Chapter 589: Strange Theme
Hearing her answer, the hearts of the seven contestants sank.
Cooking six dishes in two hours is not too difficult, but the problem is that there is a competition in each round. If you fall in last place, you will be eliminated directly.
How should we arrange these two hours?
Should we follow the classic order of appetizers, soups, side dishes, main dishes, and desserts step by step, or should we put the dishes that take a long time and carefully cook at the front to avoid elimination.
Or save the trump card for the final fight for the championship.
This decision is not only related to personal choice, but also to the choices of other competitors.
If everyone else is firing on all cylinders from the beginning, and you only serve one appetizer, then you will probably fail in the first round, but if everyone makes appetizers and you serve the main course, even though There is a high probability that you can survive the first round, but it will be difficult to survive later.
What’s even more annoying is that the organizer arranged the cooking table in a circle today so that everyone can see each other.
So should we distract other people while cooking? Many people have already murmured in their hearts.
But the more exciting thing was yet to come. The female host finally announced the theme of the game-coconut.
Coconut? ? ?
Many players wondered if their ears had heard wrongly.
Is it actually a coconut?
Although Sanya, or the whole of Hainan, is rich in coconuts, these coconuts are more often used as fruits and drinks.
Very few people use coconut to cook dishes. Well, there is a dish called coconut chicken, but apart from coconut chicken, there seems to be no particularly famous coconut food.
And the so-called theme cuisine means that the cuisine should be based on the theme. If you just use coconut in the dishes instead of highlighting the flavor of coconut, it is equivalent to stealing a chicken and you will not be able to get these. Approved by professional judges.
But that’s it. The most difficult thing is that seven people have to fight with coconuts for six full rounds. The situation will become more and more difficult as it goes on.
It will be a big challenge for the chef’s energy and physical strength.
Even Sun Mei, who has always been confident, changed slightly when he heard the rules and theme of this game.
The main reason is that coconut is indeed a bit too unpopular, but she only frowned slightly and already had some preliminary ideas in her mind.
In comparison, except for Ma Lu, the faces of the other chefs looked a little ugly.
Luo Junkang and Cui Junxian were originally the two people who had the highest voices calling for the championship before the game, but now Cui Junxian has been eliminated.
Instead of feeling happy, Luo Junkang felt that he was about to be led away by a dog.
He is the inheritor of Huaiyang cuisine, and as we all know, Huaiyang... does not have coconuts.
Huaiyang cuisine generally focuses on fresh food from rivers, lakes and rivers. This time the main venue was set in Sanya, which gave him a bad feeling.
Contrary to Kawano Zhengming, seafood is not his strong point. Although he is not unable to cook it, he is still not that good at it.
For this competition, Luo Junkang specially consulted several experts in this field this week.
However, I didn’t expect it to be completely useless. The organizing committee would take a different approach and use coconut as the theme for the finals.
Luo Junkang really felt that he was going to be doomed this time, although his poker face made it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
In fact, when Sun He raised this topic, other directors of the World Culinary Federation did not agree with it.
The reasons are similar. They all think that Coconut is a bit too unpopular, and it is probably impossible to distinguish the true strength of the players.
But in the end, Sun He’s words convinced everyone.
The reason is very simple, because the main purpose of the competition in Asia is to select people to participate in the World Championship, and the World Championship is held in Europe. The ingredients are also local in Europe, so you will almost certainly encounter ingredients that Asian chefs don’t usually use, or even are very unpopular.
Creativity and adaptability are very important at this time.
After confirming that everyone understood the rules, the female host immediately announced the start of the game.
The timer in front of the seven-person stage also started to run, and Sun Mei and others immediately ran to the raw material area and started selecting raw materials.
Only Malu stood in front of the cooking table and stared at the table in a daze for three minutes.
Just when everyone was wondering if he was stumped by the theme this time, Boss Ma finally made a move.
He also walked towards the raw material area, and at this time, some contestants had already opened fire.
It's not that Malu didn't want to hurry up, it was mainly because he just looked at the list given by Lao Wang through the traveler's bracelet, and there were a lot of ingredients.
Lao Wang gave a list of six dishes at once, as well as related kitchen utensils and equipment needed for cooking. It took Ma Lu a while to remember them all.
He asked the staff for a shopping cart and pulled all these things back.
Then he put his left hand into his pocket in full view of everyone and started cooking with only his right hand.
Arrogant!
The audience who saw this scene and in front of the TV couldn't help but have these two words pop up in their minds.
But Malu was not the first to press the timer.
Less than half an hour has passed since the competition, and someone has submitted their work.
And it was like a switch was turned on, and more and more contestants clicked the timer and completed the first round of cooking.
In comparison, Malu was not too fast and did not finish until 40 minutes.
The slowest one was Qi Shanzhu, who took almost 79 minutes to finish her first dish.
Obviously Qi Shanzhu also knew that he was the weakest among the seven, so he treated the first round as the last round and used all his strength from the beginning.
She made Miso Coconut Mont Blanc.
Mont Blanc is a French dessert, so named because it looks like Mont Blanc in the Alps.
Traditional Mont Blanc is made from chestnut puree and cake embryo.
Qi Shanzhu used coconut puree instead of chestnut puree, and miso paste instead of powdered sugar to create a unique Doenjang Coconut Mont Blanc, integrating coconut into his own fusion cuisine.
Chef Fan Yixin from Singapore chose nasi lemak, which is quite popular in Singapore.
This is a kind of breakfast in Singapore. It is generally composed of rice, Sambal (a kind of spicy sauce), Indian pickles, cucumber slices, dried anchovies, roasted peanuts, eggs and other ingredients that can be mixed freely. composition.
The biggest feature is that the rice is cooked with coconut milk, so it is milky white. When you eat it, it will have a sweet taste and a strong coconut aroma.
Sometimes Singaporeans also add pandanus leaves, and the ingredients provided by the organizer this time happen to contain pandanus leaves, which is also one of Hainan's specialties.
However, she was not the only one who came up with this idea. Luo Junkang made a Hainan version of coconut rice, and Chef Di Supala from Thailand also made a Thai version of coconut rice.
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(End of this chapter)