"Do your best, and keep it up!"
Before Lu Xiaoyao could even enter the classroom, she was stopped by Mingmei standing at the door. Then, she saw Mingmei pat her on the shoulder as if she were being entrusted with an important task.
Lu Xiaoyao: ?
Before she could ask what was wrong, she heard the other person say this.
"Okay...I will!"
Influenced by the bright, expectant gaze and the serious tone, Lu Xiaoyao also answered with a serious expression. Just now, her brother had specifically come to her to give her a few words of advice.
Indeed, learning to cook is really difficult!
With bright anticipation and her brother's words of advice, Lu Xiaoyao nervously entered the classroom.
Mingmei watched the door slowly close, and finally couldn't help but sigh softly: "I hope Lu Xiaoyao performs better, so that people can at least see some hope. That way, the God of Cookery might not turn so evil?"
What are you saying?
Mu Chen, who had finished his class in the morning, spent the entire afternoon practicing in the cooking classroom. When he came out, it was already evening, so he came over to see if Ming Mei was still busy and if she wanted to have dinner together.
"I mean, you all performed terribly today. I remember your cooking wasn't great on the first day, but it shouldn't have been this bad today, right?"
Mingmei didn't mention that the Chef God NPC was about to turn evil and wanted to kill them all. Instead, she took this opportunity to ask Mu Chen and the others what had happened today.
It's understandable if one messes up.
But it's really puzzling when a group of people mess things up!
"You have no idea, I've been standing here all day. Basically, the dishes you guys made after you went in..."
Before Mingmei could even finish speaking, Mu Chen knew what was going on just by covering his nose with his hand, because he had done the same thing when he was cooking that morning.
The smell almost made him faint.
"The problem is with the ingredients. The meat of that unidentified insect A has a lot of membranes inside, which are difficult to remove and have a very strong smell. If it's not removed properly, the dish will smell terrible."
Moreover, the meat attached to the insect shell contains the insect's pigment; you can't see it when it's raw, but once cooked at high temperatures, the meat immediately turns blackish-purple.
"Well... I think the chef's dishes are very good, and they didn't change color..."
Mingmei still remembered the dish on the chef's stove when Yuan Fang came out earlier.
"Because this can be handled in advance, it's just that everyone might have overlooked that point when they were learning it. I also had that problem this morning..."
Before he could even finish speaking, just hearing Mu Chen sigh, Mingmei understood how terrible his mood was.
After all, Mu Chen's skills in making pastries are truly exceptional. While it can't be said that he lacks talent in making pastries compared to cooking, he certainly wouldn't be the kind of person who's a kitchen disaster.
But what he did today was a huge blow to him.
"Did you think of any solutions after class?"
Mingmei was unaware that Mu Chen hadn't shown his face all day.
"I've been practicing removing the fascia. To be honest, once the fascia is cleaned, and you add some seasonings to remove the fishy smell, it tastes delicious no matter how you cook it."
However, my cooking wasn't quite right. I'll learn from the master chef in the next day or two, and then use the seasonings you provided in the lunchbox. I think that should be fine.”
Mu Chen made it sound easy, but in reality, it's extremely difficult to completely remove that fascia.
The operator needs to maintain a high level of concentration at all times, and the operation of the hands must also be very precise. Otherwise, if the fascia is cut off directly or a piece is missed, then the whole pot will be ruined.
Even now, Mu Chen still feels a headache coming on.
He had just passed by several other cooking practice rooms, and the expressions on the players' faces, while not exactly ferocious, were certainly quite distorted.
One by one, they realized they had been tricked.
But if they were to risk going out, they would rather stay here and outwit this meat!
"That's good~"
Mingmei nodded in relief and said, "I still have more than an hour to go before I'm finished here. You should go back and rest first. I'll call you to eat together when I'm ready."
As Mingmei spoke, she looked at Mu Chen, who looked tired, and suddenly remembered that Mu Chen hadn't been resting well these past few days.
She had been reading and studying by herself earlier, and then spent the next day on a bug-catching adventure. She hadn't been back to sleep for long before she was the first to attend class this morning, and after that, she was practicing in the cooking room.
Mingmei had already decided that after dinner tonight, she would let Mu Chen get some rest.
"Okay, I'll go back and wash up and change my clothes before I come back."
After Mu Chen left, Mingmei's attention naturally turned to Lu Xiaoyao's lesson.
However……
Wow! Teacher, you're amazing!
"Oh my god, teacher, I would be more than happy if I had even a tenth of your skill."
Wow! That wok tossing!
"My goodness! Teacher, your knife skills are amazing! You sliced this meat so thinly it's like a cicada's wing! That's incredible!"
"Teacher, you are my god! My tongue has been saved for your dishes all my life!"
Lu Xiaoyao's excessive flattery left Mingmei feeling utterly ashamed.
She was so ashamed she wanted to dig her toes into the ground!
I told you to cheer, but you're cheering for the God of Cookery?!
Mingmei looked at the chef's unconsciously upturned lips. Although the curve was small, he really enjoyed being praised.
Mingmei noticed this, as did Lu Xiaoyao. Lu Gui, who told Lu Xiaoyao to praise the NPC chef to increase her favorability, had also figured it out long ago.
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