Chapter 103 Everyone’s Thoughts
Ever since the topic was announced, Xu Qing has been thinking about how to make this dish.

Egg dishes are easy to make. Eggs themselves are a very flexible ingredient, so there are many ways to cook them and plenty of choices.

However, conceptual questions like vitality are really hard to start with.

Vitality can be interpreted as energy, vitality, or vigor.

It is not easy to show vitality through dishes.

Xu Qing exclaimed: "Master, you are really good at asking questions."

He had never encountered such a difficult problem.

Master Luo Tian smiled proudly and said, "Not bad, I think this is a good idea too."

Xu Qing opened his mouth, but eventually swallowed the words that were about to come out.

Time is running out. Although there are still five hours left, there are still so many things to do. First, we have to determine the production method, then the recipe, and finally, we have to adjust the taste. Five hours may seem like a long time, but not a single minute or a second can be wasted.

Therefore, Xu Qing was too lazy to chat with Master Luo Tian anymore, and quickly walked back to Yangquan Restaurant to decide on the menu.

Yangquan Restaurant has a wide range of ingredients, and egg dishes need to highlight the flavor of the eggs and cannot overshadow the dish. Therefore, many precious ingredients with unique flavors cannot be used, such as shark fins. On the one hand, overshadowing the dish is the egg, but it also wastes the unique flavor of the precious ingredients themselves.

Moreover, Xu Qing doesn't like to use too precious ingredients. It's not that these ingredients are bad, but they have too many extra things added to them.

Xu Qing's taste and cooking style are more inclined towards home cooking.

If delicious food is kept on the shelf and only a small number of people have the opportunity to enjoy it, then it is not delicious food, but just a symbol of privilege.

What people eat is not the delicious food itself, but the power and desire reflected behind the delicious food.

Precious and rare ingredients naturally have their own unique flavor, but what makes people yearn for them and flock to them is their preciousness and rarity. They represent things that ordinary people cannot access, giving people an illusion of transcending the ordinary.

If this precious and rare thing is popularized, people's desire and pursuit for it will be greatly reduced.

Even if they are the same thing, one is precious, rare but unpalatable, and the other is popular, cheap and delicious, many people will still pursue the expensive and unpalatable one, and use excuses like its unique taste to beautify themselves. In the final analysis, they just want to show their own uniqueness, and food is just a prop in their hands.

The popularization of delicious food can actually give rise to more delicious food.

There is a saying that goes “it’s hard to satisfy everyone”, and something that can be unanimously praised by the majority of people with different tastes must have its unique features.

In Xu Qing's heart, home-cooked meals can best show the deliciousness of food itself. It transcends external things such as value, power and desire, and most directly points to the word "delicious" that reveals the essence.

If a dish fails to be even basic and delicious, what value does it have?

After sorting out his thoughts, Xu Qing also understood what kind of food he should cook.

A home-cooked dish, a dish that shows the most essential deliciousness, that's enough.

There are tens of millions of cooking methods, countless precious skills, and countless chefs’ desires and explorations in the world, and they all ultimately point to these two words.

tasty.

……

On the other side, Elder Wu’s residence.

"Luo Tian is really good at asking difficult questions. But he never expected that the Imperial Kitchen has already done its best to explore vitality. His attempt to ask difficult questions to narrow the gap between the two of you is exactly what he wants."

Elder Wu said with a proud laugh.

He couldn't wait to see Luo Tian's expression of shock and despair. When he thought of this, he felt extremely refreshed all over.

Just looking at Luo Tian’s expression, he could eat three more bowls of rice!

"How about it, Wei Jie, do you have any ideas?" Elder Wu asked after laughing.

"Yes, I already had the answer the moment I heard the question." Wei Jie answered respectfully.

He didn't expect that Luo Tian would come up with such a relevant question, so it was not his fault.

"Oh? What is it?"

Elder Wu asked.

After all, there are many types of egg dishes and how to cook them. It was beyond Wei Jie's expectation that he had the answer so quickly.

"It's a phoenix egg."

Wei Jie replied.

Elder Wu's eyes lit up and he nodded approvingly.

Phoenix eggs, this is the most suitable recipe.

Nothing in the world could be more relevant to the theme.

The phoenix is ​​reborn from the ashes, immortal and ageless. It is the most auspicious sign and its vitality and vigor need no further explanation.

The name alone sounds very appropriate.

At the same time, phoenix eggs are also a palace dish. It is said that the former emperor got separated from his attendants when he went to the south of the Yangtze River. When he was hungry and tired, he went into a farmer's house to ask for food. The farmer cooked eggs for him. After eating, he shouted that they were delicious, so he brought the dish back to the palace and called it phoenix eggs.

Afterwards, the preparation method of Phoenix Egg was improved a lot and it became a royal delicacy.

After generations of imperial kitchen chefs’ constant pursuit of perfection, the final phoenix egg can be said to completely surpass folk recipes in terms of taste.

Once this dish comes out, the outcome of this duel will no longer be in suspense.

Elder Wu nodded and said, "Very good, go down and prepare, there is still plenty of time. Your opponent must be thinking hard at this time, watching the time pass by, but can only fall into constant anxiety. You can wait for the tired and panicked enemy with your elite force, and your chances of winning will naturally increase greatly."

"Yes, my lord."

Wei Jie took his leave and went back to prepare the ingredients and adjust the taste.

Not only does the recipe for the phoenix egg fit the theme, he also has the secret skills of the imperial kitchen. The combination of the two creates an unprecedented effect.

Not to mention the elders of the Guangdong Chefs Association, even the emperor who is used to eating delicacies from land and sea would be impressed by it.

Although using this method to deal with a teenager is a bit of an overkill, Wei Jie is determined to go all out and will naturally show no mercy.

This world is very vast and broad. It is the boy's luck that he can witness the world's top skills and delicacies at such a young age.

As for whether he would suffer a great blow after this competition and never recover, that was not within Wei Jie's consideration.

Geniuses have been like this since ancient times. Most of them are like shooting stars, shining only for a moment and then disappearing.

Only a very small number of people can remain in the sky forever, turning into stars that never go out, shining forever.

Of course, there are many more people who have never even shone brightly and have fallen into silence.

Wei Jie only hoped that the young man could give his all in this competition and try his best to burst out his brightest light, so that he could be worthy of this phoenix egg.

Moreover, this might be the boy's last chance to shine.

(End of this chapter)