"Did you steal some food? I saw it!" Li Bing blinked at Zuo You. "How is it? Isn't the food cooked by my Master Xiaoye delicious? I'm so impressed by her cooking skills. I've always wanted to be her disciple, but she refused. Sigh!"

Li Bing just wanted to scare Zuo You on purpose and show off Ye Tian's power to him.

"Look at the sign hanging in the window. The calligraphy is so beautiful. It was also written by my Master Xiao Ye. As a college student, you should learn from him!" Xiao Li continued to show off as if he had written the calligraphy.

Zuo You raised his hand, and with his bony fingers he pinched the wooden sign hanging above the window. He gently turned it around and looked at it carefully for a moment.

"Yes, I saw the news about her calligraphy award before! It's really amazing!" Zuo You sighed in his heart.

On his first day working in the cafeteria, Zuo You was stunned. He'd assumed Ye Tian was just a pretty girl helping students get food in the window, but he'd never known she'd pick, wash, fry, and sell everything in one place. The dishes were incredibly delicious, and even the calligraphy on the menu was hers.

In comparison, anyone would feel inferior.

Zuo You suddenly realized something and asked Li Bing, "So the food in the third cafeteria has suddenly changed so much and is now better than before. Is it all because of Ye Tian's part-time job?"

Li Bing looked as if he didn't need to say anything.

Zuo You and his roommates also liked to eat in the third cafeteria, and he wanted to hurry back and tell everyone the news. "Wait, no! I can't tell them. This secret is only mine."

Walking back into the kitchen, Chef Sun had already prepared spicy and sour potato shreds, and Ye Tian was serving bowls of steamed Dongpo pork. Li Bing stepped forward to help, setting up a large iron plate and asking Zuo You to help carry it outside.

"I really like this Dongpo pork. It turns out that it was made by classmate Ye! Why is she so good? She must be the descendant of a famous chef! I also want to become her apprentice." Zuo You began to be assimilated by Li Bing.

Xiao Li exploded: "Don't even think about it. Everything has to be based on a first come first served basis! I'm Master Xiao Ye's apprentice. You should just focus on your studies. Why are you competing with me? You're a university student with a bright future ahead of you!"

"Oh..." Zuo You didn't dare to say more.

After a while, Ye Tian started to make the last dish, a mixed vegetable dish. This dish is a mix of various vegetables such as dried tofu, dried bean curd sheets, mushrooms, carrots, cauliflower, gluten, fungus, bamboo shoots, bok choy, lotus root, etc. It is a bit like a hodgepodge, of course, you can add or subtract ingredients according to your preference.

In order to make the vegetarian dishes look good and taste delicious, it is best to stir-fry them in water in advance. When stir-frying, in addition to the normal seasonings, you can also add a little oyster sauce and broth, and finally add a little sugar. This will make the vegetarian assorted dishes beautiful in color, delicious and tasty. Moreover, with so many kinds of vegetables together, the nutrition is also richer.

"This vegetarian dish seems to be delicious too!" Zuo You and Xiao Li watched beside Ye Tian.

Xiao Li simply worshipped Ye Tian blindly: "Needless to say, the dishes cooked by Master Xiao Ye are all delicious."

"Alright, alright, stop flattering me! Hurry up and serve the dishes! Look at the potato shreds you cut today. They're as thick as chopsticks. You've regressed after a month's vacation! Remember to practice hard. Also, you'll be the one making the twice-cooked pork tomorrow." Ye Tian felt helpless. She really didn't know what to do with Li Bing. She had no choice but to accept this eldest disciple. "Alas, do you really have to accept such an unreliable disciple? What a misfortune for our sect!"

Li Bing was cheerful, unaware that Ye Tian was secretly complaining about him. Even if he knew, he wouldn't be angry. If he could become Ye Tian's apprentice, he would be a great chef in the future, which was much better than what he could learn in a cooking school.

After finishing their lunch work, several people in the cafeteria found two tables in the hall and ate together.

"Chef Sun's shredded potatoes are getting more and more delicious!" said Aunt Liu.

"That's right. Xiaoye told me a little trick. Sure enough, after a slight adjustment, the taste is much better." Master Sun was quite proud.

Xiao Li was eager to try: "Can I also stir-fry shredded potatoes tomorrow?"

Before Ye Tian could speak, Chef Sun said, "This dish is not on tomorrow's menu."

"Okay then!" Li Bing curled his lips, a little disappointed, and then took a big bite of the steamed bun. "Brother Du, your steamed buns are more solid. I'm almost full after eating one."

Xiao Du laughed foolishly, "Hehe."

Seeing how harmonious the relationship was among everyone, the new arrivals, Master Meng and Zuo You, gradually let go of their initial nervousness and anxiety.

…

Lu Xinyi had already made an appointment with Ye Tian to shoot a makeup video. During the winter vacation, she was the only one who appeared in the video. Fans were all shouting in the comments that they wanted to see the model girl.

However, Ye Tian thought that she would just help with modeling in the future, and would focus on Lu Xinyi for the rest of the time. She also worked hard as a food blogger, although her fans were only one tenth of hers.

Lv Xinyi specifically researched the account for Ye Tian and offered her several suggestions, which she planned to try out during her next filming. First, she should add her own voice introduction, preferably with a real-life appearance; second, she should decorate her rental apartment and buy a dining table and better tableware; and finally, and crucially, she should watch more videos from other food bloggers whenever she has free time to improve the verticality of her account, which would likely result in more traffic from the platform.

These are some of the drainage methods that Lu Xinyi summarized and concluded after continuous study and research during the winter vacation. I feel that they make sense.

The Lantern Festival is two days away, and surprisingly, it's the beginning of spring. So should we eat spring pancakes or glutinous rice balls?

The third canteen said: We have both!

Chef Xiao Du and the new chef Meng worked together to make the paper-thin, transparent steamed spring rolls, while Chef Sun and Ye Tian prepared a variety of side dishes, including stir-fried mixed vegetables, stir-fried shredded potatoes, and pork head and braised beef in soy sauce.

Students can choose the dishes they need on the spot, buy a few pancakes, and then slowly roll up the spring rolls.

The practice of the Third Canteen to prepare corresponding foods according to solar terms and festivals has been unanimously praised by teachers and students in the school.

Of course, they also cooked two kinds of glutinous rice balls, sesame and peanut. They were made by the canteen using glutinous rice flour, sesame and peanuts, and they tasted very good.

Both fillings were prepared by the new chef, Meng, and Ye Tian even took a moment to learn. Back when she lived, there were no stuffed tangyuan (glutinous rice balls), only small, sticky rice dumplings. She saw that in addition to sugar, Master Meng added lard to the sesame powder, which made the sesame filling fragrant and smooth. A bite filled her mouth with a lingering aroma, and the sesame oil just flowed out.

Fortunately, the cafeteria serves spring rolls for lunch and glutinous rice balls for dinner, so everyone doesn't have to worry about what to eat. If they eat both together, the salty and sweet sides won't work. Like tofu pudding, glutinous rice balls also have their own sweet-salty rivalry, but the cafeteria doesn't make it that complicated, choosing common fillings that everyone can accept.

Everyone has discovered that Chef Meng's Chinese desserts are also quite good. It's worth looking forward to the trial opening of the Western pastry display in a couple of days...