Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 930 - 458: Where’s My Dinner?

Qin Huai said to make yam cake, and indeed he made only yam cake, spending the entire day making yam cake with "Chen Sheng" written on it, the kind that comes in large quantities to keep you full.

Qin Huai told Ling Guangzhao that he could freely sell the yam cake he made, just treat it as if Master Qin accidentally dropped snacks at Babaozhai, anyway, they only fell off on this day.

Ling Guangzhao didn't take Qin Huai's yam cakes to sell but instead gave them away to old customers of Babaozhai, VIP guests, and shops across Beiping with whom he had good relationships.

Since he was gifting them, he couldn't just simply put a few yam cakes in a plastic box and give them away. Babaozhai sells some gift-boxed dishes during holidays, and Ling Guangzhao pulled those gift boxes out, filling them all with yam cakes, giving it a sense similar to using a gift box priced at 188 to pack yam cakes priced at 8.8.

As for why "Chen Sheng" was written on the yam cakes, Qin Huai didn't explain to Zhao Cheng'an but gave Ling Guangzhao a standard answer.

Qin Huai told Ling Guangzhao that his family had a "Snack Encyclopedia" he purchased for a huge sum of one yuan at a flea market when he was in elementary school, which contains many precious snack recipes, most of the snacks Qin Huai knew came from studying the Snack Encyclopedia.

The recipe for this yam cake wasn't listed in the table of contents of the Snack Encyclopedia, but was tucked inside the book. When Qin Huai flipped to this recipe from the book, the paper it was written on had already turned yellow, evidently a recipe from many years ago.

Previously, Qin Huai couldn't make this yam cake because his skill level wasn't up to par and eventually forgot the recipe. Yesterday, in the hotel, Qin Huai suddenly remembered, found the single-page version of the recipe on his phone, studied it for an afternoon plus one evening, and finally experienced a flash of insight, thus borrowing Babaozhai's kitchen for the trial today. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Master Qin's cooking skills from the Snack Encyclopedia are a well-known story in Yunzhong District, at Huang Ji, and Zhiwei Restaurant, but at Babaozhai this was evidently a fresh tale, at least Ling Guangzhao hadn't heard of it.

Ling Guangzhao was dumbfounded.

He felt like he was witnessing the classic story where the protagonist falls off a cliff, finds a martial arts secret manual, and shocks the world after ten years of hard practice, coming to life at this moment.

Zhao Cheng'an was also dumbfounded and quietly asked Qin Huai after returning, "Didn't you say you were watching video tutorials? How did another recipe hidden in the Snack Encyclopedia come about?"

"There's both, there's both, Boss Ling hadn't heard my version of the Snack Encyclopedia story, so I artistically embellished it to give him a bit of a little Snack Encyclopedia shock." Qin Huai said, "When you ate the yam cake, weren't there any special insights?"

"What kind of special insights could there be?" Zhao Cheng'an opened the gift box he got from Babaozhai and picked up a piece of yam cake to eat.

Actually, he could directly pack it in a plastic box, or even use a plate to carry it back to the hotel, Ling Guangzhao wouldn't mind, but Zhao Cheng'an thought this gift box was particularly exquisite and really wanted it, so he insisted on taking a gift box.

"I just thought it tasted nice and was pretty good. Your yam cake isn't made to shake the heavens and move the gods, what should I feel?"

"You wouldn't want me to write an 800-word review after eating it, would you? I heard Tan Wei'an said that during the time you made Four Happiness glutinous rice, you especially liked to have others write reviews after eating. Those elderly folks in your district wrote small essays, each longer than the other. Let me tell you, I can't do that, I've never been fond of writing essays since I was a child."

Zhao Cheng'an ate one piece after another and, in the blink of an eye, devoured half a box of yam cake.

Qin Huai saw that Zhao Cheng'an hadn't uncovered any sort of side quest after eating all day, and knew it was unlikely to extract the final task from Zhao Cheng'an and gain the last dream segment.

Qin Huai casually moved the gift box over to his side, picked up a piece of yam cake, and asked, "Looking forward to dining at Fen Garden tomorrow?"

"Of course, I'm looking forward to it!"

"It's Fen Garden, 18,000 per person, I've never eaten something so expensive in my life. You'll probably skip breakfast and lunch tomorrow, right? Well, I'm not planning to eat anything tomorrow. Tomorrow night, I definitely want to show off in my social circles, it's just that I don't know what dishes will be offered in the set menu."

"Mr. Xia said there would definitely be signature dishes like Nine-Turned Pork Intestines or Sweet and Sour Carp, but the Clay Pot Shark Fin and Clear Soup Willow Leaf Bird's Nest, I don't dare to expect. If they could give us an extra dish of Braised Sea Cucumber with Scallion or Oil-Burst Double Crisp, I'd be content."

"This is the craftsmanship of a chef ranked in the top 10 of the Chef Record, my master didn't even make it into the top 30, I can't even imagine how delicious the culinary skills of the top 10 would be."

Qin Huai: ...

He couldn't imagine if this conversation was recorded and played back for Master Zhou, whether Zhao Cheng'an would still be able to dine at Fen Garden tomorrow.

Qin Huai himself didn't mind eating a meal for two alone, although he didn't have the appetite of Qin Luo, Ouyang, or Shi Dadan, but when necessary, Qin Huai could eat.

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The next day, Qin Huai very rarely slept in, not waking until the sun was high.

When Qin Huai woke up, Zhao Cheng'an had already risen, sitting on the sofa knocking on a cyber wooden fish, praying to a cyber Guanyin statue, and murmuring to ask Buddha for blessings, to bless the follower tonight to open the blind box to reveal Clay Pot Shark Fin.

Look, still wanted to eat Clay Pot Shark Fin.

"Is Mr. Xia's Clay Pot Shark Fin really that delicious?" Qin Huai asked puzzledly, "Better than Braised Shark Fin?"

Qin Huai had eaten the most extravagant style of Braised Shark Fin at Cao Guixiang's house, Braised Shark Fin mixed with rice, an indulgent method that countless gourmets would angrily scold Qin Huai for, learned from Zhang Zhiyun.