The story of Shokugeki begins when Alice picks him up and brings him home

At this moment, everyone was concentrating on their own cooking. The only sounds on the scene were the sound of cutting vegetables, frying pans, and the sound of ingredients "gurgling" in the pot.

“It’s a lively scene.”

Beside him, Kikuchi Engo couldn't help but sigh, with a hint of longing in his eyes.

At this moment, she also wanted to stand on the competition field and show all her cooking skills to the judges and to this thousand-year-old culinary competition arena!

"Throughout the ages, there have been so many great chefs here, and so much hard work has been put into this place. If someone comes here and still doesn't have the fighting spirit, then he doesn't deserve to be called a chef at all!"

The figure of the skillful old lady appeared in the fighting arena at some point, and was walking towards Bai Yuan. Although her hair was already gray, she looked very energetic, like a woman in her forties.

"Grandma with skillful hands."

Looking at the old woman in front of him, Bai Yuan read out her name and nodded slightly to her, and the other party also looked over at him.

"You are the boy who made the glowing food in his first attempt. I didn't expect you to be so young. Are you not even 20 years old yet?!"

Looking at Bai Yuan's appearance, even though Grandma Qiao Shou has lived for so long, she couldn't help but marvel in her heart, it is true that heroes emerge from young!

"It's just nineteen this year."

Bai Yuan answered truthfully and looked at her with the same passion, but in his heart he was thinking, what excuse should he use to have a duel with her over the topic of morning tea!

Seeing such a strong person standing in front of me.

He really can't wait!

Chapter 67: Wine-flavored vegetarian steak, golden light overshadowing the moon

"I want to ask if you are interested in joining the Guangdong Chefs' Union? With your talent, in a dozen years, when we old guys are gone, you will be one of the new Guangdong Chefs' Union's Four Heavenly Kings!"

What is surprising is that the skillful mother-in-law directly invited Bai Yuan to join the Guangdong Chefs Association and offered him generous conditions that any chef in Guangzhou would definitely not refuse!

"What! Is this really the skillful grandmother? Doesn't the information say she is very strict? Why does she look so kind now... Could it be that someone is deliberately smearing her?"

Kadozaki Taki looked at everything that was happening in front of her with a slightly surprised expression. Before she came here, she specially conducted background checks on the four kings of the Guangdong Chefs Association, but no matter where the information came from, it said that this person was very strict!

But now...Grandma Skillful Hands is clearly acting like a kind old lady!

“He was actually invited to join the Guangdong Chefs Association! What an honor! But if you think about it carefully, it’s normal. After all, he can make glowing dishes!

Even if it was done by chance, one must have extraordinary strength, otherwise it would be impossible to trigger this kind of accident!

But isn’t this a bit too generous? Is this top chef worth the Guangdong Chefs Association spending so much to win him over? "

Jin Lanyu looked at Bai Yuan with envy, wishing she was the one standing in front of the skillful grandma. If so, she would nod frantically to show her determination, instead of being indifferent like Bai Yuan!

"No, I'm used to being a free-spirited person and have no interest in joining an official organization."

Bai Yuan shook his head and rejected the skillful mother-in-law without hesitation.

Are you kidding? He didn't even agree to the offer of the chairmanship of the European Gourmet Research Association. How could he take seriously a mere one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Guangdong Chefs' Association, who would emerge more than a decade later?

Working for others is working for others after all. Even if he wants to join a certain force in the end, he will be his own boss.

"What? Rejected!?"

Jin Lanyu looked at Bai Yuan in astonishment and cleared her ears in disbelief, as if she didn't expect he would refuse.

“This is a direct ticket to becoming one of the Four Heavenly Kings!

Considering that he has not yet passed the special assessment, it is equivalent to being recommended directly from elementary school to become an academician! Even so, he still refused? ! "

Amu muttered to himself, with a strange expression on his face that made it hard to tell whether he was laughing or crying. What he wanted but couldn't get, Bai Yuan actually treated it like a worn-out shoe, and he seemed to be a little disgusted...

It’s so irritating that people are so different from each other!

"Are you dissatisfied with something? These are all negotiable."

The skillful grandmother also noticed the change in Bai Yuan's expression. She was a little annoyed but continued to persuade him, because the Guangzhou culinary industry is now dwindling in talent, and only people like them, whose bodies are half buried in the earth, are left to support it.

Now that Bai Yuan has finally appeared, they naturally want to recruit him to see if they can bring a second spring to Guangzhou's culinary scene!

Of course, this was not a random decision, but an hour ago, the four kings of the Guangdong Chefs Association held an emergency online meeting and made the joint decision.

Among them, of course, Master Baiyao was there to add fuel to the fire.

But it is more because the Guangzhou culinary industry is really in a period of transition and there are no new people to take the lead.

"It's not a question of conditions, but I really have no intention of joining any force. Even if I were asked to be one of the Four Heavenly Kings now, my answer would not change."

Bai Yuan shook his head and told his situation. He would not bind himself to any official force as that would be too unfree!

"Well, if that's the case, I won't force you. I was the one who said too much this time. If you change your mind, you can always come to me."

Hearing Bai Yuan's words and looking at his determined eyes, how could Grandma Qiaoshou not understand his thoughts? She sighed and said.

The other party has the ability to make glowing food at the age of 19. He definitely doesn't want to be trapped in this corner and wants to venture into the bigger world.

However...when he gets tired in the future and wants to find a place to rest, he might consider Guangzhou, so it would definitely be a good idea to establish good relationships in advance.

A genius with such potential will be highly sought after no matter where he is.

"If there is such an opportunity."

Bai Yuan didn't say anything too final to avoid straining their relationship. What he was thinking in his mind was whether he should take this opportunity to challenge Grandma Skillful Hands.

"Mother-in-law, you don't want me not to join the Guangdong Chefs' Union, right? If so, then have a good fight with me!"

With such thoughts in his mind, Bai Yuan couldn't help but sneer out loud, and then his expression suddenly changed, and he quickly walked to his cooking table.

His super sense of smell told him that his food was about to reach its best state before being served, and it was time to take it out of the pot and proceed to the final step of cooking.

"This color is just right! The condition is just right!"

Lifting the lid of the pot, Bai Yuan looked at the white mushrooms tumbling in the sauce, and joy appeared in his eyes. With a little lift of the chopsticks in his hand, the white mushrooms in the pot fell into the plate all at once, so fast that it looked like magic!

"What kind of technique is this? Why did all the white mushrooms in the pot fall into the plate just by touching them with chopsticks? Moreover, there was no trace of being pierced by the chopsticks on the surface of the white mushrooms!"

Mujichi Engo stared at the white mushroom in front of him with wide eyes in shock, trying to find any signs of it being pierced by chopsticks, but there were none!

"Because it was lifted up, not stabbed through, of course there are no traces of penetration. Haven't you learned this basic technique?"

Bai Yuan turned his head and asked with some confusion. In his opinion, this technique was the basics of the basics and was not even worth talking about separately.

But...why did Kikuchi Engo look at him with such admiration?

"Is this a basic technique...? Where did this little monster come from? Even if this move is at the special level, not many people can do it!"

Hearing Bai Yuan's words, Grandma Qiaoshou's mouth twitched a little, and she complained madly in her heart. She had seen young people who liked to show off, but she had never seen anyone who was so good at showing off. He was simply a role model in the world of showing off!

She actually knew this trick too. She learned it for a month and then continued to practice it for three years before she became proficient in it. Her goal was to add a little more class that only top chefs can have when cooking.

As a result, this guy used it skillfully and looked nonchalant. After all, he is a young man and he pretended to be more skilled than her!

"School doesn't teach this kind of thing. What he teaches are all very basic. I have already learned them all. Can I learn this from you?"

Hearing Bai Yuan's question, Mu Jiuchi Yuanguo shook his head like a rattle, and then looked at Bai Yuan with bright eyes, with a look of longing.

"If you want to learn, I'll teach you. It's not a difficult skill anyway. You can learn it in a little while if you're quick."

Bai Yuan nodded and didn't care. He knew the move after just one look at it.

The only difficulty was controlling the landing point of the ingredients. I made several mistakes while practicing, and it took me half a day to become completely proficient in it.

"Really? Yeah!"

After getting Bai Yuan's consent, Mu Jiuzhi Yuanguo said excitedly that she knew she had met a noble person and must take this opportunity to learn more!

What she learned today alone is more than what she learned in Totsuki in a whole month!

Bai Yuan is really a very good teacher. He can point out her shortcomings in a concrete way and also make effective suggestions for correcting them.

If she could stay by his side, she would be able to become a real top-class chef in less than two years. At least she would have no problem becoming a top-class chef in Japan! The assessment there was much more normal than this!

"Kid, who did you learn from? Don't tell me you learned these techniques on your own. Your master must be a great master."

Looking at Bai Yuan who picked up the striped pan and was about to fry the white enoki mushrooms to lock in all the flavor, the skillful mother-in-law suddenly asked.

"The wise are the teachers. Anyone who is better than me can be my teacher. Even if he surpasses me in only one aspect, he can be considered my teacher."

Bai Yuan said truthfully.

As for the master, he actually has a lot of people to admire. If his skillful mother-in-law can surpass him in making morning tea, he will immediately pester her until all her skills become his own.

He would never allow anyone in this world to have better cooking skills than him!

Perhaps it is because of this mentality that he has come all the way to where he is today and become the man who sweeps the dark culinary world.

Named after.

The victorious general, Bai Yuan.

"The most accomplished can be my teacher? What a heroic spirit! No, it should be said that as long as someone is better than me, he can be my teacher."

Bai Yuan's words made Grandma Qiaoshou fall into deep thought, and then she began to praise him highly. She found that she could not see through this person.

This guy is like a tree without roots and water without source. He suddenly appeared here. There is no one with the surname Bai in any of the major families!

“That’s common sense.”

Bai Yuan shrugged, added peanut oil to the striped pot, added black pepper and stir-fried until fragrant, then added the filtered original soup, thickened with water starch and served. This was the sauce for the vegetarian steak.

Place a striped frying pan on the fire and pour in oil. Coat the stewed white mushrooms with a thin layer of corn starch and fry them in the striped pan until the patterns appear.

"Add a little rosemary, it's the soul of Western cuisine."

While muttering, Bai Yuan sprinkled rosemary into the striped pot, where it collided with the vegetarian steak. The heat instantly stimulated its aroma, adding a hint of rosemary fragrance to the surrounding air.

After completing this step, Bai Yuan poured in the sauce that had been prepared with the original juice. At this point, the production of the vegetarian steak was finally completed.

Without hesitation, Bai Yuan poured the strong liquor that he had prepared on the side into it. With the help of the temperature, a large amount of flames rose from the striped pot.

The flames devoured the vegetarian steak, making the brown color on its surface a little darker, and also adding a hint of wine aroma to it, making people linger.

"Vegetarian steak with wine aroma, please enjoy."

As Bai Yuan spoke, a 'Wu Qu Knife' appeared in his hand. The skillful old lady saw a flash of knife light, and her eyes closed and opened again. The vegetarian steak made of Bai Ling Mushroom turned into a long strip that could be swallowed in one bite.

Several white mushrooms are put together to form a complete steak, and then topped with the prepared sauce, the aroma is particularly rich and mellow.

"Can you use mushrooms to make the taste of beef? Don't deliberately pursue complicated methods. Just make beef. It looks like beef but it's not beef. If this is a test paper, then you can definitely get a high score!"

Although there is nothing particularly innovative, the exquisite knife skills, superb techniques, and perfect control of the heat all show that Bai Yuan's strength has reached a top-notch level.

But...this dish didn't shine.

Logically speaking, with such techniques and such thorough control of details, it should have reached the standard of glowing long ago.

why?

This doubt emerged in the skillful grandmother's mind, and then she strolled to Bai Yuan's cooking table, looking at the vegetarian steak in front of her with burning eyes.

“It’s mainly because this kind of assessment really doesn’t make people want to create good dishes.

I am a combat player, and rather than deliberately complicating simple assessments, I would rather serve amazing dishes in battle!"

Bai Yuan expressed what he was thinking. Assessments are mainly to test whether one's foundation is solid and whether one has reached the level of a top-class chef.

For this kind of assessment, as long as you perform at your normal level, you will definitely pass it, and there is no need to expect anything.

The competition is more of a test of chefs' creativity. When fighting against equally matched opponents, the desire to win is so strong that one will perform beyond one's normal level. Experiencing this feeling afterwards is progress.

"Well, let's start the tasting now."

After saying this, the skillful mother-in-law carefully observed the vegetarian steak in front of her. The rich aroma emanating from it made her swallow her saliva.

According to convention, the assessment for top chefs should be done by having contestants taste each other's food and adopt a mutual scoring system. They eat their opponents' works and then give scores to their individual works one by one.

The chefs who are supposed to be contestants will also serve as qualified judges in order to assess whether the contestants have the ability to correctly evaluate the works of others.

This is also a psychological game!

but...

Looking at the vegetarian steak in front of her that exudes a strong aroma of wine but looks ordinary, the skillful mother-in-law feels an inexplicable urge in her heart.

If I don’t eat it today, I will regret it for the rest of my life!

So she decided to change the assessment method. She would taste Bai Yuan's cooking herself and then judge whether he could pass this special assessment.

However, for a strong person who can make glowing dishes, even if this dish does not glow, it should be at the level of a two or three-star special chef.

Passing the special examination can be said to be simple...

Picking up the knife and fork placed aside, the skillful mother-in-law cut one of the vegetarian steaks in the middle, wanting to see what the cross-section of the dish looked like.