Chapter 19
Chapter 19: Comprehension towards the broadcast (1)
Posted on May 22, 2016 by bsubak — 15 Comments ↓
Waiting room, the judges were seated on the sofa and looking at the things over the table. Those were simple things. Photographs. Precisely speaking, the participants photographs. They were looking at a total of 27 photos. Emily opened her mouth.
“Is there any participant you consider worthy?”
“This one. He is the one who has mastered most of the basics.”
The picture Alan chose, was Anderson’s. Emily tilted her head and opened her mouth.
“Anderson? Doesn’t he lack creativity? He can give flavor, but that’s on the level of a 3 minute instantaneous cooking.”
“I wonder. You can’t know if he is hiding his abilities on purpose or not. At least his skills were excellent. His appearance when making the catfish steak amazed you.”
“ What if he amazes me. He made a crap dish with those amazing skills. Normal people would eat that thing, but for me, it was a sickly flavor. It was as if I had already tried it a thousand times.”
What Anderson showed was catfish steak with onion pure. At that moment, Emily remembered the flavor once more and frowned. The feeling as if you had already tried it somewhere else. Anderson was a chef with no sudden twists. And Emily was already sick of those kinds of chefs. Alan looked at Emily and replied calmly.
“……If you have skills, then your personality is meant to follow. However, i want to bet on him. He has the most chances from this messy people. Emily, what about you?”
Emily smiled at what he had said and extended her finger. Her long and slender index finger pointed one photograph. Kaya Lotus’s photograph.
“I will bet on her.”
“……Kaya Lotus? She does indeed have skill…..”
Alan frowned. Certainly, Kaya was a charming participant. Her signature menu, the grilled eel, was close to a master’s skill. In the whole world, there was no one who could cook grilled eel like Kaya. However.
“Her cooking isn’t framed. Nor has an identity. If you take a dog as an example, she would be a cross breed.”
“You heard the contents of the interview. She comes from a market. The dishes that have freedom are her identity. I think so.”
Martin looked at Jo Minjoon with a bugging face. It was really difficult to understand him. Is Jo Minjoon really saying the truth? That he became a fan to a person he saw for the first time? Was Kaya’s grilled eel and tangsuyuk that impressive?
Even if he thought deeply about it, he couldn’t see what a person was thinking about. Martin let out a sigh and changed the question.
“So, how was the flavor of the tangsuyuk you traded? Was it better than your catfish meatball stew?”
“I think that the end result of the dish is similar.”
“How many points out of 10?”
“7 points.”
Jo Minjoon’s voice was firm. He didn’t think twice, nor wonder. Martin remembered the words Jo Minjoon said to the cameraman. He heard from him that Jo Minjoon had said that his bream dish was 7 points. On what standards could that be?
“What extent is 7 points?”
“It’s the utmost I can cook right now. If you are a chef like Kaya, it’s something you get on average.”
“I can’t seem to understand that calculation. Is there anything special?”
“The recipe used, the effort on cooking, and the fresh ingredients would be it. It would be difficult to put it in words. However I am confident on this much.”
Jo Minjoon’s eyes shined. He said confidently like never before.
“My evaluating points are correct.”
“……I wonder. If it’s the same dish, won’t it vary according to the person who made it? I don’t think there’s a definite point…..”
“Of course, there’s personal taste. However, when you don’t take that into account, my points would be correct objectively speaking.”
“Then I wonder how will you evaluate the participants dishes from now on. Good. Let’s move on to the next question. You came all the way over here from Korea. Are you confident on winning?”
Jo Minjoon kept his mouth shut at that question. He looked at a glass table which had nothing on top for a while, and barely said.
“In my life, there has never been something as confirmation. If it’s about cooking, then all the more so. The reason I came to Grand Chef was to gain that confirmation.”
“……..What kind of confirmation?”
Jo Minjoon replied. It seemed as an earnest voice.
“If I’m allowed to be a chef. I wanted to get that confirmation from myself. No, I want to get that confirmation.”
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