Food Circle Plug-in Emperor

Hearing this, Liu Yongping couldn't help but glance at Fu Yu.

He nodded understandingly: "That's right, as long as the cooking is done well, it's a good arrangement."

Fu Yu sighed: "It's a rare opportunity to participate in the competition, and I have reached the finals again. I am working hard to win the award."

Liu Yongping smiled: "When I came out of the provincial capital, I was invited to the capital to promote the Kaijiang banquet. I stayed for five years. During the five years, I participated in three national chef cooking competitions.

At that time, with Kaijiangyu's special cooking, I won three national culinary championships in succession. Later, in the fourth year, I met Du Mingfeng.

You may not have heard of this person. He went abroad a few years ago and opened a chain of Chinese restaurants, and his business is booming.

He was completely born out of nowhere back then, and he was silent in the circle, but he won the championship for the first time in the competition.

It was also by the chance of winning the championship that he was promoted to be the head chef in the store. After working for three years, he was hired by another restaurant to be the head chef by chance. After that, he saved some money and went abroad with his relatives.

In just a few years, he opened a Chinese restaurant, and until this year, he has become a well-known restaurant chain owner. "

"I didn't win consecutive championships back then, and I didn't participate in the competition again. He represented the province and participated twice. If you have a chance in the future, you can look for his cooking video. The two of you have similar styles. of."

"A lot of people in the circle went abroad to develop. I didn't follow suit, because I found that traditional classic old-style dishes are very popular in China. Basically, I went from the province to the capital in just a few years. The business is up and running, and it has made a contribution to the hometown.”

"Actually, if you think about it carefully, as long as you have excellent cooking skills and can seize the opportunity, you don't have to worry about developing in the circle."

Fu Yu nodded, knowing that Liu Yongping was comforting himself.

Because his previous performance was too unconventional, it is estimated that he gave the judges a very average impression at the beginning.

However, he is confident that as long as the freshly cooked noodles are sent over, after the judges taste them, they should reverse their previous impressions.

He is very sure of his cooking skills.

And as long as the dishes are cooked well, his seemingly conspicuous behavior before will become another impression of decisiveness and confidence.

After chatting with Fu Yu for a few words, Liu Yongping sent Fu Yu out of the lounge, and suddenly said: "By the way, Xiao Fu, please give me the delivery address, and I have prepared some specialties from the capital for you. It just so happens that my restaurant here has a batch of seasonings to be mailed to the provincial capital, so I'll take them to you by the way."

Fu Yu quickly declined: "No, Chef Liu, you are too polite, this is really unnecessary."

Liu Yongping smiled: "It's not something expensive, it's all specialties here, food and drink, not worth money, just a little thought."

After debating for a while, Liu Yongping put Fu Yu's shoulders familiarly, and said, "You don't have to be so polite between friends. When you come to my place, I, the big brother, will definitely not let you go back empty-handed."

In a word, the relationship between the two suddenly escalated into a year-end friendship.

Fu Yu was no longer polite, and nodded with a smile: "Okay, thank you Brother Liu!"

Fu Yu returned to the players' rest area.

Liu Yunong hurried over and asked concerned: "How is the cooking? Is it going well?"

Fu Yu nodded: "Well, it went well."

Liu Yunong breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. I just heard from them that you are in charge of cooking independently during the competition, and the staff in the cooperation team are just helping. I'm still worried that you won't be able to finish cooking on time!"

Although Liu Yunong is young, he is already a senior figure in the circle. In the rest area, many people know the relationship between Fu Yu and her, so some contestants who came out first told Liu Yunong what they heard news.

Fu Yu's cooking skills are definitely fine, but the content of the competition is to cook dishes that he has never touched before, which is a bit difficult.

Liu Yunong has experienced it himself, so he knows that this game cannot be done by himself alone, and the cooperation of the cooperation team is also needed.

When she knew that Fu Yu chose to cook alone, she was also worried. After coming out for a while, she kept looking forward to the direction of the entrance where the contestants came back.

Hearing that Fu Yu had successfully completed the cooking, Liu Yunong breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, everyone in the judges' seat was having a heated exchange and discussion.

The atmosphere was too noisy, and everyone had various opinions, saying anything, if they let it go like this, the points would not be worth it.

Lu Ming had to raise his voice, interrupting everyone's discussion: "Everyone, please be quiet first!"

Seeing that it was Lu Ming who was talking, the others immediately quieted down cooperatively.

The game time has not yet arrived, but many players have already completed the entire order list one after another.

Several judges carefully tasted and scored carefully, and the original process went smoothly.

It wasn't until the table of Ruihetai's special dishes cooked by Fu Yu was delivered that the judges present suddenly started to communicate and discuss enthusiastically.

The reason is because of Fu Yuqie's roast duck slices.

Because it was served immediately after cooking, the roast duck was still steaming.

The roast duck is well sliced, each piece of duck meat has a belt meat, which looks thin but not broken, uniform in size like a clove leaf, and bright red in color, it looks very authentic.

But the most amazing thing is the exquisite presentation.

The duck meat is a whole piece, and the duck head is to chop off the duckbill, cut a vertical knife from the middle of the head, divide the duck head into two halves, and then slice off the tip of the duck tail, and place the left and right sides attached to the duck breastbone. Tear off the tenderloin and put them on the plate together.

These operations, local restaurants are the same practice.

But what is amazing about Fu Yu is that when he arranges duck slices, although he looks patchwork and mainly for aesthetics, as long as he is not in a hurry to eat and takes a second look, he will find that the duck The meat slices are actually based on the duck head placed in the middle, with 20 slices on the top and 20 slices on the bottom on both sides, and a total of 10 slices of duck meat are placed in the middle with the duck head as the line.

The whole dish was cut into exactly 90 slices of duck meat, not too many, not too many!

Lu Ming was the first person to discover this, so he praised casually: "This roast duck is authentic, it is indeed the signature of Ruihetai, and the details are very well grasped! Look at this duck meat, it is cut just right. 90 slices, even if the whole duck is not on the table, it is very hard work to count the duck slices on the plate."

It was originally just a simple compliment, but when Qiao Bailiang heard it, he immediately called the staff to ask the cooperation team members of Ruihetai whether this roast duck was served whole, and whether there was any leftover duck that was not used.

When the others heard Qiao Bailiang's words, they all looked sideways, but no one stopped him.

Even Du Yingchun secretly scolded Qiao Bailiang for "heartlessness" in his heart, and kept his face calm.

Roast duck is not like other dishes. The emphasis is on serving the whole duck on the table. All the duck meat must be sliced ​​and served on a plate, and the ingredients cannot be skipped.

The so-called roast duck cutting standard is 90 slices, which is a way to test the chef's knife skills.

No matter how heavy the duck is, it can be cut into 90 slices in the end. This is a skill that ordinary people can't achieve.

Lu Ming was taken aback, he never thought that Qiao Bailiang would be so serious!

After all, although it is said that the most authentic roast duck is to cut the whole duck into 90 slices, the people who can really do it are a handful of master chefs.

He said that before, just to praise Fu Yu's attention to detail. Who would have thought that Qiao Bailiang, a fool, really asked someone to ask.

To be honest, even knowing that Fu Yu's culinary skills are very good, and his knife skills are also very good, but Lu Ming really didn't think that Fu Yu could reach such a level!

Not to mention Fu Yu, even he couldn't pick a roast duck at random and cut it into 90 slices with a knife.

However, soon, Lu Ming's attention was attracted by the decorative flowers of the roast duck dish.

At first glance, the decorative flowers fixed with toothpicks are quite beautiful, but when you look closely, you will find very obvious fine lines unique to dried tofu.

It turns out that the dried tofu rolls that Fu Yu steamed before are going to be used as decorative flowers!

This should be smoked again after steaming, otherwise it would not be such a color.

Lu Ming was so impressed with this plate of roast duck that he chose this dish as the first to taste after the other judges passed it on.

The roast duck is roasted in a braised oven, the skin is crispy, the meat is tender, fat but not greasy.

Lu Ming nodded approvingly, the heat was just right, the slices were even in thickness, very delicious.

And then, he added a dried bean curd flower for decoration. The carving is very powerful. After looking closely, he found that the petals are all layered, and the details are very delicate.

The smell is also very good. This smoked dried tofu is a local home-cooked snack in Bei'an. You can buy it in the delis on the street. The authentic and high-quality smoked dried tofu has a mellow taste and a dense texture.

Lu Ming thought about it, and couldn't help but take a bite to try the taste.

Sure enough, the mouth is soft and tough, slightly chewy, tastes salty, the unique bean aroma of dried tofu, after being smoked and roasted, the taste is stronger, coupled with the fresh aroma of the meat filling, it tastes particularly satisfying.

But what really surprised Lu Ming was that after the smoked dried bean curd was bitten open, the light-colored inner layer and the evenly wrapped meat filling were exposed, but before the bite, the entire flower was covered with the outermost The darkest, most uniform and beautiful layer of dried tofu is wrapped.

How is this possible?

The light-colored part inside is not exposed at all!

When Lu Ming was sighing, the staff member Qiao Bailiang sent to inquire came back.

"The staff of Ruihetai's cooperation team said that when Fu Yu was cooking, he served the whole duck on a plate, and there was no leftover duck meat."

It turned out that the whole duck was really served on a plate, which means that Fu Yu controlled the thickness of the duck meat to just 90 pieces when cutting according to the size of the duck.

That's amazing!

This time, even Qiao Bailiang became curious.

Is this Fu Yu really so powerful?

Several special dishes of Ruihetai were passed among the judges.

Lu Ming tasted one by one, making professional and pertinent evaluations.

The dishes Fu Yu cooks are really authentic, mainly because the people in Ruihetai really know how to choose dishes. The few dishes I ordered are all very local special dishes, which are both well-known and delicious.

And it is precisely because of familiarity that we can taste whether the cooking is authentic and delicious!

Stir-fried liver and fried belly are perfect. The heat, taste, texture of the ingredients, and even the tableware used to serve them are all completely replicas of Ruihetai.

After the judges tasted each dish, they all had expressions of approval.

The simpler the dish, the more difficult it is to cook it with a good taste!

And it is even more difficult to make such a well-known dish that everyone is used to, and everyone praises it!

However, Fu Yu did it.

As a foreigner, it was his first time to cook a special dish in the capital, and it turned out so perfect!

I don't know what the other judges think, anyway, Lu Ming thinks that Fu Yu's cooking is very good, and he can't find any points deducted from him!

Especially the roast duck dish just now really shocked him!

It is not only because of Fu Yu's choice to cook roasted duck in a braised oven, which is a different way, but also because of his superb knife skills for slicing duck slices.

It seems that Fu Yu can get a high score again in this round.

Lu Ming thought to himself, and took a casserole of white meat brought by the staff.

This is also the dish cooked by Fu Yu, and it is the last dish for the whole table.

To be honest, I have already tried so many dishes prepared by the contestants. I have to try each dish carefully, from the main ingredients to the toppings. Even if I only take one bite of each dish, I am half full now. up.

When I am not hungry, the sense of anticipation is much less than at the beginning.

Casserole white meat is a very flavorful dish, which is more delicious and delicious than white boiled meat.

The most important thing is that sauerkraut is added in it, which not only improves the taste, but also improves the taste, because the sour taste of sauerkraut well neutralizes the greasy feeling of pork belly.

Chefs have been working in this industry for a long time, and they become gourmets before they know it.

Lu Ming knows how to cook and cooks well, so he is especially good at eating.

Just like the casserole of white meat in front of him, when admiring the presentation of the dish before, what he looked at was the thickness of the pork slices, the color of the soup, the smell, and the overall presentation.

But when he tasted it, his first mouthful was the soup.

The entrance is full of meaty flavor and the unique sour taste of sauerkraut. When this hot soup enters the stomach, it compares with the previous dishes.

After drinking the soup, taste the pork slices again. The large slices of white meat meet the fresh sauerkraut. The fatness of the meat is silently eliminated, leaving only plump and mellow.

Lu Ming squinted his eyes in satisfaction. This is really a sublimation of both taste and taste. When the two meet, there are countless wins in the world!

In the white meat casserole, in addition to pork, there are vermicelli and stewed soft sauerkraut.

When sandwiching and tasting, it is usually eaten with meat slices alone, and then go to pick up the vermicelli and sauerkraut below.

As a result, Lu Ming stretched his chopsticks down and then took them out. He didn't wait to eat, but only watched the vermicelli arranged neatly on the chopsticks. He neither got involved nor dragged too long. Mouth! (end of this chapter)