30 Yuling chefs took their food spirits and ran quickly to the shops around the venue.
Most contestants and their spirit beasts have adopted the method of purchasing separately to purchase different ingredients needed for the next delicacies to be made.
This not only saves time, but also increases the probability of purchasing the ingredients you want.
The competition starts when you select the ingredients!
Chen Mo did not adopt the tactic of dividing his troops into two or three groups.
Because he had seen the information of other contestants in this finals before, among the 30 Yuling chefs, he was the only one who made pastries.
So at least in terms of selecting ingredients, he has no competitors.
Soon, he came to one of the shops called "Liu Fuji". The owner was a somewhat rickety old man who looked quite kind.
Seeing Chen Mo, he was a little surprised.
Unexpectedly, there are still people preparing to make traditional pastries.
"Boss, do you have blood jade glutinous rice, white jade glutinous rice, acacia beans and leaves of requiem bamboo?"
Chen Mo asked politely.
"There are blood jade glutinous rice, white jade glutinous rice, and acacia beans, but I don't have the leaves of the requiem bamboo here. You want to make rice dumplings, right? I have awn leaves here, which are specially used to wrap rice dumplings. Do you want them?"
The boss asked with a smile.
"I'm sorry, old man. The delicacies I want to make must use the leaves of the Requiem Bamboo. I'll go next door to ask first."
Chen Mo reluctantly refused.
The most important ingredient in making homesick rice dumplings is not the glutinous rice inside, but the rice dumpling leaves that wrap the rice dumplings outside.
Requiem bamboo is a spiritual plant-like animal. Its leaves have a calming effect and can make people enter a peaceful state. Generally, it is used for meditation.
If you want to make homesick rice dumplings arouse the homesickness of diners, you must use requiem leaves!
The owner of the shop next door is a thin woman wearing a floral skirt. She looks to be in her 30s. She is also an imperial chef.
Obviously, the woman heard the conversation between Chen Mo and the boss next door, so as soon as Chen Mo walked over, she took a dozen green leaves from a certain counter.
The leaves are very broad, and if you look closely you can see golden lines on them, which even look a bit gorgeous.
They are exactly the leaves of Requiem Bamboo, and they are of extremely high quality!
"Chen Mo, you are very lucky. One of my spiritual beasts is the Soul Requiem Bamboo."
The woman's voice was very soft and soft.
"How much?"
"A piece costs RMB 200,000. These are the leaves of a monarch-level requiem bamboo, which is considered a rare ingredient."
The woman in the floral dress said with a smile.
"It's 150,000 per piece. I'll buy 10 pieces. Can I give it to my sister one after I finish making the rice dumplings?"
Chen Mo asked with a smile, and at the same time sent a message to everyone through telepathy:
"Tuan Tuan, please show your cuteness to this beautiful sister."
"嘤~"
Tuantuan was quite shy inside, but she still winked at the woman in the floral skirt.
After wink, its soft white body was instantly stained with a blush, but it became even cuter.
"Hey~" (So shameful!)
"No problem. My sister will sell it to you for 100,000 yuan a piece!"
The woman in the floral skirt smiled from ear to ear, stretched out her hand and pinched the ball gently.
"嘤~"
It's another day of forced business.
"Thank you, big sister!"
The audience and judges were stunned when they saw this scene.
Good guy, this guy is pretty good at bargaining at a young age.
"Damn it! You can actually do such a naughty thing."
"Is this allowed in the game?"
"If there is no rule against it, then it must be allowed."
"I've learned it, I'll try it next time."
"You're thinking about Peach! First of all, you have to be a spirit chef. Secondly, you have to have a food spirit as cute as Tuantuan, and most importantly - you have to be handsome."
Chen Mo took out his bracelet and paid 1 million.
This bracelet was handed to him by the staff before the game started. Each player and his food spirit each have a bracelet, and the money in the account inside is universal.
"But we don't have blood jade glutinous rice and Xiangsi beans here. You have to go next door to sell them."
"good."
Chen Mo returned to the first store.
He didn't buy it directly before because he was worried that he wouldn't be able to find suitable rice dumpling leaves, so he didn't dare to buy other ingredients directly.
All the other ingredients are ready, but it’s embarrassing if there are no rice dumpling leaves.
"Boss, please bring 2 kilograms each of blood jade glutinous rice and white jade glutinous rice, and 200 grams of acacia beans."
"Okay! The total is 2.1 million. I'll give you a zero. That's 2.08 million."
The boss said with a smile.
"Why is it not 2 million to wipe zero?"
Chen Mo couldn't help but ask.
"2.08 million, please be lucky!"
The boss said with a smile.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Mo went to a butcher shop and a fruit and vegetable store to buy minced black-bone chicken meat and various mushrooms, spending more than 1 million.
Acacia rice dumplings do not use soy sauce, but a bowl of soup stock.
Finally, it cost hundreds of thousands more to buy the fillings for the rice dumplings, such as pork belly, candied fruit, ling bean paste, etc.
There are only tens of thousands left of the 5 million, which is considered the maximum use of resources.
After buying the ingredients, when Chen Mo returned to the stove, he found that more than a dozen contestants were already processing the ingredients.
The rest of the contestants who are still wandering around the store are mostly because they haven't found the ingredients they want, or the ingredients have been bought by other contestants, so they can only think about finding substitutes, or directly change the dishes.
"Open up!"
"Hey!"
This time, Chen Mo plans to be the chef himself, with Tuan Tuan assisting on the side.
Who dares to say that he can’t cook?
After processing various ingredients, Chen Mo began to boil the soup stock.
For controlling the heat, Chen Mo chose to use a thermometer, which was accurate to every degree Celsius.
"Who do you think will win the final championship in this Youth Chef Competition? Leave a message in the comment area~"
Neon Cat is wearing a festive red bellyband today, with four glowing paws, giving it a mascot feel.
As soon as it finished speaking, the barrage on the screen flew like snowflakes, and the audience began to get noisy.
"This must be Chef Cui Taishan! The master of Qilu cuisine, the quasi-master Yu Lingchu!"
"The champion belongs to my goddess Cheng Ling! She is the chief disciple of the master of Sichuan cuisine, and she was the champion in the previous Central Division qualifiers! This time she should be cooking Tai'an fish, which was my favorite dish when I was a child!"
"Speaking of Sichuan cuisine, I remember that Chen Mo seemed to be quite good at it. And this time Chen Mo actually cooked it himself! Could it be that the reason why Shi Ling fought before was because he thought his opponent was too good? Only in the finals can he be taken seriously.
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"Originally, I thought Chen Mo and Tuantuan could win. However, the rules of this competition are too unfavorable for them. Without the love-melting moves, they would really suffer."
Chen Mo, who was in the state of cooking, ignored all the noise from the outside world and concentrated on it.
When the soup stock is almost cooked, Tuantuan releases the "overflowing aroma" to it and performs aroma enhancement processing.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Mo and Tuan Tuan began to put the blood jade glutinous rice or white jade glutinous rice into the wrapped rice dumpling leaves.
This time Chen Mo is going to make sweet and salty homesick rice dumplings.
After all, the tastes of northerners and southerners are quite different.
Most northerners like to eat sweet rice dumplings, while southerners mostly like to eat salty rice dumplings.