Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 241 - 169: Normal Crab Dumplings_3

Chapter 241: Chapter 169: Normal Crab Dumplings_3

He already knows how to handle crab meat, crab roe, and shrimp meat, and how to control the proportion of various ingredients and seasonings.

Qin Huai might still screw up, but it definitely won’t be as ridiculous as the last two times.

The progress is so fast.

Am I really a teaching genius, just casually teaching and making Qin Huai learn it?

Zheng Da thought.

Huang Shengli watched with satisfaction from the side, saying to Huang Jia, "Xiao Qin is really a good student who makes every teacher irresistibly eager to take as a disciple."

Learn whatever is taught, and hit wherever is pointed.

Huang Jia handed over a bowl of warm tea, "Master, have some tea to refresh."

"Can Junior Master Zheng accept Qin Huai as a closed-door disciple?" Huang Jia asked curiously.

"Hard to say." Huang Shengli shook his head, "Xiao Qin definitely has no intention or thought of formally becoming a disciple, but he doesn’t necessarily have to be a closed-door disciple. Even if Xiao Qin is just a named disciple for Zheng Da, I suspect Zheng Da would be overjoyed."

"Let’s see, once Xiao Qin learns to make crab dumplings, he might be so happy thinking Zheng Da’s skills are decent enough that he ends up acknowledging Zheng Da as his master."

Huang Jia:...

Isn’t there something a bit off about that?

In normal situations, shouldn’t it be someone happy to take xx as a disciple?

But with Junior Master Zheng...

It’s indeed hard to say, from a certain perspective, Junior Master Zheng is quite abstract.

While Qin Huai was making crab dumplings, Zheng Da’s crab dumplings were already out of the steamer.

Qin Huai ate one, and then continued making dumplings.

Sitting at the kitchen entrance, Gong Liang ate two.

Huang An Yao had to negotiate prices with suppliers today, so he didn’t come to Huang Ji. Gong Liang ate his share of dumplings.

At the same time, Gong Liang also packed Huang An Yao’s longevity noodles for his wife and kids. Gong Liang’s assistant made a special trip to do a delivery run.

As Gong Liang ate Zheng Da’s crab dumplings, he was constantly preparing himself mentally.

He knew that Qin Huai’s crab dumplings would soon be steamed too.

Last time, emotionally moved, Gong Liang ate three of Qin Huai’s crab dumplings, and couldn’t eat dinner afterwards.

Gong Liang decided to eat two today.

He’s not eating three because today there’s just too much food, three would be excessive.

Last time, after eating three crab dumplings, Gong Liang couldn’t formulate a single word.

He really wanted to give some feedback to Qin Huai, but apart from saying the dumplings were: disgusting! very disgusting! extremely disgusting! not fit for human consumption! how could you make crab dumplings like this? Do you think you’re doing Master Jing justice with these dumplings? Beyond such meaningless words, he couldn’t think of anything else.

He’s not a professional.

So during this week, while Zheng Da watched teaching videos for a week, Gong Liang also wasn’t idle, watching "Taste" for a week.

It made him drool, wishing he could buy a plane ticket immediately and eat his way around the world.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t.

Qin Huai was still striving hard for his crab dumplings, so Gong Liang couldn’t quit just yet, he at least had to hold on until Master Qin made a decent batch of crab dumplings before buying a plane ticket.

After watching "Taste" for a week, Gong Liang learned a lot about describing and expressing food.

Gong Liang wasn’t like Zheng Da, who was simply tongue-tied; on the contrary, Gong Liang was quite eloquent, able to turn black into white.

That day, the lack of words was entirely due to a lack of knowledge.

Now he’s equipped.

Gong Liang was ready.

At 3:30 PM, Qin Huai’s crab dumplings were out of the steamer.

As usual, the chef tasted first.

Looking at the decently presented crab dumplings, Qin Huai felt today he might have done okay, though he wasn’t sure if his sense was right.

The screw-ups from the previous two times were still vivid in everyone’s mind.

Qin Huai took a deep breath, calmed himself, prepared mentally, and took a bite.

Hey, not fishy.

The major reason for the big failures in Qin Huai’s previous attempts at making crab dumplings was a significant issue with ingredient proportions, resulting in a highly fishy crab roe, similar to the fishiness experienced when drinking duck soup in a duck circle.

Just one bite was enough to make someone spit out the dumpling and start cursing the chef for its fishiness.

This time, the dumplings had no such issue.

Qin Huai started chewing.

Hmm, there’s the taste of shrimp meat, a bit of its sweet freshness, but not overpowering.

Good, the crab meat flavor is also present, more intense than the shrimp.

The crab roe flavor is the most distinct, aggressive and dominant, quickly spreading in the mouth, soon overpowering both the crab meat and shrimp meat.

There’s umami.

There’s sweetness.

No fishy taste.

Qualified!

Qin Huai felt he wasn’t there to eat snacks but was more like a quality inspector.

Inspector Mr. Qin gave the crab dumplings in front of him a stamp of approval.

Qualified, but just barely.

There were no issues in various aspects, and the taste was acceptable, but not stunning, just an ordinary, conventional crab dumpling.

If using gaming ratings to score it, Qin Huai felt it was probably at a C- level.

He could say he knew how to make crab dumplings, but definitely wouldn’t make them everyday.

Good, practicing the basics does help indeed.

Everyone eagerly tasted the crab dumplings made by Qin Huai.

At the kitchen entrance, Gong Liang, with a do-or-die spirit, took a bite of half a crab dumpling.

A chew.

Hmm?!

"Wow, Master Qin’s crab dumplings are surprisingly delicious!" exclaimed Gong Liang.

Unable to squeeze in, Dong Shi was also holding a plate and eating crab dumplings at the kitchen entrance. He looked at Gong Liang and silently admired him in his heart: as expected, Mr. Gong can praise absolutely anything.

For such an unremarkable crab dumpling, to be praised so genuinely.

Truly deserving of being recognized as Qin Huai’s number one fan.

Dong Shi swallowed the crab dumpling, made room in his mouth, and eagerly joined the discussion next door.

"I also feel that Qin Huai’s crab dumplings have greatly improved compared to the last time, this batch is practically a normal crab dumpling. Is he practicing every night at home? Oh my, that’s really tough, what time does he sleep?"

"No wonder his skill level improved so quickly!"

"Does Qin Huai take a break this week?"

"No break? He said he wants to save up both this month’s and next month’s vacation days to go back to Shan City to visit his sister. Wow, doesn’t that mean he’ll be working continuously for forty or fifty days, isn’t this quite similar to Zheng Siyuan, don’t all the pastry chefs not fancy taking breaks?"

"I’d love to live next to Qin Huai, that way after work I might just be able to nip to his place for some snacks."

Unintentional words, but heard with intention.

Gong Liang sent a message to his assistant.

Gong Liang: Secure the owner next door to Qin Huai’s place this week, and next week secure the owner of Qin Huai’s current residence, I want to acquire both apartments.

Assistant Xiao Wang: Copy that, okay Mr. Gong!

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