Zongman: My days as a chaebol in Japan

Because the competition was over, and in the end Erina and Asuna had the same score, the two breathed a sigh of relief, but in an instant their anger was ignited again, and they agreed to compete again next time.

Li Xuan gave a thumbs up to Feishazi next to him in a secret place. Feishazi, the newcomer who received the praise, blushed slightly, but still looked at Li Xuan and nodded.

In fact, Erina won this competition, but Li Xuan had already thought of this situation, so when Asuna and the others entered the kitchen, he pulled Hisako over and asked him to make Asuna and Erina's scores the same at the last moment, thus avoiding the scene of a loser.

As for people like Xiaolan and Sonoko, home-cooked meals are fine, but making dishes specifically for sale is indeed a bit challenging. However, everyone still prepared a feast of beautiful girls together. Li Xuan, as the only designated male, felt like he had entered a garden.

After lunch, some people rested in the lounge, while others went out to digest the food. With the ringing of the huge bell of Totsuki Academy, the opening ceremony of Totsuki Academy finally began.

Li Xuan, Asuna and the others entered the academy early. Li Xuan was communicating with a blue-haired young man on the judges' seat. The blue-haired young man was none other than Alu, the glutton for food and one of the four masters. Alu was sharing with Li Xuan his experiences in the Lost Continent in the Fantasy World. After hearing about Alu's last adventure in finding the Fighting Wolf, Li Xuan became a little interested.

After learning that Doulang had given birth to two wolf cubs and was looking for someone to take care of the matter, Li Xuan directly bought both wolf cubs for 25 Yi Xiaoying Sakura Coins. It is worth noting that the cultivation levels of the four masters are all in the Earth Realm. According to A Lu, they are rarely in the human world, and will only return to the human world to find master chefs when they find rare ingredients that they cannot cook themselves.

This time, when A Lu found the fighting wolf, he also discovered the rare food ingredient, the Sky Dome Mushroom, not far away. This kind of mushroom is in the sky during the day and returns to the underground at night. Its traces can only be seen within one minute during the transition from noon to noon.

A'lu directly captured more than a dozen of them, each of which was the size of a basketball. Unfortunately, mushrooms were not within A'lu's culinary range, so when he received the invitation to be a judge at the Yuanyue Academy's opening store and learned that the young master of the Xia family would also be there, A'lu also became interested. After all, the Liu family under the Xia family is a family with a legacy of cooking gods. Making friends with Li Xuan is a very important part for a gourmet expert like himself who improves his skills in culinary arts.

So when they arrived at the scene, A'lu deliberately found a seat next to Li Xuan, sat down and started to introduce himself to the world. Li Xuan was quite interested in A'lu's adventures. A'lu said that they were practicing gourmet food in the Lost Continent in the fantasy world, and there were fish swimming in the magma, one-legged ostriches, and huge bulls gnawing on rocks.

The competition had not officially started yet, and Li Xuan heard that when the four of Alu came this time, they also completed a commission from Totsuki Academy and caught a hundred-meter-long octopus in the sea. No, this size can only be described as a Kraken.

It seemed that this dish was among the ingredients for this competition. The time had almost passed and the opening competition ceremony was about to begin. The other judges invited this time also greeted Li Xuan, including the rather majestic-looking Nakiri Senzaemon, the vice-president of the Sakura Gourmet Industry, Liu Quan from the Zhonghualou, the four great food masters, and finally Li Xuan.

After the host introduced everyone, the much-anticipated opening competition began. This time, the three strongest freshmen contestants, Soma Yukihira, Soma Yukihira, and Soma Yukihira, appeared in the competition.

"Freshmen, you are about to witness an extremely exciting competition, which you may even regard as your short-term goal. The three strongest freshmen will compete with three of this year's Top Ten of Totsuki," the host started the show and got to the point.

"They are Soma Yukihira, an experienced chef who has been in Totsuki Street for several months. His specialty is happy fried rice."

"The environment is so beautiful and beautiful, and it is so beautiful that it can be so beautiful."

"Yayama Ryo, a chef who specializes in spice dishes"

"Next are three of our Totsuki Ten Greatest Students, Kobayashi Ryudou, Kuga Teruki, Eiyama Edatsuya..." After the introduction, the host quickly led the six people into the academy competition venue where all the equipment had been prepared.

The people on the judges' panel looked at the external temperament of the six people who were preparing to compete. In fact, the level of a chef can be preliminarily judged by the chef's physical condition.

For example, many chefs have well-developed arm muscles, which shows that the cooking skills of this chef have reached a certain level; if the calluses on the thumb where the knife is held are very thick, it means that the person's knife skills are not bad.

All of the above can be seen to a greater or lesser extent in the following six people, which is already very good for students.

Li Xuan didn't have as many thoughts as them, but his eyes paused when they swept over Kobayashi Ryōdan, then looked at other things and continued chatting with A'lu beside him and Nakiri Senzaemon who was sitting next to him.

However, most of what Nakiri Senzaemon said had nothing to do with cooking. It was basically about his two granddaughters and the Nakiri Group. Nakiri Senzaemon's actions made Li Xuan look at him with a higher opinion. His cultivation level of Quasi-Tensho was indeed good. Li Xuan also calmly talked to him about Erina and Alice.

After learning about Alice and Li Xuan from Erina, Nakiri Senzaemon was no longer worried about the future of the Nakiri Group and Totsuki Academy. With two granddaughters on the path to becoming chefs, the Nakiri Group and Totsuki Academy have already been in a good position. They just need to wait for the two granddaughters to become adults and then they can start a business.

Originally, Erina had already considered the path to becoming a chef no longer as the most important thing before the competition with Alice. However, after what happened with Alice and what Li Xuan said to her, Erina was filled with energy again and continued to move forward on the path to becoming a chef with her cousin.

However, the goal in the hearts of the two sisters is to reach the top of chefs and then cook the best food for Li Xuan. As for Da Xia, if you want to hold a man, you have to start with his stomach. They found that Li Xuan's vision is really picky. He is worthy of being the descendant of a world-class chaebol. The beauties he chooses all have outstanding advantages. Their sisters' cooking skills are unique among many sisters, although now there is also Asuna who can compare with them.

Chapter 112: Kuga Teruki's Spicy Hot Pot

Originally, Alice Nakiri and Erina Nakiri were to represent the top ten in this competition, but Senzaemon Nakiri changed his mind at the last minute because there was a very good talent among the new students, a descendant of the Saiba family.

If his two granddaughters who have already figured out his "intentions" go up, then the freshman representatives will have no chance of winning this time.

As the host finished speaking, the six people walked towards the food storage. They had three hours to compete, including one hour to select ingredients and two hours to cook, but they could finish in advance.

In less than an hour, the six people who had selected the ingredients returned to their seats one after another, and the staff also brought out the ingredients.

"Well, welcome to Totsuki Academy's annual opening competition. Our six chefs have already selected their ingredients. Follow our camera and let's see what ingredients the contestants have chosen this time," the host began the introduction at the right time.

Sakura and many people from all over the world were watching the entrance examination on TV. The first to be introduced were the top ten students from Totsuki Academy.

"Let's start with the ingredients of the Ten Great Chefs of Totsuki. First, we see Chef Teruki Kuga, who is ranked eighth. He chooses octopus, freshwater fish, beef and mutton as his ingredients."

"Then there is Chef Eiyama Ezuya, who ranks seventh. He also chooses a wide variety of ingredients, but you can rest assured that Eiyama Ezuya is known as the alchemist among the Ten Great Masters of Totsuki, and his specialty is to perfectly combine different ingredients."

"The last one is Chef Kobayashi Ryodan. She selected the rare Wall Lake crocodile, which is a very rare and precious ingredient."

The host did his homework and was able to recognize almost every ingredient captured by the camera.

After introducing the ingredients of the Ten Greatest Students of Totsuki, the aerial camera turned to the freshman representatives.

"Okay, now that we've introduced the ingredients for the Totsuki Ten, let's take a look at the three freshman representatives."

"First, Chef Hayama Ryo, the ingredients he chose are surprisingly similar to those of Chef Kuga Teruki"

"Next is Chef Kurokiba Ryo. His ingredient is the Ice Queen Shrimp, which is also a very precious and rare ingredient."

"The last one is Chef Soma Yukihira. He chose the pollution-free, pure natural farmed No. 1 Kunmen native chicken and Yaoyao Country's White Elephant fragrant rice. Although compared with the previous ones, the ingredients are not precious and even a bit cheap, but cooking is a magical art that can turn decay into magic. I hope Chef Soma Yukihira can make his Happy Egg Fried Rice shine on the field."

The host, with his profound knowledge, introduced all the ingredients and prepared kitchen utensils for the six people, and then introduced the people on the judges' panel while the chefs began to process the ingredients.

Each of them is a heavyweight in the food industry, especially when Li Xuan was introduced last. His cold eyes, divine masterpiece-like appearance, and pillar-like background exuded alluring attraction 24 hours a day, bewitching many people present so much that they almost forgot they were watching a cooking competition and felt like they were chasing stars.

When the host introduced Li Xuan, he was also shocked by the enthusiasm of the audience. Those who didn't know would have thought that the winner had already been decided.

In fact, Li Xuan is doing well in Kyoto High School, because the people there more or less know Li Xuan's background from his family, and Kyoto High School itself is not simple, so although Li Xuan is also very popular in Kyoto High School, he is only welcomed by the young ladies.

It was different outside. There were some fanatical looks from the guys inside, which was really scary.

...

After half an hour, everyone had almost finished processing the ingredients and started the cooking process.

The camera first turned to the Totsuki Ten. Eiyama Edatsuya had a lot of ingredients, and the current cooking steps did not show what dish he was going to make. So the camera turned to Kuga Teruki, and this time the host saw through it.

"We see that Chef Kuga Teruki is preheating the seasonings and combining the seasonings and side ingredients with the right combination to condense the essence. Now we can make a preliminary estimate of what Chef Kuga Teruki will be cooking this time."

"That's right, it's the hot pot cuisine that occupies a place in the food world, and we just saw that many of Chef Kuga Teruki's ingredients are of the chili type, so there is only one thing that meets the requirements, and that's the dish he's going to make, Daxia Wolong's spicy hot pot," the host introduced to the audience present and in front of the TV in a passionate voice.

Spicy hotpot is an evergreen in the culinary world. After years of development, there are hotpots with flavors such as light, strong, sour, sweet, bitter and spicy. However, spicy hotpot is still the most eye-catching one among them. The spicy enjoyment it brings to diners is more intense than other hotpots.

Kuga Teruki is also good at cooking spicy hot pot, so he showed his real skills right away in this competition.

Through Kuga Teruki's own original techniques and material combinations, when he lifted the lid of the pot, a strong aroma like a summer fire spread across the competition venue. The judges on the stage twitched their noses slightly and guessed the ingredients from the aroma.

As Kuga Teruki is making hot pot, as long as the soup base is ready, it is basically done, because hot pot requires the freshness of the ingredients. Only when the ingredients are cooked immediately can the charm of hot pot be reflected when eaten.

It took nearly half an hour for Teruki Kuga to prepare the hot pot soup base. After it came out of the oven, it was poured into several copper furnace hot pots, which are traditional hot pot utensils.

Similarly, after years of development, hot pot utensils have also developed into various types, including disc type, center-split type, Tai Chi type, etc., but the most classic is the copper furnace type, with a cylinder in the middle surrounded by a circle, and the heating utensils are at the bottom of the furnace.

The chef who takes the lead in this competition has a great advantage, because the average diner has a limited stomach capacity, and eating other things all the time will make the taste buds fatigued, and it will be difficult to taste the real flavor of other things later.

Kuga Teruki's dish was spicy hot pot, a type of dish that has a particularly strong impact on the taste buds, so when the judges saw that Kuga Teruki had finished making the dish in only half the time and started to serve it, they frowned and then nodded.

Giving your all in the competition is the greatest respect for your opponent. Kuga Teruki had obviously studied the countermeasures, so he took the initiative right from the start. If his spicy hot pot can successfully conquer the judges' taste buds, then when they try other people's dishes next, the taste will be mixed with the taste of the spicy hot pot, and the effect will be greatly reduced.

This is a successful strategy, and the outcome will depend on the judges' taste tolerance.

Chapter 113 Only Numbness and Spicy

"A very good strategy," the host also thought of the reason why Kuga Teruki chose spicy hot pot for this competition, and explained the corresponding data and information.

Everyone approved of Kuga Teruki's plan, and judging from the expressions of the audience as they drooled after smelling the aroma of the soup base, Kuga Teruki's cooking skills were also very high.

After seeing Kuga Teruki's hot pot dishes, the other people's eyes flashed with understanding. Using hot pot as the charging dish is indeed a good choice.

However, they all moved much faster, only Yukihira Soma was still unhurried. However, because he was cooking fried rice, no matter how delicate it was, after Kuga Teruki, Yukihira Soma's happy fried rice was also nearing completion.

At the judges' table, in front of each of the seven judges was a steaming copper pot with boiling red oil in it. The tempting aroma wafted out of it. The staff placed the main course prepared by Kuga Teruki on the table. Li Xuan felt that the hot pot must be very spicy.

A'lu started first. The aroma of the red oil hotpot had already made his stomach and mouth secrete acid. He picked up a large piece of octopus slices and put it into the red oil hotpot. Under the high temperature, the octopus skin was cooked in a few seconds. Then he put it directly into his mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it directly. It was topped with crushed devil pepper and hell pepper.

Seeing Ah Lu eating and then getting steam all over his body, sweating slowly, he suddenly shouted, "Great!", then he quickened his movements, put all the remaining main dishes into the hot pot, put down his chopsticks, and ate directly with a colander. Li Xuan's eyes jumped when he saw this, wondering if this guy had no sense of taste or what?

The Devil Pepper is the spiciest pepper in the world, and the Hell Pepper is used as an anesthetic in some places. Aru started showing off directly, not affected by the combination at all. Looking at the side, Nakiri Senzaemon's clothes seemed to be a little wet. His way of eating was very similar to Aru.

As for Li Xuan, he used chopsticks to pick up some of the soup base, put it in his mouth and tasted it. Well, A'lu was indeed not a normal person. The taste was even stronger than that of mustard dumplings. Just by tasting it, he felt like a flame rushing directly into his stomach. Coco, Sunny, and Zebula all ate some selectively like Li Xuan.

Coco and Sunny felt that spicy hotpot was not in line with their cooking philosophy, so they just tasted it normally.

Because Zebulazesi’s spicy hotpot lacked the chef’s unique “intention” in his radar, he just tasted it briefly and stopped.

The vice president of the Sakura Gourmet Association gave a genuine reaction, constantly exhaling and having already finished three bottles of ice water.

Seeing that everyone had finished their spicy hotpot and put down their chopsticks, the host began the interview and commentary session.

"Okay, everyone. We see that the judges have put down their chopsticks. Let's ask for their comments now." The host walked to the judges' seat and started an interview with the vice president of the Sakura Gourmet Association. "Vice President Kira, what did you think of the spicy hot pot just now?"

After finishing another bottle of ice water, Kirara put down the empty bottle and took a deep breath. The spicy smell was still on his breath. "It's very spicy and numb, which fits the name of spicy hot pot. I have used four bottles of ice water to dilute it, but the devil pepper and hell pepper, which are mixed in the soup base, are still attacking my taste buds."

That's a pretty good review.

Next it was Nakiri Senzaemon's turn. His sweat had dried up a lot. He nodded affirmatively, and then said with a bit of regret, "The heat and spices of the spicy hotpot are all controlled just right, which fits the name of spicy hotpot. You can feel the spicy and hot flavors wandering through your body the moment you eat it. It's a pity that too much attention was paid to the appearance, and there was no unexpected surprise. It can only be said to be a good dish."

Nakiri Senzaemon directly pointed out all the advantages and disadvantages.

"What did Director Zaemon mean when he said that the dish was too focused on appearance?" The host smelled the food and thought it was much better than the best spicy hot pot he had ever eaten. However, Nakiri Senzaemon's somewhat regretful words about the dish being too focused on appearance puzzled him, so he asked the question.

"It's just the superficial meaning. His spicy hotpot is only spicy hotpot." It was still a brief explanation. The host seemed to understand it, but Li Xuan and others understood what it meant, because this Kuga Teruki did not open his "intention", so the spicy hotpot was just spicy hotpot.

Then there was Li Xuan next to him.

"It's only spicy and numbing, the standard of a regular hotel chef," the same concise evaluation, in fact, the spicy hotpot before the introduction of the medicine would probably have a hard time getting a good score from the judges with inner strength.

Li Xuan's evaluation was still very standard and official. After all, it was just an opening ceremony. If it was a formal competition, Li Xuan would ask people to take the things away after just one look.

Then came A'lu who was beside Li Xuan. A'lu gave a good review but complained that the ingredients were a little too little and only enough to whet the appetite.

Then came the other three masters. As described above, the three did not take it seriously. They just took a bite and put it down. Their evaluation was that if they kept working hard, they would make progress.

Instead, Liu Quan gave some words of comfort and encouraged Kuga Teruki, telling him that he had reached a bottleneck with the spicy and spicy flavors and needed to polish his cooking concepts, and that he might be able to make further progress soon.

In the competition arena, Teruki Kuga was a little frustrated by the comments he received earlier, because he had already performed at his best, but still failed to win praise from the food experts. In fact, Teruki Kuga has been troubled for a long time by the commander-in-chief's comment that he only has good looks.

He had recently received further guidance from the chief commander on how to draw diners into the emotions of his cooking. However, the chief commander had no way of giving him more specific instructions and could only tell him to think about why he was cooking when he was cooking.

It was Li Xuan who caused the greatest damage to Kuga Teruki. However, considering his identity, perhaps in his eyes, it was already a compliment that our cooking skills could be compared with others. After all, Liu Quan, the chef of Zhonghua Tower who gave me the greatest inspiration in the end, was the one who cooked for Li Xuan's family.

Liu Quan's words also gave Kuga Teruki a direction to explore, and he began to understand what the commander-in-chief said to him.

Chapter 114: Unfortunate defeat

"Okay, we can see that the spicy hot pot, which we think is perfect, only received one excellent and two good grades based on the judges' comments, and the remaining four were all passing," the host's exaggerated tone stirred up the atmosphere.

The remaining five chefs were all a little nervous, because in their opinion, Kuga Teruki's level of completion was already very high. If it were them, they could only do the same at best and could not do better in the spicy hot pot. Such a dish actually only got an Excellent and two Good grades.

There are four levels of evaluation for Totsuki's food: delicious, excellent, good, and poor.