A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

"Have you ever heard of it being held every four years? It's the same as the Olympic Games."

When Li Yi heard Hao Libao talking about the Olympic Cooking Competition, he immediately guessed something and asked with a smile: "What? Are you planning to participate?"

The World Olympic Culinary Competition is a world-class cooking skills competition hosted by the German Culinary Association.

Since its inception in the middle of the last century, hundreds of teams and nearly 2,000 chefs from dozens of countries have participated.

In terms of influence, it is indeed the Olympics of the culinary world and the most influential culinary event in the world.

"It's not my intention, it's just asking us to compete."

Hao Libao said and explained the situation.

It turns out that although Chinese food is the most abundant cuisine in the world, it has only participated in two World Olympic Culinary Competitions so far.

This event does not accept private registrations, only teams that register as national teams.

But this event does not have much prize money, and it is not an official event organized by the national government. Therefore, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce only organized two representative teams to participate in this event in Germany in 1988 and 1996.

In the two competitions, the Chinese team won seven individual gold medals, but only one bronze medal in the team competition.

Coupled with the lack of domestic attention, the Ministry of Commerce has not organized a representative team to participate in the competition since then.

However, with the development of the country and the rise of national power, China's influence in the world has become greater and greater, and cultural dissemination has received more and more attention from the country.

As the culture that is easiest to go abroad and accepted by people from different backgrounds, food culture is the easiest to form a communication craze.

Therefore, this year, the Ministry of Commerce once again organized a team to participate in the Olympic Culinary Competition.

Hao Libao was chosen as the leader of this team and was given the task to achieve good results in the competition and win glory for the country.

But he didn't expect that just before the competition, he broke his arm. Not only did he miss his work, but his plan to participate in the cooking competition was also affected.

After a hundred days of straining his muscles and bones, without a few months of training, he would never be able to use the wok again.

But the competition is coming soon, and if he takes a break, he won't be able to participate in the competition.

Therefore, he asked Li Yi to come over to save the game, not only to save today's game, but mainly to save the game for this competition.

After learning the specific situation, Li Yi was immediately in trouble.

This competition was held at the end of October, but it was not long after the start of the school year and the professional courses were in the early stages of formal teaching. Li Yi was busy at that time.

But such a competition, where he competes on the same stage with top cooking experts from all over the world, is quite attractive to Li Yi.

Since filming "Bite of the Tongue", Li Yi has traveled all over the country with the film crew, and has seen different food cultures in various places, learned about some rare special ingredients and seasonings, and learned many detailed cooking techniques.

Although these small improvements did not significantly improve his overall cooking skills, they added up to a certain change in his current cooking skills.

It's like a piece of fine iron that has been tempered many times and has become stronger and stronger after being quenched.

Li Yi could feel that his understanding of cooking was deeper than a year ago, and he was more comfortable cooking.

But he didn't have a clear judgment about his specific level.

If he can compete with the top cooking experts from various countries in the competition, Li Yi can also have a rough judgment on his own cooking level.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Li Yi asked: "In which month does the pre-match training start?"

"The national selection will begin this month, the selection will be completed, and training will begin next month."

Hao Libao explained: “This time we will form three teams, a national representative team, a young chef team, and individual competition teams.

I plan to select people from the offices of various regions in Beijing starting next week. I will first select a group of people internally and then select from these people.

If you don't have time, I can help you check the first round of selection first, and then I'll make the final decision in the second round. "

This was exactly what Li Yi wanted, and he nodded when he heard this: "That's fine, I've been very busy recently, and I have to finish the things at hand first, otherwise I will delay the students later.

However, I will try my best to make time during the training and try to keep an eye on the whole process. "

Hearing what he said, Hao Libao was overjoyed: "So, you are willing to participate?"

"Of course I do."

Li Yi smiled and said: "This is a good thing to bring glory to the country, it is obligatory!"

"Haha! Great!"

Hao Libao laughed and said, "With you here, we have hope for the team competition."

Even if he was not injured, he still planned to recommend Li Yi to lead the team to participate in the Olympic Cooking Competition.

Since participating in the last season of "Chinese Restaurant", he has realized that Li Yi's cooking skills have surpassed him.

He is already several decades old, and even if he wants to continue studying, he is already unable to do so.

But Li Yi is still young, and he still has a lot of time to enrich himself, improve himself, and expand his cooking skills to areas that no one has touched.

Turns out, he was right.

Just today, Li Yi came to the rescue and prepared dishes one after another.

These were his specialty dishes, but when he was trying the dishes, he discovered that Li Yi had made subtle adjustments to each dish, making each dish more perfect.

In addition, Li Yi also made several new dishes, such as the last dish [Black Gold Garlic Beef Fillet], which is a dish that combines Chinese stir-fries and Western sauces, as well as regional seasoning characteristics.

Li Yi used Lu province black garlic and black pepper to make the sauce, and used Cantonese-style fried golden garlic to enrich the aroma. The final combination created a unique garlic aroma that even Hao Libao tasted for the first time and remembered in one bite. In my mind, I have endless aftertaste.

This kind of dish is the most suitable for participating in the Olympic cooking competition.

The items and format of this competition are mainly based on Western food. Although it is relatively limited, it is also more challenging.

Being able to stand out in such a competition and receive unanimous praise can also help clarify the direction for the promotion of Chinese food and accumulate experience for conquering the taste buds of people around the world in the future.

This is an important task and an expectation. Hao Libao believes that no one is more qualified than Li Yi.

After agreeing to Hao Libao, Li Yi went home to prepare.

After using time to speed up and work around the clock for half a month, Li Yi finally prepared all the professional information.

Hao Libao has also completed the first round of selection and selected thirty-six top chefs to enter the second round of selection.

These thirty-six chefs are all catering directors of various provincial offices in Beijing, and they are also well-known figures in the catering industry in each province.

And this does not include individual chefs and young chef teams competing as individuals.

When Li Yi arrived at the second round selection site, he saw a field of hundreds of people competing.

Seeing the flames rising on nearly a hundred stoves, he almost thought he was back in the imperial dining room.