Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Please taste it!" Liu Maoxing and Xie Yunlong said to each other.

At this moment, Xie Yunlong's dark circles were already turning red...

What Liu Maoxing pushed in front of Xie Yunlong was a plate of pasta with red tomato sauce, and there were pieces of "meat" in the tomato-based sauce.

But the ones Xie Yunlong pushed in front of Liu Maoxing were white steamed buns that were crystal clear like jade... or steamed stuffed buns!

Xie Yunlong picked up a western food fork, rolled up a strand of spaghetti, and a piece of meat was poked on one side of the fork tip, and Liu Maoxing also used chopsticks to pick up a white jade steamed bun and put it into his mouth...

The moment Liu Maoxing bit it, a gust of heat flowed into Liu Maoxing's mouth, immediately causing Liu Maoxing to have the illusion that his mouth was filled with soup!

Immediately afterwards, whether it was the firm "white jade dough" or the fragrant filling inside, Liu Maoxing lingered...

That's right, it is "Fragrant Fragrance"!

Liu Maoxing immediately sensed that this white jade soup dumpling was filled with vegan stuffing, and the fragrance of asparagus and oyster mushrooms, as well as the mellow aroma of beans and soy products, launched an assault on Liu Maoxing's taste.

Soup dumpling?

Liu Maoxing couldn't help being stunned for a moment. Before, because the opponent was Master Xie, Liu Maoxing didn't dare to relax, so he didn't pay much attention to Master Xie's cooking process, but was busy working on his "Multiple Vegetarian Meat Pasta"...

Indeed, if dead noodles are used to make steamed stuffed buns, only "soup dumpling" is more suitable.

Usually the steamed bun skin is made of fermented "leaven noodles", and the bun skin is usually very soft after steaming.

However, the "soup dumpling" is obviously an exception. If the skin of the dough is used, the result is that the solidified soup will be absorbed by the skin of the bun after being heated and melted. It can be said...

Therefore, "soup dumplings" usually use dead noodles, or dead noodles are mixed with hot noodles and leavened noodles to make the skin.

Compared with pure dead noodles, it is more common to mix dead noodles with fermented noodles and hot noodles.

However, like the Kaifeng soup dumpling, it uses pure dead noodles, because the strength of the dead noodles can make the skin thinner, and there is no need to worry that the skin of the buns will be broken due to the soup.

What puzzled Liu Maoxing the most was the "soup" in Xie Yunlong's soup dumplings!

Ordinary soup dumplings are made by placing the soup in a "frozen" shape, or cutting the specially made skin jelly into small pieces and putting a small piece in each bun, and then the soup jelly melts at high temperature , the soup dumpling will be filled with liquid soup.

But Master Xie's "White Jade Soup Dumplings", after Liu Maoxing tasted it, he immediately knew that the soup inside would definitely not be meat jelly or the product of solidified soup...

The fragrant taste is clearly a vegan soup!

And according to the provisions of the title, the use of "meat" is obviously not allowed.

Vegan soup, no matter how long it is stored, it is impossible to solidify, unless it is frozen at a low temperature below the freezing point...

But using the freezing method will cause the soup to be layered due to different freezing points, and the taste will not be so seamless.

Usually authentic soup dumplings are usually filled with mutton or beef. Later, soup dumplings filled with pork and three delicacies were born.

Rarely, there are soup dumplings with vegetarian fillings, but they are usually misnamed!

It is either a solidified steamed bun made of animal materials added to the plain filling, or there is no "soup filling" effect at all. It is just an ordinary vegetarian bun with a relatively high humidity and sufficient moisture in the filling.

But Xie Yunlong's "White Jade Soup Dumplings" is obviously not the case...

Because he knows that for the "comfort soul" chef, using "fake meat" is worse than "not using meat"!

With Liu Maoxing's sense of taste and sensitivity to ingredients, he immediately reacted, and secretly said: That's it! It's agar cauliflower!

Geliflower is a kind of algae that grows on coral reefs. It is not only used to make pickles and cold dishes, which are fresh and refreshing, but also rich in colloids. It is one of the raw materials used to make "jelly".

At the same time, the colloidal substance in the cauliflower can be dissolved after boiling, and then this liquid is added to the soup to form a colloidal block of the vegetable soup!

Moreover, the asparagus and fungus used as the filling of Baiyu soup dumplings are not completely "stuffing", but cut into small "dices", which is also different from the filling of ordinary soup dumplings, which is delicate and tough... …

In the traditional soup dumplings, the symbol of the best beef filling is to pinch a piece of extremely fine beef filling, which can be elongated and continuous in the hand like dough.

But the filling of Master Xie’s “Baiyu Soup Dumplings” can make people think that they are not eating soup dumplings, but drinking a bowl of warm asparagus and oyster mushroom soup!

Fragrant asparagus and soft oyster mushrooms were chewed together with the delicious soup, and Liu Maoxing's mind was filled with bursts of unique taste enjoyment of vegetarian food.

I see! Vegetarian meat...Because "vegetarian meat" is more harmful to "comfort" than real vegan ingredients, "vegetarian meat jelly" is used to compare the "vegetarian meat" in the title, and then in the finished product, "vegetarian meat jelly" "It has become soup...

Liu Maoxing understood Master Xie's thoughts.

At the same time, I also guessed that the influence of "vegetarian meat" on Xie Yunlong should be greater than what I imagined, right?

But now the other party did use the "vegetarian meat jelly" button, although there is no vegetarian meat in the final product

It is enough to play a part of the effect of "comforting the soul". However, judging from the fact that the "Dark Cuisine Showdown" did not end on its own, this is indeed recognized by the rules...

Liu Maoxing also felt it. The fragrance of the bamboo shoot soup, which is used as the filling of the white jade soup dumpling, carried a reassuring aura, as if there was an incense burner burning incense for calming the nerves in front of him...

The power of "comfort soul" cooking heart is not as good as using meat in vegetarian ingredients, but at least it is worse than using vegetarian meat!

Because of the most important sincerity of "comfort spirits", at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Zhuge Liang's troops returned to the court after the Southern Expedition, it was the resentful spirits of the barbarians who died during the Southern Expedition that confused the river, and "mantou" was used instead of "mantou". It is to prevent the casualties from further expanding, so although the "steamed buns" are "fake" in a more literal sense, they also reflect sincerity...

In contrast, the use of "vegetarian meat" as a sacrifice is entirely based on personal likes and dislikes in "burning newspapers at graves", and naturally it is not good enough in "sincerity".

The simple use of vegetarian ingredients, although the effect is not as good as that of meat, but it does not contain deceitful intentions. Naturally, the effect of "comfort" is worse than that of vegetarian meat.

While Liu Maoxing was indulging in "Baiyu Guantang Dumplings", he kept thinking about his "Multiple Vegetarian Pasta" in his heart!

The sauce base of Liu Maoxing's golden pasta is similar to Yisami's performance in the autumn selection competition, that is, when cooking the sauce, he did not use a drop of extra water, but completely used tomatoes after heating oozing juice...

However, unlike Yisami, Liu Maoxing did not directly heat the tomato in the deep soup pot with a high fire to soften and rot the tomato juice. Instead, he heated it slowly at a low temperature of 60 degrees with a low fire.

One is to reduce the sharp taste of tomato juice, and the other is that lycopene in tomato has a better effect on scavenging free radicals than carotenoids and vitamin E. It will decompose at high temperature and is not suitable for long-term high-temperature heating .

Afterwards, the tomato juice that was simmered in a slow fire was divided into two parts, one part was used to cook the meat broth with clear tomato juice, and the other part was reserved with the soft and rotten tomatoes as the raw material for the final sauce... …

Xie Yunlong did not directly use vegetarian meat because of his "comforting soul" cooking heart, but Liu Maoxing did not have such restrictions. His "source cuisine" and "sun" cooking heart are already extremely universal skills!

Whether it is plants or animals, they will directly or indirectly obtain the power of the sun...

Especially the tomato juice as the base was also deliberately chosen by Liu Maoxing.

Tomato is a kind of light-loving crop. Although the requirement for sunlight is very flexible, abundant sunshine is the guarantee of quality and yield. Therefore, only the California region of the United States, the Mediterranean region, and China’s Xinjiang Inner Mongolia are the concentration of tomatoes in the world. Origin!

The tomato base can make the power of the "sun" full of it.

So Liu Maoxing chose the most common way of making "vegetarian meat", which is to use real meat broth to add flavor to the vegetarian meat.

There are five types of broth that Liu Maoxing chose, if not for the lack of time, Liu Maoxing would probably choose top soup or clear soup...

There are five kinds of broth: one is beef broth, which is made from beef and beef bones, served with onions, raw chives, and star anise; the other is chicken broth, which can be found in chicken top soup; Bone as the main material; the fourth is mutton broth, with mutton, mutton bones and haggis as the main material, accompanied by angelica, cinnamon, grass fruit, tangerine peel, and almonds to balance the fishy smell, and at the same time make the fishy smell set off the faint medicinal fragrance ; The fifth is ham broth, made with Jinhua ham, which is most suitable for hanging soup, and made with Jinhua ham and scallops!

Although Liu Maoxing cooks pasta, but when it comes to the sauce and side dishes, he refers to the most orthodox Chinese cuisine method... Dashi dishes!

From the beginning to the end, except for the ingredients, only natural spices are used, and no artificial condiments or ground spice powders are used. Even the salt is only the salt in Jinhua ham!

Afterwards, Liu Maoxing prepared to roll the bean curd, dried bean curd, and bean dregs together in different proportions, and then wrapped the outside tightly with sterile gauze, and then put the whole thing into the broth to boil.

The "vegetarian meat" rolled by five kinds of soy products in different proportions simulates the texture of beef, chicken, pork, lamb and ham respectively, and is also soaked in five kinds of broths!

Then add another portion of tomato juice to season with traditional Italian spices such as basil, oregano leaves, thyme, etc., and then cook until the juice is reduced. The tomato juice and the soft rotten tomatoes below can be stirred together until the state of sauce can appear.

Finally, five types of vegetarian meat are mixed with tomato sauce and poured on cooked golden pasta...

This is also one of the reasons why Liu Maoxing chose spaghetti instead of traditional Chinese hot noodles. Although "vegetarian meat" has a texture and taste close to meat at this time, their taste is foreign after all. If cooked with noodle soup If you use it, the taste will definitely disperse into the soup, and if you use those broths directly, the taste will be heavier!

Therefore, what Liu Maoxing can choose must be dishes that do not need to be cooked after the "vegetarian meat" is made.

Pasta can be eaten directly with sauce, and Liu Maoxing added part of tomato juice to the broth, so the taste of "vegetarian meat" can be in harmony with each other even if it is not cooked with the tomato-based sauce carrying...

If Xie Yunlong's "soul comfort" is to appease the dead, then Liu Maoxing's "sun" is to nourish the living!

Five kinds of "vegetarian meat" pasta have countless variations in taste due to different combinations. In Xie Yunlong's mind, he constructed a scene of countless creatures living in the world under the sunshine, full of all kinds of frosty sky. Freedom means...

Life and death, at this moment in the hearts of Liu Maoxing and Xie Yunlong, are constantly revolving.

The weakness of "Comfort Soul" Chef Xin in the cooking showdown was revealed again.

Although the recipes of the Bailuo family are delicious for ordinary people, the feeling brought by the "comforting soul" cooking heart is also liked by many emperors...

But in the "cuisine showdown", if you encounter more vigorous and vigorous cuisine, the effect of "soothing soul" kitchen heart will fall into a disadvantage!

Of course, no matter how vigorous an ordinary cook is, they cannot be Xie Yunlong's opponent... It's just that in this way, it will be easier to dissipate the emotions in people's hearts inspired by the "spiritual comfort" cooking heart.

For example, during the "Zhonghua Yiyi" period, when Xie Lu played against Logan on the Loulin ship, Xie Lu's "golden smile" took advantage of Logan to a large extent!

Xie Luna's attributes tend to be vigorous and joyful, suppressing the effect of Logan's "spiritual" kitchen heart...

This kind of suppression is not due to restraint. In fact, the two kitchen heart attributes are relative, not mutually restraining. The reason for this effect is that the judges are also living people!

If they were instead asked to appease the unjust souls in southern Xinjiang, it is estimated that a few "golden smiles" will go on, and the whole river will boil with half-sarcastic "giggle" laughter.

And now this kind of "life and death" confrontation reappears in the hearts of Liu Maoxing and Xie Yunlong...

At the same time, regarding the legendary kitchen utensils, Liu Maoxing speculates that Xie Yunlong should also be able to use the role of the magic holy bronze utensils that have become "cursed kitchen utensils"...

However, Liu Maoxing's cooking room does not have dry ingredients that need to be soaked, and the "dead noodles" also prohibits the fermentation of noodles, so there is no room for the effects of "perfect reproduction" and "accumulation multiplication" of the Demon Holy Bronze Ware!

On the contrary, after Liu Maoxing had the final duel with Paul before, the effect of the "greedy wolf pot" absorbed by the "dragon pattern jade dragon pot" was still there. The power of "Wolf Pot" is perfectly cut...

It can be said that after possessing the power of "Greedy Wolf Pot", Liu Maoxing's sword skills can only be described as unpredictable. Before Liu Maoxing's sword skills were not as good as Xie Yunlong's and Lin Yi's, but now they have surpassed them by a bit. !

Even so, Liu Maoxing's overall culinary skills are undoubtedly lower than Xie Yunlong's, but in terms of the topic from the very beginning, he abolished the old Shu Han noodles who knew Yunlong well, and all the skills in using "fat noodles". Later, "vegetarian meat" was used to limit the display of "comfort soul" kitchen heart, so that the gap between the two was greatly narrowed!

It seems to be a reenactment of the pastry battle on the Loulin ship. Xie Yunlong's "Baiyu Guantang Bao" seems to have the power to appease all the dead, while Liu Maoxing's "Multi-playing Veggie Pasta" is a concentrated response to all living things in the world. Praise from the author...

Finally, when Liu Maoxing opened his eyes, he saw that the surrounding environment had returned to normal little by little, and Master Xie's muscular figure had also shriveled up slowly.

The blue veins and red eyes that were the sequelae of "Cultivating Immortals" have disappeared, but the black eye circles have only dimmed a bit, and his face is pale, with a look of exhaustion... No, it looks like exhaustion.

That's right, just now, both Liu Maoxing and Xie Yunlong got their own answers in their hearts!

Under the bias of various objective conditions, in the end, the praise for the living surpassed the appeasement for the dead...

Seeing Master Xie shaking suddenly, as if he was about to fall down, Liu Maoxing rushed over with one step, and Master Xie hugged him.

"Jie Lao? Are you okay?"

Thinking of the scene where Paul fainted immediately after failing in the "Dark Cuisine Showdown", Liu Maoxing couldn't help but feel a little worried!

We must know that Liu Maoxing was trying his best to restrain himself at that time. If Liu Maoxing lost, it would definitely not be as simple as fainting.

But now...Although Paul is not young, he is considered a mature man compared to Master Xie. Besides, he is exhausted... Ahem, it is the phenomenon of exhaustion, which is very dangerous when it occurs to the elderly!

Suddenly Liu Maoxing saw Xie Yunlong's eyelids move, and said hastily, "Mr. Xie? Do you want me to take a pen with you, and you write your will first... so as not to be unclear later!"

"Do you believe in leaving a death message and drawing the constellation picture of Pleiades?" Xie Yunlong said angrily.

"..."

Facts have proved that although Master Xie is at least one year older than Paul, in terms of physical fitness, Paul may not be as good as Master Xie!

After confirming that Master Xie was fine, Liu Maoxing also gave up the idea of ​​continuing to recall the more than 800 episodes of Conan he had watched and assisting himself in forging an alibi.

After all, Liu Maoxing didn't know whether he was killed in the "Dark Cuisine Showdown" or not...

"By the way! Mr. Xie, if there is nothing else, can I have a look at your 'Magic Saint Bronze Vessel'?" Liu Maoxing said suddenly.

Because Xie Yunlong had no chance to use the ability of the "Magic Holy Bronze Vessel" before, Liu Maoxing's "Dragon Pattern Jade Dragon Pot" also did not include the function of "Magic Holy Copper Vessel".

Although Xie Yunlong just lost, he doesn't seem to have any psychological burden...

After all, he has already lived through an era, and his old man has already seen through winning and losing. Without the influence of the "curse", he doesn't care about it at all.

This is also the reason why he discovered that he actually felt the "competition" in Liu Maoxing because of the existence of the "comfort soul" cooking heart, and suddenly felt that it was an incredible thing, and then he had doubts about his own state. one.

Xie Yunlong is also very surprised now that he can actually use the real power of the "Magic Holy Bronze Vessel". It seems that these dragon chefs are also a blessing in disguise...

However, he still said worriedly, "I've really cleared the curse now, haven't I?"

"It should be like this, according to what Master Xu Ling said..."

"Then, can you transfer your Dragon Jade Dragon Pot?" Xie Yunlong asked with a serious face.

"Unfortunately, it's not possible... and I'm not going to 'transfer' this responsibility." Liu Maoxing shrugged.

Apparently Xie Yunlong, like the "two" Liu Maoxing, also has extraordinary self-confidence. He believes that he will have a higher success rate than others when he fights against other Long Chefs.

Even though he just lost to Liu Maoxing, Xie Yunlong's confidence did not shake at all.

Not to mention that the victory or defeat this time was originally formed under the bias of many objective conditions. Even if the objective conditions are not considered, subjectively Xie Yunlong, or the self-confidence of all top cooks, is no longer a one-off. The outcome of the two can be shaken.

"Mr. Xie... Please explain to me about the situation of other Long Chefs!" Liu Maoxing said suddenly.

Paul's mental state was not very good before, and his usual dealings with other dragon chefs were limited to communication, and he was not good enough to learn from each other. Although he can become a dragon chef, Paul's "greed" for cooking is beyond doubt , but after becoming Chef Long and the president of the Michelin Food Federation, he is destined to have fewer opportunities to compete with others.

But Xie Yunlong is different...

This guy has been wandering around the world for decades... Liu Maoxing believes that while he cares for the younger generation of women, he will definitely find some famous chefs to learn cooking skills!

Liu Maoxing also asked Paul a similar question before. Paul's answer was that he didn't know much about other people, but he said that Xie Yunlong was his least sure opponent...

Because when he first became Chef Long, Xie Yunlong once confronted him anonymously in private. Although it was not long before Paul became Chef Long, he recalled it now and felt that Xie Yunlong at that time should be very powerful!

"Other dragon chefs? Actually, I knew them, basically before they became dragon chefs... Except for Lin Yi and Chengichiro, after they became dragon chefs, I also competed with them, especially Lin Yi, I often look for He sparred." Xie Yunlong said.

Seeing Liu Maoxing's nervous look, Xie Yunlong couldn't help but said: "Don't be nervous, but don't be too optimistic... After becoming Chef Long, everyone is about the same in terms of strength. At most, they develop in the 'width' of cooking! You can beat Paul And I, in theory, have the strength to defeat other dragon chefs... and also have the possibility of losing to any dragon chef!"

"Aren't you always being modest? I heard Chairman Paul say that...he is the least sure..."

"That's right! Among any dragon chefs, at most there is a difference in the degree of 'not sure'!" Xie Yunlong said.

After that, Xie Yunlong also spent the whole afternoon introducing to Liu Maoxing the basic characteristics of Lin Yi and Seiichiro's cooking skills. It can also be seen that Xie Yunlong's physique is indeed better than Paul's, and he even made a few tricks himself. Eating, drinking, and talking...

But at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Maoxing started to lose his mind again. Xie Yunlong, who knew the reason, didn't rush him, but started to drink by himself.

Until Liu Maoxing's cell phone rang...