Problem Girls Strategy

The strength in the place where she was grabbed seemed to disappear completely and spread to the surroundings. Huihui quickly broke away to prevent herself from collapsing in his arms.

Jiang Zao didn't understand what she was doing. After saying "Watch your step", he closed the bathroom door for her and left.

For the next few days, Huihui avoided physical contact with him and even stopped casting explosion magic. Her abnormal behavior confused the other companions and they asked the two if something had happened.

Jiang Zao couldn't say that he became horny on Hui Hui's feet while massaging them, so he could only tell others that this happened after he gave Hui Hui a massage, and he knew nothing else.

Huihui would not tell Jiang Zao about her symptom of going soft when touched, and she evaded the question by saying that she was observing him.

Chapter 264 Is Your Name Really Alright?

On the day of the food competition, the strange atmosphere between Jiang Zao and Hui Hui completely disappeared. After everyone made preparations at home, they went to the competition venue together.

At first everyone thought that this was a competition organized by the shopping street, but they were really surprised by the magnificent ancient Roman amphitheater and the endless number of people around.

Kailu opened her mouth wide and said in surprise: "This...this level of excitement and the venue, this is definitely a food competition officially held by the Royal City, right?"

It seemed that her search for information about the food competition was going in the wrong direction.

"Ahaha, the boss told me about the annual food competition. I didn't expect it to be so grand."

"It seems that all the people here are chefs and food lovers." All Kokoro heard from the people around her were discussions about food and ingredients.

"Hmm... there are so many people..." Huihui moved closer to Jiang Zao holding the cheering flag in her hand. She didn't like places with too many people. If they came to see her gorgeous explosion magic, that would be a different situation.

Just by seeing the banner with the words "The World's No. 1 Food Conference" hanging on it, Jiang Zao's desire to complain skyrocketed. Would such a name really not attract some weird people?

For example, there are aliens with tails on their butts, blue-haired chefs whose dishes glow golden, red-haired chefs who specialize in putting drugs in dishes, and so on.

If Kakarot attacks me, I'll be the first one to run away.

Pekolim pointed to the left. "Don't worry about the details. The entrance to the competition is over there. Let's go over there."

Compared to the crowded spectator entrance, the competition entrance seemed much quieter, with only a few scattered teams of people occasionally walking into the arena from this entrance.

The crowd walked through the surging sea of ​​spectators and entered the competition entrance, where they met the owner of the "Wild Food Shop", who seemed to be in charge of checking the contestants.

"Boss, you didn't participate in the competition?"

"You guys are here. I'm not interested in the championship prize this time, so I'm not participating. Go in. The rest of you who are not participating can stay in the contestant's room and watch the game."

"Okay, thank you boss!"

"Well, come on."

Pekolim ran back to the group and said, "Let's go. It's a shame that the boss won't be participating in the competition this time. I still want to compete with him in cooking skills."

As you walk into the contestant's room, you can immediately hear the host's passionate voice coming from the magic radio.

"Everyone, welcome to the annual world's number one food conference!"

"This year is the same as in previous years. All the chefs from the continent of Astraea gathered here to compete for the title of God of Cooking and the championship prize. From what I know, there are three chefs who have won the title of God of Cooking participating in this competition."

"To a mediocre person like me, this championship prize is really not worthy of being a championship prize, but since three chef gods came for it, it must have its own unique features!"

"I won't waste any more time. There is still one hour before the competition officially begins. Please hand over the ingredients you prepared to the organizer for inspection. After the inspection is completed, go to the competition arena and choose the stove of your choice."

Hui Hui bit her thumb nail in dissatisfaction: "Damn it, how come there are three more chefs trying to snatch the Coke recipe from me."

"It's Pekolim and I who are going to compete. Why are you so upset?"

"Jiang Zao, do you have a chance of winning? If not, let me cast an explosion magic in the sky to scare away all the people, and then quietly take it away... It hurts! What are you doing!?"

Jiang Zao retracted his knife and said to Hui Hui, who was covering her head and glaring at him, "Pekorim and I have cooked for you so many times, you should at least have some confidence in us."

"I... Of course I believe in your ability... I just suggested this to ensure that I can get the drink formula..."

"Don't have those crooked ideas. Since this is a competition, we have to win it fairly. Pekolim, let's go."

"Ah."

The reason why the competition requires food inspection is to prevent contestants from using food with special effects, thus causing unfair competition. Jiang Zao and his team prepared ordinary food and monster meat from hunting during this period, so they passed the inspection smoothly. Then they found a stove that Kokoro and the others could see.

Waving at the contestants' private room, Jiang Zao turned around and asked Pekolim: "Do you know any of these participating chefs?"

"No..."

While the two were chatting, the host began to introduce the rules of the food competition to the audience through the radio.

This competition is divided into three categories: breakfast, lunch and dinner. The participating chefs need to prepare three meals a day in turn to compete, and then the judges will take turns to taste and give scores. The total score is 10 points, and 6 points is a pass. If you get 6 points in breakfast and lunch, you can participate in the next category.

In the dinner competition, only those who get 8 points can proceed to the final competition - midnight snack.

"Then let's start making breakfast as we said before." Jiang Zao tied on a kitchen apron and handed another one to Pekolim.

"no problem!"

For the breakfast project, Pekolim originally planned to make wild boar sandwiches, but Jiang Zao felt that it was not enough to stand out in the competition, so he made her the traditional breakfast noodle dish from her hometown - rice noodles. After eating it, she immediately changed the breakfast menu to this.

Rice noodles are noodles made from rice without any flour or other ingredients.

Put the rice that has been soaked the night before into a small stone mill. Jiang Zao quickly turns the millstone, and the milky white rice slurry slowly flows out. When all the rice is ground, filter the rice slurry again, and you will get a bowl of paste that looks like milk but actually emits a faint rice aroma.

Take a frying pan and brush a thin layer of oil on the bottom, then scoop up a spoonful of rice slurry and pour it into it. Jiang Zao holds the frying pan and slowly turns it over the flame. The rice slurry turns the black bottom of the pan white, as if it were covered with a layer of translucent gauze.

He gently tore off the rice noodles from the pot and put them into an iron plate, then put them into the steamer that was emitting white mist.

After steaming for about two minutes, Jiang Zao quickly opened the lid of the pot to prevent water from dripping onto the rice noodles. He then placed the plate on the surface of cold water to cool it down, tore off the rice noodles, brushed them with oil, and cut them into strips. The rice noodles are now ready.

The crystal clear and elastic rice noodles were neatly placed on the chopping board. Jiang Zao stopped Pekolim who was preparing to make the soup. He felt that according to the usual method, this would just be an ordinary bowl of rice noodles. At most, it could get some extra points because of the special method.

In order to ensure that he wins the championship without any surprises, he has to do something more unique. After all, he was born in a country of gourmet food, so he must give the other world a little culinary shock.

Having made up his mind, Jiang Zao reached out and grabbed the wild boar meat placed aside.

Chapter 265: Lard and Rice Noodles

Rice noodles are not only eaten in soup, there is another mouth-watering and fragrant way to eat them.

Lard mixed with flour!

Jiang Zao had noticed before that all edible oils in this world were vegetable oils, and animal oils were basically unheard of, so he had to give the other world some shocking lard.

Fortunately, he had originally planned to refine lard for cooking, otherwise he would most likely be disqualified from the competition if he took out unchecked ingredients from the storage space.

"Pekorim, help me cut this lard into small pieces."

Jiang Zao cut off a large piece of white fat from the boar meat of the wild forest and gave it to Pekolim. When making lard, pig fat, which is the fat in the pig's belly, is usually used.

"Okay!" Although Pekolim didn't know why he didn't follow the previous method, she didn't ask much. After washing the lard, she cut it into small pieces with a knife.

Jiang Zao put a big pot on the stove, added half a bowl of water into it, and then poured in the chopped lard.

As the spatula is stirring, milky white fat has begun to appear in the water. This does not mean that the lard has started to produce oil. Only when the water is completely boiled off and bright yellowish oil appears in the pot, it is real lard.

Put the chopped noisy green onions and silent ginger into the pot, and then add a few slices of star anise and serrated bay leaves to remove the mutton smell. Before long, the rich aroma of oil with a faint herbal scent spreads in the air, and this aroma attracts curious glances from nearby chefs.

What is he brewing? It smells so good.

Pekolim wiped the saliva that had flowed from the corner of her mouth for the umpteenth time. She had clearly already had breakfast, but the aroma made her hungry again, and her stomach also made a "gurgling" sound in cooperation.

Jiang Zao smiled and said to her, "You have already learned how to make rice noodles, right? Go make some more. When I'm done here, we can make two bowls for ourselves."

"Yeah, yeah!" Pekolim nodded rapidly. Only then did she realize why the amount of ingredients prepared was so large. It turned out that it was because they took into consideration that she might be hungry.

As expected of Jiang Zao, he is always so considerate and caring!

The ahoge on its head danced with the joy of its owner, and Pekolim hummed a cheerful tune and ran to the side to make rice noodles.

The originally white pieces of lard rolled in the fine foam, and when they floated to the surface of the oil again, they had a new look and turned golden. When their color slightly deepened, all the Jiang Zao were fished out, and the boiled lard was poured into a clean earthenware jar.

"Pekorim, I'm done here. How much rice noodles did you make? Is it enough for the two of us?"

"Hmm... should that be enough?"

Hearing the troubled voice of a young girl behind him, Jiang Zao shrugged helplessly.

Looks like I have to eat less this time.

A cold, green finger poked his face. He turned around in confusion and saw Pekolim holding a two-meter-high plate of rice noodles and winking at him mischievously. He realized that the words just now were teasing him, and opened his mouth as if to bite his finger.

Pekolim gave a sly smile, retracted her fingers and placed the plate on the stove: "What are you doing?"

"Lard mixed with rice flour, you will know if you try it."

Jiang Zao took out two custom-made half-meter wide large bowls from the storage space, put the rice noodles in them, then added the boiled lard and soy sauce, and sprinkled some chopped green onions on top.

Just from the aroma point of view, the noodles made with lard boiled from wild boar fat in the deep forest are like a combination of noodles with scallion oil. The unique aroma of animal oil combined with the fragrance of plants and trees, mixed together, enhances the fragrance by more than a little bit.

Pick up a piece of noodles with chopsticks and put it into your mouth. The rice noodles will melt in your mouth and the rich aroma of oil will rush straight to your head. The aroma of herbs and woods just neutralizes the greasiness, so you won’t feel too greasy no matter how much you eat.

On the other side, as the competition time came to an end, the host accompanied the five judges to taste the breakfast prepared by the participating chefs one by one on the wide stage. When they came to Jiang Zao and Pekolim, the scene of the two chefs eating noodles with huge bowls made the host sigh.

"The source of the unusually strong aroma in the air turned out to be these two people, and the couple of chefs have already started eating the food they prepared... Um... could you trouble one of them to introduce it to us?"

"Let me do it." Jiang Zao put down his chopsticks and wiped his greasy lips with a handkerchief. As he spoke, he took out five bowls of rice noodles and added lard, soy sauce and chopped green onions. "This is a special delicacy from my hometown - rice noodles. We often eat it for breakfast there, and I'm making one way to eat it, called lard noodles."

Five judges, all dressed in fine clothes and of different heights, weights and body shapes, held up the Jiangzao noodles and pushed them in front of them, which exuded an alluring aroma. One of them picked up the chopsticks and used a little force to break the rice noodles. He was surprised that the texture of the broken noodles did not resemble that of flour: "This... doesn't seem to be made of flour?"

Being able to be a judge in the competition, he is really capable. He can actually tell there is no mixed flour in it just by looking at the cross section.

Jiang Zao nodded: "This is made of rice. If the lard gets cold, it won't taste good. Please try it as soon as possible."

As mentioned before, there is no such food as noodles on the continent of Astraea. The judges looked at the long, chewy noodles and didn't know how to eat them for a while, until one of them saw how Pekolim ate them. Then they suddenly realized and learned how to pick up the noodles and put them into their mouths.

When the five of them took a bite of the rice noodles, their eyes widened, and then they silently ate up the large amount of rice noodles mixed with lard. The host exclaimed, "Oh my God, what did I see? The five judges actually finished the whole bowl of food!"

"You know, in order to ensure that all the contestants' food can be eaten, the judges have maintained the principle of not tasting more than three bites of food. But now, they have taken the initiative to break this rule and eat all the food. Could it be... that the food is really that delicious?"

After saying that, the host swallowed his saliva and looked at Jiang Zao: "Contestant, do you still have the rice noodles you made? Can I have a taste?"

Jiang Zao spread his hands helplessly: "Sorry, except for the portion left for the judges, the rest was eaten by me and my companions."

"Okay..." the host said sadly, "It seems that I will not be able to enjoy the food that the judges have to eat despite their principles. So, please rate the works of this group of contestants."

“Hmm... creativity and taste are perfect, 8 points.”

"Isn't it a bit too low? This special sesame oil made from wild boar fat is a breakthrough in chef history. I think it deserves 10 points."

"I think this pork fat noodles could be served with some fried chili peppers, which would make it more delicious. I also give it an 8."

Chapter 266: The Demon King’s Army Officers Invade

"It's incredible! The scores given by the three judges alone are all no less than 6 points, and one even gave a full score of 10 points!" The host tried hard to mobilize the enthusiasm of the audience in the arena: "Then, what scores will our remaining two judges give next?"

The judge, who had a long white beard and a kind face, said: "Young man, I want to ask you, is the production process of food called rice noodles complicated?"

“It’s very simple. As long as you know the production process, anyone can make it easily.”

“Well...it’s simple to make, easy to use, and easy to promote. I give it a 9.”

“Another…another high score!!!”

As the host on the radio exclaimed, the audience in the arena cheered even more enthusiastically. They all wanted to know whether this dark horse that had crushed all the scores so far could get a high score from the last judge.

"Ahem...you guys have asked all the questions and praised everything you should have...what should I say now?" The last fat judge glared at his friends and sighed helplessly: "Well, let me just ask a simple question. How satisfied are you with your food?"

"If the full score is 10, I will give it full marks."

"Very good, confident. A chef should be confident in the dishes he makes. I give it 9 points."

The host raised his left hand and shouted into the microphone: "It appears!!!! This is an achievement that no one has ever achieved with all the high scores in the first round of projects!!!"

"Ohhhhhh!"

The lively noise in the arena almost drowned out Jiang Zao and Pekolim on the stage. They high-fived to celebrate their perfect advancement in the first round. The host joked, "Oh, this couple really likes to be affectionate. They started celebrating with each other right after advancing. Let's go to the next contestant now so as not to disturb them."

Pekolim was so absorbed in eating her noodles that she didn't hear what the host said at all. Only now did she realize that people had misunderstood that she and Jiang Zao were in a relationship. Unfortunately, her explanation was not heard by the host or the audience amid the noise. She could only pretend to continue eating with her red cheeks.

Just as the competition was in full swing and the first round was coming to an end, a black cloud suddenly covered the sky above the arena. Along with an extremely arrogant laugh, a strange creature with a human body, a sheep's head and three pairs of bat wings fell from the cloud and hovered in the air.

“Hahahaha~ Ants, you guys are having a lot of fun in this Novice Village. I, the Food Disaster—Saurius, am here to play with you!”

"It turned out to be the Demon King's Army cadre - Saurius! It is said that wherever this demon goes, many special ingredients and cooking methods will be taken away, turning it into a food desert. He...he showed up at the World's No. 1 Food Conference this time. Does he want to make the food on the continent disappear completely?"

Jiang Zao admired this host very much, who was still diligent in explaining to the audience even when he met a cadre of the Demon King's army. He stretched out his hand to stop Pekolim, signaling her not to act rashly for the time being.