Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1003 - 490: Mime Performance (Part 3)

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This time two steps were taken towards the window, silently handing over the rice cake. Qin Luo eagerly received the plate, grabbed a piece of rice cake and stuffed it into her mouth again, continuing her mime performance.

Qin Huai signaled with his eyes for the helper to quickly prepare a few more plates of rice cakes and yam cakes. At the rate Qin Luo was wolfing them down, a plate of three rice cakes was only enough for her to eat for a minute. If they didn't refill soon, his sister would starve in the next minute.

The helper hurried to get to work.

Qin Huai reminded out loud, "Prepare a few more plates, let everyone have a taste."

Then Qin Huai looked at Zheng Siyuan, asking once again, "What do you think?"

Zheng Siyuan did not answer Qin Huai's question directly. Instead, he looked at Qin Huai and asked, "How do you do it?"

Zheng Siyuan felt that this question had come up in such a scene before, but it didn't matter. Each time, it was the question he most wanted to ask. He truly couldn't understand how Qin Huai could surpass his imagination time and time again.

How is this done?

"What are you referring to?" Qin Huai asked.

"It's the rice cake," Zheng Siyuan said, his expressionless face showing traces of astonishment-induced numbness. "Such a simple snack, you made it so simple, yet how did you manage to make this snack taste like what everyone imagines?"

People's imagination always embellishes reality. Imagination is beautiful because, before seeing the actual item, it exists in its most perfect form in your mind. But in most cases, perfection is confined to the imagination, and now someone has brought imagination into reality...

Zheng Siyuan couldn't resist and asked again, "How do you do it?"

Qin Huai didn't directly answer Zheng Siyuan's question. "Actually, Master Zheng can also make rice cakes of this level, so can Master Zhou, and the masters at Zhiwei Restaurant who are good at this type of snack likely can too."

"However, rice cakes are too common, too ordinary, even somewhat lowly in status, undeserving of a master chef's reputation built over many years. Besides, they don't usually enjoy making this type of snack, so they neither want to nor do they make it."

"But I'm different; I just love making these ordinary breakfast items," Qin Huai said. "When I was at Huang Ji before, Master Zheng and Master Huang said I needed to see more of the world, to transition from a breakfast chef to a pastry chef, and I did achieve that. But when I became a pastry chef, I still preferred making breakfast, which shows that deep down, I am a breakfast chef."

"I can't manage to wake up at two or three in the morning to make breakfast, but I am still willing to get up at four or five for it."

"Rice cakes and yam cakes are not difficult, but they're the type of snacks I am best at. I've learned so many complex snacks that when I truly want to practice, the first thing I think of is making steamed buns. When I feel my skills have improved and I want to showcase them to others, the first thing I think of is also making steamed buns."

"I'm not sure if Tan Wei'an told you, but I've been practicing dumplings lately. However, I feel that when I want to show you what I've learned in the past few months at Zhiwei Restaurant, it's still best to do it with steamed buns, rice cakes, and yam cakes."

Zheng Siyuan nodded, "I understand."

"These past few months at Yunzhong Restaurant, I originally wanted to practice Four Happiness Flower Rolls, but what I made the most was actually fresh meat mooncakes."

"You like steamed buns, I like fresh meat mooncakes. We each have our style and persist in it."

"But..." Zheng Siyuan's expression became nuanced and somewhat complicated. "I still want to ask, how do you do it?"

"Each time so much time passes without seeing you, your progress is astonishing."

Qin Huai recalled the video tutorials of Chen Qiusheng and Jiang Chengde that he had been diligently watching recently, sincerely saying, "The teachings from renowned teachers are truly useful."

Chen Qiusheng and Jiang Chengde even managed to teach Chen Sheng, the well-known fool, so their teaching abilities are unquestionable.

Zheng Siyuan heard the answer he wanted and echoed, "Indeed, Master Zhou truly deserves to be the number one pastry chef."

Chen An listened quietly to their conversation, involuntarily straightening his chest, with one sentence appearing in his mind:

Even the most ordinary breakfast chef in Yunzhong Restaurant, when speaking of Master Xiao Qin's craftsmanship and witnessing Master Xiao Qin's rival concede to him, would unconsciously straighten their chest.

Chen An took out his phone and silently sent a message to Tan Wei'an:

Master Tan, your worries won't come true. As soon as Master Xiao Qin returned, he regained control of Yunzhong Restaurant. Master Xiao Zheng has already surrendered. Yunzhong Restaurant will always be the most reliable haven for Master Xiao Qin!