Her Food Livestream Broke the Galaxy

Chapter 299: Everyone’s Qiuqiu Is Back Again

Once the competition began, Jiang Qiuqiu brought out the star of today’s show: tofu.

The shop owner must have been making tofu for some time. Jiang Qiuqiu had looked at the customer reviews and saw that this shop’s tofu was constantly improving. It had started out a bit crumbly, but now it was a very successful commercial product.

The slightly yellowish block of firm tofu rested quietly on the cutting board. Dicing tofu wasn’t difficult; you just had to grip the knife handle tightly and let your eyes guide the blade along imaginary lines. First, she sliced it into planks, then made intersecting horizontal and vertical cuts. In no time, Jiang Qiuqiu had diced the large block into perfectly uniform cubes.

Jiang Qiuqiu moved from one block to the next with hardly a pause. When she used the flat of her blade to scoop the cubes into a bowl, she didn’t break a single one.

Such meticulous knife work was a delight to watch, no matter how many times you’d seen it.

The tofu was quickly prepped. Jiang Qiuqiu then brought out the accompanying ingredients for the day: a roughly three-kilogram cut of Bibi Beast Meat. She held the meat up to the camera for a close-up. "Tofu is a very versatile food," she explained. "It can be paired with many different things."

"During the cooking process, we can add some meat." As she spoke, her sharp cleaver danced across the cutting board. In a wide shot, the large cut of meat quickly broke down. Jiang Qiuqiu then gave the meat another close-up. "Today, we’re going to add diced meat to our tofu."

"You don’t want to chop it into a complete mince, with no texture left. It’s important to keep it as coarse-diced meat. This way, when you add it to the tofu, it not only infuses the dish with its savory juices but also provides a richer, more complex texture."

[Maybe it’s just because it’s been so long, but we’re only at this step and I’m already drooling. It looks so delicious...]

[Say no more. I’m already hypnotized. Just seeing her hands makes me hungry!]

[Long time no see! We missed you so much!]

[+1 on the nostalgia]

Once the topic of nostalgia came up, the screen was instantly flooded with countless comments from people reminiscing about her various dishes.

Ever since Jiang Qiuqiu had started recovering from her injury, not only had her livestreams stopped, but even her daily shop window had been suspended.

For everyone who had made a habit of watching her, this made them feel incredibly antsy every evening. Though it had only been half a month, it felt like half a year.

Jiang Qiuqiu saw the screen filling with nostalgic comments and said with a smile, "You won’t have to miss it for much longer. In another half hour, we’ll be able to dig right in."

With all the ingredients prepped, Jiang Qiuqiu turned on the stove.

The flames quickly licked away the moisture in the wok. Jiang Qiuqiu poured in a little vegetable oil, and once it was slightly heated, she tossed in the peppers she had prepared earlier.

"Before we start on the tofu, let’s prep the peppers," she said. "There’s really no secret to frying peppers. You just use low heat and stir-fry them constantly, waiting for them to slowly turn from red to a light brown."

Once the high heat has driven out the peppers’ moisture and made their skins slightly crisp, the first step is complete.

Since most interstellar people don’t handle spicy food well, Jiang Qiuqiu had deliberately used more meat this time and chosen a milder variety of pepper, adapting the flavor to local tastes.

She poured the light-brown peppers onto her cutting board, took her cleaver, and pressed down lightly, flattening the once-plump little chilies. Then she chopped them up and set them aside in a dish.

With that, all the prep work was complete.

Jiang Qiuqiu moved the bowl of tofu next to the wok. She added several large spoonfuls of oil—a generous amount—and as the temperature began to rise, under the watchful eyes of hundreds of millions of viewers—

—the first thing to hit the wok wasn’t the tofu, but the coarsely diced meat.

The meat hit the oil and was seared almost instantly. The high heat immediately released its tantalizing aroma. Jiang Qiuqiu added a large spoonful of ginger-garlic water and the chopped peppers. The fragrant steam billowed from the wok, and amid that familiar SIZZLE, the culinary feast belonging to Jiang Qiuqiu and all her fans had returned.