Chapter 997: Giant Crab Ball

"It's finally the last dish, how does Chef Zuo feel. Chef Li looked at Chef Zuo, who had not spoken behind him, and asked.

"How does Ao Pi feel?" Chef Zuo frowned slightly, his face was serious, and he didn't answer Chef Li's question, but instead asked today's collaborator Ao Pi.

Yes, originally this rolling crab ball was Chef Zuo's specialty dish, but Ao Pi happened to be good at making crabs, because this is a main dish that requires a lot of effort, and this dish is completed by two people.

"Absolutely. Ao Pi is quite confident in himself, and the cooperation between him and Chef Zuo is not as simple as one plus one equals two.

However, even after listening to Ao Pi's words, Chef Zuo's brows furrowed even deeper.

"Chef Zuo?" Chef Li was a little puzzled by Chef Zuo's attitude.

"I'm a little worried. Chef Zuo said seriously.

Chef Zuo is an older chef, he has been in this business for a long time, and his shop was also opened when he was young, and it has been 20 years now.

Naturally, the chef in charge of the store is no longer him, but he is also his most proud disciple, and his cooking skills are not worse than him, and this time it is also because the comments on the Yuan Zhou tasting network are too ugly, so he will come over to teach Yuan Zhou to be a man.

However, strictly speaking, the level of Chef Zuo's apprentice is really good, and the key problem is that his apprentice is only a commanding person, and if he is not a high-ranking official, he will not do it himself.

But Chef Zuo is not clear about this matter, and now Chef Zuo's worry is that he is afraid that he will be apothetized by Yuan Zhou.

"I'm good at this crab, so there's no problem with the two of us uniting together. Ao Pi said affirmatively.

"It's not that there is a problem with our dishes, but that Yuanzhou, I don't think it's that simple. Chef Zuo said.

"What did Chef Zuo find?" Chef Li immediately asked.

"Not really. Chef Zuo shook his head.

"Then what are you worried about, Chef Zuo should be thinking too much, thinking that you are nervous, this is the first time we have participated in this kind of league competition, and we have to thank that Chef Yuan." Chef Li put his mind at ease and said teasingly.

"I think that after the competition, our seafood alliance does not have to be disbanded, but should cooperate more carefully. Ao Pi said.

Chef Li also nodded in agreement, and he said, "We can make this alliance a brand." ”

In his opinion, as long as he is famous, there will be diners to eat, as for whether it is delicious or not, it is another matter.

In fact, the idea of Chef Li and others is to consume people's perception of authority, if there is a day, no matter what the list, people don't believe it, then they will be happy.

"The competition is one thing, but you see that Yuan Zhou is not panicked at all, his expression has not changed since the beginning, and he is very sure of it. Chef Zuo thinks that he has a lot of experience in the rivers and lakes, but he can't do Yuan Zhou's qi cultivation kung fu.

Indeed, whether it was when Yuan Zhou was cooking or when the judges tasted it, Yuan Zhou's expression was as expressionless as ever, neither nervous nor smiling.

"Haha, this Chef Zuo thinks too much, but I heard that this person is expressionless, the kind of facial paralysis that is said on the Internet. Ao Pi interjected and laughed.

"That's for the best. Chef Zuo relaxed on his face, but he was still a little apprehensive in his heart.

In fact, this is wrong, Yuan Zhou still has an idea in his heart, after all, he doesn't have enough time, so he has time in his heart to prepare the ingredients for dinner.

Soon a few people stopped talking, because the judges had already started eating.

This time, the judges did not let Miss Etiquette divide the packaging, but directly brought the plates, and then opened a pair of chopsticks for each person.

Of course, it's still the same as before, rinse your mouth with clear tea, wash your hands with water, and then warm water to remove the taste, and then start tasting.

The crab ball in Yuanzhou is packed with a large disc, and the lower part of the disc uses a cyan brush to draw the appearance of the waves of the sea, and the crabs are on top of this wave.

It looks like this fiery sea crab is floating and sinking on the waves, which is quite a bit of an artistic conception.

Because the name is called the big crab ball, so naturally it is the appearance of a ball, this ball is easy to find, just hide under the crab shell, and when you open it, you can see a jade-colored ball being soaked in red soup.

In addition to the complete crab legs on the side, the overall shape is like a sun slowly rising on the sea, which is beautiful and appetizing.

"Not bad. Zhou Shijie said.

"Definitely. Zhang Yan said.

"The meat quality of this California Dungeness crab is so good, and the crab meat picked out is jade-colored?" Wang Xiang asked.

"It should be, it feels a little different" Bai Xiaoxiao, who couldn't cook, hesitated, even though he provided this crab.

"You'll know if you eat it. After Wang Xiang finished speaking, he looked at Zhou Shijie with a blank look and waited for him to move the chopsticks first.

After all, this is a competition, and Zhou Shijie and Zhang Yan are the main judges, among which Zhou Shijie's identity is higher, so he moves his chopsticks first for every dish.

In this regard, Wang Xiang and Bai Xiaoxiao are still very attentive.

Before, Zhou Shijie also used his chopsticks to open the mechanism first, and then they clamped it, although they grabbed it later.

"Okay, open the product. Zhou Shijie said, first of all, he started at the big ball and directly clamped a chopstick.

This crab meat was made into dumplings, which Zhou Shijie thought was difficult to clip, but suddenly the chopsticks found that this crab ball was like tofu, and a complete piece came out with a light clip.

And this crab ball is tender but not scattered, it is still intact, only the place that has just been clamped is missing a piece.

"It is rumored in our food industry that sea crabs are not as good as river crabs, river crabs are not as good as brook crabs, and river crabs are not as good as lake crabs. Wang Xiang looked forward to it, but said in his mouth.

"It's also said that this lake crab has five flavors without salt and vinegar, but this sea crab is naturally fishy, not to mention that the meat is rough. Zhang Yan nodded, and then also picked up a piece of chopsticks and crab meat.

"You say that, I'm afraid I won't be able to sell this sea crab in the future. Bai Xiaoxiao said helplessly.

"Are you still afraid that you won't be able to sell it? Wang Xiang said with a smile.

Speaking of crabs, it is natural to talk a lot, after all, there are too many people who love crabs from ancient times to the present, from Liu Chengxun's nickname Huang Da in the Later Han Dynasty to Bi Zhuo in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Li Yu in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties is known as a crab idiot, and even the money to buy crabs is called life money, you can know the deliciousness of crabs, but these people love to eat lake crabs.

But now what Yuan Zhou is doing is sea crabs, but the raw materials are different.

Wang Xiang is good at making small green dragons, and small green dragons are sea shrimps, he knows best how to cook these shelled ingredients in the sea and what are the difficulties.

So, he directly stuffed the crab meat on the chopsticks like tender tofu into his mouth.

In fact, now is not the fattest time for Dungeness crab, December is when it is on the market.

So Wang Xiang lowered his expectations slightly, but as soon as he ate this crab meat, he found that he was wrong, and he was ridiculously wrong.

"This, this smell?" Wang Xiang's eyes widened in surprise, a little incredulous.

Yes, this crab meat looks like tender tofu, which is very tender, but after taking a sip of it, the crab meat turns into a long strip of crab meat, and the chewiness of the sea crab comes out after a little chewing.

Because it is made into a ball, the sweet juice in the crab meat is not exposed at all, and it is contained in every trace of crab meat.

Every time you chew it, it's like eating a crab that is in season, and the saltiness of the crab itself neutralizes the overly delicious taste.

It wasn't until chewing that Wang Xiang found that there was a trace of crab roe in the crab meat, which was broken and perfectly integrated into the crab meat, and the moistness of the crab roe and the tenacity of the sea crab meat swirled together on the tip of the tongue, both opposing and fusing with each other, and the taste was mellow and complementary.

"Well, delicious. Wang Xiang sighed in his heart, but his hand was not slow, this time he was holding the crab ball close to the red soup.

The crab balls here have a faint red color when they are sandwiched, as if they have been poured with a thin layer of sauce, and they are like jade covered with a layer of red sand.

This piece of crab meat on the brown chopsticks gives off a beauty like a beauty across the clouds.

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