Girlfriend's Fortune

Chapter 740 Chapter 730 Nine: Preliminaries
The gate of Hu's courtyard opened, and the steward who was in charge of registration yesterday brought people out, stood on the steps, and looked at the people below.

Everyone below was silent, waiting for the steward to speak.

Those who have participated in previous years know that before entering the gate, the rules must be announced first.

I just don't know that this year's is the same as the previous ones.

As soon as the steward finished announcing the matter, chattering started underneath.

This year is really different. There are a total of 80 open-air stoves in the Hu family’s yard. Because of the large number of people, the order of the competition is determined according to the number on the wooden board. [-] people enter in one round and cook a dish. The cooking time is stipulated as A stick of incense.

After Song Qiu heard this, he quickly looked at his wooden sign, which read: six hundred and one hundred and eight.

Good guy, when we have to wait, it depends on how thick the incense is.

Soon, people who reached [-] lined up one by one to accept the wooden sign and entered the yard, and then the gate was closed.

Other contestants can only wait outside.

No. [-] has to be lined up seven or eight times away. From the looks of it, it is not guaranteed to go in the afternoon, but it will be troublesome to go back to the inn at this time. In case something is missed, Song Qiu and A Ling went to the tea stand to sit and relax. Wait a minute.

As expected, they didn't wait all morning. Lu Jing and Ye Fang packed lunch at a tea stall at a restaurant not far away.

During the period, Ah Ling also went to inquire about the situation of the people who came out after the competition, and sneaked into the courtyard of Hu's house to have a look, so that Song Qiu also knew.

Song Qiu also estimated the time for the first round of people to go in and out, about half an hour, that is, one hour, enough to cook a dish.

As for the ingredients, according to Ah Ling's inquiries, they are all uniform, the main ingredient is chicken, and the side dishes are different.

And on the separate stove, there are all kinds of seasonings, including bean paste, dried chili, and red oil starch. It is also the name of Fangji Huangshang, and these things have been promoted so quickly.

Song Qiu didn't need to bring the one he bought himself.

While waiting, I also thought about what to cook in my mind.

In the afternoon, seeing that more than 500 was sung, and it was almost time to go in, Song Qiu got up and went to the alley to wait.

It didn't take long before the gate opened, and the eighty or so people who entered first came out shaking their heads, and very few of them were holding wooden signs in their hands.

And only if you get the wooden card, you have passed the preliminaries and can enter the second round.

After all these people came out, the steward continued to sing.

This round, Song Qiu was impressively among them, and immediately followed the team to the door and handed in the wooden sign for verification.

After entering the yard, Song Qiu saw rows of separate stoves in the spacious courtyard.

The stove and the desk are the size of a square table. The stove on the left is a pot, and the small bowls on the right are filled with seasonings. They are neatly arranged. There are traces of previous use, but after a round of comparison , has been tidied up properly, including the pot, all washed clean.

There are four rows of stoves, one row of twenty, and every two rows face each other. There is a row of long tables in the middle, on which are placed ingredients. The main ingredient is chicken, and other side dishes are varied, which is very rich.

Everyone stood behind their corresponding stoves in the order of numbers, and listened to the steward's instructions. Then a new incense was lit, and the competition began.

Many people immediately rushed to the long table to get the ingredients, Song Qiu went out without haste, everyone had a pre-processed chicken, this one didn't need to be grabbed, the ones that needed to be grabbed were all side dishes.

Song Qiu had long thought about what dishes to cook, and now he was carrying the basket, picked out the things he needed with a few quick moves, and then returned to the stove to start serving the dishes.

It takes half an hour to cook a dish without an assistant, and you have to do it all by yourself. This dish can't be too troublesome to use.

So, Song Qiu decided to make Kung Pao Chicken.

Process the chicken first, only take the chicken breast, and discard the rest.

Then dice the chicken breast, add rice wine, soy sauce, sweet potato starch, a little sugar to enhance the taste, marinate and set aside.

There are no lettuce and carrots in season here, so Song Qiu chose spring bamboo shoots instead. It doesn’t need much, half a root is enough, cut into cubes, sprinkle with some salt to taste.

Dried chili cut into sections, green onion cut into sections for later use.

Everything is ready, and then start to fry the peanuts. The peanuts are put into the pan with cold oil and kept stirring over low heat.

After the peanuts are fried, take them out, wash the pot and pour oil, there should be a little more oil, when the oil temperature is [-]% hot, Song Qiu puts the ears of the pot, removes the pot from the heat, then pours the chicken into it and spreads it out quickly, then puts on the fire, and the fire is high Stir fry until the chicken just changes color and serve immediately.

Leave an appropriate amount of oil in the pan, then pour in the chicken, dried chili segments and peppercorns and stir fry, add an appropriate amount of bean paste and stir fry quickly.

Then pour in the diced bamboo shoots and stir fry, add peanuts, and stir fry the green onions evenly.

Finally, thicken the cornstarch, take an appropriate amount of soy sauce, water starch, and sugar to enhance the flavor, and ensure that every ingredient is coated with thin cornstarch.

Then, out of the pan.

Song Qiu waved the big spoon, took out the vegetables in the pot, neatly covered them on the plate, the plate was neatly arranged, and there was no overflow at all.

Putting down the big spoon, Song Qiudun struck the gong hanging on one side.

There was a sound of "dong", the steward had noticed the movement on Song Qiu's side long ago. After all, there was only such a little girl in the audience, who had a deep memory, and everyone talked about it a lot, whether this little girl can cook or not.

That's why when we first saw this girl come in, everyone paid a lot of attention to her. Seeing how she handles the ingredients neatly and cooks in a leisurely manner without being nervous or flustered at all, it can be seen that she has been in the kitchen for a long time.

As for the taste...

When the gong rang, the steward was already coming here.

After the gong rang, the steward came to the stove.

"All right?"

Song Qiu nodded, "Okay."

There is still a good bit of incense burning.

The steward took a look at the dish, and from the smell that entered his nose, he knew that the taste of the dish was not bad.

This girl is also one of the few contestants who used bean paste, dried chili and starch.

These seasonings are new products, they were just promoted by Fang Ji last year, and there are not many cooks who know how to cook with these seasonings.

This girl is proficient in using it, and she is a veteran at first glance.

The steward took a deep look at Song Qiu, then took a piece of chicken with his chopsticks, and tasted it carefully.

That's right, the referee for the preliminaries is this steward. He is famous for his good mouth. He has been the referee for the preliminaries of cooking competitions over the years. Yes, not to mention how good the level is, it must be able to cook.

The so-called know how to cook, it’s not just cooking the dishes indiscriminately, the first one, the taste can’t be messed up, salty, sour, sweet, you can’t even master the seasoning, what do you call “know how to cook” vegetable?

The steward ate a piece of chicken, and his eyes lit up slightly. The chicken was tender and smooth, and the taste was full of flavor. It was the first time he tasted chicken like this.

With this taste, passing the second round is no problem.

The steward was curious, how can this young girl's cooking skills be as good as that of a chef who has experienced many years of experience?
But he didn't talk much at the moment, just nodded and gave Song Qiu a wooden sign.

Song Qiu took it and glanced at it, two hundred and three hundred four.

(End of this chapter)