Gourmet: From a Stall in Northern Europe-Chapter 187 - 143: Vegetarian Challenge 2.0, Milk Snow Ice

"Well, that's not right. It seems a bit odd for a food truck to only make dairy products. Wouldn't it be better to sell milk tea? Drinks don't really count as dishes, though."

Theoretically, milk tea fits the criteria, but Lin isn't sure how the system will judge it, given that the task requires vegetarian dishes containing dairy products.

If he makes it and it turns out to be a failure, he would waste a Potion Fragment for nothing.

"Ugh... This selection is a bit tricky. Is there anything that is both at the same time?"

Slightly irritated, he scratches the back of his head. No wonder this challenge task requires only a hundred positive feedback points; it's indeed a bit difficult to decide what exactly to sell.

After pondering for a few minutes, he decides to change his approach.

"If dishes are hard to make, why not make desserts? Dairy products are quite common in desserts."

"Desserts are surely a type of dish, right? Whether in western or eastern cuisine, they are a legitimate part of the menu."

Switching his perspective suddenly broadens his horizon.

Almost instantly, he sets his sights on condensed milk.

If he picks any ice dish to pair with condensed milk, it's hard for it not to taste good, right?

Shaved ice? Taro balls? Or perhaps ice tofu pudding?

There are simply too many choices.

Without much hesitation, he finally decides to make shaved ice, but not traditional shaved ice—rather the kind of snow ice that's been popular domestically for quite a while.

He was worried about how to use the two Food Truck Upgrade Cards, so he exchanges one for a multi-functional shaved ice machine, which comes with snow ice mode.

[Ding, you have successfully exchanged for a multi-functional shaved ice machine]

For foreigners, shaved ice is a common dessert; almost every country has a similar kind of dessert.

But snow ice, most people probably haven't seen it before.

Using milk shaved ice as the base, topped with various fruits or toppings, and drizzled with condensed milk, it's definitely delicious, visually appealing, and refreshing.

Most importantly, it requires almost no preparation time. The prepared liquid is directly poured into the machine, and in minutes the ice is produced, with just a bit of fruit to slice.

It's right around noon now, a perfect time to go to the supermarket to buy some ingredients and come back to prepare. Around one o'clock, the sun will be blazing.

At this time, selling ice products by the beach will be absolutely popular!

Half an hour later.

A red food truck slowly drives along the road toward the restaurant door, drawing the attention of tourists on the beach.

"Hey, isn't that the food truck of the restaurant's head chef?"

"Quickly, follow along! The head chef is out!"

"Head chef? What head chef?"

"The one who made the fish soup rice noodles I brought back yesterday morning, didn't you say it was delicious? We bought it from that place! Rumor has it he's the head chef from the restaurant behind, doing market research before opening."

"We're idling anyway, let's go see what they're selling today."

"Anyway, we're taking a walk; wherever we walk is the same, isn't it, dear?"

Lin Chen had just parked the food truck and moved down tables and chairs when he noticed quite a few tourists heading straight for him.

He was a bit stunned.

He quickly rushed back into the truck to start preparing the base liquid for the snow ice.

[You have successfully exchanged for the milk snow ice recipe]

After using a Recipe Exchange Voucher to acquire the formula and opening it to take a look.

He was dumbfounded.

"Damn? Does it need to be frozen into ice columns for four hours? This... I hadn't expected this."

He hasn't eaten much shaved ice-related stuff abroad, where this new product isn't available; the last time was in his own country.

Originally, he thought it was the kind of machine you see in videos that roll out ice. But now that he looks at the recipe, it's not like that at all.

Snow ice is made by first preparing the base liquid, then freezing it into ice columns in cylindrical metal containers, and finally fixing it onto the machine, where it's shaved off layer by layer like peeling.

In a rush, he searched online, finally realizing that the rolling ice shavings thing is called snowflake ice, also a type of shaved ice.

"Hello, may I ask what you're selling today?"

Already, some quicker-footed diners have arrived at the window, glancing at the blank whiteboard beside it, and asked curiously.

Lin Chen was startled, hardly having time to consider much else. Anyway, whether it's snow ice, snowflake ice, or shaved ice, the base liquid is essentially the same; it's just a matter of different shapes.

"Today we're selling fruit milk snowflake ice, 15 euros a portion, but I've just started, and preparation will take a while, so if you need it, please wait a moment."

To be safe, he didn't dare make too much, but made just enough for one serving as a trial.

In case the shape or texture is wrong when made, he could switch to a snowflake ice recipe in time.

Milk, cream, water, sugar syrup—the four liquids are mixed in certain proportions, primarily using milk and water in a 1:1 ratio.

Adding water makes it easier to produce ice, as pure milk's texture is relatively firm due to protein and fat, thus ice made from it isn't as light and melts faster than water.

This point is emphasized in the recipe, clearly a critical key aspect.

But adding water will dilute the milky flavor, necessitating cream to enhance the richness and the milky taste.

Pouring the milk ice base liquid into the machine, a large plastic bowl is placed at the ice outlet, and pressing the button, the roller swiftly whirls like a conveyor belt.

Within seconds, a pure white ice film starts to appear on the surface of the conveyor belt, which is sliced off by a scraper as it rolls off, forming long strips of crushed ice.

The crushed ice piles up layer upon layer into the bowl, overflowing at a visible rate, and it does somewhat resemble snow ice.

It's uncertain if it's due to the recipe or not, but this milk snowflake ice turns out as long strips of crushed ice instead of the flakey form seen in videos.