"Sea Bream Continent Map," a sea bream dish that brought out the flavors of multiple regions of China. In terms of innovation and concept alone, Chūka Ichiban! had utterly crushed Rene back then.
But if they were judged solely on flavor and presentation, Seiya did not believe that "Blazing Ice Fresh Sea Bream Mountain" would lose to "Sea Bream Continent Map."
Because any culinary showdown had judges, and judges were human. They had their own preferences and biases and could not be truly impartial.
In the showdown between Chūka Ichiban! and Rene back then, all the judges had been locals. Not only had Chūka Ichiban!'s dish been novel and inventive, achieving multiple ways of eating a single fish, but it had also recreated the flavors of the judges' hometowns. Rene never stood a chance.
Hypothetically, if Chūka Ichiban!'s "Sea Bream Continent Map" and "Blazing Ice Fresh Sea Bream Mountain" were brought into Japan's culinary world, what would the outcome be?
Because of regional differences, people here should prefer sashimi, right? Although Chūka Ichiban!'s dish could bring out the flavors of several regions, since they were in a different area, the judges might not necessarily understand its meaning.
The true Blazing Ice Fresh Sea Bream Mountain was an ultimate dish that required the Dark Cooking World's secret "North Star Sirius Blade" and "Arhat Crystal Cut," made at the cost of frostbiting one's own palm.
But Seiya did not have something like the North Star Sirius Blade, and even if he did, it would not be suitable to bring it out on an occasion like this.
So he could only use another method: borrowing the power of Glaceon among Pokémon to keep the Greedy Wolf Knife in his hand at an extreme low temperature, artificially creating the effect of an "ice blade."