Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 340 - 206: Mixed Fruit Filling

Chapter 340: Chapter 206: Mixed Fruit Filling

Qin Huai didn’t expect that the mixed fruit filling could actually be packed into glutinous rice balls. Seeing Gong Liang’s expression and tone, Qin Huai absolutely believed that the mixed fruit filling rice balls made by Jiang Wei Jin are delicious.

But if it’s mixed fruit filling, that would be troublesome.

Qin Huai didn’t know how to make this filling. He had only heard of it, as mixed fruit filling usually appears in mooncakes. Qin Huai had never made a mooncake.

After all, selling Three Meat Buns and Four Happiness Dumplings at the Breakfast Shop was already the limit. If they were to sell mooncakes as well, the Qin Family Breakfast Shop could be renamed the Qin Family Everything Shop.

Of course, the main reason was that Qin Luo didn’t really like eating mooncakes.

Previously, there was a small shop in Qiu County that made very delicious five-nut mooncakes with authentic ingredients. The dried fruits were carefully selected premium products, sweet but not greasy. They wouldn’t leave you feeling like most five-nut mooncakes on the market, which are overly sweet and greasy and could knock you out after just one bite.

Later, the Boss of that small shop retired and closed the business, leaving Qiu County without tasty five-nut mooncakes. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Qin Family embraced double yolk lotus seed paste mooncakes again. As the price of these mooncakes soared day by day and online shopping became popular, Qin Luo discovered Yunnan ham mooncakes online and switched to eating them.

Until last year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, Qin Congwen insisted on the old tradition and forced himself to eat five-nut mooncakes on the festival day.

Zhao Rong scoffed at the cheap and nasty five-nut mooncakes that Qin Congwen somehow bought, while complaining about the expensive double yolk lotus seed pastes and buying the most expensive ones.

Qin Luo devoured Yunnan ham mooncakes, eating them from a month before the festival to a month after. Those who knew better understood she was eating mooncakes, but those who didn’t might think she was just snacking.

As for Qin Huai...

He tasted a bit of everything.

Qin Huai never understood why his parents and Luoluo were so obsessed with buying mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Except for Qin Luo’s slight partiality to eat Yunnan ham mooncakes, the rest of the mooncakes weren’t necessary to buy at all.

The mooncakes sent by relatives and friends were already too many to finish.

Before Qin Huai inherited the legacy and moved to Shan City to open Yunzhong Restaurant, every festival was a time for all sorts of relatives of the Qin Family to vie with each other, comparing and competing.

Mooncakes were given for Mid-Autumn Festival, rice dumplings for Dragon Boat Festival, candies for Halloween, random gifts for Christmas, and blessings for New Year’s. It was a mix of local and foreign festivals, and if conditions allowed, Qin Huai believed they would even want to give gifts for Arbor Day and April Fools’ Day.

With enough gifts given during regular festivals, it was perfect to visit and feast during the New Year, taking and eating everything.

The mooncakes and rice dumplings at Qin Huai’s house every year were more than they could eat, and in the end, they could only be sent to the orphanage. The kids at the orphanage would start feasting on mooncakes and rice dumplings with all their might during the Mid-Autumn and Dragon Boat Festivals.

During these two festivals, Qin Huai would transform from Brother Bao Bao to the dedicated Mooncake Brother and Dumpling Brother.

Qin Huai snapped back from his mooncake memories.

He had initially thought the Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Ball was an easy question, not expecting it to be a bonus question.

Teacher, I haven’t learned this part yet.

Mixed fruit filling really touches on a blind spot in my knowledge.

I truly don’t know how.

Qin Huai didn’t even know which specific ingredients were needed for the mixed fruit filling. He only knew that there wasn’t a fixed formula for this filling, mainly comprising nuts, candied fruits, and sugar, and the specific ingredients depended on the chef’s recipe.

While Qin Huai was still pondering, Gong Baozhu had already finished her second shepherd’s purse dumpling and wanted to go back to the first bowl to scoop up the sesame-filled glutinous rice ball, only to have Guo Mingzhu pick up the bowl.

"Baozhu, these glutinous rice balls are made from glutinous rice flour, and eating too much glutinous rice at night can cause indigestion. You should eat less; Mom will eat the rest." Guo Mingzhu slyly took away the glutinous rice balls in front of her daughter.

Gong Baozhu realized the situation wasn’t good and was about to cut her losses by quickly lowering her head to pick up the other bowl, only to find it gone. Gong Liang was already holding the bowl and eating.

Gong Baozhu:!

Her mom’s move wasn’t a simple sleight of hand; it was a diversion strategy!

She helped her parents eat the shepherd’s purse dumplings they didn’t like, only for her parents to then cut the supply, leaving her with no chance to eat the remaining three glutinous rice balls!

Gong Baozhu shed tears of remorse in her heart.

If she had known, she would’ve eaten the sesame-filled ones first and managed to eat an extra one.

As Gong Baozhu wept internally, Qin Huai finished his pondering.

Completely unable to think of anything.

There was no useful information about making mixed fruit filling in his head, so he couldn’t think of any solution and asked directly.

"Mr. Gong, do you know the specific method to make the mixed fruit filling you mentioned earlier?" Qin Huai asked earnestly.

This question stumped Gong Liang. He was holding a spoon with a whole beautiful glutinous rice ball filled with red bean paste, hesitating to open his mouth and struggled to think for a few dozen seconds before shaking his head.

"I don’t know, I only know that you need winter melon candy."

"Back when Master Jing made the mixed fruit filling rice balls, the winter melon candy at home wasn’t enough, so he borrowed all of ours."

Qin Huai knew that winter melon candy is a very sweet kind of candied winter melon that is sickly sweet. Qin Huai had eaten it when he was very young in the orphanage. Eating it alone might not be great, but it might be good for making mixed fruit filling.

"Then do you know where I can buy the mixed fruit filling rice balls now?" Qin Huai continued to ask.

This question also stumped Gong Liang.

"Nowadays, you basically can’t buy them anywhere. Mixed fruit filling rice balls are just like five-nut mooncakes, everyone finds them unpalatable and no one eats them anymore," Gong Baozhu chimed in, "When I was in kindergarten, there was still a small shop at the school gate selling mixed fruit filling rice balls—the single mixed fruit fillings cost more than the meat fillings."

"Back then I thought the mixed fruit filling was especially sweet and tasty, but after I grew up, I found it too sweet, so sweet it was cloying. Mixed fruit filling was originally more expensive than others, and not delicious, so over time, no one sold the mixed fruit filling anymore. It’s better to buy shepherd’s purse or shredded radish fillings; they’re tastier and cheaper."

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