Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 451 - 252 Chew Chew Chew_2

He also knew that Qin Huai had an astonishing ability to learn and self-correct. He learned everything fast, and even when he’d mess up, it was quick—like when making mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls, he always managed to crash and burn more spectacularly than others.

Moreover, Qin Huai was self-taught, unbound by traditional rules, full of innovation and creativity, always learning, and always researching.

With such a person, no matter what kind of achievement they made, it seemed like it would never surprise anyone.

Tan Wei’an tried to convince himself that it was normal for Qin Huai to suddenly refine his skills in making Four Happiness glutinous rice balls in just a few days, achieving an overall improvement. Not only did he make a breakthrough with the mixed fruit filling, even the red bean, sesame candy, and meat fillings, which he hadn’t specifically studied before, suddenly seemed to be at a whole new level of deliciousness.

With Master Qin, any achievement should be acceptable.

He should accept, understand...

Accept and understand, my butt!

In Tan Wei’an’s mind, a little person was collapsing, screaming, smashing bowls, tearing down walls, rolling around, twisting, struggling, crawling in darkness.

How was he supposed to accept this?!

Wasn’t Qin Huai working with him every day?

Hadn’t he not been making Four Happiness glutinous rice balls these past two days?

Wasn’t it just yesterday and today, that he came to Huang Ji an hour earlier than usual?

Does Qin Huai have 48 hours in a day? Or does he actually have a habit of sleepwalking, making Four Happiness glutinous rice balls every night in his sleep, and only last night suddenly achieved enlightenment.

No, my buddy.

What’s going on?

Even if you secretly practice hard every day after work, it’s still not that many hours.

Even though your dark circles are a bit pronounced these past two days, it doesn’t seem like you’ve been practicing all night.

Can practicing all night have such a magical effect?

Should I go back and practice all night tonight too?

Tan Wei’an took another bite of the glutinous rice ball, eating the red bean filling one.

This sweetness at just the right level, the delicate texture, the grainy filling combined with the soft and sticky glutinous rice, you could feel the red bean flowing in your mouth with just a slight press.

Tan Wei’an had eaten many red bean filled glutinous rice balls and also many red bean filled snacks. As a professional pastry chef, he knew that the simpler the filling, the harder it was to master.

It wasn’t about the difficulty of making it, but about how hard it was to improve.

It’s easy enough to make red bean and sesame candy fillings decent or average, and even tasty, but to make them memorable, to make anyone feel that the filling and snack are a match made in heaven on the first bite, that was incredibly difficult.

Qin Huai’s Four Happiness glutinous rice balls hadn’t reached that realm, but Tan Wei’an felt he had touched it.

Because this filling matched perfectly.

Tan Wei’an keenly noticed that this was a very well-combined bowl of Four Happiness glutinous rice balls, its four fillings harmonious and unified, delicious yet not overpowering, with clear personalities.

Tan Wei’an savored the warm red bean filling in his mouth carefully.

Unusually delicious.

Zheng Siyuan carried a bowl of glutinous rice balls over to Qin Huai, asking in a certain tone, "Did you make the filling yesterday especially for today’s glutinous rice balls?"

Qin Huai was serving glutinous rice balls and nodded at the words, "Sort of, indeed it’s a special filling for glutinous rice balls, but I didn’t change much in terms of flavor, it’s more about altering the texture and increasing the compatibility with the glutinous rice skin."

Zheng Siyuan took a bite of the glutinous rice ball, chewing calmly, asking, "Have you been researching this lately?"

"Yes." Qin Huai replied without hesitation.

These two days are also part of the time.

Then Qin Huai started his performance, "The Four Happiness glutinous rice balls have four flavors; we used to practice the mixed fruit filling because we couldn’t find a lead so we had to keep trying. Now that we mastered the fitting mixed fruit filling recipe, of course, we should practice the other fillings, a complete combination of four flavors is the Four Happiness glutinous rice balls."

"If you only pursue one flavor, making one stand out while ignoring the other three, it would appear as a solo act with the other three becoming supporting roles."

"But in fact, the four are a whole, of course, you can’t favor one and neglect the others."

Zheng Siyuan nodded in agreement, "Indeed, it was my oversight."

"I’ve been focusing on the mixed fruit filling, completely neglecting the other three. Actually, it was the other day when you came to my house to make glutinous rice balls that I realized it; by noon, eating those four flavors, I suddenly realized I hadn’t eaten normal Four Happiness glutinous rice balls in a long time."

"My dad and I made mixed fruit filling every day, wrapped it, ate it. My mom and sister complained several times that they were sick of eating it, but my dad and I didn’t mind, actually, that was when my mom and sister were already reminding us that just eating mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls is not tasty, Four Happiness needs four flavors to be complete."

"I was going to tell you these two days, but yesterday I saw you making filling and not making glutinous rice balls so I didn’t say anything, didn’t expect you had already thought of it."

This speech from Zheng Siyuan left Qin Huai in a daze, Qin Huai thinking to himself that he hadn’t continued to elaborate, yet Zheng Siyuan had already constructed a narrative for him.

Qin Huai could only say, "Do you want me to give you the new recipes for the red bean filling and sesame candy filling?"

"I feel like the pure meat filling I make is not good enough, wait a few days for me to study it some more."

When making glutinous rice balls in the morning, Qin Huai felt that the pure meat filling wasn’t as easy to handle as the other three sweet fillings, he decided to go home and watch a few more teaching videos at night, and watch them every night before bed until he could recite them from memory.

These are all key points to learn!

Teachers will test them.

Tan Wei’an felt he kind of understood.

While Qin Huai seemed to have just been practicing the mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls, he was actually practicing hard on the other three flavors at home every day.

While Tan Wei’an was struggling with how to balance the many ingredients of the mixed fruit filling to avoid disastrous failures, Qin Huai had already foresightedly planned for the success of the Four Happiness glutinous rice balls.

When Tan Wei’an thought the research could take a break with no more mixed fruit filling failures, Master Qin was considering how the four flavor glutinous rice balls should complement each other for overall improvement.

Qin Huai was forever a step ahead of him, no, more than just a step.

Indeed, his vision was too narrow.

Master Qin was far-sighted!

At this moment, Tan Wei’an solemnly admired Qin Huai.

He felt he understood and realized a lot.

Previously when Qin Huai stopped practicing mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls out of the blue, it wasn’t that he was fickle or lost interest in new snacks, he was researching other things, preparing for a better enhancement of the Four Happiness glutinous rice balls.

Qin Huai was neither slacking nor skiving, he had always been working silently, stunning everyone quietly!

"Qin Huai, you’re amazing!" Tan Wei’an exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

Qin Huai:...

What has Tan Wei’an imagined now?

Qin Huai remained silent, just silently eating the glutinous rice ball.

Chew, chew, chew.

So delicious. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Master Jing’s video tutorial is really useful.

Elsewhere, Dong Shi also came up with a reason for Qin Huai.

Dong Shi, holding a bowl, crouched like an undercover agent in the streets and whispered to Dong Li beside him, "Bro, I think I’ve discovered the pattern to Qin Huai’s pastry improvements!"

Dong Li, surprisingly interested in his brother’s gossip, responded, "Oh?"

Qin Huai’s improvement in snacks had a pattern? Wasn’t he always naturally improving? Random and without reason.

"Do you remember last time when Qin Huai returned from Shan City, and the Three Meat Buns suddenly became exceptionally delicious?" Dong Shi asked.

Dong Li nodded.

Qi Tian, attracted by Dong Shi’s gossip, inched closer quietly.

"Haven’t you noticed any recent changes around Qin Huai?" Dong Shi continued mysteriously.

Huang Jia was also attracted, moving in directly.

"What?" Dong Li asked.

"His sister Luoluo is here!"

Dong Li:?

"Last time he went back to Shan City, Luoluo was there, he must’ve made the Three Meat Buns for Luoluo, and they suddenly improved immensely."

"Now that Luoluo just arrived, Qin Huai made Four Happiness glutinous rice balls for Luoluo for two days, and they’ve dramatically improved again!"

"What does this suggest? It suggests Qin Huai hasn’t lied to us; he’s been making snacks for his sister since he was young, and only when he makes snacks for her does he improve extraordinarily quickly!"

All of them:?!

At this moment, outside the kitchen, Qin Luo finished her glutinous rice balls and excitedly shouted to Qin Huai inside, "Brother, I’m done! I want another bowl, another bowl of pure meat!"

"I want to have glutinous rice balls again tomorrow!"

Almost instantly, everyone in Huang Ji who had listened to Dong Shi’s intriguing deduction turned their eyes towards the door, staring intently at Qin Luo.

Qin Luo:...?

Feeling cornered by the stares, Qin Luo took a step back, quietly put down the bowl she was holding, and cautiously asked, "Is there...a limit on how many bowls of glutinous rice balls one can eat here?"