Chapter 171 Looking up at the stars

Chapter 171 Looking up at the stars

For the largest third-level fish, Li Xiuchang did not make too many innovations. He just divided the fish into several parts and used different methods.

He believed that it would be difficult for the other opponents to make any innovations on the third-level spiritual dishes, so he did not need to spend time on this aspect.

Three days is not short, but it is not enough to develop new dishes. It is good enough to develop one dish.

So Li Xiuchang did not need to go all out. He only needed to make a little effort, and it was the limit of this segment.

The fish head was directly made into chopped pepper fish head, and the other parts were made into salt-baked fish, steamed fish, boiled fish, pickled fish, tomato fish...

The fish bones were removed and fried fish bones were made. The fish bladder, fish liver, fish intestines, fish roe and other internal organs were kept for use.

There was no other way. The rules of the competition required that everything should be used to its full potential and not wasted.

One fish, nine dishes.

Several simple third-level spiritual dishes were easily cooked.

After cooking the largest third-level fish, Li Xiuchang began to deal with other fish.

He also made various spiritual dishes out of several medium-sized fish, including steamed fish with black bean sauce, squirrel fish, stinky mandarin fish, etc.

Although these are new dishes developed by Li Xiuchang, he has already shared them on the evangelism list through the identity of "the longest man\

,"so making them at this time is not considered innovative.

He still kept the internal organs of several fish for backup.

But what the audience couldn't understand was that Li Xiuchang chopped off the heads of all the remaining small fish, and then cooked them in a pot, making a pot of braised fish.

What should he do with the chopped fish heads?

Throw them away?

Wouldn't that be a clear deduction of points?

Li Xiuchang was not in a hurry. After processing a bunch of fish internal organs, he made another pot of dry pot fish.

This big stew looks simple, but it is actually very complicated in the preparation of spiritual dishes.

If it is mortal ingredients, it doesn't matter, a pot of stew is the simplest.

But as spiritual dishes, different ingredients have different effects, and cooking them in a pot may cause conflicting effects.

Therefore, as a spiritual chef, he must adjust the effects of different ingredients, not to say that they can complement each other, but at least they cannot conflict.

In the end, Li Xiuchang used up all the ingredients, except for a dozen small fish heads.

Li Xiuchang took a lot of spiritual wheat flour, as well as spiritual potatoes and other side dishes, intending to make a living for everyone and give the judges a taste of foreign food.

That's right, what he wants to make is the famous dark cuisine in his previous life - the Stargazing Pie.

Of course, there is no such thing as "pie" in the Xianyin Realm, so Li Xiuchang named this dish "Stargazing".

The orthodox Stargazing Pie should have fish meat, but what Li Xiuchang wants to make is a simplified and improved version.

Cooking several third-level spiritual dishes with third-level fish proves his strength.

All the edible parts of the ingredients are used up, without any waste, proving his frugality.

For the last dish of Stargazing, Li Xiuchang wants to prove his innovation ability.

Don't care whether it tastes good or not, don't care whether it looks good or not, just say whether it is innovative or not!

Li Xiuchang also put a lot of effort into this dish "Looking up at the stars", not perfunctorily.

He made a lot of changes to the side dishes in order to reconcile the different eating effects of different fish heads.

He strived to make each fish head have a different eating effect.

To this end, he also used different processing methods for these fish heads.

The different methods of processing ingredients will also have a big difference in the final eating effect.

In short, Li Xiuchang put a lot of effort into this dish.

When his "Looking up at the stars" came out, the weird shape attracted the attention of the whole audience.

Even the competition going on on the next stage was not watched.

It's really that the dish "Looking up at the stars" is too eye-catching.

Everyone present has never seen such a unique shape, ugly and fresh dish.

On the yellow-based puff pastry, there are fish heads, with their heads straight up, staring with round dead fish eyes, as if they have something to say.

They all look like they will die with their eyes open.

The audience was in an uproar, and many people couldn't help laughing.

"Hahaha, is this also called spiritual food?"

"It's so funny!"

"I'm curious, what does this dish taste like?"

"I'm more curious about where to start with this dish, the fish head on top or the cake on the bottom?"

"If I eat this dish, I'll find it hard to eat it, as those fish heads seem to be staring at me, but it's fun to watch others eat it."

"Don't worry, the judges will eat it for us later."

At this time, the judges looked at each other, and their faces were helpless.

This dish... is hard to evaluate.

As judges, they can't give an evaluation without tasting this dish, but they don't want to eat it.

After the dish was out of the pot, Li Xiuchang's task was completed, and all the ingredients were successfully cooked into spiritual food.

This time he was the first to finish cooking, and the other contestants were still busy.

Li Xiuchang waved his hand, and his magic power lifted more than a dozen dishes and placed them steadily in front of the judges.

Next, it was time for the judges to taste and score.

The judges stretched their chopsticks towards the various fish feasts on the table, but everyone tacitly avoided the dish of looking up at the stars.

The elders kept nodding as they tasted the food, and occasionally made a few comments.

Generally speaking, it has been well received. Li Xiuchang's cooking skills are indeed top-notch among the contestants.

However, after they finished tasting all the spiritual dishes, the last remaining one looked up at the stars without taking a bite, which seemed particularly eye-catching.

The eyes of the referees and elders were focused on the spiritual dish of looking up at the stars, and the dozen or so fish heads seemed to be looking at them.

After a long silence, the referee elder of Xianchen Sect looked at Li Xiuchang and asked: "What is the name of this spiritual dish, and what is its effect?"

It’s not just putting a bunch of spiritual ingredients together into a plate and then cooking them, that’s called innovation.

New spiritual dishes should be innovative while also taking into account taste and edible effects.

But whether it is delicious or not is a very subjective thing. Just like the spiritual delicacy of snail noodles, some people like it very much and some people hate it very much.

However, the eating effect of spiritual food is very objective. What you have is what you have, and what is good is what is good. There is no room for sophistry.

Therefore, the eating effect is crucial to judge whether "Looking at the Starry Sky" is an innovative spiritual dish.

Of course Li Xiuchang also knew this. He bowed slightly and then replied calmly: "I named this spiritual dish 'Looking at the Starry Sky'."

This name is a good one... everyone thought of it in unison.

But when I look at the starry sky spiritual dish, the dozen or so upward-facing fish heads and the dull dead fish eyes are just "looking up at the starry sky."

Thank you for coming up with this name, it's quite appropriate... The referees and elders complained in their hearts.

Li Xiuchang continued to introduce this homemade spiritual dish: "This spiritual dish has various effects. Each fish head on it represents a different eating effect, and there are different fillings underneath the fish heads."

Having said this, Li Xiuchang took a step forward, and the spiritual energy in his hand turned into a blade, cutting the entire "Looking Up at the Starry Sky" into about ten parts. Each part had a fish head on top. Under the puff pastry under the fish head, it was indeed different. of fillings.

"Seniors, please have a taste." Li Xiuchang extended his hand to invite.

Referee elders, look at me and I look at you. Elder Wu, who was saved by Li Xiuchang in the end, gritted his teeth and took the lead to take a copy of "Looking Up at the Starry Sky", but put it to his mouth and looked at the fish head. He stopped again and asked:

"Are you going to eat the fish head together?"

Li Xiuchang nodded.

Elder Wu had no choice but to swallow one portion of Starry Sky in one mouthful.

He chewed it twice, tasted it carefully, and said, "It's not unpleasant to eat."

After he swallowed the food, he closed his eyes and felt it for a moment, and then said: "It seems to have the effect of temporarily improving his eyesight. The improvement is quite good, worthy of the second-level spiritual food!"

Others were slightly surprised when they heard this. Although monks have spiritual consciousness and do not rely so much on their eyesight, they can still come in handy in some special situations.

And the effect of enhanced vision is indeed relatively rare.

Could it be because of the two dead fish eyes on the fish's head... Based on the principle of eating what you eat, people will naturally think of the two dead fish eyes on the fish's head.

Seeing this, the other referees and elders also began to taste "looking up at the stars" one after another.

The result is exactly as Li Xiuchang said, each piece of "looking up at the stars" has a different effect.

Some can speed up the recovery of mana, some can temporarily provide low-level water escape abilities, and some can temporarily increase the power of water attribute mana...

It’s really “a thousand heads and a thousand faces”, each fish head has a different effect.

None of the referees and elders could deny that this was a qualified or even excellent second-level spiritual dish. Ordinary second-level spiritual dishes did not have such rich effects.

This spiritual dish is very suitable for serving wine and banquets. Everyone at the table takes what they need and eats the piece of fish head they need most.

"Looking up at the stars" highlights an innovation.

Li Xiuchang completed the second round perfectly and fully met the referees' requirements.

Not a single ingredient was wasted, and a whole fish feast was prepared, which was diverse, novel and delicious.

In terms of innovation, it was even more than accomplished, and the innovation was so innovative that even the referees and elders could not accept it.

However, the referees and elders were still very fair and objective and gave high scores one after another.

Then we just have to wait for others to finish the game to determine the final ranking.

In fact, there is no comparison between others and Li Xiuchang.

Those second-level spiritual chefs originally thought that they could compete with Li Xiuchang through innovation and utilization of ingredients, but they did not expect that Li Xiuchang had achieved the ultimate in both aspects.

Even if the element of innovation is put aside, Li Xiuchang can make multiple third-level spiritual dishes with just one third-level fish. This alone can crush them all.

Again, as long as Li Xiuchang takes a slight action, it will be the limit of this segment.

After the other nine contestants completed the competition one after another and accepted the scores from the referees, Li Xiuchang won without any surprise with high scores and easily won the championship!