Yokohama Cuisine Event Book

In the center of the venue, the purple-haired girl also immediately recognized Ruishan's secret weapon.

"This is it."

Gancha said softly: "The seasoning that is often used in Southeast Asia and Latin America to increase the sour flavor——"

"Especially, the unripe fruit you choose is still slightly sweet compared to the fully ripe, unripe tamarind fruit, which has a special sour feeling."

"Yes."

Not seeing the expected flustered expression of his opponent, Rui Shan frowned, but soon let go.

"Sour taste will inhibit the taste bud receptors' perception of salty taste." He narrowed his eyes and showed a malicious smile, "Your cuisine is as delicate as a carefully stacked poker tower. But--if you take out a piece of it , it will collapse at an extremely fast speed!"

“That carefully crafted layer of flavors, without the all-important saltiness that underpins the soup — what would happen?”

That's something you don't even need to think about.

The seafood broth seasoned with miso will become bland and tasteless, and most of the umami that complements the salty taste will be lost. The whole dish will only be left with unsupported sweetness and a cloying, thick and thick starchy feeling. .

And before that, the judges will be the first to taste the dishes carefully cooked by Ruishan——

“I’m now going to mix pickled lemons with tamarind and my Bernacci sauce to create a rich layer of sour and umami-sweet, and leave a sour aftertaste on the judges’ tongues that can ruin your dish.”

"It's too late for you to change now."

Amidst the commotion in the auditorium, Ruishan quickly chopped up the ingredients taken out of the glass jar, poured them into the pot, and boiled them together with the light yellow sauce.

"If you adjust the amount of salt, other flavors will also be affected. At the same time, your processed vegetables will be dehydrated and lose the most important taste. Unplanned water is added, and the soup has to be remade."

"Also, do you know how much the judges' sense of taste is affected? How much salt should be added?"

"With 10 minutes of cooking time left, you've got nowhere to go!"

Pour the prepared sauce on the fried fish on the plate, Ruishan proudly announced: "And my cooking is finished."

"Ah! The vile fellow—"

The boarding students in Jixing Liao exploded, and someone seemed to sigh softly in the corner of the auditorium.

"Eisan, it's always like this."

However, the girl opposite was extremely calm.As if all provocative words were automatically filtered by her, she just waited intently for the moment when the cooking reached its optimum state.

Her unchanging expression made the commotion in the venue gradually subside.

Seeing that Ruishan seemed to have finished the performance, Gan Cha made a "please" gesture with a calm expression: "Then senior Ruishan will serve the food first, and I will come later."

"whispering sound."

Rui Shan twitched the corner of his mouth, picked up the dishes and walked towards the judging booth.

"Winning decision!"

"The whole game is unanimous, Hai Lao Ze Gancha, 3:0, won this game!"

The host's passionate voice resounded throughout the venue, but Rui Shan froze in place.

He looked at the clean small casserole in front of the three judges in astonishment, as if he had seen something incomprehensible, and it took him a while to make a dry sound from his throat.

"Why, why!"

"...How could such a thing be possible!"

"Because what I added to the dashi was not miso."

The purple-haired girl standing in the light replied calmly.

Gancha pointed to the translucent box on the cooking table, which was very familiar to the roommates in Jixing Room.

"What you thought was red miso is actually a West African condiment called sumbala."

Seeing Ruishan's obviously stunned expression, Gancha explained: "This is a seasoning fermented from the seeds of African locust beans. The effect of improving freshness is many times better than that of miso, but the salty taste is not so prominent."

If salt is not added in the final step of production to prolong the storage time, the finished product will not have a particularly obvious salty taste.

"Because of the need to research a certain dish recently, I happened to be looking for a substitute for MSG, and I came across this by accident." The girl smiled.

"The sumbala, which is similar in shape to red miso, not only confuses the eyes of the predecessors, but also makes it easier for me to control the amount of salt added."

She looked directly at Ruishan, who was clenching her teeth, and stated calmly: "However, because it is really impossible to determine how long it will take for the judges to recover, I did not add too much salt, but used the salt itself. Boiling the soup with a salty tubular snout naturally increases the amount of salt in the soup at that step.”

"Even after the later stage of tasting, the taste is normal, the fresh sweetness of Akayagara itself, and the warm and mellow taste of rhizomes can suppress the salty taste and make it less obtrusive."

"You, you actually considered this to such an extent..."

Rui Shan took a step back and shook his head, still unbelievable: "But, you said you used kisses to make soup—how ​​could you have guessed my intention at that time!"

"I decided to use acid to interfere with your cooking after I saw clearly that you planned to make miso seafood fish pot!"

"Didn't the seniors also know?"

The girl raised her face, with an unmistakable proud smile in her voice: "My, another job."

--detective!

Rui Shan was startled suddenly.

"To eat the halberd with the seniors of the ten heroes, of course I have made preparations."

Amidst the audience's incomprehensible whispers, the girl smiled and nodded to him:

"Senior Ruishan used taste interference in 20 of the past 12 halberd games. I think he will do the same thing this time, so he was prepared from the beginning."

"..."

"Then, according to the agreement between the two parties before the match, Hai Lao Ze Gancha will become the ninth member of the Council of the Ten Elites of Yuanyue Academy—"

Director Jing Pu of the Food Halberd Administration still wore the yellow suit with exaggerated patterns, stepped onto the stage, and announced solemnly.

——Yes, and this matter!

Rui Shan's eyes widened in disbelief.

The world in front of me is shaking.He supported the ground with his hands, only to realize that his eyes were trembling.

A burst of cheers and discussions broke out in the venue, and the girl on the opposite side looked down at him, opened her lips slightly, and seemed to want to say something, but her eyes were slightly closed, and finally turned around without saying anything, Walking to the cooking table, I slowly put away the used tools.

Whether it was winning the Halberd Eater or gaining the position of one of the tops of Yuanyue, none of these things seemed to have any effect on her.This appearance of the girl made Rui Shan even more depressed.

The humiliation of defeat and the pain of losing his seat hovered in his heart, and the mediocrity of his opponent made everything he did even more ridiculous. Ruishan clenched his fists tightly, but the muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably.

Gan Cha untied her long hair and looked at the excited friends in the audience.

Ha Shan smiled faintly, nodded to her and left; Alice blended into Jixingliao's group without any sense of disobedience.The girls were already happily hugging each other, and Aoki and Sato put their arms around each other and shouted "Long live the pole star", it seems that there will be another party tonight.

Senior Isshiki wiped his tears happily, Atobe-kun moved away in disgust, and Xinghei grinned and gave her a thumbs up.

The girl laughed, and her eyes moved down to Erina standing in the shadows with an awkward expression on her face.

Suddenly, a touch of wine red appeared in the corner of his eyes.

The girl with fluffy wavy hair put her hands on her hips, looked curiously at the bento box with the rest of the food in her hand, then raised her face, revealing an incomparably bright smile, her pointed canine teeth resting on her lower lip :

"It looks delicious." The red-haired girl who appeared suddenly raised a spoon enthusiastically, "Let me have a taste, sweet tea sauce?"

The pair of cat-like golden pupils stared at each other for a second, and the purple-haired girl bent her wisteria-like pupils.

Gan Cha handed the box forward: "Senior, please use it."

"I'm starting!"

With the chef's permission, Kobayashi Gendan clasped his hands casually, then happily scooped up a spoonful and put it into his mouth.

Wave-like, wonderful feelings continuously impacted her senses.

——The allure of this dish is far more than what the two opponents revealed when eating the halberd.

In addition to the main West African pumpkin seafood soup base and the elegant flavor of white fish, the crispness of lotus root, the sweetness of chestnuts, the fine and smooth taste and strong aroma of wild matsutake...the seasoning is not much added, but it is seasoned The ingredients work together to create the most perfect fall concerto.

The appearance of the food when it grows seems to be in front of you, and she, who is soaked in the aroma of the food, seems to be one of them.

"No~"

Gendan groaned contentedly and stretched himself.

"It's good, it's just a little calmer."

She squinted her eyes and said with a smile: "If there is a chance, I really want to taste your plum in the snow—"

Such a strange evaluation made Gancha, who was putting the seasoning group into the food storage box, paused, and looked up in surprise.

At this moment, the red-haired girl squatted in front of Rui Shan, happily patting the top of his hair:

"Hahaha Ruishan, you lost to the first grade!" She laughed unceremoniously, "Who told you that you don't usually do business."

"It's annoying, Xiao Lin!" Rui Shan glared at her.

"Just come back to challenge again in the future." Kobayashi Rindou stood up nonchalantly, and turned to look at the girl on the other side, "Is that right, Ganchajiang?"

The girl showed a troubled expression.

"Actually, I don't like eating halberds." She looked at Rui Shan with a stiff expression, and then added calmly:

"However, because Senior Ruishan is a person who can make tricks behind his back, so—for future consideration, I can unconditionally accept the halberd that Senior Ruishan sent to me to bet on my seat once a month."

Kobayashi Gendan was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing uncontrollably.

"So confident."

After laughing enough, she hugged the petite purple-haired girl cheerfully: "What an interesting child, I am very optimistic about you, Senior Gendan? But I will talk about this later—go, since you have become the ninth seat, let's go!" Go and meet everyone!"

"Eh? Senior Kobayashi——"

Caught off guard and being led forward, Gan Cha raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Call me Senior Gendan!"

Being asked in this way, Gan Cha obediently changed her address.

Long Dan rubbed her hair in satisfaction, and pointed to the height of the auditorium: "You made a big fuss on the stage of the autumn election, and everyone is watching over there."

In the ambiguous light, the few people standing there seemed to move, as if they were nodding in this direction.

"Come on with me—Nukijima will be able to chat with you, he doesn't like eating halberds either..."

Gancha only had time to cast apologetic glances at the group of relatives and friends before being taken away by the hot-tempered Xiaolin Longdan.

"As expected of Senior Gendan, you move so fast."

Looking at the back of the girl leaving, Yishihui stood up in Jixingliao's seat.

Restraining the exaggerated expression on his face, the brown-haired boy smiled and turned his head to the side:

"As a senior, it's time for me to welcome our new ninth seat."

The author has something to say: Playing Matryoshka with detectives, Ruishan, you are so brave

By the way, the person who likes MSG is Da Zai () probably because it is put in canned crab meat, and the hobby is very strange.

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: 40 bottles of Luoshihe; 5 bottles of Fengli;