Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"You, will you come to class next time? People, people are not here to compete with you!"

"Although I won't come to class anymore, but... I can promise you that as long as you are admitted to Yuanyue Academy, no matter where I am, I can come back and compete with you!" Liu Maoxing said.

"Hey, he's obviously just a clumsy guy, but he still looks great..." Huayin glanced at her mouth.

"Then do you want to accept the challenge?"

Huayin recalled the excitement during the previous competition, and the hateful face of someone who was as clumsy as her but still laughed at her all the time, she couldn't help clenching her fists and said: "Okay! I will definitely be admitted to Yuanyue Academy Yes! But...don't give up cooking just because you're too stupid!"

"Then pull the hook!"

Accompanied by Liu Maoxing's agreement to eat halberds casually to commemorate the little superficial understanding of "concentration" today, the two little fingers, one big and one small, are pulled together...

On the way back to Yuanyue, Chuangzhen sighed: "Perhaps Senior Isshiki asked us to come here to let us feel the mood of the children when cooking, so that we will not be too nervous during the week of preparing for the competition!"

"That's right, I did feel the children's feelings, but maybe I got a little more!" Liu Maoxing said.

"Huh? By the way, what Ah Xing said before is to find the key to improving your cooking skills... How about it? Is there any result?" Chuangzhen asked suspiciously.

"Not yet, but I think I've found my way!" Liu Maoxing said with excitement in his eyes.

Tian Suohui said weakly at the side: "However...Ah Xing, it's better to consider only the main competition topic first?"

"Don't worry, the game will not be delayed!" Liu Maoxing said confidently.

Since it is a "training" of concentration, any dish can be used as a carrier for "training". For the topic of "dessert", Liu Maoxing needs to practice a few more times to find the most suitable idea!

On the second day, all the other students in "Ji Xing Liao" went to class early. As one of the top ten, Yi Se Hui also had her own work to do. You don't have to go to class for a week, you can concentrate on studying the cooking of the competition...

At five o'clock in the afternoon, everyone finished the day's class and returned to the dormitory, only to find out from Wen Xu that the three of them had been in the kitchen all day...

Because of the accumulation of the "golden age", Jixing Liao is not only large, but also has a variety of luxurious facilities. Each room has its own home-cooked kitchen, and each floor has two large kitchens separated on both sides. In the kitchen next to the cafeteria where everyone usually eats breakfast and dinner together, there are a total of seven well-equipped large kitchens!

So the three of them each chose a room, and none of them came out after that...

"Eh? Didn't come out yet?"

"Including Ah Xing?"

"It's really rare... Usually he rarely cooks outside of competitions and classes, right?"

"Should I go and have a look, maybe I fell asleep..."

Everyone was not surprised by Chuangzhen and Xiaohui's performance, but everyone expressed that their three views collapsed when they saw Liu Maoxing's sudden diligence!

Dawu suddenly said: "By the way, I heard from Chuangzhen yesterday that Ah Xing seems to have found a way to improve his skills... Could it be related to this? Is he practicing in this area?"

"It seems to make sense... Wait! Ah Xing has the feeling to go further?" Everyone was even more surprised.

In fact, more or less, everyone has made subtle progress every day that is not easy to detect. For example, the "qualified" level of the first-year students of Yuanyue College has reached the intermediate five-star level, and most of the students have already reached the advanced level. I believe that after "field training" After that, students who have not yet reached the advanced level will be eliminated in large numbers!

But since Liu Maoxing said something like "going a step further", he must have received some important inspiration, and there will be a breakthrough in cooking skills!

Liu Maoxing's previous performance in the preliminaries had already made it difficult for ordinary students to come close to him. Even for Yu Mei, Liang Zi and others, it was a bit of a lofty admiration. Now if he improves again, what kind of situation will he reach? Top ten? graduate?

"Oh, by the way, I didn't prepare dinner for you today, and Yu Mei doesn't need to worry about A Xing! After the three of them, there will definitely be a lot of 'experiments' to be eliminated, so don't waste food!" Wen Xu said .

"Of course, we've been looking forward to it for a long time!" Yuki said energetically.

With the culinary skills of the three of them, even if it is just an "experimental product", it is enough to look forward to...

Soon after, at 6:30, Chuangzhen and Xiaohui had already "leaved the customs" one after another, and what they brought with them were "bento" in thermal boxes and various "soups".

Because the title of the duel between Megumin Tiansuo and Ryo Kurokiba was "Ramen", the ramen itself was provided by the academy. The focus of the duel is also on "soup".

To a certain extent, this also reflects one of the characteristics of Japanese ramen...emphasis on soup rather than noodles!

Japanese-style ramen shops are better than the quality of "soup". Some Japanese-style ramen shops can even add noodles at will, but adding soup requires extra money...

It is precisely because of this that the focus of Tian Suohui's experiment today is also "soup".

"Eh? Ah Xing is actually the most diligent this time..." Chuangzhen was also surprised when he knew that Liu Maoxing hadn't come out yet.

"I'll ask him to come down, the soup will be cold soon." Yu Mei said.

Speaking of which, Yu Mei went to the kitchen on the second floor where Liu Maoxing was, and when she gently opened the door, she found that Liu Maoxing was not cooking, but was trying to eat, so she was relieved and made sure that she would not disturb Liu Maoxing.

But Liu Maoxing's expression at this time, although not depressed, was definitely not happy, as if he was not satisfied with today's results.

"Ah Xing, let's take a break, everyone is waiting for you downstairs." Yu Mei said.

"It's already night in a blink of an eye...Okay, I'll be here right away."

Liu Maoxing said that he packed up his "results" of the day, and Yu Mei's eyes lit up when she saw it, "Huh? This should be the most commonly eaten 'moon cake' during the Mid-Autumn Festival among traditional Chinese pastries." ?”

"That's right, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and it happens to be about 'desserts'. If I don't do this, I'd be ashamed to say that I'm good at Chinese cuisine." Liu Maoxing said as a matter of course.

Island countries also celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, but it is called "Mid-Autumn Moon" or "Fifteen Nights". There are also special pastries eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but they are not moon cakes, but dumpling. The dumpling at this time is also called Yuejian dumpling.

In terms of festival artistic conception, whether it is the traditional Chinese "Mid-Autumn Festival" or the "Fifteen Nights" of the island country, it has the meaning of reunion and celebration of the harvest. However, the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is more inclined to "reunion", while the island country's "Fifteen Nights" tends to be "harvest"...

"What kind of moon cake is this?" Yu Mei asked.

"Five kernel moon cakes, a traditional moon cake that started to rise and become popular in modern times." Liu Maoxing said.

Yu Mei looked at each mooncake with a diameter of about 10 centimeters, and used a knife to cut out a fan shape of about one-tenth. Obviously, Liu Maoxing had already tried it.

And there are so many mooncakes, no matter from the skin or the filling, Yu Mei didn't see any difference...

"Is there... any difference?" Yu Mei asked suspiciously.

If it's all the same, what kind of experiment is that? Or is this already a finalized competition sample? But looking at Liu Maoxing's appearance before, he was clearly dissatisfied!

"I hope there is a difference... well, let's try it later!" Liu Maoxing said helplessly.

Liu Maoxing did not make any improvements to these five-nut mooncakes, they are just the most common sugar-skinned five-nut mooncakes, although under the adjustment of Liu Maoxing's super god tongue, the ratio of five kernels and other sugars has reached a perfect level, but as the finished product of the competition, I am afraid that you lose more than you win!

After Liu Maoxing and everyone ate Chuangzhen's various bentos and Wada Suohui's various soups, Liu Maoxing and Yu Mei also brought two large plates of mooncakes...

"There are not only rice and soup, but also desserts after dinner. Your topic is really great!" You Ji exclaimed.

"Eh? Is this a mooncake?"

Afterwards, Liu Maoxing explained the five-nut mooncake again, and everyone began to try it. Liu Maoxing had already divided each mooncake into eleven small pieces in advance, so that everyone could taste it separately...

"Wow! This crispy skin and crispy candied kernels are so wonderful!"

"That's right, because of the nuts, it's obviously very sweet, but it's not greasy at all..."

"I have eaten five-nut mooncakes before, but they are definitely not as special as this one!"

Everyone first offered good comments one after another, but then their faces became more and more weird...

"Huh? What's the difference between these two pieces?"

"It's not a matter of two pieces, you can try other ones...I can't tell the difference!"

"A Xing, you didn't just make one batch of mooncakes in one afternoon, did you?"

"Even if it's a batch, there's no need for the same stuffing... Is it already decided to use this competition?"

"No way? Although it's delicious, it still lacks some impact..."

After hearing everyone's comments, Liu Maoxing also sighed: "Is there really no difference? Hey!"

"Eh? Do you hope there is a difference? Or... Are there really any differences in the making of these mooncakes?" Ryoko asked puzzled.

"There is indeed a difference... I followed what Xiaohui said. When making each mooncake, I tried to think that different people would try it, so as to improve my concentration! But Yu Mei, Xiaohui, and Erina , and... Ryoko, I also tried! But it seems that they all failed..."

Liu Maoxing named out a large list of names, which made Yu Mei who was present at a loss, Tian Suohui panicked on the spot, Yu Ji and Ryoko didn't feel anything, but were speechless about Liu Maoxing's logic.

"Hey, young people nowadays!" Wen Xu exclaimed.

Chuangma, who lacked such nerves, asked in confusion, "Eh? Without me?"

In the end, Dawu on one side covered his mouth, and said at the same time: "Don't make trouble, are you gay?"

"What guy?"

In response to everyone's abnormal reaction, Liu Maoxing muttered: "Is there any problem? Mr. Joichiro also said before that the shortcut to improve cooking skills is to 'find a woman who wants to dedicate all her cooking'..."

When saying this, Yu Mei and Tian Suohui became a little nervous at the same time, but what Liu Maoxing said next made their hormones instantly turn into cholesterol!

"Mr. Shiroichiro is so powerful if he finds 'one', if I find many..." Liu Maoxing said with an inexplicable brilliance in his eyes...

The next second, she was knocked to the ground by Yu Mei with a bit more force than usual, and at the same time, Yu Mei was still muttering: "Ah Xing is an idiot, a fool, a fool!"