Food Stall: Customers Chase Me across the Country-Chapter 381 - 382: Mecha Is a Man’s Romance, and the Mantis Shrimp Is Romance Itself

Chapter 381: Chapter 382: Mecha Is a Man’s Romance, and the Mantis Shrimp Is Romance Itself

The third day of the seafood farm stall.

Today’s special has been changed to half white shrimp, half mantis shrimp.

Although the farming area for white shrimp is large, the sales have already opened up. Based on the principle of equal sharing, mantis shrimp has now been scheduled.

Mantis shrimp is also a regular on the dining table, but its impressive aspects are little known.

Wang Fan only learned about this terrifying little creature during his nighttime studies.

"Living Godzilla," "No need to evolve for 400 million years," "Alien armor left on Earth," "Full of high-tech."

These are all descriptions of this unassuming little thing.

Previously, there was an internet meme "Let’s go, mantis shrimp," many people thought it was just a joke, but they couldn’t possibly realize that this little creature is almost invincible in its size class.

What a lonely invincibility!

After seeing various introductions on mantis shrimp, Wang Fan’s passion for mech was reignited.

Indeed, it’s the soul of mech that’s burning!

Mechs are men’s romance, and mantis shrimp is that romance!

Super powerful mech, aggressive personality, Skytop Star Level eyes, fists faster than bullets, and a sound-light communication system humans can’t understand.

A tiny fist measuring 7 millimeters can deliver up to 150KG of force with one punch. Wang Fan even doubts he could produce such power.

The tiny fist can accelerate to 80 kilometers per hour from zero in 1/3000 of a second, with acceleration exceeding 10,000 gravities. A rocket only requires 10 gravities! What a concept? If humans had this capability, they could throw a satellite into Earth’s orbit just by swinging an arm.

In martial arts novels, some characters can injure others through space, an author’s fantasy, but the mantis shrimp can actually do this!

Because the speed is incredibly fast, fast enough to instantly boil the water around the tiny fist, creating a super cavitation effect—essentially like a shock wave.

This shock wave is an AoE damage; the cavity bubbles created instantly collapse, releasing energy that can heat the water to 6700 degrees Celsius instantaneously, hotter than the sun’s surface!

And a dazzling white light is instantly produced, the legendary "sonoluminescence" effect.

All martial arts are indestructible and only the fast can overcome. With its fast fists, the mantis shrimp can do as it pleases in the seabed.

Smashing shells, dismembering crabs, knocking out octopuses...

However, farmed mantis shrimps don’t have so many chances to flaunt their power.

The price of mantis shrimp generally ranges from 80 to 120 yuan per jin, with larger ones even going for over 300 yuan per jin. Artificially farmed ones will naturally be slightly lower, but not too ridiculously low.

Prices always adjust based on market supply and demand. Currently, artificially farmed mantis shrimps are not numerous enough to drop to cabbage prices.

Mr. Zhuo shrugged at a pool of mantis shrimp: "This thing we’ll only farm this time, next year we won’t. The farming costs are just too high, the input-output compared to those white shrimps is totally disproportionate."

Wang Fan nodded: "I think you should just farm those South American white shrimps afterward, forget about the rainbow trout, sturgeon, mantis shrimp and the like."

Mr. Zhuo said: "That’s exactly what I thought. Before, farming so many was mainly to determine which had good market prospects, now white shrimp is definitely the most cost-effective."

"Oh, by the way, the folks at PR are asking if you’ve got time tonight. If you do, they’ll bring the sheep over."

Wang Fan said: "Alright, tonight then."

Mr. Zhuo thought and asked: "Can you handle roasting the whole sheep? If you think it’s too tiring, I can get Zaike to roast it; his skills are quite impressive in the city."

Mr. Zhuo felt it was necessary to be tactful. Today’s young people care about face, so he asked if Wang Fan was tired rather than if his skills were up to par.

How could Wang Fan be okay with that?

Surely not!

Just like a peerless sword master wouldn’t part with their treasured sword, how could such top-notch ingredients be roasted by someone else?!

"No way, absolutely not, the whole sheep must be roasted by me!"

"It’s very tiring."

"How could cooking be tiring? Just thinking about transforming such good ingredients into gourmet food with my hands fills me with excitement!"

Finding a sheep aged one and a half years is indeed rare. Generally, around 8 months they can already be slaughtered, making it unnecessary to raise them to a year and a half; over two years old, the meat isn’t as tender, incomparable in taste with the one-year-old half lamb.

Even if the king himself were to come today, he wouldn’t snatch the roasting rights of the whole sheep from Wang Fan!

Mr. Zhuo exclaimed: "Should I find you a sheep to practice on first? Qianqian mentioned you’ve never roasted a whole sheep before. If you mess up, you’d be embarrassed in front of the kids."

Wang Fan shook his head: "No need, I definitely can roast it well."

Although there’s been no actual combat, the simulations have been done many times, roasting a mere whole sheep is a piece of cake. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"Alright, alright, you do whatever you want, but I’ve warned you in advance, so don’t blame me if anything goes wrong."

Wang Fan laughed: "Don’t worry, there’s absolutely no chance of messing it up."

After chatting for a while, Zhuo Qianqian has already calculated today’s serving size. For mantis shrimp priced at 50 yuan per jin, these tourists and fans showed great enthusiasm. With just one pool, Wang Fan estimates it might sell out completely within the day.

He surely won’t let the children handle these alien mechs. So, he didn’t bother processing and just blanched them directly in boiling water.

Once blanched, he wrapped the mantis shrimp in absorbent paper and then used scissors to trim the sharp shrimp claws and tails before evenly dusting in starch.

Usually, when deep frying, the first time is at 60% hot oil temperature and for re-frying it’s at 70% hot. However, for frying mantis shrimp, he directly chose to fry at 70% hot oil temperature.

"Sizzle" "Sizzle" sounds of oil popping continuously, as the mantis shrimp’s outer shell slowly turns to a delicious color.

He took them out to drain the oil, raised the oil temperature to 80% before deep-frying again.

After frying for 30 seconds the second time, he took them out, stir-fried chopped chili peppers and onions till fragrant, added the fried mantis shrimp then tossed in spice salt and earlier fried garlic paste, soon the shrimp was covered in green and red chili flakes and golden garlic crumbs.

The rich fresh aroma has some differences from the big shrimp, its freshness seems to be three times more intense.

He turned off the fire, picked a mantis shrimp from the pot with chopsticks, and tasted it at the mouth.

The diners instantly focused their eyes on Wang Fan, waiting for the creator’s first taste review.