Chapter 374: Tea
The staff member has only made halfway through the introduction, and the gunpowder smell on the scene is so strong that it can explode.
Of course, this is what Bai Renzong hopes to see.
This is how the show is viewable.
So he continued: "The fifth contestant is from the 16th-ranked three-star Michelin restaurant in the world, and the chef Paul Patterke of Wonderland of Oz."
After entering the door, a white man with a neat goatee and a slightly fat figure immediately stepped forward and shook hands with Bai Renzong: "I haven't seen each other for more than a year, right? I have been working hard to improve myself during this period. I hope my cooking skills are worthy of your professionalism."
"You are so polite." Bai Renzong shook hands with him and smiled, "The restaurants have already reached the 16th place in the world, right? This is a great progress."
"The sixth contestant, the chef of Lan Wafang, Yang Hua, is also an old friend, so there is no need to introduce too much, right?" Bai Renzong continued to introduce.
Yang Hua pushed open the door with a gloomy face. When he saw Bai Renzong, he immediately came forward with a smile and shook hands with him: "Xiaobai, it's gone for a while. Is my goddaughter Qiqi okay?"
"Eating and sleeping all day long is so fast." Bai Renzong smiled. He knew that Yang Hua was deliberately showing off his relationship with Paul Patek.
A child? Bai Renzong shook his head and sighed in his heart.
"Ah, Yang!" Paul Patterke came up and greeted Yang Hua enthusiastically, "I haven't seen you for more than a year. How many of your restaurants are ranked? You must have reached the top ten in the world, right? Isn't it still the seventeenth, right?"
As he said that, Paul Patterke's smile suddenly became gloomy: "Oh, I forgot... I became the sixteenth after I became the sixteenth, and now you are the eighteenth! What a pity."
Someone really fell for it! Bai Renzong rolled his eyes.
"..." The blue veins on Yang Hua's forehead leaped and his expression "killed you" was obviously poked into the pain by the other party.
But in fact, Yang Hua did provide a lot of help to Bai Renzong's live broadcast this year, helping him teach various cuisines, so that his popularity can "stay alive".
"Cough cough..." Bai Renzong cleared his throat, "Next, the chef from Nanji City's 'Jufengzhuang', a famous intangible cultural heritage inheritor in our country, and the Shandong cuisine master Zhang Guanghan."
A middle-aged man, about 1.75 meters tall, of medium figure, and in his fifties, pushed open the door and came in. He smiled kindly and waved to the audience. He looked like a particularly approachable old man.
"The last one is from New York, the chef of Yokogawa, the ninth-ranked restaurant in the world, 'mitsuwa'!" Bai Renzong introduced the last one, an old man in his sixties who was in good spirits and thin body came in.
The old man was like a dry wood, feeling weak. Bai Renzong was even a little worried that he could handle the cooking frying pan, but the other party's eyes were very vivid.
Compared to Zhang Guanghan's plump and restrainedness, Jiangchuan Yousheng is more sharp.
As soon as the two men came in, they shook hands with each other.
"Let us represent the food culture of the two countries and communicate with each other in a friendly manner?" Zhang Guanghan said with a gentle smile.
After listening to the live translation, Yosen Jiangchuan bowed politely and said, "Yes, let those young people play with young people, let us two elderly people have a good exchange." But when they said this, the other party's eyes changed, "using the accumulation of these decades."
A terrifying light flashed in Zhang Guanghan's squinting eyes: "The food culture I represent has accumulated more than a few decades of accumulation, so you should be careful..."
"Hohahahahahahahahaha." Jiangchuan Yousheng laughed, and Zhang Guanghan also smiled very happily when he saw this.
But Bai Renzong, who was standing beside him, saw a murderous sense of déjà vu from the two of them, and his hair stood up: "It's a bit scary, these two..."
After finally introducing the contestants, Bai Renzong immediately introduced the review: "Then, in addition to me, there are three other old friends in the second season. Everyone welcomes Alan Robbs, Zuoto Ryoto and Rosini Salerno."
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The three judges came in each of them, except for some changes in their clothes, which looked no different from those a few months ago.
"Then, today's theme is..." Bai Renzong smiled mysteriously, "Tea."
As he said that, Bai Renzong explained in detail: "Use 'tea' to make a dish, which can be any dish, dessert, appetizer, main course, side dishes. Everyone has an hour and a half, from..."
Bai Renzong looked at the time on his phone: "Start now!"
The chefs on the scene pondered for a while, and then began to act one after another.
Bai Renzong was still secretly proud of this: whether in Chinese or Western food, tea is a very rare cooking material. How to apply this material well is the difficulty of this theme. What will these world-leading chefs do?
Taking advantage of the time the chefs were preparing, Bai Renzong started chatting with the three judges.
"I wonder who you are more optimistic about this time?" Bai Renzong asked with a smile.
"I think Chef Adam must have an advantage," said Alan Robbs, holding his arms. "After all, he has traveled around many countries and seen the cuisine culture of those countries. I believe he can make special dishes."
"If you want to travel around countries, Chef Jamie has also traveled to various countries recently. I am looking forward to his growth." Rossini Salerno smiled with his arms in his arms, licking his dog as usual.
"I'm looking forward to the performance of the two older people." Zuoto Ryoto smiled, "After all, decades of cooking experience are unmatched by young people."
While chatting here, the chefs there began to complete their works, and the first one to serve was Yang Hua.
He placed a portion of toast in front of everyone, with thick sauce on it, and there was no tea leaves visible.
"Please use it." Yang Hua said gracefully, "This matcha foie gras toast."
"Matcha foie gras sauce..." Bai Renzong raised his eyebrows, picked up a piece of toast and tasted it.
The bread is made of whole wheat bread, which has a strong wheat aroma at the entrance, but this wheat aroma is just an auxiliary. The real protagonist is actually the thick, thick sauce on it.
"The sauce is made of matcha and foie gras. In fact, it is somewhat similar to the cooking method of mixing foie gras and chocolate. They use bitterness to relieve the greasiness of foie gras. However, in comparison, the bitterness of this matcha is more fresher than chocolate. When eaten, it makes people feel 'ah, it turns out that matcha is better with foie gras'." Bai Renzong explained.
"Indeed, the bitter taste of matcha is relatively light and not as thick as chocolate. It is more suitable when paired with foie gras and will not feel tired." Alan Robbs nodded with satisfaction, "Compared to toast, the sauce on it is the protagonist."
At this time, Bai Renzong couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Oh...this is back to the sweet!"
Immediately, a hint of joy appeared on the faces of the judges: "This taste... is so incredible!" "It's indeed so wonderful!" "This is really an ultimate enjoyment!"
Bai Renzong explained: "The difference between tea and chocolate is that after the bitterness of tea is over, there will be sweetening in the mouth. This is because the tea polyphenols in the tea combine with protein to form a film, causing the muscles in the mouth to contract, thus forming astringent feeling. When the film ruptures, the oral muscles will recover, thus creating this sweetening feeling."
"When this toast is eaten in the first bite, the slightly bitterness of the tea leaves, the deliciousness of foie gras sauce, and the strong aroma of the two ingredients circulate in the mouth. But after the sweetness of the tea leaves, you can further taste the richer sweetness. The sweetness comes from...pumpkin!" Bai Renzong couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh, this gentle and healing sweetness is so wonderful after being amplified!"
"It feels a bit like using artichokes, but it's more clever." Rossini Salerno pondered with his chin.
"It's worthy of being Chef Yang Hua, the use of this kind of sauce is really amazing." Zuo Teng Ryoto sighed, "A man who can make the sauce the protagonist...is amazing."
"Oh, this..." Bai Renzong smiled while touching his chin, "I feel that it will put a lot of pressure on everyone behind me."
Bai Renzong didn't expect that it was such a stunning tea dish at the beginning, but it was very stressful for everyone who came out to take this dish as the first dish to appear.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, this theme is indeed very advantageous for Yang Hua. Because tea is difficult to be the main ingredient after all, it is usually made into sauces. Even if you look at the famous chefs around the world, Yang Hua is also one of the best.
However, his concerns were obviously a bit redundant, after all, the chefs here are all top in the world.
The second one to serve my own dishes was Adam Lucas.
"Please use it." Adam smiled confidently, putting his cooking in front of everyone.
This is a dish that looks like a salad. If you look closely, you can see the shadow of tea inside, but the color is a little wrong.
"Anyway, let's try it first." Bai Renzong said, scooping up a spoonful and tasting it.
At that time, various flavors such as sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty were bursting into the mouth.
"This tea is marinated in a way similar to kimchi, with a hint of bitterness and fragrance in the sweet and sourness. Then it is mixed with peanuts, minced garlic, coconut meat, shrimp, sesame, and seasonings such as lemon juice, olive oil, pepper, etc.," Bai Renzong explained, "The taste is extremely rich, and in an instant, all kinds of flavors burst out in the mouth, which caught me off guard!"
"And it has a rich taste..." Alan Robbs exclaimed, "I think the most amazing thing about this dish is the 'just right'. Because once you can't grasp it well, its taste layering will become very chaotic. Being able to make such a messy taste so layered, it is worthy of being Chef Adam..."
Chapter completed!