Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 204 - 157 What Does Gusu Really Have_2

Chapter 204: Chapter 157 What Does Gusu Really Have_2

Qin Huai chose the meat filling he had sautéed the most, the filling for the Dream Come True Sesame Bun.

Among the snacks Qin Huai made, the Dream Come True Sesame Bun was perhaps the most straightforward way for diners to feel that his meat cooking did not match up to his pastry skills.

Qin Huai felt he had learned a lot just now while watching Huang Shengli fry the filling.

He moved.

Stir-fried on high heat.

Attempted to flip, failed to flip, continued stir-frying on high heat.

Sautéed the oil out, good, the meat filling status was good.

Continued to stir until fragrant.

Almost at the critical point!

Qin Huai was aware, counting silently in his mind.

Three.

Just a bit more.

Two.

The oil fragrance was just right.

One.

This is it, a beautiful flip... oh sorry, can’t do it, adjusted fire control.

Adjustment error.

Tried to fix it.

Fix failed.

Flustered and disorderly.

A chaotic stir-fry.

The meat filling was removed from the pot.

Crash and burn.

Qin Huai: ...

Tired, let it all end.

Zheng Siyuan almost couldn’t hold it in, the corners of his mouth harder to suppress than AK.

Huang Shengli didn’t even bother to hold back his laughter, no pretense, simply chuckled: "Found out, didn’t you, frying meat filling is not the same level of difficulty as frying vegetables."

"Frying vegetables tests your understanding of stir-frying, your control of time and fire. Making a mistake in a small area can still be remedied, as long as you don’t make a big mistake like getting distracted, with practice, you’re sure to achieve results."

"But meat filling is different, a lot needs to be considered with meat; it’s not just stir-frying. Of course, you don’t necessarily need to flip the spatula while frying."

"You’re aware of this, which is good, but we haven’t learned this step yet. Flipping the spatula can help the meat fill heat up more quickly and evenly, but you can still fry a decent meat filling without this step."

"Come, I’ll demonstrate once."

Huang Shengli started the pan, heated the oil, and fried a simple meat filling without any fancy tricks with ease and elegance.

Actually, it wasn’t simple.

The meat filling was very fragrant.

Looked very tempting, made one want to try a bite.

Indeed, meat is much more appealing than vegetables.

Huang Shengli handed the stove to Qin Huai.

Qin Huai started his performance again.

A spectacular crash and burn.

Huang Shengli demonstrated again, Qin Huai crashed again.

And the two went on like this repeatedly, Qin Huai fried once, Huang Shengli demonstrated once, Qin Huai fried again, and Huang Shengli demonstrated again, achieving a true hands-on teaching experience, with the master imparting teachings in front of the disciple.

Clearly, Qin Huai was not very accustomed to this teaching mode.

Too hands-on, it put a lot of pressure on him.

When frying vegetables earlier, Qin Huai felt no psychological pressure about crashing. After all, Huang Shengli just demonstrated once, and the rest was all Qin Huai practicing by himself; crashing in practice was quite normal.

Huang Jia, Dong Shi, and Wang Jun also told Qin Huai that crashing during learning was inevitable. Because there was a comparison, a reference, and the master watching nearby, the psychological pressure was greater, and there was a desire to do better.

When people want to achieve goals that far exceed their abilities, crashing is inevitable.

But previously, Qin Huai never felt this much psychological pressure.

Today, he did.

Suddenly, he understood what Huang Jia had said; when the master is watching nearby, demonstrating again and again, yet you can’t get it right, there’s a tremendous psychological pressure of desperately wanting to improve oneself but being unable to, feeling helpless, anxious, and afraid of being embarrassed, afraid of disappointing the master.

It’s strange, Huang Shengli isn’t his master, though.

In fact, Huang Shengli didn’t even criticize him; Huang Shengli is a renowned master who advocates encouragement-based teaching.

Yet Qin Huai hoped Huang Shengli would scold him a few times, criticize him harshly, maybe he’d feel a bit better, the pressure wouldn’t be this high.

Now this smiling, silently watching, pointing out a few issues and then demonstrating teaching method was just too stressful.

That afternoon, Qin Huai nervously crashed repeatedly.

At the end of the teaching session, Qin Huai looked at a whole bucket of meat filling and silently mourned for the staff of Huang Ji for a minute.

Such a large bucket of meat filling, with what ingredients would it have to be paired to finish it?

His culinary studies were really hard on everyone.

"Great performance today, much progress, continue tomorrow." Huang Shengli said with a cheerful smile at his closing speech, "After frying meat filling all afternoon, your arm must be sore, go to the Bone Setting Shop for a massage, eat more mangoes."

It seemed not only Gong Liang knew what fruits Qin Huai liked, but Huang Shengli knew too.

"Master Huang, I’d like to request a leave." Qin Huai said.

Huang Shengli was startled, the look of shock on his face was briefly uncontained.

Dong Shi, who was already preparing to start work, lowered his voice to complain to Dong Li: "See, I said you can’t push Qin Huai too hard, you’ve scared him off from practice."

"What I fear most is when the master teaches me hands-on repeatedly, then watches smilingly without scolding me. When I first started learning to cook, every night, my nightmares were this scene."

Dong Li: ...Keep your voice down!

"Yes... is there some..." Huang Shengli began to organize his words.

"There’s something back home, the diner who gave me the guo’er recipe is a distant relative, he’s over 90 this year and quite old, I need to go back temporarily the day after tomorrow."

"It won’t take too long, I’ll return to Shan City the day after tomorrow, and come back the day after that. If resolved quickly, I might return the night after tomorrow."

"However, I have one more thing I might need to trouble you with. Could you help me fry a batch of guo’er filling tomorrow, I want to make a batch of raw dough to take back."

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