"You're here."
While Fang Ze and Liu Pleiax were chatting about their cooking experiences and Lin Xiaoxin was eating here and there, the awkward Chinese that Fang Ze was familiar with rang in his ears again.
"Hello, we meet again."
The only one who can speak so awkwardly is the neon chef.
Fang Ze looked towards a platform in front of him, and sure enough, the neon chef who had spoken to him before on the high-speed rail was standing there, bending slightly to talk to him.
"What a fate." Fang Ze nodded slightly to the neon chef, and then asked, "Is this your booth?"
"Yes. This is the booth that my senior brother applied for to showcase our authentic Japanese food. Would you like to come over and have a try?"
"Try it." Fang Ze and Liu Pleiades walked over and found that besides the neon chef, there was another tall, thin chef with a serious expression standing there, making sashimi seriously.
"What do you call them?" Fang Ze asked the names of these two people. After all, they had been chatting for a long time, and it was really rude not to even know each other's names.
"My name is Kojima, and this is my senior brother Hanyu." When Kojima saw Fang Ze coming over, he happily introduced Fang Ze and Fang Ze to his senior brother, and honestly said that he didn't make authentic food last time because of the ingredients. Fang Ze’s companion pointed out the Japanese material. "
"The Japanese food we made this time is absolutely authentic." Hanyu said to the two of them, "Soon, these sashimi will also participate in the building climbing competition for everyone to score."
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Fang Ze looked at the number of sashimi on the table and found that Hanyu and Kojima had indeed made a lot of sashimi. There was absolutely no way for the guests here to finish them all. The remaining ones could be used for the formal banquet later. Contest.
Therefore, the two senior brothers Hanyu and Kojima saved the time of cooking a dish while waiting for a while in the building climbing competition.
And more importantly, in fact, since the diners on the first floor have spent a lot of money to eat ordinary food, they can be sure that they are more or less foodies.
But there is still a big gap between foodies and gourmets.
Therefore, the diners on the first floor do not give high scores to which dishes are really delicious, but they give high scores only when they think they are delicious. Scores can obviously be highly subjective.
While the other chefs needed to hide their clumsiness and not release their final dishes too early to prevent other chefs from seeing them, Kojima and Hanyu instead introduced the sashimi early to the diners later. When you eat it, you will feel a sense of familiarity.
Generally speaking, when ordinary people are struggling with which option to choose, they will prefer the one they are familiar with.
Therefore, this sashimi dish, which was introduced in advance, might get a lot of extra points for these two neon chefs during the final scoring.
"Let me try it." Fang Ze picked up a piece of sashimi and tasted it. He felt that the taste was particularly strong. If he just tasted it, it would be very good. But if he eats too much, Fang Ze can only stay away.
"Very good." Fang Ze still raised his thumbs and praised the two chefs.
Kojima and Hanyu looked proud when they saw Fang Ze's compliment.
"I'll try it too." Liu Pleiades on the side also picked up a piece of sashimi and put it into his mouth.
Because of Liu Subaru's childlike appearance, Kojima and Hanyu didn't pay much attention to Liu Subaru.
But unexpectedly, Liu Pleiaxing frowned after taking his first bite of sashimi.
"What's wrong?" Fang Ze turned to ask him.
"Maybe the kids are not used to wasabi." Kojima said in a relaxed tone before he realized the seriousness of the problem.
"There's something wrong with this mustard." Liu Pleiaxing said directly.
"To ensure the authenticity, our mustard is airlifted from Neon. There will be no problems at all." Xiaodao did not understand what Liu Pleiades meant, and thought that Liu Pleiades was not used to it because he had never eaten a lot of mustard. .
"The mustard used in your Japanese food, if you follow tradition, it should be wasabi." Liu Angxing raised his head and asked.
"Yes." Yuyu answered Liu Pleiades' question.
At this time, the two neon chefs realized that the child in front of them might have really eaten something wrong. After all, the mustard in Japanese cuisine and the mustard in Chinese cuisine are not the same kind of mustard. Ordinary diners actually know this. Not much.
“Do they use ordinary mustard for their mustard?”
"No." Liu Pleiades took another taste, then raised his head and said to Kojima Yayu, "They use horseradish."
"What is horseradish?" Fang Ze asked.
"Because the price of wasabi is relatively high, many people use horseradish as a substitute for wasabi." Liu Pleiades said, "Horse radish is also a plant and is often used as a condiment for barbecues and the like in the West. The taste is also good. It’s similar to wasabi. But more importantly, it’s cheaper than wasabi.”
Liu Pleiades pointed to the mustard on the sashimi and said, "You see, the color of this mustard is green, and it looks exactly the same as the color of wasabi. But in fact, the color of horseradish is light yellow, and special methods are needed to make it. Let the color of horseradish be dyed the color of wasabi.”
"No special means are used." Kojima hurriedly explained, "Usable pigments are generally added, which will not change the taste or cause any harm to the human body."
"Pigment?" Liu Pleiades didn't understand what pigment meant and looked up at Fang Ze.
"You can think of edible dyes as things that can change the color of things but not the taste." Fang Ze explained simply.
"Regardless of whether it will change the taste." Liu Pleiades pointed at these sashimi and said, "Since you are claiming to be authentic sashimi, you should use the traditional Japanese wasabi instead of horseradish."
"Ahem." Xiaodao saw that this kid, Liu Pleiades, pointed out the matter so righteously. He quickly leaned out from the platform and said to Fang Ze and Liu Pleiades, "Don't get me wrong, you two. Don't say anything, I'll explain it to you slowly." Xiaodao said, motioning for Fang Ze and Liu Pleiades to enter the platform, and then he bowed to Liu Pleiax and Fang Ze, "I'm sorry for what happened to you because of the mustard made with horseradish. Bad experience.”
"This is not a bad experience for us." Liu Pleiades said to Xiaodao, "Since you say you are making traditional and authentic Japanese food, you should use the most traditional seasonings. And even if you want to innovate, you will not Horseradish should be used instead of horseradish.”
"That's it." Xiaodao said to Liu Pleiaxing and Fang Ze, "Logically speaking, we should use mustard, but in fact, in Chinese Japanese food restaurants, even high-end Japanese food restaurants with our neon chefs in charge Restaurants still use horseradish instead of wasabi. So we are worried that the use of wasabi in this competition will make diners think that our sashimi is not authentic."
'What a refreshing and refined reason. ' Fang Ze complained silently in his heart.
"That's not the real reason." Liu Pleiades suddenly pointed to the cabinet under the platform and said.
Fang Ze looked in the direction of Liu Pleiax's finger and found a water basin inside the half-open cupboard. An emerald green plant was vaguely visible above the water basin.
"You must have prepared wasabi, right?" Liu Pleiades then said to Kojima and Hanyu, "The spiciness of wasabi is volatile and difficult to preserve. Therefore, when wasabi is used to make mustard, it is usually freshly ground for fear of contact. The air will taste worse afterward.”
Kojima and Hanyu were so frightened by Liu Subaru's words that their faces turned pale. After all, this kind of shoddy thing is the most taboo in the chef world.
In fact, the high price of some delicacies is due to different ingredients, and even the ingredients are fake.
Then no matter how delicious it is, its meaning is completely lost.
“Although the flavors of wasabi and horseradish are difficult to identify, the ways to eat them are completely different.” Liu Pleiades went on to reveal the two neon chefs, “The common way to eat sashimi is to add mustard sauce to soy sauce and then stir the sashimi. But wasabi is completely different.”
"Because the flavor of wasabi will be destroyed the moment it is stirred in soy sauce, so the real way to eat sashimi is to dip a pinch of wasabi on top of the sashimi, and then use the other side of the sashimi to dip it in the sauce. Use chopsticks to put the sashimi dipped in wasabi into your mouth, and do not let the soy sauce and wasabi come into direct contact."
After Liu Pleiades finished speaking, he pointed to the soy sauce and mustard sauce prepared by the two neon chefs on the counter and said, "For convenience, you just mixed the mustard and soy sauce directly, so you have no intention of hiding the fact that you used horseradish. .The purpose of doing this is because you think there are no real gourmets on the first floor."
"You keep wasabi for the taste of the dignitaries a few floors above, because these dignitaries have eaten real sashimi. So you don't use wasabi just because the people here are not used to it. Wasabi’s is just to save materials and replace the inferior ones with the best ones.”
Liu Subaru's words were merciless, but Hanyu and Kojima had no way to refute them.
They did use horseradish instead of wasabi. Ordinary diners may not know this, but once it became a big deal, it attracted the management of this competition. All you need to do is hire a professional gourmet to taste it and you will know.
Although using horseradish instead of wasabi will not make much difference in taste for ordinary people, it is just like top FPS players using mouse macros, which is absolutely not allowed.
Even if your craftsmanship is top-notch, shoddy quality means shoddy quality.
Even if you are strong, if you turn on the cheat, you will turn on the cheat.
This is something that cannot be washed away and is something that can destroy any chef’s career.
"Good materials are limited, which is understandable. But you must make it clear to your customers in the promotion, and you can't hide it just because the customers don't understand. If a chef cannot treat your customers with sincerity, then he is not worthy of being a chef. !”
"Well said!" A voice of approval suddenly came.
Fang Ze turned around and realized that although Xiaodao had brought Fang Ze and Liu Pleiades behind the booth, because Liu Pleiades spoke too loudly just now, many onlookers rushed over to catch the last bus and heard Liu Pleiades. Speech later.
(End of chapter)