Gourmet: From a Stall in Northern Europe

Chapter 280 192: Instant Disappearance of Marinated Seafood, Snowflake Crispy Chicken Fillet

In these years working outside, she hasn't eaten less marinated seafood, and the sauce crab from Kimchi Country is indeed quite good, extremely appetizing, besides being expensive, there's no downside.

But only the sauce crab is worth mentioning; compared to the variety of marinated seafood back home, there's really no comparison.

Even Yuqi can't stop praising the marinated seafood here, made by our Great Xia chefs, you definitely need to try it.

While she was in a daze, Yuqi and the other three have already each grabbed two big bags and prepared to head back, just in time to meet the manager running over from behind; without a word, Yuqi stuffed the bags into his hands, turned around and rejoined the fray.

Each bag holds eight whole boxes, their group has only five people in total, just how many bags are they trying to grab??

"Why are you still standing there, Ning, here, quick, trust me, tell your group members to hurry up and come get some!"

Before she could react, a heavy bag of food was placed in her hands.

Through the bag opening, you could clearly see inside it various marinated seafood, intricately sliced abalone, Arctic clams, salmon, assorted shellfish, as well as marinated shrimp and crab, just the appearance and color looked delicious.

"Gulp."

Instinctively swallowed, quickly handed the bag to Giselle who approached.

Karena, as the team leader and one of the biggest foodies in the group, realized something when she saw Yuqi and the others' actions, quickly pulled Jin Dongtian and Giselle and ran over.

Their group is famous for not controlling their diet, they proudly eat whatever they want, even having mentioned it on variety shows.

Don't be fooled by her skinny appearance, her appetite is bigger than many men, but she doesn't gain weight, naturally a 'foodie's physique'.

Peered into the bag Giselle was holding and the moment she saw the marinated crab, her eyes glittered brightly.

"Wow! It's sauce crab, and so much seafood, hurry grab some!!"

Although Kimchi Country is a peninsula nation, surrounded by sea on three sides, seafood prices are still not cheap.

She didn't expect that just after arriving at the work location, there would be a feast, with such good meals that are entirely seafood.

Most importantly, this looks delicious, evidently crafted by Asian chefs.

Anyway, it's free, it would be a waste not to eat, grab some first!

The girls rehearsing on stage were dumbfounded.

Watching as all the staff rushed to the pickup truck outside and returned with satisfaction, carrying bags big and small, their hearts itched.

Thinking to grab some too, but the music hasn't stopped yet, and there's no way to stop mid-song without mistakes; it wouldn't be realistic to pause the rehearsal just to grab a midnight snack, if word got out their group's reputation might suffer, with accusations of lacking professional etiquette.

While dancing continuously on stage, they frantically signaled below to their manager, urging him to quickly grab some food.

Finally, when the song finished, they couldn't bother taking the steps down; one after another they jumped off the stage's ledge and dashed toward the manager who was carrying the bag and heading back.

"So many people, by the time it was my turn, this was all that's left, it'll have to do, eating too salty at night could cause swelling in the morning, the stage is important."

Taking a look inside the bags, their smiles instantly crumbled.

All traces of marinated seafood gone, replaced by green curried beef with buns, along with large skewers of grilled meat and wraps reminiscent of the Middle East.

The fragrance was indeed enticing, much more aromatic than any curry they've had before, and the spices in the grilled meat were also very alluring, but…

They really wanted to eat the marinated seafood!!

Wang Ziqin was on-site supervising, seeing the workers and girl groups frantically scrambling for food left him somewhat baffled.

Workers scrambling was fine, given they've done physical labor all day, but what's with these girl groups?

A total of five girl groups came, only one arrived a few days earlier, the rest only arrived within the day, theoretically they shouldn't have tasted Lin Chen's marinated seafood yet.

Indeed, the power of example is strong; it was only because of the actions of Yuqi and her group that she led two other groups to scramble too?

"Attention everyone, half-hour meal break, hurry up!"

With the scene like this, it's evidently impractical to continue rehearsing, everyone's minds aren't focused on work.

Wang Ziqin had no choice but to pick up a megaphone and shout, drawing cheers from the workers.

"Oh my, these seafood look really good!"

Of course, the girl groups wouldn't dine with the workers; they were arranged to the public tables in the food area.

Once the boxes of seafood were spread out on the table and opened, everyone couldn't help but swallow.

While most people were still taking photos with their phones, Yuqi's group of five had already started, not caring about any image issues, each holding a crab, slurping and savoring the taste.

Ningning briefly introduced to the members that this was southern Great Xia cuisine, then unable to contain her excitement, donned gloves and grabbed a plump blue crab, squeezing it hard.

The translucent crab meat flowed out like jelly, visible light brown juice trickling down the gloves, the crab meat was covered with onions, cilantro, sesame and such, extremely enticing.

"Gulp."

The three nearby had their eyes glued, someone unknown among them swallowed loudly, swiftly donning gloves, each reaching eagerly for the plump blue crabs.

"Huh?!"

"This sauce crab is surprisingly not salty, it's just right to eat plain!"

"With chopped onions inside, it tastes sweet; this cilantro doesn't have that odd taste, it's actually quite good."

"The crab meat here is really plump, and it doesn't have a fishy smell, is it the seasoning?"

"So it turns out you can marinate crabs without sweet chili sauce and salty soy sauce and they don't taste fishy. I think these marinated crabs taste better, they're not salty so you don't have to worry about swelling, and you can eat more at ease."

"Oh my!! This raw shrimp is also delicious!"

"It seems to have a light wasabi flavor, but it's not overwhelmingly spicy, so you can eat mouthfuls."

"You all need to try this mollusk meat, what kind of mollusk is this? I've never had such tender and springy sea snail meat!"

Clearly, they were a group of four, but they were chattering noisily like a group of ten. Several other groups nearby kept exclaiming and sighing, obviously mesmerized by the delicious marinated seafood.

As for whether the exclamations were real or fake, who knows.

"Ning!"

Karena looked incredulously at her with big, beautiful eyes: "How could you never tell us that the marinated crabs in Great Xia are so delicious! This is outrageous!"

"Uh... ah?"

Ningning scratched her cheek, feeling a bit embarrassed: "You all never asked, plus the raw marinated crabs aren't sold in Kimchi Country. I'm a Northerner, and this is more of a Southern dish, so it's normal that I didn't think of it, right?"

"Seems reasonable, I guess?"

Giselle suddenly raised her hand: "Hey, doesn't anyone want to try the curry? It smells pretty good."

"We don't have curry either... Ah! You're not thinking of going to trade for it, are you? No way, absolutely not!"

"These portions are mine, if you want to eat, use your own to trade. Of course, giving me a bite would be the best."

Karena and Jin Dongtian guarded their boxes in front of them as if protecting against thieves. Although Ningning didn't say anything, her secretly outstretched arms revealed her true thoughts.

"I was just casually asking, wow, you guys are something else."

Seeing their reaction, Giselle had to give up, forcibly suppressing the Sakura people's innate urge for curry.

It's not that she didn't want to trade with others, it's just that this seafood is truly delicious and there's not much of it, so she herself couldn't bear to trade it away.

"Ning!"

Yuqi's voice came from the neighboring table.

"Just between us, tomorrow and the day after, there will be head chefs setting up stalls here to sell food. How about we go together? The more the merrier, and there will be a wider variety of things to eat."

"Alright, I'll come if I don't have any plans!"

Their secret conversation was intercepted on the spot by Karena, who had studied Chinese from a young age and could still understand quite a few words, especially the key word 'eat'.

"Hey, hey, you guys are talking about food, right? Come on, spill the beans!"

"It's nothing really, it's just that tomorrow there will be head chefs setting up stalls here. It's likely the same chefs who make this marinated seafood. Yuqi asked me to come. Do we have any plans for tomorrow?"

"Nope!!"

"Then it's settled, we go together tomorrow!"

While everyone was busy wolfing down food, among the workers, two slender, shorter-than-average yellow-skinned men were quietly spreading curry beef on some flatbreads, sneaking glances at Wang Ziqin standing at the edge of the stage not far away.

The two exchanged silent glances, nodding to each other discreetly.

"Was it him we saw on the street last time?"

"That's him!"

"Yoshi, after wandering around here for weeks, we've finally caught a big fish."

"Mr. Takeuchi, when should we make a move?"

"No rush, let's wait until the Kite Festival is over. First, let's investigate his personal info and the intel on the people around him."

Standing at the edge of the stage, Wang Ziqin suddenly felt a chill down his back, shuddering unexpectedly as he puzzlingly looked around.

"Strange, why the sudden chill? It's not like the temperature's dropping."

He waved his hand a few times, and it seemed that the surrounding temperature was still warm. Unable to figure out where that chill came from, he just put it out of his mind.

Half an hour of dining passed quickly.

Everyone ate and drank their fill, their enthusiasm for work noticeably higher. Even the dance moves of the girl groups became particularly vigorous.

They didn't dare to finish everything at once because eating too much would affect their moves, so they saved a lot of food to enjoy after the rehearsal back at the hotel.

The night passed quickly.

At a little past four in the morning, Lin Chen already woke up on time, washed up, and went down to the restaurant around four-thirty, waiting for the delivery of ingredients.

Today, he ordered two cases of fresh chicken breast, which were slightly more expensive than frozen ones, all processed overnight from Shunfu Company's slaughterhouse.

Though they're pricier, they are worth it.

There's a significant taste difference between frozen and fresh meat, which you can immediately tell.

To fry chicken fillet that tastes even better than the one in memory, you'd naturally use fresh chicken breast.

[Ding, you have successfully redeemed the recipe: Snowflake Boneless Fried Chicken Fillet]