Dragon Gate Noodle Competition: Layering Pastry?

"Distinguished guests and audience members, good afternoon. The final of the quadrennial Dragon Gate Noodle Competition is about to begin."

"The competition format for this year's pastry competition is the same as in previous years. The competition lasts for four hours and is judged by five food connoisseurs with the title of 'Dragon King'. Each contestant needs to make ten pieces, five of which will be tasted and the other five will be packaged and exhibited. They will be collected by the Dragon Palace City Museum, the Ao Lai Country National Museum, the Pastry Museum, the Ao Lai Country National Pastry Academy, and will also be exhibited nationwide."

"As we can see, 133 contestants have arrived one after another, and our staff are communicating with them to make final confirmations about the utensils and seasonings needed."

"There are five minutes left before the official start. You can try to guess what the contestants are planning to make based on the kitchen utensils they have prepared."

"Our quiz event ends at the start of the competition. Those who haven't participated yet can scan the QR code in the bottom right corner of the Live Broadcast Room to join the quiz. The viewer with the most correct answers will win a grand prize of 100,000 RMB provided by the sponsor, and the Top Hundred viewers will receive a 'Dragon Gate Gift Pack.' In addition, many other prizes await you..."

"This event is sponsored and broadcast by xx company..."

The young and beautiful host walked along the walkway of Dragon Gate Square, and the camera kept panning over the cooking station of each contestant. The host gave an in-depth introduction to the seeded contestants from prestigious families and those who showed potential in the preliminary rounds, while also talking about the contestants who had prepared unusual cooking utensils.

Time ticked by, Feng Xue had already renumbered the various plant dyes prepared by the competition organizers and combined them with the formulas she remembered, so that she could quickly complete the color mixing later.

Although she had made ample preparations, Feng Xue stretched her body and waited for the countdown to end.

At this moment, the host on stage finally began the countdown. As the countdown slowly reached zero, trucks with open cargo boxes began to drive into the square along the pre-planned route.

"Alright, everyone can see that our Ingredient Vehicle has entered the venue. The Dragon Gate Noodle Competition is now officially starting!"

Almost simultaneously, all the chefs who had been standing in front of their cooking stations vanished from their spots.

Although the staff said there were plenty of ingredients, the competition rules only stated that you cannot injure your opponent, not that you cannot fight. Moreover, the competition on the theme of pastry is actually very time-consuming. If you only care about the taste, that's fine, but just from the rule of "five pieces to be exhibited", you can see that works that are not good in appearance are not even eligible to be shortlisted!

The experienced photographers immediately focused their lenses on the trucks. Besides the cooking competition, the scenes of the pastry chefs displaying their skills were also one of the highlights of the event.

Feng Xue used the Ascending Profound Settled View Steps to rush to the front of the car in an almost Teleportation manner, avoiding two competitors who wanted to trip him up. She reached out and grabbed bags of flour, throwing them onto her shoulder. In an instant, she had already piled up a arhat.

Although there were quite a few contestants at this point, Feng Xue's mountain of dough, which instantly piled up several meters high, still caught attention. The host glanced at the number, immediately recalled the contestant's identity, gave the photographer a look, and then immediately grabbed the microphone and shouted:

"Sun Wukong took the lead in the ingredient selection stage. He took a total of 37 bags of flour, which is quite a lot, even though the gluten content required for pastries varies.

"However, the work Sun Wukong used in the preliminary round was a lifelike Flour Fruit. Perhaps he has some special requirements regarding the flour?"

Feng Xue ignored the host's voice and instead strode around, tossing all the ingredients she liked onto her shoulders. Ham, pork knuckles, pork bones, dried fish, and all sorts of other ingredients were stacked vertically into a High Tower. No matter how she moved it, the High Tower remained perfectly balanced, without the slightest tilt.

Before even demonstrating her culinary skills, Feng Xue's display of martial arts immediately intimidated many competitors, and those who had originally intended to sabotage her instantly abandoned their plans.

Ultimately, interference is merely a way to buy time for the opponent, but given this person's martial arts prowess, it's more about buying time for himself.

Feng Xue felt the [consciousness] surging into her body again, sighed slightly, turned around and returned to the cooking counter. Her hands moved quickly, and in an instant, a Giant Illusionary Shadow with a hundred arms and legs seemed to be reflected behind her. All kinds of ingredients were being consumed at an incredible speed.

"This is amazing! Sun Wukong's speed is truly incredible! I thought that having three heads and eight arms was the limit of speed, but now I see hundreds of hands flying around!"

After the initial struggle for ingredients, the competition would normally enter a brief phase focused on basic skills, as everyone would be handling the ingredients. The live broadcast would essentially rely on the host's commentary. However, seeing someone prepare ingredients with such Martial Way True Form, the host immediately moved closer, his eyes widening in amazement as he watched Feng Xue prepare the dough, its colors already mixed, and was being rolled and folded.

"Dear viewers, although we did not capture the entire process clearly, what Sun Wukong is doing now is obviously performing a Layering Pastry process. As we all know, there are quite a few contestants who perform Layering Pastry in the Dragon Gate Noodle Competition, but in the previous 24 competitions, no champion has ever won the championship with puff pastry."

"It's not that flaky pastries are bad, but the process of Layering Pastry flaky pastries is too complicated. Just rolling out the pastry takes a very long time. Moreover, because the competition is held outdoors, the contestants must use their Internal Force with the characteristics of Icy Cold to maintain the temperature of the pastry, which adds a lot of difficulty to flaky pastries."

"Moreover, the biggest advantage of shortbread is its shape, but overly complicated shapes require too much time, while simple shapes fail to showcase the advantages of Dim Sum."

"However, Sun Wukong's martial arts skills clearly make up for this shortcoming. I Think... According to the footage captured by the high-speed camera, in just a few minutes, Sun Wukong has already reached the sixty-fourth floor, and it's very uniform. There's no sign of rushing at all. At this speed, Sun Wukong only needs half an hour to produce the quantity that would normally take more than ten hours to complete..."

Before the host could say anything more, Feng Xue, who was using the Sunflower Acupuncture Hand on a piece of pastry, suddenly looked up at the host with a strange expression. Then, before the host could react, she spoke:

"Ah, right, right..."

The host's expression suddenly went blank, then, as if he had found a new point of interest, he quickly ran away with the cameraman, saying as he ran:

"This is Chef Ao Qing, the top graduate of the Dragon Palace City Chef Training Academy. As the host, it seems his job is..."