Two days later, in a completely open venue, the competition officially began.
Fang Zilu's face was a little green. Firstly, he was a little acclimated and he woke up in the middle of the night for two days in a row. Secondly... he saw a familiar white and tender face in a certain team.
Pulling Yu Jian away from the camera, he pursed his lips and said, "Look, is that the Malatang guy?"
Li Bai?
Yu Jian followed his gaze and was stunned. With Sichuan's unique fair complexion, tall and slender body, and a face as beautiful as a maiden's, who could it be if it wasn't Li Bai? The difference was that he was wearing the clothes he wore today.
Wearing navy blue neon clothes and a pair of silver-rimmed flat glasses.
He was talking to the assistant next to him with his head tilted, his eyes narrow and raised, revealing eight bright white teeth.
wrong.
He is not Li Bai.
In my impression, the Malatang boy didn't even dare to look at anyone, and only revealed his true feelings to his girlfriend. Even if he saw Yu Jian, he would just smile shyly in a small way, and would not show off like this.
Shaking her head, Yu Jian motioned for him to make preparations quickly.
Off the stage, Li Bai's fist hanging by his side was clenched tightly, and a chill swept through his body, making him tremble so much that he bit his back teeth.
Xiaoli looked at the man not far away, and then at her boyfriend beside her. She was so surprised that she took a step back: "This... this is..."
Two Li Bai??
"He... is my twin brother..." Li Bai closed his eyes and spoke with difficulty.
The two brothers have been cooking since childhood. The elder brother's talent is better than his. In the past few years, he has won many awards. Later, he was hired as the executive chef of a large hotel. He has always been the pride of the Li family. However, he always said that he was in Shanghai.
After taking office, now...how can he represent the Neon Kingdom and appear in the Flower City now?
Li Bai had thousands of things he wanted to ask him, but he suddenly felt very scared. There was a vague bad feeling in his heart, which made him suppress a breath.
Li Yi probably didn't expect that his brother would be in Huacheng this time. He had a good job in the Magic City, but the major shareholder behind this hotel was from Neon Country. For a while, he even
He was transferred to Neon Headquarters. It was precisely because of this that he met Dairo Takeda.
Being both Chinese, Takeda didn't treat him as contemptuously as others, but instead gave him a thumbs up, which made him feel grateful and willing to be used by Takeda.
In the knockout round of the food competition, the topic is spiciness. If the team leader does not come to convey Takeda's intention, he will recommend himself. When it comes to using chili peppers, who can beat Sichuan Province? Today, he will use a mapo tofu to conquer them all
Human taste buds.
With an order, the official timing of the game started.
The tofu must be made from snow-white milk tofu. The knife is washed alternately in hot and cold water to form a temperature protective film. The tofu is quickly brushed over the surface. When poured into the plate, the tofu blooms like a winter plum, revealing a unique style.
The next step is to stir-fry. The peppers are airlifted from Sichuan Province. They seem to still have a fresh fragrance after being picked, with a hazy layer of water mist on the surface. Cut them into rice-sized foam, and mix them with the same varieties.
Dried chili pepper segments that have been air-dried at high temperatures are also added with green chili peppers, and then seasoned with minced garlic.
White bubbles have emerged from the hot oil in the pot. All the ingredients are slid in, and then the minced meat is poured in. There is a "sizzling" sound, and the aroma of the oil explodes suddenly. The spicy smell stimulates the assistants around him.
He sneezed and felt a strong sense of hunger coming over him.
There were also viewers who were closer who had the same feeling as him.
"What does this smell like? It smells so good -" people asked in different languages and looked around for the smell.
At this time, Li Yi had already put in the tender white tofu cubes, sprinkled with seasonings, thickened the sauce, and turned off the heat. Waiting for the residual heat to thicken the soup, it was the best time to slide the mapo tofu into the disk.
The assistant has already used turquoise paint to draw the prototypes of flowers and plants on the plate, and also put a bowl of fragrant white rice on the side.
The red tofu cubes are covered with rich sauce, and against the green background, it seems like a high wall of red bricks and green tiles, surrounding everyone's hearts.
"It's this! It's this!" The audience found the source of the aroma and felt that they didn't need to eat it because they felt the strong spiciness from the smell.
Li Yi rang the end bell, and the lenses reflected the colorful light in the spring sunshine. He said slowly: "Neon Kingdom's secret recipe from Guandong - Spicy Tofu."
As soon as these words came out, the fans of Neon Country immediately started cheering.
On the other side, the Chinese audience looked at each other in confusion.
Someone asked weakly: "Isn't that Mapo Tofu from our Sichuan Province? When did it become a neon country? And it's still in Guandong??"
Li Bai's entire body was completely drained of blood, and he was frozen in place as if someone had punched him hard.
"Ha." A sarcastic chuckle overflowed from his mouth. The bright and smiling person in front of him actually felt extremely strange to him.
The vows made by the two when they were young still echo in my ears: "Xiaobai, look at me, my brother will definitely become the most powerful Sichuan cuisine master in China in the future."
Now, he is on the world stage.
But he forgot his original intention.
"Xiao Bai..." Xiaoli looked at Li Bai's ugly face and wanted to go up and hold his hand, but he accidentally avoided her.
Taking a deep breath, he slowly shook his head: "Leave me alone for a while."
…
"Bah! His grandma—" Chef Lai was furious. Although he had expected such an incident, he never would have thought that someone would be so despicable as to change the name of a dish from his own country.
Yu Jian frowned, and before she could speak, she heard the host's exaggerated shout: "Wow - the Neon Country is finished, please invite us judges to come and taste it!"
There are five judges in the preliminaries, three of them have typical foreign faces, and the other two look like Orientals. Yu Jian carefully observed the facial features of the judges, and found that one of the middle-aged men had an Oriental face, which seemed to be
It doesn't match the information Tang Yuan gave him.
As if he felt someone was looking at him, the man cast his gaze in the direction of the Chinese team. When their eyes met, the man was slightly startled, then smiled.
Mapo tofu is the soul of Sichuan cuisine. Its essence lies in the dual taste of numbing and spicy. Firstly, it must be hot, secondly, it must be oily, and thirdly, the minced meat must be as fine as possible, preferably beef. But from a quick glance just now, Yu Jian
I felt confident that this man who looked like Li Bai didn't seem to grasp the soul of this dish.
He used minced pork.
The judges have already picked up their spoons and started tasting the dish.
Sure enough, when it was the oriental man's turn, he frowned slightly and shook his head slightly.
This scene was seen by the host with sharp eyes. He quickly stepped forward and asked: "Andy, don't you think it tastes good?"