Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 329 - 202 Qianhua Gongdeng Bun_2

Chapter 329: Chapter 202 Qianhua Gongdeng Bun_2

"Where can I find some delicious hometown cuisine at this hour?"

Huang Shengli:...

Huang Shengli had completely given up: "Find a small table in the lobby and wait."

"My son, daughter, and wife will be here soon, and with Xiao Liu, that’s five people!"

"Medium table!"

"Alright!"

Gong Liang happily found a table, while the assistant stayed at the entrance to hand over the knives. Dong Shi retracted his stretched neck and firmly said to Dong Li: "I told you, Master can’t hold out for five minutes."

The next second, Huang Shengli’s voice came through: "Little Ninth, prepare the ingredients."

"Sizzling Fried Eel, Biluo Shrimp, Squirrel Mandarin Fish, Wensi Tofu, Crab Meat Meatballs, Braised Pork, and Stewed Dried Tofu. You’re usually well-informed, what’s Qin Huai’s recent favorite vegetable?"

"Celery and baby cabbage."

"Prepare a full set of dishes, and when Qin Huai returns, tell him we’re having the staff meal outside, together with Gong Liang’s family. Gong Liang has moved next door, and the family must have gotten well acquainted."

"Yes, Master!"

On the other side, Qin Huai opened the task panel in the toilet cubicle and saw the newly triggered side quest.

It can be said that Gong Liang’s side quests are very straightforward, with simple and clear requirements.

Side Quest:

3. [Gong Liang’s Desire]: Ever since having Crab Dumplings for a month straight, Gong Liang reminisces about the past, recalling the days when his parents were still alive and neighbors were well. For Gong Liang, the best moment of his life isn’t making the top of the merit list nor the wedding night, but the year he was promoted to department head during his birthday banquet. Even if he knows the hope is slim, he wants to once again eat the Qianhua Gongdeng Bun and Four Happiness glutinuous rice from that banquet, which he was satisfied with.

Quest Rewards: [Gong Liang’s memory], [Gong Liang’s Affirmation]

This side quest is even clearer than Gong Liang’s previous side quest, directly naming the Qianhua Gongdeng Bun and Four Happiness glutinuous rice.

For Qin Huai, the only problem right now is that he doesn’t know what these two snacks are.

After reading the task details, Qin Huai took out his phone and did some searching.

The Qianhua Gongdeng Bun is actually a type of Qianhua Bun, also known as Lantern Bun due to its lantern-like shape. As the name suggests, making Qianhua Bun requires high-level Finger Skills from the chef, ensuring it looks good and festive, relying heavily on its shape.

As for the filling, it’s usually sweet, mainly sesame and red bean filling, with minimal Filling requirements. Qin Huai can make peanut brittle buns, so making this red bean filling is a breeze.

The Qianhua Gongdeng Bun is undoubtedly an upgraded version of the Qianhua Bun. The Qianhua Bun is shaped like a lantern, while the Qianhua Gongdeng Bun is shaped like a palace lantern, which requires molding the already intricate Qianhua Bun into an octagonal palace lantern shape.

As for the Four Happiness glutinuous rice, it is relatively simple and represents auspicious meanings.

The Four Happiness are: rain after a long drought, meeting a friend in a foreign land, a wedding night, and excelling in exams.

The corresponding four flavors of the glutinuous rice are: vegetable meat filling, fresh meat filling, red bean filling, and peanut brittle filling.

The four types of dumplings are made into four shapes: red bean filling into longevity buns, sesame filling into pointy shapes at one or both ends, vegetable meat filling into large round dumplings, and fresh meat filling into flat-shaped round dumplings.

Comparatively speaking, the difficulty of Four Happiness glutinuous rice is much lower than that of Qianhua Gongdeng Bun. The Four Happiness glutinuous rice simply requires real ingredients and more attention to the dough, which is glutinous rice flour, and the taste will not disappoint.

The only common feature of these two different types of snacks, with different difficulties, is that they all have beautiful meanings.

Four Happiness glutinuous rice is typically eaten on joyous or celebratory days, while the Qianhua Bun symbolizes the start of a beautiful new life.

When reminiscing, what Gong Liang couldn’t forget was these two snacks eaten during his birthday, not necessarily because they were particularly delicious, but because of the sentiment behind the person who made them.

However...

Qin Huai looked over the method for making Four Happiness glutinuous rice again, confirming that this snack is not particularly difficult to make.

With Zheng Da’s skill level, making a Four Happiness glutinuous rice that impresses everyone is definitely not a problem.

It’s not like Jiang Wei would demand that even the Four Happiness glutinuous rice be made to an S-level standard, right?

If such requirements were in place, how would this quest be completed?

But considering how the last task was completed...

Qin Huai felt that for Gong Liang, sentiment mattered more than taste.

Many times, Gong Liang cared more about the novelty of the food than its flavor.

Of course, it’s also possible that he doesn’t remember what it tasted like before. After decades of not eating it, if Gong Liang remembers, it would be a miracle.

Qin Huai boldly speculated that the task explanation might be hinting for him to practice these two snacks for a period of time and present them to Gong Liang on his birthday, which would greatly increase the likelihood of task completion.

Recreate the scene, enhance the memory, add some touching background music, and with Gong Liang’s emotion, the task might just be completed.

Great, now he only needed to think of a reasonable excuse to get Gong Liang to proactively mention he wanted to eat the Qianhua Gongdeng Bun and Four Happiness glutinuous rice, then Qin Huai could approach Zheng Da for help and ask him to teach him.

If Zheng Da also doesn’t know how to make the Qianhua Gongdeng Bun...

Then Qin Huai would have to explore if he could practice Finger Skills by following online pictures.

Zheng Siyuan once said that the shape of snacks is not uniform, most of the time, a snack’s shape tests the chef’s imagination and aesthetic sense.

The Qianhua Gongdeng Bun, as long as it’s a Qianhua Bun and looks like it was molded following the idea of a palace lantern, it’s a Qianhua Gongdeng Bun.

Qin Huai saw earlier during his search that the shapes of the Qianhua Bun are as diverse as dumplings, and this spiral-shaped snack ultimately tests the chef’s creativity.

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