Chapter 152 - Chapter 152: Braised Tofu

Chapter 152: Braised Tofu

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

If not for her, when would she have the chance to come into contact with these high-end ingredients?

With a flash of the blade, she began to choose her materials without hesitation.

There was nothing much to say about the bird’s nest, shark’s fins and abalone belly. They were known as “better than gold” when they were served. With her culinary skills, any dish she made could make people unable to stop eating. However, such ingredients were necessary for banquet guests. The chef had prepared it before he was injured. If she made it again, it would seem like she was deliberately provoking him. Moreover, she was a farm girl. It was easy for people to suspect that she suddenly knew how to make high-end dishes. Hence, what she had to cook next was still very regular.

She had promised Shen Tianci that she would make fresh dishes for him that no one had ever eaten before, so she naturally could not go back on her word. Hence, she chose a few winter melons of moderate size and began to wash and process them.

The winter melon was cut into half, and the edges were engraved in a wave. The melon flesh was dug out, and the outer skin was carved. Shen Tianci’s zodiac was the goat, so she carved cute little lambs all over it. She blanched the melon cup before putting it into the ice water to cool it down. The winter melon cup was ready.

In addition, she washed the dried shellfish, duck meat, ham, shiitake mushrooms, frogs, shrimp, and luffa. After wrapping them in starch and blanching them in boiling water, she scooped them out and placed them in the melon pot to steam. Then, she sprinkled salt and minced ham on them and prepared the double boiled winter melon soup for the table.

[Ding! “Double boiled winter melon soup” has been recorded for the first time. You have received 300 points. Current balance is 7,500 points!]

Finally, she had to make a “Nine-Layered Three-Colored Threads Pagoda”.

After cutting the 27 ingredients of nine colors into thin filaments, she stacked each of the three types of thin filaments neatly at the bottom of nine bowls of different sizes. After pouring chicken soup on them, she steamed them and took them out. She used a flat plate to hold the back of the bowl and placed them upside down. Then, she carefully moved the filaments in the bowl to the white porcelain plate. She added layers of cumulative towers according to the order from large to small. Finally, she poured the thick broth sauce that she had prepared.

[Ding! High-quality dish “Nine-Layered Three-Colored Threads Pagoda” has been recorded for the first time. After evaluation, this delicacy’s culinary skills are top-notch and its skills far exceed the current level of space and time. Reward: 900 points! Current balance: 8,400!]

Each level had one color and each level had three flavors. This was the Nine-Layered Three-Colored Threads Pagoda, which had extremely high requirements for cutting skills and patience.

Ever since Xiaoxiao’s first dish was served, the exclamations in the hall had never stopped.

The table was already set with cold dishes and some home-cooked dishes that did not need the chef to cook personally. The young masters and young ladies ate and chatted. The dishes could not be considered stunning. Anyway, it was the taste of the restaurant.

When the “Stuffed Yellow Croaker” first entered everyone’s sight, they only thought that it was an ordinary steamed fish and did not even plan to touch their chopsticks. However, when the fish was placed on the table, a unique fragrance began to drill into the noses of the young guests. They could not stop it.

Shen Tianci was the first to pick up his chopsticks. When he knew that this was Ning Xiaoxiao’s doing, he reached out his chopsticks without hesitation and picked it up. The fish meat that did not have any bones was picked up simply. A golden “Buddha Jumps Over The Wall” thick soup flowed out from the gap in the fish meat. The umami of the soup fused with the unique fragrance of the yellow croaker, instantly whetting everyone’s appetite.

“What’s this?” While the curious people were still asking, the smart people had already begun to eat.

The waiter who served the dishes swallowed his saliva. “The kitchen said that this dish is called ‘Stuffed Yellow Croaker’.”

Shen Tianci’s eyebrows were about to fly up. However, he had only reached for it for the third time and the entire fish was about to be finished!

“Anything else? Anything else?”

The next dish happened to follow. As the servant put down the dishes, he introduced, “It’s braised tofu. The kitchen said that this dish is one serving for each person. It’s more convenient to eat.”

Some noble young masters and young ladies couldn’t help but look disdainful giving them tofu?

“If you don’t want to eat it…” Someone beside him probed, “Can you give it to me?”