Chapter 8

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation

Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Xia Yu shook his head and threw away the distracting thoughts, then he clicked the [Start] option on the retina interface. Ding! The roulette crystal pointer rotated rapidly. After a few seconds, the pointer speed suddenly dropped and became slower and slower. 

His heart thumped uncontrollably. 

Xia Yu looked at the pointer and it turned to the special category, where there were several dark gold gift icons. ‘Tongue of God’ was a straight tongue pattern, and ‘Hand of God’ was a thick arm… He stared at the slowing needle and could not help thinking. Fuck, was this really his lucky day? 

Thinking of the drama ‘Spirit of the Halberd Emperor’, in which Yatse Rina sat down on one of the seats of Ten Moons with ‘Tongue of God’, Xia Yu shivered with excitement.

That was what life was all about! Plug-ins would help him get to the top! 

However, within a few seconds, Xia Yu roared in his heart: 

“Stop!”

“I said ‘stop’!”

“Fuck you!” 

The pointer did not stop. It quickly moved through the last slot of the special category column. Finally, when Xia Yu showed a disappointed look, the pointer stopped at a certain slot of the consumption class!

The draw was completed!

“System: Prop has been automatically added to your item list.”

Xia Yu opened the inventory and found that the interface seemed to be an independent space. He reached out and touched the one-time prop he had just obtained. 

A cool rhomboid crystal.

Extracting item information: 

[Mirror Crystal]

Note: “One-time consumption of props. The user can recall a certain food he/she ate that day and reproduce this food after using it. In other words, the user can obtain duplicate cuisines with absolutely the same taste and have a chance to learn recipes.” 

Reproduction?

Xia Yu saw the word ‘reproduce’ in the description. His heart was like a drum, and his heartbeat was very clear.

Now he did not know if he was lucky or unlucky. Spinning for the first time, the novice carousel draw did not get anything useful. It was acceptable to have a recipe at the lowest point. But what he got was a one-time consumption item. And this item was related to his current initial mission!

“If I get it, I am lucky, but if not, it is fate.” Xia Yu could only use these words to comfort himself so that his grief would not overflow into disaster.

Then he wondered, ‘But how to use the prop?’

“Touch the prop and meditate ‘use’,” the system answered immediately.

“Use!” 

The inventory interface was floating in the field of vision. This interface was obviously only visible to him. Xia Yu quickly glanced at the old man that standing behind him like a towering mountain. He felt relieved when he saw the old man looking as usual. Then he immediately grabbed the crystal and chose to use it.

Crack! 

This was the sound of crystal breaking, and only Xia Yu could hear it. 

His eyes started to hollow, and like a projector, showed the food that he had eaten. For example, the fried noodle bread he ate when he rushed to the exam room for the White Gull High School entrance examination in the morning, and the bowl of beef that had just been wiped out. All the flavors were like taste buds returning to the tongue, but the strange thing was that the taste of food broke down on his tongue, and he could accurately analyze the contents and ingredients of each cooking material, such as whether there was too much salt or not. 

At the same time, the whole process of making the food flowed into his head. Xia Yu covered his head and let out a low cry. Then his empty eyes went back to normal.

Xia Yu looked back, and the old man was still standing around him but ignoring Xia Yu.

“Fine…”

Xia Yu exhaled a sigh of breath and waved his fist fiercely. “I will make you guys see how a foodie become a chef! You know nothing about eating!”

At this time, the kettle boiled on the gas stove. Xia Yu found the basin that the old man used to make ramen before and washed it and poured in high-gluten flour. Then he added the appropriate amount of salt to the water and poured water into the basin. After these steps, he began to knead the dough.

Comparing ramen with ordinary pasta, the unique feature of ramen was that it added a special ingredient – Peng Hui – during the flour kneading and stirring process! 

In fact, the earliest Peng Hui was made from Pengchao, which had a history of at least hundreds of years. If you wanted the authentic ramen to have a pliable taste, Peng Hui was indispensable. 

In the eleventh episode of ‘Little Chinese Master Chef’, there was a black stone that could boil soda water, which was Poncinite.

Kneading dough also had particular steps. It should not be too hard, otherwise it would take too much effort to pull up. 

In the ‘mirror crystal’ state, Xia Yu was like a master who had been immersing in his craft for many years. A little dough changed shape in his hands. The hardness degree of the dough was slightly softer than that of a dumpling wrapper. 

Soon, Xia Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and watched a piece of dough forming in front of him. There was an unspeakable relief in his eyes. 

But he was not in a hurry to cut the dough for the next step. Instead, he applied a layer of clear oil to the dough, and then found a damp cloth to wrap the dough layer by layer. This process was called ‘waking up’, which usually took 30 minutes. In a scientific way, it was to promote the formation of gluten, so that when the dough was placed, the protein of it had sufficient water absorption time to improve the quality of the noodles.

Putting the dough aside, Xia Yu continued to cook the soup.

When it came to ramen, there was no need to say the importance of soup base. Judging the quality of a bowl of ramen, in addition to noodles, the most important technical content lay in the mellow soup! 

Soup could also be said to be the soul of ramen. The well-known ramen restaurants in China had their own soup recipes, which could be sold for money.

“Bull bone…”

Xia Yu found a big bone in the corner of the kitchen counter that the old man had not used up for the soup. He grinned, and after removing the blood, he threw the bone into the pressure cooker and turned to find the dazzling ingredients of ginger, wolfberry, and cassia. There was no entanglement and after careful weighing of the various ingredients, and it just came in hand. 

In fact, from the moment that Xia Yu kneaded the dough, the old man was standing behind him like a sleeping lion, but now he gradually opened his eyes and stared at Xia Yu.

“Boss Xia…”

Shinhara Masato was attracted to the back kitchen by the sound of Xia Yu’s kneading. 

“Hush!”

The old man made a silencing gesture. Shen Yuan was stunned and noticed the busy figure behind the kitchen counter.

In this world, Xia Yu was only 16 years old and would go to high school after the spring break. Because he was spurred to work by the old man all year round, he was slender and strong, and he was over 1.7m tall. His limbs did not look strong at first, but it definitely had explosive power.

Covering the pressure cooker, Xia Yu ignored the two eyes behind him, but squinted at the old antique wall clock in the store, then he found the beef slice that he had processed in the refrigerator. He turned on the gas stove and began frying.

In about fifteen minutes, the soup in the pressure cooker boiled, and the rich aroma came out.

Both the old man and Shinhara breathed in and looked at each other. They were both surprised.

Such a pure and strong broth aroma!