Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 305 - 194: The Young Are to Be Feared

Chapter 305: Chapter 194: The Young Are to Be Feared

Qin Huai felt that the colleagues in Huang’s Kitchen were a bit strange today.

First, Huang Jia was inexplicably out of sorts, not sure what kind of setbacks he had faced, but he insisted on eating Crab Dumplings and guo’er.

Not long after, Dong Shi, who was originally chatting casually, suddenly stopped talking and began working diligently, cutting all the eggplants that Wang Jun was unwilling to cut all in one go, while inexplicably laughing as he did so.

It was a kind of uncontrollable laughter, genuine and from the heart. His mouth lifted in a grin, and he laughed so much his face froze.

Dong Li was also unusual; while his brother laughed so hard he couldn’t close his mouth, Dong Li occasionally flashed a mysterious smile, then happily stir-fried the meat filling for the Dream Come True Sesame Bun.

One doesn’t need to be that happy to want to eat Dream Come True Sesame Buns, right? Although Qin Huai wasn’t very familiar with Dong Li, they hadn’t interacted much. But it wasn’t the first day he met Dong Li, and he knew that Dong Li was usually expressionless and not very talkative, while his brother chattered all day long, using up all their speaking quota.

And there’s Wang Jun.

Wang Jun is Qin Huai’s chief assistant, and he interacted with Qin Huai the most daily. As the number one honest man in Huang Ji’s kitchen, Wang Jun was not good with words, didn’t talk much and was often silent, making him rather inconspicuous at times.

Wang Jun was also inconspicuous today, but Qin Huai keenly noticed that from the beginning, Wang Jun had been looking at him with a kind of inexplicable, reverent gaze.

Qin Huai has seen this kind of gaze before.

Every time Huang Shengli showed off some culinary magic, Wang Jun would stand nearby, watching from a distance, tiptoeing, stretching his neck, with eyes full of that reverent look.

But he hadn’t cooked anything particularly impressive today.

To be precise, Qin Huai felt that his cooking skills were not on the same level as Huang Shengli’s at all. Even if he collaborated with Huang Shengli to make an A-level guo’er, Wang Jun shouldn’t be looking at him with such a gaze.

These were also people Qin Huai was relatively close to, and people like Qi Tian and numerous other colleagues who hadn’t provided their Surname also seemed strange to Qin Huai.

Finally, after Qin Huai finished mixing the filling for the Salted Egg Yolk Shumai, he couldn’t resist asking Wang Jun who was beside him: "Did something good happen at Huang Ji today?"

"Why do I feel like you all are inexplicably a little happy and excited?"

Wang Jun: ...

The honest Wang Jun maintained his expression with the acting skills of a lifetime, muttering: "May... maybe there is, Master is going to cook the Three Heads Banquet at the wedding banquet tonight, and everyone is quite happy about it."

Is that so?

Qin Huai was a little puzzled.

Firstly, he believed in the honesty of Wang Jun.

But.

Isn’t this reason a bit... far-fetched?

"Isn’t there any other good news?" Qin Huai pursued.

"Surely not now." Wang Jun replied sincerely, silently adding in his heart.

In a few dozen minutes, who knows.

After all, what every chef dreams of is about to happen in the kitchen.

Although he wouldn’t be the main character, being the astonished NPC next to the main character was also excellent.

Qin Huai glanced at Wang Jun twice, chose to believe him, and continued making the Crab Dumplings.

The Crab Shell Cake for room 111 and the snacks for room 777 had already been served one by one. Before the snacks for room 777 were served, Huang Jia inexplicably turned into a taste tester, using hunger as an excuse to sample each snack.

As a result, Huang Jia wasn’t that hungry either, and stopped when it came to the sticky rice cake. Then Qi Tian, Dong Shi, and Dong Li took turns being hungry, continuing to eat snacks, and gave them a round of critique, finally concluding that—

The glutinous rice shumai tasted average, sticky rice cake unexpectedly delicious, the lard rice cake unnecessary to eat, green bean cake nothing special, Crab Shell Cake normal performance, Dream Come True Sesame Bun filling fried by Dong Shi was not as good as Huang Jia’s, jujube and yam cake also just a filler but okay.

After discussion, the group chose Huang Jia as a representative to find Qin Huai, expressing a desire to eat Crab Shell Cake and Dream Come True Sesame Bun, and asking if Qin Huai could make single portions of them later, not much, just a single portion.

Qin Huai thought today was already absurd enough, Huang Jia couldn’t say anything more absurd that would surprise him, so he nodded in agreement.

The salted egg yolk filling for the Crab Dumplings was very simple, the process and technique much more straightforward than the genuine Crab Dumplings, and the taste wouldn’t differ too much either.

After all, from a mass-market taste perspective, salted egg yolk filling is standard, a tasty flavor that everyone can accept.

Qin Huai, who could make the high-difficulty Crab Dumplings to a B-level, naturally had no problem with the generally simple salted egg yolk Shumai.

The real challenge that required Qin Huai’s full attention was the guo’er.

Before his vacation, Qin Huai had asked Huang Shengli to help fry a batch of filling and made a batch of raw guo’er to take back to the Yunzhong Restaurant, and had not made them since.

Guo’er, as Qin Huai’s only snack that could reach A-level, held extraordinary meaning for him.

Before reaching A-level with guo’er, Qin Huai felt it was a snack where the meat cooking outweighed the pastry preparation.

After reaching A-level, Qin Huai found that in good snacks, there was no clear divide between meat and pastry preparation that mattered; both were important. Only good pastry could match good meat preparation. If something didn’t seem important, it was probably just because you weren’t good enough.

With this mindset, Qin Huai naturally became extremely serious and careful when making guo’er.

Moreover...

How to say, from the names, Qin Huai could deduce that Jiang Weiming and Jiang Weijin were most likely brothers, and their culinary skills were taught by the same father, absolutely from the same lineage.

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