Delicacies from mountains and seas are the finest in food, and can be divided into the upper eight delicacies, the middle eight delicacies and the lower eight delicacies. Just like official positions, there is a strict hierarchy.
The top eight treasures are orangutan lip, camel hump, monkey head, bear paw, bird's nest, duck breast, deer sinew and yellow lip gum.
The eight delicacies are shark's fin, white fungus, anchovy, broad tripe, civet cat, hash ant, fish lip and skirt.
The next eight delicacies are sea cucumber, asparagus, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, red fish, scallops, oyster yolks and mullet eggs.
It is said that the ancients were short of food, but they did not know that they ate all over the world. In modern times, civet cats have long been a rare thing, the hash ant is an endangered species, and no one is cruel enough to eat orangutans and monkeys.
After all, humans evolved from them——
Yu Jian felt that the organizer was a bitch.
I don’t know who came up with this kind of title. The six dishes must include delicacies from all over the world, be repeated, and have some history. All of these are a test of the chef’s extensive knowledge and... background.
Oh, and one more thing, it also tests their ability to match dishes.
Your six dishes can't all be meat, right? They can't all be vegetarian, right? There has to be soup, right? There has to be some staple food, right?
In this way, not only will the workload increase, but there will always be areas that cannot be taken into consideration. Then, if you do it perfectly, they think it should be done, but they will pay attention to those with slight flaws.
"Haha." She laughed coldly, causing Huang Nuan to look sideways.
"What's wrong? What did I do wrong?" she asked.
Yu Jian gave her a reassuring look: "That's right, that's right, you continue."
In this game, it’s not about who has the best dishes, but which team has the lowest error tolerance rate.
Just like the chefs at Guangling Banquet and Haicheng Restaurant, this time there are experienced second chefs in the team. There must be two or three dishes that they need to get started with.
Fang Zilu of Xiangyuan Restaurant is not weak in his own ability. He also has one or two special dishes and can also help the chef solve problems.
Only she actually brought two kitchen novices with her.
Shi Jiazhuan sighed and shook his head, then followed Guan Shanyue and Liu Chenggao and said, "This girl from the Yu family is probably going to lose. But it's pretty good to get fourth place..."
"That's not necessarily the case." Guan Shanyue chuckled, a light flashing in his eyes.
Liu Chenggao didn't speak, but nodded slightly, agreeing with Guan Shanyue's words, but there was still some worry in his eyes.
In the Yu family restaurant far away in the capital, Li Hanzhi exclaimed in an exaggerated manner: "What does Yu Jian want to do? Is she seeking death?" There is no one else to call than bringing those two little idiots on stage.
Tang Jingling held her back. She trusted Yu Jian very much. At this critical moment, since Yu Jian could let her two best friends come on stage, she naturally had her own decision.
Besides, we don’t know who will win until the last moment!
Jin Changguo, on the other hand, smiled and said nothing while holding the hot tea. Look, the good fortune of this girl A Jian is still to come!
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Jiang Cheng of Guangling Banquet organized an impromptu meeting as early as when the topic was received. When formulating the menu, it still focused on traditional Huaiyang dishes, the most important ones being lion head, Tibetan fish with sheep and snow velvet tofu and abalone.
The soup is made by himself.
The second chef is good at cooking meat. The Dongpo Pork with Truffles is an excellent one, and the roasted pigeon is also good.
The little apprentice reluctantly studied the skill of fried rice, so he made the golden rice.
With such a distribution, those who want to be in the limelight can also be in the limelight. Jiang Cheng glanced at the smiling second chef calmly, with disdain in his heart. At that time, he was competing with his young apprentice for the chance to be on stage, and even blamed Jiang Cheng for not giving him a chance.
However, the trial competition is a series of trials, and if there is a slight mistake, the whole game will be lost. Jiang Cheng cannot take this risk.
Moreover, the second chef has long been dissatisfied with him, and feels that the gap between him and himself is not that big. He only hopes that in this last round, everyone can put aside their differences and fight together.
At this moment, Jiang Cheng also felt a little worried, but it was too tight to cook six dishes alone within the time limit.
This is his strategy, to discard some unnecessary dishes and win with most of the delicious food.
For example, the braised lion head dish, or the edelweiss tofu and abalone soup that only appears in the highest-level banquets in China.
This is Jiangcheng's strategy.
After glancing at the slightly busy scene of the other teams, he was satisfied and the corners of his lips curved.
What takes the longest time is to stew the lion's head. After mixing the meat filling, use the tiger's mouth to knead it into fist-sized dumplings, put it into a small cup, add the broth, and stew it in a cage with water.
Since ancient times, the two words "fish and sheep" are synonymous with each other, and Yangfang Zangyu knows this well. Remove the bones from the lamb chops, use ice cubes to remove the fishy smell, wait until the ice cubes melt into water over the fire, and remove the boiled blood foam and impurities.
, then put it into a pot with mutton fat and fry until the skin is browned.
Then take the yellow croaker, remove the head and tail, remove the main spine and break it open, cut the fish body with a flower knife, pickle it in onion, ginger, and pepper water, then fry it and season it.
The lamb chops are wrapped around the yellow croaker meat, rolled into a circle, tied tightly with hemp rope and then stewed in aniseed soup. This is also a time-consuming and delicate task.
The second chef was so busy that he kept thinking: "I have to do it myself!" On weekdays, all the side dish work is done by the apprentice. Although he has the title of second chef, he is no different from the master chef, even
Most of the dishes are cooked by him.
This was one of the reasons why he was dissatisfied with Jiangcheng. Without him, the Guangling Banquet would still be the same Guangling Banquet that was famous throughout China.
"Hey! Come and pluck all the hair off the skin of the meat!" The second chef kicked Jiang Cheng's young apprentice who was washing vegetables.
"But...but I haven't even finished my own work..." The young apprentice frowned.
The second chef was dissatisfied: "You can just do whatever you want with your work. Who wants to eat broken gold rice now? It's just for decoration! The most important thing is my meat and vegetables! Don't be verbose and pluck the hair out for me."
It's clean! The meat needs to be pulled out, and so do the pigeons!" He said disdainfully, and slipped aside to watch the other teams cooking.
The young apprentice muttered: "How can there be such a person! The master has said that every dish should not be taken lightly..."
Although he said that, he was probably used to being enslaved. He put down the food in his hand and took the musket to burn the pig skin. Looking at his posture, he seemed to have vented his anger on the pork.
Jiang Cheng unconsciously gave a cold look, but he had already expected this. Fortunately, the apprentice's broken gold rice was not complicated, and these tasks could be done together.
He himself still has one most important dish to make - edelweiss tofu and abalone soup.
As the name suggests, tofu should bloom like snowflakes. This is an upgraded version of Wensi Tofu, and naturally it requires more knife skills and skills than Wensi Tofu.
The abalone stewed in chicken soup was already giving off a strong aroma. Jiang Cheng had no time to think about anything else. He picked up the drained soft tofu and placed it on the chopping board. The knife in his hand made a pattern, and instantly turned into a sword's light...
"Wow - Chef Jiang's knife skills are really amazing!" The audience below had starry eyes.