The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 84: Ancient Crab Shell Yellow

Dong Li’s words gave Qin Huai great inspiration.

Yes, why didn’t he think of it?

During this period, he devoted himself to making soup. If the soup he cooked was delicious, he would sell it at a low price at night, and if it failed, he would give it away for free. The canteen was filled with the smell of broth around 4 or 5 in the afternoon, and the number of customers eating at night was much higher than at noon.

They all come here to get the free soup.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t get a free one, cheap ones are also acceptable.

Qin Huai had never been restricted by any rules or regulations when cooking before.

Steamed buns should be made this way, dumplings should be wrapped this way, donkey rolls should be made this way, and the ingredients of four-happiness dumplings cannot be changed...

The above situation would never happen to Qin Huai. He had no rules, techniques, or southern or northern schools.

Because he knows nothing.

If you can make it according to the dim sum recipe, then there is no problem. If you can’t, then it must be a problem with the dim sum recipe.

But after starting to learn the temperature and cooking methods of the soup, Qin Huai was trapped invisibly.

I was memorizing cases, reading materials, and practicing every day. My mind was full of thoughts about cooking. I even forgot that in addition to red cases, I could practice the heat control, but also white cases.

"You are much more talented at white dishes than red dishes." Dong Li continued, "You may not have noticed that you are always very nervous and uncomfortable when you cook beef soup."

“But you are very relaxed when making crab shell yellow, sometimes you are even in a daze.”

"When my brother and I first became Master's disciples, Master once reminded us that being too nervous and too concerned often results in poor results. Proper relaxation and staying in a relaxed state can often yield unexpected rewards."

“You still need to practice making soup, but if you think it’s too tiring, you might as well practice the cooking time with plain dim sum to change your mood.”

As soon as Dong Li finished speaking, Dong Shi shouted from the other end of the video: "Brother, didn't we agree that Master would let me say this? I am the last disciple, and I should be the one to teach the new junior brother!"

"You also know that you are the last disciple, where did your new junior brother come from?" Dong Li looked to the right expressionlessly, then turned his head to look at the camera, "That's all for today, I'm hanging up."

Qin Huai held the crab shell yellow that had been served on a plate and began to think.

This plate of crab shell yellow...is it baked or not?
It seems that the store doesn’t have the old-style stove for roasting crab shell yellow?
But it's just one stove, so it should be easy to find a replacement.

Qin Huai thought about it and decided to use technology to save time. He would tell Huang Xi later and ask her to find a stove that is most suitable for roasting crab shell roe tomorrow. Once there is a stove, he can use the traditional method to heat the crab shell roe.

That afternoon, diners enjoyed the high-tech crab shell yellow.

Zhang Shumei bought two kilograms of snacks amid the envious gazes of the old men. Everyone knew that this kind of snack bought through a special channel was specially prepared by Chef Qin.

Normally, no one is jealous, because based on everyone's understanding of Qinhuai, everyone can eat the randomly dropped snacks because Qinhuai has this special kitchen. If there is no such special kitchen, everyone can't even eat crab shell roe.

The uncles are mainly jealous of Luo Jun.

Everyone saw Luo Jun's attitude when he came to the store to drink herbal tea that day. If we can't say he was amiable, then we can say he had completely changed.

This morning, many people recognized Luo Jun's car when he drove Qinhuai. Although Luo Jun's car had been parked in the underground garage for a year or two and had never been driven, the double R logo was still very eye-catching.

Everyone secretly hated this old man Luo for being a bad guy and having two faces. He dealt with Master Qin without even leaving the house. He was even more hateful than that guy named Ding.

The hateful old man Luo was curled up in the lazy sofa, gnawing on crab shells as if to take revenge while watching a movie. On the small table in front of the lazy sofa was a bowl of lotus seed and white fungus soup that Zhang Shumei had just cooked. Life was very comfortable.

Luo Jun took a sip of the lotus seed and white fungus soup and felt that it slightly relieved the damage caused by the physical therapy in the afternoon.

Pulling out a cell phone from the crack of the sofa, Luo Jun began to send messages to Qin Huai.

Luo Jun: I’m going to drink tangerine peel tea tomorrow!
Luo Jun: I'll ask Xiao Zhang to prepare the ingredients and bring them over. Also, your salty crab shell roe doesn't taste good. I want the one stuffed with fresh shrimp. I also want the sesame seed cake you made at my house last time, without the stuffing.

Luo Jun said that he had made such a great sacrifice, so what was wrong with ordering a few things to eat?
Qin Huai: Okay, I'm going to make crab shell yellow with traditional method tomorrow^_^
Qin Huai, who had already returned home, put down his phone and wondered if he could also make sesame seed cakes using the traditional method to practice the cooking temperature.

Traditional method of making sesame seed cakes sounds very good.

It's you, Luo Jun. You have a picky mouth, so it's up to you to try the dishes tomorrow.
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Huang Xi is very efficient in his work.

The next morning, I got a perfect old-fashioned stove for baking crab shell roe from the flea market. It is said that this small stove is specially used for baking crab shell roe, and the previous owner also used it to bake some sesame cakes and sell them together.

The stove was very solid, quite old but still of good quality. Huang Xi bought it at a high price at the flea market, and then asked Zhao Rong to reimburse him.

Qin Huai was very satisfied with the stove.

One stove, two ancient methods, it’s a perfect match!
Qin Huai used it that afternoon.

First, cook the pork rib soup. When the soup was cooking, Zhang Shumei just brought the ingredients for the tangerine peel tea, so Qin Huai found a small stew pot and cooked them together. Qin Huai didn't expect Luo Jun to specifically ask for tangerine peel tea. After all, the tangerine peel tea he wanted basically didn't require any technical skills, and it only required real hands.

Now he drinks Pingti every day - Zhang Shumei cooks Tremella and lotus seed soup every day during this period, but she doesn't add dried tangerine peel.

But Luo Jun just wouldn't bring it up, leaving Qin Huai confused as to whether he liked tangerine peel tea or white fungus and lotus seed soup.

After making pork ribs soup and tangerine peel tea, Qin Huai started making crab shell roe and hollow sesame cakes.

Huang Shengli was watching while munching on a mung bean cake on the other end of the video. He could tell at a glance that the mung bean cake was made by Zheng Siyuan.

"It seems that I was right. Xiao Qin, you are indeed more relaxed and natural when making snacks." Huang Shengli waved to the side happily, "Siyuan, come over and see what new thing Xiao Qin has made."

Zheng Siyuan was actually also at Huang's Restaurant.

Zheng Siyuan's face appeared on the screen. Qin Huai kept moving his hands and asked, "Have you sold out the cakes in your store?"

"My father invited my uncle to dinner tonight. I didn't make any more snacks after the morning snacks were sold out, so I came here early." Zheng Siyuan said.

Qin Huai took a few seconds to react: "Your father invited Master Huang to dinner at Master Huang's restaurant?"

"Yes, I will have to cook the dishes myself later." Huang Shengli said, "Let's not talk about him. Xiao Zheng, have you seen this stove? This is the stove your father and I loved most when we were little. At that time, your master not only used the stove to bake crab shells for us, but also baked cakes, round sesame cakes, and baked sweet potatoes were also delicious."

Zheng Siyuan was a little curious: "Are the snacks baked in this kind of oven better?"

Huang Shengli laughed: "No wonder your dad said you have a dim sum brain, your mind is full of dim sum. Of course, baking dim sum in an oven is better, the heat is even and it is easy to control the time. We didn't have an oven at that time."

"If there is any advantage to this small stove, it's that the snacks baked in it are particularly fragrant. Especially when you sit by the side and wait, the fragrance spreads out little by little, and the more you smell it, the more you crave it. After practicing your knife skills and eating one, it feels like you can cut another 200 kilograms of radishes."

Zheng Siyuan was puzzled: "The oven is better, then Qin Huai would easily fail if he used this oven to bake crab shell yellow."

All I can say is that Zheng Siyuan really understands Qin Huai's craftsmanship.

"He is practicing the temperature now. When the snacks baked in the stove are of the same quality as those baked in the oven, then he will be ready." Huang Shengli squinted his eyes and looked at the screen closely for a few times, then shook his head, "I don't think this batch will work. The temperature is too high."

Huang Shengli’s judgment was correct. The first batch was indeed not good. After Qin Huai sat up from the small stool, he carefully took out all the crab shell yellows from the first batch, selected the one that looked the best in appearance and took a bite.

Qin Huai found it a bit dry.

If this was just crab shell roe with ordinary sweet or meat filling, the dryness might not be very obvious, but the key is that this is filled with fresh shrimp.

Too obvious.

It's really hard to use the stove.

The oven is truly a great invention of human technology.

Qin Huai was reviewing his dried crab shell yellow when Ouyang arrived.

Ouyang originally came to drink soup, but when he smelled the crab shell yellow, he was surprised and asked, "There is still crab shell yellow today?"

"I'm not selling them. I just grilled a few to try. If you want to eat some, there are two left over there. Have them yourself."

Qin Huai pointed to the crab shell roe on the plate that had already cooled down a little.

He ate the rest of the crab shell roe. Now Qin Luo was at school, and without the best taster Qin Huai, he could only taste it himself.

Ouyang was pleasantly surprised and took the crab shell yellow, wrapped it in one bite, and gave a thumbs up while chewing: "Mm, delicious! Qin Huai, you are still the best at making snacks, this is the taste!"

Qin Huai:......

He knew that such an important task as tasting crab shell yellow could not be given to Ouyang.

This guy says everything he eats is delicious.

After reviewing the situation, Qin Huai prepared to start the second batch. At the same time, he sent a message to Luo Jun, asking Zhang Shumei to come and get the crab shell roe, hollow sesame cakes and tangerine peel tea when the second batch came out of the pot.

For something as delicate as this, it needs to be tasted by professionals like Luo Jun.

The best part is that Luo Jun is still reluctant to go out.

Qin Huai was in the cafeteria and Luo Jun was at home. Luo Jun would at most rant on WeChat but would not attack Qin Huai in person.

At this moment, Qin Huai deeply felt that Luo Jun was indeed an excellent and enthusiastic neighbor.

If there is an award for the best neighbor in Yunzhong Community this year, he will definitely vote for Luo Jun!
(End of this chapter)