Chapter 375: The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea
"It's 'tea'." Bai Renzong replied, "To be precise, it is the water soaked in tea leaves. This kind of tea is added to the sauce of the whole dish."
"bingo." Adam pointed at Bai Renzong and blinked and smiled, "But it was a little different. To be precise, it was not tea, but the essence of tea extracted from molecular food. I mixed it with lemon juice, soy sauce, pepper, salt, and oyster sauce as the 'medium' of this dish, and mixed all the ingredients together."
"So that's it!" Alan Robbs slapped the table and suddenly said, "So these tastes are mixed and not messy! It turns out that this sauce gives this dish a holistic feeling! This superb cooking skill... is really amazing."
"And, the sauce mixed with tea extract is used to stir the pickled tea leaves, and the double impact formed by the formation emphasizes the taste of the tea. Although this dish gives so many heavy-tasting seasonings, it can never hide the tea aroma." Zuo Teng Ryoto frowned and pondered, "So amazing... Is this the strength of the world's number one man? It's so scary."
"Wow, is it okay? I've brought out such a powerful tea dish one after another!" Bai Renzong was excited and a little angry: he thought he had a problem, but everyone handled it so well!
It’s like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing their magical powers!
Paul Patterke followed closely and delivered his work: "Please use this 'Princess's Tea Party'."
"This is a..." Bai Renzong looked at the dish in front of him and said curiously: "Pie?"
In front of me was a very special dish, with a few dough-made Q-version princess dolls, and a small and exquisite pie in the middle.
Although it is a pie, it is just a large teacup cake in terms of size.
Immediately, Chef Paul cut the pie into small pieces and distributed it to the judges.
Bai Renzong picked up the pie in front of him. Before he could eat it, the rich aroma of black tea still came to his face. The creamy aroma emanated from the pie skin made people think of black tea, cakes and biscuits in his mind, which was indeed the feeling of a tea party.
"As always, there is a strong sense of three-dimensionality." Bai Renzong exclaimed, and then took a bite.
"There is a very strong tea aroma. The black tea and blueberries are mixed together to make the filling in the middle of the pie. The bitterness of the blueberries itself is combined with the bitterness of the black tea, and the sweetness of the black tea is combined with the sweetness of the blueberries. These two flavors form a clear conflict. At this time, the sweetness of the pie skin itself is integrated... A transformation from bitter to sweet is born." Bai Renzong commented, "This process of taste change is undoubtedly very wonderful..."
"But the picture of this dish is indeed quite three-dimensional..." Rossini Salerno said with interest, "The princesses' tea party does have this picture when they taste it, which reminds me of my daughter's house play."
"It's a very strong personal style." Zuoto Ryoto said in praise, "This is also the main reason why the Wonderland of Oz is popular, right?"
Next, the one who brought his works was Jiangchuan Yousheng, and his tea dish was Gigis salamander tea rice.
Bai Renzong was not surprised by this. After all, not many people can use tea in this dish.
However, not to mention the taste, the appearance of this tea rice is really very attentive.
In the exquisite tea bowl, rice is piled into a hill, and a small pile of rice is protruding from under the water. There are a few pieces of giant salamander carefully placed on it, with shredded seaweed, chopped green onion, bitter celery and sour plums.
Bai Renzong picked up the bowl, scooped up a spoonful of rice, and ate it with the giant salamander.
In fact, this is his first time eating tea and making rice. In his opinion, tea and making rice is not a particularly high-end dish. Even in the Izakaya in R, making rice is a kind of "fast food" that can handle the problem. Many people are too lazy to eat a regular meal after drinking, but they need to eat some staple food to fill their stomachs. At this time, they will come to have a bowl of tea and make rice perfunctory.
However, after making the rice with this bite of tea, Bai Renzong could only sigh: the details.
First of all, there are giant salamanders. These giant salamanders are fryed with skin and fry them in the pan. The skin-like side is crispy and delicious. The fish meat below is tender and juicy. After being soaked in the aroma of green tea, the fish tastes richer.
The second is the side dishes above, the crispy texture provided by seaweed, the sweet and sour plum meat, the aroma of sesame is mixed with the rice, which has both taste and rich flavor. Moreover, the softness and hardness of the rice are just right, and it will not be too cold or too hot in the mouth. Although it is soaked in green tea, the rice is still clearly distinguished and does not spread out in the tea.
The portion of green tea is also given just the right amount, drowned in three-quarters of the rice.
"Um..." Bai Renzong frowned, "It's terrible... Simply put, it's terrible. There's no difference. From rice to ingredients to the tea poured in, it feels good. Everything is just right, even the sesame seeds on the rice. Even if you give more than a dozen more, the sesame taste will be too heavy, which suppresses the aroma of the rice."
"Yes, everything is so natural. You can eat it, sour, salty, bitter, and sweet are so natural, just like it should be like this, without any incongruence. This feeling... is probably the result of decades of skills accumulation." Zuo Teng Ryoto also exclaimed.
"If you want to say how outstanding it is, there is no..." Alan Robbs frowned, "but it has no flaws at the same time. Specifically, it means... Maybe it doesn't have a hundred and twenty points, but every aspect of it is one hundred."
"To be honest, this is my first time having tea and rice, but I like it very much." Rossini Salerno nodded in approval. "It is not easy to combine this simple meal with such a rich flavor and texture."
Bai Renzong felt that Alan Robbs had basically expressed his feelings. After eating this bowl of tea, it did not give people a stunning feeling in any aspect, but every aspect was impeccable, as if it was magical, which could make people eat one bite after another.
Just as Bai Renzong was sighing at this skill, Zhang Guanghan also served his own dish.
"What is this?" Bai Renzong exclaimed at the cuisine in front of him, "Is this too incredible?"
On the plate in front of me was a red "book", with forty peanut-like foods on it, and some black sesame seeds were sprinkled on it.
This dish no longer looks like food, but like some kind of decoration carved with fruits and vegetables, which made Bai Renzong amazed: Can this be eaten?
"This is called Shili Ginkgo, a representative dish among our Shandong cuisine." Zhang Guanghan explained with a smile, "but I made some improvements. As for where the improvements are..."
Speaking of this, Zhang Guanghan held his arms and looked at Bai Renzong with interest and smiled: "Isn't your tongue very professional? Let me tell me how this dish is made."
Bai Renzong nodded, raised the spoon and was a little embarrassed for a moment.
After thinking for a while, he tried it and found that the "book" below was soft and glutinous, a bit like mousse. So he scooped up a spoon and tasted it, and then sighed: "Ah... it was made of the mud of Longjing tea and golden gourd into a frozen shape, and then carved it into an open book page shape. The top was the ginkgo that was soaked in Pu'er tea and roasted..."
Bai Renzong smiled as he said that: "I don't know how to comment... In short, this 'book page' tastes cool, and the taste of the gourd itself is already very light, basically the fragrance of Longjing tea. The roasted ginkgo tastes soft, glutinous and sweet, with a rich Pu'er fragrance. In addition, the special sweetness of Pu'er further highlights the sweetness of ginkgo."
"holy-shit." Alan Robbs sighed in surprise: "This book can turn pages! There are six pages in total! It is so thin that it will not disperse when turning pages. This kind of knife skills is really amazing!"
"Where are there," Zhang Guanghan smiled humbly, "This kind of knife skills is not worth mentioning than Wensi Tofu."
"Hey, this is really amazing..." Bai Renzong sighed with his chin in his arms, "First of all, the form of this dish is undoubtedly amazing. Even in molecular food science, this technique is not inferior. In addition, the use of two ingredients, golden gourd and ginkgo, highlights the characteristics of the two kinds of tea leaves... It can be said that tea leaves are the veritable protagonists."
"Chinese cuisine is really amazing..." Zuo Teng Ryoto couldn't help but exclaim.
Everyone was shocked by this dish. If the tea rice in front reflects the exquisite skills of Jiangchuan Yousheng over the past few decades, then this poem ginkgo is a dish that has accumulated thousands of years of culture in Chinese cuisine and Zhang Guanghan’s own personal cuisine cultivation. From appearance to taste to highlighting the theme, it has no shortcomings.
At this moment, Bai Renzong could not suppress his inner pride and was a little drifting.
"Ahem." Bai Renzong cleared his throat and refused to let himself laugh, "Then, the next one is..."
"Husband!" Han Jiayi smiled happily and brought up her work. As soon as she saw her, Bai Renzong couldn't suppress the smile on his face. He glared at Han Jiayi and said angrily: "Which is recording the show, I'm still here to show off my eyes and act coquettishly..."
"How can I do..." Han Jiayi plucked her cheeks and said coquettishly, "My cooking is ready, too."
Bai Renzong looked at the plate curiously, and several judges at the scene sighed in unison: "Wow—!"
The plate is french vegetable frozen...
Of course, it is a certain terrine, because its ingredients are obviously not vegetables, but tea. Several different kinds of tea can be seen in the rind jelly. This dish that completely breaks out of everyone's mind is refreshing in an instant.
"You little clever..." Bai Renzong touched Han Jiayi's head and praised, "Okay, then come and try it."
Chapter completed!