Chapter 80:
Thinking of this, the female viewers watching the live stream couldn't handle it anymore!
{Xiangling, rabbits are so cute — how can you eat them?!} {Exactly! Wuwuwu! I used to really like you, but now… now I don't anymore.} {I have a rabbit at home. Please don't eat rabbits, okay? They're really so cute!} {Hey hey hey! It's just a rabbit. What's wrong with you all?} {Rabbits are one of the foods humans eat. They're not nationally protected animals! Why are you so worked up?} {Speechless! You get this upset over eating a rabbit. If someone ate dog meat, wouldn't you go crazy?} {Haha! I eat rabbit often. Honestly, it tastes pretty good!} {.....}
The female viewers were upset, while the male viewers found it amusing.
Bing Bing was also unable to accept it.
She looked at Xiangling in disbelief and asked: "Miss Xiangling, may I ask why you need rabbits?"
Xiangling answered matter-of-factly: "Of course, to use as ingredients."
Bing Bing: "..."
Her eyes began to mist over. She was about to persuade Xiangling to change her mind.
At that moment, the director's voice came through her earpiece:
"Fulfill Contestant Xiangling's request."
Bing Bing was stunned!
She wanted to argue, but she also knew that if the director said so, there must be a reason.
So, she could only swallow all her dissatisfaction and instruct the staff to purchase rabbits.
Xiangling added at this time: "Just a few rabbit heads will do."
Bing Bing: "..."
A few?
That meant several rabbits?
Thinking of this, her eyes immediately turned red.
{WTF! I get it now — she's making Braised Spicy Rabbit Heads! Hahaha!} {This is good, this is good. I love eating this.} {It goes great with alcohol! Hehe, I wonder how good Xiangling's cooking is.} {.....}
The netizens had already guessed what dish Xiangling was going to make.
They were very happy.
Braised Spicy Rabbit Heads was a real delicacy!
However, some netizens, just like Bing Bing, were not happy about it.
{Still asking for several rabbit heads? Xiangling, you really deserve to die!} {Exactly! One rabbit is already enough to break our hearts, and you want several! I'm crying to death!} {A person like this doesn't deserve to win the championship! So disgusting!} {As a girl, how can she be so cruel?} {Families, I'm really speechless! Is a person like this really worth supporting?} {....}
Xiangling couldn't see the barrage, so she was completely unaffected.
Because this was a food program, many ingredients were already prepared.
The staff only had to check the cold storage briefly before finding a bag of rabbit heads.
Taking the rabbit heads, Xiangling began to work.
First, she put the rabbit heads into hot water to thaw them.
Frozen rabbit heads didn't taste as good as fresh ones. It was almost impossible to preserve the original flavor.
So, she could only rely on seasonings to balance the taste.
After thawing, Xiangling skillfully picked up scissors and cleaned out the trachea from the rabbit heads.
Then, she added green onion, ginger, salt, pepper, and cooking wine, mixing everything evenly.
She marinated them for five minutes to remove the gamey smell.
Next, she heated the wok, added cold water, and put in the rabbit heads.
Fire on! Blanching!
As the water temperature slowly rose, the blood foam and impurities in the rabbit heads were forced out, floating to the surface.
Seeing the timing was right, Xiangling used a strainer to scoop out the rabbit heads and placed them in clean water again, washing away the remaining impurities and blood foam.
After that, Xiangling began to prepare the braising oil.
At this time, Lao Hei on the other side had already finished his dish.
It was a bowl of pork soup noodles.
It looked very ordinary — exactly like the kind sold at roadside stalls.
This surprised the viewers greatly!
They never expected that in the finals, the Chef God would make such a simple dish.
{WTF! It really is soup noodles! Pork soup noodles!} {A bit hard to believe… but since it's the Chef God's soup noodles, it should be different!} {Uh… sorry to be blunt, but soup noodles are just soup noodles. No matter how you look at it, it's still soup noodles.} {....}
Amid the viewers' discussion, Lao Hei's bowl of noodles was brought before the judging panel.
"Huh? It's actually soup noodles. This…" "Haha! It fits his theme perfectly. This bowl of noodles looks like it has temperature." "Yeah! Let me try it first. Mmm… delicious!" "..."
The first judge to taste it took another bite of the soup noodles, and his eyes lit up with shock!
It was as if he had eaten something extraordinary.
The other judges were a little surprised!
They thought to themselves: It's just soup noodles, right?
Is it really that exaggerated?
He picked up his spoon and took a sip of the broth.
The next second, he sucked in a sharp breath.
This taste was simply unbeatable!
The freshness of the pork had perfectly blended into the soup.
Setting everything else aside, just this broth alone had already surpassed many famous soups.
And this was something the Chef God had made in a short time.
It wasn't slowly simmered.
That was terrifying!
After tasting, the judges gave their evaluations.
"This is the best soup noodles I've ever eaten. The pork and noodles are almost perfectly combined." "Yes. If I could eat a bowl like this before going to work, I'd definitely be full of energy all day." "Amazing! As expected of the previous Chef God! That's all I can say." "...."
In the end, the judges gave Lao Hei a score of 98 points.
This terrifying score made the viewers cry out in disbelief!
No way!
It was just a bowl of noodles!
They found it hard to understand.
But since the judges had already scored, they could only accept it.
Finally, they turned their attention to Xiangling's side.
Compared to Lao Hei, they were even more looking forward to Xiangling's dish.
Braised Spicy Rabbit Heads — if done well, it would definitely taste better than soup noodles.
Meanwhile, after a series of cooking steps, Xiangling's dish was finally completed.
Looking at the perfectly colored, fragrant, and appetizing Braised Spicy Rabbit Heads, Bing Bing fell silent.
Because her mouth had automatically started watering.
"No… rabbits are so cute. How can you eat them?" Bing Bing kept shouting in her heart.
Most netizens didn't hide their liking at all. They all swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Because the Braised Spicy Rabbit Heads Xiangling made looked incredibly delicious.
They could almost smell the aroma through the screen.
{How can you eat rabbits? Rabbits are so cute… how can you?!} {Rabbits are so cute, they must taste really good, right?} {As someone who loves spicy food, seeing a dish like this really makes me drool to death!} {To be honest, with Xiangling's skills, she could probably make even a slipper taste good!} {.....}
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