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Chapter 377 The challenge begins

"... Let me tell you a secret, don't tell others, Jin Zai wants to be the talker of the restaurant in Temple Street!"

"...so hot, why is he so nervous?"

"Hey, have you heard that Jin Zai is going to challenge five levels and six generals!"

"Really? Who told you?"

"Of course it's true. Grandma Ji from the Wangji Herbal Tea Shop told me that Sister Turkey, Feixue and Shenxian were all present."

"Hey, let me tell you secretly, that kid from the Zhang family is Jin Zai, he..."

In one noon, the news that Zhang Jin was going to challenge Wuguan and Liujiang to be the speaker of the restaurant in Temple Street had already spread to the ears of everyone in the neighborhood.

So much so that when Zhang Jin's cheap parents came back from buying goods, they felt the strange eyes of the neighbors looking at him. When they heard the comments about their son, the two were even more confused!

"What! My family Jin Zai wants to challenge five levels and six generals to be the talker of the restaurant in Temple Street?"

"Going nuts! He's such a bad boy, he can't even cook vegetables well, and he struggles to cut meat. He dares to challenge five levels and six generals. It's really embarrassing!"

"That's right, go back and persuade Jin Zai. It's a neighborly meeting. I don't want to see him embarrassing on stage!"

"Hey, it's a pity that there is no barbecue level in the five levels, otherwise Jin Zai can still go up and try."

"Yinggu, don't laugh at him, you know what level your own son is, Jinzi is not ready yet."

Among the crowd who were discussing, only Uncle Hong muttered silently: "Jin Zai is not necessarily going to lose, the chop suey noodles he makes are so magical, maybe cooking other dishes and snacks is also magical."

Just when Cheap's parents were learning about the situation with the neighbors in the neighborhood.

On the other side, under the leadership of Sister Turkey, Zhang Jin came to the residence of Li Bo, the manager of Tianhou Temple who was in charge of arranging the five gates and six generals in Temple Street, and showed his intention to the other party.

"What... what? You are here to apply for the challenge of five levels and six generals?"

Hearing this news, Uncle Li, who is now in his 80s, dropped his dentures to the ground in shock, and stared at him with squinting eyes in surprise.

Well, reading glasses were hanging around my neck and I forgot to wear them.

"Yes, Uncle Li, is there any problem? Do you need any special conditions for the application?"

"There is no problem, and there are no special conditions, but..." Uncle Li turned his gaze from Zhang Jin to Sister Turkey, "Turkey, have you explained everything to him?"

"I've said everything that should be said and shouldn't be said, and I can't help him if he refuses to listen to my advice!" Sister Turkey spread her hands, showing a helpless expression of an old lady who had tried her best.

"Young boy, once you apply for the challenge of five levels and six generals, you will be kicked out of Temple Street if you fail. Are you sure you want to apply again?"

"Yes, Uncle Li, I am sure to apply for the challenge of five levels and six generals."

Looking at Zhang Jin's firm eyes, Uncle Li nodded after a while: "Okay, if you block your future, you have to challenge. It's a bit like Master Yao back then, but it's a pity that you don't have the skills of Master Yao."

"Whether you have Master Yao's skills or not, you will know after a comparison." Zhang Jin laughed.

"Since you are so confident, I will send a notice to all the catering shops and stalls in Temple Street. You have three days to prepare. After three days, the challenge of five levels and six generals will officially start!"

After Uncle Li finished speaking, he turned around and came to the solid wood desk next to him, picked up a brush, laid out red paper, and began to write the notice.

"Okay, let's go back, your wish has come true, hurry up and get ready, don't lose too badly after three days." Sister Turkey dragged Zhang Jin away from Uncle Li's house.

"Sister Turkey, can I trouble you to do me a favor in these three days?"

"If I don't help you, who will help you? Tell me, what's your favor?"

"That's right, I want to challenge the owners of other food stalls and compare their cooking skills with them." Zhang Jin said.

It's good to spend three days to earn some experience from these ordinary street chefs.

Remember, in the store.

"Brother Goose Head, Brother Goose Head! Something big happened!" A boy with a thick head and a thick head ran in and shouted loudly.

"The one who yells all day long, can you keep your focus, what's the big deal?" Goose-headed guy put down the ledger and scolded unhappily.

"That Jin boy under Turkey wants to challenge five levels and six generals. Li Bo has already posted a notice in Tianhou Temple!"

"What!?" The goose-headed man who had just accused his younger brother of being unsteady, lost his composure when he heard the news, and suddenly stood up from behind the counter. Five levels and six generals, I want to be the talker!"

"Brother Goose Head, could this be instigated by Sister Turkey?"

"No, I know about turkey. If she is quite good, she will go up by herself, and she won't find someone to replace her. Jin Zai is a street boy, and his family is all skewers. He knows how to cook, so he dares to challenge five General Guan Liu simply didn’t pay attention to everyone in Temple Street!”

"Brother Goose Head, why don't we take this opportunity to give that kid a good lesson! Let him dismiss this idea?"

"No, let him participate in the challenge. I will humiliate and defeat him in the challenge three days later! Pujiezi dared to embarrass me last night, and I will make you ashamed for the rest of your life, and you will never be able to gain a foothold in Temple Street!" Goose Head the old man said viciously.

Time flies, three days later.

Temple Street, outside Tin Hau Temple, at [-]:[-] a.m., the second Temple Street Catering Talker Challenge officially kicked off.

The first round is to test the level of the challenger's cooking of five tribute dishes, namely roast duck, barbecued pork, white-cut chicken, roast suckling pig and steamed Dongxingban.

Because it is necessary to complete the production of dishes from beginning to end, and there is only one person plus a helper, the time must be prioritized. According to the complexity of the process, start with the pre-coating of roast duck and roast suckling pig, then white-cut chicken and barbecued pork , and finally steamed Dongxingban.

After these three days of experience accumulation, with the help of Sister Turkey, Zhang Jin almost challenged all the famous street stall chefs in Temple Street, accumulating enough experience to upgrade the stunt chef system to level 2 and unlock the first A legendary kitchen tool Yongling Knife, and Sichuan cuisine, one of the eight major cuisines.

"Sister Turkey, you will help me chop the ingredients later, and I will be in charge of cooking and controlling the heat." Zhang Jin assigned the task.

"I understand." Sister Turkey nodded seriously.

After three days of seeing and tasting, she no longer wanted to ask Zhang Jin to give up as she did three days ago, but after seeing the other party's magical cooking skills, she felt that it was not impossible to successfully challenge the five levels and six generals.

In the morning, nine fifteen.

"The auspicious time has come, five levels and six will challenge, start now!"

As Li Bo's words fell, the golden gong at the gate of Tin Hau Temple was struck, making a thick and crisp "dang" sound!

The sound waves spread, causing the water in the tank to sway slightly.

Hearing the sound of the golden gong, Zhang Jin and Sister Turkey separated from each other and began to busy themselves with the things at hand.

Roast duck is a special dish in Guangdong and Guangxi in the south of Lingnan, and a traditional famous product in Cantonese cuisine.Made from roasted whole ducks, the skin is golden red, the duck body is full, and the belly contains marinade, which has a mellow taste.It has the characteristics of crisp skin, tender meat, fragrant bones, fat but not greasy.At the same time, it is served with sour plum sauce for a unique flavor!

The whole roasted duck has been processed in advance, so it only needs to be roasted at this time. Zhang Jin has the guidance of the stunt chef system, and the action is not ambiguous at all.

Temple Street Roasted Duck No. 1 Master Wu commented: "The traditional method of roasting duck is charcoal, so that the taste is the most authentic. Therefore, the choice of charcoal is also very particular. Charcoal, bamboo charcoal, fruit charcoal and lychee charcoal, etc., are fired. The taste is not the same.

However, I saw that Jin Zai chose lychee charcoal, so I know he must have studied it. This lychee charcoal has a strong structure and the flame heats evenly when burned, which can ensure that every part of the duck is heated during the roasting process.At the same time, the roasted duck made of lychee charcoal will have a light fruity fragrance. "

"Wow! It still has a faint fragrance of fruit and wood, that guest can tell by smelling the food, and it's not a dog!" Someone said disdainfully.

"You poor boy, you know a ghost! Whether the guests can smell the food or not is the customer's business, but whether they have made such a level of detail depends on whether the chef has put his heart into it!" Master Wu taught.

After dealing with the roast duck, Zhang Jin turned his head to look at Sister Turkey: "Sister Turkey, have you finished the dressing for the suckling pig?"

"It's done!" Sister Turkey put the suckling pig smeared with five-spice powder and salt to marinate, waited for 10 minutes before taking it out, then applied more seasoning, and then marinated for 10 minutes.

After marinating, it needs to be shaped, scalded, and crispy syrup, and finally the finished product can be baked, which is quite troublesome!

"When you're done, kill the fish for me." After Zhang Jin finished speaking, he turned back and continued to do what he was doing.

Now he has to deal with the white-cut chicken, immersing the chicken body in the boiling water of the cooking pot, lifting the water several times to control the water, and finally put the whole chicken into the pot and cook it slowly over low heat until the chicken is cooked thoroughly.The process should not be too fast, otherwise the taste of the ingredients in the water will not be fully immersed in the muscle, and it should not be too long, otherwise the muscle will be too old and affect the taste.

Hao Yun, a sister of Temple Street Baiqie Chicken who once sold [-] white-cut chickens in one night with this unique dipping sauce, commented: "In addition to the treatment of the chicken, the most important thing about the white-cut chicken is the dipping sauce. A good dipping sauce is the finishing touch, without a good dipping sauce, the taste of the white-cut chicken will be greatly reduced!
But I can't see any special ingredients from Jin Zai's table. Is he planning to pass this white-cut chicken with ordinary soy sauce?If so, then I can only say that he underestimated this challenge too much! "

The key to white-cut chicken is half the chicken and the other half the dipping sauce. Zhang Jin naturally understands this truth, but there is no unique dipping sauce recipe in the system, so of course he can't make his own.

However, although there is no unique dipping material, there is a unique BGM, which guarantees that the effect does not have to be poor!

After putting the white-cut chicken into the pot and cooking it slowly, Zhang Jin came to Sister Turkey, took away the killed Dong Xingban, and asked Sister Turkey to help cut the part of the whole pork that is suitable for making barbecued pork.

Barbecued pork is also a famous product in Cantonese cuisine. It is one of the siu-mei dishes. It is made from half-fat and lean pork. The meat is soft, juicy, bright in color and full of fragrance.

It is one of the most commonly eaten and favorite dishes of Hong Kong residents. There are various combinations of char siu rice, char siew powder, char siew noodles, char siu buns, char siu crisps, and char siu mooncakes.

"Huh? Jin Zai actually took out the grill, is this to use the grill to make char siew!"

"I've never seen char siew like this. Hey, Jin Zai, are you making char siu or barbecued pork skewers?"

Seeing this, the goose-headed man on the sidelines laughed disdainfully and said, "I think he's probably insane. If he doesn't know how to make char siu, hurry home and practice. Don't be ashamed of yourself!"

"It's not impossible to roast with fire, but it requires the chef to control the flame and the heat of the pork very accurately. But Jin Zai grew up in a barbecue stall, so maybe he really has the ability." said the neighbor.

"What! If the barbecue stand grows up, it must be able to control the heat?" Goose-headed man retorted loudly dissatisfied.

"Speak as you speak, yelling so loudly to scare ghosts?"

"What, you can't even speak loudly! Just because I speak loudly doesn't mean I'm rude, Grandpa!"

"Lost, Pujie boy!" The old neighbor waved his hand, and quickly took the initiative to stay away from the other party.

"Dost, old man!" Goose-headed man cursed.

In the middle of the field, Zhang Jin had already picked up the serial number of half-fat and lean pork and put it on the barbecue grill, and the charcoal fire inside was very hot by him.

Most people grill on the grill horizontally, but this time he placed it vertically. The entire one-meter-long grill only has a spork, which is specially used for grilling char siu.

With the help of [Suzaku Bloodline], Zhang Jin can be said to be the top group of chefs in the entire chef world in terms of cooking and fire control.

Why dare not say number one, because this God of Cookery world has internal skills!
Under Zhang Jin's control, the charcoal flame, which was originally difficult to control, was as obedient as a docile cat. Not long after, the evenly rotating roasting fork emitted bursts of the aroma of barbecued pork!
Zhang Jin and Sister Turkey cooperated in an orderly manner, busy with tension, and did their best in every process.

Two hours later, the last dish of steamed Dong Xing Ban came on stage.

At this point, the whole dish production is finally over.

Roasted duck, roasted suckling pig, barbecued pork, white-cut chicken, and steamed Dong Xingban, five tribute dishes were served on the tasting table.

"Please judges and neighbors to taste!" Zhang Jin smiled confidently.

There are a total of six judges present, all of whom are respected elders in Temple Street, composed of Uncle Li, Uncle Jin and others.These people are also the people who experienced Master Yao winning the golden frying spoon back then, and they were also the judges at that time.

Except for Li Bo, the caretaker of the Tin Hau Temple, everyone else was a well-known chef in Temple Street back then, and now he is also a director of the Hong Kong Island Catering Association. He definitely has the strength and prestige to evaluate the quality of the tribute dishes.

The food and drink in Temple Street may not be as good as some star restaurants and famous restaurants, but it is rooted in the daily life of ordinary Hong Kong residents and closely related to the local culture. It may not be so fashionable, but it is definitely not so cheap and inferior.

"Then, just like before, Uncle Li, you choose what you want to eat the most, and the rest of us choose what we are best at, how about it?"

The first person to speak was Qian Bo, a famous chef who once won the title of Hong Kong Island Duck King with his Cantonese-style crispy roast duck.

"Okay, it's the same as before, and the requirements can't be relaxed!" Everyone nodded in agreement.

After carefully observing the color and aroma of the dishes, the six of them picked up the dishes they wanted to taste with the bowls and chopsticks in front of them and prepared to try them.

Zhang Jin watched the six judges put the food into their mouths, and a strange smile appeared on his face.

(End of this chapter)