Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 317 - 198: Really Impressed by Your Huang Ji’s Customers

Chapter 317: Chapter 198: Really Impressed by Your Huang Ji’s Customers

The advantage of having a new roommate in the house is that the speed of consuming fruits has increased significantly.

There’s no way around it, Gong Liang gives so much that the frequency of the cleaning lady replacing the fruits is so high that every time Qin Huai comes home and sees the fruit platter, he feels pressured.

He’s afraid that if he eats any slower, the cleaning lady’s fruit shop will open up.

On the first day Ouyang moved in, Qin Huai decided to take Ouyang to Huang Ji to broaden his horizons—

To experience a real private kitchen meal.

It’s actually just breakfast at Huang Ji, with Qin Huai’s Longevity Noodles and Zheng Siyuan’s wontons.

Since Ouyang is not a Huang Ji employee, it’s against the rules to enter the kitchen; Qin Huai asked him to either stay at home or wander around nearby to see if there was anything he needed to buy. Once the Longevity Noodles were almost ready, he’d message Ouyang to come over.

Squat and eat at the kitchen door.

This is a hidden way of eating at Huang Ji; the last person to squat and eat at the kitchen door was Gong Liang.

Speaking of Gong Liang, before entering Huang Ji, Qin Huai was scrolling through his WeChat Moments for a while.

Gong Liang was still eating happily in Fen Garden.

Every day at mealtimes, he’d post photos, presumably taken by his daughter, showcasing beautifully plated dishes that made Qin Huai want to spend heavily to book Fen Garden and taste the skills of the legendary No. 1 active Chinese chef in Beiping to see how good they really are.

In Huang Ji’s kitchen, Zheng Siyuan had already started wrapping wontons.

Every day is like this: Zheng Siyuan comes early, leaves early, making nothing but snacks. During work, he rarely talks to colleagues in Huang Ji’s kitchen. The person he communicates with most on a daily basis is Qin Huai.

Today, Zheng Siyuan unusually spoke first.

"You’re about to become famous," said Zheng Siyuan.

"Huh?" Qin Huai paused, almost covering himself in flour, "I feel... I’m not exactly an unknown rookie, am I?"

To be honest, Qin Huai felt he had gained a lot of fame since coming to Gusu.

Even though he hasn’t participated in any industry academic exchange meetings yet, Qin Huai thinks that in the industry, if not famous, he is at least somewhat known.

In Gusu, ask around, who doesn’t know Master Qin from Huang Ji?

As for the academic exchange meetings... Huang An Yao advised Qin Huai not to attend.

It’s boring, and apart from the exchange meetings hosted by Zhiwei Restaurant, the other dishes aren’t tasty, and Huang Shengli never attends, always sending others just to fill numbers. He neither understands the talks nor enjoys the food—it’s simply a hardship.

According to Huang An Yao, only Zheng Da likes to go to these academic exchange meetings, because attendees aren’t just chefs, but also his kind of hangers-on and some restaurant bosses.

Zheng Da is in the snack business and usually attends the academic exchange meetings to promote and distribute his products.

"That’s not what I mean." Zheng Siyuan stopped wrapping wontons, washed his hands, took out his phone from his pocket, and opened Xu Cheng’s Weibo to show Qin Huai.

Qin Huai glanced at it and saw that Zheng Siyuan had been following Xu Cheng’s Weibo for 611 days.

For context, Xu Cheng had opened this Weibo account 611 days ago.

Xu Cheng posted a Weibo at 3:21 AM yesterday. The content was long and full of nonsense, generally about eating too many snacks during the day so that he couldn’t sleep at night, and had to write a food review, pouring out his thoughts and finishing it by 3 AM. He felt he was so dedicated and believed that he wouldn’t delay next year’s major publication.

Overall, it was a self-praising Weibo post.

But notably, Xu Cheng attached several photos to the Weibo post, showing snacks made by Qin Huai. The plates used for the snacks were custom-made with Huang Ji’s exclusive logo, very large and unmistakable.

It’s hard not to suspect that Xu Cheng intentionally posted this Weibo to advertise for Huang Ji.

The comment section of this Weibo was also very lively, filled with enthusiastic recommendations from Qin Huai’s fans, those dedicated individuals from the Gusu region who cycle over every day at noon to grab buns and steamed bread.

［Mr. Xu indeed has good taste, Master Qin had only been at Huang Ji for a little over a month before you discovered him!

——Faithful follower of Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns］

［Will it be even harder for me to buy snacks now? Please, nooooo! [Crying][Crying][Crying]

——Darn boss docked me 50 bucks for being a minute late］

［A new pastry chef has come to Huang Ji, wasn’t there no pastry chef at Huang Ji?

——Who’s the best at excavation skills］

Qin Huai also saw the comment that Zheng Siyuan posted himself.

［Master Qin’s snacks are really delicious, worth recommending.

——Zheng (Practicing the big spoon stir-frying technique version)]

Qin Huai really wanted to advise Zheng Siyuan to stop practicing, we’re pastry chefs; there’s no need to hang on in meat cooking.

But Zheng Siyuan had given a positive review with his real name...

Go ahead, good brother, today I’ll make you two bowls of Longevity Noodles!

Qin Huai returned the phone to Zheng Siyuan: "I didn’t expect Mr. Xu to specifically post a Weibo ad."

Zheng Siyuan gave Qin Huai a deep look, knowing that Qin Huai hadn’t realized what Xu Cheng’s Weibo post meant.

Qin Huai:?

"Do you remember the situation the first few days after you arrived at Huang Ji?" Zheng Siyuan asked.

Qin Huai clearly remembered; back then, the old customers at Huang Ji thought Zheng Da was dragged in by Huang Shengli to work. Buying snacks was like a famine rush, afraid they wouldn’t have it next time.

At that time, Qin Huai had just arrived at Huang Ji, wasn’t used to such high-intensity work, and wasn’t as good at delegating tasks to helpers as he is now. Making snacks nearly exhausted Qin Huai at Huang Ji.

"Back then I lacked experience, now even if the purchase volume increased by 30 percent, I could keep up." Qin Huai knew what Zheng Siyuan wanted to say and confidently replied.