Chapter 435 Surprise
Although the temperature of dishes is important, it is not necessary for all dishes to be prepared after the whole grain porridge is ready.

At least you can start making the second dish first.

Yan Xian chose celery for his second dish, and Xu Qing made the same choice.

It can be said that when it comes to the question of "diligence", celery is the only answer.

But unlike Yan Xian who chose to stir-fry, Xu Qing chose to make a cold dish.

When it comes to cold dishes, you don’t have to worry about the relationship between the temperature of the dish and its deliciousness, because cold dishes need to be cooled before they can be made. Warm cold dishes will not taste good.

Therefore, when making cold dishes, you don’t have to consider the time, temperature and order, and you have a lot of freedom in scheduling.

However, he couldn’t make the other four dishes into cold dishes.

He had only finished one dish and there were three more dishes waiting for him. Now was not the time to relax.

Compared with fried celery, cold-mixed celery has a crisper texture and contains less oil, which can maximize the unique fragrance of celery.

As for the side dish, Xu Qing chose red pepper.

Green and red, two opposing colors colliding with each other, are very eye-catching.

At the same time, the pungent taste of pepper can make the fragrance of celery more distinct, just like an amplifier, amplifying the fragrance of celery as much as possible.

When both parties in a cooking competition choose the same dish, the ingenuity contained in the dish is the key to victory.

Xu Qing chose celery as the main ingredient and other ingredients as supplementary ingredients, in order to release the original flavor of the celery as much as possible.

Yan Xian’s choice was to combine celery and lily into one, allowing the two to complement each other.

Lily has a unique sweet taste, while celery has a unique, slightly pungent fragrance with a hint of bitterness.

Just as celery represents the word "hard work", how can you gain anything without going through hard and painful work?
Therefore, bitterness is the representative of the word "diligence".

The sweetness of lily represents the sweetness after hard work. After going through hard work, you will eventually harvest sweetness like honey. This is the deliciousness created by celery and lily.

This is the delicious taste that the five judges are experiencing now.

The unique and bright aroma of celery, coupled with its slight bitterness, seems to take people back to the busy farming time in early spring, back to the days when they sweated in the fields.

The delicious food touches the soul, and the thoughts flow slowly in the heart.

The blurry scene gradually became clear, and they seemed to be able to feel the soreness in their bodies, the scorching sun in the sky that burned their backs and the beads of sweat that fell on the fields.

Tiredness, hard work and exhaustion are common to every household.

Because without the tiredness, hard work and exhaustion at this moment, there will be no sweet harvest in autumn, no fullness in winter, no looking forward to the next spring, and no looking forward to the next day when spring flowers bloom.

Without hard work, what is the meaning of the rotation of the seasons? It is just a passing of days, a waste of life, a repetitive and boring life.

Pain, who hasn’t experienced pain?
There are so many pains in this world that I am afraid I can’t count them all in my lifetime.

But only the pain of hard work can bring sweet fruits. Only this pain can be transformed into happiness and a full sense of accomplishment.

Therefore, this pain is greater than all the pain in the world.

And the happiness it brings surpasses all the happiness in the world.

What they experience at this moment is this unique happiness.

This happiness and sense of accomplishment can be experienced by everyone in the world, from emperors and generals to ordinary people.

When it comes to hard work, even if you become an emperor, you cannot avoid it.

It’s just that farming requires sweat, while emperors require wisdom.

Happiness and a sense of accomplishment are given equally to every hard-working person in the world.

For those energetic, workaholic rulers in the world, if they cannot get happiness and a sense of accomplishment from their hard work, it will just be an endless torture, and few people can endure it.

If there is only hard work but no happiness, who would be willing to endure this torture?
If there is only happiness without hardship, then happiness becomes cheap, meaningless, and disappears as fleetingly as morning dew, leaving no trace in the heart.

Therefore, hard work and happiness are closely linked and inseparable.

Just like the slightly bitter celery and the sweet lily, just like this strong and natural fragrance, and the refreshing and sweet taste, they form a perfect circle. Without any one of them, it will no longer be complete.

Only when we have each other can it be called perfection.

This perfect artistic conception and this complementary deliciousness transcend the ordinary appearance of this dish and reach a new height.

It even exceeded the expectations of the five judges for this dish.

"It's incredible that there are such delicacies in the world! It's incredible! Taking a different approach, making such ordinary dishes taste so wonderful, and using them to set off the incomparable and mysterious intentions, it is really rare in the world!"

"I am so ashamed. You can't judge a dish by its appearance! I only saw the ordinary side of this dish and made a conclusion that this dish was far inferior to Longxu Noodles. I never thought that the delicious taste and thoughtfulness contained in it were not inferior to Longxu Noodles, but even better."

"That's right. Celery has always been a symbol of 'diligence'. Many chefs cook dishes centered around 'diligence' and talk about the hard work and suffering in the world, but no one can connect hard work with happiness. If there is no happiness, who would be willing to endure this pain?"

“Similarly, without hard work, even happiness becomes worthless. The two are inseparable, and without either, it will become meaningless.”

"This dish clearly illustrates the profound meaning of the connection between happiness and pain. The delicious taste created by the celery and lily in our mouths allows us to clearly experience it. It is really amazing! After these two dishes, I am now looking forward to the third dish. How delicious will it be!"

"Indeed. He can make even the ordinary dish of stir-fried celery and lily bulbs have such profound meaning and such wonderful taste. With his skills, the dishes he will make in the future will surely be more wonderful than the last."

"It seems that the winner this time is none other than him."

The five judges discussed the issue excitedly and looked at Yan Xian with anticipation.

At this moment, they had already forgotten about Xu Qing, and their hearts and eyes were filled with only Yan Xian who brought them endless surprises.

(End of this chapter)