Chapter 385 (1/2)

Chapter 385: Please Take Me As Apprentice

Chu Xiao didn’t really like explaining. Since everybody was puzzled in this situation, however, he had to explain to them by himself.

“Do you know about the human scent?” Seeing Yuan Zhou cut quickly and precisely, he also said solemnly.

The two characters of “human scent” stood for too many meanings, so the chefs on site all fell silent.

“The scent of human bodies?” A chef asked tentatively.

“No, it isn’t.” Chu Xiao frowned again and then said, “Everyone has his own scent and the precious foods are most likely to be contaminated by that.”

“I got it. No wonder you have that rule, Master Chu.” Master Cheng was enlightened and he suddenly said.

“What rule is it?” A chef didn’t really know about that and thus he asked curiously.

“Food ingredients sent to me can’t have any scent of humans.” Chu Xiao crossed his arms against his chest and said naturally.

All chefs on site got choked by his words.

Except for the three judges, Xing Min and Lee Yanyi, every chef basically couldn’t smell this thing called human scent. The word of Chu Xiao now instantly made each of them speechless.

“Master Chu, you have a sharp nose.” A chef couldn’t help but say so.

“The ingredients can’t be used anymore if every person touches it once.” There was full of disgust in Chu Xiao’s tone.

“So is that the reason why Master Yuan is keeping us away from the ingredients?” The remaining chefs then got to know why they weren’t needed.

As for the unpleasant words of Chu Xiao, they all indicated that the wind was so strong and they couldn’t hear that.

“A crowd of chefs keeps twittering like those who sing Chinese opera in the tea house.” Lee Yanyi can’t help satirizing when he found Yuan Zhou still hadn’t started.

“Come on. Which of these chefs do you think is not prideful? That young man doesn’t even leave them any soup. Of course, they will embarrass him.” Xing Min knew about these chefs’ mindset better and therefore, he directly brought it out.

“Humph. So complicated.” No one actually knew whom Lee Yanyi was mentioning by saying complicated. After saying that, he sat in the chair and said nothing more.

“Alright. Attention, please.” Yuan Zhou turned the plate upside down and took up the beef.

After a sound of “Peng”, he set it down on the azure stone countertop lightly.

“Why does it look like it isn’t cut at all?” A chef even revealed his accent in surprise.

“It indeed looks like that. I just don’t know what the thickness is like.” Chu Xiao frowned and said. His eyesight wasn’t as good as his smell.

Yuan Zhou wiped the quadrangular beef lightly with the knife and immediately the entire piece of beef became trapezoidal.

Then, Yuan Zhou’s knife skills were well displayed in the trapezoidal beef. Other chefs that watched at the side couldn’t help saying with one accord.

“What the f*ck!”

“Let me get close to have a look.” Chu Xiao took a few steps forward with big strides after he said that.

Yuan Zhou just made a gesture of “Please” to him.

On the white rectangular plate that had no patterns was an entire piece of beef. Every slice of the beef was seen to have the identical spacing and size in the short distance.

Even the thickness that was hard to control while cutting without measuring was the same.

What Chu Xiao specially observed was the first several pieces and the last several ones.

Normally, people would use only the middle part of the beef no matter they sliced or shredded it before cutting it into a square. Only in that way would the beef not be sliced or shredded into different sizes.

However, Yuan Zhou didn’t do that like what people normally did, therefore Chu Xiao specifically observed the two parts carefully.

“He surprisingly cut it along the radian and veins.” Having noticed that, Chu Xiao felt a little uncomfortable.

Yuan Zhou wasn’t wasting any of the ingredients. Even Chu Xiao himself couldn’t even do that. Moreover, the beef wasn’t contaminated with the slightest scent of Yuan Zhou after it was held in Yuan Zhou’s hand for so long time.

What filled his nose was the prime-grade aroma of fresh beef. Just by smelling the aroma, people could feel that the beef would definitely be fresh, tender, and succulent.

“Wait. I want to pick one piece up with the chopsticks and have a closer look.” Chu Xiao suddenly thought of something and then asked Yuan Zhou while looking at him.

“Over there. Help yourself.” Yuan Zhou still respected the rule of his restaurant, “Food should be made by one’s own hands; only then will it taste better.”