"What's going on? Why is there suddenly a cooking competition here?!"
"I don't know. I just saw the shop owner carrying cooking stations out of the kitchen, making quite a spectacle. I wonder who's competing."
"Wait, I recognize the person at the left cooking station. I saved up to eat at [Noyu] once before, and the head chef even came out to greet us.
If I'm not mistaken, that guy is Jessie, the head chef of the star-rated restaurant [Noyu]! The legendary top-class chef!"
"A star-rated restaurant?!"
"A top-class chef? Why would someone like that be doing street food? This isn't something someone of his status would do!"
"More than that, I'm curious about who's standing opposite him. He looks so young, with all those muscles. He must be a skilled cook."
"Hard to say, so young..."
After the crowd gathered, voices of discussion came from within. Since they were all residents of the neighborhood, they often saw each other.
Once they gathered, they naturally started chatting familiarly.
"Heard a rumor that it's over some ingredients. This shop just got three sea bream this morning, and the quality was exceptionally good, so it attracted two chefs who are fighting over them. They even got physical just now!"
A spectator who had been watching nearby for a long time stepped forward and said. The commotion in the fish shop was so big that it was impossible not to attract attention.
"They even got physical? Then this is serious. No wonder a dignified top-class chef is willing to compete on the street. He must be holding back some anger."
An old man in his sixties emerged from the crowd, first looking at Jessie, then at the young Dylan, a look of pity on his face.
"Who says it isn't? Pity this young man. He doesn't know who he's up against. Facing the legendary top-class chef, his chances of winning are slim! He might even be humiliated later."
"Offending a top-class chef, being just humiliated is already good. If the other party gets angry, he might directly make it impossible for you to survive in the local culinary world."
"Not necessarily. Maybe that young man is also a top-class chef? Otherwise, how would he dare to challenge..."
"Impossible! I've never seen such a young top-class chef. At least not in our small country. China seems to have a few, after all, it's a culinary superpower."
"Quiet, they seem to be starting!"
The voices of the crowd quieted down, and everyone turned their attention to Jessie and Dylan in the center, or more accurately, the cooking stations in front of them.
The nerves of the sea bream that had been cut in half were still active. Touching it slightly would make it move, and it might even jump out, looking quite eerie.
"Did I see that right? The sea bream was actually cut in half?! And vertically split open!"
"That's not the point! The point is that it's still moving. This proves that it was cut in half while it was alive. How did he do that?!"
"Such clean cutting lines. The person who separated the sea bream definitely only made one cut, just one cut, and it ended up like this."
At this time, a spectator noticed the stainless steel basin containing half of the sea bream. Looking at the sea bream that moved from time to time, a shocked expression appeared on his face.
Especially after learning that the sea bream was cut in half while it was alive, the amazement in his heart was even greater, and he couldn't even find words to describe it.
Divine craftsmanship?
It seemed that was the only way to describe it!
"The theme is sea bream, cooking time is 30 minutes, no objections, right?"
"I only need 20 minutes. You can go by 30 minutes. But I'll remind you, no customer is willing to wait 30 minutes for a dish!
Today, I'll let you open your eyes. I'll show you our restaurant's spring signature dish, Sea Bream with Lemon Butter Sauce!"
Hearing Dylan's words, Jessie, standing in front of the cooking station, sneered and immediately stated that his dish would only take 20 minutes to complete.
Which customer could wait that long for a 30-minute dish! If they really spent that much time making one dish, the restaurant would have gone bankrupt long ago!
"Idiot, it's your problem if you can't keep customers. Practice your cooking more."
Facing Jessie's mockery, Dylan shook his head with a playful expression. After uttering those words, he turned his gaze to the sea bream in front of him.
And his words made Jessie furious. His mouth moved for a long time, but in the end, he didn't retort, intending to prove everything with his skills.
Dylan glanced at him, then lowered his head again, quickly constructing the cooking method for the sea bream in his mind. 30 minutes was neither long nor short.
And since the duel was taking place in Northern Europe, Dylan decided to make a Western dish, just to test what he had learned over the years.
"Got it, let's make that dish!"
In an instant, a dish name flashed through Dylan's mind, a top-quality sea bream dish that he had learned and improved in a day!
"Start the timer!"
At the same time, the fish shop owner came to the middle of the two, holding a clock, placed it on a nearby table, and announced the start of the competition.
In an instant, the aura around Dylan's body changed.
His previous leisurely appearance instantly became extremely serious, and an inexplicable aura emanated from him.
Because he had come out in a hurry, he hadn't brought the Seven-Star Knife with him, but there was no need to use it to deal with this kind of opponent.
"Hmph!"
Across the cooking station, Jessie rolled up his sleeves, placed the half sea bream on the cutting board, and with a flourish of his knife, quickly sliced towards the spine of the sea bream, perfectly separating the meat from the bone in a few swift movements.
Immediately after, he dealt with the small bones throughout the body. A small pair of tweezers appeared in his hand at some point, and he neatly and cleanly removed all the tiny bones from the sea bream's body, placing them in a bowl beside him. In less than a minute, the fish meat itself was perfectly cleaned!
"He works so efficiently, no wonder he's a top-class chef."
"How's that kid doing? He's been sharpening his knife since just now. He's not planning to sharpen it for half an hour, is he? Wait, he's so fast!"
Jessie's superb skills drew cheers from the crowd. As a comparison, many people turned their attention to Dylan.
At this moment, he was still sharpening his knife, stroke after stroke. He started sharpening very slowly, but then the speed suddenly increased, and even afterimages appeared on his hands!
"Swish!"
As the last stroke of sharpening ended, Dylan pointed the kitchen knife in his hand towards the sky. Looking at the cold gleam that appeared on the blade after being illuminated by the sunlight, a satisfied look finally appeared on his face.
In the next moment, Dylan moved!
He casually tossed the sea bream onto the cutting board, waved the kitchen knife over the surface of the fish a few times, then lifted the sea bream with his other hand, shook it, and flipped it over.
And the bones of the sea bream also came loose at this moment, falling onto the cooking station all at once, forming a sea bream skeleton with only bones!
"What? What happened?! How did all the bones fall out? He just shook it, did you see what he did?!"
"No, didn't he just put the knife on the sea bream and flick it a few times? How did all the bones fall out?! Not even a single broken one!"
"Divine skill! This is the first time I've seen such exquisite deboning knife skills!"
Looking at the sea bream bones that were perfectly separated from the fish meat and lay on the table, looking like a perfectly preserved specimen, a huge wave of discussion erupted in the crowd.
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