Food Wars volume 7 - Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki

 The fall contest is in full swing as we start the next volume in this series I am really liking.

And that means the crop of the crop of students cooks off against each other, with only 4 in each of the two brackets advancing after a hard scrutiny by the judges.

Their assignement, to make a special curry dish, is harder then it looks though.  In hall B, where Megumi competes, the jury awards points sparsely.  But from Edina's aid to a girl nicknamed the Cauldron Witch, strong dishes are put forward, setting the bar highly.

In Soma's hall in the meantime, the judging is even harsher.  So when Alice's aide scores a 93, he knows the bar is set very highly.  Mito also scores herself on the board for now, but some high hitters still have to present their dish.

The contest shifts back to the B hall, where apparently boring Megumi wows the judges with a dish made from monkfish and vegetables from her small hometown, advancing her as she comes in fourth in her bracket and knocking out some big names like Chinese cuisine mistress Hoyo, and the younger of the Aldini brothers in the process.

So now let's get on towards volume 8 and see if Soma can pull it off in his bracket as well...