At Alan’s meaningful words, some trembled. Even listening to him made them feel nervous. They were the best 8. They were confident on whatever theme or ingredient appeared. But the important point was that the judges also knew that.
A mission that would be hard to chase even if it were them. What could that mission be? Jo Minjoon thought for a moment, but he couldn’t think of anything. In his head, there was no memory related to this at all.
While they were looking at Alan’s lips with nervous eyes, Alan smiled and looked at Emily. Emily smiled brightly. They thought that it was a really fresh smile, but looking at it in this situation, for some reason they felt it to be hateful.
“Perhaps, there are some ingredients you didn’t eat. And the staff had also suffered quite a bit acquiring the rarest ingredients. And they got a total of three ingredients. Yes, these will be the ingredients you will handle.”
Emily talked like that and pointed to the table that was in front of the judges. There were 8 boxes placed on it.
‘There are different ingredients in each of those boxes…….’
Jo Minjoon’s gaze grew sharper. But of course, just because it grew sharper, he couldn’t see through the contents of the box. You wouldn’t know if an alarm window appeared, but it was impossible with his eyes. There was no meaning if it was hidden like that. It was at that moment. Alan opened his mouth suddenly.
“I will reveal the first ingredient.”
The moment Alan opened the box, everyone’s faces became contorted. And some even wanted to throw up. Because the ingredient in the box was too shocking. It was the same for Jo Minjoon. He just looked to the front with a stupid face. He had never guessed that they would bring an ingredient like that. Alan raised the corner of his mouth in a satisfactory way looking at their reactions.
“It’s calf brain! It’s an ingredient that lets you directly feel the taste of French people. And I think that most of you wouldn’t even have eaten it.”
Calf brain. It did appear in some French restaurants, but if you weren’t a considerable epicurean, it was a dish that you couldn’t even bring to your mouth because of the repulsiveness. There would be some people that think that it’s the same meat, but normally, you got a disgusting feeling when they told you that it was brain.
But fortunately, the next ingredients were less shocking compared to calf brain. Truffle, it was also called as songreo mushroom (송로버섯) and it was one of the three delicacies in the world. But of course, excluding Japan and Korea, there would be no countries that reckon something like three delicacies in the world, but even so it wasn’t an ingredient that didn’t have value. And just looking at that value made you feel the worth of the truffle. And it was certainly an ingredient they wouldn’t have handled. Because even Jo Minjoon had used something like truffle oil for things related to truffle.