"Completely different cooking styles!"
Xia Yu and Si Yingshi tasted each other’s dishes, and the same thought surfaced in their minds.
Si Yingshi’s ’service’ culinary philosophy erased the self, crafting only the purest dishes with no personal imprint.
But Xia Yu, on the other hand, took a completely opposite path.
His ’Nine Feathered Phoenix,’ from its transformation into his pyramid spice construction method to the flame taste performed with [Bursting Flame] culinary skills, was filled with a strong personal style.
Even in his carefully woven culinary illusion, the taster could grasp the things he wanted to convey. In short, Xia Yu’s cuisine was infused with his craftsmanship everywhere, something absent in Si Yingshi’s cooking, hence Xia Yu’s surprise.
Few chefs could discard self and ego, serving the dish entirely, erasing their own imprint.
These two different paths had no superiority or inferiority, simply a difference in philosophy.
Xia Yu’s philosophy was a personal imprint, emphasizing the chef’s skill and craftsmanship. No matter what, both he and Si Yingshi were already on the road, far ahead of their peers.
After eating a piece of chicken, Si Yingshi put down his fork, reluctantly moving his gaze away from the chicken in the bowl, his throat moving.
The ’Nine Feathered Phoenix’ gave him a huge shock.
To forcefully describe the shock, it would be something that could directly affect his philosophy as a chef.
Therefore, Si Yingshi knew he couldn’t eat anymore, otherwise, his philosophy would collapse, and his ’service’ culinary heart would be gone. Cooking was the only place he had enough confidence in, and such confidence couldn’t be lost!
Yet Si Yingshi was wholeheartedly convinced.
"Special Grade One Star quality cuisine was just !" Si Yingshi sighed. He had the privilege of visiting a directly operated restaurant above the IGO Nine Stars where he tasted a special-grade chef’s proud dishes. However, his previous impression of special-grade cuisine was refreshed and replaced after tasting the ’Nine Feathered Phoenix.’
The more terrifying thing was, this impression was given by a peer chef!
"You’re amazing too!"
Xia Yu reached out his hand, and Si Yingshi was momentarily stunned, then flashed a brilliant smile and shook hands with him, "Does this count as forming a friendship?"
"What do you think?" Xia Yu laughed.
Si Yingshi was undoubtedly a strong enemy of the same generation, perhaps in high school, he would never meet such a strong rival again.
It was also lucky to win this time. Xia Yu knew it well.
With just the ’Big Blast Fried Pork’ and ’Flame Roasted suckling pig,’ dishes with only a pseudo-extreme taste, he could at most draw with Si Yingshi’s ’White Haired Cinderella Beef Steak.’ To overwhelm, it had to be the purple glowing recipe.
Coincidentally, ’Nine Feathered Phoenix,’ was the purple recipe he created before on the Far Moon Stage with sparks of inspiration and a miraculous cooking state.
"I never thought, outside of Far Moon, there’s a peer chef as strong as you..." Si Yingshi took a deep breath, issuing a challenge letter, gray pupils filled with flames of fighting spirit, "Next time, I will discard all special-grade ingredients and use the most ordinary materials to challenge you, and then... win!"
This Ten Outstanding Chief, whose blood had been silent for two years, boiled again.
Si Yingshi only felt as though he had returned to the youthful first grade of high school. At that time, he had just entered school, looking up to the yet-to-graduate Kazasaki Tatsuki and Kikuchi Sankaku seniors, just like now, his whole heart filled with the desire to challenge and conquer!
Now, he merely returned to the starting point, reverting to a challenger. Si Yingshi inevitably felt a sense of gap, but more so, a feeling of freshness and vigor!
"I won’t disturb you."
Glancing at the Divine Tongue awakened from wiping drool in the lounge chair, Si Yingshi winked at Xia Yu and then left the lounge, closing the door behind him.
Then, the two who remained exchanged glances.
"What did you put in the dish..."
Tiqie Helinai’s cheeks were flushed, and as she said this, it was more of a coquettish complaint than the usual aloof queen demeanor.
Xia Yu chuckled silently, mouthing two words with a meaning that was understood, not explicable.
The Divine Tongue immediately read the lips, looking shocked, and after a few seconds, shouting, she lunged toward him.
But Xia Yu showed no defense, just gently pulled the porcelain bowl of fiery red chicken to himself, the previously imposing Divine Tongue sniffed the alluring aroma and immediately retracted her claws.
"Want more?" Xia Yu asked.
Her lips moved, Tiqie Helinai seemed to have a defeated mindset, having embarrassed herself in front of him so many times, what were one or two more times?
Moreover, she had some insights from the craftsmanship in the ’Nine Feathered Phoenix,’ convinced that if she ate more, she would surely gain more. So, the queen softened:
"Louder, I can’t hear you!"
With a tender shout, Helinai snatched the porcelain bowl, taking the chopsticks with it.
Xia Yu shrugged, found a chair to sit, summoned the system log, and cleared this battle’s gains.
What concerned him the most was the information on the self-created recipe.
[System log: Your inspiration flows like a tide, creating a highly potential recipe in a fantastical cooking state.]
[System log: Recipe successfully named ’Nine Feathered Phoenix.’]
Just these two simple pieces of information.
Xia Yu opened his mastered glowing recipe, found ’Nine Feathered Phoenix,’ and extracted the detailed information:
"’Nine Feathered Phoenix’: A recipe merging the spice nonet pyramid construction method with the extreme flame. The host can fully unleash this recipe’s upper limit by further enhancing the ’Bursting Flame’ culinary skill and ’Spice Inequality’ culinary skill, with a small chance of achieving ’Special Level Three Stars’ quality cuisine."
After the overview, it detailed the food and spice pairings, which Xia Yu could almost recite by heart as the recipe was his conception, with many details rooted in his mind.
Not happy? That would be self-deception. Were this not at Far Moon but in his small shop, Xia Yu would have laughed heartily.
A recipe worth tens of thousands of Fame Points was obtained just accidentally!
The system recipe’s value lay in ’glowing’!
To this day, Xia Yu still couldn’t comprehend the mystery of ’glowing’ cuisine, but it didn’t matter. The system’s recipe, or those included in the system, enabled the corresponding dish to be cooked with 90 points or more evaluation from the system was assuredly ’glowing’ quality.
Simply put, system inclusion meant providing a stable glowing culinary technique.
Otherwise, Xia Yu estimated he would have had to experiment at least a hundred times to find the harmonious form and recreate today’s ’Nine Feathered Phoenix’ on the Far Moon Stage!
"Ding, the host has two self-created recipe rewards to claim," the system stated.
"Claim!" Xia Yu was invigorated.
"Chef God Store ingredient section, two new ingredients unlocked..."