Chapter 16
Chapter 16: The 100 chefs (2)
Posted on May 17, 2016 by bsubak — 14 Comments ↓
7 points. That was also the best he could do right now. However Jo Minjoon didn’t relax. Because making a 7 points dish was the utmost of his skills. He got that score because of the strength of the system. To check the recipe beforehand and it’s success probabilities.
If he didn’t have the systems strength, Jo Minjoon would be making a lot of 5 points dishes. Because you couldn’t be certain if a recipe was good or not before cooking. It was already god’s blessing and consideration for letting him free of worries for his recipes.
Of course, compared to Kaya he didn’t know if it was a blessing. However she was a real genius. She didn’t have a weird ability like Jo Minjoon, she had real skills. Saying that the both had the same abilities was something to be embarrassed about.
He thought that comparing himself with Kaya was a really childish thing. Jo Minjoon was a reasonable person. If he felt bitter but only hurt him, he believed that he didn’t have the need to think about it. Being jealous of an ability he didn’t have was a really childish thing to do.
“We’ll give you 1 hour. Finish your dish in that time.”
At those words, the participants gathered towards the container. Watching those many competitors going to the container was really a sight. Marco and Amanda were running there. Jo Minjoon just stood still and looked at them. Anyways, he was given an hour. So he thought that it wasn’t necessary to immediately handle the catfish.
He thought like that and went towards the room where the basic ingredients were. It was at that moment, Kaya was walking right next to him. He slightly glanced at her. She looked back at Jo Minjoon with a scary face and then opened her mouth.
“What are you looking at?”
“I doesn’t look like you are going to catch a catfish.”
“Even if I go now or later it’s the same. But it’s better to get other ingredients instead of being clustered over there.”
“Clever.”
“You are also doing that. Aren’t you self praising yourself by praising me?”
Jo Minjoon laughed and evaded the question. There were quite a few who were going to get fresh ingredients. Among them, was a tall and handsome blonde man. Anderson….. Jo Minjoon thought for a moment. What was his last name? He didn’t remember. He remembered one thing. That he got the second place.
Jo Minjoon looked at Anderson’s status window. The window showed the last name he didn’t remember.
“I….. I bet everything in this competition!”
Even with that begging voice, Alan didn’t hesitate. He looked slowly at the participants. He opened his mouth.
“Is there someone who didn’t bet everything in this competition?”
No one replied at that question. Alan looked at Amanda and his gaze grew sharp.
“If you want me to give you my opinion, then show me your skills as much as your passion. What I can see right now from you is a broken catfish corpse. I wouldn’t like to put that thing in my mouth. Amanda. Are you a chef? If that’s so, give me that trashy badge! That’s only if you are a chef that puts trash in people’s mouths.”
Amanda returned the badge trembling. Alan received that badge, and looked towards the participants that were looking at him. And said with a calm voice.
“Anyone who has a problem handling the catfish will be kicked out. This is not a school. People who can’t even handle a single ingredient doesn’t have the right to be here. Get ahold of yourselves.”
They grew nervous. It wasn’t only Jo Minjoon. Knowing that they could get eliminated just preparing your dish, the participants continued with a clearer gaze. Jo Minjoon looked at the back of Amanda crying and getting out. He could never end like that. Ever. Even if he got disqualified because his dish tasted bad, at least he wanted to finish his dish.
He didn’t waste time. The first thing Jo Minjoon did was cutting the catfish head. Jo Minjoon boiled water on a pot and put the catfish head, radish, and scallions. And he also put the fishbone. He was thinking of making the gravy. He put some lemon in case it had a fishy smell, and started to handle the catfish meat.
Every time he hit it with the back of his knife, it transformed like fish cake. Originally, it’s meat was already soft. So it wasn’t that hard to mince it. The next step was simple. After squeezing the water out of the tofu, sliced the coriander. The next step was mixing it together, adding starch and slamming the dough.
This part was really important. If he didn’t slam enough to create enough stickiness, in the process the dough is getting cooked, the probabilities of it’s insides breaking were high. For the usual Jo Minjoon, it would be a really hard challenge. Because it wasn’t that it didn’t have chances for failure.
However he wasn’t right now. Jo Minjoon already knew that the theme of the mission would be catfish, and after qualifying, he got to prepare the next dish. For all the meals, he prepared catfish meatball stew, and each time he cooked it he felt a difference on the dishes. What he was making right now was the result of hard work. There was no place for mistakes.
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