The Top Fishing
Chapter 539 - 242: Searching for Silver Dragon Fish

Chapter 539: Chapter 242: Searching for Silver Dragon Fish

While the ingredients were being prepared earlier, viewers in the live stream were watching intently. As the big fish was added to the pot, many began to flood the screen with comments again.

"This steamed Emperor Three-Spotted Fish is something else. The ingredients used and the technique for preparing it clearly show an experienced hand."

"My focus is a bit different from you guys. I just noticed the accuracy of the host when he killed the fish—so decisive. He handled the gills and innards with crisp and efficient movements."

"A Peacock Bass weighing over 5 pounds, just steamed like this, then drizzled with hot oil after coming out of the pot.... I’m drooling...."

Lin Yang busily worked in the kitchen while Baom stood at the door watching. Through his interactions with Sun Zheng, the native learned that Lin Yang was planning to cook delicious Chinese dishes himself, sparking his curiosity.

As a fishing and hunting guide, he had hosted at least a dozen affluent Asians, but none as young and willing to cook as Lin Yang.

The Sichuan boiled fish before was indeed delicious, but it was made by a camp chef specially trained by Sun Zheng, so Baom still held a skeptical attitude toward Lin Yang’s bold younger claim of cooking dishes himself.

During the initial phase of processing the ingredients and steaming them, Baom still maintained his skepticism. After all, the dish had just some scallion and ginger added before setting it into the pot, which didn’t look appetizing at all. Even if one didn’t prefer frying fish, the camp had oil, and frying would have made it more delicious than this current method.

However, Baom’s judgment was proven wrong after just 10 minutes.

The moment the lid was lifted, the fresh tender aroma of the fish from the steaming mixed with soy sauce for steamed fish hit him—Baom’s mouth watered instantly.

Lin Yang then poured the prepared hot sizzling oil over the fish, layering on an additional tier of aroma to the dish, filling the room with a delightful scent.

Baom, as if he had discovered a new world, held back his drool, turned, and went to find Sun Zheng, pulling him straight into the kitchen before conversing fluently in a foreign language.

Through the conversation, Sun Zheng quickly understood his meaning.

Facing Lin Yang’s puzzled look, Sun Zheng smiled as he translated, "Ba Ermu is curious how you made the fish so flavorful. He thought you would fail before you started, but the aroma from the dish captured him!"

"This is just ordinary steamed fish, a common home-cooked dish that any family can make back home," Lin Yang said casually.

"Well, I can’t, but that’s not the point. The point is, he wants to learn to make this Chinese dish from you," Sun Zheng continued, indicating he couldn’t cook himself but kept translating.

Seeing how impressed the native guide was with his performance, Lin Yang was quite pleased and nodded, "Sure, I can demonstrate slower when I make it again tonight or tomorrow. No, wait, we won’t have steamed fish tonight, tonight we’re having grilled fish hotpot!"

Sun Zheng translated this as well.

Upon receiving a positive response, Baom nodded vigorously, joyfully breaking into a dance right there.

Viewers in the live stream saw Lin Yang’s simple home-style steamed fish win over the native and began flooding the screen with comments again.

"Didn’t expect the host’s cooking skills to be so awesome, even the natives are swayed by the flavor."

"I think Master Lin should have told him that for dishes of this level, we have at least hundreds, if not thousands more back home."

"Not only mastering the natives with fishing skills, but Chinese cuisine is also a killer move."

Lin Yang just simply steamed a fish, and the live stream viewers couldn’t stop discussing it. They perhaps felt proud seeing how well Chinese cuisine was received by the natives.

With the Emperor Three-Spotted Fish done, Lin Yang didn’t continue to work anymore.

The camp staff then prepared fried piranha along with several vegetables grown at the camp, plus fragrant rice and chilled beers from the river water, resulting in a meal that left everyone satisfied.

After eating their fill, the rest of the time was quite relaxed, though the newly arrived Lin Yang and Yue’er found it a bit hard to bear.

The temperature peaked at one or two in the afternoon, and even under the shade of trees in the wooden camp houses, it was still above 95°F. To beat the heat, they had to use a battery-operated fan to cool down, which made things slightly more bearable.

By evening, the weather cooled down a bit.

Being there both for fishing and a vacation, Lin Yang and the others enjoyed a hot pot and grilled fish in the evening, and Baom, growing more familiar with them, even brought other natives to perform their local fire dance.

This marked the end of the first day of their trial fishing trip.

After fishing all morning and drinking quite a bit in the evening, Lin Yang, feeling slightly worn out, went to bed early, before nine o’clock.

In the middle of the night, Lin Yang did not wake up, but Yue’er stirred him awake.

"Brother Yang! Brother Yang! Listen, there’s a sound outside!" Yue’er woke Lin Yang up, speaking in a frightened tone.

"What happened?"

Lin Yang’s head was still foggy from sleep, thinking he had dreamt it.

"There’s noise outside, loud strange calls, listen...."

Lin Yang sat up in bed, listening intently to the noises outside.

Quickly, the strange calls Yue’er mentioned reached his ears, and from the sound of it, it didn’t seem far from their sleeping camp.

Last night Lin Yang had also heard this strange calling. After asking Sun Zheng the next day, he learned it was the call of a local monkey species, posing no danger.

"It’s the call of a monkey. I heard it last night too and asked Sun Zheng during the day. Don’t be afraid, there are people on guard outside, there’s no danger," Lin Yang reassured her.