During the next morning.
Hyang *Nearly a month has passed since the carriage incident with the merchant. I wonder whatever happened to him after that.*
Hyang: "Let's go and meet up with Qiong."
Perlmut: "Making this grandma accompany you when meeting your friends, who taught you?"
Hyang: "Do you really have to act like this right in the morning?"
Perlmut: "When you get older you will understand that being well prepared and on the toe are best to be routine."
Hyang: "On the toe for what?" *On the toe to be like this troll guy, if anything.*
Perlmut: "2 steps ahead, I'm always two steps ahead."
Perlmut goes on ahead.
Hyang *And ther she goes...*
Hyang follows Perlmut right away. And now they are on their way to meet up with Qiong.
On their way to meeting with Qiong.
Perlmut: "I would like to enter a cooking competition."
Hyang: "? You really like cooking that much? Or do you just like the thought of wiping the floor with the competitors and presumptuous onlookers?"
Perlmut: "This old lady would never pull anyone's legs and wipe the floor with them, ohoh- HOhoho. Silly you, of course I would use a broom to swipe out the trash."
Hyayng: "...Quite - motivated?"
Qiong Perlmut and Hyang meet up under the morning sun.
Qiong: "Morning"
Perlmut: "Morning"
Hyang: "Morning-"
Perlmut: "-sun"
Qiong, Hyang: "..."
Hyang explains that Perlmut wants to participate in a cooking competition, and so they help out searching for one. After finding one, Perlmut enters it on short notice, convincing Hyang and dragging Qiong to join it as well.
Announcer/commentator: "Our first contestants of today who will cook off first are MC Nuggets, friend of the sea cucumbers." MC Nugget shows off his sea cucumbers, swirling them like guns.
"Harry Bug, what's hiding behind all that hair?!" Harry Bug ominously makes scittery sounds from behind the hair where it's dark, and only two creepy red glowing eyes are barely visible.
"Winey Wombat, fat and sad! Hungry Lobster, let's hope he will leave the food for the judges." Hungry Lobster eats some of his potential ingredients.
"Aaand lastly! Perlmut, most unexpectedly, an old grandma giving it a try. She might not win the competition, but can she win our hearts?" Perlmut stands there with her crooked disguise and cane.
Woman in audience: "A woman in a cooking competition? How laughable! How disgraceful for this competition! Go back from whence you came, wench! No one here wants to eat the garbage you serve in the high taste class!!"
Audience: "YAAAH" "Go away, you crooked hag!"
Hyang *Tstststs, these mortals are up for a rude awakening. Truly like a frog in a well. Ever since I started traveling with her, I came to know what it means to eat food prepared by someone who surpassed being a true master chef. Her cooking knowledge seems to be never ending.*
Perlmut: "Tststs, these youngings have not yet tasted the food of this granny. Poor kids. Ignorant like a frog boiled in a pot."
Some get eliminated, but Mc Nuggets and Perlmut make it to the preliminaries with Harry Bug.
Commentator: "In the next qualifier round we have Chef Tang, and our final additions are Qiong. Any words?"
Qiong: "Hello there, my name is Qiong. May I interest you in- sorry, bad habit of mine."
Commentator: "And Hyang, any words?"
Hyang: "May the victors' food be of greatness."
Commentator: "Indeed, may every cook serve delicious food, but not only for the Victors but for us as well! So we have Qiong the haggler and Hyang the valiant in this group, as you have heart. Which is because the first group ended up being full, and as such, they now have the fortune of cooking alongside our last year's winner."
Woman in audience: "Haa~💕 I'm so jealous~"
Man in audience: "I remember last year's dish, it looked truly beautiful, and its smell was delicious."
Hyang experiments with how he cooks what and tries to cook with skill, but he, in fact, is not an expert. As such, he is not cooking something he knows the recipe for, adding more uncertainty. Uncertainty of it even potentially being a successfully made dish. Experimenting like this despite being in a competition, however, doesn't faze him. Qiong, on the other hand, is a terrible cook, creating something that ends up looking grotesque and is probably inedible, as no one dared to taste it. As a result of cooking like ass, Qiong and Hyang don't make it to the preliminaries.
However, the honest attempt of Hyang leaves Chef Tang warmhearted, and so he tells him that he should have tried cooking something he is already familiar with instead.
Chef Tang: "Don't worry, Hyang. We all start somewhere, and I can see you at least tried to color your world of cooking ingredients. Also, you seemed uncertain about what you were cooking. I'd recommend you to choose a recipe ahead of time for a cooking competition such as this and experiment with it beforehand so that you can tweak the landscape of cooking on the day of the competition as you feel like doing on that day."
Qiong looks upset at Chef Tang.
After which, Chef Tang waves goodbye to them, leaving them to themselves.
After that, Qiong convinces Hyang to split up from Perlmut for about the duration of the cooking tournament to do literature nerd stuff. He seems distraught by the outcome that he faced here in this event.
And so Perlmut is left alone after she prepared herself to cook and win this competition. And with that, the finals of the competition start with the announcer.
After the preliminaries, eliminaries and everything before the finals are over, the finals begin.
Announcer: "And now the finalists dishes, Mc Nugget's Dish: Chinese chicken sea cucumber soup. Chef Tang's Dish: Souper U.P., a three course meal. Perlmut's Dish: Potato Cheese Balls"
Woman in audience: "Buuh! Perlmut buuu! With Chef Tang you will finally be - losing. Women can't be master cooks, so you better pack up and - go!!"
Audience: "Buuh Perlmut Buuuh!"
Woman in audience *💕Chef Tang can rhyme, but when I try. I notice every time- man~ Chef Tang can rhyme. 💓*
Man in audience *I'm getting hungry.*
Announcer: "McNuggets is readying his sea cucumbers while Chef Tang readies his chicken breasts. All Perlmut has are, once again, what she calls a Pou Ta To? Will she use her wonder weapon and will it work again? Reeeady? 3... Steeeady 2... seeet 1... GOO!!"
Commentator: "McNuggets immediately splits his sea cucumbers lengthwise, while Chef Tang expertly cuts his chicken breasts up into slices, and Perlmut quickly peels, washes and cooks her Pou Tatos with an unhuman speed. And now she is turning them into mash."
Woman in audience: "She might be fast, but she is fast and faulty! There is simply no way she will win against McNuggets and even less Chef Tang!"
Commentator: "McNuggets has started washing the sea cucumbers, scrabing their insides and surfaces. Chef 'TANG' 'ong' the other hand, is rinsing the rice and ads water. HE IS EYEBALLING THE WATER AMOUNT HE'S USING!! iNCREDIBle! With that, he is cementing in his skill lvl! As we all know, no one would do so without absolute confidence in this competition. Meanwhile, PerlmutSPEED is insane! She has already mixed the ingredients. Rice powder, bread crumbs, chili powder, pepper powder, coriander leaves, and salt. And now they are all balls, and the other weird yellow stuff is gone."
Audience: "ALL SPEED NO SKILL1! ALL SPEED NO SKILL1!"
Commentator: "WAA Wa Mc Nuggets just pulled out the legendary rare rock of soaking that allows liquids to penetrate fast into nonformless matter, a truly dangerous but effective rock, only meant for true experts to use on a delicacy like a sea cucumber!"
McNuggets holds the small rock up with both hands in to the air above for the audience to see. Rock'shine'
Commentator: "On the other side is the now boiling water from Chef Tang. He immediately changes the temperature to low!. All while Perlmut!..- Just stretches her hands, understandable after her incredible show of speed despite being a grandma. However, it does make it seem like she is holding herself back, flexing through stretching her old, frail, but apparently maintained body. Truly an unbelievable calm and relaxed expression she is putting up in this nerve racking show of cooking forces."
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "PEA LEAVES!"
Perlmut: "Hoho, nearly done."
Crowed: "Buuuh!"
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "Delicate bean sprouts! Not much, just a gentle touch~💗 to wash~💘"
Commentator: "While Mc Nuggets is still using the stone of soaking, Chef Tang has been effortlessly washing vegetables and is only left with scallions, chilies, and ginger."
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "SCALLIONS!"
Commentator: "Meanwhile Perlmut is mixing corn flour and? what?"
Perlmut: "maida"
Old folks in crowd: "Maidarling" 🩵, "Heh heh. Good one, that heart you made looked just as old as us with how you were shivering." "Hah, old and cold, not like younger ones whose bodies are still running hot." "kkkkk""wwwww""kekl"
Woman in crowd: "Old with a head full of mold! Fawning over that joke of a woman who grew old without knowing her place." 'ptuui' "What a disgrace"
Commentator: "Mixing corn flour and maida with water into a thick fluid with incredible speed. For what could she be preparing it? And now she is pulling out breadcrumbs? A common leftover food for your household chickens, whatever could her plans be with such? And how am I able to talk this fast? All that is what we are about to find out. Thanks to her astounding speed, she already started using the breadcrumbs for the balls, which she is now rolling expertly through the thick fluid, covering them with it, leading them in a beautiful fashion right towards the breadcrumbs in a row of perfect precision, covering each and everyone of them balls with the chicken dinner. And to finish the covering off, she presses the crumbs gently into the balls, letting them take hold."
Crowd: "No way will the winner be one who uses chicken dinner!"'PTUI!''PTUI!'
'PTUI!'
Crowd: "CHANGE OUT THE COMMENTATOR ALREADY!! SINCE EARLIER HE HAS ONLY BEEN MAKING AN UNBEARABLY OBNOXIOUS NOISE1!" "JUST BECAUSE SHE IS MOVING SO FAST DOESN'T MEAN THE COMMENTATOR HAS TO PRETEND TO SPEAK JUST AS FAST1!" "SPEAK IN WORDS OR GO HOME!"
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "CHILLIES!"
While the commentator shuts up and tries to figure out what's going on.
Commentator *How was I even able to perceive what she was doing? How did my mouth(...)*
Perlmut *'kkk' I've got to learn that move from whoever buffed him. 'kkk'*
Perlmut: "Fry them till golden brown." She smiles but with undoubtable concentration. Melting old men's hearts as she makes them think of their own wives' cooking.
Audience Grandpa: "Pingping, I miss you-" he tears.
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "GINGEEEEER!"
Commentator: "McNuggets has finally finished penetrating the sea cucumbers and got started preparing additional ingredients consisting of Chinese mushrooms, ginger, garlic and chicken. Cutting them in their respective sizes. All while Chef Tang is mixing the chicken slices with salt, cornstarch and Chinese cooking wine. Perlmut, on the other hand, is just frying the balls. Oh! Chef Tang seems to have switched to prepare a sauce. Mixing soy sauce, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, Chinese black vinegar, white pepper, sugar, cornstarch and homemade stock together. A truly salty composition brought together with the finest finesse!"
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "💕Chef Tang!💕"
Commentator: "Back to McNuggets, who is now using the soak stone again, swiftly soaking the Chinese mushrooms, which normally would take about an hour!! Ooh! Chef Tang has begun mixing another one of his special mixtures, and he seems to be using soy sauce, oyster sauce, Chinese cooking wine, five spice powder, cornstarch and garlic powder. He just started mixing them. Back to McNuggets again, the speed soaking just finished, and he is now cutting the Chinese mushrooms in half. As for Chef Tang, he is now adding chicken stock into the mix."
Chef Tang: "A little gush of stock, not much, just a little gush of stock into the mix. This is your world. You're the creator~ mix in the river with the land until it's absorbed, then let it rain again. Create another river and continue until all heavenly water is mixed in."
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "💕Our Chef Tang, haaa!💕"
Commentator: "Hmm, it seems like Chef Tang is setting this mixture onto the sidelines for now."
Commentator: "McNuggets cuts the toe of the garlic into four pieces, respectively, for each toe. Beautifully done! On th other hand, Chef Tang has prepared a setup of culinary flavors for his vegetables, it seems, an endeavor that will liven up his dish."
Chef Tang: "With this little touch we will have a more colorful world of flavors within our dish. A dish full of flavors is its own little world by itself."
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "💕Haa~💕"
Commentator: "Within his arsenal of flavors, he has garlic, ginger, bean sprouts and ground pork. The ginger he seems to have split up is partially being used for the chicken breasts. Remember, he is preparing a three course meal after all. MCNUGGETS IS CUTTING THE GINGER! GINGER! FLAMING FLAVOUR! UNBELIEVABLUTAE!"
'Slap'
The commentator rubs his cheek "aua"
Other commentator: "Here is some tea to calm you down. I'll take over for now."
The commentator drinks tea as the other commentator takes over. He looks pretty much the same as the previous one.
Commentator: "Alright, Chef Tang has cut red dried chilies, cut scallions and mixed a portion of them with the ground pork, and as for the other portion, he is most likely preparing it for the bean sprouts right now. As he mixes the scallions' white part with them, the realization hits the crowd! It's been sprout salad."
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "Hoo, oooh."
Commentator: "And yes, as we thought, he is now using the green parts of the scallion that were cut in stripes for the bean sprout salad. And he is also further preparing the marinated chicken, mixing it with ginger and garlic, same as the ground pork, just instead of garlic it's the white part of the scallion. Next up will most likely be cutting green and red chilis."
Muttering to himself is contestant number 1.
McNuggets: "Unbelievable, this crowd is solely focused on Chef Tang. Admittedly, his presentation is great and his cooking too. But this is a cooking contest and not an art gallery. Furthermore, he isn't even using a specialty like the sea cucumber!"
Commentator: "Muttering McNuggets pot is nearly boiling over! Is it jealousy? Or a requirement for the next step? MC Nuggets is now adding chicken to the pot. Seems like the wild boiling was a requirement. And now he is filling the pot with more ingredients right after. Oh, seems like he put the head down to a minimum. Letting the garlic, Chinese mushrooms, ginger and sea cucumber cook."
Chef Tang: "Seems like he is going for a tender touch."
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "Haaaa~💕 Chef Tang~💕"
Commentator: "OOOuh! Chef Tang is starting his finishing performance!"
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "~💕Hiyaaaa~💕 Chef Tang, we love you!~💕"
Chef Tang: "Chicken stock into the pot, make it hot. Chicken stirfry in the wok: cooking oil, spread it! Add marinated chicken, spread it! Stir, then stir, don't let it burn. Push the chili to the side and add the spicy chili might! Build a chicken hut with it. You ask: "What? Heat min maxing?!" I AM flexing! Then stir again, cook it like a man! When it's done, you know I won. Pour the sauce, let it pringle in your nose and make it mingle. Chili chicken like a cure.
Hot pot chicken stock for ground pork meatballs. Squeeze, plop all over the pot wall, repeat until you have filled the pot hall. This will be a winner, let it simmer.
You fish a wish and wish for a side dish, 豆芽-dòuyá you get, but first make the hot pot wet. Now that it's oiled, throw in the garlic mixture, don't let it get spoiled. and swiftly combine it with the bean sprouts, shifty shifty mixed and ready for green scally, and salt, sichuan pepper power. Give it a lao gan ma shower, add Chinese black vinegar, letting it bloom like a flower. Shifty shift, this will feed a battalion.
Now back to the stock with meatballs in pot. Give the pea leaves a shock. Don't let it get cold, but add some salt, white pepper and sesame oil, don't let it boil. Now that it's done, you know I won! Yihunyisuyitang! Rice done by me, Chef Tang. And always remember cooking should make you happy. If it doesn't make you happy, then you should go do something else."
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "💕Aaaah, Chef Tang!💕"
Commentator: "As for Perlmut- ?!Since when has she been done?!"
Crowd 'Gasp'
Commentator: "Regardless! Here come the judges! A round of applause for 🕶️Rad C! Only Son of On C and Off C, the creators of this event! What fortune for us to discover 🕶️On C and Off C had a son! Next is Ramse Ramstein, famous for being famous. And lastly, give it up for our well versed and knowhow cook, 'Li Yan Huang'!
The three judges sitting at their long table wink towards the people.
Commentator: "Now prepare your dishes split in three, one for every judge."
After preparations.
Commentator: "The first dish to be tried is MC Nuggets Chinese chicken sea cucumber soup!"
Judge '🕶️Rad C': "Real, sophisticated and elaborated. Well enveloped with flavor, a savory living vegetable indeed. 8 out of ten."
MC Nuggets 8
'Nodding from the audience'
Judge 'Ramse Ramstein': "This flavor, mmh, not bad. But not bad is not good enough for the final." *If I give him too high of a score, Li Yan Huang will make him win because he favors this flavor and style, when clearly Chef Tang should be winning this competition. His dish will for certain be outstanding. But if I judge it too low, it will be obvious that I am trying to temper the results in my flavor.* "I judge this dish to be a 5 out of ten."
MC Nuggets 5
Surprised noises from the crowd for his scoring of this amazing dish.
Judge 'Li Yan Huang': *Ramse is clearly judging MC Nuggets lower because he knows my tastes and wants Chef Tang to win! I will pay him back for that. His favorite will get the lowest score from me out of the three candidates.* "Mhm, a true delicacy, searching for its equal, truly bringing forth the extraordinarity of the delicacy known as sea cucumber, unfathomably marvelous. Most worthy of a 9 out of ten!"
MC Nuggets 9
Judge 'Ramse Ramstein' *I knew it! He significantly overvalues this dish!*
Commentator: "MC Nuggets attains a total of 22 points from our well established and known judges known for their expertise and know how in all things culinary. It's truly remarkable that he managed to achieve such a high score despite the high demands in the final round. However, that's also why each of the contestants made it this far. Outstanding talent needs outstanding judges, able to pull the ladder up. So the golden wok is still open for the taking! Nothing is picked into stone, and the shock value can still be pushed higher! And so, the next dish, or rather dishes, from Chef Tang come next!"
Commentator: "Chef Tang's dish, he calls it Souper U.P., is a three course meal. Opener and closer are meatball soup. The main dish is rice with chicken stir fry with a side dish, which is rice with bean sprout salad."
Chef Tang: "A colony of meatball mollusks within the water next to it, a snowy mountain with a phoenix living within. And to the other side, a snowy mountain with a lot of vegetation. Forming a beautiful picture of two snowy mountains different in nature but both surrounded by unyielding waters filled with meatball mollusks!" So does Chef Tang introduce all three dishes, describing the world of cooking art he put together.
Judge 'Li Yan Huang': "The ocean of soup, as he says, makes these land masses soggy. So much for the image you drew of it. But if not consumed in a single imaginative image, this dish is excellent, but you should work on what image you draw, as these should have been seen in 3 different sceneries. 5 out of 10."
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "BUUH! How harsh!" "Buu." "Unfair! Buu."
Judge 'Ramse Ramstein': *He purposefully visually recreated the image of the food that Chef Tang drew in our minds to paint his food in a bad light, and to be able to pretend that judging it a 5 out of 10 for that reason is a reasonable thing to do is outrageous.*
Judge '🕶️Rad C': "Meatball soup to start it off and also to finish it off, a wonderful opener and closer. The main dish, being rice with stir fry chicken, goes along well with the bean sprout salad side dish with rice. 8 out of ten."
Judge 'Ramse Ramstein' *Yes, yes, what good judgment he has.*
Judge 'Li Yan Huang' *whatever.*
Judge 'Ramse Ramstein': "This is what a truly proper Chinese dinner looks like! Magnificent! Beautiful and unparalleled, more auspicious than a fairy and making one reminiscent about a most beautiful scenery one could encounter amongst a mountain region." 'nom, nom, nom' "Mmmh, mmmh ,mmmh, and the flavor truly engulfs the whole mouth with a heavenly flavor straight from a heavenly venerable cook." *With this expertly crafted expression of Chef Tang's mastery, the audience will certainly be on my side.*
Judge 'Li Yan Huang' *He most certainly expressed it in such an overwhelming, overly exaggerated expression on purpose.*
Judge 'Li Yan Huang' gives Judge 'Ramse Ramstein' the stinky look and Judge 'Ramse Ramstein' smiles mischievously back at him and says "This dish deserves a ten out of ten. However, 10 are only allowed to be given to dishes that harbor mythical power after being cooked with ingredients even commoners can get, so I'll only give it a satisfying 9 out of ten."
Judge 'Li Yan Huang' gets a bit red from anger over this tactical praise and anchoring strategy. *As if this dish were even a little bit close to deserving a ten out of ten. Ptui*
Ramse Ramstein: "Chef Tang's dishes are delicious!"
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "Yaa💕" "💕So true" "You go Ramse💕"
'Li Yan Huang' and 'Ramse Ramstein' plan against each other when voting to put their favorite dish far before the others' favorite, landing both McNuggets and Chef Tang's dishes at 22 points. And to disgrace the dish of one another's favorite, they plan to put Perlmut in front into second place with their judgment even if the dish potentially is worse than the favorite dish of the other judge.
Commentator: "Perlmutt's Dish: "Potato Cheese Balls" is up next."
🕶️Rad C: "What an unfathomable exotic dish."
He says as Perlmut serves her dish, which has a lot of little cheese cubes molded in it.
The taste testing of the judges commences. During which, instead of eating the dish, Rad C flings the cheese cube infused balls into the unsuspecting mouths of random bystanders who have their mouths randomly open, talking, yawning, no matter what. Man in audience: "I wish I-"'nom''cough'"what was that?" Rad C uses these openings to get rid of the cheese, not even tasting it, as he already knows he doesn't like cheese. Surprisingly enough, Rad C does it in such excellent fashion that not even a trained eye could tell that he flings the cheese cubes away right before putting the chopsticks that held them in his mouth.
As for the bystanders, they don't even realize that what they just swallowed was a cheese cube ball, as the swallow reflex forces it down and not even gagging could help them to get it out for some reason. Making it look like some bystanding spectators were disgusted by Perlmut's dish.
As the eating and tasting finish, every jury member starts to speak their judgment, starting with Ramse Ramstein.
Commentator: "Judge 'Ramse Ramstein', please enlighten us on this dish."
Judge 'Ramse Ramstein': "An appropriate, delicious dish for the finals. Now, it isn't as outstanding as Chef Tang's 3 course meal. However, it is most certainly better than MC Nuggets' sea cucumber. Worth a glorious 7 out of ten."
Judge 'Ramse Ramstein' looks tauntingly over to Judge 'Li Yan Huang', causing 'Li Yan Huang' to angrily look back.
Judge 'Li Yan Huang' *this wannabe culinary virtuoso is taunting me on purpose with his faulty taste buds and clouded judgement, grrr.*
Commentator: "Next judge, Judge 'Li Yan Huang'"
Judge 'Li Yan Huang': "Indeed, Ramse Ramstein is right. It is an appropriate, delicious dish for the finals. However, I must disagree with him on another note, as it certainly is not as outstanding as MC Nugget's sea cucumber, and on the other hand, it is most certainly better than Chef Tang's 3 course meal. And finally, I must agree it is worth a glorious 7 out of ten."
Now both Judge 'Ramse Ramstein' and Judge 'Li Yan Huang' just look angrily at each other. "Grrr""Grrr"
Crowd focused on Chef Tang: "Judge 'Li Yan Huang' has no taste tststs."
'🕶️Rad C' Rad C: "As the other judges have already said, it is indeed a good dish. I would even go as far as to call it an extraordinarily exotic dish that seeks its equal. The yellow cubes gave a wonderful chew and flavor to the dish as well, indeed magnificent. And to add to that, she expertly used the mixture she made. Forming equally sized little balls to then flatten them all in an equally perfect size for them to encapsulate the yellow cubes in the middle. Covering the yellow cubes like a bunch of little presents. After which she then pressured their form to take the shape of a ball once again. Indeed, she used swift and gentle moves, gentle enough to not destroy the yellow cubes, and she managed to hold that speed and gentle precision up on repeat until her resources were used up. Truly magnificent."
Audience: 'GASP' "Truly an expert."
Audience: "Rad C seems to be a true expert worthy of being a judge. I couldn't even understand aanything that was going on with the speed she finished her dish at."
'🕶️Rad C' Rad C: "Truly deserving of a 9 out of 10."
By putting Perlmut in second place, Judge 'Ramse Ramstein' and Judge 'Li Yan Huang' have made it so that Judge '🕶️Rad C's' rating must only be one point higher than his ratings for the other contestants, allowing him to discreetly put Perlmut in first place in total.
Judge 'Li Yan Huang': Judge 'Ramse Ramstein': Judge '🕶️Rad C':
MC Nuggets 9 MC Nuggets 5 MC Nuggets 8 22
Chef Tang 5 Chef Tang 9 Chef Tang 8 22
Perlmut 7 Perlmut 7 Perlmut 9 23
Total:
MC Nuggets 22
Chef Tang 22
Perlmut 23
Commentator: "I announce to you Victor, the Victor, the only Victor, cause there can only be one Victor. And that Victor is a truly great person. Come on up, Victor!"
Victor: "I'd say there can be two Victor! I'll be announcing the victor of this cooking tournament. The victor of the heart, Chef Tang, like always. And if you paid attention to the points given, you might already know. It was truly a close race to first place, with the victor only one point ahead and a shared 2nd place with 22 points. And the winner, And the winner, And the winner, And the winner, the winner is, the winner is, MC, MC, ~E Perlmut with 23 points. The victor of taste is without a doubt Perlmut!"
Woman in audience: "BOOOO! They must have hit their head really hard to judge and give points in a way to where she could win! BUUU, she can't cook! She can't cook! You crook!"
After hearing that the audience that believes that she didn't deserve the victory because no woman has ever beaten a man at the peak of cooking, not even the grand Karina, who used coal as a spice, a large portion of the women are also just jealous of Perlmut.
Crowd against Perlmut chants: "She can't cook. She can't cook, you crook! S~(…)"
People in the audience that got hungry start their yearly hungry chants: "Hungry, hungry, give us something! Waiting is one thing, but we've waited until spring. Now bring bring bring."
With the results announced, Judge 'Ramse Ramstein' and Judge 'Li Yan Huang' are upset and sulking away from each other after having trash talked each other over the outcome. As Perlmut gets to stand on a pedestal and is booed by many and adored and loved by others.
Chef Tang: "You showed me something new today, a new dish to shape my landscapes. Thank you for that."
MC Nuggets: "Your skills certainly are out of this world, granny girl, a deserved victory."
Perlmut: "Thank you two." *Would have been nice if Hyang would'n just have left like that. I mean he will probably return considering that he has chosen to take care of us as his disciples. Still...*
After the cheering of the victors and not Victor and his brother Victor.
Announcer: "Now then, thanks to Kronkostos Food Charring, we are once again able to cook for the audience, so raise your tools, chefs who made it in the finals and pre finals. Show them what you're made of, show them what it means to stand at the top, show them how talented one has to be to make it towards being a cooking master! LET THE COOKING COMMENCE!"
Perlmut, the other chefs, and the judges start cooking things for the crowd with food sponsored by Kronkostos Food Charring, letting the audience feast. Those that are aspiring to be cooks and those that already are in the next generation of cooks can gauge the masters abilities and gain some experience on their tongues so that they are more capable of judging and enhancing their own dishes.
Qiong: "Come on, Hyang, let's look around some more. Please, your discerning eye is truly remarkable."
Hyang: "For the fourth time, Qiong, it was already a flawed decision to disembark from Perlmut like that while she is in a competition, especially as she is doing so well in this cooking competition." 'Sniff, sniff' "Something is smelling good."
Qiong: "But it's not the smell of old books."
Hyang returns with Qiong looking a bit upset over returning already from their literature nerd stuff.
Meeting up with Perlmut, whose thoughts can't be read from her face.
Perlmut: "Finally back? Couldn't bear to see me win, could you?"
Hyang: "I was kind of dragged away… Congratulations though."
Qiong: "Let's move on already." Perlmut: "No congratulations from you, Qiong?"
Qiong: "Yes, yes, wonderful. Let's go over there, test other things, see other things and do other things."
Perlmut: "Not before you ate till you can't walk straight no more!"
Qiong looks with big surprised eyes at her as she seems kind of serious about that.
With a chill running down his neck, he says: "You're right, you're right. No one can walk without food anyway, ha-ha-ha." *Why did I just instinctively fear her? She can't be that dangerous and neither does she look that way. Even if the sun were to crash into this place, I would not have felt such cold running down my spine.*
And so they feast for a long time.
Perlmut bonds with Chef Tang, who came up to her. Chef Tang has taken a strong liking to her warmness. And she also bonds with McNuggets while cooking together for the masses.