I'm the Culinary God-Chapter 607 - 287: How Many Ways Do You Know to Eat Youtiao? Midnight Hunger Rescue Guide! [Subscribe Request]_2

Chapter 607: Chapter 287: How Many Ways Do You Know to Eat Youtiao? Midnight Hunger Rescue Guide! [Subscribe Request]_2

Although Old Huang kept saying, "Happy Holidays," it was obvious this was a reminder not to forget to make the steam pot chicken. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Shen Baobao placed a piece of notoginseng on the table, trying hard to break it open to look inside, only to find she had left small dents on the table while the notoginseng remained immovable.

"It’s as hard as a rock, how are we supposed to eat this?"

Lin Xu picked it up, sniffed it, and said with a laugh, "Either grind it into powder with a grinding machine or stew it directly in soup. Stop messing with it; be careful not to hurt your hands."

"I got it, I got it!"

Just then, Chezi came over with a basket of freshly steamed buns and said, "Boss, the buns are steamed."

"Okay, let me try one and see how it is."

Early that day, Ji Minghui and Zhuang Yizhou, feeling that everyone had been working hard the past few days, decided to deep-fry some dough sticks. However, they lost track of the amount and made far too many.

The leftover dough sticks wouldn’t taste good if refried, so Wei Qian simply chopped them up, mixed them with glass noodles, Egg, Chives, and dried shrimps, and made a batch of buns.

In the past, Lin Xu would eat dough sticks directly whenever he got them. It wasn’t until he came to Beijing for school that he discovered they could be wrapped in pancakes. Some breakfast stalls would even inject Egg into the dough sticks, creating an "Egg-filled dough stick" similar to an "Egg-filled pancake."

There was also a breakfast shop near the school from Jinling that would wrap dough sticks with rice, sprinkling some pickled mustard tuber bits in during the process, which tasted quite delicious.

He had thought these ways of eating were already classics, but today, a new method of mixing them into a filling had emerged.

"Wow, that smells amazing!" Shen Baobao took a bite of a bun and immediately exclaimed in admiration.

The glass noodles were fragrant and slippery, enriched with the taste of lard. The pieces of chopped-up dough sticks inside, after soaking up the juices from the buns, were soft and chewy, almost like eating meat.

Lin Xu hadn’t expected that such a simple preparation of dough sticks could be so delicious.

He remembered taking some dough sticks home that morning, and Shen Baobao had a few left over. At the time, he had been rushing to the shop to make mooncakes and had carelessly stuffed them into the refrigerator.

If only I had known, I would have brought them to make filling, so they wouldn’t go to waste.

"It really is good. We’ve got a new idea for making buns in the future."

Lin Xu thought dough sticks were an interesting food—delicious on their own, yet also usable as an ingredient for other dishes.

Moreover, with the addition of dough sticks, the originally plain vegetarian buns immediately jumped a notch in texture.

As they were eating, Shu Yun, having finished attending to the group meal customers, came downstairs from the third floor. Seeing the buns were ready, she took one and bit into it. "Hmm," she said, "this bun isn’t bad, quite tasty. It would be even better without Chives..."

As the store’s general manager, she often had to communicate directly with customers, so she tried to avoid eating foods with strong smells, such as Chives, garlic, raw onions, and the like.

Shen Baobao said, "No worries, just wear a mask."

"That will just make me suffer from the smell... I’ll eat something else later to avoid leaving a bad impression on the customers."

Seeing how concerned Shu Yun was about her image, Shen Baobao thought about sharing a bed with Xu later that night. Having bad breath would definitely be worse. So, after eating one bun, she joined Shu Yun for some fried rice instead.

This amused Lin Xu, though he also found it a bit frustrating.

I’ve already eaten it, so what if you don’t? Just rinse your mouth after eating. Besides, we brush our teeth before bed, so even a slight hint of Chive smell can be brushed away.

Lin Xu continued to eat his buns.

After eating, he rinsed his mouth, chewed two pieces of chewing gum, and then got back to work for the evening.

Around nine in the evening, the shop officially closed for the day.

He carried Dundun, and with Shen Baobao, he returned to their apartment in the residential complex behind.

Upon entering their home, Dundun immediately snuggled into a cardboard box lined with a mink fur blanket—a Mid-Autumn Festival gift from Han Shuzhen that the little guy really liked—and fell fast asleep.

After they both showered and changed into pajamas, Shen Baobao sat on the sofa, holding her phone and video calling Chen Meijuan.

"Mom, did you receive the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts I bought for you? The imported camel milk is for Grandma and Grandmom; drinking it is good for their health."

"Thank you, Yueyue, Mom received everything. Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, what are you two planning to do?"

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were chatting away on the phone, their bond closer than even that of a mother and daughter.

Lin Xu was curled up on the other end of the sofa, scrolling through social media to see what funny things netizens were sharing about their holiday experiences.

"Our company gave us a 2,000 yuan bonus. After handing it out, the boss said in the group chat that the money would be deducted from our salaries. He said he gave so much because he was worried we couldn’t keep up with others... he really... I’m crying!"

"Your boss at least got you all mooncakes; that’s not bad. Our boss took the easy way out and just painted us a big picture of the company going public in three years. Not only did we not get any bonuses, but we also had to work two extra hours tonight."

"Our company gave us nearly expired products personally selected by our boss. He said they have a shelf life of more than three days and are safe to take when visiting relatives... I’ve already nominated him for one of the top ten most touching figures awards."

"You’re all better off than us. Not only did we not get any benefits, but our boss also said today is the ’99 Charity Donation Day’ and called on each of us to donate two hundred yuan."

"..."

As he was browsing, Shen Baobao stood up, still holding her phone, and said to Chen Meijuan, "Mom, don’t hang up. I’m going to find something to eat; I’m a little hungry now."

Lin Xu was just about to tell her she shouldn’t have eaten only one bun that afternoon when Chen Meijuan’s voice suddenly came from the phone, "Xu, what are you waiting for? Go make something for Yueyue to eat. Goodness, this boy... how can he be so thoughtless?"