Back at the cooking arena, the students were done with their prep and started cooking their fried rice. Since fried rice was a simple dish that even home cooks could be done easily, the judges' expectations were higher this time. How would they able to present a simple home-cooked meal as a restaurant-quality one?
Each student would need to present five plates for judging: four for the judges and one for the owner of the dish being recreated.
Lu Xinyi started to get busy. After chopping the vegetables on her preferred thickness and size, she started working on the shrimps. Pinching off the head, and de-shelling the body, Lu Xinyi made sure to keep the tail on and tried to retain the shrimp oil from inside the head on top of the body. After that, she deveined each piece and set it aside.