Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 279 - 184: Surging Orders (Thanks to Hanfeng Qing for the generous reward!)_2

Chapter 279: Chapter 184: Surging Orders (Thanks to Hanfeng Qing for the generous reward!)_2

This aversion towards Qin Huai is understandable to Zheng Da, as he believes his skills are no worse than Huang Shengli’s, and his talent might even be slightly better. He is determined to become a master chef at the state-owned restaurant. However, since he is a pastry chef, and pastry chefs were not valued as highly as meat chefs at that time, he was unable to attain the position of master chef at the state-owned restaurant.

Zheng Da harbors resentment. He likes and excels at difficult and niche snacks, such as Crab Dumplings, Crab Cake, and lotus cake. Although he also loves to make dumplings, the high difficulty level and not having learned the true skills from Jiang Wei Jin leave him with a passion for making dumplings and boat-shaped pastry, but his execution is not very good.

Basic snacks like steamed buns, even Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns, are not among Zheng Da’s favorites.

However, not liking to make them doesn’t mean he doesn’t make them. According to Zheng Siyuan’s account, Zheng Da makes Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns every year for the Spring Festival, as it was the must-eat staple on New Year’s Eve back when Jiang Wei Jin was around.

Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns are now a signature snack of Qin Huai’s. He makes them excellently, but he knows he doesn’t have much room for improvement with this snack.

Because he hasn’t seen a better version.

This statement sounds a bit ridiculous, because theoretically, the snacks and dishes a chef produces can directly reflect his current skill level.

A chef with A-level skills can produce A-level dishes, and one with S-level skills can create S-level dishes. Currently, Qin Huai’s skills are only B-level, so the highest level of snacks he can make purely on his own is B-level.

Nevertheless, Qin Huai believes that, for him, the level of the recipe is more important than his own skill.

He very much needs an exemplary case to guide him, to show him how to proceed and which direction to head.

Before obtaining the recipe for Three Meat Buns, Qin Huai had been making them for many years. This meat-filled bun is Qin Luo’s favorite.

Even if the Qin Family Breakfast Shop didn’t sell them, on weekends, holidays, during the New Year, or whenever Qin Luo did well in exams, Qin Huai would make many of them, enough to fill the freezer so Qin Luo could have his fill in one go.

In terms of practice volume, Three Meat Buns and Four Happiness Dumplings are the unmatched champions for Qin Huai.

However, after getting hold of the Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns recipe, this snack quickly took the lead, surpassing these two signature snacks.

Now, Qin Huai has just gotten his hands on the Three Meat Buns recipe and has only tested it once. Yet, Three Meat Buns have once again eclipsed all other snacks.

Qin Huai realizes that he really needs a high-level recipe in front of him, so he knows how to make a snack better and which direction to strive.

Even Qin Huai himself finds this way of progressing to be absurd.

But no matter how absurd it might be, the current Three Meat Buns are unquestionably Qin Huai’s true ace snack. They have no buff, but they are delicious and have enormous potential for improvement.

The key is, he can understand the instructional videos and practice every day!

Qin Huai is kneading dough, Li Hua and a knife-skilled helper are dicing, while An Youyou and another helper are wrapping buns.

As for Pei Xing, he’s making snacks on the side while trying to convince Li Hua to switch with him so he can dice and let Li Hua return to making snacks.

Anyone who has worked in the kitchen, professionally-trained chefs know that if they want to learn some real skills from the master chef, the first thing to do is diligently assist the master chef.

Pei Xing and Li Hua originally thought their trip back to their hometown would be leisurely, but now they realize they genuinely love learning.

The two pastry chefs are competing to be helpers, while An Youyou, the only named helper, ponders whether she should practice kneading dough and filling first, or hone her knife skills.

An Youyou doesn’t understand why Pei Xing and Li Hua are competing to dice, but she knows they have high salaries.

The salary of a pastry chef is more than double that of a breakfast chef.

In places unknown to Qin Huai, the snack chefs and helpers in the cafeteria are caught up in a frenzy.

Qin Huai hasn’t thought this far; he simply feels that community cafeterias and grand hotels are indeed different.

Pei Xing and Li Hua were both introduced by Zheng Da, and their skills are undoubtedly excellent.

But the other helpers hired by the cafeteria are far inferior, not even on the same level as those at Huang Ji.

At Huang Ji, every helper could be considered a chef in training.

Especially those assisting Qin Huai, they were the elite among the elite. When Qin Huai was at Huang Ji, Huang Jia specifically assigned Wang Jun to assist him.

Wang Jun isn’t considered a top chef at Huang Ji and hasn’t even made it to the position of a chef at the stove. When Qin Huai isn’t around, he can only dice. But even Wang Jun, being a direct disciple of Huang Shengli, could become a master chef under the tutelage of a renowned master if placed at an ordinary hotel.

Helpers at Yunzhong Restaurant are just helpers.

Otherwise, Qin Huai wouldn’t have been short of people enough to ask Li Hua for help in dicing.

Asking a high-paid snack chef in the cafeteria to do such helper work, Qin Huai felt a bit embarrassed when he said it. Fortunately, Li Hua was good-natured and very enthusiastic, readily agreeing to help.

Qin Huai kneads the dough with a sense of melancholy.

Is this what it’s like to have experience in a big company?

He has only been back at Yunzhong Restaurant for two days, and he’s already starting to miss Huang Ji a little.

The customers waiting for the buns in the lobby, of course, don’t know that their Master Qin has physically returned to Yunzhong Restaurant, but his heart is still longing for another hotel.

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