"Taki, thank you."
"Without your help, I'm afraid this bowl of char siu rice would have spilled on the floor."
Kikuchi said, relieved.
"At a time like this, you're still worried about the char siu rice in your hand?"
"I don't even know what to say about you. Forget it, forget it, give me the char siu rice, I'll deliver it for you."
Seeing her like this, Kakizaki Taki became even more furious, and without a word, she snatched the steaming bowl of char siu rice from her hand and delivered it to the diner.
"Taki, this is my job, you..."
Before she could finish her sentence, she was immediately interrupted: "What 'you'? From now on, I'll be responsible for serving dishes at the Izakaya."
"Huh?"
Kikuchi was instantly bewildered upon hearing this!
...
At 12 AM, the Izakaya finally closed.
As usual, Sosuke used the remaining ingredients to make a late-night snack, treating Kuguchi Sonoka, Nakiri Erina, and oh, Kakizaki Taki, who had suddenly taken over the dish-serving duties tonight.
Afterward, the late-night snack ended quickly in a warm atmosphere, and the system's sign-in reward followed.
"Ding dong!"
"Host successfully signed in once."
"Ding dong!"
"Congratulations to the host for successfully obtaining the Gong Bao Chicken recipe, the special Bao Shan Flying Dragon Pot recipe, 5000 grams of bamboo fungus, and 20 porcini mushrooms."
A thousand chefs have a thousand ways to make Gong Bao Chicken.
Whether it's Sichuan cuisine, Guizhou cuisine, Lu cuisine, or Huaiyang cuisine, Gong Bao Chicken is present, and the methods vary across regions.
Perhaps, to some extent, Gong Bao Chicken is not a single dish at all, but rather N dishes that are "homonymous isomers."
And in terms of historical origin.
The origin of this dish is also a muddled account.
During the Xianfeng era, Ding Baozhen, the governor of Shandong, often had his personal chef prepare "Sauce-fried Chicken Cubes," which he found particularly delicious.
Later, when he went to Sichuan, every time he hosted guests, in order to show his hospitality, Ding Baozhen would ask his personal chef to bring out his best skills, stir-frying peanuts, dried chilies, and tender chicken cubes together in a wok.
The chicken cubes stir-fried this way were tender and delicious, complete with excellent color, aroma, and taste, and were very popular with guests.
In short, no matter the method, the basic ingredients of Gong Bao Chicken have remained unchanged:
Chicken breast.
Peanuts.
Chili peppers.
Scallions.
These ingredients, combined together.
Give the dish both the tender texture of chicken and the crispy peanuts and spicy chili, forming a unique deliciousness.
...
Next, let's talk about the special recipe, Bao Shan Flying Dragon Pot.
This dish comes from a clay pot dish in "cooking master boy," or more precisely, a paper pot dish.
Junior high school physics knowledge mentions the phenomenon of boiling water in a paper pot.
When water is poured into a paper pot and heated, if it is under standard atmospheric pressure, the boiling point of water is 100°C, while the ignition point of paper is 183°C.
That is to say, during the boiling process, water continuously absorbs heat from the paper pot.
This allows one to see the water boiling, but the paper pot does not catch fire, a truly miraculous sight.
However, one place needs attention: if there is no water inside the paper pot or the water volume is too small, heating it will cause the internal temperature of the paper pot to rise too quickly, which can lead to the danger of the paper pot burning.
Therefore, the most amazing thing about this dish is that this paper pot can stew soup while filtering impurities from the ingredients.
Furthermore, it is supplemented with lobster balls and combines various mountain delicacies and lobsters.
Its amazingness is definitely not inferior to the previous Rising Dragon Dumplings and Live Ice Sea Bream Mountain!
"Besides obtaining a special recipe like the Bao Shan Flying Dragon Pot, I can also get 5000 grams of bamboo fungus and 20 porcini mushrooms."
"Considering that when I obtained the Live Ice Sea Bream Mountain recipe before, I also acquired sea bream ingredients at the same time, does this mean that recipe rewards obtained from the system often also come with corresponding ingredient rewards?"
Thinking of this, Sosuke's eyes flickered.
...
The night, like a profound scroll, slowly unfolded, blending the colors and light and shadow of the world.
After receiving the sign-in reward, Sosuke could only stretch.
Immediately after.
Feeling physically and mentally exhausted, he went to the third-floor bathroom.
He first turned on the hot water heater, then stripped off his clothes, and lay in the steaming bathtub, relaxing the nerves that had been tense for a while now!
From beginning to end, the entire bathroom was illuminated by a soft, gentle light, giving it a hazy feel.
Although he was resting with his eyes closed, Sosuke's mind kept turning, sorting out every recent event.
It had been two months since he arrived in this unfamiliar world.
This amount of time was not long, but not short either.
For him, owning a continuously upgrading Izakaya and meeting a variety of diners every night allowed him to witness the myriad aspects of life in this world.
This free life was indeed unrestrained and was what he most yearned for in his previous life.
Moreover, it must be said, the gluttonous Kobayashi Rindo, the gentle Tadokoro Megumi, the tsundere Erina, the anorexic Nakiri Mana, the big-breasted innocent Kuguchi Sonoka, and so on...
These beauties, each with their unique charm, made his life no longer monotonous.
Of course, his arrival was also influencing them, and influencing this world.
Especially the recent Midnight Chefs incident, which made him thoroughly understand that some things had actually exceeded his expectations and could not be viewed with the knowledge of the original plot!
...
Creak!
Just as Sosuke was lost in thought, the bathroom door quietly opened.
Although the sound was very faint, it instantly made Sosuke realize something, and he couldn't help but open his eyes.
He quickly got up from the bathtub, and couldn't help but raise his head, only to see a figure dressed in a thin yukata appear before him, her bright eyes filled with a hint of panic.
"Erina?"
Sosuke was stunned and asked.
"You... you..."
For a moment, Erina was also stunned.
Their eyes met, and they just stared at each other. The atmosphere in the entire bathroom instantly became extremely awkward! (End of this chapter)
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