Chapter 425 - 163: Dishes? I Only Need One.

Chapter 425: Chapter 163: Dishes? I Only Need One.

The spices Su Chen listed could be prepared in a matter of minutes.

After they were ready, the items needed to be sent to the Capital City. Shang Mingke was in charge of contacting a courier company for air transport.

Meanwhile, at Su Chen’s request, Ah Bao and the other two chefs were heading to a local slaughterhouse.

Many meat ingredients couldn’t be used right after purchase; they needed to be processed several days in advance.

He Shuting, Zhang Li, and Bai Xiaobo stayed at the hotel. On one hand, they were on standby for any new arrangements from Su Chen.

On the other hand, they were responsible for maintaining contact with several bigwigs back home.

At the same time, in a hotel not far away where the contestants were staying...

The contestants from Riben Country were having a meeting in their room.

"So... if we want to win this competition, it looks like we’ll have to ask *him* to come out of retirement!"

"Captain! Do we really have to ask him? If we do, we’ll have to share half the glory with him!"

"This isn’t about glory anymore. This theme is too tricky. Who would have thought the organizing committee would leave the outcome of the competition to a bunch of kids to judge! What the hell do they know? Damn it!"

"My father served in the same unit as Mr. Ono. If I ask my father to step in, Mr. Ono will definitely agree to help us!"

The few Japanese contestants exchanged glances.

If *that* person came to compete, then even if they won, the trophy would have little to do with them.

After all... his restaurant was so exclusive that even the president of the Mei Country had to make a reservation three months in advance to enjoy a meal there!

But this theme had clearly caused the Japanese team a great deal of trouble. If it weren’t for the glory of the championship, they would never have considered such a last-ditch plan.

Similar things were happening among the other national teams.

Faced with such a deliberately difficult theme, the contestants from various countries were either asking their own senior masters to come out of retirement or racking their brains to figure out what kind of recipes could capture the attention of children.

’Should we make a breakthrough with the flavor, or with the presentation?’

Back in Huaxia Country.

When Shang Mingke sent the list of air-freighted seasonings to Lu Yongliang, the old man, who was over seventy, was completely dumbfounded on the spot.

"This? Boss Su actually chose *this*? There’s no way in hell he’ll place with this!"

But then he suddenly chuckled. "But if he *does* fucking place with this, it just proves this competition is all hype and no substance. We might as well not bother participating in the future!"

After Lu Yongliang finished reading the list of seasonings and ingredients, he deleted it, ensuring it didn’t fall into a third person’s hands.

"Well then, let’s have Boss Su give the world a little culinary shock, haha!"

Since the cuisine had nothing to do with his own Hubei Cuisine, Lu Yongliang couldn’t be bothered to worry about it. Instead, he now found himself looking forward to it. While contestants from other countries were frantically trying to create an impossibly high-class dish, Boss Su was going to hit them with... this.

’The look on the judges’ faces will be priceless, won’t it?’

He was very much looking forward to it!

Many others were looking forward to it as well. In a luxurious villa in Jingzhou.

"My girl is in Malaysia competing in a world competition! You all better watch! Every single one of you! I’ll be sending out red envelopes in the group chat!"

Zhang Jiayi’s dad had been turning down a lot of his social engagements lately. Every day, he talked about one thing and one thing only.

My daughter is in a world competition!

"Haha! Our family’s going to have a world champion! Who knew the girl’s talent was in cooking, huh? Not bad at all!"

To show off, her dad even had the villa’s basement temporarily converted into a home theater.

He also invited a famous chef from the Capital City, planning to gather all his relatives and friends. Wouldn’t it be wonderful for everyone to enjoy delicious food while watching his daughter compete?

What made Old Zhang happiest was that he had finally transformed from a mere coal boss into the father of a world champion!

Although the competition wasn’t an extremely popular event, it was still quite well-known within a small circle.

For the past few days, Su Chen had remained quite calm abroad. Aside from appearing in the dining hall during mealtimes, he spent almost all his time holed up in his room.

The others were already used to this habit of his.

In contrast, the chefs back home were in an uproar.

The whole thing was rather strange.

As soon as the competition’s theme was announced, Jiang Wusheng immediately posted on the Huaiyang Cuisine Museum’s official account.

"When it comes to treating anorexia, you have to go with our Huaiyang Cuisine! Not only are the knife skills exquisite, but it also emphasizes nutritional balance, making it the perfect choice for anorexic children! If all goes as expected, Chairman Su will surely use Huaiyang Cuisine to win the championship in one fell swoop!"

The moment Jiang Wusheng made this statement, others immediately took issue with it.

The Yue Province Culinary Association immediately published a post, calling out and tagging the Huaiyang Cuisine Museum by name.

"Huaiyang Cuisine has good knife skills and is nutritious? I guess you’re looking down on our Cantonese Cuisine, then? A single bowl of sampan congee is savory enough to make your tongue drop off. When it comes to treating anorexia, starting with congee is absolutely the right move! If Liu Ahbao knew how to make Cantonese Cuisine, he’d definitely be making congee~"

Seeing these two official accounts locking horns...

Cuisines from other provinces also chimed in to tease them.

"Roujiamo requests to enter the battle! The dish that makes millions of children drool!"

"Roujiamo should step aside on this occasion. Kuaishui Baicai will just watch without saying a word... Think about it, it’s a main course at state banquets."

"Ahem, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall has something to say!"