Chapter 107: Imagination

Although Chen Huihong didn't understand, Chen Huihong still did it.

She asked Chen Huihui if she was willing to cooperate with Qin Huai to issue a side quest when she picked her up from school at noon. Although Chen Huihui didn't understand either, she said it once.

Nothing happened.

What a moving mother and daughter.

Qin Huai regretted that he could only forcibly ask for a side quest, while having a headache that he couldn't search for any fruit-shaped pastry tutorials.

It was too high-end, there were no tutorials.

Qin Huai turned back and flipped through the Dim Sum Encyclopedia seriously, but there wasn't any either.

Helplessly, Qin Huai could only ask Zheng Da for help.

As for why he didn't ask Zheng Siyuan for help, it was because Zheng Da delivered it to his door himself. The afternoon was Qin Huai's fixed online class time. Since the heat reached the intermediate level, Qin Huai's enthusiasm for cooking soup was even higher.

And he also recognized the fact that his knife work was indeed very poor, and he had no intention of practicing knife work hard in the near future, so he handed over all matters of processing ingredients to the other two red-case chefs in the store.

Although the two stir-fry chefs in the store had average skills, their knife work was definitely better than Qin Huai's. With them helping to process ingredients, Qin Huai specialized in practicing heat, and the soup cooking finally got on the right track, and there would be no more big overturns like squatting in a duck pen to drink soup.

Ouyang had been drinking soup very happily recently, and he was visibly rounder.

And Zheng Da, just when Qin Huai was skimming the floating foam for the high-quality soup, moving his hands and mouth to chat with Huang Shengli about his recent soup-cooking experience, he strongly entered the frame.

Zheng Da came to Huang's Restaurant to chat with his senior brother.

It could be seen that he was indeed very free.

His senior brother didn't pay attention to him, so he chatted with Qin Huai in the video.

"Xiao Qin, your soup-cooking skill has made great progress!" Zheng Da praised after looking at the color of the soup in the video for a while.

"It's all because Master Huang taught me well." Qin Huai smiled modestly. Seeing that Zheng Da seemed really free, he asked, "Master Zheng, I have a question I want to ask you."

Zheng Da was energized at once.

He could do it again.

"Can you make fruit-shaped pastry? That is, making dim sum into the appearance of fruit, with the taste of fruit, and looking like it can be fake at first glance."

Zheng Da felt that he couldn't quite do it.

Huang Shengli sat in a chair eating raisins. Seeing Zheng Da silent at once, he smiled: "Why don't you speak? Didn't you know how to make it? I remember Master taught you."

Qin Huai's eyes lit up at once.

He really knew how!

Master Jing was too omnipotent. How could their sect teach everything?

Zheng Da smiled bitterly: "Taught, it was taught, but that was... I already have... this thing... I once knew how."

Qin Huai:?

"Xiao Qin, why would you suddenly want to learn fruit-shaped pastry? Did Did Luo Luo watch any TV series again?" Zheng Da felt that the current TV series were really unreasonable. You shoot a play, so shoot a play properly. Why study cooking? How could there be such high-end dim sum.

"Yes, Did Luo Luo heard her classmates talk about it at school two days ago, and when she came back, she said she wanted to eat it. I promised her that if she did well in the midterm exam, I would make it for her. But I searched online at noon today and couldn't find any particularly reliable tutorials, so I thought about asking you if you knew how." Qin Huai said without changing his face or heart beating.

Anyway, when the fruit-shaped pastry was made, Qin Luo would definitely have it to eat. If asked, it was made specifically for her.

Zheng Da was even more distressed.

His distress made Qin Huai somewhat unable to understand.

Qin Huai could see that Zheng Da knew how to make it, but it was likely that what he made might not be very good.

It was reasonable to not do it well. After all, Zheng Da had been in business for many years and had long since ceased to be a proper white-case dim sum master who would appear at the cooking table to knead dough and make dim sum every day.

Fruit-shaped pastry wasn't a relatively basic and easy-to-make dim sum like crisp cakes and fresh meat mooncakes. If Grade C fresh meat mooncakes were qualified products, Zheng Da could easily make Grade B to amaze everyone and tell everyone that he was still sharp, then fruit-shaped pastry was only qualified at Grade A.

Easily making Grade B was considered an overturn.

If it weren't for Luo Jun saying personally that the fruit-shaped pastry Liu Tao bought wasn't proper fruit-shaped pastry, and was likely just an imitation overturn, Qin Huai might have chosen to temporarily give up this quest.

His finger technique was only beginner.

And he didn't do any styling for dim sum at all.

Qin Huai felt that as long as Zheng Da knew how, even if it was an overturn, it would be enough.

Bring him into the door first.

Let him play freely for the rest.

Upgrading finger technique from beginner to advanced in a short time was absolutely a fantasy. But practicing hard for a month or two and upgrading from beginner to intermediate, Qin Huai felt it was still possible. After all, finger technique wasn't like soup cooking; it could be practiced at any time.

As long as Qin Huai wanted, it wasn't impossible to do styling for baozi.

"Is there any problem?" Qin Huai asked directly.

Huang Shengli saw Zheng Da stuttering and not speaking, so he simply helped him explain.

Only seeing Huang Shengli push Zheng Da out of the screen, adjust the position of the mobile phone, look at Qin Huai and explain: "He doesn't know how, and he's not unwilling to teach you. He's afraid that you've finally made a breakthrough in red-case, and then be hit in white-case."

"Worried that you are the kind of genius who has been smooth sailing all his life and has never suffered setbacks, and suddenly be hit by a big one and be unable to recover, and not willing to work hard to study." Huang Shengli smiled.

"When did I say this? Senior brother, don't slander me. Xiao Qin, don't listen to your Master Huang talking nonsense. This is not my meaning at all; this is completely his meaning!" Zheng Da's voice-over was particularly eye-catching.

Qin Huai felt that Zheng Da was overthinking.

Setbacks? Have you ever seen the video tutorial of Grade S locust flower baozi?

Haha, I can't understand it at all.

Have you ever seen a genius with beginner knife work, intermediate heat, and beginner finger technique?

Laugh to death, the system scolds me for not doing any styling for dim sum at all.

The system evaluation has been a novice who has just started until now.

"Master Zheng is overthinking." Qin Huai smiled bitterly. "I don't think I'm a genius either, at most my talent is a little better than ordinary people."

Qin Huai's words made Huang Shengli and Zheng Da silent.

Zheng Da squeezed into the mirror again: "Xiao Qin, although you haven't searched for reliable video tutorials, you should roughly know how fruit-shaped pastry is made, right?"

Qin Huai nodded.

"It's normal that you can't search for video tutorials, because this dim sum... it can't have tutorials."

Qin Huai:?

"Fruit-shaped pastry is truly a master leading into the door, and cultivation depends on the individual. It has very high technical requirements for chefs in all aspects, and it is a dim sum that outsiders and ordinary chefs don't even need to try."

"And this type of dim sum is generally taught by masters hand-in-hand. It requires years of learning and accumulation, and trying to make it step by step to have a chance of success."

"Of course, I'm not saying you can't do these. In my opinion, you have no problem doing these at all. But fruit-shaped pastry has a very important factor: it requires the chef's imagination."

"When my master taught me how to make fruit-shaped pastry back then, I could only make the styles my master taught me. If I were asked to make it myself, I couldn't."

"My master said I wasn't suitable for making this dim sum. I didn't understand that at the time. Later, by chance, I saw the fruit-shaped pastry made by Master Tan of Does Zhi Wei Ju, which was truly ingenious and extremely imaginative and creative, and then I understood why my master said I wasn't suitable for this dim sum."

"I don't know how to describe you. Although you are purely a wild road and have never apprenticed, I always feel that the dim sum you make has always been imitating."

"Imitating?" Qin Huai was somewhat surprised.

What was he imitating?

Dim Sum Encyclopedia?

"Under normal circumstances, chefs from wild roads are the most imaginative and creative. Because no one teaches them, they will do it according to their own ideas."

"But you are just the opposite. You are very good at imitating. You learn whatever others teach you. As long as there is no problem, you won't change it."

"Forgive me for being blunt, you are also not suitable for making fruit-shaped pastry."

I don't know why, but Qin Huai felt like he had been scolded.

However, imitating habitually?

Qin Huai was stunned, it seems so.

While Qin Huai was stunned, he heard the voice-over of Huang Shengli and Zheng Da in the video.

"You said I slandered you, but what you said yourself is even more excessive." Huang Shengli said helplessly. "It's really deserved that you have no apprentices. How did Siyuan endure you when he was young?"

"Isn't it because you said Xiao Qin was a bit too bookish and had no soul in his cooking that made me use a fierce medicine? It just happened to find an opportunity today. You said all the good things, and I became the villain?"

Qin Huai:...

"Master Huang, Master Zheng, your video call hasn't hung up, I can hear you."

The next second, the video call hung up.

Zheng Da sent a WeChat message.

Zheng Da: Xiao Qin, this is all your Master Huang's idea, don't mind it. I'll tell Siyuan tonight, let him go to your place in two days to communicate with you about cooking, and teach you some basic finger techniques. He knows how to make fruit-shaped pastry.

Zheng Da: It just so happens that I bought a house in your neighboring community. The housing source in your community is too tight, and it can't be bought at all.

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