The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 217: Two Crabs in Golden Soup Combined into One! (4K)

"Crab scrambled eggs?"

The judges' eyes moved to the plates that Xia An placed in front of them one by one, with deep surprise in their eyes.

As for the egg ingredients, obviously only the egg white is used, and the egg yolk is discarded. The fried egg is soft and elegant white, like a cloud.

The crab meat is obviously only the crab leg meat that is milky white after being cooked, without any crab roe mixed in to avoid making the color mixed.

"Camera, close-up—"

Nakiri Senzaemon waved his hand, his face showing undisguised amazement, and his tone was filled with urgency, as if he wanted to share what he saw with the audience immediately.

Multiple cameras zoomed in on Xia An's "Hibiscus Crab" from different angles on the broadcast screen.

In the picture, the crab appears as smooth as a mirror and as delicate as tofu.

Suddenly, the venue was filled with exclamations of admiration for seeing such a wonderful sight.

"Isn't this fried egg white and crab meat?"

"Yeah... Why is it that the surface is slightly moist and shiny, as if it were steamed?"

Even the bigwigs of the Shenzhou viewing group were stunned.

Chi Xiaobai had a question mark face:

"Chef Meng, do you think that his dish "Hibiscus Crab" uses... the techniques of Cantonese cuisine, or the techniques of Shanghai's local cuisine?"

Meng Yulu raised her eyebrows:
"The dish of egg and crab is familiar to people in coastal areas. It is not a famous dish of any particular cuisine or school, but a modern fusion dish."

Chi Xiaobai hesitated to speak:

"But why do I have a sense of déjà vu... Let me think... Where does this damn familiar feeling come from?"

The other two pseudo-Lin were also confused. The three of them looked at Meng Yulu, who had a mysterious smile on his lips and seemed to know the answer.

"Just look down," she said softly.

at the same time.

At the review table, Li Baixuan, Zhenlin from Po County, spoke up rarely, stared at Xia An, and asked:
"So this crab egg custard... well, can we call it this? It is the main part of your food battle paper?"

Xia An smiled and said, "It's called 'Hibiscus Crab'."

Li Baixuan was suddenly startled, a look of realization appeared on his face, and he slowly said: "As far as I know, there is no classic dish called "Hibiscus Crab" among the eight traditional cuisines of Shenzhou."

"but!"

Changing the subject, the Chinese man Zhenlin continued:
"The famous culinary master Yizhangqing Xiangen once wrote the famous poem "Hibiscus Crab". Could it be that the idea and inspiration you used came from this famous poem?"

The other four judges, Senzaemon, Nakiri Managi, 'Takeshita Saya' and Thai Royal Family's Shinrin Mahida, all stared at Xia An intently, waiting for his answer.

Xia An said frankly:
"Yes, the inspiration and conception came from Yizhangqing Xiangen's "Hibiscus Crab"."

"But as you can see, this is by no means the original ancient classic. I added my own understanding and reinterpreted it using fantasy ingredients such as ten-yolked eggs, ruby ​​crabs and marshmallow pumpkins!"

Li Baixuan praised:

"You did a great job! Very good!"

“This is a fusion dish based on tradition and ancient classics, with both fantasy ingredients inspiration and modern innovative thinking…”

The words fell.

Li Baixuan turned his head to look at Mr. Senzaemon who was sitting in the main seat: "I have asked all the questions I should have asked."

"Do you have any questions?"

"If you don't have any, why not try eating first!"

Poxian Zhenlin's tone was filled with impatience.

Hearing this, Nakiri Senzaemon laughed heartily: "Then take a bite first, and it won't be too late to give a detailed review later—"

The old man picked up a pair of chopsticks first, then seemed to think of something and paused.

"correct!"

He looked at the plate of crab meat and eggs in front of him, then at the whole pot of steaming pumpkin soup on the dining cart, and said:

"Is crab meat and egg + pumpkin golden soup the complete appearance of this "Hibiscus Crab"? "

Xia An nodded: "You can also eat separately first. After all, the crab meat eggs and pumpkin soup are all shiny, and they will surely bring a different taste experience!"

"I can't ask for it!"

The judges' eyes lit up and they praised the performance.

"Then try the crab eggs first!"

The chopsticks tore off a corner of the white, fresh and elegant egg custard on the plate.

When you put it in your mouth, it has a soft, tender and delicate texture.

The sweetness of crab meat...

The smoothness of egg white…

call!call!
It forms a trickle of light but extremely pure taste.

It weaves between the teeth.

It meets at the tip of the tongue.

Finally, it follows the taste buds and reaches deep into the brain.

Sun Yun, who goes by the pseudonym 'Takeshita Saya', froze her chopsticks in mid-air, her beautiful eyes filled with trance:
"Is this... a sea of ​​hibiscus flowers?"

A picture of a sea of ​​flowers in the valley slowly unfolded before her eyes.

The clear stream meanders among the white and elegant hibiscus flowers that cover the mountains.

Sun Yun couldn't help but bend down and pick a snow-white hibiscus flower, but was stunned as if struck by lightning.

In her contracted pupils, a small ruby ​​crab was reflected, sleeping quietly in the flower bud.

The gardener came back from washing the cooking utensils by the stream and saw Sun Yun. Without saying a word, he picked more hibiscus crab flowers and cooked them in the pot to entertain the guests...

The "Between the Moon and the Sky" venue fell into silence.

The broadcast camera zooms in on each judge's facial expressions as they pick up their chopsticks to taste the food.

Stunned, enlightened, with a peaceful smile on his face...

These changes have led to human-to-human transmission of the virus.

"call--"

Nakiri Senzaemon opened his eyes, and with difficulty moved his gaze away from the crab meat egg on the plate, of which he had only torn off a corner, and sighed:

"Just like the meticulous and freehand brushwork in Chinese paintings, with 'hibiscus' as the introduction, the food is sublimated into art on the tip of the tongue in the fusion of taste and aesthetics!"

Sun Yunye said with a trembling voice:

“The purity of the egg white… is like the blank space in an ink painting, allowing the delicious flavor of the ruby ​​crab to fully display!”

Poxian Zhenlin Li Baixuan's tone was full of disbelief:

"Egg white creates a simple and clean image, while crab meat adds a touch of elegance."

"With just two strokes, it is the work of a master, concise and vivid, constructing an ink painting scroll of 'depicting the spirit through form'! With just a small bite, I entered the world of ink painting on the plate!"

Every word the judges spoke came from the heart, without any falsehood or affectation in their comments.

The audience couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

Damn...

So hungry! So hungry!

How delicious is this?

Amber Murphy glanced at the soup he was still cooking, and thought unwillingly, "It's not even a complete dish, just half a dish... part of the crab meat and eggs, and it's received so much praise?"

"elder sister!"

Rowan Murphy tensed in the VIP seat.

The others glanced at him, then looked away and discussed in a low voice with their companions:
"After all, this half of the dish is of luminous quality!" "That's right——!"

"If the theme of the food battle is not soup, but meat, main course or dessert, just this half dish is enough to sweep everything away..."

"Isn't that an exaggeration? I can understand the meat dishes and main courses, as there are crab meat and eggs, but the dessert theme is not even close to the point!"

"Haha, do you think that if we add some cheese and cream sauce and steam it instead of frying it, the resulting egg custard would be a dessert?"

Hearing these discussions.

The Sun family.

Sun Ying, Sun Xiang and Sun Kang all opened their mouths wide.

Sun Zheng glanced at the VIP viewing area where he was, and looked at these sisters and brothers meaningfully:
"Did you hear me?"

"It's a rare opportunity for you to come and watch such a high-level food battle. Don't just stare in shock at this moment. Use your little brains to think and digest!"

Bang!

The crowd was unable to continue the conversation as their attention was soon drawn to the changes on the stage.

At this time, Xia An was packaging the pumpkin golden soup and handing out a small bowl to each judge.

If we say that the crab meat and egg dishes do not fit the theme of this food battle.

This pot of soup, which combines the crab juice and crab roe of ruby ​​crab and marshmallow pumpkin, perfectly fits the theme!

Moreover, the audience will not forget that the soup also glowed while it was being cooked!
In other words, this is a pot of soup that can end the suspense of the food battle in advance.

Even if it’s only half a dish…

Not to mention the "glowing", this half-dish of soup, just the cooking of level 46 ruby ​​crab, is already of pseudo-scale standards in terms of ingredients.

The camera once again focuses on the facial expressions of each judge——

Compared to the quiet feeling brought by crab meat and eggs, flowers bloom in silence.

While drinking the hot crab soup and pumpkin soup.

Sun Yun and Nakiri Managi suddenly broke out in sweat on their foreheads, and their breathing became heavy.

Ho~
Hohoho
There is an indescribable beauty in the chaotic atmosphere.

In a trance, Sun Yun and Nakiri Maanagi found themselves soaking naked in the hot spring, with only their heads exposed.

Soft pumpkins fell from the sky, gradually dissolved when in contact with water, and shining golden color spread out.

And underwater...

The little ruby ​​crabs were very obsessed, clinging to them and rolling around mischievously.

The smooth and delicate touch of a gemstone, plus the goose bumps on the skin, as if the umami tide is trying to penetrate the pores and penetrate the body...

Sun Ying and Nakiri Managi couldn't suppress the stimulation all over their bodies.

"Eh-"

From the hot spring area came the frightened cries of a seductive woman.

And in the boys' bathing area.

It's a brotherly style of men drawing swords and strong men locking up men.

The naked Nakiri Senzaemon, although older than Mashida and Li Boxuan, still has a strong build.

The old man was not wearing a bath towel or a loincloth. He stood on the shore, showing his biceps like a bodybuilder, and laughed loudly and unrestrainedly.

Than taste the crab eggs.

The judges clearly took longer to savor the soup.

After a while, Mahida gave a thumbs up:
"The combination of ruby ​​crab and marshmallow pumpkin is actually a delicious wave that makes us feel great again!"

Li Baixuan exhaled and said:
"This soup is a mixture of crab juice, crab roe and pumpkin. I thought it would be sweet, but it tastes so powerful and destructive without a hint of sweetness!"

The two female judges, Sun Yun and Nakiri Managi, just wiped their sweat with tissues, their cheeks were red, as if they had just experienced intense exercise.

Nakiri Senzaemon said nothing, but just looked at Xia An with a strange look.

Xia An: “…”

terrible!
Commander, do you also want to use the strongman method to lock the man?

A bit creepy, what's going on?

"Cough cough!"

Xia An turned around and moved the whole pot of crab soup and pumpkin soup to the judging table, smiling slightly: "Everyone, you have eaten different half dishes, and now it's time to enjoy the whole dish!"

Say it.

He picked up a large soup spoon and evenly filled the small soup plate of crab meat and eggs in front of each judge with the glittering golden liquid.

When the two parts of the dish are truly integrated on the plate.

The high-altitude broadcast camera looked down and took a close-up shot——

It just happened to capture the beautiful scene of a white hibiscus flower quietly blooming at the bottom of the golden lake.

The venue was completely silent and the audience could not find any words to describe this scene.

“This is my interpretation of the dish – Crab in Golden Soup with Hibiscus Flowers!”

Xia An's voice was neither loud nor soft, and in the ears of the judges and the audience, combined with the situation and the scene, it seemed to carry a sense of divinity and magic.

"Golden soup... Hibiscus crab?"

I don't know how many people murmured and repeated it.

Amber Murphy reluctantly turned her gaze away from the live broadcast, with a bitter smile on her face, she walked to the kitchen counter, turned off the stove, and prepared to present her soup to the judging table:
"Just let me see."

“Can my interpretation of “Soup of the Century” shake your glowing miracle?”

It was impossible to admit defeat.

Giving up on oneself and stopping cooking, which are shameful desertion behaviors, are even more impossible.

Even if we lose in the end, we must face off!
"This is the last bit of stubbornness that makes people feel pity."

On the high-level stands, Kieran Murphy, who wanted to leave, stayed until now out of curiosity. Seeing the self-protective aura that his loser daughter forced herself to maintain, he couldn't help but shake his head in laughter.

Then, Dragon Giant Kieran Murphy narrowed his eyes slightly and cast his gaze towards the judging desk.

A bowl of soup and a piece of crab meat and egg.

Five people on stage...

Everyone smiled from the bottom of their hearts, with the corners of their mouths stretched as wide as those of children, and their faces naturally revealed an expression of happiness full of childlike innocence and purity.

From the perspective of Kieran Murphy, a demigod sequencer——

These five judges seemed to be glowing!
“Divine… glimmer?” The dragon giant’s eyes flashed with horror. “How is this possible! This glimmer emanates from every pore, every inch of flesh and blood… What high-quality divine ingredients must be used to produce such an effect!”

In the face of the evolution of life, all previous gourmet fantasies seem false.

The five people at the judging table felt incredulously that the gourmet demons in their bodies were being further sealed, and their cellular energy and sequence were advancing to a higher level...

Although ordinary audiences had no idea what was going on, the abnormal atmosphere among the jury was obvious.

Each judge's performance was shocking and impressive...

In the VIP area, many celebrity chefs and industry professionals were amazed.

They analyzed the out-of-control facial expressions of Mashida, Li Boxuan and other Zhenlin, and concluded that this must be the taste that made the giants’ psychological defenses collapse!
Perhaps, only people like Higashino Tsuyoshi and Grandma Sun who have tasted Xia An’s glowing dishes can guess some of the reasons.

Dong Yegang was terrified and thought:
"Xia Sang's not-so-well-done 'Crispy Ruby Crab Legs' helped me cure my late-stage backbiting disease!"

"Now this glowing version of the Perfect Shokugeki… If I could eat it, wouldn't that mean I could advance rapidly into the realm of the True Scale in a short period of time?"

Grandma Sun's eyes sparkled, and she no longer looked old, but full of the aura of a living person:
"I ate the glowing version of 'White Snow Catfish Noodles' and tried it, but it doesn't remove the 'unpalatable seal' curse."

"But this dish, 'Golden Soup Crab with Lotus Root', is a luminous dish of pseudo-unicorn standards. Maybe there is hope..."

(End of this chapter)