Gourmet: From a Stall in Northern Europe-Chapter 65: Challenge Mission—Breakfast Culture
"Happy cooperation!"
"Happy cooperation!"
Lunard’s eyes shimmered with tears as he tightly gripped Lin Chen’s hand.
This Great Xia young man has been radiating kindness to him from the start of his street food business until now, and now he’s even promised to teach him Great Xia cuisine for free—how could he not be moved?
Even though he’s quite confident and proud of his country’s culinary culture, compared to the world’s oldest civilization like Great Xia, the difference is immense.
This transaction seems fair, but in reality, he’s getting a good deal.
Whether it’s in terms of recipes or business, this is certainly the case.
Apart from the two rest days when the stall opens during the day, for the remaining five days Lin Chen only operates for one or two hours a day, taking all the daytime and dinner hours and customer flow for himself—isn’t that quite advantageous?
Without disturbing Lin Chen any further as he cooks, Lunard went to find Lucas to get his contact information first, intending to reach Lin Chen through him later. For now, he decided to head home and rest.
He knows Lin Chen has work during the day and still runs the stall at night, having little free time, and might only have time to discuss culinary skills on Sunday.
The stall run lasted until nearly midnight, finally depleting the ingredients. Cooking on the spot does indeed take time, but there’s no choice if one must ensure the quality of the dishes.
After nearly two hours of experimentation, he feels somewhat relieved, it seems the acceptance of lunchboxes among foreigners is quite high, akin to the style of booths in underground food markets.
With this experience, next time selling lunchboxes, he can cook larger quantities at once, reducing the frequency of cooking—though he might need to pay more attention to dish selection.
Adding doubanjiang to both dishes, the sales of Mapo tofu were quite good, while the braised eggplant received almost uniformly negative feedback.
[Ding, settlement complete, 256 bowls of red bean glutinous rice balls soup sold today, 248 positive reviews received, stall task completed, reward: Recipe Exchange Voucher*1]
He’s never worried about dessert recipes, they almost never fail.
After tallying today’s income, it remarkably reached over two thousand euros—a historic high.
No wonder the tasks almost never give monetary rewards now, with a lot of recipes mastered, making money is indeed not difficult.
Maybe the initial monetary rewards served as startup funds?
"Thanks for your hard work, fellow compatriot. Go back and rest early, see you tomorrow."
"What’s the big deal, working only this bit of time each day! And getting free meals and drinks, it’s simply awesome."
Lin Chen shook his head with a smile: "You’d better tighten your skin a bit, celebrity popularity isn’t easy to ride, when you have a lot of fans urging you to update, editing won’t keep up, and quality must be assured."
Besides the food preparation and tasting process, Lucas’s video also requires looking up relevant information for a science education, there’s certainly some workload involved.
"No problem, I’m idle during the day anyway, gotta have something to do."
The two casually chatted for a bit, packed up the equipment, and headed home separately.
Elsewhere.
After a whole day of running around, George and Marian dragged their weary bodies home and stepped inside, noticing Richard sitting alone in darkness, looking a bit dazed.
George and Marian exchanged glances, quietly went across the living room to rinse off in the bathroom, while Marian headed straight to her son.
"What’s wrong, dear, did the mission fail?"
It shouldn’t, following the steps she suggested yesterday shouldn’t make winning over a little girl in love difficult! 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
"Yeah, it failed."
Richard nodded, sounding a bit dejected.
"After I showed her the photo, Lisa was indeed excited; she even asked me to bring her an autographed picture next time."
"Isn’t that quite good? Where’s the problem then?"
"Then she noticed Dreya holding a bowl of ice jelly in between the photos, wanted to try it when she saw I brought it, so I let her taste a bit, and guess what happened?"
"In a world where no one can resist the charm of this ice jelly, after one bite she wanted a second, and then a third—this was too much, it was meant to be my dessert!"
"When I barely had enough myself, giving her a few tastes was already very... And then I snatched the ice jelly back to drink myself, afterward she got upset and wouldn’t speak to me."
"............"
Marian weakly held her forehead, deeply sighing inwardly.
How dreadful!
How could her son be such an uncomprehending foodie?
"My bad—not considering the appeal of ice jelly as a mom, here’s the plan: tomorrow I’ll buy more, so you can take two bowls, one for her—no problem then."
"Great, you’re really the kindest, most beautiful mother in the world!!"
Richard’s small face blossomed with a brilliant smile, gave her a peck on the cheek on tiptoes, and ran back to his room to sleep.
Marian shook her head.
Is it possible she’s not as important as ice jelly?
Never mind, loving to eat isn’t a bad thing.
Thursday morning.
Lin Chen woke up, washed up as usual, prepared two large barrels of ice jelly with the food truck’s time-opening buff, then set off towards the restaurant.
Since starting the stall, he clearly feels life becoming much fuller—time is truly insufficient.
Every day, he starts working once he opens his eyes, nonstop until half an hour before closing them.
If not for the improvement from the Stamina Potion, he estimates he wouldn’t hold up.
"If only there were some Enhancement Potions too, but who knows how to trigger the task for these—don’t most systems usually have a store for exchange?"
[Ding, this system doesn’t provide that function, advice for the host: stop dreaming, working hard to get rich with your hands is the right path]
"...???"
Why can this system even mock people!
[Ding, friendly tip: if the host wants to obtain Enhancement Potions, attempting challenge tasks frequently will help. ]
[Challenge tasks, besides automatically triggering upon meeting specific conditions, can also be initiated by the host, with random content generation.]
This is possible?
Judging from the last challenge task completion yielding numerous rewards, these tasks should definitely be pivotal in the future, only hindered by his lack of time, and not knowing how to trigger challenge tasks.
The whole time, can a challenge be initiated anytime?
With the choice of whether to do tasks in his hands, why not try brushing through one first?
Taking advantage of waiting for traffic lights, he immediately focused his will to shout in his heart.
"Bring on a challenge task!"
Don’t know if this is the right way to open it—try first then.
[Ding, host is initiating a challenge, task is being automatically generated...]
[Challenge task: Breakfast Culture]
[As the world’s only country with a complete breakfast culture, demonstrate the wisdom crystallized by Great Xia People to foreigners, with a street food business about breakfast]
[Dish content...]
