Young Master's Lovely Chef

Chapter 55: Day 2 Challenge: Tone Fear

Next day

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"The selected contestants please occupy their respective tables. You have two challenges today: cooking and guessing a dish. For the first challenge, 10 people will be passed, while the second challenge will be passed by 5 people. Get excited and do your best!" adel said up ahead.

...PROCESSED FISH...

The contestants fight each other for the most expensive fish in order to create a delicious cuisine. According to them, expensive materials can produce something 'expensive' as well, even though it all depends on how we cook. While Nada, the woman had been several minutes standing researching one by one the fish that had been brought by the committee.

Moments later, Nada chose tilapia fish to be cooked with a typical Manado recipe. He skillfully cleaned the fish and was given a squeeze of lime, a little cooking oil and salt. Next, Nada mixes it with all the spices that have been mashed, namely turmeric, ginger, shallots, garlic, red pepper, hazelnut, and tomatoes are cut into small pieces. Lastly, Tone includes orange leaves, lemongrass, and the most important ingredient, namely basil.

Finished mixing everything, Nada then took 5 strands of turmeric leaves as a base in the pan and immediately poured her tilapia fish. He closed the frying pan so that it could ripen perfectly using a huge fire. The tone does not add water because it will be cooked until dry. While Finna, the woman made a snapper steak mixed with some spices and then marinated for 25 minutes then baked.

The 40-minute period has now ended with the judges preparing to judge. They began to taste every meal of the contestants with Samuel who had been watching Nada ever since.

"Wow, this is very fragrant" said one of the judges when he arrived at the Nada table. The cuisine has a very distinctive fragrance.

"thank you. This is a dried woku tilapia typical of Manado," explains Nada to those who begin to taste.

"I just found out if woku can be made dry because I used to eat at Manado restaurant, but there only provides woku kuah only," said another jury.

"It turns out that dry cooked like this makes the flavor feel more delicious. How much basil did you put in?" connect the other jury.

"3 tie basil leaves. The more basil, the better it tastes. That's the point in making Manado woku," replied Nada smiling brightly. She was so happy that the judges praised the home-cooked cuisine, but it tasted like 5-star restaurant food.

Samuel who has since eaten his wife's cooking also admitted that this food is so delicious and it seems like he will tell Nada to cook this dried tilapia woku fish almost every day. This is her favorite menu now. It feels so distinctive and can make him feel what a real home is.

Samuel then glanced one eye at the tone that was glaring at him. Nada was still upset when last night wanted to answer Samuel's question, the man immediately grabbed his lips ferociously and they also had a very wild romance in the bathtub.

The interaction of the two was recorded on camera and it was successful in making the middle-aged in the residence Nada laugh out loud, including everyone who watched the event. They immediately crowded into making news on their social accounts if Samuel and Nada look very harmonious. Moreover, those who became a big fan of Nada because of the epic action yesterday. They even want to match Samuel and Nada without knowing if the two are married.

Finally, the assessment ended with Nada and Finna successfully escaping to the 2nd challenge on this day along with 8 others. Some contestants stared bitterly at Nada because they had heard rumors that she had sold her body to Samuel to enter the competition while her experience was still lacking.

A few moments later

All the contestants began to line up to do the test, while Finna had been made ketar-ketir behind there. He is very afraid if others find out that he has anosmia, a condition in which a person experiences blindness of smell and taste. During this time, the menu he made was only based on rote recipes, but of course only he and his father knew this.

Up ahead, Nada was staring at a dish that if only seen without tasting, maybe he would think it was rendang. However, it is a typical Indian rogan josh.

The tone then tasted while closing the eyes full of fantasy. He can taste some herbs in it, such as coriander, pepper, yogurt, cardamom, masala salt, cloves, and some other spices. Of course, Nada knows a lot about kitchen spices because she used to take cooking courses. It was just that he was a little confused by this foreign spicy flavor. Feeling that there was too much time wasted, Nada finally wrote the answer on the paper that had been provided by the committee.

And so on until the turn of Finna who had been tense since. He could not hide his nervous face until it attracted the curiosity of everyone there and those watching live. The woman slowly picked up a new spoon and began to taste with trembling hands and cold sweat drenching the face full of bold make up.

Finna then starts writing answers just like the other contestants. The tone that had been watching Finna since, felt a little strange. Is that woman sick? Even though Finna always scolds her, Nada will not let the heart let others fall ill.

Slowly, Nada pulled the already pale Finna to sit for a moment in the corner of the room. He painstakingly helped Finna drink water. Finna only complies because she desperately needs someone's help even if it's her own enemy. He continued to watch the tone standing before him. His feelings were slightly pinched, yet he hurriedly shook his head.

Nah! Because of this damn woman I was gang-raped by thugs Leo paid for. I even got pregnant when I was 17. I must repay you, jal*ng! Inner Finna returned to its original form.

Meanwhile, the judges were reading the answers of each contestant and began to pass judgments. Now they seem to be discussing something and occasionally staring at Nada and Finna who again stiffened.

"Dianada," called a jury and quickly Nada walked over.

"Why are you writing peppers?"

Deg

"W-what's wrong?"

Did I fail? Inner Tone is so afraid.

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..."It's okay to fail and be wrong, but don't forget to fix."...

...- Anonymous -...

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