Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 395: A Little Bit of Intangible Cultural Heritage Food Shock (5.3k, supplemented on May 5.25)
"Use the electric net to capture your eyeballs! Who will tell the story? Here comes the strange tree! Good morning, noon and evening!"

It was still Qishu's signature opening remarks.

Eighty percent of the people who came to the scene because of Bai Zhen were also fans of Qi Shu.

These fans also interacted with Qishu and shouted: "Good morning, good afternoon and good evening!"

As a professional live streamer, Qishu is an expert at livening up the atmosphere.

After she successfully mobilized everyone's emotions, she immediately started the main topic of today.

Qi Shu: "Then let's start today's special project, the name is 'Let's see who is the chef who controls the taste buds! Cooking competition!'"

The name of Qishu's project still maintains the exaggerated style.

Ever since Bai Zhen improved the rice ball sauce in Bao Canteen last time, the rice balls in Bao Canteen have become the well-deserved signature of Bao Canteen.

Many people are curious about Bai Zhen’s real cooking skills.

Adhering to the principle of doing what fans want to see.

Qishu organized this special project after seeking Bai Zhen's consent.

Bai Zhen also wanted to gain some popularity and make some money at the same time.

As Qishu finished speaking, the ground around everyone suddenly opened up, and two oversized operating platforms rose from the ground.

At the same time, an audience stand and judges' seats were erected not far away.

The place where they are standing now is on the third level of Glass Bottle City, and the place where they are standing is a huge battlefield.

This battle venue is the same as the one in Bao Canteen and can be switched.

The venue for the cooking competition was also prepared in the past few days.

After the fans around Bai Zhen rose up in the audience, they went to the audience seats under the guidance of the staff.

Bai Zhen was the only challenger left in the venue.

"Well, then, since the challenger is ready, let us now invite our three-star chef, the owner of the Haidai Club, Haidai!"

slap~
The lights that Qishu had prepared long ago shone on the entrance of the club, and Haidai appeared.

Haidai looks to be in his forties or fifties, and looks like a kind uncle. The most memorable thing about Haidai is his wavy eyebrows and beard.

Haidai came to Bai Zhen and greeted him in a friendly manner.

"Hey! I've heard of your great name for a long time, Qianzhou. I went to Jinhui Town to taste the rice balls you improved at Bao Canteen. I didn't expect you to be so amazing and have such high attainments in the field of cooking. I look forward to today's cooking competition."

Bai Zhen and Hai Dai shook hands and greeted each other in a friendly manner.

Qishu then invited three more judges, Ye Ci, Xin Li, and Popi.

Ye Ci is an old acquaintance, and Bai Zhen and Ye Ci have met many times.

Xinli and Popi, two of the Four Heavenly Kings, are also very distinctive people.

Xin Li has long green hair and red pupils. She wears neutral overalls and a pair of brown leather boots. Her overall style makes her look like a handsome man, but she is actually a lady.

Xinli is one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Padia region and is good at training ground-type elves.

Poppy is a little girl wearing a dress. She is only 9 years old.

In this world where most people have to be 10 years old before they can embark on their journey, Poppy is also a very special trainer.

Originally, Poppy was planning to enroll in Grape Academy, but because his Pokémon was too powerful, he could not become a student. In the end, he was invited by Ye Ci to become one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Steel Type.

The three of them entered without saying hello to Bai Zhen and Hai Dai, this was also to avoid suspicion.

They were invited to be referees, so it was not a big deal for them to get into a fight with the players before the game.

Sitting down in the referee's seat, Xin Li looked curiously at Bai Zhen who was fully armed.

"He really is wearing the same outrageous armor as the rumors said."

Xin Li's voice has a rather special accent, which is very easy to recognize.

Poppy looked at Bai Zhen curiously: "It looks hard~!"

Hearing Poppy's words, Xin Li laughed and said, "Does Poppy think it's handsome too?"

Poppy nodded obediently. As a trainer who specializes in training steel-type Pokémon, the armor that looks like it has a strong metallic texture is naturally in her aesthetic taste.

"Really? It seems that Qian Zhou is very popular with everyone. But does he really plan to participate in the cooking competition wearing this armor?"

The answer is of course yes.

The judges took their seats, and Qishu began to read out the rules of this special project.

This cooking competition is also very simple. A total of two dishes are required. The dishes are decided by the referee by drawing lots, and the time limit is two hours.

Judging will take place in two hours.

"Then let our chief champion, Ye Ci, draw the dishes for this special event!"

Ye Ci came to the lottery box under the watchful eyes of everyone.

She reached into the box and pulled out a piece of paper with the word 'noodles' written on it.

"It appears. The first dish of the cooking competition will be [Noodles]! There is no limit to the cooking method, as long as it is related to noodles! But you are not allowed to use ready-made dishes! Next, please draw the second dish, please!"

Ye Ci took out the second note.

The word "dessert" is written on it.

"The second theme has been confirmed to be [Desserts]! So please start using local materials and complete one noodle-related work and one dessert-related work within two hours."

At this time, the shelves rose behind Bai Zhen and Hai Dai.

The shelves are filled with all kinds of fresh ingredients.

Bai Zhen came to the shelf and thought about what to do.

At this time, Haidai also came to the shelf and said to Baizhen apologetically: "I'm sorry, these ingredients are all from our store, they may be more beneficial to me."

Bai Zhen didn't care: "It doesn't matter, as long as I have the ingredients, I can make delicious food."

"Haha, that's amazing. I will give you 100% of my strength. Please let me see your full strength."

After saying that, Haidai took away a bag of flour and some other materials.

Haidai probably wants to make dandan noodles and tofu pudding, right?
If we only talk about the understanding of Chinese cuisine, there is probably no one in the world who understands it better than Bai Zhen.

Just by looking at the ingredients Haidai took away, Bai Zhen roughly knew what kind of dish the other party wanted to make.

Bai Zhen glanced at the ingredients on the shelf and thought about what to make.

"Since Haidai wants to win with Chinese cuisine, I'll use Chinese cuisine too."

Bai Zhen glanced at the shelves and saw ingredients such as barley, rice, and white sugar.

Two recipes quickly appeared in Bai Zhen's mind.

Bai Zhen moved the materials he needed to his position.

While Haidai was processing the ingredients, he was also paying attention to Bai Zhen's actions.

He looked at the ingredients Bai Zhen brought with confusion.

"Rice? Barley? And pumpkin? What kind of dish is he planning to make? Isn't the theme of this competition [noodles] and [desserts]? Is he planning to make dessert with rice?"

Haidai thought about the recipes in his mind. He didn't know any dessert that could be made with rice.

The three people on the judges' bench also looked at the ingredients chosen by Bai Zhen in surprise.

They were not professional chefs and were curious about what kind of noodles or desserts Bai Zhen wanted to make with the rice.

Bai Zhen did not directly use his own universal tool, but simply used the kitchen utensils available on site to cook.

This also gives Haidai a relatively fair competitive environment.

Bai Zhen first steamed the rice, and then asked Xie Mi to help ferment the barley.

Having Pokémon help with cooking is allowed in this simple competition.

After the rice was steamed, Bai Zhen began to knead the dough and let it rest.

While the dough was resting, Bai Zhen took a carving knife and started carving the pumpkin. Only then did everyone finally understand what Bai Zhen wanted to do with the pumpkin.

At this time, at the edge of the venue, Huoya and Shuiyun, who had arrived late, finally found a place to sit down.

The two looked at Bai Zhen who was carving with all his heart, and were curious about what kind of dish Bai Zhen wanted to make.

The pumpkin quickly took shape in Bai Zhen's hands, and everyone could vaguely see that it seemed to be a super Rayquaza.

Bai Zhen, who has mastered advanced cooking skills, also has a very unique bonus in making dishes.

While Haidai was busy, he looked at Bai Zhen in surprise.

"He actually plans to carve an exquisite sculpture in these limited two hours? Isn't that too easy?" The timing can be said to be just right. When Bai Zhen finished carving, the dough had just risen. He put down the sculpture in his hand, took out the dough, and prepared to start the next step.

Since it is noodles, it would be boring to simply make dandan noodles or oil-splashed noodles.

If you're going to do it, do it to the limit.

He was going to make a delicacy from his previous life - dragon beard noodles.

This noodle is as thin as a hair and can pass through a fine needle.

The most important thing about this dragon beard noodle is its strips.

This is an important step to make the noodles strong and not easy to break. It needs to be repeated and is very boring.

Only if the noodles are stretched well can they prevent from breaking during the subsequent stretching process.

The dough is constantly rolled out and becomes very smooth.

Every movement of Bai Zhen is so smooth that it makes people feel full of beauty.

Just by seeing the way this cooking technique was performed, Haidai knew clearly that Bai Zhen's cooking skills were far superior to his!

But Haidai was not going to give up, he began to concentrate on making delicious food.

Over there, after Bai Zhen finished rolling the noodles, he began to stretch them, which is actually the process of making noodles.

Folding the noodles in half and pulling them apart evenly is called "one buckle".

Dragon beard noodles need to be twisted at least thirteen times to be as thin as dragon beard.

Bai Zhen's movements were very smooth, and he completed 13 clasps without a single failure, for a total of 8192 'dragon whiskers'.

Bai Zhen has not finished yet, he started the fourteenth deduction, a total of 16384 "dragon whiskers".

The process from thirteen to fourteen is extremely difficult, and even Bai Zhen, who has mastered advanced cooking skills, can easily fail.

Pulling the noodles apart evenly, Bai Zhen successfully completed 14 turns.

Nowadays, noodles are thinner than needle and thread, only about 0.5 mm.

At this point, Bai Zhen could be said to have succeeded greatly, but he was still not satisfied.

The flour used by the Haidai family is of the highest grade in the world, probably at level 3, which is better than the flour in the previous life.

Bai Zhen felt that he could challenge 15 dunks.

He continued to challenge the 15th buckle. After folding the noodles in half, Bai Zhen began to stretch them gently. Now every noodle was almost reaching its limit!
But under Bai Zhen's even force, the noodles continued to stretch evenly.

When the noodles were pulled apart, Bai Zhen shook them lightly, and the dragon beard noodles looked like silver hair, sparkling under the lights on the scene!
32768 strands of dragon beard noodles!

Bai Zhen successfully completed 15 dunks!
Each strand of dragon beard noodles is now as thin as a human hair, and may even be only 0.1 mm thick.

"What a nice view."

Looking at the shiny noodles, everyone at the scene couldn't help but widen their eyes.

The dragon beard noodles are stretched into strips and Bai Zhen is ready to cook them.

When the dragon beard noodles are stretched to this limit, they will burn when they come into contact with fire and melt when they come into contact with water.

If you want the noodles to be cooked, you cannot boil them, but fry them.

Bai Zhen quickly fried the hair-thin dragon beard noodles in oil. The hair-thin dragon beard noodles now looked like they were covered with a layer of gold powder and looked extremely gorgeous.

Bai Zhen put the dragon beard noodles into the sculpture of Super Rayquaza he carved.

There is no such creature as the Chinese dragon in this world, but Rayquaza is very similar to a Chinese dragon, and is most suitable as a 'plate' for dragon beard noodles!
Sprinkle some fragrant and salty golden powder evenly on the dragon beard noodles, and this intangible traditional dragon beard noodles is ready.

The dragon beard noodles are ready, and the white rice is also steamed.

Bai Zhen ferments germinated barley malt, rice, and white sugar together and then boils them into handmade syrup.

600 seconds after the syrup came out of the pot, but before it cooled down, Bai Zhen started to pull the sticky syrup into sugar.

Pulling sugar is just like pulling noodles, except that this time the syrup does not need to be pulled into hair-like thin threads. Instead, the sugar needs to be pulled continuously to create a large pore with a diameter of 1 cm to 2 cm and 128 small pores with a diameter of less than 1 mm in the center of the maltose.

Only by pulling out such holes will the sugar not taste hard but very crispy.

After the syrup is pulled, Bai Zhen begins to cut the sugar, breaking the long strips of maltose into 8 cm long sticks.

After the sugar was cut off, Bai Zhen used some hawthorn and other sour ingredients on the scene to make a soft filling, which he injected into the large pores in the center of the sugar.

Finally, the outside of the sugar is coated with fragrant white sesame seeds.

In this way, another intangible cultural heritage delicacy, the imperial candy of the Ming Dynasty in the previous life - sesame candy, has been completed.

When Bai Zhen finished, Haidai not far away had already finished.

At this moment, he, like the audience around him, was watching Bai Zhen's production process.

Bai Zhen's entire production process is so smooth that it is no longer just cooking, but like creating a piece of art! Very ornamental!
Seeing that both of them had finished their works.

Qishu also asked someone to send the two people's works to the judges' seat.

"Hehe~ It's finally over. Now let our judges judge the two contestants' works~!"

The first things to be served were Bai Zhen’s dragon beard noodles and Hai Dai’s dandan noodles.

Two meals were delivered to Ye Ci and others at the same time.

Regardless of the taste, the two dishes are immediately distinguished from each other in terms of appearance.

Haidai’s Dandan noodles are served on a black plate. The semi-circular Dandan noodles are placed in a bowl on the plate and sprinkled with some minced meat as garnish.

Judging from the appearance, this noodle can indeed be called an exquisite dish in a high-end restaurant.

But this can only be considered good-looking, and compared with the Super Rayquaza carved by Bai Zhen and the Dragon Beard Noodles he made, the difference is really too big!
The pumpkin-carved Super Rayquaza is so lifelike, as if the real Super Rayquaza is roaring!
Moreover, for this pumpkin-carved Rayquaza, Bai Zhen even went so far as to use edible pigments made from ingredients available on site to color it.

The light green body and the long golden Delta whiskers seem to be dancing in the wind, and the long lower beak is clearly painted gold.

This Super Rayquaza sat cross-legged, forming a bowl-like structure, with the light golden dragon whisker noodles placed inside it, like a golden pool of water.

Seeing the dragon beard noodles, the three of them were reluctant to eat it, and they couldn't bear to destroy this perfect work of art.

The three of them plus Qishu first tasted Haidai's Dandan noodles.

The taste of this noodle is amazing, and it is fully worthy of the title of Shanghai Dai Three-Star Chef. All four of them gave it very high praise. With a full score of 40, the Dandan noodles received a high score of 35.7.

When it was Bai Zhen's turn to make the dragon beard noodles, the four of them carefully picked up the noodles with chopsticks. The noodles were almost as thin as a hair, and they were afraid that they would break them if they used too much force.

Put the noodles in your mouth and they will melt in your mouth!
The salty and fragrant taste blooms on the taste buds, and it feels like taking a bite of the fragrance entering your mouth.

This unique taste quickly captured the taste buds of all the judges present.

Haidai was also greedy when he saw it, so he asked for a clean bowl and chopsticks and tasted it.

After taking a bite, Haidai felt as if he was lying on Super Rayquaza, wandering in a sea of ​​fragrance.

This was the most delicious food he had ever seen and tasted!

After a long while, Hai Dai finally responded. He asked Bai Zhen, "What is the name of this dish?"

"Dragon beard noodles, these noodles are so thin that they can pass through a sleeve needle. They burn when they meet fire and melt when they meet water."

"Dragon Beard Noodles," Hai Dai muttered, and then exclaimed, "What a great name! It's really as beautiful as Super Rayquaza's long beard."

Naturally, Dandan was completely defeated when facing Longxu Noodles, and Bai Zhenli deservedly got the full score of 40 points.

And then there’s dessert.

Haidai took out the sweet tofu pudding, which was served in a small plate that looked like a flamingo goblet. The snow-white tofu pudding was decorated with red beans and other sweet ingredients.

This sweet tofu pudding is very authentic and the taste is impeccable.

From the appearance, the sesame candy that Bai Zhen took out could not compare to the shocking feeling brought by the dragon beard noodles, and it was relatively simple.

The five of them picked up a piece of sesame candy and took a bite.

When you bite into the candy made of pure maltose, it is not only not hard but also very crispy and fragrant. The sweetness of the sugar and the sourness of the filling are perfectly blended, and coupled with the fragrance of white sesame, this is undoubtedly another feast for the taste buds.

There was no need for a referee this time, Haidai admitted defeat on his own.

As a chef, he can make sugar from maltose.

He couldn't figure out how Bai Zhen made the candy so crispy and how he created the pores inside it.

It was obvious that there was a level of sophistication in this that was far beyond his imagination.

This sweet and sour sesame candy quickly won the love of Popi, a 9-year-old girl.

Bai Zhen easily won the victory of this special plan.

This was not difficult for him at all.

What Bai Zhen didn't know was that because of this small project, the number of online viewers in Qishu's live broadcast room hit a new historical high, even more than the number of online viewers when he fought Qishu before!
There are endless compliments like "There is a fierce tiger in the heart, but I can still smell the roses"!

(End of this chapter)