At the stall, Xin Sui was making mountain and sea dumplings.
Lou Jiali mentioned several dishes—golden chicken, scallop soup, and sea cucumber soup…
She couldn't produce the chicken needed for the Golden Chicken dish at the moment.
The brocade dai soup is actually water shield soup. Water shield is a specialty of the JZ area in her previous life, and she didn't have any of it.
The third dish, "Mountain and Sea Dumplings," is actually a combination of mountain delicacies and seafood, cooked together to create a delicious flavor.
When mountains and water meet, the freshness is enhanced, hence the name "Shan Hai Dou" (Mountain and Sea Bean).
The main ingredients for this dish are bracken fern, bamboo shoots, mandarin fish, and prawns, all of which must be fresh.
Xin Sui had nothing in his hands.
But cooking doesn't have to be so rigid. The main point of this dish is to enjoy the delicious flavor of the combination of mountains and sea.
Therefore, you can substitute other dishes with similar flavors.
Xiaoming had previously promised her that she could take any ingredients she wanted from his food paradise and botanical garden.
So she didn't rest in the days leading up to the competition, spending a lot of time wandering around the two gardens looking for ingredients that could be used in cooking.
At this moment, she has all kinds of ingredients in her ring space, so making a local specialty dish like "Shan Hai Dou" is no problem.
When Xiaoming came over, Xin Sui was still preparing ingredients.
The key to making this dish, Shan Hai Dou, lies in the preparation beforehand.
However, Lou Jiali across the street had already grilled a fish.
Human dietary history began with the learning to use fire.
However, cooking food over fire is a very dangerous thing in the end times.
Because during this process, the food will continuously emit smells, which can easily attract strange beasts and zombies with a keen sense of smell.
Therefore, in the early days of the apocalypse, people had to abandon cooked food and seek out cold food instead.
Later, with the invention of nutritional pastes, people no longer spent time and energy on cooking.
Over time, the skill of cooking was forgotten.
However, the Lou family was blessed with a unique advantage: the five-star hotel they ran before the apocalypse was transformed into a spirit.
After becoming spiritualized, a rule was established: the food in the hotel would be replenished the next day after it was used up.
Therefore, the Lou family can be said to be the only place in this post-apocalyptic world where food culture has been well preserved.
It's not surprising that Lou Jiali knows how to grill fish over a fire.
And the fish she grilled looked really good.
Attracted by the aroma of grilled fish, Xiaoming flew towards her first.
Lou Jiali smiled confidently and proudly.
She truly has reason to be proud; compared to the other contestants who knew nothing about cooking, her culinary skills were practically an art performance.
People around stared in astonishment.
Please enjoy.
Lou Jiali placed the grilled fish on a plate and added flowers around the edge, making it look even prettier.
Xiao Ming picked up the fish and started eating.
This time he didn't vomit, but instead ate the whole grilled fish.
In the end, only a clean fish skeleton remained.
In the past, he might have eaten the fish, bones and all.
But now he knows that eating meat with bones in will greatly diminish its flavor.
Lou Jiali asked, "What do you think of my grilled fish?"
Xiao Ming: "So-so."
Lou Jiali was stunned. "You ate it all and it was just so-so? Are you kidding me, you psychic robot?"
She wanted to argue with Xiaoming, but Xiaoming dropped an advancement card and flew away.
He didn't have time to listen to her rambling.
However, her grilled fish barely met the standard for advancement.
Xiao Ming flew to Xin Sui's stall, only to find that her dishes weren't ready yet.
How much longer?
Xin Sui: "Come back in half an hour."
Xiao Ming noted down the time and was about to fly off to another place when Li Beibei's snacks were ready.
"Master Ming! My snacks are ready, would you like to try some?"
Considering she was the third person to manually prepare food so far, Xiaoming gave her face and flew over.
After tasting it—
"Pah! Liar! How did you make such awful pastries? I could bake a lump of dirt and it would taste better than this."
Xin Sui discovered that Xiao Ming also had such a sharp-tongued side.
Li Beibei exclaimed in surprise, "That's impossible!"
She took a bite and said, "It's really delicious, Master Ming, would you like to try another piece?"
Xin Sui suspects that Li Beibei's enhanced sense of smell may have deprived her of her sense of taste.
Otherwise, how could something that Xiaoming disliked so much become delicious in her mouth?
And it was the same thing back in Thorn City; she ate those awful snacks with relish.
Lou Jiali was initially indignant about the "so-so" evaluation she received.
But after hearing Xiaoming's evaluation of Li Beibei, she immediately felt balanced and happy.
Indeed, happiness is built on the suffering of others.
She waved the advancement card in her hand at Li Beibei.
"Your cooking is so bad, Li Xueli's probably not much better. You're bound to lose the bet. I'm waiting for you to kneel down and kowtow to me."
Li Beibei retorted stubbornly, "Even if I fail, I still have my fifth sister, right? Her results aren't out yet, what's the rush?"
Lou Jiali enjoys watching ants struggle endlessly until they finally have no choice but to despair and accept their fate.
Therefore, he mercifully said, "Alright, then I'll wait a little longer. I want to see what kind of thing Li Xueli can make."
About half an hour passed.
The preparation of ingredients for the new year is complete.
Snow-white fish and shrimp meat are cooked and diced, while emerald green bamboo shoots and pickled vegetables are chopped.
Then mix the ingredients together, adding salt, soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper, etc., and stir well.
Let it sit for a few minutes to allow the seasonings to fully infuse the flavors.
Then wrap the filling with mung bean flour dough, just like making dumplings, but in a triangular shape.
This process is called "pouring".
After wrapping, place each of the mountain and sea dumplings into a steamer and steam over high heat for 3 minutes.
Xin Sui lifted the lid, and a steaming white vapor rose out, accompanied by a rich aroma that made one's mouth water.
The aroma was so enticing that everyone around them was drooling.
"What is this? Why does it smell so good?"
"Oh my god, I'm so hungry!"
"I really want to try it; the nutritional paste in my hand feels tasteless now."
Li Beibei had already run over and was taking a deep breath near the steamer.
"Fifth Sister, what's this? Can I try one?"
As he spoke, he reached out his hand.
Xin Sui slapped her hand away: "No."
Lou Jiali also came over, "Shan Hai Dou? You actually made it?"
How is that possible? Even the Lou family couldn't do it.
They only know how to eat, and they only know its appearance and taste.
After all, there's an endless supply of food in the hotel, so why would they bother to study cooking skills?
Xiao Ming flew over following the scent, and his eyes lit up when he saw the sea buckthorn. He exclaimed "Wow!" and flew over, picking one up with each hand and eating them with both hands.
Xin Sui grabbed three and set them aside to cool.
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