A black car stopped at the entrance of the Central District Hotel. Xia Tian got out of the car and looked at the brightly lit and magnificent building in front of him. He couldn't help but be slightly startled.
"Mr. Xia Tian, this is the place where the owner of the house has prepared for you. This is your room card and itinerary plan. This is my phone number. You can contact me for all your car trips in this cooking competition."
The driver handed the things in his hands to Xia Tian, bowed slightly, and drove away.
Xia Tian carried his luggage and followed the waiter to take the elevator to his room on the eighth floor. He opened the door, and as the crystal lights lit up, he looked at the luxurious high-end furniture and highly ornamental items in the large room.
Feeling the night view outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the corner of Xia Tian's mouth raised a strange arc.
"It seems that the old man still knows what I need."
After putting down his luggage and leaning on the soft sofa, Xia Tian picked up the phone and ordered a dinner, then started to look through the itinerary information given to him by Nakiri Senzaemon.
There are competition procedures and dates on it. The first thing in the cooking competition schedule is the preliminaries. Due to the large number of participants, it is divided into four competition areas ABCD. Xia Tian is in area B. The number of people in his area alone is already
Nearly two hundred people participated, but only 10 people showed up.
Such a small number of qualified people also means that the competition is extremely fierce. Each area will have a group of five-person review teams, who will be responsible for the evaluation. They do not review uniformly, but review the order in which the dishes are completed, and then they can
He made a judgment and couldn't help but frown slightly when he saw this Xia Tian.
Because this means that you must not only be able to cook delicious food, but also grasp the time. The qualifying quota will be reduced by one, which means that the chef has very little time to make pasta dishes that satisfy the examiners.
“What fun!”
Xia Tian suddenly remembered that Liu Pleiades was like this when he participated in the cooking assessment of Guangzhou's top chefs in "Chinese Edition". This would have to consider the true talents of those chefs.
Xia Tian looked at the time. The preliminaries were the day after tomorrow. After reading the information in his hand, Xia Tian threw it aside. He stood up and looked at the charming night view outside the window. His eyes flickered and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Suddenly, a pleasant doorbell rang.
"Sir, the dinner you requested has arrived..."
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On the day of the preliminaries, Xia Tian followed the crowd into Area B. Looking at the vast and huge cooking venue in front of him, Xia Tian couldn't help but have a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Because what appeared in front of him were countless cooking tables arranged in an orderly manner. Xia Tian took a glance and suddenly felt a familiar feeling. This was clearly the decoration of Yueyue Cuisine's classroom, but it was enlarged.
It's just twice as big, but the only difference is that there are one red and one green button on the cooking table.
Xia Tian was a little strange but didn't say anything. He followed the instructions and found his own cooking table. His photo and name were actually posted on it, and surveillance cameras were placed around the ceiling. This suddenly gave Xia Tian a strange feeling.
Visually, this is just like the college entrance examination I took in my previous life.
He shook his head and abandoned the ridiculous feeling in his heart. After a while, a master of ceremonies in formal clothes came to the stage and read out the rules of the competition:
"The duration of this preliminary round is three hours. All contestants' kitchen utensils and ingredients are provided by the organizer of the competition. The examiner of this preliminary competition is Ryoichi Kasutani as the chief examiner, and the other examiners are..."
When the emcee called the chief examiner's name, the entire venue couldn't help but burst into uproar. The contestants looked uncertain, and some even looked ugly and panicked.
Xia Tian looked at the expressions of the people around him and knew that this was another famous person. With his sensitive hearing, he even heard words such as "venomous tongue", "smiling tiger" and "malintent".
It seems that this is another difficult food inspector. Sure enough, after the master of ceremonies finished speaking, the inspector also came out. The leader was a smiling little old man wearing a yellow striped suit. He looked at this
The old man looked harmless, but Xia Tian decided in his heart that there might be something wrong with this old man, because——
People who squint are definitely not simple!!
As for the other censors, in Xia Tian's eyes they all look like passers-by, so don't mention them!
As the examiners entered, the emcee continued: "...the cooking time this time is three hours. There are green buttons in front of each contestant's cooking table. After the contestants finish cooking, they can press and hold the button to call the review team.
For review, please remember everything is subject to the button, don’t forget.”
"As for the red button..."
The master of ceremonies paused for a moment and then said: "It means abstaining from voting!"
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the entire venue suddenly condensed and became a little restless, because this competition was broadcast live to Neon All Territory by a TV station.
Who would do something like surrendering without a fight at this time? Wouldn't this smear one's reputation? Xia Tian also became a little confused and didn't understand the meaning of setting up such a thing.
But Xia Tian didn't expect that he would soon see the meaning of this setting.
"Now, I would like to invite Commander-in-Chief Totsuki, Mr. Nakiri Senzaemon, to send you kind words."
After the emcee finished speaking, an image of Nakiri Senzaemon appeared on the big screen in the center of the venue. In the picture, Nakiri Senzaemon's face was stern, and his expressionless expression gave people an aura of calmness and self-power.
"Contestants from Neon and even all over the world, we are very honored to meet in this culinary battlefield. Here you can show off your talents without caring about any external influences. It is a fierce battle with excellent chefs.
The truest wish of a cook, I feel my heart surge just thinking about it. In this fierce battle between chefs, only the best can reach the top... So please fight hard, only the winner can win here.
Enjoy the glory, losers can only look up to others..."
Looking at Nakiri Senzaemon speaking impassionedly on the screen, Xia Tian couldn't help but shake his head, sighing that Jiang is still old and hot, and he is worthy of the high-ranking Commander-in-Chief Totsuki. These inciting words continued.
Next to Xia Tian, a forty or fifty-year-old cook with half-white hair was very excited. His face turned red and he couldn't help waving his hands in the air. Xia Tian was really afraid that this person would be already excited before the competition even started.
Just lie there.
The old ones are all like this, not to mention the young ones. Looking at each one of them with enthusiastic expressions and eyes that are about to shoot out sparks, Xia Tian can only sigh...
"...May you all be victorious and may your military fortunes be prosperous!!"
With the end of the last sentence, the emcee began to announce the theme of the meal. As the 3-second countdown ended, a wild calligraphy of ancient Chinese characters appeared on the screen, with English words underneath.
"Egg!!"
Looking at this cooking theme, Xia Tian couldn't help but look weird...