Chapter 18
Chapter 18: The 100 chefs (4)
Posted on May 21, 2016 by bsubak — 25 Comments ↓
Those were words that didn’t need to be long. There wasn’t other magic word like ‘delicious’. At that short word, Jo Minjoon could once again feel his heart beating. The judges didn’t keep wasting words and went past Jo Minjoon. Then continued judging.
Jo Minjoon looked at the catfish meatball stew. There were no mistakes.
[Catfish Meatball Stew]
Freshness: 93%
Origins: (Too many ingredients to know)
Quality: High (Average ingredients)
Cooking Score: 7/10
Jo Minjoon turned his head and looked at the judges. Kaya’s turn was near.
Kaya’s dish was catfish tangsuyuk with red sauce. The judges took a bite, and said that it was delicious without thinking it twice, and then left her. Even Kaya couldn’t make them stay. Because there were still a lot of people to evaluate.
Jo Minjoon looked at Kaya’s catfish tangsuyuk. It showed that it was a 7 points dish. When he noticed that her cooking level was 7, he could tell that her dishes would probably also be 7.
However at that moment, Jo Minjoon felt the strongest of the temptations. The temptation to go and try Kaya’s dish.
Jo Minjoon even tried a 9 points dish in a Michelin restaurant. He didn’t have the need to lust over that 7 point dish. In the first place, wasn’t it a dish he could make if he didn’t do any mistakes? But even so, the catfish tangsuyuk was really charming. Because it was Kaya’s cooking.
What chefs put on a plate wasn’t only the cooking. The brand they had was put on the plate. Jo Minjoon wondered, what kind of flavor could the name of Kaya add?
However, he couldn’t just run to her and try her cooking in the middle of judging. The atmosphere on the place was serious. Because, even at that moment were people being disqualified. Those who heard that their dishes weren’t delicious left the room without any strength.
“It’s a rational deal.”
Jo Minjoon stood next to her and ate the tangsuyuk with a fork. It was certainly a 7 points dish. He got a feeling of something exploding in his head but was not disgusting. A dish which bases were perfect.
The sauce was strong. The aroma roamed around his mouth as if a kind of herb was put, and the catfish meat was perfectly cooked, so it was moist and soft. He thought that the meat was going to crumble because of it’s weak characteristic that broke like tofu, but it didn’t. Naturally, the crunchy fried coating that was combined with the sauce, and the bland flavor of the meat mixed well with the sauce’s sweet flavor.
Jo Minjoon looked at the recipe. There wasn’t anything different with a normal tangsuyuk recipe. It was a recipe that immediately popped out of the internet if you searched. The fishy smell was held with lemon, and a sweet potato dough was mixed with potato dough on a 7-3 ratio. Now the point here was to control the amount of cooking oil used.
The next step was like usual. You fried it, and you boiled vinegar, sugar, soy sauce and dough water thickly. And after that, if you put vegetables and pepper powder in that sauce, and cooked it a little was the end.
To get 7 points on a sauce that wasn’t special meant that she cooked with her senses that much. Jo Minjoon savored the tangsuyuk and opened his mouth.
“It’s delicious.”
“……Your’s too.”
Maybe she wasn’t accustomed to compliments, but Kaya replied with an awkward voice. Jo Minjoon couldn’t help but find it strange. The person he used to watch on TV was now saying that his dish was delicious.
The feeling you got when you felt something that changed could be described as right now. It seemed as if he was a step closer to his dream. But suddenly, Jo Minjoon started thinking. What was his dream? To make a delicious dish? Or to be a famous chef?
He didn’t keep worrying any longer. Kaya was saying with a flushed face.
“I’m eating one more.”
“What?”
“I’m going to eat one more. Your meatball. So you too, eat one of my tangsuyuk.”
Right. It was bartering. Jo Minjoon laughed and gripped his fork. Right. Even if he made a delicious dish, or became a famous chef, if he could keep cooking with the same heart as he had right now……
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