I Am A Gourmet: Just Eight And You Want Me To Start A Roadside Stall? Chapter 37

Chapter 37: End of Competition

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After the boiled cabbage was served out of the pot.

Xu Le turned around and took out all the 12 small pots.

This was the [Pot of Chicken Soup] that he had stewed. It had been boiling in the small pots for three whole hours and had reached a state where the chicken skin and flesh were soft and the soup was rich.

During the boiling, Xu Le also added so wolfberries.

As the chicken soup was stewed, the fresh taste of wolfberries started to spread out. The nutrients in the wolfberries also entered the chicken soup such that drinking it would bring great benefits to the human body.

“Delicious.”

Xu Le rubbed his nose and exclaid.

If this wasn’t a competition, he would definitely scoop a bowl for himself to taste first.

With the [Pagoda at], [Boiled Cabbage], [Pot of Chicken Soup], [Golden Egg Fried Rice], in addition to the osmanthus sweet wine flavored chiffon cake, this was simply a al that had never existed in this world.

Ding!

The tir at the competition venue made a clear ringing sound.

At this mont, the six-hour culinary competition had officially co to an end.

Regardless of the progress of the contestants, they had to stop what they were doing and hand over the dishes they had prepared to the staff.

Since it was a gourt festival, the dishes prepared by the contestants would be brought to the exhibition and 100 guests had to cast their blind votes for the contestants.

During the whole process, the judges were whispering amongst themselves.

“I didn’t expect the contestants this year to be so impressive. Three of them actually finished all the dishes.”

Chef Lin exclaid.

These four dishes were all extrely ti-consuming and tedious dishes. Once the ti for the cooking process was not properly distributed, six hours would not be enough.

Apart from Xu Le, there were also two other chefs who had completed all the dishes, which surprised Chef Lin.

One of the two chefs was Li Peng from Beijing’s New Glory Restaurant.

The other was Zhang Yang, the chef of Shanghai’s local restaurant, Peace Hotel.

Speaking of which, this Peace Hotel had a huge background.

Everyone in Shanghai knew about it.

It was even famous overseas.

The Peace Hotel, located on Nanjing East Road 20, Huangpu District, Shanghai, was a landmark in Shanghai.

It was said that before the founding of the country, the background of this restaurant was very big. It was not an exaggeration to say that the person behind the Peace Hotel could cover the sky with one hand.

At that ti, there was a rumor that no matter what you did, as long as you entered the Peace Hotel, no one from both the police and the underworld would dare to touch you.

For instance, the General Marshall of the United States and Headmaster Leighton Stuart had been here before.

In the 1940s, Lu Xun and Song Qingling had also co to the restaurant to et their foreign friends, Chaplin and Bernard Shaw.

But after the founding of the country, society beca stable.

The Peace Hotel shed its mysterious facade and beca the most famous restaurant in China.

“They are really aweso, especially that little Master Chef Xu Le. He has many cooking techniques that even I have never seen before,” a chef nad Luo Hao praised.

Tanimura Koji also nodded repeatedly.

He was a head chef who earned three Michelin stars and was good at making cakes. He could be considered experienced and knowledgeable. However, he had not seen many of Xu Le’s techniques before.

One of the dishes that Tanimura Koji paid the most attention to was Xu Le’s chiffon cake.

He planned to watch the recording several tis after the competition ended.

He could make use of Xu Le’s ideas in his dishes.

Perhaps… his cheesecake could be made better!

…

At the food exhibition.

100 custors were tasting the dishes of the chefs one by one. Each of them had three votes in their hands, which they could vote for the best set of dishes.

This process obviously required so ti.

During this period of ti, the live-stream of the competition had already spread like wildfire on the Internet and had been trending on TikTok and Weibo several tis.

It even attracted the attention of Master Cai Lan, who was known as the “Hong Kong God of Food”.

A few days ago, when Zhang Tong was comnting on Xu Le’s food stall online, Master Cai Lan had reposted Zhang Tong’s article and praised Xu Le’s culinary skills.

At this mont, Master Cai Lan was also watching the live broadcast of the culinary competition.

The dishes that Xu Le made, be it the [Boiled Cabbage], [Pagoda at], [Golden Egg Fried Rice], or [Osmanthus Sweet Wine Cake], were all eye-opening for Cai Lan.

As far as he knew, many of Xu Le’s way of processing ingredients had long been lost.

Cai Lan was exceptionally excited to see these in Xu Le’s hands.

He imdiately posted on Weibo and even tagged Xu Le, complinting him for his cooking skills.

Cai Lan’s reposts undoubtedly increased the popularity of this cooking competition. The number of viewers in the live-stream soared to nearly ten million.

“China’s culinary skills have never been lost! They have been passed down for generations! With Xu Le, I see hope for China’s culinary skills to flourish!”

That was his Weibo post.

In just half an hour, the number of likes exceeded 200,000 and the repost exceeded 50,000.

Within the country, there was a wave of people starting to cook Chinese food.

With the developnt of the tis, many young people were under a lot of pressure at work and often had to work overti, so they had no ti to cook at ho.

Many young people would often order takeout at their workplaces, which was neither delicious nor hygienic.

However, after Xu Le beca popular online, many people realized that cooking was not a difficult task.

Even an eight-year-old like Xu Le could cook for himself.

Not to ntion young people like them.

A week of silence after the previous rise to popularity, Xu Le had once again beco a na that every household knew.

And now…

The hundred custors of the food exhibition also completed their voting, and the culinary competition finally ca out with scores for every contestant.

Under the gaze of thousands of people in the broadcast room.

The host picked up the cue card and started to announce the scores of the contestants.

“Contestant number 1, Franklin, 14 votes received!”