Chapter 174 Lost?
"It's your turn." Ren Bao'e said to Jiang Yang.
Jiang Yang nodded and presented his dishes.
Jiangyang's dishes are not served on plates, but are served in large tea cups.
If you count carefully, there are six tea cups in total, and there are five people who have been judged, including Zhuang Li. In other words, there are four foreign chefs.
Each cup was covered with a lid, and there was no sign of it inside.
"What dish is this? Is it a fish dish?" Zhuang Li asked with a frown.
"Don't you know if you reveal it...?" Jiang Yang said with a smile.
Zhuang Li was choked and stopped talking immediately. She had done too much this time, so she didn't want to say anything more about this matter.
What she did today was already losing face. However, it was not too much for her apprentice himself.
Although Jiang Yang said he wanted to agree to something, who knows what he would say? If it was too much, with Ren Bao'e's personality, he might grit his teeth and agree.
She would not allow such a thing to happen, even if she lost her face as a chef.
Looking at the dishes in front of him, Zhuang Li's thoughts kept flashing.
In the end, she lifted the lid, and at the same time, the other four chefs also lifted the lid.
"This...this is..." Zhuang Li looked at the dishes that were completely revealed in front of her and said in surprise.
The large tea cup contains a blooming flower. To be precise, it should be a flower carved from fish.
In the teacup, except for the fish flowers, there is only the soup like clear water. The blooming flowers of the fish are in the soup, like a real flower.
Zhuang Li was really shocked by the dishes in front of her. She never thought that Jiang Yang would make fish into a flower. She has been dealing with fish for many years and knows how difficult it is to carve fish into flowers and ensure that it is blooming in the soup without breaking. This requires very solid knife skills to complete, and also requires special stability in the hands, otherwise it will be destroyed if you are not careful.
However, Zhuang Li quickly calmed down. After all, the dishes were just spoken by taste. No matter how amazing the appearance was, it was just a mere appearance.
Judging from the clear soup, it probably won't taste too good.
Although Jiangyang can make high-end clear soup dishes such as boiled water cabbage, the soup of boiled water cabbage is not suitable for cooking fish. Such a strong soup flavor will cover up the delicious taste of the fish itself. Zhuang Li also knows this well.
Thinking of this, Zhuang Li quietly felt relieved. The sour soup fish that Bao'e cooked is no less than herself, and she even has some innovations. If she loses in this situation, it will be God's will.
After thinking about it, Zhuang Li gently picked up the fish with chopsticks, which was different from what she imagined. She thought that the fish would break when it was pinched, after all, each petal of the flowers cut into fish was very thin. Such fish could break if it was just a little hard to use.
Zhuang Li naturally did not hold the petals alone, she held the flowers cut from the whole fish.
From this point alone, Zhuang Li can see Jiang Yang's mastery of the heat. To achieve this level, if there is a slight difference in mastery of the heat, such an effect will not be achieved.
Put the fish into your mouth and Zhuang Li chewed it carefully.
Suddenly, her tongue was instantly conquered by the tender texture and beautiful taste of the fish.
The fish itself has a great taste, and it is carved into flowers, so the fish is very tasty. The fish meat of the pike does not have small fish bones, so there is no need to worry about being stuck, which makes people feel very pleasant to eat, and they have the urge to keep eating.
The soup tastes very special. The deliciousness of fish bones and the deliciousness of fungi are blended with each other. One comes from the water and the other comes from the mountains. Two different deliciousnesses collide with each other and produce a unique taste.
The perfect combination of fish and soup gives birth to a completely different taste from the fish you usually eat. In theory, fish cooked with mushroom soup should be very fishy, but this dish cannot taste the fishy smell of fish at all. What's even more wonderful is that while removing the fishy smell of fish, it does not destroy the delicious taste of fish itself.
Zhuang Li just tried it and knew that this dish was a stunning work. Compared with this, Ren Bao'e's dishes were much inferior.
It’s not that the taste difference is too big. Jiangyang’s dishes are better, but they are also delicious. However, the dishes are better than Ren Bao’e’s sour soup fish, whether in terms of color, fragrance or creativity, they are better than a lot.
Although a dish is based on taste, when the tastes of the two dishes are not much different, the comparison of color and aroma is particularly important.
Zhuang Li put down her chopsticks, and she was particularly confused. On the one hand, she was unwilling to let Bao'e lose, but on the other hand, she had to admit that Jiangyang's dishes were indeed better.
If Ren Bao'e's taste is better than Jiang Yang's, then she can force herself to support Ren Bao'e with the reason why the taste is king. Even if the taste is slightly inferior, if Ren Bao'e's dishes are made better, Zhuang Li can also make comprehensive evaluations to support Ren Bao'e.
But the problem now is that Ren Bao'e is inferior to Jiangyang's dishes in all aspects.
At this time, several old chefs also put down their chopsticks. One of them said: "The creativity of the dishes is amazing. The tender taste of the fish and its delicious taste are perfectly combined with the mushroom soup. After the mouth is put, people feel like they can't stop."
"Fish carving requires very high knife skills for chefs, even many older chefs find it difficult to do this. The fish becomes a flower without dispersing, which also has a low requirement for the heat. These two points alone can be regarded as amazing." Another old chef commented.
"The combination of fish and mushroom soup is very special. Several common ingredients make people feel like high-end clear soup dishes. They are worthy of being a chef who can make boiled cabbage." Another veteran chef also commented.
The only ones left were Zhuang Li and the chef named Li who did not speak. Zhuang Li's eyes kept changing, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
After a long time, she seemed to finally make up her mind. The chef named Yu Li looked at him. The latter understood what he meant and nodded slightly. When Zhuang Li saw it, she seemed to let go of something in her heart.
She said in a deep voice: "The dishes in Jiangyang are amazing and taste good. Personally, I prefer Ren Bao'e's sour soup fish. But I am her master, so I won't participate in the scoring. Uncle Li, please give it a scoring."
The chef surnamed Li nodded and looked at each other with the other three chefs. He said, "Then... everyone, let's start rating!"
The three old chefs understood the meaning of the chef surnamed Li. They looked at Zhuang Li, then looked at Jiang Yang, and then sighed secretly.
Soon, the score was given out by himself.
Zhuang Li announced: "Ren Bao'e's dishes, sour soup fish scored, 9.2, 9.0, 9.0, 9.0, 9.0, totaling 36.2 points."
Next, it was Jiang Yang's turn to score, Zhuang Li announced: "Jiangyang cuisine scores, 9.0, 9.0, 9.0, 9.0, total 36.0 points."
When Jiang Yang saw his score, he felt a slump. Could it be that he lost?
Zhuang Li said: "Finally, I announce that the winner of this competition is the first..."
Chapter completed!