My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 322: Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Two: Steamed Bun

"Why do you need to cut it like this? A chef must learn to understand the grain of the meat you’re working with, otherwise, you won’t be able to create good cuisine!"

"Oh my God, your cutting for this dish isn’t fine enough."

"Here, add a little more salt, and next time change the brand. I tried this one, and it doesn’t seem quite right."

Soma Yukihira kept pointing out the mistakes Chen Ze was making, some of which Chen Ze hadn’t noticed, and others he had but hadn’t considered important.

When Soma tried the salt and then asked Chen Ze to change it, Chen Ze’s view of him changed, for when Chen Ze tasted it himself, all salt tasted equally salty to him; hence he couldn’t quite understand how Soma could discern a difference.

After guiding him through the cooking, Soma then taught Chen Ze some methods for selecting meat, all of which resulted in substantial gains for Chen Ze, after all, Soma’s cooking skills were learned from his father.

"By the way, I won’t be able to come for a few days starting tomorrow; it might be about a week before I can return." Soma Yukihira stood in front of the stove, working on an egg dish.

"Okay," Chen Ze nodded and continued to watch Soma Yukihira cook.

Soma Yukihira paused, his hand holding the egg freezing for a second, then looked at Chen Ze with a puzzled face, "Don’t you want to ask why?"

Soma Yukihira had never seen a chef so carefree. It’s like someone who owes you a lot of money suddenly tells you they’re going abroad for a holiday and will return after a year, and you just happily wish them a fun trip?

The Ice Fish was a delicious ingredient that Soma Yukihira had tasted before. The fish flesh was extraordinarily good, easily surpassing most other seafood and even tempting his father to come back and prepare some sashimi with it.

"This fish... among all the fish I’ve tasted, it should rank first." This was the evaluation given by Soma’s father, which illustrates how precious this fish was as an ingredient.

Just the fish flesh itself could achieve a level of perfection; Soma thought that if Chen Ze were willing to sell it, a bunch of merchants would be willing to pay a high price for it; even Totsuki Academy might offer a high price to buy the fish.

So precisely because of the high value of this fish, Soma Yukihira was a bit puzzled as to why Chen Ze had no objections to him not coming for over a week.

"I don’t want to," Chen Ze shook his head. Having watched Food Wars, he could pretty much guess what Soma Yukihira was going to do; a week’s trip was basically the same as in the first season.

Chen Ze once again felt the pain of a familiar storyline. If you already know what’s going to happen next, what surprise is there to look forward to?

As Chen Ze finished speaking, an awkward silence enveloped the kitchen. Outside, Betty was covering her mouth, struggling to restrain her laughter.

"Alright, try this. This is the egg dish I’ve made." Soma Yukihira placed a bowl of rice on the table.

At a glance, Chen Ze saw the egg rolls and the deep-brown cubes, instantly understanding what the dish was.

"What is this?" Still, seeing the expectant look on Soma Yukihira’s face, Chen Ze reluctantly asked.

"Haha, this is the improved Soma-style transformed egg over rice!" Soma Yukihira said proudly.

Chen Ze laughed twice to oblige, then picked up his chopsticks and took a mouthful of the egg over rice.

The taste was delightful, truly delicious. Chen Ze thought that if he had used the System to score it, then Soma Yukihira’s bowl of egg over rice would have achieved an excellent grade.

But...

"Why is there no clothes-bursting?" Chen Ze was a bit puzzled, but then he thought about his restaurant and Magic Circle and suddenly it all seemed to make sense.

"How was it, how was it? How did the taste of my Soma-style transformative egg over rice turn out?" Soma Yukihira looked at Chen Ze.

"The taste is very good, but I just wonder what your take on Candy Crush is?" Chen Ze asked leisurely.

"Candy Crush? What is that?" Soma Yukihira seemed to have never played the game.

"It’s this, give it a try." Chen Ze took out his smartphone and handed it to Soma Yukihira, displaying the colorful interface of Candy Crush.

Then Soma Yukihira played a round and put the phone down afterward.

"I don’t feel much; cooking is more interesting." Soma Yukihira shook his head. To him, it was better to study how to defeat his dad than to play such a game.

"I think so too, so... sigh..." Chen Ze let out a sigh, then couldn’t help but pat Soma Yukihira on the shoulder.

"Hmm?" Soma Yukihira looked completely clueless, waiting for Chen Ze to explain. ƒгeewebnovёl.com

But even until Soma Yukihira went back, Chen Ze didn’t explain, which left Soma even more confused.

"Manager, why did you let that customer play Candy Crush?" Betty washed the bowl that Chen Ze had finished eating from.

"It’s nothing." Chen Ze shook his head without saying a word.

How could he explain it? Say that Soma Yukihira had been turned into a game character? And that Food Wars had been turned into a Candy Crush game?

Damn Candy Crush, Chen Ze felt it would have been better made into something like Café Cairo, at least that way it would have been more immersive to play. Just thinking about cooking in the future by simply playing Candy Crush made Chen Ze feel a rush of blood to the head.

"Manager, I’m hungry!" Betty rubbed her stomach, looking a bit wronged.

Although the perfect-level Magical Mapo Tofu that Chen Ze had made was very delicious, without filling the stomach, hunger set in quickly, and Betty felt like she could eat two pots of rice now.

"You’re hungry? That’s great, here, all of these are for you." Chen Ze happily took down the steamer and placed twelve buns in front of Betty.

With each bun he put down, Betty’s face got darker, and by the last one, she suddenly felt she actually wasn’t that hungry, that maybe she didn’t need to eat at all.

"Don’t be scared, these buns might be experimental, but I can assure you the taste is still guaranteed," Chen Ze sensed Betty’s hesitation.

"Okay, then I’ll... just try one?" Betty cautiously picked up a bun; it was hot, but her succubus constitution could still handle it.

Then Betty took a bite. There was no strange taste, a rich flavor of pork meat, a hint of broth, mixing together giving these buns a bit of the charm of a soup dumpling.

Plus, Chen Ze made them with a thin skin and a generous filling, so you get a mouthful of the stuffing with one bite, none of the two-bite-and-no-filling situation that you find with other buns.

"It’s really delicious!"