Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 183 - 150 Thank You Mediator_2

Chapter 183: Chapter 150 Thank You Mediator_2

"Old Qian was also our factory’s accountant before, later when the factory’s performance wasn’t good, he found ways to use his connections to transfer to the cotton mill."

"He should still be living in the same old place, I heard Huang Ji is just around there. I haven’t seen Old Qian in many years, only at his son’s wedding seven or eight years ago, but I heard he’s a regular at Huang Ji, he basically spends most of his pension there."

"Xiao Qin, if you’re willing to take care of Old Qian, that would be great, it would give me face too. I’ll say hello to Old Qian first, and you can add him later."

Qin Huai asked, "Uncle Wang, do you know what kind of flavors Grandpa Qian likes?"

"He just likes that kind of flashy and expensive stuff." Uncle Wang said without hesitation, "He was the type to chase after trends when he was young, saving up half a year’s salary to buy leather shoes. If you want to thank him, make him something flashy, you can’t go wrong."

Qin Huai, hearing what Uncle Wang said, felt like he had an idea, expressed his understanding, and got up to head to Huang Ji.

On the way to Huang Ji, Qin Huai added Grandpa Qian on WeChat; the WeChat name was very simple, just his real name.

Qian Zhongheng, even the WeChat avatar was his own photo.

Qin Huai glanced at the photo, feeling a bit familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere in the past two days.

Qin Huai arrived at the entrance of Huang Ji, the door wasn’t open yet, which was normal. It was 7:28 AM, even Zheng Siyuan wouldn’t be at Huang Ji this early, as he lived a bit far away from Huang Ji.

Qin Huai opened the door with a key, closed it behind him, and went into the kitchen to knead dough.

Before leaving yesterday, Qin Huai had already decided on today’s menu.

Just two items, Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns and Dream Come True Sesame Bun, no more.

Qin Huai left early yesterday, so he didn’t know how the snacks sold last night. However, yesterday’s sellout taught Qin Huai one thing: a pastry chef at Huang Ji, an above-average-level pastry chef, cannot make too many kinds of snacks in one day.

The customers at Huang Ji actually buy snacks.

They scramble for them like they’re losing their minds.

They buy snacks with the same zeal as finding rain during a long drought.

To make fewer items like Zheng Siyuan, selling just two kinds a day, is the right choice.

Choosing these two snacks was a deliberate decision by Qin Huai.

Firstly, he had great confidence in his Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns and Dream Come True Sesame Bun. The Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns is a buff dish, but it’s limited to the first three trays. Excluding this buff characteristic, the Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns is Qin Huai’s best snack, bar none.

Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns is a perfect snack for Qin Huai to showcase his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, requiring almost no Fire Control and Finger Skill. It’s one of the few pastries that Qin Huai excels at, something that Zheng Siyuan is decent at, but Qin Huai can completely surpass Zheng Siyuan in.

Moreover, Qin Huai wondered if it was his illusion, but he felt that Huang Shengli seemed to really like this snack.

Huang Shengli didn’t come yesterday, so he didn’t have Qin Huai’s Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns. On the first day Qin Huai made them, he secretly observed Huang Shengli’s expression from afar; it seemed like he wasn’t just eating buns, but rather savoring memories of the past.

It felt like Luo Jun enjoying Dried Tangerine Peel Tea.

The customers at Huang Ji were also very peculiar; their love for Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns far exceeded other snacks.

Are Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns delicious? Of course, they are!

But comparing Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns with Four Happiness Dumplings, Five Fillings Bun, Dream Come True Sesame Bun, Crab Shell Cake, and Zheng Siyuan’s fresh meat mooncake, Qin Huai thought they weren’t that superior.

Especially Zheng Siyuan’s fresh meat mooncake, which is the signature of all signatures. Just this one mooncake could easily overshadow all of Qin Huai’s snacks combined.

Yet, by noon yesterday, the sales of Zheng Siyuan’s mooncakes only reached seventy percent of Qin Huai’s Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns. It was only seventy percent because Qin Huai’s Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns were sold out, unavailable, and they stopped selling when the chefs were off-duty.

If they hadn’t run out, Qin Huai couldn’t even imagine how many Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns could have been sold in one afternoon.

Yesterday afternoon, while kneading dough and making buns, Qin Huai even wondered if it was because Gusu is in the south, where pastry-like snacks are more common and buns are not, that people were buying so many out of novelty.

Otherwise, it’s hard to explain why an 18-yuan Fermented Rice with Steamed Bun could make customers buy with the fervor of a 1.5-yuan regular yeast bun.

Since Huang Ji’s customers like them, Qin Huai thought he’d make more, even if it was tiring. Consider it a thank you to Huang Shengli for guiding him personally despite his back issues, staying by his side in the afternoon, giving him Fire Control tips, making more of what customers love, thus boosting the traffic to Huang Ji Restaurant.

The other snack choice, Dream Come True Sesame Bun, is significant because an important component is the meat filling.

Currently, all the Dream Come True Sesame Bun meat fillings sold at Huang Ji couldn’t possibly be fried by Qin Huai.

But Qin Huai thought this filling could serve as a standard.

Once he could fry such a level meat filling, or when the meat filling he fried paired with the hollow buns could satisfy Huang Ji’s customers, and the meat filling was no longer a disadvantage, his Fire Control would have graduated.

Yesterday afternoon, while stir-frying vegetables, Qin Huai realized that having a control group is very important.

Only when a control group is excellent and qualified enough does a person have a goal and direction to strive for.

Otherwise, being unclear about everything, having no purpose, flailing around like a headless fly, it is challenging to improve much.

Qin Huai set the menu for today yesterday, but that doesn’t mean he’ll only make these two dishes.

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