Chapter 028 Seventh place
The gongs and drums sounded, and the whole audience stopped, announcing the end of the first game.
The voting presidium of this competition was composed of chefs from five major restaurants and ten random audiences randomly selected to vote together.
In fact, this time Cai Zhen also invited Qin Chef Qin Zheng from the city to come to the palm-eye competition, but people probably looked down on the level of the chefs in the town. The first game was over and no one came.
The referee ordered the meals prepared by the eleven contestants for the voting presidium and ten spectators to take turns to taste.
Cai Zhen first picked up the chopsticks and tasted the steamed fish cake in front of him. The egg yolk on the bottom of the plate merged with the fish and vegetable puree, which was soft and delicious. He instantly praised the people around him.
Looking at the whole process, this steamed cake looks like Su Rushu's eyes. This dish was made by Tang Zhaohui from Ruyi Tower.
However, Mingyu Lou family also made pastries and made a copycat imitation of Su Rushu’s peach blossom cake - osmanthus cake.
Just looking at the softness and glutinousness is pretty good, but if you want to reach the level of sweetness like Peach Blossom Cake, the level of Mingluo is still much worse.
Tianyun Pavilion made a hibiscus chicken piece, which was not outstanding.
The youngest participating chef in Manshuiju chose the most basic milk soup, crucian carp. The milk soup is rich and mellow, and the fresh and tender fish is melted in the mouth. It is also a good dish.
When the referee brought Su Rushu's honeysu's mint soup, a refreshing and refreshing fragrance came to his face. After eating the hot meal just now, everyone suddenly had an extremely refreshing soup. They were refreshed and inevitably shining.
It is undeniable that Su Rushu's craftsmanship is indeed impeccable. Such simple silver flowers and mints can make her flowers.
The sweetness of the silver flower and the fragrance of mint collided with each other, which was a different pleasure. The summer heat of early summer was also wiped out, and the presidium couldn't help but look up at Su Rushu.
If this person cannot be used by himself, he must destroy it.
Cai Zhen took a mouthful of soup and looked at Liang Guang and Wu Zicheng, and the three of them were filled with thoughts.
By the time of voting, all four other restaurants were selected, and Su Rushu's Yunxiangzhai and an inconspicuous small restaurant appeared to be ranked seventh.
Finally, after discussion by the presidium, Cai Zhen and his men directly changed the rules of the first game to eleven and sixth. Su Rushu, who was accidentally ranked seventh, failed to be selected.
Zhao Dahong couldn't bear it anymore, and finally slapped the table and said no to his master. "Do you think everyone is a fool? You vote and form cliques to make a shady story. Cai Zhen, aren't you afraid of being stabbed by someone?"
Cai Zhen was very busy and had already thought of a word in his mind, "Brother Zhao, you can't say that. We are all democratic votes. Since there is a flat vote, we can't waste everyone's time comparing again on a hot day. It's better to eliminate them together, and it's fair to everyone."
Su Rushu curled her lips and looked at Cai Zhen alone. The breeze blew her hair like ink and said coldly, "Since the shopkeeper Cai said fairness, then the original intention of this game is the taste and cost of the contestants watching the dishes?"
"That's right." Cai Zhen replied.
"Since the judges are better than those who can't speak, why not compare the cost? Shopkeeper Cai, I believe this is fair enough to set the rules you have set yourself."
Han Yi, who is flooded with water, has never been involved in their activities. It is rare to take the initiative to speak for Su Rushu at this moment, "Shopkeeper Cai, Ruyilou's style is a bit difficult to convince the public."
"That's what Manager Cai, the soup is cool and relieves the heat. It makes you feel refreshed when you smell it from afar. If you can't even make it, it's a bit unreasonable."
"Shopkeeper Cai, this little girl is right. She is like bullying people in our Liujiang Town."
The people in the audience also had voices of resistance.
Seeing that his behavior was vaguely arousing public anger, even Han Yi, who rarely spoke, was willing to sell Su Rushu's face, so he had to smile and meet Su Rushu's request.
When the referee opened the money bags handed over by the contestants, he suddenly found that one tael of silver in Su Rushu's bag was not much, and one was not much.
Su Rushu blinked her beautiful eyes gently and smiled mockingly, "It seems that Rushu's selection was all due to the Manager Cai, so I couldn't spend money in Liujiang Town. None of the restaurant owners on the street was willing to take my money."
As soon as these words were said, people were not stupid, and they began to talk in groups of three or five.
Cai Zhen was even more unable to come to Taiwan. Now he had to find excuses to prevent her from being selected, which would be a no different way to confirm the bad reputation of people who call treacherous villains and plot against her peers.
He carefully explained, "Everyone is quiet, quiet, I didn't expect that Miss Su would spend such a small cost and would bring us such a big surprise. I announced that the list of seventh place selected is Yunxiangzhai Su Rushu."
The competition was almost over in the morning, and the second competition continued in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, the referee still beat the gong and drum and said: "The second game mainly tests everyone's knife skills. Everyone randomly selects the dishes in front of the presidium and completes them within a incense stick. Now please go to the dishes in order according to the ranking."
Tang Zhaohui first drew the "pagoda meat". This dish requires the chef to cut it into the skin with one size fits, and it must be continuous. Even the meat that is twisting around must be consistent in thickness, and finally rolled the meat into the pagoda.
I don’t know who was responsible for the test questions in the knife skills competition, but they were so tricky and harsh. Tang Zhaohui couldn’t help but take a breath when he got the questions.
It was Wen Shuo, the little chef in the Shuiju, who was turned to go to the exam and actually got the "chrysanthemum tender tofu". He also frowned.
The rest were also drawn one after another, and the famous building attracted squirrel fish, while the Tianyun Pavilion attracted the relatively simple melon carving.
When it was Su Rushu's turn, there was only one dish in front of her. If she guessed correctly, what the old foxes in front of her should be left to her - Wensi Tofu.
Su Rushu pursed her lips and reached out to take away the notes. She had been deliberately trained by her grandfather since she was a child. A good knife skills are the most direct manifestation of a chef's cooking skills.
Wensi Tofu requires the chef to cut the tofu into thousands of even thin strips and put them in the pot to make soup. If Wensi Tofu dares to rank first among these big-cut dishes, no dish dares to rank second.
You should know that tofu itself is soft and it will destroy square tofu pieces when you use more force. It is difficult to cut them into pieces intact, let alone cut them into thousands of thin strips.
Unlike the other people's frowning faces, Su Rushu directly picked up a piece of tofu and prepared to start cooking.
Cai Zhen and others stared at Su Rushu for a moment. When she saw Cai Fang, not only did she not see the embarrassment on Su Rushu's face, but she became even more calm.
Moreover, Su Rushu only took one piece of tofu and didn't even plan to take a few more pieces to practice.
Even if they were asked to do it, no one here dared to say that they could do it with 70% or 80% confidence, and she was still a fledgling little girl.
Either pretend to be calm or win.
And the recipe this time is really hard to be awesome, after all, the questioner is not Cai Zhen.
Cai Zhen noticed the man hiding in the crowd wearing a black hat. The person standing beside the man was Qin Zheng, who had tried hard to invite to the town. Both of them were staring at the kitchen knife in Su Rushu's hand for a moment.
Logically speaking, the people brought by Chef Qin must have been in a high position and power. Cai Zhen wanted to get closer to see the man under the hat, but could only vaguely see some outlines. He always felt that he had seen this person somewhere.
But at this moment, people's attention was all on the ring, and no one paid attention to the man in black who was hiding in the crowd.
Su Rushu raised her knife and fell, and the thin tender tofu was cut under her hands to the thickness of a hair. Her delicate jade fingers seemed to be flying on the chopping board, and a set of movements flowed.
Not only the voting presidium, but also the laymen in the audience stared at the afterimage of the knife on Su Rushu's chopping board in amazement, and even more so that their open mouths could definitely hold an egg at this moment.
Chapter completed!