Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 589 Strange Theme

Hearing her answer, the seven contestants felt their hearts sink.

Making six dishes in two hours is not a very difficult task, but the problem is that there is a competition in each round, and if you come last, you will be eliminated directly.

So how should we arrange these two hours?
Should you follow the classic order of appetizer, soup, side dish, main course and dessert, or should you put the dishes that take a long time to cook and are carefully prepared first to avoid them being eliminated?

Or save the trump card for the final championship.

This decision is not only about personal choice, but also about the choices of other competitors.

If everyone else goes all out from the start and you only serve an appetizer, you'll probably fail in the first round. But if everyone else makes appetizers and you serve the main course, although you'll have a high probability of surviving the first round, it'll be hard to survive later on.

What’s even more annoying is that the organizers arranged the cooking tables in a circle today so that everyone can see each other.

So should we pay attention to other people while cooking? Many people have already started to wonder in their hearts.

But the more exciting part is yet to come. The female host finally announced the theme of this competition - coconut.

coconut???

Many contestants suspected that they had heard it wrongly.

Is it coconut?

Although Sanya, or the whole Hainan, is rich in coconuts, these coconuts are mostly used as fruits and beverages.

Few people use coconut to cook. Well, there is the dish of coconut chicken, but apart from coconut chicken, there seems to be no other particularly famous coconut delicacies.

Moreover, the so-called theme cuisine means cooking that sticks closely to the theme. If you simply use coconut in the dish instead of highlighting the flavor of coconut, it is tantamount to cheating and will not be recognized by these professional judges.

But if it were just that, it would be fine. The most difficult part is that seven people have to use coconuts to fight for six rounds, and the situation will become more difficult as time goes on.

It will be a big challenge for the chef's energy and physical strength.

Even the usually confident Sun Mei's expression changed slightly after hearing the rules and theme of this game.

The main reason was that Coconut was indeed a little too unpopular, but she only frowned slightly and already had some preliminary ideas in her mind.

In comparison, the expressions of the other chefs except Malu looked a little ugly.

Luo Junkang and Cui Junxian were originally the two people with the highest chances of winning the championship before the competition, but now Cui Junxian has been eliminated.

Instead of feeling happy, Luo Junkang felt like he was about to die.

He is the inheritor of Huaiyang cuisine, and as we all know, Huaiyang... does not have coconuts.

Huaiyang cuisine is generally based on river and lake seafood, and the fact that the main venue of this competition is set in Sanya gave him a bad feeling.

Unlike Kawano Masaaki, seafood is not his strong point. Although he is not unable to cook it, he is not very good at it after all.

In preparation for this competition, Luo Junkang specially consulted several experts in this field this week.

However, it was unexpected that it was completely useless. The organizing committee took a different approach and used coconut as the theme for the final.

Luo Junkang really felt that he was doomed this time, although his poker face made it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

In fact, when Sun He proposed this topic, other directors of the World Culinary Federation did not agree with it.

The reasons are similar, they all think that Coconut is a bit too unpopular and it is likely that they will not be able to distinguish the true strength of the contestants.

But in the end, Sun He's words convinced everyone.

The reason is simple, because the main purpose of the Asian competition is to select players to participate in the World Championship, and the World Championship is held in Europe. The ingredients used are also local to Europe, so you will almost certainly encounter ingredients that Asian chefs don’t usually use, or even very unpopular.

This is when creativity and adaptability become very important.

After making sure that everyone understood the rules, the female host immediately announced the start of the competition.

The timer in front of the seven-person table also started to tick, and Sun Mei and others immediately ran to the raw material area to start selecting raw materials.

Only Millipede was still standing in front of the cooking table, staring at it in a daze. He stood there for about three minutes.

Just when everyone was wondering if he was stumped by the topic this time, Boss Ma finally took action.

He also walked towards the raw material area, and at this time some contestants had already opened fire.

It’s not that Malu doesn’t want to hurry up, it’s mainly because he just took a look at the list given by Lao Wang through the traveler’s bracelet, and there are a lot of ingredients.

Lao Wang gave a list of six dishes at once, as well as the relevant kitchen utensils and equipment needed for cooking. It took Malu a while to remember them all.

He asked the staff for a shopping cart and brought all the things back.

Then he put his left hand in his pocket in full view of everyone and started cooking with only his right hand.

Arrogant!

Seeing this scene, the audience at the scene and in front of the TV couldn't help but think of these two words.

However, Malu was not the first person to press the timer.

Less than half an hour into the competition, someone submitted their work.

This was like turning on a switch, and more and more contestants tapped the timer and completed the first round of cooking.

In comparison, the millipede was not very fast and was not finished until 40 minutes later.

The slowest one was Qi Shanzhu, who took almost 79 minutes to finish her first dish.

Obviously Qi Shanzhu also knew that he was the weakest among the seven, so he treated the first round as the last round and used all his strength from the beginning.

She made a coconut monte blanc miso.

Mont Blanc is a French dessert named after its shape which resembles Mount Blanc in the Alps.

Traditional Mont Blanc is made from chestnut paste and cake base.

Qi Shanzhu used coconut paste instead of chestnut paste and soybean paste instead of powdered sugar to create a unique soybean paste and coconut Mont Blanc, incorporating coconut into her fusion cuisine.

Chef Fan Yixin from Singapore chose nasi lemak which is quite popular in Singapore.

This is a breakfast in Singapore, which generally consists of rice, sambal (a spicy sauce), Indian pickles, cucumber slices, dried anchovies, roasted peanuts, eggs and some other ingredients that can be freely matched.

The biggest feature is that the rice is cooked with coconut milk, so it is milky white and has a sweet taste and rich coconut aroma when eaten.

Sometimes Singaporeans will add pandanus leaves to it, and the ingredients provided by the organizer this time happened to include pandanus leaves, which is also one of Hainan’s specialties.

However, she was not the only one who came up with this idea. Luo Junkang made a Hainan version of coconut rice, and Chef Di Supara from Thailand also made a Thai version of coconut rice.

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(End of this chapter)