Xia Yu rubbed his brow.
Without understanding the ingredients, how can you talk about deciding on a recipe?
Lance watched him turn and walk to a dining table, place a box on it, and open it, staring intensely at a piece of salted fish with an expectant smile on his lips: "Finally getting serious?"
"So, can he et the standards I have in mind..."
Ignoring what the gourt club leader was thinking, Xia Yu quietly made a request to the system:
Identify the ingredients!
(Request accepted...)
(Data collection in progress, you need to pay 1 million Fa Points.)
Just identifying it costs a fortune? A million Fa Points could be exchanged for ingredients, which could then be sold off, bringing in wealth. But Xia Yu wasn’t in the mood to worry about gains or losses right now. At this mont, his mind, and even his heart, were captivated by the mysterious ingredient in the box. He gritted his teeth, "Pay!"
Beep.
As the information erged, Xia Yu’s pupils gradually filled with shock.
One line of text was particularly eye-catching:
"...All life begins with ’center’ and ends with ’god’..."
Fake GOD, at least with a trace of the true GOD’s shadow. Based on the shape of the ingredient, Xia Yu was sure that the original form of GOD should also look like a giant frog.
What the hell is center? Xia Yu’s head throbbed.
Unknown and bewildering!
...
On the other side.
The seven giants of the gourt club also hurried over to surround Lei Aoxue, Morioka Makoto, and Tiqie Helinai at their cooking station.
They had received Xia Yu’s promise that if their evaluations were up to standard, they could naturally have a free al. Of course, it was Xia Yu’s al. This Young Dragon Chef provided classic banquets for large cooking matches, each one priceless, and the chances to taste them were few.
Lei Aoxue’s hand held a long, slender, and sharp ’Seven Stars Knife’, the exact na being ’Seven Stars·Breaking Army’, and she flung a fresh red sea bream onto the cutting board. Then, the light of the knife flickered, and with a noise of flapping, scales and innards flew out. Her processing speed was extrely fast, and in just a brief second or two, the fish on the cutting board maintained its jumping posture from a second ago, but the next mont, its abdon was emptied, and its body was smooth.
"Seven-star Breaking Army Rapid Cutting!"
The heir of the Lei Family demonstrated her fierce knife skills.
The giant ’Phantom’ Bas comnted in a hoarse, owl-like voice: "Very good!"
The masked Sta nodded: "Although there is a small gap compared to Chef Xia’s miraculous skills, she completely towers over her peers and surpasses many older predecessors without any problem."
Lei Aoxue’s entire culinary art undoubtedly emphasizes knife skills.
In other words, knife skills are her ans of survival. It’s undeniable that she’s smart; she chose the recipe "Stewed Red Sea Bream", and for handling fresh ingredients, her knife skills can be maximized, but Lei Aoxue is also aware of the shortcomings in this recipe.
Upon hearing the giants’ praises, a flash of joy crossed her face, but then her brows furrowed slightly.
She hadn’t forgotten the the of this dinner—
xican flavor!
And the recipe she chose, "Stewed Red Sea Bream", is actually quite common in various countries, so how to infuse the dish with a strong xican flavor is the key to victory.
"Hah..." She took a breath to clear her mind from the praise of the giants; Lei Aoxue didn’t want to lose, especially since her opponents were two people she secretly viewed as rivals.
Lei Aoxue was always careful to keep her "claws" hidden, but at this mont, in a private dinner battle with judges and a scoring system, her hostility towards Morioka Makoto and Tiqie Helinai was evident.
The intense desire to win told Lei Aoxue that her pride would not allow her to lose!
Even if she were to lose, she couldn’t lose in front of him.
"Garlic, onion, and tomatoes as side ingredients aren’t enough to evoke a strong xican flavor. How can I let tasters think it’s a native xican dish from the first bite by using side ingredients and spices?" A string in Lei Aoxue’s mind was tense.
Witnessing her determined face, the evaluating Bas and Sta looked at her in surprise.
This girl had a fighting spirit burning within her.
But it wasn’t just Lei Aoxue who was ignited.
Tiqie Helinai was intently watching a pot on the stove. The water began to boil, and the large corn kernels, plucked from the cob, were bobbing up and down in the pot with the boiling water. Suddenly, with a slight popping sound, a kernel burst, and a unique aroma brought a hint of joy to the girl’s eyes.
This was a specialty corn unique to xico. With Helinai’s thinking, since this dinner emphasized xican flavors, she decided to use the most localized ingredients. You see, even soone clueless about cooking could throw so local specialties into a pot to stew, and while the food might not be great, the flavor should be there, shouldn’t it?
Soon, a pot of corn chowder was cooked.
But this was clearly just the beginning of Helinai’s recipe.
Next, she took beef, chopped it into pieces, and threw it into a thick-bottod pot.
Then, she tirelessly added herbs, garlic, onions, mixed with clear broth and sea salt, maintaining a tight rhythm throughout. Regardless of what ingredient she needed, her hand grabbed it directly, without needing any auxiliary tools like scales to asure or weigh, showcasing the girl’s familiarity and control with the seasoning process.
Catherine and Andrea exchanged glances, both with appreciative expressions in their eyes.
They knew Tiqie Helinai.
But this "knowing" was due to her father, Tiqie Ji, and her guardian, a young instructor. Therefore, this was also the first ti the gourt club giants observed the girl’s cooking skills up close.
"Very proficient, and this proficiency is built upon extensive experience. She could foreseeably open a distinguished chef restaurant on her own and have flourishing business."
Andrea whispered this with a smile to Catherine.
Catherine nodded, focusing on Helinai’s earnest profile before suddenly saying: "She has the shadow of soone else on her."
"Does she?"
Andrea looked for a while, then tapped her forehead and smiled, "Heh heh, I only realized when you pointed it out. I think she is more like the Demon King’s chief disciple. That Liu Ying is still a bit too young."
Not far away, Tiqie Ji, who was watching Morioka Makoto’s cooking, seed to hear this, glanced back at his enthusiastic daughter, and his gaze was rather complex.
The two female giants saw the familiar shadow from her cooking style.
Holding the ’Key to Perfection’, Xia Yu was the epito of this cooking style, a representative.
And Helinai, apparently, was emulating, or rather, consciously moving closer to her predecessor, in every aspect from knife skills, heat control, seasoning to cooking procedures, all pursued with ticulous precision towards perfection.
"Sigh——"
After adding the ingredients, the lid was closed, and Tiqie Helinai started a fierce fire, ready to simr a pot of rich beef broth.
She paused to catch her breath.
In two hours, the corn chowder and beef broth would combine to form the general appearance of her xican dinner.
"There were no mistakes in the preceding steps, everything went smoothly!" First recollecting the previous cooking procedures to confirm no mistakes, her tense nerves relaxed a little before she suddenly thought of sothing and cast a vigilant glance at the other two cooking stations.
She didn’t want to lose.
And the foundation for not losing was to suppress her opponents on the dinner score.
Her gaze first targeted Lei Aoxue.
Seeing Lei Aoxue stuffing so strange sauce into the fish’s belly before stewing, Helinai raised her eyebrows slightly, whispering: "It seems she also grasped one key to xican cuisine!"
Feeling uncomfortable inside, yet her fighting spirit burned even brighter.
"I have to keep an eye on her. Instructor Xia once told , in terms of culinary skills, Lei Aoxue can contend with Li Han, the top of the Five Talents."
At this point, Helinai suddenly thought of Morioka Makoto, the petite beauty.
Her heartbeat accelerated, and the strong unwillingness, turning her previous calm into a slight agitation, "More than Lei Aoxue, losing to her is what’s most unacceptable to ..." The girl took a breath, "Makki and I should be close friends, why do I consider her an important rival, not just in culinary arts, but in everything else, I don’t want to lose even a little bit either..."
As she thought, she imdiately turned her sight away.
"Crack!"
The oven’s tir just went off, and Makki, who had been waiting in front of the oven, took out the baked pastry.
A rich aroma spread wantonly in the mansion’s courtyard, carried by the sea breeze!
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