Chapter 367 Competition Notice

In the afternoon, after Zhao Xiaojing and Nie Xiuqi killed the fourth fish and tried Song Sao's fish soup recipe for the eighth time, they finally made new progress.

[Song Sao Fish Soup: Between Level 2 and Level 3, a more suitable recipe among many. The fish is not cooked properly, the ham is not the right type, and the ingredients are not handled properly.]

Upgraded! Zhao Xiaojing was delighted.

This was the last half of the four sea bass fillets. After the four people took turns trying to cut the fish into strips but failed, they unanimously decided to take it one step at a time and follow Nie Xiuqi's previous method, only improving the soup part.

After Zhao Xiaojing tried stir-frying the fish bones for the last time and adding chicken broth, the Song Sao Fish Soup, which was made by the two of them together, finally underwent a qualitative change, although it only advanced half a level.

"It tastes much better this time. Was this step successful?" Yun Yongyuan said with a smile on his face.

"I'll go look for ham from Zhejiang Province tonight. If there's any, I'll buy a few pieces. If not, I'll look for it online and place an order today. I'll try with the new ham then." Zhao Xiaojing said excitedly.

"Is the ham problem that big of a problem?" Wan Yuyue took another sip of the fish soup in confusion and picked up a piece of ham to taste.

"Not really. It's just a small area of ​​improvement that we can definitely improve. After all, no matter how we shred the fish, we can't get it right. We can't cut it right, and we can't marinate it right. We can't see what's inside until the window paper is broken."

"Can buying the ham break the window paper?" Wan Yuyue asked.

"Just give it a try. Didn't you feel a sense of accomplishment in modifying the soup today?" Zhao Xiaojing smiled.

Of course, buying ham won't make the difference. This is a famous dish. Among the four of them, Nie Xiuqi, who has been a middle school chef for the longest time, has been cooking for five years and still hasn't made a breakthrough. Does that mean just adding the three of them will make the difference?

There may be a very small probability that it will work, but the time and energy invested will definitely be disproportionate.

Otherwise, the famous dish would have been everywhere and everyone would know how to make it.

But who gave her the cheat? She relied on the cheat. As long as she could get 60% close, she could buy the recipe.

"That makes sense. Junior sister, buy some pork belly and kidney, or tripe and duck intestines tomorrow!" Yun Yongyuan thought seriously and stretched out two fingers, shaking them up and down.

"Why? You want to add these to Mrs. Song's fish soup?"

"What to add to Song Sao's fish soup is your business." Yun Yongyuan immediately shook his head. "Didn't the chef say you could use pork tripe and kidney for the Stir-fried Double Crisps? I've never been able to get the right heat for this dish. The yellow throat and duck gizzards require different temperatures, and I can't quite get it right. But yellow throat and kidney, or tripe and duck intestines, should be cooked the same way. I'm sure I can get it right if I add them together!"

"That's fine. You're quite good at drawing inferences from one instance." Zhao Xiaojing agreed readily.

After dinner, before Zhao Xiaojing set out to various markets to look for ham, the audition notice for "Fresh Chef Competition" came.

As Wen Jin had heard through the grapevine, this competition had invited some heavyweights, so the publicity was massive and the scale was unprecedented.

All satellite TV stations and the internet have done enough advertising. Even the stars of the melodramatic web drama that Ouyang Yidan followed started endorsing the cooking competition halfway through the show. As a result, a large number of people participated. Almost every province in the country has set up audition areas, and you can hear passers-by talking about the news when you walk on the street.

Since the organizer of "Fresh Chef Competition" is Baitao TV in the neighboring province, which is not too far away, and Jiangcheng has a large population base, the number of people who signed up in Jiangcheng was second only to Tuancheng where Baitao TV is located. Moreover, Jiangcheng is the provincial capital, so it was naturally set as the audition sub-competition area of ​​the province.

The location of the sub-competition area is in Jiangliu District, at the National Stadium very close to Master Gu's Restaurant. It is scheduled for April 1st, which happens to be a Saturday.

Zhao Xiaojing took a deep breath, suddenly feeling a sense of urgency. April 1st was only ten days away. Although it was just the auditions, the schedule after the auditions would definitely be tighter than it was now, and she wouldn't have as much time to practice.

"Senior Brother Yun, how about you help me find some ham? The competition is on April 1st, and I want to make the most of the time to practice more." Zhao Xiaojing stopped Yun Yongyuan who was about to leave and showed him the notice.

"I can just go buy it. I have nothing to do." Su Yuchen, who came to eat dinner at dinner time, looked at the notice and took the job automatically.

"Can you tell the difference between hams? Can you tell whether a ham is good or bad? Professional matters should be left to professionals, okay, Comb Girl?" Before Zhao Xiaojing could speak, Wan Yuyue rubbed Su Yuchen's hair.

"Ha." Su Yuchen saw that it was Wan Yuyue and glanced at her with a smile, "You really hold a grudge! You..."

"Okay, okay, senior sister, you are professional, why don't you go buy it?" Zhao Xiaojing stretched out her hand and hurriedly stopped the two before they could quarrel again.

At dinner, Su Yuchen tasted a large lump of salt in Wan Yuyue's spicy and sour chicken offal, and the two of them joked and argued all night long, which made Zhao Xiaojing feel overwhelmed.

"Okay, just reimburse me." Seeing that Su Yuchen's spell was interrupted, Wan Yuyue agreed with a smile.

"Reimbursements will be made when the time comes. You guys can discuss it. Anyone can go, and everyone will be reimbursed!" Zhao Xiaojing saw Yun Yongyuan opening his mouth as if he also wanted to go. Su Yuchen was also ready to fight back, so she hurriedly slipped away before they could speak.

…

At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhao Xiaojing, who had spent more than two hundred hours in the virtual space, tasted a bite of freshly cooked lychee meat, and immediately couldn't wait to open the system background and jump to the recipe module collection page.

[Lychee meat: 60% available for purchase]

I knew the strategy was working! Zhao Xiaojing beamed with joy.

At present, she has bought systematic recipes for all her home-cooked dishes, and has almost reached a bottleneck. Apart from accumulating experience, practicing basic skills a lot, and improving as her overall cooking skills improve, there is no room for improvement.

The two famous dishes, pot-roasted pork elbow and fairy duck, are still being practiced. One can be made quite well, while the other is still a work in progress.

Although the virtual space provides ample practice time and venues, with nearly five hundred hours of practice every day, Zhao Xiaojing still lacks confidence in learning just these two famous dishes.

Therefore, she set her sights on lychee meat, which had been activated to 5-6% for a long time, but it had always been a dish she practiced on when she got tired of cooking other dishes.

Sure enough, just a few hundred hours of focused practice immediately paid off.

"System, buy the recipe for lychee meat." Zhao Xiaojing said happily.

[Purchase the lychee meat recipe, costing 300 system coins, please confirm whether to purchase.]

【whether】

"Yes." It was the same price as expected. With a slight beep from the system, lychee meat immediately appeared in the learning module.

Zhao Xiaojing plunged into the learning module again and began a new round of learning...