Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1099 - 533: The Best Snacks Are Meant to Be Shared with Your Closest Ones (Part 2)

Except for Qin Huai.

Qin Huai didn't eat a single bite of the fermented rice with steamed buns from beginning to end.

"Qin Huai, why are you not eating?" Zhao Cheng'an asked after finishing off 5 buns in one go, hiccuping from being too full, and not daring to drink water for fear that a cup of water would swell the buns in his stomach, later discovering that Qin Huai hadn't eaten a single bun.

"I had an ultra-luxurious pig's foot rice for lunch, couldn't eat more," Qin Huai said.

Zhao Cheng'an: "…You made S-level fermented rice with steamed buns, and you still have the appetite for pig's foot rice?"

Qin Huai looked innocent: "When I was eating pig's foot rice, I didn't know I could make S-level fermented rice with steamed buns. I thought it would be at most A+."

"What are you planning to make now?"

"Four Happiness glutinous rice," Qin Huai said, "Among all the recipes I've figured out, Sister Hong's elm bark isn't reference material, the fermented rice with steamed buns has already broken through, locust flower buns… I don't have locust flower honey right now and will have to wait for Grandma Ding to get it for me."

"Longevity noodles can be made, but I'm not good at making chicken soup, and there isn't time to make it now, so forget it."

"The essence of dried tangerine peel tea is dried tangerine peel, white fungus, and lotus seed soup. To cook it to A+ level, I think at least master level fire control is needed, so I won't try."

"I have made apple dough balls to A+ level, but only with Master Huang's assistance. On my own, I feel like I could never reach A+ level in my life."

"The gastrodia stewed pigeon is out of the question, purely a meat cooking dish."

"Crab dumplings require fresh crab yellow, and we don't have crabs in the store right now, so we'll have to wait a couple of days. Three Meat Buns are already steaming in the steamer, we'll see the grade soon. Qu Jing's rice cake soup and sticky rice cake currently lack ingredients, and I used up the rice cake this morning."

"Stir-fried cabbage and meat is a meat cooking dish, and I can't make Qianhua Gongdeng Bun. While I can make vegetable and meat buns, they're a bit too simple, and the recipe isn't great, like your potato dumplings, so I'm planning to make them at the end."

"I can make pork and crab buns, as I've cooked a lot of crab yellow sauce recently. Also, lotus root powder balls can be made, but I'm not sure if the master level of dough affects them. Come to think of it, I haven't made lotus root powder balls in a while; if I hadn't looked at the recipe just now, I might've forgotten this snack."

Qin Huai started counting on his fingers: "I'll make Four Happiness glutinous rice now, then rice cakes, yam cakes, vegetable and meat buns, pork and crab buns, lotus root powder balls, coconut mooncakes, coconut jelly, papaya cakes, potato dumplings, and potato buns later."

"Oh dear, I can't keep talking to you, too many snacks to make and some have to be timed, or else Luoluo will be back from school, and the snacks won't all be done."

Zhao Cheng'an: ???

Why wait for Luoluo to come back from school? What role does Qin Luo have in these snacks?

Zhao Cheng'an didn't voice this question, and Qin Huai didn't answer it either, just focusing on making snacks without eating any.

Qin Huai made snacks the whole afternoon until evening business hours.

Many of the elderly couldn't eat more, having to choose selectively.

During these special occasions, Qin Huai always remembered the elder patrons of Yunzhong Restaurant, recognizing their longtime support for the restaurant and Qin Huai's snack-making business. No matter how many nearby convenience store owners who came by scent, white-collar workers playing hooky, or couriers running errands came, Qin Huai prioritized feeding the elders.

The elders ate until they could only slump in their chairs, both dizzy with a carb overload and savoring the taste, unable to take another bite, looking like stuffed seals.

Silver-haired seals.

Even Ouyang was stuffed.

Shi Dadan was the last one eating.

Wang Gen Sheng had checked out early, thick-skinnedly packing up several snacks he thought his wife and kids would love to take home.

Zhao Cheng'an, on the other hand, was like a curious little child, asking Qin Huai if each snack was S-grade every time it came out, questioning even when identical snacks were made. For a while, the ordinary employees in Yunzhong Restaurant's back kitchen couldn't tell if the boss's condition was serious or if Master Xiao Zhao's condition was worse.

Qin Huai knew why Zhao Cheng'an kept asking, because Qin Huai had made snacks all afternoon and hadn't made another S-grade snack.

Apparently, only the fermented rice with steamed buns was an exception, with the simplest steamed bun base being elevated to S-grade by the master level of dough through the addition of skillful fermented rice elements.

The other snacks, even plain steamed buns, couldn't reach that level.

Qin Huai also made a batch of plain steamed buns, which, though ungraded, Zhao Cheng'an could taste to determine the level.

According to Zhao Cheng'an, the plain steamed buns were definitely not S-grade; while delicious and undoubtedly top-notch steamed buns, there was an unbridgeable gap between them and the fermented rice with steamed buns.

The plain steamed buns were at most A+ level.

Actually, A+ level is already very high, but with the S-grade fermented rice with steamed buns setting a gem-like precedent, these A+ level snacks suddenly seemed less impressive.

And Qin Huai also didn't have many snacks reaching A+ level.

Besides the fermented rice with steamed buns, only the pork and crab buns and Three Meat Buns reached A+ level under Qin Huai's creations.

Most other snacks remained at A or A- level, with potato dumplings, potato buns, and vegetable and meat buns having inherent recipe shortcomings, only reaching B-level and B-.