Reborn in Japan as a Chef God
Chapter 344 - 343: News from the Old Man

Chapter 344: Chapter 343: News from the Old Man

Tiqie Mansion.

Tea House.

The Far Moon Commander stood on the corridor, with the tea room behind and a lush courtyard in front.

"You haven’t contacted me for a month, now you’ve finally returned my call..."

Holding his phone, Tiqie Xianzuowen spoke in a deep voice, his right eye scar twitching with each word, making his face appear even more frightening.

A clear laughter echoed through the phone.

"After the culinary battle, I needed some time to digest, there were many things to handle."

Xia Qing’s voice carried a tone that seemed to slightly disperse the dark clouds.

"Oh?"

Tiqie Xianzuowen was shocked, "Did you really engage in a culinary battle? Was the news that stirred up the global culinary world really true?"

"Could it be fake?" Xia Qing laughed as he retorted, "This time, my battle reclaimed many things that belonged to the Xia Family, but it’s still not enough. I need more accumulation!"

The Far Moon Commander was silent.

"Have you decided then? Are you still going to challenge that person?"

"What do you think? Why else would I risk my life to go against a formidable opponent in a culinary battle? I’m currently accumulating stakes for the ultimate gamble!" Xia Qing said with a smile, "This victory over the strong adversary was largely thanks to the Forbidden Fantasy Ingredients that I hunted in your land of Japan... So, thank you, Tiqie!"

"Thanks?" Xianzuowen shook his head, "It was you who took the risk near those eerie creatures and hunted those ingredients by your own efforts. I didn’t help at all. However, you used up a precious Forbidden Ingredient in your initial culinary battle after returning; what about the next formidable opponent? Until you accumulate enough stakes to challenge that person, there are many hurdles to clear."

"Let’s stop talking about that!"

Over the phone, Xia Qing changed the subject, "My useless grandson should be participating in the next special grade assessment, right?"

"The next assessment?"

Tiqie Xianzuowen, who was always stern-faced, revealed a smile.

"Old man, today is the day your grandson officially participates in the summer special grade assessment. He’s currently in the enclosed room at the IGO special grade hall, and the results will be out tomorrow."

Silence.

It was quiet for quite some minutes before Xia Qing finally spoke: "What’s the topic?"

"Jile Rice!"

"Eh, this rice, isn’t it..."

Xia Qing clearly knew of the existence of the Fantasy Ingredient "Jile Rice."

"Yes, it’s now being cultivated on a large scale, completely different from a few years ago!" Tiqie Xianzuowen said gravely.

"That’s interesting!"

Xia Qing paused briefly then asked, "Can the live broadcast be received in China?"

"There’s a live stream online, you’ll have to use a VPN. The TV signals probably won’t be accessible."

The old master of the Tiqie family casually dropped a trendy term.

VPN.

...

Meanwhile.

At the Yuchuan Mansion in the Chiyoda District of Tokyo.

"Miss, the topic for the summer special grade assessment has been announced!"

A maid conveyed the message to Yuchuan Ayaka in the kitchen.

"What’s the topic?"

Yuchuan Ayaka, busy at work, looked up with a concerned expression.

"Jile Rice! The fourth kind of Fantasy Rice in the world!" the maid whispered softly.

"...Eh?"

Blinking, Yuchuan Ayaka took quite a while to digest the information.

"It’s actually ’Jile Rice’!"

Yuchuan Ayaka felt conflicted.

She was happy because the summer examination’s topic was so difficult and tricky that the pass rate would surely be very low. There might even be the awkward situation of no one advancing.

What made her feel conflicted was that the person who set the question was actually helping her!

"What is Shinohara Shigetaro thinking?" Yuchuan Ayaka wondered blankly.

She had investigated Xia Yu’s background afterwards and obviously knew that Xia Yu was highly valued by the three giants of Neon Department at IGO. Because of this, she could not understand why Shinohara Shigetaro had intentionally made the examination more difficult.

Was it suppression?

Her mind was filled with question marks.

"Tell the Red Hill Secretary to cancel all my appointments tomorrow! I want to go to the site and observe!"

Yuchuan Ayaka waved to her maid, her thoughts a bit scattered.

"Yes, yes!"

The maid bowed lower, shock in her eyes, thinking to herself, "Miss Yuchuan is actually going to the site to observe... Is it because of that ’youngest top-class chef in Neon’s history’? Big news indeed!"

Regardless of the outside world, Xia Yu, who was in the enclosed space, seemed composed.

The live broadcast would continue for 24 hours.

Viewers couldn’t possibly stay in front of the television all the time, so after the prime time in the evening, the ratings of multiple television stations’ live broadcasts plunged rapidly.

Tomorrow’s serving and critique session would be the highlight. Viewers were targeting 3 p.m. the next afternoon, by which time, the year’s most explosive ratings might just emerge. Many factors were driving Neon society’s attention towards this summer examination.

Professional kitchen.

Hundreds of square meters of spacious kitchen, crammed with piles of charcoal and a huge charcoal stove, still appeared empty.

However, after Xia Yu specified that IGO send over these two items, there were no more unexpected actions, only calmness. He grabbed a handful of ’Jile Rice’, placed it on a small ceramic dish, held it in his hand, brought it close to his face to observe, and remained motionless for a long time, which seemed very odd and silly to the audience watching the live broadcast.

He seemed more like a scientific researcher than a chef.

Especially his eyes, fixed on the grains of raw rice in the dish, unblinking.

"Sharpening the axe will not delay the work of chopping wood!"

Xia Yu muttered, from four in the afternoon until six in the evening, finally willing to put down the dish and rubbed his sore eyes.

Getting new Fantasy Ingredients, the first thing naturally was to familiarize himself with them!

Others had their ways of familiarization, and Xia Yu had his own method, just looking was not enough. In fact, he had just been using "Insightful Eyes" to analyze the structure of each grain of rice.

The results were shocking!

He took several deep breaths to stabilize his shocked emotions.

"Every grain of rice has a different structure! Even the most similar two grains of rice have subtly different structures," Xia Yu muttered to himself.

A grain of rice, a world.

He finally understood why Shinohara Shigetaro had put it that way.

Ordinary rice consists of components like starch, protein, vitamins, minerals, and cellulose.

Starch and protein are the main components of rice and this applies equally to ’Jile Rice’.

However, Xia Yu’s analysis revealed that the biggest difference between ’Jile Rice’ and ordinary rice lay in the minerals and cellulose.

To be specific, it would involve various aspects of biological knowledge, such as genetics and mutation, genomics, glucose, plant cell walls, etc. This was what gave Xia Yu a headache, so he quickly stopped the analysis. He was not a researcher, stopping at this step was just right.

If he had to explain from a scientific perspective, in Xia Yu’s view, it was only a bit more sophisticated nonsense.

At least, the light clusters inside the rice grains and those intoxicating components were hard to analyze.

"Let’s try handling it first!"

Having made up his mind, Xia Yu started to rinse the rice.

His way of rinsing rice was not to wash a few ounces of rice, but to open a sealed metal box holding 20 kilograms of ’Jile Rice’, picking out the grains he needed one by one.

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