Liuxiang

Before the professional judges, the dishes of Yi Baitang and Hu Chengping were presented in turn.

Hu Chengping's first dish was an eight-treasure fish.

Eight-treasure fish is also one of the signature dishes of Tai De Lou. The main material of eight-treasure fish is turbot. It takes three to five days, which is called drunk to the bone; then the turbot is picked up and slaughtered, and the fish is soaked in the same formula as before but much richer in the water for a while; finally, it is directly steamed in the pot, steamed It also pays attention to time, usually within 3 minutes to 5 minutes, so that the meat on the turbot is still crystal clear when it is cooked, and it is between half-cooked, and the various soaking and preparations before have soaked the turbot. The flesh of the fish is pure and sweet like sashimi, plus the taste of wine and saltiness that grows from the sweetness of the fish.

It is said that when this dish was first launched in Tide Building, all the guests who ate this dish were full of praise, and a well-known gourmet even praised it highly, saying, "After eating this dish, you will know other people's tastes." All the fish are dead."

But now it has been at least ten years since the launch of this dish.

The people who were making it moved their chopsticks calmly and ate the food. The taste was really good. With Master Hu Chengping in charge of the spoon, the freshness and flavor of the fish could be said to reach an extreme level.

Then they rinse their mouths first, and then rinse their noses. To rinse their noses, they take a few breaths into the fresh-tasting mist to wash away all the smell left in their mouths and noses before facing the next one with a brand new sense of taste and smell. vegetable.

Coincidentally.

When it was Yi Baitang's turn to deliver the dishes, it was also a river dish.

The dish that was served was steamed blue crab with glutinous rice.

There is a whole layer of purple-black glutinous rice on the bottom, and a golden river crab is covered on it, but because the season is not yet, the crab is inevitably a little small.

"Well, the cooking of several cuisines is all about fashion. It's not the right time to eat crabs now."

Someone at a table beat the side drum.

But it's only the first dish now, and it seems a bit early to say something in a hurry. Most chefs wait for the dish of steamed blue crab with glutinous rice to be served before they prepare to taste it.Although the judge's behavior for the platform of the Tide Building just now was indeed too obvious, but it is not wrong, this is indeed not a good time to eat crabs.

With such a mentality, the attitude of the rest of the judges will inevitably be a little more contemptuous, and the hands that take the crab shells are not very active.

But as soon as the crabs were in their hands, these old experts in eating and cooking immediately found something wrong: the weight of the crabs is too clear, right?

They picked up the crabs, knocked them casually, and then lifted the cover. Sure enough, all the crab paste and crab meat in the crabs were taken out before they were served. shell.

It is not easy to take out all the meat inside the crab but keep the shell intact.

They each stared at the crab shell with research eyes for a while, and then turned their eyes to the glutinous rice again.

Sticky rice is not really supposed to be served first in the main course.

Because the glutinous rice fills the stomach, if you eat too much here, you will naturally lose your appetite later.

But Yi Baitang's glutinous rice is a bit different.

Although it is served in a large porcelain plate, what is actually used in the porcelain plate is the recessed base in the center. This base is about the size of a coffee cup and saucer, covered with a thin layer of The grass-like glutinous rice is purple-black around, but milky white with a little golden color in the middle. The shape of the milky white glutinous rice is exactly the shape of a blue crab that has just been raised, with a fat crab shell and eight short legs. , and two eyes are dotted out with purple and black glutinous rice in the middle, which looks really cute.

Now that the blue crab covered with glutinous rice is empty, the most important thing to eat is of course this plate of glutinous rice.

The judges casually put the mighty and unyielding shell of the blue crab on the table, picked up a spoon and scooped a spoonful of glutinous rice, and the glutinous rice layer was emptied by a third of the ordinary spoon.

This plate of glutinous rice is really high. It is a plate of glutinous rice at most. I have never seen a chef who is so reluctant to leave the ingredients...

Everyone unconsciously slandered a few words in their hearts before stuffing the glutinous rice into their mouths.

The moment the upper and lower teeth staggered to crush the rice grains, the strong crab taste was like a small atomic bomb, which exploded in the mouth instantly!

Someone blurted out: "What's going on?!"

But no one answered.

Everyone is chewing the rice grains in their mouths intently, quickly, and fiercely!

After a piece of flexible glutinous rice was bitten open by the teeth, the little crab hidden in it immediately swam out. The salty aroma of the crab roe, the smoothness of the crab meat, and the glutinous rice grains that contained them were in the mouth together. Intertwined into a happy music with unique flavor!

Hastily swallowed a mouthful of rice into their mouths, and only then could everyone draw their attention back to the glutinous rice.

The lights on the zenith were already bright enough to clearly illuminate everything, but at this moment, more than one judge waved to the side and told the waiter waiting there to bring another lamp to illuminate the food.

Soon, several desk lamps were delivered together.

The judges sitting here gathered lamps in one of the plates of glutinous rice. Under the direct light, the judge sitting in the center first picked up a few grains of milky white glutinous rice with chopsticks, pointed to the golden color in the glutinous rice and said: "Look, everyone, the golden color inside is more obvious under the light. There is no doubt that it is crab roe."

As he said that, he put down the milky white glutinous rice in the chopsticks, picked up the purple and black glutinous rice around him, and said: "The inside of the purple and black glutinous rice may not be very clear, but under strong light, you can still see the purple and black glutinous rice." The two ends are thick black, but the color in the middle is thinner, and it also has a somewhat crystal clear feeling, and it is obvious that it contains crab meat."

"But it's impossible!" Someone blurted out, "This is not a glutinous rice ball that can be stuffed, but a grain of glutinous rice. How can a chef have the time to fill the body of a crab into a single grain of glutinous rice?"

this……

Although everyone doesn't know how to do it, it's not good for you to say that now, doesn't it seem that everyone here is not as good as the chef in the kitchen?

The rest of the judges couldn't help but complain in their hearts about this impatient guy.

Pointing out that the chief judge of this classic dish of steamed blue crab with glutinous rice can’t let this kind of question arise and brew, he coughed lightly, looked at his companions with different expressions around him, changed the subject and said: “The first dish of the two chefs After tasting the dishes, everyone can talk about their opinions first."

The long table was silent for a moment.

The chef who was the first to stand on the platform of the Tide Building said that it is not suitable to eat crabs now, his eyes slanted to the side, and he glanced at a certain waiter standing beside him meaningfully.

The waiter remained calm for a few minutes, then quickly left, turned around two doors, and came to a hidden corner.

When he was completely approaching this corner, a beam of light shot out first, and with this sudden light, both sides could clearly see the person on the opposite side.

The waiter quickly walked towards Hu Jianming who was waiting here, and said in a low voice, "The situation is not good, the other party has perfect ideas, and many judges have already been shaken."

Then he didn't stay any longer, and passed by Hu Jianming when he made a wrong step, and walked to the bathroom behind the corner.

In this way, even if the scene of their meeting is seen at this time, it can be argued that they met by chance in front of the bathroom.

Hu Jianming secretly clenched his fist and took out his cell phone as he walked out.

He decided to start public relations!

The judges' table was already buzzing.

The first judge to speak was the original platform Tide Building. He coughed and said: "The idea is very good, but the taste of the food still falls on the taste of the food. Now is really not a good time to eat crabs. This cauliflower dish It’s too coincidental. Moreover, Tide House has been in business for decades, and we have all eaten the dishes many times. It’s not that it’s not creative and the taste is bad, but we’re used to it; the opposite is the other side. , we don’t understand it at all, and we haven’t eaten it before, so it looks very fresh.”

After he finished speaking, he looked around at the other judges:

"I think eight-treasure fish is ten, and steamed blue crab with glutinous rice is eight."

Several judges are thinking about each other.

If it's just about food, it's almost the value in their hearts to reverse the score of the one who spoke first.

But to be honest, in this position, few people can really be impartial and only talk about food.

Not to mention other things, Hu Chengping is considered an old-timer in the chef industry, everyone knows each other, if he really gave a very low score, it will be difficult to meet him later!

Then a second person spoke:

"But creativity is still worth encouraging. I see two dishes, both of which are nine points."

He made a compromise, not to offend the old man, nor to offend his own appetite.

When the judges behind the long table began to talk, the waiter who had gone to inform Hu Jianming had just returned from the bathroom, and one of the judges in the judges' seat stood up and went to wash his hands.

This judge was much more relaxed than the waiter just now. Once he left the small courtyard for dining, he took out his mobile phone and called Shang Huaiyan. At the beginning, he said: "The chef you are optimistic about is really good at cooking. But I see that the Tide Building has started public relations!"

"Oh--"

In the dark of night, the guests' tables have just started serving food.

Shang Huaiyan took the mobile phone and walked to the position near the water, put one hand on the railing, tugged at the corner of his mouth, and sneered across his lips.

After a few words with the judges on the opposite side, he hung up the phone and walked back to the round table.

It took less than 2 minutes to go back and forth like this, and the dishes that had just been on the table were emptied one by one. The waiter here put a new dish on the table, and the waiter over there had already cleaned the dishes. Empty plates were taken off the table.

The big round table is perfectly maintained with only one stack of plates from the beginning to the end. Eight people around the table are scrambling for it, chopsticks are flying, and eating is a joy!

Shang Huaiyan was dumbfounded:

"Is this... delicious?"

"Delicious, delicious, delicious!" With his mouth full of food, Mr. Lin answered Shang Huaiyan three times in a row, "These dishes are really amazing. If I don't come today, I will die of pain!"

After finishing speaking, he managed to swallow the food in his mouth down his throat, and suddenly slapped his chopsticks, his face paled in shock!

"and many more!"

"What's wrong?" Shang Huaiyan asked quickly.

"How many dishes have you eaten now? I think they are all delicious. How should I plan the menu for the meeting?!" Mr. Lin almost collapsed!

"..." Shang Huaiyan.

But Mr. Lin was not the only one who collapsed. When this sentence came out, the rest of the table was reminded. It is not an exaggeration to say that at this moment, Shang Huaiyan almost looked at their faces. Come to the look of mourning and concubine!