Food Stall: Customers Chase Me across the Country-Chapter 399 - 400: Making Cantaloupe and Green Apple Cake

Chapter 399: Chapter 400: Making Cantaloupe and Green Apple Cake

It’s true that Great Border has sea cucumber processing companies, but Great Border doesn’t have any aquaculture farms producing sea cucumbers.

Just by hearing about this dish, you know sea cucumber is the main ingredient. Do you think I’m stupid?!

Huh?

Bai Zongchen suddenly figured something out.

Liao cucumber, Liao cucumber, just by the name, you know where the sea cucumber comes from. This Mr. Wang’s ancestral home is Harbin, which makes sense.

Good heavens, you’re using our Great Border specialty as a guise to export your Northeast specialties to the old man, aren’t you?

Your plan is so loud I can hear it with my feet!

"This Liao cucumber, I presume, comes from Liao City in the Three Eastern Provinces?"

Wang Fan nodded: "It’s already soaked, and the quality is very good."

Bai Zongchen continued: "And this Ji Cabbage... what’s that supposed to mean?"

Wang Fan answered honestly: "It’s just large green onions from Ji Province."

With the system, it’s not hard to pick out some large green onions from Ji Province.

Bai Zongchen’s forehead twitched: "Then following this logic, the rice for the rice bowl must be the most famous Wuchang Rice from Mr. Wang’s hometown, right?"

"Pfft..."

Before Wang Fan could speak, Zhuo Qianqian was already bursting with laughter, almost slipping under the table.

Busted for his intentions, Wang Fan blushed: "The ingredients are all handled by her, prepared by a Great Border girl, so naturally it’s still a Great Border specialty."

Bai Zongchen pressed his hand against his temples, feeling them pulsating violently, seemingly ready to explode at any moment.

This is ridiculous!

Isn’t this just a real-life version of sea cucumber fried rice?!

Now he only wants to figure out one thing—whether it’s too late to change that kid now?

But this thought could only remain a thought, after all, finding someone capable of creating state banquet level dishes in Great Border is like finding a needle in a haystack.

What’s most frustrating is that he couldn’t pressure him!

If he dared to make things difficult, colleagues from Aksu would be overturning tables with him in no time.

Now in the eyes of those people, this kid has become the most important son-in-law of Great Border, even though the marriage hasn’t been arranged.

"Just pretend I was never here today!"

With a grumbling remark, Bai Zongchen quickly left the kitchen, fearing that if he stayed any longer, he wouldn’t resist giving the kid a beating, and then being countered by the kid would ruin his image.

"Hahaha, boss, you’re really something, oh no, oh no, I can’t take it, laughing so hard my stomach hurts hahaha..."

"Alright, alright, be careful or you’ll laugh yourself silly, get ready to cook."

With Bai Zongchen gone, Wang Fan finally breathed a sigh of relief, this meant he had successfully overcome the final hurdle. Now he only needed to focus on making the food delicious.

Wang Fan’s so-called "Ji Cabbage Braised Sea Cucumber Rice Bowl," after removing the extra words, is just braised sea cucumber, or it can be called braised Liao cucumber with Beijing cabbage, a staple at state banquets.

Dinner still consists of three parts, but with a change in form.

Before dinner dessert—Hami melon and green apple cake.

Main course—Great Border specialty, Ji Cabbage Braised Liao Sea Cucumber Rice Bowl.

Soup—Winter melon and egg soup.

Eating winter melon in summer is very beneficial, 100g of winter melon only has 17 calories, and it’s rich in vitamins, which can clear heat, relieve summer heat, beautify the skin and aid in weight loss and promoting bowel movements.

Wang Fan first made the pre-dinner dessert.

Sweetness truly can make people happy, and maintaining a happy mood can increase one’s appetite.

However, you can’t have too big an appetite at night, so the second course Wang Fan made was soup.

Drinking soup first can increase satiety, which helps control eating amount effectively.

Ending with a state banquet-level main dish, a hearty, delicious and healthy dinner was completed.

Wang Fan took out a fresh Hami melon, cut it in half directly, and when he scooped out the melon seeds with a spoon, rich juices continuously flowed out, making him sigh in admiration.

This place can be said to be one of the most arid regions in the country!

Yet it grows the sweetest and juiciest Hami melons in Huaxia and even the world, all thanks to the silent dedication of the elder and the elderly scientists in the team.

After cutting the Hami melon into long pieces, he separated the melon flesh from the peel with a knife and then cut the melon into small pieces.

Ordinarily, turning Hami melon into puree might require a blender, but this Great Border Hami melon doesn’t need it at all. Putting it into a large cup and pressing with a muddler, streams of sweet juice spurt out of the small holes in the muddler.

And these melon pieces are very soft, almost effortlessly crushed into puree.

Pressing and stirring at the same time, he quickly turned the Hami melon pieces into Hami melon juice.

Wang Fan intended to make Hami melon puree, but he didn’t expect this melon to be so juicy, resulting in a big cup full of juice.

Fortunately, it’s not a big problem, he took out a small pot and lit the fire, poured the juice into the pot over medium heat.

Given the sweetness of this Great Border Hami melon, Wang Fan didn’t add sugar to the juice at all, he feared that any more sugar would be too much to handle.

However, some people find Hami melon too much, not because it’s too sweet, but purely due to an allergic reaction. Yet strong-willed Huaxia people will never admit they’re allergic, after all, how could a Huaxia person immune to all poisons be allergic? When questioned, it’s certainly because the melon is too sweet, and they believe this firmly.

The yellow-green juice in the pot has started to steam, a layer of fine white bubbles has already floated on top of the juice.

Wang Fan skimmed off the foam and gently stirred the pot.

The yellow-green melon juice began to bubble as it formed a small vortex in the middle with the spoon’s motion.

A slight smile appeared on Wang Fan’s lips at some point.

He didn’t think of a particular happy thing; he was just doing something that made him happy.

With just this simple step, he genuinely felt extremely relaxed and joyful.

Especially when the sweet and fragrant aroma of the juice was released, the sense of joy grew even stronger.

After boiling for about 7 minutes, sensing the change in consistency in the pot, Wang Fan turned off the heat; this melon juice would later be added to a mousse cake.

Taking out a small bowl, he filled it with water and put several mint leaves into the water for cleaning. The fresh mint scent combined with the sweet aroma of Hami melon, creating a flavor that could only be described as luxurious.

Once the mint leaves were cleaned, he gently pressed them on a paper towel to make them fresh and clean again.

The mint leaves were immediately put into the just-made melon juice, stirring and crushing the mint leaves until they became small pieces before stopping.

After opening the refrigerator, he placed the cup of mint melon juice inside.

Taking out molds and cling film, he used a brush to lightly coat the inside of the molds with a layer of mist, allowing the cling film to adhere tightly to the molds.

Zhuo Qianqian deftly finished juicing the green apples. As for the green apples, they were naturally from Aksu, purely because Aksu’s apples are delicious, with no other reason.