BXBX NOVEL Chapter 185 - 185 Pig Face
“Dad, Jihe actually brought out the Clear River Pufferfish Noodles.”
Sitting on the side of the competition venue, Zhao Wenchang’s face quickly tensed up.
He looked at Liu Neng on the other side, who crossed his arms and looked at him with a smirk. Gritting his teeth, he asked, “Can we win?”
“At this point, you need to have confidence in Qin Lang.” Zhao Junzhang patted Zhao Wenchang’s shoulder without revealing any emotions. “Qin Lang’s crab roe soup dumplings won’t be inferior to Clear River Pufferfish Noodles. This is a competition where the strength is evenly matched.”
“As long as we’ve chosen to trust Qin Lang, we should trust him all the way.”
Zhao Wenchang drew a deep breath, a hint of shame appearing on his face.
It was him who’d invited Qin Lang to help, but now he was doubting his companion’s abilities because of the strength of their opponent.
This couldn’t go on.
Zhao Wenchang muttered a phrase in his heart, quickly adjusting his mentality and fiercely glaring back at Liu Neng on the other side.
In the competition venue, after pulling out the Jinwen Pufferfish, Jihe began processing it at a extremely fast speed, and then put the prepared pufferfish into a heated pot.
A Food Spirit next to him muttered, its body flashing with a faint light, letting an invisible force envelop the ingredients. On the pot with soup, the pufferfish meat melted into the soup at a visible speed, leaving only the fish bones.
Jihe demonstrated his second Food Skill – Ingredient Decomposition.
This is a skill that can quickly infuse the soup with stewed ingredients, producing a state of stewing for several hours.
It doesn’t work like Cooking Acceleration, which can work in all cooking processes, but it has a better effect than Cooking Acceleration under certain specific circumstances.
Just like now.
The pufferfish meat separated from the bone quickly turning into fish paste under the effect of Food Skill, and its umami flavor was maximally released into the soup.
Qin Lang’s eyes slightly narrowed, he then cut the pork skin in his hand into cubes, picked up a pot to boil water, and added the pork skin cubes and scallion and ginger cooking wine.
“Spicy, accelerate!”
“Chaka!”
Leave it to me!
Spicy nodded heavily, in a blink of an eye, flew to the center of the big pot of chicken soup and the big pot of stewed pork skin. An invisible force shaded the two pots at the same time.
Cooking Acceleration?
Recognizing Qin Lang’s second Food Skill, a hint of solemnity flashed in Jihe’s eyes that barely could be detected.
I’ve really met my match.
However, since I have one more Food Spirit than him, the advantage in Food Skill is still on my side.
Looking at the last Food Spirit that hasn’t used its Food Skill yet, Jihe’s eyes showed self-confidence.
But in the next moment, his expression slightly faltered.
He saw the perfectly steamed Hairy Crabs on the other side, and Dan Bao, who was dismantling twenty crabs at the same time.
Looking at the flying crab legs and the crab meat, roe, and shells that were completely dismantled in just a few minutes, Jihe’s face twitched.
He suddenly felt that there seemed to be no advantage in Food Skills.
What the hell is using Thought Waves as Food Skill?!
Under the effect of Cooking Acceleration, the stewing process of the pork skin cubes and the chicken soup that normally takes an hour was expedited.
After filtering out the chicken meat and pork skin cubes and skimming off the floating oil while only keeping their soups, he send it to the freezer to be quickly refrigerated following the ratio of two parts pork skin soup to one part chicken soup.
The processing of the pork skin jelly was temporarily finished. Qin Lang immediately took the separated crab meat, roe, and shells from Dan Bao’s hands.
Because it’s crab roe soup dumplings, all the crabs Qin Lang used for cooking were female – having only crab roe and not crab paste. However, the following steps are not much different from frying crab powder.
With the crab shells, he fries to get crab oil, adds crab meat and crab roe for further frying, adds lard and seasonings to taste while frying.
The crab meat stuffing, tempered with lard, slightly solidifies when it cools down. On the other hand, in the professional freezer, the cooling process of the pork skin jelly also ends.
The served pork skin jelly is milky white, it shows excellent elasticity, slightly jiggling when moved.
“Chaka chaka!”
I’m up!
Playfully, Spicy flew over the pork skin jelly with a spoon in her mouth, then dropped the spoon to let it fall naturally.
“duang-”
With a gentle sound, the falling spoon actually bounced right back up.
This astonishing scene caused the observant audience to gasp in surprise, and also made Jihe, who was preparing to process the dough for the second time on the other side after letting it rise, squint his eyes in shock momentarily.
Such amazing resilience…
He had witnessed Qin Lang’s entire cooking process.
Therefore, he knew the source of this resilience – it was the jelly-like substance formed after the pork skin had solidified.
With his culinary experience, he even vaguely guessed some things.
For instance, once the solidified jelly-like substance is reheated, it would turn back into a delicious thick soup.
This might be Qin Lang’s intention.
By using this method, was he trying to temporarily solidify the liquid chicken broth for easier handling later on?
Jihe felt a sense of his opponent’s whimsical and imaginative cooking style.
Yet, his opponent was completely open about this valuable cooking experience, not caring at all whether he learned from it or not.
Merely this magnanimity makes him quite admirable.
In that case…
Jihe picked up the well-rested dough, placing it in front of himself.
I need to step up my game too!
He turned his gaze to the third Food Spirit beside him that hadn’t revealed its Food Skill yet.
The Food Spirit gently called out, and the next moment, a faint glow emerged from Jihe’s hands.
Seeing this, Zhao Wenchang immediately sat up straight.
In the previous Cooking Contest, Jihe’s cooking process was carried out inside a Competitive Standard Kitchen invisible to the outside world. Therefore, it was only today that Zhao Wenchang learned that the opponent’s third Food Skill was actually Skillful Strength Support, just like him.
“Ingredient Insight and Skillful Strength Support.” Zhao Junzhang on the side couldn’t help but sigh, “No wonder Jihe is so good at making pasta. These two Food Skills are very compatible with the dough kneading process. Add in Cooking Acceleration that can speed up the rising process, it really is a Golden Combination.”
Cooking Acceleration…
Hearing his father’s words, Zhao Wenchang couldn’t help but glance at Qin Lang.
Well, he has all three Food Skills.
On the other side, Jihe, who is using the Food Skill to support both hands, took a bowl of filtered clear pufferfish soup that had been stewed.
He dipped his hands briefly into the soup like a dragonfly skimming the water, then used a unique force to beat the dough, and finally kneaded it skillfully.
Repeating this, his hands seemed boneless, displaying a marvelous skill that kept eliciting gasps of admiration.
As time passed, the dough in front of Jihe visibly grew a size, while the liquid level in the soup bowl gradually decreased.
He was incorporating the clear pufferfish soup into the well-hydrated dough using a special technique!
Qin Lang, who had prepared the filling for the crab roe soup dumplings by evenly mixing chopped pork skin jelly with cooked crab roe in a one-to-one ratio, was momentarily taken aback when he saw Jihe’s movements.
What’s with the sudden show-off of skills?
You should’ve said so earlier!
I would have busted out some dragon-beard noodles for a friendly competition.
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End of chapter bonus content:
“Crab Roe Soup Dumplings”