Chapter 146 White Phoenix
Lei Hua disagrees with this. This is a special chef assessment, and Li Weiran’s ability has already reached the requirements for the special chef assessment.

Lei Hua said, "Master Long, let's start grading."

The three of them opened the scroll, wrote the scores on it one by one, and finally closed the scroll and put it aside.

Only after tasting the dishes of all the candidates will the scroll be unfolded and the scores made a final tally.

Finally, the scores given by the three examiners are combined, and the one with the highest score will win.

In Lei Hua's mind, Li Weiran was the best, and Jiang Cheng was about the same level, so the final score difference was probably very small. Although Xu Qing's current strength was unknown, he was probably about the same level as Li Weiran and Jiang Cheng.

It seems that the final winner will be decided among the three of them.

Although Chef Long has made a statement that he believes this dish does not meet Juewei’s standards.

However, he was not the only one who had the final say in the assessment of top chefs. The other two examiners had different opinions, so the result was put on hold until the final scores came out.

Li Weiran walked aside and sat down, waiting for the final result.

At the same time, Chef Long's comments on him kept lingering in his mind.

Are you reaching the pinnacle of exquisiteness and splendor?
Only the ultimate food can be called "delicious".

From this point of view, his dish really cannot be called delicious.

Because Li Weiran believed that he had not reached the pinnacle of exquisiteness and luxury, and even his master, the chef of Taoran Ju, could hardly be said to have reached that level.

It’s absolutely delicious.

If we can really reach the pinnacle of exquisiteness and splendor, what would the ultimate dish look like? And what would it taste like?

Li Weiran couldn't help but start fantasizing about this in his mind.

On the side, Jiang Cheng had been waiting for a long time.

Lei Hua nodded to him and said, "Jiang Cheng, you can serve the dishes now."

"Yes."

After Jiang Cheng finished speaking, he brought a large plate and placed it on the table. He put a lid on the plate to cover the food inside.

Jiang Cheng slowly opened the lid, but the expected charming fragrance did not spread.

The three examiners looked down curiously, and when the lid was opened, they saw a giant egg in the plate.

The eggshell was bright white, oval in shape, and about the size of a human's forearm. Although it was unusually large, it was undoubtedly an egg.

"Is this... an egg?"

Yao Ye asked in surprise.

Jiang Cheng replied: "It is an egg, but it is not an egg either."

Lei Hua frowned, "Jiang Cheng, you haven't forgotten that the topic of this special chef assessment is chicken, not egg. You presented an egg, which seriously deviated from the topic. If this is your dish, then unfortunately, you failed."

Jiang Cheng said: "Please rest assured, examiner. This dish of mine is a representation of chicken."

"Where is the chicken?" Yao Ye asked.

Jiang Cheng pointed to the huge egg and said, "It's inside the egg."

"The chicken in the egg?"

Yao Ye and Lei Hua looked at each other and looked at the giant egg curiously. Jiang Cheng picked up a spoon and tapped the eggshell gently.

The eggshell suddenly made a crackling sound, and cracks appeared on the eggshell in an instant.

The cracks spread across the entire eggshell, forming a crack-like pattern on the eggshell.

Jiang Cheng hit the eggshell hard again, and the eggshell shattered.

Golden soup flowed out of the eggshell, and a chicken with a body as white as jade slowly emerged as the eggshell broke. It was crystal white all over, and it was holding its head up, as if it was about to flap its wings and fly into the high blue sky.

Then a strange and rich fragrance instantly spread.

The fragrance is complex and mysterious, as if countless flavors are blended together, making it impossible to tell what it tastes like, whether it is salty or sweet, bitter or sour. It is as if all the flavors are revealed in the nose in an instant.

After the initial confusion, the taste in the mouth and nose gradually became clearer, and all the tastes merged together to become only one taste - chicken.

That's the taste of chicken.

Just take a light breath, and it’s as if a live chicken is leisurely strolling in your mouth, and its wonderful taste penetrates into your lips, teeth and tongue through your mouth and nose, leaving only the rich aroma of chicken in your mouth and nose.

Yao Ye took a deep breath and said with emotion: "I haven't even put the chicken in my mouth yet, but the taste is so real. It's as if just smelling it is like eating a mouthful of delicious chicken."

Lei Hua nodded slightly, "And the way it is presented is also very strange, the chicken is actually hidden in the eggshell."

However, when she looked again, she was surprised to find that the eggshell that had just broken had completely disappeared. There was only golden soup and white jade-like chicken on the plate, as if the eggshell was just an illusion.

"Why did the eggshell disappear?" Lei Hua asked in surprise.

Jiang Cheng replied: "The eggshell did not disappear, but melted into the dish."

“How did the eggshell get incorporated into the dish?”

Jiang Cheng explained: "Because the eggshell is not a real eggshell, but a bone paste made from chicken bones, which is frozen at low temperature to fix its shape. After breaking, the bone paste fell into the warm soup and melted in the heat of the soup, so it disappeared."

"I see."

Lei Hua suddenly understood, and after realizing it, she found it even more novel and interesting.

Jiang Cheng's presentation method is indeed extraordinary. It can be said to be the most interesting of these dishes. He first uses eggshells to arouse people's curiosity, then the shock of the chicken being born from the shell, and finally the mystery created by the disappearance of the eggshell. This scene constantly attracts people's attention, arouses people's curiosity, and raises people's expectations for the taste of the dishes to the highest level.

Jiang Cheng said: "My dish is called Bai Feng, which has the same name as the ingredients used."

"Why give it the same name as the ingredient?" Yao Ye asked curiously.

Jiang Cheng replied: "Because my dish fully displays the taste of Bai Feng, there is no other name other than Bai Feng that can fully describe this dish."

Lei Hua nodded and said, "Bai Feng, this is the best product carefully cultivated by Feihuang Tower. Its unique taste is unforgettable. It is said that the taste of this chicken is comparable to the legendary spiritual bird - the black-bone chicken."

Jiang Cheng subconsciously looked at Xu Qing, with a strong fighting spirit in his eyes, and said: "Yes, although the black-bone chicken is a legendary spiritual bird, a spiritual creature born by heaven and earth, and the white phoenix is ​​just an artificially cultivated variety. But I can assert that the artificially cultivated variety is not worse than the spiritual creature born and raised by nature, and is even better than it!"

"Oh?"

Jiang Cheng's words aroused the curiosity of the three examiners.

They all knew about the existence of black-bone chicken, but at this moment Jiang Cheng said that the taste of white phoenix was better than that of black-bone chicken. If it was not ignorance, then it was full of confidence in his cooking skills and the ingredients he chose.

Hongze said, "In that case, let's try the dish you claimed tastes better than black-bone chicken."

(End of this chapter)