Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 583 Snack Coupons

“The theme of the second round is – street food.”

The female host said, "I know that you are all chefs from top restaurants. Many of you have successfully won star ratings for your restaurants. The guests you receive every day are either stars, wealthy people, celebrities, and even royal families.

“But this time you need to challenge more popular street food.

"Every city has its own street food, which is like a city's business card. It integrates the local culture, connects people from the entire city, and heals their tired hearts and stomachs.

“Street food is the most equal and inclusive cuisine, and this time we are giving the right to judge back to the public.”

"500 hungry judges, each holding 5 snack coupons, will use the snack coupons to buy their favorite food. If they get 100 votes, they will advance."

"What are you laughing at?" Sun Mei asked Malu.

“Do you know what I did before I opened the restaurant?”

"You are so young, you must be a college student too."

"That's true, but between being a student and opening a restaurant, I also set up a snack stand for a while." Ma Lu said, "Right in front of the school."

Sun Mei was indeed a little surprised, because Malu's cooking skills were very strong. For a chef of this caliber, it would be very easy for him to earn a monthly salary of thirty or forty thousand yuan just by showing off his skills in a big hotel. He would never fall to the point of setting up a street stall.

In addition, Sun Mei once again witnessed Ma Lu's strong psychological quality, as he actually returned to his alma mater to set up a stall.

This guy is extremely shameless.

There was no time to talk more, the second round of the game had already begun.

This time, the contestants selected ingredients even faster than in the previous round, just like they were stockpiling food during the epidemic.

This is because each public judge has only 5 votes, and 100 votes are needed to advance. In other words, in the most optimistic scenario, only 25 people can advance in this round.

And because those who are eliminated will also take away a portion of the votes, the number of people who can actually advance will be even fewer.

In addition, many people have noticed that whoever cooks the meal first in this round will have a considerable advantage.

Because there were no other competitors at that time, and the 500 public judges all had snack coupons in their hands.

The host used the word "hungry" when introducing them, which means they probably didn't have breakfast.

At this time, most people would tend to buy a portion of food first, regardless of whether it is good or bad, eat it and then wait for the rest.

Therefore, taking the initiative becomes particularly important in this round of competition, which is also a major feature of street food.

Many office workers buy food on their way to or from get off work. If the chef’s cooking speed is not fast enough, they will go to other stalls that cook faster.

Some contestants saw this point clearly and directly took a few large trays of eggs and fried them on the iron plate. The aroma of the fried eggs wafted away.

Some people indeed couldn't help swallowing their saliva, but no one came to buy his fried eggs.

The reason is simple. Although the public judges are ordinary people, they are not office workers who are in a hurry to go to work.

Everyone who was selected to watch this cooking competition must want to see and eat some delicious food that is different from what we eat in daily life.

It's not unbearable to be a little hungry for this reason.

It's not just fried eggs. Other people who wanted to take shortcuts, such as flatbreads and grilled meat skewers, also had sales in the single digits.

This also made more and more contestants realize that in addition to speed, creativity and taste are also important. In the end, the first to open sales was the dry fried Tom Yum Goong cooked by a Thai contestant.

Traditional Thai Tom Yum Goong requires the use of broth, but the broth takes too long to cook.

So the Thai contestant gave up the broth and directly stir-fried shrimp, squid and scallops with lemongrass, chili, lime leaves, lime juice, onion, tomato, coconut milk, ginger slices and other condiments.

The Tom Yum Goong is also very delicious, and seafood is obviously much more attractive to diners than fried eggs and pancakes.

In addition, he filled the plates very full, putting three or four pounds of seafood in one pot, but only took out four plates.

As soon as it came out of the pot, it immediately attracted more than a dozen diners to gather around and take out their snack coupons.

The Thai chef grinned upon seeing this, took the four coupons, and immediately started making the next pot.

Kawano Zhengming, who was slow and indecisive in the previous round, broke the norm in this round and became the first group of people to complete the assignment.

He chose tempura, one of the four major Japanese cuisines and one of the most common street snacks in Japan.

In addition to the traditional tempura of shrimp, fish, shellfish, basil and sea urchin, Kawano Zhengming also tried tempura of coconut meat, flowers, wild vegetables from Wuzhi Mountain, sweet potato leaves, mint leaves, etc.

Coupled with his melancholy temperament that was similar to that of Joe Odagiri, he immediately attracted the attention of a large number of female fans.

With many years of experience in sea fishing, he selects the freshest ingredients, coats them with just the right amount of batter, and strictly controls the oil temperature and frying time.

The cooked tempura is crispy and delicious, and the combination of meat and vegetables can effectively alleviate the greasiness of fried food, so the business soon became prosperous.

Sun Mei originally planned to make stir-fried beef noodles, but when she was halfway through preparing it, she suddenly remembered something.

The preliminary round of the MasterChef Contest in Asia was held in Sanya, so the public judges invited were all locals.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing.

The good thing is that as a fellow Chinese, Sun Mei will have a better understanding of their tastes and dietary preferences. The bad thing is that domestic snacks may not be as tempting to them as foreign snacks.

It’s not because domestic snacks are not delicious, but people naturally like to try new things, especially when they come to the God of Cooking competition, they will naturally prefer to eat something they have never eaten before.

So the snacks that are selling well now are basically foreign snacks.

Sun Mei has been studying in Europe in recent years, and she has eaten a lot of European snacks.

With her cooking skills, it would be no problem for her to replicate these snacks. But Sun Mei didn't do that, because she just glanced and saw that most of the snacks chosen by other contestants were from their own countries.

And the female host also said before that every city has its own street food, which is like the city’s business card.

It would not be appropriate for her to use European snacks again.

But this does not pose a problem for Sun Mei.

China has a land area of ​​960 million square kilometers, ranking third in the world. It is also a multi-ethnic country. In addition to the national snacks that everyone is familiar with, there are also many snacks that are very regional and not so famous.

For example, the spicy pot she is making now is a snack of the Xibe ethnic group, and its preparation is a bit like stuffing green peppers with meat.

In addition, Sun Mei also prepared the Tu ethnic group’s Halihai and the Hani ethnic group’s bamboo tube chicken.

(End of this chapter)