The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 13 Baked Garlic Fish in Casserole

Chapter 13 Baked Garlic Fish in Casserole
Xia An replied: "'Garlic Fish Baked in Casserole'."

There was loud applause.

Liu Hong clapped his hands, shook his head, and exclaimed:

“I didn’t expect beer fish could be cooked this way. It tasted like Cantonese cuisine!”

“But the pickled peppers, pickled ginger and beer flavors constantly remind my taste buds that it has a strong beer-fish element!”

Ms. Liang Guiqin exclaimed:
"This is the dish that a mature chef should serve."

As she said this, she glanced at Hojo Miyoko.

"Among the students of Totsuki, your dishes may be among the best."

“But if it is placed in the group of working chefs, it seems a little immature.”

Hojo Miyoko pursed her lips tightly, her tone complicated:

"why?!"

Liang Guiqin didn't give her any face at all:

"Your vision is still limited to the cuisine you are good at. Of course, your "Oil-Drenched Fish" is not worthless. You also realize that you must drag the food battle topic into the field of Japanese-Chinese cuisine that you are good at to solve it!"

"But your opponent, Chef Xia An, is also dealing with a similar situation and breaking through in a familiar field, but his approach is far more mature than yours. He knows how to use Cantonese cuisine to express the elements of beer fish, and it is not abrupt at all. It gives people a feeling that "Beer Fish" and "Casserole Baked Garlic Fish" are the same dish!"

Finished in one breath.

Liang Guiqin saw that Hojo Miyoko looked a little dazed and sighed:
"In terms of integration and expressiveness, you lost miserably."

cough cough.

The speaking order returned to Tong Kun, the main judge.

He paused, and then summarized his comments:
“This is a mature chef serving a four-star dish, ‘Garlic Fish in Casserole’.”

“This has created a dimensionality reduction blow to the two-star dish ‘Oil-drenched Fish’.”

"I declare-"

"The winner of this late-night food battle is Chef Xia An, whose cooking skills are unquestionable!"

After he finished speaking, Tong Kun took the lead in applauding, and Liu Hong and Liang Guiqin also followed with smiles.

Ah this?

Four-star dishes?

At this moment, a look of horror appeared on Hojo Midori's pretty face.

When she was in the junior high school of Touzuki, her cooking skills were only one star. She was promoted to the high school department and passed the trial in the spring semester before she was officially promoted to two stars.

This time, taking advantage of the summer vacation, she came to Shenzhou Continent for further studies. Hojo Midori wanted to improve her cooking skills to two and a half stars.

In this way, after the fall semester starts in September, she will be qualified to compete for the top eight in the "Autumn Selection".

And as far as Hojo Midori knows.

The leader of the Totsuki Chinese Cuisine Research Society, Kuga Teruki, is the eighth of the "Ten Greatest Totsuki".

Such a strong man standing at the top of Totsuki Academy is just a three-star chef.

Therefore, if we take Kuga Teruki as the unit of measurement for combat power.

The ninth seat, Eiyama Ezuya, and the tenth seat, Erina Nakiri, should also be at this level of cooking skills.

The seventh seat is Isshiki Hui, the sixth seat is Ki no Kuni Nene, the fifth seat is Saito Somei, the fourth seat is Akane Kubo Momo, and the third seat is Megijima Fuyusuke.

The cooking skill level is at most three and a half to four stars, and there is no big gap in level between each other.

But the first two seats were occupied by Si Yingshi and Kobayashi Ryodan.

It is hard to say the specific cooking skills of these two strong men.

It is very likely to enter the five-star realm!
"Four-star cooking skills, in Totsuki Academy, are already among the top 10 of the "Ten Greatest Cooks"!"

Think about this.

Hojo Midori felt that her loss was not unfair.

……

the other side.

I heard Tong Kun announce that he won the food battle.

Xia An couldn't wait to check the panel information that appeared immediately.

[The cooking of "Garlic Fish Baked in Casserole" is completed, and the dish is rated four and a half stars. ]

[The goal of Food Wars mode has been completed, and 1 attribute point has been obtained. ]

Fish dishes, such as grilled fish, are also among the delicacies sold by Xia'an's vendors.

Therefore, with the blessing of the talent of [Thousand Faces], the dish that originally had three and a half stars was forcibly upgraded by one star, a small level of quality!
Xia An found it quite interesting.

So, at present, he is just a three-star chef.

As for four stars?
Condition 1: Master any one basic skill!
Condition 2: Any one cuisine [minor success]!
Well, if Xia An is willing to allocate 1 attribute point to any one of the basic skills of seasoning/knife skills/heat control/flipping the pot, he can upgrade it to the [Great Accomplishment] realm.

In addition, he has already mastered Cantonese cuisine to the [Minor Success] level.

Then he is a standard four-star chef.

However, this only adds 1 attribute point.

Xia An already has two attribute points in his hand.

He planned to spend some real money first, on the rare purple recipe "Fierce Ice Fresh Sea Bream Mountain", and try to deduce it completely.

After all, this is the first ancient cookbook. Putting aside the sentimentality, Xia An has a hunch that learning ancient cookbooks will bring unexpected gains. Perhaps the secret knife skills are hidden in the cookbook!
In addition, the ancient recipes must have the [luminous] trait, which is something that has become a swan song in the modern food world in the last days. If the luminous dishes were to be reproduced, Xia An couldn't imagine how much of a sensation it would cause in the Chinese food world.

Huh?
Xia An blinked.

Look at the next panel message that pops up.

[The opponent in Food Wars (Miyoko Hojo) dropped a talent fragment, which has been automatically picked up on the panel! ]

Light shot out from Hojo Midori, who was standing there in a daze.

[Talent: Drugging (1/3)]

[Grade: Treasure (Blue)]

[Explanation: Cooking requires drugs! Clothes bursting! ]

[The talent shared by all the characters in Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma. Hojo Miyoko's drugging talent is blue. After collecting 3 talent fragments, the host can activate this talent. ]

"So, among the group of people in Shokugeki no Soma, Hojo Miyoko's character card is just a blue card?"

The corners of Xia An's mouth twitched slightly.

But if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with it.

In the original work, in the "Autumn Selection" that came soon after school started in September, Hojo Miyoko didn't even make it to the top four in the qualifying zone B. In the end, she was defeated by Tanadore Megumi by one point and ranked fifth in Zone B, tied with Isami, the younger brother of the Aldini brothers.

Compared with the guys in the quarterfinals of the qualifiers, for example, the protagonist of Medicine King Soma Yukihira, Ryo Hayama, Kurokiba Ryo, Nakiri Alice and Arato Hisako, it is reasonable that there is a gap in talent and card appearance.

Xia An planned to go back to the lounge.

He did not forget that his daughter Xiaoxi was still sleeping on the sofa in the lounge.

However, he was stopped by both Liu Hong and Liang Guiqin.

Liu Hong shook his phone and said:

"Chef Xia, can you add me as a friend?"

Liang Guiqin also hurriedly said:
"Hey, add me in too. Chef Xia, the garlic fish you made is so delicious. I'm going to find time to ask you to cook a private dish for me so I can eat my fill!"

Ding dong.

Xia An did not refuse, showed the QR code, and gained two prestigious friends.

But when he knew that the two wanted to ask him for a meal, he explained:
"Um, sorry, I don't run a restaurant."

Hearing this, Liu Hong and Liang Guiqin looked at each other in surprise.

"With your four-star cooking skills, Chef Xia, you haven't opened your own restaurant yet?"

Xia An smiled:
"Not really. I mainly make food from roadside stalls now."

"If you want to eat my dishes, I will post a notification on WeChat Moments next time I open a stall."

After saying that, Xia An waved his hand.

Liu Hong and Liang Guiqin were left with devastated expressions, looking at each other in bewilderment.

Holding grass?

A four star chef.

Don’t open a restaurant, just run a roadside stall?