My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 432: Chapter Two Hundred Ninety-Two: The Correct Way to Make Paper-Wrapped Fried Chicken

Chen Ze focused intently on grilling the meat. The improvements he made to the Argentinian barbecue were his own invention, after all, he was a meat lover himself, so it was fairly easy for him to pinpoint the strengths and flaws of barbecuing. Once he knew these, refining a dish wasn’t too difficult.

Retaining and amplifying the strengths, eliminating the weaknesses—this was what Chen Ze had done. The downside to barbecue was that eating too much could be cloying, affecting one’s appetite, so Chen Ze chose to add lemon and other ingredients, using the slightly sour and sweet taste to counteract the greasiness of the meat.

Chen Ze grilled very meticulously, ensuring both sides were golden brown before letting Betty take the grilled meat out.

"Manager, I want to eat too," Betty pleaded pitifully while carrying out the grilled meat, looking at Chen Ze.

"Didn’t you just eat?" Chen Ze was puzzled. He had prepared plentiful lunch, where he and Lafra had consumed half, and Betty herself had devoured the other half, deeply impressing upon Chen Ze that his waitress was a pig.

"I can’t help it, but who can resist when the Manager’s cooking is so delicious?" Betty said with a face full of innocence. She had just been outside smelling the aroma of the meat, which had overwhelmed the entire Magic Capital, not to mention that Chen Ze hadn’t made barbecue for lunch, which made Betty even more craving.

"Fine, I’ll make two servings later, and you can take one to Lafra," Chen Ze sighed somewhat helplessly, but still agreed to Betty’s request. After all, there was plenty of Bill beef, so he didn’t mind.

"I must say, the Manager’s cooking skills are getting better and better," Hastur said, licking his lips, looking very satisfied with the barbecue in front of him.

"Yes, in my view, only the Manager’s dishes can lure me away from the ocean of science, even if just for a moment," Nyarlathotep also wholeheartedly agreed with his companion’s statement.

"I’m glad you two like them," Chen Ze smiled, then suddenly paused, recalling something he had been researching before—the paper-wrapped fried chicken.

"Speaking of which, Hastur, that... Yog-Sothoth who came last time, when will it come back?" Chen Ze was very concerned about this, as it was linked to whether he could develop a multitude of lost cuisines. freēwēbnovel.com

"The Unifier of All Things? Manager, that lord has gone on a trip to other worlds, we too do not know when it will return." Hastur shook his head, as it was only a fragment of existence in this world, and Yog-Sothoth’s power was above him, so Hastur would not inquire into what its lord wished to do.

"I see... so Hastur, do you know how to make paper-wrapped fried chicken?" Chen Ze was a bit disappointed. If that being wasn’t around, he’d have to figure out how to make paper-wrapped fried chicken from scratch and it was unknown how long that would take, especially since paper-wrapped fried chicken wasn’t like Goubuli buns where there was a general framework he could reverse-engineer from.

"That..." Hastur and Nyarlathotep exchanged glances, which surprisingly lit up Chen Ze’s eyes. Could it be that these two actually knew the recipe for paper-wrapped fried chicken?

"This shall account for our meal this time. Lord Yog said to give you this paper if you asked about the paper-wrapped fried chicken recipe," Hastur said, taking out a piece of paper from inside his coat and handing it to Chen Ze.

Chen Ze hastily took it and glanced at it. It listed a few very common items that seemed completely unrelated to paper-wrapped fried chicken, but Chen Ze understood that these were the most important things for paper-wrapped fried chicken—the method to make the paper.

"Alright, take your time. I’ll come back later and cook whatever you want," Chen Ze said, thrilled, clutching the paper and rushing out. He planned to buy these items as soon as possible and then start making paper-wrapped fried chicken.

"Hastur, why didn’t you finish what you were saying?" Nyarlathotep looked at his companion, somewhat puzzled.

"Are you referring to what Yog-Sothoth said?" Hastur took another bite of the grilled meat.

"If that manager directly calls my name and then refers to me as Pao Pao, don’t tell him about the missing crucial ingredient." Hastur conveyed this message to Nyarlathotep using telepathy.

"But the manager didn’t call that Lord Pao Pao though," Nyarlathotep was still a bit puzzled, but then something dawned on Him.

"That’s right, he hesitated for a second." Nyarlathotep laughed, so They couldn’t be blamed. It was Chen Ze who almost let slip the words ’Pao Pao’ himself.

Chen Ze, of course, didn’t know that the recipe on this piece of paper lacked a key item. Even if he had known, Chen Ze wouldn’t have minded. After all, as long as he could make paper-wrapped fried chicken, even if it was a stretch, he was able to obtain the correct recipe with the help of the System.

If Chen Ze had known, he would definitely have laughed happily, as this would mean that even the mighty Yog-Sothoth didn’t know about the existence of his System.

Chen Ze shopped quickly and soon brought everything back, but as soon as he entered the restaurant, he found that Nyarlathotep and Hastur had already left at some point.

"Betty, didn’t Hastur and the others order anything else?" Chen Ze looked at Betty and asked, puzzled.

"No.. Lord Hastur and Lord Nyarlathotep seemed very happy, maybe they encountered something joyful?" Betty washed the dishes seriously.

"I see, maybe both of their wives are about to have kids," Chen Ze nodded, then returned to the kitchen to start making paper the traditional way.

This time, Chen Ze worked quickly, but as he did, he always felt something was not quite right.

After laying the paper out to dry in the basement, Chen Ze returned to the kitchen, still frowning, "What exactly is not right?"

After thinking for a long time, Chen Ze couldn’t figure it out and simply stopped pondering it. He then took out "How Hot is Tokyo After All?" and hit the play button. He watched as a fictional kitchen overlaid all the real objects in front of him, and another Chen Ze and Joichiro Yukihira appeared before him.

"Manager.. what are you trying to do? I’m a serious chef; don’t think about filming anything like a widow series with me," Joichiro Yukihira said with a sly smile on his face in the video.

"I just want to record the teaching process so I can review it," the Chen Ze in the footage rolled his eyes.

"I have to say, Shura is a bit cheeky," the real Chen Ze watched the scene with a mix of laughter and tears, and then seriously began reviewing the day’s lesson.

"No wonder Joichiro Yukihira always says there’s an issue here. It really is a big problem from this angle." Chen Ze was very pleased; this DV camera was just fantastic.