Shokugeki: Start with an izakaya, making everyone cry

Finally, after the collective deliberation of the top ten.

The list of 60 contestants was officially determined.

Among them, like some familiar names, Nakiri Alice, Yukihira Soma, Hayama Ryo, Kurokiba Ryo, Nito Hisako, Mito Yumei, etc. are all on the list.

Of course, it also includes the less famous crane tail like Tadokoro Megumi.

As Yisekhui said, the contestants who can survive through the layers of fighting are the ones who have the most advantage.

So what if I'm the last person on the list? If I'm not good at cooking, I'm destined to be cannon fodder!

……

Essentially.

The autumn selection is not a competition, but an exam.

Totsuki, after all, is a teahouse cooking school, not FIFA or NBA, so it doesn't have to be ranked.

For example:

The first and second seats of the top ten.

Is the difference in seats between the two really that important?

Those who can become the first seat may not necessarily represent the strongest person in Yuanyue, and those who can become the second seat may not lose to the first seat in terms of personality charm!

Also like the last time during the residential training event, Tadokoro Megumi privately changed Shinomiya's recipes, which was not in compliance with the assessment rules.

In other words, Shinomiya Kojiro can use his own set of rhetoric and rules to judge her as unqualified.

But in the end, he didn't do that. The reason was of course that Tazoe's cooking reminded him of his childhood memories and aroused his longing for the cuisine of his hometown.

However, he also truly knows what he wants to see most at Totsuki Academy:

students’ true strength.

Instead, we have to tell the difference between winning and losing!

This autumn selection is the same.

In addition to increasing competition and interest, the audience can witness the exciting showdown between cooks and cooks.

It can also give these freshmen a stage to more fully demonstrate their talents.

……

At seven o'clock in the evening, here at the izakaya.

Taki Kadozaki stood in front of a neat and clean operating table with a serious and focused expression.

At this time, she was actually wearing a white chef's uniform, with a clean collar and cuffs without any stains.

She held a heavy, half-moon-shaped kitchen knife tightly in her hand, and the blade shone with a cold light. Then her eyes flashed, and she swung it directly to chop the parsley on the chopping board!

Tuk-tuk-tuk!

Tuk-tuk-tuk!

Her movements were light and skillful.

As if performing a silent dance, the entire half-moon knife was flying and jumping in her hand.

Finally, with the ups and downs of the knife blade, the parsley was finally chopped quickly, exuding a unique fragrance.

At the end, Kadozaki Taki quickly put down the half-moon knife, and then wiped the sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand, with a satisfied smile on his face.

"To be able to practice the Half-Moon Sword to this extent is worthy of being the second among the top ten!"

Next to him, Zhang Fan had a panoramic view of the entire process and couldn't help but praise it.

"Okay?"

"I haven't practiced for a while, so I'm a little rusty."

Kadozaki Taki crossed his arms on his chest, which was as flat as an airport, feeling a little complacent.

"Ok!"

"Then it's my turn."

Zhang Fan nodded, then picked up the Half-Moon Knife again, his aura suddenly surged.

Then, he was seen swiping the kitchen knife without hesitation and slashing at the beef on the other chopping board with lightning speed.

boom!

There was a muffled sound.

The half-moon knife struck the piece of meat accurately.

Then, the sound of chopping meat echoed in the kitchen, clear and sweet.

The kitchen knife and the chopping board are constantly colliding, and the sound they make is like the accompaniment of a performer playing the violin, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, like a moving piece of music!

"This...is actually faster than me?"

This kind of domineering and ruthless swordsmanship shocked Kadozaki Taki on the spot.

Although I have known for a long time that Zhang Fan is not only highly accomplished in Chinese cuisine, but also has extremely high attainments in some less popular culinary fields, such as Nordic cuisine, Spanish cuisine, etc.

However, whenever I witness it in person, my understanding will be completely overturned because of his various bizarre techniques!

……

Nowadays, izakayas have changed a lot.

First, there was a second renovation and upgrade, adding a cafe, then extending the business hours to 2 a.m., and...

The second regular employee, Taki Kadozaki.

Her appearance is definitely not cute enough compared to Kukuchiengo.

Sometimes, her eyes are fierce and her personality is rather impatient, so Zhang Fan asked her to be responsible for handling some Western snacks, Western food and various ingredients.

As for Kukuchiengo, he is responsible for entertaining diners and handling billing at the cashier.

In short, everything is going on in an orderly manner. The only shortcoming may be the absence of temporary worker Erina Nakiri.

After all, in the past few days since she came to the izakaya, Zhang Fan's life has obviously become more interesting and less boring.

“Shopkeeper Zhang, I really didn’t expect that!”

"I just went back to my hometown, and your izakaya has changed again."

Just when Zhang Fan had just finished processing the beef, the glass door with automatic sensing function sensed Tian Suohui's appearance and opened automatically, allowing her to walk in.

As usual, Tasoko is still very cute, her eyes are watery, and she looks charming.

However, today, she did not wear the blue and white Totsuki school uniform.

Instead, she is wearing a pure white dress. Its design is simple yet elegant, perfectly showing the freshness and innocence that a girl should have.

……

"Tasokoe, did you just come back from your hometown?"

Seeing this cute and adorable girl, Zhang Fan greeted her warmly.

"Yes, I just arrived in Tokyo tonight."

"Here, here are some souvenirs I just brought over from my hometown. There are Kikufu snacks, Sayama tea... and bean paste!"

After speaking, she took out a little bit of each local product and gave it to Zhang Fan.

Faced with Tian Suohui's "intention", Zhang Fan did not refuse.

Because he knew that every time he came to the izakaya, she would give him something, and if he refused, he would be letting her down.

What's more, the relationship between the two is no longer like that of strangers who just met.

……

Take a closer look.

The so-called Kikufu snacks are originally made of cream and fillings wrapped in a thin crust. The fillings have flavors such as matcha, edamame, and cream.

As for Sayama tea, it is only picked in spring and summer and is a specialty tea of ​​Saitama and Ibaraki prefectures.

Finally, there is this bean paste, which is made of four kinds of sauces, using red beans produced in Tokachi, Hokkaido, mixed with black sesame seeds, Murakami tea from Niigata and other ingredients.

Well, to a certain extent, these local products are quite rare and precious.

Therefore, after collecting her things, Zhang Fan asked with a faint smile on his face: "You have come back from your hometown all the way, so you must be hungry, right?"

"I just happened to have developed a new dish, do you want to try it?"

"I...of course I want it."

Tadokoro Hui, with a voice as soft as a mosquito, replied.

"OK"

<divclass="contentadv">"Then please wait a moment."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Fan put away these local products and turned back to the cooking table.

……

There are thousands of kinds of ramen in Neon Country, and the classification methods are naturally different. In addition to classifying according to taste, for example:

Soy sauce, salt, miso, chicken soup, fish paste.

Recently, there are also categories based on store characteristics, such as:

Yokohama family ramen.

Jiro Ramen.

Sometimes, when chatting, Neon people will ask: What is the relationship?

Actually, I was asking what type of ramen you like.

There is another common classification, which is based on regional characteristics. Neon Country is long and narrow from north to south, with different climates and food cultures. The more representative ones are:

Sapporo ramen.

This kind of ramen is said to be adapted to the cold climate of Hokkaido.

A special selection of rich tonkotsu soup is used, and the upper layer of fat is used to keep the noodles from getting cold. The rolled noodles are topped with vegetables and meat that have been stir-fried over high heat, and topped with stock and garlic oil. This is one of the specialties.

And in terms of flavors, there are three flavors: miso, soy sauce, and salt.

At this time, Zhang Fan wanted to cook Sapporo miso ramen for Tadokoro.

……

usually.

Miso soup usually takes about 10 hours to cook.

Because time determines the concentration of the soup, the concentration of miso soup is usually very high.

On the one hand, it was necessary to consider shortening the cooking time, and on the other hand, it was also necessary to consider that the concentration of the soup base could not be reduced, so Zhang Fan could only use one magic weapon:

Pressure cooker!

In this way, the 8 hours of cooking time can be shortened to 40 minutes.

First, prepare the ingredients, such as shiitake mushrooms, wakame, ginger, dried shiitake mushrooms, and matsutake mushrooms.

Then make the soup base, put 500 ml of water into the pot, add shiitake mushrooms, wakame, ginger slices and high sugar.

After boiling over high heat, add the special miso paste and stir evenly until the miso paste is completely melted, resulting in a delicious and rich soup base.

Next, cook the noodles.

Normally, it only takes 2 minutes to cook.

Put an appropriate amount of special miso paste into a noodle bowl, add dashi, and put the cooked noodles into the bowl.

Add green vegetables, bean sprouts, bell rolls, seaweed, etc. to the noodles.

Pour the remaining soup base into a bowl.

Finally, a steaming bowl of Sapporo miso ramen was placed in front of Tadokoro.

After looking at it with your eyes for a few times, you can find that the soup base of this bowl of miso ramen is carefully stewed with sweet shrimp heads, retaining the sweet flavor of the sweet shrimp to the greatest extent, and then blended into the pork bone broth.

Then, there are the side dishes.

There are a lot of barbecued pork, dried bamboo shoots, green onions, seaweed, soft-boiled eggs, etc.

Among them, what surprised Tadokoro even more was the soft-boiled egg, which goes perfectly with ramen.

This perfect soft-boiled egg has a tender egg white, while the yolk is in the shape of amber beeswax, thick, non-solid, and crystal clear, making it very appetizing to look at.

……

So, I moved the tip of my nose slightly and smelled it.

Tasoko couldn't help but her eyes brightened, she couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks, picked up the soft-boiled egg, put it into her mouth, and started eating.

When I first took a bite, the whole soft-boiled egg had a creamy texture and a slight salty taste.

"Well!"

“It’s really the closest taste to home.”

Involuntarily, Tian Suohui looked excited, as if he was about to jump up like a cheerful bird.

Then she took a sip of soup.

The soup base of this bowl of Sapporo miso ramen is made from dozens of ingredients such as dried saury, rasu, and kelp, as well as a rich tonkotsu soup, and a double soup method.

Therefore, even if you only drink a little bit, it feels like the essence of all the ingredients in the world has been blended, making you completely addicted!

"sharp."

“The springy noodles are served with thick boiled pork belly, barbecued pork and soft-boiled eggs.”

"There are also seaweed, chopped green onions and dried bamboo shoots..."

“The materials used are so generous!”

Tadokoro returned to her senses for a moment, and now she no longer maintained her elegant eating posture. Instead, she slurped down the ramen noodles under Zhang Fan's gaze.

Looking at her devouring food like this, Zhang Fan just showed a happy smile.

From beginning to end, he didn't say a word.

……

Logically speaking.

Having just returned from her hometown, Tadokoro should go to Totsuki Academy first.

But she didn't, but showed up directly at the izakaya first, and specially gave Zhang Fan some local specialties from her hometown.

These behaviors showed that in her heart, this izakaya was more important than Totsuki.

Of course, she came here simply because she wanted to meet Zhang Fan. It would be even better if she could taste his cooking.

In Zhang Fan's heart, although this little girl came back from the countryside and was not as noble as Erina, it was the purity and innocence in her that endeared him to her.

"That's right!"

"Shopkeeper, I have something to show you."

Suddenly, Tadokoro, who was eating hard, suddenly remembered something and quickly took out a photo from his pocket.

There are two people in this photo, one of whom is Tanokoroe wearing a light blue kimono, and the other looks very similar to her, but looks like a mature woman in her thirties.

If you look closely, you will see that the mature woman's eyes are crystal clear and her eyebrows are long and graceful.

Her skin is extremely fair, as pure as a baby's.

Ah!

Not rolling is a matter of temperament or dress.

It’s really not inferior to Nakiri Managi and Nakiri Leonora at all.

……

"Oh, the person standing next to you should be your mother, right?"

After briefly glancing at the handed photo, Zhang Fan quickly raised his head and asked Tian Suohui with a smile.

"Yes, my mother."

"But she is a very gentle person, she...she loves me the most!"

As she talked, Tadokoro couldn't help but recall every bit of her life in her hometown, with a vaguely affectionate look in her eyes.

Then, she started talking nonstop, telling Zhang Fan everything she saw and heard in her hometown.

During this period, he also talked about his mother many times.

When she was in Totsuki Academy, Tadokoro was actually not happy at all. After all, the high-intensity pressure often made her almost breathless.

That's why she missed her hometown very much, and she wanted to put all her grievances and hopes in the past few years on her mother.

And she is very lucky, she does have a good mother who is good at understanding and accepting her!