Gourmet Style Beast Taming - Chapter 72
Chapter 72: Chapter 72: The Kickoff of the Elimination Competition
Translator: 549690339
“Cut the tofu into strands as thin as hair?!”
Even though Qin Lang’s voice was getting lower, Qi Xiaoyu, with her keen hearing, caught the crucial point. She couldn’t help but widen her eyes, showing a surprised expression, “Qin Lang, are you joking?”
That is soft tofu!
It could crumble under the slightest pressure. How could such a delicate ingredient be cut into strands as thin as hair?
Even with all her imagination, she couldn’t picture it.
Du Weiwei and Zhao Chen on the side showed similar expressions.
They also couldn’t imagine what kind of knifework could cut tofu into hair-thin strands.
“You’ll see it in the future.” Qin Lang smiled mysteriously and didn’t say much, “Alright, let’s start eating!”
With Qin Lang’s prompt, the three switched their focus back to the delicious food in front of them.
Let’s eat!
After a joyful meal, the three said their goodbyes shortly after dinner.
“Next time, 1 definitely won’t lose.”
Standing outside the door, Zhao Chen looked back at Qin Lang and once again declared confidently.
“Alright, alright, let’s go!” Qi Xiaoyu, standing on the side, pulled Zhao Chen away, and after waving at Qin Lang, she followed Du Weiwei.
Watching the three leave, Qin Lang slowly closed the door.
“Gudulu!”
The Wen Si tofu that was cut into hair-thin strands!
The moment the door closed, Dan Bao rushed over, rubbing its face against Qin Lang’s. The curiosity was apparent on its eggy face.
Being familiar with its Spirit Chef, Dan Bao knew that Qin Lang probably had plans to cook this dish in the upcoming elimination round!
Recalling the skeptical expressions of the three at dinner, Dan Bao huffed.
You know nothing about my Spirit Chef!
“That’s right, we’ll go with the Wen Si tofu.”
Qin Lang rubbed Dan Bao’s head and smiled.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Wen Si tofu’s main ingredient is tofu, garnished with a bit of vegetable strands.
The garnishing vegetable strands can be carrots and rapeseed from the 97th ingredient warehouse.
As for the soup for the Wen Si tofu, there are poor, regular, and luxury versions.
The poor version directly uses seasonings to make a clear soup for cooking the Wen Si tofu.
The regular version uses a whole chicken to make chicken clear soup, which naturally tastes better.
As for the luxury version, the ingredients added inside are more sophisticated and complex.
The chicken legs in the 97th ingredient warehouse can be used to make soup. The turbidity in the soup can also be removed using pork hind leg meat minced into a paste, resulting in excellent chicken clear soup.
This way, the special ingredient rosemary in the ingredient warehouse would be left out.
But the rules did not stipulate that the special ingredient must be used.
From any perspective, it is appropriate to use Wen Si tofu to compete in the elimination round.
Thinking about their doubtful expressions, Qin Lang couldn’t help but wear a mischievous smile on his face.
He was looking forward to the expressions on their faces when the Wen Si tofu would be presented.
“Let’s start practicing now.”
“Gudulu!”
Dan Bao cheered and followed.
Time flies, and three days have passed in the blink of an eye.
On the fifth day after the first round of the City-level Cooking Competition scoring competition ended, the second round elimination competition unfolded in the Dongxia Arena.
“Ladies and gentlemen!”
The familiar host, holding a microphone in hand, echoed his voice over the arena.
“Welcome to the Dongxia Arena!”
“Today, the second round of the Dongxia City Cooking Competition will take place here!”
“Four one-on-one Food Fights will determine the top four of this competition!”
“The winner advances, the loser is eliminated.”
“The brutal elimination competition is about to begin!”
“First, let us welcome the eleven judges of this round of the elimination competition, the eleven First-Level Food Recommenders of Dongxia City, with the warmest applause!”
In the deafening cheers and applause within the venue, the eleven Food Recommenders stood up and waved to the audience.
“Next, let’s welcome today’s eight contestants with the same warm applause!” Qin Lang reverted his gaze from the three familiar figures among the Food Recommenders and waved towards the audience amidst the applause and cheers.
He could hear his name being chanted from the audience, significantly louder than during the first scoring competition.
The eight contestants had been busily preparing over the past few days, and with the increasing views of the replay of the first scoring competition, this round of competition also gained more attention.
Qin Lang had wowed the judges with his Vegetarian Braised Pork in the scoring competition, finishing second in the scoring, and inevitably gained a lot of attention.
However, the attention he received was not the most.
The spotlight on Qin Lang was overshadowed by the storm that Lei Ke caused.
As Lei Ke surprisingly clinched the first place in the scoring competition, his championship record in the Danju City Cooking Competition was eventually dug up by people with intentions.
Lei Ke thus transformed from an overlooked outsider to the most hopeful contestant for the championship.
It is quite common for Spirit Chefs to participate in competitions in different cities to gain more Food Recommender Badges, so people didn’t hold any prejudice against Lei Ke just because he wasn’t a local.
However, Lei Ke’s record had brought significant pressure to the other seven contestants, including Qin Lang.
After the host had warmed up the crowd, the first elimination competition started quickly.
Fourth-ranked Zhu Ming vs Sixth-ranked Qiang Xiaofeng.
Their contest was to limit the ingredients’ value to under two thousand yuan.
Today’s pre-show performance was not a Spirit Battle, but a famous singing and dancing troupe from Tianhua State was invited to deliver a spectacular performance for the audience.
After the performance ended, Zhu Ming was the first to leave the kitchen, followed closely by Qiang Xiaofeng, presenting their meticulously prepared dishes to the eleven Food Recommenders.
At the end of the judging, Zhu Ming won with eight votes, leaving Qiang Xiaofeng despondently exiting the field.
As the first elimination competition came to an end, the atmosphere in the contestant’s viewing area, which had achieved slight relief due to the singing and dancing performance, tightened once again.
Lei Ke walked out calmly, stepping onto the stage step by step.
Xiao He, ranked eighth in the scoring, had a bitter expression on his face.
Their contest was a restricted food theme, fish.
However, cooking fish dishes was not Xiao He’s forte.
Facing Lei Ke who had scored first in the scoring competition and was the champion of the Danju City Cooking Competition, he had no chance of winning.
But after all, the competition had to proceed.
Xiao He rubbed his face fiercely, trying to relax his facial expression as much as he could before quickly walking down the contestant’s entrance pathway. The results of the second round of judging were predictable.
Lei Ke cooked three different types of fish using different methods as sky, mountains, and rivers, creating a creative dish called “Mountains, Rivers, and Sky”, earning eleven votes.
After Xiao He left the competition venue without getting a single vote, Lei Ke once again left an impression of his chef skills, comparable to a formidable adversary, in everyone’s hearts in the field.
Following closely behind was the third round of elimination competition.
Qin Lang vs Zhang Chen.
The Warehouse Number 97, self-selected ingredients from the warehouse..
