Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1062 - 518: The Unexpectedly Completed Quest (Part 2)

Don't say, the filling that An Youyou mentioned is indeed a standard bun filling, it should taste quite good in a bun. Slightly fatty minced meat mixed with potatoes and cabbage, stir-fried for aroma, wrapped in bun dough and steamed, until the potato cubes are soft, somewhere between potato cubes and mashed potatoes, and the meat juice soaks into the bun skin...

Just thinking about it makes it delicious.

It's no wonder that An Youyou's family's breakfast shop does well in their town, although her dad likes to skimp on ingredients causing some food safety issues, the concept of making buns is decent, much better than ordinary bun shops.

Following the bun filling idea, Qin Huai unintentionally made it into a real bun filling. Since it was already made into bun filling, he thought he might as well make some potato and cabbage buns, and wrapped a batch of buns based on the potato and cabbage dumplings.

The same batch of filling was used to make both buns and dumplings, Qin Huai could be said to have made history again by making a decision that goes against tradition. Luckily, Zheng Siyuan had already returned to Gusu, or else seeing this might have made him question life again.

After making what An Youyou wanted to eat, Qin Huai followed the planned recipe to prepare the filling. Time was tight this morning, so Qin Huai planned to make only potato dumplings and wait until after 7 o'clock to make other breakfasts.

Currently, these potato dumplings fillings are quite normal, and the taste isn't bad. The green jujube only had potato dumplings and sticky rice cakes, which wasn't too unfair to the elderly on their morning jogs.

As Qin Huai wrapped the dumplings, the potato and cabbage dumplings were the first to come out of the pot.

An Youyou scooped out the dumplings one by one, blew on them for half a minute, eagerly ate the first one, and unsurprisingly, made a painful expression.

An Youyou just loves eating potato dumplings, her taste is still normal, with a normal person's pursuit and aesthetic for taste.

"Not tasty, right?" Qin Huai laughed, "Bun filling and dumpling filling shouldn't be confused, bun filling needs to be oily, but dumpling filling being so oily doesn't work."

"Why?" An Youyou was puzzled.

"To put it simply, it's because buns are steamed, dumplings are boiled, their cooking methods are different, the dough is different, so naturally the requirements for the filling are also different. Even for pork, different parts are used for bun filling and dumpling filling, as for why exactly..."

"You study it yourself for a few days, Youyou, you've watched me for so long. You've learned kneading dough, chopping filling, and actually learned to mix filling, learning cooking can't just be about watching, you need space to think for yourself."

"Consider this as homework I'm giving you, when you hand it in is up to you, just tell me when you've figured it out."

An Youyou didn't expect that after not studying for so many years, she'd have to hand in homework, she suddenly felt like the sky was falling, for a moment she didn't even want to inherit Yunzhong Restaurant in the future.

Just know, if she had even a tiny bit of a love for studying, she wouldn't just have a junior high school diploma.

Qin Huai originally wanted to encourage An Youyou to eat a few bites of sticky rice cake to boost her motivation, but judging by her current state, Qin Huai felt she wasn't quite suitable for eating it now.

The sticky rice cake buff is indeed good, but it's a double-edged sword, eating it well doubles work/study efficiency, eating it poorly leads to a double debuff of slacking off.

An Youyou had been working hard before, but whether or not she worked hard depends on the eater's own heart. Qin Huai was confident that if he ate it, it'd definitely be an efficiency boost, and had confidence in Zhao Cheng'an's slacking off buff, but as for Qin Luo and Ouyang, Qin Huai had to have doubts.

Qin Luo was a strong candidate for the slacking off buff before, but given her good learning performance during the summer, Qin Huai felt his sister might have the potential to awaken, work hard, study diligently, rise as the underdog, and create a tale of a struggling student overturning her fate.

As for Ouyang, he worked diligently for a while before, truly living and breathing work, but now he's downright slacking.

An Youyou was previously a definite candidate for the working buff, but now her aversion to studying has exploded, Qin Huai felt she might trigger the slacking off buff, so not eating was safer.

"Youyou, the buns should be done." Qin Huai reminded.

"Oh, oh." An Youyou quickly put on gloves and lifted the steamer lid, with the steam rising, a plate of potato and cabbage-filled big buns with thin skin and lots of filling also brightened as they came out.

Perhaps the previous potato and cabbage dumplings hurt An Youyou too deeply, she wasn't quite interested in the potato and cabbage buns either, didn't blow on them, just let them cool on a plate for a good few minutes, thinking the temperature was right before taking one and biting into it.

While biting, An Youyou asked Qin Huai a question: "Master Qin, why do you add sesame oil to every filling you mix?"

"Because it tastes good," Qin Huai answered with a truism, "It's a personal habit of chefs, some like to add sesame oil, like me. Some rarely add it, like Tan Wei'an, he's the one who's been guiding you, he probably doesn't add sesame oil much when mixing fillings, right?"

An Youyou nodded.

"It's a habit and also a style, each chef is different, and later, you'll have your own style too. For now, just learn, and you don't have to learn everything in the same way, just learn what you want to and like. If you think Tan Wei'an's method is better, learn from him, if you think mine is better, learn from me. Of course, I'm not trying to praise one and criticize the other, although Tan Wei'an has a good foundation, he's been quite lazy these past few years, be sure to judge and sift when learning from him."

An Youyou chewed on the bun, didn't speak, and didn't nod either.

This action was somewhat unusual, as An Youyou was always the one who nodded very quickly, whether she understood or not, she'd just nod first.

Qin Huai thought this might be a habit she developed when studying, not understanding in class, but not wanting others to find out, neither asking questions, just constantly nodding in agreement.

Qin Huai looked up at An Youyou, found her in a daze, or rather thinking, but was thinking to the point of looking dazed.

Qin Huai didn't quite understand, what was there to think about, did he say anything worth pondering?

Wasn't he just purely criticizing Tan Wei'an just now?

The next second, a game notification sounded in Qin Huai's mind.

"Ding, congratulations to the player for discovering a new side quest, please check the game panel."

Oh!

Qin Huai didn't hesitate, directly opened the game panel in the air, and began to review the task.

This was his own kitchen, he was the boss, he could do whatever he wanted.

The new side quest was a series task of potato dumplings.

[Potato Dumpling 2]: Surprising, right? It's not only Wang Gen Sheng who's fond of potato dumplings, but also An Youyou. An Youyou actually hasn't eaten potato dumplings, only had potato buns, but she always thought she had eaten them, seemingly in a dream. It was an incredibly beautiful, fragrant, and warm taste from potato dumplings, originally a fleeting dream, but after eating potato dumplings yesterday, An Youyou longed for this elusive taste very much. Please fulfill An Youyou's wish by letting her taste the flavor in her dream.

Task reward: [A Piece of An Youyou's Dream]

This was the first side quest related to An Youyou that Qin Huai had drawn, and just as he planned to read the task details again for comprehension, the task interface suddenly changed.

Or rather, it switched pages.

Meanwhile, the game notification sounded again in Qin Huai's mind.

"Ding, congratulations to the player for completing the side quest [Potato Dumpling 2], you have received the task reward: [A Piece of An Youyou's Dream]."

Qin Huai: ?

??

???

What the heck? He hadn't even started doing any task comprehension yet, hadn't shared the specific task details in the [Loving Family] group chat, hadn't followed any procedure, and the task was completed?

Does this make sense?

How was it completed?

What did An Youyou eat? Didn't she just eat a potato and cabbage dumpling and a potato and cabbage bun, is this task that easy to complete?

Did you game systems realize that all the tasks related to An Youyou were too difficult on the main storyline, so you fixed the bug of excessive task difficulty by randomly handing out an easy task?

Did you have any respect for the player when handing out tasks?

At least wait for me to share the task in the group chat before completing, doing it this way leaves the protagonist of a systems story feeling quite uninvolved.

It doesn't feel like a protagonist anymore.

If this continues, readers will start complaining.

Do you know how game systems work? A game system with no customer service and no feedback channels.