largest chaebol, Jiang Yan just walked out of the rest area through the player's passage, and saw a huge field outside.

In the depths of the venue are six large cooking stations that are raised and spacious, and next to them are three judges.

Perhaps because it was a preliminaries, the expressions of these three judges looked relatively casual.

Seeing that the first batch of contestants had come over, one of the old judges wearing monocles said to them: "The ingredients section is over there, and the cooking time is an hour, so hurry up and get it, don't delay the assessment of the people behind."

As soon as he finished speaking, the old judge sat back in his chair and drank his tea, and pressed a large timer by the way.

Seeing that the timer was about to start counting down, the other five chefs in the same group as Jiang Shen also quickly rushed to the ingredients area and began to quickly search there.

"Fish....... What kind of fish are there....... It's over, I haven't seen many fish."

"Oh, it's a big hairtail, and it looks fresh, it's you."

"This flounder looks good for freshness, but how should it be cooked...... Hiss, headache."

Looking at the chefs who were scratching their ears and cheeks in the ingredient section, scrambling to grab the ingredients, the old judge couldn't help but shake his head.

Look at their hurried looks, it's strange that they can make a good dish in such a restless state.

After secretly sentencing these guys to death in his heart, the old judge looked at Jiang Yan, who was slowly walking towards the ingredients area in a hurry, and couldn't help nodding.

This young man is good, his mentality is very stable, but it's a pity that he is still too young, and he shouldn't have a lot of experience, but experience is very important when cooking fish.

Although the old judges are very optimistic about Jiang Yan's mentality, he still doesn't think that this young man can stand out from the six, just because he is too young.

But Jiang Yan obviously didn't bother to pay attention to what the judges were thinking, but walked around the fish tank with a large number of live fish and chose the ingredients he was going to use.

Speaking of marine fish, there are actually many marine fish that are very delicious and high-quality ingredients, especially this kind of lively and excellent freshness.

It is difficult for ordinary marine fish to survive in the tank for a long time, so most of the fish that are transported to other places are frozen fish or pickled fish.

It is only in a large port like Blackwater Port that you can see these sea fish that were salvaged and transported directly to the competition venue not long ago, and they still look very violent.

And Jiang Ember himself took a spare ingredient that the king of fish fished out of the bathtub, which was a fish covered with white fine dots and smooth skin, showing a bright red color.

This fish is called "red grouper" in the black water tank, but in Jiang Ash's hometown it is called "East Star Grouper", and it is one of the best species of grouper.

Seeing that Jiang Ember chose this red grouper, the old judge couldn't help but nod and said secretly: "The quality of this red grouper is good, but cooking is a problem, should it be made into fish soup or grilled fish?"

In this world, fish is usually cooked in a relatively simple way, either grilled or fried, either stewed in soup or coated in batter to fry.

It's just that of course Jiang Ember won't use such a simple cooking method, let alone having such a good ingredient at hand.

When dealing with this eastern star spot, Jiang Shen couldn't help but nod as he looked at the gorgeous color and smooth and oily fish.

The eastern star grouper is a very high-priced high-quality fish, with a light flavor and fresh taste, tender and delicate meat, thin skin and white flesh.

After the clever master simply steamed it, the gorgeous skin of the Eastern Star Spotted will crack, revealing the snow-white fish, and the sweet flavor is simply mouth-watering.

And the eastern star grouper on Jiang Ash's hand is the best grouper that has just been salvaged from the harbor, it is rich in fat and unusually violent, and it is a rare and valuable top ingredient in ordinary times.

Since there is such a good eastern star spot....... Let's make that dish once in a long time.

After quickly washing the Eastern Star Grouper, removing the scales, and then peeling off the internal organs, Jiang Ember went to the ingredients section and took a bunch of other ingredients over and processed them at a dizzying speed.

Peel the asparagus and cut it into thin slices, wash the lily and control the water for later use.

"Red bell pepper", "green bell pepper", "red pepper", "green pepper", "purple radish", "black fungus" and "onion" are all cut into diamond-shaped slices of uniform size, and then all three brothers of green onion, ginger and garlic are chopped.

With a large number of ingredients turned into diamond-shaped slices of very uniform size under the thin kitchen knife, this extraordinary knife skill immediately attracted the attention of all the judges. Look at the book

One of the female judges couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and said in surprise, "This young man's knife skills are good, it's the first time I've seen someone who can handle the ingredients so neatly."

"yes." The male judge next to him also nodded and said, "But what is he going to do when he cuts so many ingredients?" If you use it as a side dish, you might be a little too chopped."

"I think it's used for stew, and if you cut the vegetables into thin pieces, it's even more comfortable when you stew the soup later

Easy to taste."

"I see, it seems to make sense."

However, just at this male judge's head, he felt that Jiang Ember was not making fish soup at the next moment.

But I saw that the blade on Jiang Yan's side turned, and the sharp kitchen knife quickly flashed from the eastern star spot, and the two large thick pieces of fish meat were peeled off very smoothly.

Miscellaneous...... What? What speed is this? That's too fast, isn't it?

Before the three judges could react, Jiang Ember had already quickly cut the fish meat of the Eastern Star Grouper into thick slices.

When slicing this kind of fish, the thin one is the fillet, and the thick one is the ball, because when the thick slice is heated, it curls up and rolls into the shape of a ball.

After slicing the fish, ginger embers continue to add salt to the fish to increase the base taste, add a little sugar to increase the freshness, then add starch and egg white, and mix the fish and various seasonings by hand.

Then the fire is boiled, put oil into the hot frying pan, put the fish in it and fry it until golden brown, fry it to bring out the burnt taste, and then add various accessories and stir-fry evenly for the final seasoning...... This "Splendid Star Class Ball" is fried.

A fresh fish, with colorful accessories and professional-grade plating, gives people a sense of luxury and splendor that shows the scenery of the four seasons in one plate.

"My assessment dish is ready, three judges, please use it."

When the three plates were brought to the judges who were still sluggish, Jiang Yan's face still had that light and breezy expression.

Looking closely, he had just fried this dish in just a few minutes with a lightning-fast movement, but he didn't even sweat a drop on his body, and he felt completely at ease.