Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!-Chapter 1259

Chapter 1259: Chapter 1259: Personal Matters_1 Chapter 1259 -1259: Personal Matters_1 Luke Shaw cursed inwardly, not believing for a second that Wesley Gordon was clueless.

Wesley Gordon was acting high and mighty, but really, he was no better!

Luke and his team were escorted back into the competition’s room.

Under the supervision of the monitor, the results were announced.

“Six votes for the white bowl, three for the black,” the monitor stated, “The winning team is the Hearth National Team!”

“By drawing lots, Hearth National Team got the white bowl and the Indian Triad Team got the black bowl,” said the monitor, “So, the Hearth National Team ultimately won with a 6:3 ratio.”

The faces of the Indian Triad Team turned dark.

The mentors, including Luke Shaw, were grim-faced and silent.

Who would have thought that they each cast two votes for Hearth Nation!

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Luke Shaw asked the other two, “Which three dishes did you vote for?”

The three of them exchanged their votes and found they voted for the same dishes.

They seemed to have similar tastes as they agreed on their voting choices.

They had to admit, the dishes they voted for were indeed great.

“The skills displayed in those two dishes are enough for them to qualify for the Offensive Team,” Edward Bennett glanced at Wesley Gordon, “Are all chefs in Hearth Nation this good?

To have such talented, young chefs, yet they can only be in the Defensive Team?”

Their Offensive Team comprised all the best chefs they could find nationwide, and they all stayed with the Offensive Team.

Compared to the Offensive Team, their Defensive Team was somewhat lacking.

That’s why whenever Hearth Nation challenged them, they always won.

But when they came to challenge Hearth Nation, their victory was not guaranteed.

It seemed as if they were inferior to Hearth Nation.

The two nations always had ongoing friction.

Particularly within the Indian Triad, they always felt inferior to Hearth Nation.

They thought they lagged behind in terms of national and urban development.

Some people in Indian Triad even thought that Mesolin City in Hearth Nation was fifty years behind their Mumbai City.

Therefore, despite all this, they couldn’t accept their repeated losses to Hearth Nation in their own industry.

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They, too, lost more often than they won when it came to the Offensive Teams.

When their Offensive Team competed against Hearth Nation’s Defensive Team, they still lost several times.

They had considered the possibility that Hearth Nation had intentionally retained one or two powerful contestants to preserve the badge.

But they also remembered that despite this, the Offensive Team of Hearth Nation was exceptionally strong.

Being able to spare two such powerful contestants under these circumstances demonstrated the strength of Hearth Nation.

More importantly, Luke Shaw remembered that Hearth Nation’s Defensive Team wasn’t this strong in the past.

Although it was still strong, it wasn’t strong enough to crush them with a 6:3 ratio.

If powerful contestants like Cindy Clarke and Parker Honi were kept on the Defensive Team, then how strong would their Offensive Team be?

The competition was over, and at least Luke Shaw and his team did not dispute the results.

Despite the scheming and intrigue from both sides during the process, the cuisine competition was fair, and no one cheated.

As judges, they had tasted the dishes themselves and made their own selection.

At this point, Luke Shaw and his fellows had to admit their defeat.

Besides, it was not as if they could refuse to accept the outcome.

“The dishes we voted for were Hearth National Team’s Japanese Chicken Soup, Wine-braised Pork Bone Vegetable Soup, and the Indian Triad Team’s Japanese Tofu Soup,” said Luke Shaw.

The contestants from Indian Triad were surprised that only one of their dishes received votes.

“Without consulting each other, we all made the same choices,” said Edward Bennett, “We each cast one vote for these three dishes.”

“We want to know which contestant made these dishes,” said Xavier Cartier.

That’s when Cindy Clarke and the others stepped forward.

The one who got the vote from the Indian Triad was their team captain.

It seems the captain’s skills were indeed worthy.

Out of curiosity, Xavier Cartier asked, “I recall the chicken soup, or more accurately the chicken meatball soup, had a sort of chewy texture.

It wasn’t like muscle or bone, what did you add to it?”

“We added chicken skin.

After cooking it, it’s thoroughly washed with cold water until you don’t see oil anymore in the water you use for washing.” Cindy explained.

The process was similar to precooking chicken claws for pickling, boiling them and then thoroughly washing them to extract their gelatinous content.

After this treatment, the chicken claws would be very chewy.

“The chicken skin is resilient.

After dicing it and mixing it with the chicken meat, you get the mouthfeel you experienced,” explained Cindy.

Upon hearing this, the expressions of Luke Shaw and his team instantly changed.

They didn’t eat chicken skin.

Back in their country, even well-known fast-food chains like KFC and McDonald’s would remove the chicken skin before frying.

And now they learnt that the chewy mouthfeel they praised was indeed from chicken skin!

This revelation caught them cold.

Of course, Cindy Clarke knew about their dietary habits, but she revealed it anyway.

Since the results were out, she wasn’t afraid that they couldn’t accept it.

Eventually, Luke Shaw and his team left with mixed feelings.

They managed to retain their badge, especially against their old rivals.

Everyone was overjoyed.

They should have celebrated, but Cindy had to go to the police station for investigation.

Hence, everyone decided to celebrate the next day.

Moreover, having a kid around wasn’t convenient.

Luckily, Cleave Roland had completed his statement and returned.

He then took Cindy and Morgan Zhekova to the police station.

Cindy provided a detailed account of the incident which matched Cleave’s statement.

Seeing Morgan Zhekova’s pitiful look, the officers, who were parents too, felt sympathetic.

Morgan was polite and cute, which made them like him.

Seeing the frightened and pitiful child, their determination to find out the sponsors of the crime hardened.

“Did you or your husband have any conflicts or disputes with anyone recently?” asked a police officer.

Of course, Cindy could not name Ethan Zhekova.

It was not that she wanted to protect him because of his Zhekova family relation.

It was more about the internal conflict within the Zhekova family, as it was a personal matter and hard to explain in a short time.

After all, it was a family matter.

Cindy thought about it.

While she had no right to decide what to disclose about the Zhekova family, she could decide on matters related to the Clarke family.

Cindy confessed, “Actually! I’ve been having some disputes with my sister.

I don’t know why, but she seemed to not want me to participate in the competition.”

“This morning, as I was on my way to the competition, she falsely claimed that my father was hospitalized due to a car accident.

However, my husband personally checked and found that my father was completely fine,” said Cindy.

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