God of cooking

Chapter 82: The unfamiliar one (4)

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Shark fin soup, this dish that was also called as wich(위츠) in china, could be categorized in two. A brown soup that had a dense color, and a blue stew that had a lot of soup. And Chloe's dish was a brown soup, and her shark fin had a sweet flavor like .

The first thing an epicurean would see when they evaluated a Chinese restaurant was how the chef handled shark fin. The difficulty of cooking shark fin, among the thousands of Chinese dishes, was so difficult it could enter the top 5. But it wasn't that it needed special preparations. Actually, if the quality of the ingredient was good, then the dish was already half completed. If you weren't an epicurean, you could eat all of that deliciously. Not having flavor or aroma meant that you weren't fond of it.

However, it was different for epicureans. The stem-like texture of the shark fin was an obvious thing, but compared to other dishes, the measuring stick shark fin had was strictly based on the sauce or the soup. It was unavoidable. You could save the plain flavor of shark fin, and didn't miss out on the original flavor of the other ingredients. Perhaps, you would tolerate it more if this shark fin was a cheap ingredient, but shark fin was an ingredient that if the quality was good, then the price would also soar through the skies. And obviously, the price of that dish could only be expensive, and if that food you inverted money on lacked even a little something...... It was also obvious that you would buy the rage of the epicureans.

And it wasn't an exemption because they were judges. They felt the flavor more sensitively than usual, and they tried hard to feel the sticky shark fin they chewed. And their evaluations all matched.

Joseph opened his mouth.

"Chloe, what do you think is the standard for a well-made shark fin soup?"
".......I think that it's cooking it so the texture of the shark fin doesn't crumble, and at the same time, controlling the flavor of the sauce for it to be not too excessive."
"And do you think that your shark fin meets those standards?"
"I'm begging for it. At least, the best I could.....do, I can't say that. Because I couldn't even do the plating properly. But at least, I think that I have tried my best for the flavor. .......Is it not?"

She seemed to have some confidence, but in the end, Chloe's voice lost confidence in the last parts. She could only do so. Because the cooking method for shark fin she knew came only by helping her mother.

And because of that, she tried the seasoning harder than ever, checked the state of the pan and the fire, and tried hard to focus on the ingredients and her situation. It was a dish which she did her best desperately than ever. But....... Just because of that, it didn't mean that you would get good food. Alan said with a hard voice.

"Do you know that the bigger a shark is, the more mercury it contains in its body?"
"Yes."
"Then, only by eating a bite of this shark fin may have consumed a week of your life span, can you ascertain that this dish had that worth?"

At Alan's questions, Chloe couldn't reply anything. Emily let out a sigh and said.

"Chloe, our opinions about your dish all matched. One week of life span?"

It was at that moment. From the frozen face of Emily bloomed a smile. At that sudden change, Chloe couldn't even get perplexed and just shook the muscles of her face.

"It was a soup that I could even give 15 days, instead of a week!"
".........Yes?"
"I'm saying that your shark fin was perfect. Chloe, Relax. Why is someone that made this kind of dish shaking like that?"

After Emily said happily, Joseph smiled faintly and continued to say.

"Emily said that she could give 15 days instead of a week, but as someone old, I can't agree to that. Because in 15 days, you can eat a lot of different foods. But at the last moment, when my flame of life is about to extinguish, I think that I would remember your shark fin soup."