Deciperous Moments With Magic Rings

Fancy My Rice?

     Jenny had to gruel with the feeling of betrayal, just because she had to eat alone twice, in the line-up of the competition.
     Lucky to be Lenmark, who simply skirted aside the matter, saying “my bad, things are like that, hope I had better times with you.” What followed were invitations to phone games, as well as some video-views.
     Lenmark, luckily, finally managed to convince both teams that his transfer to Jenny’s would benefit both, do he got loose, with the gamemaster’s permission. People were getting more merciful nowadays, howsoever the climate had weathered around them.
     With many work around, and by completing them, Lenmark needed, in fact, much needed, flame. And Lenmark found them in Jenny. They felt the tingling saltiness and savour in the air.
    As a matter of fact, they felt the happiest that night, much likened to the sparkle of Moonlight.
    Yet, they hoped they were being really happy, to be committed to each other, in a way that were like never before, something that someone would write about, in the spare romance.
    The tingling sensation was still superb to them, yet somewhere in their view, the line had never been crossed too far, due to modesty. As a matter of fact, certain lines had never been crossed.
    Shrouded in mystery, Cheksahng’s Foodie Trial had started and even toughed on many lives in its very early beginning itself.
    Then, the itenery had been unveiled; as something standing as a guiding pillar to the game, Cheksahng's Foodie Trial was supposed to promote World Peace and Cultural Exchange—something enshrined in its very core principles.
    Thus, only chicken, seafood, fruits, legumes and vegetables were allowed as its ingredients, which had been something fairly surprising as well.
    The culinary spectacular was something never taken into consideration before, something that caught both Jenny and Lenmark by surprise by its sheer greatness.
    They first went into an eye-warming Kungfu Canai Shop. They learned all the arts of making Roti Canai—the craft, the skills and even the shows, albeit with different levels of reception.
    The instructor, named Muhammad Ataali, taught the participants how to make the best roti canai, from using the best butter, to making the best curry.
    After all learned how to make roti canai, there was a short stint on making the best dhall curry.
    And the result was, Jenny’s dhall curry the instructor had ever had.  Thus, Jenny led the college team to the first victory,  of the first round, “Recipe-Asia”.
    What Jenny did was using some basil leaves, some coriander, as well as dried chilli and some milk. After addition of salt, the result was splendid.
    With a bit of some other spices, the roti canai was probably the most kungfu canai thing Jenny had ever done.
    The African neighbourhood, with their splendour along Northern Pramperdonian streets, was simply heavenly. People tasted everything from Moroccan Lamb Stew to South Africa’s Grilled Chicken. They had not expected that they were to test cooking Nigerian curry turkey, all at the country’s finest.
    Different participants cooked their Nigerian curry turkey differently, all mainly dealing with turkey breast.
    The result was nothing shocking. Nigeria’s Trinity Bakery team won the round, with their exquisite use of spices.
    Then the teams moved on to making fish-and-chips, which clearly,  had been one of Europe’s most favorite combinations.
    An independent contesting team, named the Johnson Abdeel team, made it for not only being transparent, non-racist yet serving the most delectable dishes. The meal tasted the best with fizzy lemon, one of the best intercultural drink to offer.
    Only five teams made it to the trip to Salzburg, Austria, which were Jenny’s team, Emmanuella’s team, Kathy’s team, Johnson Abdeal’s team and Samuel’s team.
    Samuel’s team won the Americas round by their superb knowledge at serving the best chicken wings, as well as some superb lobster.
    Kathy’s team won in a rather creative way. They won the Australasia’s round by serving the best brekkie, with the most well-seasoned chicken pattie, to be exact.
    Now it boiled down to the grand final. The stage had been adorned with the most state-of-the-art appliances that the contestants could rather afford to, and the challenge was to make the best three-course-meal for a hearty dinner, with the theme being “Recipe-Supernova”.
    Johnson Abdeal’s team came up with a classic Northern Indian cuisine, with some yoghurt drink and a fusion salad. However, that were not the best ever yet.
    Kathy came up with a classic cuisine, and captured some eyeballs, alternatively, Emmanuella came up with charcoal roasted seafood meal, which came surprisingly delicious.
    Howsoever, it was Jenny’s ingenuity with superfood that won the votes of the jury.
    Jenny used purple lettuce with white lotus root as the main ingredient for salad. It was popiahs eaten three ways-Pekingese, Asian-American and Jenny’s Japanese.
    How to make a Japanese popiah?  Jenny used smoked duck, with a mix of pickled lotus root and some other ingredients, wrapped them, before double-wrapping them with a layer of egg skin.
   And then, she cooked mixed-fungi chowder. The mix was pleasing to the gastronomical tracts and won the finale.
   They enjoyed taking photos by the mountain range, before heading back to Northern Pramperton.
   And Jenny was still thinking about the Magic Ring.
   That was some night to remember, when Jenny and Lenmark reached their hostel, respectively, hoping to find temporary satisfaction in cup noodles.
   That was just the moon,  brimming with the brightness of Autumn(Fall), making romantic things more down-to-earth.