Chapter 414: Chapter 326: All Positive Reviews, Potential for Maruwan Market Expansion

"Am I seeing things, or why is there a white meatball bouncing on the ground like a bouncy ball?"

The few who were originally interested in Helena’s voluptuous and charming back quickly shifted their attention to that white meatball.

"Did anyone see this kind of meatball when getting the ingredients just now?"

"Didn’t see it, but I heard there’ll be meatballs served at lunch."

"I’ve never heard of meatballs bouncing so high on the ground, and it bounced several times in a row — could it actually be a white bouncy ball instead?"

Just as the few were puzzled, the young guy suddenly yelled ’Ow’ and lunged forward, grabbing the squid meatball about to roll onto the floor.

"Excuse me, miss, where can I find a wash basin around here?"

"Uh?"

Helena, with both hands holding trays, instinctively tilted her chin: "Outside from the side door to the left, there’s a wash basin."

"Thanks!"

The young guy sprinted towards the side door, turned on the faucet to clean the meatball, and then flipped it straight into his mouth.

"????"

"Holy... Crab?!"

"He ate it, oh my gosh, he ate it!!"

"He’s chewing it!!"

Witnessing this scene, the jaws of the guests dropped to the ground, disbelief written all over their faces.

Helena quickly put down the dirty tray, ran a few steps to the door, and sure enough, saw the young guy chewing, eyes gleaming like searchlights.

"Sir, you weren’t supposed to..."

"It’s all good, it’s all good, no wasting food, right! Anyway, I have to go now!"

Seeing her, a wary look flashed across the young man’s face and disappeared quickly, he turned and ran as if afraid the beauty would ask him to spit it out.

Helena blinked her eyes, seemed to have thought of something, then turned her gaze towards the entrance to the kitchen.

"Could it be... Chef Lin’s new dish?"

Though eager to rush into the kitchen immediately, her professional etiquette as a server held her impulse in check.

"It’s work time now, can’t leave my post without permission, there are still hundreds of guests waiting for my service."

"Oh, how great it would be to be on Chef Lin’s team."

...

After a busy day.

Lin Chen gathered his team members and gave a brief summary, highly praising Zhao Shun and Chen Dongliang.

"The two of you performed excellently today, but I have other arrangements for tomorrow, the food truck will be gone, you two will stay in the kitchen to prepare breakfast and lunch, take ten minutes to discuss tomorrow’s menu and report to me."

Zhao Shun and Chen Dongliang, who barely slept a few hours last night, now had heavy dark circles but still struggled to stay awake.

The time difference is tough, naturally making it hard to endure, only high-intensity work allows them to quickly adapt to the schedule here.

While the two were discussing tomorrow’s dishes, Lin Chen had already opened his laptop, logged into the wholesale platform, and was teaching them how to use the website.

Through the day’s trial, he found that handmade meatballs and machine-made ones, though different in texture, aren’t much different for those who haven’t tasted them. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

And the preparation time between the two is at least several hours apart.

After careful consideration, he finally decided to abandon handmade production in favor of using machines to save workload.

If relying on manual pounding, he alone will definitely not be enough; at least Zhao Shun, Old Chen, Dais, and Elsa should be added, working until late to complete preparations.

This would exhaust everyone and affect work the next day, which is really unnecessary.

There’s no need for him to order materials to make meatballs, they are directly provided by John, as for squid, let Boss Magna take a run, that guy now couldn’t be happier to sneak out and Dodge chores, corrupted by John in just half a day.

After giving instructions, he clapped his hands signaling everyone to disperse, only leaving Zhao Shun and Old Chen to discuss dishes in the restaurant.

Both were deeply moved by Lin Chen’s full trust, despite physical fatigue, neither had any intention to slack off, even considering whether to do some preparations again that night before going to rest.

"Impossible, we can’t do buns again tomorrow, making buns is too labor-intensive, and preparation takes long, we need to think of something quick to prepare and cook, yet tasty."

"Right, I’m getting old, can’t pull all-nighters; didn’t expect the real restaurant operation mode to be so unlike our small diner."

"You can’t really call it a restaurant operation mode, have you ever seen any restaurant that’s food truck oriented? Tomorrow using the kitchen counts as a real restaurant mode, we can refer to domestic buffet dishes..."

The two were busy discussing while Lin Chen quickly returned to his room.

No time to waste, he’d even held it in all afternoon!

While busy experimenting with meatball making that afternoon, he received a system notification about the settlement of the crab tofu video he shot last time.

The rewards for this task are currently completely unknown, purely depending on the number of views the video gets.

Since it’s his first time appearing on camera, and also promoting Great Xia’s culinary culture, he felt like he was carrying a sense of national cultural heritage, a sense of mission on his shoulders.

This led him to not dare click in to look when he saw the settlement notification, afraid that his emotions would fluctuate too much and affect his work.

"Phew... Whatever, the worst that can happen is just a Recipe Exchange Coupon, what’s there to be afraid of? Anything more is a bonus!"

He quickly adjusted his mindset, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and used his mind to open the system notification.

[Notice of Settlement for the Revived National Banquet Famous Dishes Challenge...]

He skipped a series of text in the middle directly and his gaze fell on the last line.

[Total views across the internet in twenty-four hours is 1.83 million, with domestic video views at 760,000, reduced by tenfold to 76,000, with a final valid view count of 1.146 million.]

[Congratulations, you’ve received the following rewards: Recipe Exchange Coupon *5, Food Truck Upgrade Card *2, Food Truck Challenge Card *3, Potion Fragment *1]

"......"

After seeing the reward contents clearly, his mind went blank for a moment, and he froze on the spot.

This is the first time a task has given so many rewards, at least equivalent to the amount given for completing four or five regular tasks or three challenge tasks.

Even disregarding other rewards, they even gave the last piece of Potion Fragment!!

It was simply an unexpected surprise!

He even felt like he didn’t want to set up his stall for tomorrow... wait!

When this thought popped up, he suddenly realized a problem.

The last piece of Potion Fragment has been obtained, so is the Potion Fragment rewarded by the round slippery challenge still useful?

If it is useful, doesn’t that mean his previous guess was completely wrong?

If it isn’t useful, doesn’t that mean he’s wasting three Challenge Cards for just some cash rewards?

Thinking about this, he immediately pulled up the task list and opened the details page of the round slippery challenge.

Sure enough, the rewards remained the same as before without any changes.

Lin Chen frowned and thought for a moment, always feeling like something was off.

His keen sixth sense had never failed him, and it definitely wouldn’t this time either.

"Could it be... I need to exchange and consume the Potion for my physical state to update?"

Very likely!

Without much hesitation, he immediately used three Potion Fragments to exchange for the last bottle of Stamina Potion, and tipped his head back to down it.

The Stamina Potion enhances heart-lung function and full-body endurance, in simple terms, it strengthens the heart and lungs, increases the size and robustness of blood vessel walls, and develops slow-twitch muscle fibers throughout the body.

Slow-twitch muscle fibers are the kind trained by professions like long-distance runners; they look slim but have strong endurance.

Fast-twitch muscle fibers are the kind of muscle trained in gyms, strong in explosiveness, but unable to sustain for long.

Feeling the warm liquid wrapping around his entire body, powerful heartbeats echoed in his ears, beating like a drum, the blood flow speed in his veins gradually increasing.

In just a few seconds, his clothes were completely soaked with sweat, and even the bed sheets were wet in a big patch.

"Damn, if I had known I would sweat, I wouldn’t have sat on the bed!"

He looked at the obvious wet patch on the sheets, covered his face with several eye rolls, and quickly pulled them off to soak in the bathtub, then called housekeeping to come and take them away, and replace with new ones.

Fortunately, there was no one else in the room, and there was no strange smell, plus he was covered in sweat, which made housekeeping think this Head Chef was just working out in the room and accidentally dirtied the sheets.

Once housekeeping left, Lin Chen immediately reopened the round slippery challenge task page.

[If all three challenge requirements are met at the time of settlement, it is considered a challenge success, and rewards include Recipe Exchange Coupon *1, Skill Experience Card *1, and a bonus of 3,000 Euros]

"Skill Experience Card????"

What is that?

He really wanted to click in to see the specific effects of the item, but because he hadn’t gotten it yet, only a title was there, and he couldn’t click, so he had to give up.

"Oh well, I can get it by tomorrow after setting up the stall anyway. Based on today’s reactions from Head Chef Nagishiro Sho and colleagues, the popularity of the balls definitely exceeds my expectations."

"If sales go well, maybe in the future, I can mass-produce them, set up a factory, and hire people to make these."

"But the problem is, supermarkets also sell these ready-made balls, and they are from big companies. It’s unrealistic to crush them on price, and they have dedicated R&D teams for flavor. If I do it myself, the only advantage is freshness."

"How can I succeed in a market where others didn’t?"

"But it’s possible they focused mainly on the domestic market and didn’t pay much attention to overseas expansion, only supplying local supermarkets here."

He wasn’t particularly optimistic, instead, he calmed down quickly.

"Oh well, we’ll deal with future problems when they come. One step at a time, let’s plan for tomorrow first."