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Chapter 284 Mapo Tofu
Two days later, in a completely open venue, the game officially started.

Fang Zilu's face was a little green. Firstly, he was so unaccustomed to the environment that he woke up in the middle of the night for two consecutive days. Secondly...he saw a familiar white and tender face in a certain team.

Pulling Yu Jian away from the camera, he pouted his mouth: "Look, isn't that Brother Malatang?"

Li Bai?

Yu Jian followed his gaze and froze.The unique fair complexion in Sichuan, the slender and tall body, and the beautiful face like a girl, who is not Li Bai?The difference is that he put on a navy blue neon suit today, and also brought a pair of silver-rimmed flat glasses.

He was tilting his head and talking to the assistant beside him, his eyes were long and narrow, revealing eight bright white teeth.

wrong.

He is not Li Bai.

In my impression, the Malatang boy didn't even dare to look at people directly, and only showed his heart to his girlfriend. Even if he saw Yu Jian, he would just smile shyly in a petty manner, and would not open up like this.

Shaking his head, Yu Jian signaled him to make preparations quickly.

Under the stage, Li Bai's fist hanging by his side was clenched tightly, a chill swept over his whole body, which made him shudder so much that he bit his back molars.

Xiaoli looked at the man not far away, then at her boyfriend beside her, and took a step back in surprise: "This... this is..."

Two Li Bai? ?
"He...is my twin brother..." Li Bai closed his eyes and spoke with difficulty.

The two brothers have been cooking since elementary school, and the elder brother's talent is superior to his. In the past few years, he has won many awards. Later, he was hired as the executive chef of a large hotel, which has always been the pride of the Li family.It's just that he kept saying that he was working in Shanghai, and now...how could he represent the Neon Kingdom and appear in Huacheng?
Li Bai wanted to ask him a thousand words, but suddenly felt very scared.There was a vague bad feeling in his heart, which made him suppress his breath.

Li Yi probably didn't expect that his own younger brother was in Huacheng this time.He has a good job in Shanghai, but the major shareholder behind this hotel is from Neon Kingdom.For a while, he was even transferred to the Neon headquarters.It was also like this that he met Takeda Dalang.

As a native of China, Takeda didn't treat him with contempt like the others, but instead mentioned him everywhere, which made him grateful, and he was willing to be used by Takeda.

In the knockout round of the food competition, the topic is spicy taste. If the team leader doesn't come to convey what Takeda means, he will want to recommend himself.On the use of chili, who can beat Sichuan Province?Today, he will use a mapo tofu to conquer everyone's taste buds.

With an order, the official timing of the game began.

The tofu should be made of milky tofu as white as jade. The knife is washed alternately in cold and hot water to form a layer of temperature protection film, which quickly brushes across the surface of the tofu, and the tofu poured into the plate looks like a plum blossom, showing a different style.

Next is the stir-fry.The peppers were airlifted from Sichuan Province, and they seem to still have the fragrance of freshly picked peppers, with a hazy mist on the surface.Cut into rice grain-sized froth, then mix with dried chili segments of the same variety that have been air-dried at high temperature, add green chili peppers, and mix with minced garlic.

The hot oil in the pot has already produced white bubbles, all the small ingredients are slid in, and then poured into the minced meat, there is a sound of "hissing-" oil, the aroma of the oil exploded suddenly, and the spicy smell irritated the assistant around I sneezed and felt a strong hunger pang.

There are also audiences who are closer to him who feel the same way as him.

"What's this smell? It smells so good—" people asked in different languages, looking for the smell again.

At this time, Li Yi had already put tender white tofu cubes in, sprinkled with seasonings, thickened the sauce, and turned off the fire.Waiting for the remaining temperature to thicken the soup is the best time to slide the mapo tofu into the disk.The assistant had already painted the prototypes of flowers and plants with turquoise paint on the plate, and served a bowl of fragrant white rice on the side.

The red bean curd is covered with rich sauce, and against the green background, it seems to be a high wall of red bricks and green tiles, encircling everyone's hearts.

"It's this! It's this!" The audience found the source of the aroma, but felt that there was no need to eat it. They could feel the strong spicy taste from the smell.

Li Yi rang the ending bell, and the lenses reflected colorful brilliance under the spring sun. He said slowly, "The secret recipe of Kanto in the Neon Kingdom——spicy tofu."

As soon as these words came out, the fans of Neon Kingdom immediately shouted.

On the other side, the Huaxia audience looked at each other in blank dismay.

Someone asked weakly: "Isn't that the mapo tofu from our Sichuan province? When did it become a neon country?? Return to Kanto??"

Li Bai's whole body was bloodless, as if he had been punched severely by someone, and he froze in place.

"Heh." A sarcastic chuckle overflowed from his mouth, and he felt extremely strange to the bright and smiling person in front of him.

The vow they made when they were young still echoed in their ears: "Xiaobai, look, my brother will definitely become the most powerful master of Sichuan cuisine in China in the future."

Now, he is on the world stage.

But he forgot his original intention.

"Xiaobai..." Xiaoli looked at Li Bai's ugly face, and wanted to go up to hold his hand, but he avoided it by chance.

Taking a deep breath, he shook his head slowly: "Leave me alone for a while."

……

"Fuck! His grandma—" Chef Lai was furious.Although I had expected such an event for a long time, I never thought that someone would be so despicable and shameless that they could change the name of their own country's dishes.

Yu Jian frowned, and before she had time to speak, she heard the exaggerated shout of the host: "Wow - the Neon Kingdom has been completed, so let us judges come up and taste it!"

There are five judges in the qualifiers, three of them have typical outlander faces, and the other two seem to be oriental.Yu Jian carefully observed the facial features of the judges, and found that the oriental face of a middle-aged man among them did not seem to match the information Tang Yuan gave him.

As if feeling that someone was looking at him, the man cast his eyes in the direction of the Huaxia team, the two eyes met, the man was slightly taken aback, and then smiled.

Mapo tofu is the soul of Sichuan cuisine. Its essence lies in the double taste of spicy and spicy.But from the quick glance just now, Yu Jian has a solid idea. This man who looks like Li Bai doesn't seem to have mastered the soul of this dish.

He used minced pork.

The judges have already picked up the spoon and started tasting the dish.

Sure enough, when it was the eastern man's turn, he frowned slightly and shook his head slightly.

The host watched this scene sharply. He quickly slid forward and asked, "Andy, do you think it's not delicious?"

(End of this chapter)