Dare to cook

Chapter 187 Serial Showdown - Duke Jin Xiang also eats chicken
Qindao - Tangdao Bay - inside the main venue.

Yao Yu couldn't help but smile wryly when he saw this competition question.

Five Yuan Immortal Chicken...

Why did you choose Liu Xuanming’s specialty dish?
"It seems that this time there will be a tough battle. But if you are careful and cooperate with [Dongruo Candlelight] to steal the teacher, you should still be able to win."

Yao Yu thought to himself, and threw a [cooking scout] at Liu Xuanming.

According to feedback from [cooking scouting], Liu Xuanming's culinary skill level is lv7 (34312).

It's only a few hundred points away from cooking to break through lv8.

It is indeed the existence of the top ten in the Jade Food List.

If Yao Yu had just activated the system, he really couldn't handle the current Liu Xuanming.

After all, in the three years since he lost his sense of taste, everyone else had been improving.

But now, Yao Yu is worthy of him.

Thanks to the Sand Sculpture System, Yao Yu's culinary skills reached lv8 (39816) when he confronted Chen Duanrui.

After so many days, after Yao Yu learned eight or nine foreign dishes one after another, Yao Yu's current cooking value has officially broken through the 8 mark and has become lv40002.2 ([-]).

As long as he works hard to accumulate 9 cooking points, he can be promoted to LV[-].

With lv8 (40002.2) points of cooking skills VS lv7 (34312) points of cooking skills.

Even if the dishes to be compared are the best dishes of the opponent, Yao Yu is not afraid.It's just...you have to be a little more careful.

The practice of Wuyuan Immortal Chicken has a long history, and it can be traced back to the period of Duke Xiang of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period.

According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period of that year, Duke Xiang of Jin went out hunting with his entourage, but forgot to bring dry food.

As a result, I was hungry on the return trip, so I had to find a small country shop that was not up to the standard.

But there were no good ingredients in the country shop, so Duke Jin Xiang selected three pheasants from the prey he had caught and gave them to the shop.

The shopkeeper saw that Jin Xianggong and his party were dressed luxuriously, and they looked like big shots that they couldn't afford to offend, so they hurriedly prepared meals.

After they got the pheasant, they immediately went into the kitchen to slaughter and process it. After less than an hour, the shopkeeper came out with a large earthenware basin.

The top of the pot is also covered with a tight burlap.

The pheasants inside were terribly stewed because the burlap locked in the heat.

I don't know if the shop's craftsmanship is really good, or because Jin Xianggong is really hungry.

In short, Jin Xianggong was full of praise after eating those pheasants, and even said with emotion: "What I eat today is the fairy chicken cooked by Grandpa Peng back then."

Everyone is familiar with Peng Zu.

He is a Taoist figure in the pre-Qin period. It is said that he has lived for more than 800 years. He is an old fairy with a very mythical color.

It is also a very famous foodie in ancient times.

Jin Xianggong actually said that the stewed chicken in the country shop can be compared with the chicken made by Peng Zu. This shows how satisfied Jin Xianggong Ji Huan was with the meal.

Later, when he returned to the palace, Duke Jin Xiang could never forget the chicken he ate in that small shop that day.

So he sent someone to look for it.

But when I got to that place, not only did I not find the shop that had stewed chicken that day, even the small shop disappeared out of thin air.

After Jin Xianggong got the report, he couldn't help muttering: "Could it be that I really met a fairy that day?"

Unable to find the store, Duke Xiang of Jin, who wanted to eat chicken more and more, had no choice but to summon the palace cooks (probably called cooks or cooks in the Spring and Autumn Period) and gave them a fatal order to make fairy chicken.

The later idiom "Paoding Jieniu" was derived from an ancient Pao man with the surname Ding.

Those cooks have never eaten fairy chicken, so they have to keep trying according to Jin Xianggong's description.

In the end, the Pao people replaced the pheasant with the white chicken of the Spring and Autumn Period, and then added some Chinese medicinal materials that nourish blood and nourish Qi, and finally made the fairy chicken that satisfied Jin Xianggong.

After the imperial version of the Immortal Chicken was developed, Duke Jin Xiang had to feast on the guests.

No matter who comes, invite him to eat chicken.

So the recipe of fairy chicken spread, and over time, it slowly became the famous Hunan dish now-Five Yuan Fairy Chicken.

Of course, these are just legends.

Whether Duke Xiang of Jin liked to eat chicken or not, there is no definite historical evidence.

Moreover, some chefs like to make up a high-level background for their own dishes. It seems that in this way, their own dishes will have more cultural heritage.

Yao Yu himself is a famous chef, so he is naturally familiar with the tone of the Culinary Association's people who like to make up stories.

For food stories, it’s fine to listen to them, don’t take them seriously.

Compared with food stories, Yao Yu is more concerned about the recipe of this dish.

He has also done the Five Yuan Immortal Chicken, but not many times, and the research is not as thorough as Liu Xuanming.

Therefore, Yao Yu decided that when choosing ingredients and cooking, he should first watch how Liu Xuanming cooks, and then imitate the cat and draw a tiger, and steal the teacher on the spot, trying to make the taste of this dish as good as possible.

Five Yuan Immortal Chicken is certainly not a chicken that only sells for five yuan.

The five yuan mentioned here are five kinds of food that can nourish vitality.They are: red dates (black dates), longan, lotus seeds, litchi, wolfberry.

The chicken used to make this dish generally must use the tender hen among the three yellow chickens.

The so-called tender hens are chickens that have never laid eggs.

The size of this kind of chicken is small, and the meat is tender. After being slaughtered and cleaned, the internal organs are removed, the head and feet of the chicken are chopped off, and it can just fill a medium-sized casserole.

The five-yuan fairy chicken made with this kind of chicken is the most tender, delicious, smooth and delicious.

After the competition questions were announced, Liu Xuanming began to choose ingredients.

Yao Yu also came to the food cart, turned on [Dongruo Candlelight], and watched Liu Xuanming choose.

Seeing that Yao Yu was not in a hurry to choose vegetables, Liu Xuanming looked at himself instead, and couldn't help laughing, "What? Are you guilty?"

"What am I lying about. Although you have made fairy chickens more times than me, it doesn't mean that you will definitely beat me."

"Then why don't you choose the ingredients?"

"Don't worry, just pick your own." Yao Yu said with a smile.

As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows and made a "Fan Xian" gesture of invitation to Liu Xuanming.

When Liu Xuanming saw this, he stopped talking to him and quickly picked out the ingredients he wanted.

After Yao Yu and Liu Xuanming selected the ingredients, they also hurriedly selected them, and the ingredients they selected were exactly the same as Liu Xuanming's.

In the waiting area, the other chefs on the Jade Food List were all happy when they saw this scene:

"What is he doing? Want to steal his master temporarily? Yao Manzi will definitely not be able to do it this time."

Shen Linxuan also sneered:
"This is the end of conceit. He didn't lose before but he was lucky. Do you really think he is invincible?"

Shen Linxuan ranks fourth on the Jade Food List, and has a vengeful Qilin List father.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, even if other Yushibang chefs don't like to associate with him, they won't offend him.

But Shen Qiuming and Zhu Xingchen didn't care about these things.

Hearing Shen Linxuan's words, Shen Qiuming also sneered and said: "No matter how conceited Yao Yu is, he is not comparable to some villainous villains."

"Shen Qiuming, what do you mean?! Who are you calling a yin and yang villain?"

"Whoever turns pale in a hurry is the one to blame." Shen Qiuming glanced sideways at Shen Linxuan, "If you are not convinced, you can compete with me. Just in time, I also plan to improve the ranking!"

(End of this chapter)