Everyday Life Starting with Food Wars

"Ladies and gentlemen, the final sprint of the residential training program has begun."

As soon as Dojima Gin finished speaking, students began rushing towards the kitchen.

Although everyone is exhausted, it is clearly not time to rest yet.

"Ah-Xing, what are you planning to make?" Soma Yukihira asked excitedly. "Two hundred servings, that's quite a challenge. I want to make omelets; freshly baked omelets will definitely attract our customers tomorrow morning!"

"I haven't decided yet. Let's go see what ingredients we have first." Chen Yuxing stretched his slightly sore back.

"What about Megumi? Have you decided what to do?" He turned to look at Megumi Tadokoro.

"I...I'm planning to make quail egg oden." Xiaohui clenched her fist. "In the morning, some hot soup will be more comforting for the diners' stomachs."

"As expected of Xiaohui, such a gentle choice. Let's go check out the kitchen first."

When the three arrived at the kitchen, there were already many students trying out the dishes.

Chen Yuxing first went to find an empty cooking counter, and then pushed a small cart to the ingredient storage room to find the ingredients he needed.

"found it."

Chen Yuxing looked at the fresh prawns in front of him, along with the black pork he needed, and most importantly, the preserved eggs and crab roe.

Now that we have all the necessary ingredients, we can finally make the complete 'Three Egg Shumai'.

"Oh my, isn't this the transfer student who's been making waves lately? I heard you beat Shinomiya-senpai, is that true?"

Just as Chen Yuxing was getting the ingredients, a curious female voice suddenly came from the side.

Chen Yuxing turned around and saw a girl with short silver hair standing in front of his kitchen counter, looking at him with curiosity.

Behind her was a boy pushing a bunch of machines, with dark circles under his eyes as if he hadn't slept well for a long time. He was Kurokiba Ryo, whom she had met before in the reinforcement project.

"Nice to meet you. I am Alice Nakiri, and this is my assistant, Ryo Kurokiba."

Alice put her hands behind her back and looked at the ingredients Chen Yuxing had prepared: "Eggs, flour, preserved eggs, crab roe... Do you want to make Chinese pastries? Tomorrow's guests are used to all kinds of delicacies, and no one will patronize us if we don't have attractive pastries."

"Then I won't trouble you." Chen Yuxing picked up the eggs and started kneading the dough. "I'm quite confident in my skills."

"Are you planning to perform a chemistry experiment in front of the diners tomorrow morning with all this equipment?" Chen Yuxing glanced at the pile of machines on the blackwood cart.

"That's molecular gastronomy! It's science at the forefront of the culinary world!" Alice puffed out her cheeks, bristling like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "My molecular gastronomy is true art! You'll see tomorrow morning how I, the chosen one of molecular gastronomy, crush you."

"Oh? Molecular gastronomy?"

Just then, another arrogant voice came from the side.

Erina Nakiri walked over from the side, followed by her secretary Hisako Shinto, who was carrying a notebook.

"Alice, you'd better not embarrass yourself here with your machines. The art of cooking isn't something you can just cobble together with those machines." Erina glanced at Alice with disdain.

"Erina! You're still as annoying as ever!" Alice stomped her feet in anger.

Then, fuming, she led Kurokiba Ryo and her instruments to the other control panel.

Chen Yuxing shook his head as he looked at the scene before him and continued to prepare his ingredients.

"I thought you would prepare something special, but is it just ordinary Chinese shumai?" Erina stood to the side with her arms crossed, watching him prepare the ingredients.

“Shumai has its own unique characteristics, you know,” Chen Yuxing replied while kneading the dough. “What, is Miss Erina here to check on my progress?”

"Don't flatter yourself!" Erina suddenly shouted, a faint blush creeping across her face. "I just happened to be passing by here on my way to get some ingredients. By the way, let me remind you that tomorrow's inspection will be very strict. If you don't have any original dishes, it would be too embarrassing if you couldn't even sell fifty servings."

"Thank you for your concern, but I'm still very confident in my cooking skills," Chen Yuxing replied without looking up.

Erina gritted her teeth, snorted coldly, and turned to leave with Hisako Shinoto.

Not long after they left, a chilling laugh suddenly came from the shadows in the corner.

It was a girl holding a pot that was bubbling with purple liquid, her long black hair covering half of her face.

"Hehehe... Lady Erina... Lady Erina is shining brightly today... Tomorrow I will definitely show you my most perfect dish... Hehehe..." Nao Satsuka stirred her pot while staring intently at Erina's departing figure.

Chen Yuxing caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch. There really are all kinds of people in Far Moon.

With his mind at ease, Chen Yuxing took a deep breath and changed his entire demeanor.

If you're making three-egg shumai, some ingredients need to be prepared in advance, otherwise there might not be enough time tomorrow.

He poured the prepared high-gluten flour onto the cutting board, made a well in the center of the flour, cracked the prepared eggs into a bowl, started beating and stirring, and then slowly poured them into the well in the flour.

Making egg mixture and dough requires too much physical strength, not to mention that at least two hundred servings of food are needed to meet the requirements, so I need to prepare the flour first today.

Chen Yuxing pressed his hands onto the flour, exerted force with his wrists, and pushed, pressed, folded, and pulled it back forcefully.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sound of slapping noodles was clearly audible even in the somewhat noisy kitchen.

As time goes by, the flour, which was originally a lump of loose sand, gradually begins to develop gluten and becomes smooth under constant pressure.

In no time, a piece of dough with a pale yellow sheen was formed. Pressing it on its smooth surface, you could easily feel the dough's elasticity and resilience.

Set the prepared dough aside, cover it with a damp cloth and let it rest. Then Chen Yuxing reincarnated and began to process the shrimp.

He quickly removed the heads, peeled the shells, and deveined the shrimp, then laid the prepared shrimp meat flat on the cutting board.

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

Use the back of the knife to repeatedly pound the shrimp until the shrimp meat becomes sticky and a layer of gel appears on the surface.

The shrimp paste made this way will be very bouncy and delicious.

Next, mince the prepared pork into a paste, making it three parts fat and seven parts lean, and pour it into a large bowl, adding shrimp paste.

Next comes seasoning.

Add minced ginger to remove the fishy smell, add scallion whites to enhance the aroma, add light soy sauce to enhance the freshness, and add cooking wine to remove any unpleasant odors.

Add a pinch of salt and sugar, sprinkle with pepper, and finally drizzle with sesame oil to lock in the moisture.

Chen Yuxing took several long chopsticks, put them together, and started stirring them wildly in one direction.

As he stirred rapidly, the protein began to coagulate, and the minced meat became sticky, making a "gurgling" sound. The originally loose minced meat and shrimp paste were completely blended together, and some thin strands could even be pulled out.

He then picked up the preserved egg, carefully peeled it open, cut it open with a thin thread, removed the runny yolk in the middle, leaving only the translucent brownish-yellow outer layer of egg white.

Chop the egg whites into small pieces with a knife and put them in a small bowl for later use.

The dough should be ready by now.

Chen Yuxing pinched off a small piece of dough, flattened it with his palm, and then picked up a rolling pin to start rolling out the dough.

Rotate the dough with your left hand, and quickly press the edge of the dough with the rolling pin in your right hand.

Soon, a dough sheet that was thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges, with a ruffled edge, was rolled out.

Then comes packaging.

The way these three-egg shumai are wrapped is also quite particular, and it's called the "three-layer filling method".

The first step is to spread a thick layer of meat filling on the bottom layer of the dough;

The second step is to scoop out a spoonful of orange-yellow crab roe and spread it evenly in the middle of the meat filling;

The third step is to cover it with another layer of meat filling, sealing the crab roe inside completely.

Pinch your fingers together, and the dough will gather into a small cylindrical shape along with the meat filling. The ruffled edges will naturally gather at the top, like a yellow flower bud about to bloom.

Finally, sprinkle the prepared chopped preserved egg whites onto the opening at the top of the shumai.

The three-egg shumai is now complete.

With its yellow dough, pink meat filling, and brown egg white, the shumai looks very delicate.

Time flies by.

At six o'clock in the morning, in the grand banquet hall of the Totsuki Palace.

Many of the cooking stations were arranged in a circular pattern, and some were even divided into four venues due to the large number of people.

Chen Yuxing was assigned to field C, but unfortunately he didn't see any familiar faces there.

"Time's up. You must produce at least two hundred 'egg' dishes within the next two hours to pass. Now, let's have the judges take the stage!"

As the announcement was made, the banquet hall doors opened, and invited guests, both adults and children, began to pour into the venue.

"Dear guests! The breakfast buffet has officially begun! Please enjoy!"

As Dojima Gin finished speaking, all the students got busy. Since it was a buffet, everyone was demonstrating their cooking process while serving freshly prepared dishes.

Therefore, dishes that are easy to prepare have a significant advantage, as they can attract diners to try them first compared to other dishes.

For example, tacmi's omelet salad. Omelets are a common dish in Italian cuisine, but tacmi takes it a step further, cutting them into chunks and mixing them with fresh vegetables and fruits to make a salad, then drizzling it with prepared sauce and cheese.

The refreshing and visually appealing salads are also more in line with the tastes of young people, thus attracting many young girls to try his dishes.

In contrast to takumi's cuisine, which appeals to young people, Megumi Tadokoro's cuisine is the complete opposite.

She chose quail eggs as the main ingredient, adding some simple tofu and vegetables to make oden. For some older people, oden can not only warm their stomachs in the early morning, but the portion size is also just right.

The other students also demonstrated their strengths.

For example, Erina's Eggs Benedict; Alice's egg set meal that looks like a raw egg but actually has a secret inside; Mito Ikumi's beef and egg rice bowl; Sadazuka Nao's dark egg stew; Shirato Hisako's egg-based medicinal cuisine; and Kurokiba Ryo even tied a headscarf around his head and entered berserker mode, frantically making his seafood egg pancake.

Chapter 35 The Food Demon King's Approval

"Announcement over the loudspeaker! Erina Nakiri, contestant number 30 in venue A, has become the first to complete 100 dishes!"

"At venue D, member number 15, Alice Nakiri, has achieved 100 dishes!"

"Ryo Kurokiba, booth number 19 in venue B, has achieved 100 dishes!"

The lobby loudspeaker began relentlessly broadcasting everyone's progress.

Each time the announcement was made, the psychological pressure on students who hadn't yet paid attention or were progressing slowly would increase dramatically, and some of their hands would even start to tremble uncontrollably.

Chen Yuxing's booth was located in the center of the booths in Hall C.

Compared to the other venues, such as Venue A with Erina Nakiri, who is known as the "youngest of the Elite Ten" and has the title of "God Tongue," as the granddaughter of the Food Demon King, most guests would go to her cooking station first; similarly, Venue D has Alice Nakiri, and Venue B has Ryo Kurokiba and Hisako Shinoto, who are students who have performed exceptionally well, and most guests would go to these students' cooking stations first.

Venue C is relatively balanced, or rather, it is still relatively balanced at present, with all the diners choosing their favorite dishes to enjoy.

On Chen Yuxing's cooking counter, there were more than a dozen stacks of bamboo steamers piled high.

The water in the large steamer below was boiling hot, and white steam rose up through the gaps in the bamboo basket, carrying a fragrance that blended the aroma of wheat, fresh meat, and a faint scent of bamboo, spreading outwards.

"Drip drip!"

As the timer struck.

Chen Yuxing reached out and lifted the lids off the top of the steamers.

"boom--"

The white steam that had been accumulating in the steamer rose into the sky like a giant white dragon.

As the steam dissipates, a very rich aroma is released.

The pork fat, the sweetness of the prawns, the sesame flavor of the sesame oil, and the unique aroma of the preserved egg after being steamed at high temperature.

The aroma instantly attracted more than a dozen guests around Chen Yuxing's cooking station.

"It smells so good! What is this smell?!"

Several middle-aged men in short sleeves followed the aroma and walked over, their eyes quickly drawn to the steamer on the counter.

Eight three-egg shumai were neatly arranged in each steamer.

Because eggs were added to the flour, the dough was steamed until it turned golden and translucent, and the top of the shumai, with its obsidian-like pieces of preserved egg, shimmered enticingly in the steam.

Moreover, because the dough is rolled out so thinly, you can even faintly see the orange-red crab roe inside.

"These three-egg shumai are fresh out of the steamer, so they might be a little hot. Please enjoy." Chen Yuxing picked up his bamboo chopsticks, picked up three shumai, and placed them on each uncle's plate.

The uncles couldn't wait to pick up a shumai, blow on it a couple of times, and then take a bite.

"Crack!"

The uncle's eyes widened immediately as he took a bite of the three-egg shumai.

How can this dough be so bouncy?!

The dough made with eggs retains its thinness while also being very elastic. The dough will not become soft and mushy even after long-term steaming or boiling; instead, it becomes more and more fragrant the more you chew it!

Next comes the meat filling and broth wrapped in the dough.