Chapter 19: The Assessment Begins
When Ran Jing and He Weiye came back, they saw that the two brothers were arguing again.
They were all familiar with this scene. He Yunchen had been more serious since he was a child, but He Yunyi always wanted to tease him a few times, which made the young He Yunchen cry several times. When the two brothers grew up, He Yunchen was able to beat He Yunyi, but He Yunyi relied on his poor physique, and if something happened, He Yunchen didn't dare to fight him.
Anyway, over the years, the two brothers have grown up so noisy, and their relationship is deeper than brothers in other families.
This time Ruan Tang sent a lot of dishes, Ran Jing went to cook some rice, and the whole family was very satisfied with the delicious eggplant.
After eating, He Yunchen took a shower with only a bath towel around him. The water drops from his hair slid down his resolute face. He just wiped it casually, sat on the bed, and thought about how to let him touch Ruan Tang.
It has been proven that it is not enough to just give gifts in the live broadcast room. If you want to occupy a place in his heart, you must establish a real connection with him.
The noisy dialogue of the TV series came from downstairs. Although the sound was not turned up very loudly, it was still quite clear to his ears.
He Yunchen thought, wasn't Ruan Tang an actor before?
An actor who had just won the title of best actor, suffered an accident at the most glorious time, slept for five years, and basically lost his original popularity and connections. Could it be that Ruan Tang didn't feel unwilling at all?
Thinking of what he noticed during the recording and broadcasting, Ruan Tang's too slender wrists, he couldn't help but feel a little distressed. The anchor is only a child who has just grown up, and he has worked hard alone for so long and experienced such ups and downs. How sad?
I can help him.
This idea was born in He Yunchen's heart, and it quickly flourished. Even if Ruan Tang may not be able to live broadcast food after returning to acting, as long as he can be happy, it is more important than anything else.
Thinking in this way, He Yunchen turned on his optical brain and contacted a few of his friends who opened an entertainment company. As the son of entertainment queen Ran Jing, his circle of contacts was not as simple as military and political.
With He Yunchen's status, as long as he speaks, there is basically nothing he cannot do. In just a few days, several electronic scripts were delivered to He Yunchen.
He eliminated all those dangerous combat scripts, and also eliminated some that required intimate emotional scenes, and then barely picked out two that were still satisfactory.
Although the lineup of these two scripts is not luxurious, they are both very brilliant. If Ruan Tang wants to come back, with his current popularity, it is impossible for him to take on a commercial blockbuster right away, but as an actor, he is also impossible He lowered his status to play male three male four or even ordinary supporting roles. In this case, these scripts that are biased towards literature and art, with good characters and good plots, and some depth are very suitable choices.
After five years, Ruan Tang suddenly returned in such a small but outstanding movie, and coupled with his popularity as a gourmet live broadcast, he contacted a few young masters in the circle to repost and spread, and Ruan Tang returned the topic is bound to trigger a lot. With this shareholder style, Ruan Tang can easily bid farewell to the current life and come back gorgeously.
He was thinking about how to build momentum for Ruan Tang in the future, so that his journey would be smoother, and he habitually opened Ruan Tang's live broadcast room. However, after he entered, he noticed that the live broadcast room was pitch black, and no one was there at all.
However, there was an announcement on the top of the live broadcast room, saying that the anchor had gone to participate in the chef association level assessment, so the live broadcast was suspended for a day.
He Yunchen was startled, he calculated the time, and it was indeed the day of the Chefs Association's monthly assessment.
The host is preparing to take the test for a chef's license? He couldn't help frowning, thinking of the group of sunspots before. Although Ran Jing has taken action to ban all these people's IPs, but thinking that the main messenger behind these people is a high-level chef from the Chefs Association, he has to worry about the anchor's safety.
Before the anchor had no direct contact with them, this person wanted to rely on public opinion to ruin Ruan Tang's reputation. Now that Ruan Tang bumped into the other party's territory, could the other party let him off so easily?
Thinking of this, He Yunchen immediately stood up and strode out the door. Before he could change his military uniform, he took a step with his long legs and got directly into the hoverboard.
No matter who it is, whoever dares to wrong the anchor is against their He family!
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Ruan Tang arrived at the assessment site of the Chefs Association ahead of schedule by riding a hovering car. There seemed to be a lot of people who came to participate in the assessment, and the sky was filled with dark hovering cars, which looked very spectacular.
The hovering car has an intelligent system for unified control, so the process of landing and getting off the car is carried out in an orderly manner, without the messy scene of traffic jams in the previous life.
Ten minutes later, Ruan Tang got out of the car, saw the huge building with Chef Association No.133 branch written on the door, and walked in. His current appearance has almost recovered, but it would only add to the trouble. He put on the black-rimmed glasses that he had prepared in advance, and he was only wearing a regular white shirt and trousers. The original owner's temperament and attire should be more flamboyant. He is doing this now, and his temperament is completely different from the original owner. In addition, his current figure is much thinner than before. When others see it, at most they think he is looks a bit like the film star Ruan Tang, but he would never guess that they are the same person.
There is a smart scanner at the entrance of the Chefs Association. You only need to paste the optical brain on it to sense it, and you can complete functions such as sign-in and information entry.
Ruan Tang followed the flow of people into the hall, waiting for the entrance examination to begin. The reception hall is in the shape of a circle. Candidates waiting for the assessment are all waiting in the central waiting area, surrounded by small rooms. Candidates will complete their respective assessments in each room.
After signing in just now, Ruan Tang's optical brain received an electronic document called "Assessment Requirements", which elaborated on some contents related to the assessment.
The content of the chef assessment is to use the ingredients randomly provided by the association to make various foods. These ingredients can be mixed together, or taken out separately to make an independent dish, which is up to the candidates themselves. However, each ingredient used as an assessment topic must be used as the main ingredient of the dish. Although it can also be used as a side dish, it is absolutely impossible to just add a little bit of leftovers to the dish as an opportunistic trick.
As for the final dishes, it depends on the examinee's own performance. If there are enough varieties and the taste is good, after the star certificate, you can get another "excellent" red badge. Zhang, can also make a huge difference in the worth of star chefs of the same level.
The assessment requirements for a one-star chef are relatively simple. They need to use five kinds of ingredients, 15 kinds for a two-star chef, and 25 kinds for a three-star chef. For every one star added, the number of ingredients that need to be known will increase by ten, and the chef's worth will also double. But four-star to five-star is not so easy to achieve. In addition to the astonishing forty-five kinds of cooking, there are also requirements for the quality and taste of the dishes, and if you want to become a five-star chef, its innovation Ability is naturally also very important. At least ten or more dishes must be independently developed, and they must be discussed by the Chefs Association Presbyterian Council, and more than half of the votes are passed in order to become a five-star chef.
The empire has been promoting natural ingredients for thirty years. It took a detour in the first few years when it went out. In the remaining twenty years, there are only a dozen five-star chefs, and one of them is the current president of the Chefs Association. — Gourage. The rest, even the four-star chefs, are only a few hundred people. Compared with the interstellar population of hundreds of billions, these more than a hundred people are simply more precious than the giant pandas in the zoo in Ruan Tang's previous life.
The finished product produced by the test will be tested by the machine first, and after confirming that there is no problem, it will be tasted by several examiners. If the food made by the examinee can be approved by the examiners, then the examinee can pass the assessment, if not, the assessment will be deemed a failure.
In order to ensure the fairness of the assessment, all the assessment content will be recorded in the form of holographic images and uploaded to the official website of the Chefs Association to be disclosed to all the people of the empire to prevent cheating.
Generally speaking, it is very difficult to mix various ingredients together and make them absolutely delicious. Therefore, most people will choose to make each ingredient into a dish separately.
But for Ruan Tang, it was not too difficult.
He waited calmly for the start of the examination, and the conversations of other candidates kept floating in his ears, and then he heard exclamations one after another from the side.
"Ah! It's over, it's over! The Academy of Sciences just launched a new ingredient! And there are two kinds!"
"Oh my god, won't this be included in the assessment content?"
Someone next to him told him desperately: "No Perhaps, the topics of the Chefs Association have always been drawn from the shopping malls at the time of the assessment, regardless of whether they are new ingredients." He couldn't help crying, "Why did the Academy of Sciences suddenly announce the new ingredients today, before the assessment started?
Hearing the release of new ingredients, Ruan Tang had a guess in his heart, he opened the shopping mall, and sure enough, he found two kinds of peppers, one green and one red, at the front. His eyes couldn't help but brighten. No matter whether the chili is ground into chili powder as a seasoning, or cooked directly as an auxiliary material or main dish, it is very delicious. The spicy and exciting taste makes people addicted to it.
In fact, because he is a consultant in the Academy of Sciences, he had already received the package from He Yunyi last night, which contained peppers. He tasted a little, the taste is quite pure, and the moisture is sufficient, with a touch of sweetness, the taste must be very amazing. He originally planned to make a spicy dish in tomorrow's live broadcast, and it seems that this plan may have to be advanced.
The assessment began soon. The serial number of each room and the candidate's number are displayed on the big screen in the waiting area. Candidates only need to check the number to enter their own assessment room.
After waiting for about two rounds, it was finally Ruan Tang's turn.
According to the prompt on the big screen, Ruan Tang came to the door of the room corresponding to his own number. After verification by optical brain induction, the door of the room opened instantly.
Ruan Tang walked in, and he found that the room was much bigger than he had imagined, it was a large kitchen, with all kitchen utensils and neatly arranged.
At this time, a prompt popped up on Ruan Tang's optical brain, telling him the five ingredients that were randomly drawn - red pepper, green pepper, egg, fish head and pork liver.
Then a small door was opened from the wall on the left, and an intelligent robot handed over a box to Ruan Tang, which obviously contained the five ingredients he needed for this assessment.
Ruan Tang opened the box, and as expected, he saw bright red peppers and green bell peppers, five eggs, two large fish heads and a large piece of pork liver. All he has to do now is to use these five ingredients to make delicious food.
Chili grandmother's eggs, chopped pepper fish head and green pepper pork liver, almost instantly, Ruan Tang thought of a suitable recipe.
However, Ruan Tang didn't know that at the other end of the monitoring room, someone was showing him a malicious smile.
"Ruan Tang, Ruan Tang, no matter how capable you are, what can you do in the face of these things?"
Qi Zhuo has been fascinated since he saw Ruan Tang's name in the list of applicants. Assigned to Ruan Tang's examination room as the chief examiner, he just wanted to vent his anger. These ingredients are all good things he "selected from thousands of times", guaranteeing that Ruan Tang will never pass the test!
"President, this pepper is an ingredient that the Academy of Sciences just announced today. Is it suitable for us to use it directly for assessment?" One of his subordinates showed concern.
"What's inappropriate? It's a completely compliant operation for us to enter new ingredients into the database. Who can he blame if he is unlucky and gets the pepper?" Qi Zhuo said with a sneer, "I must let the old man know this time, What kind of rubbish is the person he is looking at, he can't even pass the most basic assessment! He wants to train Ruan Tang to grab the position that should belong to me, and this guy must be able to successfully enter the Chefs Association!"
"But only for his fish head and pork liver too much? If people see that we have tampered with it, it will be troublesome..." After all, all the assessment process must be recorded and uploaded to the official website, Ruan Tang the ingredients assigned are very difficult to make, it is too coincidental, and it is easy for people to see the problem. Once something happens, Qi Zhuo naturally doesn't have to worry, but won't he, a small character, suffer?
"What are you afraid of? Didn't you give him eggs? Even if it's just boiled, isn't one of them qualified? We are giving him points for nothing!" Qi Zhuo narrowed his eyes displeased, "Are you worried about him?"
No, no, nothing, I'm worried that it will affect your prestige, President."
"Huh." Qi Zhuo snorted coldly, and turned his gaze back to the surveillance video.
After being reprimanded by Qi Zhuo, the man had no choice but to shut his mouth, and looked at Ruan Tang in the surveillance video with complicated eyes. From a standpoint, he must be on Qi Zhuo's side, but from a benefit point of view, that's not necessarily the case. Ruan Tang's joining the association is not harmful to him. Even if Ruan Tang really becomes the president's successor, then he, as one of the examiners, can even gain two points of incense, but Ruan Tang's failure means to him that It is possible to be questioned, and it is possible to be pushed out as a scapegoat.
He glanced at Qi Zhuo indiscriminately, seeing that he was still watching the show, so he turned his gaze back to the assessment room, praying that Ruan Tang could gain some momentum, it doesn't matter if he fails the assessment, but he must not. It's too ugly to lose!
But looking at those five ingredients, he couldn't help but feel bitter in his mouth. Needless to say, chili, the new ingredient that was just announced, they got it a few days in advance through their relationship, but after tasting it, the taste was scary, they only took a small bite, and their whole mouth was numb, and maybe It was because my finger touched something on the pepper, and then touched my face and eyes, and it burned up immediately, and the pain was terribly painful!
This is not something that people eat, it is clearly a biochemical weapon!
There are also three items next to it. Apart from eggs, which are normal ingredients, where are fish heads and pork livers edible? When cooking fish and pork in the restaurant, these two are thrown directly! However, these two kinds of leftovers that cannot be eaten at all are actually considered ingredients, so they also appeared in this assessment topic. Coupled with the horrible chili, let alone cooking food, it is God's blessing to make delicious, non-toxic dishes!
It seems that he is going to take the blame... Thinking about it this way, the man couldn't help but feel bitter, while making up his mind, no matter what, he just needs to push it all to Ruan Tang's bad luck. After all, luck is something that no one can say for sure.
At this time, Ruan Tang had already started to act. During the assessment, all seasonings that are sold on the market are available, and accessories such as onion, ginger, and garlic are also placed on the desk.
Ruan Tang washed the pork liver first, cut it into thin slices, then took out a basin and soaked it in clean water. This thing had to be soaked for at least 30 minutes, so he started to process the fish head.
After washing the fish head, he evenly spreads it on the fish head with a little salt, pepper powder and green onion and ginger juice, and marinates it for a few minutes so that the fish head can fully taste.
Then pour half a pot of water into the soup pot, add a little cooking oil, and add sliced ginger and green onion. The two ingredients sank to the bottom of the pot without making any sound, and the man in charge couldn’t help but shook his head. Sure enough, it was too difficult to deal with this kind of scraps, so he even gave up on himself and prepared to boil the pot of water casually, and put the fish, green onion, ginger soak it in soup?
Qi Zhuo burst out laughing: "What the hell is this? Heh, young people nowadays, it's so ridiculous to break the jar so easily!"
The subordinate couldn't help but shook his head, he already know the failure of this young man can be foreseen.
They watched as Ruan Tang put in the fish head again without haste, boiled it at high temperature, skimmed off the foam on it with a spoon, then closed the lid, lowered the temperature and simmered slowly, couldn't help but shake it together again shook his head.
Making soup is of course the easiest way. Anyway, no matter what the ingredients are, they can be eaten after being cooked, but in this way, the deliciousness is basically goodbye. What's more, what Ruan Tang got was just a fish head, and it couldn't be cut or fried. Besides throwing the whole thing in, what else could the poor little guy think of?
The man glanced at Qi Zhuo and thought to himself.
Ruan Tang, if you want to blame, blame you for offending someone who shouldn't be offended.
Ruan Tang had no idea what was going on in the proctor's room. The fish head soup will probably take half an hour to cook, so he then started to make scrambled eggs with pepper.
He first cut the red pepper into small pieces, then sliced the garlic, and the shallots into slices, then cracked three eggs into the bowl, and beat them quickly with chopsticks until the egg liquid produced a layer of fine bubbles.
After the oil pan was heated up, Ruan Tang poured the eggs into it. When frying the eggs, he put more oil on purpose so that the eggs would be fluffy and tender enough without sticking to the pan.
He fried the eggs until they were lightly golden on both sides, then sliced them into thin, flat slices.
Then he put the garlic slices into the pot, sautéed them over low heat, and put them out for later use.
There was still a thin layer of oil left at the bottom of the pot. Ruan Tang didn't wash the pot, but poured the red pepper slices directly into it, letting them fully react with the oil full of egg and garlic flavors. After the peppers are cooked, add eggs and sliced garlic and stir fry together. Season with a small amount of soy sauce, sugar, salt and balsamic vinegar, sprinkle with shallots, turn on high heat and stir fry a few times quickly, then turn off the heat and serve. The chili grandma eggs are done.
At this time, the stewed fish head soup is almost ready, and the fish soup has completely turned milky white, exuding an attractive aroma.
He took the ginger slices and scallions out of the pot, added salt and pepper to taste, and finally added minced ginger and chopped scallions, and the rich and mellow fish head soup was ready.
The pig liver was also fully soaked at this time, and the blood was completely diluted, so Ruan Tang poured out the blood, and then rinsed the pig liver repeatedly until no more blood leaked out.
After draining the pork liver, Ruan Tang put it into a bowl, added salt, starch, light soy sauce, vinegar, pepper, sugar and other seasonings, stirred it thoroughly, and put it aside.
Then, while heating the oil in the pan, he quickly cut the garlic sprouts and green peppers into small pieces.
After the oil was completely heated, Ruan Tang poured the pork liver into it and stir-fried it at high temperature. When the surface of the pork liver gradually turned white, he poured it out.
The remaining oil is used to fry garlic sprouts and green peppers. When the fragrance overflows, pour the pork liver back into the pot, stir-fry quickly and serve it out.
Two dishes and one soup, one is red and yellow, which looks quite bright in color scrambled eggs with peppers, and the other is pork liver with green peppers. After his treatment, even the disgusting pork liver seems much easier to accept, and put it next to it Serve a bowl of milky white fish soup, just by looking at the appearance, there is really nothing wrong with these three dishes.
Putting two dishes and one soup side by side on the cooking table, Ruan Tang said to the monitoring direction.
"I finished."