Then, he covered the basin with a wrung-out damp cloth and waited for the dough to cool completely. He sprinkled some flour on the operating table, took out the dough, rolled it into a strip, and then cut it into small pieces.
Finally, he pressed the pieces into flat discs.
Then, he rolled them out like dumpling wrappers, rolling the edges a bit more.
This made each Shao Mai wrapper as thin as a cicada's wing, with edges as stunning as a lotus flower.
Next, Sosuke prepared four ingredients: pork, shrimp, egg, and rapeseed. These four ingredients are common and can even be bought at any supermarket.
He finely chopped all the pork, shrimp, and rapeseed.
Then, he added starch, cooking wine, chopped green onions, minced ginger, salt, light soy sauce, and a little clear water to the minced pork, mixing it vigorously in one direction until the meat filling became firm.
Holding a Shao Mai wrapper in his left palm.
With his right hand, he pulled up the Shao Mai wrapper in the up, down, left, and right directions, then gathered the corners and pressed them firmly to seal.
Then, in one step, he shaped them, deliberately making four small pouches of varying sizes, and filled them with pork filling, shrimp paste, chopped rapeseed, and egg filling in a ratio of 8:5:5:5 respectively.
He brought the steamer to a boil, placed the Shao Mai inside, and steamed them over high heat for 10 minutes.
Finally, he took them out of the steamer, and a dish of Golden Ratio Shao Mai, incorporating mathematical golden ratio principles, was complete!
…
Boom!
The moment the lid was lifted from the steamer.
The long-hidden steam instantly diffused, enveloping the entire Izakaya.
With a whoosh, a dazzling golden light burst forth from the Golden Ratio Shao Mai, instantly illuminating the entire night.
"You're amazing."
"Every time, you use simple ingredients to make dishes so stunning, so earth-shattering!"
At this moment, looking at the incredible scene before her, Nakiri Mana could barely conceal her excitement, she said.
"Isn't it good?"
"Occasionally, let the dishes glow to add some ambiance."
"For the diners, isn't it also a sensory enjoyment?"
Sosuke, who had just finished making the Shao Mai, simply replied with a light chuckle.
Afterward, he noticed that Nakiri Mana, who had come to the Izakaya this time, was not accompanied by Anne, and he continued, "It's rare for you to come alone tonight. I suppose after these days of training, cough, feeding, your physique has improved slightly, hasn't it?"
"Thanks to you, I've successfully overcome my anorexia."
"Although my God Tongue still despises all other dishes in the world, as long as I can continue to love... the dishes you make, I can slowly regain vitality."
Nakiri Mana said with a smile.
Thinking about everything that had happened recently, she truly felt as if she were dreaming.
From initial anorexia to developing food addiction due to having no resistance to Sosuke's cooking, which forced her to become increasingly dependent on the Izakaya and Sosuke.
But blessings come with misfortunes; she could also eat now.
Her physical condition gradually improved, and she no longer needed to rely on nutrient injections to barely sustain her life!
"These past years, taking care of a severe anorexia patient like you, Anne must have been exhausted to the point of spitting blood, right?"
Seeing Nakiri Mana's complexion indeed much rosier, Sosuke sighed.
"Yes! She is the best secretary by my side. If it weren't for her constant companionship and care, I probably wouldn't have made it this far."
Nakiri Mana nodded in deep agreement.
…
Unlike dumplings and steamed buns.
The thin, light skin of this small basket of Golden Ratio Shao Mai could be seen through.
With just one glance, one could see the filling, like a pipa player half-hidden, clearly an effect achieved by using hot water to make the scalded dough and superb rolling skills!
"The shape of this Shao Mai looks a bit strange."
"Leaving aside the four pouches of different sizes, why are the four ingredients also placed separately in each pouch?"
Looking at the Shao Mai in front of her, Nakiri Mana blinked, asking in confusion.
Despite being a special executive officer of the WGO, this way of making Shao Mai was clearly beyond her comprehension.
"Humans have approximately 10,000 taste buds."
"And one gram of vinegar has 10 to the power of 22 acetic acid molecules; even if you add up all the taste buds of billions of people worldwide, you still couldn't distribute that one gram of vinegar."
"Therefore, when tasting food, the tongue's taste buds usually only sample."
"When encountering a flavor, they judge its concentration, and from that, the brain reconstructs the overall flavor."
"And your God Tongue, I think, should be able to concentrate all the taste buds, and then be able to distinguish even subtle flavors more clearly!"
Sosuke, after a moment of thought, expressed his opinion.
"Hmm, that's indeed the case."
"But what does that have to do with the Shao Mai you made?"
Nakiri Mana particularly agreed with Sosuke's point on this matter.
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