Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 341 - 206 Mixed Fruit Filling_2

Chapter 341: Chapter 206 Mixed Fruit Filling_2

"That’s because candied fruits and dried fruits have gone up in price." Guo Mingzhu stood at the kitchen door, speaking up for the mixed fruit filling, "To make glutinous rice balls with mixed fruit filling, you need quality candied fruits and dried fruits, and you need to render lard. If you start cutting corners and use subpar ingredients, cheap lard and cheap candied fruits, mix them together and boil them, they’ll dissolve to become overly sweet and greasy, just like eating fat with artificial sweetener. Can that taste good?"

"The mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls from that place you loved as a child weren’t that great; they were overly sweet. You just loved sweet things as a kid and couldn’t tell; you clamored for them after school every day and insisted on having two."

"You had to have two, and after eating half, you’d leave the rest for your dad and me. Back then, your dad and I would turn green at the sight of those overly sweet rice balls, drawing lots every day to see who would pick you up and who would take your brother."

Gong Baozhu: ...

Oh, the feeling of being publicly embarrassed by one’s own mother in front of strangers...

Gong Baozhu felt like digging a hole in the floor and hiding downstairs.

"But Master Jing’s version is different!" Guo Mingzhu enthusiastically recommended Master Jing’s mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls, "When Old Gong celebrated his birthday that year, Master Jing made the rice balls, and I had a bowl too. The taste was truly unforgettable."

"Chopped candied fruits and dried fruits are stuffed into the rice balls, and when you eat them hot, they’re sweet but not at all greasy."

"I remember Master Jing cooked a big pot that time, and although the rice balls came in four flavors, they all looked the same. We all wanted the mixed fruit filling ones; everyone ate like there was no tomorrow. We ate until we were stuffed, and then Master Jing brought out a plate of beautifully made buns. Back then, I hadn’t married Gong Liang yet, and almost passed out from overstuffing at his house," Guo Mingzhu recalled with a laugh.

"Oh? That happened?" Gong Liang teased.

Guo Mingzhu shot him a look: "You weren’t much better; you were so stuffed you almost needed to walk holding onto the wall."

After she finished speaking, Guo Mingzhu sighed: "But we only got to eat them once. Not long after Master Jing retired, he had an accident and hasn’t been able to make fine snacks since."

"If Master Jing were still around, our Baozhu might have had the chance to taste truly delicious Four Happiness glutinous rice balls. She wouldn’t have been so obsessed with that awful place as a child, making us suffer."

Gong Baozhu: "Mom!"

Stop already, your daughter has a reputation to maintain!

In the end, when Qin Huai headed back, Guo Mingzhu handed him two bottles of freshly squeezed juice. Gong Liang couldn’t find the mountain mist tea he had been thinking of and felt like the remaining tea wasn’t good enough to give as a gift. He planned to search through some other houses for it tomorrow.

As Qin Huai carried the juice home, he noticed the tea Gong Liye had given him earlier in the afternoon sitting in the entryway.

Mountain Mist Tea.

Qin Huai: ...

When Gong Liye gave him the tea at noon, what did he say again? He said it was good tea he had recently picked up.

Well, getting it from his dad is also "picking it up."

Qin Huai could only remark on how similar the father and son’s thoughts were when it came to gift-giving.

Qin Huai glanced at the dining table; Ouyang’s bowl of Four Happiness glutinous rice balls was already finished, and his own bowl had been placed in the warmer by Ouyang.

As for Ouyang himself, he was lying on the sofa with his belly up, looking like a stuffed seal while watching videos on his phone.

Qin Huai silently placed the two bottles of juice on the coffee table: "Let’s cut down on eating at night for now; I’m going to practice making Four Happiness glutinous rice balls every evening from now on."

"No problem, it’s just Four... burp... Happiness rice balls, I can handle it!" the seal declared, patting his stomach confidently.

Early the next morning, Qin Huai went to Huang Ji, arriving around the same time as Zheng Siyuan.

Zheng Siyuan, just finished measuring out the flour, was surprised to see Qin Huai arrive so early today, but quickly brushed off his surprise.

Because today, Zheng Siyuan wasn’t the first to arrive.

Guli was.

When Zheng Siyuan arrived, Guli had almost finished making his Ruyi Roll. Although Ruyi Roll doesn’t take a long time to prepare, it’s still a type of snack, and snack preparation just requires a certain base amount of time.

If Guli had almost finished the first batch of snacks by 8 AM, it meant he had arrived by at least 7.

Considering Guli’s speed at making snacks, he probably arrived around 6.

And Guli’s off-duty time yesterday was 9 PM. The chefs at Huang Ji had already left by then, but Guli had quietly worked an extra hour to make another batch of Ruyi Roll.

This super competitive guy even stunned Zheng Siyuan.

Compared to Guli, the chefs at Zhiwei Restaurant, who probably arrived around 7:30 AM to start prep work, seemed quite average in terms of competitiveness.

Qin Huai didn’t expect that when he arrived early, hoping to discuss the mixed fruit filling matter with Zheng Siyuan, the kitchen would already be this lively.

Seeing Qin Huai arrive, the chefs at Zhiwei Restaurant immediately sprang into action; some brewed tea, others prepared ingredients - Qin Huai quickly noticed that all the materials he needed were already laid out for him.

If the chefs at Zhiwei Restaurant spent a few more months at Huang Ji, they might end up putting the previous helpers out of a job.

Just as Guli respectfully handed Qin Huai a teacup and said, "Master Qin, have some tea," Qin Huai felt like the world had indeed turned a bit surreal.

Qin Huai didn’t drink the tea and also didn’t start making Longevity Noodles right away.

He hadn’t come early to start work ahead of time.

Qin Huai walked up to Zheng Siyuan and asked, in a tone that seemed casual, "How’s your practice with the big spoon stir-frying technique going lately?"

"Not great," Zheng Siyuan replied calmly.

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