Reborn in Japan as a Chef God
Chapter 458 - 457: The Chef’s Life Menu

Chapter 458: Chapter 457: The Chef’s Life Menu

Halftime intermission.

The villainous tycoons were given fifteen minutes to strategize.

In the soundproof room,

Kikuchi Musashi opened his mouth, glanced at the ashen-faced Sekiya Takashi, hesitated to speak, and finally sighed, "Do your best, Sekiya."

"Do your best!"

The other tycoons echoed.

Kasuga Shigeru said in a stern voice, "Sekiya, use your strongest recipe aside from your ’finishing move,’ otherwise..."

"I know!"

"I can only use my ’Life Menu’ now."

Sekiya Takashi’s gaze was complex.

Life Menu?

The tycoons looked at each other and then nodded.

A so-called ’Life Menu’ is a chef’s most ideal dish created with the most ideal ingredients.

From the appetizer, soup, seafood, meat, and main course to salad, dessert, and beverage.

A total of eight dishes compose the feast of life.

Chefs hang their most satisfying dishes in their ’Life Menu’ category. In reality, for chefs at the special, unicorn, or Dragon Chef level, the ’Life Menu’ is also an important indicator of a chef’s skill, not to be overlooked.

"Bang!"

Kikuchi Musashi slammed his hand on the table, stood up, and said, "Alright, Sekiya, use your Life Menu to teach that kid what it means to be an elder and what the accumulation and foundation of predecessors stand for!"

He let out a hearty laugh, clearly full of confidence in Sekiya’s menu.

"I will make him realize that in the culinary journey, his accumulation is still far behind, and I am still the senior he should respect!" rage flashed in Sekiya Takashi’s eyes.

Being toyed with like that, how could he possibly bear it.

...

Boom, boom.

Xia Yu sat on the sofa, resting with his eyes closed.

A trolley loaded with seafood crates was slowly pushed into the kitchen by two staff members.

This was a soundproof quiet room, but it was entirely constructed of glass. Xia Yu glanced at the fleeting shadow of the cart and, upon seeing a long fish in the seafood crate, his face registered surprise.

Beep.

There was a television inside the quiet room, and it was tuned to Far Moon’s internal live broadcast.

The host, Kawashima Reika’s excited voice came through:

"Time’s up!"

"Please, Xingping competitor and Takeomi competitor, present your dishes!"

The autumn selection’s round of eight to four, the second confrontation, was being broadcast live.

The camera turned to the judging panel.

Indira and Shinohara Shigetaro were seated.

The three temporary judges, whom Xia Yu recognized, were IGO’s Aoki Motota and Liangzi Lina, and the fifth was from the Far Moon sect, Professor Roland Chapele.

"Reiko’s back?"

The IGO female lead had disappeared a month ago, and Xia Yu suspected it was related to the recent big events in the Neon Food World; she must have been dispatched to Hokkaido on a mission to intercept Mars and the legendary cooking utensils. Her contributions were probably significant.

Knock, knock!

A knocking sound.

Yuchuan Meisha was outside the glass door, waving at him.

Her sister, Yuchuan Ayaka, stood beside her.

"Hmm, it’s my turn to enter the scene!"

Xia Yu took one more look at the live broadcast on the television without turning it off and stepped out.

The tycoons had regathered by the time Xia Yu arrived at the cooking arena, and Sekiya Takashi had directed two staff members to place a long fish upon his workstation.

"Is that a flagfish?" Xia Yu stopped and focused his gaze on the fish on the workstation, as system information popped up:

"Collecting information."

"[Four-finned Bannerfish], with a body length of 3.3 meters and a weight of 90 kilograms. Upon examination, this fish is an artificially cultivated Fantasy Ingredient with delicious flesh, white and muscular meat, and high nutritional value. Suitable cooking methods include frying, making sashimi..."

The green text floated across his retina.

This was the system’s identification, as well as an upgrade that naturally occurred after Xia Yu had accessed his culinary knowledge repository and the system had collected data.

"What else?"

Xia Yu continued to focus intently.

Sekiya Takashi didn’t rush to deal with the fresh flagfish; instead, he took out a strip of sea kelp from a certain ingredient box.

This strip of sea kelp remained in its most primitive form, so long that a single strip could fill half a cooking pot, indicating its considerable length.

"Mitosu kelp..."

Both ingredients had been discovered long ago and were not considered rare.

However,

The quality of the ingredients made Xia Yu inwardly shiver, "They’re both purple-grade fantasy ingredients!"

"Things are getting serious!"

"The cooking battle begins!"

Keiru Kuushou interrupted Xia Yu’s reverie, nodding to Sekiya Takashi inside the glass-walled kitchen.

Sekiya Takashi shot a cold glance at Xia Yu, then immediately grabbed his own sharp chef’s knife, swish, swish, swish, swish, making four quick cuts. The flagfish didn’t even have time to react before its four fins were severed from its body and placed into a basin of cold water by Sekiya Takashi’s side.

He nodded to the staff waiting behind him; two men stepped forward and took the bloodied flagfish out of the kitchen.

This scene made Yuchuan Meisha cover her mouth.

"Just the fins?"

Yuchuan Ayaka nodded, speaking softly to her, "That’s the ’Four-finned Bannerfish.’ Although the flesh of its body is also considered a superior ingredient, compared to its four fins, it’s like the gap between ordinary ingredients and fantasy ingredients!"

"The fins of this aquatic animal are near-perfect ideal ingredients!"

Yuchuan Meisha’s face slowly turned grave.

"It’s probably..."

"A life menu dish!"

Dojima Yin and Tiqie Zongwei whispered nearby.

"Sekiya Takashi is really going for it, huh?" Dojima Yin said with a wry smile, "Actually, apart from ’killer moves,’ special grade recipes are not to be underestimated. For example, a recipe that could be included in a top chef’s ’life menu’ may not necessarily be inferior to a ’killer move.’ These are ideal recipes!"

"No problem."

Tiqie Zongwei said with a smile, "Sekiya Takashi has been driven into a corner by him; he’s desperate. But even if he brings out his ideal recipe, at best it will end in a draw. Anyway, there’s no need to worry about losing; we are already in an invincible position!"

Dojima Yin nodded.

"A draw?"

Tiqie Eriina frowned in frustration.

A draw was something she intensely disliked and found irritating!

Why settle for a draw when you could win?

On the other side.

"Super Vision has been activated; the expected duration is 7 minutes and 11 seconds."

"It is recommended that the host use this talent in conjunction with medication in a timely manner."

Compared to when he first comprehended Super Vision, the duration of the golden talent had quietly increased by over 2 minutes as a result of Xia Yu’s persistent training.

In the kitchen, Sekiya Takashi cut off the fins and performed a simple treatment, including knife work to trim the fins, chopping off the tips of the fins while preserving the flesh, then cleaning the fins in a large basin, sprinkling them with salt and pepper for marinating.

"There seems to be room for improvement here."

Xia Yu thought to himself, with Sekiya Takashi’s every move projected into his mind like a movie reel.

Next, he dealt with the ’Mitosu kelp.’

The dry kelp was taken out of a sealed water tank, undoubtedly after being soaked in water. Sekiya Takashi used a small knife to cut the kelp leaves into thin strands.

Xia Yu watched with a frown, "This, too, deserves close attention!"

The fins and kelp were undoubtedly key main ingredients.

What came next were shellfish seafood like shrimp, scallops, clams, and mussels.

Watching Sekiya Takashi focused on chopping onions, garlic, and tomatoes, and considering the ingredients laid out on the counter for use, Xia Yu thought to himself, "Butter, cream, white wine... Is this a Western-style seafood bisque?"

Suddenly, a dizzy spell interrupted his thoughts.

"Damn, Super Vision needs a top-up!"

Xia Yu reluctantly exchanged a pill from the system’s inventory and used it right away, reviving back to full status on the spot.

Soon after.

The kelp, fins, and other ingredients were all in the pot, with Sekiya Takashi using an entire can of tomato paste and four cups of water, two spoonfuls of cream, before finally setting a low flame and covering the pot with a lid.

Half an hour later, he lifted the lid to add salt and black pepper for seasoning and then continued to cook.

Fifteen more minutes passed.

Sekiya Takashi hit the service bell on the kitchen counter.

"It’s finished!"

He carried the steaming pot of seafood bisque to the dining table.