Chapter 63 Cao Xiaodong's Best Performance

After Cao Xiaodong started cooking, he no longer cared about Wang Jianye and instead became fully focused.

He put all his energy into making the stir-fried pork kidney dish.

He took every step very seriously.

He has made this stir-fried pork kidney dish many times. Practice makes perfect, and he makes it very smoothly.

but.

This is not enough for him.

Because according to his estimation, Wang Jianye's cooking level for this dish is probably also at the second-class level, about the same as his.

Therefore, if he wants to ensure that he can compete with Wang Jianye in this dish, he has to perform better so that he has a chance to surpass his opponent.

Cao Xiaodong took a deep breath, and he took the next steps more seriously and carefully than before.

Not long after, Cao Xiaodong carefully served the stir-fried pork kidney he had just made out of the pot.

"What I did this time should be my best performance and the highest level I have ever achieved."

Cao Xiaodong muttered excitedly despite his tiredness.

He put all his effort into making this dish and performed at his best.

“I don’t know if I can surpass what Wang Jianye did.”

Cao Xiaodong, once the most outstanding apprentice in the kitchen of Fengzeyuan, has always been considered the second Zhou Qingde. Among so many apprentices in the kitchen, he has the highest level and the best talent.

No matter what dish he cooks, he can always cook it better than anyone else.

Cao Xiaodong is full of pride and confidence for this.

But now, Cao Xiaodong can no longer be as confident as before.

Because Wang Jianye's level has improved by leaps and bounds in the past week, he realized that Wang Jianye's talent and level have surpassed his own.

Cao Xiaodong looked at the fried pork kidney he had just made, hesitated for a moment, and finally brought it out.

After all, he felt that this dish was his best performance so far. If he made another one, it might not surpass the level of this one, so there was no need to do so.

Cao Xiaodong brought the prepared stir-fried pork kidney to the tables of the three judges.

Zhou Qingde picked up the chopsticks and took a bite, then nodded with satisfaction, "I give it nine points."

After tasting the dishes, the other two judges were also quite satisfied and gave them eight and nine points respectively.

There was a special person nearby who wrote the scores given by the three chefs under the stir-fried pork kidney in the column of Cao Xiaodong's information.

Generally speaking, eight points means reaching the second-level kitchen level, and ten points means reaching the first-level kitchen level.

Two chefs gave it nine points, which means they felt that the quality of this dish reached the second-class level, but was still a little short of the first-class level.

"Thank you, three masters."

Cao Xiaodong was a little excited, this was his best performance.

If the stir-fried pork kidney dish he made previously was given to three judges for scoring, the most they would get would be eight points, and there would not be a nine.

This time he was able to get two nine points, which was indeed the first time for him, and it also proved that he did perform very well this time.

The crowd was shocked to see that Cao Xiaodong's fried pork kidney dish received good scores of 9 points, 9 points and 8 points.

"He is indeed an outstanding apprentice in our kitchen. He can get nine points for a dish that only needs six points to pass. He is really amazing." "In the apprentice grading assessments in the past few years, there has never been such an amazing apprentice. The best he could get was six points."

“Even many chefs who have just started cooking cannot cook to this level.”

"Not to mention the chef who just started cooking, even the chef who is the second chef may not be able to get a 9 out of 10 for this dish of fried kidney."

"Cao Xiaodong has been an apprentice for three years, but he can cook better than many chefs. He is really not an ordinary person."

"..."

The crowd watching started talking.

Qin Huairu saw this scene and whispered to Sha Zhu beside her: "He is so powerful."

"Yes, he was once the best apprentice in our kitchen." Sha Zhu explained.

Qin Huairu asked curiously: "Compared to him and Brother Wang, who is more powerful?"

Sha Zhu frowned and said, "Brother Cao's fried kidney is his best dish, and he worked so hard this time, and his performance was pretty good. But I've never seen Brother Wang cook fried kidney in the kitchen, so I don't know how good he is at cooking this dish, so... I can't be sure who is better between Brother Wang and him."

In fact, Sha Zhu prefers Cao Xiaodong in his heart.

As his senior brother, Cao Xiaodong was often compared with him by his master, so Sha Zhu didn't like his senior brother Cao Xiaodong very much.

Although he has a prejudice against Cao Xiaodong, Sha Zhu still thinks that Cao Xiaodong's fried pork kidney is better.

After all, the dish cooked this time was stir-fried pork kidney, which is Cao Xiaodong's specialty, and Cao Xiaodong performed exceptionally well this time, getting good scores of nine points, nine points and eight points.

Sha Zhu felt that Cao Xiaodong did a better job than Wang Jianye, but he didn't want to admit it in front of Qin Huairu, so he had to say that he couldn't be sure.

Sun Qu felt very comfortable listening to everyone's high evaluation of his disciple.

The pride and glory that his apprentice once brought him returned after a week. How cool.

"Congratulations, Master Sun, for accepting such a good apprentice."

Someone nearby congratulated Channel Sun.

Sun Qu smiled proudly and said, "That's not the case."

Someone nearby asked curiously, "Hey, Master Sun, Lao Chai's apprentice Wang Jianye and your apprentice both won the dish of stir-fried kidney slices. Do you think Lao Chai's apprentice got a higher score, or did your apprentice get a higher score?"

When talking about Wang Jianye, Sun Qu felt a little worried, but after thinking about it, he said, "My apprentice's fried kidney should be better.
After all, Lao Chai's apprentice's talent has only been up to date for a short time, and this fried kidney dish is quite difficult to make, and the ingredients are not cheap. Lao Chai's apprentice probably hasn't practiced this dish many times.
He can cook hot and sour potato shreds and leek and dried tofu to the level of a chef, but the stir-fried kidney is not necessarily the same.

I guess the fried kidney dish he made is definitely good enough for a chef, but it would be difficult to reach the level of a second-class chef. In short, it should not be better than the one made by my apprentice."

After the three chefs gave scores to his dishes, Cao Xiaodong originally wanted to go back to the stove and make the next dish.

But when he saw Wang Jianye coming over with the fried pork kidney, he stopped and became nervous.

"Can my best performance surpass what Wang Jianye did?"

This was the first time Cao Xiaodong felt so nervous.

After all, this dish was the highest quality he had made in his three years as an apprentice, and it was also his best performance yet.

If his best fried pork kidney dish is not as good as Wang Jianye's, then the gap between him and Wang Jianye is too big.

Wang Jianye didn't notice Cao Xiaodong's uneasiness.

After he came over, he placed the fried pork kidney he had just made in front of the three judges.

(End of this chapter)