Food: I Am A Cartoonist In Totsuki

Chapter 90: The preliminaries begin

The time for the official start of the preliminaries is five days later. Using this time, the players can prepare the corresponding ingredients according to their own arrangements.

There are no hard and fast rules for the prepared ingredients, and non-finished products are allowed. For example, the ingredients that need to be fermented and smoked in advance can be prepared in advance. If it is only produced on-site for three hours, it is impossible.

Just like the fermented soybeans prepared by Shen Ryoko, the fermentation time alone takes more than 48 hours, not counting other processes.

Tong Yu has already thought about the dishes to be made this time in the comic world, but he still needs to prepare some ingredients in advance to think about the recipes. Although there are prepared ingredients at the conference venue, it is more secure to use the ones prepared by yourself.

However, the ingredients Tong Yu needs are not like Ryoko and Ibuzaki. They need to be prepared several days in advance. The ingredients he needs in his cooking are very common and can be easily purchased.

As for the props he needs, he has also asked someone to help build them, so it is no problem to get them before the preliminaries start.

Kan Ryoko needed to prepare some fermented ingredients and went to the off-campus ingredients market with Hayao Ibuzaki, Tadokoro Megumi, and Yoshino Yuuki.

Tong Yu also had a good time and was about to return to Polar Star Dorm when he saw Mimasaka Subaru not far away.

“Beautiful work!

Tong Yu stopped Mimasaka Subaru from a distance.

“Tong Yu.

Mimasaka Subaru, who came to him in confusion, asked Tong Yu, “Is something wrong?”

“Cough, what are you talking about, I can’t come to you if I have nothing to do? You are my little brother, shouldn’t you forget about this?” Tong Yu said deliberately.

When Mimasaka Subaru heard Tong Yu’s words, he immediately changed his tone and lowered his head: “You, what are your orders?”

Tong Yu was quite satisfied with Mei Zuo’ang’s attitude, nodded and said, “I won’t let you do something, but give you something.”

Tong Yu said and took out the [063 Falling Star Steel Bar] from the system backpack space.

This steel stick was originally the kitchen utensils of Steel Stick Jie, the first baker in mainland China in “China One”, and this was the one that bound the Mei Zuo Ang reward last time.

Last time, because of other things, I couldn’t give him anything, and then the school was on vacation and it has been delayed until now.

The whole steel rod is black, with a length of about two meters and a weight of 25KG.

With such a length and weight, it is very difficult for ordinary people to use it even if it is used.

However, the steel rod of this falling star is like a toy in Tong Yu’s hands, and can be picked up with one hand.

“This, this is?” Mei Zuo Ang only felt that the steel rod in front of him looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

“Haha, do you have an impression that you have seen it somewhere? Yes, this is one of the kitchen utensils that appeared in “Zhonghua Ian”, the steel rod called “Falling Star”. “Dong Yu said.

Mimasaka Subaru stared at the steel rod with falling stars in front of her eyes, “You want to give this to me?”

“Yes, although it is not as good as the legendary kitchen utensil, it is also a rare and precious kitchen utensil. Now I will give it to you, and you will no longer have to think about other people’s kitchen utensils.”

As Jing Yu said that, he threw the steel rod in his right hand towards Mizuo Ang.

Mimasaka Subaru didn’t know the weight of the steel rod, so he wanted to pick it up with one hand, but the moment he touched the steel rod, he hurriedly switched to holding it with both hands, and then he caught it reluctantly.

Despite Mimasaka Subaru’s stature and strength, he struggled to hold a steel rod in both hands.

“How about it, you still like this thing. However, your current physical fitness is a bit difficult to use.” Dong Yuyu said with a smile.

“Indeed, but it’s more challenging this way.” Mizuo Ang looked at the steel stick in his hand with excitement in his eyes.

“This steel rod will be your kitchen in the future. I hope you can make good use of it. Also, cheer up during the preliminaries. I don’t want to see my men, and I won’t even be able to enter the finals.” Tong Yu said.

Hearing Tong Yu’s words, Mei Zuo Ang showed his trademark weird smile: “Don’t worry, I’m well prepared this time, and I won’t embarrass you.”

“That’s good.

– Time Divider ……………………

Time soon came to the morning of the start of the qualifiers, and Tong Yu and the others from Polar Star Dorm set off to the designated venue.

Yesterday, every student who wanted to participate in the competition received a notice of grouping.

Tong Yu, Sōma, Kami Ryoko, Ibusaki Shun, and Marui Zenji were assigned to Group A.

Yoshino Yuuki, Tadokoro Megumi, Aoki Daigo, Satō Shōji are in Group B.

After everyone in Polar Star Dorm encouraged each other, they each took their own kitchen utensils, props, ingredients, etc. and started to enter the preliminaries.

The preliminaries officially started at 9:00, and most of the players had already come to the cooking venue around 8:30.

The audience seats in the two qualifiers A and B were also full of spectators. Most of these spectators were Tōtsuki’s current students, and a few were Tōtsuki’s partners, important guests, and Tōtsuki’s lecturers who also sat down and waited for the start of the preliminaries.

Autumn trials are Tōtsuki’s traditional competitions, and the attention is no less than that of some famous food columns. TV reporters can also be seen in the cooking venue. They are making final adjustments to the equipment and waiting for the start of the preliminaries.

In such a large-scale competition, the emcee must be indispensable.

The host in charge of venue B is Rei Kawashima, a famous professional master of ceremonies in the first grade, while the master of ceremonies in venue A is a new face.

Compared with the habitual opening of the “Three Lovers”, Kawashima Rei, who brought the atmosphere of the scene, the emcee named Yuai Sasaki seemed a little stage fright, and his tone of speech was also much weaker.

“Hello, I’m Yuai Sasaki, the emcee in charge of venue A today. Everyone, are you all ready? The preliminaries for the autumn audition are about to begin.

Sasaki Yuai is not strong in speaking, and because of her petite stature, it gives people a feeling of “not good”, but she is Tōtsuki’s designated master of ceremonies, and everyone can’t lose face and listen to her for the next game. ‘s explanation.

The cooking time for this “preliminary competition is 180 minutes, that is, three hours. The deadline for cooking is 12:00 exactly. No, but as long as the person who finished the cooking ahead of time (ccee) can send it to the judging table for five judges Tasting.

Everyone followed the direction of Sasaki Yuai’s finger to look at the judging platform, and saw that there were already five judges sitting on the judging platform at this time.

There are four men and one woman, two of whom look like old men are Tōtsuki’s partners, two middle-aged men, one is a famous gourmet, and the other is the planner of a well-known food show.

As for the remaining young woman, her background is even greater.

“Send, send, no. She, why is she here? Tōtsuki can still invite her to be a judge!”

“Sister is in venue A, so my sister should be in venue B, right?”

“It’s incredible, even the Queen of Curry has been invited.”

That’s right, the person who is sitting on the judge’s seat in the queen’s posture at this time, puts his leg on the other leg and lifts it up, exposing the slender white temporary thigh is Qianbiao Xia Ya.

Qianbiao Bean Sprout, the granddaughter of the founder of the leading curry industry “HUB Food”, is also the current CEO. She is famous for shooting curry advertisements with her sister Qianbiao Xianjian when they were young. It is called the “queen of curry” because it dominates almost the entire curry market in Japan.

Tong Yu also took a few more glances at this very attractive girl, but seeing her disdain for all the students, Tong Yu was looking forward to how she would look when she tasted the dishes.

Obviously, the “queen of curry” did not think that everyone present would bring out dishes that satisfied her, and the theme was still “curry”.

If Qian Biao Xia Ya hadn’t been asked by her sister Qian Biao’e, she would not have come here to serve as a judge at all.

And the person who asked Qian Biao’e to marry is Isshiki Satoshi..

There are five judges in total, and each judge has 20 points in their hands, and the total score for cooking is 100 points. The top four scorers will advance to the finals, and then there are

Sasaki Yuai explained all the rules that need to be paid attention to in the preliminaries in a loud voice, and after the time came to 9 o’clock, he announced loudly again: “The time is up, then. Then I announce that the preliminaries of the autumn trials will be played. Officially begin!

After these words fell, the students in front of the cooking table all took action.

Following the actions of the participating students, the TV reporters in the corner of the cooking venue also began to turn the shooting equipment.

It’s impossible for them to be able to shoot a cooking competition with multiple people at the same time. Generally, they only capture representative shots.

“Hey, what is this student going to do?”

The camera was aimed at Tong Yu’s cooking station, and at this time, the large broadcast screen in front of the audience also showed the situation of Tong Yu’s cooking station.

In the shot, Tong Yu took out a black iron ball from under his feet, which was hollow inside and could be disassembled in half.

“Iron ball? This should be the mold for cooking.”

“Is Tong Yu going to cook something weird again? This time it won’t be the one from the manga “Chungwa Ian” again!”

It’s not the first time for a freshman to see Tong Yu “re-engraving the dishes in the manga “Zhonghua Ian”, so when he saw him take out such a strange prop, it was easy to think of this possibility.

Tong Yu’s cooking station is very close to the judging station, Qianbiao Xia Ya can clearly see his actions without looking at the broadcast screen.

Seeing Tong Yu fiddling with the iron ball, Qianbiao Bean Sprout was also puzzled: “What is he doing?”

“Hehe, Elite Ten’s intentions are elusive, I really look forward to his cooking,” said a mustache judge next to Xia Ya.

The judge of this mustache is called Katian Shigeyuki. He is a very famous gourmet in Tokyo, and he is also a frequent judge of the annual autumn audition.

“Elite Ten?”

Qianbiao Bean Sprouts didn’t know Tong Yu. Hearing Shigeruichi Kada said this, he couldn’t help but ask: “You said he was an Elite Ten? Didn’t you mean that the Elite Ten will not participate in the autumn trials?”

“It turns out that Miss Xia Ya doesn’t know yet. There is a special situation in this year’s autumn audition. There are two Elite Tens in District A and District B. The Elite Ten in District A is called Tong Yu, and he is a Chinese chef.” Shigeruuki Kada touched his moustache and explained it briefly.

When Qianbiao Bean Sprout heard this, a look of anticipation finally appeared on his face: “A first-year Elite Ten? It seems that this preliminaries is not as boring as imagined.

(To be continued..),

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