Did Guan Wenyan plan this all along?
Xu Milu was so angry she wanted to curse.
She carefully analyzed the cuisines preferred by several contestants and anticipated that someone might use the same ingredients as her, but she didn't expect it to be Guan Wenyan.
Duck meat is rather tough, so it's usually used in soups or roasted. The dish she prepared today just happened to be a delicious thin-skinned roast duck, something no one else knew about except her.
Making soup and roasting duck are not Guan Wenyan's specialties, but the other party just happened to choose duck—it seems that the other party has spent a lot of time studying her and figuring out the patterns in her cooking.
Guan Wenyan avoided the camera and smiled gently at Xu Milu:
"Junior Sister Xu, I'm sorry, it seems I won't be able to see you dismantle the duck on stage using the Cui family knife technique today. I heard you can use the back of the knife to gently tap the duck skin and remove the bone completely, which is very impressive."
"You flatter me. As long as you can make this duck die peacefully, what use is my skill?"
Xu Milu replied with a forced smile, then turned around to get the ingredients, showing no sign of panic at having the same menu as someone else.
The food section was specially refrigerated, and you could feel a distinct chill as you walked in. All kinds of seasonal ingredients were available, including celery, green beans, chestnuts, red beans, lettuce, bamboo fungus, black truffles, fresh fish, hairy crabs, and sea fish buried in ice to keep them fresh with their mouths wide open, looking particularly ferocious.
The new ingredients from Honghe Technology are even more dazzling, including pork belly, giant delicious radish, giant delicious mushroom, deep-sea thousand-leg octopus, two-color mandolin pepper, fried chicken dandelion, wheat ear eggs, ping-pong grapes, peach blossom mica honey, rice and coconut, and bursting sour green plums...
What should we take?
Xu Milu quickly calmed down and scanned the food area. In order not to let others know that she was going to change the menu, Xu Milu simply took the chestnuts from the corner.
What's going on? They're bringing out chestnuts right away, are they making chestnut cakes?
Who takes side dishes right away? Doesn't she understand the rules? Can someone tell her?
Chestnuts? There are so many things you can do with chestnuts: braised chicken with chestnuts, braised pork with chestnuts, beef stew with chestnuts and black tea, stewed pigeon with chestnuts, crispy fried shrimp with chestnuts, chicken with glutinous rice, chestnuts, and green beans...
[This young lady is so clever! She prepared the ingredients in advance so no one could guess what she was going to make.]
[That's pretty risky, isn't it? What if other people guess it?]
[Just one chestnut, can you guess which one it is?]
Clearly, the others didn't understand Xu Milu's move. Bai Bao'er, who was following behind her, bit her lip and chose to take the most expensive ingredient on the table, yellow croaker maw, which looked like she was probably going to make a soup.
In the second round of ingredient selection, Guan Wenyan took the caviar, Mishima Sayuri took the tuna, Jack Brown took the cooking oil without hesitation, Andrei chose a red king crab of a not-so-small size, and Bai Baoer took a basket of fresh bamboo fungus.
Xu Milu's actions became increasingly perplexing. She chose a basket of rather unremarkable small abalone, which, compared to the expensive ingredients selected by the other contestants, was considered quite affordable.
【I don't understand this either. What are abalone and chestnuts for?】
[I just don't understand! If you're going to pick something, at least pick the big ones! Everyone else is getting truffles and caviar, why are you grabbing the cheapest ones? Honey, you can't try to save money for the production team!]
[A seafood dish and a chestnut—are you going to stew it with chicken? Like a chestnut and abalone stewed chicken?]
Here it comes! The "Chef Showdown" is pulling out all the stops – they've stolen the cooking oil!
"Really? Is there enough time to stew the chicken? Only two hours. The other side will have finished their judging by now, and the chicken won't even be tender yet."
This is so strange, I don't understand it.
Clearly, Guan Wenyan couldn't figure out what Xu Milu wanted to do either. In the third round of choosing ingredients, he took the bitter melon according to his own rhythm, Jack Brown took the pigeon, Andre took the chicken, Bai Bao'er chose broccoli, Xu Milu took a jar of yellow wine, and the crucial seasoning - salt - was taken by Mishima Sayuri, who drew the second order.
The barrage of comments on the big screen was almost overlapping, filled entirely with insults:
[I knew it!!! Japan still doesn't have any sportsmanship!!!]
What are our contestants doing?! Why don't they just grab some salt right away?!
[The chicken was taken away too. I feel like the foreign contestants are targeting Miss Xu Milu.]
The salt and oil were both taken by the foreign competitors; how can we compete now? We might as well just admit defeat!
[My goodness! Xu Milu has a whole jar of rice wine! What is she doing?!]
Are they going to use Shaoxing wine for raw marinating?! That's outrageous!
[Just came from the live stream from the camera next door. Andrei and Jack teamed up, both planning to make beef dishes. Bai Bao'er and Mishima Sayuri traded some black truffles for salt!]
Viewers in the live chat were getting anxious, while Zhang Cang, sitting in the audience, was jumping up and down in a panic.
"Isn't anyone going to do anything about this? These Japanese people came up and took the salt, who are they trying to disgust? And these Bald Eagles, they took the cooking oil, what are the other contestants supposed to do?"
The host chuckled dryly: "These are the competition rules. Contestants can help each other to complete the dish preparation."
Zhang Cang thought for a moment and immediately realized what he meant:
"So that's why those Japanese representatives weren't jumping around like that, they were just waiting here."
Judging from the reactions of Maple Leaf and Bald Eagle contestants, it's not hard to guess that the three parties had already planned ahead. They would take away the ingredients Xu Milu wanted during the competition by making a checkmark. If she wanted to complete the dish and win the competition, she would have no choice but to be led by the nose by the other party.
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