Reborn in Japan as a Chef God
Chapter 107: The Ultimate Flavor!

Chapter 107: Chapter 107: The Ultimate Flavor!

"Oops, Yu is going to lose!"

This was Morioka Makoto’s first reaction after eating the roasted chicken.

Dojima Yin’s dish seemed to contain a mysterious key that unlocked the treasure trove of taste for the taster. For a moment, the crispy and tasty chicken, combined with spices full of ancient Egyptian style, rushed from the mouth straight to the skull!

Not only that.

Starting with cumin, followed by black pepper, curry powder, oregano powder, cinnamon powder...

Each spice actually played its own style on the tip of the tongue. Morioka Makoto felt as if she were at the center of a spice storm, with the whirlwind sweeping wave after wave of spices, lifting her long skirt and scattering her black hair. She couldn’t help but close her eyes, savoring the lingering aftertaste on her tongue.

After a while, Morioka Makoto opened her eyes and found that everyone else had also gradually regained their senses.

Tiqie Helinai was the most excited and thrilled. She held her chopsticks with trembling hands and spoke with a quivering voice, "Oh my God, the extreme of taste! This is the pinnacle of spice pairing!"

"French mustard, bay leaf, cardamom, small cardamom, turmeric powder, cumin powder, black pepper, oregano powder... Even the Egyptian rice is counted as a spice because it gives the chicken a strong Egyptian flavor, nine flavors in total, matching the nine spice pyramids... Spice Nine-layered Egyptian Roasted Chicken?"

The Divine Tongue captured the information within the dish. Tiqie Helinai couldn’t control her admiration and said to Dojima Yin, "Senior Dojima, your dish has unlocked my taste treasury!"

"This is the ultimate spice pairing!"

Ultimate!

Xia Yu exhaled a breath, evaluating it similarly in his heart.

If previously he was unaware of what "ultimate" truly looked like, after tasting Dojima Yin’s dish tonight, he now had a concrete image of "ultimate" in his mind.

Nine flavors exploded in a mix; each taken alone could form a ’finishing move dish.’

It was no exaggeration. Dojima Yin’s use of spices had reached a level Xia Yu couldn’t comprehend at this time. Those nine flavors were like the joints of a bamboo pole, layered upwards, ultimately breaking through the "ultimate," allowing tasters to appreciate the view from the top, overlooking a world overrun by mountains.

"Is this what Special Grade Chefs’ dishes are?" Xia Yu found an impressionistic freedom in the roasted chicken, indicating that Dojima Yin might have just casually selected one from his recipes.

The ’Flame Roasted Suckling Pig’ was his ace move, and in contrast, this Egyptian Roasted Chicken with Nine-layered Spices might just be an ordinary recipe for Dojima Yin.

The disparity was evident.

"What about the Chef’s Heart?"

His eyebrows twitched, and Xia Yu suddenly thought of something. He couldn’t help but pick up another piece of chicken with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth to chew.

So that’s it!

His chopsticks-holding hand tightened suddenly. Xia Yu understood, and with shock said, "No wonder it has such a strong Egyptian flavor!"

"Travel!" Xia Yu thought to himself, "I seemed to have taken a hiking trip to the Egyptian desert, seen the pyramids there, visited the Pharaoh’s tomb, and the magnificent temple ruins, leaving my footprints all over the desert..."

The imagery was too real. Eating a dish was like enjoying an exotic journey.

The chef had used his hands and heart to give the dish a unique connotation.

"Truly, Dojima Yin lives up to being called the ’living legend’ of the Far Moon Lineage!"

Even though it was an invisible culinary duel, Xia Yu did not feel disheartened at his defeat.

He stared intently at Dojima Yin, "Mr. Dojima, this extremity of spices is just one of the areas of expertise in your culinary skills, right?"

"Why do you say that?" Dojima Yin laughed.

"Intuition!"

Xia Yu took a deep breath and said, "I feel that this dish hasn’t even reached its ceiling, perhaps the ingredients are limiting the cuisine’s quality."

After speaking, he shook his head, "My Flame Roasted Suckling Pig isn’t as good as your Egyptian Roasted Chicken."

Dojima Yin looked at him with interest, "You say the quality of my dish is limited by the ingredients. But I also feel your ’Flame Roasted Suckling Pig’ hasn’t reached the upper limit the recipe can achieve. The constraint on ingredients is one thing. Also, your cooking method endows the dish with a hint of obscurity, lacking fluency, as if not fully integrated. Can you tell me how long you’ve been studying this dish?"

Xia Yu casually said, "Less than a week."

Silence.

Hearing the answer, Dojima Yin widened his eyes exaggeratedly, incredulously saying, "You claim you’ve studied for less than a week to present such a ’near Special Grade Cuisine’?"

Far Moon Commander, Xingping Chuangzhen, Tiqie Helinai, and others also cast surprised glances.

Xia Yu was helpless.

In fact, not mentioning the training in the Chef God Space, he had only received this recipe that afternoon, which meant he had just been researching it for an afternoon.

"Near Special Grade Cuisine?" Xia Yu raised an eyebrow.

Dojima Yin’s expression collapsed. Without answering, Liangzi Lina interjected, "Your ’Flame Roasted Suckling Pig’ is walking on the path of extremity. If you can truly realize that flavor to its utmost, it will be Special Grade Cuisine!"

Those present who had tasted the ’Flame Roasted Suckling Pig’ were all aware of what that flavor was.

Flame!

The taste of flame walking on the edge of extremity!

Tiqie Helinai clenched her fists, slightly lowered her head, and thought unwillingly, "He, he made a near Special Grade Cuisine..."

According to Eriina, at present, only those top six-star chefs in the Neon Food World had comprehended the essence of ’extremity,’ initially unlocking a certain treasury of extremity, and developed corresponding near Special Grade Recipes.

Moreover, Xia Yu’s "extremity" was not the extremity of spices or sauces but the extremity of timing, which was the most terrifying!

Hearing this, Xia Yu finally grasped the concept, suddenly realizing.

"So there’s a kind of extreme flavor that is considered Special Grade Cuisine."

"What about many extreme flavors?"

He looked toward Liangzi Lina.

"Haha, even Special Level Three Stars Chefs find it difficult to accomplish combining multiple extreme flavors into one dish. After all, ’extreme’ flavors have distinctive characteristics, which make them very hard to tame and blend," Dojima Yin laughed heartily.

"In the current IGO certification system, Special Level Three Stars Cuisine is a dish that combines three extreme flavors," Liangzi Lina said, "Above Special Level Three Stars, there’s no specific evaluation standard for the ’Special Grade Finishing Dish.’"

Xia Yu was shocked upon hearing this.

Standing before him, Dojima Yin and Liangzi Lina were among the top tier of Special Level Chefs.

Doesn’t that mean they had mastered at least three extreme flavors?

In other words, they had nearly reached the pinnacle in at least three fields. For instance, Dojima Yin’s ’extremity of spices’ indicated that he could be classified as an authority figure in the spice field.

Thinking about it, Xia Yu realized there was a huge chasm between him and Special Level Chefs, a chasm that stretched so far it was impossible to see the other side.

Just talking about ’extremity of flames,’ he still didn’t know how to truly push the flavor of flames to its utmost, and he would have to ponder and study this carefully for some time to come.

Moreover, above Special Level, there were even more terrifying Lin Chefs and Dragon Chefs.

If you’ve watched China’s One Hundred Degrees, you wouldn’t be a stranger to the grading division of Lin Chefs and Dragon Chefs. These two kinds of chefs were already an exalted existence in the world of culinary arts, with one person potentially commanding a large food organization or food group.