The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 108: Invitation to be a Judge (Two Chapters in One)

"Hey, what are you doing?"

When Dojima Gin entered the room, he found that his good friend Saibajo Ichiro was sitting in a strange posture, not even paying attention to etiquette, and just sat behind the commander-in-chief.

Of course, Nakiri Senzaemon is not that kind of rigid and stubborn old man in Japan, he also has some dry humor in his personality.

There was no displeasure or scolding towards Saiba Joichiro's overstepping behavior.

The two people in the room ignored Dojima Gin.

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Seeing this, Dojima Gin couldn't help but feel curious, so he sat down next to Saiba Shiroichiro, and following his friend's serious and solemn gaze, he looked at the mobile phone that the commander-in-chief was holding up.

Fortunately, Dojima Gin is not nearsighted and the smartphone screen is not small, so he can still see clearly at a distance of about one meter.

"Huh?"

When you look clearly at the video call screen, you will see the kitchen background and the young man busy in the kitchen.

Dojima Gin was surprised and said:

"This must be Boss Xia?"

I heard Dojima Gin's voice.

Xia An, who was picking up the ink sac, glanced at the phone on the stand and said hello:

"Mr. Dojima, you are known as a "living legend" in the Japanese food industry. I have heard of you for a long time!"

Dojima Gin's handsome face revealed a refreshing smile:

"Haha, Boss Xia, I have long admired you. In the modern Shenzhou food world, you are known as "the one who reproduces the luminous secrets of the world", "the innate ancient recipes and ancient skills of the holy body"..."

Saiba Joichiro and Nakiri Senzaemon looked at each other in confusion.

What’s going on? Are these two praising each other in business?
Xia An clicked his tongue.

The heart is not at peace.

Gin Dojima, a living legend, the highest-scoring graduate in Totsuki's history.

He is currently the chief chef and board member of several hotels and resorts under Totsuki.

If Totsuki is the food kingdom of the Japanese cuisine world, then Dojima Gin's current position in this food kingdom is that of a minister with shares, and he is also a direct descendant who is highly valued by the "king" Senzaemon.

In the golden age of Totsuki where evildoers are everywhere.

Dojima Gin was able to graduate as the top student, so you can imagine how terrifying his cooking skills are, and he was able to suppress a group of evildoers.

He and Saiba Shiroichiro are both 38 years old this year.

He is probably the one among Totsuki's group of veteran graduates who has the best chance of breaking through to the senior special grade of Chef Lin.

"correct."

Dojima Gin suddenly thought of something and suggested with great interest: "General, why don't we invite Boss Xia to come to Totsuki and serve as a judge for the finals of this autumn's trials?"

Hear the words.

Nakiri Senzaemon was slightly moved, and his eyes shone with astonishing light.

After being reminded by Dojima Gin, the old man realized that the autumn trials might be an opportunity to have a formal meeting with Boss Xia.

Then he doesn't need to go to the Chinese food world.

You will also have the opportunity to eat dishes from legendary stories and those "glowing dishes"...

"I've been wanting to bring this up for a long time." Saiba Joichiro laughed, "Besides, judging the finals alone is not enough. Why don't you also judge the two rounds of the semi-finals?"

Dojima Gin patted his head and exhaled:
"Jiuyilang, you are more ruthless than me. How dare you order Boss Xia around like this?"

"Cough cough cough..."

Xia An's coughing sound came from the mobile phone video:

"I'm not famous enough in the neon food world to be a judge for the autumn auditions, am I?"

"Besides, I'm also very busy preparing for the show, so forget it."

But suddenly, Shibajo Ichiro said solemnly:
"No, you are wrong, Boss Xia."

"Although information is not disseminated as quickly and timely due to the Great Firewall, the Japanese news media, especially those food media, have been actively carrying and reporting on hot current events in China..."

Dojima Gin added positively:
“Totsuki has wholly-owned or subsidiary media, and also has a number of partner media with which it has cooperative relationships.”

"If you, Boss Xia, are worried that you are not famous enough in Japan, we at Totsuki can help you add fuel to the fire."

Xia An shook his head and didn't want to go through these pretentious marketing propaganda.

"enough."

He whispered.

"What do you mean enough?" Dojima Gin was stunned.

"I mean, there's enough squid ink."

Dojima Gin: “…”

Xia An picked up the mixing bowl and poured half a bowl of inky black liquid directly into the flour crater that had already piled up on a clean kitchen counter.

Just casually connect the two pieces of alloy sticks together.

White snake chain!
The long stick was inserted straight into the noodles and squid ink and began to rotate.

So, it is visible to the naked eye that the white flour is mixed with the black cuttlefish ink to form dough.

And with the continuous circular motion of the pastry stick.

The face that gradually took shape was completely different from the previous whiteness.

"blacksnake!"

Dojima Gin and others stared at the phone screen.

In the pupil, there is an extremely black snake, which gives people a great visual impact.

Under the ancient and mysterious pastry-making skills, the black snake became more and more spiritual, tightly entangled on the pastry stick. At this moment, Boss Xia seemed like a snake charmer.

It took less than ten minutes to complete the black dough.

Xia An patted the dough with his hands and covered it with a wet cloth.

After being cut off from sight.

The three people who were far away at the Nakiri residence finally came to their senses with difficulty, woke up, and looked at each other in bewilderment.

"This is the second time I've seen an ancient stunt performed live like it was being broadcasted." Dojima Gin said in a muffled voice, "But it still made us fall without even realizing it."

Saiba Joichiro sighed: "This is the mysterious power of the ancient skills, it is not just a visual impact."

Nakiri Senzaemon didn't say anything. He was still staring at the dough covered with a wet cloth on the video call.

In the eyes of this "food devil", this wet cloth is like a veil half-covering the smooth and delicate skin, but that kind of magical and elegant temperament cannot be blocked in any way.

"What a pity I can't eat it." The old man was muttering.

suddenly.

The two granddaughters who had been away for a long time returned to the living room at this time, as if they had made an appointment.

Alice and Erina both presented dishes that represented the results of their training.

Smell the fragrance filling the house.

Dojima Gin and Saiba Joichiro are good friends, and they are amazed.

"This strong fish flavor, could it be fish-flavored ramen?"

"Alice's dishes are also amazing. She piled emerald green caviar on the steak?"

There is no doubt that Fish Noodle is a simplified version of "Fantasy Fish Noodle" that was optimized again by Erina after Xia An's teaching.

The only fish used was "striped salmon".

As for the fish used for making soup, sea bream is still used.

Alice's molecular cuisine was also based on Xia An's advice. She first presented "White Hair Cinderella Beef" on the plate, and then piled caviar made from "Almond Cabbage" on it.

I tasted the sisters' dishes one after another.

Dojima Ginto was so shocked that his jaw dropped:
"Can a student at school have this level of ability to use fantasy ingredients?"

Caiba Chengyilang was in deep thought, his mood was surging, he felt that he had been conservative and cautious for the past ten years, and had not guided his son to open the door to fantasy ingredients. Was he extremely out of date in terms of thinking...

"Normally speaking, before graduation, it's best for Totsuki students not to get involved in the fantasy field."

After a moment, Saiba Chengyilang said in a deep voice:
“Because of being exposed to fantasy too early, it’s easy to fall into the misunderstanding and go astray that ingredients can sweep away everything.”

In the video call, Xia An suddenly said playfully:
"Then, Senior Caibo, do you know that early exposure also has its benefits?" "I think that the times are different. The earlier the chef is exposed to the fantasy field, the more he can 'demystify' the fantasy ingredients!"

Disenchantment?

This word moved Dojima Gin, Saiba Joichiro and Nakiri Senzaemon all.

The two sisters looked at the screen on their phone with surprise and joy.

"Master, you are online?"

Xia An smiled and nodded to them in the picture, and continued:
“Disenchantment and enchantment are always intertwined.”

"The more we restrict Totsuki students and prevent them from coming into contact with fantasy ingredients, the more curious they will be about that world, and the more they will worship and become obsessed with it."

"On the contrary, only when they truly experience the scenery of the fantasy realm, through practice and close contact, will they know that fantasy food is not as mysterious and sacred as they imagine."

"For example, bronze-level fantasy ingredients, compared to many common ingredients on Blue Star, are just a combination of slightly absurd species flavors."

At least Xia An has come into contact with and mastered so many bronze-level fantasy ingredients.

He dared to say that there was no qualitative difference in taste between the bronze-level fantasy ingredients and the top local ingredients on Blue Star.

The real gap starts from the silver level.

This level of fantasy ingredients, just the difficulty of hunting and their rarity alone, has already killed all the Blue Star ingredients.

The room was silent for a moment.

Alice spoke up to support her master:

“Hehe, before the summer vacation, I also felt that controlling and using two bronze-level fantasy ingredients was a fantasy and impossible for me.

But grandpa, and Chief Dojima, and Saiba-senpai.

Didn't you just taste my dishes? How was my use of almond cabbage and white-haired Cinderella beef?"

Seeing this, Nakiri Erina cast a wary glance at her and quickly spoke up to support her:

"Under the guidance of Master, I feel that my use of salmon has reached the pinnacle of this culinary level!"

Old man Senzaemon deliberately kept a stern face.

Interrupting the granddaughter who wanted to show off with both tails raised:
"But that's all!"

"With your cooking skills, you have not reached nine stars. At most, you can only reach the passing score. Without the help of the Chef's Heart trait, you have already hit the ceiling!"

He immediately suppressed the arrogance of his two granddaughters.

Mr. Senzaemon bowed deeply again towards the camera of his mobile phone:
"I solemnly invite Mr. Xia to come to Neon, Totsuki, and the Nakiri residence for a chat. I agree with your forward-looking vision of the fantasy era. Totsuki may have to carry out a teaching reform..."

Xia An: ? ?

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

do not.

It’s better to let the demon father Nakiri Tsuyoshi take charge of teaching reform.

The old man continued slowly before he finished speaking:

"In addition, I solemnly invite you to serve as a guest judge for the finals of this autumn's selection competition!"

Xia An continued to have a lot of questions in his mind.

It's fine if our good friends from the golden generation are causing trouble, but even you, the great commander-in-chief of Totsuki, are causing trouble?

He was about to refuse.

Then Senzaemon suddenly stated the conditions:
“I have been collecting the fragments of the recipe for the Four Gods Seafood Eight Treasures Soul-Calming Buns.

The fragment I have in my hand now contains about 70% of the content, if Boss Xia is interested in this recipe.

Then just think of it as an appearance fee."

Xia An was stunned, his pupils trembled, and after a long time he complained:
"But I don't have a thousand-year-old face."

“Even if you have a complete recipe, you can’t recreate this legendary dish.”

When Nakiri Senzaemon heard this, he felt that Xia An was complaining that this condition was not enough. After pondering for two or three seconds, he actually said a few other recipes.

Although its level and specifications are not as good as the "Four Gods Seafood Eight Treasures Soul-Calming Buns".

But it wins in terms of completeness.

When Xia An heard the name of one of the recipes, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised:
"Seven-star Sturgeon Eggs?"

He thought about it carefully.

Could this recipe be Xiang En’s?
Xiang En, the former female devil in the dark culinary world, was Ryan's mortal enemy and possessed another set of seven-star knives.

According to the story, Xiang En even lived longer than "Ruyunlong" Kaiyou, and witnessed the historical deeds of Liu Maoxing's protagonist group who initially encountered resistance from the Tai Chi cooking world, but later overthrew all the Eight Phoenix Immortals.

Let’s not worry about whether Xiang En was able to clear her name later.

Just talking about this recipe of hers, it contains the unique skill of "Seven Stars Breaking the Army".

In terms of value.

Xia An seems to be higher than the moderately incomplete recipe for the soul-soothing buns.

"I have already upgraded the Arhat Crystal Slash to its highest level."

"It's time to focus on the next skill of knife skills. Of course, if there are skills in seasoning and heat control..."

As his thoughts turned, Xia An decided to first see what good stuff Neon, the "food devil", had.

At the same time, we also need to compare with the cultural and tourism bureaus of various provinces and cities in China that may come to us with recipes in hand and seek cooperation, which is equivalent to finding out the shortcomings and filling them in the gaps.

Whatever you need, you need it.

Being a judge for the Totsuki Autumn Trials, to be honest, Xia An would be very interested even without the ancient recipes as his "appearance fee".

As a guest judge, he sat in the highest hall of Totsuki Academy, "Tsuki no Ma".

Tsk tsk, such a high-profile and high-status appearance, like a pilgrimage to a real Totsuki campus that is different from the world of the animation, Xia An has already gained psychological satisfaction in advance.

The nearly one-hour international video call finally ended.

Until the end.

Xia An did not present the finished product of "Great Galaxy Noodle" to the people in Nakiri's house.

Dojima Gin felt very regretful:

“We can only wait for Boss Xia to come to Neon and shamelessly ask him to recreate many ancient dishes.”

……

the other side.

Xia An hand-pulled out some jet-black round noodles, boiled them, and poured the seasoned black soup base into a large bowl.

He finished eating but shook his head:
“It didn’t taste as shocking and dark as I thought it would.”

Then he tried sprinkling in some edible pearl powder.

The bowl of noodles was brought to the dim dark room in the stairwell. As expected, the edible pearl powder crumbs did not give any light at all. If the original method of "Galaxy Noodles" was followed rigidly, the noodles would definitely die on the show and suffer a serious live broadcast accident.

While Liu Maoxing knows magic and has his own "spellcasting materials", Xia An can only upgrade his panel by adding points.

Tried it and it doesn't work.

That definitely doesn't make sense.

“Since ordinary pearls and pearl powder cannot create ‘fluorescence’, we can only focus on fantasy ingredients.”

Xia An also has a substitute plan, or it shouldn’t be called a substitute. The reproduction of the original method and the improvement of fantasy dishes are actually always carried out in parallel.

He opened the WeChat chat interface.

I once again looked up the fantasy ingredient list that Nakiri Masagi's secretary had sent me earlier.

After carefully screening them one by one these days, Xia An has already locked on several ingredients that seem to be able to create "fluorescence":

"Golden salmon roe."

“Golden shrimp.”

“Golden carrot.”

"Candy coral."

"Simibe."

(End of this chapter)