"Souma Yukihira, what's the name of your dish?" Kirisenzaemon said, tilting his head.
"Seaweed bento!" Yukihira replied with his usual silly smile.
"What? Seaweed bento?! He actually wants to win over Alice with that kind of dish?" The audience was in an uproar.
Everyone in the Jiexing dormitory stopped talking, and a decisive feeling of powerlessness came over their hearts.
"Yukihira-kun..." Alice said, lowering her head.
"Yeah." Yukihira looked like you wanted to laugh at him.
"What is a seaweed bento?" Alice asked softly.
"Weird? What, don't you know? I'll make one for you to try later, too? It's just that what I made is not an ordinary seaweed bento, but a Yukihira Evolution-type seaweed bento!!" Yukihira calmly said
After explaining, the food was served.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Each stainless steel multi-layer insulated lunch box was placed in front of the judges!
Xingping was full of confidence, "Please use it slowly!!"
"Oh! I heard it was a nori bento, and it reminded me of a flat, square container. However, I didn't expect it to be an oval, multi-layered bento box~! It's really fresh!" said the little old judge.
"Moreover, he uses an insulated lunch box, which can keep the temperature of rice and soup very good. The recently launched lunch box can also maintain a certain temperature even after about half a day." The glasses man explained.
"Oh! Japan's current lunch boxes are quite advanced!" Alice couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
"Adding the soup first and placing it on the bottom layer can also improve the heat preservation effect of the rice." Yukihira added a few words.
"Oh! So smart!" Alice looked surprised.
The atmosphere between the two people is super warm.
In the audience, Sato Shoji was a little surprised, "They are playing so well, but they are chatting so well..."
Mito Yumei was indignant, "There is no sense of tension at all. She looks down on Yukihira at all. Seeing her relaxed smile, she doesn't feel like she will lose at all."
"Hmm. Let's start with three side dishes." The fattest judge among the five judges opened the lunch box, picked up the side dishes and ate, "Oh!! This fried bamboo shoot with seaweed is really outstanding! The coating is crispy and it's delicious in your mouth.
melted and fried to perfection.”
"There is also the mellow flavor of the fried burdock. A little mayonnaise and Italian balsamic vinegar are added to it for seasoning, which makes the taste even deeper! Even the details are very particular, and the kung fu is outstanding!" the little old judge praised.
"Yeah. That's right. It's unpretentious and quite down-to-earth!"
"Next is the fried fish..., oh? It can be easily cut off with chopsticks! This is fried cod!" The little old man was amazed by the fried cod pieces that could be cut off with just one chopstick.
Shi Ke in the preparation room scratched his head, "If the fish is cooked in advance and then fried, isn't it easy to pinch? It's not octopus, squid or anything like that."
"I'm afraid it should be boiled with stock and seasonings and then fried, so that the fish will be soft and tender." The little old man nodded.
"I knew it." Shi Ke curled his lips.
The little old man took a hard bite and swallowed it, "...Huh?! This, this, this, this? How can it have such an elegant and moist flavor? There is no astringency at all! It's like the breeze blowing across the grassland! Completely
I can’t imagine that this is so-called B-grade gourmet food...what an elegant taste!! What the hell is going on?”
"I'm afraid the answer lies in the dashi. This is dashi made from sturgeon and bonito." Kirisenzaemon said with a look that could see through everything.
"Is it interesting to cook fish with fish?" Shi Ke smiled, immediately picked up his things and rushed to the venue, "Watching TV is not enough~ I want to go to the venue!!"
The staff members felt a flash of lightning flashing around them. When they looked back, they saw that the preparation room was empty and Shi Ke was gone.
"Ah!! It's haunted!!" Staff member b held his head and screamed Σ(°Д°;).
"What a joke! This guy has gone to the venue! Let's chase him!" Staff member A raised his hand and gave staff member B a clue, pointing to the note on the table in the preparation room.
"He took that thing away by himself? When it came, four people carried it in!!"
"Who knows how he got it? This academy is full of monsters!!"
Shi Ke was running around with his things, "I'm so smart! I wrote the note yesterday, I just need to put it down today."
The time in the competition was very tight. With just the time Shi Ke ran, the soup in Yukihira's lunch box was already gone. The judges were also very satisfied.
"Yukihira-kun, you really know a lot about bento!" Chi Alice said.
"That's right. After all, I did it in the restaurant at home."
"But Yukihira-kun, you can't do this."
"Um?"
"Every effort is too ordinary. However, the dishes should be gorgeous and full of surprises, just like my Temari bento."
"Indeed, your dishes look delicious. Let me try them next time."
"Hehehe... Of course, no problem." Alice agreed generously.
"But, the dishes you made...are they really great for a bento?" Yukihira changed the subject and spoke his mind.
"What did you say?" Alice's eyes showed a rare hint of anger.
"I mean what exactly are we supposed to put in the box?"
"Wow!! Look! There seems to be something coming in at Soma Yukihira's entrance?!"
Xingping turned his head curiously. A cow's head poked out from the shadow of the passage, followed by a body, and behind him was a hand holding the cow on his waist. He strode into the venue with a cheerful smile on his face and a relaxed Shi Ke.
Yukihira and Alice's jaws dropped to the floor, Σ(°Д°;)Σ(°Д°;).
There was a deathly silence in the entire venue.
Bang!! Shi Ke threw the cow to the ground, the ground shook, and the pot on the cooking table jumped.
"Don't worry about me, I'm just carrying the ingredients and arriving early." Shi Ke put down the food box, patted the cow's butt, took out a small horseradish from the food box and sat down.
"This is a good cow. The butt is thick, the back muscles are clearly visible, the fur is smooth, and the body is huge." Yuki nodded and commented.
"Of course. This is A-grade beef cattle that just left the farm yesterday. Although it is not A5-grade beef, it is not bad." Mito Yumei said seriously.
"How do you know?" Liangzi was stunned for a moment.
"He bought it from me. Mito Group's discount price. One kilogram is about 15,000 yen." Mito Yumei took out the calculator and clicked it to show it to everyone.
"But why is it a whole cow?"
"He specifically asked not to disintegrate. As for the reason, I don't know."
"He's not planning to dismember a cow directly in this place, is he? The competition time is not allowed at all! It's too short!" Daigo Aoki and Shoji Sato hugged each other and said.
"According to Shi Ke-kun's character, it's very possible." Marui pushed up his glasses, his hands shaking.
Everyone in Jiexing nodded.
Shi Ke sat on the pony and slowly wiped the largest knife among the seven-star swords. "Don't worry about me. I can just prepare here. The preparation room is too boring."
The whole audience was speechless. Think this is your living room! There is a competition here!
"Hehehe, let him go. Let's continue." Kirisenzaemon smiled and continued to evaluate it by himself, "Oh? This rice is very interesting."
"What?" The little old man opened the layer of rice and was instantly frightened by the box of rice in front of him, which was covered with a layer of crystal clear dark green spheres. "What is this?"
"Is this a seaweed bento?" The man with glasses was also confused.
Shi Ke stretched his neck to take a look, and his nose moved, (w), "Huh? This smell, and this size, this thing... is a bit nonsensical."
Xingping looked away from Shi Ke and looked at Alice, "You should also taste this delicious food. It is something deeper than delicious food!!"
"Huh!? These chewy particles with a texture like salmon roe explode in your mouth!! What comes out is the delicious taste of seaweed!! You can't stop using the chopsticks in your hands!!" The little old man was a little excited.
Already.
"How do you know this technology? These particles are made by extracting the umami flavor of seaweed and then solidifying it into spherical substances through sodium alginate and calcium chloride. This is the technology of molecular cuisine!"
The whole audience was in an uproar, "Isn't this what Alice is best at?!"
"Is this a trick that Xingping developed through thick snacks?" Shi Ke came up to the ring.
"Snacks?" Alice could tell by looking at her expression, as if she had never seen the world.
"This is it." Xingping took out a pack of pink snacks, "This is a kind of Yizhi food. This is a style to experience the production of artificial salmon eggs. I liked playing with it when I was a child. The sodium alginate in the formula
and calcium chloride, I bought it at the pharmacy. The recipe is the same as you guessed. However, the taste is specially prepared by me. I call it seaweed flavor bomb!"
Alice looked at the recipe list on the back of the cake and said nothing.
"The transfer student has mastered the essence of molecular gastronomy! He figured it out from scratch!" There was a burst of exclamation from the audience.
"What a fool, this thing is already out of date. Only that guy Yukihira will bring this thing to the dining table." Shi Ke curled his lips, and then was stunned, "No, the last sushi that Alice just made seems to have a similar one.
The ball is coming. These two have big hearts!"
"Hey? This rice turns out to have a four-layer structure!! There is also a layer of braised sturgeon and bonito flakes in the middle of the rice!! Hmm!! This combination is quite cheerful! It's really refreshing!" The little old judge added again
The New World was discovered.
"If Alice's dish is a well-organized jewelry box, then Yukihira Souma's dish is an unexplainable treasure box! The excitement of opening a lunch box when I was out on an outing when I was a child has revived!" The man with glasses was intoxicated.
With.
"But, no. In terms of overall deliciousness and texture, my bento is better! My Temari bento also has the finishing touch of sea bream chazuke sushi. Yours is made of seaweed. To put it bluntly, it's only
It's just plagiarizing other people's wisdom!" Alice ate Xinghei's bento. Oh, it tastes so good!
"Yeah, yeah. It would be better if I had some gravy from the bibimbap." Shi Ke was also eating, and then he discovered the New World on the back of the lunch box lid, "Oh? There seems to be another box here."
"Ah~~ I discovered it. This contains the gravy you want. Moreover, the amount of ingredients is three times the normal amount! Please pour it on the rice. You can finish it."
"Oh!! This thing...you can tell it's very delicious just by looking at it!!" The judges collectively picked up the rice.
"Yeah! After these flavors are combined, it tastes even better!!" Shi Ke gave Xingping a thumbs up without hesitation.
"It's really fascinating! Yes!" All the judges' faces were filled with satisfied smiles.
"Those censors... are completely different from when they tasted Alice's dishes! I always feel... they had a great time eating!!" There was a discussion in the audience.
"Yukihira-kun, is this what you want to say? The heart that should be in a bento? The key to the food should be whether it is delicious or not? The spiritual theory of heart-to-heart talk..." Alice said.
"No, the key is not spiritualism, Alice." Kirisenzaemon spoke while shirtless.
Alice turned around and was stunned, "What do you mean by this? Grandpa..., his clothes are torn!!"
"Alice, your bento is made of cold air."
"Yes. Because bentos are meant to be cold food." Alice said matter-of-factly.
"Souma Yukihira didn't come to such a conclusion."
"!?"
"Let me interrupt. Alice, if you don't understand, please answer me a question. Two lunch boxes are placed in front of you. One is cold and one is warm. Which one do you eat?" Shi Ke inserted the big knife back.
scabbard.
"Of course it's warm. But mine should taste better!"
"Lunchboxes are often used to satisfy hunger rather than to taste." Shi Ke smiled.
"!?"
"What Contestant Shi Ke said is right. The bento was very simple in its origins, and it was later improved by countless chefs before it became popular. The original intention of the bento is a convenient and quick meal. It can give the greatest satisfaction to hungry people in a short period of time.
Feeling is the best bento. Alice, your bento is indeed very delicious, but if the competition today was sushi, you would also come up with the same dishes, right?"
When Alice heard this, she broke into a cold sweat.
"Your dishes are just stuffing technology into a bento box. The delicious taste that only bento can convey to diners, the work that furthers the bento culture, the fun and freshness of a bento, these are all in your dishes
Have it?"
Xingping curled his lips, (_), and thought, "Everything I wanted to say was said by others."
"Forget it! However, the most important thing is whether it tastes good or not. I totally agree with this." Xingping poured the gravy into the rice and handed it to Alice, "Please use it slowly! Cut Alice!"
!”
Alice hesitated and started eating, then her chopsticks moved faster and faster.
"Bring me a writing brush!!" Kirisenzaemon asked the staff for the mop (writing brush) he had prepared, and wrote four large characters in a flying pattern on the rice paper placed in the center of the venue.
Yukihira Soma!!
The first round, the first game, the winner is Yukihira Soma!