Pokémon Padea Adventure: The Journey Continues

While Piper and Joel were bickering, Sweet in front of the stage continued to host.

"There are no restrictions on cooking techniques. The cooking methods are mainly various types of portable snacks. The food taste is limited to salty food. The cooks complete the cooking within the prescribed half hour. The cooks work together with the power of Pokémon. cooking."

"Kitchen utensils and ingredients can be freely used on site... After everyone has finished cooking, the three judges at this competition point will jointly score points and select a final winner. The theme of this competition is 'savory' badge."

All the processes before this were almost the same as the "Sweet" cooking competition that Pipa had participated in in Shenbo Town... until the host Sweet introduced the lineup of judges...

"...The three judges for this competition, from left to right, are Mr. Kujinper of the Pokémon Cooking Club, and Mr. Stefley, the director of the conference affairs..."

As expected, the first two judges were the same as the previous judges in Shenbo Town, but the third one was not Miss Joy from Aunza Town. ...The identity of the third judge greatly exceeded Pipa's expectations.

"...And Mr. Yatetsu, the mayor of Anza Town and the organizer of this cooking competition!"

Hearing Uncle Yatetsu's name and being present at the judges' table, Uncle Yatetsu changed from his miner's attire and became a straight suit, although his current attire did not suit his rugged appearance. But Buddha relies on gold, and people rely on clothes. After changing into a formal suit, he does have some flavor of being a mayor.

Xiaozhi and Xiaoqing in the audience were looking at Uncle Yatie on the stage in shock. They didn't expect that as the mayor, he would actually go down to the grassroots and work with other miners.

"I didn't expect that Uncle Yatetsu still has this level of identity! He really doesn't show his true appearance..."

Just as Xiaozhi said this with emotion, a voice came from behind.

"Yes! Xiaotie is a good boy that I have seen since childhood, and he has always been someone who devoted himself wholeheartedly to the construction of Anzha Town."

Following the direction of the sound, Xiaozhi and Xiaoqing turned their heads and saw the old man Fengtianmen pushing Hyacinth and Tiremiao to watch the game.

"It turns out..., hello to you!"

Hyacinth also waved to Xiaozhi and Xiaoqing. Due to the unique nature of Hyacinth's need to ride in a wheelchair, she could not sit in the auditorium like ordinary people. The old man Feng Tianmen who was responsible for taking care of her could only watch the game with her at the back of the entrance stairs.

As for Xiaozhi and Xiaoqing, just like Pipa, they entered the venue late, so they only had the seats at the back... By chance, they could meet Hyacinth and the others.

Pipa on the stage was surprised, but not too shocked... After all, after entering the venue, he looked around as if he was looking for someone.

"Uh..., there is no sign of Dunzi. It seems that since there are cooking competitions available in various places in Padia, the possibility of encountering her again is still too small."

Facing Pipa's calmness after learning about Uncle Yatetsu's multiple identities, Joel was slightly shocked. After all, he had said a lot of bad things about the town under his jurisdiction in front of Uncle Yatetsu who was still dressed as a miner.

Joel had to wonder too.

"Mayor Yatetsu, who will be one of the judges later, won't embarrass me... Forget it, it's useless to think so much. I'll just use my overwhelming cooking ability to impress these three judges."

The host said, thinking that the full organizer of this competition was Mayor Yatetsu, he gave the final opportunity to announce the start of the competition to Uncle Yatetsu.

"Then let our Mayor Yate say a few words..."

This step was not discussed with Uncle Yatie in advance. He was stunned for a moment, then stood up immediately and said.

"Uh, which..., I am Yatetsu, the mayor of Anza Town. My biggest goal for this cooking competition is to make this simple, inconspicuous little town in the Padia area popular. The town can be seen by more people... and it can also take this opportunity to give the fellow miners who work hard on weekdays a burst of appetite..."

Listening to Uncle Yatetsu's unpretentious opening, he won bursts of applause from the audience.

"... Regarding this, I want all the chefs to be able to make dishes that complement heavy manual workers. This is my only request and my only judging condition... Then the competition begins!"

Following Uncle Yatetsu's order, the participating chefs and partner Pokémon began to get busy.

Piper said to the salt barrier.

"Yan Shi Lei, although we didn't think about the content of the dishes for this competition two days before the competition, I had a preliminary idea just now... I'm going to get some ingredients to be used, and you can prepare them carefully. For a moment, I still need some salt from you."

After Pipa finished talking about the division of labor.

Yanshi Lei was very obedient and began to concentrate on the spot, so that the salt in his body could be fully volatilized.

Pipa came to the front of the ingredients. At this time, Pipa was already immersed in the joy of cooking, instead of just treating it as a competition. After thinking that the people serving this meal were miners who were doing heavy manual labor, Pipa immediately had an idea.

"For heavy manual workers, the loss of inorganic salts in the body is large, so the choice of tree fruits should not be too sweet..."

Suddenly, on the ingredients that Pipa's fingers traced, the ripe kiwi fruits showed a deep purple color and caught Pipa's eyes.

"It seems that I have to use kiwi fruit with an astringent taste... I have to thank the Rockets for the inspiration they gave me. There is also a cooking competition that is different from the previous Shenbo Town competition with the theme of 'sweetness' , to quickly replenish energy, we need to use meat, plus the freshness of tree fruits, which is fat but not greasy. Yes, that’s the decision!”

After a while, Pipa brought all the required ingredients to his cooking table and prepared them just like the preserved kiwi fruit in the valley...

With the knife raised and lowered, he sliced ​​different types of tree fruits three times, five by two, and then handed them over to the salt stone barrier for salting and dehydration. Heat sandwich buns and various meats and set aside.

Soon after, the salted tree fruits of Salt Stone Barrier were processed, and Pipa arranged them in an orderly manner and placed them between two sandwich buns..., since they had already been salted with Salt Stone Barrier before. With experience, this time Pipa was finished quickly and was waiting for the judges to score.

On the other hand, Joel was sitting at the kitchen counter in front of Piper. He was not in a hurry, which was in sharp contrast to the other hurried contestants on the side, as if the countdown time of the game had nothing to do with him.

It can be seen from the fact that he specially changed into a white chef uniform, chef hat and apron when participating in the competition. He may be an arrogant person, but his arrogant capital comes from his emphasis on cooking and his Affirmation of my own cooking skills.

I saw him holding a tray in front of the ingredients. Without much effort, he was able to select the most attractive ingredients among the ingredients that required careful selection and similar appearance. that one. This requires a lot of cooking work to develop. Understanding the characteristics of ingredients is like being able to understand the language of ingredients.

Elegantly returning to the cooking table, the flying kitchen knife sliced ​​the ingredients into flowers, and the open fire caused by frying the meat in the pan was like a magician taming the flame... The audience was intoxicated, but they were only afraid of fire. Xiao Qing was the exception. She hugged Xinye Mao's body tightly and held it in front of her.

As the cooking time is coming to an end, all the other cooks and their companions have begun to enter the sprint stage. Only Joel is still leisurely creating his "art".

Piper, who was behind him, kept observing Joel after finishing the cooking. So far, he was the only one who had done the whole cooking, so Piper had to wonder.

"Strange! Why hasn't Joel used the power of Pokémon yet? The rules of the cooking competition stipulate that the cook and the Pokémon must complete the task together. If you don't abide by the rules, you will be directly disqualified from the competition..."

Just when Piper was thinking this and worrying about Joel, at the end of the day, Joel took out a delicate pastry from the oven, then took out the Poké Ball and released the Pokémon partner inside. come out.

"Come out, my sweetheart!"

The Pokémon released from Joel's Poké Ball was a light blue Frosty. Piper didn't know what kind of Frosty it was. After all, the form of Frosty was There are 63 differences in total, and few people can see all the forms of the Frost Milk Fairy one by one.

Then Joel said to the Frost Milk Fairy who had just appeared.

"Snow Salt Cream Fairy, use aromatic mist!"

So, when the Cream Fairy came to the freshly baked, steaming pastry, she used aromatic mist to attack. As little bits of foamed cream fell, it was melted by the residual heat in the oven above the pastry, wrapping the pastry, and the high temperature The aroma of the food was further stimulated, and the aroma instantly filled the competition venue.

"Game time is over!"

At the command of the host Sweet, the half-hour cooking competition came to an end. The three judges also came out together and came to the front of the contestants one by one to taste.

Perhaps because this cooking competition was held in Anza Town, it was regional and thematically special. Most of the contestants only considered the "saltiness" and made a lot of fuss about the "saltiness" while underestimating the essentials. Suitable for the requirements of heavy manual workers.

After the round, there were few contestants with high scores. It was not until they came to Pipa that the three judges looked happy.

Facing Paipa’s specialty sandwich dishes, host Sweet explained.

"This amazing meat content is enough to replenish the energy intake of heavy manual workers. With the hint of kiwi fruit flavor and the blessing of salt, how will it be evaluated by the judges?"

The three judges all gave high praise.

"The specially processed kiwi preserved fruit has lost its astringent taste and has the taste of salt, which greatly replenishes the loss of inorganic salts in the body of heavy manual workers..., making the combination of everything unobtrusive. They complement each other.”

"Under the skillful hand of Paipa, the light salty taste is also refined with a hint of sweetness and freshness, and the layers are rich, allowing people to satisfy their appetite without feeling tired or stagnant."

The host said excitedly.

"The highest score in this competition was achieved because contestant Paipa's cooking work simplified the complex ingredients. It not only satisfied the theme of the competition, but also met the eating requirements of diners."

In the end, after the three judges tasted it, they all gave high scores, four points, four points, four points, and the final score was a high score of 12 points.

Xiaozhi and others in the audience also said happily.

"Great. If nothing else goes wrong, Piper will get his second badge...one more to go before he can participate in the final cooking competition."

"That's not necessarily true, that Joel hasn't scored yet!"

Under Xiaoqing's prompting, the three judges also came to Joel. Facing Uncle Yatetsu, he no longer looked down on him as before, but instead lowered his head and dared not face him, fearing that Yatetsu was a judge. The uncle will publicly avenge his personal revenge and deliberately make things difficult for himself.

But when faced with the exquisitely decorated pastry, it looked like it was produced in a high-end restaurant, and the fragrance emitted from it was real. Among the various fragrances in the venue, Joel's pastry was the most fragrant. overflow.

"Oh my God! Contestant Joel's dishes were obviously tasted by the judges last, but what's going on with this enduring aroma!"

After tasting Joel's cooking, the three judges were so shocked by the delicious food that they were temporarily speechless. Faced with the lengthy pause, the audience stretched their necks and looked forward to it.

Finally, Kujin Bojie from the Pokémon Cooking Club spoke first.

"I like this!"

After breaking the silence at this moment, the host Sweet breathed a sigh of relief, and then the conference affairs director Stefley commented.

“Although Contestant Joel’s pastries look small at first glance, in reality, he uses his superb knife skills to cut them into thin slices, and then arranges them into blocks in an orderly manner with his skillful hands. The cooking points of different ingredients are also different. They are different, so some ingredients that are resistant to cooking are surface-grilled in advance to achieve a consistent maturity, resulting in a thick, rich and delicate taste."

host Sweet said after the first two judges gave their scores.

"Mr. Kujinper scored 4 points, and Mr. Stefley also scored 4 points..., both of which are the same as the scores given by Paipa, who is temporarily ranked first. In the end, it depends on our Mayor Yatetsu's score. Only Only by scoring a perfect 5 points will he have a chance to overtake Pipa... Let's wait and see!"

The game reached the match point, and the power to decide the final victory fell on Uncle Yatetsu. All the people present held their breath and watched closely for the birth of the winner.

Among them, only Joel was embarrassed, and his heart was agitated. He closed his eyes tightly and got the final score.