After looking at the ingredients used in the soup for a while, they finally couldn't help but prepare to taste it.

I have eaten a total of 17 chefs before. Some of the dishes are more heavy and some are lighter. Although they will drink a sip of water and rinse their mouths after each dish, they will inevitably feel thirsty in their mouths.

And although I ate a lot in front, the portions were very small, and each one was basically a bite of it, so I just started to have a stomachache and was in a state of excitement.

At this time, the time for Chen Nian to bring a cup of soup was perfect.

There are mutton and fish, some food, and a lot of soup that will allow them to last the stomach.

The fish soup made by Chen Nian this time was as white as milk, with a layer of thin oil beads floating on it. It gently blew it with her mouth and rolled aside mischievously.

"If you don't follow the dragon, you will be with the fish when you return."

This poem from the Tang Dynasty shows to a great extent the taste of fish.

"Then please, teachers." One of the judges finally couldn't help it. After saying a word, he scooped a spoonful of soup and put it into his mouth.

Fresh and lively!

Tasty!

Bright!

The soup is rich. Although not too many seasonings are added, this will not make this bowl of soup lose its color, but will greatly highlight the original taste of the ingredients.

Pucai is also a seasonal dish in the Jianghuai region. It is known as tender bamboo shoots in water. It tastes sweet and crispy when you are in the mouth. Even when used for soup, there is no special and unnecessary flavor to cover up the main course.

Once cooked, the crispy and tender pudding is tender, and the plate is fresh and the carp is fresh. Moreover, the pudding pudding also has certain medicinal value, which is beneficial to both children, pregnant women, or the elderly.

With a small amount of water chestnuts cooked together, this soup is not only delicious, but also has extremely high nutritional value. This is no longer just an ordinary dish, and it is no exaggeration to call it medicinal food. Whether it is Huaibaiyu, lamb, or the water chestnuts and kale vegetables added later, or even the seasoning and pepper powder added in the middle, these have certain medicinal value.

The lightness was light and sweet, so they couldn't help but get a spoonful of plums after taking a sip. After drinking, they even felt comfortable all over, and even their fatigue decreased a lot.

Of course this is just their psychological effect.

It belongs to the same principle as looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst.

Most of the mutton eating in the south are kept with the mutton skin, which means that when making it, the mutton skin is made together.

Of course, this is also because the weather in the north is cold and sheepskin is usually left to make a jacket.

The thick-cut mutton will not look fat in the mouth, and there is no need to use too much energy to solve it. The soft mutton is full of juice, not fishy or sexy, and only retains the purest mutton flavor.

Although there are a lot of thorns in Huaibai Fish, which one of them is not a master of tongue-in-law who has experienced many battles? What kind of ingredients have you never eaten?

So put a piece of fish into your mouth and just moved your tongue, the fish bones spit out one by one from the corner of your mouth.

After eating, their faces also showed a very satisfied look.

When Chen Nian saw their expressions, he felt stable. Now the biggest competition for him is the dish made by the tall and thin young man, and the dish made by another man, where crabs and fish exchange souls.

But the specific criteria for the judges to select.

When Aged was dividing the dishes, he also gave each of the two people a portion.

After the judges here had eaten, he looked at the other end.

And the two people's eyes also came to their attention.

There was nothing wrong with Chen Nian here, so Chen Nian raised her legs and walked towards the two of them.

"Brother, the crab and fish you just now really amazed me!" Chen Nian said with admiration from the bottom of his heart.

"No, I actually made some mistakes this time. It could have been better. I have tried both of you, and the taste is better than mine. At most, I am a little creative and will be behind you at that time."

Listening to the other party's humble words, Chen Nian also saw clearly the name written on the sign on the other party's chest: "Huang Yi."

The tall and thin man next to him was named Fang Han.

I didn’t know their identities when I looked at my face before. Now, when I saw the name Chen Nian, I remembered that one of them came from a private kitchen restaurant, and the other from a Lihua Hotel.

"Nothing is there, I think you two are better than me." Chen Nian said quickly, and he asked himself that he would not lose to anyone in this regard!

After Huang Yi's voice fell, Fang Han sighed: "I don't know what you are modest. You are invincible in creativity and the ingredients are invincible in taste. My dish is not as creative as Brother Huang, and not as delicious as Brother Chen. I guess it's going to lose."

As the three of them were humble to each other, the judges were also discussing.

The other dishes have been sorted according to the score, but it was the top three that made them a little controversial.

Because Huang Yi's fish and crab's creativity is really amazing, and the production difficulty is quite high. Although it is a little unsatisfactory in terms of taste, it is not that kind of undesirable.

To be precise, it should be in a very delicious state, but it is a little bit different from the super delicious one.

Moreover, Fang Han's fried white fish is not as good as the other one in terms of taste and creativity, but he is very particular about the usage of rice wine and fragrant gravy.

Therefore, the final score is even a little lower than that crab.

The fish and sheep fresh made in the end are impeccable in terms of creativity and taste, and their medicinal value and the significance of using seasonal ingredients are also very exciting.

"But this old age came from another place after all, and he was not a chef from Huaiyang cuisine..." Suddenly, a judge said.

If the championship is taken away by a chef from another place in their territory, wouldn’t it mean that their level is not good?

Not to mention that there are two excellent contestants Fang Han and Huang Yi, and they also know the chef of Lihua Hotel and Fang Han’s father.

But at this moment, a voice suddenly came: "So what? We are a dignified public competition, and the taste and creativity are only visible after watching and eating them. If you have to make a shady scene on this, how can those young chefs make progress in the future? We might as well not invite chefs from other places to come! We just need to see who is the strong backstage and who is the local chef and then give the award directly."

"I agree!" Suddenly another judge nodded and expressed his agreement with this view.

"Precisely because the other party came from another place, we had to award the championship to him, otherwise our colleagues in Sichuan would think we couldn't afford it."

"Indeed... I agree!"

Soon several judges expressed their agreement with this view. Finally, they looked at the judge who was talking at the beginning, and saw the other party's face full of helplessness: "I just said that, you make me like to make some shady scenes like this. Are you afraid that someone above will not want to?"

"What do they want to do? Anyway, they are cooking Huaiyang cuisine now. No matter who wins the championship, it has already served the purpose of promoting Huaiyang cuisine. People who want to eat Huaiyang cuisine will not come to Jiangsu because there is a chef in Sichuan who makes it well and go to Sichuan to eat Huaiyang cuisine. Isn't that going in the opposite direction?"

Finally, after unanimous decisions, they determined the rankings of the competition.

Chen Nian won the first place platinum award and a cash award of 100,000 yuan.

Huang Yi and Fang Han won two or three special gold medals respectively, and received a cash prize of 50,000 yuan respectively.

Later, five people won the gold medal, each of whom was able to get a cash prize of 30,000 yuan.

The last ten people left are silver awards, each with 10,000 yuan.

Huang Yi also won the first place in popularity with the crabs and fish he made. Nothing else, it was because the dish was so creative.

Chen Nian won the second place in this popularity rating and was more than twenty votes behind Huang Yi.

Afterwards, the organizing committee invited them to have a dinner together. The top eight people had dinner with the judges, and the contestants behind sat alone.

The guests divided the tables themselves and sat in a total of five tables.

Chen Nian, Huang Yi and Fang Han sat together. After their previous exchanges, they are now very familiar with each other. In the later conversation, the other two learned that Chen Nian had only been studying for cooking for less than a year, and they had been in school before, and they were one of the best food majors in China.

"I'm so awesome. I actually want to go to school, but because I'm not very good at studying, I can only go to college entrance examination scores, but I don't want to take a tutoring for more than one year, so I thought that I'm looking for a job after going to college, so I simply can't go to school and learn cooking with my dad." Fang Han said.

"I started learning these things since I was a child. Anyway, I like cooking, and I have been learning them for almost ten years now." Huang Yi also said.

Chen Nian looked at Huang Yi's arm and nodded, thinking that if he had only been studying for a few months like himself, he would definitely not be able to develop such a Kirin arm, and his arms were obviously stronger than Fang Han's.

The more the three of them talk, the more they become more and more speculative, and even the ranking of the competition today is no longer important. The prize money for the first and second and third places is only 50,000 yuan apart. Although it is quite a lot, compared to being able to meet two like-minded friends of the same level, this kind of connection is the greatest wealth.

"When you have time to come to Sichuan to have fun in the future, I will come to my place to sit. I will invite you to dinner and you will try authentic Sichuan cuisine." After the banquet, Chen Nian and the two of them added to each other on WeChat and said goodbye.

"No problem, then when you come to Yangzhou again, you can call me and go directly to my restaurant for dinner. I'll ask my dad to make some of his best dishes for you." Fang Han also said with a smile.

"What do you mean? You must go to our place when you come to Yangzhou. I still have some face in Lihua. I will make arrangements for you at that time, and I don't have to worry about food and accommodation." Huang Yi said unwillingly.

He doesn't care about money. He values ​​Chen Nian's potential. After getting along today, he really wants to make friends with Chen Nian.

"No, right? The executive chef's apprentice is so good at face?" Chen Nian was a little unbelievable. Although he had never contacted the staff of these high-end restaurants and would not go to such star-rated hotels even if he had eaten, he always felt that a chef's apprentice was just an executive chef. If he was an executive chef, it might be the same.

"It's not because of my master, but mainly because of the Lihua Hotel, my dad."

"Good guy, I'm starting to hate the rich now." Fang Han said, "This is a rich second generation. Compared with you, my family is like a village. Although it is also located in the city center, the area is much worse than yours!"

Chen Nian listened to the two of them Versailles, and his mouth was like a lemon: "Don't say it, if you talk about it, my house will become a pit."

It's so annoying!

But even though they said this, they still recognized Chen Nian's strength quite well, and they were even more envious of Chen Nian's talent in cooking.

When they learned that Chen Nian's plane was around 10 o'clock in the evening, they wanted to have a meal together at night, but Chen Nian refused because he had something to do at night.

"I have to go to an elder's house to sit and have a meal."

When the two heard that they were elders, they stopped talking.

The elder Chen Nian mentioned is naturally Teacher Yu Fuchun and Yu. He had a meal at Teacher Yu's house before, and everyone had a great time talking. This time Chen Nian came, he naturally had to visit him again.

I called in advance and said that it was about to go in the afternoon. Finally, Chen Nian bought some fruits and milk. At around five o'clock, I took a taxi directly to the entrance of the other community, and then found the unit and floor where Teacher Yu's house was familiar.

"Dangdangdang."

"Here's here." A kind voice came from inside. Chen Nian heard that it was Teacher Yu's wife, He Hui and He.

After opening the door, He Hui sighed when she saw the thing in Chen Nian's hand, and said with a slight complaint: "You see, you'll come, what else can you bring?"

Chen Nian smiled knowingly when he heard this: "It's okay, it's more than a heart." As he said, he took off his shoes and entered the door.

"No need to change your shoes, just come in."

He Hui led Chen Nian to sit on the sofa, and then greeted Mr. Yu who was reading a book in the study to greet the guests.

"Xiao Chen is here!" Yu Fuchun was still wearing reading glasses. When he came out, he was smiling when he saw Chen Nian. "But I didn't expect that Xiao Chen, you actually know Mr. Bai. He called me some time ago to ask you that person is here."

"Mr. Bai?"

Chen Nian soon thought that the one he knew, the one named Bai, seemed to be Bai Jingsheng and his family, and the one who could be called Mr. Yu, must be Bai Jingsheng and Mr. Bai.

"Ah, that's right. Mr. Bai went to me for a meal when he was having a birthday party. Later, I sang a paragraph for him to celebrate the birthday party, and it happened to be about this. This is also fate."
Chapter completed!