Chapter 857: This is simply cheating. How to fight?
With the appearance of exquisite and delicious dishes, there are more and more diners around the Chinese team’s booth.
Compared to the way many participating teams pile up ingredients, the dishes of the Chinese team are both delicious and have rich meanings, which is obviously much more interesting.
Li Yi led the camera crew to introduce the subsequent solar terms delicacies one by one.
Artemisia cakes, green dumplings, and steamed buns during the Qingming Festival.
Grain Yu's toon scrambled eggs, and Longjing shrimps made with Yuqian Longjing.
The three delicacies of the ground, the three delicacies of the water and the three delicacies of the trees in the Beginning of Summer.
The diners at the scene had a great time eating, and the viewers in the live broadcast room were also full of salivation.
Listening to Li Yi’s explanation about the three delicacies of the Beginning of Summer, many viewers couldn’t help but sigh. Not to mention foreigners who don’t know about these delicacies, even many viewers themselves didn’t know that there is a custom of tasting the three delicacies in the Beginning of Summer.
Seeing that there were more and more diners in front of the Chinese team’s booth, and there was even a queue, the players from other participating teams from the surrounding countries were enthused and became a little anxious.
At this rate, they will have already lost before the event competition is over!
As a result, participating teams from various countries began to find ways to attract diners.
Some people shouted to invite guests, someone played music and danced to the music.
Some people also performed bartending live, with several wine bottles flying in the air, which was very fancy.
These methods of attracting customers are indeed good. Many diners were attracted and enjoyed themselves.
However, overall, the number of diners at the Huaxia Team booth still accounts for an absolute majority.
It only took two hours for all the dishes prepared by the Chinese team to be robbed.
Fortunately, Li Yi had already made preparations and arranged for people to cook in the kitchen area in advance, constantly replenishing the dishes.
Since then, one-third of the Huaxia team is busy in the kitchen, one-third is constantly delivering dishes and replenishing various dishes, and the remaining one-third is serving diners in the exhibition hall.
For a time, the Chinese team seemed to have turned into a university cafeteria.
Waves of diners snatched up the freshly cooked dishes.
But at the same time, waves of new dishes were brought out to satisfy the hungry appetites and strong appetites of the diners.
The preservation methods prepared in the early training are completely useless. Every time a new dish is cooked, it will be completely divided up in less than ten minutes.
Looking at the busy scene of the Chinese team, the players from other countries' participating teams were all envious, but they were helpless.
Hundreds of diners voted with their feet, and there is no doubt about it.
But is the Chinese team’s food really that delicious?
Out of curiosity, the chef of the national team came to the Chinese team and expressed that he wanted to try the dishes of the Chinese team.
Seeing him taking the initiative to communicate, Li Yi would naturally not refuse.
It is a good thing to be willing to learn. Li Yi took the chef with him and introduced him to him while asking him to taste a few dishes.
After Chef Faguo tasted the green plum wine from Mang Zhong and the cold noodles from Xia Zhi, he was already attracted by these interesting foods with unique cultural characteristics.
He followed Li Yi happily, listening and eating even more enthusiastically.
After eating a very hot [Lychee and Mutton Stew], he returned to his booth with a full cup of [Taro Balls and Roasted Immortal Grass].
With him taking the lead, contestants from other countries began to follow suit and came to the Chinese team one after another.
They are more knowledgeable and receptive than ordinary diners, and want to try all kinds of dishes.
But their favorite dishes are the dishes of autumn and winter. This is normal. Autumn is the harvest season, and winter brings countless delicacies for people to enjoy.
So the dishes in these two seasons are also the richest, and diners also prefer the dishes in these two seasons.
But because of different regions, each country’s favorite dishes are also different.
CCTV reporters interviewed every chef who came to communicate and asked them about their favorite dishes.
Through interviews, viewers in the live broadcast room found that most chefs from Middle Eastern countries prefer the Beginning of Autumn [Autumn Melon Stewed Lamb Chops].
Latin American countries seem to like to eat sweets, so they are particularly interested in the [Sliced Potatoes] and [Longan Braised Silky Chicken] during the white dew season.
The competing chefs from these Southeast Asian countries that are close to China have different tastes.
South Asian countries prefer [Salted Water Lily Duck] and [Fried Clams with Garlic and Black Bean Sauce] to cope with the summer heat.
East Asian countries are more interested in Hanlu’s various sesame cakes and drunken crabs.
European countries are also different. Southern European countries such as Italy have no resistance to the various pastries after the beginning of winter, and they are full of praise for eating them.
Western European chefs, represented by Eagle Country, are full of interest in the dozens of winter solstice dumplings with different shapes, colors, and filling ratios, and eat a lot of them.
As for the various kinds of big fish and meat from Dahan, they are the favorites of African black brothers, and diners don’t eat as much as they do.
After tasting the various delicacies of the Chinese team, each participating team was also convinced.
As for the delicacies presented by the Huaxia team, whether it is the type, ingredient combination, creativity, or production techniques, they are on a completely different level.
Compared with the products produced by the Huaxia team, the dishes they prepared seem to be a bit too childish and not at the same level at all.
Don't be afraid of not knowing the goods, just be afraid of comparing goods, especially since the chefs present are the most knowledgeable colleagues.
After comparing the dishes of the Chinese team and their own, they have completely given up their desire to compete with the Chinese team for the championship.
This is simply cheating, how to fight?
None of them expected that the Chinese team, which had not participated in the competition for decades, would be so ruthless once it did.
However, what they don’t know is that the Chinese team has not yet used its full strength.
In order to cope with the buffet format, the dishes prepared by the Huaxia team in this project are all relatively home-cooked side dishes, some of which cannot be served at all.
The follow-up hot dish kitchen is the project that the Chinese team plans to let go and show its strength.
But even the Chinese team themselves did not expect that their opponents had already given up resistance after just a little effort in this project.
This made Li Yi a little disappointed.
He hasn't even had a chance to take action yet, so why is the outcome already decided?
After tasting the dishes of the Chinese team, the participating teams from other countries no longer focused on their own dishes, and they were all taking turns to get the food from the Chinese team.
With their participation, the food on the Chinese team's side was consumed faster, and Li Yi had to send a few more people to the kitchen.
As one wave after another of dishes were eaten up, the chefs of the Chinese team had entered a mechanical process and completely forgot that they were competing.
It doesn’t feel like a competition at all. It’s just like feeding pigs, and it’s become a physical job.
Seeing that the other booths were empty, Li Yi simply left the booth and went to the booths of other countries to taste it.
After finally coming here, there must be something gained. He came with a learning attitude.
(End of this chapter)