Chapter 220 Homesick Rice Dumplings
"In this competition, each contestant can get a purchase quota of 5 million! The contestants can use the 5 million to buy the ingredients they want at the food stores scattered around us. Every ingredient has a clearly marked price. !That’s it, meow~”
Chen Mo had noticed that there were many shops around the square before, but he didn't expect that they were shops supplying food ingredients.
He looked around and found that the eyes of the other Yuling Chefs were full of solemnity.
5 million may seem like a lot, but in fact the ingredients that can be purchased are very limited. If you buy two rare ingredients, it will be gone.
And the ingredients are limited, so you may have to compete with other contestants for ingredients.
So the selection of ingredients requires reasonable planning by each player.
“The total duration of the finals is 3 hours, which is divided into three parts: ingredient selection, food production, and judges’ scoring.”
Xia Yan, who has a loli face, continued to explain:
“Each contestant’s score still consists of quality points and judges’ scores. However, unlike the first two rounds of competition, the final has increased the weight of judges’ scores.”
“Each of the 10 judges has 5 points, totaling 50 points, and the full score for quality is also 50 points~”
"The specific rules for scoring are as follows - 10 points for delicacies below Rare Level 5, 20 points for Rare Levels 6 to 9, 30 points for Rare Levels 1 to 5, 40 points for Rare Levels 6 to 9, and 40 points for Rare Levels 6 to 9. The delicacies of and above will get a full score of 50 points!”
“Then let me announce that the title of this soul-eating contest is – Nostalgia!”
Xia Yan shouted loudly.
Small body contains a lot of energy.
“Everyone must have a special affection for his hometown. This affection will be especially strong when you are in a foreign country.”
“So this time everyone’s works need to arouse the homesickness of the judges as much as possible!”
After Xia Yan announced the test questions, both the Yuling Chef contestants who came to participate in the finals and the audience watching the competition were stunned for a few seconds.
The test questions for this year’s Young Chef Competition seem a bit difficult.
At the judges' table, after hearing the test questions, the ten judges frowned and looked a bit speechless.
They are worried that the players are not doing well, but they are also worried that they are doing too well.
If it is not done well, it means the decline of Dongxia’s food industry, which is something they don’t want to see.
But the contestants’ final delicacies were highly completed, which meant that they would be reminded of homesickness 30 times in a row. Who could withstand this!
I'm afraid that if I hadn't eaten all these delicacies, I would have returned to my hometown overnight.
Chen Mengqing's cold eyes flashed with a hint of worry.
Under normal circumstances, this high-level food-type move can only be mastered by food spirits at the commander level and above.
As far as she knows, Tuantuan probably hasn’t mastered this cooking skill.
The examination questions were determined a month ago and were jointly formulated by a number of imperial chefs.
They mainly want to test the mastery of the [Emotional Fusion] move by the Yuling Chef and their food spirits. This is a move that almost every high-level food spirit must learn.
They probably didn’t expect that there was an intermediate spirit chef who made it to the finals with a transcendent food spirit...
What’s more important is that half of the total scores obtained by the contestants come from the judges’ scores.
This means that tactics that blindly pursue quality points, similar to those in the qualifiers, will no longer be able to be used.
The situation is not good for Chen Mo!
She couldn't help but look at Chen Mo in the center of the square, but found that this guy seemed to be in a daze?
Chen Mo was naturally not in a daze. When he heard the word "nostalgia," he couldn't help but think of Lan Xing in his previous life, his parents, classmates, and life.
Although that world did not have extraordinary power, it carried a long period of his life experience.
For him, the Blue Star in his previous life was his hometown.
When he first came to this world half a year ago, he was confused. He also missed his parents and friends in his previous life.
Later, in the company of Xiaojiu and other spiritual beasts, Chen Mocai gradually felt relieved. Now he is well integrated into the world. Usually I rarely think of things from my past life. I only think of them accidentally at certain moments.
For example, when he heard the word "nostalgia" now, he couldn't help but think of it again.
“嘤?” (Master, what food shall we make this time?)
The anxious voice of Nuomi Tuanling brought Chen Mo back from his thoughts.
Oh yes, now is the game, not the time to dwell on the past.
Chen Mo quickly "flicked through" the recipes in his mind.
【World Pastry Master】allowed him to master thousands of different pastry makings.
The competition rules of the finals were indeed very unfavorable for them. Tuantuan did not learn the food skill of "melting emotions", so they could only start from the effects of the food itself.
Soon, Chen Mo found a pastry delicacy that almost perfectly met the requirements of this exam!
Homesick rice dumplings.
This is a kind of pastry that has not been recorded in the spiritual world for the time being. Depending on the ingredients used and the level of the spiritual chef, the quality of the finished homesickness rice dumpling ranges from rare to epic.
The effect of eating it is to evoke strong feelings of homesickness. If the quality of homesick rice dumplings can reach an epic level, it can even make diners dream of returning to their hometown, relieving the pain of homesickness.
“The decision is yours!”
Chen Mo smiled at the corner of his mouth.
Since you can’t arouse the judges’ homesickness through food skills, use the special effects of the food itself instead!
“嘤!”
Tuantuan clenched his fists to cheer himself up, and his cute appearance made many viewers watching the live broadcast cute.
“Make a few more, and the probability of making epic-quality homesick rice dumplings is very high. The quality points will be determined first!”
“嘤!” (Chong Chong Chong!)
“But we can’t be happy too early. In this competition, we may not have the ingredients needed for homesick rice dumplings.”
Chen Mo looked around and saw that there were many shops that provided food ingredients, almost hundreds of them, and each shop had a conspicuous neon sign hanging on it, which stated the type of food sold and the name of the shop.
These stores are sponsored by large companies or large suppliers that sell gourmet ingredients.
They paid the organizers a lot of money to appear here, just to let their companies "show their faces."
The advertising fee for the National Young Chef Competition is very expensive!
Chen Mo saw two shops that specialized in selling traditional pastry ingredients, so he might try his luck there first.
If that doesn’t work, alternatives can only be initiated.
【World Pastry Master】He has mastered many pastry making methods, and it is not just the homesick rice dumplings that evoke nostalgia!
6:30
“Now, all contestants, please get ready—”
Xia Yan held the microphone in one hand, raised it high with the other, and then waved it down with the sound of fireworks.
"Game start!"
(End of this chapter)