Chapter 283 Horseradish

"You are here."

While Fang Ze and Liu Maoxing were chatting about cooking experience, and Lin Xiaoxin was eating and drinking, the awkward Chinese that Fang Ze was familiar with rang in his ears again.

"Hi, see you again."

The only one who can speak so awkwardly is that Neon Chef.

Fang Ze looked at a platform in front of him, and sure enough, Chef Neon, who had spoken on the high-speed rail before, was standing there, bending slightly to talk to him.

"It's really destined." Fang Ze nodded slightly to the neon chef, and then asked, "Is this your booth?"

"That's right. This is a booth that my brother applied for to showcase our authentic Japanese food. Would you like to come over and try it?"

"Taste it." Fang Ze and Liu Maoxing walked over, and found that besides this neon chef, there was another tall, thin chef with a serious expression standing there, making sashimi seriously.

"What do you call them?" Fang Ze asked the names of the two. After all, they had been chatting for a long time, and it was impolite to not even know each other's names.

"My name is Kojima, and this is my senior brother Hanyu." Seeing Fang Ze coming, Kojima happily introduced Fang Ze and his senior brother, and honestly said that he didn't make authentic ones last time because of the ingredients. It was pointed out by Fang Ze's partner because of the Japanese food. "

"The Japanese food we made this time is definitely authentic." Hanyu said to the two, "The sashimi will also participate in the climbing competition in a while, let everyone rate it."

oh.

Fang Ze looked at the amount of sashimi on the table, and found that Hanyu and Kojima really made a lot of sashimi. There is absolutely no way for the guests here to finish it. After a while, the rest can be used to participate in the official banquet. Contest.

Therefore, the two senior brothers, Hanyu and Kojima, are equivalent to saving the time of cooking a dish in the stair climbing competition.

And more importantly, in fact, since the diners on the first floor have spent a lot of money on their daily meals, they can be sure that they are more or less foodies.

But there is still a big gap between foodies and gourmets.

Therefore, the ratings of the diners on the first floor are not given to the peak for which dishes are really delicious, but only for those who think they are delicious. The scores can obviously be very subjective.

And when other chefs still needed to hide their clumsiness and did not release their finale dishes prematurely to prevent other chefs from seeing them, Kojima Hanyu and the two instead pushed out the sashimi early. When eating, there will be a sense of familiarity.

Generally speaking, when ordinary people struggle with which option to choose, they will prefer the one they are familiar with.

Therefore, this sashimi that was launched in advance may give these two neon chefs a lot of extra points when scoring the final score.

"I'll try it." Fang Ze took a piece of sashimi and tasted it. He felt that the taste was very strong. If he just tasted it, it would be very good. But Fang Ze can only keep a respectful distance if he eats too much.

"Very good." Fang Ze still praised the two chefs with a thumbs up.

Seeing Fang Ze's compliment, Kojima and Hanyu looked proud.

"I'll try it too." Liu Maoxing on the side also picked up a piece of sashimi and put it in his mouth.

Because of Liu Maoxing's appearance as a child, Kojima Hanyu and the others didn't care much about Liu Maoxing.

But unexpectedly Liu Maoxing frowned after tasting the first bite of sashimi.

"What's wrong?" Fang Ze turned to ask him.

"Maybe it's because children are not used to wasabi." Kojima said in a relaxed tone before realizing the seriousness of the problem.

"There's something wrong with this mustard." Liu Maoxing said directly.

"In order to ensure authenticity, our wasabi is airlifted from Neon, and there will be no problems at all." Kojima didn't understand Liu Maoxing's meaning, and thought Liu Maoxing was not used to it because he hadn't eaten a lot of wasabi. .

"The wasabi used in your Japanese food, if you follow the tradition, you should use wasabi.

"Liu Angxing raised his head and asked.

"Yes." Hanyu answered Liu Maoxing's question.

At this time, the two neon chefs realized that there might be something wrong with the child in front of him. After all, the mustard in Japanese food and the mustard in Chinese cuisine are not the same kind of mustard. Ordinary diners actually know Not many.

"Do they use ordinary mustard for their wasabi?"

"No." Liu Maoxing took another sip, then raised his head and said to Kojima Yahanyu, "They use horseradish."

"What is horseradish?" Fang Ze asked.

"Because the price of wasabi is relatively high, many people use horseradish as a substitute for wasabi." Liu Maoxing said, "Horseradish is also a plant, which is often used as a seasoning for barbecue in the West. It is similar to wasabi. But more importantly, it is cheaper than wasabi.”

Liu Maoxing pointed to the wasabi on the sashimi and said, "Look, the color of this wasabi is green, which looks exactly the same as the color of wasabi. But in fact, the color of horseradish is light yellow. Special measures are needed to remove it. Let's dye horseradish the color of horseradish."

"No special method was used." Kojima hurriedly explained, "Usually, usable coloring is added, which will not change the taste or cause any harm to the human body."

"Pigment?" Liu Maoxing didn't understand what pigment meant, and looked up at Fang Ze.

"You think of edible coloring as something that can change the color of things but not the taste of things." Fang Ze simply explained.

"Whether it will change the taste or not." Liu Maoxing pointed at the sashimi and said, "Since you are using the banner of authentic sashimi, you should use the traditional Japanese wasabi instead of horseradish."

"Ahem." Seeing that the kid Liu Maoxing spoke so righteously, Kojima pointed out the matter, leaned out from the platform quickly, and said to Fang Ze and Liu Maoxing, "Don't misunderstand, you two, first Don't say anything, I'll explain to you slowly." Kojima said as he motioned Fang Ze and Liu Maoxing to enter the platform, and then he bowed to Liu Maoxing and Fang Ze, "I'm sorry that the wasabi made of horseradish has caused you trouble. Bad experience."

"This is not a bad experience for us." Liu Maoxing said to Kojima, "Since you say that you are traditional and authentic Japanese food, you should use the most traditional seasoning. And even if you want to innovate, you can't It should be horseradish instead of wasabi."

"That's right." Kojima said to Liu Maoxing and Fang Ze, "It stands to reason that we should use wasabi, but in fact, in Huaxia's Japanese food stores, even high-end Japanese restaurants with our neon chefs in charge Food shops still use horseradish instead of wasabi. So we are worried that using wasabi in this competition will make diners think our sashimi is not authentic."

'What a refreshing reason. ’ Fang Ze complained silently in his heart.

"That's not the real reason." Liu Maoxing suddenly pointed to the cupboard under the platform.

Fang Ze looked in the direction of Liu Maoxing's finger, and found that there was a water basin in the half-open cupboard, and a kind of emerald green plant could be vaguely seen above the water basin.

"You obviously prepared wasabi." Liu Maoxing then said to Kojima and Hanyu, "The spicy taste of wasabi is volatile and it is difficult to preserve. Therefore, wasabi made from wasabi is usually freshly ground, and I am afraid of touching it." The air will taste worse later.”

Kojima and Hanyu turned pale with fright at Liu Maoxing's words. After all, such shoddy things are the most taboo among chefs.

Originally, the high price of some delicacies is due to the different materials, and even the materials are fake.

Then no matter how delicious it is, its meaning is completely lost.

"Although the taste of wasabi and horseradish is difficult to identify, the way to eat them is completely different." Liu Maoxing then exposed the two neon chefs, "The common way to eat sashimi is to add wasabi sauce to soy sauce and then stir the raw fish. But wasabi is completely different."

"Because the moment wasabi is stirred in soy sauce, the taste will be destroyed, so the real way to eat sashimi should be to dip a small pinch of wasabi on top of the sashimi, and then use the other side of the sashimi to dip the sauce, Use chopsticks to put the sashimi dipped in wasabi into your mouth, and don’t let the soy sauce and wasabi come into direct contact.”

After Liu Maoxing finished speaking, he pointed to the soy mustard sauce prepared by the two neon chefs on the counter and said, "For convenience, you mixed mustard and soy sauce together, so you didn't intend to hide your idea of ​​using horseradish at all. The purpose of doing this is because you think that there are no real gourmets on the first floor."

"You keep wasabi for the dignitaries on the upper floors to taste, because these dignitaries have eaten real sashimi. So it's not because people here are not used to eating wasabi that you don't use it at all. Wasabi, but to save materials, shoddy."

What Liu Maoxing said was merciless, but Hanyu and Kojima had no way to refute it.

They did use horseradish instead of wasabi. Maybe ordinary diners don't know it, but once it becomes big, it will attract the management personnel of this competition. As long as you find a professional gourmet to taste it, you will know.

Although using horseradish instead of wasabi will not make much difference in taste to ordinary people, it is like a top fps player using mouse macros, which is absolutely not allowed.

Even if your craftsmanship is top-notch, shoddy is shoddy.

Even if you are powerful, but opening a cheat is opening a cheat.

It's not clean and is the thing that can destroy any chef's career.

"Good materials are limited, this is understandable. But you must tell your guests clearly in the publicity, and you can't hide it because the guests don't understand. If a chef can't treat your guests with sincerity, then he is not worthy of being a chef !"

"Well said!" A voice of approval came suddenly.

As soon as Fang Ze turned his head, he realized that although Kojima brought Fang Ze and Liu Maoxing into the back of the booth, because Liu Maoxing spoke too loudly just now, many onlookers rushed over to take the last bus and heard Liu Maoxing Speech later.