Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 684 - 351: Spicy Hotpot-Style Rice Cake Soup (Part 2)
The school also thinks the parent-child kitchen activity is great. It’s not necessary to evaluate it like talent shows such as crafting or creativity to determine a first, second, or third place; the awards can help a lot to make things smooth.
Therefore, everyone is passing around the word that next semester’s activity will still be the parent-child kitchen.
Chen Huihong feels she’s up for it again.
Although she hasn’t made any snacks since the last event, Chen Huihong feels she still has quite a knack for making snacks. This time, she doesn’t want to trouble Qin Huai, after all, she can’t squeeze out any side quests from her end anymore—
She wants to trouble Qu Jing.
She thinks rice cake soup is very suitable for a parent-child kitchen.
First of all, many children like to eat rice cakes.
Secondly, rice cake soup is easy to make, even if you have just hands on it. A few days ago, Qu Jing had a big mishap cooking rice cake soup, and Chen Huihong specifically went over to taste it. She felt that even though it turned out like that, it still tasted okay, not so bad that it’s hard to swallow.
To confirm her suspicions, Chen Huihong even took that pot of rice cake soup for Luo Jun to taste. Although Luo Jun cursed, he didn’t curse too vigorously, at least he didn’t splash the rice cake soup onto Chen Huihong’s face, suggesting that even if rice cake soup goes wrong, it still wouldn’t taste terribly bad.
Chen Huihong thinks rice cake soup is worth a try.
Lastly, rice cake soup is very inclusive.
Rice cake soup doesn’t have to contain only rice cakes; many other things can be added. Carrots, greens, fish balls, crab sticks, chicken fillets, tofu, beancurd skin, and a range of hot pot ingredients can all be added to it. You can cook it into a hot pot and claim it’s a hot pot with rice cakes; anyway, no one knows what Chen Huihong is actually trying to make.
Chen Huihong thinks her idea is absolutely brilliant, how easy is it to cook hot pot, and children like Chen Huixi’s age rarely dislike it.
Qin Huai responded to this: ?
So are you really planning to cook rice cake soup or hot pot? Rice cake soup is just your excuse; hot pot is your real goal, right?
Qin Huai walked into Luo Jun’s house with a puzzled face at last.
Chen Huihong has the key to Luo Jun’s house, so she doesn’t need to knock or ring the doorbell to enter; she just opens the door.
When they walk in, Luo Jun is sitting on the sofa watching TV as usual. When he sees Qin Huai, he merely throws him a glance and doesn’t say much.
Qin Huai hears movement in the kitchen, as if someone is cooking something.
Just as Qin Huai turns his head toward the kitchen, the kitchen door opens. Qu Jing is wearing an apron and holding a spatula, looking a bit flustered, and in a place where Qin Huai can’t see, Luo Jun rolls his eyes helplessly.
"Sister Hong, I added radish, lettuce, kelp, beancurd skin, tofu, lobster balls, fish balls, shrimp balls, purple sweet potato balls, fish fillets, and crab sticks to the rice cake soup as you said, but I feel the taste is more like... the hotchpotch our hospital cafeteria cooks for lunch." Qu Jing’s face shows a half-innocent, half-helpless expression, looking towards Chen Huihong for assistance.
Chen Huihong also reveals a confused expression: "How could it be like this?"
Luo Jun rolls his eyes grandly again, but unfortunately no one is looking at him.
Qu Jing lowers her head: "I don’t know either, maybe I added the wrong things or should use other seasoning packets, the rice cakes are almost boiled into mush."
Chen Huihong attempts to calmly analyze: "I don’t think it’s..."
Luo Jun finally can’t take it anymore and yells, "It’s not, Chen Huihong are you nuts?"
"Even if you are nuts, how is your insanity contagious now? Cooking hot pot with rice cake soup, and you come up with this stuff, is this for people to eat? Compared to your culinary brain, the convenience store at our community entrance might be more adept at boiling tea eggs."
"And you, Qu Jing, do you have to listen to everything Chen Huihong says? Haven’t you woken up? Don’t you have your own judgment ability? You know how to cook, right? Although what you cook is not that great, it’s at least better than Chen Huihong?"
"Should you trust yourself in cooking or listen to Chen Huihong, do you not even have the judgment for this? I think you shouldn’t work in your hospital’s neurology department, you should first get yourself checked in neurology to see if you’ve got brain issues at a young age."
"And both of you, doesn’t your home have a kitchen? Must you come and mess up my kitchen? Cooking this kind of thing in my kitchen is inauspicious, especially you, Chen Huihong, last time you came with a pot to my place, this time you are directly cooking here, right?"
"And you, Qin Huai!"
Qin Huai: ???
Is there a role for him in this drama, does he also have to take this scolding?
"Even though you’re a professional chef, can you tolerate such things being cooked in front of you? What about your professional integrity? Your professional ethics? Your pursuit? Your quality?"
Qin Huai: "...I... I just arrived."
"Hmph." Luo Jun snorts coldly, no longer launching indiscriminate attacks, "The cut fruits are on the top layer of the fridge, go get them yourself."
"Let’s talk, what’s up with Dang Kang."
Seeing the tea talk is about to begin, Qu Jing hurriedly runs back to the kitchen to turn off the fire on the stove. Chen Huihong instinctively goes to the kitchen to get the fruits, and also takes some nuts from the cabinet, showing she’s quite familiar with how food is arranged in Luo Jun’s house.
Luo Jun pauses the TV show, gets up, and sits at the dining table. Qin Huai takes the chance to glance at the TV show, realizing that Luo Jun indeed has changed his taste and started watching period dramas lately.
Qu Jing sincerely serves four bowls of super luxurious plus version rice cake soup, one for each person.
Looking at the overfilled ingredients in the bowl, the bland color, and the rice cakes truly cooked into mush, Qin Huai suddenly understands why Luo Jun just indiscriminately cursed people.
He can only say that Luo Jun indeed has cultivated himself for a period, enduring until now to unleash his pent-up frustrations.
Cooking it in his house is one thing, but making him eat it, how can it not be considered elder abuse?
This stuff somehow manages to let Qu Jing and Chen Huihong discuss it, showing that Qu Jing is truly led astray by Chen Huihong.
Qin Huai pretends not to see the bowl in front of him, picks up a banana to eat while discussing his analysis and the news he heard today.
He also repeats the question he just asked Chen Huihong.
Then, to avoid eating the rice cake soup, Qin Huai suddenly gets up and flashes into the kitchen, indicating that he’s said all he can, and now it’s up to everyone to freely discuss while he listens while making Four Happiness glutinous rice in the kitchen.
Qu Jing frowns sincerely and tries every ingredient in the bowl one by one, saying to Chen Huihong that this rice cake soup is indeed harder to eat than the hotchpotch at their hospital cafeteria.
Qin Huai is in the kitchen cutting dried fruit.
Chen Huihong quietly whispers to Qu Jing to just stop eating since it’s just too unpalatable, and she feels it’s quite bad too, then goes silent, leaving the stage to Luo Jun.
Although Luo Jun can’t make sense of his own ordeal, when it comes to analyzing spirits, he remains quite professional. Whenever it comes to this, it’s always Luo Jun who speaks first.
Luo Jun doesn’t even look at the rice cake soup duo, directly turns to face the kitchen, almost asking Qin Huai, "You think Dang Kang’s ordeal is easy?"
Qin Huai is still cutting dried fruit, finding it much easier than before since his knife skills reached Intermediate level.
"It’s relatively easy, I guess." Qin Huai says, "I believe his obsession is not something unresolvable, truly speaking, I think he is quite unfortunate."
"You feel that way because he hasn’t told you the truth." Luo Jun says bluntly.
Qin Huai: !
Chen Huihong: !!
Qu Jing: !!!
"Huh?" Qin Huai is bewildered, considering himself somewhat a master of lies, and his Lie Master level progress bar is already halfway through, his ability to identify lies is quite good.
Qin Huai carefully recalls what Shi Dadan told him, thinking he probably wasn’t lying, he is truly quite naive by nature, with a bit of cleverness but not much: "It shouldn’t be, I feel he wasn’t lying."
"It may not necessarily be a lie, maybe there’s something he didn’t want to tell you." Luo Jun says, "After all, you can’t look into his memory."
At this point, Luo Jun feels very dissatisfied: "If it weren’t for your crappy system that can view our memories without our consent, do you think I would tell you the truth?"
Qin Huai: ...
Sorry about that, Mr. Luo.
But it’s not entirely the system’s fault, it’s because you haven’t woken up, right? If you were awake, it wouldn’t be able to see your memory.
