Chapter 383 - 156: The Real Review of the Cthulhu Soup Dumplings

Chapter 383: Chapter 156: The Real Review of the Cthulhu Soup Dumplings

Three minutes for a plate of Scrambled Eggs with Yellow Chives. Plated!

Last was the Yuxiang Pork.

The version of Yuxiang Pork that Su Chen taught was definitely not authentic. Traditionally, Yuxiang Pork is a Sichuan dish with a sour, sweet, and "fish-fragrant" flavor profile.

As for the accompanying vegetables...

In fact, Su Chen had run into this very problem while making Yuxiang Pork in the practice room.

’What accompanying vegetables should I use?’

In Sichuan Province, some use shredded celtuce, some add no vegetables at all and just garnish with the white parts of scallions, and others use pickled chili peppers for both accompaniment and flavor. You could say that every chef makes it differently.

The home-style recipes vary from family to family.

But as the dish spread across the country, it underwent a dramatic transformation.

This was especially true in the north.

The dish was heavily modified into all sorts of wild versions. The most widely known variation uses shredded carrots, slivered chili peppers, and a bit of shredded wood ear mushroom as the accompanying vegetables.

The flavor profile was purely sweet and sour.

And the version Su Chen made was precisely this one, for a very simple reason.

Since the restaurant catered to locals, adapting to the local palate was a must. Jingzhou is in the Northwest, and for most people here, this was the version of Yuxiang Pork they had grown up with.

If he served them an authentic Sichuan-style Yuxiang Pork, most people probably wouldn’t like it.

Old Tang carried a tray with three fragrant, home-style dishes back to the six-person table.

His other assistants had also returned with stir-fries.

Since most home-style dishes could be cooked quickly, even though the third floor was crowded, you didn’t have to wait long after ordering.

Looking at the table laden with all sorts of home-style dishes, Old Tang took a deep breath.

"Damn, all this needs is a bowl of rice!"

Looking at all these dishes, your first thought wasn’t about which one would be the most delicious.

It was: ’Man, how amazing would this be with a bowl of rice!’

The rice on the third floor was on a self-serve buffet table and was also free of charge.

An assistant went and brought back several bowls of rice.

Old Tang started with the Mapo Tofu. He scooped up a piece of scalding hot, silky tofu, dripping with thick sauce and minced beef, and put it in his mouth.

It was so hot that he could only hiss, sucking in cool air. After a long moment, he finally spoke.

"Wow! This is amazing! It’s savory, with a hint of spice and numbness. The heat level is so mild that even people who can’t handle spicy food could eat it."

"It might not be enough for people from Sichuan and Chongqing, but for most everyone else, it’s definitely got enough kick!"

"And this tofu is especially good. The flavor explodes when you chew, and a faint, savory, spicy-numbing aftertaste lingers in your mouth. It feels like..."

Old Tang thought for a long moment before finally blurting out, "It’s like someone is urging you on, telling you to eat faster!"

With that, he quickly spooned another large helping of tofu and sauce into his bowl, mixed it with rice, and shoveled it into his mouth.

He was in absolute heaven!

He was supposed to be tasting each dish one by one, but now Old Tang just buried his head and started scarfing it down. In just a few minutes, he’d polished off the entire plate of tofu!

After all, to use the phrase from Su Chen’s practice room...

It’s what you call: "So good it’ll shut you up!"

Old Tang felt like he’d wasted too much time talking. He immediately stuffed a big mouthful of Scrambled Eggs with Yellow Chives into his mouth!

"Huh? This dish is something else!"

MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH~

This time, Old Tang really did shut up. He just kept eating!

A bite of food, a bite of rice!

With his chubby cheeks, the livestream viewers thought he looked like the gluttonous, lazy son of a landlord from the old days. It was hilarious.

The bustling scene on the third floor remained orderly thanks to the staff of Delicious. People who arrived later and couldn’t be seated immediately were directed by Bai Xiaobo and his team to wait on the second floor. They were each given a number, and as soon as a spot opened up on the third floor, their number would be called to come up and eat.

Unlike the hubbub on the third floor, the situation on the nineteenth floor was a completely different scene.

Teacher Sui waited for about an hour before he finally "leveled up" from the ninth floor to the nineteenth!

"It only takes other people three minutes to cross these ten floors, but it took me a whole hour!"

Sui Po joked in his livestream, cursing himself for not getting in line earlier.

He thought he’d be dead tired after climbing nineteen floors, but since it took him an hour to get there, he wasn’t tired at all!

In the queue, one person stood on each step. With twenty steps per floor, there were over three hundred people lined up in the stairwell from the third floor up.

It was only then that Sui Po realized just how clever Boss Su was.

If he’d let all these people swarm the elevators to the 19th floor, it would have been a disaster. This way, everything was much more manageable.

Arriving at the entrance to the nineteenth floor, Sui Po didn’t rush inside like the others. Instead, he stopped to look at the wall.

He recognized most of the people in the photos.

"This is Master Cui from the Capital City. I just saw him at an event a few days ago."

"This is the Master of Hubei Cuisine, Mr. Lu. He was at the event, too."

"And these two are the curators of the Huaiyang Cuisine Museum."

At this, Old Sui’s expression turned a bit wistful. He took a few deep breaths before saying, "Alright, let’s go in and take a look."

As he stepped through the open doorway, Sui Po immediately froze!

"This..."

And it wasn’t just him; the 100,000-plus viewers in his livestream were also damn well stunned!

He had imagined that for buns so delicious people would queue up and climb stairs, the scene inside would be a chaotic frenzy of everyone slurping broth and devouring them.