The second round of the rematch will compete for the final 12 people who will hit the "Fairy Kitchen", and the competition system is more flexible than the first round.

Until more than ten years ago, the process of the "Fairy Chef" competition was very fixed. Since the two or three competitions, the organizing committee has gradually carried out some innovations, hoping to achieve a higher level while competing with chefs.Good communication effect.

This time, according to the comprehensive scores of the previous round, the contestants were divided into two groups and assigned to different arenas. Each group had 12 people, and each group advanced six people.

The arena Jiang Ci was assigned to was located in an old school with a long history in S City.

Specifically, it is the first cafeteria in the old colleges and universities.

Jiang Ci glanced at the list. Feng Lu and Hong Lang were both in the same arena with her, while Zhao Zeming and Wang Jianian were assigned to another arena, which was located on the street of G City, where there are many delicious food.The two groups of chefs were separated according to the rankings of the previous round of competition, and the level can be said to be the same.

City S can be regarded as Feng Lu's stronghold. Before the start of the rematch, Feng Lu even invited her to taste it in his private restaurant.

In the second round of the rematch, chefs were not required to prepare their own ingredients, and the topic was not disclosed in advance.Jiang Ci saved the effort of preparing in advance, and went into battle lightly on the day of the game.

The old university occupies a large area, and there are several canteens alone. The first canteen is the oldest one. Compared with the other canteens, it is neither new nor large. Usually, there are not many people, only passing through the nearby library.Students eat here for convenience.

However, on this day, the No. 1 cafeteria was unusually lively. When the passing students saw the camera crew stationed, they all looked around.

"What is this filming? A TV series?"

"What TV series? The 'Fairy Chef' contest uses our school cafeteria as the venue!"

"It is said that there is delicious food here at noon. After registering at the door, you can enter and be a judge for the masses."

"Fairy Chef Contest? What kind of competition is this..." The student who asked the question took out his mobile phone and searched it, his eyes lit up, "Oh, this excitement is not for nothing."

Jiang Ci hurriedly walked through the crowd of students, her temperament blended perfectly with the students next to her, and she was stopped by the school teacher when she was about to enter the cafeteria.

"I'm sorry, classmate, there is a filming here today, and the equipment is being adjusted now, so you can take a detour." The teacher pointed her in the direction thoughtfully.

"Mr. Liu, this is our contestant." The staff who saw this scene hurried forward to explain and brought Jiang Ci into the arena.

"This is... the chef?" The teacher was at a loss. Why is the chef about the same age as his students?It's not the same as imagined.

The teacher looked at Jiang Ci's back wonderingly: "Your chef is pretty good-looking."

"Haha, Chef Jiang is good-looking and very capable." The staff laughed.

The teacher said "Oh", wondering if the chef is getting younger now.But after half an hour, he knew that he was thinking too much, and the age of the later contestants were more in line with his imagination of "chef".

On the other side, Jiang Ci followed the guidance of the staff and entered the rest area to wait.

The walls of the No. 1 canteen have turned yellow, and the chairs are old wooden stools, and the paint surface has become mottled after years of use.But overall, it was cleaned very well and the hygiene was up to standard.

Not long after Jiang Ci waited in the rest area, all the contestants of the day arrived. Hong Lang stepped on the line and finally arrived, dressed in stylish clothes, obviously specially groomed for the photo.

Considering that she was going into the kitchen, Jiang Ci didn't wear makeup, and her black hair was simply tied behind her head.The same is true for other chefs, 'cleanliness' is one of the basic qualities of the kitchen work.Even Hong Lang only worked hard on the clothes.

Of course, the costumes are dazzling enough.

At nine o'clock, the game starts on time.The host first put a lottery tube on the table, and asked the twelve contestants to draw lots.

"The name of the dish written on the sign is one of the daily dishes in the No. 1 cafeteria. Today, everyone's task is to make the dish that is drawn by the lottery and ensure that it can serve 200 students. This amount is still very challenging. We will providePrepare an assistant for each."

After the host introduced the topic, the chefs immediately whispered.

Hong Lang frowned directly, actually asking him to cook canteen dishes?

The host smiled and said: "Everyone, don't underestimate the dishes in the cafeteria. The more basic the dishes, the more you can see the real skills. You can also innovate on the basis of the dishes, as long as the ingredients provided by the cafeteria can be used. Today at noon everyoneThe works will be jointly evaluated by professional judges and students, and the more students get favorable comments, the more likely they will become winners."

Hearing that they can innovate, the faces of the contestants all looked better—the dishes in the cafeteria are too basic, if they are not allowed to innovate, they really can't do much.

Even though he was cooking big pot dishes in the cafeteria, Jiang Ci did not underestimate today's game because of this.Nowadays, the most popular canteen dishes are also sieved by the big waves, many of which are simplified versions of traditional dishes, with classic tastes and a balance between cost and efficiency.

The contestants began to draw lots one by one, and Jiang Ci also reached out to take one, and opened it to see that it was a very traditional side dish.

"What did you get?" Feng Lu stood beside her and couldn't help asking.

Jiang Ci showed her the sign: "Minced beans and pork."

"Mine is pepper chicken." Feng Lu sighed after speaking.

"Isn't this good?" Jiang Ci said, "In this kind of competition, dishes with strong smells have an advantage."

Feng Lu smiled wryly: "My roots are Huaiyang cuisine, pepper chicken... This is outside my comfort zone."

On the other side, after Hong Lang opened his signboard, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

What he smoked was dry pot ribs.

This dish is dry, fragrant, refreshing, spicy, and full of flavors. If you don't make it so that half the cafeteria can smell it, you will be considered a loser!

Hong Lang took a peek at Jiang Ci, but the other party didn't hide his brand name. He saw the words "bean minced meat" at a glance, and he was secretly happy.

Every canteen dish has a basic audience. Dishes like the bitter gourd series are not as popular as other dishes, and dry pot ribs are more attractive than minced pork with beans.

Considering that the camera was still shooting, Hong Lang struggled to suppress the corners of his mouth that wanted to rise.

After recovering from his senses, he was a little surprised - he was not usually like this, but now he would secretly be happy when he saw Jiang Ci picking out the names of dishes.

This small thought is not very bright, Hong Lang will never admit that Jiang Ci's presence puts too much pressure on him.

After drawing the names of the dishes, the host began to randomly match the contestants with the canteen masters.

In order to maintain a balance, the organizing committee has tested the level of the cafeteria chefs in advance, and the selected candidates are all equally proficient in preparing dishes, and there is no situation where a certain chef is particularly good or bad.

Although the level is similar, the personality is very different.

Jiang Ci was randomly matched with a silent and simple aunt, Feng Lu was paired with a talkative guy, and Hong Lang met a big man with a bulging bicep that looked like he had experienced years of hard work..

Hong Lang looked at the rough-looking uncle with disgust, and asked, "How is your knife skill?"

"Sure." The uncle answered irrelevantly, brightening his biceps.

"I need meticulous knife work." Hong Lang emphasized.

The uncle felt a little inexplicable disgust from Hong Lang's tone, and said loudly, "Just say what you ask."

In contrast, Jiang Ci's side is much more peaceful.Jiang Ci also has the mentality of coming and going. According to the work experience of the canteen auntie who has more than ten years of work experience, she should be able to complete the work of preparing dishes smoothly.

After the assistants were assigned, Jiang Ci took her aunt to the warehouse to pick up the food. The ingredients were delivered by the regular supplier of the cafeteria in the early morning. Although the quality was not as good as that of high-end restaurants, the freshness was not bad at all.The beans are crisp, tender and bright green, plump and complete, the pork belly is red and white, and the whole is fresh pink.

After bringing the ingredients back to the back kitchen, Jiang Ci first taught the aunt the process of preparing dishes, including the requirements for cleaning and selecting dishes, the way and size of dicing, and so on.The color and aroma of minced meat with beans has to lay a good foundation from the very first step.

The chef aunt has worked in the canteen for more than ten years, and she has her own habits day after day, but in order to make dishes that meet Jiang Ci's requirements, these habits have to be changed on the spot.

Jiang Ci patiently corrected Auntie's movements. Gradually, the bean segments that Auntie used to take care of in the past turned into bean rings with an average thickness of five millimeters.People are pleasing to the eye.

The back kitchen of the university cafeteria is visible, and the camera crew, professional judges, and the staff of the school cafeteria are observing the progress of the contestants through the transparent glass.

Jiang Ci's group was quiet and composed, and did not attract much attention.Instead, it was the other side of the back kitchen that attracted everyone's attention.

"What do you have all these! I asked you to cut two fingers wide, what's the matter, your two fingers are only one centimeter?" Hong Lang was picking out the cut ribs.

"It's always cut like this, but it looks like a lot if you cut it smaller! You will lose money if you put so much meat in the cafeteria." The uncle said dissatisfied.

"You...I...consider losing money at this time?"

"It's all about business, why not consider it?"

"Wait, now you are my assistant, should you listen to me?"

The volume of two loud voices came out clearly through the glass window.The person in charge of the canteen heard the sweat pouring down, and gave the uncle inside a slightly embarrassed look.It's fine to be stingy and know it yourself, but at this time, let's talk about it.

"This..." The organizing committee really didn't expect that the contestants and assistants would also quarrel.

"Go in and persuade me?" The person in charge of the cafeteria was afraid that he would say something in his mouth again.

"Persuade, don't delay the competition." The judge next to him also said.

The staff of the organizing committee and the person in charge of the cafeteria entered the back kitchen together, pulled Hong Lang and the uncle apart, and each spoke a few soft words.Both of them were adults, and after calming down for a while, they temporarily suppressed their temper.

Seeing that the cooperation of this group was beginning to get on the right track, the film crew outside exhaled, and the cameraman continued to move to film the situation of other groups.

When seeing one of the groups, the judges' eyes lit up, and they couldn't help saying to the person in charge of the cafeteria next to them: "You are also a hidden dragon and crouching tiger here, this auntie is very good at knife skills!"

"You mean Ah Fang?" The person in charge of the cafeteria looked inside, and then he looked surprised, "Oh, the dices cut today are really beautiful, and you can't usually tell."

"Look at the posture of holding the knife, and the standing posture, there are ways in it." The judges talked about it with gestures.

Looking from the person in charge of the canteen, Ah Fang was still the same person he used to know, but today's demeanor was slightly different, if I had to say, he was more "professional".

The person in charge sighed: "This posture looks different from usual. Could it be because of participating in the program that you suddenly became serious?"

"There is a reason." A staff member silently watching beside him interjected in a low voice, "Chef Jiang has been teaching this aunt for half an hour just now, including the knife-handling posture and dicing skills, which are all just practiced."

"So it was taught by Jiang Chu!" The person in charge of the cafeteria showed a sudden understanding expression, which can explain it, and then said in surprise, "Jiang Chu is quite skilled, Ah Fang has improved a lot than usual!"

...

At 11:20, the chefs put the prepared dishes into small dishes on time and placed them in front of the dish picking window.

At this time, the first batch of students had already gathered outside the first cafeteria, all of them were waiting outside the fence, and rushed into the cafeteria just waiting for the teacher to let them go.

"I heard that the chef of the Golden Banquet Restaurant is also there. I tried it when I was traveling in City B, and their dishes are amazing!"

"Then I want to try it too, I wonder what he did?"

The students were eager to give it a try, and some who had searched for the Immortal Cooking Competition on the Internet became even more interested.

However, they don't know which chef will make the dishes in the end. The dishes that the chefs are responsible for are selected on the spot, and the dishes are withdrawn after they are finished, and they will not stay in front of the dish pick-up window.

At half past eleven, the teacher opened the fence and let the students in.

Xiao Cai stood at the front of the line and was one of the first ten people to enter the cafeteria. As soon as he entered the cafeteria, he noticed a difference.

The aroma of the food in the cafeteria is several times stronger!What smells in the nasal cavity is not the usual familiar smell, but a variety of incomparably alluring delicacies, as if the aroma molecules are dancing in the air to seduce people.

When he entered the door, a staff member handed him two small cards with Xianchu's LOGO printed on them.

"You can vote these two cards for the two dishes you like, and the voting box is at the exit."

The staff pointed to the other side of the cafeteria, and Xiaocai saw a "Fairy Chef" booth set up there, with several boxes on it, which were ballot boxes.

"Understood." Xiao Cai nodded, put the card away, and walked into the cafeteria.

According to the process of picking up food in the past, he first took a tray, and then stood behind the line for picking up food.

What are you eating today?

After approaching the dining window, the aroma became stronger.Xiao Cai glanced at it, and first took a piece of his favorite pepper chicken.

The tender chicken is torn into strips, wrapped in bright red oil, bright red pepper slices and beige sesame seeds, it will whet your appetite at first glance.

After walking a few steps forward, Xiao Cai couldn't help it anymore. The "canteen dishes" prepared by these chefs were really extraordinary. He hardly hesitated, and took another dry pot ribs with a dry aroma and attractive taste.

After a few seconds, take another portion of shredded pork with green peppers.

There are three servings.

Xiao Cai has a rough estimate of his food intake. On weekdays, he usually eats a vegetarian dish, a meat dish, and a combination of meat and vegetables. Three servings will fill him up.

He didn't have the habit of wasting food, so he hesitated for a moment, then turned and left the meal window.

Before leaving, Xiao Cai vaguely smelled a charming fragrance, which was only faintly revealed under the cover of the strong smell next to it, but it was still alluring.

He looked back.

Is it that dish... minced meat with beans?

Xiao Cai couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, and wanted to go back to get it for a moment, but the students behind had already followed.

"Trouble, let me go." The classmate patted him on the shoulder.

Xiao Cai stepped aside quickly, turned around and saw that the students behind were eagerly rushing forward, so she gave up her plan to go retrograde.

On the other side, the contestants and judges all went to the second floor of the cafeteria.

The judges tasted and scored in the single room, and the contestants waited for the results in the rest area. Some snacks were prepared for everyone to fill their stomachs, but at this time, few people were interested in eating.

From the corridor outside the rest area, you can see the situation on the first floor. Hong Lang leaned on the handrail leisurely, as if he was just waiting boredly, but he couldn't help but look at the dining window.

Another student took away his griddle ribs!

It was difficult for him to get along with the uncle, but the result of the finished dish was not bad. After making it, even the uncle in the cafeteria who didn't deal with him was convinced.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer ribs left, the corners of Hong Lang's mouth curled up little by little.

Normally, minced meat with beans can be said to be a good side dish, but in this situation where students all want to try something new, it loses its advantage because it is too common.

Hong Lang caught sight of another student who hesitated in front of the minced beans and turned to leave, feeling even more at ease.

After putting several large meat dishes on the plate, can he still want to eat minced meat with beans?

"What are you looking at?" Feng Lu came out of the rest area, and immediately saw Hong Lang's expression on the verge of smiling, "Your expression is disgusting."

"Heh." Hong Lang laughed and didn't answer, but turned his head and stopped watching the battle downstairs.

Feng Lu was puzzled, and looked downstairs, only to see that the students were queuing up to get their meals in an orderly manner.

What's this?Feng Lu didn't understand what Hong Lang was paying attention to, and turned to leave.After she left, Hong Lang quickly turned his head and continued to look at the situation in the dining window.

His dry pot ribs were indeed the fastest to be obtained, and there were only three servings left in the first tray!

Hong Lang smiled with satisfaction.

However, after more than ten seconds, he suddenly noticed a change in the student team.

A student who had already picked up his meal returned to the cafeteria window somehow, and after finding that it was impossible to go retrograde to pick up the dish, he queued again at the end of the queue.

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