Reborn in Japan as a Chef God

From the small detail of caramelizing sugar, Wei An and Kong Chun could determine the progress of their beloved disciple's study of the Qilin Must-Kill Recipe.

Already reached mastery!

You have to know, Ye Feizhou's research time was just over half a month. Even with Wei An answering questions, pondering a recipe is much more challenging than reading comprehension. Being able to understand the essence of a certain step in the creator's uniquely styled text, then raising questions and solving them, isn't it proof that Ye Feizhou is exceptionally talented? Learning is such a process, especially when the subject is a recipe at the pinnacle of the Qilin level.

"Caramelizing!"

Xia Yu stood by, watching Ye Feizhou boil a pot of sugar water, secretly praising his solid foundation.

The caramelizing technique seems simple, but reaching proficiency is tough. Even top-level chefs might fumble, easily ruining it.

The core is still the legendary heat control.

Saying more might be difficult for new chefs to understand. If Xia Yu were to teach a caramelizing class at Far Moon, he would tell his students this —

When making sugar water, what's called 'heat' is observing three surface phenomena.

First is the bubbles, second is the change in consistency as the water and sugar mixture turns into sugar water, and finally, the third point is the color change from transparent to pale white, to bluish-white, to light yellow and deep yellow.

Grasping these three points, Xia Yu would say, even a novice can master caramelizing.

Cough, cough.

Of course, nothing is absolute. If the water, sugar, and fats are rather special and not the ordinary items people encounter daily, the situation would be different.

Xia Yu could easily see that the water Ye Feizhou brought was problematic, full of intrigue!

"Ah—"

The competition hall resounded with exclamations. Xia Yu shook his head and fixated on Ye Feizhou's cooking station. In just a few minutes, a pot of sugar water was boiled to a deep yellow, with no flaws whatsoever in terms of heat even from Xia Yu's perspective.

However, Ye Feizhou had just turned off the stove valve and before turning around, a pot of still-hot sugar water emitted a thick mist!

The mist was hazy.

"What's going on here?"

"Mist?"

"Is it burnt?"

The entire room erupted in shocked whispering. To still see dense smoke after turning off the heat, isn't this a sign of overcooking? A five-time champion, a disciple of the Heavenly King, performed poorly in the ultimate battle, a major news that rocked the Chinese Realm.

"No—"

A voice of denial spread across as the Sage Karl left his seat, striding up to Ye Feizhou's workbench, reaching out to touch the mist suspended mid-air, his brow furrowing intensely.

As he withdrew his arm, a layer of fine ice crystals visibly appeared on the surface of his skin.

This was freezing mist!

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, Li Han, from his second precious chair, cursed, "No wonder, I was wondering why Ye Feizhou specifically brought a bottle of clear water to the stage and stored it carefully in a container. Turns out it's that kind of water, a specialty from White Jade Tower!"

"Probably not just that one bottle!" Tang Yuqiong said with a worried look, "That water box, filled to the brim, used to soak bean sprouts..."

"Damn it!"

Unmentioned it was fine, but at its mention, Li Han erupted, "He actually used that water to soak bean sprouts, what luxury, truly worthy of being the prince of White Jade Tower! Now there are probably countless old monsters cursing out mom after exchanging a kettle of water with White Jade Tower for recipes and ingredients!"

In the guest room, Yan Qi watched, deeply furrowing his brows.

"White Jade Tower's cold water!"

He said, "This water, though not a fantasy ingredient, is superior to fantasy. It can be normally boiled and cooked, but once the fire is out, the cold surprisingly persists."

Old man Xia Qing nodded in agreement, White Jade Tower's special product was no recent discovery as he had experienced it when he was young, "Phew—"

Surprised by Ye Feizhou's understated luxury, the old man sighed.

"This kind of cold water, with distinct properties, elevates dishes focusing on fresh and crisp flavors by a significant level with its help!"

"If the contest were between special and Qilin level, well that's a chasm that's difficult to bridge, but if it were Qilin against Qilin..."

Xia Qing shook his head, saying, "It's comparable to a forbidden ingredient. Hence, the gap in ingredients between Ye Feizhou and Yu on the table disappears! This is an equal showdown!"

"Equal, is it?"

Yan Qi felt a chill in his heart.

"An ominous feeling..."

In the waiting area for the top 20, Yuan Yun's eyes widened in a quiet mutter, to which Zhao Qi beside him quipped, "I told you, being a five-time champion, a disciple of the Heavenly King, the resources he has far surpass our imagination, at least show some respect, don't treat a treasure like an experiment!"

Xia Yu stared at the freezing mist in deep thought.

He sighed inwardly, only saying that it's truly worthy of being the vast and resourceful Heavenly Dynasty, all sorts of strange things exist.

Not too much shock or misunderstanding.

The reason is quite simple, because you see, Xia's shop also has a barrel of inexhaustible clear water, but since returning home, after being reminded by the old man, Xia Yu brought back the black stone from the bottom of the water barrel along with the Jade Dragon Pot.

So what treasure is White Jade Tower hiding?

Xia Yu was curious.

Ye Feizhou was not disturbed by the uproar, likely anticipated, remained calm and composed.

Nodding at the Sage Karl standing at the front, according to his usual demeanor, if not busy, most likely he would offer this Dragon Chef a respectful elder's greeting, meticulous in nature.

The potatoes were steaming.

A pot of "ice" sugar water was ready.

So, next step...

Ye Feizhou looked at the ingredient box, under the water box taking up seventy to eighty percent of the space, it was filled with bean sprouts.

These bean sprouts were precisely his main ingredient!

First, he looked up to meet Xia Yu's gaze from a distance, a clean and refreshing smile played on Ye Feizhou's lips, "You were indeed watching..."

Whoosh!

He suddenly extended his hand.

Amidst the splashes of water, Ye Feizhou's hands moved swiftly, leaving behind only afterimages. In just a few seconds, he had extracted all the bean sprouts from the underwater and filled a large basket.

While draining the water, his hand movements slowed down.

His hands shifted from moving to stillness, suddenly turning gentle, tenderly massaging the bean sprouts covered in water stains in the basket. It seemed slow, but in no time, the table was piled with discarded parts of the bean sprouts' heads and tails.

Many females in the competition hall were blushing at his refined demeanor and smiling stance that seemed like a wellness massage.

"Damn!"

"It's here!"

Xia Yu nearly couldn't resist giving applause.

The wellness massage, cough, no, it should be the food massage technique resembling the "Divine Hand," a pressing skill of the White Jade Tower Dragon Venerable Huang He.

Seeing Ye Feizhou planning to massage the bean sprouts for a long time, Xia Yu turned his gaze away.

Glancing at the timer on the table.

Unknowingly, half an hour of the cooking session had already passed.

"I can't just watch, I need to start getting into my rhythm!"

Clearing his mind and taking a breath, the smile on his face vanished, replaced by complete seriousness.

The alarm in Xia Yu's heart warned him that being overconfident leads to defeat!

"First, fillet the fish!"

Xia Yu skillfully reached into the fat, pulling out a living "Shiny Silk-footed Fish."

With tasks driving him, Xia Yu had spent every moment in the past few days researching this strange fish.

Unlike ordinary fish, the "Shiny Silk-footed Fish" had no scales and was smooth; its gills and innards, um...

Looking at it, the golden jelly-like fish, does such a body structure even exist?

Having already concluded his research, Xia Yu calmly took the fish out, not even needing to bathe or rinse it, placed it on the cutting board to let it quickly perish from "Morles Oil."

Next was a familiar process step.

Add fat, heat the pot.

"Boom!"

The fat used was a perfect casting material for the Bursting Flame, "Morles Oil." This fat naturally coexisted with the Silk-footed Fish, and Xia Yu threw the already lifeless Silk-footed Fish into the pot erupting with flames soaring into the sky.

Through the flames, vaguely observing, the fish resembling a miniature version of a Xuanjing seemed to come alive, its palm-sized body suddenly imparting a feeling of immense weight.

"I've seen this scene before!"

Someone shouted from the audience.

"It feels so familiar!"

Tang Yuqiong's voice of sarcasm echoed across half of the stage.

Even Ye Feizhou, gently massaging the bean sprouts, was affected and looked up, his expression freezing for a moment, somewhat puzzled, "Is it his first perfect score recipe? The revived whale?"

From this remark, it was clear Ye Feizhou had indeed watched Xia Yu's cooking footage.

The turmoil throughout the competition hall reached Xia Yu's ears and eyes.

Hey!

With a dark line across his face, he really wanted to shout back to prove his innocence, "I truly didn't use an old recipe!"

But his internal thoughts did not affect Xia Yu's cooking rhythm.

Burning the pot and frying the fish, this step was to lock in the fish's freshness and make the ingredient even tastier; it couldn't be omitted during soup-making.

Clearly grilled with intense flames, why is it referred to as "frying?"

This needed Xia Yu's control over heat.

In just half a minute, the fried "Shiny Silk-footed Fish" was placed on a ceramic plate. If not for the gently drifting heat, looking at its still golden jelly-like appearance, people would truly question whether the fish in the rolling flames was actually this fish.

"Now, next is brewing the medicinal soup!"

"Although the process is similar, I still have to say—it's truly not the same recipe!"

Xia Yu positioned a medicine pot on the stove and took prepared medicinal herbs from the ingredient box storage.

Just as the next phase was about to unfold rapidly.

Ding.

A system message related to Talent Points suddenly popped up.

The text in his view clearly startled Xia Yu, causing his hand movements to halt at the point of twisting the stove valve, freeze there without proceeding to the next process.

His daze and petrification caught on camera inevitably attracted attention.

"Stuck?"

"My heavens, the Demon King's recipe, is he making it halfway, thinking up the rest?"

A crowd stared in disbelief.

Ye Feizhou was attempting, putting a few bean sprouts with the extracted heads and tails into the sugar water pot. When the bean sprouts were taken out again, their original "icy jade bone" appearance had totally transformed, ensconced in a layer of transparent sugar coating!

Shimmering bean sprouts, like dark yellow feathers.

Such "feathers" were exactly the long and hard feathers growing on birds' wings and tails, their color exceptionally bright.

Thus, Ye Feizhou held a few bean sprouts resembling shiny phoenix feathers, bringing them to his mouth, crunching with delight, an expression of surprise and satisfaction instantly spreading across his face, "Perfect!"

Huh?

Only after saying this, did he notice the scene opposite—Xia Yu freezing at the workbench—prompting Ye Feizhou to furrow his brows tightly.

What's up with him?

A hint of curiosity and concern involuntarily crept across his face.