To everyone's expectations, when Chen Chong opened the lid, what appeared in everyone's eyes was a large round plate, and on top of the plate was a one-piece casserole.

This kind of casserole has a shallow depth and a large opening, and is often called a soup pot or soup bowl. It can be seen that the size of the Yipin casserole is very large, at least twice the size of an ordinary casserole.

However, after seeing this combination of a plate and Yipin casserole, many people laughed, as if the dishes cooked in the food street were the casserole in front of them, because Yipin casserole still had a lid on it, and the scene inside the casserole could not be seen.

Chen Chong was also helpless about this.

In order to unify and beautiful, the organizer requires each team to cover a metal lid when serving dishes. However, the problem is that the Yipin casserole is not as big as the metal lid, so it is impossible to take it away if it is forced to cover it.

Therefore, at the suggestion of the staff, I could only find a plate larger than a casserole and pretend to go through the motions.

"Ahem."

Chen Chong coughed twice and continued to uncover the lid of the casserole, revealing a sleeping duck inside it.

The duck's body was bulging, one-third soaked in water, and two-thirds were exposed on the water surface. There was nothing else.

If it weren't for the heat emitting in the pot, I'm afraid everyone would think it was a duck that had plucked hair but had not had time to cook.

After all, the water is too clear and the duck is too white, with a complete surface and no trace of a knife.

"What kind of dish is this? Is the duck boiled in white water?"

"Who knows, I haven't seen it anyway."

"Although the color of the white water sheep head made by Dashi is very single, the exaggerated sheep skull makes people shine. Needless to say, the clove sashimi Wuwei Sauce in Wangjiang Pavilion is completely a beautiful island model. As for this dish in the food street..., I really want to laugh when I look at it."

"A poor duck drowned in shallow water, and his hair was pulled out...haha..."

"If you guys don't understand, don't talk nonsense..."

"Then tell me, what's so eye-catching about this dish?"

"This... Since Master Chen has such amazing operations in the second round, his performance in the final will naturally not be weak."

"I'll say it in vain."

…

Listening to the various comments in the audience, the ten professional judges looked at each other and shook their heads with a smile.

"Who will explain it?" Wu Wei raised his chin to the eight judges on his left.

"In my opinion, President Yang has to do it himself." Han Zhifeng spread his hands.

"To be honest, it's the first time I've seen this dish." Food anchor Wang Xiaomei had a bitter face.

After the two of them made their statements, although the other judges did not speak, their eyes were conveying the same meaning.

Yang Xiaoling sighed and thought that the younger generation today's understanding of traditional famous dishes is getting weaker and weaker. No, we can't say that, because the cooking methods of traditional famous dishes are relatively complex and the cooking skills are so profound that few chefs can complete them. This leads to fewer successors and fewer famous dishes. If this continues, I guess there will be a few more dishes in those lost recipes.

"Don't be confused anymore. The dish completed by the food street is called the "Four Treasures Set". As the name suggests, it means cooking four kinds of good ingredients together. It is a traditional famous dish that has been passed down for a hundred years. It is known as "I would rather eat four ounces of birds than half a pound of animals."

She said without any haste, "The difference between the 'Four Treasures' and other famous dishes is that it is improved from the older traditional 'Three Rings'. It not only integrates ancient heritage, but also adds new cooking skills, blending the old and the accumulation of time, making this dish a unique among traditional famous dishes.

At this point, Yang Xiaoling approached the pot and sniffed it. She could smell the strong aroma of duck meat, but it did not spread, as if an unsheathed sword, restraining her sharpness.

"Everyone comes and smells it." She called on other judges to participate with lucky audiences.

"It's so strange. You can only smell the duck meat after getting closer." A lucky audience member said in surprise.

"Not only that, the water in this pot is a bit strange, unlike what seeps out of the duck's body during cooking." Wang Xiaomei observed carefully.

"Then you can taste the flavor of this soup first." Yang Xiaoling raised her hand and signaled.

"What? Soup?" Food blogger Akako was stunned. With a skeptical attitude, she used chopsticks to dip a drop on the bottom of the pot and placed it on the tip of her tongue. Her beautiful eyes suddenly opened.

This liquid, which seems to be no different from boiled water, is it really a soup?!

"President Yang, forgive me for being ignorant. I have drunk countless soups since I was a child, and I have never seen such a magical soup. How did this be done?" she asked.

Yang Xiaoling waved her hand, "Actually, this soup is not a real soup. To be precise, it should be a kind of soup."

"Soup? Isn't this a common ingredient used in cooking?" another lucky audience asked.

"You said it right, this can only be regarded as an ingredient." Yang Xiaoling explained: "However, broth also has categories, such as hair boiling, milk soup and clear soup. What you see now is the so-called clear soup, which is also the most difficult category in broth. If you want to make the clear soup so clear, you still need to use the 'slow soup method'. The complexity is difficult for outsiders to imagine."

"It sounds amazing, but it's not soup yet?"

"Although it is not a soup, it is known as the best among soups. Who can tell it clearly?" Yang Xiaoling sighed and looked at Chen Chong who was silent on the side. "Master Chen, I have a question. If it is inconvenient for you to answer, you can not answer."

"May I ask." Chen Chong raised his hand slightly, neither humble nor arrogant.

"I want to know, how many times have you used this clear soup?" Yang Xiaoling knew very well that this question involved the chef's personal secret, and even if the other party did not answer, she would not be angry.

"Twice." Chen Chong stretched out his hand and compared two fingers.

"Two times? It's impossible. I haven't seen the exquisite soup twice, nor are it as clear as you?" Yang Xiaoling asked.

"Because I didn't pour this clear soup into it specifically." Chen Chong smiled slightly and said, "Except for using flowing water in the initial cleaning stage, all the steps in this dish are treated with clear soup."

"for example?"

"For example, blanched water."

"Will there be foam in blanching water?"

"That's right, so I used four pots and four pots of clear soup. Each time I came out of the pot, I rinse it with clean soup, and finally steamed it in the pot. Of course, the one used to steam it... is still clear soup."

The judges and the audience next to them obviously did not understand the conversation between Chen Chong and Yang Xiaoling, but between the lines and Chen Chong's unconcealed smile, they could clearly feel one word, that is, "Hao"!

Yang Xiaoling had already talked about the value of clear soup before, but what about Chen Chong? He actually used this kind of thing instead of all the clear water. Isn’t this a manifestation of a rich man?

Just imagine, when they were still marveling at the taste and magic of the clear soup, others used it to rinse their mouths and wash their feet!

"What do you mean is that the clear soup you see now is actually the steam formed when steaming dishes?" Yang Xiaoling asked anxiously.

"Yes." Chen Chong nodded seriously.

"No wonder! The exquisite double hanging soup is already clear. Then the steam formed by it is used as the soup base, the transparency can be imagined." Yang Xiaoling looked at Chen Chong carefully. The latter had a dark skin and a restrained temperament. It was exactly the same as the "four treasures" in front of her. They both looked ordinary, but in fact they contained great energy.

"President, are there too few such delicious clear soup? Not enough to drink it alone?" Wang Xiaomei said in confusion.

"You are wrong. Clear soup is not the feature of this dish." Yang Xiaoling gently touched the duck with chopsticks. The skin was very soft and elastic. "I have mentioned before that the reason why the set of four treasures is called the main reason because it is cooked together with four best ingredients and perfectly integrates the characteristics of the four ingredients."

"What four?" someone asked.

"Look, this is a duck." Yang Xiaoling held the chopsticks in both hands and exerted a little force, piercing the duck's skin. Immediately, white heat rushed out of the hole, carrying a refreshing fragrance.

"This is... the chicken smells like!" Liu Shanshan, who claims to be the strongest tongue, immediately distinguished it.

"No," Yang Xiaoling nodded with a smile, then she exerted her chopsticks and continued to pierce the skin of the muscles along the rupture just now, revealing another slightly white fleshy texture.

"This is a suckling pigeon!" Liu Shanshan still reacted the fastest.

Yang Xiaoling did not pause, and continued to force the chopsticks, poking the pigeon's skin again, revealing the innermost quail and various fillings in the quail's body.

At this time, various fragrances in the air had merged together and continued to spread outward. Even the audience seats above could smell them and immediately marveled.

From this we can see that this fragrance is so domineering that it drifts away and lasts forever.

"This is the wonderful thing about the set of four treasures. It combines the richness, fragrance, freshness and wild flavors of duck, chicken, pigeon, quail. The four whole birds are arranged in layers from large to small, each of which is complete, without a single bone. Its color is bright and pure fragrance. After eating the first layer of duck with a strong taste, a fragrant whole chicken comes into view; after eating the chicken, the extremely delicious complete pigeon quietly appears again; finally, eating quail full of wild game and filling it with the filling, that taste is really a great pleasure in life."

Yang Xiaoling became more and more excited as she spoke, "It is not difficult to see from the structure of this dish that the difficulty of cooking, the requirements for cooking, and the mastery of the heat are indispensable. Especially the most complex bone-cutting technique, like artistic carving, which tests the chef's patience and care. After all, some parts of the four birds are as thin as paper. If you are not careful, they will pierce and cannot be sealed.

Therefore, in terms of cooking difficulty and skills, Master Chen’s set of four treasures is definitely the best of the three participating dishes.”

"President, I'm almost drooling when I hear it." Wang Xiaomei said with a silly smile.

"Then everyone can try it." Yang Xiaoling raised her hand and signaled.

…

"I want to taste it, too."

"Who doesn't want to taste it? But we are not as lucky as those guys, so we can only sit in the audience and watch it."

"Eat four dishes and eat them, this 'four treasures' is really amazing!"

"Don't say anything, I haven't eaten any of the dishes that appeared in the final today! I really envy those judges and lucky ones, who actually...splashed."

"I can smell the fragrance from so far away. Do you dare to believe it?"

"Believe it, why don't you? It's not just you, but I smell it too."

"I can smell it, but I can't eat it. I'm going crazy."

"No wonder there are not many people watching the cooking competition, who knows who comes."

There were complaints in the audience.

…

"Tell me what you think." Yang Xiaoling asked when everyone finished the trial.

"I'll do it first." Liu Shanshan suddenly smiled bitterly, "I can't taste other flavors except the taste of the four birds and the flavors of the ingredients such as scallops, squid, sea cucumbers, and shrimps. But I must admit that there are many strange flavors in this dish that I can't tell at all. However, the four birds have the right taste and the perfect heat."

"This dish is original, rich in flavor, fat but not greasy, and chewy." Wu Wei exclaimed.

"And the four flavors are both combined with each other and clearly layered. It is not easy to clearly distinguish the characteristics of the four birds," added Han Zhifeng.

"Where are you?"

Yang Xiaoling looked at the ten lucky audiences again, but unfortunately they stammered and said only two words, "It's delicious", which is ridiculous.
To be continued...