God of cooking

Chapter 19: Comprehension towards the broadcast (1)

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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."

Emily's voice was firm. It seemed as if she has really taken a liking to Kaya. Alan didn't particularly refute Emily. Because evaluating a dish is personal freedom.

Alan looked at Joseph again. He didn't say anything, but Joseph could guess what Alan would have wanted to say. Joseph opened his mouth.

"I still don't know."
"Even so, you must have someone you have taken a liking to?"
"I wonder... I like both of the participants you have chosen. Excluding those two, another impressive friend would be Chloe. And...."

Joseph's words couldn't be heard clearly, but his sight was looking at a person from the photographs. Alan followed Joseph's sight. And when he looked at the person he was looking at, and said as if he was amazed.

"Minjoon? No, you are keeping in mind that person?"
"It's not that I'm keeping him in mind. Simply, he seemed like a person who always shows the utmost of his skills. But I do kind of expect what kind of dish he will be making when he grows."
"..........Honestly speaking, it's unexpected. He does have a kind of a base, and even those left on the competition have similar skills like him. Not to talk if he is compared to Kaya or Anderson."
"Of course, I'm not saying that he is going to win. Compared to Anderson and Kaya, his skills are lacking. I'm just expecting something as a chef. How would that little friend grow. That kind of expectation."

Joseph looked at Jo Minjoon's photo. The reason Joseph expected something from Jo Minjoon was simple. A dish that surpassed his skills. And two times at that. There were parts lacking on handling the knife and the use of fire, put the recipe was perfect and didn't have any flaws. That was the reason Joseph viewed Jo Minjoon so highly.