"No need, these will be enough."
Feng Xue said and took out a small box of various jars and bottles, placing them on the counter for inspection.
Although the preliminary round didn't require competitors to complete all steps on the street, reporting every ingredient used was necessary, both for food safety reasons and for assessing culinary skills.
After all, in a cooking competition, many elements could affect fairness, such as an old broth inherited over generations that could easily triumph a chef who can barely cook noodles over a renowned chef with years of experience in making plain noodles.
Not to mention practices like outsourcing the simmering of stock or pre-preparing ingredients. Though the organizing committee couldn't completely eliminate such methods, they could balance the contestants' scores by reducing the weight given to certain ingredients and seasonings.
