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Chapter 239: Chefs Federation, Food Competition

"Mr. Kulipa, I'm the editor of Bede Weekly. May I ask you a question?"

"Chew, chew, chew, grumble. Okay, go ahead and ask."

Sen Dungeon, food area.

In the food area that looks like a fairyland with sweet aroma, a tall but energetic old man with a straight figure but no more than 1.6 meters tall is enjoying the bone-in barbecue in his hand.

If the food seems a bit greasy, you can break off a clove of garlic from the blooming garlic flowers nearby to cleanse your mouth, or catch a locust with soy sauce to go with it.

His slightly wrinkled face showed a very satisfied expression, in short, he enjoyed the meal very much.

In front of him, the beautiful female editor dressed in professional attire prepared the banknotes while staring at her with burning eyes and asked:

"Excuse me, haven't the elves always been the embodiment of nature advocating vegetarianism? Why are you..." She looked at the half-eaten bone-in roast in Kulipa's hand, and everything was self-evident.

"This? This is a plant." Kuripa said seriously.

"Plants?" The editor was stunned.

"This grows from a tree, so why isn't it a plant?" He looked serious, as if he was arguing the truth of the universe.

The editor tried to struggle again, "But it looks like meat, smells like meat, and tastes like meat."

"So it must be meat?"

Kulipa patted the editor on the shoulder seriously and taught him a lesson: "Don't be fooled by the appearance of things. You must perceive their essence. Things that grow from trees are plants! How can they be meat?"

He exuded an air of authority. The editor swallowed, nodded, and said, "I've learned something. It turns out that bone-in roast meat is made of plants."

"Yes, that's right. This is a plant. We elves like to eat vegetarian food, so roast meat with bones is vegetarian. There is no problem with that."

As Kuripa spoke, he took out a bag of coffee powder and started brewing it with the juice of the hot milk fruit growing on the tree.

“Ah, is that the coffee ground from the cocoa berries that grow on the back of the cocoa koala?” The editor recognized the origin of the bag of coffee powder and planned to get back at the person.

She smiled and said, “Mr. Kulipa, since you said that the roast meat that grows from the tree is a plant, then does the cocoa fruit that appears from the cocoa koala count as meat?”

Kulipa stared at her with his dead eyes until cold sweat broke out on her back. Then he said:

“If it looks like coffee, smells like coffee, and tastes like coffee, then it’s coffee, vegan.”

“But you just said that we should look at the essence of things.”

"Are you the chef or am I the chef? In that case, how about I give you my one-star chef certificate and the shareholder status of Bede Weekly?"

"No no that's not what I meant."

The editor waved his hands repeatedly, thinking that he was really too bored to argue about this issue with the elf, and only after some comforting did the old man calm down.

It’s strange, why did she suddenly have this unreasonable desire to win?
It was only then that she remembered the purpose of her initial interview, and quickly adjusted her mindset and asked:

"Excuse me, what do you think about the showdown with Mr. Bashi, the two-star chef of the Chefs Union, in three days?"

The editor recalled what happened two days ago.

That day, Luluwo from the Skyrim Strategy Team wandered around in Bed City and lured away most of the city's elite adventurers.

As soon as they left, a group of uninvited guests arrived.

The Chefs Union people are here.

The Chefs Association is said to be the most authoritative food organization in the entire continent.

Unlike the Magic Association, which controls people's qualifications to become magicians, the Chefs Association cannot prohibit people who do not join the association from becoming chefs. However, if one can possess a chef qualification certificate from the association, then the chef's value will skyrocket to the peak of his life.

Chefs are divided into nine levels, one to nine, and each level requires rigorous testing. There are many people who can only linger at the first few levels throughout their entire lives.

Above the ninth level is the strongest realm that cannot be reached by hard work and sweat alone, and can only be reached by extraordinary talent - star chef!
One star is the beginning, five stars is the highest. He can be called the absolute overlord of the chef world and reigns at the top of the chef world!

People don't know how a chef's certification can be so exciting, but this perfect sense of awe is quite popular!
The two-star chef Bashi from the Chefs Association, a celebrity chef known for his "exquisiteness", came to Bed City a while ago to taste the ingredients in the gourmet area, and then made a violent statement -

“The existence of food that can be eaten without cooking is an insult to the chef!”

Roasted whole pig, trumpet lion, bone-in meat tree, and ox tongue flower are all everywhere in the food area. They are ingredients that can be picked and eaten at will, and they can provide a great taste enjoyment without cooking.

Bashi's motive is very simple. If all the ingredients in the world are like this, then the meaning of the chef's existence will be greatly weakened.

Someone told him that he could process these ingredients again and show his cooking skills, but
“Food that is not prepared from scratch has no soul!”

Bashi’s second outrageous statement!

He believes that processing already edible ingredients is like sleeping with someone else's bride, which is not a pleasant feeling at all and any chef with ethics would refuse to do so.

He hated this place from the bottom of his heart, thinking that it ruined the refinement and ritual that food should have, so he declared a boycott of the food area.

However, the residents and the Chamber of Commerce of Bed City have long tasted the sweetness of delicious food - whether eating or selling, even if the boycotter is a distinguished two-star chef, he cannot shake the concept that has already taken shape in Bed City.

Bashi is not stupid either. After investigation, he also discovered the "bond" between the residents of Bed City and the food area.

But he would not give in easily, and finally decided to hold a food exchange meeting here. His apprentices would use normal ingredients that were definitely not produced in the gourmet area to prepare exquisite food in public, which was bound to beat the gourmet area in taste!

It may seem puzzling to outsiders. Even if you can beat the food area, what else can you do except prove your cooking skills? People will still go to the food area. Not everyone has the money and time to eat the food you cook.

But for Bashi and his apprentices, it’s enough to beat the recently popular food area in terms of taste!
This is a kind of proof, and they can even use it to promote themselves and increase their fame in the future.

More importantly, it satisfies Bashi's own desire to win and vanity.

They acted quickly, and with the help of the magician they quickly set up a platform in the center of the town, with dozens of stoves operating at the same time, with the aim of continuously producing dishes that could surpass those in the gourmet area.

The dishes they make are free to taste. What’s the difference between this and doing charity?
The words "free", "master-made" and "free" were mixed together, and the traffic came in rapidly.

The only condition for having a great meal is to praise the taste of their dishes as better than the gourmet area.

As it turns out, there are still many people who do this. It's just a casual remark, but the opportunity to eat a meal prepared by a star chef is not common.

And it was not against their will, because Bashi and his apprentices had real ingredients, and the level of their cooking was very high, higher than any chef in Bed City, which was why they could attract traffic. Mr. Mareda, the owner of a magic tool shop who did not want to reveal his name, was very happy with the meal, and praised each chef with auspicious words from a certain blue planet.

The people from the other world had never seen such a scene before. They were blown so lightly that they almost flew up.

Then, after eating, Mr. Mareda went to secretly instigate the supporters of the food area to make some evil plans, which eventually turned into
A fight broke out between supporters of the food area and Bashi and his apprentices until the Bed City guards arrived and pulled the two sides apart.

There weren't any strong people on either side, and the guards were able to keep them apart. This was the first time that the guards felt they were still somewhat useful. In the past, when adventurers fought, they only dared to persuade them verbally.

As for the supporters of the food area, the leader is this Kuripa.

After the fight died down, both sides decided to start a competition, a cooking competition!

One side uses ingredients from the gourmet region, and the other side uses traditional normal ingredients. Several authoritative three-star chefs who will arrive soon will serve as judges.

Just like this, such a strange food competition is about to begin. It seems that neither the loser nor the winner will suffer any material losses. The only thing they can lose is something like the illusory "reputation".

Even if he lost to a two-star chef, it didn't seem to be a big deal for the ingredients in the gourmet area, because the other party was a man at the top of the chefs. It was not shameful for the unprocessed ingredients to lose to the chef's carefully prepared food.

For Bashi, winning would only satisfy his vanity. His fame no longer needed to be increased by stepping on a dungeon.

This is a story that is completely started by a strange chef. If no one plays with him, he will win the game of house.

However, he met another serious person - Kuripa.

"What else can I say? I will use the ingredients here to humiliate Bashi and let him know what real food is."

Kulipa wiped the corner of his mouth, stood up, looked at this beautiful area from afar and said:

“When I first came here and saw the big trees covered with barbecues, I knew this was my paradise.”

He clenched his fists.

"I love this place! I won't allow anyone to insult it!"

"Ahahaha" the editor could only laugh awkwardly. She couldn't understand why the other party fell in love with an area of ​​the dungeon.

Maybe it’s because people who can become star chefs have some quirks?
"However, Bashi's cooking skills are indeed very strong, and he can get a lot of rare ingredients. The taste of those things may not be inferior to those in the gourmet area."

The editor became interested and asked, "How would you deal with this?"

Kulipa said, "So I want to go deeper into the food area. As far as I know, the frontline combat forces of Bed City have neglected to explore this area in depth. Only the exploration team organized by the guild can occasionally approach the huge plants on the horizon."

"So you are going to look for rainbow fruit?" The editor had obviously heard some information and knew the name of the huge plant in the deepest part of the gourmet area.

But they have definitely never been eaten. Currently, only the guild's exploration team is willing to take the trouble to do this. There is no guarantee that rainbow fruits can be obtained every time they go deep into the ground, and most of the time they return in defeat.

Even if there is a harvest, they may just sneak over when the beasts guarding the fruit are relaxed and cut a few small pieces to take away. They dare not cut large pieces for fear of affecting their escape speed.

So, is the winning ingredient that Kulipa wants to obtain the rainbow fruit?

"No, I don't need the rainbow fruit. To be honest, I'm not good at making sweets."

He shook his head and gave the editor a mysterious smile.

"What I was looking for was something that most people didn't know about yet, and I got a little bit of it by accident."

"Can't you reveal a little bit of information?" The editor was completely intrigued.

"No."

After rejecting the editor's request, Kuripa collected some more ingredients in the food area and left reluctantly with his bag on his back.

After he separated from the elves' army, he spent all day here. To him, this place was like a dream paradise.

It was still daytime when he came out, and he left early this time in order to visit a master who seemed very mysterious to him.

The Eternal Spirit Sword in his hand was a treasure he got after a lot of effort after getting clues from that person.

Bed City, another neighborhood next to the food court.

This neighborhood is full of shops selling all kinds of magic props and materials, and they all have a unified name: magic prop shop.

The store that Kulipa was looking for was directly named after the store manager: Mareda Magic Tool Shop.

"jingle."

The crisp sound of wind chimes echoed in the air, the door of the shop was pushed open, and fresh air rushed into the prop shop.

"Hey, here we go again."

The owner of the shop, Mareda - or Gong Qiying, raised his head and stretched lazily, looking like he had not woken up yet.

Kulipa's face showed respect.

Respect? If the editor saw this, he would be surprised, because Kulipa was looking down on people just now.

"I followed the clues you gave me last time and didn't find the seasoning, but I found this."

He gently placed the Yongling Knife, which was wrapped in layers of cloth, on the counter and said, "This kitchen utensil has incredible power. I think it may be stronger than the [Secret Seasoning]."

"But you can't eat kitchen utensils, right? If you want to win, you need better ingredients."

Gong Qiying took out two small bottles, one containing an unknown powder and the other containing a colorless liquid.

As soon as he saw the powder and liquid, Kulipa immediately showed a very eager expression and said in surprise: "You, you found it again!?"

"This is my stock. I have some left after I gave it to you last time."

Gong Qiying smiled, as if he had completely grasped the spirit in front of him, and said:
"If you can win the game, I will give you another shot of [Century Soup]."

　I touched it today. I am exhausted from typing so much. I will take a day off.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)