Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 726 - 367: [Crab Roe Pork Bun A-level]

While eating shaomai, Qin Huai casually scooped a spoonful of the cooked meat filling for Pei Xing, asking how it tasted.

"It’s truly delicious!"

Pei Xing said so.

A pure flattery, with no reference value whatsoever.

Qin Huai pointed out a few persistent issues Pei Xing had with the shaomai, habitually drawing a big picture, encouraging Pei Xing to keep working hard, striving to become a better snack master, and then continuing to make buns.

The filling was ready, only wrapping was left.

Before wrapping the buns, Qin Huai hesitated a little.

Even though the memory of Xu Nuo had been very clear: when the technique is sufficient, you can integrate; when it’s not, leaving it as is is also a feature, Qin Huai actually always had doubts.

Really, just leave it completely? Leave the final bun product as it is? Shi Dadan said Xu Nuo’s first buns were particularly delicious, he ate a lot, but Shi Dadan’s standards for eating were not high at that time, especially for the main meals. He could eat twenty or thirty plain buns, let alone big pork buns.

After hesitating for two minutes, Qin Huai walked out of the kitchen and found Shi Dadan, who was happily playing on his phone by the window.

"Old Shi, I want to ask you a question." Qin Huai said, glancing at Shi Dadan’s phone.

Shi Dadan’s phone didn’t have a privacy screen protector and the brightness was maxed out, so you could see the screen at a glance.

It seemed to be a house-buying interface.

He wanted to buy a house.

"You’re buying a house?" Qin Huai asked in surprise.

"Xiao Qin, is this what you wanted to ask? Yeah, Old Luo doesn’t like me living in his house, I might as well buy a house directly, anyway your community’s houses aren’t too expensive."

"Not too expensive."

Indeed, the financially free Dang Kang is different.

"That’s not what I wanted to ask, I just happened to see it inadvertently." Qin Huai quickly explained, "There was a question I forgot to ask you on the way here, you must have eaten a lot of Xu Nuo’s Crab Roe Meat Bun, right?"

Shi Dadan nodded: "Back then Xu Nuo was quite well-off, he liked making snacks and Mr. Xu knew and didn’t oppose it, so I’ve eaten a lot."

"Probably over 160 buns."

Look at Shi Dadan’s way of calculating, normal people remember how many times they’ve eaten, only he remembers how many pieces he had.

Assuming more than 20 buns per time, Xu Nuo made at least 6-7 times Crab Roe Meat Buns.

"So did the taste of those buns not differ, or did it get tastier, or were the later ones much better than the first ones?" Qin Huai continued to ask.

Shi Dadan laughed at Qin Huai’s question, and looked at Qin Huai like are you getting infected by me and losing your smarts, and said: "Of course the later ones were better."

"The last time Xu Nuo made Crab Roe Meat Buns, they were especially tasty, he said he understood something. Then he made Crab Roe Fish Buns, Crab Roe Chicken Buns, Crab Roe Duck Buns, but none were as tasty as the Pork Buns."

"I think he wanted to study Double Crab Bun himself, but he only heard the recipe once and couldn’t figure it out, so he bought it in the end. At that time, 1000 yuan was really expensive, my annual salary plus bonus might not have been that much, if Xu Nuo really couldn’t figure it out himself, he wouldn’t have been willing to spend so much on the recipe."

Qin Huai understood and went back to continue making buns.

He just said, although he thought Xu Nuo’s words in memory made sense, it always felt a bit odd.

Xu Nuo’s first filling was A-level, but that doesn’t mean his final buns were A-level. Qin Huai believed the shock from that first bite of filling for Shi Dadan was surely greater than the shock from the buns that followed.

Otherwise, just a small time gap, why didn’t this memory show the buns coming out of the pot and Shi Dadan eating the result.

The final recipe was for bun filling, not buns, although this bun filling seemed to be able to make many snacks, in reality, it’s just a bun filling, whether wrapped in shaomai or tangyuan, it’ll not adapt well.

Of course, if this game system is deliberately giving Qin Huai a hard time, that’s another story.

Therefore, even though Qin Huai agreed with Xu Nuo’s view in memory and affirmed Xu Nuo’s cooking and his even better philosophy than cooking, he still had doubts about this method.

His intuition told him this method was always a bit short, not the best.

There must be something better.

Because he didn’t see any steps after the filling in memory.

Nor did he see feedback on the final product.

Qin Huai returned to the cooking station, staring at the filling, starting to think. After thinking for a while, he picked up a spoon and scooped another spoonful of filling and continued to eat.

Freshly cooked stir-fry can mask many inherent flaws of the dish.

Everyone says food should be eaten hot because everyone knows that eating it hot is when it’s at its best, the best taste, the most fragrant, the crispiest, the freshest, the most flavorful.

Once this best timing has passed, many flaws, which originally existed but were overlookable, or didn’t exist and just appeared because the temperature dropped, will surface.

Qin Huai wanted to taste these flaws.

He wanted to know whether, in this recipe based on Xu Nuo’s theory, these flaws that appeared after cooling, when wrapped into buns and processed again through steaming, could become highlights of the bun filling.

Qin Huai tasted a spoonful.

Two spoonfuls.

Three spoonfuls.

He knew he had a great palate, especially since his filling-making skill rose to Master Level, the Master Level filling-making paired with his great palate often allowed him to taste the dish’s flaws and strengths in one bite, knowing the essence, finding out the issues.