The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 139: Enlightenment in Hubaoyi Cave (5-in- Chapter K)

"Probably 'Ganges Fried Noodles'."

Xia An didn't hide it.

"Ganges fried noodles?" Wen Chaoqing had a strange expression on his face. "It's only been a few days, Boss Xia, and you've already learned how to make this ancient dish?"

Xia An smiled slightly: "Thank you for your notes, which benefited me a lot."

Wen Chaoqing:? ?
He was at a loss.

"Goodbye."

"My notes cannot help novices master an ancient dish directly. If you don't believe me, show them my notes and see how much they can understand and learn."

Wen Chaoqing cast a speechless and provocative look at Liu Shimeng, Tang Jinghan and Lu Zuguang.

The one who had the biggest reaction was Tang Jinghan:
"If you read the notes of your predecessors, you can learn and master the cooking techniques of ancient dishes."

"How could ancient skills and dishes be gradually lost?"

"Take my Tang family for example. We even have the complete culinary heritage notes of our ancestor Tang Sanjie."

"But over the past one or two hundred years, there are only a few descendants who have learned the complete ancient skills and dishes from the inherited notes!"

what.

Just a few?

In other words, there was a hero before the Tang family who mastered all the ancient skills and cooking techniques of the Tang family?
Xia An nodded slightly in his heart.

This is in line with the heritage of these famous families, not to mention the Tang family of the Dragon Town Restaurant in Shanghai. According to Xia An's understanding, the Lan family, for example, his daughter Lan Xiaoxi's great-grandmother, and her equally outstanding great-grandfather, may all be the inheritors of these lost masterpieces.

However, the "disappearance" of this type of people has created the impression among the world that ancient skills and dishes have long been lost.

Meng Yulu saw that Xia An just smiled and said nothing in the face of Tang Jinghan's questioning. She didn't bother to explain, and there was a look of indifference on her face.

Seeing this, the female chef, who had gotten to know Xia An's temperament better in recent days, couldn't help but secretly feel frightened:
"It's only been a few days? Could it be that he really has mastered the Ganges fried noodles recipe?"

……

Return to your hotel.

While taking a shower, Xia An checked the proceeds from the night market stall at Zhuhai Station.

[Goal ① has been completed: set up a stall to sell improved ancient dishes (fantasy version of Tianxiong roasted herring), and the operating loss on that day exceeded 1,000 yuan. 】

[Goal ② has been completed: the number of diners served exceeds one hundred. 】

[Goal ③ completed: entertain diners with fantasy glowing dishes, no less than one serving per person. ]

Ding!Ding!Ding!
The key point is that these three business goals have triggered a super multiplier feedback mechanism.

Goal ① and goal ② combined brought Xia An a massive 4 cooking experience points.

As for target ③.

This was Xia An's first time triggering the super multiplier.

"Uh, how many glowing versions of grilled fish did I make tonight?" Xia An couldn't remember clearly. Perhaps, when glowing became a high-probability situation, it didn't seem necessary to remember it deliberately.

After all, who would remember an everyday, ordinary event? They would just forget it in the blink of an eye.

Xia An was not conflicted.

Counting the rewards with great joy.

"Super double reward, the original 1 attribute point reward has been increased to 2?"

Receive this wave of profits from setting up stalls at the Xiawan Road Night Market at Zhuhai Station.

When Xia An saw the "balance" on the panel, he raised his eyebrows, thinking that he had been recharging the panel fiercely recently. In addition to quietly accumulating a staggering number of spare cooking experience points, he had also spent all of it on the glowing talent, consuming 3 attribute points.

Now, 2 attribute points are replenished in one wave, so the balance of available points on the panel rises back to the number [4].

Ding!
Of course, the panel message sound effects are still playing.

Xia An followed the prompt and found the target information that showed "Rewards to be collected", and he couldn't help but fall silent.

[The chef panel has been unlocked and automatically switched to the food conqueror mode. ]

[Completed the limited-time conquest goal ②: In the next Zhuhai/Shenzhen night market stall parade, use the ancient kitchenware 'Tianxiong Flame Chain' to present a new glowing ancient dish (1 attribute point)]

After receiving.

The available attribute point balance then increased to [5].

Xia An's eyes flickered as he scanned the target information of the Food Conqueror mode:
"Goals ① and ③ are left to be completed."

Two key words for the goal:

Using the unique skill of 'Zhou's Food Sculpting Technique' to present new glowing ancient dishes...

Using the unique skill "Zhou's Food Carving Technique" and the ancient kitchenware "Tianxiong Flame Chain", in two consecutive night market stall parades, a new and different interpretation of glowing ancient dishes was presented...

Xia An said secretly:
"So, according to the target conditions, the ancient recipe and ancient dish I prepared for the Shenzhen Station Night Market can only be "Ganges Fried Noodles"!"

The reason was simple. He had already made a preliminary attempt to use the [Seven-Star Breaking Army Knife] as a carving knife.

In this way, this famous sword has its own "trace" skill, plus the Zhou's Food Carving Technique he has mastered, that is, the combination of Seven Star Breaking Army Swift Cutting Technique + Zhou's Food Carving Technique.

Xia An has personally tested these two things and found that they are not contradictory at all.

Think about it too.

The Seven Stars Breaking Army Swift Cutting Technique is the ultimate in fast cutting.

Zhou's food carving technique is basically the answer in the field of food carving.

If you are not in the same circle or scope, it will be difficult to have conflicts in concepts and applications.

As for the recipe for "Fried Noodles of the Unified Seven Kingdoms", it was created by Yakan using the ultimate explosive flame, and the main focus is on the heat. There is no entry point for Zhou's Food Sculpture Technique at all. If it is forced to be integrated into the recipe, it will only change the ancient recipe into something weird and lose the pure theme of the original article on the heat.

……

[Recipe: "Ganges Fried Noodles" (90%)]

[Grade: Pseudo-gold]

[Progress: Getting Started]

……

The entry-level learning progress can only be said to be able to do it, and the completion rate hovers around the passing range of 60%.

Only when you have achieved a certain level of proficiency can you say that you are moving towards the realm of "mastery" in a recipe.

Xia An glanced at the huge amount of cooking experience points that had accumulated over a long period of time.

If we don’t destroy it now, when will we?
He invested with his eyes closed.

【Beginner → Small Success】

You know, with tens of thousands of experience points absorbed from Wen Chaoqing's notes, the original recipe's experience bar is not far from being upgraded.

Just fill in some free experience and the recipe will be upgraded.

Xia An took a look at the experience bar from [Minor Success] to [Great Success], and his eyebrows twitched slightly.

It's really nonsense. I can only say that it is worthy of being a pseudo-golden gold-eating beast recipe. Just like the golden skills, if you purely spend experience points to raise the proficiency to the next level, you will need 20 cooking experience points.

"A small level of proficiency will be enough."

Based on his rich experience in recreating ancient dishes, Xia An would not act rashly and then spend attribute points to push his recipe proficiency to great success or perfection.

There's no need for that.

The proficiency of minor recipes is enough to support dishes with 80% completion.

Suddenly, there was a familiar rumbling vibration in my head.

Xia An was not frightened at all. Instead, he lay back in the bathtub comfortably and stabilized his body.

"Are you here?"

He whispered expectantly.

After reaching a certain level of proficiency in the ancient recipes.

It will take him through time and space to witness the story behind the birth of the recipe.

This can also be called the process of "enlightenment"!

……

The ancient Chinese food world.

The headquarters of the dark cuisine world, the demonized Liangshanpo.

A dark hall called "Hubaoyi Cave".

Liu Maoxing, Silang and Zhou Meili finally met the man who led the dark culinary world, Kaiyou, nicknamed "Ruyunlong".

You know, nominally, although the dark cuisine world has a history of 700 years, for most of these 700 years, the dark cuisine world was actually a vassal of the Tai Chi cuisine world, or an inconspicuous branch.

But the emergence of Kaiyou changed the landscape of the dark cuisine world and the Tai Chi cuisine world, causing a large number of top-notch and top-notch chefs to emerge in the dark cuisine world, and the success rate of famous chefs far exceeded that of the Tai Chi cuisine world.

Therefore, Kaiyou himself not only has an incredible culinary talent that can be said to dominate an era, but he also has the ability to cultivate famous chefs. The Spice Queen Mira is the most vivid example.

There are enough famous chefs in the middle and lower levels of the dark cuisine world to crush the Tai Chi cuisine world.

The top management includes the "Five Tigers" led by Kaiyou.

Even Kaiyou, Yanxian, Yakan and others have the strength to fight against the "Eight Phoenix Immortals" head-on.

thus.

When Kaiyou was defeated in the Forbidden City.

The dark culinary world is bound to decline without its "coach" and "soul figure".

"Are you the son of Fairy Bei and Liu Malu?"

The deep and vicissitudes voice echoed in the dark hall of "Hu Baoyi Cave".

The vast cave space was transformed into an underground palace.

At this moment, in the square of the underground palace, a man with thick long hair and a sinister temperament stood with his hands behind his back.

Behind this sinister man are one hundred and eight top chefs from the dark world.

But facing this overwhelming feeling of oppression.

Liu Maoxing resolutely accepted the shocking cooking showdown.

The loser will drink poison and commit suicide. This is also a cruel gamble with life at stake.

"Want Tarzan's legendary kitchen utensil?"

Kaiyou's tone became more and more gloomy:
"Then, your opponent will be the chef who is closest to perfection among the Five Tigers, and also the pillar of our dark cuisine world..."

The words fell.

Yakan slowly walked out of the darkness of the cave.

Thus, a culinary showdown between "fried noodles" and "Heroes of China" began.

Xia An found that his entire view was focused on Liu Maoxing's kitchen.

Liu Maoxing had shackles on his feet, and a heavy lead ball was connected to the other end of the chain, but this only restricted Liu Maoxing's efficiency of movement to a certain extent and did not completely confine him to his house.

On the other side, Yakan killed the giant bull with his bare hands and used kerosene to ignite the fish pond, creating a river of fire, turning the entire fish pond into a sea of ​​fire.

And over here.

It seemed that he was not affected at all by the oppressive feeling of being in the enemy's base camp.

Liu Maoxing selected the various ingredients slowly, then crushed and smashed them, and began to knead and mix the dough.

Xia An watched it very carefully. He didn't know whether this was a "copy" of the past image on the panel or a simulation of the scene from his memory.

But no matter what, the process of Liu Maoxing making the authentic "Ganges Fried Noodles" was so intuitively presented in front of him. Xia An had no distractions and was like a sponge, madly absorbing the essence of this cooking scene.

"So that's it..."

“Are some of the ingredients processed this way?”

"Hiss~ I'm afraid this detail can only be revealed by the creator!"

"Hey, these are the 108 types of noodle carvings."

Sometimes it is confusing, sometimes it makes me suddenly understand.

It's the process of interpretation and memory that consumes countless brain cells.

Xia An watched Liu Maoxing present the world's first complete version of the dish "Ganges Fried Noodles".

Is this the end?
Xia An felt like something was missing because he didn't see the tasting session. He came to his senses and found himself lying in the bath water, which was gradually cooling down.

He stood up, wiped the water stains, and checked the time on his phone. It was almost six o'clock in the morning.

"I was immersed in the images for at least three hours?" Xia An was secretly amazed.

This may be his longest and most essence-enhancing experience.

……

[Recipe: "Ganges Fried Noodles" (90%→91%)]

[Grade: Pseudo-gold]

[Progress: Minor Success → Major Success (50%)]

……

Hey!
Xia An raised an eyebrow.

He was not surprised that the proficiency upgrade experience bar increased by 50%.

What surprised and puzzled him was that the recipe, which was originally 90% complete, had rarely and unbelievably increased by 1%.

"Could it be that, as I glimpsed the process of the original owner creating the classic, I was also gradually gaining enlightenment? Comprehending the 'Tao' of a dragon chef?" Xia An couldn't help but wonder.

After all, according to Wen Chaoqing and Meng Yulu, 90% of these pseudo-golden recipes are complete.

The missing 10% no longer belongs to the category of recipes, nor is it the way of chef Long that can be recorded in words or characters.

"In this way, after you have mastered these recipes to a certain extent, it makes sense to continue to spend money to increase your proficiency."

Xia An was in deep thought.

He was not yet clear about the "enlightenment" node of the pseudo-golden recipe.

The next proficiency level, great success, is there?

Is there perfection after great success?
But even if both of these two nodes can be "enlightened", it seems that increasing the progress from 91% to the full value of 100% seems so far-fetched.

After thinking for a while, Xia An felt that this "enlightenment" efficiency was most likely directly related to his own cooking skills and his perspective at the top of the pyramid.

This makes sense.

Just nine-star cooking skills.

Dare to peek into Chef Long's Tao? This 1% seems outrageous. Normally, it is like looking at flowers in the fog and not understanding a hair.

After a moment, I sorted out my thoughts.

Xia An looked at the panel, which showed the number [5] for the available attribute points.

He turned to the special skills that must be used to achieve the goal of conquest mode.

……

[Unique Skill: Zhou's Food Carving Technique (Complete)]

[Grade: Classic (Gold)]

[Progress: Minor Success]

【Evaluation: Iron painting and silver hook, three points into the wood. 】

……

I got the second half of Meng Yulu's secret book of unique skills and completed the original incomplete purple unique skills.

Zhou's food carving technique naturally turned into a golden frame on the panel.

Of course, the proficiency that had been previously upgraded to [Minor Success] was also inherited without loss.

Unlike before, it was impossible to continue improving.

Now, as long as Xia An is willing, he can increase his attribute points.

"But it's not necessary."

"The minor golden skill is definitely enough."

You know, [White Snake Chain] hasn't even been upgraded to the minor success level.

There are so many attribute points.

Do I still have to endure the turtle-like slowness of my training?

Just spend some money to add some points and you're done.

[White Snake Chain (Beginner) → White Snake Chain (Small Success)]

[Evaluation: Stick dancing white snake, giving life to dough]

Xia An thought again about the large number of pasta recipes he had mastered recently.

Regardless of "Ganges Fried Noodles".

Or "Unifying the Seven Kingdoms Fried Noodles".

All of these will be his nuclear-bomb-like answers in the field of pasta.

Before he himself was promoted to Dragon Chef, it was no exaggeration or boasting to say that these recipes were all very good in terms of related food wars themes.

"There are 4 attribute points left."

"never mind."

"With one breath, I can use both golden skills to their fullest!"

……

[White Snake Chain (Small Success) → White Snake Chain (Big Success)]

[Evaluation: The stick dances with the white dragon, the true meaning of the white case spirals in your palm]

[This skill cannot be further improved! ]

[Host, please improve your cooking skills! 】

……

Xia An was surprised: "Is it impossible to continue spending money after achieving great success?"

And when he thought that he was a nine-star chef, yet he had mastered the White Snake Chain to the [Great Completion] level of proficiency, it was already quite abnormal.

"Continue to use Zhou's Food Sculpture Technique!"

……

[Zhou's Food Carving Technique (Minor Success) → Zhou's Food Carving Technique (Great Success)]

[Evaluation: All things come alive under your carving knife]

[This skill cannot be further improved! ]

[Host, please improve your cooking skills! 】

……

"I spent another attribute point. It feels good!"

Xia An looked at the panel and saw that the proficiency of another golden skill had been raised to [Great Accomplishment]. He was extremely happy.

His confidence also swelled.

With the blessing of Zhou's highly accomplished food carving technique.

Plus the small proficiency of the recipe of "Ganges Fried Noodles".

How could the degree of perfection of the recreated ancient dishes be low?
There are 2 attribute points remaining.

If there is no urgent need to spend money to upgrade the project right now, then just save it first.

Although the Explosive Flame and Tianxiong Flame Wheels are already recorded on the panel, it would be a waste to add points randomly before you can upgrade them to [Great Success] in one go and surpass the "Trace" enchantment effect of the ancient kitchen utensils, and the cost-effectiveness is extremely low.

Look back.

Xia An clicked his tongue.

Staring at the panel, he obtained the physical talent - [Explosive Steam Body] after setting up a stall at the Xiawan Road Night Market.

"Test it?"

He squinted at himself in the bathroom mirror, and instilled his thoughts into the panel:

"Remove the physical seal!"

The words fell.

Whoohoo!

Xia An felt like a human melting pot.

Like hot lines carved from lava, some unusual red lines were wandering on his naked body.

At the same time, white mist and steam erupted from Xia An's body, and soon the whole bathroom became white. The air temperature suddenly rose a lot and became hot.

After a moment, Xia An pushed the door open and walked out of the bathroom.

"Hula-"

The heat wave rushed into the living room of the hotel suite. Although the air conditioner was on, it felt as if there was a fire next to it.

Xia An quickly called the panel and sealed the [Explosive Steam Body] talent back.

I am very afraid that if I touch the wooden furniture or fiber objects in the house, they will ignite and cause a fire.

His face changed constantly.

Am I moving more and more towards an inhuman direction?

Needless to say, the body can release such an absurdly high temperature. It is not a normal operation to fry an egg with your palm flat...

"If it weren't for the sensitivity to the flow of heat and temperature changes just now, it would have activated the extraordinary fire sense."

"This physical talent is simply a negative effect, it will cause a lot of inconvenience to daily life!"

Of course, being able to seal or unlock things at will and having controllable switches is a great favor from the panel, and even Yakan himself cannot have absolute control over it.

Then.

Activate this physical talent.

What effect will it have on his cooking skills?
Think about this.

Still feeling energetic, Xia An moved directly to his own private kitchen at the hotel.

(End of this chapter)