Chapter 158 PK of Cruel But Delicious Dishes
Lu Hua burst out laughing and said, “The red apricot flowers are booming over the branches, tapping into spring! The apricot flowers are carved vividly! The appearance of this dish is first-class. However, taste should be the main point to decide the winner.”

He took a few bites and said, “This dish is cruel enough. The skin is very crisp and fragrant. Unfortunately…” A hint of appreciation and regret showed up in his voice.

Chef Qian widely opened his eyes and did not blink.

“…Compared with the little girl’s beef balls hammered for thousands of times, your dish is still slightly inferior,” Lu Hua said.

“Crash!” A bucket of ice was poured directly onto chef Qian, which made him feel both disappointed and helpless.

At that time, Yamamoto Shang said with a serious look, “I’ve finished mine.”

He pushed a cage in front of Lu Hua which was covered with a white cloth.

He removed the white cloth and a small monkey was sitting in the cage, whose limbs and body were firmly tied.

Yamamoto Shang peeled a banana for the monkey. The monkey was very happy to swallow it up at once and even grinned towards Yamamoto Shang.

Yamamoto Shang boiled a small pot of oil and uncovered the white cloth that was on top of the monkey.

Long Xi and the contenders present were screaming.

The fur on the monkey’s head was shaved off, while a small patch of its skull was cut off, revealing a spoon-sized hole.

Long Xi was so scared that chose to hide behind Xiaolu. He clenched his sleeve and asked, “Why doesn’t it feel pain?”

Xiaolu looked at her with some concern and said, “Probably, it is anesthetized. Stop watching it, or you will have a nightmare. By the way, where could he find anesthetics in the wild mountain?”

Long Xi turned her head and held back the terror in her mind, saying, “Are there any herbs in the ingredients? Do you smell some remaining faint fragrance in the air? Have you ever heard about the anesthetic powder invented by Hua Tuo? It is boiled with herbs. I guess Yamamoto Shang might know some pharmacology.”

Bai Bing suddenly said, “Xiaolu, I dare not look at this.”

Xiaolu looked at her deeply and reached out his hand to cover her eyes.

His hands were warm and moist because of sweating.

Bai Bing’s ears turned red, while her voice turned sweet. “What are you doing?”

She asked but her body was very honest, accepting his gesture.

Long Xi thought, “Xiaolu, perhaps, you, such a small sun, can really melt Bai Bing, an iceberg! You don’t realize that you have warmed her cold mind up, hahaha! How about helping you to have her after I save Brother Kun out?”

Yamamoto Shang poured a spoon of boiled oil into the hole on top of the monkey’s head.

Smoke scattered over the monkey’s head while the hot oil creaked inside.

Long Xi was too scared to cover her ears.

Lu Hua asked, “Are you preparing me a living monkey to eat?”

Yamamoto Shang said, “It’s the monkey brain. Use the spoon.”

He pointed at the prepared clean spoon on the plate.

Lu Hua said, “Interesting! Humans always say that wolves are cruel, but we always know of cruel ways! Do you have a good name for it?”

Yamamoto Shang said, “I named it the first snow of spring.”

Lu Hua said with a smile, “Good name! Very suitable and elegant!”

He gracefully placed the spoon in the monkey’s brain and took out a spoonful of white brain matter.

“Drinking” the brain up, he showed up a smile of enjoyment.

The monkey was also smiling, because Yamamoto Shang passed it another banana.

Xiaolu guessed correctly, it had to be numbed by an anesthetic powder. Yamamoto Shang may have had to greatly add the dose to reduce the monkey’s pain.

It was eating a banana while Lu Hua was eating its brain.

After a while, its head suddenly slumped and died with a smile.

Throughout the process, Long Xi dared not look at it and secretly wiped away her tears.

Even Xiaolu who was really courageous was scared numb. He dared not speak a word or step forward.

Weiwei screamed out in a low voice a few times.

Yamamoto Shang asked Lu Hua, “How many points would you give me if you have a full score?”

Lu Hua replied unequivocally, “98 points.”

Yamamoto Shang was stunned and asked in an unwilling tone, “What are the missing two points? Am I not cruel enough? If I didn’t add more anesthetic powder, the monkey would have screamed loudly because of the pain. It would struggle all the time, but its body was tied, so it could not move. This would be real cruelty!”

He wore a smile, but there was no sense of joy in his eyes, seemingly covered with a layer of ice.

Everyone present was stunned by his eyes.

“Crash!” Lu Hua calmly poured a bucket of ice on Yamamoto Shang’s body and took ten chips from him indifferently.

Yamamoto Shang was quite awkward, but dared not burst into rage at that moment. He asked Lu Hua reluctantly, “What makes me inferior to Long Xi?”

Lu Hua indulged for a moment and said, “In terms of taste, your dishes are actually inconsistent. As for cruelty, you are a little bit crueler than her. Haha, however, you don’t need many skills to make this dish. Anyone can make this! Of course, one should be fierce enough!”

Yamamoto Shang could not find a word. Perhaps, he had not expected that he would lose!

At that moment, the rain slowed down. He left in the rain with Weiwei, without saying goodbye to the others.

At the moment when he passed by Long Xi, she felt a strong sense of jealousy and unwillingness from him.

Long Xi whispered to Yan Wangchuan, “That person’s desire to win is too strong!”

Yan Wangchuan nodded.

Long Xi cradled her head and said, “It seems that I am envied by others again! Only normal people are safe from envy. Ah, I need to get used to this.”

Yan Wangchuan asked with a smile, “It seems that you have gotten used to this, right?”

Long Xi said with a smile, “I have no other choice, since I was born with talent and beauty. Ah, it’s not a good thing for a beautiful girl to be too excellent!”

Yan Wangchuan burst into laughter. The light smile on his face was like a moving stream.

Long Xi sighed in silence. Fortunately, for the moment, she was still in a leading position. Only Xiaolu’s dish had not been PK by her.

Whether she or Xiaolu won, it would cause the same result. She did not mind.

Another puff of scent came for them.

It was the mixed fragrance of rice and meat, while adding a scent of peanuts and hazelnuts… Oh, no, it was the smell of pine cones… Ah, in short, it was the smell of nuts…

Everyone present even drooled when smelling that.

They involuntarily sniffed and turned to look for the source of the fragrance.

Long Xi found it first!

Claypot rice!

What Xiaolu made was claypot rice!

How could the claypot rice be so fragrant? Moreover, would Xiaolu who couldn’t cook dumplings make that? Talk about progress! It was amazing.

Xiaolu was proud to uncover the cap of the clay pot.

A stronger sense of fragrance came out.

Long Xi felt the extraordinary smell of this fragrance.

She said to Xiaolu, “In my impression, the claypot rice belongs to Cantonese cuisine. It is a more common staple food in Guangdong and Guangxi. The rice can be matched with all kinds of meats or used for vegetarian food. It’s easy to make, but with good nutrition. It’s popular among southerners. The key point to make claypot rice is to choose a good pot.”

Xiaolu said, “When I was in Korea, I would make dinner for myself. Claypot rice is the best choice. This time, I have chosen a traditional corrugated pot. There is a layer of bright enamel inside. It can’t be used if it were filled with tiny air holes.”

Lu Hua said with a smile, “I like claypot rice! Xiaolu, are you trying to follow my favor? Two key points will make the claypot rice taste good, one of which is to make the sauce penetrate into the rice. I saw the whole process that you poured the sauce into the rice twice and poured one more time when it was almost down. From this, you’re really good at it! The other key point is to form a layer of rice crust at the bottom, which is the favorite of many people, including me. If the pot is not good enough, the rice crust will not be crisp and delicious! That is really the essence of this dish! I see the pot you choose. A fine one!”

At that moment, Xiaolu poured a plate of black and bright sauce onto the rice. When they collided with each other, a sizzling sound raised, making people feel more hungry.

The sizzling sound was really the finishing touch of the dish!

Lu Hua took a few sips and could not help praising, “I am an amateur in food recommendation, I will look for the local food every time when I make a film in other places. The claypot rice you make is the best one I have never tasted. The traditional claypot rice uses long-grain rice, but what have you chosen?”

Xiaolu said, “This claypot rice with smoky bamboo shoots and sausage has chosen Basmati fragrant rice from Scorpio. This kind of rice grows up in the northern area of Scorpio, whose shapes are thin, white, and rich. They have a smell of nuts. Its length will be lengthened twice when boiled.”

Lu Hua took another bite of rice and groaned in his mouth, “How can this dish be cruel? You’re beside our topic. A negative score!”

He said so, but his hands could not help stretching towards the pot.

When his tip contacted the smooth and thin rice, he seemed to meet the polished grains. It tasted special had an elastic texture, resembling marble.

Before he clenched his teeth, he could feel the fragrance of rice spread over his mouth.

As he bit, the rice broke upon its tips, like a delicious deep-water bomb bursting in his mouth.

He could not stop eating and soon reached the rice crust.

The taste of the rice crust was like an atomic bomb, exploding in his mouth.

Crisp, balanced in sweetness and saltiness, with a special flavor!

“This is definitely the perfect claypot rice!” Said Lu Hua.

Xiaolu was happy, but his happiness was like a pan showing up for a second, to be immediately ruined by Lu Hua’s next words.

“But this dish is not cruel at all! Is it cruel to use sausage?” Lu Hua recalled the flavor of that dish while saying so in a cold voice.