In other words, the passing rate of the five hundred or so people in front is only half.
Song Qiu got the wooden sign, which caused confusion among the contestants who had not finished and those who had finished and had been criticized.
A young girl actually passed the preliminaries?
Isn't this a joke?
Could it be that he was messing around with his relatives? It was selfishness!
But everyone just thought about it. Who doesn't know that Manager Hu is famous for being fair? He has a mouth that is extremely demanding about taste. He will never protect the taste out of selfish motives. He can't tolerate bad-tasting dishes.
So, this little girl really has a lot of skills. At least, she can cook.
The second round of competition was three days later, so Song Qiu left the courtyard, met up with Aling and others, and went back to the inn.
But the fact that she passed the preliminaries spread like wildfire among the contestants, and the news soon spread throughout the country.
So many people who have been waiting for the second round of the cooking competition to watch and possibly be selected as judges are also curious, hoping that the second round will be soon so that they can see with their own eyes whether the little girl is real.
Can cook.
Time flew by and it was three days later.
On February 20th, the second round of the cooking competition held by Mantanghong Restaurant in Pingjiang Mansion was held at Mantanghong.
Dongyan Street, where Man Tang Hong is located, was overcrowded, with people squeezing from the street to the end of the street. There were shops on the street that couldn't accommodate one's standing, and several shops to the left and right of Man Tang Hong were all full.
The house has an eight-apart front door, and the area in front of the door is also very spacious. It also uses the open space in front of the shops on the left and right.
At this time, a high platform was set up along half of the long street. On the platform, a row of stoves were arranged in an orderly manner. They were almost the same as the stoves in Hu's courtyard.
There are a total of 270 contestants who have passed the preliminaries and entered the second round this time, but only 30 will be selected in this round. In other words, 270 will advance to 30, and the fittest will survive. The elimination rate is also quite high.
The two hundred and seventy people were also divided into three rounds based on numbers, with ninety people in one round.
Contrary to what the waiter at the teahouse said, the rules have changed this year. It is true that the judges are also people, but they are not thirty-one people.
The rules are as follows:
There are nine contestants in each round of the competition, and twenty different civilian judges are selected in each round. Each person has ten voting rights. The judges have the right to choose dishes to taste at will. In each round, the ten with the highest votes will be chosen.
A total of thirty people were selected.
This involves a bit of luck. For example, if the dish you cook does not look pleasing to the eye, no judges will taste it, and you will not even have a chance to vote.
For another example, what if the dish you cooked just doesn’t meet the appetite of this round of public judges?
No matter how well you do it, if you don't get many votes, you will be eliminated.
Therefore, first of all, the dishes you make must make people want to taste them at the first sight. Otherwise, no matter how good the taste is, it will be in vain if people don't try it.
And in the second round, just like the preliminaries, no assistants are allowed. Participants compete alone and complete the dishes independently.
Just make one dish as usual, but this time the main ingredient is not determined. The high table at the other end has been prepared for a long time. There are various side dishes. The main ingredients are chicken, duck, fish, beef, mutton, pork and shrimp. There are two in total.
One hundred and seventy portions, but each portion is different.
For example, if there are only five fish, and five people grab them first, the others will have none and can only do other things.
So the order is also very important.
Song Qiu No. 234 happened to be in the last round, so it was quite helpless.
In the third round, I don’t know what ingredients are left.
I don’t know what kind of judges I will meet.
All the contestants were very nervous, and Song Qiu, standing together with all the contestants, was also a little nervous.
After the host of the competition announced some rules, the first ninety contestants handed in wooden tags to identify themselves, then went up to the high platform and stood still after arriving at the corresponding stove.
The incense this time is the same as the incense in the preliminaries, and it lasts for half an hour.
As soon as the incense was lit, all the contestants on the high platform picked up the baskets at their feet and went up to the round platform at the other end to grab their favorite ingredients.
It is also rigorous. Chickens and ducks are killed in advance, but fish and shrimp are still alive and must be killed immediately.
It only takes an hour, but it still takes some time to kill the fish.
So Song Qiu looked around and saw that there were not many people choosing fish at the moment, almost all choosing meat.
There are several wooden basins on the high platform full of fish, and there is no way they can be saved for the third round.
While Song Qiu was waiting, she was looking forward to seeing what other ingredients she could choose in this round.
The spring breeze in February is still a bit cool, and the dishes I prepare will also get cold quickly.
So at the beginning of the first round, the stewards of the house immediately began to pick people from the crowd of onlookers. They first picked the judges, and after the incense was burned, they immediately started tasting the dishes without wasting time.
The crowd was so excited that they all wished they could be chosen. There were not many people paying attention to the platform at the moment.
This random selection of people is also interesting. In order to avoid collusion in advance, the steward carried a basket with thirty-one sepak takraw balls in it. He stood on the third floor of the crowded house and scattered them randomly, and the people below
, whoever grabs the sepak takraw ball will be the judge for this round.
This is really interesting and fresh.
Song Qiu looked around and saw a few Alings crowded at the front eagerly waiting to grab the sepak takraw ball. They were not far away. She concentrated on listening to their voices and vaguely heard Lu Jing say: "Master,
You can use Qinggong to grab them later, grab a few more, and each of us will have one!"
Song Qiu:......
If she didn't have to sit here and couldn't walk away at will, she would have wanted to join in the fun.
The crowd was crowded, surging, and lively.
This is not as hesitant as throwing a hydrangea, and it is difficult to let go.
The steward shouted: "Get ready!"
Then he lifted the basket and the takraw balls in the basket rolled down like rolling balls.
The people below all jumped up and stretched out their hands, waiting to grab the ball.
Aling was also afraid that the crowd would attack him, so he didn't openly use Qinggong to fly up and grab the ball, but he still managed to grab three balls with great skill.
Three balls, five people, but there is no fight, ladies first, A Ling, New Year, Lu Jing, three people each.
At that moment, the steward called for those who had grabbed the ball to gather together, handed over the ball, and each person received ten bamboo sticks. Once the incense was burned, they could go on stage to taste and vote.
This round of competition is not like the preliminaries. Before the incense burns out, you can sound the gong at any time if you do well. Whether you do it well or not, it will be judged after the incense burns out.
Therefore, the time must be accurate. If it is made too far in advance, it will take a long time to make it, and the taste will be affected when the dish is cold.
Of course, if the incense is not ready yet after burning, you have to stop and serve it as it is.
There were so many people and everyone was looking forward to it, and time passed quickly.
Soon, as the steward struck the gong, dozens of waiters quickly went to various stoves to collect dishes.
The dishes are placed on a tray, with corresponding wooden numbers on the bottom of the tray, so that the votes can be easily counted.
The contestants stayed behind the stove to wait for the judging results, while the waiters brought the dishes one by one to the large long table in the middle and placed them.
Then twenty civilian judges went up together to select dishes, taste them, and vote.
That scene was really anticipated and watched by everyone.