"We'd like to know first, what does your cooking club mainly do?"
Lin Qing asked with a smile.
"Junior, you've come to the right place by joining our cooking club! Our club not only teaches members cooking skills and organizes practical cooking activities, such as home-style cooking classes and baking courses, but also organizes and researches activities focused on promoting local food cultures. We hold food culture lectures, regional food sharing sessions, and more. We also conduct food appreciation, tasting and evaluating various cuisines. We even organize members to explore the local cuisines of each member's hometown and share their culinary experiences. Furthermore, we encourage members to unleash their creativity, develop novel and unique dishes, and occasionally organize creative food competitions… Junior, if you also love food, joining our cooking club will definitely be excellent value for you!"
When Lin Qing asked her a question, the senior student from the cooking club immediately launched into a long and detailed explanation to Lin Qing and Zhao Xi.
After considering it for a while, Zhao Xi joined the cooking club, while Lin Qing had her own plans. She wanted to learn about food, and there were plenty of teaching materials in her space, so there was no need to join the cooking club and waste her time.
The group continued walking around. In the end, Lin Qing joined the painting club, while Lin Yunfeng didn't join anything. In his words, joining a club was a waste of his time. He'd rather spend that time thinking about what he could do and make some money.
"Alright, we've all made our choices. What's next?" Zhao Xi asked.
"It's almost time, let's meet at the school gate!" Lin Qing said, glancing at her watch.
"Ding... Congratulations on your successful university registration! You are rewarded with a welcome gift pack. Would you like to claim it?"
Lin Qing, Gu Nanxun, Lin Yunfeng, and Zhao Xi had just reached the school gate when they suddenly heard the system's announcement. Lin Qing was overjoyed, but suppressing her curiosity, she replied to the system, "Don't claim it yet!"
After replying, Lin Qing and Gu Nanxun exchanged a glance and smiled simultaneously.
The group quickly gathered at the school gate. They asked each other what was going on and found out that although the girls had applied for different majors, they were all in the same building. Lin Qing and Zhao Xi were in room 301, Lu Xianghong was in room 408, and Xu Fengjiao was in room 502.
On the male side, Lin Yunfeng and Wang Haoran were also in the same building, with Lin Yunfeng in room 607 and Wang Haoran in room 608.
The main issue is that this year's enrollment is relatively small, with even fewer female students. Lin Qing guesses that almost all the female students will be in one building, while she doesn't know about the male students, but there are definitely more male students than female students. The building has ten floors, with 18 dorm rooms per floor. At each end of the corridor, there's a public restroom and two rows of water taps for students to use for washing, plus a hot water room. Lin Qing even doubts whether the girls' dorms will be full.
What do we do next?
Xu Fengjiao said excitedly.
"It's lunchtime, let's go eat!"
Zhao Xi suggested.
"Okay, I wasn't even hungry until you mentioned it, but now that you've brought it up, I'm suddenly starving. So, where shall we go to eat?"
Xu Fengjiao touched her belly and said.
"Since we're here to register today, why don't we go to the school cafeteria? We've never been there before!"
Lin Qing suggested with a smile.
"Okay, okay, then let's go to the cafeteria."
Xu Fengjiao was the first to agree.
"It's settled then. Let's go to the cafeteria together and see what good food they have," Zhao Xi said excitedly, filled with curiosity about all the food.
No one else objected, so the group chatted and laughed as they walked towards the cafeteria, discussing the interesting things they had just witnessed. Lin Qing and Zhao Xi told Xiang Hong and Xu Fengjiao about the clubs they had joined.
"Do you think the cafeteria has any special dishes?" Xu Fengjiao suddenly asked curiously.
“Of course, every school cafeteria has its own unique features,” Lin Qing replied.
"I heard that the signature dish of our school cafeteria is dumplings. It's said that the cafeteria chefs make particularly delicious dumplings, which are very popular in our cafeteria," Zhao Xi added.
"Really? Then I must try it later." Xu Fengjiao's eyes lit up.
Soon they arrived at the cafeteria. The cafeteria was bustling with people. The aroma of various foods wafted through the air, making mouths water. Although school hadn't started yet, long queues had already formed at the food windows.
"You all sit here for a while, we'll go get the food."
The group found an empty table, let the women sit down, and then the men went to get the food.
At that time, the canteen had very few food options, not even as many as state-run restaurants. In addition to basic steamed buns, noodles, rice, and cornbread, the dishes were mainly vegetarian, such as stir-fried cabbage, stir-fried bean sprouts, and stir-fried radishes. There were also pickled vegetables.
Several men specifically inquired about the dumplings, only to find out that they weren't available every day, but only on Wednesdays.
"This food is way too bland!"
Wang Haoran looked around at the food in the cafeteria and couldn't help but say something.
"That's right, there's not even a piece of meat!"
Lin Yunfeng said reluctantly.
"It has meat!"
Suddenly Chen Bin spoke.
"Where, there's meat."
Wang Haoran strained to see the food displayed at the window, but couldn't find any meat. He then turned to Chen Bin and asked him.
"Look closely inside the cabbage."
Upon hearing this, Wang Haoran continued to look at the cabbage.
"Where's the meat? Are you seeing things?"
"Isn't this meat? Isn't this meat? Do you want to eat it? If you don't, get out of the way and stop blocking the road."
Suddenly, the cook scooped up a spoonful of cabbage, pointed to the little bit of meat stuck in the gaps between the cabbage leaves, and said to Wang Haoran.
"This is meat..."
Wang Haoran couldn't help but widen his eyes as he stared at the tiny bit of meat in the spoon. Could this even be called meat? He doubted whether there was even a single shred of meat in a serving of cabbage. Did he have to go looking for it?
"It's good enough if there's any meat at all, where would you get so much meat? Are you guys going to fight or not?"
The cook tapped the bowl with his spoon and said impatiently.
"I want two bowls of vegetarian noodles and two steamed buns."
Gu Nanxun looked at all the food in front of him and then said.
"I also want two bowls of vegetarian noodles and two steamed buns."
Chen Bin followed up with his words.
"I also want two bowls of vegetarian noodles and two steamed buns."
Me too.
Wang Haoran and Lin Yunfeng then added, "Since you're all here, just grab something to eat!"
Wang Haoran thought that if he lived on campus, he would probably eat in the cafeteria often. The thought of having to eat grass all the time made him feel miserable.
"Where are the dumplings? Why aren't there any dumplings?" Xu Fengjiao asked, looking at the plain noodles in front of her.
“Yeah, isn’t it said that dumplings are the signature dish here? Why don’t you buy dumplings?” Zhao Xi chimed in.
"Dumplings are only sold on Wednesdays, not today."
Wang Haoran said weakly.
"Haoran, what's wrong?" Xu Fengjiao reached out and nudged Wang Haoran's arm, asking with concern.
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