Kuga Teruki raised his head and glanced at Shi Ke. He said nothing and continued to chop meat, but sweat began to form on his forehead.
Shi Ke ignored me when he saw Jiu Gao Ji, smiled, marinated the minced meat with seasonings, and then started to look through the food box again.
"How much did you bring?" Kuga Teruki couldn't bear it anymore.
You Doraemon, can’t you finish the things in the box?
"Nothing. Just the last thing left and a little seasoning."
"what?"
"Winter melon."
"You scolded me again!!"
"I know you are short, but don't try to take advantage of yourself." Shi Ke took out a Japanese winter melon that was slightly larger than a watermelon from the food box.
"Really winter melon?"
"Otherwise, what do you think?" Shi Ke put the winter melon on the chopping board, pulled out the beheading knife inserted on the wooden pillar, put it back into the scabbard and placed it across his waist.
"..., it's nothing. Let me tell you, fancy food doesn't necessarily mean the food is delicious. You spend so much time on knife skills, then let's see how much time you have to deal with the tofu!"
"Of course I have enough time, otherwise I wouldn't be able to cook this dish. Besides, if it takes less time, why do I need to do my best?!" Shi Ke swung his sword across the winter melon, then sheathed it.
The light of the knife flashed by, but the winter melon didn't even move.
"What are you doing? Draw your sword and kill?"
"Yeah! That's right." Shi Ke put down his big knife and picked up the upper part of the winter melon (the top and bottom were the same size).
"..." The whole place was silent for a moment, and then everything went into chaos.
Kuga Teruki’s jaw dropped to the floor no matter how many times.
"Did you see it? Draw your sword and kill it! It's exactly the same as in the action movie! In the flash of the sword, everything is broken!! It's so handsome!!" The boys and girls in the stands were all starry-eyed.
"I want him to teach me!!" Yuji's eyes were full of little stars.
"Don't think about it. This technique is useless without more than ten years of hard practice. If you learn this, don't you plan to be a chef? This guy is a weirdo." Mrs. Wenxu was particularly hard-hit.
"(＞＜)☆, I'll just tell you! Mrs. Fumio." Yuki said coquettishly.
"Huh... the next thing will be a little slower. This winter melon is more expensive than my tofu gold!! It's too expensive to buy a complete winter melon in Japan!" Shi Ke complained and picked up the smallest knife.
, and cut around the winter melon, bit by bit, the skin of the winter melon fell to the ground.
"What are you going to do again?" Kuga Teruki really couldn't understand.
"Go and cook your food. Don't keep asking me, okay?" Shi Ke couldn't help but laugh.
Da Guo, aren't you a student of Chinese cuisine? You don't know how to do such a classic operation of mine?
After a while, Shi Ke stopped what he was doing and walked aside.
The whole audience was dumbfounded again.
"Did you carve the winter melon into a vessel for serving vegetables?" Jiuga Teruji stared at the winter melon carved with dragons and phoenixes on Shike's cooking table. The upper part was also carved into a lid.
"That's right. The traditional Chinese cooking technique is just winter melon carving. Don't you know?"
"Haha..." Teruki Kuaga blushed and turned his head away, feeling guilty.
"Okay, it's time to deal with the tofu." Shi Ke took out the last bag of ingredients in the ingredient box. This was the seasoning that he spent two days traveling to two nearby cities to collect.
"..., what kind of tofu are you going to make? Chili pepper, cumin, star anise, Mapo sauce...hehehehe, are you going to compete with me with mapo tofu with multiple seasonings? Are you too bold?
Don’t you know that my best thing is Mapo Tofu?”
"Who told you that I'm going to make Mapo Tofu?" Shi Ke said while adjusting the seasonings.
"This condiment of yours is obviously the standard configuration of Mapo Tofu! Do you think I can't tell?!"
"Oh. So what?"
"..., well, no, just do whatever you like."
"Oh, come on. You can't defeat me just by improving the taste of Mapo Tofu."
"!!!" Kuaga Teruki's pupils dilated.
"Your tofu has been specially prepared, don't think I can't tell. It is indeed a good idea to add another flavor on top of the five flavors. However, this is what my predecessors played with in the Qing Dynasty. I have long ago
I've made the same dish." Shi Ke picked up a piece of the white jade tofu he made, held it with one hand and put it into the water tank. With the other hand, he picked up the knife used to carve the winter melon and put it into the water.
Shi Ke closed his eyes.
As the water surface rippled slightly, pieces of tofu emerged from the water.
Kuga Teruki looked at the tofu on his chopping board and frowned.
Damn it, this guy saw right through what I was going to cook.
You need to find a way, or... just create a new path!
"This is... tofu carving!! The ultimate knife skills of Chinese cuisine!" Kirisenzaemon appeared at Shi Ke's cooking table, staring unblinkingly at Shi Ke's hands in the water tank. Erina
Teacher Roland Chapel was also watching.
"The biggest difficulty in carving tofu is that tofu is fragile. If you want to keep the tofu from breaking, you can only carve it in water with the help of buoyancy. But in this case, you cannot observe it with your eyes, and you can only rely on the touch of your hands and the chef's own intuition.
So, in a sense, this is world-class knife skills." Teacher Roland Chapel nodded.
"Huh... Judges, can you stop looking? My hands are shaking a little when you look at me like this." Shi Ke opened his eyes and took out a small white jade tofu sculpture from the water.
The strange old man with a cane sits on a stone and drinks wine from a gourd.
"Oh? These are the Eight Immortals from ancient Chinese mythology...the one with a cane, I can't remember what his name is?" Kirisenzaemon stroked his beard.
"Tieguai Li." Teacher Roland Chapel added.
Erina blushed beside her and was confused, what is Tieguai Li? Why can’t I get a word in at all? It’s embarrassing!!
Shi Ke nodded, "That's right."
"Let's go down first." Kirisenzaemon said.
One of the ten heroes in the audience, Miss Kobayashi Ryodan, grinned and showed her little fangs. She walked up to Saito Soumaki and pointed at the iron crutch Li Shi Ke held in her hand, "This... you can do it.
?"
"Such skills are beyond the scope of sword skills. Going too far is not enough, but it is a drag. I will fight with him, but we can talk about it later."
"???" The other ten heroes all looked at him.
What are you talking about, Wen Zou Zou?
Ji Zhiguo Ningning, one of the top ten bespectacled girls, pushed up her glasses and said, "The translation is, I can't compete with him now. When I go back to practice, I will compete with him again."
"Oh!!" Kobayashi Ringtong nodded in sudden realization. Don't be too exaggerated in his expression.
"..., cough cough." Saito Soumaki's face turned red, he crossed his hands and stopped talking.
The three referees returned to their seats.
Shi Ke took a deep breath, gently put down the Tieguai Li into the tray, then picked up another piece of white jade tofu and put it into the water tank again, and started carving again.
At this time, Kuaga Teruki had already started the Mapo Tofu operation process.
After a long time, "Huh... it's finally finished." Shi Ke looked at the eight statues on the tray and breathed a sigh of relief.
Shi Ke fiddled with it for a while and then put the cooked statue into the steamer.
"The next thing has to be done quickly." Shi Ke set up two large iron pots on the stove at the same time, and started cooking two portions of tofu at the same time in the same order as before.
As Shi Ke stirred the pot with his hands, bursts of different aromas filled the venue.
Sometimes spicy, sometimes sweet, sometimes fresh and pure, sometimes rich, sometimes elegant, sometimes wild, sometimes violent, sometimes cold.
The ever-changing flavors made everyone in the audience involuntarily immersed in it.
"What is he cooking? The smell makes you hungry! I'm so hungry! Me too! He's shaking two large Chinese iron pots at the same time. Isn't that too strong?!..." said someone in the stands.
Some of the audience were stunned.
After a while, Shi Ke put the last portion of tofu into the winter melon container piece by piece with chopsticks.
Then, he reached out to the last piece of white jade tofu, placed it on the chopping board and slowly started cutting it.
Fifteen minutes later, "Okay! Time is running out! Both parties please load the dishes!!" Rei Kawashima arrived.
A few minutes later, Shi Ke and Jiu Ga installed the dishes according to the rules, and waited for the judgment with their hands behind their backs.