Shokugeki: Start with an izakaya, making everyone cry

Chapter 151 Genius and Idiot, Stagnation and Growth

Just when the izakaya was closing.

Totsuki Resort, the dinner test here has come to an end!
When Yoshino Yuki returned to the guest room from the kitchen, she was exhausted from the whole day's training. She could only lie straight on the bed, so tired that she couldn't even move a finger.

"I'm so tired. I definitely won't be able to survive the end of the day. This residential training program is simply terrible."

Yoshino Yuki said weakly.

"The three of us are doing pretty well. We can finish at least 15 minutes ahead of schedule."

"I heard that Marui Zenji barely finished the 50-piece steak set in the last few seconds."

"And after finishing the dinner exam, he foamed at the mouth and fainted in the kitchen, causing a commotion! Even if he is in this state tomorrow, he will probably be in trouble."

Ryoko Sakaki also looked tired and said calmly.

"real or fake?"

"Then he... forget it, I hope he will seek happiness for himself."

Yuki couldn't help but sigh a little when she learned that someone was worse off than her.

Immediately, she used her last bit of strength to get up from the bed and looked at Tian Suo Hui: "Xiao Hui, you are really surprised!"

"Tonight's 50-piece steak course test, you were able to do it nearly half a minute faster than me and Ryoko Sakaki."

"Is this... better luck?"

Tian Sohui scratched the back of his head and chuckled.

"luck?"

"I'm afraid it's not that simple, right?"

Yoshino Yuki raised her eyebrows, and then said as if she had some realization: "To be honest, I always feel that your cooking skills have improved a lot recently!"

"Really? It might be your misunderstanding."

Tian Suohui's face was slightly red at this time, and she did not think that she had made any progress as she said.

"Forget it, everyone is safe tonight anyway."

Yoshino Yuki couldn't help but yawned, then stretched, and said: "I am almost exhausted to the point of falling apart, and I have to prepare for a new training event tomorrow morning, so go to bed early!"

After saying that, she lay down on the bed again, pulled the quilt to cover her, and soon fell asleep.

"Ok!"

"good night!"

Seeing this, Tasori Megumi and Sakaki Ryoko also fell asleep one after another.

……

Early the next morning, in the first cooking room.

The faces of the freshmen gathered here were full of fear and panic.

Because the entire residential training activity lasts for 6 days and 5 nights, and it is only the second day now, they will have the opportunity to meet every examiner.

But when they actually faced Shinomiya Kojiro, they were obviously not mentally prepared.

"what happened?"

"Why... could it be him?"

"Wow, it's over. I heard that in the lunch test he was responsible for yesterday, nearly half of the people were wiped out by him."

"Hey, the average elimination rate of 20% is scary enough, but his elimination rate is going to be 50%?"

"It's so terrifying!"

"Think about what happened to that classmate who dyed his hair gel, I really did something wrong!"

"It's so scary. Mom, I want to go home."

At this moment, listening to the chatter of the students in the audience, Shinomiya Kojiro, wearing glasses, looked particularly gloomy from beginning to end.

As a former Yueyue graduate, the aura he exudes now makes people feel suffocated and fearful.

"Quiet, if anyone dares to speak, they will be expelled from school."

Then, Shinomiya Kojiro frowned slightly and said coldly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire cooking room, which was originally a bit noisy, suddenly became dead silent.

All the students tacitly closed their mouths and held their breath. They were so stunned that they didn't even dare to fart in front of this Yuanyue graduate.

"The breakfast topic this time is for you to make a French vegetable jelly dish."

"I have already written the recipe for this dish on the whiteboard in advance. You just need to follow the ingredients available on site and complete the dish alone without forming a team."

"The assessment time is within 2 hours."

"Anyone who fails to complete the cooking on time or fails to satisfy me will be deemed unqualified."

"Then while cooking, it is forbidden to lower your head to communicate and give each other opinions."

After saying this, all the freshmen present took action one after another.

After they got the ingredients, they began to race against time to make French vegetable frozen dishes.

……

"how come……"

With a groan, Tazoe turned pale and looked at the ingredients she got in horror.

At first, when she learned that the breakfast question was vegetable jelly, she couldn't help but feel overjoyed, because Zhang Fan had made this dish before in an izakaya.

And this script is exactly the same as the first class after the start of school.

Although the recipe provided by Shinomiya is Jiuzhen Vegetable Jelly, the vegetables included in this dish are: carrots, cucumbers, green beans, corn kernels, cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and snow peas.

Compared with the Qizhen Vegetable Jelly made by Zhang Fan, it has two more vegetables.

But it doesn't matter, just follow the instructions provided on the whiteboard.

Combined with some of the understanding I got from Zhang Fan, it should be fine to cook this dish again as it is.

However, after all calculations, there would be problems with the ingredients on site.

She looked at the wilted lettuce on the chopping board, her eyes gradually became dull, and her heart inevitably felt broken.

If you use such low-quality vegetables, even if you can successfully complete the dish of Jiuzhen Vegetable Jellies, you will definitely not be able to pass the level of the Fourth Palace.

After all, he can't even tolerate students dyeing their hair with gel, so how can he let go of this problem with the ingredients?

"Oh? Is she the unlucky student who got the wilted vegetables?"

Sinomiya, who was beside the podium, was observing the students in the entire cooking room.

When he glanced at Tazoe, he unexpectedly noticed that she was in a panic, always staring at the wilted lettuce, and couldn't help but say to herself.

The wilted lettuce at the scene was actually put in secretly by him in advance.

Because lettuce is easily oxidized, it is also difficult to cook over high heat.Even poor quality lettuce will seriously affect the taste of vegetable jelly.

And the reason why he did this was simply to further screen out the qualified candidates and increase the elimination rate of this breakfast exam!

..."What should I do?"

At this time, Taso Hui was shaking slightly, and she was so confused that she was about to despair.

Thinking to myself, I completed all the assessments yesterday very well.

Even the dinner test of 50 fried steak sets can be completed faster than Yoshino Yuki and Sakaki Ryoko.

As a result, I never thought that at this juncture, my luck would be so unlucky. Before I even started cooking, I got bad ingredients.

"Wait a minute, regarding the issue of wilted vegetables, I remember that Shopkeeper Zhang once..."

Suddenly, an idea flashed through her head.

She remembered that at the izakaya, Zhang Fan specifically told her what to do with these wilted vegetables.

Snapped!
A loud bang.

But he saw her throw up her hands, and then slap her face hard.

This sudden movement naturally attracted the attention of the students in the entire cooking room. Even Shinomiya Kojiro on the stage was stunned!
"Shopkeeper Zhang, thank you."

"I finally know how important so-called experience is!"

Feeling the burning pain on his face, Tian Sohui's eyes were filled with determination.

Finally, she took a deep breath and calmed herself down.

Immediately afterwards, according to the method provided by Zhang Fan, pour some salt and vinegar into the water and stir evenly.

Time passed slowly, and when almost 20 minutes had passed, the lettuce soaked in salt and vinegar water magically turned green and fresh.

From the initial panic, to the final confidence, from being at a loss at the beginning, to now being able to restore the freshness of lettuce by soaking it in salt and vinegar water...

In such a short period of time, she, Tadokoro, was able to complete the transformation, which made Shinomiya's face gradually become serious!
……

2 hours.

Like smoke drifting in the wind, it will pass quickly!

As the last one to finish cooking, Tadokoro was almost paralyzed when she learned that she had not timed out.

Then, with an uneasy mood, she presented a nine-zhen French vegetable jelly that was as beautiful as a rainbow in front of the fourth house.

"Assessor, this...this is my cooking, please review it."

Tian Suohui, only promise.

Judging from her tone, it is not difficult to tell that she really has no confidence at this time.

Shinomiya Kojiro just looked at it coldly and said nothing. Then he took a knife and fork and gently cut a small piece and chewed it slowly.

"Shinomiya, this vegetable jelly tastes really good!"

"Mom, if you like it, when I grow up and become an excellent French chef, I will cook it for you every day."

"Silly boy, mom doesn't ask for anything. I just hope you can be safe. But mom, I believe in you. I believe you will become an excellent chef in the future!"

"Mom, I will, I will definitely become a chef."

When the cold, soft and glutinous vegetable jelly slowly enters your mouth.

After chewing it carefully with your teeth, the delicious taste that filled your mouth immediately made Shinomiya very familiar.

His thoughts suddenly drifted back to his childhood, when his family was really very poor and they often had to eat one meal at a time and go hungry at the next!

Later, when he successfully entered college, his mother saved up money and took him to an expensive French restaurant.

When he saw her smiling after eating a vegetable jelly, Shinomiya secretly decided that he would become an excellent French chef.

In the end, he got his wish. With his talent and hard work, he successfully entered Totsuki Academy.

And three years later, he graduated successfully as the first among the top ten!

After graduation, he resolutely chose to go to France. After 6 years of practice and struggle, he successfully established a foothold in the Paris cuisine industry and ran a French cuisine restaurant called "SHINO'S".

In the past two years, this restaurant was rated as a two-star restaurant by the WGO Food Organization.

And he himself became the first neon countryman to receive the "Order of Prussia".

……

"Mother."

"I...why did I think of you?"

After swallowing and closing his eyes, Shinomiya Kojiro slowly shed a tear.

After a long time, he opened his eyes and stared at Tadokoro with a complicated expression: "The density of salt water is greater than the density of water. Therefore, it can penetrate into the vegetables, promote cell division and growth, and accelerate the absorption of water."

"As for vinegar, it has a bleaching effect and a blocking effect on the air, which can prevent further oxidation of wilted vegetables."

"Also, the slightly sour smell of vinegar itself."

"It can also be combined with the sweetness of vegetables to make the taste richer and the texture more complex."

Listening to Shinomiya's analysis, Tadokoro nodded in agreement.

"Yes."

"No matter what you do with the vegetables that are wilted."

"It's definitely better to throw it away and reuse the freshest quality vegetables."

"But...but, the ingredients provided on site are very limited, so I can only think of this salt-vinegar-water soaking method."

"Who taught you to do this?"

After hearing this, Shinomiya asked calmly.

"Yes... I'm the owner of an izakaya!" Tadokoro Hui replied reluctantly.

"Don't you know that the recipes I provide are the most unique in the world?"

"You secretly soaked the lettuce in salt and vinegar water to make it fresh again. It seems smart, but in fact you are destroying my cooking and ignoring the rules of this assessment!"

"me……"

Tian Suo Hui was so anxious that she almost cried!
Why couldn't she understand why the practice of restoring the freshness of lettuce was a mistake in the eyes of this assessor?
"Forget it, you didn't make any serious mistakes in your cooking, so I'll just give you a passing grade."

After looking at Tadokoro for a moment, Shinomiya could only raise the frames of his glasses with his hands and said calmly.

Perhaps influenced by his family environment since childhood, he is inevitably very glassy in character, especially when it comes to his views on cooking, he is often neurotic and picky!
You can tell this when he starts to stagnate after receiving many honors.

As a chef, he has become increasingly strict with his employees over the years, not allowing them to overstep and change his recipes at will.

This paranoia and mentality made him gradually unpopular, which ultimately directly led to the SHINO'S French restaurant's goal of hitting the three-star restaurant this year and ending in complete failure.

"Thank you, judge. I...I will pay attention next time."

Knowing that she was lucky enough to pass the exam, Tadokoro seemed to have gone from hell to heaven in an instant, as if she had had a very unrealistic dream.

When Shinomiya Kojiro heard this, he didn't say much. Instead, he directly picked up Tanokoro's personal score sheet and wrote the word "passed" without hesitation.

"Tasori Megumi, congratulations on passing the breakfast test on the second day of the accommodation training activity."

When the lukewarm voice gently echoed in Tian Suo Hui's ears, the joy was instantly beyond words.

Although she didn't know why Shinomiya suddenly changed his mind and allowed her to successfully pass the breakfast test, for her, this ending was really better than anything else!
(End of this chapter)