Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle

Chapter 1201 575: The End Approaches

Wang Jun's words reminded Qin Huai. He indeed has many snacks that require high skills in meat cooking, which he usually can't make at Yunzhong Restaurant.

The most typical one is Longevity Noodles.

With Qin Huai's current skill level, he can easily achieve Level B+ or even Level A with any noodles that don't have high broth requirements. But the Longevity Noodles have such high demands for broth. The highest level Longevity Noodles Qin Huai has ever made was with Cao Guixiang's clear broth, which explosively achieved Level A+.

Qin Huai still remembers the delicious taste of those noodles, savoring the lingering memory.

Feeling the sincere blessings from those who love you, wishing you health, longevity, and the buff of peace in this life is also nice.

If Wang Jun can consistently provide qualified high-quality broth, Qin Huai believes Longevity Noodles will soon become a popular snack at Yunzhong Restaurant.

Who can refuse a bowl of hot Chicken Soup Noodles on a beautiful morning?

Zheng Siyuan couldn't even resist.

"Brother Jun!" Qin Huai's eyes lit up, "How are your broth skills?"

Wang Jun: ... Did he mention making broth just now? Why suddenly ask about such an advanced skill? I'm just an ordinary cutting apprentice in Huang's Kitchen.

"Um... they're quite average," Wang Jun's voice became much smaller.

"I believe in you, Brother Jun. Brother Jun, your task from now on is to make at least two pots of chicken broth each day. Make the broth clear. Starting tomorrow, we'll be selling Chicken Soup Noodles in the morning at Yunzhong Restaurant." Qin Huai encouraged, "Brother Jun, your cooking skills are so great. The Chicken Soup Noodles in the restaurant will depend on you."

Wang Jun: ...

After two days of cooking frenzy, Wang Jun deeply realized that being a chef is not that easy.

After ensuring benefits for the Yunzhong Restaurant family, Qin Huai went back to his cooking station to continue making snacks. After being away for half a month, Yunzhong Restaurant remained unchanged compared to before.

The guests are used to Qin Huai's erratic working patterns, even forming the habit of believing Master Qin's business trips are the norm, with his presence being a surprising experience of being PUA-ed.

Zhou Hu has also been diligently preparing Luo Jun's funeral during these 15 days and successfully secured a 30% down payment, instantly becoming wealthy. Despite his newfound wealth, Zhou Hu didn't forget his roots. The first thing he did was place an order with Qin Huai for 100 sets of dumpling gift boxes.

If nothing unexpected happens, once Qin Huai completes these 100 sets of dumpling gift boxes, Zhou Hu's side quest will be accomplished.

If something unexpected happens...

Then deal with it when it happens.

For Qin Huai, 100 sets of dumpling gift boxes is quite a challenge. Currently, among all of Qin Huai's pastry-related basic skills, Finger Skill is the lowest, and it's not a skill that can be quickly improved in a short time.

This thing, like Knife Skills, requires practice, lots of practice, piled up with time.

And Qin Huai feels that Finger Skill is slightly harder than Knife Skills because Finger Skill tests the chef's personal aesthetic judgment. Even if aesthetics are diverse, Qin Huai believes someone will genuinely feel that the guo'er shapes are unique and artistic, but the aesthetic for dumplings is unified.

Guo'er should be lifelike and unrealistically realistic.

Qin Huai can't do it.

He only mastered apple dough balls naturally, while orange dough balls and banana dough balls all somewhat fail both the guo'er and the fruit. Although Qin Huai provided a disclaimer when persuading Zhou Hu to order the dumpling gift boxes, saying the batch was sold cheaply due to lack of skill and not to disclose Master Qin's surname when gifting the boxes, Qin Huai still wants to do well with the dumplings.

For things meant for close connections, if you can do well, try to do well; if you can't do well, create conditions to do well.

Master Qin is just this kind of person who likes to take care of close relations.

Otherwise, Xu Tuqiang wouldn't be so eager to enter the kitchen, becoming one of Qin Huai's closest connections.

Speaking of Xu Tuqiang, Mr. Xu has been quite emotional lately.

He briefly entered the kitchen and then returned to table 9.

This sense of loss from once having it made Xu Tuqiang try to contact Zhou Hu to purchase another Lucky Charm, but Zhou Hu firmly refused. Zhou Hu warned Xu Tuqiang that Lucky Charms only work temporarily and relying on them long-term will backfire. Whether or not Xu Tuqiang believes in the superstition, buying a so-called Lucky Charm from other fortune tellers wouldn't bring luck.

If he doesn't believe, Xu Tuqiang can try, but it will surely backfire, and the more expensive the Lucky Charm, the more severe the backlash. If Xu Tuqiang insists on hitting this wall, he can start by buying cheaper ones like the 5, 10, or 50 yuan Lucky Charms; buying those over 100 yuan is not recommended due to severe backlash.

Of course, Xu Tuqiang didn't believe the superstition and ran to A City's location with the most fortune-teller stalls, spending a whopping 50 yuan on a Lucky Charm.

Then he encountered a backlash, not to mention entering the kitchen, he couldn't even get tasty sticky rice cake. Either he forgot to coat with sugar, or the sugar coating was excessive, or the rice cake's texture was oddly different from before. In the worst case, they weren't available—went at 6 AM to find sticky rice cake not ready, and after a toilet break in the afternoon, they were sold out.

Xu Tuqiang was dumbfounded, unable to understand what he did wrong to deserve such divine punishment.

At this point, people might wonder, is Xu Tuqiang really that unlucky?

Of course not, it's all orchestrated by Qin Huai and Zhou Hu.

During Qin Huai's absence, through persistent effort, Zhou Hu finally found a troupe barely satisfying Luo Jun. Specifically, it's not a troupe but actors from a provincial theater group from another province, brought in through connections combined with Luo Jun's willingness to spend money.