Although "Jinmaohu" Luo Ke's cooking skills were not bad, his ability to innovate was obviously insufficient. Looking at the cantaloupe in Tang Sanjie's hand, he didn't even realize what it was.
Feeling that he had been fooled, Luo Ke bent down and put his face close to Tang Sanjie and asked: "Hey, hey, hey! You are talking nonsense! This is just an ordinary cantaloupe, how can it look like soup? ah-?"
As he said this, Luo Ke wanted to reach out and knock the cantaloupe in Tang Sanjie's hand to the ground. "Pa—" Le Yuan's hand grasped Luo Ke's wrist, stopping his next movement.
Le Yuan let go of Luo Ke, and then put his hand on his chest and exerted a little force, "Da da da—" Luo Ke's body moved backwards uncontrollably until a moment later. He stopped with his hand on the table.
"'Jinmaohu', this is your only ability. With your poor imagination and stubbornness, you will definitely lose this game." Then Le Yuan helped Tang Sanjie push the cantaloupe on the stove. stand up.
When the five cantaloupes were placed in front of the judges, Tang Sanjie uncovered the top of one of them, pointed at it enthusiastically and said, "Look! This is my bouncing turtle soup!"
The so-called cantaloupe is just a container for this soup, and turning ingredients into containers is also a common method in Jiangnan cuisine.
"Golden-haired Tiger" Luo Ke was stunned at first, then raised his head and laughed loudly: "Hahaha! What a childish idea. It doesn't matter to me that you are pretending in front of me, but this kind of trick of a three-year-old child is too much. What can you do? You are just putting turtle soup into cantaloupe and bluffing in front of me!"
"Tsk-hoo-" The short-bearded and scarred boss took a puff of dry cigarette and said to Tang Sanjie on the side: "Sanjie, I should have told you a long time ago that I will not show mercy!"
As he said this, he picked up the spoon and wanted to take a sip of the soup. Unexpectedly, the spoon felt a rebound force after it came into contact with the soup. Scar, the short-bearded boss, couldn't hold the spoon steady for a moment, and the spoon in his hand bounced directly. Fly out.
“Ding dong—” The spoon bounced to the ground and made a crisp sound.
The short-bearded Scar looked at his right hand blankly, opened his mouth wide and said dreamily: "I... my spoon bounced away!"
"Oh... it's so cold, sorry it's fish jelly!"
"Well, as he bites it, it melts and spreads in his mouth... It's a wonderful feeling."
"The light, slightly elegant salty taste, the thick, refreshing sweetness of the top-quality turtle soup, slowly spreading at the end, it feels so good!"
"It has the faint sweetness of cantaloupe, and the sourness that comes from nowhere and is very pleasant to eat...a taste that's so delicious that it's jaw-dropping!"
Amidst the praises, a strange smile appeared on the faces of the five judges. The leader, the short-bearded Scar, held his head and asked: "I mean, three heroes, tell us how you did it." Where did this weird soup come from, especially the sour taste?”
“First, cook the dismembered turtle to remove the astringency, sprinkle it with a little salt, then put it into a hollowed-out cantaloupe cup, and steam the cantaloupe together in a steamer to remove its earthy and fishy smell. Then let it cool and solidify the soup, so that the sweet taste of the turtle can be completely absorbed into the frozen fish jelly. In addition, the sour taste you are experiencing is Zhejiang's famous product, pickled sour plums."
After both people's dishes were tasted, Xiang En walked to the judging panel and said to the five people: "Now - please start judging! If you think Luo Ke is good, please raise the white spoon, if you think Sanjie is good, please raise it Red spoon, whoever you think has the best skills, please raise the spoon that represents them!"
"Le Yuan, do you still think Sanjie can win? Although I also think Sanjie's creativity is indeed good, but Luo Ke's superb skills and the top-notch ingredients make a pot of soup. I think in terms of taste, The three heroes are unmatched!"
There was a trace of worry on Master Xie's face. In his opinion, the current situation was about kingship and originality. These two contrasting soup types were the most troublesome thing for the judges.
However, the five people at the judges' table all looked relaxed, not bothered at all by the upcoming judging.
"Hey, this is nothing more than a comparison!"
"That's right!"
In the surprised eyes of everyone, the judges without exception raised the red spoon representing the Three Heroes.
"Why, why?" Luo Ke's face was full of anger. He couldn't believe this and shouted angrily at one of the judges: "Didn't you just gobble up the soup I cooked like that?"
"Luo Ke, you forgot one important thing." The boss of the store pointed at Luo Ke and said, "That is, this competition is a kind of 'banquet cooking showdown'!"
"That's right, as the first soup of the banquet, its mission is not just to taste delicious!" the crew boss straightened his clothes and said, "The most important thing is that it must match the next dish. It’s the taste that matters.”
Le Yuan directly put the soup container they were holding in front of Luo Ke. He saw that Luo Ke's container was still full of soup, and the chicken inside was almost untouched. On the contrary, the fish in Tang Sanjie's cantaloupe container was still full. But there was nothing left of the frozen food, and everything was eaten up. The comparison between the two is self-evident.
"Master! This is a precious victory for us! This is a good start for us in this game. You did a great job!" A Gang couldn't help but admired Tang Sanjie when he saw his return.
Contrary to the joyful celebration on Le Yuan's side, Luo Ke, the "Golden-haired Tiger" as the loser, could not accept the reality and stared blankly at Tang Sanjie's figure. But at this moment, two bald and muscular men from the dark cooking world hugged Luo Ke's arm.
"Ugh..." Luo Ke couldn't help but struggle when he was suddenly captured. However, although his physique surpassed that of ordinary people, he still could not break away from the restraints of the two people. Looking at Xiang En who was approaching, he widened his eyes and said: " Ah! Big, big sister!"
Not far in front of Luo Ke, a furnace with scorching flames was opened. A bald man next to it took out a red-hot soldering iron from the furnace. The air around the soldering iron made a "squeaking sound" "The sound and the fiery breath made Luo Ke go crazy.
Looking at the soldering iron getting closer and closer, Luo Ke couldn't help but open his mouth wide and beg for mercy: "Once again... please give me a chance!"
"Ugh..." A shrill scream immediately attracted everyone's attention, and Luo Ke's chest was branded with two indelible marks of "unpalatable".
Xiang En didn't even look at the defeated Luo Ke. He turned around and said, "Listen, for us, losing to people from the light world is a great humiliation, just like committing a capital crime... I will give it now." The dishonorable mark of a loser, the 'unpalatable mark', will be etched in your heart."
The cruel thing of branding a living person made Liu Pleiades and the other young guys feel terrified.
Xiang En looked at Le Yuan coldly and said, "The second round of the banquet cooking showdown is about dim sum. Let's decide who will be the chef!"
Master Xie slammed the iron rod in his hand on the ground, and said with a confident smile: "Are you blind? Of course it's me! Let me, the leading dim sum chef in the mainland, thank you for coming to meet you!"
Knowing Master Xie's strength, Liu Pleiades and his team's morale immediately became high. For them, this round was almost a sure win.
"Hee hee hee..." Logan said in his sharp voice as he walked out: "Young man! Your tone is so loud! It's just like when I was young!"
Also appearing with Logan was his walking stick representing the Poirot family, with the Poirot family emblem engraved on it. Master Xie, a pastry chef, recognized it immediately.
The pastry king Luo Gen can be said to be the leader of pastry chefs today. When he saw Master Xie, a junior, he immediately made a bowl of "Soul Noodles" in an attempt to show off, but Master Xie counterattacked at the same time with "shaking dumplings" , the first confrontation between the two was evenly matched.
At the request of the host Xiang En, the gangsters in the dark cooking world brought out a large roulette wheel, with various types of snacks written on each area - dumplings, siomai, wontons, steamed buns, spring rolls, sesame seed cakes... add up. There are as many as twelve items.
When the roulette wheel was spun, Xiang En said to Master Xie: "Thank you Tiebang, you can shoot the toothpick from your mouth onto the turntable."
"Wait!" Le Yuan shouted, came to the side of the master, and said to Xiang En: "I said, I will make the rules here now. As for the content of the competition-"
Le Yuan took the toothpick from Master Jie's hand, and then shot it towards the rapidly rotating roulette wheel, "kick-kick-kick-" when the roulette wheel stopped, the toothpick was firmly nailed to the roulette wheel. In the center, with the hole in the toothpick position, the entire roulette wheel was shattered into pieces.
"Is this a monster?" Seeing a huge turntable destroyed by a small toothpick, the shock left her speechless for a long time.
Le Yuan said to Master Xie and the other two: "Since the turntable has been destroyed, there is no fixed competition topic, so let's show off our special dishes and compete!"
"Are you good at it? It's really interesting!" Logan had no problem with this at all, and took out his best dish, the "Sishen Seafood Eight-treasure Buns" made from Shu Han old noodles.
However, the opposite is the siomai that Master Xie is best at. He combines his own cuisine with Dacheng's top siomai "golden ratio siomai".
The final result was beyond everyone's expectation. No one raised a spoon in support of either Logan's buns or Master Xie's siomai, and the game ended in a draw.