"I've heard that every four years, it's the same as the Olympics."

Li Yi heard Hao Libao talk about the Olympic Cooking Competition, and immediately guessed something, and asked with a smile: "What?" Are you going to participate? ”

The World Culinary Olympiad is a world-class culinary skills competition organized by the German Culinary Association.

Since its inception in the middle of the last century, there have been hundreds of teams from dozens of countries, and nearly 2,000 chefs have participated in the competition.

In terms of influence, it is indeed the Olympics of the culinary world, the most influential culinary event in the world.

"It's not my intention, it's asking us to compete."

Hao Libao said and explained the situation.

It turns out that although Chinese cuisine is the most abundant cuisine in the world, it has only participated in the World Cooking Olympiad twice so far.

This event does not accept private registration, only teams registered as national teams.

But there is not much prize money in this event, and it is not an official event organized by the national government, so the Ministry of Commerce of China has only organized two teams to participate in this event in 88 and 96 years.

In the two competitions, the Chinese team won seven individual gold medals, but in the team competition, they only won one bronze medal.

In addition, there is no domestic attention, and the Ministry of Commerce has not organized a team to participate in the competition since then.

However, with the development of the country and the rise of national strength, the influence of China in the world is also increasing, and cultural dissemination has also received more and more attention from the state.

As the culture that is easiest to go abroad and most easily accepted by people from different backgrounds, food culture is the easiest to form a spread boom.

Therefore, this year, the Ministry of Commerce once again organized a team to participate in this Olympiad Cooking Competition.

Hao Libao was selected as the person in charge of the team, and he also received the task of getting good results in the competition and winning glory for the country.

But he didn't expect that when the competition was approaching, he fell and injured his arm, which not only delayed his work, but also affected his plan to participate in the cooking competition.

After a hundred days of breaking his muscles and bones, without a few months of cultivation, he couldn't move the wok.

But the big game is coming, and if he breaks off, he won't be able to participate in the competition.

Therefore, he asked Li Yi to come over to save the field, not only to save today's field, but also to save the field of this competition.

After learning the specific situation, Li Yi suddenly made a difficulty.

This year's competition was held at the end of October, but it was not long after the start of school, and the professional courses entered the early stage of formal teaching, and Li Yi was busy.

But such a competition with top culinary masters from all over the world is still quite attractive to Li Yi.

Since the filming of "A Bite of the Tongue", Li Yi has traveled all over the country with the film crew, and has also seen different food cultures in various places, learned about some rare special ingredients and seasonings, and learned many detailed cooking skills.

Although these small improvements have not significantly improved his overall cooking level, they have also changed his current cooking level to a certain extent.

It's like a piece of good iron that has been tempered for thousands of years, and after some quenching, it has become more and more tough.

Li Yi can feel that his understanding of cooking skills is deeper than a year ago, and he is more comfortable when cooking.

But he didn't have a clear judgment on his specific level.

If he can compete with the top culinary masters of various countries in the competition, Li Yi can also have a rough judgment of his cooking skills.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Li Yi asked: "When did the pre-competition training start?" ”

"The national selection starts this month, and when the selection is over, the training will start next month."

Hao Libao explained: "This time, we will form three teams, a national team, a young chef team, and a team participating in the individual competition.

I plan to start next week, select people from the back kitchen of the offices in the capital in various regions, and select a group of people from within first, and then select from these people.

If you don't have time, I can help you check the first round of selection, and then judge it in the second round, and finally decide. ”

This is exactly what Li Yi wanted, and he nodded when he heard this: "It's okay, I've been very busy recently, I have to finish the things at hand first, otherwise the students will be delayed later."

However, I will try to find time to come out during the training and try to keep an eye on the whole process. ”

Hearing him say this, Hao Libao was overjoyed: "So, are you willing to participate?" ”

"Of course I do."

Li Yi smiled: "This is a good thing to win glory for the country, and it is incumbent on you!" ”

"Haha! That's great! ”

Hao Libao laughed and said: "With you, there is hope for our team competition." ”

Even if he was not injured, he planned to recommend Li Yi to lead the team to participate in the Olympic Cooking Competition.

Since participating in the last season of "Chinese Restaurant", he has realized that Li Yi's cooking skills have surpassed him.

He is already dozens of years old, and even if he wants to continue studying, he is already weak.

But Li Yi is still young, and he still has a lot of time to enrich himself, improve himself, and expand his culinary skills to areas that no one else has touched.

As it turned out, he was right.

Just today, Li Yi, who rushed to the rescue, made dishes one after another.

These are his specialty dishes, but when he tried the dishes, he found that Li Yi had made subtle adjustments to each dish and changed each dish to be more perfect.

In addition, Li Yi also made a few new dishes, such as the last dish [Black Gold Garlic Beef Tenderloin], which is a dish that combines Chinese stir-fry and Western sauces, and integrates regional seasoning characteristics.

Li Yi used Lu Province black garlic and black pepper to make the sauce together, and used Cantonese-style fried golden garlic rice to enrich the aroma, and finally matched the unique garlic aroma, even Hao Libao tasted it for the first time, and remembered it in his mind in one bite, with an endless aftertaste.

This dish is the most suitable for participating in the Olympiad Culinary Competition.

The competition is based on Western food and is more limited, but also more challenging.

Being able to stand out in such a competition and get unanimous praise can also explore the direction for the promotion of Chinese food and accumulate experience for conquering the taste buds of people all over the world in the future.

This is a heavy task and an expectation, and Hao Libao believes that no one is more qualified than Li Yi.

After agreeing to Hao Libao, Li Yi went home to prepare.

After working day and night for half a month, Li Yi finally prepared all the professional materials.

And Hao Libao's side has also ended the first round of selection, selected thirty-six top chefs, and entered the second round of selection.

These 36 chefs are all heads of catering in the Beijing offices of various provinces, and they are also some of the most famous figures in the catering industry in each province.

And that's not even counting the individual chefs and young chefs who participated in the competition as individuals.

When Li Yi arrived at the second round of selection, he saw a scene of hundreds of participants.

Looking at the flames rising from the nearly 100 stoves, he almost thought he was back in the imperial dining room.

(End of chapter)