Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 888 - 440: [Rice Cake Level A]_2

"What do you mean by overly sweet? Do you understand rice cake batter? Rice cake batter is supposed to be sweet!"

The masters were chatting and then started to argue again. Those who knew realized they were watching Qin Huai make rice cakes, those who didn't might think the early meeting had started.

Master Zhou ignored everyone and didn't follow to see how Qin Huai steamed the rice cakes. In fact, no one followed to see how Qin Huai steamed the rice cakes. This step doesn't need to be watched at all. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

"Lao San, did you capture it clearly?" Master Zhou asked Zhao Cheng'an.

"The latter part was clear. Earlier, Tan Wei'an didn't know how to do close-ups and kept using the same angle. The step of rice batter fermentation was shot very clearly, Master, have a look." Zhao Cheng'an handed Tan Wei'an's phone over.

Master Zhou squinted and looked for a while, then shook his head in frustration and sighed: "Xiao Tan is still lacking in his work."

Tan Wei'an: ??? Master Zhou, this is my phone. Among all these people, only I violated the rules and kept my phone in my pocket!

Twenty minutes later, Qin Huai returned with a few plates of rice cakes that had been steamed, cooled for a few minutes to a palatable temperature, and looked extremely beautiful.

Qin Huai used the simplest square molds without any additional shapes, resulting in rice cakes that were small square blocks.

Each rice cake was plump and looked like a sewn small purse. Overall, they were rice-white with a very beautiful sheen, visibly fine and lustrous, without reaching an excessive shining level but definitely more eye-catching than ordinary rice cakes.

If these two plates of rice cakes were placed among the market-sold rice cakes, they would stand out like a pale-skinned, beautiful supermodel among regular people.

Qin Huai gave each master a rice cake, and after handing them out, there was still a small half plate left, so he picked one from the plate and ate with everyone.

Earlier at the stove, Qin Huai already ate one, and the taste far exceeded expectations, so Qin Huai now felt confident.

Qin Huai chewed the rice cake carefully.

To say it's delicious, this rice cake wasn't that great. Its texture wasn't rich, lacked layers, and didn't have any fancy flavors. It's just an ordinary rice cake, mildly sweet, like all the rice cakes around the world because it's a rice cake.

But it surpasses normal rice cakes and delicious ones.

Its texture is very delicate, its rice aroma is intense, and its sweetness is perfect. There's no unusual fragrance when tasting it, but it's very comforting.

It's a textbook rice cake. Whether in texture, fluffiness, or taste, it matches what everyone imagines, remembers, and knows about rice cakes, but better than those.

A rice cake that scored 100 points would stand before it and bow respectfully because it's the example from the textbook, the standard flavor everyone recognizes as tasty rice cake.

It is the standard answer.

Also the snack beauty Qin Huai has always pursued.

Both aesthetic and delicious.

Previously, Master Zhou had Qin Huai read many books on aesthetics, hoping Qin Huai would find answers or insights from them. To find his own path, explore unique characteristics and style, Wang Jiayi and Zhou Yan's difference already taught Qin Huai that to become a master, one must have their style.

Before, Qin Huai indeed didn't understand what his style was. He kept imitating and learning, whether from the Snack Encyclopedia or copying video tutorials, he didn't know what his style was.

Qin Huai felt he made snacks without style since childhood, only standard snacks everyone recognizes, except his snacks set the benchmark.

He never innovates or stands out. He just follows exactly what Snack Encyclopedia says. Even the Four Happiness Dumplings formula he explored are those standard snacks everyone recognizes.

Don't mind whether the formula was Qin Huai's own exploration, just think when you see or eat this snack, hear Qin Huai introduce it, doesn't it feel like the Four Happiness Dumplings are exactly that?

Previously, Master Zhou had Qin Huai follow Zhao Cheng'an, watch Zhao Cheng'an make snacks for so many days, actually wanting Qin Huai to realize he has the same problem as Zhao Cheng'an. Both of them are too rigid and textbook, lacking personal style.

Qin Huai thought the same before watching video tutorials.

Now he thinks Master Zhou was wrong.

Master Zhou is still narrow-minded, hasn't seen the Master-level snacks.

What's wrong with textbooks? Are textbooks rigid? If textbooks are authoritative enough, capable of being a definitive guide, textbook-style snacks are also specialty snacks!

Which student doesn't look at textbooks?

Study textbooks, understand textbooks, become textbooks, transcend textbooks.

Qin Huai looked at the not much remaining rice cakes on the plate.

[Rice cake A-level]

Unfortunately, his skill level isn't strong enough, achieving the limit, realizing the limit can only produce A-level rice cakes.

Never mind transcending textbooks, there's still a way to go before becoming textbook.

How did Jiang Chengde nonchalantly make, even when rice cakes turn cold and taste worse, still achieve A+ level?

Qin Huai pondered deeply while eating, everyone else was pleasantly surprised.

"Haven't eaten such a standard rice cake in years!"

"Really, very standard, no fancy stuff, very pure."

"Xiao Qin, you've got something hidden, haven't you?"