Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle

Chapter 1325 2: Shi Dadan's Secret and the New Year's Eve Dinner (Part 2)

That night, Qin Huai replayed past memories in his mind until he fell asleep after midnight.

If you ask Qin Huai what he figured out from replaying, he would honestly say that he didn't figure out anything. Everything he wanted to know, all those perplexities had surged upon him the moment he woke up. Replaying was merely about sorting things out, it couldn't solve any confusion. For Qin Huai, he no longer had any confusion now.

Instead of replaying the past, Qin Huai was more interested in planning how to make snacks for the New Year.

Originally, Qin Huai's plan was to turn Qin Family Village into a snack feast during the New Year to quickly brush up his skill level and give back to the villagers.

However, plans can't keep up with changes.

Currently, Qin Huai's game board looks like this:

Player Name: Qin Huai

Pokedex Unlocked: 10/12

Skills:

Yeast (Grandmaster Level): Your yeast skills have surpassed 99.99% of the nation's excellent snack masters. (62423/10000000)

Filling (Grandmaster Level): Your filling skills have surpassed 100% of the nation's excellent snack masters. (5891346/10000000)

Finger Skill (Master Level): Your finger skill finally exhibits the style of a master. (11111/100000)

Oil Case (Advanced level): You are still not good at fried snacks. (6666/100000)

Knife Skills (Master Level): Your apprenticeship during those years at Taifeng Building was not in vain. (399/1000000)

Fire Control (Master Level): Your apprenticeship during those years at Taifeng Building was not in vain. (19/1000000)

Food Tasting (Master Level): Only after tasting a true master's work can you understand master-level food tasting. And now, of course, you're a true master. (Not upgradeable)

Management (Master Level): Back when you were Chen Shun, you were a clever businessman. (13697/1000000)

Lie (Grandmaster Level): A true master of lies doesn't just deceive others, but also convinces themselves completely. (6666666/100000000)

Evaluation: In terms of pastry cooking skills, you are undoubtedly the best of the time, after all, there is no other pastry chef who can integrate several generations of culinary experience like you, truly reaching the age of 20 with 80 years of work experience.

With such superior base stats, if Qin Huai were to still talk about brushing up basic skill levels during the New Year, he would indeed deserve a beating.

Not to mention Zhao Cheng'an couldn't resist wanting to hit him, even Qin Huai would want to give himself a few slaps.

This is the first time Qin Huai learned that above a master is a grandmaster, and above a grandmaster is a great grandmaster. This game rating system gives the feeling of being obsessed with immortal cultivation fantasy novels.

Beyond a great grandmaster, is it ascension?

Now Qin Huai can confidently say that his style is textbook-like. What? You're asking what is a textbook? Don't have eyes? Can't see me standing right in front of you? Aren't I a walking textbook?

In this situation, during the New Year, it's purely about giving back to the villagers.

Qin Huai was contemplating how to give back to the villagers.

First of all, can't make snacks that are too difficult.

Qianhua Gongdeng Bun and guo'er, those with complicated steps, can't be made, they are too time-consuming. Locust flower buns, which are too technically difficult, cannot be made either, as they consume too much energy.

Qin Huai felt that with his base stats, in theory, he could have made locust flower buns to S level last night, but there were too many snacks to make on New Year's Eve, and he didn't have enough energy to dedicate to locust flower buns, which led to a slightly sub-par performance, only reaching S- Level.

As for S+ level snacks…

Qin Huai could only say that he was a bit disoriented upon waking up, the skill level was back but he hadn't fully integrated it yet. Given some time until he fully absorbs the culinary experience and level from his previous lives, if he then tries his best at his specialty, such as Fermented Rice with Steamed Buns, he should be able to make S+ level ones.

On the first day of the New Year, Qin Huai decided to make Fuling Cake, white flour steamed buns, meat buns, and beef pie.

Fuling Cake is because it's a snack meant to be eaten during the New Year, especially on the first day. Back when Qin Huai was in his first life, every year on the first day Qin Wan would get up early to make many Fuling Cakes, not only for the family to eat but also to give away and entertain guests during visits and New Year greetings.

With a couple of Fuling Cakes in their pockets, children would feel proud when playing with their friends. Given Qin Wan's skills, Fuling Cakes absolutely beat sunflower seeds, nuts, candies, and even chocolates.

Ever since Qin Huai moved out of the Jiang family, he would receive a basket of Fuling Cakes from Qin Wan every first day of the New Year, the same goes for Master Chen's family, and Zhao Cheng'an probably ate quite a few during his time.

Although Mayfly is quite lively, he's reliable; his suggestion to make Fuling Cakes before the year-end was definitely intentional, fearing Qin Huai wouldn't wake up during the New Year.

Even though it's not the Beiping of a hundred years ago anymore, Qin Family Village has never lost the habit of making Fuling Cake and giving Fuling Cake on the first day of the New Year. The place has changed, the time has changed, the people have changed, the customs have changed, but the memory hasn't changed.

In the view of the awakened Qin Huai, Fuling Cake is the most suitable snack for the first day of the New Year.

As for the rest…

White flour steamed buns are Shi Dadan's favorite, meat buns are standard and safe, loved by most villagers in Qin Family Village, and the beef pie is Qin Luo's recent favorite, this kid just loves something with more meat.

Though Qin Huai said he might get up late on the first day of the New Year, he actually woke up before 6. By the time the refreshed Master Qin finished a simple wash and went to the kitchen, Mr. Qin was already outside the kitchen doing preparation work.

Qin Huai didn't tell the family what snacks he would make today, but some things don't need to be known, they can be prepared in advance, like tableware, like firewood. There are no high-powered appliances in the kitchen, really, when steaming snacks in large batches, it's faster with a rustic stove.