Although the audience and the judges didn't know Yuan Zhou as well as Chu Xiao, they all paid close attention when they saw Yuan Zhou pick up the knife again.
However, no matter how much attention they paid, they could only see Yuan Zhou pick up the knife and put it down. Everything else …
Was there anything else?
"Should I go to the ophthalmology department?" The bearded man accidentally pulled off his beard. He had never thought there was anything wrong with his eyes, but today was the first time.
"What did you see just now?" the bearded man asked his friend, Sorin.
Sorin said innocently, "You're a magician, and you're so observant, yet you didn't see anything. What could I have seen?"
That's right. The bearded man was a famous British magician and a foodie. He was here to watch the cooking competition.
"To be honest, this Yuan is definitely a magician who is distracted by his cooking skills. His hand speed is too fast. If he were to learn magic from me, he would be able to perform many tricks with his hand speed," the bearded man said.
"I didn't see it clearly, but I brought a video camera. Hahaha, I can watch it in slow motion," Sorin said.
Due to the fact that Solin didn't have a clear view of the situation when he was removing the bones, he purposely left after a round of cutting to buy a small home video camera from a nearby store. Of course, the reason why he did so was that Solin was a Western chef, and he wanted to learn.
"Aren't you here to learn from Head Chef Julian?" the bearded man asked.
"Mr. Julian is my idol, but this Head Chef Yuan is too good at cooking," Sorin said.
"Let me see the video." The bearded man wanted to know what trick he, a magician, had done.
Soon, the video was played at a speed of 0.5 seconds. Then, only a few flashes of silver light could be seen.
The two looked at each other and slowed down the video again. Now, they could see that the knife had only touched the goose meat a few times.
"If I could learn Yuan's hand speed, I think I could surpass Mr. Dai Vernon." The bearded man was talking about Dai Vernon, the father of close-range magic.
"Oh! The gift of the Creator! "
The bearded man and Sorin were woken up by the shout of the people next to them. They looked up and saw the geese scattering like a blooming flower.
Starting from the goose's chin, it split up along the goose's neck and then to its belly and tail. The most surprising thing was that the belly split into four pieces, revealing the contents inside.
Chu Xiao had been waiting for this moment, and so had Zhou Shijie. Hence, as soon as the goose revealed the contents, they immediately focused their attention on it.
The most surprising thing was that the skin of the goose was intact except for the place where it was cut. However, the goose meat inside had been cut.
The neck bone, the spine bone, the hard bone on the other side of the wing, and the big bones of the two legs were all revealed. They were dyed with a faint layer of green, giving off steam and fragrance.
Compared to before, a stronger fragrance began to dominate the entire place. Now, everyone knew that Yuan Zhou was done.
However, no one moved, and no one spoke. The scene in front of them was beyond their scope of understanding.
Even if he couldn't make up his mind, quantum mechanics couldn't explain it.
After a few cuts, the goose meat inside had been cut according to the distribution of the texture. The pieces of goose meat were quite perfect.
If the previous scene of Butcher Ding dissecting the goose and taking out the bones had been incomprehensible to everyone, then the current scene was not only incomprehensible to their brains, but also to their eyes.
"Do you know …" Ju Manlee had planned to ask Ogyust, but he stopped halfway. He knew Ogyust's cooking skills well, and he knew that Ogyust would never understand this.
Ju Manlee pushed his glasses up again, trying to see it more clearly.
"This knife skill is enough to make me famous in the competition. It will be remembered in history." Ogyust was very happy that he could be a judge.
"I always thought my knife skill was not bad," Manfred murmured to himself.
Actually, he was being modest. As the president of the World Federation of Chefs, Manfred was famous for his exquisite knife skill. He had the reputation of "Thousand Knives" in French Cuisine. Now, Manfred felt that he had better not talk about his knife skill in front of Yuan Zhou, because it had been crushed into powder.
"You have a point." Gauss and Anthony agreed.
"Did you make a mistake in inviting this Chinese chef to the competition? I said I didn't agree, but you blamed me. Now look!" Ju Manlee said suddenly.
Ogyust looked at Ju Manlee in confusion. He couldn't keep up with Ju Manlee's thoughts.
Even Alessandra and the others couldn't understand.
"With such cooking skills, you invited him to the competition? Tell me, do you think it's fair to Julian, Poddraco, and Steele?" Ju Manlee asked back.
"Huh?!"
Ogyust and the other judges were puzzled. Ju Manlee's words made a lot of sense.
It was said that the judges were prohibited from participating in the competition, but now, the judges were specially invited to the show.
"And with this knife skill, who among you is qualified to comment?!" Ju Manlee asked again.
This question made Ogyust speechless. He looked at Ju Manlee blankly. Didn't this guy look down on Chinese delicacies and Yuan Zhou just now? Why did his attitude change so much?
"Head Chef Yuan isn't very famous in the European circle, and he needs a chance to recommend him. Since the competition is about to start, I invited him. I think it's quite suitable," Ogyust explained.
"It's reasonable that he isn't very famous in the European circle, but aren't the participating chefs innocent?" Ju Manlee glanced at Ogyust.
The three famous chefs, Abby, Alessandra, and Adelaide, were on Ju Manlee's side at the beginning. But after the first round, they changed their opinion of Yuan Zhou. The food was really delicious.
Ju Manlee was still very stubborn. But today, Yuan Zhou used his trump card as soon as the competition started. It was useless to be stubborn.
Everyone turned their attention back to the steaming and fragrant roast goose. It was time for them to dig in.
It was also because most of the cameras were aimed at Yuan Zhou and the lone camera had to take care of the other contestants. Therefore, there were no cameras at the judges' side. Otherwise, the scene of internal strife would also be a headline material.
Of course, as the saying goes, the amateurs just watch for fun, while the experts know the ropes.
No matter how shocked the judges were, they couldn't be compared to the audience. Some people had seen the scene where the bones were removed, and they thought it was magical realism.
But since the goose was cut open and the skin was not broken, and the meat inside was clearly cut, almost everyone had defined Yuan Zhou's knife skill as a "magic forbidden spell."
"I want to go to China for a trip, but I'm afraid I won't be able to get used to the food abroad. After watching Head Chef Yuan today, I'm going to book a plane ticket."
"There were no Chinese contestants in the Bogus World Cooking Competition, and I thought it was because no Chinese chefs could participate. But now it seems that it's because of the rules?"
No matter how complicated everyone's thoughts were, Yuan Zhou's dish was done. He also gave the roast goose a very lofty and appropriate name, Hypocrisy.
"The outside is different from the inside. It vividly shows the whole roast goose. There's no better name than this." Yuan Zhou felt he had become better at naming things.
Compared with the rice noodle soup, it was a qualitative leap.
When Jack carried the goose meat that had been distributed by Yuan Zhou to the judges and made a brief introduction, the atmosphere on the spot started to warm up and reach a climax.
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