"Satou, is this steamer big enough?" Miyoko Hojo asked, wiping sweat from her forehead.
Kitajo Restaurant didn't actually have a steamer this large, as it would never be used normally. However, fortunately, this was Chinatown, and Chinese restaurants were everywhere. Miyoko Hojo, leading several Kitajo Restaurant staff, asked several places before finally finding one.
Satou glanced at it, nodded, and said, "Yes, it's enough."
"And this chef's knife?" Miyoko Hojo asked, struggling to lift a one-meter-long large cleaver.
Kitajo Restaurant did have this chef's knife.
"Yes, that'll do," Satou nodded with a smile.
Because the Seven Star Sword - Breaking Army was too large, he hadn't brought it, making it difficult to perform the Fierce Bull Azure Dragon Slash.
At the same time, on the other side, Momo had already pulled the dough to its thirteenth fold. The noodles in his hand were as thin as silver threads, yet still full of resilience, as if he wanted to continue pulling.
"It's truly astonishing. How many folds can he pull?"
"Indeed."
Watching this scene, Hojo Head Chef and the others were deeply shocked. None of them present could perform such ramen techniques.
As expected of a native Chinese chef, their mastery of Chinese cuisine was indeed much more profound than that of these Japanese people. At the very least, they couldn't even imagine such ramen techniques.
Ayato stroked his beard and smiled, clearly very satisfied with his proud disciple's performance.
Coming to Japan this time as a guest of the Chinatown-hosted Gourmet Grand Prix, on one hand, he wanted to promote the development of Chinese cuisine in Japan, and on the other hand, he naturally wanted to demonstrate the strength of native Chinese chefs to his Japanese counterparts.
Then, he looked at Satou. He greatly admired this Far Moon student, but due to his partiality towards his disciple, he still hoped his disciple could surpass the other.
Ultimately, Momo pulled the noodles to fifteen folds. The noodles in his hand were as thin as silver threads, making it easy to imagine how incredibly chewy they would be.
Hojo Head Chef's heart was filled with tension. Although he knew Satou's cooking skills were formidable, he felt very uncertain at this moment.
The nearby tourists were also awestruck, pulling out their phones and snapping pictures non-stop. They had never seen such amazing ramen techniques.
Satou also secretly nodded, thinking that in the art of kneading, even Megishima could not compare to him.
Indeed, native Chinese chefs truly had some tricks up their sleeves.
Satou placed a whole slaughtered pig on the cooking station. This time, he planned to make the Great Universe Shumai from Chinese cuisine Master, but he had never made it before and wasn't sure if he could do it well.
It was indeed a bit of a gamble.
He picked up the large chef's knife, the one Miyoko Hojo had to use all her strength to lift, yet in his hands, it was as light as a feather.
Satou was now very familiar with the Fierce Bull Azure Dragon Slash; he could easily perform it even with his eyes closed.
He raised his hand, swung the knife, and a flash of a blade seemed to pass through the air. In that instant, Satou didn't know how many slashes he had made.
With a soft'snap,' the pig's back was neatly split open, its head, tail, and trotters were cleanly cut off, and the skin and meat were separated, perfectly butchered.
The nearby tourists turned their heads in confusion, seeing the pig that was whole moments ago now transformed into pieces of ribs, pork, and trotters. They were all horrified, unsure of what had happened.
They had just been captivated by the astonishing ramen technique at the adjacent cooking station and hadn't paid attention to this side. But in that moment of distraction, they witnessed such an incredible scene.
The only one who witnessed Satou performing the Fierce Bull Azure Dragon Slash completely was Miyoko Hojo, who had been standing obediently by his side. But even with her full attention, she couldn't clearly see how many slashes Satou had made in that short time, and her hands and feet turned cold.
Although she was mentally prepared, she was once again shocked by Satou's exaggerated knife skills.
At the organizer's table, there was a sound of chairs falling to the ground in unison.
The organizers of this Gourmet Grand Prix, the representatives of the restaurants in Chinatown, and the invited guest Ayato, all jumped out of their chairs, their eyes almost popping out.
Because of the previous events, they had been paying close attention to Satou, secretly watching him. And then they witnessed this unforgettable scene.
But even they couldn't clearly see what had happened!
"What just happened? It was too fast! A whole pig was split in half! Is that even something a human can do?!" Hiroshi Tomita swallowed hard, secretly glancing at the equally stunned Hojo Head Chef. At this moment, he was filled with envy for him.
What kind of incredible luck did this guy have to find such an amazing son-in-law!
At this moment, he even regretted why he had three sons and no daughters!
"Just now, was that a cooking technique?" Ayato murmured to himself. There were also cooking techniques in China; Momo's noodle pulling technique, in fact, was a type of cooking technique called 'Silk Hands' (Entwining Silk Hands).
However, cooking techniques were extremely rare in China, and it was clear that the technique Satou used was at a much higher level than Entwining Silk Hands.
How could a Japanese Chinese cuisine chef master such an advanced cooking technique? Even Far Moon seemed unlikely.
Moreover, it seemed a bit like that legendary cooking technique.
After butchering the pig, Satou began to prepare the filling.
The Great Universe Shumai was essentially making an entire pig into a filling, combining the essence of a whole pig, hence the name Universe Shumai.
With the help of Miyoko Hojo and the Kitajo Restaurant staff, Satou finally chopped the pig into minced meat and then began to make the shumai wrappers.
Following the technique from Chinese cuisine Master, he placed a large ball of dough on his fingertips and began to spin it. In a short while, the dough spun larger and thinner.
"What kind of technique is this?"
"Yeah, I've never seen anything like it."
This unprecedented technique once again left everyone dumbfounded.
Before long, all the tourists in front of Momo were drawn to Satou, their mouths agape, unable to speak.
"Chinese cuisine is truly amazing!" a foreign tourist exclaimed dramatically in English.
"This technique is really novel," Hojo Head Chef and the others were also astonished.
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