Gourmet: Midnight Vending-Chapter 369 - 343: Level 5 Dining Car, White Clothes + Save Point

Chapter 369: Chapter 343: Level 5 Dining Car, White Clothes + Save Point

Level 5 Dining Car!

Compared to Level 4, it doesn’t seem to have changed much, more like everything has been proportionally enlarged.

"The stove has turned into two, the mixer has been enlarged, no change in the juicer, huh? Seems like there really isn’t much change..."

As Chen Mo walked out of the dining car and into the RV, he immediately felt something was off the moment he entered the room.

"The living room is bigger, the bathroom is bigger, damn, I have a kitchen now too!"

Previously, the rooms in the RV didn’t have a kitchen, which is why Chen Mo used to cook in the dining car and then bring the food into the RV to eat.

Now it’s much more convenient with a kitchen, and as Chen Mo walked into the kitchen, relevant information automatically popped into his mind.

"Turns out the kitchen here is exactly the same as the dining car outside, which means..."

Chen Mo opened the only cabinet in the kitchen, and sure enough, it was pitch black inside with nothing visible, but when he reached in and thought of ’eggs,’ he immediately felt his hand touch the stored eggs.

"This is nice, it makes cooking so much easier in the future."

He casually pulled out a black pot from the cabinet, which transformed into a frying pan, sprayed some peanut oil on the surface, and cracked an egg into the pan, "Tsk, this is so convenient."

While waiting for the egg to fry, Chen Mo went back to the bedroom.

The change in the bedroom wasn’t very big either, except for a larger space and an additional piece of clothing in the wardrobe.

"Although the suit stays clean without washing, wearing it all the time gets boring, this one’s nice."

Chen Mo couldn’t wait to take off his suit and put on the new clothes that appeared in the wardrobe.

It’s just the most ordinary outfit for a guy, a white short-sleeved shirt, khaki pants, and a pair of white sneakers. Putting them on made him feel a few years younger and much fresher.

[White Garment: Custom-tailored clothing that relieves fatigue and enhances physique.]

[Note: Enhanced physique means that while wearing the white garment, your physical qualities will increase based on the actual situation, like strength, endurance, control, and more sensitive senses.

Once you take off the white garment, the effects will disappear.]

Whoa!

Chen Mo jumped up twice on the spot, and to his surprise, he did feel as light as a feather. But to what extent the enhancements were, he’d have to explore slowly.

These were all secondary, like some little gadgets that came with upgrading the dining car. What really interested Chen Mo was...

"Claim the upgrade reward!"

[Dining Car Upgrade Reward: Ingredient Archiving Function.]

[Ingredient Archiving: You can archive any stage of any ingredient. To read the archive, just deposit an equal amount of the raw ingredient into the input slot, and the archived ingredient will appear in the cabinet automatically.]

[Note: Not all ingredients can be archived, the system will distinguish based on the specific conditions of the ingredient.]

[For example: The lion’s head meatball you make cannot be archived, but the minced pork belly can be archived.]

As expected, the dining car added a new feature, similar to the previous quest index. After claiming it, the feature directly appeared on the system panel.

At the moment, the panel showed zero archived ingredients.

Chen Mo threw the frying pan with the frying egg into the cabinet, quickly left the room, and returned to the dining car, "So what this feature means is..."

He pulled out the frying pan from the cabinet in the dining car, with a half-cooked fried egg on it.

"Archive."

[Archived Ingredients: 1]

Meanwhile, the system panel displayed an image which was exactly the half-cooked fried egg in Chen Mo’s pan.

"Load Archive."

Chen Mo took an egg and dropped it into the input slot, then reached into the cabinet again. When he withdrew his hand, he was holding a small plate with a half-cooked fried egg.

The key point is... it was even steaming!

Looking at the two identical slices of fried egg on the counter, Chen Mo’s mind went blank for a moment, he picked up the left one and took a bite.

"Crispy bottom, moist yolk, full of egg aroma."

Simultaneously, Chen Mo was a bit surprised at how sensitive his taste had become due to the white garment. He could even clearly detect the faint raw smell in the egg aroma.

Then he picked up the right slice of fried egg and took a bite.

"Is this completely identical, whether in texture or flavor, absolutely duplicated, damn... the archive function is amazing!"

Only those who toil at food stalls know what this kind of feature means.

In other words, today, as long as Chen Mo makes a batch of lion’s head meatball filling, after archiving, he can just toss it into the input slot and take it out from the cabinet, skipping the meat mincing and seasoning process entirely.

Quickly, Chen Mo realized that the true significance of this feature wasn’t just about making things easier for himself.

Of course, it surely did save a lot of hassle.

But its real significance was...

"It means, I can take my time to perfectly handle the ingredients to their ideal state. Once archived, I don’t have to worry about rushing and causing occasional flaws when using them?"

Thinking of this, Chen Mo couldn’t suppress his excitement. He decisively took out some leftover ingredients from yesterday’s cabinet.

He then started with a pot of chicken soup, something often needed in future cooking endeavors, though he still wasn’t sure if it could be archived.

The black pot, transformed into a large black cauldron, sped up the soup-making process. He added pork belly slices to the chicken soup pot to cook.

Next, he diced the cooked chicken and bamboo shoots into two-centimeter squares while making the soup.

"Oh right." Chen Mo took out the leftover pork jelly from last night, "Archive!"

Upon seeing the archived ingredients in his mind change to 2, he couldn’t help but feel delighted.

It seems this feature isn’t so rigid.

The pork belly slices were cooked in the chicken soup until a chopstick could easily pierce through them, then they were taken out and diced into two-centimeter squares.

The diced sizes of the three ingredients were almost identical.

Chen Mo looked at the pot of chicken soup, "Archive!"

[Archive failed.]

Uh.

"Soup can’t be archived, just note that."

Making room in the black pot, it transformed into a regular wok. More chicken soup was added to the wok along with shrimp, soy sauce, and sugar.

He quickly stirred it up, then added the freshly diced ingredients and brought it to a boil over high heat.

According to the traditional Yangzhou Three-Piece Bun recipe, you would need to add water dough later to let the marinade slowly soak into the ingredients.

But Chen Mo’s method was different.

He tossed some pork skin into the input slot and took out pork jelly from the cabinet.

"Technology changes lives! If this thing could be widely adopted, imagine how many kitchen novices it could save, tsk."

Those who can’t cook at all could buy archived semi-finished products from renowned chefs. At home, they could just load the archive, throw in some seasonings, stir-fry for a bit, and it would be done—it sounds exhilarating.

What Chen Mo wanted to try now was whether the filling of the Three-Piece Bun could be archived.

If that were possible.

It would be unbeatable!