Star Gourmet King

On the day of the competition, Star City became lively early in the morning.

The servants hurried away, and all the delivered goods and mobile kitchens gathered in the Star City Food Garden.

Star City Food Garden is the largest courtyard garden in Star City, and it is also a garden open to the public.

Darif, the steward of Star City, carefully arranged the venue for the competition. After seeing Yasuo, he still did not forget to salute.

"General, the venue is ready."

Yasuo looked around and asked "How are the ingredients prepared?"

"Don't worry, general, it has been strictly controlled, and there will never be any special ingredients."

Special ingredients are too difficult for Lan Ze, and it is a wise choice to remove special ingredients.

After Yasuo nodded, he turned and left. When he saw Hibiscus coming in from the outside, he took a few steps forward and stopped. When the other party came up, he said, "The venue has been arranged."

Hibiscus nodded, "We need one more taster."

"one more"

"The Xia family should also participate."

It's not unexpected that the Xia family will come to Yasuo, what he cares about is who the Xia family will send.

"Mu Xiao has already said that hunters will not participate, so the Xia family will not send hunters."

If you're not a hunter, you have nothing to worry about.

Yasuo turned on the communicator, glanced at the time, turned off the communicator and said, "There is still half an hour before the game, they should be here."

They refer to today's protagonists, Pasch and Lan Ze.

Pasch didn't pay attention to Lan Ze at all, and went from his residence to the food garden 10 minutes before the start of the game.

And Lan Ze just got up from the bed at this time, after washing in the bathroom, and eating the strawberry fruit that Yan Yi sent, he walked out of the lounge with Yan Yi.

"Don't feel pressured, it doesn't matter if you don't succeed." Yan Yi stared sideways at Lan Ze, and said softly, "Of course, I believe you will win."

Cooking stones in another world are still high-grade food stones. To be honest, he doesn't know if he can make delicious dishes.

Of course, he didn't mean to retreat. Since it was a competition he proposed, he should face up to the difficulties.

"Thank you." Lan Ze thanked Yan Yi with a sincere smile.

Yan Yi stopped and reached out to touch Lan Ze's head, "If you win, I will give you a day off, and you can freely choose to go anywhere."

"In that case, I want to go back to Hualou Mansion."

Yan also withdrew his hand and said with a smile, "Yes."

No matter what happened in the end, at least Yan Yi's words made Lan Ze happy.

When he reached the intersection, Lan Ze turned around and said, "I'm going to the kitchen."

Yan Yi smiled and said, "Well, I'll wait for you in the gourmet garden."

It is impossible for them to appear in the food garden together, that would cause trouble, so Yan Yi left first.

Staring at Yan Yi's back, Lan Ze's mouth curled into a faint smile, and then he turned and went to the independent kitchen.

The reason for going to the kitchen is to make food for Xiaoba.

This time is not very long, only about 10 minutes.

When Lan Ze came out of the portable space, there were still 5 minutes left before the start of the game.

At this moment, a large number of people gathered in the food garden, of course most of them were servants or soldiers in Star City, only a small number came from outside.

This is from the outside are three tasters.

Sitting in the center of the stage, Yun Ji stared at Paschi who was standing on the south side, and asked curiously, "Mu Xiao, why hasn't your friend Lan Ze come?"

Mu Xiao is actually also nervous. There are still 3 minutes before the game. Could something be wrong?

"If it's not time yet, it's not considered late." The man with short silver-gray hair beside him said with a smile on his face, "Yun Ji, don't worry, the Star Master hasn't spoken yet."

Yun Ji noticed the calm Yan Yi behind him, coughed lightly, and said, "Xia Yang, you are really optimistic."

Xia Yang is a taster sent by the Xia family, and also Yun Ji's friend.

After knowing that Yun Ji brought Xia Yang, Mu Xiao also breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course, now is not the time to talk about Xia Yang, he should care about the game.

When Mu Xiao was nervous about whether Lan Ze would arrive in time.

Aozawa has already appeared in Food Garden.

"Is he Chef Aozawa?"

"Yes, it's the Star Lord's favorite Yanu."

"What is Yanu?"

"Didn't the Star Lord say that you are not allowed to mention the word Yanu, you want to be kicked out of Star City?"

The two muttering girls were frightened by Butler Darif's majesty and shut their mouths and remained silent.

Lan Ze glanced at the scene before turning his attention to Paschi.

After the two sides looked at each other for a few seconds, Lan Ze took the first step to withdraw his gaze and walked to his consular area.

At this time, Mu Jin, the special host of this time, walked to the center of the stage and said, "Today's cooking competition was proposed by Lan Ze. And for the sake of fairness, Lan Ze also asked Paschi to choose the ingredients for today's competition. Then, Pasch, bring up the ingredients you've chosen."

After Paschi saluted, he waved his hand, and Elkeley came up with a plate covered with a red cloth, put it on the table, and then exited the game.

Paschi stepped forward, uncovered the red cloth, and said with a smile, "My lord, the ingredient I chose is water sea cuttlefish stone."

Seeing the water sea cuttlefish stone on the plate, Mu Jin frowned slightly, and said seriously, "Are you sure to choose it."

Paschi replied with a faint smile, "Report to your lord, the ingredient Paschi chose is this, water sea cuttlefish stone."

After hearing the water sea cuttlefish stone, the people at the scene showed shocked expressions.

Mu Xiao stood up even more excitedly, "You actually use special ingredients."

Yun Ji pulled Mu Xiao, and when Mu Xiao sat down, he sighed and said, "Shuihai cuttlefish stone is no longer a special ingredient."

"Indeed, three months ago, someone found Shuihai cuttlefish stones on Gourmet Star, and there are still a lot of them. The restaurant has already changed their belonging area." Xia Yang said.

"Even so, it is also a special ingredient. Have you ever seen someone successfully cook Shuihai cuttlefish stone?" Mu Xiao said with a displeased face.

Yun Ji chose to shake his head to answer, but Xia Yang on the side said, "Although I haven't seen it before, but Paschi chose this ingredient, it means that he can cook."

That's right, it's impossible to choose ingredients that you don't know how to cook. Since you choose this water sea cuttlefish stone, which was once known as a special ingredient, you will definitely know how to cook it.

Hibiscus felt that he had miscalculated. With Lanze's ability, could he cook it? His eyes turned to Lanze, and seeing Lanze's puzzled face, he frowned involuntarily, and asked, "Lanze, Paschi has already selected the ingredients. Do you want to fight?"

After Lan Ze came back to his senses, he glanced at Shuihai Moyushi, nodded and said, "Since I proposed the competition, how can I withdraw from it?"

Paschi laughed ironically in his heart, turned around and walked towards Lan Ze, and stretched out his hand, "Chef Lan Ze, I hope you won't say that I bully you."

Lan Ze stretched out his hand to hold the other's hand, and said with a smile, "Chef Pasch, I wish you good luck."

When Paschi frowned, Lan Ze had already let go of his hand, and looked sideways at Hibiscus.

After Paschi turned around, Hibiscus said, "Since you all agree, you two are limited to cook a water sea cuttlefish stone within three hours, and you can choose any other auxiliary materials on both sides. Lan Ze uses the mobile kitchen on the east side , Pasch uses the mobile kitchen on the west side. Then the game begins."

The floating clock hung in the sky and started counting down, and Pasch also walked to his kitchen, waiting for the robot to bring the cuttlefish stone.

Lan Ze didn't stand still and wait, but went to the food storage first, and used the fluorescent board to quickly browse various food stones.

Mu Jin, who had already retreated from the center of the stage to Yan Yi's side, sighed and said, "After all the calculations, I have missed the water sea cuttlefish stone."

After Yan Yi heard that the ingredients were water sea cuttlefish stone, his expression changed.He is not a food eater, but he also knows that the water sea cuttlefish stone is a very difficult food stone.

"It's too late to say this now, let's see how Lan Ze handles it." Yasuo said.

Mu Jin nodded, "This is the only way to go now."

After Hibiscus finished speaking, the three of them looked at Lan Ze who was still standing in the food warehouse.

Shuihai cuttlefish stone is a kind of amphibious fish stone with water and sea flavor, and it is also one of the few active food stones.

The surface alone has complex textures like a labyrinth, and the whole stone is soft and hard. If you cut it in the wrong place or cook it, the whole water sea cuttlefish stone will be scrapped immediately.

In other words, if you don't find auxiliary materials related to Shuihai cuttlefish stone, it is completely impossible to deal with Shuihai cuttlefish stone.

There are three pieces of Shuihai cuttlefish stone, each of which is as big as a brick. The color is gray and black with stripes.

Lan Ze picked up a piece, touched the feel, the prickly feeling caught Lan Ze's attention.

In order to verify that it wasn't his own illusion, Aozawa touched the remaining two pieces and got the same result, so he picked up one and walked towards the special processor.Using the magnifying glass function of the special processor, we can clearly see the irregular silver-gray lines on the cuttlefish stone.

Without a magnifying glass, I can't find that the lines on the Shuihai cuttlefish stone are all drawn by silver-gray lines, and the lines are of different colors, soft and hard, as if you can see that the thin silver-gray lines are alive.

Shuihai cuttlefish stone is an active food stone, so it represents life.

Now look through a magnifying glass and find such irregularities, does it mean that the silver-gray pattern is a thin fish?

Lan Ze, who was frightened by his own thoughts, smiled, turned around and took a silk-like knife from the kitchen table, then returned to the special processor, and processed the cuttlefish stone under the magnifying glass.

The first cut was very difficult; the second cut, Lan Ze only felt pain.And when the silver thread fell off, Lanze found that there was pitch-black ink under the silver thread, but it didn't flow out, as if there was a thin film separating it. If a little more force was used, the whole water sea cuttlefish stone would be scrapped.

No wonder it turns into ink when it is boiled. Just this layer of film can't withstand high temperature cooking.

After understanding the characteristics of this stone, Lan Ze put down the needle knife in his hand, turned around and prepared a basin of clear water, and brought it to the special processor.

Then he took the other two pieces to the side of the special device, then turned around and glanced at the time.

There were two and a half hours left, and he had to take out the silver wire within an hour and a half before he had time to study the method.

Although I have seen Shuihai cuttlefish stone in books before, I don't know much about it, so I can only take one step at a time.

After clarifying the steps, Lan Ze closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then opened his eyes, found two pieces of paper, squeezed them into balls, and stuffed them into his ears.

Everything around became quiet, even the sound of breathing could not be heard, Lan Ze stepped forward to hold the needle knife and began to handle the silver-threaded fish.

When Paschi got the Shuihai cuttlefish stone, he soaked the Shuihai cuttlefish stone in ice water, and then kept making accessories, so he had a lot of free time, and naturally, he often looked at Lan Ze a lot.

When Paschi saw that Lan Ze had been standing motionless beside the special processor, his face was full of doubts, as if he didn't understand Lan Ze's motionlessness.

In fact, not only Paschi, anyone who followed Lan Ze showed doubts about Lan Ze's move, including Yan Yi himself.

It's okay to deal with food stones, but there is a problem with stuffing paper balls in the ears, and it seems that this station really doesn't move.

"Could it be that some solution has been found?"

After Xia Yang heard Mu Jin's words, his eyes immediately locked on Lan Ze.When he saw that the other party was still moving, there was a trace of surprise on his face, "Maybe, we underestimated him too much."

Yun Ji and Mu Xiao turned their heads to look at Xia Yang together, their faces showed the expressions of what are you talking about and explaining.

Xia Yang smiled and said, "If it were you, what would you do with Shuihai cuttlefish stone?"

Anyone who eats will think about this question, let alone Mu Xiao who has the title of gourmet.

"If it were me, I might choose to use ice like Paschi." Yun Ji looked in Paschi's direction and continued, "Shuihai cuttlefish stone has a very strong salty taste and dark ink. If you don't use ice Freeze it and deal with it again, it will be very difficult to break the Shuihai cuttlefish stone."

"However, even that still can't erase the strong salty smell and residual ink." Mu Xiao paused, then continued, "Besides, the frozen water sea cuttlefish stone has a hard taste."

In the gourmet college and even the restaurant, Mu Xiaoyou tried to cook Shuihai cuttlefish stone.But the result was that no matter how he cooked it, the taste was not satisfactory, so he could only give up in the end.

Now that Lanze has met Shuihai Moyushi, Mu Xiao is very worried that Lanze will fail and lose.

Thinking of such a bad result, Mu Xiao sighed and asked, "Xia Yang, you are a fifth-level eater and the number one chef in the restaurant. If it were you, what would you do?"

Xia Yang pondered for a while and said, "Maybe I will find a way to distinguish the colors."

"Color distinction" Hibiscus stared at Arris, and continued to ask, "You mean, distinguish the silver gray and black on the cuttlefish stone in the sea of ​​water"

Arris nodded, "This is just my thought, but the water, sea, and cuttlefish stones are different in hardness and softness, and they also have annoying ink. It is impossible to distinguish them."

Mu Jin nodded resolutely, "No one can do it. If it succeeds, it's a genius."

Alris smiled and said, "Genius may be too low. If you can really tell the difference, this person's cooking skills must be the best in the Star Region."

Star field first

After listening to the four sons, Yan Yi once again set his eyes on Lan Ze. From that motionless appearance, Yan Yi also loosened his frowning brows, showed a faint smile, and said, "Maybe he can success."

Yasuo glanced at Yan Yi, then turned his attention to the clock that had passed half an hour, and then continued to pay attention quietly.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and Lan Ze continued to process the stone in his hand. When the silver fish was removed from a water sea cuttlefish stone, four or ten minutes had passed.

Lan Ze didn't have time to rest, so he continued to process the second piece. When he was sweating, he just wiped it with his sleeve, and then continued to process.

The hardness of the silver fish is as if it has been soaked in water. The needle knife must be used hard, but the force should not be too strong, otherwise the ink will be broken.

In the first piece, the silver-threaded fish that was removed was contaminated with more ink. Although the second piece of silver-threaded fish was not much, a large amount of ink suddenly appeared halfway, making the entire Shuihai cuttlefish stone scrapped.Lan Ze could only give up and chose to deal with the last piece of Shuihai cuttlefish stone.

When the last piece was processed, there was an hour and 10 minutes left on the clock.

However, Aozawa, who has forgotten the time, concentrates on handling the food in his hand.

When it is hard, it will be heavy, and if it is soft, it will be light. The strength is controlled so that you can't wait to bend your wrist at 10 degrees, and the distance between the contact film and the film is controlled at one millimeter. It took Lan Ze five or ten minutes to work so strenuously, but at least the result was successful.

A five-meter-long white silver fish was successfully put into clear water, and it was able to swim slightly.

Seeing that he succeeded, Lan Ze also let out a sigh of relief, staggered a few steps, and retreated to the operating table at the back, closed his eyes and rested.

Two pieces were abolished, and only one piece succeeded.

There was still half an hour left, and he didn't have time to deal with the live silver fish, he could only deal with the dead and half-cut silver fish.

When Lan Ze opened his eyes again, he brought the first Shuihai cuttlefish stone and silver fish to the kitchen.

Put the silver fish into the clear water, add a little bit of Congmian Guoshi powder, then stir it with chopsticks, put it aside, and Lan Ze continued to process the remaining part in his hand.

Paschi, who had already entered the last part, saw that Lan Ze was only cooking now, showing a hint of sarcasm on his face.

Elkeley and Xiaoyou, who were watching the battle, also noticed that Yizhi showed a victorious expression.

"What are you proud of, the time is not over yet."

As Sima said, Nan Nan believed that Lan Ze would finish the cooking in the remaining time.But when she saw Lan Ze pick up the Shuihai cuttlefish stone and pour ink into the basin, she was stunned.

"This, this is"

Sima showed a surprised expression, Nan Nan showed a surprised expression, and the servants around were frightened by Lan Ze's actions one by one.

"That's ink, did he succeed?" Xia Yang said excitedly.

However, it was because of his words that the other two were not calm. No, it should be said that everyone including Paschi was not calm.

"If you can pour out the ink from the Shuihai cuttlefish stone, you can only attack the silver part, but in that case the whole food stone will be useless." Yun Ji said what everyone knew.

"I didn't see the silver part." Arkley, who was already surprised by Lan Ze's actions, came up and spoke.

Mu Xiao stared at Alkrey in surprise, "You said there is no silver part"

After being surprised, Mu Xiao's face was full of disbelief, and he immediately looked sideways at Lan Ze.

Except for Mu Xiao, Xia Yang, Yun Ji and even everyone looked at the Shuihai cuttlefish stone in Lanze's hand, and was dumbfounded when they found that there was only the black part.

"Impossible," Passage said excitedly. "You can't take it off."

Lan Ze ignored the excited Paschi, waited until the ink was poured, and then cut the black part with a knife. According to the color, cut it into a dozen small pieces, and threw them into the clear water together.

White vinegar stone is completely a vinegar stone, and only a little powder is needed to sour people to death.

But the white vinegar stone in this world is not the kind of white vinegar on the earth, it is specially for the salty and fishy smell of the sea.

So Lan Ze only put a little white vinegar stone powder into the black stone.

When he saw the vinegar stone, Pasch had recovered his composure.He glanced sideways at the clock and found that there were only 10 minutes left. He happily walked to the kitchen and put the food he had cooked from the pot into the plate.

"Paschi is already in the game." Mu Xiao stared at Lanze, saw Lanze grinding black powder, felt very anxious, and whispered, "Lanze, you have to work hard!"

Lan Ze couldn't hear Mu Xiao's words, so he continued to grind the powder, and kneaded the black powder together in the shortest time to form a ball of dough.

The dough is ready, next is the noodles.

In order to save time, this time Lan Ze directly made noodles with a machine, then washed the silver fish, rolled them together, cut them off, and put some of them in water to boil until they opened before throwing out the black noodles.

As for the remaining part, it is oiled once, then put in a trace of spicy powder and vegetable powder, and then pick the black noodles into the bowl, then pour the oil on the noodles, and finally fill each of the three bowls of noodles. Spoon of soup.

"It's time." Hibiscus opened his mouth, and after seeing the two sides stopped, he looked at Paschi, "Paschi, you finish it first, then you can serve your work first."

Passage confidently brought the food in front of the tasters, opened the lids one by one, and said, "This is the iced sea cuttlefish fillet I made."

The white icy air continued to spread around, and the off-white fish fillets looked like sashimi.If he didn't know that this world eats stones, he would doubt whether Paschi was made of real fish.

Of course, seeing this plate of ice sea cuttlefish slices with his own eyes, Lan Ze still admires him very much. Paschi is indeed a formidable opponent.

Mu Xiao and the others picked up a piece with their chopsticks. The icy taste of the cuttlefish stone did not hinder the deliciousness of the cuttlefish stone. The slightly salty taste and tenderness surprised the three of them a little.

"You used tender fruit stones."

Paschi looked at Xia Yang, smiled and said, "As expected of a member of the Xia family, he ate tender fruit powder in one bite."

Tender fruit powder, Aozawa also knows, is an auxiliary ingredient, as long as the meat is used in it, no matter how hard the food is, it will become tender.

Xia Yang put down his chopsticks, and the others also put down their chopsticks, which meant obviously, change them.

Mu Jin looked at Lan Ze, "Lan Ze, it's your turn."

All eyes fell on Lan Ze, Lan Ze calmly put three bowls of noodles on the table.

Xia Yang looked at the dark surface in the bowl, stared at Lan Ze, and asked, "What are you?"

"Silver silk black face."

Most of the people recited the four words silently in their hearts.

Yan Yi stood up, looked at the noodles that Mu Xiao picked up with chopsticks, and said with a smile, "His cooking skills are better than I imagined."

If you can cook water sea cuttlefish stone, you are already a powerful eater.

"Maybe you are right, Yan Yi." Yasuo stared sideways at Yan Yi, and continued, "He is indeed different."

This is the first time Yasuo has recognized Lan Ze.

After Yan Yi raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, he continued to pay attention to the three people who were eating noodles.

The moment the dark noodles entered the mouth, Mu Xiao was stunned. The fragrant white vinegar taste and the light spicy taste perfectly blended, and the natural sea fragrance made people enter the ocean world, which was unforgettable.

But this is not the main thing. What really surprised the three of them was the fishy smell left in their mouths.

This fish scent is not the smell of the sea, not the smell of the river, like, yes, like the smell of living in the purest stream of nature.

A bowl of noodles tastes like water and the sea. Isn’t this the characteristic of Shuihai cuttlefish stone?

After Xia Yang finished his second and third mouthfuls, until the bowl of noodles was finished, he laughed, and still laughed twice.

"You really did it." Xia Yang stared at Lan Ze with a smile on his face.

Lan Ze saw what the other party said from Xia Yang's eyes, smiled lightly, and said, "You can do it too."

After Xia Yang froze for a moment, he laughed again.

To make the members of the Xia family laugh twice, the outcome of this match is already obvious.

Pasch shook his head and said, "Impossible, how could he cook better than me."

Then you can try it yourself. "Mu Xiao pushed the unfinished noodles forward.

After hesitating for a moment, Paschi stepped forward to take a bite.With this bite, the chopsticks in Paschi's hands dropped, and he lowered his head involuntarily.

This act of bowing his head explained everything. After Mu Jin grinned, he said, "I declare that Lan Ze wins this cooking competition."

"Great." Sima hugged Nan Nan happily, Nan Nan wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and laughed with Sima.

Some of the servants around smiled, while others expressed despair and disbelief.

But no matter who showed any expression, Lan Ze won this game.