Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 296 - 191: Huang Ji is Really Bustling Today

Chapter 296: Chapter 191: Huang Ji is Really Bustling Today

Qin Huai spent ten minutes convincing Zheng Siyuan that this secret recipe of imagining having a system depends on each person, suitable for oneself but not for Zheng Siyuan.

Because he really has one.

Zheng Siyuan isn’t a stubborn person; after hearing that Qin Huai has been imagining since childhood and has a foundation due to his childhood skills, he gave up this strange practice method.

Back to work.

Zheng Siyuan’s sudden curiosity frightened Qin Huai, making him feel that in the future, when telling the truth, he must be mindful of the person he’s speaking to.

He, at master level of lying, speaks the truth too much like a lie. From now on, such blunt truths can fool Luoluo, but for honest people like Zheng Siyuan, it’s better to tell a little lie.

Qin Huai continued making Three Meat Buns.

Making them with a great rhythm.

For every two batches of Three Meat Buns dough kneaded, a batch of Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns dough is kneaded. Then, during the first fermentation gap of the Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns dough, he processes the filling for the Three Meat Buns and checks how the helper controls the fire.

Now that Huang An Yao is not in the kitchen, the helpers available to work at the stove all have stronger fire control skills than Qin Huai, and their methods and status of cooking fillings are worth Qin Huai’s learning reference.

With a learning heart, Qin Huai learned from the helper, making the nameless helper nervous and trembling.

Qin Huai is now the pastry snack signature of Huang Ji.

The chef circle is severely lacking replacements. The meat cooking side is slightly better, with each master barely considered having a legacy. The pastry side is truly desolate, with no successors coming up.

This can be seen from the Chef Record rankings.

The number one in the Chef Record is a Chinese cuisine chef, and the tenth is also a Chinese cuisine chef. In the top 30, which holds the highest recognition, there are still a few active Chinese meat chefs.

But not a single pastry chef.

The most famous pastry master at Zhiwei Restaurant ranked 41 in the last Chef Record.

But in terms of total numbers, there are not many more meat chefs than pastry chefs in the top 100 of the Chef Record. Zhiwei Restaurant has quite a few masters listed, and their rankings aren’t too bad, between 50-70, but truly at the top, there is not even one.

In the realm of Chinese culinary arts, the pastry side is weakened, and meat cooking overwhelmingly surpasses pastry, which is an acknowledged fact.

Even if Zheng Da is displeased, he can only withdraw from the Chef Record ranking, out of sight, out of mind. He can’t slap the ranking in Xu Cheng’s face and ask him what kind of thing are you ranking, where is my craftmanship inferior to Huang Shengli?

There are many reasons to explain the vast difference between the two. For example, early on, living conditions were not great, so people sought good dishes like big fish and meats, paying little attention to snacks.

Due to various reasons like war, skills were severely interrupted, many snack recipes were lost, ancient snack methods couldn’t be restored, breaking the inheritance.

There are many reasons, but every chef knows inside their hearts that no matter how many reasons are said aloud or how many seemingly reasonable excuses are conjured, the dish itself doesn’t lie.

Tasty is tasty, and not tasty is not tasty.

You can say that there are discrepancies in the latter 30 rankings of the Chef Record, some people’s names don’t match their capabilities, and some people are puffed up. But the top 50 of the Chef Record is absolutely fair, because Xu Cheng’s tongue never lies.

In this situation where the pastry side is inherently lacking and in China, the only well-known restaurant focusing on pastry is Zhiwei Restaurant, a technically skilled wild pastry chef like Qin Huai is particularly precious.

Although it sounds outrageous, the fact is so.

Is Huang Shengli’s skill good?

It certainly is good.

With a waist injury dragging down his performance, he still managed to rank 44 in the last Chef Record, which is absolute recognition of his skills. However, customers with money to spare have room to choose, they can dine at other well-known restaurants with craftsmanship comparable to Huang Shengli’s, or even better.

For instance, Fen Garden in Beiping, where Head Chef Xia Mubing ranks tenth in the Chef Record, the number one in active Chinese cuisine.

For this level of master chef, you don’t even have to make an advance booking, you can pay double the price to add a table to dine.

But for pastry, there aren’t that many choices.

The situation of Zheng Siyuan and Qin Huai, both having excellent skills but one squatting at the district entrance and the other at the community canteen, is truly rare. If you want to taste pastries with skills comparable to Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan’s at other restaurants, basically, there’s only one choice, which is to go to Zhiwei Restaurant.

For current consumers in the Gusu region, to eat Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns, Five Fillings Bun, Three Meat Buns, Four Happiness Dumplings, Crab Dumplings, guo’er, they can only come to Huang Ji, there is no other choice.

They can’t even taste the same Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns at Zhiwei Restaurant, nowhere else except Huang Ji can create this flavor.

For consumers near Yunzhong District, wanting to eat...

Alright, enough said, now consumers in Yunzhong District want to eat everything, they’re even a bit eager to die.

In this scenario, Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan are the absolute face of Huang Ji.

Among them, Qin Huai’s reputation is slightly higher, because he knows how to make many types and maintains good quality, fulfilling the snack needs of customers with different tastes.

For ordinary helpers at Huang Ji, being able to assist Qin Huai, in some sense, is a recognition of their helping abilities.

Don’t you see that Huang Shengli’s direct disciple Wang Jun is also helping Qin Huai?

Right now, Master Qin, whose status is almost equivalent to a master chef, is intently learning the fire control techniques of the helper.

The helper’s hands are really hard not to tremble.