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Chapter 83: Drawing circles, the ultimate technique for making pastries! (Subscribe)

After returning home, Xia An couldn't wait to open the stunt illustration book.

[Special Skill: White Snake Chain (100%)]

[Grade: Classic (Gold)]

[Progress: Can be learned! ]

[Learning Condition ①: You need to master any rare purple skill to the point of 'great success' to obtain enough Qi energy (achieved)]

[Learning condition ②: Need to practice "Basic Pastry" to perfection (already achieved)]

Boom!

The moment the special skill information appears on the panel.

Xia An's mind exploded.

"Here it comes, here it comes..." A hint of excitement appeared in Xia An's eyes, this familiar feeling.

The soul goes back to a certain node in time and space.

On the Yangtze River, a huge ship sails slowly in the dark night.

This is the "Loulin Ship" of the dark cuisine world!
Inside the ship, a story of a cooking showdown that has been passed down from mouth to mouth in China's food world is taking place.

Coincidentally, it was the turn for Steel Stick Jie Lu to face off against "Pastry King" Logan!

The topic of the duel is "Dumplings".

Xia An seemed to be able to hear Logan laughing and talking to Ganggun Jie Lu, as well as Ryan, Liu Maoxing, Tang Sanjie and others.

Talking about his understanding of dough making as the "Pastry King":
“…Dough cannot be kneaded and kneaded by brute force.”

"It's the circular motion of my fingers, the circular motion of my wrist, and the circular motion of this pastry stick in my hand!"

In the cooking showdown venue inside the Loulin ship.

Logan's vicissitudes and distant voice echoed:

"in other words!"

"The ultimate skill in making dim sum is to draw a circle!"

"The depth and size of the circle a person can draw basically determines how deep his attainments and skills are in the field of pastry making!"

The words fall.

The ancient pastry stick in Logan's hand suddenly started to spin at high speed.

The snow-white flour that had been quietly piled up into a small hill suddenly began to rotate in a spiral due to the high-speed rotating force.

Soon, a jaw-dropping scene appeared!

Quickly stir and mix flour and water in a spiral motion.

It formed long white strips.

It kept spinning around the ancient pastry stick in Logan's hand.

At first glance.

I thought it was a white snake with smooth scales, wrapped around an ancient pastry stick, circling and twisting endlessly.

"The eternal spiral that resides in all things..."

Before the soul returns to reality.

Xia An vaguely heard Logan laughing and sighing.

"Gan!"

After waking up, Xia An still felt unsatisfied.

"Panel, don't break the chapter!"

"what's next?"

"I want to watch Xie Lu's "Golden Smile"!"

"I want to watch Logan's "Four Gods Seafood Eight Treasures Soul-Calming Buns"!"

Apparently, the panel would not respond to Cheyenne’s call.

These two cookbooks undoubtedly represent the pinnacle of pastry making and are very likely to be golden.

Xia An calmed down.

I looked at the character interface carefully again and couldn't help but smile.

[Special Skill: White Snake Chain (100%)]

[Grade: Classic (Gold)]

[Progress: Beginner (0/10 exp)]

"Mastered!"

Joy burst out in Xia An's eyes, and the tiredness he had just felt after setting up his stall and returning home was all swept away at this moment.

He stood up from the sofa.

Come to the open kitchen and pour half a bag of flour directly onto the clean kitchen counter.

As for the pastry stick, use an everyday rolling pin instead.

“The ultimate skill in making dim sum is to draw circles!”

Xia An closed his eyes and savored it for a moment, then suddenly opened them.

The fingers are very particular about the way they hold the stick, and there is a sense of posture.

"Circular motion of the fingers."

Flatten the top of the mountain, slightly hollow out the body of the mountain, and pour some clean water into it. Xia An took a deep breath, and his fingers began to rotate the pastry stick in his palm.

"Next is...circular movements of the wrist."

As your fingers rotate the stick, your wrist should also coordinate and make circular spiral movements around the stick.

Gradually, the dough mountain began to move, and the mixture of water and flour formed torn cotton wool, which entangled and climbed up along with the rotating rolling pin. It can only be said that it has a slight taste.

But suddenly!

There was a "pop" sound.

There was a wave of mismatched coordination as fingers, wrists and sticks swung into action.

The rolling pin slipped out of his hand and fell.

The patches of water mixed with cotton wool were no longer restrained by the mysterious force, and broke away from the spiral rotation, falling all over the kitchen counter.

Xia An was not surprised. This was how proficiency was achieved when learning [Beginner]. It was normal to make mistakes.

But Xia An picked up the family rolling pin and was about to continue spinning.

Ok? !

He felt a familiar soreness in his arms.

It seemed like this was how it was when I first mastered the [Arhat Crystal Slash] and swung my sword to perform my special skill.

Strength, mysterious energy.

Obviously, it can't keep up with the strength of the golden stunt.

Just barely meeting the standard?

"No wonder one of the learning conditions is to master at least one purple skill to the highest level!"

Xia An suddenly realized.

So, after cheering himself up and practicing several times but all ended in failure, Xia An could only drag his even more tired body back to the living room on the second floor and fell into a deep sleep.

But this night, too many people were sleepless because of Xia An’s stall.

On the street at dawn.

Wu Zhu and Xiang Shilin were walking aimlessly on the deserted street.

"I didn't get it." Xiang Shilin put his hands in his trouser pockets and glanced at the city sanitation workers who were already cleaning the roadside.

"Uh."

Wu Zhu rolled his eyes slightly, thinking that it would be abnormal if the bloody battle ended in failure with a burden like you around.

He forced a smile and said, "It's normal that I didn't get one. Look at the huge crowds of people. Only a thousand lucky people can eat the 5 yuan flaming soup dumplings."

Xiang Shilin sighed:
"If I had known it would be so hard to get, I would have asked him to make one for me during the late-night food battle."

Hearing this, Wu Zhu looked at him like an idiot:
"Do you think Boss Xia will spoil you?"

Xiang Shilin exclaimed: "What do you mean?"

"Food for the food competition is made for the judges to eat and win the victory."

"Why did Boss Xia use crab and pork to make a complete version of "Flame Dumplings" just for you?"

Meeting Wu Zhu's serious gaze, Xiang Shilin opened his mouth, unable to refute.

He was used to being the boss in North America and had a set of inertial thinking, so he had never considered the possibility of being rejected in a strong way.

……

In the afternoon, Xia An had a rare sleep of about 10 hours and was woken up by Hojo Miyoko.

"Master, Director Gao Shengqi is here to visit. He is waiting for you in the lobby on the first floor, drinking tea."

After Xia An finished washing up, he went downstairs and saw Gao Shengqi looking uneasy. At the stairs, he said with a smile from a distance:

"Director Gao, you're not going to ask me to go to the thatched cottage three times, are you? I'm not Zhuge Liang or Crouching Dragon, I'm not such a great god, your production team can just invite other nine-star chefs."

Gao Shengqi smiled bitterly and said:

"I do plan to visit you three times. With you here, this new show can stand out and compete with the two popular shows in Shanghai and Guangzhou."

Immediately, Gao Shengqi gritted his teeth, picked up a sandalwood box on the glass coffee table, and handed it to Xia An who had just walked over.

"This is a small gift from the great man surnamed Liu in Shu."

He was afraid that Xia An would not answer.

He opened the sandalwood box first, and an ancient book appeared. On the cover, it read:

"Catfish Noodles"!
Xia An: ? ?

Another paleo recipe, and a pasta-based one at that?
He looked odd.

anyway.

In addition to the live "Colorful Hairtail" that Xiang Shilin lost the bet with him, the other two complete ancient cookbooks, "Big Galaxy Noodles" and "Bian Lian He Ya Seven-Color Longjing Steamed Noodles", are also noodles!

I only heard Gao Shengqi say:
"The theme of the first episode of the program has been decided, which is "Noodles."

"Then the competition system adopts the last-place elimination system. If you agree to participate, there will be seven top nine-star chef contestants..."

Xia An was hesitant about whether to accept the invitation from the program team.

to be frank.

The fact that Liu and Ju came downstairs and promised him that he could watch the Monkey King Zhu Qi's unique skill [Return Ten Pots with Silver Chopsticks] was enough to make him unable to refuse.

[Silver Chopsticks and Ten Pots Returned] is definitely a golden skill, no doubt about it.

But I just got started with [White Snake Chain Transfer].

Xia An, who had personally experienced how difficult it was to learn the golden skills, was worried about biting off more than he could chew.

At this time!

A new target popped up on the panel, which surprised Xia An!

　Today's update task is 1/4, and I'm stuck, but I can't let the vicious cycle of more and more delays continue, so I'll stay up late tonight to code more.

　　No need to wait.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)