Xu Milu noticed that several dishes used insects as ingredients. The crooked, fried insect twigs were mixed in with several dishes made with fresh flowers, making them particularly eye-catching.
She switched back to Chinese and translated the dish names for Nian Fengran and Jiang Wenyan, who were standing nearby. Neither of them seemed particularly surprised.
They had been observing Xu Milu and Lola's interactions, but it was clear that the common language of the mainland was much more difficult to learn than they had imagined.
The food in Oroco is indeed very local. The pork chops are grilled over high heat to dry out the fat, then brushed with a layer of rose jam and seasoned with a little sea salt. The result is a pork chop that is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The outer skin is covered with a layer of sweet rose jam, while the meat inside is tender and juicy. When you cut it open gently, you can see the light pink pork inside. One bite and your mouth is filled with the aroma of roses. The combination of the richness of the meat and the fragrance of the flowers is unexpected.
The rabbit has little to no gamey smell. When cooked in soup with camellia petals, the rabbit meat neutralizes the slight bitterness of the camellia, while the aroma of the camellia adds a lot of flavor to the rabbit meat.
Lemon pollen cookies have a subtle lemon aroma but no sour or astringent taste. The pollen grains are blended into the flour and baked to perfection, resulting in delicate little cookies that are both delicious and fun.
As for the remaining dishes, such as clam soup with rose petals, salt and pepper centipede legs, and fried sea spiders, Xu Milu only studied the recipes before putting the grotesque-looking spider legs into her mouth and chewing them.
Mmm, crunchy and chicken-flavored.
"What a pity, I was hoping to see your scared face—"
Seeing that the three of them showed no emotion, Lola couldn't help but complain:
"I was quite startled by these things when I first came to Orok! Don't let their ugly appearance fool you, they taste delicious. These are pests that the Orok people collect from the flower fields. They gnaw on the flower roots and stems, so the Orok people use them to cook—ah! It's so unsatisfying!"
Xu Milu still had a spider leg in her mouth, her expression unchanged.
In her eyes, insects are no different from other food ingredients.
As for Nian Fengran and Jiang Wenyan, it's even simpler. Both of them are from military backgrounds and have participated in numerous exercises of all sizes. Eating insects is already commonplace for them.
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After dinner, Lola insisted on sleeping in a flower bed with Xu Milu, while Nian Fengran and Jiang Wenyan had already chosen their own flower beds and gone to sleep early—Xu Milu could tell at a glance that the two of them had probably gone offline to report their schedules.
Once only Xu Milu and Lola were left, Lola's lips trembled, and her delicate face turned into a bitter gourd.
"Milu, I'm going to be expelled from the Elf Clan! I lost the seeds of the Elf Tree!"
Xu Milu: "???"
Say it again, what did you lose?
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